t n ip 5 1 sr J Vi.H WW?! tftV, VlillAICA, MISF Inavale Items McsdmncH E. Iocako and Joo flur ncy nn, the former' (laufrhtera, Kntlicrinc nnd Mary, wont to Hast ings Saturday to boo Mr. Curacy who is taking medical treatment there. Misses Inez and Sylvia Strickland of Ned Cloud, wcro hero Friday to Monday visiting at the llallie I.aw non and Edith Miller homes. Louie Johnson was a lileasast call er at the Chris. tTorgenson home Sun day. Mr. .lane I'arley and dauKhlor, Ethelda were entertained at dinner and supper at the C. H. HurgenH homo Sunday. Miss Hazel Neshit returned from a week's visit at Hebron last Thurs day evening. Mr. aid Mrs. Ilalph Sticknoy of lluhkin are visiting friends and rela tives hero this week. Miss Klla Schneider was a passen ger to Hastings Saturday. Miles Putnam and family have mov ed into the house vacated by J. A. Silvoy. Miss Nettie Cloc spent Sunday with the John Kuttcdgo family. Mrs. Link Daily and daughter, Mrs. Gerald Leonard spent Wednesday af ternoon with Mrs. Jane Farley. Mrs. Hert Leonard wont to Hod Cloud to visit her daughter, Mrs. Joe Topham. The Hard Times Social given in Hunter's Hall Tuesday evening in honor of the W. C. T. U. was well ut tended. A good supper and u jolly good time was enjoyed by nil present. Mrs. Win, Tubor, Kurl Sticknoy, Mnr grcttu Waldo and Verlin Uurwcll were winners of the prizes given for the besti representations of hard times personifications. Mr. L. D. Daily moved onto the Geo. Matkin farm the first of the week. Mr. Matkin moved into town. . Mrs. Donnic Hnrtwcll spent Wed nesday afternoon with Mrs. C. H. Uurgcss. R. E. Hunter was a passenger to Red Cloud Tuesday morning. , A large number of friends assem bled at Mrs. M. A. Lcadabrnnds last Thursday to celebrate the lady's birthday anniversary. There was a delicious supper and many useful presents for the hostess. Messrs. Jas. Gouldje and Jay Lead abrand made a business trip to Red Cloud Monday. Melvin McCall was out in Kansas buying callle Tuesday. Miss Nora Dunn was the guest of Mrs. M. A. Leadabrand Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Elliott and family visited the David Elliott home. Ross Johnson has moved onto the Ring place. Hon Mapes will move on the place recently vacated by Ross Johnson. Mrs. Esther Carper is again in charge of the school Dist. No. !)0. Miss Viola Gouldie who has been as i-tinjr at the Loo Williams home' wa- uiting her home folks the first of t'.o week. Tic demand today is for a better typo of business-trained young men and women. No limit is placed on salary. Merit, ability and character are the factors by which the business man chooses help. The Grand Is land Business College, of Grand Is land, Nebraska, is strong and pro gressive. It is incorporated under the laws of the State of Nebraska and for more than thirty years has been the Leading Husiness Training School in the West. A free cata logue will he sent on request. GO-!) Bladen Bricflets Hird Kile was a Hastings visitor Tuesday. David Yost was up from Swanton tho first of the week. KrnI Scherbachor visited his sis ter, Miss Erma, in Hastings, Mon day. A. L. Rurkholder and family left Monday with an imigrant car for Trenton where he is moving. Frank McCoy went out to IIolil redgo and Hildroth the first of the week, where he purchased some scenery for the opera house here. Mrs. 0. D. Samsel and son, Huboit, went to Omaha Friday via Holdredgc for a few days visit at tho home of Jas. H. Hobbitt. Mrs. C. F. Scherhacher, Mrs. Fmma Turnbaugh, Miss Peterson, and Rev. II. G. Wilcox wore Hustings visitors Monday. Wn'ker Richis-iM was up from Ed gar from Monday evening until Tucs' day evening visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Richison, and fumily. John Jones nnd family left Tues day for Loup City with two cars of goods, where ho expects to move on to land recently purchased there. All their Bladen friends wish them good luck in their new home. Miss Edytho M. Thygcsen of Chic ago, 111., was in town over Tuesday night in tho interests of the Midland Lyceum Bureau. Mr. und Mrs. Roy Spencc are mov ing from the houso recently purchas ed by S. P. Duacan, to tho Jas. More? rcsidenco in the west part of town. The Johnson Stock Hog Solo Tho first pure bred hog sale ever held in this city decurred Inst Satur day in the big Koontz tic barn. A large crowd was present with plenty of bidders and the sale was a grand success. Tho total amount of the sale was $fi 112.50. The animals oircred woro ull beauties, und would do credit to any show ring. Dis criminating buyers were on hand in J spite of the condition of tho roads, I which made travel difficult. Hut j these men knew the quulity of the , stock to be sold and they came deter- mined to get into the game and get j a start for thcmeselves or build up their herds. The bidding was brisk and spirited from the start, and it was early evident that the affair would exceed the conservutivo hopes of Mr. Johnson. The highest priced hog was sold to Mr. X. Johnson, of Angus, Minnesota. This gentleman planked down $100. 00 for one sow. She was a beauty and the other bidders recognized the fuct und made him go the limit. He also bought one for $.'175.00 und an other for $170.00. Other buyers and bidders are given below. The aver age price per head was $107.30 which is sufficient evidence in itself to show the excellent quality of these hogs. In a measure the history of this sale reads like a romance. Looking a head it seems a long time for the beginner to realize his dream, but looking backward the time is short. About four years ago Mr. Johnson determined to gel bigger returns from his furm. Land was constantly go ing up, farm help was constantly get ting scarce and lie knew that to in crease his farming operations would involve the expenditure of a large amount of money. The uncertain ties wore carefully considered, and the scheme of furming on a large scale was abandoned. Being a lover of unimals, und inspired by the suc cess of other men, he resolved to en ter the pure bred hog lino. He began on a small scale, bought the best he could, cured for them carefully and intelligently, nnd his labors are crowned with success. '. Johnson is the father of the Johnson boys nnd stated that ho had attended a sale in his home county where hogs are scarce and in great demand and the prices sky-high. Ho was in the market for hogs of good breeding, but could not see and ad vantage in purchasing at the prices prevalent. He was quick to sec tho quality of his son's stock when he came here a few weeks ago on a visit, so he prolonged his stay, determined to carry home with jiim some of the promising animals. He is very well satisfied with his purchases, and al though he paid the highest prices of anyone, he considers that he got his hogs very cheap. This is the story told by every purchaser at this sale Each and overy one is satisfied with his buy and a satisfied customer is a man's best advertisement. Mr. J. T. Miller, fieldman for tho Nebraska Farmer, Jesse -Johnson of the Nebraska Farm Journal, C. W. Putnam of Tecumseh and Cols. J. H. Ellinger, Tom Swart, and others, were auctionors in tho ring. A ring was made, seats arranged and the comfort of the crowd well considered. Frank Vnvricka, Red Cloud Earl Crawford, Inavale Luther Crabill, Red Cloud Will Bowcn, Guide Rock Tom Swart., Red Cloud , Ed Kern, Stanton James Doyle, Red Cloud E. W. Locskc, Inavale Z. Johnson, Minnesota R. T. Leonager, Fuirfnx, Mo. O. E. Eastman, Alma Chas. Gurney, Jr. Red Cloud Clyde Wolfe, Red Cloud Nolan & Miner, Red Cloud R. 11. Murry, Elwood Clyde Bowcn, Red Cloud J. T. McMahon, Blue Hill Frank Mcintosh, Red Cloud Dale Montgomery, Red Cloud Reed Dickerson, Inavale Armor Cross, Guide Rock Edgar Mcintosh, Red Cloud Guy Day, Red Cloud Frank Ellinger, Red Cloud Henry Nyberg, Rod Cloud M. A. Bcoteslscn, Bluir J. T. McMahon, Blue Hill Armor Cross, Guide Rock J. W. Putnam, Tecumseh Dr. Jorgcnson, Ellkorn, Iowa Fred Hedge, Red Cloud J. W. Hnskins, Inavale It may bo significant to know that at this timo there arc more idle poo pic socking employment in Hastings than for somo years. Mr. Dutton of tho J. H.' Hanoy & Co., factory in-' forms the Democrat that not in tho I history of his institution has he had ' so many applications for employment. Ono day recently about thirty ap plied for a job in one day. In view of the largo number of men seeking profitable employment it is hurd to see how some can hold for an exor bitant daily scale. It simply means that when the prices of things in gen eral began to tumblo dowmvard that Uie price of labor will have to corres pondingly tumble. Adams County Democrat. ,. i&-J Nethodist Centenary Call .; Dr. Edgar Blake, Associate Execu tive Secretary of the Centenary, pre sented tho world program of the Methodist Church in rousing fashion at a special one o'clock service in Old John Street Church, New York, February 13. This church is now in the financial district and many prominent business men left their desks to be present. "Seven million men have laid down their lives and today sleep beneath the f-oil to make the world safe for democracy," said Dr. Blake. "Seven million men have made the last great sacrifice. "This is the challenge that comes to us from our sleeping dead. 'They ask the Church of Christ to make demo cracy safe for the world. "God make perpetual the things for which they died! My dear Breth ren anil sisters, in the sight of these men who have given their all to free a world, how can tho Church of Christ do loss than to give her all to save that for which these men have died? "The Centenary of the Methodist Episcopal Church is our answer to this challenge which comes from our heroic dead, to make a world worthy of them. "The gift of a dollar looks mighty rmall beside the gift of a human life. 'I he timo is coming when tho Church of Christ must match tho sacrifices and lieriosm of our sons or prove unworthy of them. Do it? God knows we have got to do It! And God knows we are going to do it 1" Earlier in his address Dr. Blake reviewed the systematic method by which the Ccntcnury silrveys were made and the program mapped out. He explained that this is the cele bration of the organization of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in New York City just one hundred years ago, but added: "It is not our purpose to spend our time and our strength in glorifying the past. Rather it is our purpose to gather inspiration from our past to undertake a program that shall be worthy of that which has gone before. "No matter how intelligent a peo ple may be, there is no future for a democracy not based on moral foun dations. "Our present giving is a measure of our present interest not of our present ability to give. After one hundred years of missionary work, we are raising 7t cents a year per member for work outside the local church l't cents a week per mem ber! u "Out of 17,000 charges, only 20 per cent give as much as two cents a week a member. Only seventy-three give one cent a day per member. "Wo are fat with prosperity. It was said a few months ago, 'This is no time to seek pleasure; the war is on and our fiiv-t business is to win tho war.' The war is won, thank God. but wi still have a great lnk before us." A deal was made Wednesday of this week, whereby Merrill Hancock" becomes proprietor of the Collins' restaurant. Mr. Collins has worked up a nice trade during his two or three years business hero, but ho has decided to leave for western country, so we understand. We wish Mr. Col lins success in whatever venture he undertakes. Rivcrlon Review. A deal was made during the week between W. L. Rhea and the receiver for the opera house whereby the for mer signed a contract or lease cover ing a period of one year. It is tho in tention of the new management to re place the stago with now scenery and now cm tains nnd install a now upto dato moving picture machine and make numerous other improvements in tho interior of the main room of the opera house. Mr. Rhea is an ex perienced man in this lino of work and with tho co-operation of himself, tho business men and the people in general the movement can bo made a success and high clnss talent such as seldom visit small towns can be brought to Bladen. Mr. Rhea is now rehearsing a home talent play which will bo put on in tho near future an nouncement of which will appear soon. Blndcn Enterprise. Good roads boosters in Nebraska will have to be up and doing if this state keeps up with some of the other western states in amount of money legislatively appropriated for good road building this year The state of Oklahoma comes to the front this early in the season with an appropria tion ,of $50,000,000. Tho highway commission of that state already has the plans all decided on just where all this money is to bo spent and u Perry, Oklahoma, paper in tliq hands of the Democrat shews a very practical and comprehensive scattering of the ap propriation over the stato with about as equitable a treatment of ull towns and cities as could possibly be har monized on. Adams County Demo crat. 0ood mtolaf-pMtt'ttaeWodenita prlcci Powoll i'ropa'a ,', Farm Bureau Notes ' OAT- SMUT TREATMENT Run the oats through a fanning mill to remove the light oats, dirt, etc. Purchase from your druggist 1 pint of formaldehyde for every 50 bu. of seed oats. Mix the 1 pint of formaldehyde with 1 pint of water and put it in u small hand atomizer sprayer. Spray the solution on giain. us it is being shoveled over, holding sprayer close to the grain. Ono stroke of tho sprayer gives enough mist for each hhovelful of grain. When it is treated cover tho idle or wagon load with a blanket or canva-i for five hours. The grain may lie sown at once or allowed to air thoroughly and stored in sacks in a bin until seeding time. This treat ment will not harm the oats for feed ing purposes. Do not use more than pint of formaldehydu for 40 bu. of oats, and do not leave it covered too long. If too much formaldehyde is used or if left covered over 5 hours the germ ination will be effected. VALUE OF OAT SMUT TREATMENT According to agricultural statistics of Webster county, 1G,801 acres of oats were sown last year. Treating oats for smut increases the yield from 2 to It bu. per acre. If all seed oats had been treated last year and it had increased the yield only 2 bu. per acre it would have amounted to 33,008 bu. more, and at 75 cents per bu. would have boon $23,200.00 more than was real ized. Formaldehyde at 60 cents per pint would have made the cost of treating the seed for 16,801 acres amount to $504.00, making a total saving of $24, 702.00. HENRY R. FAUSCH, County Agricultural Agent Advertising Will Do It The following letter under date of February 13, was dictated by Roger W. Malison, director general of the U. S. Department of Labor, Informa tion nnd Educational Service, Wash ington, to the William H. Rankin Co., of Chicago, and is well worth a care ful perusal: "It is the desire of the Department of Labor to stimulate business by sug gesting to present advertisers that they increase their pnco and to pros pective advertisers that they bring their plans to a head anil start ad vertising immediately.. ' ''The surest and quickest way to bring business to its pre-war basis is to overcome the general apathy to buying which exists in the minds of many people at present. Adver tising 'will do this. "Wo would like to see more retail advertising and more national adver tising and we believe that the press of the Country and yourselves will appreciate the fostering of such a movement by the Department of La bor. "May we ask you to prepare ono or. more advertisements for the De partment of Labor carrying the mes sage, outlined. Your co-operation in this matter in earnestly desired. An interesting good roads meeting was held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms Saturday afternoon which was well attended. The speaker of the occasion was A. H. Edgren, county engineer of Lancaster county, who de tailed how the paved roads out of Lincoln had greatly enhanced the val ue of farm lands contiguous thereto. State Representative Van Patten was present who told the business men present that the house committee pos itively would not favorably act on the $10,000 appropriation to pave that part of tho O. L. D. highway running west of tho city through the Ingle side state farm unless a paving dis trict running two miles west of tho Inglcsido farm was created. Mr. Van Patten as well as Engineer Edgron ex plained that there was vastly more at stake than tho $10,000 appropriation referred to that unless tho $10,000 appropriation bo made good along witli tho latter mentioned require ment. Adams county would stand to loso its county allotment of $200,000. In other words if Adams county comes across with the paving deal through the stato farm and tho cre ation of the two mile paving exten sion west toward Juniata, then the state and federal government will co operatively bear 75 per cent of tho ox ponse of tho paving. If Adams coun ty should decide against those then Adams county's $200,000 allotment is tho meat in the coconnut. Follow' ing tho discussion Charles Hughes, who owns n farm this sido of Juniata, signed tllo petition for tho two milo paving district .west' of tho asylum. Engineer Edgren told how sotnc farm ers on tho paving project out of Lin coln had sold their farms at an ad vance o - from ;$l6'0-thcerago ptfice beiorp paing--for 'jfa an acre;; i'Ho BifidUr brick-pkyiwl high wvtyiB feet wide would cost $3,6&'peV OlfUWt IcTJlt. square yard. Atlupjs County Uftrio- .u... , A.MkWk JOT:TINCS From a War Corre spondent's Notebook By ADAM DREEDE Tho fact that the people of France are such good farmers and truck-gardeners makes It patent why there wa3 plenty to eat In thut country ut all times during tho four yonra of war. The average Fiendi farmer cuts his Brain by hand, nnd then after It has been proporly gathered, the chlldien ure put In tho fields to search ' tho Iwund thoroughly for such grain ns lias not liocu gathered. Tho children carry baskets and as fnst as they ilnd Ioofo grain they place It Into the has kets and carry It home. The women and chlldien also toko care of the gard ens and In order to do this they arise about four-thirty In the morning. Need loss to guy, during tho harvest season they retire "with the chickens." One walking along tho streets of Paris and looking at the tops of tho buildings cannot holp but notice what appear nt first to be a lot of earthen pots ornamenting the tops of tho buildings. But nn investigation proves them to be small chimneys. Paris is a cold city and most build ings arc poorly heated In truth there lire not so many buildings thnt havo up.to-dat heating plants Most of tho rooms are heated by small Individual wood or chai coal Moves, which ac counts for Paris being a city of chim neys Another thing quite noticeable In Parl3 is the uniformity of tho build ings There are no high buildings' there unless sevon story buildings are to be called sky-scrapers most of the building in tho business district are but six stories high i In all largo towns and cities the cafes and restaurants have small ta- bios on tho sidewalk in front of their places of business, from early spring until lato In the fall. It la at these small tables that the "butcher, the baker, nnd candlestick-maker" gather dally to discuss tho topics of the tlms and to visit over a glass of wine or beer. And on Sundays whole families sit around these suihII tables and enjoy the en tire afternoon watching the passing 6how, between sips. It Is the same way In the IJols dc Boulogne, and other public places ot amusement. Wlno is tho national drink of France. It is openly (hunk every where. " Very little water Is, diunk; In truth, It would be nn easy thing for one to go from ono end of Franco to tho other without finding walor served at the ta. blc. And there is a good excuse for that, as the water at all times i.i con sidered very poor. This is attributed to tho fact that Tor hundreds of jears tho. soil bus been treated with stublu, manure, as "its principal fertilizer, and In most places the water Is said to leek with the faccnl bacteria. Women and nion drink light wine and beer (n public with no nnre con cern that tho people drink soda-watoJ In the t'nltcd State. Of cnur&o lo have always done tint thing over thora and the chances aio, they always will do it. , I have soon three families sitting to gether at the samo cafe, in tho samo place Sundty after Sunday, and at no time did any of them show any signs of having consumed too much liquid refreshments. In France the people seem to under, stand that wine and beer are mado for use but not for abuse. The world has given too much credit to tho French chefs, ns the avwagft chef in Paris cannot "hold a candle" to tho average cook on a Nebraska farm. Even In tho Cafe de i Palx, and such restaurants as that, S3 food Is not properly sea.-oned, and their French fried potaloea uro Invariably Eorved cold. And as for s-ervlre - well, you pny for nil you get. You also pay for tho use of a table-cloth and napkin. Meals In Paris, during the war, cost on nn average twelve- francs, or about ?2.in, but outEhlo of Paris they did not run quite that high. It Is true that the French have a great respect for tho Americans, but It Is also true that they shot their prices sky high when they saw the Ameri cans coming. , Perhaps this Is best Illustrated by an net I saw In the "Follies." Two men woro doing a little stunt whon one complained about tho hlglPcost of 11 v. Ing. The otnor said that living In Paris was not so very high If one only know "the ropes." To prove this he put u largo easel upon tho stage. The caanl hold four or flvo largo plecrs or white card bom il. Then ho said: "Now, for Instance, wo will tako a bnndwlch. Hero Is what It costs." Then going to the easel, ho took off a curd, and lhcro on another card was marked In big, black figures, 1 franc "Yes," spld the other, "only 1 franc for the French. Hut how much for the IflBilllhn, WHrlfF)m another card was taken off and there stood one marked 2 franc. "And how about tho American?" "The American, mk," exclaimed the other, barf Is what it would coat him," at thr lam tint he lifted another card, and there upon tho oaael waa a card marked E francs, ' ThU Utile "jotM" alwar "brought dowa th feoiiM." Notice of Suit .Martha ti. Wright, John Clllford, James (Jllford, MnvKloSliafcr.Mnry Hcntics, frank J. Mahoney and tliu spouses of each ot tliciu and (lie unknown helm, devisees, legatees' personal rpprtfenlatlvesandsuceessorsln In terest of each of ihem will tako notice that fJcorueA. Wells us plnlutlll'. did on January !ll. 11)111. lilt his iictltltm and coiiiuicneo an action In tho district court of Webster Coun ty, Nebraska, aualiiHt them the oiiject and prayer ot which arc to quiet In tho said plain tltr as aifiiltiM any nml nil adverse claims of the said uaiiu (I and dcslminled defendants or any of ihctn tlio tltlo to the Lot Twenty-two ii 111 Illoek Three 3 In the town of Cowles In Wilcicr county. Nebraska, and that the murtgnxo executed thereon by Kdward Ullford nml wife to Martha I-:. Wright, re corded March 2. lK'jo, In Hook V of Mort KUk'csnt puffo 1.17 l)o decreed to havo been pa'd nnd satisiled and to bo discharged ol riconl ami that tho defendants so named ami dolKimiul and all persons clalinlim thruityh or under any of them bo forever Inn rod and enjoined from clalmliiK or iih Hcrlliiuany rlht, tltlo or Intoresl In or to tho said premises or any part thereof ndverxu to the plalutlil. i on are rrqulrcd to answer the petition of theplalntlll oiulloln theollleeof the Clerk of said court, nt Rod Cloud. Nebraska, on or before Monday, March Hi. lull). . Gr.omiK A. Wki.i.s, w y I.. II. lllaekledKC. Ills Attorney. Notice to Creditors. In the County Court of Webster County, Nebraska In the matter ot tho estntn ni i.nmm Hteeley, deceased. Creditors of said estate will tako notion thnt the time limited for nrcsentiiiiim nn,i lllliii; of claims against said estnto Is Juno JOth, 1019, nml for tho parnicnt of debts Is July '.'1st, iimi, that I will sit nt tho county court room In said county on tho 21nt day of Starch, lata, to examine, hear nnd nllow nil claims duly Hied which are a llrst or second lien upon said estate, and on tho 2tst day of Juno, 1911), to examine, hear, nllow and adjust all claims and objections of general creditors duly died. Dated this llthdayof I'ebruary, A. D.,1919 (Sea') A. D. IlANNicr, s County Judge. Drop In at the Schultz & Schaal STUDIO for First class portraiture enlarging, copying, new work, amateur finishing, etc. YOUR PATROiUCE APPRECIATED Dr.W.H.McBride OENTST Successor to Dr. Cross OVKK STATE I1AXK ; RED CLOUD NEBRASKA' E. S. 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