Over the County ___— I INMAN NEWS C. E. Jones, of O’Neill, was in j Inman Wednesday on business. Warren McClurg was in Stuart j Sunday visiting relatives. His! mother, Mrs. Jessie McClurg re- ■ turned to Inman with him. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Hartigan, of, Norfolk, were in Inman \\ ednes day on business. The S. V. S. Club met Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Cronk. F. S. Brittell and F. M. Brittell •were in Page Wednesday on busi ness. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Burival and two children, of Middle Branch, vis ited Saturday and Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sobotka. The Y. M. Club met Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Youngs. Mr. and Mrs. Dee Brittell and daughter, Alice Jean, of Chambers,; visited Tuesday at the home of j Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brittell. Mr. and Mrs. Warren McClurg, Mrs. Jessie McClurg and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Miller drove to Tilden Sunday evening. Mrs. Jessie Mc Clurg remained in Neligh to visit at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harold Miller. Little Olive Watson, daughter of Frank Watson, returned Tuesday from Lincoln, where she had been receiving treatments in the hos pital. Mr. and Mrs. Hardin Anspach and Bill Jensen drove to Beatrice and Lincoln Wednesday on busi ness. Out-of-town relatives who at tended the funeral of Mrs. Anna J. Clark Saturday afternoon were, Mr. and Mrs. E. Clark and daugh ter, of Harrison, Nebr., Mr. and Mrs. A. Clark and son, of Walthill, Nebr., and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hansen and baby son, of Creigh ton. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Youngs en tertained several young married couples, at bridge, at their home Tuesday evening. A delicious lunch was served by the hostess. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Davis and daughter visited relatives in Stu art Sunday. Mrs. Jadk Alexandria and two daughters, of Royal, are visiting Mrs. Alexandria’s mother, Mrs. Julia Riley. MEEK AND VICINITY Mr. and Mrs. Dave Jonason of Chicago, 111., spent several days the past week visiting Mrs. Chris tina Walters, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. George Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wal ters, Mrs. Annie Peterson and fam ily and Eddie Jensen. They left for home on Saturday morning, taking Mrs. Annie Peterson with them for a three weeks visit in Chicago. A. L. Borg motored to Kearney, Nebraska, on Thursday to see his sister, Mrs. Charles Griffith, re turning home Friday. Andrew Johnson and son, Hiram, are now sawing ice for James Don lin at O’Donnell’s Lake near In man. Edwina Jones has had an attack of mumps the past week. She i6 better at this writing and none of the rest of the family seems to, have caught them. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Devall en tertained several at cards on Fri day evening. Charles Linn won high score for the men and Clar ence Devall low socre. Mary Lu ber won high score for ladies and M rs. Swede Sedivy. low score. Several friends surprised Mrs. Sam Robertson on Friday night, the occasion being 31 rs. Robert son’s birthday. The Will Langan family have been ill with the flu the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Devall and eons and Mrs. Delia Harrison and ; Mary spent Sunday at the Ed 1 Thomas home. EMMET NEWS I Mr. and Mrs. Leon Beckwith and Leona Fern called on Mrs. Dean Beckwith and baby in Atkinson Saturday. Keith and Derce Abart drove to Plainview, Nebr., Monday evening on business. Donald Cadmon, of Omaha, is here visiting at the W. R. Tenborg home. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Young and daughters, Marie and Olive, were dinner guests at the Leon Beck , with home Sunday. Mrs. Guy Cole entertained the Ladies Aid Society Wednesday af ternoon at her home. W. R. Tenborg and Donald Cad man were in Stuart on business Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Luben call ed at the Bob Fox home Wednes day evening. Clara Lowery and Mildred Pea cock spent the week end in O’Neill because of bad weather. ■ J. B. Ryan was a business caller in Emmet Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. John Ooirard and Mary Lou drove to Inman, Sun day afternoon to visit relatives. Mr. and Mi's. Harold Givens and Roger called at the Leon Beck with home Thursday and Friday. Harold helped with the work dur ing those days. _ l (CONGRESS! At •((■ tv ' I KAIL ITIPAK Probably more than a hundred thousand people saw Franklin Roosevelt inaugurated for the third time as our President. The weath er was cold, but clear. Other thous ands sat along the route of the great parade wh$ch followed the inaugural ceremonies. It was haid that at least a million people were in town for the big event. Ne braska was well represented by the hundreds of Nebraskans who live and work here and those who came particularly on account of the inauguration. Many states had their individual entertain ments following the parade. A score of state governors were here. Each of them got military aide— three cars for the parade and ten tickets for the grandstand on Penn sylvania Avenue and extra tickets for the reception which was held in the White House in the late af ternoon. Officers of various states have been here discussing ways and means of running state govern ments. They attended the annual convention of the Council of the State Governments. Nebraska was represented by State Senators, Daniel Garber of Red Clood and William A. Metzger of Cedar Creek. The state representatives expressed surprise that there is so much more war talk here than in Nebraska. Among the Nebraskans at the in auguration was Miss Zelda Wer ner, now teaching school in Balti more, Md. She formerly taught at Grant school at Norfolk. Many of “Fluff Rug” Contest i u ■ Bring In Your Entries - 1st PRIZE...$10.00 2nd PRIZE .$5.00 3rd PRIZE...“FLUFF RUG” 4th PRIZE.Material For Rug CONTEST RUNS February 1st to March 1st INQUIRE AT STORE FOR CONTEST RULES RICKLY’S |fi8 / i ._____j her former pupils are now grown people. She was accompanied by her brother, Frank Werner, of Alma, Nebr. Governor Griswold notified the Nebraska delegation that because of too much official business at home, he could not attend the in auguration. Neither could Lieuten ant Governor Johnson, whose moth er was ill. Accordingly, the Ne braska delegation did not have any social function during the inaugur, ation activities. While members of the farm dis trict were meeting together the other day, word came of the sud den death of Sam Masaingale, of Oklahoma. He is the member who is the author of the Farm Cost of Production Bill which has been backed by farm dis trict members. He had planned a conference on the bill in a few days and had been working hard with other members to get another hearing on it. Other members will carry on the fight from where j Massingale left off. Budget estimates have not al lowed anything for farm forestry and the Forest Service has been told that this work may have to be liquidated. For some time the Shelterbelt Work has been going on with WPA money. Members and other witnesses will appear before the sub-committee handling the appropriations for agriculture and will urge that these farm for estry projects be carried on with regular appropriations. Fathers and mothers who ac company their sons and daughters here to help them find rooming and boarding places, express surprise at the cost of food and rooms. Most of these young men and women have Civil Service jobs. They are not here long before they enter the social swim and soon appear in l cocktail rooms in tails and low neck dresses. Their pay is around $125.00 a month and at the end of the month there is little left. Some of them write home for extra money in order to keep up with the mad social race. There are many of these young people, however, who soon sense the social racket, get rid of their finery and take ad vantage of the many opportunities to visit places of historic interest and the means to further their edu cation that abound here. Questions oome to the Third Dis trict office as to just how many men we are to have under arms. The answer to that is that the Army expects to have 1,400,000 men in training by next summer, perhaps in June. This will include the regular Army, the National Guard and the draftees. It is ex clusive of the Navy and the U. S. Marines. For general tenseness of the situation in Congress and in Wash, ington, January. 1941, is much like January, 1917. This Congress starts off with the press, radio, and movies given over to what may happen to our country whether we do or do not become embroiled in the war. The President’s “lease and loan” proposal holds the center of the stage at which testimony of cab inet members and other strong supporters have appeared. It has been introdued in each house and both are expected to report it out favorably but in what form no one knows. There will be a bat tle and weeks may pass before it is brought to a vote. Attracting much less attention for the present is our own program for national defense. Placing su preme powers of control in the hands of Messrs. Knudsen and Hillman has not as yet pushed pro duction to the point desired and progress confessedly is far too slow. Previous to the war, advocates of great air-strength were ridi culed by battleship proponents. 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Mow comes the Navy department, asking an appropriation of $512,000,000 to put new Armoured decks on the I battleships and cruisers. It is ex plained that it now has been demon strated that additional protection is necessary. About four years will be required to recondition the ships of the present Navy, and possibly longer, as the yards are crowded with new ships. The cost of construction uriSer the program seems to be increas ing by a large percentage. Con gress endeavored to prevent the run-away expenditures of World War days. It ptovided a fixed fee for contractors instead of the “plus 10%” of cost profit allowed in that ether time. It has appropriated 187 million dollars for the new camps. Costs are carefully esti mated for ea