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Nebraska has 3,809,000 swine, not
including near kin.
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Weather prophets forcast a wet
summer. Drainage ditches up this
way are in working order.
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Jack Johnson intends to fill his en
gagement with Willard at Juarez
March 6, if a United States marshal
don’t get him between now and then.
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Washington gave it as his opinion,
along about his first message to con
gress, that “to be prepared for war is
one of the most effectual means of
preserving peace.”
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With the blockade around the Brit
ish Isle and unbargos on stuff destined
for German ports the two principal
belligerents may in time be starved
into submission.
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Nebraska has furnished forty-one
car loads of provisions to the Belgian
relief work and four more cars are
being loaded. There is a plenty left
yet for home needs.
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We see the jokers in the house at
Lincoln got through a resolution that
stuck The Frontier boss for the treats.
The only thing the matter with the
resolution was it didn’t include the
force at home on the division of the
indemnity.
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The “bloodhounds” kept up the
chase until they got all concerned in
the murder of the Omaha detective.
There is some querry if the search
would have been so assiduous had the
victim of the assassins beert a com
mon bloke.
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Norfolk News: We see by the pa
per that a girl claims to have walked
from Omaha to Ewing, but ,we don’t
believe it. Any girl who started to
walk from Omaha to Ewing would
stop walking when she got to Norfolk.
’Er, yes; she’d probably hit it on the
run past the junction.
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Once in a while a “bulletin” gets off
something good. Here is one from the
state board of agriculture: “The pro
duction of gold for 1913 was 178 tons.
Its value was $197,503,000. The value
of com and alfafla grown in Nebraska
in 1914 was $109,195,350. Why
ehoujd people leave Nebraska in
search of gold?”
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Fremont Tribune: No man ever
had finer newspaper support than the
World-Herald gives its owner, Senator
Hitchcock, in his disagreements with
the democratic administration. In
considering that situation intelli
gently it must always be remembered
that Senator Hitchcock was reared a
republican and that, therefore, when
he gets away from the democratic
party he is on perfectly logical and
defensible ground, and his able editor
makes the most of it.
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Falls City Journal: Governor More
head wants $3,000 to give to lawyers
to fight the railroads in their applica
tion to get higher freight rates. What
is the matter with the governor’s at
torney general, and his army of as
sistants? Once upon a time Norris
Brown was attorney general and gave
the matter his personal attention.
There is no reason why the state
should pay out a lot of extra money
to give some indigent lawyer a chance
to pretend to earn something from the
Btate. Let the attorney general at
end to this part of the legal business
of the state or get off the job.
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Woman’s Journal: An organized
traffic in girls who were stolen by
gypsy bands in various parts of the
United States has just come to light
through the official report sent to
Washington on Feb. 11 by William P.
Fitch, a special investigator for the
United States Department of Justice.
TJie girls stolen, it seems, have been
sold by the gypsy bands to white slave
dealers in the so-called slave markets
in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago,
St. Louis, Minneapolis, Milwaukee,
Kansas City, Dallas, New Orleans and
Indianapolis. The price of the girls
ranged from $200 to $2,500 each. The
average price, according to the in
vestigator, was $1,500 per girl. Mr.
Fitch says he has names, addresses
and dates in about one hundred cases
in which sales of girls were made.
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American military experts evidently J
do not see any prospects for peace in
Europe for some time to come. The
Army and Navy Journal thinks our
own country will be drawn into the
combat unless some demonstration of
military strength is soon made, and
calls on President Wilson to raise a
volunteer army of 1,000,000 men. It
says: “Placing 1,000,0000 volunteers
under training would amount to a de
claration that the United States is
preparing to insist upon its rights and
resist aggression. It would be a
measure of peace, as it might possibly
avert the war toward which we are
now fast drifting. It would also go
far to solve the problem of unemploy
ed labor with which we are contend
ing. Foreign nations not only realize
that we are not prepared to defend
ourselves but are under the impres
sion that we never will be. On this
account neither Germany nor Great
Britain is giving any serious consid
eration to the protests of the state
department except in words, and Ja
pan is going ahead with its plans for
the dominion of China and the Pa
cific without considering this na
tion.”
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DOWN AT LINCOLN
News Letter telling ot Lvents in
Legislative Halls.
Linsoln, Neb., Feb. 23.—Interest in
the legislature the past week has cen
tered in the House, where Taylor of
Custer launched his long-expected con
test against the friends and support
ers of state university affairs. The
fight was the most lurid incident of
the present session and consumed an
entire afternoon of the time of the
House. The contest was precipated
in an attempt by Taylor to have the
House instruct the special committee
of which he was chairman to demand
certain itemized reports of expendi
tures from university officials, which
he claimed was necessary before his
committee could make a complete and
intelligent report to the House. Some
time ago Tnylor was created chairman
of a special House committee of seven
to supervise and oversee the contents
and intent of all House bills carrying
educational appropriations. The com
mittee was appointed by the House
from the congressional districts of the
state with Taylor as chairman. Re
sults seem to show that Taylor ex
pected to dominate the committee and
have it O. K. any action he might sug
gest. Much to his surprise four of
the seven members refused to follow
his lead in the matter of demands
made for certain itemized accounts of
universiey expenditures in a manner
somewhat different than is compiled
by university authorities in their
usual methods of bookkeeping. On
this issue Taylor appealed to the
House to insturct this committee to
demand the kind of itemized reports
demanded by Chairman Taylor. For
an entire afternoon the contest waged
in the House. Taylor took the ros
trom of the chief clerk, threw off his
coat, and with the perspiration
streaming from his face, put in three
hours of hammer and tongs oratory
in criticism of the university regents,
their manner of using state appropria
tions, and their attitude towards him,
which he interpreted to be one of
defiance. Taylor used a blackboard
and presented many figures and dia
grams. He was answered as to his
criticisms and charges by Peterson of
Lancaster. The effort made by Tay
lor failed of success, as at the close
of the arguments the House refused
to instruct as he desired and left the
committee free to pursue its work
according to its own views of the situ
ation.
Mucn ot tne intended eirect ot tay
lor’s fight was nullified at once when
it was shown that some time ago the
university regents had, on motion of
Regent Brown of Lancaster, adopted
a motion directing the university de
partments to furnish Mr. Taylor and
his committee all of the information
desired in the way desired, as soon as
the same could be prepared, the sys
tem of accounting in use not showing
in all matters the classification de
sired by the Taylor committee.
During the past week the Senate
has been in the destructive rather
than the constructive mood, having
put the axe to twenty-four proposed
new laws and passed only eight. Of
the hii’s given final passage in the
Sanate, the following are of general
interest: S. F. 16, Quinby, exempts
all fruit trees from consideration in
the valuation of lands for taxation,
S. F. 60, Bygland, reduces necessary
population to form village school dis
tricts from 1,500 to 500; S. F. 64,
Spirk, repeals statute for election of
road overseers by districts; S. F. 85,
Wilson of Douglas, changes law for
registration of nurses; S. F. 105,
Shumway, district and supreme court
they are interester, except by consent
of all litigants; S. F. 237, Henry and
Wilson of Dodge, smashes the school
teachers’ trust and makes it a mis
demeanor for any teacher to be a
member of any teachers’ organization
which seeks to impose any extra
statutory regulations upon the elig
bility or qualifications of any teacher.
Among the twenty-four bills killed
in the Senate by indefinite postpone
ment were the following: By Quinby,
to tax the franchise of public service
corporations; Marshall, new school
district formed on petition of one
third of the voters; by Dodge, an
economy and efficiency committee
supervising all public official methods
in the state; by Krumbach, additional
penalties for false statement to secure
loans; Robertson, permitting employ
ment of private council to assist
county attorney; Marshall .placing
all lodges, clubs and societies dis
pensing liquors to members under the
Slocum law; by Sandall, abolishing
county assessors in counties less than
1900; by Mallery, new limitations on
foreign-born voters; by Brookly, rates
•'f telephone calls in the county lim
ited to ten cents for three minutes;
by Henry three bills relating to court
proceedure; by Wink, two bills grant
telegraph and electric companies on
same terms as now granted railways;
another by Wink, making water-power
rights secondary to irrigation rights;
by Gates, prohibiting aliens acquirign
titele to lands; by Spencer, requiring
delegates to national conventiaons to
pledge themselves to specific candi
dates.
The House made a record of twenty
bills passed during the week, four of
which relate exclusively to Douglas
county. Among the others of public
interest are H. R. 17, Hostetler, the
bill forbidding the giving of tips; 73
Howroth, permitting co-operative so
cieties to distribute dividends to cus
tomers as well as members; 138 139
Sass, dividing road taxes directly t<
commissioner or slupervisor districts
providing the said officers may fire ar
overseer who fails to follow their or
ders; 167, Smith, authorizing the re
discount by banks to equal their capi
tal and surplus; 187, Broome, cities
of 5,000 to 25,000 may levy five mills
as advertising fund to be spent bj
commercial clubs; 200, by Smith,hours
of general elections to be from 8 a. m
to 8 p. m.; 208, Tibbets, abolishes th«
office of county coroner and transfers
coroners duties to county attorney;
228, Reynolds, railway commissior
may compel building of crossings over
railways where the land on both sides
belongs to the same owner; 292, bj
tax committee, prohibits, deductions
of mortgages held by banks and trusi
companies when listing capital stock
for taxation.
The Senate adjourned from Friday
afternoon until Tuesday; Menday be
ing the Washington birthday holiday,
The House concluded to work along
and held sessions Saturday and Mon
day. The House gave recognition to
Washington’s birthday in the form of
a motion that the House sing “Amer
ica” the music to be led by Repre
sentative Reisner. The leader of the
singing was fortified with a book con
taining the words of the national an
them, but c’ose observers contend
that most of the remaining ninety
nine representatives were either hum
ming the tune or using a repetition of
words sounding like “La-La-La-La.”
The House has decided on night
sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays
to expediate the mass of legislation on
its general file; has had an open meet
ing and hearing on the consolidation
of Omaha bill, at which most of the
orators of the big city appeared pro
or con; has also decided to consider
the bill regulating the South Omaha
Live Stock Exchange and debated
in committee of the whole in
stead of administering indefinite post
ponement as was recommended by
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Obauutu^, tuimillbtcci i^uiuviuuo m
stances in the. Senate led the Senate to
adopt a new rule requiring a two
thirds vote to revive any bill once
disposed of. S. F. 46, by Howell, the
insurance rate bill, once defeated, was
revived by a majority vote and is now
pending in the Senate. This is a hotly
contested measure, being viewed by
some as the creation of a gigantic
insurance trust and by others as a
benign and righteous measure to pre
vent discrimination by insurance com
panies as between localities in the
state. It all depends on the point of
view.
The Senate has recommended for
passage the bill creating. Lincoln’s
birthday, February 12th, a state holi
day and recommended for passage by
a heavy majority the bill, S. F. 6, au
thorizing the water board of Omaha
to enter into the municipal lighting
and power business.
On Monday the Senate was not in
session and the House worked on
routine matters in committee of the
whole, considering bills on the gen
eral file.
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REPUBLICANS SET THEM RIGHT
Holt and Madison County Representa
tives Relied Upon When Some
thing is to be Done.
Lincoln special in Omaha Bee: It is
beginning to be shown that when the
house members of the Nebraska legis
lature really get it into their minds
that they want to transact business
and lots of it they call to the chair
either Representative James Nichols
of Madison county, the Moses to whom
republicans of the Third congressional
district are looking two years hence to
lead them out of democratic darkness
and the desert of despond, or Repre
sentative Dennis Cronin of Holt coun
ty, the editor-statesman from Tipper
ary.
There are other good men who have
a faculty of pulling off business when
the house is in committee of the
whole, two of them especially are good
men in the chair—Representative
Henry Richmond, the editorial jour
nalist from Omaha, and Representa
tive Charles C. Van Dusen, the far
mer-statesman from Washington
county .
These two men are democrats, tried
and true, and they have a faculty of
getting Results, but when things have
to be done which will count for real re
sults and give the people of the state
an idea that the democratic legisla
ture is doing things, some good demo
crat awakes from the slumberous con
dition he is in and moves that the
house go into committee of the whole
with Nichols of Madison, or Cronin of
Holt, in the chair, and the motion goes,
through with a whoop and the mem
bers awake to a realization that there
is a, chance to do business in a way
that will count.
Nichols and Cronin are republicans
and the house is democratic, but oc
casionally it dawns on the minds of
the members that they have a mission
to perform and a constituency to rep
resent and they have the good sense
to realize that they must look to these
two republicans to keep them from
getting in bad with the people and
havng to sneak in the back door when
they go home some time next spring
to meet their constituents.
However, there are a lot of good
men among the democrats in the
house, if they only had a leader,* Two
years ago they had a half dozen lead
ers, but this year no man seems to be
able to get into the limelight just ex
actly right. Taylor looked good for a
while, but he got in bad when he criti
cised the university methods of spend
ing the people’s money, so many of
the members had to pledge themselves
to the U. H. C. E. C. (university home
campus extension committee) to sup
port downtown extension or be de
feated, that it has resulted in Tayloi
losing his grip on the members and
he is a partially discredited leader.
However, the mantle might fall upon
the shoulders of Norton of Polk, but
just now it is flirting around in a sort
of undecided manner like a war aero
plane looking for a chance to drop a
“bum.” Nobody knows just what Tay
lor is going to pull off on the appro
priations bill covering important state
institutions and therefore are shying
at the thing until Norton shows his
hand. Some of the members are for
slashing at everything, while others
have business ideas that will not per
mit them to allow state efficiency to
suffer, so that it may be some time yet
before the real king is crowned.
So’ that in this chaotic condition the
democrats are doing what they have
done for the last fifty years in the na
tion, looking to republicans for relief
and succor, and Nicholls and Cronin,
having the real interests of the state
at heart and feeling sorry for their
democratic brethern, are helping
them in their dire distress and saving
the state from calamity.
Will Argue Flege Case Again.
Randolph Times: The supreme
court is unable to arrive at a decision
in the William Flege murder case and
has ordered a reargument of the case
at the session commencing March 15.
Chief Justice Morrissey has never
heard the case argued, as he was ap
pointed a judge of the court after it
had been argued and submitted. This
is the third time the suit has been in
the supreme court. Flege of Dixon
county was charged with the murder
of his sister upon the farm where they
lived. He was twice convicted of mur
der, was once under life sentence and
now stands convicted of manslaughter.
The court filed opinions yesterday
with the clerk . In the list Chief Jus
tice Morrissey had one. There was
none by Judge Hamer.
Horses Perish in Snow.
Atkinson Graphic: A team of
horses belonging to Albert Slachetka
were found dead about 4 o’clock Sun
day eveninng by Paul Mrozek. Mr.
Mrozek was on his way across country
to a neighbor’s when he came across a
dead team in an out of the way place.
They were tangled up in the harness
and were cast in a snow drift and had
smothered. They had not been dead
long when found by Mr. Mrozek as
their bodies were still warm.
Mr. Slachetka the owner of the
team, drove out of town Friday even
ing in the storm with a load of coal,
and got as far as Frank Osborne’s
place where he concluded to stop over
night, as it was dark and the roads
heavy. While unhitching the team a
passing train frightened the horses
and they ran away. That was the last
he knew of them until found by Mr.
Mrozek, Sunday evening.
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Notice.
The annual meeting of the electora
of Grattan Township will be held at
the court house in O’Neill, March 2,
1915. ,
36-2 C. F. Naughton, Clerk.
EVOLUTION IN VALENTINES
1815.
HE:
Dear lady, I am sending you
A ruby heart—accept it, do,
As syml ol of this heart of mine,
Whose e ’ry throb and pulse, are thine,
So darling, fearing much, I sue
For heav’en’s best gift, for you, for
you!
Oh, grant, I pray, some little sign
That you accept my valentine!
SHE:
In its white case, like flame on snow,
Your ruby heart lies all aglow;
I fear me much ’tis not discreet
To own I find it passing sweet.
Ah, when the lights are all so low,
I’ll place your heart ’gainst mine, that
so
’Twill hear mine gladly, prqudly beat—
'Tis thus your valentine I greet.
1915.
HE:
Say, girlie, as St. V. is due,
I parcel post silk socks to you.
I hope they fit; the size is nine,
The clocks upon them beat my time.
I sorter wanted (catch the clew?)
To show that I could stand for you.
You always were a pal of mine—
You’d better cop your valentine.
SHE:
They came; those clocks are not so
slow,
And when I dance, they’ll surely “go.”
The sentiment was awful sweet.
I never knew that you could bleat
Soft things like that and verses throw;
And though I hate to tell you so,
You surely have all others beat—
We’ll talk it over when we meet.
—O. C. A. Child, in Judge.
Decadent Drinkers.
Collier’s Weekly: Our drinking
population has become fearfully de
cadent. Men used to be willing to bat
tle for the drinking privilege. Once
the distillers could count on an un
breakable phalanx of booze fighters at
the polls, shouting “Personal liberty
forever!” aijd full of the thing for
which they voted. Those good days
are over. The bartender in these de
generate times listens unprotestingly
to prohibition conversation from ser
ried ranks of lips moist with the aro
matic cocktail and the cool highball.
More horrible still, the bartender of
ten drops a remark showing that he is
himself a “prohib” in sympathy. The
average drinking man either does not
care a continental whether prohibition
carries, or plumps his vote for it.
Anti-saloon sentiment has broadened
tremendously. Nobody can be counted
on to respond to the old wet slogans,
simply because the number of Ameri
cans who feel any deep interest in
their grog has diminished until it is
practically confined to the more re
cently arrived foreign element and to
certain groups with whom drinking is
a cult. Once Emerson expressed re
gret at the fact that certain great
lights of English literature were fre
quenters of drinking places and pass
ed their leisure hours in orgies therein.
“Don’t be distressed,” said Lowell.
“No doubt their standards of inebriety
were miserably low!” From the
standpoint of the rum interests, that’s
the trouble with a large and important
part of our drinking population. Their
standards of inebriety are miserably
low and inconsistant. Drinking is no
longer, as Harry Lauder would say, a
“geeft,” and considered as a talent,
even, it is becoming rare. The old
thirst isn’t\what it used to be.
PERSISTENCY WINS
Nebraska Rancher Has Ardorous
Courtship. Accepted on Twenty
third Proposal.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: St. Jo
seph, Mo., February 14.—This is the
story of the man who put an ad in the
paper for a foreman for his stock
ranch in Nebraska—and got a wife.
Mind you, he did not advertise for a
wife, nor did his wife-to-be read the
advertisement, but the result of that
ad was:
Miss Lola Pearl White, 23, formerly
clerk in a seed store in Lincoln, on a
recent evening at the Hotel Metropole
became the bride of Issac M. Roberts,
55, of Douglas, Neb. The ceremony
was said by Rev. W. R. Dobyns, D. D.,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of St. Joseph, in the hotel par
lors. Immediately after the ceremony
Mr. and Mrs. Roberts went to the Ly
ceum to see the spoilers.
To revert to the small ad: A year
and a half ago Roberts, a wealthy
stock farmer, lost his foreman—that
is, his foreman resigned. It is some
sort of a job to take care of the stock
roaming a 1000-acre farm in Nebras
ka. Roberts advertised a week in Lin
coln papers. He received hundreds of
replies. He chose one who was mar
ried and the father of a 2-year-old
baby boy. The baby’s mention in the
letter of application predisposed him
in favor of its writer.
In due time the foreman arrived. It
was spring. Soon the sister of the
foreman’s wife, Miss White, came to
visit the farm. Roberts was presented
to her and fell in love with her upon
sight.
“The minute I saw her,” he said last
night, “I determined to marry her.”
Letting no grass grow under his
feet— lovers do not tarry when they
are 55—the stockman proposed before
the sweetness of spring had flown.
Although the birds were singing hap
pily that morning and he had taken
her for a dashing horseback ride, she
would not say yes. (They do have
birds in Nebraska; Mrs. Roberts said
so.)
Her declination only made Roberts
more sure that he wanted just Miss
White. During her brief visit to the
farm he proposed to her fourteen
times. She would not accept him,
“but,” he says, “each time it seemed
she was a little kinder than the one
before, and so I persevered.”
After the fourteenth proposal, her
vacation time having elapsed, she re
turned to Lincoln and to her place in
charge of the shipping department of
the Griswold Seed Company.
“And I didn’t tell any of the girls of
the store about my proposals of mar
riage, either,” Miss White says.
The scene now shifts to Lincoln.
Miss White looked up from her desk
late one afternoon and there stood
Roberts. She blushed prettily. It
was within a few moments of quitting
time for the day. He remained and
escorted her home. His fifteenth pro
posal of marriage was during their
walk home, the sixteenth was that
evening, and he left the next day in
the same frame of mind in which he
had gone to Lincoln. If anything, he
was more determined. That was due
to her confession that she had not
placed her heart in keeping of any of
the gay young men in Lincoln (for
which the town is famed). He believ
ed her. Anybody would believe her.
He had inquired—after the sixteenth
proposal—to make sure.'
Twenty-Third—and Then.
After that, he went to Lincoln regu
larly. In due time, of course, came
the seventeenth, eighteenth, nine
teenth, twentieth, twenty-first and
twenty-second proposals. About these
there is not much to say, except that
each one found him possessing more
determination than its predecessor.
But the twenty-third
There is a fatalism about the num
ber 23 anyway. Anybody knows that.
And Roberts was a wise lover. When
the new year was ushered in—to the
tune of whistles, bells, auto horns,
suppers, celebrations, and joy gener
ally—he proposed again.
Probably because it was Proposal
23, probably because it was the witch
ing hour, probably because her eyes
sparkled (if possible) more than ever
on New Years’s Eve, probably because
instinct told him what her answer
would be. For all those and, perhaps,
other reasons, Robert’s final proposal
was emphasized, not so much as a re
quest for her hand in marriage as it
was a simple, earnest announcement,
for, as they stood together alone, sud
denly he leaned closer, looked her full
in the eyes, took her in his arms, and
said: \
“You’re going to marry me.”
“That’s it—that’s right—that’s the
way,” she answered, and, after the be
throthal kiss, told him she had loved
him all the time, but had wanted to be
sure that his love was real, rather
than a passing fancy.
No, that’s not all—not nearly all.
“When?” he asked.
“Soon,” she decided.
“Where?”
“In St. Joseph, Mo. I’ve known
girls who used to live there, and they
talk about it all the time, and when
they get a chance to visit there are
simply wild with happiness. I want
to be married there, and by a Presby
terian clergyman.”
Her wish was his law. He took the
first train after he had made arrange
ments accordingly. The marriage li
cense was issued here January 14. He
arranged with the Metropole manage
ment for the wedding, reserved the
parlorsuite, and hastened back to Lin
coln. When everything was set, a
whopper of a storm found him snow
bound on his farm. His fiancee re
alized conditions and waited . Travel
has been interupted in that section the
last few weeks. On a certain morning
he went for her. They drove in a
sleigh to the station. They arrived
here early that evening and went to
the hotel, where he registered:
“I. M. Roberts and wife, Douglas,
Nebraska.”
It was not yet an accomplished fact,
but he aroused the hotel management
to a bustle of activity. Dr. Dobyns
was communicated with. The cere
mony was said at 8:30 o’clock.
There were two witnesses to the
wedding ceremony. One was T. D.
Frazier, unmarried. The other is a
newspaper man. Dr. Dobyns said jo
cularly in filling out the certificate
that witnesses who sign marriage cer
tificates are such as fated for matri
mony within ninety days. Good
night!
Dr. Mullen Wins Honor and Dis
f i n /• f inn
Bloomfield Monitor: The agents,
representing the Commonwealth Life
Insurance Company of Omaha, held
their annual meeting at Omaha Fri
day and Saturday, closing with a ban
quet Saturday night at the Paxton ho
tel. The company has about eighty
five agents representing the states of
South Dakota, Kansas, Iowa and Ne
braska. Dr. W. H. Mullen of this city
was elected president of the agents’
“One Hundred Thousand Dollar Club”
at their first annual banquet at Omaha
one year ago. At the organization of
this club at the time the rules were
established that the agent writing the
greatest volume of business for the
company each succeeding year would
become president of the club without
an election. Dr. Mullen again becomes
president of the club for 1915 by the
fact that he wrote $50,000 more than
any other agent of the company. He
wrote $325,000 in eight months. Of
this amount he wrote $132,000 in the
month of January, leading the second
high man by $71,000. In addition to
winning the presidency of the club for
the ensuing year, he won a handsome
diamond ring offered by the company
to the agent writing the most business
during the year. The Monitor heartily
congratulates Dr. Mullen on the phe
nominal record he has made. The
citizens of Bloomfield and Knox coun
ties should feel justly proud of such a
glowing record made by one of their
leading citizens. Dr . Mullen has
shown himself to be the right man in
the right place, and the Monitor pre
dicts a brilliant future for him in the
field of life insurance.
How to Prevent Bilious Attacks.
“Coming events cast their shadows
before.” This is especially true of
billious attacks. Your appetite will
fail, you will feel dull and languid. If
you are subject to bilious attacks take
three of Chamberlain’s Tablets as
soon as these symptoms appear and
the attack may be warded off.” For
sale by all dealers. 34-4
' Card of Thanks.
The undersigned desire to tender
through the columns of your paper to
the many sincere friends and neigh
bors who so kindly assisted us in the
sad duty of ministering to the last
moments of our beloved wife and
mother our sincere thanks.
T. T. Waid and Daughter.