MORE LOCAL MATTERS.
State authorities are investigating
the throwing away of several hundred
wild ducks on the roads north of
O’Neill recently.
Stock and farm implements at the
several farm sales already held this
fall have brought excellent prices ac
cording to the auctioneers.
The claims of the judges and clerks
of election at the primary election
were allowed by the county board at
its last meeting and warrants now are
being issued for the same.
Mrs. M. H. Beck, of Lincoln, Ar
rived the first of the week to be the
guest of her daughter, Miss Octavia
Beck, head of the English department
and professor of dramatic art in the
high school. She will remain until
Monday.
A change in time on the North
western rairoad, by which No. 2, east
bound would leave an hour earlier
than formerly and No. 6, east bound
45 minutes earlier, was to have gone
in effect last Sunday. The change in
time however has been postponed.
The windows for the farmers union
elevator and warehouse have been re
ceived and installed. The electric
motor arrived this morning and will
be placed in position this week. The
elevator wll be ready for business
probably within the next ten days.
The open season on prairie chickens
began Wednesday and local hunters
now may ramble without fear of en
countering a game warden. Duck
hunting, which already has been on a
month, continues to be good, although
but few northern ducks have arrived.
A strike of all the soft coal miners
of the country now is proposed by the
miners and operators as another
means of further endearing organized
capital and labor to the public. The
rumor of the strike probably will be
sufficient grounds to raise the price of
coal to the consumer.
County Superintendent of Highways
Hubbard and the county board have
inaugurated a campaign to have .all
weeds, willows and vegetation liable to
collect snow removed from the high
ways, that the roads will not become
impassable from drifts this winter.
Last winter the county spent several
thousands of dollars in opening blocked
roads, the blocking of which would
have been prevented by clean road
ways.
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posted upon the affiairs of this great
county of ours.
LIVING COSTS MOUNT
WHILE PALMER BLUFFS
Washington, Oct. 15.—With the
cost of living mounting higher, in
spite of the much advertised efforts of
Attorney General Palmer to reduce it
by a campaign against profiteering,
administration leaders are finding dif
ficulty in making a satisfactory ex
planation to the country.
The Department of Labor, which
recently caused considerable” alarm
among the Democrats in Congress
by revealing the actual number of
idle workers, has caused what ap
proaches consternation by showing
that prices are still ascending. The
index of prices in the United States
has gone up one point in the past
month.
When President Wilson made his
campaign for election the first time
he declared that the Republicans had,
by means of the protective tariff,
caused a doubling of the cost to the
housewife of food in the sixteen
years since McKinley’s inauguration.
The Republicans reported that high
prices had been caused by a cheapen
ing of the circulating medium through
the increased production of gold, and
that the tariff had protected manu
facturers in industry and workers in
employment as against foreign compe
tition, enabling them to earn enough
to pay the higher prices. But, said the
President, the Democratic party will
reduce the tariff and lower the living
cost. He was elected and a year after
his inauguration 2,000,000 men were
out of employment. Then came the
war to create what amounted to a
tariff wall and, with Europe not pro
ducing, American production was
speeded to the limit.
Now comes the Department of
Labor to show the actual facts con
cerning prices a* compared to 1913
when Mr. Wilson took office and at
present. Increases in food prices in
various cities for May 1919 over May
1913 follows: Atlanta, 84 per cent;
Baltimore, 98 per cent; Birmingham,
95 per cent; Boston, 81 per cent; Buf
falo, 91 per cent; Charleston, 95 per
cent; Chicago, 82 per cent; Cincinnati,
80 per cent; Cleveland, 84 per cent;
Dallas, 81 per cent; Denver, 86 De
troit, 92 per cent; Indianapolis, 82 per
cent; Jacksonville, 82 per cent; Kan
sas City, 87 per cent; Little Rock, 80
per cent; Los Angeles, 65 per cent;
Louisville, 90 per cent; Memphis, 93
per cent; Milwaukee, 90 per cent;
Minneapolis, 90 per cent; New Or
leans, 88 per cent; New York, 83 per
cent; Omaha, 91 per cent; Philadel- |
phia, 86 per cent; Pittsburg, 86 per
cent; Portland, Oregon, 91 per cent;
Richmond, 93 per cent; St. Louis, 93
per cent; Salt Lake City, 69 per cent;
San Francisco, 70 per cent; Scranton,
86 per cent; Seattle, 76 per cent; and
Washington, 94 per cent.
HOMESICK FOR ARCTIC SNOWS
No Affectation About the Longing for
Far North That Is Experienced
by Explorers.
If you are of ordinary health and
strength, if you nre young enough to
be adaptable and independent enough
to shake off the influence of books and
belief, you can find good reason to be
ns content and comfortable in the
Ndrth as anywhere on earth.
If you remember that all of us who
have spent more than a year “living on
the country,” are quite of the Eskimo
opinion that no food on earth is better
thnn caribou meat, and if you have any
experience in your life ns a hunter any
where, you will realize that in the eve
nings when we sit in these warm snow
houses, feasting with keen appetites on
unlimited quantities of boiled ribs, we
have all the creature comforts.
What we lack, if we feel any lack
nt all, will be possibly the presence of
friends far away, or the chance to hear
opera or see the movies. At any rate,
it is true that today in the movie in
fested city I long for more snow
house evenings after caribou hunts ns
I never in the North longed for clubs
or concerts or orange groves. And this
is not peculiar to me. The men who
have hunted with me are nearly all
of the same mind—they are either in
the North now, on the way back there
by whaling ship, or eating their hearts
out because they cannot go.—Vllhjal
inur Stefansson in Harper’s Magazine.
Flowers of Poland.
According to an English newspaper
correspondent who recently reported a
journey he had made from Paris to
the Polish capital, the most Impressive
spectacle that he saw was the mantle
of blossoms, clustered profusely, which
fringed the highways and byways
about Warsaw. “All the wars of Po
land,” he writes, “could not check the
new life that came riding through her
borders at the head of the advancing
spring; sprays of lilac found place in
the gray caps of Polish lancers, tulips
and chestnut leaves, tokens of the new
dawn, in the garb of peer and peasant.
Everywhere was spring yielding back
a measure of her everlasting rights."
Hut the flowers never took much notie*
of the war even “at the front.”
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| Community Interests I
The resulting of many of the soundest thinkers of different eras has jjj
■ gone to prove that the welfare of the public at large is in many ways best |gj
U served, directed or protected by a collective national or community force.
This is not a socialist doctrine or theory. It does not tend to detract jjj
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jj social life.
Public ownership of railways may or may not be desirable. Munici- jjf
Hf pally controlled water, and lighting systems are successful features of many ■
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gjj been 'proven by a number of years’ practice to be an unqualified success That jjj
U is the creation of Depositors’ Guarantee Funds by several progressive States, jjj
JJ In effect these laws are similar, and theDepositors’ Guarantee Fund of Ne- jj
. braska is a good example.
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jjj this fund which amounts to over a million dollars. Should a Nebraska State jj
gjj Bank fail now its depositors lose absolutely nothing. Why? Because from jjt
gj this guarantee fund a sufficient amount is drawn to make up the shortage in jj
jj the insolvent bank’s assets, thus fully reimbursing each depositor.
This is a form of community protection that stimulates individual
■ progress. j|
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