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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1920)
TUB NORTH PLATTE SRMT.WREKr.Y TRHWNE CQRHHUSKER ITEMS .ITews of All KindB Gathered From Various Points Throughout Nebraska, OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS Fnlrbury Is to have u municipal skating rink. Bloomlleld business men have or ganized a retailers' credit association. A decline In bread prices throughout the state Is predicted before the first of the year, Grand Chapter Uoyal Arch Masons ' of Nebraska will meet In Omaha. December 10. Petty thieves are operating In Fre quent, and many small thefts are ttielng reported. 9 St. John's Catholic church at Wnu meta was dedicated Sunduy by Bishop O'Reilly of Lincoln. Nearly f.0,000 people visited the ills pluy at the show of the Omaha poultry association last week. Omaha women will urge the next loelsluture to pass laws that will act as preventatives of divorce. MeCook will stage a drive to raise $100,000 for the purpose of establish ing a hospital at that place. Hog cholera has broken out In Gage county, and every effort Is being made no prevent Its further spread. Births exceeded deaths more than .live to one In Sherman county during the three months ending November --Oth. A meeting of the Nebraska state college athletic association will' be held In Lincoln, Saturday, December 11th. The new municipal Ice plant at Grand Island has begun operations, with a capacity of twenty-five tons .daily. Albert Norgren, a farmer living .near Overton, fell off a windmill, breaking his neck. lie died almost in stantly. Fire in the printing plant of Scott .& Mllburn nt Beatrice caused a dam age of nearly $-10,000, covered by In surance. F. D. Million of Iowa, who was recently elected superintendent of the schools of Blue Springs, lias assumed Jils duties. Nebraska's apple crop, this year, Is the lightest In the past decade, accord ing to reports from towns In the apple growing belt. New markings of the Lincoln High--waj from Omaha to Los Angeles are 'being put up by the Southern Cali fornia Automobile club. Frank P. Lawrence, a pioneer of Fremont and a veteran of the civil war, is dead. He was at one time a captive In Llbby prison. All recruiting records for Hie Omaha army recruiting district were 'broken In the months just ended, wheji '281 were enlisted., C. II. Gustafson, a farmer of Mead, Is being strongly endorsed by his friends over tho state for secretary of agriculture under President Harding'. There were 1,027 chickens, ducks, pheasants, turkeys and other fowl in the exhibit nt the Omaha poultry show last week. Their total valuation was 2?45,500. The state college of ogrlculture has issued a circular protesting against the modern abuse of the Christmas spirit In tlie promiscuous exchange of presents. Coyotes ore becoming active In Cheyenne county, nnd many losses of poult rv have been reported. In some localities old-fashioned wolf hunts are lielng planned. Daughters of the American Revolu tion Mill erect a $10,000 fountain on the courthouse square 'at Oinnliu In memory of-fl'lmmas L. Cuming, first territorial governor. A wild-cat measuring thirty-nine Inches from nose to tip of tail, and weighing forty pounds, was caught near Ohndrou by Joe Jausek, in n trap he had set for skunks. Governor McKoIvIe has Issued a 'proclamation requesting the people -of the state to contribute freely to the fiiiul belntr rnlsed for the aid of the suffering children of Europe. The shut-ins at the stute peniten tiary gave their annual Thanksgiving show to inmates and officials and In the evening repeated the performance to a crowded house from outside. A subscription amounting to several hundred dollars has becrt raised for Henry Utesh of Columbus, whose home .and contents was destroyed by tiro lust week. His loss was complete, with no Insurance. A Ladles' Auxiliary to the American Legion Post has been organized nt Columbus. Edwin Crawford of Violet wns xerlously injured when n rock weigh ing between two nnd three tons which he had undernilnded nnd planned to "bury, fell on him. His leg was crush ed so that nmpututlon wns necessary. ' The supply, of teachers In Thayer county promises to be more nearly equal to the demand by next fall, as nu unusually large number passed the examinations. Sixty-five registration numbers were sold In the county, 20 of them In Hebron. Olnf Olson, Lincoln's new tire chief, appointed to take the place of Chief Somnier, killed In an automobile acci dent while going to a fire a couple of months ago, arrived from the Panuma ?one, where he has been .connected with the fire department at Cristobal. Preparation of a complete state budget embracing nil departments, institutions nnd enterprises of tho state of Nebraska, as well as public nnd seinl-publlc activities supported . by It in whole or In part, has been -commenced by Finance Secretary P. V. Bross, as provided for by the code .law and the amended constitution. Officers nc South Omaha raided a JMoonshlno" plant, and uniongst other paraphornnlln, captured a still mado from a gallon coffee pot. Nebraska Is the tlrst of the states to raise Its quota toward construction of a National Chamber of Commerca building at Washington, 1). C. The general store of Thco. Harme9 at Mnnley, In Cass county, was bro ken Into and robbed of $1,000 worth of merchandise, ouo night last week. Paul F. Wright was Instantly killed wheu he grasped a live wire at tho new Evans hospital nt Columbus, where- he was working as n carpenter. The bond of Keith Collins, said to bo the "bruins" of the $3,500,000 mall robbery, ami who was arrested at ftK(!t'' 0kln' ,,aH bven set nt $50,000. From Saturday, December IS, until Snturday, .January 1, has been set for Christmas recess at the University of Nebraska, Instead of the later period beginning Wednesday, December 22. A large part of the biggest corn crop Cheyenne county ever produced Is still In the .Held. Tho weather has been Ideal for shucking, but the price Is so unsatisfactory that farmers lire hiring but little help. When tho sntev legislature meets this fall, the teachers and school offi cials of the beet-growing districts will demand e. law requiring attendance In- the rural as well as city schools nine months of the year. Nebraska will be the only state to furnish women electors when tho time comes to cast the electoral voto for president, according to Col. J. II. Presson, recording clerk In the office of Governor McKelvle. The state railway commission has granted an Increase In telephone rntes to the Nebraska Telephone com pany, totaling 10 per cent of the pres ent exchange rate, effective December 1 until June 30, 1021. v The sleet storm that swept tho eastern portion of the state last week caused a damage of over $20,000 to the Nebraska Telephone company. Wires, nrins and poles were torn down by the weight of lco and snow. Miss Elizabeth Parsons, attorney, lins the distinction of being the llrst woman In Omaha to receive a permit to prnctlce In the federal court, per mission having been grunted by the Nebraskn supreme court. Twenty neighbors of Oscar Groth, south of Blair, met last week and gathered his corn crop. Groth's 8- year-old son died a few weeks ago, and since then another son wns badly Injured when he was thrown from a wagon. Lleutonnnt Governor Bnrrows, in his capacity as coinmnnder-ln-chlef of the Sons of Veterans, has accepted an In vitation to be one of the speakers to address the big banquet of the order In Philadelphia on Lincoln's birthday, February 12. The University of Nebrnskn wrest ling tonhi and the Omaha Y. M. C. A. wrestling team will meet In Omaha, January 12. nnd In Lincoln the fol lowing week-end,, according to an nouncement made by the university athletic department. Floyd It. Wick of Malvern has been sentenced for a life term In the peni tentiary for the murder of R. R. Dick son, a rancher nnd a neighbor. Wick Is only 18, and Is the youngest person to be convicted of the crime within the state for many years. More than a hundred overnlled Has tings college students completed the excavation for Liberty Memorlnl Hall, tho quurter million Hollar structure which is to be the next addition to the college plnnt. The co-eds Joined by cooking dinner for the lnborers. Not a death In the family for near ly fifty years Is the remarkable record of Mr. and Mrs. George Shnfto, who celebrated their golden wedding at Kearney recently. Ten children nnd sixteen grandchildren nre living. State university and agricultural farm authorities are urging the neces sity of asking the legislature to give the farm bureau extension department an Increased appropriation amounting to nbout $200,000 for the coming two years, A bandit killed nt Fremont Inst week, following the hold-up of the College Book store nnd a gun battlo with the police, has been Identified as Earnest A, Guest, a deserter from Troop I, lfith Cnvalry of Ft. Russell at Cheyenne, Wyo. According to word from the western nart of the state, farmers In that locality would gladly give large quun titles of grain to help starving peoples overseas If the government will pro vide free transiiortatlon and send something Jn the nuture of a Christ mas ship. Twelve young men and one young womnn passed examination and wcro admitted to practice fit the bar of re braska. at Lincoln Inst week. For the third time In a yenr, a rural school house near Emerson In Dixon county wns the object of an Incendiary attempt last week. The building had boon burned down twice before and was rebuilt this fall. ,T. W. Freeman, Omaha ex-pollco officer, shot by his wife last week, Is nllvn with a bullet In his heart. Not only that, but following tho shooting at his homo ho wnlked unaided Into the police stntlon for treatment. Counterfeit $10 bank notes of crude sort nre In circulation over the state and authorities have Issued warning to be on the lookout for them With seventy-eight members, tho Nebraskn High School Debating leaguo will soon announce the schedule of thirty-nine llrst series debates In tho fourteenth year's work or the league, which opens In Jeiuiary nnd ends with the newly arranged two-day to.-.rtni merit at the University of Nebraska In May by all the district championship schools on the quostlon or repealing the literacy test restrictions on lui migration. niOT VICTIMS TOTAL 673. Policeman, Soldier and Civilians In eluded In List of Casualties Since the Opening of Hostilities In Ireland. TIflls. Armenian forces hnve beon driven eastward by the Turkish na tionalists until the region they hold Is entirely outside tho traditional bound aries of Armenia. As a result, Ar in on I a Is reduced to a little Caucasus republic, such as was created by tho Germans and Turks during the war. It comprises the districts of Krlvnn, Novobuyazet and Etchuitadzln, the ecclesiastical capital of ancient Ar menia, located about twenty-live miles north of Mount Ararat. Turkish nationalists have' occupied districts Just to the west of this re gion, holding Knrs, Alextuulropol nnd Surmnlou. Jlostllttlos between the Armenlnns and Turkish nationalists have been suspended through Intervention by the bolshevik government at Moscow, and hopes nre entertained that further bloodshed mny be averted. Conditions, however, nre frightful In the district held by the Armenian forces. One hundred thousand re fugees, In the Inst stages wf .destitu tion nre traveling through the snow In all directions and the Armenian gov ernment Is unable to provide housing or food, pending the arrival of groin promised by tho Russlnn bolshevlkl. Many Killed or Wounded. London. Persona to the number of 078 have been killed or wounded In Ireland up to November 27 of the pres ent year, by antl-governnient elements, according to n statement Issued by the home ofllce. The deaths do not Include 20 persons killed In Londonderry, 02 In Belfast during the summer rioting, nor in cadets killed In the Kllmlcbnle nmbtiscade. The statement says that 151 police men hnve been killed and 2110 wound ed; that 47 soldiers have met death and 1011 wounded. Civilians to the number of 41 hnve been killed and 101 wounded. Sixty-seven court houses hnve been destroyed and 528 police barracks have been destroyed nnd 101 damaged. There have been 830 raids on malls and 45 raids on const guard station and light houses. To Argue Rail Rates December 13. Washington, D. C. Argument In Intrastate rate cases affecting Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska and Flor ida will be heard by the Interstate commerce commission, December 13. The question Involved, as In previous cases, is ,tlie authority of the federal commission under the transportation net to control Intrastate rates under. certain conditions. , Inter-Allies Adopt Memorial Day. Paris. Recommendation that the veteran organizations of all the allied countries observe Mny SO us "Inter allied memorial day," wits one Of the first acts of the International council binding together the war veterans' associations of the allied nations, which has been organized by delega tions representing the allied countries. Ask Credit Extension for Farmers. Norfolk, Neb. Declaring thnt far mers in Madison county, Nebraska, are facing bankruptcy If forced to sell their products at present prices, the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce, after consultation with lending bunkers nnd farmers, has sent a telegram to tho governor of the federal reserve board at Washington, , Cutting Retail Meat Prices. Cleveland, O. A general cutting of retail prices ranging from 3 to 11 cents a pound, bringing prices nearer normal than at any time In months, Is in evidence throughout this city. Bacon has been cut from 40 to !15 cents. Guatemala City, Guatemala. Fran cisco Cardenas, former general in the Mexican army, accused of the assas sination of President Francisco Mnde- ro of Mexico In February, 1013, Inflict ed fntal Injuries upon himself near here, using a revolver. Washington. Exports during Octo ber, Increased by nearly $150,000,000, while Imports decreased approximate ly $1,000,000, foreign trade figures just made public by the department of commerce show. Exports were valued at $752,000,000 against $005,000,000 In September, while Imports were valued at $302,(X)0.000. Permanent Mandates Commission. Geneva. The council of the leaguo of nations approved the fiunl draft of the project for the permanent man dates commission, definitely accepting the tentative proposal to have the commission comprise five iionninnda- tor.v and four mandatory powers. It was decldod tljat all tho members bo chosen by the council. The permanent commission, it Is forecast, will probably meet once u year at Geneva and review the admin istration of the mandate holding coun tries. Want Importation Stopped. New York. Counsel for the Wright Aeronautical Corn., niinlied to Fed eral Judge Hand for an Injunction re stralnlm: Handley-Paue Ltd.. of Hue- land, from bringing Into this country 10,000 airplanes and 34,000 engines made abroad for war purposes. The attorney for the American corporation declared the lutliix of British govern ment surnlus "war lunk" would ruin tho business of his clients and other nlrplane manufacturers of the United 'States. Decision was reserved. Quite Up Of Course He Will Use the Reindeer Jf There Is Snow Busy Practicing With an Airplane Jmh Or Had I Ju.t Better Stick to Old X WWJfrWW Dancer nnd Prancer?" OODNESS sakes alive, what a time good old Santa Onus Is having these days 1" Mrs. Santa Claus was busv nncklrnr un dolls, and wonderful teddy bears, ami trains of brightly .painted cars, and hags of candy, 'and skntes. and little carts. and sleds, and picture books, and all the hundreds of other things that every youngster In the world Is wait ing for. She paused In her work for n mo ment and looked over her glasses, "So you wont to see him. Humm, humm. He doesn't like much to talk or be Interviewed, Just about this time, you know. What do you want to see turn about?" The Man From the Newspnper cleared his throat. "Oh," said he, "I just merely wanted to nsk him how ho Is going to get around, In ense there Is not enough snow on the roofs for his sleigh." Not Behind the Times. "Well, I never; Hint's Just what he has been fussing about himself for the past two weeks. But the thing Is nil settled now. Everything straightened out. Why, ho Is out there In the back yard How practicing with ills air plane." "Airplane 1" cried the startled Man From the Newspnper. "Yes, airplane. 'That's what I snld. He Is going to try out an airplane this yenr." Mrs. Santa reached over and picked up a beautiful, dark-balred, rosy-cheeked doll nearly two feet riign. "I wonder what I shall do to get that In," she mused aloud. "But he has always used reindeer, nlways, always," ventured the Man From the Newspaper, when he bad recovered from the shock. "Of course he lins, silly," replied Mrs. Santa Claus. "But, my deur young man, do you suppose that Just becutise we are up at the North Pole here we are behind tho times? Not a bit of IS AWAITING THE A VERY DEAR v to Date, Is Old Santa 55 W It. Of rourse he may use the reindeer as usual and the sleigh, If the snow storm Hint he has ordered from the North Wind turns up on time. But we've decided that If the storm doesn't nrrlve. It will bo the nlrplane." One Question Barred. "You see Its " She suddenly stood up. "Why don't you go out Into the bneft yard and talk to hlhi your self? I think I hear the motor now. I guess that he will tell you about tho, troubles that come when there Is not enough snow on the roofs. Mind you don't nsk him any curious questions though. He hates curious questions, you know, questions such as we have been listening to this past week, like: 'What am I going to get for Christ inns?' Pontile don't know. Heavens on earth, whnt n chorus of that, kind ofr questions there Is now! Folks ought to know tluW they must Just wait. Run along now, I'm bus" The Mnn From the Newspnper went out Into the back yard. "Brrrrrrrr rrrrrrr rrrrr " ho heard above his head. He looked up. There sure enough wns an airplane. It was tearing around In n mad circle, with Santa Claus sitting on the top of one wing and holding on for dear lire. There was n row of chimneys set up on tho ground, and, as the flying run chine roared over thorn, Santa Claus would lean forward and kick a lever and down would drop n doll, ker-plop, In n parachute, or a boy's book, or a pair of furllned gloves, or something else. And every single one of the para chutes would go right straight down a chimney. Parachute Mistakes. After a few minutes the machine came down to the ground nnd Santa Claus climbed out. "Wheuuu. That was terrible," said he, blowing on his hands. "Do they always go right straight down the chimneys?" asked the Man From the Newspaper. "NOW they do," replied tho white- VISIT OF FRIEND Enough; but He Is hurcd, fur-contcd old Saint. "You should Iinve been around when I tried It first, though. THEN they NEVER would go right. It has taken me a whole week to get them to go where I want them to. "You see, It wns rather hard nt first, and rnther bad. too. If I sent a sled to Willie Jefferson, nnd It went flop right down the chimney of tho elder Miss Jones, now, veil ha-ha-hn what on earth would tho older Miss Jones do with n now, alilny, steel-framed flyer? "But I got them to go right after a while. I shall use the parachutes In some cases, but mostly I believe thnt I shnll go right down the chimney us usual, with the pack. It only takes a minute. And If something SnOUI.D go wrong with the parachute, you know well. I'd rather not;thlnk what might happen" "Doesn't look as If n stor'm was coming, either," suggested the' Mnn From tho -Newspaper, to get tho ells-cr..-ulon hack to the reindeer nnd sleigh question. , No Room Except on Top. "No. It doesn't." admitted Santa Clnus. "Thnt's Just what started mo , practicing. You've no Idea what n terrible Job It Is for those poor rein deer to haul n henvy load of toys across a roof when there Is no snow. It simply tires them to .death. So, If t thc'Nnrth Wind gets up to nny pranks with me. I'll- Just use tho plane." "Is It much faster?" asked the Man From the Newspaper. "Fnster? I should say It Is." said St. Nicholas. "It's a pretty big old world, you know, even if some of theso scientists do deny It. Maybe they wouldn't be quite, so sure If they had to mnke a trip all qver It every Christ mas, ns I do. I bore to he In Franco and America nnd England all nt tho same time almost, you know. Only about five hours difference,"' "Why do you ride on the top of tho plnno?" demanded the Mnn. "No room Inside. Hint's why. . Just take a look at that plane, young mnn," said Santn Claus. The Man wnlkird over. The plnne wns Just Jammed, crammed, packed with boxes opd nun dies and pneknges., "It's only the first load, all that," explained St. Nlcholns. "I hnvo to make 24 loads In nil. Bolls? Surely. There they are, hung up over there nn tho wall of the house. M.v old sleigh hells, of course. One lins to bo economical, though, these days of high prices and everything." Joke on the Children. "I nm slninlv colnc to tie the bells over the plnne and let the wind ring thorn. Of courso you understnnd about the reindeer. If It feally DOES snow they're trim ns ever. There's Prancer nnd Dancer thcro now, over by the fenco en ting. moss. "Won't It bo a Joke on the children, though! No one will drenm, when they hear the drone of nn airplane motor above the house, that It's me, will they? I can see tliem all waiting, tucked In their lieds. listening for tlm sound of the reindeer on the roof. And. there won't bo any reindeer at all, It It doesn't snow, nn, ha, a good Joke." "But tell me, what am I going to get for " The Man From tho News paper got no furthor. Snntn Clans, and the house and tho nlrplnno nnd tho reindeer vnnlslied like smoke. It doesn't pay to be too curious, after nil 1 Mr. Santa was right. Ry James II. Powers, In tho Boston Globe. Hand Kkslng Observed. The young Armenians, on Christmas day, pay "hand-klBslng" vlslta to their ciders.