m COMERS AND GOERS
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST TO
YOU AND ME.
What Your Friends and Their
Friends Have Been Doing
the Past Week.
— Bat Sowle's Candy.
—Dr. Wilson, Wahl's building.
—Now is the time to plant straw
berries. 13-tf
—By your seed corn at Heck’s
feed store. 15-2t.
James Kelley came down from Sa
lem Monday.
—Strawberry plants are ready.—Si
nianton (ft Pence. 13-tf
Vincent Arnold and wife were down
from Verdon Monday.
—Young’s Pantorium cleans and
presses ladies skirts. 44-tf
Mrs. Frank Haven was down frdin1
Dawson last Saturday.
—If it’s shoes you want, call at
the Home Shoe store. 14-lt
Dr. E. R. Hayes was down from
Dawson to spend Sunday.
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Miss Amelia Schrader of Verdon
» was shopping here Monday.
Maude Nation went to Mound City
Saturday to visit over Sundry.
Mrs. Lloyd (liannini and son, Neal,
spent last Saturday with ltulo friends.
Luther Stanley was one of the
many Salem people in town Monday.
Miss Myrtle Lowers spent Saturday
and Sunday with relatives in Verdon.
Max Werner was down from Ne
braska City to spend Sunday with his
parents.
Miss Gertrude Kobb and Miss Mag
gie Leslie Were Salem shoppers at
this place Monday.
Wm. Kleber returned Friday from
Reserve, where lie has been at work
on a carpenter contract.
Miss Myrtle Yooam, who has been
teaching the past year at Scotia.Neb.,
returned home Saturday.
Mrs. James Sinclair came up from
Rulo Monday evening to visit her
mother, Mrs. Margery Grant,
George Ocamb of ltulo, with his two
sons, Harold and Gotlieb, were up
Monday afternoon on business.
Where the doctors languish and
take to other pursuits, the people
have either died or gotten well.
, A little daughter ayived at the
homo of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Heck
on Monday. All concerned are doing
nicely.
Misses Minnie Phipps and Cather
ine Losworth of Nebraska City were
guests over Sunday at the home of A.
J. Hill.
Mrs. Daisy Kerr King returned to
her home in this city Tuesday, after
a visit to her brother. Dr. C L. Kerr
in New Orleans.
Miss Jennie Fellers came down
from Humboldt Monday and was the
guest of Mrs. W. A. Greenwpld until ■
Tuesday evening.
Miss Almeda Hill, who has been!
teaching near Shubert lias closed herj
school and last Saturday returned to
her home in this city.
Fred Zorn moved this week into j
his fine new residence on North Mor
ton street. He now occupies one of j
the nicest homes in the city.
Levi Thacker went (o Humboldt on |
Monday night, where he served as aj
committeeman in the appraising of
land in a drainage district suit.
On account of the absence from j
town of J. H. Miles the drainage |
board, which met in the city Mon-;
day, was not able to do business.
Mrs. Lillie Stephenson and little j
son Oliver, left Tuesday for Shubert i
where they will join Mr. Stephenson
and will mak“ their future home.
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School in District No. 54 closed
Monday. A special prograr. was
provided. The children had recitations
and songs. Rev. Nanninga gave a talk
on ‘‘Education,” and James Coupe
read a splendid paper on agriculture.
The, exercises were intended as a
kind of dedicatory service for the
new school building which has replac
ed tiio one burned last fall. There!
was a big crowd present and all had
a pleasant and profitable time. This
closes the third Successful season for
.Miss Marie Crotty, the teacher in
this district.
Drainage Dist. No. J now Inis two
big dredge on the ground, one at
either' end of the .ditch to be opened.
The carrying out of the ditching oper
ations in District No. J is being done
with a vigor and dispatch which
threatens to put the diggers in the
first district wholly in the shade.
George Wertz came in from his
ranch near Alma. Neb., Tuesday and
spent a few days calling on old time
friends. He and his brothc are in
terested in a big ranch in the west
and at the same time Mr. Wertz
keeps tiis former occupation of cattle
buyer and commission merchant.
The Gluey Music Go's, representa
tive from St. Joseph was in town
Monday and Tuesday soliciting trade.
Richardson county offers an excellent
field for working up a big trade in
musical instillments. The Gluey peo
ple no doubt know a good thing when
they see it.
Tin* new city council Inis a big
proposition on their hands. However
they are wasting no time in taking
hold, and indications promise that
several things will be happening be
fore long. We Wish them good
courage in their efforts.
The car of building material for the
i.gg and Poultry plant, which went
astray and could not he fotihd for
nearly a month, happily turned up the
(tier day and now carpenters are rap
idly putting the finishing touches on
the refrigerator building.
The high water in the'Nentaha lias
1 ecu a big help to the dredge oper
itii'g south of town. It supplied an
nbundance of water to float the big
dredge while starting the new cut
out of the old river bed.
Mrs. Ellen Showaltor of Morrill,
Is staying at the home of Samuel
! ichty litis week and is enjoying tt
visM with ter brother, L. S. Bauman,
1 ti evangelist who is preaching at
the Brethren church.
Prank Church of Homer, Neb,, was
in Palls City Monday with tt view of
locating here. He was favorably im
pressed with what lie saw, and will
no doubt decide to move here in the
near future.
Harry Custer returned Friday from
liis trip to Garden City, Kaa., which
was made last week in company with
G. W. Holland and Herbert Naishe.
Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Norris left this
week for their home in Hardin,Mont.
They have spent the past week with
their daughter, Mrs. i. C. Maust.
"The Story of a Thriving City” has
the endorsement of the Commercial
club, the banks and principal buisnoss
men of Falls City.
Mrs. Wii! Cook returned to her
home in Verdon Saturday, alter a
visit to her daughter, Mrs. Dallas
Yoder.
—Don't forget to visit the Home
Shoo Store for bargains in shoes
when in Falls City. 14-tf
—Why Not- -Use the Vacuum Clean
er and get the dirt out. Phone 208
or 426. 17-tf.
—Busy time -quick work with
Vacuum Cleaner. Phone 208 or 126.
Miss Helen Wilson of Salem was
in our city between trains Monday.
Mrs. Fred Schock w'ent to, Nebraska
City Tuesday to visit her parents.
Guy Sheeley of Salem was in town'
Monday on business,
'Skin Deep'
'1 is said that “beauty is only skin deep. That s suf
ficient. Properly gowned and adorned womankind
is satisfied with this depth of facial beauty. In the
wav of adornments—useful and necessary adornments
—we are showing the very choicest designs in
Hat Pins
Belt Buckles
Gold Lockets
Fancy Purses
Back Combs
Barrettes
Mesh Bags
Toilet Articles
The prices are fair and reasonable—not “cheap, but
just right. Our show window doesn’t tell half the
stor\—so many pretty and useful things necessary for
My Lady’s toilet that are not in the window. But they
are here, subject to your approval.
JEWELERS AND OPTICIANS FALLS CITY, NEBRASKA
Mrs.R.E.Grinstcad was down from
Salem Monday.
Miss Ola Crook spent Sunday at
her home near Salem
Miss Nola McGool was down from
Salem shopping Friday.
Neal Thornton went to Wymore on
Sunday for a short visit.
John McOool of Salem spent Sun
day with relatives in this city.
John Gilligan was down from Ne
braska City and spent Sunday with
his wife and son.
Misses Edna and Sue Adele Miles
left Saturday to join their parents
at Excelsior Springs.
Miss Grace Maddox of Montpelier.
Ind . arrived Saturday for a visit with
her sister, Mrs. Guy GreenwtUl.
Miss Violet Crash came down from
Salem on the early morning train
Monday .on a shopping exphlit.ion.
Stanley Crook came down front Sa
lem Monday to go to work for K. A.
Ulttnmr i<> 1 li»' grocery depapment.
John A. Crook, accompanied by his
mother. .Mrs. \V. H. Crook, went to
Kansas City on business Sunday after
noon.
Alarm clocks may be heard buzz
ing and wrirrh’g these mornings, but
not everybody gets to sc the big
conn t.
Mrs. George Wahl, Misses Lucille
Mettz, Stella Sehock and Alomi Wil
cox drove to Salem Sunday to spend
the day.
Misses Louise Utile. Maude Davis
and Hill Houston went to Salem on
Saturday for a visit with Miss Nola
Me Cool.
Miss Rose Pfanu, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Fred Sehock,
returned Tuesday to her home in Ne
braska City.
Th<> (hailing' board lias received a
message from Washington notifying
(hem ihut congress has allowed the
assessment on the Indian lands in
Drainage Dist. No. 1. to be raised at
$*>.50 per acre.
George I'alLsiead and W. S. Leyda
went to Freemant to attend the state
convention of the Knights of Pythias
this week. They wont as (he local
representatives or delegates of the
Falls City lodge.
Mrs.Margery (Irani and son,,.lames
left Tuesday for Gordon, / Neb.,
The former goes for an extended vis
it with her children at that place and
the latter will make his home on a
ranch near there.
C. II. Conklin of Decatur, Hi., was
in town Monday. Mr. Conklin owns
some farm land near Falls City and
was here to lock after it. He thinks
the fruit prospects are more favor
able in Nebraska than in Illinois.
From various rumors current these
days it would appear that practicing
law in Hiawalna was not a very re
numcrative preposition. Corps of
lawyers there lias been diminishing
until only four are able to maintain
the full dignity of their trade.
Mr. and Mir. Cheney of Portland,
Maine, are in town visiting at the
lioin ' of the latter's parents, Mr.
<ind Mrs. VauDusen. Mr. Cheney has
decided to remain in the west and
has accepted a position in Springfi'h,,
Mo., as engineer at the city water
works.
Mrs. Fulton, the aged lady who fell
from the pore.i jjt the home of N. T.
Van Winkle and sustained two frac
lined arms, was taken to her home
in Pawnee the first of the week.
Her daughter,Mrs. Halderinan of Haw
nee and Dr. itaose of this city ac
companied her home.
1 liawatha is poking full at Falls t'liy
on the street paving proposition.
There was a time «lien Falls Fity
was erowmg rather loud over Hia
watha's inability to get a pavVng ordi
nance passed. Now Hiawatha's
chances are good for scoring a half
dozen points against Fulls City.
During the freshet last week the
water swept flown the new channel,
south of town in magnificent style.
There was something really majestic
about it When the channel is open
through to the Missouri river, and
the full volume of water rushes down
the new channel at its maximum vel
ocity. it. will present a sight worth
going out to see.
Governor Rhellonborger has receiv
ed complaints from Omaha that
he fire the Omaha chief of police and
tie* police commissioners for gross
abuses ill office, j The first complaint
included the name of Mayor Dahlmati
The governor refused to act, giving
as his grounds, that lie would not
oust the mayor, so in the last re
quest tlio petitioners have left out the
name of the democratic candidate for
governor on the wet ticket.
Tht young man who basely insult
ed a young girl waiter in one of
our hoarding houses last week may
thank his lucky stars that lie escaped
without any broken hones. A power
ful athlete happened to tie sitting at
the saint* table and noticed ihe dirty
trick, and only restrained himself
with difficulty from picking up the
miscreant, pulverizing him and pitch
ing him out in the street. The next
time a similar thing happens there
will be a case for tin* coroner in the
west side of town.
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I.IVK STOCK NOTK3.
A slight ehntigt' In the ration of
the team occasionally will lie appre
ciated.
Look alter the horse’s teeth fre
quently. Many a serious case of
indigestion has started here.
A well-kept harness adds to the
appearance of the team hut It can
not make a poor team attractive.
If the horse's inane in heavy and In
dined to work under the collar, thin
it out, because it will almost certainly
cause a sort spot,
Sometimes a feed of cabbage just
before using a horse that slobbers
from eating clover, will prevent the
unpleasant loss of saliva.
Mow, while hogs are high, is'a good
time to get a start of good hogs, (let
ting a start of good hog comes quick
ly. as they breed last and mature
quickly.
A well-matched pair of purebred
draft mares ought to he worth, in
spite ol the autos, $1,000 apiece, and
properly bred stallions will bring even
more than this.
One of the largest steers ever
slaughtered in the west was killed at
Snn Francisco, on the hoof tho steer
weighed 2,500 pounds and dressed
1,500 pounds net.
For lice on horses, take half a pint
of kerosene in two gallons of water,
and wash the horse with this twice,
with an interval of two or three days
between the applications.
DISTEMPER IN YOUNG HORSES
Disease Is Infectious and Generally
Found in Animals Under Five
Years of Age.
(BY R K l\ Al’PP. CO 1,0 It A DO AG RI -
Cl’I.TtmAU ('0U,I50R,I
Distemper, or strangles, is n dis
ease principally affecting young
horses. It is due to a germ be
longing to the streptococcic group.
Tile disease is accompanied by high
fever, catarrhal inflammation of the
mucous membranes. especially of the
nasal passages, and as a result of
tills condition, a discharge from the
nose. There is swelling of (lie lymph
glands under the jaw, which later re- j
cults in abscess formation.
A horse with distemper can com
mimicale it to a healthy one.
The germs are found in tlie dis
charge from the nostrils and in tlie
pus from tlie abscess which forms
under the jaw and later breaks.
The majority of cases of distemper
occurs before the age of five years.
The constitutional disturbances
caused by the shedding of the teeth,
and cutting same, ns well as impure
air in poorly ventilated stables, over
worked and poorly fed animals, are
factors that weaken the resistance
and make infection possible to pro
duce the disease.
The disease is more common in the
spring and fail of Ihe year, particu
larly the former, on account of Lite
(hill received at these seasons of the
year.
The disease can also be transmit
ted from dam to offspring through the
milk.
The animal usually develops the
disease in from three days to three
weeks after being exposed to the
contagion.
Animals affected with distemper
i should uot be sold. Young animals
should not be brought in contact with
those affected nor watered out <>f the
same bucket, nor come in contact
with any other property until it has
been thoroughly disinfected. An ani
mal should not be castrated while
suffering with strangles.
A vaccine made from the specific
germ causing this disease is prepared
in the laboratory of the veterinary de
partment of the Colorado Agricultural
college.
ZIG-ZAG TROUGH FOR HOGS
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Keeps Them from Piling Upon Each
Other. Thereby Wasting Much
of Their Feed.
The illustration shown herewith
demonstrates one way of getting ahead
Zig-Zag Trough.
j of :i hog—which is very generally ad
l milted to be both unusual and difficult.
A zig-zag partition is nailed, or other
, wise fastened to the trough. These
I boards keep the hogs from piling upon
each other and from climbing into the
trough, thereby wasting slop and ma
king feeding difficult.
Care of Lambing Barn.
One thing should be remembered as
of great importance—the ventilation
of the lambing barn, it should be
kept reasonably warm, bu the ventila
lion must be as nearly perfect as can
be. Lambs are tender things and
quickly suffer from the effects of bad
air. The barn must bo perfectly dry
| also, as wet, moldy straw or muddy
i floors will cause disease to attack the
youngsters and prevent their proper
start and development
•'Ili'STj... V.'GRN-OUT FARM
This Can Be Done by Putting Into
C found More fertility Than
Taken Out by Crops.
(By li. S TA VI .OH.)
A nd tuber of years ago a young
1’'1111sylvnnia Dutchman bought n :i00
acre farm In one of the southern
counties of Indiana. This farm had
been run down until by the old nieth
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Manure by Forkful. •
oils employed, it was not possible to
make a living on it, and the owner
had been compelled to sell because of
sheer poverty.
The father of the young man who
bought the farm had become rich on a
farm most of which had been dug out
of the hillside. He began gradually
to improve the condition of the soil
by plowing a little deeper every time.
He started a three-year’s rotation of
crops plowing under the stubble on
the corn land to add humus. lie
sowed clover every year on new
ground.
When the Indiana farmer sold at
auction his belongings, when he left
the place, he had less than a dozen
animals all told. The Pennsylvania
man went In debt for a luilf-dozcn
cows, 60 head of sheep and a dozen
brood sows. In three years lie had
increased Ibis number three or four
fold.
Hi’ made arrangements with the
livery stables in the country town
four miles' distant to keep the manure
Manure Spreader.
hauled away from their back door
and for five years all ills spare time
both winter and summer was devoted
to tills task.
I he manure spreader was not
known at that time, but he continued
to pile the manure upon ills acres by
the forkful, until his neighbors began
to make fun of him. Some of them
declared that lie would destroy liis
farm by making it "manure-sick;”
hut the Pennsylvania man smiled and
kept his wagon going to the livery
stables ami hack to Hie farm with its
heavy load.
He was among the first farmers in
the slate to buy a manure spreader
when they came In style.
LITTLE POTATO BEETLE PEST
Insecticide Recommended That Will
Stand Considerable Wet Weather
and Do Good Work.
tnv r. Annum johnson. Colora
do AGRR'UI.Tl’ R A L COLLEGE.)
The potato beetle is such a com
mon pest that a description scarcely
seems necessary, hut since other in
secs are often mistaken for it, It may
be well to give n brief account of it.
The adult beetle is oval in form, about
three-eights of an Inch in length, and
just a little narrower than long. The ,
ground color is yellow. The upper
wings are marked by ten black lines
running lengthwise.
The adults live over winter in the
ground to the depth of six to ten
inches or more.
In the spring the beetles appear
about the time that the potatoes
break from the ground, and in a few
days the egg laying begins. The eggs
are bright yellow in color and are
laid In patches on the under sides of
the leaves. They are very easily dis
covered by simply turning over the
vines with the hands so that the under
sides of the leaves are exposed. Ev
ery potato grower should make a sys
tematic examination of the vines by
passing through his fields and turning
; over the leaves, of two or three hills
in eacli row.
Tim eggs hatch In from four to
eight days, according to the tempera
ture. The larvae are dark red grubs
with black bends Eor the first day
or two they often eat the surface of
the leaf upon which they were
hatched. Then they migrate to tho
top of the plant and feed upon the
young tender leaves which are just
! unfolding.
The ideal moment for the first
spray is just when the eggs are be
ginning to hatch. Fortunately, we
■ now have an insecticide which will
stand considerable wet weather and
still leave enough clinging to the
1 leaves to do very effective work. This
; is arsenate of lead,
i This poison usually comes in the
| form of a white paste, though some
manufacturers make a powdered
product. The arsenical is applied to
j the vines iri water at the rate of six
or eight pounds of the poison to a
hundred gallons of water, or about
i three or four pounds to the barrel.
; The best way to mix the poison is
to weigh out the required amount in a
i pail, pour in some water, and mix
thoroughly with a stick. Pour off the
top of the mixture into the barrel of
v.a'er through a screened funnel. Add
mote water to the remainder in the
pail, mix, and proceed as before until
all tlie substance has beeu dissolved.
The best method of application, es
i pecially in large fields, is by means
• i> power sprayer
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FARM NOTES.
Oud hard oil makes an easy running
w agon.
A portable forge is » lime and
money saver
Arrange so the chips do not fty all
over the yard when chopping wood.
“Oo up the repair work, especially
the blacksmithlng, before the opening
of spring's work.
An empty post-hole Is but one de
gree less dangerous to life and limb
than an open, unprotected well. Kill
It ufi.
When the hoops come oft barrels,
hoop them with wire. Cheaper than
buying new barrels, and anybody cat*
do it.
The man who puts a lot of cider lt»
Ills cellar to get hard Is laying up for
his boys something that cannot bo
kept In barrels.
The windy days of spring are here.
Rattle a log chain down the chimney
and get the soot out before It burn
out, and maybe burns the house, too.
liven the much despised chicken
mite Ims a use \ccording to the Ot
tawa (Kan.) Republic, they are
killing the Knglisli sparrows In Kuu
sas.
Two good eves to a hill of potatoes
are a-plenty. We make a mistake?
mnnj times in seeding too heavily.
Good stocky shoots are better Ibati
spindling ones.
Simply pull up any weeds which suc
ceed In pushing through, the straw
berry mulch Generally speaking, it is
best not to hoe or cultivate the fruit
Ing bed In the spring
Hui'ii all the old brush heaps now
and get rid ol a thousand und one
pests that have their homo there
walling for warm weathui to bring
them Into activity again.
TRAP FOR CATCHING RABBITS
Cheaply Contrived Arrangement That
Will Capture Many of Small
Injurious Animals.
fItV J. WEHI.LOY OUJKFIN.f
lii making a rabbit trap orm will
need two boards lor tko sides; om
board two feet six inches long and
ten indies wide for ilm top. This
hoard Is nailed on the edges of the
side hoards, making the box eight
inches wide and one foot tall In Un
clear.
There are no end pieces. The cen
ter hoard is NX 12 Inches, to which the
sides and top are nailed.
A is tlio side If is a barrel or deep
box set in a hole or hollow Into which
A Rabbit Trap.
the rabbits full when (lie baft f»
touched
U is 'lie treadle or bottom of the
trap which works on a pivot A nail
driven through each side into C.
which should work easily, forms ihe
pivot on which the trap door works.
Tho end of (' at the entrance of the
trap should be just heavy enough lt>
balance up the other end, so as to
reset alter a rabbit lias been caught.
The square hole In hoard C fits
over the lower end of E and Is tripped
by the rabbit when he touches the
bait.
101*; the triggers are made of pieces
one inch square and nine inches long.
D is two inches wide and six inches
long which holds the triggers in posi
tion *
I) and 1010 should be attached to tho
center barrel before the bottoms are
fastened In place.
The pin through the lower end of
IS keeps the bottom board from going
up loo far when the trap is set.
Apples as bait will catch a dozen
or more rabbits as they do not have a
chance to eat a great deal.
DEVICE REMOVES ONION TOPS
Handy Little Implement Useful in
Cutting Off Tops of All Kinds
of Vegetables.
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This is a handy device for remov
ing the leaves of tops of almost auy
vegetable. It is made from a common
Home-Made Onion-Topper.
corn knife, is attached to the edge of
a bonrd. as seen In the picture, and
tilings to be cut are placed beneath
the knife. The board is of hard wood.
Oldest Vegetables.
The onion, asparagus and cucumber
are three of the oldest vegetables
known. Like peas, the Egyptians grow
them 30 centuries ago. To the onion
belongs, probably, the honor of being
the first vegetable primeval man ever
made trial of
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