West Nebraska Crops Are Good J. M. Gillan Finds Farmers Optimistic Over Harvest This Year; A change In the spirit of farmers of Cheyenne county. In the western part of Nebraska, is described by J. M. Gillan of the Chamber of Com meree, who returned Wednesday from a two-day automobile trip through that county. “In contrast to the disheartened feeling ofc a year ago when I made a similar visit, I found that farmers are working overtime this year to harvest their cropa and that they are enthusiastic, happy and optimistic,” ■aid Gillan. Wheat Tests 63. “I covered 300 milee, and although I knew conditions were improving for the farmer, the elation which I found was a surprise to me. In Chey enne county the wheat is turning out well and will weigh as high as 63 pounds to the bushel. In that county more than 4,000,000 bushels of wheat will be harvested. “The corn is late, but barring an early frost there will be a good crop. The oats crop also is good. The farmers are also turning to sweet clover and alfalfa with remarkable success. Sidney Farmer Cited. "An example of the change in con ditions may be illustrated in the case of a young farmer southwest of Sid ney. Last year the rust so badly damaged his wheat crop that he lost 3700. He went to a banker friend, expressed a desire to have another try this year and got financial aid. “He plowed 500 acres of land with a little help and seeded it almost en tirely by himself. That wheat Is now yielding 57 bushels to the acre, if is estimated that with his other crops he will not only pay off his loss last year and his indebtedness, but have between $7,000 and $8,000 profit.” Bee Want Ads produce results. GREEN APPLES FATAL TO YOUTH Virgil Johnson, 1-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson, 2214 Nprth Twenty-first street, died at his home Tuesday as the result of eating green apples. His brothers, Harold, 4; and Ernest. 3, and his sister, Jessie, 6, are seriously ill. Funeral services will be held from the Heafey & Heafey chapel at 2 Thursday afternoon. Burial will be in West Lawn cemetery. Premium Lists for Boone Fair Issued Entries Indicate Exhibits of Livestock Will Surpass Records. Albion, Neb., Aug. Premium lists for tho 40th annual Boone county fair have been Issued. The dates for the 1924 fair are September IB to 19, inclusive. Records of the state asso ciation show that Boone county fair is the largest county fair In the state In the amount of premiums paid and In attendance. Premiums have al ways been paid In full. Arrangements for this year’s fair are on a more liberal scale than ever before. Entries have been coming In to the secretary for some time and every Indication Is that the showing of livestock of all kinds will be geater than ever. A larger amount than ever before Is being expended for entertainment and free attractlona Good strings of running and harness horses are assured. There will be a baseball game every day and a foot ball game on the first and last days. A half dozen troupes of entertainers will give free performances before the grandstand every day. These enter tainers are the same as appear at the state fair at Lincoln. Each evening will be staged a gorgeous musical revue consisting of music an antics of an aggregation of dainty, dancing dollies and gorgeous girlie girls. A. W. Lamb of Albion Is the fair secretary. Ponzi Released ! From Jail Cell i _ t “Finance Wizard” Now Fears | Charges Brought in State Courts. i _ Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 6.—Charles Ponzi, his term as a federal prisoner ended, left the Plymouth jail today. Accompanied by a deputy sheriff he went to Boston to try to arrange for the furnishing of $14,000 bail required of him on charges brought In the state courts in connection with his financial schemes. Four years ago Ponzi attracted the attention of the whole country by his offer to pay huge Interest on short term Investments In his securities ex change company of Boston, which purported to operate a plan of deal ing In International postal reply coupons and to be making great profits through the depreciation in foreign exchange. Thousands of persons entrusted millions to him and many of them rereived the promised profits. Finally the authorities stepped in and closed up the business. Ponzi was convicted In the federal court on charges of using the mails in a scheme to defraud, the testimony in dicating that the postal coupon scheme hnd not been operated aa represented. Ponzl's company went into the hands of receivers, his palatial home In Lexington was sold for the benefit of creditors and he was sentenced to Jail for five years. With the usual remittance for good behavior this term expired today. Over 2,000 Attend Elk Horn Sunday School Convention Atlantic, la., Aug. 6.—Over 2,000 persons attended the Joint Sunday school convention at Elk Horn. Dan ish Lutheran congregations of Atlan tic, Harlan, Audubon, Ebenezer, Ex ira, Bethania and Jacksonville were well represented. Elk Horn is the center of the largest Danish settle ment In the United States. SUSPECTED .DEATH BY POISON PROBED By Associated Press. Lincoln, Aug. 8.—Officers of the chemical department of the Univer ' slty of Nebraska here are examining the stomach of Mrs. Anton Soukoup, Page, Neb., for traces of poisoning that may have led to death from other than natural causes. No re port will be made by that department from here, according to Dr. J. C. Frankforter, one of the professors of the department. Dr. Frankforter said today that he would report the analysis back to County Attorney Cronin of Holt coun ty at O’Neill, Neb. Mrs. Soukoup died several days ago under circum stances that aroused suspicion on the part of Holt county officials. Motorist Falls 20 Feet in Car Des Moines Salesman Escapes Death as Bridge Approach Gives Way. C. J. Lukens, Des Moines salesman, narrowly escaped death Wednesday morning when his car dropped 20 feet through the temporary approach to the bridge over Mosquito creek, six miles out of Council Bluffs, on the road to Weston, la. The machine landed right side up at the edge of the stream. Lukens was bruised and suffered a sprained leg. He was brought back to Council Bluffs. He Is resting in his room at the Grand hotel. Lukens was motoring to Weston with his wife. Both left the car and inspected the approach before at tempting to cross. Lukens said. Mrs. Lukens walked across while he drove the car. The approach Is believed to have been weakened by recent rains. The county board of supervisors has an nounced It will investigate the bridge. Burgess Bedtime Stories _/ By THORNTON W. BURGESS. If you've no quarrel, never fight; •Tie foolish and 'tie never right. —Peter Kabblt. Peter Rabbit’s Queer Find. Peter Rabbit, having nothing better to do, had gone up to the Old Posture to nee what he could find. For awhile he wandered about aimlessly, without finding anything of particu lar interest. Then, as he was passing a big bramble tangle, he was startled by a loud, angry thump. He knew It was an angry thump, because he had often thumped In Just that way when he was angry. Peter didn't have to guess who was thumping. He knew. It was Old Jed Thumper, the gray old Rabbit, who has lived so long in the Old Pasture that he thinks It belongs to him. Peter knew what that angry thump meant. It meant fight or get out. Peter was tempted to stop and fight. He wasn’t afraid of old Jed Thumper. There had been a time when he was afraid, hut now he was so big and strong that he wasn’t afraid. So he was tempted to thump back Just as angrily. If he did he would have to stay and fight. He was Just making ready to thump when he changed his mind. "What's the use?" thought Peter. "There Is nothing for me to fight about. Old Jed Thumper probably feels Just as I would If he should come down to the dear Old Briar patch. All he wants Is to drive me away. I'll let him think he has done It. It will make him feel good, anl It won't do any harm.” So Instead of sending back on an swering. angry thump, Peter took to his long legs and away hs went, llp perty-llpperty-llp. He looked back to see If Old Jed Thumper was follow ing. But Old Jud Thumper wasn’t, and so presently Peter hopped along more slowly. It was Just at the be ginning of dusk. The first of the Black Shadows were Just beginning to creep out from the Purple Hills. It was very quiet and peaceful. Peter sat down close to a big. flat rock. For a long time he sat there. Just resting and listening to the sweet evening song of Melody the Wood Thrush. It came to him softened by the distance from the Green Forest and was like a fairy, silver bell. At last ho began to think of moving on t i "They are not pebble* at all!” he exclaimed. It was then that he chanced to turn his head and look across the top of the big, flat rock beside which he was sitting. Right on the middle of It were what he at first took to be two odd shaped, smooth pebblea. Then he noticed that they were Just alike and were lying side by side. "Those are funny looking pebbles,” thought Peter, and hopped on the big rock to have a closer look at them. Then his ears stood up straight and his eyes opened wide In surprise. "They are not pebbles at all!” he ex claimed. “They are eggs! Yes. sir, they are eggs, or I dont' know an egg when I see It.” They were eggs. They were dull white, covered with little fine specks of grayish-brown. Rut there was no nest. They were resting right on the bare rock. There wasn't even a leaf or a spear of grass under them. Pet er stared all around. It was a queer find. Yes, sir, it certainly was a queer find. How did It happen that two eggs were lying there side by side right out on a bare rock? Peter couldn't understand it ait all. The only way to account for them that he could think of was that Farmer Brown's Boy had taken them from a nest somewhere and had put them down on that rock and then forgot ten them But It wasn’t like Farmer Brown'* Boy to take eggs from a nest. Peter scratched a long ear with a long hind foot, and wondered and wondered. Copyright, 1924. The next story: "Peter’s second Surprise.” Bemis Children Help Milk Fund Gifts Received From Ash land, Hamburg, and Mis souri Valley. Have you $1 or $5? You may spend it for something. In that event it will Just be "gone.” You may give it to the Free Milk and Ice Fund. In that event it may save a poor boby’s life. That life may do untold good for many years in the world. And yours will be the credit. And yours will be the reward in blessings coming in a "mysterious way.” Scores of babes and small children in Omaha’s poorest so-called homes are dependent for their supply of milk during the heat of summer upof) this fund. The money now on hand is Just a “jump" ahead of the milkmen and more Is urgently needed. Will you help these babies? And incidentally, depend upon it , help yourself: Already acknowledged . $942.21 R. 19, P 1.00 \ J. . Ml No Name, Missouri Valley, la 2.a: A Friend 2.0,1 MU* Kthfl fiilmore. Missouri Val ley, Is . t.00 T,. 'hoedt, Hamburg, la 10.On It.-mis Park Children 1.25 Mrs. Alice M. froodfellow. Ashland, Neb 2.00 tieorge H. Thummel . 5.00 Total . $92 4.9S A check or cash, sent or brought to "Free Milk and Ice Fund, care of The Bee,” will be acknowledged with thanks. Be* Want Ads produce results. 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