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W. C. TEMPLETON,
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ACCIDENT STATISTICS
FOR STATE OF NEBRASKA
Compiled by the Nebraeka Press
Association and the Rehabiliation
Division of the State Department of
Vocational Education.
Report for Two Week Period Ending
April 28. 19.11
No. of
Accidents Deaths Inj. Tot.
Motor vehicle 203 11 241 262
Other public 08 0 69 69
Agriculture 64 1 63 64
Industry 30 2 32 34
Home 54 4 52 56
Total 419 18 457 475
Participations in the various spring
sports placed 13 persons on the acci
dent casualty list. 9 small children
were hurt while playing at school.
Most of the other public injuries
were caused by falls.
In two weeks, 25 farmers were in
jured by farm animals; 16 were in
jured through the use of farm mach
inery; 4 were hurt while cutting or
sawing wood; 8 suffered injuries by
falls aid 11 were injured by other
causes.
Industrial accidents were respon
sible for injuries as follows: Falls,
10; explosions 4; falling or flying ob
jects 0; cuts 3; power machinery 2;
others, 7.
In the home, accidents resulted in
the following injuries: Falls from
elevations, 14; other falls 13; burns,
11; power machinery, 3, and miscel
laneous causes 12.
Motor Vehicle Report for 2-Week
Period Ending April 21, 1931
Cause of No. of
Accident Accidents Dths Inj.
Skid s_ 19 4 26
Tire blows out_. 7 0 12
Mechanical defects .7 0 9
Loses control _ 14 0 13
Speed .. 10 0 14
Passing car struck
car passed -- 2 0 0
Passing car struck
oncoming car 10 2
Ditched by pass’g car 1 0 1
Collision _ 38 0 44
Struck obstruction 10 3 7
Struck pedestrian _23 2 24
Struck bicycle ... 2 0 2
Driver drunk 6 14
Driver asleep . 3 0
Passing signals .... 4 0 7
No lights 4 0 8
Blinding lights 10 0 21
Reckless driving 11 0 9
Railroad crossing 6 0 8
Miscellaneous 24 1 28
Aviation 10 0
Total 203 11 241
Of the 26 pedestrians struck by
cars, 9 were small children and 17
were adults. Eight hit-and-run driv
ers caused serious accidents. Six in
toxicated drivers were responsible
for accidents in which 4 persons were
injured and one was killed. 4 drivers
failed to stop at stop signs and 7
persons were injured.
Accident Causalfies since Jail. I, 1931
Tot.
Inj. Dis. Dths Cas.
Motor vehicle 1287 42 73 1402
Other public . 373 14 16 403
Agriculture . _ 361 45 14 120
Industry 163 10 10 183
Home 316 13 26 364
Total 2600 124 138 2762
During 14 weeks of 1931, 7 people
>uffered arm amputations; 7 leg am
putations und 36 lost one or more
fingers. Eight persons suffered head
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Reliability and safety
due to simple design and
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four-wheel brakes.
They are unusually safe and reliable because
they are mechanical, internal expanding, with all
braking surfaces fully enclosed. This prevents mud,
water, sand, etc., from getting between the band
and drum and interfering with brake action.
Other outstanding features of the Ford are the
Triplex shatter-proof glass windshield, four Hou>
daille double-acting hydraulic shock absorbers,
aluminum pistons, torque-tube drive, more than
twenty ball and roller bearings, Rustless Steel,
reliability, economy, and long life.
You save wheu you buy the Ford and you save
every mile you drive.
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truck for a small down payment, on convenient, economical
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fractures; 3 spinal fractures; 4 pel
vic fractures and 5 multiple frac
tures. Eight persons lost the sight of
an eye and 7 suffered other disabili
i tie.-. This is at the rate of 6 disabil
ities a week.
Unusual accidents: The burning
stub of a cigarette thrown away by
one young man struck another in the
eye, burning the delicate membrane.
The sight will not be impaired.
A workman slipped from the roof
while aiding in repair work and fell
into a seething mass of hot tar. His
condition is critical.
A lady suffered a painful felon on
her finger which resulted from needle
pricks sustained while quilting.
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CURRENT COMMENT
FROM WASHINGTON
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Gen. Allenby, who ought to know,
says that we need the discipline and
service that go with war, without the
horror of war itself.
Shakespeare thought that Bohemia
had a sea coast. If he were living to
day he could get at the facts first
hand in an air trip of a few hours.
Records are being broken daily in
aerial transportation. Captain Hawks
claims the newest honor. He flew
from Paris to London in less than an
hour.
President Lamora works twenty
hours a day, hopeful for the future
of Spain. Alphonso says that he is
still king, and is buoyed up accord
ingly. Don Jaime of the House of
Bourbon announces that he is the
man of the hour, and he has u fight
ing chance. Al’s aunt, at 7‘J, slips
quietly out of life, two days after her
flight from Spain. She had nothing
to hope for from the future. When
disaster comes, the old folks are sure
to gel the worst of it.
Eight men, under sentence of
death, refuse Communist aid. The
motives that prompted each of them
to refuse the proffered help have not
been divulged, but let it be assumed
that they considered it more honor
aide to be a dead felon than a live
Communist.
i weniy mousana letters written to
Stephen A. Douglas have just been
found. Probably there are more let
ters eighty years old in existence
than there are which bear a date 20
years in the past. Letter writing is
a lost art and letter keeping an aban
doned custom, in this country, at
least. It may not be so in China,
Bandits in that land, who are holding
a missionary for ransom, are willing
to take part payment in fountain
pens.
It is a long lane that has no turn
ing. General Smedley D. Butler, who
was called on the carpet a while ago
for talking about Mussolini, lands a
shot which is well placed on the gen
eral target of foreign officials, even
though it did not hit the particular
ring represented by the Italian pre
mier. The minsiter from Haiti said
that he had never heard of a fort in
that country which Smedley claimed
to have captured, but it turns out
that the diplomat himself w’as pres
ent when General Butler was given a
medal by Haiti for doing the job.
A bird flew into the propeller of an
English airplane and brought the
machine to the ground. The incident
suggests the extreme delicacy of air
craft, and the instability of the med- j
ium in w'hich they ride. Some genius
may yet devise a plan for bringing
down planes in time of war, which
will be as simple as dropping a tooth
pick into a typewriter.
The Italian-French racket about
the relative sizes of the navies of
those countries seems to be progress
ing to the point of a complete dis-!
agreement and England gets the
blame for the failure of the negotia
tions. The arguments and figures
submitted are hard for an ordinary
man to understand. The Swiss navy,
alone, seems to be the only factor
that does not have an important
bearing on one side or the other of
the row.
COUNTY AGENT NOTES
James W. Rooney, Holt County Agent
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Summary of Clubs Organized
The club enrollment sheet for Holt
county shows 282 club members, car
rying 323 projects. Some club mem
bers are carrying more than one sub
ject. The record shows an increase
of 200 club members over last year.
Twelve clothing clubs have been
organized in the county. There are
one hundred and sixty-three girls en
rolled in the clubs. Two cooking clubs
have twenty members enrolled; there
are six baby beef clubs, with forty
seven members. Thirty-five boys are
enrolled in the market hog clubs. 11
boys are enrolled in a potato club, 5
buys and girls in a poultry club, ten
gills are taking a canning project,
and six boys are members of a rope
club.
Second Leaders Training Meeting
The second 4-H clothing club lead
ers training meeting will be held in
O’Neill on Friday of this week. The
leaders will meet at the district court
room at 10. Miss Allegra Wilkens,
clothing club specialist, will be in
charge of the meeting.
The morning session will be devot
ed to work on team judging and team
demonstrations. The question of
preparations for the county style
show will be discussed. The last part
of the morning program will be tak
en up with plans for chib achieve
ment day. The afternoon meeting
last two problems of the project,
will cover the subject matter of the
Color work, fitting and pattern cut
ting will be discussed. Particular em
phasis will be laid on “choosing col
or.” A film strip on "fitting" will be
shown by Miss Wilkens. This film
strip has been of value in helping
leaders with their fitting problems.
Cutworm Control in Corn
Considerable work has been done in ;
this state in cutworm control. The,
use of a poison bran mash is the only |
effective means of control. Prelimin-!
ary meetings held at corn planting
time or before to Explain methods of'
control have been of value. Cutworms
can destroy a stand of corn in two or
three nights. Information on control
will be of most benefit before the
damage is done. Two or three com
munities have scheduled meetings
for discussion of methods of control.
Anyone interested in cutworm con
trol is asked to communicate with
this office.
Crops men at the Agricultural Col
lege have been able to eliminate the
small morning glory or bind weed
from the cultivated fields of the ex
perimental farm east of Havelock,
according to Dr. E. D. Keim, of the
Agronomy department. The men in
charge of the experimental work
have cultivated, hoed and pulled out
the weeds, and have gotten rid of
them without the use of any com
mercial treatment.
It took them two years to do the
job, Dr. Keim says. The men used a
duckfoot cultivator and summer till
ed the patches of bindweed continual
ly from early spring until frost for
two years. It was necessary to go
over the land every four days during
the early spring and about once a
week for the rest of the season. Dur
ing the latter part of the second sea
son the cultivations were necessary
only about once in two weeks.
On following this method of eradi
cating the bindweed it is necessary
to keep the weeds from growing any
tops at all. The duckfoot cultivator
used by the college men cut off the
weeds from three to five inches be
low the surface of the ground.
The cultivation methods of getting
rid of bindweed will mean the loss of
two crops, as it is impractical to
grow n crop of any kind on the land
and also keep all of the bindweed
down. The yield of the crop for a
year or two after the land has been
summer tilled in that fashion will
probably be high and partly makeup
for the loss of the rrnn for turn
sons, Dr. Keim believes.
Just how practical the cultivation
method would be for busy farmers,
Dr. Keim is not ready to say. If a
man on the farm is certain that he
can stick to the job and keep the bind
weed down continually for two years
he might be justified in trying to get
rid of the weeds in this fashion; how
ever if he becomes careless of unable
to keep at the weeds, a few weeks
growth will probably destroy all the
results of previous hard work.
Discussing the comparative cost
of ridding a field of bindweed by cul
tivation and by treatment with sod
ium cholorate, the Agricultural Col
lege men believe the costs would be
about the same when labor, power,
and equipment charges are compared
with the actual cost of the chemical
treatment. However, if a farmer has
the time and help to do the work
without any extra outlay for hired
help, the actual cost to him would
probably actually be cheaper with the
cultivation method. The one big ad
vantage to the chemical treatment
method seems to be that quite satis
factory results can be o btained in 1
treatment late in the fall. This treat
ment, with possibly a little attention
the following summer to the weeds
that may survive, completes the job
in one operation rather than extend
ing it over a two year period.
STEEL CREEK 4-H SEWING CLUB
This Girls’ Sewing Club was or
ganized April 3rd. The first meet
ing in which the girls got their books
and directions for making the first
thing, a holder, was held April 25th,
at the Gibson schoolhouse. The fol
lowing club members and officers
were present: Miss Helen Hazen,
leader; Miss Fern Revelle, president;
Miss Marjorie Siders, vice-president;
Miss Lora Aim, secretary; Miss De
loris Grenier, cheer leader; Miss Dor
is Powell, news reporter.
—By Doris Powell, Reporter
LOCAL NEWS
Attorney W. H. Whitla, of Butte,
Nebraska, was looking after matters
in District Court in O’Neill the first
of the week.
Alfred Strube suddenly became
quite ill early last week and was un
der the care of a physician and a
nurse; Tuesday he was taken to the
veterans hospital in Lincoln, by the
American Legion, where he will re
ceive treatment for trouble he con
tracted during the time he was serv
ing for Uncle Sam.
Mrs. J. A. Naylor and brother
Phillip Weingartner, accompanied by
Miss Morria Wertz, expect to leave
Friday morning for Rockford, Illinois
where they will spend some time vis
iting at the homes of J. F. Weingart
ner, brother of Mrs. Naylor and Mr.
Weingartner, and with Mrs. Joseph
Falconer, daughter of Phillip Wein
gartner.
The Interstate Power Company
are completing a large substation at
Coleridge-whereby they can furnish
electricity for the 22,000,000,000 cu
bic yard gravel pit that is just being
opened two miles north of Coleridge.
The gravel will be loaded with a 245
h. p. motor which will soon be in
creased to a 400 h. p. When the
trackage and equipment are installed
a car of gravel will be loaded out
every six minutes. The gravel will
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H. E. Coyne Hardware
O’Neill, Nebraska
be used on railroads and highways.
Kennebec, South Dakota, Advocate
Leader: “E. J. Pickerl purchased a
Sandwich Shop at O’Neill, Nebr.,
last week aifd Friday morning he
I and his wife drove down to take pos
session of their ne%v business. We re
gret to lose them but we know they
will find a hearty welcome at O’Neill
for they know how to conduct a res- i
taurant so it meets with the approv-1
al of the public. Their daughter, Lu
cille, remains here until after the
' close of school when she will join her
! parents. Everyone in Kennebec will
wish them success in their new loca
tion.”
INMAN ITEMS
Ralph Bowering, of O’Neill, was a
guest at the R. M. Conard home here
Sunday.
Charles Smith left Monday for a
trip through the western states, in
quest of work.
Mr. and Mrs. John Stacken, of Stu
art, were here Sunday, visiting at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Miller.
Mrs. E. F. Jackson, of Ainsworth,
visited with her nephew, Cleve Roe
and family, the latter part of last
week.
Mrs. Gene Sanford, of O’Neill,
came Friday for a short visit with
her sister, Mrs. E. J. Enders, and
other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Spann, of At
kinson, were here Sunday visiting at
the home of her grandmother, Mrs.
Mary M. Hancock.
Tom Chilquist went to Norfolk, on
Friday, where he attended the funer
al services for his mother-in-law,
Mrs. James Leffler; he returned home
Sunday evening.
The annual school exhibit was held
last Friday; all the rooms had lots
of work on exhibition; a big crowd <
was present, both afternoon and
evening. The exhibit bespeaks njuch
hard work by both teachers and pu
pils.
A pre-nuptial shower was held at
the John Anspach home on Wednes
day evening, May 6th, in honor of
Miss Emma Anspach, who is soon to
be married to John D. Conard, of
Emmet, Nebraska. Miss Emma re
ceived many beautiful gifts. A deli
cious lunch was served at the close of
the evening.
The Junior-Senior banquet was
held on Friday evening in the dining
room of the I. O. 0. F. hall. The
room was artistically decorated to
represent a private ship. The pro
gram was as follows:
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