To the Ladies 1 am prepared to do all kinds of I lair Work. If in need of a Switch, Puffs, Curls, or anything in Hair Goods, give me a trial. Mrs.C. McCoy Phone 370 C. M. flARION AUCTIONEER. Sales conducted in scicntilic and busi nesslike manner C. H. MARION Falls City, Nebraska 1). S. HcCarthy DHAY AND TRANSFER Prompt attention given to the removal of hou*e hold good*. PHONE NO. 211 Passenger Trains South Bound Tr. 104—St. Louis Mail and Ex press .1:23 p. in. Tr. loti Kansas City Exp., 3:41 a. in. Tr. 1.32 x K. C.local leave*. .7:30 a. in. Tr. 13H x Fall* City arrives 0:00 p. in. x Daily except Sunday North Bound Tr. 103 Nebraska Mail and Ex press.1:52 p. m. Tr. 105 Omaha Express... ,2:23 a. in. Tr. 137 x Omaha local It lives ti:15 a.m. Tr. 131 x Falls City local ar rives. . .... .K;45 p m. x Daily exceot Sunday Local I rt. Trains Carrying Passengers North Bound Tr. 102.x—To Atchison.11:10 a. in. South Bound Tr. lOlx—To Auburn.1:23 p m. J. B VARNER. Agent Hides and Furs Wanted Highest market prices—1st house south of I’eter Freder ick, sr. PORTER RANDOLPH Phone 422 TROWER BROS / Sam K. Trower. Harr> \\ Trower \ \ and Ben L. Rively / are now associated with Geo. R. Barse Livestock Commission Co. at the Kansas City Stock Yards where they are taking care of and handling all the business «»f their patrons the same as in the past. Oui pen location I* the name as fof the past twenty years. Plent\ of Yarding Space and Plenty of Help, enables u* to handle all business to a Better Advantage than ever before. EDGAR R. MATHERS DENTIST Phones: Nos. 177, 217 Sam'l. Wahl Building R R. ROBERTS Office over Kerr’s Pharmacy Office Phene 260 Residence Phone 271 John Whatsel ATTORNEY Practice in Various Courts. Collections Attended To. Notary Public. FALLS CITY Warns About Dry Farming William E. Curtis Believes it to Be Critical--Thinks That Farming Has Been Pushed Too Far West and That Trouble Will Ensue. William E. Curtis in tin* Chica go Record-Herald: There in a great deal of imjuiry and agitation in progress just now concerning the material resourses of the country. There have been several conventions in Washington lately to discuss subjects of that sort. Several commissions a p pointed by the president are en gaged in investigations of condi tions,"prospects and possibilities. Agi ids i f the interior and the agricultural department, the fores try service, the reclamation ser vice, the agricultural experiment stations of the government and tin* universities of several states are seeking the truth and looking into the future to locate and define difficulties and dangers, so that the development, and prosperity of our agricultural sections may not be interrupted. These investigations have dis closed some facts winch should be made known to the public, and will doubtless appeal in official with official sanction very soon. For example, it is thought neces sary to warn land-hungry people who are taking up homesteads and buy ng small farms in the semi arid regions of western Kansas, eastern Colorado, Wyoming, I'tah and other states, that “dry fann ing” is a very critical proposition. It is also considered important that homeseekers should know that many million acres of our arid land can never be irrigated under any circumstances, because of the lack of water, and that the prevention of waste of watei is one of the most important duties of the American people. One of the ablest agricultural experts in this country, who has recently made an investigation of the conditions in the “dry farm ing” section on the slopes of the llocky Mountains, says: “I have been a pretty thorough student of what is known as “dry farming", and have urged farmers when moving into the semi.arid section, say west of the ninety ninth meridian, to purchase noth ing less than a section or two sec tions, and to combine stock grow ing with ‘dry farming’, and not to undertake it all except with enough capital to carry them through a period of three years. In Salt Lake City 1 made special inquiry of the president of the agricul tural college, and others, who in form me that ‘dry farming’ has been practiced there since 1865,: and that the average yield of the j land, which is put in wheat each alternate year, is 8 or b bushels a ; year, ami that the land will soon need vegetable matter in order to maintain its fertility. At Chey enne I was told that the minimum I of land needed for successful! farming was 1120 acres and the minimum of capital $2,000; that while some men will succeed with $1,000 or even $500, many would fail even with $1,000, but that $2,000 is required to be safe. The agricultural experiment station sent out circulars asking d r y farmers as to the amount of land required to make a living, ami the average given was 500 acres. Over most of the territory west] of the 99th meridian there lias been 50 per cent of rainfall above the normal far the last three years. The soil is rich, most of it at I least. Some of it is very easily j tilled; some of it is of abode for- i mation, which is a hard soil toi manage and should never be plow- j ed at all. The whole country from the national boundary to and in-; eluding the Panhandle of Texas has been exploited for the last 3 or 4 years by companies more or less closely affiliated with the rail roads who have purchased their land and have proclaimed far and wide the doctrine that rain follows the plow, that the east is moving west, and they are selling these lands pleading that a homestead can be secured alongside at from $6 to $20 mi acre. They secure about a tliiril pny merit down,which is about the original cost of the land, and take mortgages running at s per cent interest for the bal-, auce. If normal rainfall should return j a calamity would strike this whole area from the '.tilth meridian to the 1 Odd meridian,the whole length of the country, that would be greater than the calamity that struck western Kansas and Nebraska in the In fact, I believe that, the whole agricultural population, outside of the irrigation districts, would be driven back two hun dred miles, bankrupt and hopeless. The mortgages will be fote doBed on these lands, and they will be converted into great ranches and the grasses allowed to reseed them selves, which they will do in the course of probably 10, 15 or 20 years. I believe that dry farming ou these soils, other than the adotie and red clay sections, could be made profitable by men of large meins and of the highest. sjpll, by deep plowing, so to speak, by [Hit ting a cistern u ider their farms, and by subsoiling to put a lid ori it, thus by continuous cultivation growing a crop of winter wheat every other year. But to send poor, land-hungry people out onto these lands as homesteaders and to sell the adjoining railroad lands at prices above mentioned is cruelly heartless. Men who have made it a study for 10 to 20 years know the folly of undertaking to farm where nature never intended anything but the steer or cow to exisit. In their judgment the homestead laws would be so amended as to permit the farmers to homestead a section, ns intend ed in the Kinkuid law. In this way they could ‘dry farm’ 80 acres or a quarter, leaving the rest in the grass of which it requires from 15 to .10 acres to support a steer, and by doing so they could make a living. ” What Others Say The Fulls City Tribune of last week whs a hummer, issuing six teen pages enclosed in a hand some holiday cover. That the merchants of our ‘‘east end” neighbor are a progressive‘‘bui>ch” who seeui to be thoroughly im bued with the efficacy of printer’s ink, is evidenced throughout the issue in well worded, neatly dis played ads, and Manager Shads is to be congratulated, not only upon the enterprise displayed in the production of such an issue, but because he merits and is re ceiving the loyal support of the business interests of the city.— Humboldt Standard. The attractive special Christinas editions issued by newspapers at Fairbury, Falls City and other points in this part of the state re lied the enterprise of publishers and advertising dealers. Convin ced that newspaper advertising is the only profitable kind, merch ants are following it liberally and persistently, and thus make it pos sible for publishers to give better service, Beatrice Express. Wanted Recruits for the Boy’s brigade. Boys from 12 to 18 years are elligable. The requirements are to abstain from bad habits and to obey the super icr officers, This company will be conducted strictly upon mili tary principles and in a short time soldier suits and guns will be pro vided. This is a tine tkiug for the boys and our plans are to give them lots of good times and to keep them under a moral and spiritual influence. The recruit ing office is at the Baptist church and will be open for volunteers to register Saturday from .’> to 4 p.m. Boys do you want to be a real sol dier? Now is your chance. Rev. G. F. Reichel, Recruiting Officer. CROP ESTIMATES FOR 1808. Final Estimate Given by Depart ment of Agriculture. The final crop estimates for! the year 11108, as given out by j the department of agriculture give the corn crop HU0.000 in crease in acreage, with a total increase of 7*5 million bushels over that of last year. As a| consequence the price of corn in the Chicago pit has fallen off several cents, the situation be ing construed as bearish, by most of the professional specu lators. in regard io this phase of the situation, one of the crop staticians has the following to say: “It is quite evident that the enlarged figures are based on a revision of the estimates of previous years and do not indi cate an actual increase over the area of 1907. The adverse char acter of the p anting season makes it impossible to believe that farmers were able to plant a larger area of corn last spring than in the preceding spring. Crop statistics are of value only by comparison, and therefore a revision of estimates that makes an apparent increase but does not signify an ac.ual increase is misleading. The final estimate of this year’s corn crop is much larger than that of a year ago. As a matter of fact, the crop this year is probably somewhat less than that of last year and a proper revision by the Wash ington bureau of statistics would have shown this. When a re vision is made that is in the na ture of a correction of mistakes in the precedingyears, lull pub licity should be given to this fact.” NEW BOOKS AT LIBRARY. A Well Selected Line of Books Ar rived This Week. The following new books were put in circulation at the Library this week : NON FICTION. On The Training of Parents.. Abbott Old Steamboat Days on the Hudson River.Buck man Furnishing a Modest Home... Daniels .lock of tile Bush veld.Fitzpatrick Dame Curtsey's Book of Guessing Cortes's .Glover Ibsen .Gosse Efficient Life. Gulick Elimination of the Tramp .. ..Kelley Servant in the House.Kennedy History of Music. Pratt In God’s Out-of-Doors.Quajle Young Malefactor.Travis Through the Gates of the Nether lands. . . Waller Religion and Medicine.Worcester Philosophy of the Spirit .Dres-er Power of SileDce.Dresser Advanced Lessons in Yogi Philosophy Science and a Future Life.Hys op ADULT FICTION. Santa Lucia ..Austin Redemption.Bazin Post Girl. Booth Three of a Kind.Burton Kincaid’s Battery. Cable Olympic Victor..Connoly D ana of Dobson's.Hamilton Master of the Inn.Herrick Spanish Jade.Hewlett Lewis Rand.Johnston Bigelow Papers. Lowell Exton Manor.Marshall Car and the Lady.Megargel Little Brown Jug at Kildare. Nicholson At the Foot of the Rainbow.... Porter Flower of the Dusk.Heed Riverman.White Opeu Window.Wright .irVenice hooks. Little Women (new ed ).Alcott Wizard of Oz . Baum Mother Hubbard Picture Book. .Crane Miss Betty of New York.Belaud On the School Team.Karl Indian Primer.Fox Holy Land.Finnemore Switzerland .Finnemore Jack the Young Trapper Grinnel Bays Before History..Hall Trooper Ross, and Signal Butte. King Little Journey to our Western Won derland.Koch .lack and the Beanstalk. Heller Snowdrop.Heller Fairv Tale of a Fox.Heller Our Little Arabian Cousin.. Mansfield Our Little Scotch Cousin. . .Mansfield Anne of Green Gables. . . Montgomery Snow Baby.Peary Snowland Folk.Peary Squirrel Nutklti.Potter Two Bad Mice.Potter Jemima Puddleduck. Potter Nancy Rutledge .Pyle Round the Corner in Gay Street... .Riohmond Our Little Alaskan Cousin.Roulet Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House. Sidney No son. the Adventurer.Smith Three Little Pigs. Two Bad Mice. Three Colonial Bo\ s.Tomlinson Four Boys on the Mississippi. .Tomlinson Betty Baird's Ventures.Weikel "Us Fellers".Forrester Shaggy Coat.Hawkes Picture Book No. 4.. .. Caldecoft Foolish Fox. PUBLIC SALE Having moved to town, I will sell at public sale on my farm, 3*4 miles northwest of halls City, on Tuesday, January 5, 1909 the following described property to-wit : One bay mare, in foal bv jack, cortiing 7 yrs. old. One sorrel mare, in foal by jack, coming 10 yrs. old. One sorrel mare, in foal by jack, coming i^yrs old.. One bay mare colt, coming 2 yrs. old. One sucking colt. One mule,extra large,com ing 4 yrs. old. One mule, coming 3 yrs. One mule, coming 2 vrs. ()ne sucking mule. One cow. One heifer, 3 yrs. old. Five steer calves. Five sows and 25 pigs. 25 tons timothy hay, baled. 10 tons loose timothy hay in barn. (hie stack of alfalfa hay. 50 bales straw. Implements and machin ery of all kinds. SALE TO COMMENCE AT 10 A. M. Term made known on day of sale SIMON BEAGHY COL. MARION, Auctioneer GEORGE HOLT, Clerk WANTED! HORSES MARES and MULES Fat and broke to work — from 4 to 8 years old. Bring in your stock and get the highest market price, at Mettz' Sale Pavilion, in Falls City, Sat.y Jan. 2d J. W. OWENS Most Extensive Dealer in United States. Pittsburgh Perfect Pences are enjoying phenomenal success, and are conceded to be far superior to any other fences on the market. Thousands of pleased fence users will testify that “Pittsburgh Perfect” Elec trically Welded Fences are superior. They will not sag in Summer’s heat nor break in the cold of Winter. They are made of the best material for fencing purposes. They will conform to the most uneven ground and can be erected over hills and through valleys as well as on level ground. They have MANY other points of merit. Palls City, Neb. TANNER ORIENTAL BEAUTIES have good teeth whi e they are young— but they don’t keep them. First-class dental work is practically unknown in the Orient. You have a big advantage over Eastern people in this respect, American dentistry is the most painless and effi cient in the world. Come to us for the best teeth-treatment. DR. YUTZY BERT WINDLE, D. D. S„ Assistant Falls City, Nebraska gggpggnggggJgBggQBKHHHBBHHHHH Formerly President of St. Anthony's D_ _ _ _ _ _ _ Hospital. For years the leading spec mMw ■ M iulist in the middle West. 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