PAROLE GIVEN
TO GLENN HALL
Knox County Man Con
victed of Kidnaping to Be
Free Next April
Lincoln. Neb. —tSpccial) - Fol
lowing the pardon board hearing in
November, Qlenn Hall, sentenced
to the penitentiary from Knox
county for kidnaping and assault,
has been granted a parole which
will become effective April 1, 1932.
The ooard members were unable,
because of other business, to hold
an executive session and only a
partial summary of the action on
rases heard in November was an
nounced.
Twenty two applications are tc
rome before the board at the meet
ing on Tuesday, December 8. amonr
them that of Bernard Ott of Hoop
er, sentenced in Dodge county tc
serve 15 years in the penitentiary
for criminal assault. John Grumb.
jr.. of Fremont., who was county
attorney at the time of Ott's sen
tence In 1928, wrote to the pardon
board at that time saying hr
thought Ott should serve the full
sentence. He has recently written
the board asking that they act fa
vorably on Ott’s application nr.d
stating that he always believed 15
years was excessive. State Senator
Srb of Dodge, former County Sher
iff Condit and many Hooper resi
dents are supporting Ott’s plea for
parole.
TAX COMMISSIONER
HAS NEW CHIEF CLERK
Lincoln, Neb.—State Tax Com
missioner W. H. Smith has an
nounced appointment of Mrs. Min
nie Smith, Lincoln, as chief clerk
in his department, succeeding Mrs.
Maude Butler, holdover employe
from the Weaver and McMullen ad
ministrations.
Mrs. Smith has been In the tax
department since January, and wa;
an assistant to Mrs. Butler
Where as her predecessor w&s paid
$225 a month, Mrs. Smith will re
ceive $150, however.
He also announced the appoint
ment of Mrs. Emma Wellman ol
Calloway, now an employe of the
banking department, as assistant tc
Mrs. Smith at $125.
Miss Marie Kepner, assistant tc
Mrs. Butler for several years, ha»
resigned.
ONE MEAL A DAY FOR
LIQUOR LAW OFFENDERS
Gering, Neb.- —The dinner
bell will ring but once every 24
hours for liquor law violators con
fined In the county jail here.
This method of dealing with pro
hibition law violators was Intro
duced by County Judge C. O. Lyda.
Two men are now serving 30-day
sentences with the one-meal-day
penalty attached.
THEY TIE FOR HONORS
AS WOOD CHOPPERS
Homer, Neb. — (Special!— John
H. Harris and Oeopge Hodglns tied
for honors as champion wood
chopper of this region at a chop
ping contest sponsored by (he Ket
tler Prob.<t Haro ware company.
Hodglns conceded the champion
ship to Harris.
hit BY DROUGHT BUT
ASKS NO ASSISTANCE
Wausa, Neb.—With 754 residents,
Wausa has 63 blocks of paved
ft reels. That puts Wausa just about
at the head of the procession In
paving.
Drought and grasshoppers com
bined last summer so that practi
cally nothing was grown in the
Wausa territory, and the year before
the crop was less than half of nor
mal. But Wausa is not asking aid
for any of her people, nor for those
in her immediate territory.
On the contrary, Wausa is not
only taking care of her own, but
has contributed heavily to Red Cross
work in otiier parts of the country.
Now that Uncle Sam has agreed to
take care of Indians at the Santee
agency, Wausa and other Knox
county towns are relieved of a eon
fidernble burden.
This town might well be dubbed
Little Sweden,” for the popula
i ion is made up largely of men
and women of Swedish ' birth or
parental
neligh. neb., hunter
CAPTURES BIG COON
Neligh. Neb.—(Special)—A. c.
Haynes of this city opened the 1931
coon season with a record for the
other boys to shoot at. One eve
ning recently he and a party of
friends treed a coon on the Elkiiorn
river west of Neligh. The coon was
shaken from the tree and the dogs
were turned loose. It took all the
dogs and 10 men to put the coon
down for the count.
After the battle was over and the
smoke cleared away the coon was
iound to be a regular 2-year-old,
tipping the scales at 30 pounds. Mr.
Haynes lias been hunting coon for
years and says this is the largest
ne has ever captured.
GOVERNOR THINKS SILOS
SMELL LIKE BREWERIES
Lincoln, Neb.- —Silos smell
like breweries, so Gov. Charles w
Bryan of Nebraska now feeds ground
wheat and corn to his pigs and
ground wheat and ear corn to dairy
cattle on his farms near Lincoln.
He said today he was afraid neigh
bors “might become suspicious" sc
he had abandoned the silos.
GOVERNOR BRYAN MAKES
THREE APPOINTMENTS
Lincoln, Neb.—Governor Bryan
has announced three more appoint
ments to state examining boards.
Don Brooke, Hastings , was
named on the state pharmacy
board, succeeding Bird S. Porter
of Gothenburg. He reappointed W.
11. Malconey of North Platte to the
board of embalmers.
Edward A. Wood of Lincoln was
appointed to the state barber
board, succeeding Harry E. Raf/en
sparger. Omaha.
ISHe Glances By George Clark j
REG U. S. PAT. OFT
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“Her mother insists that she go bare-legged all winter, but I always
put stockings on her the minute we’re out of sight.”
A NEW' KIND OF APPLE SALAD
To make an unusual salad, cut the top off raw apples, scoop out
the interior and mix with diced bananas, walnut meats, celery and
salad dressing. Replace the mixture in the hollow red shells and put
one apple on each salad plate on which lettuce has already been ar
rayed.
ERNST BROTHERS, SISTERS
CONTRIBUTED MUCH STAMINA
TO SPOTTED POLAND CHINAS
BY FRANCIS T. MARTIN
There’s nothing arnatureish about
northwest Iowa when It comes to
swine raising activities. The fes
tive porker is appreciated, and has a
secutre place on farms. The big
houses, and big barns that one sees
on the farms of northwest Iowa
an1 mute, satisfying evidence of the
ability oi the hog to classify as
’’cash in hand,” that his desirabil
ity as a money maker isn't to be
questioned.
The fanners of northwest Iowa
have gleamed many a dollar from
intelligent pore le production. It's
truly their "cash "rop,” It’s the crop
they long have ( ’pended upon to
furnish revenue. ;;i view of these
farts, therefore, northwest Iowa,
without the hog, would be a pretty
barren proposition. Those rich acres
could produce corn to the limit, but,
how much more profitable with the
hog to consume It
uorn ana nogs nave been a tre
mendous factor In northwest Iowa’s
prosperity. Those fine farms, those
big houses and barns would not
hav been possible without, the hog.
That’s a self evident fact, no one
will care to dispute it.
A lot of hog history has had its
making, its setting in northwest
Iowa, it has been a fertile field for
"new’’ wrinkles in hog production.
Breeds have been made over, they
have been revamped, tcvivified be
cause of the progressive character
of Its breeders and fanners.
When John J. Ernst who was
born in Jackson county, Iowa, came
to Cherokee county in 1885, the
"corn and hog empire" was just
getting under way. When he bought
his 240 acre farm near Marcus, he
plunged Into hog raising, and he
never let up until he retired a few
years back He raised cattle, too,
and feeding for the market, the good
Shorthorns he raised annually, but
hog production is what he went aft-'
rr with a vengeance. When he quit,
two sons. Jack and Will stepped in
to the breach, and incidentally, two
daughters.
In 1915, the Ernst brothers and
sisters took up the breeding of
Spotted Poland Chinas. The breed
then was in its infancy. It had but
lew champions. When the Ernsts
laid the foundation of their herds
they knew what they were doing,
they bought good seed, and they
improved them as they went along.
They did so by the only practical
and feasible way that success can be
attained in Improved livestock pro
duction, they bought good sires, the
kind whose blood was pctent, and
demonstrative.
Since the establishment of the
Ernst herds, they have without ex
ception been headed by great boars.
Pathfinder’s Surprise was a great
selection, a master selection. It’s
wonderful what good blood in a sire
will do in shaping the destinies ol a
herd, and Pathfinder’s Surprise was
the boar that did the work for the
Ernst collections. Other great boars
Were secured as their services were
needed, and the work of building
superior herds went on without in
terruption. The Ernst productions
as the result of good bloods, and
good care have been consistent win
HOW THE YEARS FLY
Aurora, ont„ Canada—A birthday
party given for Mrs. Jane Chapelle,
102. was attended by Mrs. Chapelle,
her three sisters, 84. 69 and 79 years
of age respectively; andone brother
72 years of age. Mrs. Chapelle’s hus
band died 38 years ago. after they
had lived together for 44 years.
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PALACE OF FASHION
Paris — Fashion exhibitions have
been held frequently here, but they
have been for the most part up-to
date fashions. Nor Paris is planning
a permanent museum, of fashions,
which will exhibit, in a display con
nors in the country’s great shows.
They demonstrated to the public’s
satisfaction that they were the prac
tical, utility type, the kind that
met the requirements of average
farm conditions, and when breed
ers can lay claim to the fact that
they are producing that kind of a
hog, they are on the right track,
and nothing can stop their progress.
The Ernsts have always experienced
a strong demand for the annual
I surplus of their herds, selling both
publicly and privately to customers
over a wide field. In tome of their
sales of bred sows, they have sold
as many as 80 head, and when that
number of sows leave a herd at one
time, it's all the evidence that is
needed to convince the public’s
confidence In such herds.
One season, these herds disposed
of 111 boars, and that’s certainly
a big output. The herds at this time
are strongly intrenched with the
blood that lias made them popular.
There’s no let down in the desire
to furnish the public with seed
stock of the highest quality.
The Ernst family has done good
work for the Spotted Poland. Their
work has been constructive. They
have not made use of camouflage
to distort the public’s mind. That
hasn’t been their poliev. that hasn’t
been their aim at all. The livestock
breeding business is one of high
ideals, and 1‘ calls for intelligent,
and conscicn ious effort if one is
desirous of success.
The Ei-nst contribution to Spotted
Poland China production, there
fore, is praiseworthy. Theirs is a
clean cut demonstration of a con
| servative spirit that should not be
, overlooked when It comes to produc
ing the improved breeds of livestock
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I'M THANKFUL.
What am i thankful for today?
Well, first, that I'm in health.
For that’s an asset to array
Against the greatest wealth.
I'm thankful, next, that wife of
mine
Still let’s me stick around:
For that my marriage bark, in fine.
Has never gone a-ground.
I m thankful that I have some
friends
Who still see that in me,
Which not too bitterly offends
Their perspicacity.
1 m thankful that my cigaret
Still tastes just as it should:
And likewise liquor, when I get
That aged within the wood.
I in thankful that my eye can not®
Most of the things I lack.
But that it never gets mv goat
By making gray seem black.
I’m thankful 1 can see a joke
And laughter cometh free.
Both when it's on some other
bloke.
And when it’s just on me.
I'm thankful I’ve enough to eat,
A home to seek betimes;
That I can now give you a treat —
Bv running out of rhymes.
—Sam Pay*.
Hawaii expects a record sugar
crop this year due to favorable
growing conditions on the islands
for the last two years.
sisting of more than 1,700 dresses,
every change of fashion that has
taken place through the last sev*
eral hundred years.
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Old Stuff.
From Allt for Alla. Stockholm.
Author: I left a package of jokes
here for your approval. Do you hap
pen to have read them?
Editor: Yes, many times.
Spared the Shock.
From Answers.
Grandma: Didn’t your laihe:
j know I was coming?
Johnny: No. grandma Mother
kept it from him—he hasn’t been
feeling well lately
school's taxi hill
CAUSE OF CRITICISM
Lincoln, Neb. — <UPi — Deputy
State Auditor Harley C. Parsons
nas criticised the expenditure by
Kearrr.ey State normal school of
$114.00 lor taxi fares in one month
The deputy auditor, acting dur
ing the iliness o! State Auditor
George Marsh, has written Presi
dent George Martin, of the Kear
ney Normal, stating that he sees
no reason why so large a taxi bill
should have been contracted. As the
money has been advanced from the
institution’s cash funds, Parsons
said, the claim has been allowed to
reimburse the cash fund.
President Martin explained that
the taxt fares were contracted in
transporting the institution nurse
who accompanies students to phy
sicians or hospitals.
In addition, the expense was in
curred where practic*- teachers
were sent from the normal school to
rural schools affiliated with the
normal.
OMAHA OPENS
Marble Structure Costing
$3,500,000 Presented by
Widow Newspaper Man
Omaha, Neb. — — An art
memorial, built at a cost ol S3,500,
000 by Mrs. Sarah Joslyn ol Omaha,
to honor the memory of her late
husband, was presented in simple
fa.-hinn to the people of Omaha
recently.
A crowd estimated at 25,000 per
sons inspected the interior of the
large marble structure. In a setting
of marble and steel they Inspected
an art exhibit gathered from all
parts of the country by the society
of liberal arts, which has charge of
the building.
The structure was built around
an organ which the late George
Joslyn, pioneer Nebraska newspa
per man, had in his home for many
years. It vas donated and installed,
with a new console, In the mem
orial.
Palmer Christian, of Ann Arbor,
Mich., gave an organ recital before
several thousand persons in the au
ditorium which will serve as the
home of the Omaha symphony or
chestra.
Mrs. Joslyn commented tersely as
she presented her gifts to the arts:
"If there is any good In It, let it gc
on and on.”
CLOSED BANK REOPENS
WITH OLD OFFICERS
Huntley, Neb.—The State bank of
Huntley, which was closed October
10. has been reopened with the
same officers and directors. Over
the signatures of the four directors,
Albert Vandike. William Graf, J.
E. Smith and F. W. N. Brown and
21 stockholders, the following state
ment was issued:
"The loyal support of the finan
cially responsible and the co-oper
ation of the community have made
possible the reorganization of the
State Bank of Huntley on a basis
even more secure than ever before.
We wish to express our appreciation
to the public for the efforts put
forth and for their fine spirit of
confidence. . . . This bank will be
operated on the same conservative
basis and under the same manage
ment its formerly.”
MANY SHEEP ON FEED
IN NORTH PLATTE VALLEY
Mitchell, Neb.—(UP)—This sec
tion of the state Is witnessing the
most extensive sheep feeding activi
ties in the history of the livestock
industry for the upper North Platte
valley.
Railroad reports state that more
than 85,000 sheep are being fed here
while the total for the upper valley
is placed at 214,000. This means a
market movement of about 400 car
loads in the late winter months.
More cattle, particularly young
stock, is on feed this year than in
tin* last several years.
EI.I YI N NEBRASKANS
ADMITTED TO BAR
Lincoln, Neb. — Eleven Nebraska
men. recent law students, have been
admitted to practice by the state
supreme court after successfully
completing examinations conducted
here.
Lawrence Webster of Wisconsin.
Dean R. Sackett, Beatrice, was ad
mitted upon meeting certain re
quirements. Sackett studied law
while working in Washington.
Those admitted upon examina
tion:
James A. Butler, Francis M.
Casey. Harland S. Hughes, Elmer I.
Johnson, Donald W. Merrick, Elmer
B. Nordell, James W. Murphy Roy
al W. Thompson, Laurens Williams,
all of Omaha; Alfred W. O'Dell and
Herbert A. Stearns, Lincoln.
Eight others failed to meet, the
examination requirements.
NAMES ASSISTANT TO
AGRICULTURE SECRETARY
Lincoln, Neb.—Governor Bryan
announces the appointment of W.
H. McGaffin of David City, former
state representative from Butler
county, as assistant to Dwight Fel
ton, deputy secretary of agricul
ture.
McGaffin, Bryan said, will re
place Oscar V. McCracken hold
over from the Weaver administra
tion, about December 1. Whereas
McCracken’s salary has been $3,000
a year McGaffin will be paid $2,400.
Prior to January 1, last, McCracken,
a trained chemist, was paid $3,600.
DISTRICT COURT JURY
UPHOLDS SMITH WILL
Bridgeport, Neb.—(Special)—The
will of the late Lloyd R. Smith,
which cut off Alfred H. Smith and
Francis Smith Harden, brother and
niece, with a bequest of $5 each
was upheld by a Jury in district
court which took only 25 minutes to
deliberate. The case had been ap
pealed from county court. The con
testants contended that the will
which left the property to Edgar
Smith was made when Lloyd Smith
was mentally incompetent and sub
to undue influence.
(Side Glances By George Clark]
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“O. K., fellas, I’ll play one more rubber, but what’ll 1 say If the
boss comes up and sees (them windows aren’t washed.”
LIVESTOCK FARMING METHODS
PRACTICED BY ROTHS OF LYON
COUNTY ALWAYS WIN SUCCESS
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BY FRANCIS T. MARTIN
Julius Roths of Lyon county,
Iowa, likes farming and, incident
ally, that which goes with good
farming—the breeding and feeding
of good livestock, the good selling
kind when it is ready for the mar
ket, and the kind, therefore, that
brings satisfaction, profit, and con
tentment to their owner. That’s
the business to which Roths has
pinned his faith, and certainly his
faith was not misplaced. The re
wards he has received were ade
quate enough to justify the effort
expended.
The man who can acquire live
fine farms, four of which are in
Lyon county, in the course of his
business career as a farmer isn’t
doing badly at all, it's clearly a
vindication of the old saying “stick
to that which is good” and, more
over, a manifestation that the
man who sticks to a good thing,
will in the end come out with col
ors flying. Roths is strictly an Iowa
product having been born in Craw
ford county, his father being one
of its first settlers. The first ho
tel in Ida Grove in Ida county was
built by Roths’ father, and later
the family moved to Cherokee
county, and then in 1887 it took up
its permanent abode in Lyon coun
ty, close by the town of Edna, al
though Rock Rapids, the county
seat is but a few miles distant.
One could write columns about
the significance and importance of
the movement of early settlers to
northwest Iowa, to that part of the
state that is famous for the quality
of its soil, and which without ques
tion is as good a farming area as
the mortal eye would care to see.
One can travel over the state in
any direction, but one will search
in vain for a more pleasing picture
from the viewpoint of farming than
is presented by those several Iowa
counties. Rothls has been a cattle
and hog farmer all his life, and
therein is his secret in bringing t«
his coffers the golden shekels.
He raised good cattle by the con
tinuous use of good Shorthorn bulls,
and when the progeny of such mat
ings found their way to the market
place, it’s easy enough to figure out
that the price they brought would
occasion no “headaches” on the
part of their owner. Cattle and hog
breeding and feeding are the things
that brought success to Roths, and
the money derived therefrom con
stituted the wherewithal to buy the
good farms that he today owns.
But, now, Roths is taking liie
easy. He's made his stake, and re
sponsibilities are shifted to younger
shoulders. His sons are nov in the
harness. They are of the stalwart
type, big physically, and bright
mentally, and they’re going about
the farming and livestock business
in a manner that leaves no doubt
as to their eventual success.
Some years ago, they took a
fancy to the breeding of Spotted
Poland Chinas, and they have made
no mistake in the breed of their
choice. In looking over their herd
at this time the conclusion is imme
diately forced that they are pro
ducing a type of hog that has ev
erything to recommend it. T ,e
Roths type is big with quality and
finish, and in addition, it has that
most necessary attribute, prolific
ness. The last few years, the Roths
boys have made a practice of show
ing at strong county and district
fairs, and w’e all know that hogs
that can win at these fairs today
Lovelock Tungsten Mines
Chief U. S. Producers
Lovelock, Nev. — tUP> — The
tungsten mines of the Nevada Mas
sachusetts company near Mill City
continue to be the chief producers
of that metal in the Unitc-1 States
and in the last few months nine
carloads of concentrates have been
shipped.
NICE AND * FRIENDLY
El Paso, Tex. — Nice and friend
ly neighbors are Mrs. Mattie Nich
ols and Tom Hughey. Hailed in
MHirt after a backyard argument, it
are meeting competition of the
keenest kind. One doesn’t have to
go to the larger fairs with a <Jrove
of hogs to have one’s “measure”
taken—one can get plenty of that
closer to home at the smaller fairs.
Roths brothers are in the Spotted
Poland business to make money.
That’s why they try to make Ureir
hogs as good as the best. That’s
why they keep their herd supplied
with good herd heading material.
They know that the public can't be
fooled, they know that it is keen
for quality, and that 9 times out of
10, it will pay a fair price ior hogs
that have quality.
The Roths homestead of 240 acres
will withstand critical inspection,
the kind and lay of the land, the
substantial character of the im
provements, and the atmosphere of
prosperity that’s in evidence. A
good farm well tilled, and well
stocked is a pleasing sight. The
nation’s welfare rests upon those
kind of farms, upon those kind of
homes. The Roths farm, and home
is one in which any community,
any state or any nation can take
pride.
It’s to the everlasting credit of
agriculture that such homes arc
possible. It tells of the stability, of
the permanence of agriculture and
of the confidence that people have
In it. Livestock farming is respon
sible for the existence of such
homes. Livestock farming like the
Roths practice it never fails to win
success.
Insects Devour Civil
War Vet’s Pension Check
Pomeroy, Ohio — (UP) — Jose
phus Bellows, Civil war veteran,
had lost money in a failed bank
once so he preserved his federal
pension checks under a rug. He had
$500 in the checks and turned back
the rug to add another $100 to the
collection.
Insects had eaten the checks to
shreds. Bellows forlornly raked up
the tiny bits of paper and mailed
them to Washington. D. C. in ap
! plication for a re-issue of the
money.
Edwin Luedtke of Fort Worth,
Texas, suffered a broken leg when
struck by his own car as he
cranked it.
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Sez Hugh:
PEEDERS WANT THE RIGHTO-WAY
Right away/
was found that, after Mrs. Nichols
had piled rocks against Hughey s
fence, and he had warned her not
to, she turned a water hose on him.
In retaliation. Hughey threw water
on her. Word led to word and the
quarrel nearly led to blows before n '
ended in court.
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IT WAS WORTH IT
Juarez, Mex.—This city hay a
unique law which rules that no one
shall kiss on the streets. Two
couples recently pc-ij a fine of a
small amount for violating this net
. But tile fine was paid willinily