THE 8EMLWEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE. NEBRA8KA
MINOR NOTES FROM ALL
PARTS OF NEBRASKA
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Juno 4 to 7 Nebraska State Dcntnl
' Society Meeting nt Oniuhu.
I Juno 5 to 7 Nebraska-Iowu Funeral
Directors Joint Meeting ut Oiniitm.
June 5-0-7 Stntc Association of Post
masters' Meeting at Lincoln.
Juno 12, 13 and 14 Soml-Contennlnl
celebration at Lincoln.
Juno 15 to 21 Nebraska State Holi
ness Association camp meeting ut
Lincoln.
Juno 1S-20 Nebraska Press Associa
tion Annual Convention nt Oinnlm.
Juno ID AnnunI Meeting State Phar
maceutical Association Meeting nt
North Platte.
June 10-20 Nebraska State Sunday
School Convention nt Omaha.
June 2.1 to 27 International Ass'n.
of Hallway Special Agents and Po
lice Meeting at Omaha.
June 25 to "0 Stato Golf Tourna
ment nt Lincoln.
Beatrice Sunday schools arc ninklng
preparations for n union picnic to be
held In this city some time this
month. Last year over 2,100 partici
pated In n parade and over 3,000 were
In nttendanco at the picnic.
A measure to put the ban on dogs
running nt large In Fremont from
March to October every year, has been
submitted to the city council nnd It
Is said the council Intends to put the
bill through.
Mrs. Robert Hood of Chndron,
whose nnme figures In the blackmnll
Ing conspiracy Involving several
Omaha police olllccrs, was formerly
a popular teacher In an Omaha pub
lic school.
A new concrete bridge to bo 700
feet long will bo built across the
So. Platto river in Lincoln county, the
project receiving the endorsement of
the voters at n special election. The
structure will cost $40,000.
It Is announced that the Nebraska
Ouard regiments will be mobollzed at
Fort Crook, near Omaha, about July
5, and then sent to a centralization
camp somewhere In the south two
weeks Inter.
Building construction Is nearly at a
standstill In Omaha as a result of
strikes by unions of the building
crafts and the trouble between build
ing materlnl concerns nnd their tenm
sters. Tho J. M. Cox farm, four miles
north of Bentrlco, hns been pur
chased by Chris Spllkor, a well known
farmer of ITolt township. The consid
eration was $40,S00, or $155 per acre.
To fill up , their ranks to war
strength as ordered by tho War de
partment nt Washington, the Fifth
regiment Nebraska Nationnl Guard
needs 000 men nnd tho Fourth COO.
The Commercial club of Norfolk is
negotiating for securing n tannery to
come to that city. A firm from Du
buque, Tn Is considering the proposi
tion. The Nebraska Potato company, with
general ofllces nt Chndron, owning a
string of houses along tho Northwest
ern rnllrond, has offered tho use of
Its houses to the government.
C. O. Reed of Ewlng, It. D. Bryson
of Callaway and Earl Ersklne of
Wnyne were appointed to. the medical
staff of the Nebraska Guard.
Two Falls City guardsmen couldn't
wnlt until the mllltln Is called for ac
tion, so they Joined the navy, hoping
for enrller war excitement.
Several thousand ncres of land enst
of Curtis nre being negotiated for by
an eastern firm for the purpose of
prospecting for oil.
Grand Tslnnd's pnrk commissioner
ta nfrorlnc two cents per pound for
dandelions pulled from the Pioneer
squnre.
Tho Lincoln highway Into Fremont
will bo pnved with concrete. This
was decided Just recently.
Boys of the senior and Junior
classes of the Fremont high school
nre conducting a campnlgn to enroll
tho nnmcs of every resident of Fre
mont In the county patriotic league.
Dodge county had tho first league in
tho state nnd effort will be mnde to
ninko It tho biggest.
Tho Seward Y. M. C. A.'s propor
tion of S5.000.000 to be raised for car
rying on the association's work In tho
army camps is SI ,000 and tho local
workers nre getting busy with tho
expectation that tho amount will bo
raised soon without dltllculty.
A canning school, directed by the
Stnto School of Agriculture, will bo
held at North Platto Juno 22 nnd 2.1.
Tho remodeled Methodist Episcopal
church nt North Platto was dedicated
Just recently. Tho rebuilding of the
structure cost $18,000.
Georgo Couplnnd of Elgin dcclnred
nt Fremont recently thnt ho Is going
to enlist tho nld of merchants and
business men of every kind In towns
over Nebraska to go Into tho fields
nnd help thefarmers during harvest
time.
Whllo his little plnymates looked
on In horror James Kocourek, 0, son
of Mr. nnd Mrs. Jnmes Kocourek,
drowned In tho Missouri river at
Omaha.
Ten farmers In tho vicinity of Fll
ley delivered over 5.000 bushels of
whent to tho elevator at that plnco
during the pnst week, the price rang
Ing nround $3 per bushel.
Six Indian skeletons, sevcrnl finely
made ntrate heads, n number of nn-
clent flro places, buffalo nnd elk bone
nnd other- fragments wero found near
Punning Just recently.
Through n scheme worked out by
tho commercial club of Norfolk nnd
tho Madison county agent, It Is believ
ed the question of supplying farm
help during harvest tlmo Is solved, nt
lenst In Madison county. Every farm
er In the county, who Is in need of
help, Is nsked to apply to the county
agent, lie turns tho list over to the
commercial club and the club lists nil
transient and resident labor In tho
city, thus tho farmers nnd laborers
nre connected. Each merchant nnd
clerk In tho city hns volunteered to
work two days n week In tho Held.
Judge Crawford, sitting In tho coun
ty court of Douglas county at Omtihn,
ruled that the provision of tho Ne
braska statute making unlawful pos
session of liquor In any place except
the owner's prlvnto residence Is con
stitutional, In the case against A. M.
Larson at whose farm a largo quanti
ty of liquor was seized May J). Larson
was lined $100 and tho liquors order"
ed destroyed. Tho case was appeal
ed to the supreme court. No disposi
tion of the liquor will be made until
a final decision Is obtained.
Miss Emma Matzen, Hod Cross
nurse, Is the llrst Nebraska woman
Injured In tho war now raging over
the most of Europe. She was hit by
a piece of shell llred In practice on
board the U. S. Steamer Mongolia en
routo to France. Tho explosive
boomeranged when It hit the water
and killed two other nurses, who wero
watching the practice. Miss Matzen
had visited her parents nt Columbus
onrly In May.
According to n report submitted nt
the Food Conservation Congress nt
Omaha, Nebraska potato crops this
year will more than double the 1010
yield. Estimates place tho yield at
1.4000.000 bushels, compared with
0,500,000 bushels Inst year. The re
port showed thnt 17,000 acres In tho
stnto are planted In beans, which are
expected to produce 7,140,000 pounds,
The wheat crop of Richardson coun
ty Is sure to bo the shortest In tho
history of tho county since Its settle
ment with tho possible exception of
tho grasshopper year, 1S75. The as
sessor of Rulo township found only
ISO ncres of winter whent and eleven
ncres of spring wheat, and winter
wheat Is only a partial stand nt that.
Two thousand delegates attended
tho Nebraska conservation congress
for tho purpose of mobilizing tho
state's resources for the war at Oma
ha last week. W. G. MeAdoo. secre
tary of treasury of the United States,
addressed tho congress on the subject
of flnnnclng the war.
Thirty thousand dollnrs worth of
canned beans, a dozen cnrlonds of coal
and vnlunble mnchlncry wore lost
when fire, of nn unknown origin, de
stroyed tho Norfolk Packing company
plant nt Norfolk. Tho loss Is placed
at from $50,000 to $80,000.
Recommendntlon of national lnws
whereby tho federal government shall
Immediately assume control of sup
piles nnd prices of food products nnd
necessaries of life were made In n set
of resolutions passed by tho Saline
county council of defense.
"Odd Fellows of Nebrnslin nre
planning n big centennial jubilee on
April 20. 1910. In Omnha," said Wal
ter V. IToagland of North Platte,
grand mnster of tho order, while In
Omnha to attend the conservation
meet.
Omaha banks hnvo decided to dou
ble tho nmount of their subscriptions
to tho Liberty bond loan. Instead of
tho $2,000,000 worth of bonds they
formerly Intended to purchase, they
decided to Invest' $4,000,000 In the
loan.
Omaha's Red Cross campaign con
ducted during tho pnst week netted
closo to 25,000 members and a fund
of nenrly $35,000.
Tho Knights Tcmplur lodge of Bea
trlco has voted to Invest $500 of Its
runds In liberty bonds.
Major General John Joseph Per
shing, who is to lend America's first
battlo unit against tho Germans, at
one time Intended to be a lnwyer and
graduated in n law course at tho Uni
versity of Nebraska at Lincoln in
1880. Ho lost his wife nnd threo
children In a firo nt the Presidio, San
Francisco, two years ago. Until Just
n few days ago his only child lived
In Lincoln.
Equipment for the new Dodge coun
ty jail ut Fremont, which Is to oc
cupy tho top story of tho new court
house, will cost $14,708.
An orgnnlzntlon has been perfected
nt Beatrlco and urrangements mndo
to begin nt onco tho raising of $4,000,
tho shuro of tho wur Y. M. C. A.
fund, upportioned to u district com
nrislni: Gage. Johnson nnd part of Sa
line county. Twenty-one towns are In
tho district. Bentrlco will raise $l,ouu
of this nmount.
Tho Bentrlco nerlo of Eagles havo
voted to Invest from $1,500 to $2,000
In liberty bonds. The Knights
Templnr havo voted to Invest $500 tor
tho same purpose.
Eighteen hundred bottles of beer
wero found in the collar of tho resl
denco of a Falls City butcher. It Is
said tho liquor was Intended for tho
use of tho Germnn society of tails
City.
Threo hundred sncks of flour and
sovcral hundred bushels or whent
wero lost when flro destroyed tho
Crelghton Hour mill.- The loss Is es
tlmuted nt $35,000.
It Is estlmnted that ncrengo plant
ed In garden truck In Nebraskn this
yenr Is twice ns large as in uny pre'
vlous year.
M mm
DISAGREEABLE DUCK.
"Qunck, quack, quack, quack," said
Mrs. Groon-und-Whlte Duck. She wus
called Mrs. Greeu-nnd-Whlto for short
nlways.
"Qunck, qunck, good morning," snld
the other ducks.
Mrs. Green-und-Whtto had Just
moved to the duck pond and she wunt
od everyone to llko her.
"Do como for pond water this after
noon nt four," she said.
The ducks wero very much pleased
and thought Mrs. Green-und-Vhlte
was extremely nice nnd pleasant.
"If you can't come for pond wnter
this nfternoon, do como for my Insect
dinner this evening,"
And she spoke of her Insect dinner
ns If It were n dinner of creamed
chicken on toast, Ico cream nnd cake.
When the ducks went to Mrs. Green-nnd-Whlte's
afternoon party of pond
wnter they found her uwnltlng them
on the bank of tho pond looking very
handsome. She quacked politely and
said, "I do hope you will llko me ns 1
think this Is n lovely part of tho couu
try and the pond Is so nice."
Now Mrs. Duck's husband wns n
very largo creature. Ho was called
Mr. Green-and-Whlto Drake, hut for
short ho had also always been known
as Mr. Green-and-Whlto.
He wus putting on his best feath
ered top nnd combing It up. Ho wns
smacking his beak and trying to looV
his best.
"My denr," lie said to Mrs. Duck,
"If you were in my place, would you
carry my new stick made out of birch
BTC
Mr. Grcen-and-White Looked Very Sad
bark that old Mr. Giant gave me once,
or would you curry my little walking
stick of the branch of our favorite tret
in tho lust pond?"
Mrs. Green-und-Whlto quacked In o
very annoyed tone.
"I don't see," she snapped, "that II
Is my place to tell you what sort of a
stick you ure to carry. I havo enough
to do looking after the social side ol
our lives. I have to keep up flu
friendships. I havo to get to know the
people I havo to keep them m
friends. You nsk mo too much. I urn
entirely too busy. And besides I can'l
be worried in such n way."
Poor Mr. Green-and-Whlto looket1
very sad. He was very fond of Mrs
Duck nnd she wns apt to he cross to
him. Every other duck and drake
liked him wherever he went as ho was
nlways quite natural and nice and
friendly. Whereas Mrs. Green-and
White always put on airs and pretend
ed thnt she wns the finest duck that
ever lived.
Of course she did entertain a great
deal as she wanted to be very populnr
but In many ponds she had made her
self very much disliked by tho unkind
things she hud said.
Tho ducks at tho pond water party
looked at each other In amazement.
She wns not so nlco ns they had
thought at first. They didn't like
ducks to ho nlco to some crenture.s
nnd to bo unkind to their own fnm
Ily.
Mrs. Green-nnd-Whlto quacked most
of the nfternoon of her troubles with
Mr. Green-and-Whlto. She told how
little ho cared for manners nnd all
such things which meant so much.
Tho ducks listened politely, but they
thought quite dlfferntly. Mnnners
wero nil right but silly manners nnd
uffectntlon wns all wrong they thought
They left ufter u rather unpleasant
visit. In tho evening Mrs. Green-nnd
White gave her dinner party. And
wlint did she do but make fun of her
guests of tho nfternoon. Some of her
stories wero funny when she was mak
ing fun of Mrs. White Duck who had
such n funny dress on quite muddy
nnd unfit for a ten and she made
herself out to be tho finest crenture
In all the land.
Most of them Just kept quiet, hut
Mrs. Brown-nnd-Whlto Duck, who had
n great deal of spirit, said,
"If you want to live among us you
must bo plensant."
Mrs. Green-nnd-Whlto Duck gasped
In surprise! Sho had never before
been spoken to In such a wny.
"Yes," continued Mrs. Urnwn-nnd-White
Duck, "wo like our futnllles nnd
wo don't respect ducks who nre friend
ly outside and cross inside their pond
homes. And, another thing, wo alt be
long to a club which will not allow us
to talk nbout our neighbors nnd more
especially our friends. So tnke your
choice, Mrs. Duck. Either you slay
und belong to our friendly club where
wo must nil uct natural, or you can
go Bomewhere else and talk nbout your
(luck friends. It's too nice a pond and
wo won't be made unhappy." And
Mrs. Green-nnd-Whlto mended her
ways and became n nice duck.
1 Rookies at Fort Slocuin who havo Just received their soldier clothes and are proud of them. 2 Lntest pho-i
togrnph of MaJ. Gen. John J. Pershing, selected to command the llrst American expeditionary force In France. 3 !
British nrtillery on the western front preparing the way for an Infantry advance. 4- American destroyer Rogers,
put Into commission at the Churlestown navy yard for the Massachusetts Naval mllltln.
This Is the new building of the American Red Cross In Washington which was formally dedicated recently. It
was erected at a. cost of $800,000 and Is the general headquarters for all Red Cross work In this country.
OUR DESTROYERS ALREADY ACTIVE IN THE WAR
1 '
Some of the American
active part In the war on
itiui ftt tfti
German
BRITISH LABOR COMMISSION
These are the members of the British labor commission now In this coun
try conferring with the representatives of American organized labor and
others. Ttey are: Seated, left to right, Rt. Hon. C W. Bowermau and H. W.
Gnrrod; K.umlltig, Joseph Pnvles and J. II. Thomas.
NEW HOME OF THE AMERICAN
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tlitit ti tsittil I ii it i i stfllrtl it I iwltrttutU tllrilliiltf ni'n lit Mi t t mil tl iiminhu titlsliw nil
submurlpes.
RED CROSS
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NEW STACK FOR THE GEORGIA
Lifting a now ten-ton smokestack to
bo placed on tho U. S. S. Georgln, nt
tho Charlestown (Mass.) njvy yard.
This naval crane can lift u burden ot
00 tons.