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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1917)
THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. MINOR NOTES FROM ALL PARTSJtf NEBRASKA DATES FOR COMING EVENT8. April 014 Annual Stnto Howling Tournament at Fremont. April 21-22 Missouri Valley Chlro- praetors' Assoclutlon Meeting at Oninlin. April 23-25 Anmml Meeting Stnto Aerlo of Eagles nt Nebraska City. April 20-27 Nebraska Association of Elks Annual Convention at Lincoln. May 4 Group No. 2 Nebraska Hank ers' Association Convention at Co lumbus. May 8-0 Knights of Columbus Stnte Meeting at Alliance. May 10-17-18 Annual Encampment Nebraska G. A. It., Ladles of the G. A. H Women's Relief Corps; Span ish War Veterans and Sons of Vet erans nt Columbus. Way 22-25 Nebraska Sportsmen's As sociation Annual Tournament at Fremont. Buffalo and Kenrney county far mers declare that reports sent out that winter wheat In the two coun ties was In bad shape and the major ity of It would be a total loss, are grently exaggerated. It Is the belief now that the grain will come forth In Rood shape. The 1017 state high school bnskot toall tournament In Lincoln set a new record for attendance. Total receipts amounted to $2,105.05, which will bo apportioned among 115 schools. Last year the receipts were only $1,500. The T. V. Atkinson ranch In Holt county, consisting of 000 acres, has boon sold for $12,810 at referee's sale. A few years ago this land was consid ered almost worthless, ns It lies In tho "sand hill district." Nearly 250,000 pounds of beans, representing six carloads, discovered In several Omaha warehouses, have become mildewed nnd order destroyed by federal Inspectors. The beans are valued at $37,500.. Tho farmers in tho vicinity of Ilrunlng turned out en masse tho other day and hauled gravel onto tho streets of tho town nnd In apprecia tion of the work tho Brunlng com munity club gave them a banquet. .T. H. Miller, a Spanish war veteran of Alliance, "hns undertaken the task of organizing a company ns a member of tho Fourth Infantry Nebraska Na tional Guard, In which n vacancy exists. I5y a vote of 287 to 29 bonds to tho amount of $22,500 were voted nt Mll ford to eroet a new school house In place of the one destroyed by fire last November. Fremont hns a community garden club. Its purpose is to aid in a finan cial way those who are unable to buy seed for their patches. Adnms county farmers are -considering the planting of sugar beets In fields where winter wheat lias been killed. First spring lnmbs sold on the So. Omnha market brought $1S a hundred pounds. They were milk fed, and about eight weeks old. Gunrds have been placed at every Important 'nllrond bridge In Nebraska ns the result of tho international sit uation. Excavation for tho now Dodge county court house nt Fremont, to bo erected nt a cost of $250,000, has be gun. Tho annunl convention of the Buf fnlo county Sunday schools will be held at Havonna May 10 and 11. Experts, after examining the fields of Hamilton county, declared 00 per cent of the wheat was dead. Corn reached $1.11 a bushel on Hen trice markets the other day, the highest on record. WMbert Piper, a Polk county fnrm er, was Instantly killed when his auto upset near York. .Tune 1 Is tho dnte set for the com pletion of Fremont's new $250,000 ho tel, the "Pathfinder." Tho conversion of existing farm lonns In Nebraska to loans from th" i federal farm Innd bank will save the fanneis of tho stnto $3,405,315 nn nunlly. according to figures complied by the farm loan board. Farm loans ,ln Nebraska are computed at $105, 015,000 nnd an average Interest rate, according to the board, Is 7.1 per cent. The federal farm loans will bear only 5 per cent Interest. With new banks established nt ,Cnrleton, Relvidero nnd Alexandria, ,Thnyer county has a total of seven teen Imnks. Dr. .T. L. Fort, of Chicago, spending ,nt the district efficiency convention of tho First Methodist church at Fre mont, declared that nearly twice ns much is spent In America for seeing "tho movies" ns Is contributed to the church for all purposes. Wrestling fans over tho stnte are keenly Interested In tho coming mntch at Omaha April 0, between Joe Steelier of Dodge and Earl Cad dock of Anltn, Iowa. Roth men nro In the pink of condition nnd n lively exhibition is nnticlpnted. Never before has such a splendid array of talent been secured for a Sunday school convention ns will ap pear before the workers of Nebraskn nt the Golden Jubilee celebration In Omahn Juno 10-20. Scwnrd's new $05,000 high Hchool building was dedicated a few days ago. Tho building Is fireproof nnd Is splendidly built nnd has nil the latest school equipment. Firo nt the Johnson county poor farm, nenr Tccumseh, destroyed sev eral bnrns, burned six hend of horsos and 200 bushels of corn. Beatrice was selected for the 1019 meeting plnco of the conference of tna Nebraska Daughters of thu American Revolution nt the closo of a two-day convention at Fremont. Tho Gothen burg chapter won tho stik Hag for the chapter making thu largest percent age gain In membership during the year. Mrs. C. H. Letton of Lincoln was endorsc.il ns n candidate for tho oillce of national general vice regent. The following officers were elected: Regent, Mrs. 13. G. Drake. Ueatrlco; vlco regent, Mrs. Frank I. Ringer, Lincoln ; recorder, Mrs. Elizabeth O'LInn Smith, Chadron; treasurer, Mrs. C. 13. Spencer, North Platte; auditor, Mrs. A. 13. Hryson, Fullerton; registrar, Mrs. J. J. Stubbs, Omahn; historian, Mrs. Hosteter, Shelton. Two persons drowned, one died from Injuries received, nnd another was hurt so badly she Is expected to die, when ti bridge over tho Keya Paha river at Hrocksburg, In Keya Paha county, was smashed and torn out by the combined force of a heavy Ice gorge and Hood waters. Forty persons woro on the bridge when It collnpsed. They rushed In panic to the shore, two were drowned, some receiving slight Injuries. The dead: Mrs. Wakelleld, 70, Hrocksburg; Sylvia Wales, 10, Gregory, S. D. ; Jud Stewart, 45, farmer near Hrocksburg. Six other bridges In Keyn Paha coun ty were destroyed by Ice gorges nnd high water. Two hundred farmers, bankers, members of tho Omaha grain ex change, soil experts, railroad repre sentatives nnd representatives of tho University of Nebraska nt meeting In Omaha appointed a committee to se curo nnd furnish nt once to farmers sulllclent whent to rcseed damaged winter wheat fields In tho state. Tho seed can be purchased at coijt by com municating with tho Omaha Grain ex change. Eighteen hours from the time he at tempted to rob n bnnk nt Tnlmnge, a youth 18 years old giving his name ns James Johnson nnd his home as Kan sas City, Mo., entered a plea of gullly in tho district court and was given an Indeterminate sentence of thrco to fifteen years In tho penitentiary. The mile-long wooden bridge over tho Plntto river at Kernay has been undermined by the current of tho stream and has been closed. As thu new bridge Is still Incomplete, Kear ney has no means of crossing the river. The Nebraska Electric compnny of Cedar Rapids, la., has taken over tho light and power plant at Emerson. Elgin good roads boosters havo started a movement to Improve tho highways of Antelope county. Six thousand employes of tho South Omahn packing houses received wago increases of from 5 to 12 per cent. The boost In salary was given ns tho result of the high cost of living heads of the big packing firms say. 13. W. Spllttgerber of Wayne hnd a shipment of hogs on tho South Omnha market a few days ngo that sold for $14.85 per hundredweight. The load consisted of 07 Duroc Jerseys, aver aging 274 pounds. As the result of slow recruiting nnd tho lnnbllity to fill Its ranks Cojnpany G Nebraska National Guard of Stan ton, has disbanded. Company G was a unit of tho Fourth regiment. Tho Holdrege Auto show hold ro cently proved n great success and will be made nn nnnual affair. Tho to tal attendance nt tho four-day exposi tion was 5,000. There will be no winter whent In Thnyer county. Farmers are putting In oats and spring wheat on ground sown to winter whent. and what re mains will be put In corn. Mrs. John Simpson, aged 00 years, of Alliance, was Instantly killed when a wagon In which she wns riding was struck by a switch engine nenr that place. Nebraska City Is preparing for tho annual convention of tho State Aerlo of Eagles which will be hold there April 23 to 25. Tho American Herkshlro association hns voted special premiums amount ing to $1,200 to be awarded for prlzo Herkshlres at the Nationnl Swlno show in Omnha next fall. This amount, with $S00 offered by the Na tionnl Swlno Growers' nssocintion, mnkes n total of $2,000 for prlzo Herkshlres alone. Custer county cnttlo topped the South Omaha mnrket tho other day, soiling for $12.50 per hundredweight. The shipment consisted of 83 head, averaging 1.500, nnd wns shipped In by O. W. Mulllgnn of Wnlworth. Norfolk suffered dnmages that will run Into thousands of dollnrs as tho result of tho worst flood In the town's history, caused by tho overflowing of the North Fork river. Tho wnter was a foot higher than It wns five years ngo when the cllty suffered what It thought then to bo a record breaking flood. A firm which will mnnufneturo steel spring auto wheels hns been or ganized nt Dlshler, with n capital stock of $100,000. A factory will be erected at once. A mile n minute for 100 miles wns tho record established by Export Pi lot Leo Stevens and four nrmy offi cers taking aeronautic Instructions nt Fort Omaha, in n flight In one of the government's free balloons. Lincoln secured tho nnnunl meeting of tho medical society of tho Missouri valley next September nt the close of the seml-nnnunl meeting of that so ciety at Keokuk, Ta. More than $5,000 Is being expended building n "hog buck" rond through the Pine Rldgo. north of Harrison, on the Doadwood-Denvor highway. 1 GERMANS ASSEMBLE EVERY RE. SOURCE TO WIN WAR. IS All Available Fighters Being Mustered For Duty. Factories to Concen trate on Work of War. Copenhagen, April 3, Vln London. Germany, according to Information reaching here from Herlln, now Is gathering to the colors every uvuil ublu man for tt supreme military ef fort to bring the war to victorious conclusion In this year's campaign u goal which Field Marshal von llln denburg and his advisers consider by no means impossible of attainment. Without altering formally thu law of military service, thu German authorities have In practlco extended the period of service beyond tho forty llfth year, and uru retaining with the colors, and In many Instances for lighting duty with active rinlts In tho front line, Laudstrum men who have passed this age. The policy of tho German war de partment, us stated In the relchstag last week by u military representa tive, Is to withdraw those, men over 45 from the front line after they lmvo done six months of duty there, but military exigencies compel thu hold ing of these over-age men for service in the so-called etape, or reglou be hind tho nctunl lighting front. For some time the Gorman author ities, In n grand combing out of men earlier pronounced unfit for service, have been mustering men on the very verge of the age limit, but up to tho present they have announced that thu necessity hns not yet arisen for legls- latlon raising tho agu limit to 05, as hns been done In Austria-Hungary. Tho operations of tho labor service law now In full swing ure further re leasing for service at tho front every avnllablu man behind the lines capa ble of carrying n rifle, so that the next two or three months should seo thu Germnn urinles at their maximum size. Simultaneously with this drawing to the dreg of llumnn reservoirs of sol dier material, Germnny's Industrial mobilization nlso Is approaching a climax. A scheme for converting every nvnllable factory and employing every nvallable machine on war work and manning them with labor obtain ed under tho labor service law In con templated. Tho secret of Field Marshal von Hlndenburg's plnn of tho 1017 cnni palgn still Is well kept. It Is uncer tain whether tho offensive will bo di rected In the east or in tho west, nnd tho German's strategic reserve, at last accounts still within Germany, has not begun to move In either direction. On the surface, there- are Indica tions that tho purpose of the Koinmo retirement nppears to bo developing, not ns a scheme for bringing on u great open field engagement In thnt particular part of tho front, but to avoid the impending on slaught by tho mighty array of Anglo-French nrtll lery massed on thnt sector and to de lay a renewal of an Anglo-French of fensive by tho time required to ad vance the big guns to the new line. The Teuton commanders are said to no longer bo concerned with tho pos sibility of a great battle between Ar ms nnd the Aisno because of tho de struction of roads. i Tho Germnn mnln hendquarters, nc cordlng to reports recelvX'd here, now Is established at Kreuznnh-on-lhe-Rhlno, the general staff headquarters at Chnrlovlllo nnd Mexlores, twin French towns where Emperor Wil liam's military capltnl was located for almost two years until Von Hlnden burg's appointment to tho chief com mnnd, having been abandoned shortly before tho Sommo retirement. Riot at Peace Meeting. Baltimore. Md. After nn enthus iastic patriotic demonstration, several thousand persons stormed the Acad emy of Music here, swept n cordon of police nslde and broke up n big pa cifist meeting, stopping Dr. David Stnrr Jordon In tho middle of a word nnd refusing to nllow tho sponk cr to continue. Police reserves from nil over tho city were called nnd broke up tho crowd with their clubs. Several persons were Injured during tho demonstration, none seriously. Loans Aggregate $6,000,000. Omaha, Neb. Applications for loaiis In excess of $0,000,000 nro now on flip with tho federal land bank of Omahn. "The bank Is nlready over whelmed with business," sjiid one of thu oflicinls. Gold Imports Total $1,398,200,000. New York. Total sold Imports slnco January. 1015, reached $1,308, 200.000 with the arrival from Canada of $20,000,000, hnlf of which hns been deposited nt tho Philadelphia mint, It wns announced here. Imports for 1017 to (Into amount to $200,700,000. Guard Officers to Spurn Booze. Douglas, Ariz. Every officer of tho First Arizona Infantry has signed a pledge to abstain from nlcohollc bev erages during tho period of their services with tho government PLAN M ill EFFOR STUDENTS OF PENNSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY OUT So strongly has the preparedness Idea spread among the students of the training corps has been organized nnd dally drills aru held on thu campus. PERQNNE When the British entered Peronne the other tiny on the heels of thu retreating Germans, they found tho plnco a mass df wreckage. On every hnnd was found evidence of tho systematic destruction wrought by tho Teutons. The picture wns taken nt the time tho Germans first took possession of tho town. BUILDING UP UNITED STATES NAVY A petty olllcer explaining to a country by serving on ono of Uncle WOMAN INVENTS .Mrs. Anna Stanley holding a model of thu Stanley safety submarine, which will submerge In eight seconds, Ordinary submarines require ten min utes to submerge by taking on wnter ballast. There is a propellur on ench end of the Hubmnrlno; when thu bout submerges a lever causes tho rear pro peller to rise to perpendicular and tho front propeller to descend simultaneously. REDUCED TO SMOLDERING RUINS farm hnnd how he may bo of help to his Sam's grent lighting ships. NEW SUBMARINE FOR MILITARY DRILL University of Pennsylvania that a "THE LILIES." Flower lovers from all over tho country attended tho recent flower show In New York. This beautiful picture shows Miss Sarah Collier and and some prize lilies, one of tho pretty attractions seen nt tho show. TO MARRY PITCHER Miss Alice Johnson, a iiioity Brook lyn girl whose engagement to marry Al Mamnux, star pitcher of thu PItts-i burgh Plrutcs. has been announced,