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St. John, the standing presidential
candidate of the prohibition party, for
casts complete national drought within
six years. Others of much less de
cided tendencies make the limit only
two.
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Advocates of the licensed brothel
will find ammunition in the report of
the state crime commission, which
finds that not withstanding the strin
gent laws, state and national, prosti
tution is on the increase.
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Ohio may furnish another presiden
tial candidate. Governor F. B. Willis
of that state is spoken of as a possi
bility in connection with the republican
candidate in 1916. Two recent presi
dents, McKinley and Taft, were
citizens of Ohio.
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Woman’s suffrage received a severe
jolt in the lower house of congress,
the proposed amendment being de
feated 204 to 174. Congressman Kin
kaid upheld the gallantry of the Sixth
Nebraska district by supporting the
amendment, all other Nebraska con
gressmen opposing it.
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A bill is again before the legisltaure
to sterilize certain classes of physical
and mental and moral defectives.
Such a bill was passed two years ago,
but was vetoed by the governor. This
law would be all right were it not for
the possibility of some hot headed fel
low charged with its execution carry
ing it too far.
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The Omaha Nebraskan is devoting
much energy to a campaign against
the sale of Nebraska horses to war
agents. The fellow who has a horse
for sale is pretty apt to sell when his
price is tendered, regardless of what
becomes of the horse. The European
demand for American grown stuff is a
life saver for the producer in these
democratic times.
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While the legislature is setting the
South Omaha stock yards right again
this winter, it would be a good scheme
and commendable act to give the ship
pers of all kinds of stuff out in the
state some relief from the mendacity
and rascality of the commission men.
They have been plundering off of the
shippers and producers for years and
it is time to take them under control
as the railroads and other large cor
porations have been.
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After pressure from the white house
advisory board, President Wilson has
started out to get acquainted with the
people. He made a speech in Indian
apolis the other day and has prepared
a defense of the administration’s
policy to scatter from ocean to ocean
on a continental trip to be taken in
March. The president’s awakening is
said to be for the purpose of “re-assur
ing business,” incidental to and habitual
with democratic times; and the sound
ing of the trumpet for the 1916 cam
paign.
Senator Beal of Custer county wants
to amend the so-called mothers’ pens
ion law. His amendment would give a
widow of children not to exceed $10 a
month for each child when it is shown
to the county court that the children
are liable to grow up “in mendicancy.”
The present law is quite ineffective be
cause it is pretty nearly necessary for
a mother to show in court that her
children are on the road to criminal
careers, which no self respecting
mother will do. The law should be
amended granting pensions in needy
cases without the “delinquent child”
provision.
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The republican national committee
has figured out from the last election
returns that the G. O. P. carried upon
national issues states that would give
a clear majority in the electorial col
lege and elect a republican president.
(The democratic majority in the house
is only the result of the progressive
vote in certain districts of the country,
and the democrats will be really a mi
nority party in the house of representa
tives. Two-thirds of the progressive
vote of 1912 has not only ceased to
Support third-party candidates, buthas
returned to the support of republican
principles and candidates. About
every fourth presidential election peo
ple think they want a change. They
get it—political and industrial. Then
its a swing back to republicanism and
prosperity.
Forty-eight per cent, or 62,665 o
the farmers of Nebraska, employ hirei
help, and their annual expenditure foi
this item is approximately $15,028,000
according to a report which has jus
been issued by the Bureau of Census
Ten years ago the yearly expendituri
for labor by farmers of this stati
amounted to $7,390,000, and the in
crease within a decade has been 10:
per cent. Seventy-six per cent of thi
amount paid for labor by Nebrask,
farmers is cash. For continenta
United States the yearly expendituri
is more than $651,900,000 and 46 pe
cent of the farmers hire labor. Then
are nearly 3,000,000 farmers in thi
country that employ hired hands.
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England takes favorably to thi
American proposition of the govern
ment certifying cargoes putting out t(
sea from United States ports but wil
not relinquish her claim to the right ol
searching vessels suspected of carry
ing contraband, alleging that this
government’s certification of cargos
could not be taken as absolute guaran
tee against contraband because of the
possibility of reloading ships at sea
Germany has lapped it over a little or
the allies in securing copper for her
war purposes in this country and his
majesty J. B. found it incumbent to
curtail the supply by overhauling
American merchant ships. The ultra
idealists have found a solution of the
whole problem. They would have ad
opted a nation-wide policy of sending
nothing to the warring nations, there
by hastening the proclamation of
peace.
As to Fertilizing.
R. J. Hatch of Opportunity sends in
a communication dealing further with
the matter of fertilizing the land. Be
cause of its length we are unable to
use the article as written. A brief quo
tation covers the main point brought
out:
“I suggest that any farmer desiring
to try out the principles of fertilizing
his land, use that which he already has,
weeds, as he is saved the labor of pre
paring the ground for them. When
all he has to do is to let them grow un
disturbed until about the 1st of June,
then turn them under, then leave the
ground alone until the weeds grow up
again and then turn them under again,
which should be about the 26th of Aug
ust.
“If you should wish to sow fall rye
for the following season there would
be time to do it, and sow it on ground
you have fertilized, and get some
millet seed (or pigeon grass seed if you
prefer, as you only want something tc
grow up a little to hold the wintei
snows and keep the soil from blowing)
and sow on the balance which will
grow enough during the next month
and a half to furnish grazing for the
stock in the fall and winter, and hu
mous for the soil the following season,
Now should you desire to use some of
this ground to sow alfalfa on the fol
lowing season, you will be doing well
to get some Canada field peas and
sow on the same as early in the spring
as it is practicable to do so, then turn
them under about the first of August,
and sow your alfalfa seed, and if you
don’t get a good stand of thrifty al
falfa after all of that preparation,
then you might as well give up trying
to raise it.”
The Stock Market.
South Omaha, Jan. 12.—From Stan
dard Live Stock Commission Co.—Our
cattle market failed to react this week,
as has usually been the case following
a slump of the previous week, but the
trouble is that the receipts did not
ease up, but continued heavy. Conse
quently, the market had a further set
back of 10c to 25c. This applies to all
classes of killers. The carry-overs
from last week with fresh receipts of
stockers and feeders, make these cat
tle fully a quarter lower, with possible
exceptions of choice grades.
We quote: Good to choice cornfed
beeves $7.50 to $8.40, common kinds
down to $0.25. Good to choice cows
and heifers $5.60 to $7, fair to good
$4.75 to $5.50, canners and cutters
$3.75 to $4.75. Veal calves $7 to $8.50.
Bulls, stags, etc., $4.75 to $6.50. Good
to choice feeders $7 to $8, common
grades down to $5.76. Stock cows and
heifers $4.50 to $5.75. Stock calves $€
to $7.50.
Hog receipts continue liberal and
prices continue downward. Unless
there is a let-up in these receipts we
would not be surprised to see them gc
to 6c. Bulk $6.65 to $6.75, top $6.75
Sheep and lambs are joining the pro
cession toward lower levels, but re
ceipts are not burdensome.
Troops Returning From Texas.
Crawford Tribune: Troops F and G
and the machine gun platoon of the
12th Cavalry returned to their former
station at Fort Robinson on Wednes
day. Other troops arrived on the
same train but went on to Fort Mead
S. D. It is not known positively wher
the remainder of the troops of the 12th
now on the Texas border will be re
turned to their former station.
- NEUTRALS BUSY
| Arrange Public Demonstartion ol
Disapproval of Shipments of War
Equipment.
Columbus Telegram: A movemen
for the holding of a public neutrality
meeting to endorse the proposed plac
ing of a ban on the shipping of arms
i and ammunition to the warring coun
tries of Europe was launched at s
gathering of citizens at the counci
J chambers last Monday evening. Johr
Luschen was elected temporary chair
' man and Otto Walter, temporary sec
retary. On motion the chairman ap
pointed a committee to make arrange
ments for the time and place of meet
ing, and also to secure the services ol
two or two three speakers. Mr
: Luschen named as members of tha1
, committee Carl Rohde, Chris Wunder
■ lich, G. Frischholz, J. C. Byrnes, J
Greisen, Charles Segelke, sr., and Hen
’ ry Ragatz. The committee has sines
arranged for the mass meeting to bs
held at the Orpheus hall next Thurs
day evening. Mayor Rothleitner will
act as chairman, and the principal
speakers of the evening will be M. F
Harrington of O’Neill, and Dr. H
Gerhard of Omaha. It is - proposed
that the meeting shall pass resolutions
endorsing the efforts of Senator Hitch
cock and others to have congress for
bid the shipment of munitions of war
to Europe during the life of the pres
ent conflict.
STOCK DISEASE INFECTS MAN
Hoof and Mouth Contagion Finds First
Human Victim In Omaha Youth.
Omaha Bee: One of the first cases
of a human being becoming stricken
with the dread hoof and mouth disease
is that of Carlisle Stanford Lentz, 22
year-old son of Charles M. Lentz,
saloon keeper at 1418 Farnam street,
Young Lentz, who is a graduate ol
Creighton, is a first year student at
the John Hopkins Medical school in
Baltimore, and is now issolated in the
Johns Hopkins hospital at that place
where his case is attracting national
attention.
It is supposed that the young
Omahan contracted the disease through
drinking milk from an infected cow
while spendingthe holiday season in
Washington. When he returned tc
school he fell ill, and his case foi
several days was a vexing problem tc
the attending physicians. It was Dr
Paul W. Clough of the medical faculty
who diagonosed the case yesterday as
the hoof and mouth disease, and the
patient was removed at once to the
contagious ward of the hospital.
Since then young Lentz has been the
subject of much interest in the hos
pital. His condition is not regarded as
serious, it is said, but every possible
effort is made to prevent the spread ol
the disease.
Educational Notes.
John Erb, teacher in district No
245, recently held a school entertain
ment and the receipts were $43.50
This money will be used in buying
blackboards and maps.
Lena Puckett of Emmet and Jessie
Orsborn of Dorsey had the most
nearly correct answers in the last ex
amination in physiology and civics and
these answers were published in the
Nebraska Teacher.
Plans are being made for a Teachers’
Meeting to be held the last of January
or the first of February .
The State Teachers’ Association will
go to Omaha again next year. The
date will be the first week in Novem
ber.
Miss Margery Jenkins of Neligh
will teach in District No. 93 of Holt
county commencing January 11.
Prin. H. D. Gildersleeve of Atkinson
attended the basket-ball game at
O’Neill between O’Neill and Elgin,
Friday evening.
The next regular examination will
be held January 15 tnd 16, 1915. All
subjects will be given at this time.
Myrtle Edwards of Meadow Grove
commenced teaching in District No.
132, January 4.
Holt county has organized a Boy’s
and Girl’s Club in agriculture. There
is a gardening, potato and corn club.
The following boys and girls are mem
bers: Venalda Aaberg, Elsie Lama
son, Mildred Marquis, Frances Urban,
Harold Aaberg, Charles Graham, Ora
Philbrick and Bert Urban. Any one
else desiring to enter this club should
write HuldahPeterson, Lincoln, or the
county superintendent.
We should try to have an exhibit
from this club at the next county fair
meeting.
Minnie B. Miller, Co. Supt.
LEGISLATURE IN ACTION
Lawmakers Now Busy at the State
Capitol,
Lincoln, Nebr., January 11.—At the
opening of the Senate session Monday
afternoon, Lieutenant Governor Pear
son, prisiding, offered the first in
augural address of a lieutenant gov
ernor, so far as past history records,
The address opened with a greeting to
the members, followed by a number
of recommenrations for the general
welfare. The govei nor advocated non
partisan elections of all elective offi
cers from the highest to the lowest in
the state; advocating a publicity
bureau to make the state’s advantages
known to the world; approved the
establishment of a state printing
office; suggested the conservation of
water power; approved good roads;
demanded economical appropriations;
advocated the consolidation of rural
schools; enactment of laws for the
establishment of rural credits and sug
gested that the statute book of the
state, being now altogether too large,
that some of the best work of the ses
sion might be in the repeal of a fairly
good percentage of the laws now in
that honorable volume. He closed
with the statement that the senate
was here for business and that he had
therefore endeavored to pass no bou
quetes in any direction.
The Senate then plunged into a very
short business session. The resolu
tion of Sentor Beal of Custer, me
morializing Congress to advocate the
enactment of rural credit legislation,
was called up by the introducer and
passed by unanimous vote.
So much of proposed reform is em
braced in the voluminous reports of
the committee which has labored since
the last session on the matter of re
vising legislative procedure that the
report of the Committee on Rules
which followed is of pertinent interest.
The Committee did not closely follow
the suggestions made by the reform
committee, but adopted some of the
proposals outright, and others with
important amendment. The proposal
to reduce the standing committees of
the Senate to twenty-seven, instead of
forty-odd as heretofore, was approved,
but the number appearing on each
committee was amended to leave that
item totally within the jurisdiction of
the finding of the Committee on Com
mittees which is charged with the
duty of selecting the personnel of all
the standing committees of the body.
The following other proposals of the
reform committee were adopted:
Schedule of committee metings to be
printed to avoid conflicting hours of
the various committees; to make a
record of all votes cast in all commit
tees; that the final report of any com
mittee must be filed in the daylight
hour sessions of the Senate; that a
budget of all appropriations required
by the state for any given biennium
should be prepared in advance of the
session by the Governor and submitted
to the Legislature in a special mes
sage.
Among the proposals of the reform
committee that were ignored in this
report and in consequence not adopt
ed, was one that the appropriations
committee of the Senate and House
should always meet in joint session.
This proposal would have given the
House a preponderance of influence
in the consideration of all appropria
tion matters and the Senate rejected
this proposal evidently from its belief
that in actual effect it would make the
Senate a mere appendage to the
House in the overwhelming impor
tant matter of state appropriations.
Theproposal to dispense with morn
ing sessions of the Senate, giving
these hours to the work of commit
tees, was also rejected.
XT. J_A. 4-1* n CAnofn
by the Committee on Committees
charged with the duty of parceling out
committee chairmanships and mem
bership, it being quietly admitted that
this committe had not made distinct
progress in this difficult duty.
In the few moments prior to the
adjournment of the Senate, seventeen
proposed new laws were offered and
placed on first reading by their title.
They cover a variety of subjects too
extended for immediate analysis.
The House plunged into the first
working day of the week with appar
ent vigor, but really accomplished
very little, owing to the reappearance
of the biennial scrap relating to how
many one-cent postage stamps the
state should buy and distribute to each
member daily. This promising little
stab at the state treasury which has
received approval for many, many
years past, was effectively wiped off
the map by a red hot assault made
upon it by Richard of Douglas. The
proposal was tabled by a vote of 69 to
22. While it seems dead today, this
issue in the past has proven that it
has .more lives than a cat, and no
prophet can fortell that within a
week or two the state will not again
be purchasing Uncle Sam’s little one
cent soveniers for its mmebers.
To expediate ligislation and save the
time of the House from the considera
tion of bills that are in whole or in
part duplicates of one another, the
House adopted a resolution directing
that measures be referred to the chief
clerk, the chairman of the rules com
mittee, and the director of the legisla
tive reference bureau for a report as
to any duplication in the proposed
measures offered in the House.
Jerry Howard of Douglas made a
bright spot in the day by an impas
sioned plea for the laboring man who
wants a job in the House end of the
capitol. The postmaster cf Lincoln
has established a branch postoffice in
the House, manned by paid Govern
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BIG
VALUES
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CLOTHES
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IF YOU KNEW THE VALUES YOU CAN GET IN
OUR STORE NOW YOU WOULDN’T WAIT A MINUTE |
TO COME IN. OTHERS HAVE FOUND OUT OUR 1
REDUCED PRICES AND ARE BUYING.
WE NEVER HAVE AN ARTICLE IN OUR STORE g
THAT ISN’T FULL VALUE FOR EVERY CENT WE I
ASK FOR IT. WE WANT TO CLEAR OUT OUR 1
WINTER GOODS. WE ARE MAKING PRICES THAT I
(WILL ”DO IT QUICK.”
HflBTY BROS. & MULLEN j
ment employees, saving the state all
of the usual expense of this depart
ment. Hofard, who is always a pat
riotic citizen of Nebrasba, denounced
this as an invasion of state’s rights
and therefore teetotally wrong, be
cause it deprived a few applicants of
a place on the legislative pay roll.
The House closed its day’s labor by
the introduction of twenty-one pro
posed new laws. This is a record in
comparison with the bills of the first
day of the last session, when no less
than ninety-eight were offered.
No standing committees were an
nounced in the House owing to the
failure of the committee in charge to
complete its labors. While more or
less of the usual routine is proceeding,
.the actual work of the body cannot
commence until the standing commit
tees are named.
HALVEY NEWS BUREAU.
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Czar’s Arrry in MarRr.burg.
Paris, Aug. 27.—A report was in cir
culation that Russian troops occupied
Marienburg, in east Prussia, twenty
seven miles southeast of Danzig. This
news has not been confirmed.
Francis Declines Argentine Post.
Washington, Aug. 27.—David R.
Francis of St. Louis declined the ap
nointment as ambassadior to Argentine.
Inman Items.
Roy, the little son of Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Colman, has been very sick this
week but is better at present. *
Grandpa Froka is very ill this week.
Miss Mable Willard, who has been
visiting her brother Fred, returned
to her home at Sioux Falls last week.
The Misses Grace and Dorothy
Keyes were in Neligh Monday on
business.
Mr. Clyde Hall had a painful acci
dent Sunday while cutting some wood
when the axe hit his foot going
through his overshoe and into his foot.
Dr. Noyes was immediately summoned
who took a few stiches in the injured
member.
The I. O. O. F. held their installation
last Tuesday evening after which they
gave an oyster supper.
Mr. Jay Buttler and Cony Coleman
attended the Implement and Hardware
convention in Omaha last week.
Mr. Will Simmerman was out of
town on a business trip a few days
last week.
Mrs. Clarence Conger visited with
her daughter Mrs. (Joe Fessler in
O’Neill last Thursday.
Kenneth Davis has been ill this
week, but is better now.
Mrs. Wilson Bitney was in O’Neill
one day last week.
MR. DEPOSITOR:
We invite you to Deposit your funds
in this bank for the reason that all depositors
are protected by the Depositors’ Guarrantee
Fund of the State of Nebraska. |
That the Deposits are amply protected
in State Banks was exemplified in the failure *
of the State Savings Bank of Superior, Ne- |
braska, a few months ago. Shortly after the
bank closed the depositors were paid in full,
together with interest up to the time the bank |
suspended payment. |
At the same time me rirsi ivauonai
Bank of Superior failed and up to this time j
the depositors have not received a cent, and
prospects of ever receiving a substantial por- ij
tion of their deposits are not very bright.
The harvest of the farmers and stock- |
men is now at hand and they will soon be dis
posing of their products and will want to de
posit their surplus funds.
Kindly keep this bank in mind, as this
is the only bank in O’Neill operating under the
Guarrantee Law of the State of Nebraska.
Nebraska State Bank
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