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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1921)
NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. HEBRASHJN BRIEF Timoly News CuUed From All Parts of tho Stato, Reduced for tho Busy. SCORES OF EVENTS COVERED The community store at Norfolk has Jieen discontinued. Osceola is figuring on n municipal light and power plant. A million dollar packing plant Is a possibility at Scottsbluff. , Seventy per cent of Nebraska's pop ulntlon Is classed as rural. A fanners live stock exebunge has been organized In Cheyenne county. The new $25,000 Chrlstlun church at Weeping Water was dedicated Sunday. f Ice n foot thick and of superior ..quality has been harvested at'. Loup (City. J Norfolk Is pretty proud of the new $100,000 Grand theatre Just opened .there. Omaha claims to be the largest 'primary grain ruurket In the United States. A business college Is the latest ac quisition proposed by the Holdrege Commercial club. ? The Rev. J. P. Culver, for many lyeurs a resident of Mil ford, Is dead at Long Reach, Cul. Last Tuesday's run of hogs, 10,800 .head, was the heaviest receipt at South 'Omaha since Mny,1020. The Issuance of $15,000 bonds for (the erection of a municipal lighting plant will be voted upon at Mllford. . The Nebraska Retail Hardware as sociation will hold its nnnunj conven tion and exposition In Omaha Feb. 1-4. ; Fillmore county commissioners have t voted to permit Sunday baseball out (side of villages and towns In the county. ! During the year 1020, Judge Hop (kins, a York Justice, issued 181 mar triage licenses and ' married fifty couples. ; Athletics, music, and chalk talks '.were features of the Joint Y. M. C. A.- jAmerlcan legion carnival nt Aurora '.last week. , Nebraska college of agriculture (stock Judging team took second place Jin the western live stock show at Den jver last week. j Ford WInklemnn, a section hand, !was struck by a train near Howe, re jcolvlng Injuries from which he died ;n few hours later. J Although the largest corn crop In years was raised In Sherman county last year, practically none of It Is be ing put on the market. ' Tho university of Nebraska has Jspent about $8,000 in fitting up the col jllseum on the fair grounds at Lincoln for use for athletic purposes. A hrnnri rnhlnt na n nmmnrlnl tn Dean Monoah Reese, former head of the law college, will be placed In the law building at the university. John Placek was killed when his Ford upset while coming down a steep hill near Loup City. Death Is sun- Iposed to have been Instantaneous. The value of Omaha public school (Property has been uppralsed at $11, ;000,000, There are 50 public schools tin which 1,110 teachers nre employed. Edgar Griffith, a barber at Coznd, ;has patented a chair which enables iilm to sit while working upon custom ers. It Is on display at a local shop. , Irwin Wiseman, a 10 year old ooy, (was shot through the arm when ho (challenged tho entry of a burglar Info the home of his parents near Wood river. Following the appearance of three icuses of smallpox In the Columbus (schools, the superintendent Issued an jorder requiring the vncclnutlon of 'pupils, Richard Debuse, 10 years old, a .student nt the Omaha Central High (school, Is thought to be the youngest high school student In the United States. The TrI-County Teachers' Institute, composed of I'uwnee, Nemaha and Johnson counties, is to be held this year at Auburn from May IU to June :i, Inclusive. Nebraska led all other stntes In the production of nlfalfn hay during 1020. Its totul production-from the 1,232,947 acres planted was !,527,089.5 tons, showing an average yield of 2.80 tons per acre. More than 200 pupils marched down fire escapes to safety when teachers at the Sacred Heart Junior parochial school at Omaha sounded the fire drill after lire was discovered on the roof of the building. Firemen extinguished the blaze with slight damage. A motion picture machine Is oper ated one night a week to exhibit edu cational films and better class enter tainment features to the grade school pupils at Geneva. Leonn, 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jensen of O'Neill, was scalded by falling against a pall of boiling water at the Jensen home and died a few hours afterward. Tho body of an unidentified man was found In n box car at Chappel. A search by the coroner and sheriff re vealed only n number of old Jack knives, table knives, forks and spoons, nil apparently worthless. The Judge, superintendent of schools, county attorney and treasurer of Franklin county, have moved their of fices from Bloomlngton to Frankllu, whither tho county clerk, sheriff nnd assessor preceded them soon after the recent election by which Franklin was declared the county seat. At the meeting of the Nebraska Ter ritorial Pioneers at Lincoln last week, the following officers were elected : J. C. F. McKesson, Lancaster county, president; C. E. Adams, Douglas, vice president ; George II. Hastings, Saline, vice-president ; Minnie P. Kuotts, Lan caster, secretarvtrensurtr. Mary Nebraska Watktns, iia mst white child born In Nebraska City, in 1854, when thnt place was but a trad ing post, Is dead at her home at Ruyard. A fourteen-room residence property, valued at $30,000, hns been purchased by a board of'elghteen trustees among Omaha Masons to provide n homo for needy boys. Phil Altkcns of Lincoln hns been elected president of the University golf association. Walton Roberts, an other Lincoln man, was elected secretary-treasurer. Hebron citizens nre worrying over a couple of fires that occurred there lately. Roth were of mysterious origin und are thought to be the result of Incendiarism. J. R. Northcutt of Nebraska City celebrated his ninetieth birthday an niversary last week by skipping ropo and engaging in a few other minor athletic exercises. C. II. Gustafson, for the pnst seven' years president of the Farmers' Co operative Educational union, was re elected to the office at the recent ses sion of that body. Thirty-five homes at Blair are under quarantine for smallpox, Including thos.e of Mayor Henry Chrlstensen nnd two physicians. Tho majority of tho cases are of light form. The American State bank of Morrl- mnn, In Cherry county has been taken over by State Rank Examiner East man nnd closed at the request of tho directors of the Institution. Two masked men held up and rob bed a private poker party In a house on tho main street of Wymore. Seven members of the party donnted $300 cash to tho gunmen who escaped. W. M. Dovnl of Peru shot what ho took to be a hawk, which was mak ing off with n chicken. The fowl proved to be a bald eagle whoso wings measured seven feet from tip to tip. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dammnnn nnd the hitter's father, residing near Grand Island, were killed when the automo bile In which they were riding wns struck by a Union Pacific motor train. Omaha Jobbers and manufacturers are mnklng elaborate preparations for the- annual "Market Week" festivities that will begin March 7. There will bo four days of continuous entertain ment. The most terrific bltzznrd In tho recorded history of Nebraska occurred thirty-three years ago Janunry 12. Scores of lives were lost and tho dam age to cattle and other live stock was tremendous. From January 12 to 14, old soldiers at tho Grand Island Soldiers' homo died nt the rate of one a day, accord ing to n supplemental report from Commandant Addison Walt to tho state board of control. While kneeling to tie n bandage around the ankle of a man to whom he was delivering an order from an Omaha drug store, Adron Vanwey, 10 year-old messenger, was slugged and robbed of $10.02 by the man. The announcement thnt the Omaha chamber of commerce is planning to give financial aid to worthy students of agriculture has brought applica tions for loans from twenty students, according to Dean E. A. Burnett. The Platte river Is the highest It has been In years at this time of year. It Is running bank full and Hooding the low lands south of Fremont. It Is over the Cornhusker trail for 300 ynrds north of the Fremont bridge Box enrs borrowed from eastern lines to haul grain that hns never been londed are proving a burden to Ne braska railroads. It Is estimated ex tra cars lying Idle on sidetracks are costing one railroad $3,400 a day. American Legion adjutants, repre sentlng 125 of the 180 posts In Ne braska, at their meeting nt Lincoln, gave Indorsement to the proposal for the Introduction of a bill In the legist ture to legalize boxing In the state. Daniel Cole undoubtedly has the dis tinction of being the oldest notary In the state, us he has held that position in the town of Peru for more than fifty years past, anil has been a resl dent of that place for nearly sixty years. Mrs. L. J. Newman. 01 years old, died at her homo In Bellwood last week. A year ago, when she celebrated her 00th birthday she had 140 direct descendants living, six children, forty three grandchildren, seventy-one great grandchildren and twenty great great granchildren. Throe hundred and fifty-seven per sons were received at Nebraska peni tentiary during 1020, exceeding the to tal of all previous years, according to announcement made by Warden W. T. Fenton. In 1010, 200 were received at the Institution, the next highest year. Hustings enrpenters and contractors are negotiating a new wage scale. Tho carpenters have expressed n willing ness to accept a reduction. Omaha's totul grain receipts during 1020 were 02,275,000 bushels, and Its shipments wore 51,021,100 bushels The elevator capacity Is 10,000,000 bushels, und Its milling facilities 4,500 bnrrels of Hour dally. James Burton, 01 years old, of May wood, recently enjoyed the novel ex perlence of eating a portion of enko cooked by his grent-great-grand-daugh- ter. Ruth Towne, 8. Ruth Is one of the fifth generation of the family. Adum Rreede, of the Hastings Tribune, wus one of the winners In tho contest for the best editorial on "Sav ing," sponsored by the government snvlngs division of the Tenth Federal Reserve district which comprises tho states of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado Wyoming and major portions of Mis sour!, Oklahomn and New .Mexico. Fifteen hotels and ballrooms at Lin coin have compiled with the rules and regulations udopted by forty-one fra ternltles, sororities and other orgnnlza tlons of the state university In a fight flsnlnst "high prlc ," which tho students claimed were being churged. GUINEA FOWL IN GREATER DEMAND Of Big Value in Various Sections as Substitute for Many Game Birds. WAKES GOOD AS POLICEMAN Hotels and Restaurants In Large Cities Eaaer to Secure Young Birds Which Are Tender and of Fine Flavor. The great majority of guinea fowl are raised In smull flocks of from 10 to 25 upon farms In the Middle West nnd In the South, but a few of the large poultry raisers, particularly those who are within cusy reuch of the large Eastern markets, make a prac tice t)f raising a hundred or so guineas each year. Many furmera keep a pair or a trio of guineas more as a novelty than for profit, nnd from these a small flock Is raised. Warns of Marauders. The gulncn fowl doubtless would bo more popular on farms were It not for Its harsh nnd, nt times, seemingly never-ending cry, say poultry specialists of the United States Department of Peculiar ury or Guinea Gives Warn ing of Marauding In Poultry Yard Agriculture. However, somo people look on this cry ns an argument In the guinea's favor, us It gives warning of mnrnuders In tho poultry yard. Slml Inrly, their pugnnclous disposition while sometimes causing disturbances among the other poultry nlso makes them show fight ugalnst hawks nnd other cornmon enemies, so thnt guineas sometimes nre kept ns guards over the poultry yard. Often a few gulnens are raised with a flock of turkeys and nl lowed to roost In tho same tree, where they can give warning If nny theft Is attempted during the night. Used as Substitute. The value of the guinea fowl as ti substitute for game birds such as grouse, partridge, quail and phensant Is becoming more and more recognized by those who nre fond of this class of meat nnd the demand for these fowls Is Increasing steadily. Many hotels and rcstnurnnts In the large cities are eager to secure prime young gulnens and often they are served at banquets nnd club dinners ns a special delicacy. When well cooked, guineas are attract tlve in appearance, although darker than common fowls, and the flesh o young birds Is tender and of especial ly fine flavor, resembling thnt of wild game. Like all other fowl, old guineas ore very likely to be tough and rather dry. - RIDDING HENHOUSE OF MITES Cleanliness and Disinfection Required to Destroy Parasites That Live on Fowls. To rid the henhouse of the little red mite that stunts the hens so much re quires clennllness nnd disinfecting, The filth must be clenned up, the house ventilated and the sunlight let In. Immovable roosts and drop hoard will help clean up tho house. To dls Infect the roosts and house everything should be pnlntcd or sprayed with solution of two parts of nil and one part of stock dip. Application! should be mnde In pairs about five or six days apart in order to kill the mites that have hatched since the last spraying. GREAT ASSITANCE OF BIRDS Little Feathered Songsters Do Much Toward Good Crop of Fruit by Devouring Insects. A good crop of birds goes a long way toward a good crop of fruit. En courage the children to feed the birds during the cold, stormy wenther and In spring they will pny you a hun dred-fold by cleurlng tho orchards of Insect pests. SQUEALING PIG BEST The pig thnt keeps still Is the pig thnt sucks the most swill, runs a snylng. Maybe so, but we hnve observed that the hun gry porker who Is always com plaining to high heaven about his appetite usunlly proves u growthler. thriftier, and conse quently more profitable Individ ual than, hlB tongue-tied brother. USTOMERS SECURED FOR POULTRY SHOWS Persons at Summer Resorts Buy Produce in Winter. City People Have Inspected Hrodueer'a Farm and Know Under What Con ditions Foodstuffs Are Raised One Case Cited. Many producers living near summer resorts supply produce In the summer months to the persons at the resorts, and during the other months of tho ear ship produce to these persons while they are In the city. This, say marketing specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture, Is one of the best methods of obtaining customers for direct marketing, as the producer and consumer have some ac quaintance. In most Instances the cus tomers hnve been at tho producers farm and know under what conditions the articles arc produced. One man who lives near n summer resort in Iudlann is about twelve miles from the nearest town of nny size. He does not desire to drive to this town to dispose of his farm produce nnd Is not satisfied with the prices that the huck sters pay. Consequently he built up n business of supplying products to re- sorters tn the summer nnd of shipping produce by purcel post and express to these persons nt their city homes In the winter. The principal products shipped arc butter, eggs and dressed poultry. This producer uses good shipping containers nnd pneks produce attractively. Ab ho is acquainted with his customers, ho renders statements of nccounts only onco n month. In this way the mntter of making payments Is simplified for the customers. This producer hns had no trouble In establishing his business nor In retain ing customers. He states thnt his only trouble has been In getting enough high-grade produce to supply nil of his customers. OBTAIN BEST HATCHING EGGS One Male Should Be Used With Every 15 Hens of Breeds Like Orping tons or Rocks. Tho mnle must be In tho flock from ten to fourteen days before the eggs laid can be used for hatching purposes. After the male has been removed from the flock, hntchable eggs will be laid for about three weeks thereafter. To secure good, hatchablo eggs, provldo one male to every twenty leghorn or other egg breeds; use one male to Single Comb Black Orpington, every fifteen Rocks, Reds, Wyandottcs or Orpingtons, nnd one male to each twelve Langshuns, Brnhmas or other meat breeds. BARIUM POISONOUS TO RATS Tests Indicate That a 20 Per Cent Mixture With Food Makes Most Satisfactory Bait. A study of barium carbonate ns a rat poison, mudq by the United Stntes Department of Agriculture, Indicates that a 20 per cent mixture with food makes a satisfactory biiit. With this percentage a rat ordinarily needs to ent only one-third or three-eighths of a meal of average size to get a fatal dose. It was found that with this doso many of the rats poisoned died with in 24 hours, though an occasional rat was found which survived an even larger amount, thus indicating that 100 per cent mortality Is not to be ex pected In any case. A summary of results of experi ments conducted by various persons with a view to determining the dead- llness of bnrlum to different animals shows the fallacy of the assumption that barium is poisonous only to rnts. It is pointed out that the fatal dose of barium per pound tends to decrease relatively as the size of the animal Increnses, nnd that n bait calculated to be fatal to rats may be assumed to be mora or less dangerous to small domestic animals also. SUCCULENT FEED FOR FOWLS Now That Good Qualities of Forages Are Well Known Hens Should Be Given Ample Supply. Everyone knows that a hen lays best when she getH tho succulent grasses that first shoot out of the earth In spring. Most successful feed ers use in their mashes a base of some henvy, nonfattenlng, yet nutritious food. For a long time the best feeders of the country used wheat bran for thin base, but now that the good qualities of forages are well known the bill of fare should be changed to suit ABigDrop 18 JLTL cJell-0 rj faeces The Genesee Pure Le Koy, JN . Y. EVIDENTLY SET HIM THINKING Reminiscences of Sharp-Volced Woman Woke Young Man to Possibili ties of Situation. "Charles," said a sharp-voiced worn- tin to her husband In tho smoking :ompartmont, "do you know thnt you and I onco had a romance on a train?" "Never heard of it," replied Charles, In a subdued tone. "I thought you hndn't, but don't you remember It wns n pair of slippers I presented to you tho Christmas before wo wore married thnt led to our union? You remember how nicely they fitted, don't you? Well, Charles, one day when wo were going to n picnic, you hnd your feet upon a seat, and when you weren't looking I took your mens- ure. But for that pair of slippers I' don't believe wo'd over hnvo been mar ried." A young, unmarried man, sitting near by with n girl, Immediately re moved his feet from tho seat. Didn't Recognize Him. Cordon mnrrled n widow with eight children, who, in couse of time, pre sented him with ten children. Ono evening ho found in tho streot whero ho lived a llttlo boy, weeping bitterly. "Whnt's tho matter, little man?" in quired Gordon, caressing him. "I've lost my way," sobbed the youngster. "Then come' homo with me. I'll give you something to cat and take core of you." Accordingly, our klnd-henrted friend took the llttlo fellow homo, and snld to his wlfo: "See, dear. I have brought you this child. I found him nil nlmo In the street. Ono more or less won't make mach difference; wo will treut him as If ho were our own." v "Why, you stupid 1 Don't you know him? It's our Rorcy I" Columbus Dispatch. Those who surprlo you with ono .extraordinary epigram nnd no more, probably borrowed it. A man may bo quite generous nnd still heave a sigh every time ho makes a contribution. Nothing pleases tho modest man more than being detected In tho net of doing a good deed. T,nml without noonle Is n wilderness: people without land Is n mob. Jnmes J. Hill. Boil Ttour Postum fully fifteen minutes whenyou. use Postum Cereal Then there results a drink of de licious flavor which many prefer to coffee. Postum is more eco-1 nomical and healthful than coffee Another form, Instant Postum, is made "by adding hot water to ateaspoonful in the cup. The drink. ma3r be made strong or mild to suit individual taste GROCERS EVERYWHERE SEI1 BOTH KINDS Made by Postum Cereal Galnc, Battle Crcek.Mfch. S3 6 0 Food Company, Did you ever know u boy to lot ul new watch run down? For Constipation, Biliousness, Liver and Kidney troubles, taka Garfield Tea. Adv. Lazy men bump up against a lot of criticism, but they usually live long nnd contented lives. ' Yes, Hermnn, Insnnlty Is snld to ha akin to love but n man in 1 vo doesn't core If ho is crazy. Cuttcura Soothes Itching Scalp On retiring gently rub spots of dnu druff and Itching with Cutlcurn Oint ment Next morning shampoo with Cuttcura Soap nnd hotj water. Make them your overy-dny toilet preparations and have n clear skin nnd Boft, white hands. Adv. Willing to Divide. "Yes," said the eminent speclnllst to the poor man who had called upon him, "I will oxamlno you carefully for five dollars." "All right, doctor," said the man re signedly. "If yon find it I'll glvo yoa half." The Way With Ladles. "Mo nnd my wife had right smart of a Jowor day1 before yesterday, cu during of which I slapped her flat, related n resident of the Straddle Rldgo neighborhood. "I hopo tho trouble is nil smoothed over by now?" returned nn acquaint ance. "My part of it is. I always wns a forgiving sort of gent. But wlfo la still going around with a corn knife wrapped up In her apron. Aw, well, you know how ladles arc thnt-a-wny; sorter yaw-w-w-wn I ashy nnd impn tlenr, ns It were" Kansas City Stnr. At Least, Not Recorded. A minister wnB examining tho chil dren of n Sunday school .In tholr knowledge of Bible characters, and began "Who was tho first man?" "Adam," they all answered la chorus. "Who was tho first woman?" i "Eve," they all shouted. ' ' "Who wns tho meekest man?" I "Moses." "Who was tho meekest woman?" Everyono was silent. Finally a lib tlo hand went up nnd tho minister asked: "Well, my llttlo man, whe wan Bhc?" "Thero wasn't nny," asserted the boy.