GREAT DEMAND Prices Recently Paid in Vicinity of Wakefield Indicate Advance Wakefield. Neb., . (Special) —As an indication that the recent decline in popularity and price of farm lands is passing, several sales have been consummated In northeast Nebraska lately. An 80 acre, well improved farm, south of town, brought $300 an acre. A 160 acre un improved plot near town brought $200. An 80, unimproved southwest brought $200 and an Improved 80 southwest, $200. The 160 acre Hans Peterson farm near here was sold to Milton Miller, of Craig, for $170. The Neuman farm, sold here recently at auction brought $115 an acre. It is well improved and would have brought more but It 1b 2 1-2 miles from school. The old Coad farm, located near Fremont, was sold at auction, for $191 an acre, a total of $53,862. It t Is one of Dodge county's best level farms. Kidding was spirited. The war with the ltiff doesn't affect the output of benulne Morocco from Philadelphia snd London.— Memphis News Scimitar. MORE HIGHWAY WORK PLANNED Nebraska Asks Bids for Grading and Graveling to Cost Half a Million Lincoln, Neb., _ _ (Special)— Bids on grading and gravel surfacing estimated to cost half a million dol lars have been asked for by the Ne braska department of public works. The bids will be opened at the state house September 16. Four of the 21 projects are in eastern and southern Nebraska. The greater part Is In the northern nnd western counties. The specifications call for the con struction of 64 miles of grading, SI ■miles of clay surfacing and 103 miles of gravel surfacing. This prill make a total of $3,500,000 of grading and surfaelng contracts awarded In 1,925. Much of the work will be completed' in September and October. WOULD HOLD UP PAY OF FORD'ER SECRETARY Lincoln, Neb., « (Special)— It has been rumored at the state cap Itol that Secretary Orlggs of the state department of commerce, will try to prevent K. C. Knudson, former secretary, from drawing pay for act ing as receiver of the American State bank and the Pioneer State bank of Omaha and for services performed by Knudson as receiver of Ihe Amer ican State bank of Lincoln. It Is also declared that the department will at tempt to get back the $70 drawn by Knudson when ucttng as receiver of the Bank of Waverly. A like action Is possibly to be taken In regard to the $760 drawn by J. E. Hart, former secretary of the department of trade of commerce, af.I KHudson's prede cessor in office, for money Hart Is alleged to have drawn as a receiver of a bank at Blair. OMAHA INDIANS PUT j ON ANNUAL PQW WOW Winnebago, Neb., , -The yearly powwow of the Omaha Indian* la being held In a grove-near Macy. •farted Saturday. It will extend over next Sunday. , ■ ■.j. . , ■ \ ’ll The event, In addition to being a continuation of an old custom of having one great annual meeting In which the ancient rites and tradi tions of the tribe were keeoVinted' and revived, is the source of con siderable income to the tribesmen., Receipts from concessions and ad mission fees go to swell a tribal fund which Is used to pay expenses of delegations to Washington and for other tribal purposes. There will be dancing, both day and night, by Indians in full regalia, horse and pony racing, wrestling and other athletic contests. Indians from other reservations will take part. The office of “chief of the pow wow" is an honor much esteemed by the Omahas. Ed Kline 1b chief thia year. HE MALE ARMOUR PLATE i FOR THE OLD MONITOR Coleridge. Neb., (Special). —Cedar county’s oldest resident George Washington P. Coates, 97 years old. He was born January 30, 1828 at Coatevllle, Chester County, Pa., of Quaker parentage. The roll ing mills which he and his brother managed furnished the armor plates for the vessel Monitor, which fought the Merrimac in the Civil war. He also supplied boiler plate to lead ing eastern railways. He often told of attenlng the funeral of a mem ber of the continental congress. He was advised by James J. Hill, the late railroad president, to come to Cedar county. The body was sent to Coatesvllle, Pa., for burial, where ho has a sister, Sarah Coates, who Is now 90 years old. TEACHERS MUST BE REGISTERED IN COUNTIES Lincoln, Neb., > (Special)— Public school teachers are required under the new law to record their certificates in the county In, which they teach. State Superintendent Matzen has callel the attention of county superintendents to Its re quirements. This registration may be made without,cost to the teacher and must be made before a contract Is made to teach. The new law makes school board members personally li able for all public moneys paid to n #eacher not qualified. i INDIAN BRAVE SENT TO JAIL Hazen Red Wing Entered Plea of Guilty to Sale of “Firs Water” Lincoln, Neb.,_„ (Special)— Hazen Red Wing, eon of Chief Red Wing, of the Minnesota Sioux Indian tribe, was fined $100 and costs and sentenced to 60 days in Jail, by Act ing Municipal Judge Hawes, after Hazen had admitted the sale of & pint of “fire water.” Red Wing did not object to paying (he fine but hls*proud bead fell when the 60-day sentence was tacked on. The Indian wa» a star football player at the Flapdreau high school for four years and has attended South Dakota university at Vermil ion. Since corning to Lincoln a few weeks ago he has specialized in the shoemaking trade. wmf l GETS THE MEET Young People’s Luther League and Choral Union Plans Three Big Days Yankton, S. I).,"' .. (SpecinD —Hundreds of people are expected to attend the sixth annual conven tion of the Yankton circuit of the Young People’s Luther longue and Cheral Union which will be held at Mission Hill, August 28, 29 and 30. Grand concerts will be given by the choral union compoaed of combined < holrs from the churches of southern South Dakota and northeast Nebras ka, comprising more than 100 voices. Miss Laura SlmonBon directs the choral union. Prof. G. M. Bruce, of St. Paul will deliver the opening sermon on Fri day morning. Rev. Orlando Ingvol stad, dean of the Lutheran Bible school at Chicago, will be the main speaker during the convention. Delegates from Yankton, Hon Hom me, Hutchinson and. Charles Mix counties In South Dakota and from Kpox county in Nebraska will attend the meeting. Itev. L. O. Sunde la president of the Yankton circuit; Rev. O. V. Smeby, vice president; Miss Marie Satrum, secretary; Thermnp Wcttleland, treasurer; Miss Laura Simonson, chorus director, ayd Miss Helen Frostenson, accompanist. The board of directors is composed of Rev. Ole M. Oldand, of Yankton; Miss Edna Mortenxon, of Platte; Chester Lokkan, of Jrene; Rev. L. O. Sunde, of Volin; R*v. O. V. Smeby, of Mission Hill; Ml*s Marie Satrum, of Irene, and Therman Wettleland, of Gayville. ■■■■ ■ .. i " .. PIONEER FAMILY HAS ITS ANNUAL REUNION Allen, Neb., , (Special)— The fourth annual reunion of the El lis family, who canit> to Nebraska In 1870, was held in the Tuning grove, one mile west of heri1, August 21. Al though members ol’ this family are now scattered far and wide, each year 60 or more relatives are present st these reunions. There were but two of the older generation present this year, Isaac and Phlneas, both of Al len. A program and a baseball game produced entertainment, followed by election of officers for the ensuing year'.' * GOVERNOR COMMENTS ON KNUPSON CASE Lincoln, Neb., (Special) — ' Referring to the case of K. C. Knud ; son, former secretary of the state department of trad« and commerce wherein Mr. Knudson was allowed more than $3,000 by district courts for services performed by him as re ceiver of three bankv, a place he ob tained when he way secretary and In the employ of the state Governor McMullen says: "I dq not know any thing about the Ivnudson case, but T believe the law prohibiting secre taries of the code departments and appointees from holding any other i office or position of profit and re quiring them to give full time to the state, Is good law and ought to be enforced. If It Is no-;, there may be no end to outside Work undertaken ( for profit.” JEFFERSON, S. D., YOUNG MAN GIVEN FINE PROMOTION Jefferson. S. D.. „ (Special) —Vincent Haviland, ton of Mr. and Mrs. M. \V. Haviland. who graduated from the Jefferson high school, and received his B. S. decree In electrical engineering at the {gate university in 1923, lias for the past two years been in the service department of the Westlnghouse Electric company at East Pittsburg, Pa.. was recently promoted to Held engineer for this company with headquarters at At lanta, Ga. He has departed for his new field after spending two weeks with hts parents. BRIDE DESERTED FOR FORMER liWEETHEART Hartlngton, Neb., , ... (Spe cial)—Mrs. Mildred Vlbbb fleedle, a bride in March of tills year, has gone back to her home in Crete, following desertion here by her husband, a printer, who left her r note saying: “Lucy and I have beat it to Yankton; do tile best you can." had worked In a local newspaper office for a short time, coming from Crete, where she had first met him. The “Lucy” in tile case is said to be a girl to whom Hcedle was engaged before he married Miss Robb. BERRIES CAUSE CHILD'S DEATH Children of Oelrich, Neb., Farmer Said to Have Eaten Nightshade Chudron, Neb., r (Special)— One child of David Harris, Oelricl. farmer, Is dead and ant ther believed dying as the result of .rating night shade berries. Neil, 4 y^ars old, died Tuesday and was buried Thursday. Kenneth, 6 years old, is not expected to live. MISS GANNON HEADS; ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION Dubuque, la., —Five of the six officers elected at the closing session of the National .'federation of Alumnae, sisters of charity, B. V M.. convention, are Iowa ns. The following officers were elected to serve for the next twe years: Miss Ada K. Gannon, Davenport, presi dent; Mrs. Corrine Champion McNIc hols, Dubuque, firs* vies president; Mrs. William Hollan, Iowa City, sec ond vice president; Mdss Regina Cox, Des Moines, recording secre tary; Miss Margaret Maloney Sulli van, Lyons, corresponding secretary, an dMiss Jennie G’Heron, Chicago, treasurer. BUS LINE FOR WINNER OUTLET Pierre Concern Would Op erate Passenger Cars Both Ways Daily Pierre, S. D„ v' (Special)—p K. Johnson, head of the Capital Motor Sales Co., of this city appeared be fore the state railroad commission dn an application to operate a passenger bus between Pierre and Winner to be instituted as soon as the railroad commission grants a permit. Mr. Johnson Intends to put on a seven-passenger motor bus between the two towns, the ear to leave Win ner In the morning and arrive In Pierre about noon, leaving on the re turn trip about 1 o’clock In the after noon and arriving at Winner about 6 o’clock in the evening. The route will be via Vivian and Presho. ANOTHER ICE MINE UNCOVERED NLAR LEAD Lead, S. D., „ ^ (Special)— Another "Ice Mine,” very similar to the one discovered a month ago and located about 150 feet north of It, has been uncapped by road workers, according' to Frank Peck, county highway commissioner. Both are 15 miles from Lead, alongside a modern highway, in upper Spearflsh canyon. “It’s just about the same tiling," Mr. Peck states, “only this was dis covered about 25 feet under the sur face of the slope, whereas the oilier one was only four or five feet. I'very body is so interested I’m having a sign painted to put at the side of the road to direct tour.sts to the places." BUFFALO GAP PLANS FOR GREAT FAIR Buffalo Gap, S. D., , (Spe cial)—The eighteenth annual meeting of the .Buffalo Gap Fair association, will be held at Buffalo Gap, Septem ber 7 and 8. The management is an ticipating a large attendance and will give a good entertainment program of running, chariot, relay and hippo drome races with other sports, during the two days. With splendid crops in western South Dakota, the fair will have a worthy display of farm pro ducts of all kinds. The Buffalo Gap fair is the oldest agricultural Institu tion in the Bluck Hills. NEW HIGHWAY 18 BEING TALKED OP Pierre, S. D., v (Special)— A north and south highway to i\in through Nebraska and north through Mission to Murdo and eventually through Pierre to the north state line and probably to the Canadian line is being discussed before the state high* Way commission by a delegation of Cherry county, Nebraska and Todd county, South Dakota people who are asking for improvement of state trunk highway No. 63 from Mission south. Cherry county Is represented by Messrs. Bowring, Ohauser and Foster and '.here are several Todd county people with them urging the construction of this highway. SOUTH DAKOTA PEN HAS 370 INMATES Sioux Falls, S. D„ -With the arrival of five new prisoners the population of the state penitentiary has reached 370, the highest in its history. Of this number 10 ure wo men. The new arrivals are as follows: Joe LaBlanc, Roberts county, grand larceny, one year; Jake Buffalo, Rob erts county, grand larceny, one year; Louis Maurouare, Union county, burglary In third degree, five years; Paul l^arabee. Union county, burg lary in the third degree, five years; Ellis Ocean. Aurora county, wife de sertion, one year. NIGHTWATCH FAILS TO EXPLAIN SHOOTING Omaha, Neb., (A. P.)— Don McGrath, 21 years old, shot by a watchman at the Mayne Milling company when he went to question him about a the't of a sack of wheat Wcdnesay night, is still in a critical condition and Thomas HhI adrada, mill manager, who shot McGrath, is still in Jail unable to ex plain the shooting except to say that Ik- shot in self defend' FIND GLANDERS NEAR RANDOLPH Believe Disease Brought With S. Dakota Bronchos —Six Animals Lost Randolph, Neb., *' CSpecial.) —Glanders has been detected In this vicinity, six horses already lost from the disease. Don Hayward lost four animals and Frank Hayward lost two. Assistant Veterinarian Cant well, of Lincoln, has been here in vestigating conditions for the state department of agriculture. It is thought the disease amy have been thought the disease may have been a bunch of bronchos sold here. The state pays a two-thirds indem nity on each animal which is con demned or killed. RECOVERS PART OF CASH IN LAND DEAL Hartington, Neb., _ , (Spe cial.)—David E. Garrigan has recov ered $ 1C,500 paid to F. W. Barnhart for land, by order of the federal court at Wichita. Barnhart was former county treasurer and local selling agent dealing in farm lands near Scott City, Kan. This is the con summation of a five year fight by Gerrigan to recover $18,500. A scheme was evolved by a group of Chicago speculators in the boom time just after the war to sell land in the hot wind belt of Kansas. A special appeal was made to turn over liberty bonds in the deals. After Garrigan bought the land he was ad vised to investigate. He then filed suit before accepting the deed, al leging that the land was not unusual ly fertile but poor land producing ex ceptional crops in rare instances. The case was bitterly contested. Ole Klandrud was another Cedar county victim, paying out about $20, 000 for land. Due to the fact that he \ccepteJ a deed before filing suit, the case was thrown out of court. E. E. Swlhart of Coleridge, and others also bought land in Kansas but found after the first crop was marketed their invested money was gone. DRY RAIDERS MAKE BIG HAUL IN “DEVIL’S NEST” Lincoln, Neb., . (Special.) •—In their island stronghold in the Missouri river, 19 alleged makers and peddlers of booze were captured Tuesday by officers from three states. The "Devil’s Nest" has long been known as the center in the campaign of bootleggers, its product serving Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota The boat captured has been plying between the island, Sioux City, Yankton and the river boundry of Cedar county. Bert H. Barrow, of Sioux City, Albert C. Lane, of Cedar county; Ar thur R. Kritz of Yankton, and Carl Erickson of Meckling, S. D., were taken before the United States com missioner at Norfolk on charges of owning and operating stills. Albert C. Lane wa3 fined $100 in the state court at Hartington for possession of liquor, as were Dewey and James Mines, Earnest Halleen, L. Saylor, Fred Wlebelhaus, John Ritter, Jr., Casper Jueben, H. S. Zech len and Emil Brig. Arthur W. Lee and Jack Lee were each fined $100 and given 60 days in the jail at Hartington for the sale of liquor. Fate Lane was turned over to the Iowa authorities and Frank I’oppenhagan and Henry Wolfe to South Dakota officers. These three were charged with possession. Two of State Sher iff Condit’s men took part in the raid. NEBRASKA BANK ROBBER MADE DARING ESCAPE Lincoln, Neb., . (Special.)— It was due to a very clever bit of work, that John Brown, Nebraska bank robber and former resident of Uehling, managed to carry out successfully a getaway from the Kan sas penitentiary Sunday night. When he pushed a gun into the face of a guard he used the_ guard as a shied to make his escape. Other guards saw Brown make his dash for liberty but were unable to fire upon him be cause they feared to kill the guard used as a shield. When Brown reached Lansing he commandeered an automobile and dashed out of town witl>>his auto owner prisoner at the wheel. PATENTS NEW STYLE OF FEED grinde:: Stratton, Neb., (Special)— G. E. Miller has recently patented an Invention for a blower feed grinder that, it is said, will revolutionize this line of business. It has no burrs or gears and operates solely by air blast in a centrifugal power and on trial tests had ground corn at the rate of 100 bushels an hour. It can be at tached to a Ford car for power. He Is going to manufacture them him self. CONGRESSMAN HOWARD TO MAKE NO PROTEST Columbus, Neb., __ Con gressman Edgar Howard of Colum bus announces that lie will refuse to join the movement in opposition to the appointment of A. W. McCamp bell as regional prohibition chief. HIS HOGS MADE BIG WEIGHT GAIN Chadron, Neb., (Special.) —J. M. Tollman, owner and operator of the Pine Ridge cattle ranch near ;.l a island has a hunch of hogs which gained an average of more than 2V4 pounds a day for more than 33 days. He states he woke them up every two hours for feed. They averaged HTH pounds the day he put them in the feed pens. At the end of the in tensive feeding period, the average was raised to 203 pounds. They were given ground corn, barley and ry% snaked and soured. INDIAN RELICS TO BE SOUGHT Member of Nebraska His torical Society to Make Hunt Near Fullerton Fullerton, Neb.,, (Special)— Curator E. E. Blackman, of the Ne braska State Historical society will hunt near here within the next week for an unbroken piece of pottery, used by Indian tribes. He will con fine his search to the banks of the Loup, near here. Blackman desires to ascertain the Identity of the potter. The temper of the vessel he expects to find will be tested. This is the method used by experts to determine the trib making it. Blackman believed most of the pottery found here was manufac tured by the Pawnees. CITYPURCHASES LANDING FIELD Omaha Expecting Several Hundred Planes During Legion Convention Omaha, Neb., 4 (Special)— So many airplanes are coming to the American Legion national convention to be held in October that the city of Omaha last week purchased a special landing field for their ac commodation. The field ccst $166,000. It is located less than three miles from the heart of the city. A trolley line goes within two blocks of the field and a paved road within one block. Electric lights and telephone service are available. According to reports so far received by the convention oommlttee, be tween 300 and 500 planes will be on the field during the convention. The air majl service is sending 26 planes and the army will be repre* sented by as many more. Practically every plane manufac turing company in the country la sending a full line of its airships and many private individuals have writ ten expressing desire to come to the convention by plane. Omaha is already provided with an airplane landing field at Fort Crook, which is used by the trans continental air mail service but be cause of the big demand for facili ties during the convention the city purchased this new field. NORFOLK ATTORNEY IS being /investigated Lincoln, Neb., (Special)— Governor McMullen Is said to be In vestigating reports that Hugh Boyle, city attorney of Norfolk, has ap peared as attorney for persons chflged with violating the liquor laws. Mr. Boyle and the governor are al leged to have held conference but the governor has given nothing out. Attorney General Spillman said that It would be doubtful if the law au thorizing the governor to remove or suspend officials for failure to en force the liquor laws would apply to the case of a city attorney who may have appeared for persons outside of the city who were charged with li quor law violations. Mr. Spillman said also that officials take an oath to support the laws and the consti tution and he would not advise any of them to defend persons charged with violations of the law. OMAHA’S MAYOR ISSUES CHALLENGE TO COWBOYS Norfolk, Neb., ^ -Omaha’s cowboy mayor, JIrri Dahlman, has Issued a challenge to any cowpunch er or any other manipulator of the lariat his age to a calf-ropin’ con test on August 30, the last day of the second annual frontier day exposi tion at Norfolk. Although no opponent has officially been secured, someone is expected to try a hand with the mayor in the western art. Mayor Dahlman is well known over the middle west and his early life was colorful, his career running from a Texas sheep herder to deputy sheriff, slieiff and finally mayor of Omaha. Iteminiscensing of the "good old days,’’ Mayor Dahlman said it was in the spring of 1878 when he landed his title of “Nebraska's greatest cow boy” out in the sandhills of Boyd county. "This stretch of country is still a cattle country, hut today it not sur rounded with superstition and mys ticism,''’ Mayor Dahlman said. “Its Interior has been settled with pros perous fenced ranches and its cattle no longe come from the trail herds of the Texas ranges. It is a land of happy ranchers.” Mayor Dahlman still has an un canny skill at making accurate casts over stubborn calves and wild steers as shown by recent demonstrtiaops he has made at rodeos. HEAVY PENALTY FOR DRY LAW VIOLATORS Loup City, Neb., * „. . (Special) —The heaviest penalty given anyone in this part of the state for viola tion of the prohibition law was meted out to Stanley Wrobleswkl, farmer near Rockville, who was sentenced to 90 days in Jail and fined $1,000 and costs. Two thousand pounds of mash, beer, whisky, still and other articles used in the manufacture of hootch w«-e seized by th« sheriff, ir hie raid. / Promote \ / good Health \ I Take care of your stomach. ■ It is the best friend you have. I I IIOSTETTERS Celebrated f Stomach Bitters taken before meals—improves the appetite, 1 aid3 digestion and impart* | ■ a feeling of robust health. ■ 1 At All I I Druggists I HoKriTEB oo., Kti iw^FfrisButtc*. IT tip Mahijh^ aptpi Evidently Had Not Absorbed “Business’* A story is being told of the engage-* ment of an additional chorus man fori the musical production, “Rose Marie,'f at Drury Lane theater. The male chorus in the show are* mainly mounted police and frontiers-* men, for the action of “Rose Marie’’ takes place in northwest Canada. Out of the two hundred applicant^ for the position one was selected be* j cause of his excellent voice. He wa* duly brought before the "powers that} be,” and promptly turned down aa> looking “nothing like the part.” The producer was keen to have liin^ and made Inquiries as to his previou* stage experience. 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