EXTENSION OF
DITCH PLANNED
Platte Valley Farmer* Near
Elm Creek and Lexing
ton Make Demand*
Kearney. Neb. (UP)—Ex
tension of the Lexington canal is
being contemplated by farmers who
are not far enough east to make
pump Irrigation economically avail
able, and a preliminary survey indi
cated that the scheme was possible.
Farmers in the Platte valley be
tween Elmore ahd Lexington cannot
use pump irrigation because the und
erground lake that is tapped does
not extend farther west than Odessa,
and the depth is prohibitive to dig
ging wells west of Odessa.
A meeting was held, at which it
was found that abundant water
could be taken from the Lexington
canal. An engineer was consulted
and his advice showed that the idea
could be worked out practically.
Further surveys will be made and
the project examined by farmer
committees, it was said.
DEFENDANT ACQUITTED IN
ALLEGED BLACKMAIL CASE
Aurora, Neb., _ (Special)—
County Judge Scott took the case of
Dave Williams of Giltner from the
jury in his ease of alleged blackmail
ing Albert Stewart over a $500 hog
deal, and directed a verdict ol acquit
tal The famous case had its begin
ning when a hog belonging to Wil
liams strayed away from his farm
near Giltner and onto the premises of
Stewart, a neighbor.
The testimony showed the hog had
strayed away, after being borrowed
from Williams by Bill Bidders. Wil
liams went to the Stewart place, ac
companied by Bidders and asked
Stewart about the hog. Williams testi
fied that Stewart at first denied hav
ing it, but told the men to go out and
look over his hogs, whereupon they
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then said he had bought the hog from
a man near Trumbull but said he lat*
er admitted this was false.
Williams agreed to settle for (50C
and took Stewart's check for (50 and
note for (450 In payment.
Thr main variance in the testimony
of both Williams and Stewart con
cerned what Williams was alleged to
have mid to Stewart when he found
the latter had his hog. Williams de
clared he told Stewart he could settle
with him, the Nebraska Farmer or
anyone else. Stewart stated Williams
threatened to “turn him in” to the
Nebraska Farmer, which has a bureau
to look over the legal affairs of farm
ers
THIS HOME IK FILLED
BY SEVERAL ANTIQUES.
ColeridRe, Neb., iSpecial*
—Although Mrs. J. W. Unkhart Is
active In the civic, religious and so
cial life of Coleridge, she has found
time to gather an interesting collec
tion of valuable antiques and also has
a number of souvenirs handed down
from ancestors of the revolutionary
l>ertod, being a member of the Coler
idge D. A. R. chapter.
Just Inside the front door of the
I.lnkbart home is a quaintly designed
camel’s hair rug. a real Arabian
"prayer rug.'' which was used in
Arabia by the sheiks for more than 75
years. The rug. three by eight feet in
siae. has been walked over daily for
2ti years In the Linkhart. home, is
more than 100 years old and scarcely
shows any sign of its age. as the ori
ental colors are still distinct. Two
unique cases of brown earthen Jars,
used by Mrs. Linkhart's mother
years ago. form a stylist ornament
with bright red cornucopias artistical
ly arranged in them. A saucer 105
years old. designed in pink to repre
sent an F.ngllsh park, adds a novel
touch to the dining room buffet.
One of the most treasured articles,
having an interesting family history,
is piece of linen woven by her grand
father, Michael Wieland, from flax
which he grew on his farm in Center
county, Pennsylvania, ana nRs Deen
tn constant use 90 years.
NO POPULATION INCREASE.
NO SALARY BOOSTS
Hastings. Neb., (UP)—
There was gloom among Adams
county officials today following the
act of the county supervisors in fix
ing the county population at 22.348.
As a result, county salaries remain
unchanged, whereas. If the finding
had been above 25.000. all would have
been automatically raised.
The county assessor reported a
population for the county, of 25.215.
Tn arriving at the new figure, the
supervisors said they found errors
and duplications in the assessor's re
port The new finding is 273 fewer
than the federal census of 1920.
Hastings people are not disposed
to accept the county board's total as
accurate.
VETERAN MAIL CLERK
ADMITS RIEI.ED MAILS
Omaha Neb, (UP)— Ptoyd
V Stafford. 53 vears old veteran rail
way mall clerk, pleaded guilty to
rifling the mails when arraigned be
fore a United States commission here
Thursday, and was held in bonds of
♦2 000. Stafford was employed on thr
Oinaha-Cheyenne run and was said
•o have been trapped by "teat” let
‘ei*.
“DICE" METCALF WILL ME
CANDIDATE HIM SEN ATI
Omaha N~b„ tUP) Peti
iona tor putting th# name of Ruh
iiid Is Metcalf on the ballot for tin
ihrmorrattc nomination for Unltec
Elate* senator have been forwarded
to ttcrrtary of State Marsh at Lin
coln Metcalf previously had with
drawn hia name as candidate for dt*
•*4*1 delegate to the natiinal ronven
• I ion
Metcalf formerly was editor of th>
truth* World Hr:*10 and of Wilbur
■Jr-tining* Br van s "Commoner **
i
MAY NOT STOP
USE OF SEINES
Missouri River Fishermen
Secure Injunction Against
Nebraska Warden
Lincoln, Neb,, iU^'
temporary Injunction to prevent the
stat* from interfering with use of
seines, traps and nets in taking fish
from the Missouri river was granted
by district Judge Wheeler today, at
the request of William Miller, ol
Omaha, against H. J. McLaughlin,
«ecretary of agriculture, and Chiel
Game Warden Frank O'Connell.
The case applies to Miller and
some 200 others.
Miller contends that Nebraska
cannot enforce its law against sein
ing and trapping in the Missouri un
til Iowa passes a concurring measure,
and Judge Wheeler recognized that
this may be true, in view of concur
rent jurisdiction over the river.
FORMER LIVERYMAN TO
RUN FOR GOVERNOR
Lincoln. Neb., (UP)—Rob
ert G. Ross, former livery stable
keeper of Lexington, Neb., former
candidate for president of the United
States, United States senator and
governor of Nebraska, filed his own
nominating certificate today as a re
publican candidate for governor.
Ross ran for president on both the
republican and democratic tickets in
1916 and 1920.
THINK WOMAN WHO SHOT
SELF AN OMAHA NURSE
Omaha, Neb., UP)—Oma
ha police today announced they be
lieved the woman, registered in a ho
tel at Alexandria, Va., as Mrs. Beth
Reed, who shot and killed herself,
was Miss Elizabeth Kalal, an Omaha
trained nurse.
Infatuation for Dr. Ernest Reed, a
physician of Council Bluffs, la., who
was married Sunday at Villisca. Ia„
to Miss Pearl Mathews, of Villisca.
was believed to have been responsible
for the act.
The woman’s infatuation for Dr
Reed, which continued for several
years, was not returned by the physi
cian Dr. Harry Kelly, his office
partner said. Dr. Reed is on his hon
eymoon somewhere in the south.
The woman's identity was estab
lished through a traveling bag she
purchased from the Omaha Trunk
factory She left here for the east
last Thursday. Her home was at
Monowl. Neb., where she is survived
by a sister. Mrs. Marie Herman.
Miss Kalal served as an army
nurse during the World war.
SISTERS ARE BRIDES
IN OCTREE CEREMONY
Crofton. Neb.. * double
wedding in which two ststei'3 were
the brides, and brothers of the brides
acted as best men and sisters of the
grooms acted as bridesmaids, occurred
at St. Rose’s Catholic church, when
Misses Kathryn and Bertha Ann
Schumacher, daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. John Schumacher, were united
in marriage to Louis Steffen and
Fred Meyer, respectively.
The brides were attended by Misses
Kildegards Steffen and Paulline Mey
er, w'hile Henry and Peter Schumach
er attended the grooms. All of the
party are residents of Crofton. The
brides were dressed in w'hite satin
made alike and the bridesmaids wore
apricot colored crepe gowns. A wed
ding dinner was served to the bridal
party and 50 guests at the home of
the brides' parents. Both couples will
make their homes on farms near For
dyce.
NORFOLK MAN IS OUT
FOR STATE SENATE JOB
Lincoln. Neb., (Speciali —
F. S. Gatenby, of Norfolk, has filed
for the democratic nomination for
senator in^the Eleventh district. This
is now represented by Senator J. C.
McGowan, labor leader of Norfolk
who has registered for a fourth term
Rudolph Brazada. of West Point, is
to be filed shortly as a candidate for
I the democratic nomination for audi
tor. He is the announced choice of
the slatemakers who met recently in
Omaha, at which time it was ar
ranged that Bryan was to withdraw
for president and get Hitchcock sup
port for governor, Charles W. Pool
is to be the secretary of state candi
date, Representative Havekost of
Dodge county lor land commissioner
and P. L. Hall of Greenwood foi
state treasurer. These petitions arc
to be filed shortly.
NEBRASKA DEBATERS GIVEN
DECISION OVER MISSOURI
Lincoln, Neb, <UP>—Ne
braska debaters were given a 4 to 1
ballot by the audience over Missouri
university. Tuesday night, when they
met in Lincoln, w ith Nebraska taking
the negative '' the question, "Re
solved: That this house deplores the
tendency ot governments to intervene
In the rights of individuals.”
WAl’S.A MAN SELLS HIS
HARNESS INVENTION
Wausa. Neb.. (Special)—
Patent rights on neck and shoulder
protectors fer horses which he has
invented have been sold by Dr. B E
Kautz, V.’ausa veterinarian, to a har
ness manufacturing concern at Hast
ings. The local man will receive a
royalty of 50 cents a dozen for neck
protectors and 60 cents on shouldei
protectors.
TWO PLYMOUTH. NEB.
BANKS CONSOLIDATE
Lincoln, Neb.. iUP*— Con
solidation of the Farmers State bank
and the Hank of Plymouth, in Ply
mouth, Neb , waa announced today by
the Mate banking commission The
new concern, which will haze depos
it* of nearly itooooo will be known
as the Farmery Slate bank. Tile
Bank of Plymouth, which wa* sold
on a cash basts to the Farmers Slate
bank alter an agreement that one
bank must retire from the field ha*
been chartered as long a* Pivmout)
hu been a town
Martyr May Be Named
First American Saint
FATHER LEO HEINRICHS
(International Illustrated New.?)
America’s first saint in the Roman Catholic church mav be
Father Leo Heinrichs.
Father Heinrichs, a monk of the Franciscan Order, was slain
upon the altar of St. Elizabeth’s Church in Denver by Giuseppe
Alio, an Italian Socialist, on Feb. 23, 1908. The priest passed
away bravely, w ith a prayer for his murderer on his lips.
Hearings by a church board of inquiry have been partially
completed, and more than a score of witnesses have testified to
the courage of Father Leo, his saintliness, and his mortification
of the flesh through the wearing of a spiked chain about his
waist as he performed his priestly duties.
Additional hearings will be conducted by the board in
Newark, N. J., in which diocese Father Leo served in the jearly
years of his priesthood.
Tariff and Wages.
From (he Mitchell Republican.
In spite of the fact that it is quite
as much married to the protective
tariff system as is President Cool
idge, the Wall Street Journal rather
lets the cat out of the bag in a dis
cussion of wages. President Coolidge.
in common with other delenders of
the high tariff system, uses the time
worn argument that it is the tariff
that keeps wages high in the United
States.
The Wall Street Journal conclud
ed Its editorial on the maintenance
of wages with this paragraph:
"When the Pittsburg steel
manufacturer can run a bigger
and better blast furnace with a
fifth the number of workers op
erating a blast furnace in Eng
land or Scotland, he can well af
ford to pay his workers in that
department twice or evox three
times the English wage. Where
wages tend to come down is not
in our manulacturing competi
tion with the foreigner but in
■ompctition among ourselves. It
is the cotton mills of the south
which are reducing the wages
of mill hands in New England."
k There it is in black and white.
Where wages tend to come down it
is not in our manufacturing com
petition with the foreigner.” But
the tariff devotees say just the re
verse. that only the tariff prevents
foreign competition from forcing
wages down.
The Wall Street Journal is right,
of course. Production, and nothing
else, makes high wages. Employers
have multiplied production in this
country by using labor-saving ma
chinery in every possible manner.
'r'U _ a_i r r • ...
up me prices
on protected industries, discriminates
between groups in this country.
Several years Rgo. Mr. Ford de
clared that no manufacturer in the
United States needed protection, that
all could maintain themselves against
the world without a dollar of sub
sidy. He is right.
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Politics and Money.
Jav E. House in Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
There is no money in politics. From
a financial standpoint, we doubt that
any man can affoid to run for anv
office whatsoever. There may be a
few exceptions to this broad state
ment in the case of lee office* where
there are fai pickings which are ap
proved by laws made and provided.
Certainly no man rapable of filling
it can run for an office of major sig
nificance for the money it pays.
Such is the machinery of politics—■
such are the workings of the sacred
primary law—that it costs more to be
elected to office than the salary
amounts to. There are exceptions to
this rule, of courst, but It holes in a
majority of cases
It may be taken as exlomatic that
an office casts the man who holds it
more than it is worth.
Men are in politics from varying
motives—some because they like the
game and others because of the power
and distinct ion it gives them. Few.
we think, are in politic* berause thev
think they ran make money In poli
tics and they're Just plain suckers.
Mast men in politic* already have
taken a stake from private life Most
live Sate-man Again.
From Judge.
One- Did you hear about the trav
eling salesman who died?
Two: No: shoot
One: left an es:ale of MS) towels
and a hotel key
• a
Q Who! are the native.1 of Guam
cs!'rdE N. E
A Thr name applied lo the na
tive* la Ch*metro* The Chamorro
tr.fcJeet 1 »n in tt'iam I* a pohglnt
i." ‘ j'» d Spanish. M.tlav Ynqot In
dian lingo, and various I civ nr- tan
tom ure
of those in offices of major signific
ance are capable business or profes
sional men. They've made then
money—some or a good deal. They
look upon politics either as a game o>
a career. They're willing to pay
something for the fun they get out of
it—and they do pay.
But only in the cases of excessively
rich men do candidates finance their
own campaigns. The hat is passed
for pretty nearly every man who run?
for office. His friends chip in th*
bulk of his campaign fun. whatever
it is.
And these friends also contribute
from various motives. Some give foi
friendship, some for the good of the
party, some because the candidate re
flects their ideas in government, some
because it gives them a certain power
and seme because they expect to prof
it in one way or another by the suc
cess of the candidate.
We ran twice for office. We did it
because we thought holding the office
would give us a little reputation ana
distinction. Whether it did or not Is
not an issue here.
The office pays $3,000 a year, and
we held it four years. We made two
election campaigns. The legitimate
expense of these campaigns was
around $10.000—or $2,000 less than
the salary for the entire period. Of
this amount, we put up about $1,500.
Friends contributed the balance. It
never occurred to us that we’d make
money out of this office, and w#
didn't.
The money was spent meeting le
gitimate campaign expenses. No con
tributor urea his contribution as a
reason for shaking us down. In a
political way. we took care oi our
friends and threw our enemies into
the outer derkness. In other words,
we played the game. That's politics,
and there's no mystery about it.
♦ ♦
NINETEEN TWENTY-EIGHT.
"The immense Age waits—
Veiled are the faces of the Fates.
—Fawcett,
A volume with the pagjes yet uncut.
And silence nestling within the
leaves.
ImmovaDle. mysterious, closely shut.
Here Fate the future marvelously
weaves.
Here power and progress now await
their birth.
And evil forces frame their subtle
plans
To vanquish aspirations of high worth
And throttle protests in unhappy
la nds.
What will trr-cpire no mortal man
can know—
What welcome changes, or what
things to fear:
What this sealed book contains of
jov and woe.
At the grim outpost of the dying
year.
We can but hope that destinies un
born
Breed less of murder, tyranny, and
lust:
Strong to resist each lacerating
thorn
Buttressed by Honesty—handmaid
to Trust.
—William Hamilton Hayne In Scrib
ner’s Magazine.
A Dirty Dig
Piom Passing Show
Artist: Now. what were dresses like
10 sear* ago9
Hi* Wife: Like mine
• •
It .liter Corpulent.
From punch
"Was Mr*. Jone* in her new gown
when vou saw her?**
"Partly, mv dear —partly
• •
Q Did Jefferson Davl* wtitr a
book about the confederacy» H, J.
F
A Jefferson Davie president of
th» Confederate states whole The
|?.:tcrv of the Con fed ct ary.
GIVE ONE FIRE ALARM,
FINDS ANOTHER BLAZE
Walthill, Neb., (Special)—
Dre Sunday afternoon practically
destroyed the Mrs. Aitken home and
its contents. There was some insur
ance.
A peculiar coincidence of these
fires is that the fire at the Aitken
home was discovered by Mrs. C. N.
Clark. Going to the Hull home across
the street to give the alarm the fire
in the Hull home was discovered.
Neither fire is believed to have had
any connection with the other.
NEED AID FOR
GUARANTY FUND
Council for Nebraska Com
mission Asserts New Fi
nance Needed
Lincoln, Neb., (Special)—
BUte aid to the state deposit guar
anty fund will be necessary, says C.
M. Skiles, general counsel for the
state commission that administers it,
and that a failure to do. threatens
the breakdown of this system of in
suring deposits in state banks. Mr.
Skiles says that Uie maturing of
claims against the fund is now fast
er than the commission can liquidate
assets and secure cash from other
sources.
The practice in the past has been
to issue receivers' certificates in suf
ficient sums to get the cash to pay
the depositor when the court is al
lowed his claim, the certificates lat
er being retired from the assets col
lected. There are a million dollars’
worth of these certificates out now,
and it is not possible to float them
in a sum sufficient to meet the
claims as they have lately piled up.
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A I ilkiv *7,UUU,UUU av 11JV COCAIL
time. The effect of the new plan of
a handling will be that instead of
borrowing on 7 per cent, certificates
to get cash to pay the depositor he
will get a judgment bearing 7 per
cent, interest, collectible when there
is cash available.
There have been 138 banks put
through receiverships in the last
eight years, and there are 72 banks
now operated by the commission as
going concerns. These 72 banks have
deposits of $13,000,000 which will
eventually hsve to be paid, and Mr.
Skiles says the total, including those
now done and possible failures, will
run around $20,000,000. There are in
the hands of the department, cash
and assets totaling $10,000,000. The
only other source to meet the $10,
000.000 difference is the yearly assess
ment on solvent banks that can not
exceed more than $1,500,000 a year.
Mr. Skiles says that this situation
clearly points to the legislature either
pledging the credit of the state so
that a sufficient number of 4 per
cent, receivers’ certificates can be
floated to put the fund again on a
cash basis as far as depositors' claims
are concerned, or else make a levy
to take care of the deficit, which he
says can be justified on the ground
that most depositors thought the
state guaranteed these deposits. He
also recommends no interest on de
positors claims.
INDEMNITY COMPANY SEEKS
TO AVOID PAYMENT
Lincoln. Neb., (UP)—The
Globe Indemnity company, in an ap
peal to the supreme court today, asks
a ruling that a man injured in em
ployment in another state may net,
hold insurers liable under the Ne
braska law.
The appeal is in the case of James
G. Long, injured permanently dur
ing employment at Hiawatha, Kan.
Long received compensation under
the Nebraska law. the court holding
that this law applied because the
contract of employment was made
in Nebraska.
Long first applied for compensa
tion under the Kansas law. then
sued John B. Watts, his employer.
ior sjd.uuu, ana mer made ms suc
cessful appeal to Nebraska courts,
obtaining an award of $15 a week
for a stated period, and $10 a week
tor the remainder of his life.
ANOTHER APPEAL IN
O'CONNER ESTATE CASE
Lincoln. Neb., (UP i—Mrs.
Elizabeth O’Conner Burgoyne, of
Portland. Ore., and Mrs. Katherine
Ptloquin. of Washburn. Wis„ who
claim to be nieces of John O'Con
ner. Hastings recluse who left an
unclaimed estate of more than $100 -
000. today appealed to the supreme
court from a decision of the jury that
thev were not related to O'Conner,
and that he left no relatives. The
same jury found adversely for two
other sets of claimants.
Scores of persons, claiming to be
relatives of O'Conner have appeared
In the period of more than a decade
since the wealthy cobbler's death,
seeking his fortune, but none has
established relationship in the num
etous court battles, and a movement
was made at the last session of court
in McMtres to close the case forever
and turn the money over to the
state.
RECOVER INC, FROM Ll'MP J AM
Newcastle. Neb. -M. M.
Nel«on. merehant here was able to
work yesterday for ti e first time since
rarlv last September He has been
rufferine from lump law and wa«
onerated on for that disease several
times, the first operation taking pter
in September
M Al.Tltll.;. PIONEER WOMAN
DIES IN SIOI X CITV HOSPITA!
Wnlthill. Neb <8g c J>—
Mrs. F P T .ly. ”3 years old. a raai
uent of the Walthlll neighborhood for
more than m veata. died at a Sioux
CUv Im >p;l ai noon todav The
tody waa brought to Walth.il. but
funeral arrangement! have not b en
complt ied.
Met, C <*) Is survived by three
ion* Walttr Eat ly of Wattb *t; prrd
of f-r.'d« r nnd temtn of Mltem*»
' YOUNGEST VET
LATE WAR DEAD
Omaha Legion to Have f
Charge of Max Tennebaum
Funeral, Tuesday
Omaha, Neb., (UP>—The
American Legion will have charge of
fi reral services of Max Tennebaum,
23 years old. who is claimed by the
local post to have been the country’s
y rngest legionnaire. Tennebaum
died Sunday from an undetermined
cause after an illness which started |
while he was serving in France. The
funeral will be held tomorrow
Tennebaum enlisted at the age of
14. He sailed for France, October
28. 1918, returning the following year.
Weighing 200 pounds when stricken
with his unknown malady, Tenne
baum weighed but 80 pounds at
death. An autopsy will be conducted
hr an effort to learn the cause of
his demise.
Tennebaum was prominent in pu
gilistic circles here, having served as
sparring partner for Tiny Herman,
Morrie Schlaifer and others.
SUIT SALESMAN
USES SYMPATHY
Said to Work Among Ger
man Clergymen in Parts
of Nebraska
Nebraska City, Neb. - (UP)
—With a talc that he was taking suit
orders to get transportation for his
wife and family from Ellis Is’and to
Omaha, a man giving the name of
Charles Engleman presuaded Rev.
George Duensing, pastor of the Bethel
Evangelical church in Nebraska City
to order a suit and make payment on
it.
The suit salesman said he was for
merly a lieutenant in the German
army and that he now runs a tailor
shop in Omaha. His case was well
filled with samples and he appeared
to know his trade, the pastor said. He
explained how he needed money in a
hurry to get his wife and two adopted
war orphans from the immigration
office.
Reverend Duensing thought to buy
a suit of clothes from such a man
was a worthy cause, and the transac
tion gave no suspicion of irregularity.
It was not until several days alter he
wrote the check that the pastor
heard murmurings of how a suit
salesman was travelling about selling *
clothes to ministers in northern Ne
braska. There he was representing
himself as being from Nebraska City.
Reverend Duensing stopped payment
on the check.
It was said Engleman makes a spe
cialty of selling clothes to ministers
with the “sympathy story.” He works
especially among ministers in Ger
man sections, as he speaks German
fluently.
FEDERAL COURT SESSION
AT OMAHA TO EE BUST
Omaha. Neb., ‘UP)—Busi
ness is expected to be good in federal
court this week.
Alter a protracted absence in Flor
ida. Judge J. W. Woodrough returned
Saturday and found 500 eases ready
to be tried. Most of the cases are
against alleged bootleggers.
Judge Woodrough said he will not
be in a position to announce his de
cision on railroad tax cases until he
has had time to study exceptions
which hftve been filed since his de
parture. He spent most of his time
in the south perusing testimony in
these cases.
The judge refused to discuss poli
tics. During his absence his name
had been mentioned as democratic
cancuoaie ior unuea chares senator
but it is not considered likely he
would aciept.
BLOOMFIELD STORES
GO ON CASH BASIS
Bloomfield. Neb., 'Special)
—Owing to the increasing number of
bad accounts and the huge losses from
this source, retail merchants of
Bloomfield have decided to go onto a
strictly cash basis on and after the
first of April. The merchants were
unanimously in favor of the move for
the evil had reached a point where
something had to be done if they
v.-re to continue in business. The
bad check" proposition was up for
discussion and ways and means to
cope w ith this question will be devised
at future meetings.
The matter of free delivery also
was up for action, scir.e favering con
ti.iu. this feature hile others were
for casting it into the discard. At the
present time the delivery business is
in the hands of Ray Summer, who
maker drfivrries for all the stores.
HIGHER PRICES AT CARROLL
Carroll, Neb.. 'Special) —
■' .;eral tracts of land navr been sold
here the last week at prices that
show increases. One 160, a farm
unimproved, one mile from town sold
for $125 per acre. 8 M. Jones of
McPherson. Kan. sold to William H.
Watson, of Wayne. Neb., the L D
Bruggeman quarter section right
miles from town sold for $150 per 1
acre to D. V. Forsberg. of Laurel, *
Neb.
GRAND MASTER or
ODD FKLLOWl TO HI lit SV
Orchard Neb. ifprrlal1—
J. T. Fletcher of this piece, grand
master of the I O O F c Nebraska, aauaa
will be a very busy man thu week He
left today lor an important meeting
of the home tnard at York N«b,
Me. . ,y. Thru lie will > to L nr iln,
Tuesday. to attend a meeting
nefdty «.!' be present at a dutrtrt
meeting at Baaartt Thursday, tie
will be at Norfolk Neb. tor the Mi I
home or-jinf event Friday he gor»
l« Ererornt. to have charge if the j
ronu -t'csie of the new tempi*
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