Nebraska Newspapers

    FEWER CATTLE
IN FEED LOTS
Shortage of Corn and Hay
Crops Blamed for the
Decrease
Lincoln, Neb.— ( UP) — Nebraska
has 20 per cent fewer cat
tle on feed now than at the cor
responding period a year ago, ac
cording to estimates of the state
and federal division of agricultural
statistics.
"It appears that Nebraska will
feed considerably less cattle this
year than last season,” the report
states. “Total shipments of cattle to
Nebraska feeder stations from July ,
to October. Inclusive, show a drop
of 16 4 per cent and shipments of
etocker and feeder cattle into Ne
braska from the market show a drop
of 29 per cent."
Shortage of corn and hay crops,
financial difficulties of feeders, un
certain future of the cattle market
nnd preference for sheep, are listed
os probable causes for the decline in
tattle feeding.
Shipments of ‘toeker and feeder
rattle into the 11 cornbelt states
were reported about the same ar
for a year ago. and higher than for
any other year since 1927.
Distribution of feeder cattle In
the cornbelt states was reported
quite the opposite of that of a year
ago. The heavier feeding will be east
of the Mississippi this year and
lighter west of the Mississippi. Last
year the opposite situation existed.
Shipments into states west of the
Mississippi were smaller this year
than for 12 years while shipments to
points east of the Mississippi were
the heaviest for five years.
8tates having largest Increases in
shipments were Ohio, Indiana, Il
linois and Missouri, while states
showing largest decreases were Ne
braska, Kansas and South Dakota
INSANE NEGRO
PIANO EXPERT
'27 Years Imprisonment
Unable to Kill Love
for Music
Hastings. Neb. — (UP) — There1!
music in the soul of “Mac” Mc
Pheraon, 70-year-old Negro in the
state hospital for the insane here
And It’s good music.
Twenty-seven years’ confinement
in the sanitarium has not taken
trom McPherson his love for the
piano, his ear for music and the
nimbleness from his fingers.
He suffers from paranoic insani
ty—an incurable disease. He is vio
lently insane on all subjects except
music, and on this he can talk con
stantly and intelligently. He is a
master at the piano, playing the
classics mostly and overtures from
the world's famous operas. Jazz, he
doesn’t like.
A wealthy woman sent him to
College at Oberlin when he was a
young man. He studied and be
came an accomplished musician
Following graduation he went on
the stage, making concert tours of
thi* country and Europe. He has
played for several kings and queens,
It is said.
When McPherson went insane, in
1902, he lost all interest in music
His art vanished. Gradually it re
turned, until today he can play the
piano almost as well as in the days
when he walked out into the glare
of stage footlights in famous thea
ters of his day.
Heavy expense in
lJANK KOUKEK CASES
Lincoln, Neb.—tUP)—Exclusive ol
court and jury costs, Lancaster
county paid $5,364.56 to bring three
suspects to Lincoln for trial on bank
robber* charges.
The'three were Howard “Pop1
I*e. and Thomas “Pat” O’Connor
convicted and sentenced to prison
for 25 years each for the Lincoln
National bank robbery, and Jack
Britt, released after two trials.
The largest single item of ex
pense in making Investigations and
transferring suspects was wher
Britt, Lee and O'Connor were first
brought to Lincoln, from Chicago
This item was $515.
Court costs of the Lee and O'Con
nor trials were $686. Cost of Britt’s
two trials has not yet been com
puted.
COUNTIES GET SHARE
OF GASOLINE TAX
Lincoln, Neb.—(Special)—Gas ta*
collections for November totalec
$795,185.14. After deduction of $1.
250 for the biennial appropriation
and refunds of $7,155.36, one fourth
was distributed among the various
rounties in proportion to the num
ber of automobiles registered in each
county. Antelope county received
$2,163.77; Boone, $2.m90; Bovd,
$886.79; Brown, $773.48; Burt, $1,
942.19; Cedar, $2,330.08; Colfax. $1,
910.87; Cumming, $2,295.53; Dakota,
$1,272.84; Dixon, $1,572.73; Dodge,
$4,177.83; Holt, $2,032.02; Keya
Paha, $438.10; Knox, $2,518.95; Mad
ison, $3,793.63; Merrick, $1,669.94;
Nanoe, $1,396.76; Pierce, $1,694.35;
Platte, $3,103.55; Rock, $421.98;
Stanton, $1,283.43; Thurston, $1,131.
87; Washington, $2,012.22; Wayn*
$1,850.52.
HITCHING POSTS RETURN
TO NEBRASKA TOWNS
Norfolk, Neb.—The horse and
buggy is coming back to north Ne
braska and towa officials are be
ing asked to bring back the hitch
ing post. At Stuart, Bassett nnd
Bloomfield the hitching post is re
turning as more and moTe farmers
are going back to driving horses in
stead of driving an automobile.
Traveling men in this territory,
»me of them representing automo
bile houses, state that they can no
tice the return of the hitching post
more each month in this district.
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Health Service
Leprosy No Longer Dread Disease of
Biblical Times
ONLY 200 TO 100 CASES FOUND IN THE UNITED STATES
BY DR. MORRIS FIS II BY IN,
Editor, Journal of the American
Medical Association, and of
Hygela, the Health Magazine.
Records in the Bible and histories
of epidemics indicate that there was
a time when leprosy was among the
most feared of all epidemics. To
day It is unimportant as a cause
of either sickness or death in the
United States. In 1996 only one per
son under 90 years of age died from
this disease in this country, and
in 1927 and in 1998 no one under
30 years of age died of leprosy. Nev
ertheless a considerable number of
eases may be found in any great
population, and there are constant
ly from 200 to 300 persons with lep
rosy in the Federal Leprosarium in
Louisiana.
In other parts of the world
cases are more frequent than in
this country. This applies par
ticularly to Hawaii and the ori
ental countries.
Leprosy Is caused by a germ
which gets Into the body by being
carried from one person to another,
either in soiled articles or possibly
by Idas or other insects. Men are
Sez Hugh:
.fhMEM YOURe OM THE JOB YOUR&
V/ BETTER, off.'
Glorifying Yourself
If you are in a saving mood, one
thing you can do to be beautiful
and yet thrifty is to give yourself
manicures.
You probably have a manicure
set. If you haven't, you can get
your equipment for little money.
There are some scientifically as
sembled sets that give you the ele
mentary implements for little cost, i
Just in case you haven’t ever
given it much thought as to what
should constitute a manicuring
equipment, here is a list of necessi
ties: Orange wood sticks, cotton,
nail bleach, cuticle salve or Just
plain olive oil. cuticle remover, cuticle
scissors, emery boards, whitener for
under the nails, enamel or polish,
and a real good nail brush.
If you decide to do your own
nails, you will find it helpful to
give them a thought every night.
Wash them carefully, dry equally
carefully, then apply olive oil or a ,
cuticle salve to each finger in turn, 1
pushing back the cuticle carefully.
One of the best cuticle helps is rose
salve, because it Is fragrant anti
pleasanter to use than olive oil.
Should anyone consider making
you a present of a manicuring set.
you might suggest one of the new
travel ones that comes in a pleas
affected about twice as often as wo
men. When leprosy develops, It at
tacks the skin and the nervous sys
tem particularly, and produces seri
ous ulcers and paralysis.
Nowadays this condition Is con
trolled by immediate and complete
Isolation In Institutions of everyone
who Is found to be Infected. Such
patients are kept In the Institution
until all of the lesions on the skin
and on the mucous membranes are
healed, and until the patient has
been found to be completely free
of all symptoms for a period of not
less than six months.
Every article found In contact
with the patient, every thing that
may possibly have been contami
nated by a discharge from any of
the lesions should be destroyed.
Furthermore, the premises in
which the patient has been living
must be aa thoroughly disinfected
as 1s poMlble by persons expert in
disinfecting measures. Fortunately
cases of leprosy are so rare that
they are promptly brought to the
attention of public health officials,
who take the responsibility for
proper enforcement of hygienic
measures.
lng case, each article packed ic
scit ntlflcally, with no useless gad
get* ut a real appreciation of what
is n( led.
Wi.an you begin home-manicur
lng, set the days you intend doing
them and then keep the appoint
ment with yourself. Often If you
use a buffer and a bit of polish on
top of your liquid enamel, it keep*
them beautiful longer. This kind ol
thing you learn through experi
mentation. however.
A Wisconsin View of Iowa.
From Stevens Point, tWis.) Daily
Journal.
The embattled farmers of Iowa
have taken up arms in the cause ol
diseased milk. It is one of the
strangest insurrections in American
history. Eleven states went to war to
maintain the right to sell human
beings as chattels. Chicago. New
York and other large cities are in
more or less open insurrection to
defend the privilege of doping
themselves with poisonous liquids
But we hardly expected this Iowa
outbreak. Here is a state which
prides itself on obcdiance to law.
And the pretext is almost unbeliev
able.
In Wisconsin most of the coun
ties are free of tubercular cattle
Advocates of health in Iowa want
ed the same reputation for theii
state. They procured passage of a
law providing that cattle be tested
for tuberculosis. But the Iowa
farmers will have none of it. They
don't want to take any chances of
their cattle being condemned and
destroyed. Better in their opinion
that babies contract tuberculosis
from infected milk. When the vet
erinarians employed by the state
sought to test a herd on a farm near
Tipton a few days ago, they were
met by a band of 400 farmers who
showered them with mud and stones
and cut the tires of their automo
bile with pitchforks. Only when the
governor sent troops to the rebel
lious area, put it under martial law
and threw the insurgents' leaders
into jail did the testing proceed,
and then only in an atmosphere of
tense hostility. A little later the
jr.il was stormed and the impris
oned scofflaws were released.
The state army is under arms
Nowhere in the whisky rebellion,
since the 18th amendment has it
been found necessary to take such
steps. With their consumptive cat
tle behind them Iowa farmers take
their stand at the barnyard door
and cry out to the approaching in
spectors: "Thou shalt not pass."
The sulphur of coal smoke will
make red or blue flowers much
paler or even white.
Old Fashioned Uses
Of Tobacco Returning
Washington— (UP> —Old-fash
ioned indulgence in snuff sniffing
and smoking and chewing plain to
bacoo is back again.
Fancy cigaret and expensive cigar
smoking is losing popularity despite
million dollar advertising campaigns
designed to increase their sales.
Rolling your own. or reflecting
under clouds of blue pipe smoke is
the order of the day. Treasury re
ports for the present fiscal year
from July 1 to October 31 show Uut
I
revenue from ready-made cigarets
has dropped S14,10C,237. as compared
with the corresponding period of
1930. Cigars have sold in less num
bers despite the increase ot cheap
er cigars and reveruo income has
declined $1 367,142.
Revenue on chewing and smok
ing tobacco has increased $307,
447; on cigaret papers and tubes
$93,043; and on snuff of ali de
scriptions by $70,270.
F. O. and R. F. Cook, twin broth
ers and freshmen, tied for firat in
tlie intramural evoss-roumr/ vace
at Texaa A. anl M
BUMPER YIELD
ON POOR FARM
Home of Madison County’s
Indigent Has Big Crop
of Corn
Madison. Neb. —(Special)— Forty
acres of corn on the Madison coun
ty poor farm, two and one half
miles southwest of Battle Creek,
yielded 62 bushels per acre, accord
ing to William Motz, farm superin
tendent. The field was replanted
June 1 after eut worms destroyed
the first planting. This is the
heaviest yield reported in Madison
county this year. It was raised on
tile land.
The farm is one of the finest in
northeast Nebraska It has a net
of modern buildings and a 26-room
modern house. At present there
are 14 inmates at the farm, the larg
est number in several years.
Mr. and Mrs. Motz have been in
charge of the place for the last two
years. They moved to Madison
county from Logan. la., about five
years ago. While a resident of
Logan. Mr Motz served as county
commissioner of Harrison county.
In addition to the regular winter
farming operation, Mr. Motz is feed
ing a carload of cattle and a car
load of hogs.
STEAL CATTLE
BY WHOLESALE
Western Nebraska Farmers
Say “Rustlers" Use
Trucks
Alliance, Neb.—(UP)-Cattle rus
tlers, who use fast motor trucks, art
appearing In this cattla country.
Thefts of livestock have becom«
so numerous in this section thal
State Deputy Sheriff El E. Clark
of Scottsbluff, has been called lr
by local officers to aid In cleaning
out the thieves.
Harvey Worley, farmer living 1<
miles southwest of here, lost 4(
head of hogs in one night. Print:
of the truck tires were seen about
his lots.
Lincoln county officers are con
fronted with a ring of thieves that
butcher the cattle they steal. Bert
Ed is and Vic Kovanda, farmers liv
ing out from North Platte, lost
young heifers to the thieves. Later,
a cow head and hide were found
hidden beneath a culvert on the
highway.
Paxton cattle feeders have been
harassed by cattle thieves, also.
TRAPPERS LOOK FORWARD
TO GOOD SEASON
Nebraska City, Neb. — (UP) —
Trapping in the southeastern part
of the slate is expected to show in
creased activity this winter due to
the increased supply of fur-bearing
animals.
Oscar Webber, manager of a hide
and fur house here, predicts that
the season will be larger than in a
number of years. He expresses this
opinion in view of the number oi
inquiries he has had about fur
prices and the additional men who
Pave announced plans for running
trap lines along southeastern Ne
braska streams.
O. C. Morris, Table Rock coon
Punter and winner of the annual
?oon hunt here several weeks ago,
bagged seven raccoon in his first
week out with the dogs and the
steel traps.
CENTS FOU 100 POUNDS
McGrcw. Neb.? (Special)—Scores
if 100-pound sacks of potatoes ®ere
sold for 10 cents a sack by C. H.
Ramig, fanner who took this course
ather than sort the potatoes after
hey had been loaded on the tracks
:ii a car here. He kept a stove go
ng in the car for several days to
prevent freezing. When an offer
m\s received it was stipulated that
he potatoes would have to be re
iorted to eliminate frozen or chilled
hips.
Ramis sold as many of the car
o; i rs he could for ten cents a
.ack and took the rest home to use
or hog feed.
PUSHING WORK ON
NORFOLK POSTOFFICt
Norfolk. Neb. —(Special)— Man;
Norfolk citizens who know little o
nothing about the building con
struction business have been hopini
that the contractors now remodel
ing and adding to the Norfolk post
office would speed up theirVactivi
tics while the good weather contin
ues.
The builders are equipped right
now to go ahead with their work
.egardless of what kind of weathei
irrives, barring perhaps a cyclone oi
tornado which might destroy the
whole building. Good weather is e
aelp and is more pleasant for the
workmen, but it is not essential tc
keeping things moving.
The walls of the new addition
have been built up to the level ol
the third floor and will go on up to
the top of the buiding in a short
time. Electricians and other techni
cal experts are working along with
the construction crew and at the
present time rapid progress is to be
noted.
THIEVES PAY VISIT TO
WISNER DRUG STORI
Wisncr, Neb.—(Special)—Thieves
at the McGinnis drug store got
away with 4.000 cigarets and a
quantity of narcotics. They also se
cured a small sum of money from
the cash register which had been
purposely left open. There are no
dues to the number, identity or
whereabouts of the robbers. The fac'
"hat the narcotics were taken, leads
*> the belie* that it was some one
who was well acquainted with the
ulterior of the stor»
( FOR BETTER LAWNS
For the lazy man about the house
lawn fertilizer spreader has been
jut on the market which is inex
)en$ive and has the advantage o.
preading the fertilizer, or grass
seed, evenly. As shown here, the
preader is for use on lawns already
established. It runs backward a,nd
or ward and will apply fertilizer
venly at the rate of 100 pounds in
half an hour. The plant food is
fed from the hopper, which is
pushed along on a roller. The de
vice releases the plant food from
the bottom of the hopper. It is so
ight it can be handled easily and
will not damage the lawn. The
oiler is square and contains a num
er of spikes to grip the ground
rough the matted grass.
CARLSONS SET HIGH MARK
IN IDA COUNTY BUILDING
CHOICE LIVESTOCK HERDS
BY FRANCIS T. MARTIN
Pioneering in Ida county, Iowa, in
1878, that’s what Charles Carlson
did alter coming to American from
Sweden, his native land. At that
time he found the country prac
tically without settlement, like all
new countries are.
But It didn’t stay "new” long.
Settlers were on the move in every
direction, land was plentiful, and
it was cheap in price. Those were
the golden days In western Iowa
development, the days when people
were "pushing” westward, whose
object was the acquirement of land
for the purpose of establishing
homes.
The northern peoples of Europe
were inveterate land hunters, land
seekers. When they came to this
country, the larger part of them, in
fact, wanted land. It was the pio
neering instinct in their breasts
that had to be given expression.
Carlson came to an exceedingly
fine section of western Iowa when
he located near Ida Grove in Ida
county. Ida county in its develop
ment in later years did not lag be
hind its sister counties in the west
ern half of the state. It was up and
doing at all times; its pioneers were
good people; they came of sturdy
stock, they had faith, vision and
a desire to do wholesome and
worthwhile things.
Duanes uanson prospered in run
county. This pioneer left his mark
in the land of his adoption. The
Carlson name still looms big in the
neighborhood where Charles Carl
son labored. A son, Elof, is carrying
on. He has done, and still L> doing,
wonderful work in the field of agri
culture.
Elof Carlson’s farm and home sug
gest the spirit of progressivism.
The farm is well kept, the fields are
well tilled, the home is attractive.
Carlson is a firm adherent of the
principles of good livestock, and his
herds of Shorthorns and Chester
Whites will make a favorable com
parison with the best in the coun
try. Carlson got his love for good
Shorthorns through natural sources.
His father raised Shorthorns before
him, using registered bulls, only for
the purpose of growing and feeding
commercial beef. When the son
founded his herd, he bought good
seed in females, and a right selec
tion in a herd bull. He realized the
necessity of a continuous and suc
cessive use of good herd bulls in the
buifding of his herd.
Without question his greatest se
lection in this respect heads the
herd today in the son of Brown
dale Goldspur, international cham
pion, who is by the famous sire,
Browndale Count. In the buying
of this bull, Carlson got blood that
has done much for the breed hi
America.
The foundation of this blood rests
securely upon the splendor of the
achievements of Whitehall Sultan,
son of Imp. Bapton Admiral and
whose dam was the famous Imp.
Bapton Pearl. Shorthorn fanciers
without exception Know what the
blood of Whitehall Sultan stands
for.
They know that his blcod has
dominated the sentiment of the
showyard for more than a quarter
ter of a century in this country,
and they know also the breed im
proving qualities of his blood as
exemplified in the great records
that hU sons, grandsons and great
grandsons have made under1 all
coditions and circumstances. Bo it's
not an idle assertion when 11, is
said that Carlson in his present
herd bull is using the breed’s most
potent, most effective blood. Erown
dale Goldspur can be rated as one
of the great Sultan bulls of the
time.
In recent shows, his get are win
ning the purple, and they are meet
ing the best competition that the
country affords. The Carlson here
at this time is not a large collec
tion, but it is choice. One thing if
certain, its future is assured. Its
productions of the future can’t fai
to give satisfaclon. Carlson's Cruis
er Whites are quality hogs. A
ready market always is assured foi
the herd’s surplus at good prices
Carlson will classify as a good farm
er. He doesn’t jump at conclu
sions in his farming. As a matter
of fact, he doesn’t have to.
If Nature is kind in her seasonal
prerogatives, Carlson, knows where
he's at, always. His business rs well
in hand at all times. If one were
on the lookout for satisfaction, and
contentment in farm home and en
vironment, one wouldn’t have tc
pass the lane that leads to the
home of Elof Carlson. It’s a real
home, home looking, inviting, sub
stantial.
St. Louis Becoming
Radiology Center
St. Louis — (UP) — Doctors
throughout the world will conic here
for radiology information, due to the
81.200,000 new structure recently
erected here for study of this
branch of medical science.
The Edward Mallinckrodt Insti
tute of Radiology, an eight story
building, is the only institution of
its kind in the world. It contains
special equipment valued at $200.
000 and will be operated under a
$750,000 endowment.
Dr. Sherwood Moore, who di
rected erection and equipment of
the building, pointed out the new
building, with its radiology and
X-ray equipment, located in the
midst of the famous Barnes hos
pital group, will allow movement of
patients Into the institution for
diagnosis at the rate of 12,030 *
year.
High Freight Rates Cause
Lumber Diversion
Manila. P. I — (UP) — Continu
ance of high freight rates on lum
ber shipped from here direct to Eu
ropean ports, despite the depressed
Condition of the lumber market,
has caused Philippine lumber ex
porters to divert their shipment by
way of the United States, where the
rate has been considerably reduced.
Lumber exporters claim the rate
charged by ships operating between
the islands and European countries
is so high that it is directly in con
trast with the reduction effected on
ships from here to the United
States.
The reduction in rate on ships
to the United States resulted from
several petitions made by thi
Philippine Hardwood association,
union of local lumber exporters.
Nebraska Farmers’ Wives
Develop Turkey Raising
Red Cloud, Neb— (UP) —Strut
ting turkey gobblers are the sym
bols of one of Webster county’s
biggest businesses.
Turkey raising five years ago
was regarded by the farmers’ wives
as nearly impossible on a large
scale. If they could save a gob
bler out of a half a dozen they
thought it lucky. Now it’s different.
There are now 9. 00 turkeys on
2fc farms in this section, getting fat
for dinner tables. And they will
bring fancy prices. The farmers'
wives, banded together in a Turkey
Growers’ association, pool their
Hocks and sell to dealers, who comp
here to bid. They expect to realize
from the flock.
Experience**.
From Tit-Bits.
Minister (heaping coals of fm
upon a strayed lamb): Aid as a
consequence, you have now a split
ting headache, your nioulh U
parched, and you wonder if life j?
worth living.
Penitent: That's correct, sir. )
can see you've been drunk like th«
rest of us