MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1935.
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PLATTSMOTJTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
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Wild Flowers
are Easily Tamed
in Home Garden
The Gardener Learns Their Require
ments and Aided by Nursery-Grown
Stock.
There is a seductive softness about
the sun in late Winter, even though
it shines upon discolored snow, slush
and mud. It awakens within us a
consciousness of the stirring of life
underground, the near coming of
pink-flushed arbutus blossoms, of un
folding hepatica buds and of the
pure white blooms of the bloodroot.
Wild flowers have a special appeal
for all who love growing things; and
Spring is the season when their shy
beauty is at its lovelinest. Trips to
the Spring woods are delightful, but
for the city or suburban dweller not
always easy to arrange. Even the
greatest wildflower enthusiast may
mis3 the blossoming of his favorite
woodland plant because of some mis
calculation or unavoidable delay.
Therefore it is a real satisfaction
to have a planting of wild flowers in
the garden. Then the gardener may
be sure that the thousand and one
duties and pleasures of modern life
will not keep him from glimpsing
any one of the bright little flower
faces as they appear in magic rota
tion. More Cooperation Today.
Fortunately the wild-flower lover
now has every encouragement to cre
ate a wild garden. Not so long ago
the making and stocking of such a
garden presented serious difficulties.
But the growing active cooperation
of both the nursery man and the
landscape artist has changed all this.
It is against the law to rob the wood
lands and hedgerows of their rapidly
diminishing treasures, but there are
men tcday who have cherished these
little native beauties, who have learn
ed their strange necessities of soil
and sun and drainage, and who are
ready to supply the gardener with
thrifty wild plant3 and with cultural
information regarding them.
A visit to any of the large flower
shows will provide notable examples
cf really distinctive work along
these lines. The fact that such beau
tiTul plantings constantly draw ad
miring crowds about them, and that
high rewards of merit are bestowed
upon them by the judges, proves that
there is an active and ever-growing
appreciation of the use of wild wood
land flowers in American gardens.
Location tlis First Consideration.
The first consideration for the
amateur in wild-flower gardening i3
that cf location. Shade, of course,
must be prvoided to make the wood
land dwellers thoroughly comfort
able, but the sort c" shade is just
as important as the shads itself. An
apple tree is good, or a locust or elm
or even a spreading, gnarled dog
wood. Evergreens create very acid
soil and therefore are good for only
certain wildling3 such as seme cf the
woodland ferns, columbine, pink moc
casin flower, painted trilliura, bunch-berry-
and trailing arbutus. A de
ciduous tree which 'has a far-searching
and greedy root system is a poor
choice to shelter the wild-flower gar
den. Poplars or maples, for instance,
are unsatisfactory.
Those who -are preparing only a
few square feet of space for wild
flowers may plant apple saplings,
young pints and hemlock, s, or, better
etill, native rhododendrons and laurel
where they will provide a tack
ground and offer increasing Ehade as
time passes. Of course, any trees will
eventually sap the ground's vitality
and injure the flowers beneath them
useless they are kept cut out and new
soil i3 occasionally addei.
A small wild garden may also be
planted on the shady side of the
house if dripping frcm the caves 13
prevented. The wild-flower garden of
my childhood was placed in such a'
location and was a satisfaction and
delight for many, many years. Plenty
of rock drainage and a yearly supply
of fresh leaf mold were the two se
crets Of itS SUCCCS3.
Drainage Vitally Important.
Drainage indeed is a necessity in
the wild garden. The plants are small
and fragile and their roots cannot tol
erate "wet feet." Even tne Dog
plants like to perch on hummocks
above the water line. A bed of ashes
or broken rock forms a foundation
for a six-inch covering of mixed gar
den soil (medium sandy), leafmold
and sow manure (or one of its com
mercial substitutes). Experience has
proved that the wildflower bed is
best located where water is easily
available, for wildllngs do not like
drought. Watering cannot be neg
lected. Those who are fortunate
enough to have a natural or artificial
stream in their grounds can utilize at
least part of its banks for a wild
planting.
Having thus given consideration
to their several necessities food,
water, shade and drainage the gar
dener next turns to the procuring of
wild plant material. He may visit a
nursery which specializes in wild
plants and there select the inhabi
tants for his new garden bed, or he
may order them from a catalogue.
Whether the space prepared is large
or small, a succession of bloom is of
course desirable, with the emphasis
laid perhaps on early Spring blossom
ing. '
Trailing arbutus 'is the first to
bloom and every wild-flower garden
er will probably want to start with
this harbinger of Spring. It is not
one of the easiest flowers to grow,
but -nursery pot-grown plants are
now available which are far hardier
than the "collected" specimens pre
viously offered for sale. Hepatica,
though only a little later, is even
more beautiful as it lifts its nodding
groups of lavender stars beside some
gray rock or rotted stump. The
bepaticas are susceptible to cultiva
tion, the roundlobe variety prefer
ring acid and the sharplobe neutral
soil. Bloodroot comes next, and, in
addition to its showy blossoms and
lovely, characteristic foliage, it i3
very easy to grow.
The trilliums are another group of
beautiful Spring wildfiowers, and
there are many species to choose
from. Common periwinkle,1 though a
fugitive from Europe, is thoroughly
at home now in the American coun
tryside and may be depended upon
to cover a whole bank with its glossy
green foilage, while hundreds of un
believably blue blossoms open in
early May. Anemones, fringed poly
gala, twinflower and the many moc
casins and other native orchids are
all desirable for a shady woodland
planting. Blue and yeliow violets,
creeping buttercups, bluets and other
more prolific bloomers may be plant
ed out in the full sun, while the shy,
dainty lovers of shade are set back
where they will get protection from
too strong light, but also from care
less feet and rampant growing neigh
bors. Columbine i3 the glory of June in
the woods, and there are a dozen oth
ers to rival It. Wild roses, black-eyed-susans
and meadowrue are only
a few of , the beautiful sun-loving
Summer wildlings.
After the asters have faded in Au
tumn, the wild-flower gardener will
be glad if he has provided for this
barren period by planting buncn
berry, partridgeberry and winter
green. Bog Plants and Ferns.
Tliose who have facilities for rais
ing bog cr water-loving plants must
not neglect the lovely wild iris, the
Mertensia, which endures dry soil
but which burgeons to glory in mois
ture; the forget-me-not, the wild
calla, the pitcher plants, the orchids,
jewelweed, beloved by all the tribe ot
humming birds; and in Autumn, the
gentians and the glorious crimson
cardinal flowers.
Indeed, there is so much to' choose
from when planting a wild-flower
garden that its boundaries may
threaten to widen until it engulfs
the tulip bed and the dahlia border.
But whether it occupy a meager cor
ner or extend itself over a whole
wooded hillside or through a rocky
glen, almost every gardener today
want3 a wild-flower garden. By
Esther C. Grayson in the New York
Times.
FOE SALE
100 ton3 ensilage, 60 tons alfalfa
hay. 150 bu. Dakota No. 12 alfalfa
seed. MYRON WILES.
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Phone the news to Ro. 6.
Chic Body En
dorses Convers'n
of Warrants
Chamber of Commerce at Meeting
Endorses Move to Reduce
Interest Costs.
From Saturday's Daily
The Chamber of Commerce at their
meeting this week adopted a resolu
tion in which they endorsed the
proposition for the conversion of
$45,000 of city warrants now out
standing Into low interest rate bonds.
This matter is to be presented to
the voters at the general city elec
tion on Tuesday, April 2nd and Is one
in which every citizen that votes
should give study and thought.
Those who do not vote on the propos
ition are In fact casting a vote
against the measure as it must carry
a certain percentage of all votes that
are cast.
The city has, as many know, a
large number of outstanding war
rants from various improvement dis
tricts and which draw from seven to
five percent interest which makes an
added burden to the taxpayers of the
community. It is possible under the
conversion of the warrants into bonds
to secure a rate of Interest that will
be at least as low as 4 per cent,
saving the taxpayers this amount in
interest from the present rate on
every Varrant.
The city council has acted on the
matter of presenting this proposi
tion to the voters of the city in the
hope that they might by this means
be able to reduce from $700 to $1,000
a year the interest rate that is paid
by the city. The matter is now up
to the voters to determine whether
they wish to adopt this means of
cutting the interest rates or not.
The proposition is one that has
met with the general approval of the
residents of the city as a money sav
ing proposition but must be confirm
ed by a vote of the people and in
which everyone should see that they
vote to assist the city government in
making this saving to the taxpayers
in interest rates. ,
FOUND DEAD, GAS ON
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Z0, wa3 found dead in his gas filled
club room of the Allied Mill Em
ployes parly Frida. Six gas jets were
open in the rdem when A. It. Stark,
janitor, found the body. Hurley,
father of seven children, worked at
the mill until recently. Ho suffered
a nervous breakdown last November,
Mrs. Hurley said, and lately had been
sleepless and depressed. A note, ad
dressed to a salesman for the con
cern, read:
"Thank3 fcr the drink. First one
in ten years. Now 2: 30 . a. m. So
here goes. No regret, not after what
I have been thru. Well, so long."
The widow, three sons and four
daughters survive.
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ideal girl of 1936" at the annual convention of beauticians in New
York.1. She was crowned by Misa Marion Pierce, center, who won
the title of the "ideal girl of 1935", while Miss Ethel Hampton, rislit,
who held the crown in 1934, looked on. Miss Quigley is five feet
cne inch in height .aa4.Y.e.ighs J.PQ .pounds.
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POLICY OF ISOLATION SEEN
London. A startling Iilnt Great
Britain may adopt a policy of isola
tion was dropped by Sir John Simon,
foreign secretary, when he said in a
speech near Leeds "We cannot in
dulge in every sort cf foreign adven
ture over all the world or pledge our
activity to everybody's quarrel."
Sir Austen Chamberlain, former
foreign secretary, told a Birmingham
audience the same spirit "which
plunged Europe into war, caused not
only her enemies but the world to
affix to her the guilt of the great
war" still throbs in Germany. As
serting the rcich had "no justification
for a unilateral breach of the Ver
sailles treaty," Chairmerlain said
"Germany has gone thru two revolu
tions since the great war, but it
seems to me the old spirit is little
changed." ' i
Altho Simon's statement was un
expected, it apparently was not a
slip of the tongue. In preliminary re
narks about his forthcoming inter
view with Adolf Hitler he said: "The
task -which rests upon us, perhaps
especially upon me, is far too grave
and serious for any man to use a
single sentence without the fullest
consideration.-"
He concluded his statement about
Britain's determination not to pledge
its activity to everybody's quarrel
with "it would not be a contribution
lo peace if wo did that. It would be
contrary to the solid; good sense of
iho British people."
JAILED FOE PETTY THEFT
Los Angeles. Two policemen ar
rested David Kanard, 69, and placed
him in jail for taking two potatoes -worth
about a cent eachfrom a box
in front of a grocery store. He said
he was hungry.
Arraigned in municipal court sev
eral hours later on petty theft
charges, Kanard pleaded guilty and
was remanded to jail. Judge Clem
ent Nye deferred sentence until Fri
day. By that time, Kanard will have
spent two das in jail. At the rate
of credit given on fines $2 a day
he will have lserved out $4, or 200
times the value of the potatoes, be
fore he even appears for sentence.
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of Book Accounts
from Taxation
Measure Proposed in Legislature to
Relieve Merchants of Burden of
Taxation on Accounts.
A proposal to exempt book ac
counts from taxation blocked a vote
Friday in the Nebraska house of rep
resentatives on a bill to increase the
Intangible tax.
Representative Edward J. Dugan
(D.) Omaha, sponsoring the exemp
tion movement, said:
"It's time we did something
for the merchants of our state.
They're broke. They can't even
pay their rent. It's unfair to
tax these book account because
many of them are never col
lected." Representative Eugene Perigo (R.)
Scottsbluff, author of the bill, object
ed to delay, pointing out only a few
days remain before the April 1 assess
ment date and the bill must be passed
by both houses and signed by the gov
ernor before then in order to apply
to the 1935 assessment.
Perigo proposes to boost the rate
from 2.5 to 5 mills on cash and other
Class A intangibles and from 8 to 10
mills on securities and other Class B
intangibles. He favored a measure of
relief to merchants by shifting book
accounts from Class B to Class A. Ac
tion on the bill wa3 delayed when
Dugan confessed he was worried
about a suggestion from Represen
tative Marion J. Cuching (R.), Ord,
that removal of book accounts from
the intangible tax law would not
exempt such assets, but would make
them subject to taxation at the full
rate applied to personal property,
which might run up to DO mills in
some citie3.
Dugan favored exempting all prop
erty now included under the intan
gible scale, but Perigo objected.
"The trend of wealth is to
ward stocks and bonds and
other intangibles. Intangibles
amount to about a billion dollars
or about a third of the prop
erty in the state. We can't ex
empt all that."
Cass county is one or tha finest
agricultural centers in tne state.
Improved farming conditions and
better prices fcr farm products
will react to the advantage of ev
ery town In this territory.'
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Wabash News
Frank Reese and wife received a
letter from their daughter, Mrs. Er
nest Westerland of Eagle saying
they were down with the chlckenpox,
but were getting along very nicely.
Ivan McBride was taken with an
attack of scarlet fever last Monday.
He was a guest of his friend, Harold
Richards, and when he woke up in
the morning he was broken out and
has returned home until he shall be
entirely over the malady.
Warren Wickham and family, who
were visiting in Wabash last Monday,
departed for Everett, Kansas, at
which place they will visit for some
time until work starts here. During
their stay there, he will overhaul his
truck and also the car of his father,
who resides there.
Leslie Bosworth was over near
South Bend during the early portion
of last week, where he was doing
some plainting at the place on which
his sister, Mrs. Clarence Ohms and
husband recently moved and where
they will make their home for the
summer. Grandmother Mrs. Ira Bos
worth was also over visiting with the
daughter.
Shower for Miss Gerbeling
A shower was given at the II. P.
Hinds home on last Monday night in
honor of Mis3 Alcie Gerbcling, who
was to become the bride of M. M.
McCoy, cf Lincoln, the following even
ing. A very enjoyable time was had
and a large number of the friends of
the bride-to-be were pre-ent, bring
ing beautiful and useful gifts to grace
her r.cw home.
Returns from Sooth
Mrs. Henrietta Lawton, who has
been spending the winter at Okla
homa City with a daughter, enjoying
the mild climate there as compared
with the ccld weather that prevailed
here, arrived home last Monday. She
wa3 accompanied from Lincoln by
her grandson, Henry Rymers, who is
attending school there and who came
down to assist in getting the house
streightened out after being closed all
winter.
Married Last Tuesday
At the home of the bride's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Henry ' II. Gerbeling,
their daughter. Miss Alcie Gerbeling,
was united in marriage to M. M. Mc-
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WITH THIS gS&M -4K
"I HAVENT HAD
A GOLD III
FIVE YEARS" t th
in the old dayi I nsed to dread MM
coming of Winter. I was always
coloWeeltnB about half -t1"
worlTwltlx my body achlnf and every nerve
"""Then a friend told me about McCoy'i
OodUWOU Tablet, with their m?"0"
rltimln- A and D I 'rtentohS . cold
fire years ago and X haven t hid a cola
Since that time. tv.
"McCoy's tablets put new life in folks,
fcufld tip resistance so anyone can laugn as
Cld germs. They make weak, skinny people
trong. steady-nerved and vigorous. They r
"oe'the genuine McCoy's Cod Liver Oil
Tablets from your druggist today. Don t
TMti money Imitations. Ask for McCoy s.
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Coy, of Lincoln, there being a large
number of friends of the bride and
many of the groom present. The bride
has been making her home in Lin
coln, where she was employed in one
of the large department stores of
that place. The groom is an employee
of the Gooch Milling company, as a
miller. The newly wedded couple will
fnakc their heme in Lincoln.
The wedding lines were read by
Rev. W. A. Taylor, former pa3tor of
the Baptist church of Wabash, who
came to perforin the ceremony of his
friend, being accompanied by Mrs.
Taylor. They drove over from their
home at Union.
The Journal joins in congratula
tions and test wishes to the young
couple in their new home in the cap
ital city.
HITS MADAME SECRETARY
Bcrkelcy, Calif. Cecauso Secre
tary of Labor Frances Perkins whom
she described as a "mere politician"
will be charter day speaker at the
University cf California Saturday,
Miss Martha Ijair.s, prominent
alumna of the unlverslt5 has re
fused to serve as a hostess at the
alumni dinner Saturday night.
Miss Ijams In a letter to Robert
Sibley, executive secretary of the
Alumni association faid: "I believe
the university should stand for re
cognition of achievement in the edu
cational and scientific world. I do not
believe that the world 13 so barren
of persons warranting recognition
that it should be necessary for the
university to delve Into politics to
find someone worthy to receive the
honor of Leing choccn charter day
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