NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
CORNHUSKER ITEMS
Nows of All Kinds Gathered From
, Various Points Throughout
Nebraska.
District Judge W. M. Morning o
Lincoln committed Zelma Biggs, 18,
brldo of Lewis Biggs, 17, to the Geneva
Industrial Schhool for girls, after show
jlng by juvenllo court officials of her
lmmaturo age. "This commitment is
not for an offenso committed," Judge
Morning said. "It Is merely to glvo
lier n clmnco to go to tchool. When
she is released, she may return to her
husband. Iler nmritnl status is not
niTected."
The Methodist church at Marstand Is
raising a ten-acre field of Triumph
potatoes to aid .church activities. A
farm motor machinery company has
offered to farm half of the Held with
their motor machinery for the purpose
of making comparative tests. A church
at Harrison, hearing of the plnn, an
nounced that it will plant a field for
similar aid.
The recent rain and snow gave the
ground In the western pnrt of the state
the first good wetting It hns had for
over six months. Fnrmors who had
examined their wheat were saying it
wan still alive If only it could nave
moisture. Now it has had the much
needed moisture and no douht in a
few days the miracle of n resurrection
will be wrought In the wheat fields.
Clint Adams of Peru pleaded guilty
1n court to a complaint filed by County
Attorney Ilolnko charging him with
pnsslng a worthless check on a mer
chant several months ago. lie was
lined $25 and costs which ho pntd nnd
was released after making the check
good.
Albert and Alfred Baumclster of
Merrick pleaded guilty to having In
their position a pheasant which had
just been killed. Pheasants are pro
tected by the law and so the Judge
fined them 130 nnd costs.
A 3-yoar-old daughter of William IT.
Smith of Nebraska City, fell on a well
curb projection and n hole was punched
through her tongue by her teetn. A
physician took several stitches to close
the wound.
The nnnu'nl reunion of Nebraska Base
ITospltnl, No. 40, overseas during the
war, will bo held in Omaha April 22.
An attendance of 250 Is expected. J.
E. Mleck, Oinnha, Is secretary.
A petition in the Interest of former
Governor John II. Morohoad of Rich
ardson county as n democratic candi
date for governor Is being circulated
over the state.
Eugene Meyer of the Wnr Finance
corporation, in an address In Omaha,
asserted that the government hns
plenty of money to lonn Nebraska
Farmers.
Arnold churches nnd schools have
been closl nnd n ban hns been placed
upon all public gatherings, In nn effort
to check a sudden epidemic of sennet
fever.
The gas department of the Omnha
utilities district made n net profit of
!?2G3,794.7S last year, hesldes Increas
ing its reserves ?27G.150.18.
McCook's preliminary drive for hos
pital funds closed with $25,000 pledged.
Bids will shortly be received nnd con
tract let for a $75,000 hospital.
The Security State bank of Spauld
lng has taken over the Fnrmers State
bank. The latter hnd been In exist
ence for about three years.
Bids submitted for grndlng roads
leading in and out of Omnha lndlcnte
that pv'res are ''ose to CO per cent
lower t'-nn one year ago.
In order to reduce tnxes the board
of education at Leigh decided to elim
inate kindergarten work from the
public schools.
Mrs. Otto Flolshmnn of Elmwood had
both bones of her right leg broken Just
above the ankle when she was knocked
down by a cow.
The Blgler ITardwaro- Store of Beat
rice was broken Into for the second
time within n week, several revolvers
being tnken.
Petitions are being circulated nt
Wymore asking the city council to re
peal the ordinance prohibiting Sunday
amusements.
At the Seventeenth nnnunl Automo
bile show, Omnhn the attendance was
In excess of 10,000 persons the opening
dny.
Endlcott now hns electric lights for
the first time. The Juice comes from
the municipal plant nt Falruury.
George Meyer, a young man of Dti
Bolso, was seriously Injured a few
days ngo, when eight sticks of dynn
mlte exploded within two feet or his
face. Ho was hurled about fifteen feet,
his right arm was broken nnd his face
orehend were bodly bruised.
Gravel surfacing of the Lincoln high
way, from Elm Creek enst to Kearney,
Is now In progress. The state hns lo
cated gravel pits south of Elm Creek
nnd South Odessa, to reduce the limit
ing costs. It Is stnted that It will re
quire about sixty days to surface the
ten miles,
William E. McMnhon, of Omaha,
thru his attorney pleaded guilty In dis
trict court to embezzling $2,918.75 of
orgnnlzed funds while ho wns corn
s' mnnder of n local chnpter of disabled
veterans of the world wnr, and was
placed on four-yenr probntlon.
The city of Wnyne nlrcndy Is plan
ning Its July 4 celebration. Tho le
gion will have charge. Business men
have donated several thousand dollars.
Former Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Lnndls hns ben Invited as the orator.
Dan Desdunes' band of Omnhn will fur
nish the music.
Tho stnto of Nebraska won the vic
tory over Goldwyn's and other national
film distributing agencies in the suit
brought in fcdoral court at Omnha to
ftnock out tho law of tho last legisla
ture to protoct exhibitors who wcro re
quired to mako advanco deposits on
future plcturo contracts, according to
Charles S. Reed, assistant attorney gon
eral, who has Just received a copy of
the Journal entry mnde by tho three
federal Judges sitting on the enso on
February 27, this year. "Our Impres
sion wns that the court hold the law
invalid," Reed said, "but only that por
tion Is knocked out which requires ud
vanco deposits to be placed In Ne
braska bnnks. The law making the do
poslt n trust fund held by the compnny
and a preferred claim against the com-
Tcntntlve plans are being made nt
Lincoln for a public reception in the
sennte chamber at the slnto house for
Augusto do Alencnr, Brazilian minister,
April 11. The minister is being escort
ed over tho United States by Frank A.
ITnrrlson of Lincoln, politician and
globo trotter. Ilnrrlson will bo nt tho
head of an American trade commis
sion which will go to Brazil shortly to
establish friendly trade relations be
tween tho two countries nnd invest
igate its resources.
George Schleuter 14, son of Otto
Schleuter, prominent Fremont road
builder, was electrocuted when carry
ing nn extension light while doing his
daily chores. While carrying the ex
tension light and a pitchfork tho lad
evidently fell, breaking tho light bulb.
Tho current lenped through his body
grounded by his feet to the dnmp
floor. The only mnrks of electricity
discovered were holes burned In tho
bottom of his shoes.
The purebred stockmen of Stanton
county organized nn association wnlch
will bo known ns tho Stnnton County
Purebred Livestock Breeders nssocla
tion. There was n good ottendnnco
from the various parts of the county,
nil being cnthuslnstlc over tho future
of the new organization.
Tho state's heaviest fine for hrenk
lng the gnme laws was imposed by
District Judge E. D. Brown nt Nelson
on Wllllnm A. Thorlton, n resident of
Superior. Thorlton wns fined $1,000
and costs for cntchlng five beavers in
the Republican river In n trap.
As a result of the recent storm, cnus
ing washing out of roadwnys, eighty
two automobiles were hopelessly mired
in mud holes along the highway be
tween Fremont, nnd "Valley, abandoned
by their owners until tho return of dry
wenther.
Jack Hodek, of Exeter, was fined $10
nnd costs for using nn nuto license
pinto on n car which he had not paid
for nnd Joe Gephart, a neighbor of
Ilodck, was flucd $G and costs for fur
nishing the plnte.
The $85,000 school bond Issue v at
Scrlbner carried by n largo majority
and the now building which will be 70s
101 feet In dimension nnd three stories
high, will be commenced ns soon as
possible.
The Alliance Board of Education
have advertised for bids for the con
struction of n new high school and a
new grade building. Tho bond Issue
of $250,000 was voted about a year
ago.
Eleven hundred dollars In currency
which hnd been concealed In Jars and
other receptncles was stolen from tho
homo of LTerny Worstcr of Lincoln
while members of the fnmlly were in
bed.
Forty-eight Duroc Jersey hogs of the
fnmlly of Giant Sensntlon brought over
$0,000 in cash at the W. II. Rasmussen
sale at Norfolk, said to be one of tho
best Illustrations of better farm busi
ness since tho financial slump.
Telephone nnd electric light wires
near Gibbon are down and a larce num-
! ber of trees were snapped off from tho
weignt or six inches of wet snow that
was preceded by a steady rain for sev
eral hours.
The congregation of the Presbyter.
Inn church of Scottsbluff, by a vote of
j two to one, decided to build the new
: church home on the site f the present
one nenr the business district.
The body of II. W. Funk, of York,
deaf mute, wns found sitting nt the din
ing tnblo In his home where he lived
nlono. lie wns 79. Denth probably
was due to heart failure.
There will be a bond election In
Central City on April 18 to vote $12,000
bonds to rebuild the gns plnnt, recently
consumed by fire.
Cozad Milling company nro going to
build n much Inrger mill, the work of
which will commence nt once.
Tho Columbus Light, Hent & Power
company Is storing 1,000 tons of conl
in anticipation of a coal strike.
At tho annual meeting of the Assoc
iation of American Medical colleges,
held In Chicago. Dr. Irvln S. Cutter.
dean of the medical department of tho
University of Omaha was elected vice
president. Tho Sidney Nntlrnnl bank hns been
chartered and will open nbout May
1. This new bnnk will tnke over tho
business of tho First Nntionnl bank of
Sidney, Which closed Mny 10, 1021, nnd
will pay depositors In full under a cer
tificate of deposit plnn, which has
been npproved by the comptroller of
tho currency at Washington, D. C.
A new mill nnd Industry Is to bo
located In Fremont with the erection
of n $.'10,000 corn-nlfalfa milling plant
by Henry E. Fredrlckson, former Fre
monter, and Omaha Automobile dealer.
It is expected that construction will
start on tho mill nbout the first of
April.
W. N. Brooks,, of Pawnee City, bus
lncss man, was seriously Injured
when ho fell down n long night
of stops after losing his balance.
Ills shoulder, bnck and three fingers
were badly sprained and two bones In
his ankle were broken.
BIG PROBLEM TO
MANAGE LETTUCE
Plant Must Be Kept Growing
Without Check and Needs
Heavily Fertilized Soil.
LEAF IS EARLIEST VARIETY
Head Is Most Popular Commercially,
but Cos Is Making Determined
Bid In Favor of Home Gar
den Plant Early.
Lettuce growing Is becoming n sci
ence, slnco this best-of-all snhul vege
tables has become n stuple urtlclo of
diet, and Is In the mnrket SOS days of
tho year. Commerclnlly the head let
tuce hns almost displaced the older
leaf varieties, but the home gardener
knows that leaf lettuce Is tho earliest
of nil and Just ns llnely llnvored nnd
tender ns tho big cabbage varieties. It
Is also tho first lettuce to mature for
table use, so n small planting of n good
leaf variety Is advisable to give u crop
before tho head varieties are ready to
cut.
Bid for Popularity.
Romnlno or cos lettuce Is making a
very successful bid for home-garden
popularity. It Is much easier to grow
than tho bond lettuces, especially nftcr
the wenther Is. warm, and It Is fully
ns delicate.
The leaves, being long and narrow,
and growing upright, naturally blanch
the heart and this process Is easily
assisted by tying the tips of the leaves
together lightly. It matures quickly.
Sowings of leaf, head and cos let
tuce give a good succession.
The renl way to get head lettuce that
will really head, and tho only way, Is
to start the plants either Indoors or
In a hotbed or cold frame, when the
wenther will not permit planting In
the open and hnve tho plants growing
nlong to transplant as soon ns tho
wenther permits. Lettuce can be grown
In the open ground for the grenter part
of tho winter In many portions of the
South nnd In others, with u cold frame
protection, It can bo kept going all
winter.
Gives Much Trouble.
Head lettuce gives gardeners n great
deul of trouble, largely because they
drill the seeds Into the soil nnd leave
them too thick in the rows until they
are so far advanced in growth the thin
ning does no good. Transplanting Is
most essentlnl as tho check to the
growth seems to thicken up the plant
nnd stnrt It on Its way to a head.
When transplanting, nfter three or four
leaves have been made, cut off half of
them, that Is, snip the tops of the
lenves for about half their length.
Lettuce must have heavily fertilized
ground nnd tho highest standard "of
cultivation. The plants must be kept
LEAF
TYING LETTUCE
TO HEAD IT.
Popular Varieties of Lettuce.
cultivated and growing nt top speed.
Water should be supplied when n dry
Bpell Impends. If the ground Is rich,
well tilled, tho plnnts given n dlstnnco
of at least six Inches apart In tho rows
nfter transplanting and kept well cul
tivated, there Is no reason why nny
gardener shouldn't have reasonably
good head lettuce. The great problem
In lettuce growing Is to keep It grow
ing without n check.
BEST RESULTS FROM MANURE
On Heavy Soils Fertilizer Tenda to
Open Up Compact Land If
Plowed Under.
Mnnure on heavy soils gives better
results if plowed under. It can be
mixed better with tho soil and the' do
cay tends to open up soils huvlng a
compact texture. Strawy manure, If
not plowed under In 'fall, gives best
results when turned under early in
spring. Fine manure gives better re
sults for top dressing. On poor land
use part of the manure for top dress
ing clover nnd' grass to get a good
stand, rather than apply nil of It to
corn land.
HIGHWAYS HAVE BIG BURDEN
Farmers Must Study Situation and
Help Officials Solve Better
Road Problem.
High freight rates and tho greater
convenience of short-distance motor
trucking Is diverting more nnd more
heavy freight upon the hlghwnys,
while the number of plensure cars,
mnny of them constnntly being driven
at a high rate of speed, mean that
tho roads will have an almost Insuf
ferable burden to benr, Fnrmers will
indeed have to study tho situation
carefully and help their road officials
solve tho problem by every mennH of
co-operation within their power.
LETTUCE
CONTINUOUS SUPPLY
OF PEAS' DESIRABLE
Should Be Planted as Soon as
Soil Can Be Got Ready.
First Plantings Should Be of Small
Growing Varieties Sow Some Seed
In Late Summer or Autumn for
Fall Garden.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
Garden pens, sometimes called Eng
lish peiiH are not Injured by light
frosts, so should be planted as soon
as the soil can he put In order in tho
spring. The first plnntlngs should be
of small-growing, quick-maturing va
rieties, such ns tho Alaska, First and
Rest, and Orndus. which do not re-
Tall-Growing Peas Supported by Brush
Stuck in Ground.
quire supports. These varieties should
be followed by the lnrge wrinkled typo
of pens, such as tho Chnmplon of
England, Telephone, and Prize Tnker.
The large-growing varieties should be
supported on brush, on strings at
tached to stakes driven In tho ground,
or on wire netting. In order to have
n continuous supply of peas, plant
ings should bo made every ten days
or two weeks until warm weuther.
Pens should be planted in lnte sum
mer nnd autumn for the fall garden,
for which the early varieties are more
desirable than tho late ones.
Pens should be planted nbout 10
seeds to the foot, two to three Inches
deep, In rows three to four feet apart.
Some gardeners, however, follow the
practice of pluntlng In double rows
six Inches upnrt, with the ordinary
space of threo to four feet between
these pairs of rows. This Is a good
practice with varieties requiring sup
port, as tho supports can be placed
In the narrow space between the rows.
MANNER OF HANDLING TREES
Much Loss Caused by Lack of Ex
perience and Skill In Caring
for Nursery Stock.
Mnny persons Inexperienced In hnn
dllng trees lose n number of trees In
setting nn orchard becauso of their
lack of skill or acquaintance with
handling such plnnts. It must be re
membered that from the time the trees
leave tho soli of the nursery until
they nre firmly planted In the or
chard, the roots should be exposed to
the air as little as possible, and espe
cially to air that Is moving rapidly,
or which Is dry. Trees should not bo
left with their roots exposed to the
sun or wind any longer than can pos
sibly be avoided. When waiting to he
planted they should be heeled In, that
Is, have their roots covered with moist
soil, nnd should be tnken out only ns
actually needed for lmmedlnte plant
ing. EASY WAY TO WATER GARDEN
Line of Perforated Pipes Attached to
Hose May Be Made Use Of to
Irrigate Crops.
A special facility for watering the
garden consists of a line of perforated
pipe thnt may be attached to tho hose
and used to irrlgato tho crops. Where
the land is nearly level, watering can
ho done very conveniently by dis
chnrglng the hose Into small furrows
alongside the rows nnd Irrigating the
crops by the flooding or furrow sys
tem. Whore cr the land Is steep or
unovon, the line of perforated pipe
will distribute tho water to better ad
vantage. This can be used where n
wnter supply Is nvallnble, hut It is
doubtful If it would pay for tho smnll
gnrden where special pumping ar
rangements nro necessary In order to
provide the wnter. United States De
partment of Agriculture.
LITTLE THINGS COUNT MOST
Cause Many Farmers to Prosper Who
Otherwise Would Be In Debt
Don't Overlook Them.
The chickens, tho eggs, tho butter,
tho fruit, tho honey und other so
called little things have caused many
fnrmers to prosper .who would lie in
debt were It not for theso little
things. Nothing Is little that enables
men und womon to live well und prosper.
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An English toucher naked tho clnss
to write n sentence that meant the
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Tho use of soft coal will make laun
dry work heavier this winter. Red:
Cross Bull Blue will help to remove
thnt grimy look. At all grocers AV
vertlsement.
Economy Is n hard rond to travel
that leads to tho land of riches.
I Don't bo Inanimate. Either pull up
tho stream or drift down.
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