HEWS OFTHE WEEK
CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
II BOILING GOWN OF EVENTS
National, Political, Personal and Other
Matters in Brief Form for All
Classes of Readers.
WAR NEWS.
As a reprisal against Great Britain
for seizure from steamships cf par
cels post packages. Sweden has
prohibited the exportation of wood
ptiip to that country.
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During the war until November 30,
1915. a total of 1.073 British seamen
have been lost on merchant vessels
torpedoed or blown up by mines, it
was officially stated in London.
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The total casualties in the entire
German army for the year number
2,535,788, according to an announce
ment made in the House of Commons
by the parliamentary under --ecretary
for war.
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An Amsterdam correspondent re
ports that the Belgian spy. Cels, who
exposed Edith Cavell, English nurse,
and caused her execution by the Ger
mans, was assassinated in a village
near Brussels.
A Malta correspondent reports that
fifty members of the crew of the Brit
ish steamer Clan MacFarlane, which
was torpedoed in the Mediterranean
Sea December 30, are still missing
and have been given up as lost.
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Armenian refugees arriving at
Servian and Russian trancausia, state
that 1,500 Armenians who were forced
by cold and famine to surrender to
the Turks were killed by order of the
governor of Mush. The men were
massacred, and the women and
children drowned in the Euphrates
river.
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Forced by necessity, German indus
try has solved another serious prob
lem. As all leather obtainable is nec
essary for the armies, the question of
furnishing footwTear to the population
greatly troubled the authorities. A
factory at Helleray near Dresden has
solved the problem. It is now pro
ducing thousands of pairs of good,
serviceable shoes made of a substitu
tion for leather.
The controversy between Great
Britain and Sweden over the deten
tion of mails has reached an impasse,
with botii sides stubbornly refu ing
to allow its rival’s mails to be expe
dited through the respective coun
tries. Sweden now is holding an en
ormous ipiantity of the English post
destined for Russia, while mail is
1>eing taken from every Scandinavian
liner brought into Kirkwall, Scotland.
GENERAL.
Announcement that Senator A. B.
Cummins of Iowa is a candidate for
the republican presidential nomina
tion and looks to Nebraska for its
support in the national convention,
was made by Frank A. Harrison of
Lincoln.
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"Unless American food supplies are
allowed free export, America puts an
embargo on arms and war munitions.”
This is the brief statement of a policy
that Representative Steenerson has
proposed for adoption by President
Wilson.
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Striking copper miners in mass
meeting at Clifton, Ariz., adopted re
solutions to return to work for a
period of fifteen days at a scale of
wages offered by the mine managers,
based upon copper selling at 2-1 cents
a pound.
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In gratitude for services rendered
by the Red Cross after the Cherry,
111., mine disaster in 1909, Polish la
borers and their families at Cherry
have contributed from their savings
a fund of $3,000 for use of the Red
Cross agents for relief work in
Poland.
Exports valued at between $19*1,.
000,000 and $192,000,000 were shipped
from the port of New York during De
cember, according to estimates com
piled at the customs house. Muni
tions were the leading items.
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Five persons including one woman,
were indicted in New York, charged
•with conspiring to ship rubber secret
ly to the German government in viola
tion of United States custom laws.
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A third of the city of Bergen. Nor
way, a thriving seaport with a popu
lation of 90,000, was destroyed by
fire, and 2,000 persons made home
less. The property damage is esti
mated at $20,000,000. The conflagra
tion is said to he the worst ever re
corded in that country.
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The population of New York state
is 9.687,744, according to the repori
of the state census taken last June
and submitted to the legislature at
Albany. Of this total, 5,047,221 are
residents of Greater New York.
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New York is the wealthiest state in
the union, but it pays some of its girl
stenographers only $4.60 a week.
These young women, working at the
capitol in Albany get less than half
what^the state’s civil service commis
sion has said is enough for a girl to
live on decently.
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District Judge Ayres of Des Moines
granted the petition of the American
Express company to remove the
liquor delivery suit against that com
pany to the United States court for
the southern district of Iowa.
Petitions to place President Wil
son's name on the Minnesota ballot
were filed with the secretary of state
at St. Paul a few days ago.
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The Bethlehem Steel corporation of
New York declared a dividend of $30
a share on its common stock out of
earnings of the year 1915, payable in
quarterly installments.
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Norway is the latest successful for
eign applicant for financial assistance
in this country, the National City
bank, it w as announced at New York,
having purchased $5,000,000 6 per
cent gold bonds issued by that govern
ment.
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Indictcnmts were returned by the
grand jury in Chicago against Irving
anu Herbert Updike for canspiracy to
kill their wealthy parents and sister.
The Indictments also named in the
conspiracy “several others unknown
to the jury."
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A speed of 21.47 knots was reached!
by the supcrdreadnought Oklahoma in
one mile of its standardization run off
Owl’s head. Maine, exceeding the best
record of its rival, the Nevada, the
only other ship of its type, by a little
less than half a knot.
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Danger of foreign aggression will
confront the United States after tho
European war is over, no matter
which side wins, Hudson' Maxim,
member of the naval advisory board,
declared in an address before the
chamber of commerce at New Haven.
Military training in the colleges is
treated as the subject of greatest im
portance in the annual report of Pres
ident Lawrence Lowell of Harvard
university. The need of an ample
supply of trained officers, he said,
could find no better material than the
students in college.
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Professors in colleges supervised by
the Methodist Episcopal church may
be paid an annual pension of $1,000
on retiring at the age of 65 and be
insured for $10,000 up to that age un
der a plan advocated by President
Samuel Plants of Lawrence college at
a meeting at Chicago.
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Poverty is the principal cause of
immorality, lack of a minimum wage
for girls and women of $8 a week and
unregulated conditions of domestic
employment rendering the home in
many cases a breeding place for com
mercialized vice, according to a re
port of the Illinois senate white slave
investigation committee.
SPORTING.
Freddie Welsh, lightweight cham
pion. was outboxed by Eddie McAn
drews, a Pennsylvania product, in a
six-round bout at Philadelphia.
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Members of the schedule commi
ttee of the National and American
Baseball leagues announced that the
1916 base ball season would open on
April 12, and that 154 games would be
played.
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Johnny Dundee and Joe Mandot,
lightweights, have been matched for
a twenty-round bout in New Orleans
on Feb. 21, Dundee’s manager an
ncunced. He added Freddie Welsh,
lightweight champion, had agreed to
meet the winner March 4, also in New'
Orleans.
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Jess Willard, heavyweight cham
pion pugilist, signed for a fight with
Frank Moran of Pittsburg at Kansas
City. The fight, which will be held in
New York, will be ten rounds, it was
announced. No definite date was set
for the match, which will be held
some time between Apirl 10 and 22.
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Mike Gibbons knocked out Young
Ahenrn in the first round of their
scheduled ten-round bout at St. Paul,
Minn. The fight had been in progress
about, a minute and a half when Gib
bons worked his man over to the cor
ner and with a smashing right swing
to the jaw sent him to the floor for
the count.
WASHINGTON.
'The Ferris bill to create a system
of 640 acres stock raising homesteads
on arid, semi-arid and mountainous
lands in seventeen states, has passed
the house.
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Customs revenues dropped from
*283,700,000 in 1914 to *205,800,000 in
1915, or approximately 27 1-2 per
cent, according to a statement hv the
Ilureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce.
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Gas generated by the new Edison
storage battery and ignited by a
spark of unknown origin, is held re
sponsible for the explosion of the sub
marine E-2 at the New York navy
j ard, v. hen five men were killed, in a
report to Secretary Daniels by the
board of inquiry.
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A bill to establish a system of fed
eral licensing and supervision of
warehouses for staple agricultural
products was favorably reported to
the house by the committee on agri
culture:
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A hundred thousand souvenir gold
dollars, commemorating the erection
of the *300,000 memorial building
soon to be dedicated at Niles, 0„ in
honor of Wililam McKinley would be
coined under a bill favorably reported
by the house committee on coinage
weights and measures.
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There is a growing belief in con
gress and it has increased since the
'holiday recess, that pro-German in
| iluences are at work to secure, if pos
sible, either legislation or depart
mental action that will keep Ameri
cans off the seas.
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Quartermaster General Aleshire
told the house military committee
that equipment for an army of 800,000
men was either in the governmen*
store houses or can be bought in the
open market in less than three
months.
BACK TOJE LAND
MORE FARMS BEING OPERATED
THAN IN 1914.
FORTUNE IN THESANOCHERRY
Items of General Interest Gathered
from Reliable Source' Around
the State House.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Lincoln.—Twelve thousand and six
hundred more farm owners occupied
and worked their farms in Nebraska
in 1915, than the previous year and
16.200 more tenants occupy farms
last year than the year before.
That is the record as disclosed in
the annual summary given out by the
state agricultural board. Here is
shown the number of farms worked:
, By By
'ear- Owners. Tenants.
1915. 17.880 55.986
1914 . 65.221 39,747
1913. 69.752 49,353
1912 . 72,448 55.275
1911 . 68.600 45,135
1910. 6S.611 47,578
Grant county has the greatest pro
portion of owners to tenants. There
are 349 owner-worked places there
and only three tenant-worked ranches.
Hooker county is next with a propor
tion of 293 to 12. Richardson county,
among the richer counties of ihe
state, stands highest with a propor
tion of 3,220 to 817.
Counties where tenant-worked farms
exceed owner-worked farms, are
Adams. Burt, C!ay, Dodge. Fillmore.
Hamilton. Hitchcock, Kearney, Lan
caster, Lincoln, Nance, Nemaha,
Phelps, Polk, Sarpy. Seward, Thurs
ton, Wayne and York.
Fortune in the Sand Cherry.
A modest fortune awaits the man
who* is willing to cultivate the sand
cherry in Nebraska and put it on the
market, according to predictions made
by Prof. G. E. C'ondra, of the state uni
versity, speaking to the members of
the Nebraska State Horiicultural soei
ey at Lincoln. Tuesday morning.
“Three weeks before he died. Doctor
Bessey. of the state university,
urged that something be done with
this fruit, ’ said Doctor Condra.
“While we are experimenting with all
soils of foreign shrubs and plants in
the state why not take a look around
and use some of the very plants that
nature has adapted to the soil. In
stead of putting in your own varieties
of plants, make use of nature’s own
plan. There is the wild rice growing
in northern Nebraska just waiting for
someone to find a use for it. The riv
ers are lined with choke cherries, but
no one has seen fit to make use of
them.
Dismisses Suit Over Water Rights
Without passing on the question
whether the state railway commission
has authority to fix the price at which
an irrigation corporation may charge
for perpetual water rights, the state
supreme court has decided that Ravilla
J. Burtless and Isaiah H. Wasson
have no legal basis for their suits
against the McCook Irrigation &
Water Power company, in which they
demanded perpetual water rights for
the sum of $6.25 an acre.
The plaintiffs set up pleadings to
the effect that the irrigation company
formerly sold everlasting rights for
the price stated, and that contracts
were signed with a large number of
land owners at that rate. It was
shown in the trial that such rights
had been sold at different prices, vary
ing from $6.25 to $20 per acre and
about five years ago the company in
creased the rate to $35 per acre. When
the two plaintiffs in these proceedings
applied for water rights, they wefe
told they wou'd have to pay that rate.
They refused and brought injunction
suits against the company to'prevent
it from discriminating between them
selves and other users.
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N. A. Huse of Norfolk, who pre
ferred charges against Superintendent ;
w- D. Guttery of the state hospital for j
the insane at Norfolk, has declined to
make his charges more specific and
the state board of control has decided
to make inquiry into every charge cov- ;
ered by affidavits on file. The board j
originally set February 2 as the date j
for the hearing and this date has not
been changed.
Claim Insurance Men Active.
The statement is made by a mem
ber of the legislature that insurance
men are organizing throughout the
state with the end in view of trying
once more to pass a so-called anti-dis
crimination bill, similar to 9. F. 46,
which was defeated in the house of
representatives during the last ses
sion. It is alleged that an army of
fire insurance agents who have the
secret support of their companies will
get busy and remain busy from now
on working for candidates for the leg
islature who will favor such a bill.
State Treasurer Hall has held up a
state warrant for $400 for the payment
of ten interchangeable mileage books
of 2,000 miles each bought by the hotel
commissioner. Mr. Hall does not be
lieve in investing so much money in
mileage at one time, and he opposes
the use of mileage in any ever-1 by
6tate officers and employes. Bui his
principal reason for not countersign
ing the state warrant is that he be
lieves the railway commissioner may
rule the railroads have no .right to
withdraw from same the books bought
by Mr. Ridgell and Mr. Ackerman
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An elaborate nrogram lias been pre
pared by State Superintendent A. O.
Thomas for an educational conference
to be held in Lincoln, January 25 to
28. This conference is to plan a cam
paign of promotion for the schools of
'Nebraska and to devise ways and
means of placing them at the head of
the column. When superintendents
return to their homes they will carry
with them a tangible program of ac
tion for 1916 which will take into con
sideration the educational needs of
the state in all sections.
APPLIES FOR INJUNCTION.
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Wants Railroads Prevented from Rais
ing Passenger Rates.
Application for an injunction
against the seven railways doing busi
ness in Nebraska has been filed with
the Nebraska supreme court by At
torney General Willis E. Reed. Tne
injunction is requested to prevent any
action the railroads may be contem
plating toward reverting to the three
cent passenger fare in the state. Tne
court has taken the application under
consideration.
The application requests the injunc
tion to cover three phases as fol
lows:
1. That all railroads except the
Missouri Pacific be enjoined from
charging any rate for intrastate
traffic other than two cents per mlie
or from filing any suit against the
enforcement of the Nebraska two-cent
fare law.
2. That the Missouri Pacific rail
road company be enjoined from re
fusing to sell 1,000-mileage books for
$20, as is required hy a state law in
dependent of thf regular two-cent
fare act, which that company has
temporarily enjoined the state from
enforcing in its own case.
3. That the Missouri Pacific tm
restrained from discriminating in Its
rates within the state on the allega
tion that the company now charges
two cents per mile, between points
where there is competition and three
cents where none exists.
The efforts of the attorney general
to defeat the alleged intent of rail
roads to make rate raises means a re
newal of the suits stated by former
Attorney General W. T. Thompson
after the 1907 2-cent fare law had
been passed. Those suits were dis
missed in federal court only a year
ago and Mr Reed says that it was
the understanding that the roads ac
cepted the 2-cent rate without equi
vocation.
Roster of Civil War Veterans.
A record containing the names of
more than 2f>,000 veterans of the civil
war, living or deceased, whose homes
were in Nebraska, has just been com
pleted by the Grand Army of the Re
public. Assistant Adjutant General
A. M. Trimble says no other state has
such a complete record. Fc believes
it will be of great value for reference
in years to come. The record was
made by Mrs. Kate S. Millar, the
daughter of a civil war veteran. The
record is double indexed so that
names may be easily found. The rec
ord shows the name, age, occupation,
birthplace, date and place of muster
into the service and final discharge,
rank, company and regiment, the
post, if the veteran is a member of a
G. A. R. post, and residence.
Organized Agriculture at Lincoln.
Organized agriculture opened its an
nual meetings at Lincoln Tuesday and
in each and all of them was reflected
the splendid prosperity with which
Nebraska is blessed.
The state agricultural board had its
business meeting at the Commercial
club building. The affair was *ell at *
tended and plans were adopted look
ing to great things during the coming
year in the state. A 1916 state fair is
promised that will exceed all others in
splendor and extent.
The horticulturists initiated one of
the most promising programs they
have ever outlined for their winter
sessions. President Pollard paid par
ticular attention, in his opening ad
dress. to the marvelous apple crop of
the past year and asked the growers
and consumers present to Center their
attention upon the marketing problem.
A part of this, he pointed out, is to
suggest and carry out some pian for
getting the waste crop into consum
ers’ hands. Thousands of bushels of
apples rotted on the ground last year
he said, because they couldn't be pre
pared for shipment and sent away
while the better part of the crop was
being attended to.
Secretary Mellor of the state agri
cultural hoard gave his usual interest
ing report on state fair activities.
Scabies inspection of 176,800 cattle
of the state has been made by State
Veterinarian J. S. Anderson and his
departmental assistants since April 1.
1915, and 28,718 of the number have
been found to be affected with the
disease. A total of 45,000 was found to
have been exposed, and 106.000 were
said to have been free of the disease.
All precautions have been taken by
the department to treat the afflicted
cattle and to prevent the spread of
the disease.
The average profit of five demonstra
tion plots planted to potatoes the past
season in Box Buttee county showed
an estimated increased profit of $26.90
an acre as compared with the proceeds
from other fields planted with tubers
affected with this disease.
Clean seed gave an average yield of
188.97 bushels an acre, while the seed
affected with dry rot gave a yield of
112.09 bushels per acre, or a differ
ence of 76.S8 bushels in favor of the
clean seed. The difference in yield at
35 cents per bushel gives an increase
of $26.90 per acre.
The demonstration, was conducted
co-cperatively under the direction of
the Box Butte county agricultural
agent and the department of Agricul
tural botany of the college of agricul
ture.
Ger^ee Jackson was elected presi
dent and Wm. H. Smith re-elected sec
retary-treasurer of the State associa
tion of state farm managers at the re
cent annual session in Lincoln.
There were nearly 13.000 more
farms worked by men who owned
them in Nebraska in 19jl5, than there
were in 1914.
Farmers who last fall neglected to
lay up a sufficient supply of good seed
corn should neglect it no longer. The
College of Agriculture says that indi
cations are that despite the realization
of a shortage during the fall, the situ
ation is still critical, and the man who
buys late will probably pay more and
get poorer corn than if he buys at
once. This situation seems to be par
ticularly true in the North Platte coun
try. The College says that those who
cannot get sound 1915 coru had better
Jail back on the 1914 supply if it is to
to be had, as it is for the most part in
excellent condition.
ALL OVER NEBRASKA
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.
The city of Plainview is soon to
erect a $10,000 hospital.
Oakland is planning to replace
their buned school house with a fire
proof structure.
Howlers of Nebraska will hold their
annual tournament the week of April
3rd at Lincoln.
Owing to the unfavorable weather
work on the tiering sugar factory has
been nearly suspended.
H. E. Burkett of Hartington has
announced his candidacy for the of
fice of district judge on the nonpar
tisan ticket.
Omaha was selected as the 1917
meeting place of the Nebraska Farm
ers' Union by the convention which
met at Grand Island recently.
Four hundred delegates attended
the State Firemen’s convention at
Crawford last week, \uburn was se
lected as 1917 convention city.
Owing to the shortage of cars a
number of elevators have closed down
and others are running only one and
two days a week in Adams county.
The contract for the construction
of the new postoffice building at
Aurora, has been let to Herman Con
struction Co. of St. Louis, at $43,327.
Several fires in Fremont in the last
few weeks, the origin of which has
been puzzling firemen and authori
ties, has resulted in an investigation
being made.
Information from a source indicat
ing reliability, is that Ross L. Ham
mond of Fremont will be a candidate
for the republican nomination for
United States senator.
Saturday, January 15 was an un
usually large hog day on the South
Omaha market, 247 cars were received
or about 18,000 head, the largest Sat
urday run for a long lime.
Crowds are increasing and the pas
toral committee of the Rayburn re
vival meeting at Fremont is of the
opinion that the tabernacle, seating
2.000 people, will have to be enlarged f
1 he Gray evangelistic campaign
being conducted at Beemer for the
past six weeks, has closed. About K>0
conversions knd many reconsecrations
resulted from the evangelist's labor.
C. D. Wimmer has bought the Com
stock News from Edward Rcider. Mr.
Wimmer was formerly publisher of
the News, and is well known in the
community.
Fairbury is expecting the telephone
and telegraph company to install
lines to that town and rebuild a
switchboard costing $10,000, the en
tire expense of the rebuilding to be
$75,000.
I. A. Reneau of Broken Bow, secre
tary of the progressive republican
state committee in 1012, has an
nounced his candidacy as delegate-at
large to the republican national con
vention.
The Paddock hotel at Beatrice,
which has been closed for nearly
three years, has reopened. Not less
| than $5,000 has been spent in re
I modeling the building and almost a
like amount in refurnishing the hotel.
Charles Tally of Alliance has been
appointed tr- fill the vacancy ia the
legislature caused by the resignation
of Representative F. M. Broome of
Alliance, appointed receiver'of the
federal land office at Valentine.'
That grocers and butchers of
Omaha. lose $202,800 annually
through bad credit business is the
contention of an editorial in the Gro
cery Reporter, the official publication
of the Omaha Retail Grocers’ asso
ciation.
Francis L. Hayes of Chicago was in
Crete recently, in the interests of his
plan to raise $10,900 as Nebraska’s
share of a fund of $2,000,000 which is
to be established in the l-fiited States
for the aid of retired Congregational
ministers.
The new milk ordinance, providing
for the testing of dairy cattle and the
inspection of all dairies in Beatrice,
is proving popular among dairyr.ipn
as well as citizens generally. Over
thirty-nine permits have been taken
out by dairymen up to the present
time, the ordinance going into effect
January 1.
From tije ruins of the Sunn.vside
home recently destroyed by fire at
Hastings will soon arise an ,-ttract
ive, modern brick building far sui
passing the old one and much better
equipped and arranged for the com
forts of both old people and children.
This was the promise made by mem
bers of the executive board to fret
ting old people who mourn the los,
of the home.
The program for the seventh an- i
nual convention of the League of Ne- j
braska Municipalities, which is to be
held in Kearney on February 9 and
10. has }ust been compiled. Extensive
arrangements are being made by the
commer-dal club and city administra
tion to greet the visiting city officials
from other towns who are expected to
attend to the number of no less than
one hundred.
Several Women's clubs from over
The Post is the name of a new pa
per launched this month at Benkleman
by C. L. Ketlar.
Robert B. Windham of Plattsmouth
was elected president of the Nebras
ka Territorial Pioneers' organization
at the annual meeting at Lincoln. He
succeeds Louis A. Bates of Springfield.
Omaha people paid $1,145,92S.4G for
street car rides, telephone service and
gas during the three months ending
December 31, according to reports of
public service corporations filed with
the city clerk.
‘The recent storm worked little
hardship upon the ranchers, farmers
and stockmen of Nebraska.” asserted
George W. Holdrege, general man
ager of the Burlington, at Omaha,
after ten days spent in the range
country.
The grain car shortage is said to
be the worst in the history of Ne
braska railroads. The demand for
wheat transportation is growing
greater as the season advances, and
railroad men say it will require traf
fie business all winter to move the
Nebraska crop.
Lambs brought $10.75 on the South
Omaha market one day last week.
Columbus has a municipal skating
rink. Hundreds of people, old and
young, are enjoying the sport.
Bond issues of $200,000 for sewers,
$100,000 for paving intersections and
$50,000 for parks were formally ap
proved by the Omaha council.
The Douglas County Dry Campaign
committee which will conduct the
campaign in Douglas county for a
prohibition amendment for Nebraska,
has issued an appeal for a fund of
$22,000 for the county.
A number of new paving districts
will be created in Beatrice this year,
boosters for the propositions now
being out w ith petitions which will be
submitted to the city commissioners
within the next few weeks.
A train of eighteen cars of horses
left Grand Island recently for through
shipment to the Atlantic. The horses
were purchased there by contractors
for the French government and are
being rushed to the seaboard.
A company of twenty-six men at
Beeme-r has organized to continue the
good work started for good citizen
ship by the recent revival meetings
that have stirred the people of the
town. The purpose is to organize a
Citizens' league.
The largest run of sheep for any
one day on the Omaha market in
weeks tvas on hand January 10, esti
mates calling for seventy-nine cars or
19,000 head. This was 1,000 greater
than for the corresponding day of last
year.
The little 8-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. D. D. Shaw, rsiding near
Callaway, while going to school one
morning during the recent cold spell,
had her hands so badly frozen that
amputation of the fingers was neces
sary.
The Cortland board of education
has disposed of $13,200 bonds to the
state, and will begin the erection of
a new school building in the near fu
ture. The bonds were voted over
two years ago, but their legality was
Questioned.
Eighty-nine persons "hit the trail’
at the first call in the revival being
conducted in St. "?aul by Irwin broth
ers. The meetings, which started two
weeks ago. are largely attended.
An institution for the study and
practice of Christianity has been or
ganized at Hastings. Nearly all the
Protestant churches are represented
in the movement. It is argued that by
united action church activity can be
greatly increased.
The Omaha Automobile show, which
will be htld under the auspices of the
Omaha Auto Dealers’ association,
February 21 to 26, will have novel ex
liibits which have never been west.
One is a chassis, plated with gold,
which has attracted unusual attention
in eastern markets.
The engine, drill and complete out
fit for prospecting for oil on the John
Larsh place, eeven miles southeast of
Murry, is on hand and drilling is to
begin soon. Twelve thousand acres
of land have been leased contiguous
to the Larsh farm and many farmers
are assisting in financing the scheme.
Showing extreme leniency to the
man who had endangered his life by
running him down with an auto on
New Year’s Day. Edgar Howard, edi
tor ot the Columbus Telegram, secur
ed the release of the man upon the
payment of the small fine. The man
is Henry Frerichs, residing neat
Csceoia.
March 4 to 11 is to be Baby Week
in Nebraska and all over the United
States. Sponsored by the children’s
bureau of the United States Depart
ment of Labor and assisted by thou
sans of members of women’s ciubs al!
over the country, an effort will be
made to bring about a better under
standing concerning children's prob
lems.
Mrs. W. H. Streeter of Aurora has
given to that city a tract of land con
sisting of twenty-eight acres. The
land has been accepted by the city
and will be converted into a park and
recreation place. She asks that it be
named Streeter park in honor of her
husband who was one of the leading
business men of Hamilton county for
many years.
The Elgin Community club held a
meeting recently at which time the
proposition of putting up a building
was enthusiastically endorsed. The
society contemplates the expenditure
of $12,5011 for a building, which will
afford club facilities, auditorium, read
ins rooms, committee, dining and I
women’s rest rooms, etc. The club
lias a membership of 200.
William Strattman, a farmer real
Grand island, is determined to be
certain hereafter that a dead hog is
really dead, before becoming too famit
iar with It. He w.as assisting a neigh
bor in slaughtering. A porlter was not
bleeding freely enough, in his opinion,
and afte the usual thrust had been
made aftd it had become quite si ill and
he was about to move its head for an
additional thrust with his knife when
the hog made a lunge at him and bit
off a. Oncer.
Records kept by the Associated Re
tailers during December, and just
made public by Secretary J. W. Met
calfe, indicate that Omaha's popula
tion growth by persons moving in
from other localities is 8,100 a year.
Nebraska's great high school' bas
ket bal! tournament gives promise
this year of attracting 100 teams. The
sixth annual tourney will be held in
Lincoln March 8-11. Within four days
from the time the first announce
ments were mailed out, there had
come twenty-six requests for informa
tion and entry blanks.
The district convention of the
teachers of North Nebraska will be
held in Norfolk March 30-31 and
April t.
Arthur Hauser, charged with shoot
ing to death W. H. Smith, Woodmen
or the World cashfc? in Omaha last
October, and mistreating his conipan
nion. Miss Grace Slater, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree
and his sentence fixed at life impris
onment by a jury in the district
court of Douglas county. The jury
deliberated six hours and twenty-four
minutes
SALTS IF BACKACHY OR
KIDNEYS TROUBLE YOU
Eat Less Meat If Your Kidneys Aren’t
Acting Right or If Back Hurts or
Bladder Bothers You.
When you wake up with backache
and dull misery in the kidney region
it generally means you have been eat
ing too much meat, says a well-known
authority. Meat forms uric acid which
overworks the kidneys in their effort
to filter it from the blood and they be
come sort of paralyzed and loggy.
When your kidneys get sluggish and
clog you must relieve them like you
relieve your bowels; removing all the
Dody's urinous waste, else you have
backache, sick headache, dizzy spells;
your stomach sours, tongue is coated,
and when the weather is bad you have
rheumatic twinges. The urine Is
cloudy, full of sediment, channels oft
en get sore, water scalds and you ar&
obliged to seek relief two or thret
times during the night.
Either consult a good, reliable phys.
cian at once or get from your pharma
cist about four ounces of Jad Salts;
take a tablespoonful in a glass of
water before breakfast for a few days
and your kidneys will then act fine.
This famous salts is made from the
acid of grapes and lemon juice, com
bined with lithia, and has been used
for generations to clean and stimulate
sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize
acids in the urine so it no longer irri
tates, thus ending bladder weakness
Jad Salts is a life saver for regular
meat eaters. It is inexpensive, cannot
injure and makes a delightful, effer
vescent lithia-water drink.—Adv. ^
•‘Holier Than Thou.”
"There are some forms of melan
choly with which I have no sympathy.
"For instance?”
“Well, there’s the sort of person who
finds it impossible to smile because
his neighbors are so wicked.”
FOR BABY RASHES
Cuticura Soap Is Best Because So
Soothing and Cooling. Trial Free.
If baby is troubled with rashes, ec
zemas, itchings, chafings or hot. irri
tated skin follow Cuticura Soap bath
with light application of Cuticura Oint
ment to the affected part. Nothing so
soothing, cooling and refreshing when
he is fretful and sleepless.
Free sample each by mail with Book
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L.
Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv.
Her quick wit has carried Sophie
Tucker through many ticklish posi
tions in vaudeville, and once while re
hearsing for a production turned an
unpleasant situation in her favor
Ben Teal, the veteran stage director,
was doing the rehearsing and took oc
casion to correct Miss Tucker's pro
nunciation of a certain word, explain
ing so the assembled members of the
company could get the benefit of hi? (
remarks, that in the word disputed the
leter "t” was silent. Sophie accepted
the corection with the remark:"All
right, Mr. Teal—with the *T’ silent."
How Donald Delivered Message.
Sportsman (north for partridge
shooting, to highland gillie)—Donald.
I want you to deliver a message for me
in the village.
Donald—Very weel, sir.
Sportsman—You know where Miss
Brighteyes lives?
Donald—Oc-h. yes, sir.
Sportsman—Well. Donald, call on
Miss Brighteyes and say Mr. Masbet
presents his compliments, and is very
sorry that business will prevent him
calling this evening.
Donald—Very weel, sir.
Sportsman—One moment. Do you
think you could remember a sentence
of poetry?
Donald—Och, yes, sir.
Sportsman—Then tell her "Though
lost to sight, to memory dear.”
Donald (at the village, to Mis?
Brighteyes)—Mr. Masher is fu' o' com
pliments, an’ is very sorry he canna
be wi’ ye the nicht, an' the’ he's lost
his sicht his memory is clear, an
may the Almighty forgi'e me for the
lee I’m tellin ye.—New York American
PRESSED HARD
Coffee’s Weight on Old Age.
When people realize the injurious
effects of coffee and the better health
that a change to Postum can bring,
they are usually glad to lend their
testimony for the benefit of others
‘‘My mother, since her early child
hood, was an inveterate coffee drink
er, had been troubled with her heart * ^
for a number of years and complained 4
of that ‘weak-all-over’ feeling and sick
stomach.
"Some time ago I was making a
visit tc a distant part of the country
and took dinner with one of the mer
chants of the place. I noticed a some
what unusual flavor of the ‘coffee’
and asked him concerning it. He re
plied that it was Postum.
“I was so pleased with it that I
bought a package to carry home with
me, and had wife prepare some for
the next meal. The whole family
liked it so well that we discontinued
coffee and used Postum entirely.
“I had been very anxious concern
ing my mother’s condition, but we
noticed that after using Postum for
a short time she felt much better, had
little trouble with her heart, and no
sick stomach; that the headaches
were not so frequent, and her general
condition much improved. This con
tinued until she was well and hearty.
“I know Postum has benefited my
self and the other members of the
family, especially my mother, as Bhs
was a victim of long standing.” Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
Postum comes in two forms:
Postum Cereal—the original form
must be well boiled. 15c and 25c pack
ages.
Instant Postum—a soluble powder_
dissolves quickly in a cup of hot wa
ter, and, with cream and sugar, makes
a delicious beverage instantly. sor
and 50c tins.
Both kinds are equally delicious
and cost about the same per cup.
There s a Reason’* for Postum.
—sold by Grocers,