NEBRASKA HAS DEC REASE
IN BUTTER PRODUCTION
Lincoln. Neb.—(UP)— Production
of creamery butter in Nebraska in
1931 showed a decrease of approxi
mately 7 per cent as compared to
the previous year, according to a
preliminary survey by the state and
federal division of agricultural sta
tistics.
Butter stocks are reported about
one-half the five-year average, but
prices for butterfat are unusually
low.
The 1931 decrease in butter pro
duction in Nebraska follows a con
siderable decrease for 1930 as com
pared to 1929. Some improvement
was shown in production during
January, February and March of
1931, but a decrease in production
began in April and continued heav
ily through the summer. Some im
provement was noted for October,
but November and December were
the months showing the largest
gain in production.
GIVES THANKS
TO RED CROSS
Governor of Nebraska Ad
mits Organization Do
ing Great Good
Lincoln, Nob.— (Special)— In re
sponse to a newspaper report that
Lieutenant Governor Metcalfe had
said he would call a special session
of the legislature if Governor Bryan
would leave the state for 24 hours,
the governor said he Is not going
to leave the state unless he Is kid
naped. He said the publicity given
drought relief at Norfolk has devel
oped some facts that were in dis
pute and stated that a conference
with Red Cross officials at Norfolk
resulted In getting that organiza
tion to turn Its efforts toward dis
tribution of feed for livestock,
Bryan said the Red Cross Is en
titled to thanks of the state for Is
suing scrip to provide groceries for
needy families in the drought area.
According to the governor relief
is being handled by the state on an
enormous scale and If the state
should forget Its duty to its citizens
and discontinue such relief work
7,000 people would be hungry again
in 10 days with no source to look
forward to for aid. The state dis
tributes more aid than all other
agencies and It welcomes assistance
received from other sources, he said.
FARMERS MUST
STUDY SELLING
Iowa State College Expert
Shows Importance of
Hog Marketing
Kearney, Neb.—(UP)—Platte val
ley farmers will meet at Gothen
burg and Gibbon Wednesday and
Thursday for the annual corn, hog
and poultry days.
Dawson County Agent Adams,
Gothenburg business firms and the
university extension division are
co-operating to hold the Dawson
county program at Gothenburg,
Wednesday. Buffalo county farmers
will meet at Gibbon, Thursday. The
corn, hog and poultry days are a
part of the program of the days In
nearly half of the Nebraska coun
ties.
Dawson county farmers will com
pete in an egg ana corn show in
connection with the meeting. Gib
bon business men have offered cash
prizes for the best dozen eggs and
tire best gallon of seed corn.
W. W'. Derrick, J. H. Claybaugh
and D. L. Gross, from the college
of agriculture will have charge of
the various deparlmental programs
at both meets.
Harry Frink, Howard Mercer and
Martin Kellig, all of Gibbon, will
discuss corn raising. Frank Hen
ninger, of Shelton and Charles Kri
ha. of Ravenna, will discuss hog
raising methods before the Buffalo
county farmers.
MADISON COUNTY FARMS
HEAVILY MORTGAGED
Madison, Neb—(Special*—Madi
son county farms are mortgaged for
$11,609,544.23. according to Rase K.
Brogn, register of deeds. This is an
average of about $35 ail acre for ev
ery farm in the county. However
many farmers are not mortgaged.
There were 15 foreclosures of faun
mortgages in 1931 and 10 in 1930. In
3 920 there were none. In 1915 there
was none.
Farm mortgages filed in the last
year totaled $978,201.78 and city
mortgages $557,525.21. Released or
paid mortgages amounted to $83)7,
538.96 on farms and $549 863 44 on
city property.
More than $1,000,000 worth of
mortgages were filed in 1930 and
also in 1915. In 1920 almost $4,000,
000 worth were filed. The amount
this last year therefore dropped.
WORK ON NEW PHONE
BUILDING STARTS MARCH I
Norfolk, Neb.— (Special) —Work
on the new Bell telephone building
here will start about March 1. The
building will be three stories, of re
inforced concrete, brick ext' “ior
with stone trim.
WISNER MEN WIN IN
WEST POINT CORN SHOW
Wisner, Neb.—(Special)—In the
corn and egg show, sponsored by
he West Point Lions club, Elmer
Heyne of Wisner was awarded first
prize for the best 10 ears of corn.
The award was a tool set donated
by Gerald Haeffelin of J. Haeffelin
and Sons of West Point. In the
single ear class, Elmer Heyne placed
second, the award being a pen and
pencil set which was donated by
Karl K. Kerl of Kerl Brothers, Jew
elers of West Point
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IN WAYNE CASC
Lincoln. Neb. — <Special) — The
supreme court has heard a re-argu
ment of the appeal of a case from
Wayne county where the trustee ol
the Dodge Agricultural Credit asso
ciation filed suit against J. J. Paul
son to collect money alleged due the
association on a mortgage. Paulson
defended on the ground that the
payments he made to the associa
tion were credited by Us agent to
other debts without authority. The
court sustained the claim of the
trustee but a reargument was or
dered when the First National bank
of Wayne, as lntervenor, asserted
that its interests had not been tak
en care of.
PHONE LINES
FILE REPORTS
Companies Operating in
Northeast Nebraska Pass
Profits to Surplus
Lincoln. Neb. — (Special) — The
Stanton Telephone company's an
nual report for 1931, filed with the
state railway commission, shows
total revenues of $16,373 and total
expenses of $11,729. Dividends of
$4,502.36 were paid. The company
has stock outstanding of $4,600, but
total assets of $78,000. It had 763
stations at the end of the year, a
loss of 11. It is owned by A. W.
Forbes and H. D Miller.
The Bancroft Telephone corn
puny, owned by G. A. Salisbury, re
ports revenues of $8,818 and ex
penses of $7,215. No dividends were
paid, the net earnings of $1,444.74
being transferred to surplus. The
property value is $25,261, against
which stock of $7,000 is outstanding.
The Plainvlew Telephone company
incorporated, reports revenues of
$13,758 and expenses of $7,356. Its
net earnings of $5,952 were passed
to surplus, no dividend being de
clared. The company has property
of $84,000, and switches for a dozen
farmers mutual companies, besides
serving 487 stations. It lost 25 dur
ing the year.
The Oakdale Telephone company,
largely owned by the Daughhitee
family, had revenues of $5,545 and
expenses of $3,887. It paid no divi
dends, passing to surplus its net
earnings of $1,476. It serves 370 sub
scribers, losing none during the
year. Its total assets exceed $23,000
The Herman Telephone company,
John H. Johnson, manager, reports
receipts of $7,697 and expenses of
$6,400. It passed to surplus, without
declaring a dividend, its net of $1,
193. It has assets of $28,722, and
serves 392 stations, a loss of 5.
The Cuming County Telephone
company, J. W. Richmond, mana
[ ger, reports receipts of $30,177 and
expenses of $20,819. No dividend was
declared, the company passing its
net of $7,378 to surplus. It serves
784 stations at Wisner and 301 at
Beemer, a total of 1,085, a loss of <»2
for the year. The company has $62
000 of stock outstanding and total
assets of $140,579.
FARMERS USE SNOW
PLOW TO UNCOVER GRASS
Chambers, Neb. — Farmers and
ranchmen have developed a new
method of finding feed when snow
covers the ground. An improvised
snow plow is used to remove the
snow from the grass. Its use now
is widespread.
NEW COURT HOUSE
NEARS COMPLETION
North Platte. Neb.—The Lincoln
county courthouse is nearing com
pletion and will be finished within
three months. The work is center
ed on the interior of the building
and is moving along rapidly. The
clerk of the district court and the
register of deeds have moved into
their new offices.
Permission was granted to use one
room in the completed courthouse
as a place for storing and ex
hibiting historical relics of the
pioneer days of Lincoln county.
The courthouse was started in
1918 but the interior was not com
pleted because of lack of funds.
BIG DECREASE IN FARM
VALUES IN NEBRASKA
Lincoln, Neb.— (UP)—Value of
Nebraska livestock and Nebraska
farm crops fell off approximately
$349,000,000 between 1929 and the
close of 1931, according to the an
nual report of the state and federal
division of agricultural statistics.
Total value of Nebraska livestock
at present is placed at $144,355,000,
which is but 47 per cent of the value
represented by livestock two years
ago.
Value of all Nebraska crops for
1931 was placed at $139,766,000 as
compared to a value of $326,610,000
for 1929 and a value of $243,149,000
in 1930. The decline since 1929 has
been $106,844,000.
A survey of the livestock situation
in die state shows fewer horses,
hules and all cattle, but more sheep
and swine on feed than for a year
ago. The total number of all live
stock is placed above that of 1930
but slightly below the number on
hand in 1929.
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The expression "stony-broke”
originated from the old custom of
•breaking a craftman’s stone bench
when he failed to pay his debts.
DEATH CAUSED BY
DRINKING LYSOL
Fremont, Neb. — (Special) —
Twenty four hours after Mrs. Geer
gianna Stock, 28, mother of six
young children, drank a quantity of
lysol, she died. She did not tell
what caused her illness and a phy
sician was not summoned. The hus
band. her father, six brothers and
two sisters, besides her six children,
survive her.
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The lemon was introduced into
the United States by Spanish ad
venturers.
[Side Glances ~ By George Clark)
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fg> 1833 BY WA StRVICg. IWC. HM U. «. PAT. Orr gl
“I just laughed in his face and told him that all the money in the
World wouldn’t make me work for a guy like him.”
| Shall 1932 Be a Year of Jubilee? )
V/
From the Christian Science Monitor.
The Biblical year of jubilee offered a stimulating op
portunity for forgetfulness of past misfortunes and mis
takes. Recurring every 50th year, it decreed freedom to
those who had sold themselves into slavery, and the re
turn of land to its original owners. According to Josephus,
the debtor was also freed from the demands of his creditor.
Once more society could make a fresh start; once more it
was springtime for all.
Superimposed on the complicated economic system of
our day, such a provision, adapted to a primitive state of
society such as that of Old Testament days, might seem
utterly impractical and out of place. But if ever the world
needed something in the nature of a Jubilee year it is to
day. A new year may have arrived, but it is so encumbered
with the distresses and obligations of the past that one
finds it hard to detect the bright quality of “newness.” The
essence, the essential meaning, of the old jubilee festival—
the willingness to forgive and forget—is what the modern
world of 1932 so sorely needs and so sadly lacks.
At a recent discussion of the rbreign Policy association
in New York on the subject, “The European Quandary,”
both speakers painted a grave and depressing picture of
the present condition of Europe. The war mentality, so
they claimed, has not passed away. European nations are,
for the most part, ranged on either side of the Treaties
of Versailles, St. Germain, Trianon and Neuilly. Fear, hate
and resentment are rampant. According to such evidence,
if there is any one word which should be written across
Europe in letters of fire today, it is the word "forgive.” In
an atmosphere of forgiveness of old grudges between na
tions, reason and justice would find a soil in which they
might once again assert themselves to right present ills
and adjust stubborn difficulties.
But we are practical realists, someone may say. We do
not live in a world of such idealistic hopes. Yet it is clear
that all are living in a world which is being forced by its
own trials to learn many new and inescapable lessons. May
not forgiveness on a scale never before realized be one of
these?
And what of the United States? It asks of Europe that
it shall lay aside its animosities and turn its attention to
the practical problem of disarmament, that it shall forgive
and forget old wounds. What, then, of its own attitude?
Does it show itself ready to forgo a reasonable portion of
those debts which it claims from a Europe threatened with
financial collapse? Does it show itself willing to co-operate
in Jettisoning racial suspicions, in organizing world peace,
in clearing the channels of trade and facilitating the inter
change of culture? Europe’s task is so much more difficult
that the United States will be a laggard indeed if it does
not lead the way at this injuncture. Let it accept the task
and the privilege of setting the world’s course in the right
direction—that of forgiveness of the past.
Shall 1932 be a year of jubilee? If so, the nations must
learn how they may successfully turn away from a burden
some past, to discover what the future holds of progress
and true peace. The promise is explicit, “Forgive, and ye
shall be forgiven.”
Congressman Gives Wheat
Crop to Aid Unemployed
Marion, 111.—(UP)—Congressman
Kent E Keller, Cairo, donated his
entire wheat crop to various com
munities in his district in an effort
to aid persons out of work in ob
taining foodstuffs.
The crop was ground into Hour
at a local mill and aggregated 32.
000 pounds. It was packed into 25
pound bags and is to be distributed
in two allotments, one cf which has
already been sent out. The other
will be sent in March.
Welfare organizations were
among those profiting by Keller's
generosity. The flour was distrib
uted to all communities on a basis
of population.
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SLAYER CONTESTS WILL
Port Huron, Mich.—(UP)—George
Bearss. paroled after serving 16
wars of a life sentence for slavinc
PAY STATIONS COSTLY
Memphis, Tenn —(UP)—Pay tele
phone stations in Memphis are
proving to be costly affairs for the
telephone company. The company
report showed total amount of
money stolen by thieves. $245. Dam
age to phones by thieves who broke
open the money boxes, $2,500.
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THE MISSING KEYS
Hamden, Ohio—The local fire
chief sent his suit to the cleaners.
The same night he sent his suit his
house caught fire. The chief (ouldn't
find the keys to the engine house
•rui it was impossible to ect hp fire
his aunt, has filed suit contesting
the will of his father. The father,
James Bearss, bequeathed the par <
oled slayer the sum of $1
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NEW YORK LEADS
Albany. N. Y.—New York sth.
leads in the total number of licensed
and unlicensed planes, having 1,200.
California, having 1.175, ranks sec
ond. In the number of pilots, Cali
fornia ranks first, having 3,220 out
of the total of 17,242 in the whole
country. New York is second in this
respect, having 1.811.
INLAND "SEAPORT”
Paris—The French air mink>tr>
has established a seaplane base far
in the interior of France and on a
mountain far up in the Alps. The
above a rock canyon formed by the
river Drac. The dam forms a water
surface three-quarters of a mile
wide on which seaplanes can land
and take off.
engine out because the doors were
locked. His home burned to the
ground. Later it was found that the
keys to the engine house had been
sent to the cleaner* in his suit.
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Impossible!
From Passing Show.
Mistress: Have you complained
to the milkman about the milk be
ing sour?
Maid: Oh. mum. I can't for a
day or two—he's promised take
me to the movies.
-M
Singing as an exercise is a great
benefit to anyone suffering from
chest or throat weakness.
SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY
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Hail, Bishop Valentine, whose day
this is!
All the air is thy diocese,
And all the chirping choristers
And other birds axe thy par
ishioners.
Thou marryest every year.
The lyric lark and the grave
whispering dove,
The sparrow that neglects his life
for love,
The household bird with the
red stomacher.
Thou mak’st the blackbird speed as
soon
As doth the goldfish or the hal
cyon.
This day, more cheerfully than ever
shine—
This day which might inflame
thyself, old Valentine!
The worthy prelate who gave
name to St. Valentine's day never
dreamed that his memory would, In
after time, be kept green as the
patron saint of lovers. He was a
worthy bishop and died for his
faith, and, at the very moment
when he expired, under the tor
tures of his executioners if he had
an early desire it was doubtless
only that his name might be held in
grateful remembrance by the
church for which he gave up his
life. They buried him in the Church
of St. Praxed’s in Rome, and his
tomb is there to this day. In the
course of years the church canon
ized the martyr Valentine, and his
day was fixed at February 14—the
very hey-day of spring in Rome.
Now at that time—it was little
more than 200 years since Christ
had died—the Roman church was
not the great power that we know.
Her struggle was all the harder be
cause with the Romans devotion
and pleasure went hand in hand.
They loved their gods in a very
glad way, and on the holy days they
had feasts and games, curious rites
and customs. It seems that about
February 15 a feast was always held
In honor of Juno, and on that day
it was the practice of Roman
youths to draw one by one, blind
folded, the names of girls from a
basket tossed and mixed together
and the girls whose names were
thus drawn became the sweethearts
of the young men during the con
tinuance of the festival.
One can imagine the desperate
odds the poor Christian priests
fought against, in trying to put
down such a charming pagan cus
tom. The end of the struggle was
what might have been expected.
Christianity met paganism halfway.
“Keep your fashion of drawing lots
for your sweethearts,” said the
fathers of the Church, "but do it
all in honor of the blessed Saint
Valentine, whose day this is. and
think no more of that abominable
heathen creature, Februata Juno."
And so it came about that the
saint supplanted the goddess, and
probably without causing many
twinges of conscience among the
worshippers of the old deities. Prob
ably the young people of the Eter
nal City did not care a pin what
gods they served so long as cer
tain very pleasing ceremonials were
not interfered with. They took
kindly to St. Valentine, and from
that day to this he Jias been the
most popular saint in the calendar,
for the old rites have been contin
ued up to within a few score years,
and perhaps are not yet obsolete
in certain country places, if the
following verses from an old copy
of Poor Richard’s Almanack are
to be trusted:
This month bright Phoebus enters
Pisces.
And maids will have good store of
kisses,
For always when the sun comes
there,
Valentine's Day is drawing near.
And both the men and maids incline
To choose them each a Valentine;
And, if a man gets one he loves,
He gives her first a pair of gloves.
And, by the way, remember this—
To seal the favor with a kiss!
This kiss begets more love, and then I
That love begets a kiss again;
Until this trade the men doth catch,
And then he doth propose the match.
The woman’s willing though she’s
sny,
And gives the man this soft reply:
“I’ll not resolve one thing or other
Until I first consult my mother!”
When she says so ’tis half a grant,
And may be taken for consent.
This choosing of true, palpitating
valentines may be practiced in any
company, and is much to be pre- j
ferred to picking out a tinsel affair
in r shop. The names of the girls
having been written on slips of
paper and put into a hat, the young
men take turns at the drawing. In
leap years the young men may be
chosen for valentines in the same
way by the girls. Such a lottery
used to be considered a good omen
for a happy marriage.
Coupled with this custom of
choosing mates there used to be the
pretty one of writing beside the
name of the fair one on the ballot
a motto or tender sentiment. From
this custom sprang the practice of
penny-a-liners of composing amor
ous verses that could be printed on
anonymous valentines, to fit the
,yle of beauty or character of al
most any passable girl.
The verses above (peak of the
fashion of making gifts on 8t.
Valentine's Day. In Queen Eliza
beth's time some of these were of
prodigious value But the melan
choly days of the Puritans came
when the cult of the good St. Valen
tine languished like many another
cheerful practice It was not until
the Restoration that the day was
observed except in secret, among
those loyal to the old order. The
citing up of Charles the Second on
DONATION \< < I 1*1 i ll
Paris— (UP) —The George East
man $1,0.0,000 donation to establish
a free dental clinic here has been
formally accepted by the depart
ment of the Seine. The contract was
signed by Edouard Renard, Prefect
of the Seine, and other officials.
According to plans, work of build
ing the clinic will start at once.
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COPS CAN’T OPEN SAFE
Newport News, Va.— (UP)—Police
records of this city are absolutely
safe against any kind of disclosure.
Not even the officials can get to
them, all because the outside door
the throne was the signal tor a re
vival of much cf the gaiety that had
marked the era of Sii Toby Belch.
Pepys records in his Diary that he
gave a costly ling tc hia wife, who
had chosen him for her valentine.
Particularly worthy of /ecord in
this leap year, is the fact that in
those far-off happy days the offer
ing of Valentine’s Day gifts was
not confined to the gentlemen.
Girls made gifts to the gallants who
chose them for their valentines,
presumably if the choice happened
to be agreeable. Thus the story is
told of a girl who, being chosen for
his valentine by a very bashful
gentleman who had never found
voice to ask her in marriage made
him the significant gift of a rib,
bedecked with white satin ribbons.
A note in Mr. Pepys’ Diary shows
that young married people observed
St. Valentine’s Day. One of the
pleasant old-time customs of the
Merry Monarch’s reign was to
waken young married couples on
St. Valentine’s rnorn with music
played under their chamber win
dows.
There were other ways to choose
one’s valentine in vogue among
maids desiring lovers and husbands.
The quotation from an old chron
icle that follow's gives a notion of
these practices and at the same
time It throws wide open the gates
of the girl’s heart who speaks
Last Friday was Valentine’s Day,
and the night before 1 got live bay
leaves and pinned four of them to
the four corners of my pillow, and
the fifth to the middle, and then,
if I dreamt of my sweetheart, Betty
said, we should be married oeiore
the year was out, but to make it
more sure, I boiled an egg hard,
and took out the yolk and filled it
with salt and when I went to bed
ate it shell and all, withoul speak
ing or drinking after it. We also
wrote our lovers names on bits of
paper, and rolled them up in clay,
and put them into water and the
first that rose up was to be our
Valentine. Would you think it? Mr.
Blossom was my man! I lay abed
and shut my eyes all that morning
till he came to our house, for I
would not have seen another man
before him for all the world.
The maid stayed abed waiting for
Mr. Blossom out of respect to an
old tradition, which says that the
first swain a girl sees on St. Valen
tine’s Day v/ill become her hus
band. A maid with any determina
tion about her will contrive to have
tradition and her desire agree. If
mating were always contingent
upon the felicity of the wooer’s
declaration, the world would long
ago have become as lifeless as the
moon. That is not the case now,
and it was not three centuries
back. One of the old chroniclers
observes gravely: "These sports
which do bring young men and
maids together in this season of
mating among all creatures are
most perilous, and do often lead
to snares of love and bonds of
matrimony, which, if they would
avoid, they must keep housed on
St. Valentine's Day.”
MORE HOT STOVE LEAGUES
To the pingpong minded public now
We hasten to report,
The dining table tennis game
Is now a major sport.
The teams hav* trophy cups it
seems,
And they’re appearing, too,
In uniform* of sober gray
And eke of snappy blue.
So folk that play at dominoes.
Jack straws and such high pinks
Are slated for the big league stuff—
Look out for tiddly-winks.
—Sam Page.
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A Promise Might Do.
From Tit-Bits.
At an examination of a class In
first aid, a member was asked:
"What would you do if you found
a man in a fainting condition?”
“I’d give him some brandy,” was
the answer.
"And if there were no brandy?”
"I'd promise him some.”
Aw, You’re Too Curious
What has happened to “Gay
Paree?” Just last week the world
famous artists ball refused ad
mittance to ladies and gents, who
had less wearing apparel than a.
handkerchief! Press reports failed
to indicate whether it was ladies or
gents size!—(Sibley (la.) Gazettes
What They Go For.
From Passing Show.
First Eve: What did you hear at
tlie opera yesterday?
Second: All sorts of things. Smith
is going bankrupt, Mrs. Brown has
dyed hair, and the Whites are hav
ing a divorce.
Saving Dad.
From Passing Show.
Father (victim of son's ben ow
ing) : How many more times must
r tell you I will not have you wear
ing my raincoat?
Son: I know, dad, but I didn’t
want to get your evening clothes
wet.
Still Hopes.
Prom Schweizer Illustrierte, Zo
fingcn.
"Your name?”
"Clare Schultz.”
“Your age?”
"Sixty five.”
Married?"
“Not yet.”
No, But Yes.
From Tit-Bits.
Cora: Would you marry a man
for his money?
Dora: Not exactly. But I’d want
my husband to have a lovely dispo
sition, and if he didn’t have money
he’d very likely be worried and ill
natured.
of the safe was closed, unwittingly,
by some one^who did not know the
rule that it "was necessary to keep
this large outer door open at all
times because no one knew the com
bination.
Well Defined.
From Arrwcrs.
“What Is the difference between
capital and labor?
"Well, if I lend you $10. that is
capital for you; but when I try to
get it back, that is labor for me.”
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In proportion to its sia*, a fly
walks about 35 times as fast as a
i man.
