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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1910)
Homes for Everyone Ii vmi want n home in Falk Citv. now is the time to buy it. In our city department we have the following clioiee properties; No. 1—A good three- room hous \ shade and nice lawn permanent walks, on'two good lots close in. Price $1050. No. 2—A good four-room house, on four good lots in third ward, shade and out buildings, a good property. Price $1200. v No. 3- A dandy five-room house in the third ward on three lots, permanent walks, nice lawn and out-buildings. Price $2000 No. 4 A dandy home near the (ionvent, good six-room house, clos ets, fine porches, good barn, and other out buildings, permanent walks. Price $3000. No. 5—A nice strictly modern home on four nice lots, plenty of shade permanent walks located in Steele's Addition, a fine home for some one. Price $4000. No. 0 A fine home only three blocks from Library, on three nice corner lots, and plenty of shade, permanent walks. A dandy ten room house with modern conveniences. Price only $.'’,250. No. 7—A dandy, strictly modern, 8-room house on four fine lots, on ly three blocks from the court house square, plenty of shade, fine lawn, plenty of good out-buildings. Priced worth Ihe money. Price and terms made known on application. No. 8—A fine seven-room house only two blocks from postoffice. Fine shade, fine location. Priced for a short time at only $3500. If you want this you'll have to hurry. No. 9- A good six-room house, four nice southeast corner lots, plenty of shade, niee location, four blocks from the court house. Price $2600. No. 10—A beautiful suburban home, one of Falls. City’s best, house of twelve rooms, modern in every sense, good barn, plenty of shade, cement walks, and about a half block of ground. Terms to suit. The price only $6500. No. 11—A beautiful residence on four fine lots, strictly modern, nine rooms, two full stories, and attic, a fine barn, good shade, cement walks, fine location. Worth the money asked. Terms and price made known on application. | The above are all good properties and well loca ted are worth the money. You could not build the properties today for the money asked. See me rijyht away before they are sold, the price ad vanced or property withdrawn from the market. G. Si. Fallstead FALLS CITY, NEBRASKA ■nmBBmr’ imiiim—ifiwmiii n in w i^rmnanm tmma t —M 'IIMWII IdllllW 1| mil if 'Wlllilil1 '11H T-i|-rniT-nn-j-HTTT-Til i Low Rate Tours SPRING AND SUMMER 1910 « Plan now a 5.000-miie summer tour of the coast See the west with its diversified sections broadening under scientific cultiva tion; visit its incomparable cities with their environment oi intensive land wealth. A Coast Tour is a broad education; the world's greatest rail journey. Roun(1 trip, central Nebraska to California nr Puget Sound, tpUU via direct routes, June 1st to September 30th. g? Round trip on special dates eacli month, from April to July inclusive. (ft 1] gf Higher one way through the state of California, and cities of Portland and Seattle. One wav. eastern and central Nebraska to San Francisco, tlpLfsJ Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle- -Spo kane, etc., March 1st to April 13th. Proportional rates from your town. Consult nearest ticket agent or write me freely, ass ing for publicat'ogs, assistant's, etc., stating rather deti -nitely your general plans. L. M. WAKELEY, G. P. A., Omaha, Neb. 1004 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb. JOHN W. POWELL Real Estate and Loans MORTGAGES BOUGHT AND SOLD Monev to Loan at 5 and G per cent interest on good real estate security. Also monev to loan on good chattel security. West n't Court House Palls City, Nebraska | Passenger Trains mm South Bound Tr lot —St Eouis Mail and Ex press .1:50 p. in Tr 106—Kansas City Exp., 3:41 a. m. Tr. 132 x K.C.local leaves. .7:30 a. in. Tr, 13* \ - Falls City arrives 0:00 p. m. x—Daily except Sunday North Bound Tr. 103—Nebraska Mail and Ex press ..1:50 p ni Tr. 105— Omaha Express. - -1:48 a m Tr. 137 x—Omaha local leave- 7:00 a rn. Tr. 131 x—Falls City local ar rives. 8:45 p.m x—Daily except Sunday Local Frt. Trains Carrying Passengers North Bound Tr. 192x—To Atchison .11:10 a. rn. South Bound Tr. 191x —To Auburn.1:23 p nr Burlington Route West Bound No. 13—Denver Exp.1:10 a. m. No. 15 Denver Exp. (Local). 1:40 p tn. No- 43—Portland Exp_10:17 p- tn. No. 41 — Portland Exp.2:25 p. m. No. 121—Lincoln Loc. via Ne braska City.5:00 a. tn. East Bound No. 14—St. .1., K. C. & St. L .7:38 a. in No. 44—St. J., K. C. & St. L- .4:11 a. ui. No. Hi—St. J., I< C. & St L. .4:22 p. m. (Local) No. 42 St. J., K. C. & St. L. .0:52 p. m No 122 From Lincoln, via Nebraska City.8:45 p m. E. U. W HIT FORD, Agent. invention, of Spectacles. The first pair of spectacles was cnade by an Italian in 1299. SCIENTIMC DRAINAGE. Much Interest is Being Manifested In Damage. The possibilities of scientific drain age are not largely- appreciated as yet in Richardson county. In spite of what is being done along this line it remains a fact that even the most hopeful supporters of this work have an inadequate conception of the actual results possible when once the latest and most approved drain a:;i methods are applied. 1'or this reason, the experiment now being worked out on the Reav is farm to the southwest of town is of peculiar interest and special im portance. The work is being done under the direction and supervision of the university experiment station, and should consequently embrace the latest ideas in correct and up-to date tiling. The results will he studied with interest, boeiiuse large Issue* are at stake. It' this experinint proves a success, and it is bound to, other holders ot' low, wet land will feel ncouraged to go to the necessary expense for tiling their holding's. The results in time will be the re damation of some of the finest and most productive land in the state. The cast lias long since solved the drainage problem both legisla tively and practically As a conse quence large sections of Ohio, Indi ana, Illinois and other states, once worse than useless are today the finest farm lands of those states. This land is all systematically un derdrained. The tile drains serving the double purpose of carrying off tiie surplus water, quickly and with out harm to the land, and of conserv ing the moisture and returning it to the soil in case of drought. One of the wonders of our day is the reclamation of these low lands. It is really no longer an experiment, but lather a matter of correct engi neering. (There is probably not an acre of really waste land in the bottoms of Richardson county that cannot be reclaimed and made til able if the right methods are em ployed. Ii is not a question of pos sibility at all. but only one of going about it in the right way. This, of course involves heavy expenditure to make the needed improvements, but the increased productivity and consequent increased valuation will amply justify the outlay. IJiiderdrainage to b * successful must have an outlet. The success of all tiling, therefore, is conting ent upon the opening up of tiie Ne maha channel itself. Water will not freely flow up hill. It must have fall. This, tiie new channel will! provide, when the big ditch is once completed. MARKET LETTER. Letter From our Regular Correspond ent at Kansas City. Kansas City, March 22, 3 910. The combination of a larger demand for cattle, and a reduced supply last week, gave the market a good push upward, and closing prices were 35 to CO cents higher on steers r'or the week, and 20 to 35 cents higher on butcher grades and stock era and feed* r.s. The market is $1.50 higher than first ot' February and $1.00 higher than a year ago Today the run is 12,000 head, and the market is steady to 10 lower. Some of the Islmiael heifers were heir today from Kiowa, Kansas, at $7.10, and some steers in the sane shipment sold at thetop, $8.15. And steers sell at $7.1 o to $7.85, nothing below $6.50 that Ims any finish at all, and hardly any self s as low hs $6.00. Fancy cows sell up to $7.00, bulk of cows mil heifers at $4.50 to $6.50. Homs made a net gain of .16 coins last week, closing the week :u utioiii the best point reached, aftei some reverses Wednesday and Thurs day. The slim supply of 40,000 hen arrived last week, and the run to day is 8,000 lead. While the gen era! sentiment is bullish, prices have reached a point where hear maneuv ers sometimes win, as they did to day, prices 10 lower, top $10.65, bulk $10.60. Great Interest is taken in the new pig crop now being far rowed, and it is conceded that extra ordinary care will be given the new crop, and a larger percentage sav ed than usual, because it is more worth saving than heretofore. J. A. RICKART, Live Stock Correspondent. Plenty of Birds. If we allow six inches, the measure of Hie Knglish sparrow of our streets, to be the average length of a migra tory bird, then, this mighty host, if we could arrange its restless, flitting members in a quiet, orderly manner, like soldiers on parade, would make a line 4,090,909 miles long. This earth is much too small for such a line. We migl l arrange our birds in 326 lines an i each would extend from the m Ah pole to the south pole along the whole length of North and South America, if we arranged the birds at the equator they would encircle the globe 163 times —I). Lange, in the At lantic. CONSERVATION AND STATE DE PARTMENT CONGRESS. To Be Held In Lincoln. Nebraska March 29, 1910. Tuesday. March £9, 1 BIO. The congress will convene prompt ly at 10 n. m. in the convention hall at the Lincoln hotel. Address by Governor Sballenberger Address of welcome by Mayor D. I-. Love. Five minute responses by C. P. Uendersbot, president state board of agriculture; It. llouge, president Ne braska corn Improvers’ association; George Wycoff, president Nebraska hardware dealers’ association; J A. Ollis, Jr , Improved live stock breeders’ association. Luncheon, Afternoon Session. 2:00 p. nt. Good Hoads Session Geo. H. Chut burn, president Nebraska1 Good Hoads Association, presiding, l Good Dirt Roads for Leas Money F. W. Chase, Mr. Chase is doing! for N. lira ska rouus what King did for •Missouri, lie is making a good road for half of the average iosl of poor roads. 2—Culverts null linages M. M.j Stearns. Mr. Stearns, si practical read limn of Humboldt, lias made an enviable record as a supervisor. ;s -Town and Country Interests \\ A. Selleek, President Lincoln Pom men ial Club. i (Jemnil Discussion by delegates in which county commissioners and supervisors will he given preference. Evening Session. 7 :iu p. hi.—Conservation and Crop Itotalion -George CoiipUmd presiding, i 1 Conservation Problems ill Ne-l hraska (illustrated lantern lecture) G, E. Condro, President Nebraska conservation committee. 2 Crop Rotation in its Relation to Crop Yields and Conservation of Soil | Fertility (illustrated witli charts and | lantern pictures) 'Professor C W. ( Pugsley. :: General discussion Five-minute talks by William Ernst, Mr. O. Hull, Mr. L. Herron, Mr. S. C. llassetl, Pro fessor 13. W. Hunt, Hon. (' -I Ernst ■and others. Wednesday, March 31, 1910. !i;oo a. m.—Seed Corn Problem i and Healthful Witiler Supplies, Dean E. A. Burnett, presiding. 1— Tlie Seed Com Problem—Prof, j E. (!. Montgomery. A practical talk with demonstrations. 2— Questions and general discus-: sion. 3 Town and Rural Water Supplies,! address by an authority on this sub-; ject, address Illustrated by maps and j sii reoptieon views representing actu al conditions in Nebraska. 4—Questions and Discussion C. | E. Simmons, state engineer, presld-j ing. The question will be discussed! by persons who have closely studied j the subject, especially well water supplies and public health. The. chairman of the Nebraska eonwrva- • (ion commission "’ill open the discus ( sion. emphasizing the relation of water supplies, privy vaults, cess pools and sewerage. Luncheon. Afternoon Session. 2;00 p. rn.- The Development of j Northwestern Nebraska—John W.j Long presiding. 1— Success of the Kineaiders- C. j W. Hervey. 2— Grazing Interests-J. G. Martin. J 3— Fori •station—II A. Mast, l S. Dismal River Forest Reserve. 4— Irrigation—13. 0. Simmons. F. j C. Krotter and A. W. Hamilton 5— Dry Farming— W. II. Campbell. 3:30 p. in.—Echoes from the con-j vention. Three-minute speeches by j delegates on the subject, “Stand Up For Nebraska." Adjournment. Dissolution Notice. j The corporation heretofore existing, i in the name of the Kalis ' ity Park land Improvement, company -wherein I John Liehty. W. A. Greenwald, John Powell, W. \Y Jenne and T. J. Gist, all of Falls Ci'y and stale of Nebras ka. This corporation is disolved by i mutual consent. The affairs of said corporation are all adjusted and settled. JOHN LIGHTY, W. A. GREENWALD, JOHN W. POWELL, W W. JENNE, T. J. GIST. Subscribed and sworn to this 12th 'day of February, 1910. John W. Powell, Notary Public. My commission expires No. 24-’LT HARNESS ; Best Harness on earth is made at Wachtel’s. Saddles. Whips. Etc. Everything for the horse. Repair ing and Oiling Phone 384. WACHTEL I i Get Your Easter Footwear At the New Shoe Store A most complete and varied assortment of correct stvles in Footwear is here awaiting your selection. We are displaying 4 Blucher Oxfords Pumps, Buttons in Patent Colt, Cun Metal Kid, Tan Call and Black Suede. Our showing represents all ol the very new est and best fitting patterns. Home Shoe Store of M^sefrauciothing store Falls City, Nebraska Special Sale Of Hand Decorated China Plates We have l'J beautiful decorations in fruits and (lowers and place them on sale at 99c FOR PLATES WORTH $125 79c FOR PLATES WORTH $1.00 This is the best lot of Plates for the price we have ever bought. They are nicely decorated and well \soith St.—a and SI .00 each. See 1 hem at Chas. M. Wilson's LOWE BROTHERS’ MELLOTONE Paint Ready for Use on Wails Woodwork, Burlap. Etc. Put^up in gallons, half gallons and quart*,. Flat colors for inte rior decoration on woodwork and walls. Has no equal. Permanent, Washable Practical, Beautiful Ready to use at any time It is a revelation in ifs results it has all the excellences of water colors, the soft, beautiful effect. WE ARE ACENTS FOR Pittsburg Electrically Welded Fence Wire Sure Hatch Incubators and Brooders They have few equals and no superiors. It Will pay you to inves tigate our claims for these wares-they are reputation builders ' J. G. TANNER Tinning and Plumbing Falls City, Nebraska fFRANK PECK f y . .*• Auctioneer V ___ ■■ ■ -— Jf 'j* If you contemplate having a X, X sale see me or write for terms v at once I guarantee satisfac-Y ■> tion to my patrons. .’•! t X X PALLS CITY, NEBRASKA * t X V *1' *1* *!*• 1**1* •!-»I- *•!* »!'• —The Candy Kitchen for brick ice cream. Spring Work Shoes JUST RECEIVED li. M. Jenne Shoe Store