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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1916)
THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRA8KA. NEBRASKA j t STATE NEWS DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. April 22 State Letter Cnrrlers Con vcntlon at Grand Island. April 2S-2D State T. P. A. Convention at Alliance, -April 18 Nobraskn Primary Election Day. April 21-25 Savannah to Seattlo High way Convention at Omaha. 2Iny 2 Omaha-Llncoln-Denvor Good Roads association convention at Lincoln. TUay 10 to 18 Stato G. A. n. Encamp ment at Lexington. aiay 15-18 Stao Dental Society an nual convention nt Lincoln. TVIay 17 Nobraska Bankers' conven tion. Group One, nt Beatrice. iVIay 24-25 Stato Association of Com mercial Clubs' Convention at Omaha. Juno 5 and C Pageant of Lincoln, presenting "Tho Gate City." Juno C-0 Spanish War Veterans' Stato Convention at North Platto. Juno 12 to 15 Trans-MisslsRippl Bak ers' Ass'n convention at Omaha. Juno 13 to 1G Stato P. E. O. Conven tion at Alliance. Juno 13-14-15 Great Western Handi cap Tournament at Omaha. Juno 19-20-21-22 American Union of Swedish Singers, West. Dlv., con certs and convention at Omaha. Juno 20 to 24 Stnto Stockmen's con vention at Alliance. Juno 21 to 23 Fraternal Order of Eagles, stato meeting at Lincoln Gould Dietz, Ak-Sar-Ben governor, who just roturnod to Omaha from a trip to Now Orleans and Washington, said tho commissioner of Indian af faire in Washington gave him permis slon to so through various Indian re sorvatlons this fall and select as many Indians as ho wants for the historical celebration in connection with the Ak Sar-Bou festival in Omaha next Sop tembor and October. That farmers are not worried much over tho attempt of tho packers to lower moat prices is shown by the largo number of feeder cattle sent to the country from South Omaha last month. Tho feeder cattle output was much largor than during March last year. Thoro wore 43,863 head ship po to tho country as compared with 41,520 for March, 1915. N Ainaworth is In the throes of an agl tation concerning tho question of changing time from mountain to cen tral. Long Pino Is the end of a di vision, on the Northwestern road, and the company changes time there. Ainsworth is just ten miles west. Thus a part of tho people of Brown county keeps ono time and a part the othor. Over GOO farmers attended a meet ing in Fremont in celebration of the opening of the new co-operative creamery. The farmers have placed milk oa sale at G cents a quart and liavo reduced the price of cream and butter below tho prevailing market price. Tho new creamery Is pro uounccd a model of its kind. With four dead from measles and another caso of diphtheria and with seven children suffering from scarlet fovor North Platte is facing a serious epidemic. Health authorities havo no Idea, when schools will bo re-opened or when the ban on children attend ing motion picture theaters will be lifted. A now Catholic church is to be erected in Bridgeport nt once. Cath olic services havo been held at regu lar intervals ever since tho town was established but this is the first effort which lias been made to erect a church building. John Meints, 18, living near Pick roll, was killed when nn automobile in which ho was riding overturned. Four years ago his father was killed, resumahly by robbers, near the O street viaduct at Lincoln. Bonds in h.. amount of $33,000 to construct a sower In Falls City car ried at tho recent municipal election by a majority of 124, and bonds for -extending tho water system won by n majority of 204. W. S. Delano at Ansley died as a re sult of Injuries sustained in a runa way. Ho was driving from his farm near Ansley to Arcadia when a cleavis pin became dislocated and the team bolted. A aow record for cattle receipts for tho month of March has been estab lished at tho So. Omaha Btock markot. Receipts for the month just ended show 122,936 head of cattle wore re ceived. March, 1915, showed re ceipts of 102,687 head. Tho destruction by flro of tho old Hutt residence in Broken Bow re moves an old landmark. Tho building was a two-story brick and was built when tho railroad camo through there by O. J. Colcmnn, one of tho early bankers. A largo number of farmers met at York recently nnd organized an asso ciation known as the York County Agricultural society. The object of tho organization Is to establish a per manent fair for York county. Ground will bo purchased nnd permanent "buildings erected within tho next year. A hundred and fifty Fremont boys and girls havo Joined the now school gardening club. It. It. Partridge of the high Bchool faculty has been chosen to tako charge of the garden classes. In a letter to the Farmers' associa tion of Mndlaon county, A. 0. George, county agricultural agent, brings up tho matter of treating oats for smut. "Last year," says tho agent, "In 72 Madison county oat Holds from all over the county, thoro was nn nvorago of 5 per cent smutted bonds. If 1 per cont of smut decreased tho yield ono bushel per acre, as was tho case m Gago county two years ago, tho pal yioiu was deccrased llvo uubuois per aero in Madison county last year. Tho total oat acreage in Madison county last yoar was 59,000 acres which, If tho yield had been increased live bushels per acre, would havo been 239,000 bushels. This, valued at 35c per bushel, would have boon $103,250 saved on the oat crop nlqno." Tho county agricultural agent concludes by srating that ont smut will only bo controlled by overy farmer coopcrnt lug in this movement to provent It on his own farm. Directions are onclosed with this circular letter to tho farm ers for tho formalin treatment. For the first time in the hlBtory of Omahn, bank clearings aggregated more than ono hundred million dollars for a slnglo month with total clearings of $114,298,714.28 for March. Tho pre vious high water mark waB uttalned in October, 1915, when tho total was $98,352,313.50. For the first threo months of tho year, Omaha's clear ings through its banks show an In crease of $67,223,149 or 27 per cont. The total for January, February and March, 1916, was $298,633,741 as against $231,410,565 last year. Gasollno now sells at 21 cents a gal lon In Lincoln. Ono Lincoln auto mobile dealer has expressed tho be lief that the price will go up to 35 cents, when it wilt be forced down with a tumble by tho auto dealers cor poration which is being formed to demonstrate that it can bo produced for less money than It is now sold for. Ho is hoping the forcing down will come quickly. The new power lines which the In ternational Railway, Light and Powci company of Holdrego have been con structing out of Holdrege to tin neighboring towns are now in opera tion and light nnd power is being fur nished Wiscox. Other towns will b supplied as soon as the company ro colves more thunsformors from th factory. In compliance with tho proclama tlon of Governor Morehead that sonu day last week be observed by Nebrns knus generally ns "Nebraska Food Products Day," 400 members and at taches of tho soldiers home at Grand Island partook of a dinner consisting of all NebraBka-mado articles, except Ing the sugdr and coffee. Many citizens of Beatrice are agltat ing the question of calling a specia. olectton to vote on tho Sunday amuse ment proposition. Tho present law prohibits amusements such as band concerts and moving pictures. The promoters desiro nn amendment mak ing it lawful to permit these amuso ments on Sundays. Because the American Beet Sugai Co. is trying to rcduco its acreage oi 3,600 to 600 in Lincoln county, for shipment to Scottsbluff, tho farmers of that county around Hershoy and O'Fnllons have organized a company for tho purpose of inducing capital tc build a factory there. Mrs. Anna Wisner, wife of Henrj Wlsneo, a foundryman, of Fremont was instantly killed when she throw herself in front of a string, of box cars on the Burlington tracks at that place. She was dragged about fifty feot before the engineer could brlns the train to a stop. Tho Buffalo County Sunday School convention, which was to havo been held at Ravenna on April 20 and 21, has been transferred to Gibbon. Tho change In place of meeting was made bocauso of tho prevalence of con tagious disease in Ravenna nt the present time. Whllo smoking a pipe in bed, Mrs Abraham Spoon of Springfield, an in valid, set firo to tho bed clothing and before help came she was so badly burned that sho cannot recover. Hor husband hnd left her but a few min utes, nnd when he returned tho house was on fire. Mrs. Emma Gueffroy of Boatrlco re ceived a message a few days ago stat ing that her son Adolph, a member of Company L, Twelfth cavalry, U. S. A., had been accldentlly shot nnd killed by a comrade while on patrol duty on the Mexican border near Hatchita. Residents of Endicott aro making a supremo effort to secure a new St. Joseph & Grand Island depot in their town. Tho present structuro is but seven nnd n half feot high, and the outside dimensions of the building aro but ton feet by twenty-four feet. Several men interested in tho em ployment of a farm demonstrator fot Wayno county havo been securing signers to a documont guaranteeing support, and have met with gratifying results, very few turning down tho proposition. Petitions requesting tho govern ment to extend freo hog cholera ser vice to the farmers of tho south half of Gage county havo been placed in tho banks nt Wymore, Blue Springs, Barneston, Liberty, Lanham, Odell end Beatrice. Tho north nnd south road between Kearney and Minden has been graded. Tho Lincoln highway botween Kear ney and Gibbon has been graded and preparations are being made for work on tho Kearney to Pleasanton road, ..where $10,000 Is to be spent for re pairs. . I TWENTY-TWO WET TOWNS VOTE TO ADOLISH SALOONS. 7 CHANGE FROM DRY TO WET North Platte and Falrbury, Both Big Railroad Centers, Switch to the Prohibition Columns. A largo number of Nebraska cities voted on tho wot and dry Issuo in tho local option elections held recently over tho state. It was by far ono of tho fiercest contests In Nebraska's history. North Platto went dry f6r tho first timo In tho history of tho city by a majority of 90 votes. Falrbury, in Jefferson county, went dry by a majority or 100 votes, changing over from the wet column. . Of tho 160 towns reporting seven changes woro recorded from dry to wet and twenty-two changes from wot to dry. Tho wet forces won among othor towns Falls City, DeWltt, Nowcastlo, Hlldreth, Tilden and St. Paul, which previously had been dry, while the dry forces havo a big string of largo cities of Nebraska hanging to their belt Among these aro North Platto, Falrbury, Wahoo, Sutton, Orleans, Valentino, Hebron, Superior, McCook, Beatrice, Bloomlngton, Sidnoy, Rush villo. A feature of the contests in many places was that tho vote was by an extremely narrow margin, ono and two votes often settling tho policy of a town for a whole year. Prohibition carried at Beatrice after ono of tho heaviest votes in tho his tory of tho city had been polled, tho drys winning by a majority of 14, After one of tho most stronuous battles in the history of Falrbury bo tween the wet and dry factions, that city roversed its policy and switched to tho dry column by an estimated plurality of 100 votes. Ono vote de cided the Issue at Sidney in favor of tho drys. Following Is a list of towns that voted on tho saloon license issuo: Dry Allen, Auburn, Aurora, Albion, Alma, Ashland, Arapahoe, Ainsworth, Boelus, Belgrnde, Blair, Bladen, Ber tram!, 'Bridgeport, Benkolemnn, Bloomlngton, 'Beatrice, Campbell, Contral City, Chadron, Cozad, Cur- tiss, Clarks, Cotesfield, Culbertson, Clay Center, Dnvid City Dannebrog, Dakota City, Dawson, Fairbury, Edgar, Exetor, Farnam, Fullcrton, Franklin, Friend, Glltner, Gordon, Guide Rock, Gothenburg, Geneva, Ge noa, Gibbon, Harvard, Holdroge, Hum boldt, Hebron, Juanita.Kenesaw, Loup City, Lexington, Laurel, Lyons, LouIb vllle, Mitchell, Mllford, M'Cook, Mln den, Mullen, Nelson, Newman Grove, North Bend, North Platto, Ord, Or leans, Oxford, Ogallala, Overton, Odell, Ponca, Primrose, Peru, Red Cloud, Rushvllle, Springfield, Sar gent, St. Edwards, Sutton, Shickley, Sumner, Stockvllle, SuperIor, Stella, Sidney, Taylor, TecumBoh, Tokamah, Upland, Union, Valentine, Verdon, Vnlley, Wayne, Wahoo, Wymoro, York, Weoplng Water, Wolbach. Wot Amherst, Avoca, BasBott, Brady Island, Barnston, Battlo Creek, Bancroft, Benson, Bennington, Blue Hill, Brunlng, Callaway, Coleridge, Columbus, Crete, Cook, Deshler, Do Witt, Dodge, Elba, Elkhorn, Farwoll, FallB City, Florence, Grafton, Gree ley Center, Fremont, Grand Island, Herman, Hartlngton, Hastings, Hll dreth, Harrison, Hooper, Heartwell, Leigh, Lindsay, Madison, Milllgan, Niobrara, Neligh, Newcastlo, Oconto, Obort, Oshkosh, Papllllon, Pender, Plattsmouth, Pllger, Plckrell, Prosser, Ravenna, Scotia, Silver Creok, Schuy ler, Sholton, St Paul, Stapleton, Sterling, Seward, Table Rock, Til den, Waterloo, West Point, Wllber, Wisner, Wood River. Indicates change. Indicates tie voto. Sunday basebnll won at tho follow ing towns: Silver Creek, frd, Farnem and EtiRtlB. A $50,000 bond issuo for a new high school building cnrrled at Platts mouth. Tho Issuanco of $40,000 inter section paving bonds carried at Fre mont. 1.000 to 432. To Improve Lincoln Highway. Grand Island. Advocates for tho ex penditure by tho city of $1,500 for surfacing more of tho Lincoln high way immediately west of tho city and for giving financial support for the hand to tho extent of $2,500, both car ried. Manager Plan Defeated. Beatrice. Tho manager plan re ceived a decided defeat at tho polls, a two to ono voto being cast against tho proposition. Votes Bonds for Light Plant. Syracuse Tho main issuo hero was on tho voting of $1G,000 bonds to erect an electric light plant Tho result on this proposition was 134 for and 79 against Brown County Goes Dry. Ainsworth. Ainsworth voted dry by 22 majority. This 1b Its eighth dry year. Long Pino voted dry by 9 ma jority. This makes Brown county en tirely dry for the first timo In its history. DRYS SCORE V1G on AMERICAN Camp of tho Seventeenth United States cavalry Porshing's advancod forces and tho bordor. Colonla not boon moloatod by Villa. This is Santa Fe stroot in El Paso, Tex. Tho vlow shows tho Rio Grando and u part of Juuroz, Mexico, In tho background. El Paso Is on tho American end of tho International brldgo, and being so closoly connoctod with Mexico Is regardod as a dangor zone. Everyono crossing tho bridgo from Mexico Is searched for concoalod weapons. AMBULANCE CORPS OFF FOR THE FRONT Ambulanco corps No. 3 leaving Columbus, N. M for tho sceno of oporatlons in Mexico BRINGS HOME UNCLE SAM'S EXHIBITS The naval collier Mars, tho largest Potomac rlvor as far as tho Washington navy yard, has Just arrived with tho greater part of the government's exhibits from tho Pan-Amorlcan expo sition. Sho loft San Francisco January 8 and camo by way of tho Punama canal. MAY BE THE SUMMER WHITE HOUSE Woodland Mansion, tho historic home of Nelllo Custlu Lewis, may bo tho next summer Whlto Houso. Tho houso is only 10 miles from Washing ton on an excellent road and is ono of tho favorite stopping places of tho president and Mrs, Wilson on their motor rldos. They havo Inspected it thoroughly and appreciatively, especially in vlow of tho probability that tho president will bo so busy from now until November that ho will bo unlikely to go far from Washington for a summer rcBt Tho houso was orocted In 1805. Many improvements have been mndo on It recently, ono of its former owners having been PuuL Koster, tho playwright. CAVALRY CARIP AT C0L0NIA DUBLAN at Colonla Dublan, on Dublnn 1b a big Mormon WHERE UNCLE SAM IS KEEPING CLOSE WATCH boat which baa ever uavigatod tho the lino of communication botween colony, but tho Americans thoro havo BROKE TWO CHESS RECORDS Frank J, Marshall of Now York, chess champion of tho United States, rocontly broko two world's records in compotlng with 105 of Washington's best players. Ho won 82 gamos, loBt 8 and drow 15. Tho former records woro sot by Fahrni In Munich when ho played 100 simultaneous games, winning 55, losing G and drawing 39. Tho Touch Pre-Emlnent. "A cozy picture, oh 7 A man lolling in an easy chair and his boautiful wife loaning over him to light hio cigar." "You haven't seen tho companion picture to it, havo you?" "Why, no." "It's tho same man savagoly chow Ing tho end of his cigar and writing a chock." Birmingham Ago-Herald. 8hy. An nnonymouB chock for $500 waa received for ono seat from someono whoe merely signs lUmsolf Mr. Win tor's great admirer. Now York Tele graph. No wondor paying tollors say their Job Is hard. Now York Tribune.