HEWS OF THE WEEK
CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
IIB0IUN6 DOWN OF EVENTS
National, Political, Personal and Other
Matters in Brief Form for All
Classes of Readers.
WAR NEWS.
The first shipment of cotton from
the United States bound for Germany
since the war began has reached Rot
terdam.
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A report from Fredrichshafen by
way of Geneva says that in the recent
British aerial raid on Cuxhaven one
of the latest super-Zeppelins was de
stroyed by bombs.
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The loss of the French submarine
Curie is confirmed. The Curie was
engaged in an attempt against the
warships at the Austrian naval base
of Pola and ventured there alone.
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The Belgian borders have been
closed by the German administration
to all persons except those holding
special military passes. This measure,
It is understood, has been taken to
prevent espionage.
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Four German aeroplanes flew sever
al times over the city of Dunkirk,
dropping bombs as they went. Sol
diers in the streets fired on the ma
chines and one tube seemed to be hit,
but all got safely away.
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Italy has ordered the cruiser Cala
bria at Beirut, Syria, to render any
necessary aid to the American Cruiser
North Carolina should there be further
demonstrations against the departure
of Europeans from Turkish territory.
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The British government, through
the naval and military authorities,
apparently fearing a raid over British
towns by German airships, has issued
a warning to the people to take to
cover should the sound of firing be
heard.
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The Russian government has author
ized the official news agency to de
ny in the most categorical manner the
statement that Russia has ceded to
Japan half the island of Sakhalan, in
exchange for heavy artillery. It is as
serted that the report is absolutely un
founded.
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Total losses to Scandinavian ship
ping through mine disasters were as
follows up to mid December: Sweden,
eight ships and sixty lives; Denmark,
six vessels and six lives; Norway,
five vessels and six lives: Holland
three vessels and fifteen lives. The
total financial loss for the twenty
two ships and their cargoes will reach
nearly $10,000,000.
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The United States has invited
the South and Central America gov
ernments to send representatives to
Washington to confer with the treas
ury department officials and American
financiers on financial and commer
cial problems arising from the Euro
pean war, with the idea of bringing
the two continents into closer com
mercial relations.
GENERAL.
From 10 to 11 o’clock in the morn
ing and from 10 to 11 o’clock at
night are the hours when a boy or
girl can do the best work in school,
according to Prof. Frank E. Lake of
Boston, who spoke before the Na
tional Commercial Teachers’ feder
ation at Chicago.
More than 150 prominent prelates
of the Catholic church throughout
Minnesota, Wisconsin and North and
South Dakota, paid honor to the right
Rev, James McGolrick at a dinner at
the Kitchi Gammi club at Duluth, in
celebration of the twenty-fifth anni
versary of his consecration to the
bishopric of Duluth.
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Republican leaders of Minnesota,
seeking rehabilitation of the party in
this state, met at St. Paul and per
fected an organization to be known
as the Republican league, elected tem
porary officers, issued various plans
for strengthening the party, and de
cided to hold a state convention not
later than July 1, 1915.
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Brigadier General Robert Henry
Hall, retired veteran of the civil and
the Spanish wars, died at Chicago.
He was born in Detroit seventy-seven
years ago.
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Foot and mouth disease is held re
sponsible for a decrease from last year
of $19,000,000 in the value of live
stock received during 1914 at the
Chicago Union Yard the largest in the
world, according to a report by the
Union Stock Yards and transit com
pany.
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Two big fleets of aircraft are being
built by France for attacks next spring
on Germany, according to Pedro
Chaps, Mexican aviator, who has re
turned to New York after four years
in Europe.
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Members of the prohibition party
from Kansas, Iowa and Missouri will
meet in Kansas City January 3, to
launch a new campaign to last 120
days, in an effort to get the names of
5,000,000 voters on petitions for na
tional prohibition before the question
again comes up in congress.
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The receivers of the St. Louis &
San Francisco railroad were author
ized by Judge Sanborn in the St
Louis district court, to borrow
$3,000,000 on receivers’ certificates,
paying 6 per cent interest
It is stated by Chicago charity peo
ple that one-tenth of the population
of that city receives public charity.
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Another new high price record for
wheat was attained at Portland, when
a sale of 5,000 bushels of red fife was
made at $1.23, and 5,000 bushels of
red Russian sold at the same price.
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Mrs. Margarite Snyder of Rockford,
111., was sentenced to four years in
the penitentiary for conspiracy to de
fraud the estate of John Robert ot
Tacoma. Her claim as granddaugh
ter of Robert was thrown out of
couft.
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The utilities bureau, .through which
It is proposed that municipalities
throughout the country may co-operta
in exchanging data concerning rates,
service standards and cost factors in
public utilities, was permanently or
ganized at Philadelphia.
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Rules of conduct of amateur ath
letes, the violation of which will be
considered unsportsmanlike, ungentle
manly and dishonorable, were recom
mended by a special committee of the
athletic research society in annual
session at Chicago.
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A motion by eastern railroads to
enjoin a new freight rate on granite
effective January 1 was denied by
three judges sitting in the Omaha
federal court. The tariff had been or
dered some time ago by the Interstate
Commerce commission and a stay of
execution had been asked by the rail
ways affected.
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Fifty-five new year pardons, par
oles and communtations were granted
by Governor Blease of South Carolina,
reduced the number of prisoners in
the state penitentiary, at the state
farms and in county convict camps to
149. The governor's action put the
total number of prisoners to whom he
has granted clemency in his four years
of office at 1,544.
WASHINGTON.
Another warning was given by the
State department to Americans con
templating travel abroad that they
must provide themselves with proper
passports.
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The Interstate Commerce commis
sion has ordered a hearing to be held
at\Omaha on January 14 in the case
of Abel Roberts agmnst the Missouri
Pacific Railroad company.
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American farms during 1914 eclipsed
all records tor combined value of their
products, with a total of almost ten
billion dollars, announced Secretary
Houston, of the department of agricul
ture.
The German government has noti
fled the state department that Ameri
can consuls in Belgium must be ac
ceptable to the German military au
thorities, and that it is desirable that
some of the consuls be withdrawn.
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Advancs of approximately 2 cents
a hundred pounds in the freight rates
on cement from all the principal ce
ment-producing points west of the
Mississippi river in trunk line terri
tory, were sustained in part by the
interstate commerce commission.
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A bill to authorize the legislature
of Hawaii to extend the right of suf
frage to women was introduced in the
house by Delegate Kalanianolo. The
measure would permit the legislature
to submit the question to a popular
referendum.
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Creation of a tariff board to be
composed of one member appointed
by the president and four named,
respectively, by the majority and
minority of the senate finance and
house ways and means committees
is proposed in a bill introduced by
Representative Mann.
Venezuela has formally proposed to
all the neutral governments of Eftrope
and Asia, as well as the two Ameri
cas, that a conference be held in
Washington to revise or supplement
the rules of International law respect
ing the rights of neutrals in the pres
ent war.
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Nearly half a million dollars was
spent by candidates of all parties last
November in the first popular election
of United States senators in the his
tory of the government. To be exact
$460,777.25 represents the total of
sworn statements filed with the -sec
retary of senatorial honors from thir
ty-one states.
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Woman suffragists who called on
Representative Henry, chairman of
the house rules committee, learned
that the proposed suffrage constitu
tional amendment probably would he
voted on in the house January 12. Mr.
Henry said he expected to see the
amendment defeated by more than a
two-thirds vote.
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Mediation by the federal depart
ment of labor in the eastern Ohio coal
strike was sought by Representative
Francis of Ohio. About 15,000 men
are idle in this territory and Secre
tary Wilson was asked to make an
effort to adjust the dierenffces and
put the miners back to work.
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A ?n0 per cent increase in exports
of foodstuffs from the United States,
due principally to the European war,
characterized the foreign trade of No
vember, compared with that month a
year ago.
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President Wilson favors the passage
of the Jones, Philipino bill during the
present session. Officials close to the
White House believe that the recent
troubles would net affect Mr. Wilson’s
advocacy of the bill, in view of the
quieting reports received by the War
department.
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The $135,000,000 cotton loan fund
plan to finance the surplus cotton
crop was approved unanimously by
representatives of committees which
are to aid in handling the fund in the
southern, states.
15,000 TON VESSEL DESTROYED
BY GERMAN SUBMARINE.
NEARLY ENTIRE GREW PERISH
Other Vessels Near At Hand But
Orders to Look Out for' Own Safety
Prevented Further Loss.
London.—One more British battle
ship has paid toll to the Germans for
the patrol of the English channel and
North sea coast.
Struck by a torpedo from a sub
marine operating with Zeebrugge as
its base, the Formidable, of 15,000
tons, went to the bottom of the chan
nel New Year's Day, taking with her
600 of her crew.
It is believed the battleship was
acting as flagship of the squadron
that for weeks had been co-operating
with the allied land forces against
the Germans on the Belgian coast.
Submarines frequently have made
unsuccessful sorties against this
squadron. As a flagship the comple
ment of the Formidable was 810 of
ficers and men. Eighty survivors
were picked up by a British light
cruiser. Of the rescued eight are of
ficers and six midshipmen.
For days a gale, decreasing gradu
ally in violence, had been whipping
the waters of the channel and the
North sea into foam. Without the
slightest warning the 800 men aboard
the battleship felt their great craft
thrown from the water, and then
came a tremendous explosion that
seemed to tear the steel structure
apart as though it were a ship of
cardboard. i
The fact that the vessel disappear
ed almost immediately led the sur
vivors to conclude that the explosion
of a mine or torpedo detonated one
of the ship’s magazines. The esti
mates of the time she floated after
receiving tyer death wound vary from
five to twenty minutes, but the short
er space/ is regarded as the more
probable 4 since the casualty list con
cievable tnight be smaller had she
remained above the surface for any
appreciable time.
The Formidable, while an old war
ship, having been launched in 1898
and completed in 190X, nevertheless
had already rendered useful service
in fighting. Off-coast losses to the
British navy have been expected
daily owing to the fact that the Brit
ish war vessels deliberately were
taking risks to aid the land cam
paign.
The admiralty statement indicates
that other vessels of the squadron
were nea^ the Formidable when she
sank and it is the firm belief that
only the orders for each vessel to
look out for its own safety prevented
further loss.
Constantinople Fears Attack.
Athens.—According to Constanti
nople advices which have reached
here the Austrian and German em
bassies in the Turkish capital are
transferring their archives to Asia
Minor, fearing that action is immi
nent by the British and French fleets
against Dardanelles and the capital.
Foreigners, it is stated, are also pre
paring to quit the capital for the in
terior.
Boy Killed Coasting.
Salt Lake City, Utah—One boy was
killed, two probably fatally injured
and three others seriously injured
when a bobsled on which they were
coasting crashed into a street car.
The sled, which was travelling at a
terrific speed down a steep incline,
got beyond control and at the foot of
the hill hit the car as the latter came
to a stop on a curve. The motorman
saw the sled coming and stopped his
car, hoping thereby to avoid confus
ing the coasters. Before he had op
portunity to back his car from the
corner the sled hit the front truck
and the boys were thrown against
the car and to the pavement.
Kansas Will Join in Rate Fight.
Topeka, Kan.—Kansas will join Ne
braska, Oklahoma. Iowa, Minnesota
and the Dakotas in opposing the in
creased freight rates on grain order
ed by the western railroads and sus
pended by >.ie interstate commerce
commission until Marcli 31, it has
been announced by the Kansas board
of public utilities. The increased
rates would cost Kansas farmers
more than $500,000 yearly, members
of the commission said.
Austrian Dreadnaught Torpedoed.
London.—A dispatch to the Daily
Mail from Venice contains a report
that a French torpedo boat lias tor
pedoed the Austrian dreadnought
Viribus Unitis at Pola.
Distress Among Prisoners.
Washington.—American relief for
70.000 German and Austrian prisoners
of war scattered through Siberia, in
prison camps and said to be in need of
clothing and medical supplies, is being
sought by the American Red Cross
relief society.
Navigation Meet.
1 Omaha.—St. Joe, Nebraska City.
Plattsmoulh and Sioux City and some
other river cities will send delegates
to the navigation meeting here, Janu
ary 8.
New Arkansas Liquor Law.
Little Rock, Ark.—Ushering in of
the new year witnessed the tempo
rary closing of every saloon in Ar
kansas. and marked the second an
nual statewide closing under the pro
visions of the Going law, which went
Into eellct more than a year ago.
Report Untrue.
Tokio.—The foreign office says the
reports in circulation that Japanese
troops have landed at Vladivostok, or
at any other place on their way to
Europe are absolutely untrue.
NEBRASKA
STATE NEWS
From a census taken last June Al
liance shows a population of 5,110.
Horse disease In Cass county has
carried off $10,000 worth of animals.
The Wymore pet and live stock
show was held December 21 and 24.
Citizens of York contributed 286
sacks of flour toward the relief of the
Belgians.
Governor Morehead is now prepar
ing his message to the legislature. He
urges economy.
Price records for wheat at Hastings
were broken Saturday when prices
reached $1.08.
Fifty-one Hastings families who
went to Colorado beet fields last sum
mer, have returned.
A human finger, apparently torn
from some person’s hand, was found
in an alley at Lincoln.
Over thirteen hundred more boys
were bom in Nebraska in 1914 than
in the previous year.
Plans for a new armory building to
be erected at Hastings, are being
drawn by an architect.
Five petitions for divorce have been
filed in the Johnson county district
court in a little over a week.
W. H. Shilvers. 79, died recently at
Plainview. He homesteaded where
the town of Plainview is in 1851.
Fire destroyed the garage owned
by R. A. Duff at Nebraska City, with
all of its contents, including ten au
tomobiles.
The West Point Milling company
has shipped 100 sacks of flour, the do
nation of the citizens of West Point,
to Belgian sufferers.
C. W. Harper, Holdrege cigarmaker,
accused of passing worthless checks
to obtain funds for Christmas shop
ping. has been returned to Holdrege
from Hastings.
Harvesting of ice is in progress at
Table Rock. Ice from eight to ten
inches thick is being obtained. The
ice harvest at Tecumseh is expected
to start, soon.
Convicted of embezzlement, M. J.
O’Connell, former Justice of the peace
at North Platte, was sentenced to the
state prison for a term of from one
to seven years.
Charged with attempting a $25,000
swindle on the D. V. Slides company,
real estate dealers of Omaha, with a
worthless mortgage, J. W. O’Connell
of Purdum, Neb., was arrested.
R. A. Wylie, formerly district, man
ager of the Lincoln Telephone and
Telegraph company at Hastings, has
resigned his position as a special
agent to enter the insurance field.
Henry Heidelk, constable and spe
cially deputized marshal at Jansen,
was probably fatally wounded when
he attempted to stop a family quar
rel at the home of Rock Island section
men.
Paul Reed. 11-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. Reed of Hastings, was
unconscious for several hours after
missing his grip on a “flying ring”
and falling to the floor of the Y. M.
C. A. gymnasium, recently.
William Hayward, formerly of Ne
braska and well known in Omaha and
the state, will become legal adviser
to Governor-elect Whitman of New
York on January 1, according to offi
cial announcement from New York.
Presumably to keep himself from
deteriorating physically from the in
activity of jail life, Roy Roberts,
being held at North Platte on a
charge of killing Vernon Connett Au
gust 2, spends much of his time in
clog dancing.
The Peru Commercial club gave a
banquet to members of the legisla
ture from that section of Nebraska.
Wednesday evening. A number of
leading senators and representatives
and prominent men from other parts
of the state were present.
One of the largest amounts ever
asked for personal injuries in the dis
trict court at Omaha, is $250,000,
asked in a petition filed by Mrs.
Gladys E. Short against the Clarkson
Memorial hospital. Dr. A. B. Somers
and Ellen Stewart, bead nurse.
John C. Byrnes of Columbus, chair
man of the democratic state central
committee in 1909, 1910 and 1911, was
recommended to President Wilson by
Senator Hitchcock as internal reve
nue collector for Nebraska fo suc
ceed Ross Hammond of Fremont.
President J. A. Ollls and Secretary
H. ,T. Gramlich of the Nebraska Im
proved Live Stock Breeders' associa
tion have announced an important se
ries of programs for the live stock
section of organized agriculture. These
meetings will be held in Lincoln,
January 18-23.
One of the Christmas presents
which came to Governor Morehead
was a large oil painting of a buffalo
cow and her calf, showing a charac
teristic western scene, with a light
mantle of snow on the earth, and
mountains in the background. The
gift came from Miles J. Maryott of
Oshkosh, who made the picture.
Superintendent Fast of the institu
tion for feeble-minded at Beatrice,
in his annual report favors more ex
tensive training.
The number of silos in Hawes
county has been doubled this year.
A silo day was observed by many of
the farmers.
With practically a whole year gone
by since the electric light, power and
heat rates of the Hastings municipal
plant were cut fifty per cent. Mayor
Ingraham as well as Light Commis
sioner Cloyd are positive that other
cuts will be possible within the early
future.
Hazel Boop, ten-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Boop, living
near Johnson, sustained a, badly
broken limb by being run over by an
automobile, while returning from
school.
Walter Sammons and Delbert Smith,
both of Kearney, were sentenced in
federal court at Omaha for the rob
bery of the Kearney postoflice last
Christmas. Sammons had been found
guilty and Smith plead guilty to the
charge. Sammons was sentenced to
two and one-half years in the peni
tentiary, but has asked for a new
trial.
MORE ROYS III 1914
BIRTH RECORDS SHOW BOYS
LEAD BY 1,300.
12,157 WEDDINGS TOOK PLACE
Total Number of Deaths 10,735 Dur
ing Year, 519 Less Than <
Last Year.
Lincoln—There were 14,002 boy
babies born in Nebraska during the
year 1914, and 1,300 fewer girls. The
:otal number of children bom was
46,704. The figures are given in the
annual vital statistical review of the
state board of health.
In the year there were 12,157 wed
lings and 2,159 attempts to separate.
Nine hundred and seventy of these
were based on charges of cruelty.
Douglas county led other counties
with 635 attemptl at divorce, of
which only 438 were successful, as
far as obtaining the decrees was con
cerned.
Two couples in the state who
were listed in this category had been
narried between forty and forty-five
years. A total of 1,375 couples had
been married less than five years.
There were a total of 10,735 deaths
luring the year, a better showing
'.lian was made during the last year,
when the total was 11,254. The birth
*.otal was 600 above that of 1913,
while the marriage total was slightly
below that of last year.
There were 175 suicides reported
‘.his year, as against 169 last year.
Railway accidents were responsible
for seventy-four deaths in 1914 and
sixty-six last year.
Finishes Big Bond.
Lincoln. — State Treasurer-elect
George Hall has completed his bond
lor $1,000,000. The subrogated insur
ance contracts have been entered into
ay nine other companies besides the
Boston company, which is the main
company making the deal. The Bos
ton company whicli receives the main
part of the bond is the Massachus
etts Bonding and Insurance com
pany and carries $233,000 of the
amount.
1 he bond has not yet been filed, al
though it has been approved by the
insurance commissioner. The aggre
;ate capital of the ten companies car
rying the bond is over $10,000,000 and
they have assets of over $38,000,000.
Mr. Hall has made another appoint
ment for his office force, having se
lected Miss May Holland, who has
peen stenographer in the office of the
secretary of state for several years,
as stenographer in the office of the
state treasurer. In making the ap
pointment Mr. Hall says he expects
to cut down the office force somewhat
and the ability of Miss Holland to do
clerical work of all kinds besides that
•>f stenographer, with the strong dem
tcratic endorsement in her favor, led
him to make the appointment.
This appointment with that of Wil
liam H. Murray as deputy, is all that
Mr. Hall has made so far.
Ollis for Senate Scribe.
Senator J. A. Ollis of Ord. farmer,
stockman and statesman, will prob
ably be a candidate for the position
of secretary of the senate, according
to information given out by some of
Ollis’ very clpse friends. Ollis has
served several terms in the state
senate; was a leader in all cf them,
being closely allied with the farming
and stock interests of the state.
New Bookkeeping Plan Urged.
George Weidenfield, bookkeeper in
the Board of Control, lias prepared a
aew system of bookkeeping for state
Institutions which is said to be along
the lines of a better keeping of ac
counts. It classifies the departments
of each institution under four heads
and divides the several items so they
are kept separately.
Race for Floor Leadership.
The fact that republicans are In the
minority of the coming house will not
prevent them from having a spirited
race for the floor leadership. J. H.
Mockett of Lincoln, veteran of the
Job for several sessions, is to have
opponents in the persons of James
Nichols of Madison and Dennis
Cronin.
May Secure Dr. Condra.
Officials of the University of West
Virginia are dickering with Dr. G. E.
Condra of the state university, in the
hope that they can land the Nebras
kan for the presidency of their insti
tution. No definite offer has been
made, it is said, but negotiations may
extend that far within a short time.
Before Supreme Court.
Validity of Omaha's ordinance, re
quiring public sen-ice corporations
to elevate their overhead wires when
ever required to do so by house mov
ers, is to be tried by the supreme
court.
Will Discuss Grape Industry.
Commercial grape-growing in Ne
braska will be discussed in detail at
the session of the state horticultural
society Thursday morning. January
21, during the w-eek of organized ag
riculture, January 18 to 23.
College Steers Sell for 11.5 Cents.
All records at the South Omaha
Stock Yards were broken the other
day when the college of agriculture
received 11.5 cents a pound for two
steers. One sold for $1 * 8.25. The
carcass of one of the steers w-hen
freshly dressed, weighed a trifle over
70 per cent of its live weight Five of
the steers of the lot sold for $750.
Some of the stock sold was to have
been entered at the International
Live Stock Exposition at Chicago had
it not been cancelled on account of
the foot and moutly disease.
ROAD *
BUILDING
EFFECTIVE WORK ON ROADS
Pulling a Drag Through Mud When
Soil Is Sticky Is Waste of Time—
Farmers Work Together.
We have a road drag club of 33
members that has been in existence
for nearly two years. About a third
Df the members own drags and these
ire in use nearly all the time. It is
jijderBtood that any member has a
perfect right to hitch to anybody’s
Irag that is not in use.
We have learned a good many
things about road dragging since we
started, writes W. D, Dennis of Mis
souri in Farm Progress. Dragging a
road is not quite as simple as it looks
and there are some kinds of dragging
that are not worth doing. For in
stance we have found that pulling a
drag through the mud when the soil is
sticky enough to cling to the drag is
i waste of time.
Nor do we ever drag a road that is
bone dry. All the good that does is
to heap the dust in the center of the
highway. Of course, we have no one
in the club who has authority to send
a man home if he wants to drag a
road in dry and dusty weather, but it
is understood that such road work is
foolish and no one does it.
Drive the team at a walk, always,
Is another of our unwritten rules.
You don't want the drag bounding and
hopping along, leaving ihe road sur
Harrisburg Road, Near Houston, Texas
face dragged in places and skipped in
others. Slow and steady does the best
work.
We have no heavy drags. A few
months’ experience showed us they
w-ere not what we wanted. WTe use
light drags, pulled over the road at
about the regulation angle of 45 de
grees. This pulls a small amount of
earth over to the center of the high
way and firms the whole wheel path.
We have a 60-foot highway. Natur
ally we do not try to drag all of that
surface. What we try to maintain is
a roadway of about twenty feet in
width. We begin in the center and try
to first get a good wheel track width
in fair shape. As soon as this is done
the drags are lapped a little farther
over into the undragged roadway at
the sides.
We drag the roads as soon as pos
sible after every rain. The best work
is done after a rain and just before
the road surface begins to harden as
it dries. One side of the wheel path is
taken going in one direction, and the
other side is smoothed up on the re
turn trip. Half a dozen drags on a
road after a spring rain will work
wonders. Keep this up a few weeks
and you are able to build the center
of the road up to a height of from
ten to twelve inches above the level of
the edges. This gives a good drain
age and makes the future dragging
easier and much more effective.
Road dragging is something that
must be kept up continually. Eternal
dragging is the price we have to pay
for dirt roads that are above the av
erage. If we paid for the work put on
them it would probably cost us all of
$10 and maybe $12 a mile for the
year. Some years the roads will re
quire much more work than in others
because of the w-eather conditions.
The amount of traffic anil the nature
of the soil on which the road is built
are other factors that affect the
amount of dragging necessary.
There are some spots in every road
that should be graded and filled be
fore you can expect to do very much
' with the drag. A drag will not help
these bad spots much. Get them fixed
up once, though, and you won’t have
much trouble in keeping them in shape
with the drag.
Reduce All Grades.
Reduce all grades to at least five per
cent If possible. In some states roads
are laid out on section lines and hills
must be gone over, but where possible
avoid steep grades, as these are a con
stant cost for maintenance and danger
ous to travel.
Work Systematically.
The way to build a good road is
to work at it systematically and con
tinuously. You can't do a little now
and then and have it come out the
way you want it in the long run.
Ask Aid of Commissioners.
If there Is a highway commission in
your state have them help you im
prove your roads. They can offer sug
gestions that will be a lasting benefit
if observed.
Cement for Culverts.
Nothing is better for culverts and
small bridges than cement. Re-enforce
all over a two-foot span.
Make Permanent Improvements.
It never pays to patch a poor road
or a poor bridge or culvert.
It is impossible
io be strong
and robust if
handicapped
by a weak
stomach or
lazy liver; but
you can help
Nature conquer
them with the
assistance of
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ALMOST THE WHOLE SH^
Prompter Had Done Much for the
Actors, but It Seemed It
Wasn’t Enough.
In the production of a play th-re
is an important person who is never
seen and should not be heard b;- the
audience, and yet he may speak awit
lines than the prim ipal acter. It is
the prompter.
Here is a description of a prompt
er’s labors, w’ritten by one of the
genus:
“I, as prompter, had been ke; ;
busy throughout the piece. In
tion to keeping the actors
lines, it was my duty to make
outside noises. I had
I had shouted ‘Kill him!’ I
planks to cover up deficient
ports. I had thundered, ha^ed.
sung like a woman, married lik- an
army, and howled like an invar ..ted
rabble inflated by drink. The last
straw came when the hero, supposed
to be pursued by hounds, sidled t,
the wings and hissed:
‘“Bark, you fool, bark! Why . n :
you bark, you idiot?’”
GRANDMA USED SAGE TEA
TO DARKEN HER GRAi
She Made Up a Mixture of
and Sulphur to Bring B
Gloss, Thickne
Almost everyone know^^7- itae
Tea and Sulphur, properly comp
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lustre to the hair when fad?d. sir ak
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Don’t stay gray! Try it! No one
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and evenly. You dampen a sponge or
soft brush with it and draw this
through your hair, taking one small
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beautifully dark, thick and glossy —
Adv.
A Different Thing.
“Did Bill break his poor old fa:her*
heart by his gambling?”
“Not much; he broke the bank
Most particular women use Red CV>*n
Ball Blue. American made. Sure t ; b.«-e
At all good grocers. Adv.
When the right girl meets the right
young man, the parson's wife gets a
chance to go buying instead of shop
^ The xjl
last drop |f
—is temptingly de
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will like Van Houtens
Rona Cocoa. Big red
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25c
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