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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1921)
NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. 'NEBRASKA IN BRIEF & Timely News Gulled From All Parts of the State, Reduced for tho Busy. Work Is expected to begin soon on Hay Spring's new $50,000 high school building. At u speclnl election ut Stratton bonds were voted to construct a 'mu nlclpal Ice plant. For tlie second time Superior voters nt n special election rejected a .$im,000 water bond proposition. AH of the farm buildings on the John Staik, .Tr. farm, near Greeley, were de stroyed by a small tornad?l. On June 10 und 1? members of the Nebraska Hankers' A.V!ut!on will meet In annual convention at Omnhn. Tlio proposal to vote ?100,000 school bonds for a now school building In "Wakefield was defeated-at a special election by n 2 to 1 vote. Seventeen charter members were en rolled In k new camp of the TJiilted Spanish Wnr Veterans organized at Hastings. A windstorm of cyclonic nature passed V rough Ogallala and rmrts of Kleth county, doing much damage to crops and buildings. Citizens of the village of Crookslon, Cherry county, voted $28,000 bonds for the erection and malutalnnnce of n wnter and electric plant. President Ilnrdlng has nominated Arthur II. Allen of Tectimseh to be col lector of Intemnl revenue for the dis trict ofNebrnska. William J. McNichols of Lexington was elected state deputy of tbe Knights of Columbus at the Nebraska state convention at Lincoln. ' ' Short growth of roots has cut Fill more county's wheat crop r0 per cent, In the opinion of agricultural men. Tire fields over the county are very uneven. Announcement has been made that Falls City- Is to retain the Missouri Pacific shops. The plan to remove them to Atchison, Kas., has been abandoned. The proposed establishment of a frelgbt trucking line between Kansas Gity nnd Lincoln has been1 tentatively routed by way of Beatrice, Wymore, Maryvllle nndMnnhnttnn. Scores of prominent citizens of Lincoln have signed a petition which is to be forwarded to the governor of iNew Jersey asking that the Dempsey Carpentler fight be prohibited. The will of the late William A. Wolfe, wealthy Beatrice banker, who died just recently, bequests $10,000 to the First Presbyterian church of Benrtice nnd $2,000 to the Nebraska Children's Home society. Air mall "officials in Omaha ex pressed no great surprise nt Post master General Hay's announcement to congress that th transcontinental service must cease unless further ap propriations nre made. " Citizens of Sarpy county nre age tatlng the erection of a new court house nt Papllllon. It Is thought the construction of a new courthouse will forestall nn attempt on the part of the next legislature to annex Sarpy to. Douglas county. J. L. Tewell of Sidney was appoint ed by Governor McKelvie as judge of the Thirteenth Judicial district to-fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge .Grimes, at North Platte. Judge Tewell Is 22 years old, and an ex-service man. The state live stock bureau has re ports of hog cholera on three farms in Lancaster county, and also from Kearney nnd Saunders "counties. Steps have been, taken in each com munity to prevent the disease from trending. Premiums paid In Nebraska to flro and tornado insurance companies In the Inst year more than double the amount paid ont by the companies for losses, according to figures given put by the state Insurance bureau. Stock companies received $9,799,897 in prem iums from policy-holders during the year and paid out $4,848,270 in losses. Local mutual companies received $1, 032,829 and pnld out $408,539. Following n requert by the board of directors that the state take charge of the Institution, the People's State bank of Anselmo was closed by tho state department of trnde .and com merce. The closing of the bank was chiefly due to the nnnounced Intention of the county treasurer to withdraw u deposit of $37,000, It Is said. The bank had been weakened by exhnusted reserve and slow and doubtful paper. Thieves carried the cash register, weighing 2.r)0 pounds, from the- Joseph Cuhel ment market at Fremont. They loaded the register Into a two wheeled enrt nnd took It to a vacant lot and rifled It of $2.r0. Dispatches from the east that a gen oral failure of the wheat crop In Ne braska was Imminent, seem to be dis credited by reports published In sev eral dally papers over the state which show that with the exception of a few communities of small extent, prospects are for u normal or better than nor' mal yield In this state. Fred A Howe, 57, deputy grand custodian A. F. anil A. M. of Nebraska, died suddenly nt his home near North Bend. Hundreds of Masons from all parts of the state attended the funeral, which whs one of the largest ever held In Nebrnska. The Nebraska department rtf the G. A. It., In the closing session of the nn mini encampment at Hastings, unan imously .adopted a resolution condemn ing primary elections, public owner ship ft utilities, Inltiatve and referen dum, the recall and the "un-Amerlcnn closed shop rule," Signs' narkteg the Upland highway running from 'Albion to North Plntto have been erected. Work will start In a few dayu on the now $30,000 Methodist church at Curtis. A membership contest netted 200 now members for the Stnpleton Com munity club. Gibbon's new postofllce, one of tho finest In the state for n town of its size, was opened June 1, ' Lice am doing some damage to al- falfa in Richardson, Pawnee and Hugo j counties, according to reports j Tho Chudron local lodge .of the I. O. 1 O. F. favors the erection nt an early date of their proposed temple. I Actual construction work .'on the Union Pacifies' new line 'from Halg Into G:slien cotmty, Wyoming Is now under way. I The county of Greeley has been awarded the contract over other hld- j tiers to build the federal highway (from O'Connor to Wrlbach. The Calumet restaurant nt Omnhe, one i)f tin oldest and"lnost widely known eating homes In the middle west suspended business just recently. The fourth annual session of the Nebrnska Epworth league Institute will be held nt the Epworth league pnrk, Lincoln, July 25-31. Tho fifty-foot strata of sandstone which underlies nearly all of Lincoln Is amply sufficient to support flic Im mense 400-foot tower of the new state house, .engineers hnve-decldod. At n speclnl election nt West Point a $58,000 bond proposition for the In stallation a municipal electric light i nnd power plant f-nrrled by a majority of :01. -Totnl vote wns 435. Nebrnska produced 2,3S9,430 barrels of Hour' during 1020, according to n statement by W. C. Andreas, chief of the burcnii of mnrkcts and mnrketlng. Sections of the southern part of the stato especially around Wymore nre Infested with Insects, the pest said to be unequnlled In the pnst thirty-years. A six weeks' course In Intensive -military training will be taken by i eighty-three University of Nebrnska students at Fort Snelling, starting ! June 10. About fourteen carloads of fish i from the various' state fish hatcheries I have been distributed in streams nnd lakes over Nebraska during the past month by the state game warden. Torrential rains in the North part of the stiite the pnst week resulted In the overflow of small streams, Inunda tion of lowlnnds nnd, consldernble dnmnge to crops. Mendow millers In swarms of thous ands are infesting Washington county, nnd farmers fear their presence will result In crop damage, as they sub sist on vegetables. Itesolutions pledging the organiza tion to. use its efforts to bring nbout a reduction in hotel rates, livery charges, etc., were passed by the grnnd council of the U. C. T. nt the annual mcpt'ng nt Fremont. The purchase or erection of a hos pital to be operated by the Masons is on$ of the principal subjects to come i before the meeting of the Nebraska Irrand lodee of Masons in session nt Omaha this week. I Assistant Attorney General Dort has ruled that It Is the duty of tho ' stnte to pny for the keep of the pris oners now held In the Douglns county jail hocnuse of .lack of quurters In the stnte penltentinry. Two -onds, one from Plntto Center to St. Edwnrd and the other from Lindsay to St. Edward, will be-added to the system of stnte highways In Platte county ns soon ns funds nre available for their maintenance. Formers report, that winter wheat In Gage county hns been considerably damaged the past 10 days by heavy winds, and that in some sections there will not be half n yield compared with that of 1020. One woman oi severely Injured nnd n mnn nnd chMrt were sllphtly In jured and damnges of nbout $45,000 was done to farm buildings by a tor nndo which struck near nnrmony, nbout eight miles o-" of Vnlentlne. Lymnn, the new western Nebrnska town, is to have a station on the Union Pacific, citizens have been noti fied by J. M. Shlvely of -the Union Pacific. Tracts of land for the station grounds and sidings hnve been pur chased from Charles Lyman, The raising of pickles is assuming q place of Importance next to sugar beets in Scotts Bluff county. Accord ing to Stanley Seymour, manager for the Heinz Pickle company, at Scotts hltiff, the county this year Is expected to produce (50,000 bushels of pickles from 050 acres planted by 500 growers, and the value of the crop will be $130,000. 1 Morris Katlcman and "Red" Neal, sentenced from Omaha to from one to seven years In the stnte. peniten tiary for aiding nnd abetting auto mobile thieves, "were granted pnroles by tho stnte board of pnrdons nnd pa roles. Efforts are being made In University circles at Lincoln to recall the 1921 college year book, "The C'ornhusker," ns the result of n wnve of criticism regnrdlng the "student life" section, snld to contain cartoons of repulsive and libelous nature regarding certain students. Announcement hns been mndo that General John .7. Pershing will attend the. Mystic Shrine cerenionlnl at Lin coln, July 7. The first coronation of a poet laureate this side of the Atlantic will fake place June 18, In Lincoln when John O. Nelhardt, of Wayne, will be formally Invested with the dignities nnd prerogatives of the title conferred on him by the legislature of 1021. Al- itho tho first poef laucntc to he des ignated in America, Mr, Nelhardt has never been officially notified of his distinction. GOOD COMMUNITY HOUSE BENEFITS Distinct Pleasure Experienced by People of Neighborhood in Owning Buildings. frlANY VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS Structure Should Be Large Enough to Serve Needs of Every Organiza tion, and Should Be Located Conveniently. (Prepared by the United State Depart ment of Agriculture.) A community can "live around" from church building to church building from schbolhousc to schoolhousc, from hall to hull, but so long as It lives that way it will never experi ence the distinct pleasure that comes from occupying, n homo of its own in the form of u community house. A good community house adds something to the life of the community, in the opinion of specialists of tho United States Department of Agriculture, set forth- ' in Farmers' Bulletin 1173, "Plans of Itural Community Build lngs," now ready for distribution. Before a community decides the question of erecting a building, says this bulletin,. It should make a thor ough study of the local situation. The study should show that an nctual need for the building Is" felt by the varied organizations of a public na ture and by the people themselves. It should demonstrate that the building enn nnd should be maintained ns a permanent Institution. After 'it hns decided to erect a building numerous questions arise, upon which the bul letin gives much helpful information and many valuably suggestions, to gether with pictures and floor plans of n wide variety of community buildings now in nctual" use. Make Survey of Community Needs. The original study, it is pointed out, should not only determine the need of a community building, but nlso the most desirable type. . The bulletin nd viscs that the building be lnrge enough to serve the present needs of every member of the community nnd every organization, regardless of party, creed, or class, no matter how far dis tant they may be, and should be lo cated at a place naturally frequented by all members of the community. Raising the money for the undertak ing Is cited as one of the important problems. The amount to be secured cannot be accurately estimated in ad vance. Department specialists advise mm Neighborhood House In Arizona. that before an attempt is made to es timate the funds available a well-directed campaign of enlightenment be cnrrled on throughout the surrounding country, with the object of making known the benefits to be derived from the erection of the building. Every community will have Its' own particular uses for a building, nnd these can be determined only by the people themselves. A standard com muunlty building, however, it Is point ed out, should have as a minimum these accommodations : Accommodations of Every Building. An assembly room, perhaps with movable seats, that can be used as a meeting place for the people or for various organisations. With, the seats removed the room will be available as a gymnasium, as a game room, as a dining room, or for fairs and exhibits. A stage on which lectures, " plays nnd various entertainments can be given nnd which may have a screen for motion pictures. A kitchen where food irjny bo pre pared. A place where lunches, suppers nnd banquets mny be served. The more advanced communities would need, it is thought, other accom modations. These should bo carefully estimated In determining tho size ot the structure. It is well to take fu ture growth Into consideration. De tails of the various features of plan ning, constructing, nnd maintaining a community house nro contained In tho bulletin (Farmers' Bulletin 117B), which mny be hnd upon request of tho United States Department of Agricul ture, Washington, D. O. Department Bulletin 825, "Iturnl Community Build ings In the United States," another publication of tho department, gives the history of tho community building movement. Dehorn Market Cattle. Dehorned steers or heifers not only can be handled more conveniently on tho farm than cattle with horns, but if put orvthe market either as stock calves, feeders, or finished fat cattle, will sell for more.- WHITEWASHING WILL KILL MANY INSECTS Spraying Is Effective in Destroy ing Vermin. Cleanliness Is of Utmost Importance In Keeping Many Pests Under Con trol Provide Abundance of Light and Fresh Air. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Whitewash Is cffcctlvo In kilting mites nnd other sorts of vermin and may be used freely In spraying tho poultry houses, brood coops and roosts, scientists of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture say. In badly In vested pluces it Is advisable to clean ntid spray with a stronger disinfectant, and In 48 hours follow with a good spray or coating of whitewash. An effective whitewash for this purpose Is made as follows: Slake half a pock of lima, and di lute it with 20 gallons of water; add one pound of salt previously dissolved In wnter; to this mixture add two Whitewash. If Properly Applied, De stroys Parasites and Makes House) Fresh and Clean. qunrts of crude carbolic acid. Apply with a spray pump or brush. This, If properly put .on, not only kills the mites, but destroys all their eggs and makes the house or any building where It Is used fresh and clean. Cleanliness Is of tho grentent Im portance In keeping lice, mites, fleas, and other insects under control. Tho poultry houses, roosts, dropping boards, brood coops, f and all other places that the fowls occupy should bo kept cldnn. An abundance of light nnd fresh air should be proylded. Whilo these things cannot be depended on to keep nway lice and inltes, they make it easier to determine when tho pests are present -and help to" keep the fowls henlthy, vigorous, nnd better nble to withstand nn attack of lice and mites. Sick or diseased .fowls arc nlwnys the first victims of tlieso parasites, which mnkes it Important that the fowls be kept henlthy. MANY USE NEIGHBORS' SIRES Minnesota Breeder Keeps Up and Im proves Quality of Live Stock by Simple Plan. That the use of good purebred sires does not necessarily Involve owner ship Is shown by developments In the "Better Sires Better Stock" cam paign, which is Improving the quality of domestic animals in the country. A Minnesota breeder in Kittson coun ty raises four- classes of live stock cattle, -horses, swine nnd poultry. He owns a purebred bull but uses a neigh bor's Percheron stallion1 and also a neighbor's purebred boor. To obtain poultry of improved breeding he pur chased eggs from a- breeder of standard-bred fowls. Aonther live stock owner In the same county states In a letter to the United States Department of Agricul ture: "I do not own a purebred bull, but all c&ws aro bred by a purebred bull owned by a neighbor." In these cases the quantity of farm live Btock kept wns relatively small and under such circumstances the arrangements stated aro both simple' and practical. MAN'S GUIDE TO FERTILITY Black Soils Stand First and Are Fol lov.ed by Browns, Dark Grays and Yellows. Color has always been th6 practical man's guide to soil fertility nnd the scientific man finds It just ns useful nftcr working out the reasons back of It. In relative fertility black soils stand first, followed In order by the browns nnd dark grays, and theso by tho yellows and light grays, tho light est of which nro nearly white. CHICKS. DEVOUR DANDELIONS Little Birds Eat Them In Preference to Grass, but Are Liable to Ruin the Lawn. Little chickens are good dandelion diggers. They will eat them deep Into the ground and In preference to the grass, but should not be allowed to run on the lawn too long at a tlnwj for fear of ruining the lawn. DAIRY HINTS MILK RECORDS AID DAIRYMAN Both Profitable and Practicable to Know, for Certainty the Full Value of Cows. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment ot Agriculture) Iteports coining to. tho United States Department of Agriculture often in clude stories of tho surprises which trow owuors meet with when they start keeping records of their cows' produc tion. For Instance, In a Missouri cow testing association there was a man who. when he entered the association, did not appear to have a very good Milk Should Be Cooled Immediately After It U Drawn. herd ; but among his cows was a crip pled, ten-yenr-old Jersey named Goldtc. Old Goldle led the whole as sociation, with an nnuual production of approximately 0,800 pounds of milk nnd 5-0 pounds of fat, and an Income over cost of feed amounting to $207, In spite of the fnct that when the test stnrtcd she had already gone three months since freshening. The amusing part of Goldlc's record Is that her owner tried to sell her Just beforo she went on test, for $75. Six months later he refused $27fi for her. Tho whole , herd of which Goldle was a part averaged over 800 pounds of fat for tho year. In contrast with this wns another herd of 37 cows In the same association, Which hnd been reputed to be the best in that part of tho state. Yet 14 of these werd sold during the year ns unprofitable, nnd It seemed likely that more of them would be. ' Similar stories come from other states. The dairy division has been giving a great deal of time to tho extension of cow-testing associations throughout the country, nnd there nre. now nenrly BOO associations in various states. Tho man who Joins n cow-testing as sociation never runs the risk of selling n $200 milk producer for $80 becnuso her appearance Is poor, nor of wast ing his fcedstuffs nnd work on a good-for-nothing cow becnuso she lookB like n good mtlkor. It Is both profitable nnd practicable to know for a certainty tho worth of n cow by weighing her milk. A mnn In n cow-testing association has the milk of every cow weighed nnd tested once a month, from which it Is easy to calculate tho total for n yenr. He saves the trouble of doing It himself by having the cow tester do It The tester also weighs the feed, and fig ures out the cost of the milk; so that at tho end of a year tho owner of a herd of cows knows exactly what each one hns given, what she has eaten, nnd how much Income over cost of feed she hns brought him. HELP DEVELOPMENT OF CALF To Keep Them Growing Rapidly Fur nish Plenty of Good Hay It Aids Digestive System. The Important thing Is to keep the cnlves growing as rapidly ns possible and to see that they are provided with plenty of good hoy. Tills, more than nny other one feed, will help develop the cnlfs digestive system and should, therefore, never bo overlooked. Even if the calf Is on pasture It should be given a chance to eat what hay It will consume. Sft.0 INSURES NEEDED FEED Good Silage Made of Corn Crop Planted Too Late o Reach .Most Desirable Maturity.. A silo Is nn Insurance, Very often the senson Is so late that the corn crop cannot- be pjanted In time to get fully matured. Corn can bo planted as late as July 1 and yet make good silage. Feed Cows a Variety. A dairy cow should have plenty to eat of a combination of feeds, so bal anced ns to meet the requirements of milk production .and body mainte nance. Balanced Ration for Cows. It Is not Injurious to feed n cow a properly balanced ration In proportion to the milk she gives. Usually the results from underfeeding are a great detj worse than overfeeding. FORCED TO FIGHT FOR HER BREATH Nashville Artist Tells of Terrible Suffering Experienced by His Wife. HUSBAND GOES DOWN HILL Finally Both Decide to Put Tanlao to Test and as a Result Hae En joyed Best of Health for Past Three Years. "Both my wife nnd myself have put Tnnlnc to tho test nnd wo call It ,ttie greatest mcdlclno In the world," snld J. T. Montnmnt, 111XJ Third Ave., North, Nashville, Tenn., artistic sign painter for tho Uusack Company. Mr. Montnmnt hns lived in Nashvlllo for nearly thirty years and Is highly re spected by nil who know him. "Beforo my wife todk Tnnlnc sho suffered so badly from gas on her stom ach and heartburn that sho often said she felt llko sho was smothering to death. She actually hnd to sit up In bed to got her breath. "Well, In n short tlrtie nftcr sho began tnklng Tanlnc her troublo dis appeared and she wns llko a different person. Seeing the good results In her case,. 1 begun taking tho medicine myself nnd It soon hnd mo feeling llko n brnnd new mnn. "Up to that time L hnd been trou bled with Indigestion. 1 hnd no appe tite and the little l'dld cat seemed to do mo about as much harm n good. 1 felt bo tired uud languid I hated to move around, and was get-' ting In such n run-down condition that It Worried" inc. "Tanlnc acted with mo Just llko It did with my wife, and although that wns threo years ago wo have enjoyed tbe best of health nil along. How ever, 1 keep a bottlo of Tnnlnc In tho houso all tho time, nnd when 1 feel myself getting run, down tho mcdlclno soon hns me feeling nil right again. 1 am convtpced that Tanlnc Is with out un equal., Uur friends all know how It helped us and 1 don't hesitate to tell anyono about It" - Tnnlnc is sold by leading druggists everywhere. Adv. Rapid Service. Close by the railroad tracks at Quuntlco Is a shop where shoes are repaired. A sign outside states that eliocs left after 80 days will bo sold. A .recruit from Paris Island paused outsido tho siiop to give tho sign tho once over. He seemed to bo doing a lot of figuring. "Let's see," ho snld, nt Inst, "If after, RO days they'll bo 'sold.' I guess It must take about 15 days to have them half-soled." ASPIRIN J Name "Bayer" on Genuine Beware! Unless you see the nam 'Bayer" on package or on tablets you are not getting genuine Aspirin pre scribed by physicians for twenty-ono years and proved safe by millions. Take Aspirin only as told In. tho Bayer package for Colds, Headache, Neural gia, Rheumatism, Earache, Toothache, Lumbago, and for Pain. Handy tin boxes of twelvo Bayer Tablets of As pirin cost few cents. Druggists also sell larger packages. Aspirin Is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetlcacldester of Sallcyllcacld, Adv. No News to Him. A regimental band was about to be organized at one of tho wnr-tlrao can tonments and, nftcr the first rehearsal, tho officer In charge was signing up tho candidates, "your name?" he asked tho trom bonist. "Snm Jones," returned the embryo trombonist. "Your station?" "Camp Devens." "Your rank?" . ' "I know It," sighed Sam. The American Legion Weekly. WOMEN NEED SWAMP-ROOT Thousands of women have kidney tad bladder trouble and never suspect it. Women' complaints often prove to be nothing else but kidney trouble, or the result of kidney or, bladder disease. If the kidneys are not in a healthy condition, they may cause the other or gans to become diseased. Pain in the back, headache, loss ot am bition, nervousness, are often times symp toms of kidney trouble. Don't delay starting treatment. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, a physician's pre scription, obtained at any drug store, jcay be Just the remedy seeded to overcome such conditions. Get a medium or krge sbse bottle im mediately from any drug store. Ilowevcr, If you wish first to test this great, preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bingharoton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and mention this paper. Adv. One unworrled day Is a real psy chological triumph.