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NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. I 1; NEBRASKAJN BRIEF Timely News Culled From All Parts of the State, Reduced for the Busy. Jerry Doe, a Lincoln carpenter, fell less than twelve feet from a scaffold nnd received a fracture 1 skull which caused his death two hours after tho nccldent. ' Tho Rev. J. Sheridan Bunch ,for eight months pastor of the Baptist church of Scottshluff, has resigned on account of 111 health and will leavo the ministry. An Omaha police Justice has ordered 14 members of the I. W. W. to leave that city with the warning that any congregation of that body. would bo broken up. The Merrick County Potato Growers' association, recently organized, is now operating strongly. it Is estimated that more than 500 acres have been planted. Clifford Itees, of Carrrll, a freshman In the engineering college of the State University, has been given an An napolis appointment by Representative Iteavls. A middle-aged woman succeeded in pulling the bogus check game at four different stores In Fremont, cashing checks for small purchases In each Instance. More than 4,000 bankers from all parts of northern Nebraska attended tllO tmnnilPt nf Mia Nnrthwniitoni Bankers association at Norfolk last Week. According to C. A. McCloud, presl dent of the First National bank of Vork, Nebraska Is again forging ahead In its agricultural activities With rush. Several farmers near Virginia have already planted their corn, but most of Jhe farmers In tho country will not put In their crop for several days yet. The Farmers Bank of Crawford, tapltallzed at $35,000, with deposits of F100.000, has been closed by J. E, Hart, state hanking commissioner. Business men of Imperial raised tnough money to finance weekly band concerts through the slimmer and to erect a stand at that plade. A stalk of corn about three feet high which Is tasselled and has two ears of corn on it Is being displayed at an Inman business house. Nearly a hundred Kentucky horses have already been entered for the races to be held at Ak-Sar-Ben tleld at Omaha, June to 17. The state fish and game commission lias shipped a car of fish to Finchville lo bo placed In the lake there. They are mostly cat and trout. Beatrice Klwanis club went on rec ord as favoring tl.e locating of a fed eral hospital for disabled world war Boldiers at Grand Island. Miss Mary Hutcliiiigs, for thirteen years public librarian at Falls City, lias resigned, effective Juno 1. She will probably j-o to Georgia. The corner stone of the new $100,000 parochial school of St. Cecelia, at Hastings, was laid with Impressive ceremonies last week. Ed Hunter, a farmer near Kearney, lost a foot when ho was thrown under a train he was attempting to board at that place. Michael Kalamaja, for eighteen years head of the Polish citizen's club of Omaha, has just been reelected to that position. The Nellgh chamber of commerce has arranged for a free moving picture exhibition at the auditorium Saturday afternoons. The American Legion post will hnve charge of the July 4 celebration at Ocoirto. Arrangements now are being made. J. A. Jlmmerson, superintendent of the schools at Brock, has been elected superintendent at Stromburg. Arrangements are under way for n Harvest Festival to be held at Sidnes -on October 4, 5 and 0. Falrbury will begin nt once tho con struction of a large amount of paving and sewerage. The village of Arnold recently or jganlzed a community club with fifty two members. The State Commercial Teachers as sociation will convene at Omaha May 5-27. Columbus will have Its summer Chautauqua from July 29 to August 3. More than 100 converts "hit the trail" at the Methodist revival at Falrbury. Masonic Grand Lodgo will meet at Omaha, June. 0. While W. E. Truman, member of the vigilance committee of tho Lincoln Auto club, was attending a meeting with police to work out n program for better safeguarding nutos from Uneven, somnbody stole his car. Grandma Shallenbargpr, a resident of Pawnee City for a great many yenrs and mother of J W. Sliallenberger of Table Itock, celebrated her eighty ninth birthday anniversary a few days ago. Tho corner stone of the new $50,000 Cass county high school was laid at Imperial last week. Various clubs and 'lodges assisted In the ceremonies. Building construction Is fast return ing, to a prowar basis In Fremont. Ovor $524,000 worth of work Is under construction at tho present time, an un iprecedcnt record and declared by many to be tho greatest for a city of similar elze In tho country. The abandoned acreage of winter -wheat In the western two-thirds of tho jitate will bo larger than usual accord ing to reports and a survey by the state and federal bureau of market ana crop estimates. Spring grains have re placed considerable of the abandoned acreage and the balance will be planted Jnrgely to corn. Following nro dates nnd places of seml-nnnunl examinations to be held under supervision of II. II. Antics, sec retary of the department of public welfaro: Pharmaceutical, May 15-18, Omaha, Crelghton; Nurses, May 23- 4, Omaha, county superintendent's of fice. Lincoln; Physlclnns, Juno C-8, Lincoln; Dentists, Juno 0-7, practical examinations nt Lincoln nnd Omaha; theoretical examinations, Juno 8, 0, 10, Crelghton; Embalmers, Juno 0, stnto medical college, Omaha ; Chiropractors, Juno 12, 13, Lincoln ; Osteopnths, Juno 13, 14, Llncq'n; Veterinarians, Juno 15, Lincoln; Chiropody, June 10, 20, Omaha. The starting of work on the new cnpltol has recalled the fact that tho seat of tho state government wns In Omnhn In territorial days. Governor David Butler approved an act June 14, lSOi which resulted In Its removal from Omaha to Lincoln. While making tho high Jump at tho fair grounds during the Inter-class meet at Broken Bow, Lester Fnrrls, freshman, fell nnd broke one of tho bones In his nrm. The youngster stayed until the finish of tho meet before hav ing the Injury attended. Nebraska has 2,844 manufacturers, representing an Investment of $275,- 000,000. The annual output from tho stnte's manufacturing Industries Is $000,000,000, according to a Btirvoy compiled from the reports of the Unit ed States census bureau. Frank J. Rlst, proprietor of tho Plnlnvlew Ilog & Seed farm at Hum boldt, sells all of his hogs and all of his seeds by mall. And he sells on an average about 800 head of hogs and several thousand bushels of seed a year. Sparks fronn finger nails created by friction with clothing in a centrifugal wringer, Ignited gas fumes arslng from a cleaning and pressing mnchlue nnd caused a lire with a loss estimated at $5,500 in n Lincoln cleaning establish ment. Building that will cost nearly $1, 000,000 Is under way In Fremont. Three churches now under way will cost a total of $300,000. Two new school houses will cost $275,000. In addition one new business block and more than thirty-five residences aro under construction nnd extensions on tho water mains into three outlying districts nre In progress. The twenty-third annual session of Rebekah lodges of District No. 5 was held at Salem last week, 100 delegates attending from Salem, Table Itock, Dawson, Verdon, Tccuihseh, Fnlls City, Humboldt and Pawnee City. Plntte county's new" $300,000 court house will be dedicated on the sixty- sixth anniversary of the day that tho little band of pioneers whose names appear on the wnlls laid the townsito for this city, Muy 28, 1S0O. What Is believed to be ono of tho record trips for a stork air-plane was established when Roynl B. Thomas, piloting a Lincoln Standard 'ship" flew from Elidn, N. M. to Lincoln In live hours and ten minutes. J. A. Marrow, a blacksmith at Dav enport, touched an electric transmis sion wire with a wrench while at worts fixing a pump and was killed. Ho leaves n wife and three children, two boys and a girl. James King, 05, Gage county's oldest resident, is dead at his home In Bent rice. He was not only the oldest res ident of Gage county In point of age, but was also the county's oldest Mason and Odd Fellow. A "better whent" campnlgn, Intended to enrn $1,000,000 for fnrmers of Ne braska, Is to be launched soon as a part of drive to Include thb Ave states of Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Texas ana Oklahoma. Chief Game Warden George G. Ros ter has planted a car load of young rainbow trout In public streams near Anoka, Butte, Spencer, Bristow, Crelgh- ton and Bnzllle Mills. William K. Peck lias resigned ns president of tho Richardson county farm bureau, after three years of ser vice. Other duties and overwork wero given as his reasons. The farm barn belonging to Ray Griffith near Callaway was totally de stroyed by fire. Some hay and three head of horses that were In the barn were also burned. Mrs, Bridget Convey last week cel ebrated her 102d birthday at tho resi dence of her son James In Omnha, Nearly 150 guests were present to con gratulate her. The Nebraska Grand Army of tho Republic has lost 178 members through death In the last year, nccordlng to re ports compiled by Adjut. Gen. Har mon Bross. Miss Martha L. Powel, 'one of tho leading principals in the Omahn pub He schools for more than twenty years, also a past president of the Stato Teachers' Association, has filed for tho oillce of State Superintendant of Pub 11c schools. Joe Fenel nnd Walter Konner, near Table Rock have for several weeks been catching an average of six coy otes a dny, and drnwlng good pay from tho county trensurer for scalp bounties. Plans for tho 1922 Republican cam palgn In Nebrnskn are to be laid at a stato conference nt Lincoln Thurs day, May 11. A Poland China l og, "Big Bob," owned by Templeton Bros., at Hosklns, weighing 1,020 pounds, was sold on tho South Omaha market after ho had held the title of Nebraska Champion, and had carried a breeding value of $10,000. n$ brought 4 cents a pound, or $40.80. Tho newest town In Nebraska, Ly man, on the Union Pacific's North Platte valley extension, is assuming metropolitan airs. It has Just been in corporated with E. S. Young, M. 13. Downnr, J. S. Knox, Will Lyman and Perry Brazlel making up the first board. YELLOWS-RESISTANT CABBAGE VARIETIES About 4,000 Pounds of Seed Pro duced in Washington. Department of Agriculture and Wl comln Experiment Station Been Investigating Disease and Assisting Growers. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) About 4,000 pounds of cabbage seed of the Wisconsin All Seasons variety, which Is highly resistant to the disease known as "cabbage yellows," was pro duced In the Puget Sound section of Washington during the season of 1021. Cabbage yellows Is caused by a fungus which Is capable of persisting in fav orablo soils indefinitely and causes serious crop losses In Infested regions. Disinfection of the seed reduces tho danger of carrying other cabbage diseases to new districts, but tho in vestigations of the University of Wis consin have shown that the selection f resistant varieties offers the only wny of preventing loss from yellows. Tho United States Department of Agriculture, in co-operation with tho Wisconsin experiment station, has for some time been Investigating tho disease and assisting growers and packers In the production of cabbage seed of the yellows-resistant strain on a commercial scale and In the field Good Solid Head of Cabbage. Inspection of the seed crops. In nd dition to the All Seasons, several hun dred pounds of Wisconsin Brunswick seed, another yellows-resistant variety, have also been produced. One result of the Investigations thus far Is the development of these yel lows-resistant varieties. Through tho commercial cabbage growers and kraut packers a supply of the yellows-ro- slstnnt cabbage seed Is available to the growers In sections where these types of cabbage are needed. Resist ant strains of other varieties, Includ ing Hollander, All Head Early, and Copenhagen Market, are being devel oped nnd will bo propagated for dis tribution In the near future. WHY PUREBRED SIRES EXCEL Ratios Between Males and Females In Different Classes of Stock Kept for Breeding. If you are ever inclined to doubt tho importance of the quality sire, a glance at the figures below will reassure you. They represent the ratios between males and females In different classes of live stock kept for breeding pur poses. The figures are based on a sur vey of more than 200,000 head of llvo stock of all kinds made by the United States Department of Agriculture. Cattle 1 bull to 18.9 cows. Horses 1 stallion to 10.0 mares. Swine 1 bonr to 11.5 sows. Sheep 1 ram to 37 ewee. Goats 1 buck to 20.0 does. Chickens 1 rooster to 23.3 henB. Other poultry, geese, ducks, tur keys, etc. (average) 1 male to 8.5 fe males. These figures aro taken from more than 2,000 farms In various parts of tho country, and are believed to bo typical of average conditions the coun try over. Since tho sire Is the parent of so many more offspring than tho femnle, the importance of using a purebred sire of individual quality and excellence can hardly be overempha sized. There may be cases where scrub dams nre wisely tolerated, but It Is almost criminal to propagate un desirable characteristics by using scrub males. STOCK PRODUCTION SYSTEMS Among Controlling Factors Are Selec tion of Animals and Feed and Management. Well-established systems of llvi stock production consistently followed from year to year are the outstanding needs of tho live-stock Industry, ac cording to n conference of nnlmul husbandry nnd marketing extension workers held nt Chicago. Economy of production, the conference agreed, Is the most important factor ovor which farmers have control. Producing live stock of the best quality nt the lowest possible cost was urged and particu lar emphasis was placed on economy of production rather than Increased production as the key to u prosperous Industry. Among tho controlling factors in economical live-stock production, In the Judgment of tho conference, wero i selection of animals, choosing of ra tlons and good practices In caro and management. Delegates to tho con ferenco Included United Stated De partment of Agriculture specialists .and animal husbandmen and 'extension .workers of agricultural colleges In tho 'Central West. Gift for National Woman's Party An Always Timely Fable. J. M. C. contributes the following! Tho lazy man came to a tree laden with luscious fruit and threw himself down In Its broad shade. "Why bother to pick any," ho mused. "If I wait long enough It will fall of Its own accord, and waiting Is such an easy Job." So the lazy man watted nnd In duo time tho fruit fell. Ho crnwled about In tho grass and picked It up, only to find thnt It was so decayed ns to bo. unavailable as food. Moral The fruit of today Is the gar bago of tomorrow. Boston Transcript. Miss Lclle Usher, sculptress, standing beside the bas-relief of Supan B, Anthony, pioneer suffragist, which sho litis presented to tho Natlonnl Woman's party. This work of art will be Installed In tho natlonnl headquarters of tho party, which overlooks the capltol of tho nation. MUCH IN LITTLE Of French Invention Is n portable crane that can lift 30 times Its own weight. In n gasoline plow Invented by a Frenchman, steel hooks cnrrled on a revolving cylinder pulverize the soil to a considerable depth. Tho government of Colombia haB ail- Noncombustlble linoleum of Euro pean invention includes In Its composi tion n chemical which gives off n flame quenching gns should It be Ignited. A bee, unladen, will lly 40 miles nn hour, but ono coming homo lnden with honey does not travel faster than 12 miles nn hour. Why Coconuts Thrive In Raratonga. This Is tho tlmo of yenr In Rara tonga, nn Island nlno days' voyagn east of Now Zealand, when tho Island' government mnkes Its nnuunl Inspec tion nnd fines those who hnve not' complied with tho Island law which provides that tho head of each family shnll plant nnd cultlvato a coconut' treo for each year of a child's age un til he Is old enough to plnnt them him self. Tho Islnnd Is noted for Its flno and abundant coconuts, ninny of which) nro brought to this country. Nowi York Evening Post. Bird Photography. 1 Bird photography . . . has tho great ndvantago that It does not de stroy, but helps to preserve. Thoso who liave watched a bird for days to gether from n hldlng-tcnt will never wish to kill the creature whose ln-1 most lifo hns been displayed before1 their eyes. Julian Huxley In "Discovery." ALL THESE PROVOKE SMILE Various Kinds of Ladles Who Excite the Risibilities of Writer In Humorous Publication. Ladles make mo laugh ladles who dress llko Kewple dolls; ladles who are always arranging slumming par ties; ladles who arrive at tho theater during tho middle of tho first act and practlcnlly stop tho performance; la dles who tell fortunes; ladles who spend twelve lours a day In restaur ants; ladles who organize welfare leagues and are forever talking about them ; ladles who know all about rela tivity; ladles who embroider their bridge playing with telephone calls, gossip and risque stories; Indies who aro habitually ono hour and twenty minutes Into for all appointments; ladles who aro shocked at anything they don't understand; ladles from Columbus, 0., who, having spent nlno months In Paris, completely forget their native tongue; ladles who havo never been understood; Indies who don't know when a romance ends; ladles who are contlnuully dwelling on tho fact that they aro ladles. From Life. HAD SPEECH WITH GOVERNOR Certainly Short, but the Incident Gladdened the Heart of This Indiana Small Boy. When Governor McCrny and others boarded an lntcrurbnn to visit tho new reformatory sito nt Pendleton they found the car already well filled. Tho governor sat down by n small boy from Fortvlllo nnd n moment later asked him to exchange seats with another member of tho party so that they could coutlnuo n conversa tion. Shortly afterward, tho lad's Bcatmate disclosed to tho boy that It wbb tho governor ho had accommo dated. Tho Incident made nn Impression nnd when tho boy reached homo ho bonstcd to Ills father thnt ho had seen tho governor and had spoken to him. "Is thnt so?" said his dad, skep tically, "and what did tho governor Bay to you?" "Oh," ho said, "would you Just as soon sit In that scat over there son?" Indianapolis News. NO TIME FOR EXPLANATIONS Gent of the Old School. Gypsies apparently do not tnko much stock In tho nower feministic theories. A swarthy nomad and his gaily-dressed wife camo Into a cigar Btoro on Cadillac square. Ho bought some good cigars for himself and n package of pipe tobacco for her. Sho remonstrated with him In gypsy lan guage about something, turned her back to him nnd started for tho door. His face clouded with anger, ho raised his large foot and administered a lus ty kick that was forceful enough to send her through the swinging doors. Sho made no protest and they walked away together. Detroit News. Her Wants. "Money Isn't everything." "I know. But It seems to be about all my wlfo wants." Graft often goes about disguised as n business opportunity. Tho orfglnnl famllytreo was of tho apple variety. One of the First Tho auto salesman, after a great deal of hesitancy, had agreed to tako the old car in part payment for tho new. "Whnt Is tho number of the motor?" ho asked. The owner poked his head down on tho bonnet a moment and then bobbed up again. "Eighteen sixty-three," ho nnswered. "I asked," said tho salesman, "tho number of tho motor, not tho dato of manufacture." New York Sun. Changing Color 8cheme. "Father, aro ull Bolshevists red?" "No, my boy, some of them aro pret ty bine."-Dor Brummer (Berlin). Conscience likes to wnko ono up In tho middle of tho night to administer a lecture. Wo wish our neighbor to llvo a blameless llfo nnd not to blnmjs us for tho one we live. Young Woman Simply Felt Herself tho Victim of Circumstances, and Went Her Way. "I wns walking along Fourteenth' street," said n young woman urtlst, and I saw n woman ahead of ma pushing a baby carriage. There was a baby In tho carriage' and tho baby was holding tho string of n rubber balloon. I noticed that tho balloon was unusually large, probably duo to Its being Inflated beyond Its rated capacity. "Just ns I passed tho baby cnrrlaga that balloon exploded. Went 'Popl nnd disappeared. Apparently tho mother was looking some other direc tion nt the time and when sho turned her head, saw tho balloon wns gona and I was going nnd connected, ma with the catastrophe. "She eyed me malevolently. 'Of all tho mean tricks 1' sho exclaimed, and then attempted to console tho balloon less Infant. Did I deny causing tho bnlloon to burst? I did not. I wns merely nnother victim of circumstan tial ovldenco." Baltimore American. Motive. "Stingy I Say, that fellow Is a rot ten miser 1" "Maybo; but bo's a good man. Ho hns never missed a church service In his life." "Huh I Figuring maybo thnt soma Sunday when they're not looking ha enn get n dip Into tho basket." Qualified. Belle Beatrice has refused to marry, Barclay. Bculah And why, pray? Belle Says she'll never marry a man whoso wealth contains less than sis; ciphers. "Well, good sakes allvol Barclay's wealth Is all clplwrs." It isn't tho nenpecked husband wha lnyB for his wlfo. " i Real adventures nro usually uncomfortable. You enn flatter any man by asking Some people aro too good to be liu hl advice. ' teresting. IFF The Thrifty Citizen Who Caught the Plugged Nickel R. BROWN had swallowed his lunch nnd had paid his bllL Cautiously he counted his change. Here!" he said, sharply, Take back this plugged nickel and give me a good onel" Mr. Brown walked proudly out. They couldn't fool old Brown. But old Brown had fooled himself. Brown's day was heavy and dull. He lacked "pep." There was a mid-afternoon drowsy spell when he needed to be awake the direct nnd natural resuh of heavy, starchy breakfasts nnd lunches, taken on faith and without question as to value just because the food looked und tasted like food. .Thousands of shrewd business men who count their change, take their food for granted. That's what builds up the eani tarium business, and puts the tired "nil -done" feeling into the mid afternoon of a business day. 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