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I mutt V. I Ionium, at rlKlit. rcwlvliu: lila commission as secretary of the
tnmiiry fioni Curler Glnss, tliu retiring secretary.
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8,899 PROFIT
IN "Y" HUTS
can soldiers nnd milorn, uIbo iit'i'in-d
fitlilltfoiiH thereto nntf new bullillims
for rucIi purposes.
Oontliumnco of the mipport of Him
work now hclng carried on for tlis
soldiers and snllors of our allies he
yond tlie year 11)20, should the seri
ously unsettled conditions occasioned
by the war continue.
Setting apart of a substantial por
tion of the surplus to lie regarded as n
reserve fund which talent be used at
any time for rendering V. M. C. A.
service In any Brave national enter
gency. This reserve fund should cer
tainly bo lield for these purposes for
nt least two years.
Continuance of the educational pro
gram for ex-service men. We recom
mend also n study of the needs of the
wounded ex-service men who are now
having vocational training.
Recommendation that the total
amount that seems now to have ac
crued In the operation of the can
teen, approximately $.'00,000 (brought
about by the government's cancela
tion of the charges aggregating $2,
fiOO.OOO and for which we had n re
serve fund), to be used for the bone
tit of ex-service men. either through
on appropriation direct to the Amer
ican Legion or to the relief of Incapac
itated ex-service men, or to sucl. oth
er purposes for the benefit of ex
service men ns might be agreed upon
lMJtween tho olllcers of the national
war work council and the ofllccrs of
tho American Legion.
CQRNHUSKER ITEMS
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout
Nebraska.
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.Adjustments Show This Gain and
Wipe Out "Book Loss" of
$1,478,004,
PUBLIC GIVES 161,722,649
Report Revenls Approximate Balance
of $17,000,000 Largest Suma Ex
pended on American Fighters
While Abroad.
Now York.-A financial statement
fir operation Iv the national war
vrork council of ihu V. M. C. A. from
tue beginning of our participation !n
tln war to .Inuu'iiy 1 Inst reveals that
the canteens operated for soldier." and
Mllors returned n net prollt of $."03,
WKV70. A previous report In March,
1918, reported a loss on canteen serv
ice of $I.J7S.07I.1 I.
The United States carried Y. M.
C. A. supplies free of charge on
transports, and furnished rail trans
portation and motor supplies In
Franco.
The report iiImi shows that .$101,
' jr2,Q !! I- had been contributed by
.the public to Y. M. C. A. war work
up to .lauuary 1. The report of WI1
Hnm Slnsme. chairman of the war
work council, reveals an approximate
balance of $17,000,000, the principal
expenditures to the ends for which
the money was given having been ns
follows:
Itemized Expenditures.
Spent on soldiers, sailors nnd ma
rines In the United Stntes, !?fl S.SOO.fiO ;
abroad, $rc:wi! T.'Hi.OU ; other expenses
not Iteml.eil, $7,000,000. The fund of
more than $1(51.000,000 was made jp
as follows: rirst Y. M. C. a. cam
paign, $fi,li:i.C.i(5)3; second Y. M. C.
A. campaign. $."i:J,:i 1,5 UJ.81 ; United
!Vur Work campaign up to .luiumry
1, $100,7.'.0,7:I1.17; other sources, $2,-rM.701.-li!.
The balance of $17,000,000 revealed
In the report Is surplus, writing off
more than $21,000,000 of "commit
ments alreudy made for continuance
of the work not only on behalf of the
American army and navy at home
nnd overseas, but "lso among the
allied armies In the troubled nreas
of Kurope and Asia." Itecoinmenda
tlons for continuance of work adopt
ed nt the last Joint meeting of the
executive and finance committees of
the national war work council Include
the following:
Recommendations rVJade.
Continued support of such welfare
work as the Young Men's Christian
association Is now canylng on for en
listed men In the American army and
navy In the United States nnd Its pos
sessions and overseas wherever Amer
ican troops are still held. This rec
ommendation Includes the maintenance
of the permanent Young Men's Chris
tian a.ssoclntlon buildings for Ante; I-
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Father May Swear
When Hanging Paper
Moorhend, Minn. When fa
ther lays the carpet on the
stairs has long been conceded
ns a time to throw the mantle
of charity about certain sayings
and doings of paterfamilias that
normally would be beneuth his
dignity.
Now comes a Moorhend Judge
who says that the law extends
this leniency to such occasions
as when father hangs the pa
per on the Wall.
So Mrs. Henry Iiucliholz of
Sauk Center, Minn., was denied
her bill for divorce, Judge Nye
ruling that whatever Henry
might do when exhausted from
matching wallpaper patterns
and when covered with paste
und perspiration does not con
stitute "criiol and Inhuman
treatment," especially when rec
ords prove him at all other
times meek, faithful and provi
dent.
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OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
Absence of any signs of life about
the home of August Oestman. a
fnrmer residing near Auburn, brought
an Investigation by neighbors which
disclosed that every member of the
family was sick with Influenza and
that two children, Herbert, 0, nnd
Lawrence. H, were dead with core-bro-splnal-menlngltls,
resulting from
the disease. There are 10 members
of the family, and eight of them lay
sick In beds, whne the two dead
children had been laid out on the
floor by members of the weakened
family. Nurses were procured for tiro
care of the stricken family, the mem
bers of which were too sick to attend
the funerals of the two children.
The retirement of Klninr K. Youtr-M
from the race for the republican noi.il
nation for governor nt the primary
next month means that the nonpar! I
sun league will not try for a slate
ticket, but will confine their omloaor-
to the election of a stale legislature.
Youngs was endorsed by the nonparti
san league at Its stale meeting at Lincoln.
INDIAN'S CHARMS FAIL
Did Not Protect Him When He
Blew Out Gas.
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I Find Rare variety J
I of Sugar on Firs :
Washington. Discovery of
the grow ill of sugar on fir trees
In I'.rltMi Columbia Is an
nounced In the American Forest
ry Mngalne. The discovery re
sulted from investigations by
Prof. .John Puvidson of the Unl
verslt.v of lirlllsh Columbia tit
Vnncomor.
Specimens nre said to hae In
dicated the presence of a large
porcentime of an extremely rare
variety ! s.igar. Indians have
made u-e of the sugar for many
enrs, the urtlcle states.
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Knyuce Chief on His Way to Washing
ton Dies In Chicago
Hotel. ,
Chicago. The tribe of Knyuso In
dians on the reservation in Uiuntllla
county, near I'endleton, Ore., are
awaiting assurance from their chief,
U. M. Sum Kim, that their hinds will
not be taken from them. They will
lenrn that ho died in a hotel nt G03
South Wells street, usphyxlnted by
gas. It la believed thut lie blew out
the flame. Ills charm of four snake
heads failed to protect him.
Chief Sum Kim was on Ills way to
Washington to appear before the In
dian board of commissioners to plead
that his people bo protected from a
lli-m that is attempting to take parts
of their land nway through court pro
ceedings for failure to pay an alleged
debt, It Is said.
Adam Hlrd, owner of the hotel, do
tc.'tlng tho odor of gas, traced it to the
Indian's room. The South Clark street
police were summoned, but it was
found he was dead. Tied to a string
around his neck were four small cha
mois bags. Within them were the
dried heads of four snakes.
lie had worn a sombrero, hoots, yel
low duck trousers mid u black shirt.
He ca.-Jil four blankets. The body
was taken to the Central undertaking
rooms at IMS Federal street.
Among the papers found were those
of a law linn demanding that the chief
appear befoie them and straighten out
a money matter, threatening court
procedure If he failed to do so. The
chief carried nflldavlts proving bis
side and a map and blue prints show
ing the lund owned by the tribe. Trav
eling orders nnd appearance pnpers
for a hearing before the commission
ers were nlso found.
SCOFF AT 'WHITE CANNIBALS'
Explorers Declare No Such Tribe aa
Reported Exists on Tlburon
Island.
Los Angeles, Cnl. Members of tho
mining expedition Cant Ilarry Do
Wlndt, nn English explorer, said ho
plans to lead to Tlburon Island, In the
Gulf of California, need not four
"white cannibals" reported there, ac
cording to Los Angeles residents who
have visited the Island.
Persons returning from Tlburon,
however, have given It nn unplensant
reputation. They hnve reported that
It Is overrun with reptiles and that the
few Indians living there, while not ac
tively hostile, are sullen nnd distrust
ful. Stories of u strange white tribe, using
poisoned darts and an ancient blunder
buss to bag occasional visitors to pro
vide native feasts, are scouted here.
Some Los Angeles residents have re
ported having seen natives carrying
modem firearms.
Laborers Buy $25 Shirts.
New York. Louis 15. Tim, silk shirt
manufacturer, reports silk shirts sell
ing nt $25. "and the peculiar thing
nbout It,", he said, "Is that we sell
more of these shirts to worklnguien
than we do to millionaires."
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to .lamalca and the Virgin Islnnds on n general tour of Inspection. Left to right: Senator Kenyon of Iowa; Con
gresHinan fiamett of Tennessee; Senator Kdge of New York; Congressman Towner of Iown;Hear Admiral J. N.
Oliver, U. S. N., head of the commlsslou ; Congressmen Campbell of Knusuu and Guy of Louisiana.
Aiinouncoment has been made that
liaptlsts of Nebraska have been as
signed n quota of $l,r.(M;,000 as their
share of tho $100,000,000 fund which
K to be raised In connection wltli the
New World movement "for Amerlcan
iratlou and splrituallxatlon of the na
tion and the Near Kast." '
Hhlra Tcwvk-sbury, SO, n died
March 7, In I'luttsmouth, was the only
real daughter of the American revolu
tion in Nebraska. She was the daugh
ter of .Tames Walker, a soldier in the
battle of Kort Tlconderoga, and she
was one of only sixty "real daugh
ters" In the United States.
At the suggestion of the Parent
Teacher association of the North
l'uitte high school, girls of the Junior
class have Inaugurated a campaign
against silk hosloty, high heels, filmy
waNts, and other wearing apparel
which especially appeals to the sterner
sex.
Attorney General Davis has notified
Charles K. Hughes that Nebraska will
Join with other states In the legal pro
ceedings to keep the states of Ithode
Kland from winning Its ease against
prohibition.
D. W. lleed of Ilalgler, Dundy coun
ty, has boon enthused by the non
partisan league for congress, and O.
K. Neubaurer of Orleans, Harlan coun
ty, for the state senate.
All records for real estate transac
tions for Dodge county were broken,
when deals totaling $1,010,000 won
completed by the transfer during the
first three days In March.
West Point voters will pass on n
proposition nt the next municipal elec
tion for the Issuance of $20,000 water
bonds for extending tho system In the
city.
The University of Cnllfornln base
ball tenm will meet N'braska at Lin
coln, Mny 10, while en route to the
east to play Harvard, Princeton nnd
Yale, It Is announced.
The Farmers Grain !c Supply Co. of
Illldreth has protested to the state
railway commission against the action
of the Ilurllngtnn railroad In not fur
nishing grain cars.
M. 15. Carman, Methodist conference
evangelist, completed a three weeks'
rovlval meeting at Coad which netted
122 converts.
Improvements for state Institutions
nre being planned by the Lincoln
Chamber of Commerce, State Ualr as
sociation, mill state pnlverslty.
Kearney voters will pass on n
proposition at a special election In
April to bond the city In the sum of
$12.",000 for u new school building.
The Nebraska department of agri
culture reports winter wheat In this
state In good condition at the present
time.
The cornerstone for theAiew I'll
'rim Coni;rei:atlonnl church at Cort
land was laitl with appropriate serv
ices. Work hns been resumed on the con
struction of six miles of concrete pav
ing west of Uremont on the Lincoln
hlchwiiy.
Umll Kafelta of Oil. ex-soldler,
drew claim Oil In tho Torrlngtnn, Wy
land drawing.
Auburn voters nro to have a referen
dum vote on ordinances allowing Sun
day baseball, movies and other enter
tainments. Prof Iluxford, science Instructor In
the Pawnee Pity High school, has se
up a wireless receiving station for de
most ration.
Tour men wore moving a carbine
gas tank from the basement of the
home of John llrnndt near Nlckersnu
when one of them struck a mulch in
light his pipe. A terrific oxploMnn fol
lowed, Injuring all four men quite ser
iously. At the spring election citizens of
Chndron will vote on a $.r0,000 paving
bond proposition.
At tho annual town meeting held nt
Adams tho other day the matter of the
erection of n hall for community gath
erings wns discussed. A special elec
tion for the purposo of noting In tho
ninttcr Is likely to bo called.
Tf land In Nebraska Is to bo as
sessod on Its snlcs value this year as
Secretary of Klnnnco Itoss hns In
ktructetl nssessors, valuations will In
crease from firto .100 per cent in vir
ully every county in tho state.
According to a letter received by
Governor McKelvIo from Daniel C.
llopcr, chief collector of Intcrnnl
revenue, in state where it Is unlaw
ful to sell liquor under state laws,
druggists will not be issued permits to
sell intoxicants by the federal govern
ment. This, it Is believed, means no
liquor penults will be Issued to Ne
braska druggists.
Following n dispute over some oats,
Hnymoiid Hill, Fillmore county farm
er, residing near Geneva, shot and In
stantly killed ills father, Jacob Hill,
agetl 09. Tho slain man had been n
resident of the county for many years.
Young Hill when placed under arrest
showed no remorse for his terrible act.
I5urnetl crops, dnmnged farm ma
chinery, sabotage of nn kinds but par
ticularly where It Interferes with the
production of foodstuffs, Is going to
mean action by the Northwest War
riors In Nebraska, according to J. W.
Hryant, head of the organization's
commit tec on Americanism.
Mayor Smith of Omaha has Issued
Instructions to the imllce department
of the metropolis to stop nctlvltles of
liquor burglars who within the last
six months hnve looted cellars of more
than $.r00,000 worth of liquor. A
"highjacking" squad of ten olllcers
bus been detailed to work.
Two Klniwood boys, Tyler Parish,
12, anil bis brother, Morton, 10, proved
heroes the other day when they stop
ped a Missouri Pacific passenger train
running between Union null Lincoln,
with 100 passengers, within twenty
feet of n broken rail and prevented n
wreck-.
During the first week of April nbout
20 new road contracts will be let by
the state road department calling for
the expenditure of probnblye $1,000.
0(H). Those new roads are scattered
over the state In different localities,
and It Is expected that as soon ns tho
contracts are let work will begin.
Wllllnm Itummell, one of Cass coun
ty's live stock feeders, shipped a car
load of twenty-two html of steers to
Omaha, whore he received $U 2." per
hundred. These steers averaged l.'-'.'Vf
pounds, having been on feed since Oc
tober !), at which time Kummell bought
them for $0.1 S.
More than 100 Nebraska democrats
attended a dinner at Omaha at which
Arthur F. Mullen sounded the keynote
of the Hitchcock for president cam
paign. A. ('. Shallcuhcrgcr, former
congroisman, acted the part of toast
master. Secretary George Johnson of the
dennrtment of nubile works snvs tlmr
all but 17 of the auto trucks damaged j
by fire when the cattle barn was burn- '
oil at the fair grounds at Lincoln, !
have been fully put In shape. j
At a meeting of a number of farm- i
LIFT OFF CORNS!
Apply few drops then lift sore,
touchy corns off with
fingers
Doesn't hurt n bit! roD little
Freezone on an aclilrc coipfistnatly
thut corn stops hurting, tn'you lift
it right out. Yes, mngicl
A tiny bottle of Frcoeine.;costs but
a few cents at any k'ig syiVe, but Is
sufllclent to remove every liurd corn,
soft corn, or corn bcUvcwi (jjo toes,
and the calluses, without soreness or
Irritation.
Freezone is the sonsjitionnl dis
covery of n Cincinnati Kcnlus. It is
wonderful. Adv.
Falling in loe Is afteji a serious
accident.
Red Cross Ball Blue Khuuld be used
in every home. It makes olotlics white
as snow and never Injures tho fabric.
All good grocers, 5c.
An Ill-smelling pipe bus
science.
112 Millions
used last year
to KILL COI
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ers who conduct dairies as auxlllailes j
to their regular farm work at Central i
City stops were taken to form u dairy j
organization In Merrick county. I
Secretary of State Amsherry has '
ruled that separate ballots and ballot ,
boxes must be provided for male and
femnle voters In the April 20 primary ,
election.
County nssessors have been advised
by Secretary of Finance P.ross that
, shares of stock In building nnd Loan
associations of this stale arc subject to
taxation.
French war certificates were pre
sented to relatives of Gage county
heroes who lost their lives In the war
by the American Legion post at
Beatrice.
A record-breaking transfer of real
estate was recorded In Nuckolls coun
ty the first week In March when sales
taotallng over $1,000,000 were closed.
The Board of Education at Lincoln
Instructed architects to draw up
plans for the new Junior High school
building which Is to cost $175,000.
An oil compnny hns over 7,000 acres
of land leased south of Table Bock
and In '.he vicinity of Seneca, for tho
purpose of trying for oil.
The Lincoln High basketball team
carried off first honors at the state
high school tournament nt the Ne
braska capital.
A new hotel for Ord Is one of the
projects of the Community Service
club. A sixty-room structure Is con
templated. Chain stores nre to be established In
a number of Nebraska towns by n
company organized nt Fremont.
Work Is to be started soon on the
new Svrlnn Orthodox church at Kear-
now The new etiiuce win cost imimriv.
Petitions for George Jackson of Nel
son for governor nre being circulated
at Superior.
Presbyterians of ICenrnoy have pur
chased n site for their nev $".",003
church.
(iindron has emplnved n city man
ager at a salary of $r.000 a year.
Ogallalla's ponulace Is rejoicing at
the sight of workmen lining the foun
dation for a new modern hotel.
Shippers In all parts of Nebraska
are sending protests to the State Ball
way Commission nt Lincoln because of
the use of cars for emigration pur
poses Instead of for sh'pn'ng irrain.
Lincoln. Norfolk. Stnnton. Colunii'U.i
and scores of oMier Nebraska lov in
are expected to send teams to the an-
mint Nebraska state open wrosinug
championship tournement nt the Young
Men's Christian association, Omaha,
Saturday evening, March 27.
Plans hnve been perfected for tho
construction of a two-story, 80-ronm
hotel at O'Neill.
Bow K. II. .Ilnsmnn, pnstor of
the Methodist church of Ori, has an
nounced the Intention of his congrega
tion to purchase n motion picture ma
chine to be used In educalnnal and
entertainment work.
Articles of Incorporation filed by the
North Plntto Valley Hallway com
pnny, with headquarters at'Scottsbluff,
show that the organization proposes to
build and opernto railroad In Morrill,
Scottsbluff und Sioux counties.
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Bows relieves crip in j clays.
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Soap 25c, Ointment 25 and 50c, Talcum 25c.
PATENTS
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Bates reasonable. Ulubostroturencvs. "ostsorrlooa.
Nebraska Directory
Field, Garden and Flowers Nursery Stock
Boo Supplies Eirns for Hatching
Wrlto for cataloz
HILTNER & R1GDON
1042 O Street Lincoln. Neb.
KODAKS
Developing, Printing
and Enlarging
Lincoln Photo Supply Co.
(Knstuiuii UodaU Cu.)
Dcpt. K, 1217 O St. Lincoln, Neb.
7 PER ANNUM TAX FREE
The Lincoln TelepSwrm & ToleKmpli Com
pany, Lincoln, Nob, U offering to InvoBtom
it p.ir, $100 per shun-, notno (if lln tax-lre'
VTo mock thru tins palil iiu.irtorly dividends
for thu pint 11 yp.im. Tlilu U nnufoiiml con
venient Investment, cIipcIsh for dividends be
iiiu nmlloil to our uiUlrrsH for $1.76 per
$100 Hlinrn In Jnnuiirv, April, July nnd Oc
tober. For Information or for nhurat of irtack
nildroHH C. I ItUMRcll. Kony. Lincoln Tele
phone & TPlCRrnpn uoiiipiwy, iiiK-piione
llldB., Lincoln, Neb.
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RHEUMATISM
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Liver Discuses
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