School Will Close Early.
The school of agriculture at Lincoln
will close three weeks earlier this
spring to enable the students to help
on the farms. •Commencement ex
ercises will hp held Friday evening,
April 5. P.egent E. ,P. Brown will de
liver the address. Sixty-seven will re
ceive diplomas, including forty-three
boys and twenty-four girls. This is
the same number of seniors as la3t
• 0 ;r. Seventeen of the girl have taken
the tethers’ training course preparing
to teach in the rural and village
schools.
Get Year Seed Corn Now.
The seed corn surveys niade in Ne
braska and reported to the state coun
cil of defense and agricultural col
lege show the absolute necessity that
the farmers who have not already se
cured their seed corn for this year’s
planting should do so as quickly as
possible.
Some of the counties report a sur
plus and others that they will have to
depend largely on outside supplies. To
makij possible the supplying of all
these needs and at the same time to
provide as large ^.surplus as possible
for use in states which are looking to
Nebraska for seed corn is a patriotic
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task and duty of the greatest im
potence.
To prevent the shipping away of
stocks of seed corn from counties
where it is needed for local planting
and also stocks leaving the state be
fore Nebraska’s needs are supplied the
state council of defense has placed an
embargo on such shipments until
March 15.
. To meet the seed corn situation
wisely, it is most imperative that
every farmer who has not already
secured the seed he will need this year
should do so at once—first getting his
own seed and then doing all possible
to help supply the needs of others.
County councils, county agricultural
agents, county boards of commission
ers, farmers’ organizations, bankers,
commercial clubs and others are
urgently asked to assist in providing
the seed necessary to plant this year’s
corn crop. This is a patriotic duty our
citizens must meet.—Nebraska State
Council of Defense.
' Yankee Nurses.
How fares it these days with
American Red Cross nurses serving
with the French and British armies?
They live in corrugated iron huts
heated with little pot-bellied stoves,
and to be comfortably warm the wo
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These make up the usual
Dutch lunch — but what
will you serve to drink?
MX-’ ' ~ For years the host and hostess have been
asking themselves that same question—es
gecially whenever the occasion happens to
e one of those cozy little after-theatre or
“in-between-times” parties. Now, there is
a ready answer—
This distinctively new creation in soft
drinks is sparkling—snappy—delicious. It
is healthful with the who'iesomeness of the
choicest cereals — appetizing with the bou
, quet and agreeable bitter tang which only
choice hops can impart. It is sure to “hit
the spot”—sure to encounter no prejudices.
Bevo—the all-year-’round soft drink
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Guard Against Substitutes
_i have the bpttle opened in your presence, first seeing that
A<iothe seal has not been broken, and that the crown top
You will find bears the ,Fox- , B,cvo ia 8oU ia hvtUes only —and ia
Bevo— bottled exclusively by
in pasteurized bottles, ANHEUSER-BUSCH ST. LOUIS
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men wear layers of Woolen garments
so that, as one girl wrote to her folks,
“we look like Teddy bears.”
Busy days and nights they are, with
these American lassies in the British
hospitals just back of the lines in
Flanders, and vastly interesting, too.
“I am too tired this morning after
twelve hours of night duty to write
much,” says a recent letter. “It has
been unusually cold, and nearly the
whole night I went from patient to
patient removing bandages and rub
bing cold feet and legs with hot oil.
The job wears one out, but the poor
lads are so utterly grateful for the
service that I feel well repaid.”
In another letter the same young
woman wrote:
“For at least half my time on duty
today I’ve sat beside the stove in a
group of Tommies and Jocks (English
and Scotch soldiers) able to sit up and
tell stories.
“I’ve been in spirit up in the
trenches and over the top. I’ve seen
deserters shot. I’ve watched Fritz
coming across No Man’s Land with
hands up, crying ‘Kamerad! Kamerad!’
I’ve been at the Dardanelles, seeing
good soldiers die of dysentery like
flies, and their bodies heaped in piles
and burned.
“Then I’ve stood by observing the
battalion doctor looking over the men;
giving one man with a sprained ankle
‘medicine and duty;’ telling another
he’s shirking, and then an hour later
finding his lifeless body in the bath
house.
“I’ve even been across in bormie
Scotland and watched the mothers of
lads who will never return flocking
around the ■ one who has come back,
asking for information about ‘last
words,’ the burial, etc,, and have heard
the braw Scotch lad lie manfully about
the graves of his lost comrades.
“I’ve admired the photos of fat
babies, huggable youngsters two or
three years old and sad-looking wives
and mothers. The wives are always
sad and worn looking. Today almost
every story was tragic. Yesterday it
was all comedy.
“Horrible, everything, of course;
yet intensely interesting. Its a great
mystery to me how some men can go
through what they do without a bump.
Many of them have been in the war
since the beginning, and have gone
over the top many times, yet they’ve
escaped even so much as a scratch
fom wire entanglements.
“Two days ago we received from
the American Red Cross a big, fluffy,
bright red comfort for each patient’s
bed. You cannot imagine how njuch
the lively color helped to brighten the
wards and make the men cheery. The
gift was as effective as a whole week
of sunshiny days—and in this part of
the" world we don’t know what a
sunny day looks like during the winter
season.”
The Hitchcockatoo.
Oh, the hitchcockatoo
Is a wonderful bird;
It’s an ornithological king.
E’en the wild philaloo
Figures second or third
When the hitchcockatoo’s on the
! wing.
Whfen it opens it’s bill,
All the air it can fill,
For its voice is a marvelous thing.
Little children, whatever you do,
Do not fool with the hitchcockatoo.
When the hitchcockatoo
Gets a thought in its brain
(Which is not quite as rare as you’d
think),
It will whiffle and whoo
Like an exile from Maine
In a state where he can’t get a
drink.
But the thoughts it must speak
Almost bum up its beak
And are wholly too hot for cold ink!
Little children, I’m pleading with
you:
Do not bother the hitchcockatoo.
Yes, the hitchcockatoo
Has a voice you might class
As a motoring Gabriel’s horn;
It will knock you askew
Like Teutonic trench gas
Or Nebraska’s byproduct of corn
When the welkin it hits,
Why the welkin just quits
And is sorry it ever Was bom.
Oh, and world’s greatest hullabaloo
Is the yawp of the hitchcockatoo!
Does the hitchcockatoo
Slaughter millions at will ?
No, my child, I am forced to admit
That the most it can do
Is to blow through its bill
And to mimic a frog in a fit.
But it makes such a noise
It will shatter all joys
If you come within hearing of it,
O, my children! it never is
through!
So we run from the hitchcockatoo!
—John O’Keefe in New York World.
The Spell is Broken.
Frank Kennedy in the Western
Laborer: Since the first German
claimed exemption from military ser
vice because he was an alien enemy,
after declaring his intention to be
come a citizen and voting in 1916,
there has followed a stream of this
| breed, including Greeks, Russians,
Italians, a few Britishers, but with
the Germans beating them all forty
miles. The real, big, staggering
sensation of the district exemption
board occurred at 3:04 p. m. Tuesday
when a member opened the question
aire of Frank Grimley, a carpenter,!
who works for the Home Builders,
and found an Irishman who claimed
exemption because he was an alien.
He wa3 born in Belfast and ducked
out of Ireland two years ago. He
stands alone as the first and only one
of his kind found in the 24,000 regis
trants in the North Platte district—
and one is enough. The riot follow
ing the explosion caused so much con
fusion that, by golly, I don’t know
whether he was put in class 5-H, or
among the Holy Rollers or Soul
Sleepers.
No Limit.
Buffalo Express: “Young August
lives like a millionaire’s son, doesn’t
he?”
“Higher than that. He lives as
high as he imagines a millionaire’s
son w<?uld live.”
Maybe It Only Seems That Long.
Mrs. Frank Blesch, Green Bay, is
spending a few years with Mr. and
Mrs. Ferdinand Bartlett, Marshall
street.—Milwaukee Journal.
Too Explosive.
“You seem happy, Dolores.”
“I am.”
“Is Freddy paying you more atten
tion?”
“No, but since the 3-cent postage
came in he has stopped writing to a
lot of out-of-town girls.”—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
We Pay 30c
Per Dozen, Cash
For Eggs.
J. C. HORISKEY
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MAKING THE ASBESTOS SWEAT I
The 4-Ply Copper-Clad Range Wall
Heating the asbestos with a blow torch, as illus
trated, or with a spirit lamp or with a fire in the
range, the moisture in the asbestos is driven out and
U the cold side where it condenses on the sheet of
copper. But for the sheet of copper it would con
dense on the range body which would rust out in a
short time. This sheet of copper never rusts and
keeps the moisture from the range body. Internal
rust was never heard of in a Copper-Clad range
because of this sheet of copper and the dry air space.
Note the 4 walls and the dry air space. This air
space not only assures a dry range body, but it holds
the heat like a thermos bottle. It saves a shovel of
fuel every meal; over a thousand shovels a year.
A 3-Ply Imitation
The sweaty nature of the asbestos is conceded in
the above construction, so the inner lining next to
the fire is plated with copper. Some use aluminum
plating. If this was solid copper or solid aluminum
a foot thick it could do no good because on the wrong
side of the asbestos.
Notice that this copper plated inner wall simply
clanjps the asbestos tight against the outer casing
or range body. The moisture in the asbestos al
ways goes to the cold side against the range body
where it starts rust from the inside. You don’t even
suspect it until you see the rust coming through;
then it is too late. ,
To put so-called rust proofing on the inside next to
the fire is like climbing on top of the roof to get out
of the rain.
Warner (Si Sorvs, O’Neill. |
PIBUC SALE!
As I have rented my farm I will other the following described property at
public auction at my farm, 10 miles north of O’Neill, three quarters of a mile
south and one mile west of Joy, commencing at 12:30 sharp, on
Thursday, Ma^rch 28
4 He«vd of Horses
One heavy mare, 11 years old, weight about 1500; one bay gelding, 7 years
old, weight about 1700; one bay gelding, 9 years old, weight about 1300; one
roan mare, 7 years old, weight about 1300.
12 Hea.d of Cattle
If; one cow with calf by her side; two 2- Five cows, all supposed to be with ca
year-old heifers, supposed to be with calf; two coming yearling steers; one
heifer, coming yearling.
Corn, Ce^rve arvd Hay
About 600 'bushels old corn, shelled; 300 bushel of this corn may make seed
corn; 10 bushels old hand picked seed corn, on the cob; <175 bushels of new
corn, on the cob; about 25 tons upland hay; some alfalfa hay and cane.
Fajrrrv Machirvery, Etc.
One Big 4 mower; one hay sweep; one Moline lister; one Moline double row
eli; two Moline riding cultivators, four and six shovel; one disc; one walking
lister; one iron harrow; two wagons, one with double box and one with three
boxes; one U. S. cream separator; set Concord harness; set work harness; one
kitchen range; one heating stove; one hay rake; 8 dozen Leghorn and Rhode
Island Red chickens. ; t
PLENTY OF FREE LUNCH SERVED AT NOON
TERMS—One year’s time will be given on all sums of $10 and over, with ap
proved security and 10 per cent interest from date. Under $10 cash. No prop
erty to be removed from premises until settled for.
C. Wettlaufer, Owner.
Col. James Moore, Auctioneer. S. J. Weekes, Clerk
