MONDAY, AUG. 25, 1930.
PLATTSMOUTII SEMI - WEEKLY JOUENAL
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FARM BUREAU NOTES I
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Judging Teams Selected.
Monday, August 11th, 4-II club
members interested in judging met
at the College of Agriculture, Lin
coln, to compete for the chance of
representing Cass county at the state
fair.
The high scoring members in each
' project were as follows: Girls room:
Alice Leone Ambler, Weeping Water;
Helen Cole, Weeping Water; Mar
jorie Capwell, Elmwood; Mildred
Johnson, alternate, Weeping Water.
Clothing: Evelyn Sumer, Avoea;
Wilma Stutt, Avoca; Merion Young,
Nehawka; Mildred Young, alternate,
Nehawka.
Uaked Goods: Pauline Smith,
Union; Verna Rieke, Union; Lela
Smith, Union.
Canning: Gertrude Christensen,
Alvo; Irene Rueter, Alvo; Dorothy
Klemm, Alvo.
Dairy: Howard Spehnle, Eagle;
Ralph Spehnle, Eagle; Richard West,
Eagle; Warren Fager, alternate.
Livestock: Glen Heneger, Weep
ing Water; Keith Althouse, Eagle;
Ellsworth Dodrill, Eagle; Harry
Rockenbach, Eagle, alternate.
print or gingham and one may be of
cotten tweed and can be worn late in
the fall; 1 wool skirt and slip-over
sweater; 1 or 2 wash blouses; 1 silk
dress (afternoon type); 1 pair ox
fords; 1 pair strap slippers, low heel
ed; 3 pair lisle or ribbed hose; 1 pair
silk hose; 1 pair goloshes; 1 raincoat
or slicker; 1 pair warm gloves; 1
pair gloves for dress-up; 1 winter
coat, chinchille or tweed; 1 felt hat;
1 tam or beret; 12 or more handker
chiefs; 3 pair bloomers and 1 com
bination suit; 3 brassier; 2 vests; 2
pongee slips; 1 purse; 1 or 2 strings
of beads; 2 pair of pajamas; 1 bath
robe or,kimona. A simple linen col
lar cuff set for the sweater or wool
dress will help to keep it fresh and
give variation.
Will Watch Hessian Fly.
Hessian Fly will be watched at an
observation station in Cass county.
The station will be on the farm of
Edward Pankonin, two mile south of
Weeping Water. County extension
agents, newspaper and radio stations,
will be asked to co-operate with the
department of entomology and the
extension service of the agricultural
college in distributing the informa
tion about the "fly-safe" date to seed
wheat in September.
By counting the flies that emerge
each day from the puparium stage,
commonly called "flaxseed" stage,
the men in charge of the station will
in by the testers, it was found that
during the month of June, average
feed cost per pound of butterfat is
32 cents. Consequently, there is a
spread of almost 20 cents per pound
between cost of production and sale
price. This is evidence enough to
show that good cows are paying a
good income over feed cost.
Comparatively speaking, at this
time of the year there is no more
profitable enterprise in Nebraska
agriculture than dairying. However,
onts must remember that cost of pro
duction is going to keep on climb
in.? as the winter months come on.
If the price of butterfat increases in
propoition to the cost of production
everything will be fine, however, one
is not sure that it will and besides
the price of grain has incrased to
some extent. This is the time of the
year to determine which cows are the
"boarders" and give them the gate
before the months of high cost of
production come on.
The 24 S cows on test averaged 62S
lbs. of milk and 24.5 lbs. of fat.
Murray Pig Club Ivleets
With Sarpy Co. Club
Wednesday, August 13th, one of
the pig clubs from near Murray met
with a pig club from Sarpy county
at the Chas. Lonergan farm near
Flrrence. Mr. Lonergan's Spotted
Poland China herd was inspected in
American Lands
Kept for Public
Equal 24 States
Westward Movement Which Peo
pled Wilderness Practical
ly Ceased
Mother's Vacation Camp.
21 Cass county women joined fifty
women from Otoe, Lancaster, Doug
las, Sarpy, Washington, Dakota
depend on the weather, warm and
moist days will hurry up the fly.
while cool and dry weather might
slow it up several days. If the fly can
Saunders. Seward and Burt counties find no wheat upon which to lay eggs.
the morning and found to be O. K.
be able to tell to the day when it id ,Two classes of spring pigs were judg-
safe to begin seeding. This date willed in the afternoon.
at Camp Brewster, August 12-15, for
a four-day respite from household
tasks. The program was entertain
ing and instructive and was carried
out under the direction of Miss Mary
Ellen Brown of Lincoln. The pro
gram consisted of talk cn nature lore
by Miss Ethel Taylor, Harlan, Iowa;
folk-dancing and music interpreta
tions led by Miss Fannie Buchanan
of Chicago; book review, "The
Splendor of God" by Mrs. Julia Kiene
of Topeka. Kas. Mrs. Orville Legg of
Dakota City talked about, "Wom;n
on the Farm" and Mrs. Newton
Gaines, Lincoln, led the group sing
ing. Handy craft work, swimming,
croquf-t, tennis and archery also
proved to be very entertaining for
many of the women.
it will die without laying eggs and
there will be no serious Hessian Fly
damage this fall.
A few meetings on Hessian Fly
control will be held in September and
in different sections of the county.
The fly damage was very serious in
some fields this year. If control meas
ures are not used and the weather is
favorable, the fly damage will
much worse next year.
Jack Grant. Purina salesman, of
fered two knives to the two best
judges. Venile PuHen of Murray won
from Cass county and Joe Schobert
cf Springfield, from Sarpy county.
D. U Wainscjtt, Co. Ext. Agent;
Jessie II. Baldwin, Ass't Co. Ext.
Agent.
TELEPHONE CO. TO HIKE EATES
July P.eport of Cass Cc. D. K. I. A.
A. E. Todd of Ashland had the
highest testing cow in the associa
Lincoln, Aug. 21. The state rail
way commission Thursday granted
Delth Lincoln Telephone Co. authority
to increase rates at Hastings, uicii
viT.e, Hansen, Juaniata. Pauline and
Prosser, where it serves 5,000 sub
scribers. Hastings' rates for individual busi
ness service are to be advanced from
What to Wear to High School.
A Nebraska girl wrote to the
Agricultural College, "I will start to 1701 lbs. of milk and
t ion for July. This Holstein cow pro- j $4.50 to $5.50, and for one party
duced 1776 lbs. of milk and 71 lbs. ( residence service from 52 to $2.75.
of butter fat. C. D. Geary of My-! In the other towns, individual busl
nard has the highest producing herd ! r.ess service will cost $5 instead of
in the group of 5 to 15 cows. Mr. $4, and individual residence service
Geary's five cows average 970 lbs. 12.50 instead of S2.
of milk and 39.5 lbs. of fat. Irvin I Residents cf Hastings had objected
Markland's herd of 23 cows averaged jthat the estimates on which the com-
.4 lbs. tat
high school in September. Can you
help me decide what clothes I will
need?" Clothing specialists who still
remember their high school clays and
who also are up to date in their
ideas, worked out the following list
for girls
Many cf the dairymen over the
state are getting discouraged and
quitting the dairy business. They say
they are not making anything by
milking cows. At the present time
very few farm commodities are sell
ing for more than the cost of produc-
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1 iiese cnarges me cuiamisaiuu
wTe unfounded.
The new rates go into effect Oct.
1.
1 smock; 2 wash drenses one of tion. From the monthly reports sent
Just a few cf the Cass ccunty maps
left. While they last, 50c each.
Washington Extension of the
great westward movement in the
United States that peopled a wilder
ness empire in the span of a few
decades has largely ceased, due to
the taking up by homesteaders under
various land laws since 18G2 of S32,
000,000 acres, it is reported at the
Department of the Interior.
While there are roughly 190,000,
000 acres of land still open to ap
propriation under the homestead and
cither land laws, the department de
clares that the annual turnover of
this land is negligible, and that "dur
ing the last decade the amount of
land offered for settlement from year
to yervr has remained almost sta
tionary. In a word, the experience of the
lust 10 years reveals that large-scale
settlement of the public domain by
private individuals is at an end, ac
cording to officials in the General
Land Office, because much of the re
maining land offered for settlement
does not at present attract home
steaders. Accompanying this statement of
the close of a great epoch in the
sweep of United States history comes
the fact that conservation endeavors
have resulted in retaining as public
domain an area equal to the com
bined areas of Texas, California,
Montana and New Mexico, the four
largest states, having an aggregate
domain of 693, S24 square miles..
When computed in terms of the
5i!ial!er states, the lands still held by
the Federal Government as public do
main. forest reserves, Indian res
ervations, national parks and monu
ments, mineral, game and cattle
range reserves, have a combined area
t-niial to that of 24 ftates, starting
with the District of Columbia and
adding each state in ordr of in
creasing size up through New York
to Alabama, North Carolina and Ar
kr.iisas. Indian reservations, including
lands held In trust by the United
States for the tribes and other por
tions that have been mad? over to
the Indians in fee simple or other
wise alloted to individuals in the
tribes, cover an area of 105,000
miles, or roughly the area of Colo
rado, the seventh largest state, and
nearly the area of Nevada, the sixth
largest.
The rapid decline in homestead ac
tivitv is revealed in reports issued by
the General Land Office. In 1SG3, the
first year of the Homestead Act,
3,841,549 acres were taken up. The
amount rose to 8,095,413 acres In
1870, 14,792,371 acres in 1880, and
19,000,000 in 1890. By 1900 the
tide had begun to turn as the best
lands were taken over, and the fig
ures stood at 13.453.S87 acres.
In 1917 the area available for
homesteading and appropriation un
der other land laws had been cut
from the original 1,442,200,000
acres of 1862 to 230,657.755. Since
1925 practically no land has been
permanently given out.
Is New Pipe
Line to be Used
for Gasoline?
Many Who Have Observed the Work
ings of Two Companies Fijrure
a New Oil Line
Is the pipe line that is now being
started from the Oklahoma fields, to
be a line for carrying gasoline and
oil rather than natural gas as was
first announced? is a question that
is interesting very much those who
have been looking over the work
ings of the companies that have
moved into the Nebraska territory,
says the Nebraska City News-Press.
The new line will practically par
allel the natural gas line of the Mis
souri Valley Pipeline Company,
which has reached this city and fs
now being constructed through
western Iowa.
The Otoe county people who have
locked into the matter point out
that the construction work of the
two lines have been done by the
6ame company and that the purchase
of supplies for the new company is
being handled by the -purchasing
agent of the Missouri Valley Pipe
line company.
One of the men who has watched
the various activities of the two
companies is of the opinion that one
of these lines will be used for hand
ling gas and oil through thi part
of the west.
In a number of places the second
company has secured franchises for
the operating of natural gas lines
and in this city they have had an
application pending for some time,
but the ofilc-ers have not been able
to meet here with the city council,
altho representatives of the company
have been here at different times to
visit with the city officials and in
formally discuss the franchise.
The Missouri Valley Pipeline Cl,
has th.-ir line built this fir and the
Tov.-a-Xebraska Light & Power Co.,
is now building their service lin
to connect with the main line south
of this city, but no definite move to
get the second line into the city has
been mad.
"There's something strange about
these paralleling lines," the Press
quotes its informant. "It is more
strange in that the same construc
tion company works on the job and
the same purchasing agent buys sup
plies. It doesn't sound reasonable
that two lines so close together would
be devoted to carrying natural gas
through the same territory and to
the same terminal."
LONG PINE LIFE SAVERS
AWARDED GOLD MEDALS
Long Pine, Neb., Aug. 19. Gold
medals for life-saving were presented
here tonight by the Interstate Power
company to J. M. Kurtz, Isaac Peter
eon and Edward Trautman. Cere
monies were heid before an audience
of 2,500 people, presided over by
Mayor L. W. McDonald.
The three men honored saved Wil
lard Wheeler from drowning on
March 5, 1929. Although he had
been under water an estimated 30
minutes when they brought him to
the surface, they applied first-aid
methods for several hours and revived
him.
J. C. Donahue of O'Neill was prin
cipal speaker at the presentation. The
Atkinson military band provided mu
sic.
SMITH DENIES STATEMENT
Drake Made
a Member of
Rail Board
Republican Nominee Named to Suc
ceed Curtiss When He Re
tires on Sent. 1.
New York Former Governor
Smith Thursday night denied issuing
a statement attributed to him Wed
nesday in which he was quoted as
predicting that the democratic party
"will soon be in national control
and make this a happy as well as
prosperous nation." The statement
in the form of a telegram, was pur
ported to have been sent to the Joel
Parker association, a political organ
ization. It was published in the
metropolitan press and elsewhere.
Smith, in his denial, said: "For
mer Governor Smith and his office
have no knowledge of the telegram
supposedly received under his signa
ture by the Joel Parker association
at West Orange, N. J., Wednesday.
Former Governor Smith points out
that while he is not in disagreement
with the sentiment expressed In the
telegram, he cannot let this instance
of misrepresentation in his name
pass by."
LENIENCE FOR FIRST
DRY LAW OFFENDERS
Omaha Deserving first offenders
against the national prohibition law
will be permitted probation on parole
here, it was announced Tuesday by
United States District Attorney San
dall following a conference with Rob
ert Samardick, parole and probation
officer for Nebraska. "There is al
ways a chance for a man who goes
wrong the first time," said Sandall,
"to realize that violating the law
does not pay."
Hugh Drake, secretary of the state
railway commission and republican
nominee for railway commissioner,
Thursday was appointed to fill the
vacancy on the board caused by the
resignation of John E. Curtiss, mem
ber of the commission.
Curtiss will leave the commission
Sept. 1 to accept a utility position.
Drake was one of the 10 candidates
for the republican nomination. He
was actively supported by Charles
A. Randall, chairman of the board.
Weaver's appointment will hold
good until January, when either
Drake or E. A. Walrath of Osceola,
democratic candidate, will take office
for the regular six-year term.
Weaver Explains.
The appointee was high man of
10 seeking the republican nomina
tion. He led Wade A. Splllman.
Omaha, by nearly 2,000 votes.
He has been secretary to the com
mission two years and prior to that
was county attorney of Buffalo coun
ty. His home Is in Kearney.
Explaining his appointment, Gov
ernor Weaver said:
"Mr. Drake is familiar with
the pending cases .and, being a
good lawyer, is well qualified to
assume the place. Under ordi
nary circumstances an appoint
ment could wait until after the
election, but investigation as to
the condition of the commis
sion's work and the importance
of pending matters convinced
me I should fill the vacancy at
this time."
The railway commission docket.
said the governor, is congested and in
the immediate future that body Mill
pass upon revised intrastate grain
rates to harmonize the Nebraska
schedule with the recent order of the
interstate commerce commission.
Needed in Drouth Aid.
In addition, applications and or
ders will be necessary in shipments
of grain, livestock and hay because
of the general drouth situation af
fecting parts of this state as well
as others, Governor Weaver asserted.
Parties interested in the Homing
cemetery are requested to help mow
the cemetery Friday, August 29th at
S. p. m.
J. L. STAMP,
a25-ltw-2td Secretary.
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During the next fifteen days, while a new front is being installed in our store,
we are offering the people of Plattsmouth and surrounding territory a splendid
opportunity to save on the family shoe bill, coming at a most fortunate time
just ahead of the opening of school when shoe demands are always heaviest.
Our shelving space is being: reduced and re-arranged, making it necessary to reduce our big stock
considerably. You will profit greatly even though you drive many miles to take advantage of the
low prices we are making. A few of the many money-saving values are listed below.
August 27th at SsOO 'Clock
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About 75 pair of Children's High
Shces for school. Broad toes, in
patent and brown and black calf
leathers. School begins next week
so buy them now.
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A group of Children's Shoes and
Slippers sizes 3 to 5. Patent ar.d
brown and black leathers. Shoes
j that sold for twice our low sale
J price. Now, 8c pair.
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Iadies full-fashioned silk-to-the-top
Hosiery. The newest shades in
all sizes. You'll want several pairs
of these at this almost unbelievable
low price of 88c pair.
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About 25 pair of Tennis Shoes
all lace-to-toe patterns in genuine
Keds. Sizes from 1 3 to 6. A real
value for the school boy. Come in
opening day before they're gone.
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Men's tan Outing Bal pattern composition soles
and rubber heels. A real super-value at $1.78.
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Boys' Shoes ansS Oxfords
Black and brown Oxfords and Shoes all new
Fall styles. An exceptional value at $2.88 pair.
finises and Chiids Oxfords and Straps
Some good styles in high grade Oxfords and
Straps. Patent leather and brown and black
leathers. Sizes 8 to 2. Big value at $1.0S pair.
Ladies Pumps amd Straps
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A group of Men's Black Oxfords good styles
with rubber or leather heels. Not odds and ends,
but new Fall ctyles in all sizes. Price, $3.88 pair.
About 100 pairs of Ladies Novelty Pumps and
Strap patterns. Patent and kid leathers. This
season's styles. Buy now and save. All sizes.
Soys' Shoes, $1.40 pair
Brown and black calf. Not latest styles, but worth
a lot more than our low sale price. $1.48 pair.
pair :
About 75 pairs of good styles in Patent and Kid
leathers, low and Cuban heels just the thing for
school. Buy them now and save. $2.88 pair.
Men's tan Dress OxforcU -all high grade shoes
in various styles. All sizes in the croun and at
Plaiism&ylb Home of Quality Footwear Nebraska the exceptionally w price of $3.48 per pair.
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