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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1915)
THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. HUGE SUM IS SPENT TRAVELING WORKSHOP OF CANADIAN TROOPS Dressed Up for High Occasions MILLION DOLLARS REQUIRED TO RUN STATE THREE MONTHS. ONE FOURTH IS FOR SALARIES tC8,3CQ Was Spent for State Aid Bridges. The National Guard Received $15,100. A rich but simple coat for the small girl to wear upon occasions that allow her to bo dressy Is shown In tho pic ture' appearing here. It i3 & pretty pattern, which may be used for the child from four to eleven years old, and it is not difficult for the home dressmaker to manage, a matter which will be appreciated. Tho coat is made of a Hght-colorod or white moire. Tho body is plain and cut shorter at tho waist in front than in tho back. It has long shoul der seams and full coat sleeves. It is lined with a plain soft silk and may be interlined for greater warmth, or wom over a knitted Jacket when cold weather demands extra warmth in the clothing. Tho plain skirt is nccordlon-plalted and sewed to tho body. It is finished at tho bottom with u two-inch hem put in by hand before tho material ia plaited. The rolling collar, deep cuffs and wide belt, are covcrod with a braided pattern in soutacho which may match tho coal In color or bo of a contrary color. The coat fastens with small high buttons of glass. Small crochet buttons would look as well. Tho pretty hat is a shape covered with light silk plush and having a narrow ribbon band about tho crown. A short upstanding fancy ostrich fcathor, usually in gay light colors, looks as if designed to please tho eyes of the littlo wearer, and is therefore pleasing to everyone else. Fancy shoes finish tho details of tho toilette and completo her readiness for presentation among other "dressed up" little ones. For Those Who Like Embroidery For thoso who like wide embroid eries somo now llounclngs have been mado in which tho patterns are lino and pretty and both tho material and tho work durable. Hero is one of thorn showing a flouncing with tho Burfaco not too much covered with embroidery, and a '.acollko but strong border along tho scalloped edge. It is woven with a wldo beading along tho straight edgo, set between rows of hemstitching which is mado by ma chinery in tho top of tho flouncing. Bcadings play an essential part in tho construction of edgings, llounc lngs and insertions. Even tho least expensive underwear is designed with roferenco to ltngerlo ribbons, which add much to its attractiveness. Since tho light-weight musllnB havo como In to general use for undorwoar, many garments are cut on the simplest linos and adjusted to tho flguro by means of ribbon run through beading. This simplifies both making and launder ing. Many of tho now llounclngs havo a dotted surfaco with a Btnnll dainty embroidered pattern along tho well finished scalloped edge. Thoy aro In better tasto than tho largo patterns in Inferior workmanship. Thoro Is a do mand, too, for narrow durable laces to bo used with tho embroideries. Allovcr patterns with small floral do- signs, and eyelet work scattered over tho surfaco of the fabric are cut intc strips and used with narrow torchon or crochet laco for flouncings. Thoy aro set on to petticoats, combinations and chemise by narrow headings that carry ribbon puroly for Its ornamental valuo. JULIA BOTTOMLEY, If You Are Too Thin. If you aro dreadfully thin, nervous and unhappy, this bath will set you up considerably: Sulphato of potas slum, CO grams; subcarbonato of soda, 100 grams; golatin, 40 grams. Dissolve tho golatin in a quart of boiling water and add it and the salts to a hot bath. If you cannoi get tho herbs and do not feel that you can spend much money on anything elso. put two pounds of common oatmeal or bran in a choosecloth bag and agltuto this In tho hot bath water till it looks milky. Either of thoso simple things will mako a bath that clears, whitens and smoothes tho skjn like magic Imported Coats. Thero are some Interesting Import ed coats mado of big slinwlB or steam or rugs, with fringe around tho bot tom and edging the capo section that falls over tho bIoovob, or sometimes edging tho wide collar Instead, Lincoln. It cost the stnto of Ne braska about $1,000,000 to do busino3B during July, August and September, according to tho quarterly Bunmmry of expenditures compiled by Statu Auditor Smith. A part of this was balance by fees, llconscs and special taxes. The auditor's Ublo shows gross dls- bursomevtrj cf $981,700, more than one-fourth of which went for salaries. Snlarics at the University of Nebras ka and its allied branches aggregated $113,000. Tho following aro somo of the salary budgets: Supremo court, $13,- 710; railroad commission, $G,485, with $1,388 for services nnd expenses additional; state superintendent, $5,017, with $1,240 for extra services: banking board, $G,G80; commission, $12,518. Tho board of control mannged fif teen state Institutions during tho quarter for $224,481. The University of Nobraska spent $12,403 for depart mental expenses and $154,472 for per manent improvements. Expenses of the four normal schoolB were $G8,G24. The sum of $68,- 88G was spent for state aid bridges. For normal training In high schools $11,000 was paid. Tho National Guard received $15,100. New Land Revenue. Sixteen counties containing 450, 10i acres of school lands will be rovalued this fall to increase the state's rental revenue, in accordance with action taken by the Hoard of Ed ucational Lands and Funds. Homo ol the laud now rents for a cent an acre, at a price fixed ysars ago and never changed. Tho money rniBed by the proposed Increase, tin exact ratio not being announced, wll! go Into the temporary school fund to be distributed semi-annually to a'l Nobraska school districts according to school attendance. Tho counties to be reappraised aro Cherry, Arthur, Cheyenne, Deuel, Dundy. Franklin, Grant, Hooker, Kear ney, Kimball, Lincoln, Logon, Mc I'herson, Morrill, Perkins and Thomas. Normal School Fund Overdrawn. Including $40,000 of claims nllowed by the state normal board at Its n cent mooting at Kearney, tho fund fir normal schools Is now overdrawn $10,000 and new buildings are be'nT planned by different schools. Tli bonrd hi spending tho money inii' 'i faster thnn It comes In from the -I mill levy. Peru, Kearney and Cha.l ron each have a resident member i the board. Each Is pulling for In home Institution. Employment Agents Registering. Twenty applications lor registration under the employment agency a-' lately more or less smiled upon h tho state supreme court, have ! i filed with Labor Commissioner C v fey. The handful of applications, M Coffey says, result from a strcnuru week spent at Omaha, Not all of t1) nfrencies there nre for the mensur but those that are are not slow i coining In with their fee nnd in a miming liability ur.dcr the provls'on of the now law. Court O. K.'s Arthur County. Arthur county is hold to be a InjH entity in nn opinion rendered by tlr state supreme court. Tho action cor rects tho oversight of tho legislature In not allotting to it any of tho Ju dlcial districts of the state. Jur 11. M. Grimes of North Platte is !i reded by the court to convene dlstrh t court there as in all other counth s under his Jurisdiction. 1,000 County Agricultural Agents. Thero are 1,000 county agricultural ngents In tho 48 slates of tho Union Of this number thero are 8 in Nobras ka, these being employed in Gape, Soward, Madison, Thurston, I)aw h, Dakota, Kimball, and Hox Hut to counties. Four additional counties in Nebraska have asked for agricultural agonts to begin work In January. Food Commissioner Reports. Although Treasurer JJnll'n ruling put nearly all of his InspctorB out of business, tho food department undi r Food CommlHflioner Ilnrnmn wns able to mnko a pretty good showing for September, according to his nionthlv report. The department collected total of $10,871. GO in fees, and mado 1,280 Inspections. Must Pay Ockupatlon Tax, Express companies will bo assessed $20,74G for stato occupation taxes in Nobrtiukn this year, Secretary Her nether of tho Stato Hoard of Equal' zntlon, ofiiclally certified to Sta'e Treesurer Hall the amounts duo from tho three companies operating in this state, as follows: American, $18,780, Adams, $8,717; Wclls-Fargo, $1,218 Tho lux Is computed on tho grose earnings of each cornpnny on its state htfinsp, tho rate lielng 2 per cent. All three compnnlcB mado their re port to the board Under protest. Ono of the traveling mechanical workshops with which tho Canadlnn troops in Europo aro equipped. SUMMER WHITE HOUSE SELECTED FOR NEXT YEAR It Is decided that President WUboii, Instead of returning to Cornish, N. II., next year, wilt spend tho sum mer with his brldo at Shadow Lawn, the home of tho lato John . McCall at Long Branch, N. J. It la a mag nificent estate, suitablo in every way to accommodate thu presidential establishment. It Includes about thirty acres of beautiful lawns and terraced gardens, a lako and tcnnlB courts. Golf links aro ucar by. EFFICIENT AMERICAN SUBMARINE CREW LISTENING POST IN PARIS nils is the crew ot tho t'nlled States submarine k 8 which won efficiency pennant In tho recent ranneuvers off tho Pacific coast. SIGNING THE PEACE PACT IN HAITI the Tho dofenocs of Paris against hos tile aircraft aro woll organized. Ono of tho most interesting of tho special instruments used Is the listening post. It consists of four huge horns which gather up tho HllghtcBt sound and magnify it by meuiiB of a microphone, so that It is impossible for any air craft to approach unheard. After Twenty Years. Ho was uBldng tho old man for his daughter in marrlago. Ho was talk ing tremblingly, hesitatingly, as tho horocB do In Btory hooka Now came tho old man's turn to apeak, and ob ho began his fnco was white with pas Ion and his voico Bhook with excite ment. "You want to marry my daughter?" said tho father. "Ah! Twenty years ago your father crippled mo In a stock deal, and I swore to bo revenged. And now my tlmo has como." Ho paused for breath, and tho as pirant for tho maiden's hand was about to beat a haBty retreat In tho face of supposed defeat when tho fa ther broke forth again: "Yob, olr, I swore to bo revenged, nnd I'll Btrlko tho father through tho son. Want my daughter eh? Well, tako hor, nnd may she provo us ex pensive to you as sho has to mo!" The old man dropped Into his chair, worn out with tho excltoment of his plot, and tho young man tainted. i ot I T. Waller, who was In charge of tho expedition of marines and blue mcltots Bent to Haiti to aubduo tho brlgandB who opposed America's " 'or restoring order In tho nogro'ropublic, la horo shown signing tho t tii imc t with tho leaders of tho rubols at Capo Hattten. Opium Smugglers Have Code. A secret codo used by opium smug glers Is aald to havo been discovered by agents of tho United States gov ernment. Americans, Mexicans and Chinese operating along tho Mexican border aro reported to havo signifi cant emblems tattooed on their arms, showing tho relation of the individ uals to tho busluosB ot smuggling.