The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922, August 02, 1918, Image 7
WtmVWttks tribune. I1U L. BARE, Editor and I'nbllshcr- SUBSCRIPTION RATES: LOno Year bv Mall In Ailvnn . i or One Year by Carrier In Adtnnco $1.50 Stored at North Platte. Nebraska. 1 PostofOce as Second Class Matter. 1 . FRIDAY, AUGUST 2nd., 1018. ' . : : ! RcpresentiiUvc. thereafter. Mr. Jensen Is an oxperlen- I hereby announce myself aa candl-;ced ciothlng man; ho has had years dato for tho republican nomination fori . . . . , . float representative from tho 77th oE 0XPerl"co In all tho dotails of tho District composed of tho counties or, business and thoroforo Is In position Kolth, Lincoln and Dawson, at tho , to render satisfaction to hla custom- primary election to bo held August 20, ' na respecuuuy solicit your support. rhavo been a resident of Dawson uu w,ul...lB mi. county for fourteen years, and myiBOn makes an Important aunounco- 1 present homo is In Gothenburg. GEORGE S. DOTY For Sheriff. I hereby announco myself as a candi date for the republican nomination for sheriff at tho primary election to be held August 20th, 1918. A. J. SALISBURY. County Clerk. I hereby announco mysolf as a candidato for tho Republican nomin ation for County Clerk at tho Primary election to bo held August 20th, 1918. A. S. ALLEN. ::o:: County Attorney. I heroby announco myself a candi date for the office of County Attorney of Lincoln County subject to the, Dem ocratic vote at tho primaries held August 20th, 1918. C. L. BASKINS. 0 TO KANSAS CITY AUTO SCHOOL AUGUST 15th. Eight Lincoln county young men registrants, six of whom mako their homo in this city, will ileavo August 15th for Kansas City wore they will attend tho Rahe auto, school, under jtho special training 'privllega accord ed them by tho government. Tho young men who will go aro: Earl Woodruff, North Platte. Fred Ellsworth, North Platte. Leo Miles, North Ttattc. Henry Clark, North Platte. Wm. C. Wright, North Platte. Paul Fernstrom. Vroman precinct. Archio Discoe, Plant precinct. Roy Maroviah, North Platto. Somo of these young men are 1917 registrants, tho others registered last j ... ... .... 4,,une. Tiiey win prooamy spona oignt weeks at tho Kansas City school and aro expected by that time to bo so an well versed In. auto mechanics as will qualify them for work overseas. : :o: : Create 11 Scnrc. There was quite a scare at the depot at noon Tuesday, when a man, whose Identityls still unknown, tossed to a s soldier standing on tho car 'platform of a troop train a cyllndlcal shaped piece of iron and exclaimed: "Hero tako this as a souvenir." On tho bot tom of tho bulb or ball was stamped .'highly explosive." When tho soldier read theso words ho placed the ball on a car seat and reported tho inci dent to his ca'ptaln. The sheriff and notice wero notified, a bunch of rail road employees were rounded up, but tho man who tossed tho article to the soldier could not be found. An inves tigation of the supposed bomb proved it to bo a "part of somo machine and flnc-t dangerous. It had been laying on a bench in tho shops for several weeks. Tho follow guilty of tho act thought evidently ho was perpetrating a joke, but had ho been identified at the time it might havo resulted very serlouly for him. :o: : Auto Accident tit Sutherland. As a result of an auto accident at the railroad crossing at Sutherland about llvo o'clock Tuesday evening, W. C. Stlllingor of Litchfield, Neb., died at tho General hospital In this city the samo night, and J. T. Knott of Sutherland and E. F. Bell of Litch field, wero badly bruised. Tho fourth man jumped from tho car and escaped -Injuries. ilA-rno men wero In a car and had driven up on the south of tho track at tho crossing to await tho passing of a troop train going east They were so Intent on watching the soldier boyB that they did not notlco tho coming of train No. 5 running fifty miles an hour, and as tho troop train passed thoy drove up ontho track and were struck by tho west bound train. Clark Paulson, who enlisted in tho navy and Is stationed at San Pedro, CaL. writes that ho Is In fine condi tion. Ho asks that tho Sammy Girls be tendered his thanks for tho sweater and comfort kit Miss Alice Otten left Wednesday for Washington, D. C. whero sho will ac- .fept a clerical position In one of tlio 'Wgovornment offices. Enrouto sho will ' visit friends In Omaha and Illinois. Goorgo MonkB, Henry Hupfor, Dr Lane, Lew Dean and Tom Gutherless returned this week from Centennial, Wyo., where they spent ton days fishing in a lake on Snowy range. Thoy found fishing only fair, not as good as in former years. Jensen Buys Clothing Store. Dally expecting to bo caCled to Ser vian itmlnr ihn onlrvra W 11 Tlnrrmir thi8 woek hls ci0u,lng stock to Jonsen took possession at onco. Mr. Jensen is not a strangor to tho purchasing public of North Platto and . trlbuU SItIon' , bcen associated with Mr. Harcout . u tQ orlctnallv imr- chnBod from Mr. Wolngand and ro-' malncd a partner for soveral years or3i i .1 1 t ment to tho public, : :o: J. V. Romigh, who had been spend ing ton days at Estes Park, returned tho early part of tho week to look after business matters. Ho will return to tho park today to remain until tho 15th. , m,.. i,,. , .. ,,,. May were received by tho Union Pad- fic employoes this weok. This cam-, pletes tho payment of tho back pay' for employees. . I COMMISSIONERS' PROCEEDINGS. July 29, 1918. Board met! pursuant to ndliourn- mnt, present full board and county. clerk. Bond of A. R. Leavltt, overseer Road Dist. 12, approved. Fred Brooks, road work Dist. 12, 1 o nn a'unilrv nQrsons. road work DlsL 35. $47.10. C. L. Grant, road work. Dist 2, $50. Ernest Drlngman, road work, Dist. 8, $2.50, Pirns fYinkln. ronrl work. THnt R. JS., Wesloy Cockle, road work, Dist. 8 $5.00, Nath Bratten, bridge work, Dist 8, $46.50. James Bechan, bridge work, $42.00. Jos. Spies, hauling gravel, $38.25. Checked and approved books of clerk of district court and find fees amounting to $1721.G0 for first and second quarters. Vesper McCormick, bridge work, $12.00. Vesper McCormick, road work, $G8.40 Whereupon tho board adjourned to July 30, 1918. A. S. ALLEN, County Clerk. Profits and Prices Profits may be considered ' from two angles: 1st Their effect on prices; 2nd As a return to investors. When profits are small as compared with sales, they have little effect on prices. Swift & Company's profits are only a fraction of a cent per pound on all products sold, and if eliminated entirely would have practically no effect on prices. Swift & Company paid 10 per cent dividends to over 20,000 stockholders out of its 1917 profits. It also had to build extensions and improvements out of profits; to finance large stocks of goods made necessary by unprecedented requirements of the United States and Allied Governments; and to provide protection against the day of declining marketi. h it fair to call this profiteering ? Swift & Company, U.S.A. FARMERS I'RGEB TO EXHIBIT AT THE STATE FA IK. Wo aro In receipt of a bulletin ! from tho Nebraska Slato Board of Agrlculturo requesting that farmors I of tho county plan to make oxhlbits C" " ! ' Kl1 ouuo ru,r "J"3"8 ' "". , Soptember 1, and that work bo undor-. taken by somo county organization In assembling products for a county Col lective exhibit of farm products. J A campaign is being conducted, It is stated, to socuro for tho State Fair j tlto finest agricultural exhibits that tho stato can produce. Tho Fair Uiis 1 yoar is to bo mado a powerful stim ulus to Increased fowl "production. Tho best that Nebraska can ralso and in bigger variety than evor before, is the order. Tho exhibits will afford fnr morfl n. hnttor mpjinn of ntinlv of tJinnn food products, they witl bo tho moans ' of Interesting more people nnd In de- j voloplng a heightened enthusiasm In I this most necessary work. Nebraska. for years, has had a farm products ox- hlblt unequalled by any fair In the 'country. but tho 'plan Is to this year ouiuo an lormor oxnimis. Llvo stock exhibtls will bo given U10 samo encouragement as tho farm products. Each year shows Improve ment over tho proceeding year In this department and tho coming year, it is .1 , , ,. , . . "" "" in hizu. LrfjL iui urecuiTB 01 UlglV CIUSS stock write to tho Nebraska Stato Fair t they havo not already done so, and secure a premium list of tho Fair and ontry ttanks. Full information will bo given upon request ::o: : Mrs. J. G. Erlckson, of Kansas City, has been tho guest of her sistor Mrs. ,'John Jonea th,s wook- Mrs. Chas. Sandall and daughter Helen visited frlonds In Lexington a couple of days this week, Relatives In town received word Wednesday that Harold B. Applogato, whose homo is in Sutherland, had arrived safoly overseas. Mrs. Ben Johnson nnd daughter, of Omaha, visited in town Wednesday while enrouto to" Ogdon. Mr. Johnson Is a passenger conductor on tho Omaha-North Platto run. MAY ADOPT DECIMAL SYSTEM Enoland Serloutly Considering Aban donlng Its Antiquated Currency In Favor of Simplicity. England may adopt the decimal sys tem for lt currency. The ugltntlon for Oils reform appears to bo gaining fnvor with the British people, and among tho Important agencies behind the movement Is the Associated Cham ber of Commerce of tho United King dom. For generations schoolboys havo been lenrnlng this: Four farthings mnkc ono penny, twelve penco mako one shilling, twenty shillings mako ono pound, twenty-one shillings sterling make onoguluen, twenty shillings ster ling mnkc one sovereign. Then there were tho symbols to learn tho capital "L" with a short line ncross tho shank of the letter for tho Latin "lihra," or pound; the llttlo "s" for shilling, or tho Latin solldus; tho little "d" for denarius, or penny, nnd tho "qr" for "quadrans," or quar ter of n penny, stnuding for farthing, though latterly "far" came to stand generally for farthing. All American schoolboys have studied tho table of English money In that part of their arithmetic dealing with "reduction," which Is "tho changing of numbers, cither simple or compound, from ono denomination to another without alter ing their values." Many men will prob ably remember that as boys they worked nnd labored over two kinds of "reduction," which were called "reduc tion descending and reduction ascend ing." Tho decimalizing of English money Is, of course, in tho lino of simplifica tion. Some of the finnncldt powers nnd papers are urging that parliament take the matter under consideration, nnd It Is likely to come up for official treatment nnd discussion at any time. WOULD BRING BACK OLD COIN Our Daddies Found Many Uses for Copper Two-cent Pieces, and Its Restoration Is Urged. Tho American Newspaper Publish ers' association has recommended the return to tho two-cent piece. Do you remember the old two-cent coin, with the big figure "2" on It? It was decor- nted with n wreath and almost every thing else that could be crowded onto it It was used principally for tho chll drcn to play with. It wns too big for tho baby to swallow nnd large enough to be found when onco It wns lost When the Silndny school kids read of the woman In the Bible who hnd lost a coin and searched tho house until sho found it, they Immediately associated it with tho two-cent piece and wondor cd why there should be any troublo nbout Its recovery. But It was good old family coin, nev ertheless, nnd would buy two pieces of licorice or one all-day sucker. It was not without Its advantages, cither, for tho Sunday collection. It looked big, anyway, and made n very rcspectnblo noise when It was tossed Into tho plate on top of n pile of other coins. To have the old two-cent coin with us agnln would remind us of the good old days and work no hardship on our financial system. So, let us hnve It- with tho big figure "2" on ono side, tho wrcnth and the natlonul shield, nnd ev- erythlng, Just as big as life. Kansas City Times. Fuel Value of Coal Lessened. Cnroful intimates made by tho dl motor of the bureau of mines nnd his nssoclntes indicate that while last year's cool output of 000,000,000 tons will nrobnblv bo Increased to WiO.OOO,- 000 tons this year, the effectiveness of this fuel will be equivalent to n pro duction of normally nrepnreu coai ag irrotmtlnc oly C70.000.000 tons. Tho renson for this surprising discrepancy Is that much of the coal Is not being nronn rod with the usual' care. It Is calculated that there Is 5 per cent more ash content In this year's coal thnn In that of nrovlous years. In other words, approximately 000,000 carloads of osh nro ncing nouea to thn burden borno by the rnllwnys. Tt has bcen shown that the inclu slon of B per cent moro nsh In tho mni mpflns a reduction in efficiency In the remninlng good coal of 7 per cent. Stating tho case nnotnor way, the total reduction In tho coal's ef fectiveness is 12 per cent. Dayllaht 8avlno Worked Well. In the United Kingdom during tho four nnd a half months that daylight saving was practiced In 1010, It is claimed that the saving in gas alone conserved 200,000 tons of coal. Tho expenses to consumers were reduced by $2,87r,000. Klectrlc light compan les reported a reduction of nbout 20 per cent. Iu France fuel used for lllumlnnt lr.it purposes was 10 per cent less af ter the daylight saving program wan adopted. In Germany tho Berlin municipal gas work reported In Mny nnd Juno of 1010 p decrenso of 508,500 cubic meters, In splto of the fact that 18, 000 new gas meters hnd been Installed during the previous six months. In Self-Defense. A negro soldier nt ono of tho can tonments Insisted that he wanted to take out the full limit of Insurance, 910,000. Ono of the white soldleni re monstrated with him, telling htm It would be foolish to pay on so much, for ho was likely to bo shot In tho trenches. To thlB the negro answered : "Huh, I reckon I knows what I'so doln I'se doin' this In self-defense You all don't s'poso that Undo Sam Is gwlno to put n $10,000 man in tho llrst line trenches, does yuh?" Mrs. A. J. Knrrnkcr. whoso husband is Burlington agent at Venango, Is spending tills week with relatives and friends In town. Prior to tho early part of this month Mr. and Mrs. Karra kor woro located at Torrlngton, Wyo. Louis KMy, who went to Grand Is land Monday to receive his transpor tation, passed west on train No. 19 Wednesday morning onroute to Scnt tlo whero ho goes into training as a pilot In tho aviation corps. Insure Your Tractor Investment Keep your tractor properly lubricated and it will serve you long and well. It will give you bigger returns from your labor and fuel bigger crops and a bigger share in winning the war. STANOLIND Gas Engine Tractor Oil exactly meets the severe lubricating conditions that arise when you burn kerosene or other heavy fuel in your tractor engine. Follow your tractor manufacturer s directions and use this real tractor oil that keeps compression tight, saves cylinder wear and gives adequate, even lubrica tion most economically. Use Stanolind Gas Engine Tractor Oil and you will insure your tractor investment. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (Nebra.ka) DR. J. S. TWINEM, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, . NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. Physician, Surgeon, Obstetrician. X-Ray. For your comfort ond accommodation The Nurse Brown Memorial Homeopathic Hospital. Homeopathic medicine for acute and chronic diseases. A trial will convince you that there isno system of treatment its equal. Office phone 183. Residence phone 283. Hospital Phone 110. WE BOY YOUR HAY GRAIN. SEEDS AND LIVESTOCK. We sell Coal, Flour, Graham, Whole Wheat, Corn Meal, Corn Chop, Barley, Chop, Salt, Shorts, Bran, Tankage and Cotton, Linseed and Alfalfa Meal, mixed Chicken Feed and all kinds of Grain. Quality guaranteed and SERVICE THE BEST. Leypoldt & Pennington, EAST FRONT ST. CAR EXCHANGE Before buying a car be sure to see me as I have a number of cars almost as good as new, which I will sell at a bargain. These cars are not old broken down junk, but cars which will stand close inspection and will save you money. Would be pleased to havo you call and see these cars. A. M. BLTJME FIJtST CLASS CAR PAINTING. 818 North Locust St. AUTO LIVERY SInco I liaro sold the garage am doing auto llrcry from the North Side Barn.. Dajr or Night Telephone 20. Wo make a specially ef drlres to sales all orer the coanly at the rate of Are coats per fflile per person. Those Trfao bare salos throughout tho coHntry please let mo kaovr. Also a few cars for sale. Night Call Bed 632. Julius Mogensen. When thoro is hard work to do in hot weather Prickly Ash Bitters proves Its worth as a stomach, liver and bowel purifier. Those who ubo It stand the heat bettor and nro loss fatigued at night' Prlco $1.25 por bottle. Qum-more-Dent Drug Co., Special Agents. Don't suffer tho mlsory of Indiges tion when you can get relief from Prickly Ash Bitters. It cases pain nnd drives out badly dlgostcd food. Ono doso does tho work. Try It. Prlco f 1.25 per bottle, Gummore-Dcnt Drug Co,, Special Agents. PHONE 99. IT'S A LASTING 1'1101'OSITION With us that until you aro satisflod wo don't consider a transaction ond od. So you will bo doing ua a favor If you will toll uh of anything you don't llko about our FEED and our Borvico. Don't hesitate because the mattor may seem a trifling ono. Wo want to correct tho fault bo it llttlo or big. Perfect Bhervico Is tho aim of this establishment LEYPOLDT I PENNINGTON PHONE 90.