The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191?, December 04, 1908, Image 4
THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE Entered as second-class matter at Falls Citv, Nebraska, post office, Janu ary 12, 1904, under the Act of Congress on March 3, 1879. Published every Friday at Falls City, Nebraska, by The Tribune Publishing Company E F. SMARTS. Manager One year.., $1.7)0 Si* months. 7.ri Three months ..40 TELEPHONE 226. THE SITUATION For some time past, in fact ever since The Tribune’s birth, the News (published by Davis k Davis, who are thoroughly known by all who are acquaint ed with them) has week alter week stolen space from its sub scribers and donated it toward the building up of a “cracker jack” business for The Tribune. “A knock is a boost” is an old but very true saying for week after week The Tribune’s business and growth has been phenomenal. Something over four years ago The Tribune was launched in only part of a very smail room. Today it occupies both floors of its present location,and is very much crowded at that. Once more “a knock is a boost. ” Week after week The Tribune has ignored all attacks upon it from the source of the News, be. mg thoroughly satisfied that a “knock’’ was a “boost’’ es pecially from Davis <Sc Davis. Week alter week The Tribune has “laughed up her sleeve’’ at the choice “position” the week ly advertisement in the News received—and how careful and • painstaking t h e proprietors were to see that our ad would pay us well. With the above statements, and with the “patient public’’ ready to testify as to their truth, we will endeavor to en lighten thevery fen' who are not already familiar with the situa tion. There are three points we wish to make plain: 1. The Tribune adopted a policy of refraining from any newspaper controversy, not that we do not feel capable of “hold ing our own,” but because we do not think that the “patient public” should pay their hard earned money for a newspaper and each week be cheated out of half their reading space with nauseating comments on “how the other ‘feller’ runs h i s paper.” It matters not to us how other newspapers word their news reports of the doings of the past week, and we don’t care whether Davis & Davis like the way we word our’s just as long as our subscription list keeps on growing at the present rate, we feel that our paper must certainly please the ‘‘patient public." 2. The Tribune is a .Ye us pa per. A newspaper's duty is to give the NEWS the pure, unvarnished news; to publish everything of a news character, that is tit to print. That’s what The Tribune makes an effort to do, regard less of how it would suit Davis A Davis. - ivU\ companv wo urc prouu to before tue .-c.wl.o did not al ready know the exact situation, and with the assurance that they will not be bothered very soon again, we know they will all overlook this one theft. Watch our ad in next week's News! Respectfully, E. F. Shakts, Manager. Lincoln, that ran Governor Sheldon 1500 votes behind the usual majority, is now prepar ing to give him a big banquet. Lincoln is nothing if not funny. The ever increasing golden pile in the cribs speaks of an other season of plenty for the most independent man on earth, the Richardson county farmer. Rumor has ii that a few of our friends of the opposition nominated a municipal ticket for next spring’s election at a secret meeting held the other evening. “We do not know what the facts in the case are,” says our excitable contemporary, sure not you never do. if you want all the news, all the time try taking The Tribune. Richardson cour can be made republican the same as Pawnee county or Brown coun ty, Kansas. Competent leader ship and earnest work on the part of the rank and file can and will accomplish the result. Our new story tells of a young man and woman wrecked on a desert island. They live on raw lish, find an immense cave, fight with wild beasts and have the devil’s own time generally. Don’t fail to read this if you don’t want to miss agood thing. We have heard of the orange groves of California and the orchards of the Ozarks, but when Henry Smith sells apples from his orchard north ol Falls City for $100 an acre as he did, the orange groves and Ozark orchards don’t seem so much after all. Ueally, The Tribune is too busy for a newspaper row, and then, it we had the time, we couldn’t get mad under the cir cumstances to save our lile, So Brother, if you must lose your temper and act nasty, go at it with our full and free consent and blessing. Humboldt democrats have their Falls City brothers beaten a city block when it comes to organization, as the recent elec tion disclosed. Dr. Waggener, Jack Walsh,dim Davis and some others like them.made a team of workers that would of delighted Bob Clegg in the old days. South Dakota comes forth to announce that two of her farm ers living near Pierre, recently marketed 500 bu. of alfalfa seed, the product of 50 acres, at $14 per bushel. It concludes by say ing, “A return of $140 per acre is a fair return, even for South Dakota. ’’ Who is next to report? Wm, Hayward ot Nebraska City is slated for the position of first assistant postmaster general under Secretary Hitch cock. Billy’s work as secretary of the national committee has won him a world of friends among those in authority and the future should hold many very desirable things for him. A bill printed by The Tribune never requires a local notice to make it intelligible.neither is it necessary to correct mistakes of our job department through the columns of this pi per. Cor rect printing at correct prices 1 are two of ui; ny essential-; that ' irom ten to fourteen hours o ; better than 11k other i< lov*-. It pays to farm \ve".K To keep : the laud iertik\ to farm the l tu' tn utino.-d limit. Tu , use the best seed, to give the ! crops the best attention. It these things were done by every farmer in the county ii would add thousands of dollars annually to the wealth of our people. THE SOUTHERN FARMER The commission appointed by President Roosevelt to investi gate conditions looking to the social and financial betterment of the larmer, reports a serious condition among southern farm ers. The country school houses of the south are unsanitary, says the commission. The teachers are ignorant and poor lv paid The roads are in fear ful condition, no effort is made to keep them up. The houses are old fashioned, run down shacks that a northern farmer would not use for a cow shed. No crops but cotton and tobacco have been raised for years, and as a result the soil is impov erished. The worst of it is that many southern farmers resented the advice given by the com mission and received every suggestion of modern methods with scorn. The Sterling Sun makes the observation that the next effort of the Lancaster county repub licans, who it says succeeded in defeating the republican ticket at the last election, will be to lay Senator Burkett on the shelf. But the Sun should re member that those Lincoln “rule or ruin republicans would have laid him on the shelf long ago if the outside counties of his district and state had permitted it. They don’t like Burkett up there because he refuses to let them boss him. They wanted to dictate his ap pointments when he became congressman and then came the breach. Lancaster county wants everything that comes to the state and Burkett never would stand for it. The first rural route he established was in another county. His first effort to secure a public build ing was for another town than Lincoln. They want a Lancas ter senator and because Bur. kett insists on standing for the entire state they don’t like him. A new deal in politics obtains in Washington. The President seems determined to fill the places with young, honest, hard working men of the university type. Of course, the politician of the old school snorts his con tempt, but so far he has had his snorts for his pains. Hitchcock, Garfield, Hayward and others of like character, made a crowd of splendid young fellows to help carry out the plans and purposes of the administration. Scarcely an empty house in Falls City. It every citizen would realize his duty to his town, the town where he makes his money and his home, the town where he is rearing his family, is entitled to his best words and efforte, then would Falls City go ahead to her proper place at the head of the class._ Notwithstanding we have no competition in the finer lines of printing, we nevertheless feel very proud of some of the work we have done this fall among which we mention the Elks’ memorial program and the I Thanksgiving menu of the | National hotel. i When a country town news-1 i paper circulation grci\\ $ so i<irgc * . that a mechanical folder is at> i jMMuieiy necessary to get the I >np " out on inn it shows a Did vou ever stop to think i that there may be another j ! reason why a certain Falls City paper so frantically attacks The Tribuei At the banquet given in Hia watha the other evening six teen speeches were made. The crowd was sick all the next day. Hides are to go on the “free list.’’ The papers fail to state 1 whether it is political hides or some other kind. The foot ball and base ball sea son is over. That is not saying, however, that the season for kicks and knocks is gone. If the holiday season doesn’t put money in circulation, then we’ll give it up. At least we will all be broke, except the mer chant. A certain man has said that the national democratic party is afflicted with Brvanites and he attributes the last defeat to that ailment- Probably three more defeats may prove a cure. Frank H. Hitchcock is to be postmaster general in Mr. Taft’s cabinet, If he proves as efficient a head of that department as he was of the Kepublican National committee; the country will be proud of him. A Massachusetts paper is authority for the statement that Chanceller Andrews, upon his re tirement from the state univer sity, will receive a Carnegie pen sion of $5,000 a year. This no doubt is pleasant news to the chancellor. The main objection most teachers will have is that there are not more on Carnegie’s list. The latest great disaster re ported is that of a collision of two Japanese steam ships off the coasts of China with the loss of 700 lives- The record of lives lost recently by drowning and in mines is appalling. Some effort should be made by the proper authorities to make human life more secure in these lines of em ploy ment. There is a farmer living near thiscity who told the writer that he had a field of corn which yielded more than 100 bu per acre by weight. How is that for an ‘‘off” corn year? At present prices that means more than $50 per acre for that field of corn. Yet we sometimes hear some old moss back saying “Times are not prosperous.’’ Verily no man is so blind as he who will not see. Gov. Woodruff of New York has retired from the senatorial race and the way seems clear for Elihu Root as the successor of Senator Platt. Mr. Root is re garded by many as the greatest living American, and New York and the nation are to be congrat ulated upon securing his com manding ability in the senate. Now if New York will succeed Senator Depew with Geo.Hughes, its delegation will be the greatest in the history of the state. Bank for Women Many of the ladies of Fall-^City | and community do not know that j II ! Falls City [ | State Bank !| . • i | 0*1:1 ill t : 1 ' ' • i • '• * l ■ - t 5, | haruir<,UK' I and you will b • de.ighted who ... THE Falls City State Bank " ■ " • JEWELRY Is always suitable for wife, mother, father, sis ter, brother, aunt, uncle or friend. Here are a few suggestions: FOR MEN Watch Ring Fob Charm Stick Pin Cuff Buttons Razor Strop Shaving Set Fountain Pen FOR WOMEN Watch Bracelets Fancy Hat Pin Belt Pin' Locket and Chain Ring Jewel Cases Cut Class Silverware These are only a few of the many useful and beautiful things we carry that would make an excellent present at a moderate price. R. B. SIMPSON JEWELER North Window Kerr's Pharmacy SUNNNYSIDE GREENHOUSE Are now among the Largest in Nebraska See us for Pot Plants and Cut Mowers for Christ mas Gifts, as well as Fresh Lettuce, Holly, Mistle toe and Green Wreathing. Also for Party and Wedding Decorations Flowers tastefully arranged for funeral purposes. Telephone us your order. Prompt and satisfactory service guaranteed at all times. Phone 95 Simanton & Pence Wholesale and Retail Florists Give Him A Waterman Fountain Pen for Xmas- He will use it many times daily and thank you every time he writes- It is the one pen that is no disap pointment. You’d be surprised how much beauty is incor porated in one of these useful pens. We have them in Gold. Silver and Plain Rubber Holders, in a variety of sizes and in many points to suit his particular need PRICES $2.50 to $10 . I A. E. Jaquet “The Old Reliable” i ■ iyf 11 i C'; | Mettz" Sole Pavilion, in Palis City, Sat., Dec. 5th J.W.OWl NS i Most Extensive Dealer in United States, j