^ THE FRONTIER
P. H. CRON IN, JPU B LI8HER.
* *f, C. TEMPLETON,
Mitor and Business Manager.
6*R1TLL; _~~~NEBRA8K^
Cherokee County Report*
“Forage Disetse” in
Herds of Cattle
Cherokee, la., Nov. ' ^Special)—
A malady believed to be similar 60 tha
disorder that afflicted southwestern
Iowa In 192* has appeared in seve
ral herds of cattle between Cherokee
and Marcus. The disease Is called
"forage disease” and la thought to be
traceable to mouldy corn or moyldy
fodder. Veterinarians hold that the
fodder is probably nt fuult. Two
postmortems have been held. Ir. one
case contents of the stomach show
ed that the animals had eaten corn
and fodder. In the other care the
animal had eaten only fodder.
Symptoms are nervousness, a
staggering gait and progressive para
lysis, becoming total in the cases
that have proved fatal. It is held
to be probable that deaths from this
cause will be rather numerous. There
is no known preventative or curative
treatment.
STATE HOSPITAL 20
GROWER OF FINE FLOWER8
Cherokee, la., Nov . .—(Special)—
B. Donohuetaoin shrdlu cmfwyp etaol
Cherokee Is harmonious and Its peo
ple "say it with flowers.” On Monday
evening of last week Dr. George B.
Bonohue, superintendent of the state
hospital, donated to the Catholic
Women gorgeous chrysanthemums In
sufficient number to decorate the
tables at which 160 were seated in
Knights of Columbus hall for the
Catholic Fathers and Sons banquet.
On Tuesday the. Catholic women
loaned these flowers to the W. R. C.,
who served a banquet for veterans of
all wars and for wives and widows of
soldiers. On Wednesday and Thurs
day evenings the Catholic women em-~‘
ployed the Chrysanthemums to de
corate the tables at their bazaar, and
on Friday evening loaned them to
the committee In charge of the Fa
ers a»d Sons banquet at the Meth
odist. On Sunday the same flowers
brightened the Interior of Immaculate
Conception church. The State hos
pital greenhouses produce chrysan
thers and Sons banquet at the Moth
beauty.
SPECIAL FEATURES FOR
TATHER-SON BANQUET
Storm Lake, la., Nov. *„ (Special)
—The annual Storm Lake Father and
Bon banquet is to be held next Wed
nesday at the Methodist church.
Many new and interesting features
are planned for the occasion. There
'• to be a senior and julor toast
master. Ont event which is expected
to create much rivalry is the spelling
bee between fathers and sons, and
will tend to decide which is the bet
ter, “the good old way" or the new.
Special recognition Is to be given the
Dads who have the largest number
* \ ot "ona present; also to the sons who
have both their father and grand
father present. All the bald headed
dads will be expected to -put on a
special stunt.
RELATIVES WORRIED BY
ABSENCE OF MANSON MAN
Manson, la., Nov. ^ (Special)—
For more than a week relatives have
been trying to locate John Oberhel
tnan, 83 years old, who disappeared
from his home near Manson on Nov
ember 9. Oberhelman left home stat
ing that he was going out to sell oil,
a business he has followed for the
past year. Members of the family
said that there were no family trou
bles which could have prompted Tiim
to leave, but for several days before
his disappearance he had complained
of pains In the head, and it la feared
that possibly his mind had become
effected. He has light brown hair
.nd is slightly bald. The car he was
driving bore Iowa license No. 18-0380.
He has a wife and three children at
home.
INCREASE RED CROSS
MEMBERSHIP IN COUNTY
Btorm Lake, la., Nov. V-(Spjcial)
—A harvey, of Newell, creasurer of
the Ruena Vista Rer Cross, reports
the Ruena Vista Ded Cross reports
roll call was 950 members. He will
have charge of the rollcall this year.
H. O. Berger of Storm Lake Is la
Charge of enrolling 250 members In
Storm Lake. At the recent meeting
of the directors, Mrs. H.K>. Hesla, of
Linn Grove, was elected chairman;
H. L. Fferce, of Linn Grove, secretary;
Mrs. A. A. Wells, of Marathon, vice
chairman, and H. A. Harvey, of Ne
well, treasurer. The drive ends
Thanksgiving day.
CHEROKEE MAN TO
SPEAK AT STORM LAKE
Storm Lake, la., Nov. ^ (Spe
cial)—Mr. A W. Ballenger, secre
tary of the Chamber of Commerce at
Cherokee, has been invited to Stortn
Lake to talk to the members of the
Chamber of Commerce here on the
subject, “The Plan, as Carried Out in
Cher ok ce.”
MACHINE PIC S CORN
MUCH MORE CHEAPLY
Cherokee, la., Not. "^—(Special)_
Of interest to corn growers is the
statement made by Frank Frits of
Silver township, that with the aid
of his 12-yoar-old eon. he harvested
76 acres in il day using a machine;
at an expense ct JtJL^ aside frdtoi
wages due himsel Mb the boy. He
estimates the cost t picking by band
at 11(0, plus board lodging and wash
ing for the e^v" lent of aim ->an
her M days
PERMITTED TO
STAY IN JAIL
Mexican Prisoners Didn’t
Want to Depart When
Terms Expired
Columbus, Neb., Nov. (Special)
•-Because they liked the f*latte coun- j
ty jail so well they hated to leave it
two Mexicans, Mike Martina and
Jose Ruis, arrested on charge of ,
shoplifting last summer plead with 1
Edward Kavenauglh, jailor, to let
them stay "at least 24 hours longer."
They first faced charges of grand
larceny which were changed to petty
larceny and County Judge John Gib
bon then sentenced them to 90 days
in the county Jail. Since they had al- I
ready been in Jail for more than 90
days Judge Gibbon a few hours later
Issued an order releasing the two men
and tihey refused to go. They were
permitted to stay 24 hours longer,
WOULD DAMAGE
FLYING FIELD
Postoffice Department Pro
tests Against Building of
Transmission Line
Lincoln, Neb., ov. —(Special)—
On complaint of the »,ostofflce de- i
partment the state railway commis
sion has temporarily rescinded per
mission to the town of Stapleton to
string a transmission line into North
Platte. The department says that if 1
allowed to follow the route suggested
the wires would be so high as to pre
vent the use of the flying field at
North Platte by aerial mail carriers.
The government has $30,000 Invested
theft?, and emDlOVS 25 nun roirulnrlv
NEBRA8KA8CHOOL8
MAKE GREAT PROGRE88
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. (Special)—
A. A. Reed, state university exam
iner, in a report on school progress in
Nebraska, shows what an amazing in- >
crease In attendance has been made
In the last third of a century. In
that time the population of the state
has Increased 20 per cent.; the school
census 21 per cent.; the enrollment In ,
all public schools 35 per cent.; the i
enrollment In the grades of accredit
ed schools 277 per cent.; the enroll- |
ment in the accredited high schools j
2639 per cent.; the graduates of ac
credited high schools 3275 per cent.
In 1890 Nebraska had 18 high
schools and in 1923 It had 411. The
high school enrollment for Nebras
ka Increased 1574 per cent. In 80
years, while that of the entire United
States showed an Increase of only 825
per cent. It was pointed out that
the free attendance law has been a
big factor In causing the great In
crease in high school attendance in
the state- 9
8PECIAL 8E88ION NOT
NECES8ARY HE 8AY8.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov, (Special)— ,
State Auditor Marsh says that there ,
is no need for the calling of a spe- ,
cial session of the legislature to ap- I
propriate money to pay the $400,000 j
still due road contractors for work
done in the biennum that ended with
the 30th of June last. He snys that
money from the federal government
is being received right along, and that
the state has a balance due it from 1
the government of over $600,000. This
money was advanced by the state to
pay contractors for the half of the I
cost assumed by the federal govern- !
ment, which does not pay until the i
whole project is completed and check- '
ed up. The state pays on estimates ,
as the work progresses. .
WAR DECLARED*ON . '
PIGEON POPULATION
Hastings. Neb., Nov —Perchance
pigeon pot pie may become the popu- j
lar piece de resistance of tho popula
tion of this city. War has been de- 1
dared on the pigeons, which some
claim have become a public nuisance. I
Persons possessing firearms will have |
little difficulty In obtaining license to
shoot the birds and substitute them I
on their Thanksgiving menu. It Is not
known whether the pigeons migrated
to Hastings from Omaha, where they
are said to have made * time fly"
by roosting upon the hands of a
steeple clock, and where attempts
were made to drive the birds away
by putting' poison in theii feeding
places.
DESERTER HA8 ANOTHER
CHARGE TO ANSWER
Omaiha, Neb., Nov. i**- -(U. P.)—
Police charge that Jesse u- Davis, 21
years old, alleged deserter from the
second cavalry. Ft. Riley, Kansas,
and Oladys Goodell, 12 years old,
school girl were living as man and
wife when arrested here Monday.
Davis deserted on Nov. 10. and the
couple have been here for five cfeys.
police said. The girl, in the sixth i
grade, said she was glad to run away 1
because “teacher scolded me." Her
mother is an army nurse and her fa- i
ther a private at Ft. Riley. She will .
be returned to her mother. Davis j
was turned over to military author
ities.
Search Prairies for
An Escaped Prisoner
Adams, Neb-, Nov. —(IJ. p.)—
Sheriffs posses rode tu« prairies here
today searching for Harry Brown, 20,
prisoner who escaped last night by
leaaping from a train as it .vas leav
ing the station here. Brown was l>e
Ing taken from Kansas City to i-in
coln, Neb., to answer charges of for
gery. He threw open a window and
jumped from the train before two fed
eral officers could stop him. The
train was Immediately stopped and
a search made for Brown.
CONVICT SAYS
TERM SERVED
Demands Release From Ne
braska Penitentiary In Ap
peal to Supreme Court
Lincoln, Neb,, Nov. (Special.)
‘—James Sanclear has appealed to the
supreme court to release him from the
state penitentiary. He was committed
there in July 1916, for a maximum
period of seven years on a grand lar
ceny charge. The seven years are
now up but the state won’t let him go
The record shows that he was parol
ed in February 1918, and within a
month landed in the Iowa state peni
tentiary for another offense. When
he was released from there two and
a half years later, he was brought
back to Nebraska. Sanclear- claims
that because the state board of par
dons never adjudged him delinquent
and a parole-breaker the time he
spent In the Iowa penitentiary'should,
count on his Nebraska sentence. The
board did not adjudge him delinquent
i, until after he was returned here but
the state claims that the statute
which makes a parole-breaker an es
caped prisoner applies to his case.
FORMER POLICE OFFICER
IN AUTO THEFT CASE.
Aberdeen, S. D., Nov. (Special)
—Reese Price, former assistant
chief of police here, was found guil
ty of having a stolen automobile in
his possession by a federal court
Jury here. The Jury was out only
an hour. Price, according to his
statement, took the car as security
for a loan which he advanced a
young man who was out of funds.
The youth, he stated, was unable to
reach his family In the south, and
wished to sell the car'to obtain his
railroad carfare. Price purchased
the car, and It later developed that
it had been stolen from Twin Cities.
The car, several dayt* after an In
surance company had made a claim
for it, caught fire In a local gar
age, but the blaze was extinguished
before much damage had been done.
Prica was later Indicted on a charge
of receiving stolen property. The
youth whom Price claims the mon
ey was loaned never returned to the
city. The government, in its case
against Price, charged that the lat
ter was aware that the young man
had stolen the automobile, and had
a description of him, on file at the
police station. Price and the young
man were working together to get
rid of the stolen car, the prosecu
tion alleged.
The last case on the criminal cal
endar for the present term will be
that against Edward McBride, for
mer deputy collector of internal
revenue here. McBride la charged
with embezzlement of Internal reve
nue funds. ' * *
CONVICTION OF AN
I. W. W. AFFIRMED.
Pierre, S. D., Nov. p* (Special)—
The supreme court has affirmed the
conviction of Frank Godlasky. He
was an I. W. W. was was arrested in
Beadle county on the charge of mur
dering a harvest hand who refused to
take out a red card. While admit
ting that he was one of two who were
attempting to force the taking out
of the red card, he denied the actual
shooting, but alleged that It was done
by the member who made his escape.
The court holds that there Is enough
evidence to sustain the verdict of
guilty and the sentence of 15 years in
the penitentiary.
CHARGE THEY LOOTED
IDLE PACKING PLANT
Mitchell, S. D., Nov. (Special)
—Orvls Yahne, George a. Wlttee,
manager of the local rendering
plane and William Curtis have all
been bound over to circuit court on
the charge of grand lareny. The
bonds of Yahne and Wlttee were fixed
at $750 and that of Curtle at $1,000.
It is alleged that the three men as
sisted In looting the plant of the In
dependent Packing Company, which
was closed last summer. Much of
the machinery and tools that were
taken from the plant was recovered,
being found at the homes of the three
men, according to the sherifT.
HIS CORN WINS $50
AT MITCHELL SHOW
Elk Point, S. D., Nov. ~*v (Special)
—Jens Krogh, living west of town,
has received a check for $50 as a
prize on his corn, exhibited at the
corn show In Mitchell. The exhibits
consisted of Reeds Yellow Dent and
some flint corn.
FIND8 DEAD ’P088UM
NEAR ELK POINT, 8. D.
Elk Point, S. D., Nov. (Special)
—A dead 'possum was tound on the
farm of Mrs. Mary Anderson five
miles northwest of town, which had
probably been killed by a dog.
80ME FARMERS ARE
DONE CORN HUSKING
Miller, S. D. Nov. (Special)-r
A number of farm r» nere have fin
ished husking corn. Some of these
had picking machines and they have
since sold their outfits. Individual
hand huskers have made good mon
ey. The price is 10 cents a bushel.
COMPANY A8KS ITS
APPEAL DISMISSED.
Columbus, Neb., Nov. —The
Travelers Insurance Company has
asked the Platte county circuit court
to dismiss the appeal from the decis
ion of the state labor commission
which It filed recently against the
commission's award of $5,250 to Mrs*
Clara M. Buckner, whose husband
Louis Buckner, was killed while em
ployed by the Paxton-Davls Grocery
companv.
SHE TELLS OF
SLAVERY DAYS
Columbus, Neb., Negro
Woman Born in Bond
age During War
Columbus, Neb., Nov. -i. (Special)
Fourteen years ago Mrs. Mary Low
ery 62 year old, negro woman, began
the work of keepL/g the rooms in the
Y. M. C. A. dormitory spick and span
for the boys that make their home
there. Seldiom has she missed a day.
Born in slavery down in Georgia,
she lhas lived in Columbus for 22 years
and is the mother of seven children.
Her husband works for the Rokar and
fcon contractors out of their Lincoln
office accompanying their contracting
gangs. She was born months before
her mother was freed from slavery
and tells interesting reminisceuces of
other dlays.
Her mother and father were the
separate property of two broth^s,
Gregory and Spance Mammoth, men
living many miles from each other.
After the father’s release from slav
ery he fought in the civil H’ar. A year
later Mrs. Lowery was given her free
dom by the other brother and the
family was reunited.
GIVE COAL DEALERS
DOLLAR TO PROFIT.
Fremont, Neb., Nov. .. (U. P.) —
The "Uncle Jacob Coat Jj”, formed
by a citizens’ committee here to sell
state coal, has announced that it
will give $1 of profit to the dealer on
each ton of coal sold. Colorado coal
is offered at ten dollars a ton and
Illinois coal at nine dollars a ton.
Each purchased will be required to
give the name of his dealer who will
in turn be donated $100 of profit.
The plan the result of a plea made
by the dealers that tfhey would be
satisfied with a dollar a ton profit
and asking that the citizens com
mittee allow them to handle the coal
sales for the city.
In April the “Uncle Jacob »Coal
Co” will give a public audit of its
books to show how they were able to
sell what is claimed to be the same
grade coal at a much lower price
and also turn a dollar profit over to
the dealer.
ORGANIZE PARTY TO
GO ON TIGER HUNT.
Bloomfield, Neb., Nov. (Special)
—Fired by reports of others who
claim to have seen the tigsr up, in
Devils Nest country, local hunting
enthusiasts are making preparations
to go out nod bag the animal or an
imals as tihe case might be. Art Mas
on, C. Kinney and “Bud’ Blood hart
were the firs' t< announce their in
tension of invading the wild regions
up along the Missouri but others
have since joined these gentlemen
in preparations'tor the proposed sor
tie. ‘Pat” Salmon. Rev. H. H. ^yche
and Jeff Goseard, it is said, lave
joined forces with the hunters and
B. Cunningham, a veteran of the
Civil War, will also be one of the
party. Just how they Intend to con
duct the hunt has not been made
publlj but It is reported that they
have engaged the services of a* in
dividual who has had considerable
experience in ferreting out tigers—
especially of the “blindi” variety, no
less a personage than Sheriff John H.
Kellogg.
CROFTON LEGION POST
HOLDS ANNUAL ELECTION
Grofton, Neb., Nov. (Special)—
The local post of The American Le
gion elected the following officers for
the coming year, at its annual meet
ing Tuesday night: Commander John
J. Lyons; Vice Commander, Adolph
Carlson; adjutant, L. F. Reifert; Fi
nance Officer, Isaac Bay; Publicity
Officer, O. D. Salley; S&rgeant at
arms, Don Carr; historian, A. O. Nel
son; Chaplain, Lloyd West. The post
is planning to put on some home ta
lent plays this winter. It now has its
own club rooms, which are used by
both the legion and the Auxilary.
LINCOLN FIREMAN
SUES FOR ALIENATION
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. ^—Herman H.
Meyers, a member of the Lincoln fire
department, has filed suit In the dis
trict court for $50,000 damages against
J. H. Castle, charging the latter with
alienation of the affections of Meyers'
wife. His petition represents Castlo
as a man of wealth.
Meyers was arrested following an
altercation in which he is alleged to
have knocked Castle down with a
piece of gas pipe when he asserts he
found Castle and Mrs. Meyers riding
together. He says Castle attempted
to shoot him, but the revolver failed
to explode.
OMAHA MAN APPEALS
* HIS TEST ACTION
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. ' (Special)—
Harry A. Taylor, moving picture man
of Omaha, has appealed to supreme
court from a judgment that lie pay $5
nnd costs on a charge of contribut
ing to the delinquency of Bovcn girls
of youthful ages. He was prosecuted
under a law that prohibits the em
ployment of girls under fifteen In
theaters on the stage. He proposes
to test this law as applied to his case,
where he merely paid the dancing
teacher of the girls to train and
present the girls In dancing acta as
an opener for his performances.
TRUNK FULL OF MUD.
WORTH HAND30ME 8UM.
Omaha, Neb., Nov. -Frank Bru
baker, of Omaha, several weeks ago
bought an old trunk at a sale of un
claimed expressage and paid $450
for ft. When he opened the trunk
he found it full of black mu<L
Somebody suggested to Brubaker
that he have the stuff analyzed. He
took It to a smelting company here
and has Just now got the report on
It. The trunkful of mud had $1,806
worth of gold In It. NOw Brubaker
n trying bis best to find out where
the trunk came from.
MUCH CORN IS
TO BE BURNED
Nebraska Fanners Plan to
Dispose of Unmarketable
Ears In That Manner
Columbus, Neb., Nov. (Special) •
■—Continued high costs or coal hav*
driven many farmers of Platte,
Nance, Boone. Polk and ButPr coun
ties to the us© of crude oil and pet
roleum where basement heat is the
rule if rapidly increasing consign
ments of oil shipped by freight to
-many farmers can be used as a crit
erion especially when on shipments
to lural points this year shows more
than a 300 per cent. Increase over
last year.
That corn will be used for kitch
en fuel in spite of the high prices is
another declaration being made by
many of the farmers who f nd their
cribs, as the picking season advances,
filled with nice appearing ears but
musty cobs rendering them practi
cally useless for market purposes,
WILL TRY NEW
CATTLE BREED
Cuming County, Nebraska,
Man Proposes to Test
the Zebu
West Point, Neb., Nov- „ -(Spe
cial.)—Cuming county boasts of
having the first zebu cattle in this
section of the country. The state
furthest i>$rth where they were here
tofore was Oklahoma. These cattle
thrive in the wanner climates.
John Elsinger is the owner of two
of these cattle. It is said that the
milk of the zebu cow is like that of
the Jersey or Holstein cow. Its meat
is fine and is reputed to taste like elk.
These cattle are said to be im
mune from disease. They are rather
small in stature and their color is a
sort of buckskin with greyish hue
predominating. Another peculiarity
is that the male Is fully one-third
smaller than the female
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SHERIFF LEWIS OF
WAYNE COJNTY DEAD
Wayne, Neb., Nov “ -*■ —-O. C. Lewis
sheriff of WWayne county, and one
of the early settlers of this county,
died Saturday morning, following
two months’ sickness.
Mr. Lewis was a native of Missouri
68 years ago, where he spent his
boyhodo dSys. As a ’ad he drift
ed into Texas soon after the civil
war, and followed cattle north from
there when big drives wore made to
the shipping points in central Kan
sas. He lived a number of years in
southern Iowa, in the vicinity of Af
ton, and came to ayne county in the
early eighties and has since been a
resident of the county. He was serv
ing his second term as sheriff of the
county. He is survived by his wife
and two daughters, one living in
Kansas and the other in South Da
kota.
The funeral will he held Wednes
day.
BLOOMFIELD POTOFFICE
TO IMPROVED QUARTERS
Bloomfiel i. Neb., Nov- —(Spe
cial)—The Bioomfield postofflce re
quires larger quarters, owing to in
creased business, and the department
has asked for and teceived bids for
a larger building. Lease on the pres
ent building expires next June and
the owner of the building, W. H.
Needham, editor of the Monitor, is
one of the bidders, the plan being to
enlarge the present building by add
ing 26 feet to the rear. Other im
provements are included in the pro
posal.
REFUSE TO PAY 1 L
OF SIOUX CITY CONCERN
Lincoln, Neb. Nov. is. —(Special.)
—State Auditor Marsh Thursday re
jected the claim of the Pickus En
gineering company of Sioux City for
$3,824. The governor had not approv
ed the claim nor had the department
of finance, and the auditor held thes*
recommendations were :.ocessary be
fore he could issue a warrant. The
company had the contract for build
ing a graveled road in Boyd county,
but the state insisted on shipped in
gravel rather than the local product
and this cost $3,824 more. The other
state officers have declined to ap
prove because the work was done
under a contract drawn when the
1921-23 biennial appropriations were
made, and that money to exhausted.
The attorney for the company sub
mitted the matter to the auditor In
order that a rejection might give him
a clear right to go into the district
court after his money.
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A party of 17 girls enroute to tn«.
prairie country of western Canada and
to be marlred as soon as they reached
there, recently passed through Montreal.
They were from England.
SCOTTISH RITE MA80NS
GATHE0 in OMAHA
*
Omaha, Neb., Nov. —More than
2,000 Ancient and Accepted Order
of Scottish Rite members gathered
here today, for the sixty-sixth reun
ion of consistofV No. 1, which will
pass on about 150 candidates for the
thirty-second degree of the order.
Those attending the reunion came
principally from South Dakota, Iowa,
Kansas and Nebraska and will re
main In Omaha until Thursday, when i
the candidates will have been given
til* thirtieth degree.
CORN BUSKERS
WILL CONTEST
Championship of Northern
Nebraska May Be ^
Settled Soon >
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O’Neill, Neb., Nov. "C, (Special)—.
John Davis of Page, and James Kel
ley and J. M. Riley of O’Neill, may
meet within the next two weeks to
settle the corn Duisklng championship
of North Nebraska, and for a medal
to be offered by the O’Neill commer
cial club and a substantia) side bet
put up by several backers of the three
speedy corn pickers.
Davis record, madte last Saturday,
near Page in Holt county, was 175
bush els,picked and cribbed in tiine
hours and 86 minutes. On the same
day Kelley, picking corn on his own
ranch, clos® to O’Neill, husked and
cribbed exactly 160 bushels in eight
hours and seven minutes. Kelley's
friends declare that working the same
length of time u did DaviB he would
have gathered at least 190 bushels.
Riley has an average for 20 daya
of 147 bushels husked and cribbed
per day of eight hours.
Riley Is husking corn on the Geers
ranch northwest of O’Neill, working
In corn whidh, owing to the wet year,
is running but 65 bushels to the acre,
While the yields on the Kelley and •
Davis places, also reduced somewhat
by tho unusual wetness, are averag
ing 6 Obushels- AH .three of the men
are using rubber husking mittens.
CANT FORCE TELEPHONE
TO EXCHANGE TO MOVE
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. —-(Special)
‘—The state railway commission has
ruled that it has no power to order
a telephone exchange moved outf of
a dwelling house in which is ‘locat
ed a family with scarlet fever. The
local board of health In the town of
Liberty, Gage county, complained that
service was being Interrupted because
the guarantlne of the house, where
the switchboard was located kept the
lineman from attending to those tele
phones that went out of order mean
while, because he could not and would
not enter the exchange to get'ftt the
switchboard- The telephone company
officials said that the town board was
trying to embarass the company to
get even for its protest against the
town stFinging heavy current trans
mission lines parallel to its own
wires.
GOLF CLUB MUST
PAY FEDERAL PENALTY
Nebraska City, Neb-, Nov. -*—
Members of the local golf club will
have to pay about $375 to Uncle Sam
in taxes and dues in addition to pen
alties for failure to make returns
within the time limit. The revenue
bureau has ruled that each member
will have to pay $2.50 on member
ship and $1.50 on annual dues. The
fine will be $10 because the officers
of the club were not properly Inform
ed regarding the tax. This repre
sents two years the club has been in
existence. The matter of payment is
to be taken up by the members a$
the next session which is the annual
meeting of the association.
BROTHER8 8ET RECORD
FOR PICKING CORN
Obert, Neb., Nov. ~ • Jay and Ha
vor Lund employed at picking corn
on the Math Westorburg farm west of
here, recently broke the record In
this community Dy picking 35$
bushels of corn in 10 hours. Jay, the
oldest picking 184 bushels and his
brother, 19, gathering 169 bushels.
Both went out the day after and
picked 100 bushels each.
ALL OLD OFFICERS
ARE AGAIN ELECTED
Omaha, Neb., Nov. ’"S-For the
19th consecutive year, /lhas. S. Bar
rett, Union City, Ga., was elected
president and A. C. Davis, Gravette,
Ark., secretary of the Farmers' Edu
cational ami Co-operative Union at
the national convention here last
night. E. L. Harrison, Lexington, Ky., «
was re-elected vice-president. The
entire board of directors were re
elected.
8TRAWBERRIES 8TILL
BEING HARVESTED
O’Neill, Neb., Nov. 1. (Special)—
William Martin, deputy postmaster
of O’Neill, la dining daily on straw
berries picked fresh from his own
beds, which still are blossoming and
bearing. The several light frosts
which have visited this section this
fall seem In no manner to have im
paired the productiveness of the
plants, which are sheltered only by a
few fruit trees.
SPEAKER OF HOU3E
OUT FOR GOVERNOR.
Gering Neb.. Nov. Albert N.
Mathers now speaker of the house
of representatives of the Nebraska
legislature in ail probability will be
* candidate for the republican nomi
nation for governor his friends say.
WIFE WHIP* MATE
Randolph, Neb., Nov. "X (Speclal>
—James McSonnough, a laborer, ran
amuck Tuesday evening causing con
siderable excitement until he was ar
rested by Marshall Carrol, after he
had taken a severe whipping at the
hands of his wife.
WANTED TO HEAR
REST OF THE STORY
Omaha, Neb., : ,—J. T. Jefferson,
Who gave his addres; at Huron, S. I).,
refused an offer from a polico captain
to obtain his liberty on his bond af
ter being arreeted^for speeding, be
cause, he said, a fellow prisoner was
telling him about a quarrel with his
sweetheart and he didn't want to
leave "right in the midst of hla
story." A polico judge fined Jec
erson
