Semi-Weekly Tribune
Ira L. Bare, Editor and Pablisker.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1915.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Miss Qcrtrudo Dakor came up from
Gothenburg Saturday to visit her par
ents for a couplo of days.
Representative Scott Reynolds came
up from Lincoln Saturday morning
and went out to his farm to spend a
couple of days with his family.
Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Letts left Sat
urday morning for Laramici where
they will visit their daughter Mrs.
Laura Carter and family for a week.
Mrs. W. C. Elder left yesterday for
California, where Bho will spend sev
eral months visiting her sister, Mrs.
Will Snolltng., She hopes that the
change of climate will prove beneficial
to her health
Frank Beeler Is closing out his
stock of general merchandise at Her
shoy preparatory to moving to this
city when ho receives the appoint
ment of receiver of the U. S. land of
fice. His appointment is duo any day.
Old Trusty nnd Poultry Leader In
cubators and Brooders ut factory
price. SIMON BROS.
C, W. McNamar, at ono timet a
leading lawyer of Lexington but of
late years living at Salem, Ore., died
at tho latter place last week. Ho Is
well remembered by tho older resi
dents of North Platte, as in the early
days he frequently visited in this city.
M. D. Arbogast, a former member
of tho U. P. police forco at North
Platte, but for a couple of years past
chief of police in Grand Islnnd has
tendored his resignation. The resig
nation is said to have been asked for
by Mayor Ryan.
Dr. Gordon Cronen left Saturday for
Chicago to enter tho federal service
as a veterinarian. He took the exam
ination January 6th, successfully
passed, and was instructed last week
to report at Chicago. Ho expects that
his duties at present will be at one
of tho big beef packing centers.
Fiold Agent J3ryan, of the Grand
Island sugar factory, reports that all
but ono hundred acres of tho 1C00
acres of beets allotted to his district
have been contracted. Tho remaining
100 acres will soon be taken.
Notice to Lot Owners.
An assessment has been levied
.against all of the lots in Bellcvue,
Dolson and Scoutfs Rest Additions
that abut on tho newly opened portion
of Ninth street. This assessment is
now duo and payable at the office of
the City Treasurer.
F. L. MOONEY,
18-4 City Treasure.
Musical Comedy Tomorrow Sight.
"September Morn" comes to tho
Keith tomorrow evening, March 24th,
with its half hundred talented artists,
Including a chorus of remarkably
pretty girl3 composing one of. tho
best singing and dancing ensembles
over offered In musical comedy. Fun
runs rampant in "September Morn"
from tho first curtain and entrance of
that splendid fun maker Julian Rubell
who has the part of his life nnd who
Is ably assisted by a cast of repre
sentative musical purveyors. Thl3 Is
Rowland & Cllfford.s biggest produc
tion and they have fairly outdone
themselves In casting and mounting
this popular merry affair.
Chick Grace Chllders imbucs"Scp
tember Morn" with on airy fresh
ness that is charming and tho other
leading characters that make the com
edy such a success aro tho ones who
appeared at the LaSallo opera house
in Chicago.
The Dishonesty of Billy Sunday.
In speaking of Billy Sunday, the
Lutheran Standard, a leading organ
of tho Lutheran church, cays:
Tho Standard has In times past ex
pressed its wonder how a man who
professes to preach h "meaty can bo so
dishonest in the issuing of figures per
taining to seating capacity of taber
nacles and numbers of actual conver
sions, nnd how ho can lecort to tho
catch-penny schemes of posing in nil
sorts of attitudes in order that sale
able postcaids may be struck off.
Long ago the charge was made and
proven that many of Mr. Sunday's
most catchy sayings are wholesale
robberies from tho sayings of Sam
Jones. Now comes the proof that an
address which he delivered on Decora
tion Day at Beaver Falls, Pcnn., in
1912, was in tho main a bald literary
theft, tho portions worth hearing be
ing practically verbatim reproductions
of one of Bob Ingorsoll's famous ora
tions. It is reported that Mr. Sunday
produced so favorablo impression at
Beaver Falls that the local paper
said his "eloquence was tipped with
fire of God." It is said that when Mr.
Sunday was confronted with the
"deadly parallel" he acknowledged
that he had found certain things used
in his speech in a newspaper, but he
claimed he did not know they were
Ingersoll's.
For Snlo
The place at 109 east Eleventh
street, cheap and good. For price and
terms address, Mrs. Walter Wilson, R.
1 North Platte, Neb., or Phone 780F4. tf
COMMISSIONERS? PROCEEDINGS.
March 15, 1915.
Board met pursuant to adjournment
present Herminghausen, Springer
and White and county clerk.
The following claims were allowed
on tho general fund:
J. E. Jeffries, building steel cage
for jail, $150.00.
Nebraska Telephone Co., rent for
March and toll charges, $52.70.
H. C. Ridingor, road work district
30, $5.00.
L. Cecil, road work on commis-
sioner district No. 1, $4.00.
E. C. Hostettor, road work, $12.25.
August Graff is hereby appointed
assessor for Walker precinct and his
bond approved.
Received $22G.00 from P. W. Olcson
for rent of county poor farm, said
leaso to explro March 1, 1916.
Tho county treasurer is hereby au
thorized to cancel tho poll tax of
Wm. Lannin for tho years 1913 nnd
1914 for the reason of being exempt,
having a fireman's certificate.
Whereupon tho bonrd adjourns un
til tomorrow.
March 16th, 1915.
Board met same as yesterday,
present full board nnd county clerk.
Claims allowed on tho road fund as
follows:
Gayford Necr, road work district 30,
$2.00.
Fred Ellsworth, road work district
30, $2.00.
Orvllle Moore, road work district 30,
$2.00.
The county treasurer Is hereby au
thorized to correct tho tax list of lot
7, block 153, North Platte, from an as
sessed valuation of $120 to $60 on ac
count of double assessment.
G. R. Phillips is heroby appointed
assessor for Hooker precinct nnd bond
approved.
J. C. Johnston is hereby allowed
partlnl payment on 1914 settlement as
follows: $50 on commissioner district
3 and $50 on road district 12.
Mrs. Grace Smith, house rent for
county poor, allowed on general fund,
$7.50.
Whereupon tho board adjourns un
til 1:30 p. m March 17th, 1915.
C. W. YOST, Countp Clerk.
Ayrshire Bull For Sale
Major Lincoln, a pure bred Ayrshire
bull of excellent typo and breeding,
red and white, weight 1725 pounds,
herd broke. This bull Bhould greatly
Improvo tho milking qualities of any
grade herd without decreasing tho size
or giving undesirable colors. His dam
gavo 11,183 lbs. of milk,, 450.6 lbs. but
ter fat in ono year. Ayrshlro cattlo
are the higliest priced dairy cattlo in
tho United States today. Here is a
good ono priced for breeding purposes
at $125.00.
Experimental Substation,
W. P. SNYDER,
13tf Superintendent.
Down in Indiana a law has been re
cently enacted called "The Lazy Hus
band Law." This law provides that
any man wlio is able and does not
provide for his family shall bo sub
ject to a fine or bIx months in jail
Tho object of the law Is readily seen
but how it will work is another qucs
tion. As it is said many aro so lazy
that they would prefer going to jail
to going to work. Truly betted would
it bo as found in some states that such
idlers bo sent to tho work house and
compelled to work and their earn
ings bo applied to tho support of their
families. Most of them woud prefer
to work as a frco man rather than as
a prisoner to support them to whoso
maintenance ho has solemnly nledged
himself.
BUNGLING REGULATION
DAMAGE TO COUNTRY.
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Throwing Your Voice Across the Continent
Talking by telephone 3,400 miles across the Ameri
can Continent is now an accomplished fact. The celebra
tion of this latest and greatest achievement in the art of
telephony only recently took place.
This great triumph is the product of American
brains, American initiative, and American scientific and
technical skill. The service that is thus opened to the
public is not equalled or approached in efficiency and
comprehensiveness in any other country in the world.
The Bell System and its independent connecting
companies now have 21,000,000 miles of wire and
9,000,000 telephones, or 65 per cent of all the telephones
in the world, located in every nook and corner of the
United States.
Truly, This is a Great American Achievement
NEBRASKA TELEPHONE COMPANY
Thero nro 2,000,000 persona unem
ployed In tho United States whoso
yearly earnings should at least bo
$1,250,000,000 Baya Theo. N. Vail, pres
ident of tho American Telegraph nnd
Tclophono In tho annual report of tho
company. Tho unemployed aro now
living at tho expense of their savings,
their friends or tho public, ho says,
and what Is needed to bring about their
reemployment and tho return of pros
pority is a restoration of conditions
which would insplro confldenco in tho
securities of public scrvico and manu
facturing enterprises nnd cnnblo them
to obtain capital for extension nnd im
provement. A blllllon dollars a year Is needed,
ho asserts, to put these enterprises In a
position to meet tho demands of tho
country both as "growing nnd "going"
concerns and if they could begin tho
expenditures of oven a part of that
sum, "it would rcstoro tho normal
conditions of employment, expenditure,
consumption and production."
"Most vital to tho restoration of
thcao conditions," Mr. Vail declares, Is
tho question of public control nnd reg
ulation of public scrvico enterprises
which ho points out, aro, when pros
porous, largo employers of labor and
largo purchasers and consumers of nil
varltles of products and manufactures.
Mr. Vail pleads for regulation that
"will bo thorough and effectlvo nnd nt
tho same tlino equitable, just and prac
ticable. Remarking that in tho past
tho position of public scrvico com
panies had been mnilo difficult by
tho nctlveitlcs of "irresponsiblo dema
gogues," ho expressed tho belief that
tho public would "seo that justico is
dono as It had "nover remained com
plaisant when brought face to faco
with disturbances, uncertainties and
unemployment caused by too drastic
action or too radical legislation upon
economic conditions for Industrial enterprises.
The Immigration Check.
In the year 1908 tho Immigration In
to tho United States numbered 782,870
souls. There was emigration of
395,073, leaving a net gain to the
United States of 387,797 souls. In 1910
the net immigration was 889,702. For
the fiscal year of 1914 the gains of
population from Immigration was 915,
142. Tho statistlcans may go back
to tho beginning of America without
finding a year in which tho immigra
tion balance was not in favor of tho
United States.
When tho statistlcan of tlio future,
following these figures, finds tho net
915,142 gain of tho year 1914 turned
Into a net loss in 1915, what could he
concelvo ns the causo of so remark
abe a change? Hard times in the
United States have nhvaya chocked
immigration. The panic of 1907 cut
It down by half a million. But tho
rolntlon of supply and demand 1ms
never met tho extraordinary reverse
experienced in tho present year.
Europe requires its total output of
men for tho war hopper. Tho million
who would otherwise have come to
America to produce wealth aro kept
or recalled to Europe to produce
dentil.
Tho American Immigration nnd cm!
gratlon statistics for tho fiscal year
of 1U15 will stand as a muto record
of the greatest tragedy of tho modern
world. Europe, for tho tlmo being,
lias solved our immigration problem
Ait Old Citizen IJeinl.
Sorcn Peter Thompson was born In
Denmark, Juno 2, 1837. Died March 12,
1915, nged 77 years, 9 months and 10
days.
Mr. Thompson enmo from Denmark
to Omaha In tho year 1888. In tho year
1890 ho moved to Mlnden nnd in 1896
ho moved to Lincoln county where
he has lived for tho last nineteen yenrs.
oiu ago lias been telling on him for
sometlmo and has neccscllnted his liv
ing a quiet, retired lifo. Ho passed
peacefully away without a strugglo at
a good rlpo old age. Ho leaves a wife,
llvo children and olovon grand children
to mourn his loss.
Funeral services were conducted by
l'astor is. u House, or tho Seventh
Day Advcntlst church. In tho countrv
church thrco nnd a half mllea -south of
Maxwell. Words of comfort were
spoken from I Cor. 15:26. Tho church
was. filled with sympathizing friends
and neighbors. Mioses Forn McKenzlc
and Helen Bcaty, and Mocsrs. Ray
mond Campbell and Vernon Kuhns, of
tho Baptist church, rendered vrry ap
propriate music for tho occasion
which was much appreciated.
Interment was hold In a nearby
cemetery.
B. F. HOUSE.
ARK YOUR KIDNEYS WELL I
Many North Platto people Know Hie
importance or Healthy Kidneys.
Tho kidneys filter tho blood.
They work night and day.
Weil kidneys removo Impurities.
Weak kidneys allow Impurities to
multiply.
No kidney ill should bo neglected.
Thero Is poaslbio danger in delay.
If you Iiavo backache or kidney or
urinary troubles
If you aro nervous, dizzy or worn
out,
Begin treating your kidneys nt once
use a proven Kidney remedy.
None endorsed llko Doan's Kidney
rius.
Recommended by thousands.
Proven by North Platto testimony
August Ackcrman, 221 S. Walnut
street, North Platte. Neb., savs:
still hold a very high opinion of Doan'i
in.l Tim . . - .
muiiuy i-iiiB. i useu tucm lor nacK
ache, caused by disordered kldnoys
and had tho best of results. It is ovor
three years sinco I havo had occa
sion to uso Doan's Kidney PIUb, but
my Health haB boon flno since, not
symptom of kidney trouble having
botnered mo.
Prico 50c at all dealors. Don
simply ask for a kidney remedy got
Doan's Kidney Pills tho samo that
Mr. Ackerman got. Foster-Milburn
Co., Prop., Buffalo, Now York.
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Physician and Surgeon.
Special Attention given to Surgery
and Obstetrics.
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