TO HAVE FINE
RADIO STATION
High Frequency Plant Be
ing Erected by Grand
Island Enthusiasts
j Grand Island, Neb. — (OP) —
IVhrt will be, when completed, the
largest nr*d best equipped high fre
quency radio station in Nebraska is
under construction here. It Is being
erected bv the recently organized
Grand Island radio club.
I Members of the organization
have been aided in their plans foi
the station by ihe technical knowl
edge of staff workers at the fed
eral high frequency monitcrinf
ladlo station, located here. Tin
ntaff members ot the federal moil
jloring station have become incm
hers of the local club.
Plans call for erection of tin
station atop the Yancey hotel here
through arrangements with the ho
tel management. The station wtl
be equipped with apparatus foi
both htgii frequency sending ant
receiving. At first the station wil
lx- equipped for telegraphic send
ing only, but telephonic transmls
Mon is contemplated for a Jatei
date.
The station will be of sufficient
power to sehd to and receive from
rtaHons throughout the world.
The club numbers 15 members,
with Kay Chamberlain as president
K W. Edwards, designer of the moni
tor station here. Is designing the
equipment for the high frequency
station.
FIX PRICE TO
BEET GROWERS
Farmers in Nebraska Area
Agreed With Sugar
Company
Lexington, Neb, — Directors ot
the Central Nebraska Beet Growers’
association announce they have i
agreed with representatives of the
American Beet Sugar company on a
basic price of $4.48 a ton of beets
containing 14 per cent sugar.
The one provision in the agree
ment is that in order for the grow
er to get the standard $4 48 a ton of
14 per cent sugar content beets, the
New York price of sugar by the
hundredweight must be $4.
The price agreement will work on
a sliding scale, the price to the
grower depending upon the sugar
content of the beets and the New
York price of sugar.
The growers’ association went on
record as favoring a labor contract
of $6 an acre for blocking and thin
ning, $3 an acre for keeping beets
clear of weeds until next August 15,
and 50 cents a ton for topping
LYONS LIGHT PLANT
SHOWS NICE PROFIT
Lyons. Neb. — The Lyons munici
pal light plant earned a profit of
$6,515.23 during the last year ac
cording to an annual report of the
village treasurer. The total expense
of operating the light plant, which
included rebuilding part ot the dis
tribution system, was $9,432.54. To
tal receipts from sale of current wa»
$15,947.77.
FARMERS IN SUIT
OVER STRAW STACK
Tfkamah, Neb. — Judge B. C.
Enyart has decided against Eugene
Carlsten of Craig In a suit brought
by H. B. Jones over nine loads of
straw allegedly taken by Carlsten
wrongfully. The straw was on a
farm where Calstcn is tenant, and
It was testified he had asked Jones
to remove it.
DEPOSITORS RECEIVE
DIVIDEND OF $13,173
Lincoln. Neb. — (Special) — De
positors In the Elkhorn Valley bank
of Stanton have received a 10 per
cent dividend amounting to $13,173
from the receivership division of the
state department of trade and com
merce. This makes a total of $65,
664, or 50 per cent of deposits, that
has been paid to date.
DREAD AND WATER
FOR INTOXICATED MEN
Butte, Neb. —(Special)— Thirty
days each in jail, half the time to
be spent on a bread and water- diet
were the sentences meted out by
Judge Adamson in county court
against Slim Kinney and Ray Carl
con of Spencer, charged with drunk
enness and disorderly conduct.
GOOD PRICE PAID
FOR FARM NEAR WISNER
Wlsner, Neb. —(Special)— Otto
*nd Herbert Albers have sold a
quarter section of land, nine miles
north and a quarter of a mile east
of Wlsner, to Louis Dinglage. at
*125 per acre. The farm is with
out Improvements and consists' o'
SO acres of blue crass pasture and
*0 acres under cultivation but two
years, since which time it has pro
duced two crops of corn.
WISNER MAN ENDED
HIS LIFE IN HOSPITAL
W toner, Neb. —(Special)— Word
fiaa been received of the death by
banging, of Herman TliummeS, for
merly of Wisner, early Sunday
morning In hla room at the Yank
ton state hospital of which he had
been an Inmate for a year or more.
Burial was made in the hospital
ho far as is known, he has no rela
tives in this country. He came here
( om Germany and was for many
rears employed by the late Henry
Lelsy and more recently by the I
WJctt SaniUo Hatchery.
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VANDALS CAUSE GREAT
WASTE OF GASOLINE
Norfolk. Neb. — (Special)— The
vandals who have had a decided
giudge. apparently, against any and
all oil companies, were active again
Tuesday night.
At the storage plants of five con
st rns padlocks and tank valves were
wrecked although only one company
lost any gasoline. The Deep Rock
□11 company, its plant being ia'.d
td for the fifth time in the last
two or three years, lost 2,065 galltrs
of gasoline from one tank, the man
ager said.
On previous occasions large
amounts of gasoline and oil have
Been lost in a similar manner by
leveral concerns.
MAKES REPORT
CHILD WELFARE
Head of Work in Nebraska
Shows 755 Being Cared
for January 1
Lincoln, Npb. — «UP) — Nebraska
Institutions for the carp of depend
ent children housed 755 children,
January 1, according to the annual
report of Clara Clayton, head of the
slate child welfare bureau.
Welfare officials placed 234 chil
dren in homes for adoption during
the last year, the report shows
while 339 were returned to theii
parents. A total of 581 new depend
ents were placed in homes during
the year.
Statistics for 1931 show an In
crease in the number of parents try
ing to place rhildren in institutions.
Financial difficulties were respon
siblt for most such cases.
Ninety eight children were
“placed” from the state home for
dependent children operated at Lin
coln by the board of control. In
addition to this institution, five
private institutions are operated
where children may remain indefi
nitely or until they become of age.
These are the Immanuel Dcacon
ness home at Omaha; Masonic
home for boys at Omaha; Mothers
Jewels home. York; Masonic and
Eastern Star home at Fremont; and
the Odd Fellow home at York
Other similar Institutions are list
ed as Father Flanagan's boys’ home
at Omaha; Christian orphans’
home, Holdrege; Lutheran orphan
age, Fremont; St. Thomas orphan
age, Lincoln; Tabitha home, Lin
coln; the Creche, Omaha: Child
Saving institute, Omaha; Minerva
cottage. Omaha; Nebraska Chil
dren’s Home society, Omaha, and
3t. James orphange, Omaha.
HASTINGS HAS
UNIQUE HONOR
Manufactures 90 Per Cent
of Cigars Made in
Nebraska
Hastings, Neb.—(UP)—Hastings
during 1931, retained its lead posi
tion as the Nebraska city producinf
the greatest number of cigars. Ap
proximately 90 per cent of all ci
gars manufactured in the state wer»
produced In three Hastings factor
ies.
It Is estimated that the cigar
business done by the three Hastings
manufacturing concerns during 1931
amounted to $140,000.
Including strippers, salesmen and
office employes, an average of about
35 persons were employed in the
manufactur of cigars here during
the last year.
The products of the local con
cerns find their way over the entire
state and into the pockets of smok«
ers from Canada to the gulf.
WANT MEN TO BUY
ONE SHIRT A WEEK
North Platte, Neb.—(UP)—An ap
peal has been sent out here for the
men to buy one shirt a week to help
the unemployed.
North Platte opened a shirt fic
tory to provide employment for 20
to 30 women who needed work. The
women were taught to make shirts
by a professional seamstress. i
Now, the supply of shirts turned
out Is running ahead of the de
mand, hence the campaign to get
the men to buy one shirt a week.
Materials for the shirts is bought
at retailers here, who in turn han
dle stocks of the garments.
FARMERS SELL EGGS
AT S CENTS A DOZEN
Ainsworth. Neb.—(Special»—Eggs
are worth just 5 cents a dozen to
the fanners here, and the top price
said for poultry Is 10 cents a pound
'or heavy hens. Eggs are retailing
In the stores at four dozen for a
luarter.
CONCORD, NEB.. MAN
TO PRISON FOR FORGERY
Ponca, Neb. —(Special)— Arthur
Nichols of Concord was removed
from the county jail here to Lincoln, j
where he will begin serving a two- 1
year term in the state penitentiary
for forgery. He was sentenced bv
Judge Rvan in the January term of
court. It Is his second offense ul
this nature.
FEWER mortgager in
34 NEBRASKA COUNTIES
Lincoln, Neb. — — Ralph C
tswrence, state bond examiner
*aya that 35 Nebraska counties In
l#3t satisfied and cancelled more
mortgages than they filed. The*e
were 45 counties where releases on
city ar.d village property exceeded
new debts, while nine others re
ported more chattel mortgages re
leased than filed. FUe counties re
duced all three kinds of mort&Mgc
mctbtedx.ua i» 1121
Stringing the Fish Along
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When this fair deciple of Izaalc Walton decided to go on a little fish
ing trip to Sunset Lake, she didn’t reckon on the lake being frozen
over. But did she worry? No, sir! She just chopped a hole in the
ice and carried on as usual. She is Miss Doris Buxton, of Brain
tree, Mass., and, if our eyes deceive us not, she knows her hooks.
She’s exhibiting her catch of pickerel.
SAVE THE “STRIPPINS"
A PRETV GOOD WAY TO
FIND BUSINESS SUCCESS
Hugh Fullerton in the Columbus
Dispatch
Old Dusty Miller woe 50 the other
day, and he wrote one of the most
interesting reminiscent articles ever
printed, to review his life and what
had taken place on earth during his
time. The majority of writers would
have required a dozen volumes to
tell the events of the last 50 years,
and Dusty tells them In less than
four columns, and really gives the
reader more than he would get out
of a history of our times.
That old Newmarket memory of
Dusty’s retains the vital points, and
he remembers more than the aver
age historian ever could dig up, and
every sentence brings back a picture
of the past, or drives home some
point of homely philosophy.
He says one thing in a single sen
tence which sums up the economic
secret of the world. ‘Tve milked
cows and saved the strippins—and
in saving the strippins, learned the
secret of business success.
Dusty is right. Sitting there at
the side of the cow. her wet, burr
filled and slapping him at the side
of the head, warming his ears by
pressing them in turn against her
'lank, warming his stiffened fingers
by holding them in her flank or
squirting warm milk over them, he
discover the se’ret of riches and
security. He saved the strippins;
the richest of the milk, which is the
last pint extracted after the heavy
flow has ceased.
The “strippins,” this farm boy re
alized. are the same as the ‘penny
saved.” the same as the 2 or 3 per
cent laid away for investment, or
for safety.
The rich strippins, added to the
cream, went into butter and brought
a greater return than the bulk milk
ever did.
There really isn’t any other secret
of success in> any line of business
beyond saving the “strippins” of
that business, and extracting the
fullest possible amount. The “milk”
of any business or profession is that
which covers first cost, wages, over
head and Interest; and when that is
done, the remainder that can be ex
tracted either by patience, hard w ork
or by brains, represents the strip
pings—the ultimate net protit—
which is the “strippins” of the In
dustry.
In this country, especially, because
of its richness in natural resources,
few of us, excepting those possess
ing the rare genius of a Rockefeller
or a Carnegie, ever saves the strip
pings. Yet it Is noticeable that prac
tically every great fortune in Amer
ica owes its foundation to thorough
milking and saving the stripping;; to
add to the “skimmins.”
There isn't really any other way
of getting rich that is worth while,
because the riches gained by gam
bling, by knavery, by skirting the
edge of the law. by "outsmarting'’
others, are never real or lasting
Possibly it is because all easy"
money is not appreciated and is soon
dissipated, while the dollars earned
and saved by means of hard work
bring a satisfaction of their c.wn.
I experienced an illuminating illus
tration of this fact once. There lives
in New York a very famous and ex
tremely wealthy society woman. She
and her family possess millions, and
in addition to that, unlike most of
her class, she is interested in human
beings. In her own circle she is un
easy and restless, but outside of it
she is vital with interest, because
| everything Is new to lie.. She likes
reporters, not especially for them
self es. not because they are new in
her life, and because ahr half envies
i them in their contact with nil sorts
and conditions of men. Once rha
Radio Operator and Bride
On Lonely Honeymoon
Ban Francisco — tUP' — Harry
Walker, radio operator for the
United Statea department of com
merce, naturally wanted to be alone
with his bride on his honeymoon,
but got more than he bai gained tor.
He was assigned to the lonely
str.tion at Donnrr Summit, htih
e»t in California, 7,300 ftet aboic
sea level, whei iris cabin Is wired
down'to prevent It beir.g swept
away by the Sierra winds.
H.s biuia was bliss Clara Dor
Stork Beneficiary
The arrival of an 8-pound baby
girl to Mrs. Bud Stillman, the for
mer Lena Wilson, who became the
bride of the heir to Banker James
A. Stillman's millions, just about
fills the cup of happiness of the
young couple. The babe was bornj
in a Boston hospital. The young
papa and the millionaire grand
dad were there to welcome the new
member of the clan.
came out to the far west in a pri
vate car, bringing a party. We
took her in charge, and the first
night in a small cow town we took
her to the dance hall, where the girls
danced with aU comers at 10 cents a
dance, the girl getting half the re
ceipts.
There were reporters, cow punch
ers, oil men, "sports.” cattle and
horse ranchers, gamblers and all
sorts present, and she was the queen
of the evening. She made more than
$2 dancing with the natives, and,
the next morning, she sent each oi
the professional girls, whose busi
ness she had damaged, a check for
$25. But she clung to the $2.10 she
had made.
Two years later I met her in New
York in a shop. She opened her
hand bag. took out a small, jeweled
purse, and showed me the money
made out in Montana, explaining
simply:
"It is the onlv honest money I
ever earned, and I'll always keep it.
Dusty is right. The way to find a
fortune is to "save the “strippins" —
and after all. the strippins arc the
richest and best.
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“GENTI.E SPRING?"
Dirtv patches, drear, of snow.
Storm clouds hovering, gray and
low;
Silver lances, keen of ram,
Shattered on the dinay pane.
, Sullen waters, rolling wide,... .
Rubbish floating on the tide.
Plaintive call of beasts marooned
I Sun? -t rift. * Raping wcuml:
1 Twilight wind that bears a sting.
Is this really gentle spilng.
—-Sam Page.
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The niano was invented In 1711
I In Italy. __ ______
waldt. cf Alameda, and they were
married in Reno. ^__
ho hi m:
• Cincinnati Enquirer)
“Anuhtng uew in the paper,
1 Tom ” , .
j ' -No. Some old things—only hap
renlni to dilforcnl people, that*
all." ___
rORERINNER OF THE .OTHER
A movie ac£oi*i wife hM sued for
d.Yorce because of her husband a
over-indulgence in "woof woof
It acrar. lhat he ui unable to keep
I the mod wool Xrout Jus door.
STANTON SCHOOL BAND
DIRECTOR HIRED AGAIN
Stanton, Neb.—(Special)— James
Johnson, who for several years has
directed the high school band and
orchestra, has accepted the position
for another year. Under his direc
tion, the band and orchestra have
won first place in the district and
state music contests for several
years.
Miss Gertrude Scheuneman who
has had charge of the Boys’ and
Gills’ Glee clubs and the music de
partment throughout the grades, has
also accepted the position for an
other year. The glee clubs have also
won many first prizes in the dis
trict and state contests.
ARBOR DAY TO
BE OBSERVED
Hundredth Anniversary of
Founder’s Birth to Give
Increased Significance
Nebraska City, Neb. — ^UP) —
Arbor day, founded by J. Sterling
Morton, Nebraska City pioneer, as
a day for the plahting of trees, will
be more widely observed this year
than for any year in its history.
April 22 of this year will mark
the 60th anniversary of the holiday
and the centennial of the birth of
its founder. Citizens of Nebraska
City, of the state, of the nation and
even of foreign countries will pay
tribute on that date to the founder
of the day and the ideal which it
expresses.
Honor will be paid the founder of
Arbor day by the federal govern
ment through issuance on April 22
of a stamp, commemorating the
100th anniversary of the birth of
Morton. Arrangements for issuance
of the special postage stamp were
made through efforts of the Ne
braska City postmaster, the cham
ber of commerce, influential resi
dents of Nebraska City and the
state.
Plans already have been made by
Postmaster Frank Bartling for the
handling of thousands of letters
which are expected to go through
the cancellation machines here or
the first day of the stamp usage
The stamps will go on sale here or.
April 22 and throughout the re
mainder of the country on the day
following. Stamp collectors place
value only on "first day” stamps.
It is expected that thousands of
self addressed envelopes will be re
ceived from collectors, to be stamped
and mailed from here on April 22.
A special celebration will mark
the observance of Arbor day at Ne
braska City. Arbor Lodge, former
residence of Morton and now a
state park, probably will be one of
the greatest attractions for visitors
on that day.
The state will observe the day as
a legal holiday.
i Arbor day was first observed in
Nebraska in 1872, on the proposal
of Morton to the state board of ag
riculture that a day be set aside for
tree planting. Morton later served
as secretary of agriculture for the
United States during the adminis
tration of Grover Cleveland. The
day was originally observed on April
10, but was later changed to April
22 to honor its founder’s birthday.
Morton’s idea was popular. Other
states set aside days for the plant
ing of trees. In 1922, President
Harding issued a proclamation urg
ing all governors to designate the
week of April 16 to 22 as forest pro
tection week and to observe April
22 as the golden anniversary of Ar
bor day.
Morton is credited with once hav
ing said of Arbor day that it is the
only holiday that looks to the fu
ture, adding that all others look In
to the past. The truth of his words
are evident in the large trees which
now extend from end to end of Ne
braska's once barren plains.
ANNUAL SCOUT
CAMPS PLANNED
Norfolk, Neb. —CSpecialT— The
annual Boy Scout camp for the Elk
horn Valley district will probably
open June 27 and close July 3. ac
cording to plans tentatively com
pleted at an executives’ meeting at
Madison.
Camp sites recommended to
Chairman ti. A. uresnsht ol San
ton and Scout Executive John D.
Wright of Omaha for inspection and
final approval were Loe's lake, about
four miles southwest of Stanton,
Endt’s park, four miles north of
Battle Creek and Nies’ lake, four
miles north of Neligh. Represent
atives from Neligh. Norfolk, Stan
ton. Ptlger and Madison were pres
ent at the session held at the Mad
ison hotel. .. . ., . „
It was announced that Marshall
Grosvenor will be the camp director
and Walter Grosvenor will cook and
direct handicraft. Leslie Crow of
Pender will assist and serve as quar
termaster and Dan Riordan will
lead a division and direct water
activities. , ._
The Scouts mav attend as Loops
under their leaders and be fur
nished tents, equipment oneJtwjL
daily and as much of the ptogiam
ns desired.
FEWER SI BS< BIBERS TO
THIS PHONE UNE
Lincoln. Neb. — * Special > — The
Northeastern Nebraska Telephone
company of Walthill has filed ita
snnual report with the state rail
way commission showing assets of
1*6 334: outatandlna common stock,
$19 736; revenues, $13,88163; ex
pense*. $12.784 34. A totr.1 of <01
stations is, shown at the end of the
veer a loas of 56 There are 198 sta
tions at Wa’lhtU. 90 at Winnebago
and 113 at Rosalie E. C. Hunt is
president and V. K. Hunt b ■•Cre
te .T.
AUTO DRIVER
66 YEARS OLD
Providence Man Piloted
Steam Car Over Trip
in 1866
Providence, R. I.—(UP)—It was
66 years ago that courageous Joseph.
P. Manton, of Providence, clambered
into the driver’s seat of his 1866
model automobile and drove to
Lengmeadow and tack.
The Manton steam buggy, as de
scribed by a journalist of the day,
had an upright tubular boiler at
the rear, while the driver sat be
neath a phaeton top. It was
fueled, not with gasoline, but with
eoal or coke.
It w'as with considerable pride
and satisfaction that Automobilist
Manton alighted from his strange
contraption on his return from
Longmcadow. The vehicle had
functioned satisfactorily, save for
one occasion, when it struck a
sandy stretch of road.
Despite the more or less success
ful round trip, Manton decided
that his vehicle was commercially
impracticable, and thus the rge of
motoring was delayed several dec
ades.
SILVER BOOM
DAYS RECALLED
Great Falls, Mont. — <UP) — The
fecent agitation for the remonetiza
tion of silver led Judge Charles Gor
don, of Wolf Point, to recall inci
dents in the boom days of Neihart,
a silver camp.
Neihart was one of Montana’*
big boom camps. It was located 50
miles southeast of Great Falla. In
1891, when the camp w-as riding the
crest of $1.25 silver, a traveler rode
a branch of the Great Northern
railroad as far as Monarch, but the
remaining 13 miles he traveled on
foot, or stage. The mines were not
deep, but the ore on the surface
was extremely rich. On hillsides were
dumped piles of ore that appeared
to be solid silver.
Everyone carried specimens of
silver ore, ruby silver, native sil
ver, and practically everyone gam
bled in either mining, or real estata
Building lots were scarce, because
the camp was situated in a deep
gulch, and a lot 25 by 100 feet would
easily bring from $250 to $500. A
corner lot was worth $1,000.
Money was plentiful and un
employment was unknown. Every
saloon had a sign over its door,
“licensed gambling house,” and
poker games with $1,000 on the
tables were common.
But the camp, like all the western
boom settlements, was doomed to ex
tinction. and one morning miners
gathered before the Neihart News
and the Neihart Herald to read bul
letins which told of the decline in
the price of silve.r to $1 an ounce,
then down to 50 cents an ounce aft
er the Sherman act had been passed
by Congress.
OLD FASHIONED GARDENS.
Old garden spots are always sad.
It seems there lingers here,
Among the old time favorites,
A ghost of yester year.
Who planted yonder lilic hedge?
Who set the silver spray
Of Valley lilies ’long the path?
Who some forgotten May
Rejoiced in purple Columbine?
Who w’atched the yellow rose
Unfold its petals to the sun.
Where sleepy bees might doze?
Oh. garden spots!' They e'er suggest
A lined and gentle face,
Beneath soft bands of silver hair.
And lavender and lace.
—Sam Page.
SOVIET ANNOUNCES MEETING
Leningrad— (UP) —The spring
session of the Academy of Science
will be held in Novosibirsk, the
metropolis of the new Siberia, it is
announced here. The development
of western Siberia will be the
principal problem discussed by the
academy at this gathering. "Vast
new industrial problems are under
way in this region.
His Good Turn.
From Melbourne Herald
“It is the duty of everyone to
make a person happy during the
week,” said the Sunday school
teacher. “Have you done so, Fred
dy?”
"Yes,” said Freddy, promptly. ‘I
went to see my aunt and she tvaa
happy when I went home.”
These Teachers!
j From Schweizer Illustrierte, 'z.e/in
gen.
“Well. Bobby, what do you thine
of your new teacher?”
"Oh, he’s all right, only first le
says that two and two make tour,
and then he changes his mind nod .
tells us that three and one makn
four.”
RUSH OF C. M**T. APPLICANTS .
Vancouver. Wash.— (UP) —V/lth
the annual citizens’ military train
ing camp period thrre months away,
applicants of candidates are al
ready far ahead of last, year, with
512 already on file and more thaa
1 000 expected.
FORT TO HF. RESTORED
Niagara Falla. N. Y.—* UP)—Res
toration of Fort Niagara, which
first sheltered the French
then the British, and finally the
Continental*, prior to and during
the Revolutionary war. la being
carried out. It la experiej ’hat by
Rummer the project will be tum
pieted.
United States export* of eel ton
for the six months o( the m.
ending with the beginning of 19*2
Ire-•eased 11 per eent. over t^a s-ai.r
pet :cd of the year before
