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But very little of Nebraska is “dry
territory” this year.
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The government estimates the
wheat crop this year at one billion
bushels.
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It is said that Tom Allen of Lincoln,
brother-in-law of W. J. Bryan, is to
be appointed district attorney for Ne
braska and that the appointment will
be made the latter part of this week or
the first of next.
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Germany’s second note is no more
satisfactory to the administration
than the first note. It is admitted
in [administration circles in Wash
ington that the situation is far from
satisfactory.
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Prof. Lawrence Bruner, of Lincoln,
has been selected by a committe ap
pointed by the governor, as Nebraska’s
most distinguished citizen, and the
honor will be conferred upon him with
appropriate ceremonies at the expo
sition at San Francisco next month.
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The New York jury;, which has
been trying Harry Thaw on an in
sanity charge, brought in a verdict
for Thaw and he will probably now
be released. He has put in about
nine years in jails and insane
asylums since he shot Stanford White
a little over nine years ago.
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Eastern republicans have started
a boom for Henry D. Estabrook of
New York for the republican presi
dential nomination. Mr. Estabrook
is one of the greatest lawyers in the
country and is recognized as one of
America’s foremost orators. He was
engaged in the practice of law in
Omaha some twenty years ago.
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John L. Kennedy of Omaha, former
congressman from that district, has
announced his candidacy for the re
publican nomination for United States
senator. Mr. Kennedy is an able and
aggressive campaigner and will make
a hard fight for the nomination. His
supporters believe he is the one can
didate that can trim Senator Hitch
cock in Douglas county.
Real Summer Weather.
The arrival of real summer has
started the corn growing with such
rapidity that you can almost see it
grow. It will take a good deal of this
“awful hot” weather to make a good
corn crop, but the way it started out
the first of the week and the way the
corn responded is evidence of the fact
that we will have lots of corn. Farm
ers say that with good hot weather
for the next six weeks that Holt
county will produce the largest corn
crop in her history, as the ground is
in splendid condition. With an
enormous hay and small grain crop
tiie farmer can afford to wear the
smile “that won’t come off.”
New Business Block.
C. B. Scott and Abe Saunto have
had plans prepared and will let the
contract the coming week for the
erection of a joint store building on
the lots now occupied by the store
buildings of D. Abdousch, E. H. Whe
lan’s office and Mr. Saunto’s store.
The building will be 6714x100 feet,
two stories and basement and will be
of brick, with modern fronts, ceiling
of lower floor to be 14 feet. Mr.
Saunto’s building will be 2214x100,
and he will use both floors for his
store, fitting up a clothing depart
mentt up stairs. Mr. Scott will have
two store rooms in his part
of the building, both 2214x100. The
second story will be fitted up for
offices. The building will cost about
$25,000.00 and they figure upon having
it completed by October 1. Mr.
Saunto has rented the old Thomas
saloon building, across the street from
his store, and will move his stock
therein until his new building is com
pleted. He is now having the building
repaired and will move some time
next week. This building will be quite
an improvement to the city and will
make west Douglas street one of the
best business parts of the town.
Caught in the Act.
About 9 o’clock last Friday night
while Fred Bazelman and H.M.Uttley
were sitting visiting in the lumber of
fice, without a light, they thought they
heard a noise in the store room and
went in to investigate. They entered
the store and thought they discovered
a man’s feet sticking out from under
a clothes rack. Fred went to the front
door and called Policeman Schangen
who entered the store and pulled a
man from under the clothes rack.
When pulled out he feigned drunken
ness and asked if it was time to go to
work. He was taken and lodged in the
county jail. About two o’clock that
morning the policeman picked up an
other. man named Walter Hayden and
threw him into jail. The latter had
worked in the Busy Bee restaurant for
a few days and was evidently the ad
vance man and “look out” for Nelson,
which was the name given by the man
arrested in the Bazelman store. As
the officers had nothing on Hayden he
was given a diet of bread and water
for a few days and then was released
and promptly left town. Nelson, the
man arrested in the Bazelman store,
entered a plea of guilty to forcible
entry and was sentenced by Judge
Dickson Wednesday afternoon to an
indeterminate sentence of from one
to ten years in the state pentitentiary
at Lincoln. Sheriff Grady left for
Lincoln with his prisoner this morning.
Nelson is a young man about twenty
two years of age and claimed Chicago
as his home. He claimed to be a
barber by trade but was “bumming”
his way through the country.
Ewing Township Divided.
The people of Ewing township are
in the center of a division fight. They
want to divide the township of Ewing
and make the territory now comprising
Ewing township, two townships. Two
petitions are on file before the county
board praying for a division of the
township and the matter was discussed
at the meeting of the board Tuesday
afternoon and again Wednesday morn
ing, then the matter was laid on the
table for the time being. One of the
petitions was presented by the people
living in the north half of the township
and asks the county board to divide
the township in the center east and
west, making each township 6x9
miles, and ask that the new township,
be named Golden. This petition con
tains sixty-four names, or a majority
of the electors living in the territory
asked to be made the township of
Golden. This division would divide
Ewing township on the north line of
the Village of Ewing. Another peti
tion before the board asks that Ewing
township be divided two miles north of
the Village of Ewing and that terri
troy now composing the township of
Ewing be called Ford township. This
petition contains 183 names. By
dividing the township on the lines
asked for in this petition it would
leave out of the proposed township of
Ford, now Ewing, a strip on the north
side of the township 4x9 miles. John
Carr appeared before the county board
in behalf of the sponsers of the town
ship of Golden, while J. N. Trommer
shausser, E. C. McKay, Will Snyder,
S. W. Green and J. D. Selah appeared
before the board in opposition to this
division but favorable to the other, if
the township was to be divided. The
matter was again taken up by the
board Wednesday afternoon and the
prayer of the petitioners of Golden
township was granted, and what was
formerly Ewing township is now di
vided into two townships. Several
residences in the village of Ewing are
now in Golden township.
Death of Mrs. F. M. Sparks.
Mrs. Nettie M. Sparks, beloved
wife of F. M. Sparks of this city,
died at the hospital in Tilden last
Wednesday morning, after an .illness
of two months. The remains were
shipped to Ewing, her former home,
Wednesday evening and interred in
the cemetary there Thursday after
noon.’
Mrs. Sparks was born at Humbolt,
Nebraska, November 2, 1873, and
was 41 years and eight months old
at the time of her death. When a
little girl she moved with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Smith, to Ewing
where she grew to womanhood.
Mrs. Sparks was the mother of four
children, three of whom are left to
mourn the death of a kind and loving
mother, besides her husband, father,
mither, brother and sister.
Deceased had always enjoyed good
health until a few months ago when
she commenced ailing and went to
1 ilden to the hospital for an operation.
She was opejated upon a few weeks
ago and was geting along nicely, when
she was taken with a relapse and
another operation was deemed neces
sary. The second operation was per
formed a few days ago and from this
she never rallied, passing away as
above stated.
The bereaved relatives have the
sympathy of their many friends in
their hour of bereavement.
Queer Quirks of News.
Ramsey, 111.—Woodrow, 2-year-old
son of Mrs. John Eckard, tumbled
into a thirty-foot well and was fol
lowed immediately by his mother, who
climbed down the rocks jutting from
the sides. Before going into the well,
Mrs. Eckard sent her daughter half a
mile distant for help. It was necessary
for the mother to brace herself against
the sides of the well for thirty minutes
after rescuing her baby before help
arrived.
Rochester, N. Y.—The record for
expensive meals, hitherto held by
Lucullus and Cleopatra, was broken
here when James Cullen swallowed
$7,000 worth of radium at a gulp and
carried it in his stomach for two days.
The tube containing the radium was
recovered intact.
Enid, Okla.—Fifteen chilled bird
shot were taken from the appendix of
Miss Gladys Clear of Hinton. Miss
Clear is 17 years old and does not re
member having swallowed the shot.
Rome, Ga.—Jerry Neal, colored, of
Cave Springs, has just celebrated his
124th birthday. Papers prove his age
conclusively. He is the father of
forty-four children, remembers the
war of 1812 and many Indian wars,
and is well and hearty.
Waukegan,, 111.—Abraham Little
john, 77 years old, of North Chicago,
died the other day after making a
daily visit to the North Chicago and
Waukegan postoffices for twenty
seven years in search of a letter from
his son, John, who left home years ago
The letter never came.
Hutchinson, Kan.—The Kansas
courts have held that a married
woman has the right to snore as
loudly, boisterously and sonorously as
she cares to, even though it makes her
husband the champion insomaniac of
his state. Charles Sentney, in an ac
tion for divorce, claimed he had not
slept but eight hours since his mar
riage ten years ago. Judge Prigg of
Reno county refused the divorce and
made Sentney give his wife $1,000.
Bellaire, 0.—Saloon keepers here
are so careful to obey the law per
petuating the wet regime, that they all
have bibles as part of their equipment.
When a question as to the legal age of
a customen arises, the barkeeper pro
duces the bible and compels the seeker
for liquor to swear on it that he is
over twenty-one years of age.
ISSUES OF THE GREAT WAR.
Lafe Young in Leslie’s.
I have called the present war in
Europe “The American-European war”
From the campaign carried on in “the
states,” I jddge it is more our war
than anybody’s else’s. The United
States is the only country that tells
the truth in diplomacy and stands for
a result after wars are over. We are
the only people who spend money in
behalf of other people. It is sup
posed that Uncle Sam is rich enough
to give every man a farm and also
to help pay the expense of other
people’s wars. Therefore, I have
christened this the American-Euro
pean war.
W are feeding the Belgians at a
cost of millions. We are donating
automobiles at a cost of more millions.
We are sending Red Cross surgeons
and Red Cross nurses into the re- ,
motest parts of the war zone. We are ,
receiving circulars by every mail from
many of the countries at war, asking
for contributions. A majority of the
people in Europe pretend they hate i
the sight of an American. They dis.
cuss him spitefully when he has moved '
on. Our very contributions to the aid ,
of those in distress are cited as evi- j
dence that we are a mean, speculative, ,
unsympathetic, undeserving people.
This European war has been like
the typhoid fever to the human frame.
It has disclosed to every country its '
weakneses. Germany is a sealed book.
We do not know what Germany’s in
ternal weaknesses are. It seems to
stand solidly together. But all other '
countries have their shortcomings. 1
When Austria calls out an army, !
from the eighteen different races under ]
its flag, it has no idea how many will 1
respond. Great Britian is finding out ]
its weak spots. They were supposed 1
to be in Ireland, but they are discov- 1
ered to be right at home. Canada, ]
Australia and the other colonies are 1
all right. But England, the home 1
office of Great Britian, is finding out 1
the things that it did not know. 1
Many of the countries have given up <
drink to help along the war. The 1
British man has so far declined to do f
so. The distillers and brewers raised <
the cry that it would injure their <
business and that their business was 1
important. It was suggested that f
horse racing should cease on account f
of the war, and the voice of the horse i
racing fraternity immediatedly said 1
that it would ruin the horse industry, i
They said that horse racing promoted 1
Starting
Sat., July 17, *15
We will offer everything in Our Store
at from
20 to 33 1-3 Per Cent
DISCOUNT
We intend to move into our new Store
Room in a short time and do not want to
move this stock. Everything in this com
plete line of Men's Furnishings must go.
HABTY BUDS. & MULLEN,'
horse breeding. The workingman, who
loves England and who would not re
move to any other country, refuses to
10-operate in the manufacture of
munitions of war. Increased wages
mly increases his idleness.
Great Britian, if we are to judge by
;he literature that comes to the United
States, feels that we have some part
in the war, and I shall be prepared to
read in all European newspapers,
vfter the war is over, no matter what
the result, that the United States
vas to blame for it all. We have
:ieen making amunition and selling it
.0 whoever wants to buy, and in some
iirections this is unpopular. Our
^munition will be found to be fatal
ifter it is all over.
But who is to blame for this war?
I answer, this war is a cumulative
inswer of Providenoe to the in
■fficiency, selfishness and greed of the
>id world.
The strong European powers had
'or nearly a century been tiding over
heir difficulties in the Balkin states;
>een trifling with fate; trifling with
ustice; lying to each other; trying
;o deceive each other; none of them
;rying to do the Christian act of see
ng that the Balkins had good govern
nent and a fair chance for develop
nent in manufacturing, in agricul
ure and in everything else.
So the present war is a cumulative
(mission and commission during the
ast century.
Add to these events the commer
:ial rivalries of Great Britian and Ger
nany in relation to the control of the
;eas and you have the cause of the
iresent war. One other element en
ers in, that is the absence of a free
jress in some of the countries con
:erned. The people may say what
hey please about the evils of a free
jress, but if there had been a free
jress in all the countries of Europe,
here would have been no war. The
jeoples of Europe are not getting the
ruth at the present time. In some
if the countries involved, the masses
lave been lied to so persistently by
heir rulers that they have a miscon
eption of the war entirely. Lawsuits
iften change in the course of the
rial. This is also true of war. At
he beginning of the war it was the
ear of a Pan-Slav empire on one side
ind the hope of it on the other. Now,
he question is which of the countries
nvolved shall survive and which shall
ic destroyed.
It is a struggle to the death be
tween Germany and. Great Britain
Or, it is a struggle to the death be
tween militarism and the oppositite.
Or, it is the opening battle which shall
sometime bring all Europe confronting
Russia.
Just figure out what you think is at
stake.
If Great Britain should lose, it looks
like the death of its government. If
Germany loses, it is death of the
military idea as the foundation of a
great civilization.
If Russia loses, it will be about
where it was before.
The fate of Austria is tied up with
that of Germany.
It would be dificult to foretell the
fate of France, if the allies should be
defeated.
When the wars are over, a great
many issues that were not in the case
at the start will be in the jury’s
verdict. The Briton will awake and
learn to know that he is not a child of
Providence to be taken care of with
out effort. The German will find out
that a great civilization can not be
built on militarism. The lessons to
France and Austria will be incidental.
They are a kind, industrial people and
their wish is to be let alone. Whatever
shall be achieved for the right will be
accredited to the valor, statesmanship
and diplomacy of Europe. Whatever
in the verdict shall be evil, will be,
with one accord, accredited to the
United States.
Admit Guilt.
• The four young men arrested a few
days ago for stealing an automobile,
while the owner was attending a
picnic south of Atkinson, plead guilty
to the charge and were fined $25.00
each and costs. Two of* them paid
their fines, while the other two are
still in the county jail.
Will Hold Grand Lodge Here. i
The Odd Fellows lodge of O’Neill
are contempling arrangement for a
Special session of the Grand Lodge to
be held here on August 25th. About
twenty-five lodges of northern Ne
braska are expected to be represented
with large delegations. Speakers of
National reputation will be here.
Work in the different degrees will be
exemplified by various lodges. Pro
gram and further particulars will be
published later.
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hospitality. We welcome to this Bank all who have
financial matters they desire to discuss with us and
place our advice at their command. Our_Officers_en
deavor to render themselves accessible to all, and the
most humble person is welcome to call and see us.
Necessarily our advice and suggestions are always ^
along conservative lines, consistent with the Ideals
of Conservatism established and maintained by this
Bank.
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who desire financial advice.
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