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To tho Editor:
Wo would llko to uao your col
umns to ask a question of tho North
Platte bakers: Why was your bread
advanced from ten to 13 cents a loaf
when tho price on a barrel of flour
250 pounds, has only increased 7ucr
Why do you want to tack on JG.80
than tho increase in tho price of the
barrel of flour? Havo you increased
the wages of the baker or other em
ployees or Is It because you need tho
oztra $6.80? Havo you hoard of
any wage-earner having his wages in
creased lately or havo they been de
creased? What do you call this
method business or profiteering?
If you can't name it aBk the wage
earner to do it. Wo hear a great
deal about patronizing homo indus
try which is a good slogan but who
wants to practice that when home
industry turns to home robbery? Is.
it any wonder thousands of dollars
are sent to mall order houses from
North Platte each year? Wo like
North Platte because we are a part
of her life and our homes, our fam
ilies and all of our earthly interest
are within her borders. For this
reason wo are for her progress ana
growth and want to patronlzo our
home industries but how do you
think wo can do so when they in
dulge In high-handed hold-ups as In
this ralo on bread? We know of
quito a number of merchants in
North Platte who havo reduced prices
and are competing with cities like
Omaha and Denver. Sorry wo can't
say as much for tho bakers and the
grocers'. Bread In Omaha, Denver
Cheyenne' and other cities sells roi
eight and ten cents a loaf (10 to 22
ounces) and tho raise In tho price oi
flour affected all of these places a
it did North Platte. Why ia It,
Mr. North Platte baker?
Committee of Men who are rail
road employees and North Platte
tax payers.
North Platto, Nob., Fob. 20, 1922.
Editor North Platte Trlbuuo:
Tho article you published entitled.
"A Professional Man's Investment,"
la very Interesting. Wo suppose,
having spent many years teaching in
tho public schools and preparing for
tho profession wo should bo expocted
to entirely agroo with it. But it mat
ters not whothor wo belong to tho 2
per cent who has received tho higher
education for a "chosen profession,"
or to tho 08 per cent thrown in early
years, into tho Industrial grind, with
low exceptions from necessity and
Hot from CHOICE, wo feel the situa
tion calls for an advocato for tho 98
por cenL
Tho writer speaks of tho yeara
pent in higher training for profes
sional life, as tlmo "ho Is giving." Tho
word "giving" wo feel is a misfit;
first, because In our own experience
L. & S. Groceteria. I
I as well as in many others dotlnlto In
dividuals In tho forms of parents,
older brothors and slstora and others
who poignantly havo sufforod tho lack
of technical training, havo contribu
ted largely in tho '.giving" while wo
racolvod a precious gift Nor do wo
hesitato to add that tho 98 por cent
who, whllo wo havo romovod our
selves from actlvo servlco to society, i
havo raised our food, built our houses,
kept us warm, and our clothes and
streota sanitary, havo also "given"
that wo might rocolvo tho gift.
Second, tho word "giving" is a mis
fit, bocauso thoso yoars of revollug
In tho wonders of sclonco, sitting at
tho foot of masters, basking in the
radlanco of art, and not among the
least of favors; spending Joyous
hours in tho soolety r.nd sports of
' young peoplo of our own ago, are
!not to bo considered "giving" in any
truo senso of tho word.
Wo havo invested "years" it Is truo,
but years In "living," and In prepar
ing to "live" to the fullest degree,
whllo tho 98 por cent havo boon In
vesting years plus Hfo Itself.
Another placo tho writer says,
what sooms to us an amaclug thing.
jHo says: "Tho artisan buys a fow
tools, on" many jobs all tools aro fur
jnlshed, and that is tho limit of hi3
investment" Note ho Insists tho
' "limit."
If this Is truo thon tho young girl,
desiring and deserving an education,
j and her health and youth as much as
this writer, who years ago left school
J to help her mother In tho sweat an.l
steam of a prlvato laundry, and died
of tuberculosis In her twenties, in
vested nothing.
Tho boy who leaves school and be
comes night caller invoat nothing.
The minor whoso day U turned wol'.
near into perpetual night Invests
nothing but his pick. The railroad
man going far from homo at all times
of night, In all kinds of weather, be
cause he invests not his engine or tho
railroad track, therefore Invests noth
! ing, Tho artisan who climbs the
dizzy heights to put In placo the
beams In our largo buildings and
ships, if ho invests not his ladder he
invests nothing. Tho department store
girl who stands long tedious hours
catorlng to our whims In buying, fur
nishes nothing that, has a cash value,
thoroforo according to this reasoning
invests nothing. The man who for
twelve hours, for rations and shelter
cleans our sowora that wo may not
die from our own flltt also invests
nothing.
It Is an old idea that life Is cheap,
and ho who puts Into usiness moroly
sweat and pains and health and
shatterod dreams and Hfo Itself, puts
In that which does not represent cold
cash as does lands and stocks, and
j "office equipment" foraooch, and
therefore we declare no dividends. It
Is this very Idea that dofoats and
postpones the soldiers' bonus. Wo aro
told In all seriousness that they "In
vested" nothing. They onl7 Invested
life and limb, and sanity, and posi
tions and homos. Thoso thlng3 haven't
a cash valuo, therefore, there la a
cry all over that tho boys should feel
"they havo rocelved their roward."
Lots change this whole wrong Idea.
MARY H. AXTELL.
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Do you want your piano tuned? Mr.
Leoubordt Is hero. Leave your
ordor at Smith-Johnson or Roxall
Drug Stores.
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Uncle John
I'VE MOVED TO TOWN
When a feller sells off his farmin' truck, an' goes to livo In town, ho's
actln' on tho impulso that it's tlmo to sottlo down. . . . Tho chlldron'3
all growod up, you know, an Mother needs a rest. Tho farm ain't what
It used to bo perhaps tho chahgo Is host . . . But still, thero'a little
er-box In town, don't seem to mo llko homo! Thoro ain't no mantel ou frtlicrmoro counts on any oUior
Kinus or janu aro mucn uesircu ror
comparison.
of trcos und whothor thoro is much
jor Httlo undorbrush.
I A third count desired Is of some
deflulto timbered area, forty acres for
I Instance, which Is part of a mucin
largor tract of timber, olthor decidu
ous or ovorgrcon. Still a fourth count,
supplementary to thoso, is noodod.
Tho aVorago farm In tho northeastern
states contains about 100 acres, and
tho avorngo count hitherto has boon
of tho birds nesting on tho fifty acres
of tho farm nearest to and Including
tho farm buildings. It Is now neces
sary to obtain counts of tho romalnd
or of tho farm, tho wildor part con
taining no buildings, especially on
the snmo farms whoro counts about
tho buildings havo already been made.
Persons who havo nmdo counts in
previous years aro roquostod to re-
tho wall, nor flrplaco anywheres. . . . Tho Hvlu'-room Is cluttered un
with Httlo, dinky cheers. . . . And thon wo'vo got a foldln' bod, that's
built to set on cud I may bo its companion, but I'll uovor bo lta friend I
And thon, it seems so lonesome, without a batch of chores: tho only bird
I know of, is my noighbor, when ho snores. ... I want to tend a bow- J P0"1 tho wor,c on tll Bamo areas. Now
an-plgs; I want to kill a snako! I want to hoar my roostor crow of mornlnM nroaa selected should bo such as ato
whon I wako. . . . I'd fool a lot contontodor among tho applo trooa, not Hkoly to havo tholr physical cou
than trylu' to squoozo myself, to fit apartments soch as these. . . . j Mtlons much changed for a number
But I mu3t try to hold tho pill that I havo swallored down, an' try to net of years. If succcoding annual counts
llko other's that's rotlred, moved to town!
The Farmer's Auctioneer
H. M. Johasisen,
North Plaits, Nebraska.
Phone 783F3
For thooo who do not havo enough
stock or mnchlnory for a general
farm salo, I nm located bo I can hold
a combination Bale at North Platto
or at tho Fulrvlew dairy 1 inllea
west of town. I havo alwayB got
enough Btock or machinery listed with
me do wo can hold a combination Bale
any lime.
GEO. B. DENT
Physician and Surgeon
Spcclnl Attention Ohon to Surgery
and Obstetrics
Office Building & Loan Building
Phono: Offlco 130. Rosldonco 'H
Office phono 241. Roa. phone 217
L. C. DROST,
Osteopathic Physician
ntinw o1mtl!na In hlnl nnnnlnllnn O North PlattC, NebrABk
I will thus bo known that thoy aro 'not' Knlghti of Columbuo Building
( duo to changed onvironmant Tho j
INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING ' A togothor with a caroful description of sovoral kinds of counts nro noodod for 1
BIRD COUNT tho charactor of tho land, including a study of tho rolatlvo abundanco of
' statement of whothor It la dry upland birds undor changing or stationary
In 1914 the Biological Survey bo- r moist bottom land; tho number of conditions. It la hopod that many
can collecting data on tho number of acroa In oach of tho principal crops, porsona Interested In bird Hfo will
NOTICE OF FINAL REPORT.
Eatato No. 176C of Bomard Mlllor,
docoascd, In tho County Court of
Lincoln County, Nobraaka.
Tho Stato of Nobraaka, to all per
sons Interested In said Estnto toko
notice that tho executor has fllod r.
flnnl account and report of his ad
ministration and a potitlon for final
birds brooding in tho United States. ' or In pormanont meadows, pasture, mnko ono or moro counts thla season.
Tho work 1ms beon carried on during 'orchard, Bwamps, roads, etc.; tho Aa Uio dopartmont has no funds to
each succeeding year, with tho aid of kinds of fencing used; and tho pay for UiIb work It must dopen-1
voluntary observers who havo mndo ' amount of brush along fences, wholly on voluntary obsorvora. A
counts of the birds nesting within so I Btroams, roadB, or in pormanont pas- aupply of roport blanks will bo fur-
loctod areas. By continuing these turn If there Is an isolatod piece of nished on request. Requests for thoso Bottlomont and dlachnrgo aa such, and
counts some knowlodgo can bo gain-1 woodland comprising ton to twenty should bo addressed to Chief, Buroiu for docrco of distribution and holr
od not onlv of our total bird nonula- .nnr,.t nm,vn..intiv tmniv n Bntmrnf.t f Biological Survoy. V. S. Dopart- s-'lnu which havo boon set for hearing
tion, but also of Its fluctuationa from count of tho blrda nesting therein nl- inont of Agriculture, Washington, D,
year to year. Furthermore, tho counts ... . . , Tn . .. C.
will croatlv holn in dotormlnlnc what -:oJ
effect the present state and federal ronort' ln naamoji to specifying tho
slzo and exact boundaries
J. .1. WILSON HUNTIST
of tho OPPOSITE McCAltE HOTEL, OVEU
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Potatoes For
Sale
250 bushels Brand Beauty at $1.35 per bushel.
250 bushels of Russet, at $1.00 per bushel.
400 bushels of small potatoes, under 2-inch screen
at 50c per bushel.
Frank Yamaki,
2 miles east and 3-4 mllos north of Hershsy, Neb.
WE
PRINT
lnwn mnv havo on tho incrcaso 1 Of
game and Insectivorous birds. Many area, should atato tho principal kinds -STAMP'S HAKKItV. PHONE 71
adulttonnl counts or tins sort nro de
sired, and oach reader Is Invited to
assist by making a; count this sum
mer of tho pairs of blrda nesting on
some aolected area or areas. In for-
mor years very satisfactory results
luivo been obtained for tho avorago -aj
farm conditions in tho United States fj
east of tho Plains and north of North fj
Carolina and it Is hoped that counts
in this part of tho country will bo
continued. It Is especially desired
also to obtain a serlos of counts ln- jr3
dlcatlng tho bird Hfo on tho Plains, p
on tho desortB (both with and with- 3TJ
out Irrigation), and in tho South At-
lnntlc and uuu states.
Tho height of tho breeding season
should bo chosen for thlB work. In
tho latitude of Washington, D. C,
latitude 39 degrees, May 30 is about
tho right date for tho first count; In
tho latitude of Boston tho work
should not bogtn until a, week later;
whllo south of Washington an earlier
dato should bo Belocted. In any lo-j
callty tho count should ho made soon I
after the end of tho migration and
during tho oarly part of tho nostlng
season. What Is wanted 1b a count
of tho palra of blrdB actually not
ing within tho selected area. Blrda
that visit tho area for feeding pur-,
poses only must not bo counted, no
matter how close their nests may bo f.
to tho boundry lines. In making thla
count, it Is a good plan to bogln at
daylight somo morning at tho height
of tho nostlng season and zigzag back
and forth across tho area, counting,
tho malo birds. Early ln tho morning
every malo bird Is usually ln full
eong, and at that season may safely
bo considered to roprosont a brood
ing pair. Tho results of ono day's
count should bo chocked and rovlscd
by sovoral days of further work to
mako auro that every bird counted ia
actually nostlng within tho aroa ana
that no apoclos has been overlooked.
Tho tract soloctod should ropro
sont tho avorago farm conditions, and
Bhould not havo an unduo amount of
woodland. It Bhould contain not loss
than forty acres, a quarter of a mile
squaro, nor moro than olghty acres,1
and should include tho farm build-1
inga, with tho usual shado treoa, or-j
charda, ota, aa well aB fioldB of
plowed land and of paaturo or mead
ow. The final results of tho count
should bo Bent to this bureau as boou
afterward aa convonlont, and should
ba accompanied by a statement of tho
xact boundaries of tho selected area, '
so explicitly defined that it will bo
iposalblo twonty-flvo years honco to
havo the count repoatod. Tho name
of tho pmtnt ownor should ba given,
before aald court on March 10, 1922,
at 10 o'clock A. M., when you may
appear and contest tho same.
Datod Fobruary 9, 1922.
WM. II. C. WOODIIURST,
(Soal) County Judgo.
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