MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1936.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
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II. R. Schmidt and wife visited
with a daughter in Elmwood last
Thursday.
Murdock school teachers attended
the teachers' convention in Lincoln
Thursday and Friday.
Many church people from here at
tended the annual V. M. S. program
at the Evangelical church in Elm
wood last Sunday evening.
With the installation of city water
in her home, Mrs. Henry Iteichman
1k.s sold her windmill to Harold Luet
chens who will erect it at the farm.
Herman Luetchens was hauling
oats from one of his farms' to an
other, as he is feeding them to the
stock on account of the scarcity of
corn.
A Hallowe'en party was enjoyed
l;y the Freshmen at the heme ot
Charles Buell Tuesday evening. Many
; , od things were enjoyed by teach
ers and pupils.
Mr. and Mrs. Frances Eckery, of
Lincoln, have moved to Hastings to
engage in the restaurant business.
Mrs. Eckery is the youngest daugh
t; r of Mr. and Mrs. II. R. Schmidt.
Herman Kupke has received 33
head of feeder cattle from Omaha,
which he is placing in his feed lots
for conditioning and return to the
Omaha market as fattened beeves.
II. H. Lav. ton. was at Wabash last
Monday, where he visited his mother,
who is now past S3 years of age,
but i3 still able to get along very
well with her housekeeping and
other work. . .
Louis Timm was in town to get
building material for the construction
cf a basement under the house at
t'.ie farm, which will provide more
room for the storage of vegetables
and other food.
Mrs. Ethel M. Schwab-Vauck and
husband, of Duncan, Nebraska, at
tended the teachers' convention in
Omaha last week, spending some time
with relatives at the Murdock par
sonage on Friday.
John H. Buck was taken to the
hospital last Saturday and under
went a major operation for obstruc
tion of the bowels shortly after his
arrival there. He is reported as get
ting along fairly well. .
Douslas Tool, superintendent of
schools at Atlanta, has been enjoying
a visit at home while attending the
teachers' conventions at both Lin
coln and Cmaha. He is well p'sased
with his work at Atlanta.
"Rev. E. F. Haist, district superin
tendent, of Lincoln, conducted the
quarterly business meeting and holy
communion over the week end, ren
dering much benefit and spiritual
profit to this community.
Daniel Ruge attended the home
coming at North-Central college, at
Naperville, Illinois, October 16 to IS,
where he enjoyed meeting former
classmates and friends, having been
a Freshman there last year.
II. II. Lawton was over near Green
wood, where he expected to begin
painting a house for Gus Woitzel,
but found Mr. Woitzel was in Omaha
marketing some stock when he call
ed, and so was unable to see him.
John Eppings and family (includ
ing Richard, who is attending the
University of Nebraska) were guests
last Sunday at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Lancaster south of Mur
ray. Fred Luetchens has been ill at his
home east of Murdock with a severe
attack of sciatica, which has caused
him much suffering and prevented
him from looking after the work on
the farm.
" A goodly number of Murdock peo
ple who are interested in Bible school
work, went to Alvo last Monday,
where they attended the convention
of the Cass County Bible School as
sociation. A. J. Tool, Henry Amgwert and
Henry A. Tool comprised one of the
numerous hunting parties that went
out after pheasants last Sunday, and
v.-ere able to get all they wanted,
returning with some for dinner the
following day.
Louis Wendt and wife were in
Omaha last Tuesday to attend the
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Ak-Sar-Ben show, and on their re
turn spoke so highly of the exhibi
tion that his father, Gust Wendt and
his daughter, Miss Myrtle, want up
the following day to see it.
The Misses Muriel and Amanda
Klemme and their brother, Henry
Klemme, Jr., members of the E. L. C.
E. of the Murdock church, entertain
ed that organization at a Hallowe'en
parfy at the home of their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Klemme.
Ray Gamlin was delivering wheat
last Wednesday from the bins at tha
farm of Elmer Schliefert, who expects
to locate at Longmont, Colorado, the
coming year, but will not go for some
time yet. The grain was delivered to
the Murdock Farmers elevator.
Rev. Harvey A. Schwab and wife
were in Omaha week before last,
where they4 enjoyed a ministerial
conference -and visited friends. Rev.
Schwab was an associate pastor of
an Omaha Evangelical church before
being assigned to the pastorate here.
II. P. Dehnning of Elmwood and
son Albert Dehnning of Emerald,
who have been visiting and looking
after business at Big Springs and
other points in western Nebraska as
well as eastern Colorado for the past
ten days, returned home Sunday
evening. They made the trip via
automobile.
Idellia Buell, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Buell entertained a
number of her friends who are mem
bers of the Freshman class, Tuesday
evening. The party was in the nature
of a Hallowe'en celebration. Colorful
fall decorations were in evidence and
Miss Buell proved herself a most
popular hostess.
Home for Short Visit
Misses Dorothy Gakemeier and
Dorothy Gorthey. who are attending
the state Normal school at Peru, ar
rived at home last Wednesday and
visited until Sunday with the folks
here, who then took them back to
resume their school duties. The short
vacation came as a result of teachers
at the school attending the various
teachers' meetings that were held on
Thursday and Friday.
Visiting in Dakota County
A party consisting of Lacey Mc
Donald and son, John, Bryan McDon
ald and S. P. Lies were over to Da
kota county on a pheasant hunting
trip early last week, and were able
to get their full quota of bird3 in a
comparatively short time. All came
home the following day except Mr.
Leis, who remained for a visit with
his brother.
They return again the end of this
week for another pheasant hunt, and
when they come home this time, Steve
will accompany them.
Enjoyed Hallowe'en Party
The members of the Royal Neigh
bors of America enjoyed a Hallowe'en
party at their hall on Thursday of
last week, when they had a very fine
program, played games of various
kinds, ate pumpkin pie with whipped
cream thereon, ice cream, nuts, and
apples. It is not necessary to say
that everyone had a fine time for
with such fine entertainment and
good eats that is a foregone con
clusion.
C. E. Society Enjoys Party
TTnrtv-fivR voun?: people of the
Murdock Christian Endeavor society
met at the Henry Klemme home last
Tuesday evening for business and
social fellowship. Miss Maxine Mil
ler joined the organizaticm as a new
member. Four young people were
proposed for membership to be taken
into the society at a later date. The
Committee on Recreation sponsored
an amateur hour, which contributed
much mirth and laughter. During the
evening political campaigning was in
dulged in with great reality, includ
ing slogans, platforms, interviews,
radio speeches and the "election of
a president."
Callahan Church.
F. C. Weber, pastor
All services at the usual hours next
Lord's day. The church going habit
will put you into touch with the in
stitution which underlies' most that
is best in our American lite. The dif
ference between listening to a radio
sermon and going to church is the
same as the difference between call
ing a girl on the telephone and spend
ing an evening with her.
The pastor will be helping in a
preaching mission at Milford for the
next ten days.
If you are not attending services
somewhere we welcome you to a
helpful service.
Nebraska Turks
Move to Market
in Large Number
Co-operative Associations Get Grow
ers a Big Percentage of Re
tail Price Paid.
It may be a long time until
Thanksgiving when Mr. Gobbler and
all the trimmin's are on the table, but
to Nebraska turkey groweys that
market is at hand. Already birds are
moving into the eastern markets
from the Cornhusker state.
With approximately a 15 percent
increase in turkeys in Nebraska this
year over 1935 and a greater interest
in the industry, the birds will return
thousands of dollars to their owners.
The expanded production also calls
for more careful marketing. Much of
it will be done in a co-operative man
ner. Co-operatives are entering the tur
key industry each year. Success of
such organizations in western Ne
braska, in Thayer county and in Web
ster county has stimulated this mass
organization designed to bring great
est results to growers.
"A co-operative marketing asso
ciation possesrig the turkeys until
they reach the retailer is a means by
which growers may assume the risks
of marketings and thus secure for
themselves the benefits of careful
handling and good management,"
ray J. R. Redditt and J. H. Clay
baugh, extension poultrymen at the
college of agriculture.
Their statement is backed by the
fact that in 1933 one such co-operative
returned to the growers 73 per-
cent of the price consumers paid. This
is the r:ason turkey growers are so
interested in co-operative marketing.
Together with county agricultural
agents, Redditt and Claybaugh and
L. Vance have assisted in setting up
a marketing program for Nebraska
producers. Four co-operative asso
ciations, possibly five, are ombining
forces to sell their birds thru a west
ern co-operative turkey producers as
sociation. Some of these organiz
ations dress their own birds, grade
and ship them. Others are doing it
thru local poultry concerns.
The first shipment of two carloads
went out from the Eastern Nebraska
Growers' association out of Seward.
It was the forerunner of some 50,000
turkeys expected to be marketed by
that co-operative.
With the shipping of these choice
Nebraska turkeys to eastern markets,
consumers thera are assured of a high
quality product. All birds will be
graded according to U. S. department
of agriculture standards.
Cow's Diet
Chart to Save
armers Money
Er. W. F. Peterson, Minnesota Pro
fessor, Outlines Costs and Value
of Various Elements.
St. Paul, Mnn. Epicurean aspir
ations of the milch cow took a nose
dive toward a dollars and cents diet.
Eliminating guesswork on what the
cheapest cattle feed from nutritional
standpoints and when, Dr. W. F.
Peterson of the University of Minne
sota farm school announced a "cow
diet" chart.
It tells the highest price the farm
er should pay for a given feed in his
territory compared with the price of
corn, which is heavy in carbohy
drates, and cottonseed meal, high in
protein. These two products are the
"constants" of the chart.
The varying factors, other grain
and feeds, are represented by light
er lines with products containing
high protein at the cottonseed end
of the scale, and those with high
carbohydrate nearest the corn meri
dian. All the lines are marked with fig
ures representing cost in dollars per
ton. To learn what Dr. Petersen con
siders the price point of diminish
ing return on a given product, , the
farmer applies the cost of corn and
cottonseed oil.
It works like this: Farmer wants
to know how much to pay for barley
with corn at $15 a ton and cotton
seed meal at $20 a ton. He runs a
diagonal line from the "30" ef cot
tonseed to the "15" of the corn lines.
Where the diagonal intersects the
barley line, in this instance "15"
or $15, is the highest price the farm
er should pay for that feed. In the
same manner the cattle owner deter
mines the "highs" lor other feeds be
tween figures at points where these
products are crossed by the diagonal.
Phone news Items to No. 3.
WOMAN SPY IS EXECUTED
Avila, Spain. Execution of a
woman spy called "a red Mata Hari
well known in international circles"
became known. A fascist news
paper published details, saying the
woman was of carmen-like beauty in
her early thirties. She was captured
near SanMartin de Valdeiglesas in
company of a man believed to be her
husband. The courtmartial accused
her of disguising herself as a pheas
ant woman, after obtaining informa
tion about rebal troop movements,
and carrying the military informa
tion across the lines to the loyalists.
She would then return for more i
formation. The fascists did not make
public her identity
Prairie Dog War
Won by Farmers
of This County
Ecx Butte County Campaign, Profit
able at Little Cost, Draws Atten
tion of Nearby Counties.
Prairie dogs have lost their fight
for existence in Box Butte county,
and as a result 9,000 acres of pas
ture have been conserved at a saving
of $2,250 to the county each year.
Such was the summary of a recent
campaign of eradication against the
pests carried on in the northwestern
area by Nat Tolman, county agricul
tural agent, and his cooperating
farmers, together with county com
missioners. Farmers together with, Tolman
tensed the rapidly increasing num
ber of prairie dog towns last year,
(went to work to get rid of them. Ten
farmers who could be depended upon
crculated petitions in their neigh
borhoods so the county commission
ers would enforce the prairie dog
control law. This petition was filed
with the county commissioners and
called public attention to the danger.
Commissioners cooperated by buy
ing about three tons of federal mxed
poison which was immediately ship
ped into the county. Four farmers
were hired to supervise the FERA
and drouth labor used in spreading
the poison. Captains were appointed
to supervis? the spreading of the poi-
son, oeing assigneu a territory, aim
he surveyed this territory and went
out and poisoned all of the dogs. Re
cord was kept, weighing out material
used on each farm. This record was
turned into the county office, where
Tolman summarized the material and
turned it over to the county clerk.
Cost of material spread was charged
directly against the land, and prac
tically all has been colleted thru tax
ation. Not content with success in the
spring campaign, a clean-up In the
fall of 1935 was made, to be sure that
none of the dogs were alive to spread
the towhs. Today there are very few
towns in the county.
Farmers from nearby counties have
come to Alliance to secure informa
tion on how they could conduct a
similar program. The fact that 9,000
acres of land in pasture was saved
and, that the work was worth $2,250
to Box Butte county each year, im
pressed them greatly.
Phone news items to nc. 6.
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AVOCA NEWS
Attorney Charley Martin was cam
paigning in Avoca last week.
Herman Dall of Manley was call
ing on friends in Avoca one day last
week, he having formerly resided in
Weeping Water, and having many
friends here.
I Mr. and Mrs. A. Z. Thomas and
family of Shenandoah, Iowa, came
over for a Sunday visit at the home
of Mrs. Thomas' father, Postmaster
W. H. Bogaard.
Henry Maseman was unloading a
ear of sand for the Avoca lumber
yard, so they will have an abundant
supply on hand when cold weather
comes and it will no longer be pos
sible to pump and ship this com
modity. H. M. Lum, the lumberman, Mr.
and Mrs. George Shackley and Fred
Cole attended the republican ban
quet at Weeping Water last Monday
evening. They say there was plenty
of good eats and some old time polit
ical oratory as well.
Fred Marquardt was shelling his
1935 corn crop last Tuesday. As
he has a number of cattle on feed,
the grain will be used in fattening
them for market and not be shipped
out, as many have done. In fact, it
is certain Fred will have to go else
where after more corn before he fin
ishes the job.
Harvey Gollner and wife, of
Grant, were visiting in Avoca sev
eral days during the past week and
during their stay were guests at the
heme of their uncle, William Goll
ner and family. Both Harvey and hi3
wife were born southwest of Avoca,
but moved to the west when they
were married. They are engaged in
farming near Grant. During their
stay, they also visited friends in and
near Unadilla.
Canned Chicken Tuesday
Miss Leona Everett, operator at
the telephone exchange, had Miss
Mattie Voyles, working for her
last Tuesday afternoon, Leona was
canning chicken. We kinda wonder
if a piece or two of pheasant might
not have gotten into the cans along
with the chicken.
Hunted Near Plainview Sunday
Elmer Hennings, Avoca barber, in
company with his father, N. C. Hen
nings of near Louisville, a brother,
Ernest Hennings and brother-in-law,
H. Gauer, all of near Louisville, left
at a late hour last Saturday night
for Plainview, where they visited at
the home of Philip Schaeffer, an old
friend and former Cass county resi
dent, and enjoyed the forenoon out
in the fields running down the elu
sive pheasants that are quite plenti
ful in that part of the country. They
enjoyed a fine dinner before leaving
for home with bags well filled with
pheasants enough to provide all the
party with a good pheasant meal on
their arrival home.
Building New Garage
Oren Pollard, who believes it pays
:o take good care of any machine, and
especially one as costly as an auto
mobile, has just completed building
a new garage on his place, the lum
ber being obtained from Avoca and
Ed Shackley doing the work.
Got Plenty of Birds
Dr. J. W. Brendel, Avoca physi
cian, has in years past always found
time for an annual trip of a week or
so back to his boyhood home at
Zionsville, Indiana, but this year, try
as he w-ould, it seemed he just could
not get away, on account of his ser
vices being needed here. So his
cousin. Dr. O. E. Brendel and Ernest
Harvey, both of the old home town,
came out to Avoca to call on him, ar
riving last week. In company with
Carl O. Zaiser, the four of them made
up a party that went to Laurel on a
ptieasant hunting trip that netted
them their full quota of the elusive
birds. On their return, the eastern
visitors left for home, going via Mur
ray, where they stopped for a visit at
the home of their cousins, W. L. Sey
bolt and wife.
PRAISES NORMS FOR
VOTING AGAINST WAR
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 30. H. V.
Kaltenborn of Brooklyn, N. Y., radio
news commentator, praised Senator
George W. Norris today for voting
against the United States' entrance
in the world war.
He addressed delegates to the Lin
coln district, Nebraska Teachers' as
eociation. "I have heard," Kaltenborn said,
"that the fact that Senator Norris
voted against Uie nation entering in
to the world war is being used
against him in the present campaign.
I would congratulate the senator for
his vote."
Coast foresees New Boom
From Boulder Dam Power
Huge Project to Supply Pacific States
With Water as Well as Current
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International Illustrated News
Feature Writer
LOS ANGELES One of man's
mightiest achievements has become a
reality as power flows into Los An
geles from Boulder dam more than
270 miles away.
Although power has net yet been
made available for commercial dis
tribution, current is now being ser
viced to numerous clients and trans
mission lines will seon supply all of
southern California. By carrying to
successful conclusion a project which
has been one of the most ambitious
ever attempted, sponsors are making
history with regard to what may be
expected in the future of municipal
power distribution.
Los Angeles and vicinity antici
pate numerous benefits to result from
their hookup- with Boulder dam.
Cheaper and more abundant power
will mean industrial expansion, more
conveniences for the home through
electrical appliances and a better
lighted city.
Earn Boon to Irrigation
And in another couple of years
Boulder dam will also be pouring
water across the mountains in huge
aqueducts which will supply nearly
all of lower California. This will be
a boon to the small farmer and fruit
raiser who will be able to irrigate,
a process not too costly. California
Corn Standards
are Revised for
More Exactitude
Must Ee Labeled as a Mixture if 5
Percent of Flint Corn Is
in Dent Corn.
Washington. Changes in official
corn standards for this country, ef
fective Jan. 20, are announced bj the
agriculture department.
Revisions are in classifications of
flint corn, dent corn, and mixtures
of flint and dent, and are said to
assure "a greater degree of deiinite
ness than under current standards."
Most of the corn crop of this coun
try is the dent variety, which has a
dent in the kernels and is softer than
the flint "variety, which has a hard
round kernel.
Under the new regulations when
corn is 05 percent flint it must be
graded as flint; when a mixture of
flint and d?nt contains more than
5 percent flint it must be graded
"flint and dent." Formerly a mixture
could contain up to 25 percent flint
without being designated as contain
ing flint.
The federal standards arc man
datory for all corn in interstate com
merce and are used in almost all
transactions in this grain.
Federal experts said much of the
corn being imported this year be
cause of the shortage caused by
drouth in the domestic yield, was of
the flint or hard variety. Mixtures
is admittedly cne of the "fruit bas
kets" of the world and will produce
crops many times their present value
when irrigation brings the greatest
posible yield from the fertile soil.
More than $30,000,000 was spent
in constructing the 270-mile power
line which links Lcs Angeles with
the dam. It took approximately four
years to build by an army of 1,000
men. There are
2,700 steel towers
1,000 feet apart
which carry the
transmission line composed of six hol
low tube conductors.
15 Turbines to Be Installed
One of the dangers against which
engineers had to safeguard in build-
ling the line was lighting. Steed guard
wires atop the towers and copper pro
tectors buried underground afford
the best possible protection.
Some conception of the size of
Boulder dam and what it means for
Los Angeks and vicinity is suggest
ed by comparison of the plant with
other units. It has a capacity great
er than Muscle Ehoals and Niagara
Falls poweV plants combined and will
have in operation 15 giant 115,000
horsepower turbines when completed.
Ten acrss of floor spac; comprise
the huge power plant at the base of
the 72G-foot high dam.
When the Colorado river backs up
to its potential height, as governed
by the dam, a reservoir will havo
b:cn created which covers more than
CO. 000, 000 acres.
of the flint and dent varieties pre
sent difficulties to feeders and pro
cessors of corn.
SEEK PACT ON RAIL LAND
Washington. The federal grazing
division contemplated negotiations
with railroads in public land rtates
looking toward joint regulations
governing railroad lands and adja
cent public domain leased for grac
ing. Division officials said the forth
coming conferences would seek a c
oprative management plan ur.d?r
which grazing leases would be "ai-
j ministe red to the mutual bene fit of
i the government and the railroads."
Farrington R. Carpenter, division
director, already has scheduled con
ferences with railway officials in
several states during his current tour
of government grazing districts in
the west.
The Washington office raid a
"checkerboard" ownership of land in
public domain areas, both by the rail
roads and the government, r. suited
in certain conflicts in use of the land
which co-operative agreements would
seek to remove.
Julian Terrett, acting grazing di
rector, said agreements, if reached,
probably would involve "transfer of
the use of certain lands between the
government and the railroads with
ea.h recognizing the lessees cf the
other."
Small factories writ nnd splen
did opportunities to expand Here.
Among them, forthcoming river
navigation with its resultant Sow
shipping costs.
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