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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1910)
THE COMERS AND GOERS HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST TO YOU AND ME. > What Your Friends and Their Friends Have Been Doing the Past Week. —Hat Sowle’s Candy. —Dr. Wilson, Wahl's building. Remember the home talent play tonight. —By your seed corn at Heck’s feed store. 15-2t. Hail did severe damage Sunday in some places. Dr. Windle of Pawnee was in Falls City Sunday. Be sure and see Rebecca's Tri umpn tonight. Neal Thornton spent Sunday with a friend in Wymore. —Young’s Pantorhim cleans and presses ladies skirls. 44-tf There will be a good wheat yield, considering the acreage. The growth of the alfalfa the last two weeks is phenomenal. Wm. McDougal of Salem was a * visitor in Falls City Monday. The hot, moist weather is a grand corn booster. Way it continue long. Prof. E. K. Hurst and wife went to Auburn Monday to see the ball game. Roy Mastin spent a part of this week with his parents at Seward, Neb. Roosevelt is the biggest man in America today, and unfortunately he knows it. —Landrigan, of course, for furni ture and undertaking. Opposite the court house. The Presbyterian church was well filled Friday night to hear Mr. and Mrs. Stanley. —We have some fresh Red Seal flour in now. Come and get a sack. —C. A. Heck. Mrs. F. E. Day went to Hanover, Kas the first of the week to visit with her sister. The raise in the Nemaha because of the rains Saturday night encouraged the big ditcher to raise steam once more. A grand Sunday school rally will bo held in the grove oast of Rook Creek church and school house on ! Pennsplvania Ave. Sunday afternoon, I July 3. A special program will be j provided. Everybody is cordially in i vited. More definite announcements will be given next week. No. 14, *he early morning train on the Burlington, going east, was nearly three hours late Monday. The cause of the delay was a derailed freight near Pawnee. Out of town folks were late getting to work on Monday morning as a consequence. Elvin Mosier had his nose broken Sunday by being hit with a broken ball bat. Ur. Boose succeeded in raising the structure and proping in its normal position, where it is pre sumed it will be permitted to remain in the future. Rev. Essley of Maple Grove Evan gelical church, left Monday after noon to attend the district convention of the Evangelical church. Miss Kitty Butler accompanied him as the delegate from th6 Barada Sun day school. Henry Horn of Hamlin, Kansas usua'l.v finds it both convenient and agreeable to run up. to our city Sat urday afternoons. Mr. Horn is not wasting his time while in town either, but reports good progress. Miss Verna Story is enjoying a va cation from her duties at the tele phone office. She spent last week in St. Joe and this week she is visiting Mrs. Grace Hoppe Bolden, at Clarinda, Iowa. Samuel Kanel, one of Nemaha township’s energetic farmers is se verely afflicted with sciatic rheuma tism. He has been confined to his bed for several weeks.' Mrs. J. A. Tyner of Salem was in Falls City the first of the week. She is one of Richardson county's most zealous workers for better condi tions for boys and girls. Miss Joseephine Graves has been engaged to teach in the high school of Laramie, Wyoming. Miss Graves lias taught the past three years at Wayne, Neb. T. C. Roe was overcome at the services in the Christian church on Sunday morning. It was necessary to take him home. He is since much improved. The June Bride As a Stellar Attraction Outshines Any Old Comet — Even Halley's Not Excepted Madam Rumor lias it that this June will see numerous weddings in and around Falls City the coming month. On the strength of this information we have weighted our shelves with those pretty and useful things that the sensible bride yearns for. Dependable Silverware In this department we are particularly strong—we are headquarters for everything in the Silverware line that the prospective housewife may desire. Hand=Painted China The kind that the ladies rave over and the bride natur ally expects. We are headquarters for Cut Glass too, and are showing the best line ever brought to the city. DAVIES & OWENS JEWELERS AND OPTICIANS FALLS CITY, NEBRASKA The new $2,500 pipe organ in tlie Presbyterian church is a gift of Henry C. Smith. tii ace Strunk and her mother ar rived in Falls City Saturday from Ar-, tesia. New Mexico. Corn is up early and retires late] these warm days. Farmers are b^isy | with the cultivators. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Miles and two daughters returned Monday from their trip to New York. The organ recital was a great sue- j cess. It was the musical event of, the season for Falls City. Charley Thompson is back again ] from the east. Falls City is quite! as good as any eastern town. Mr. and Mrs. W. Pierson of Clarin da, Iowa spent a few days the past week with friends in this city. Hugh Boyd of Humboldt was one of the singers in the superb chorus at the Presbyterian dedication Sun day. If present plans materialize, there will he some flying done in Nebras ka before the snow has a chance to do the flying stunt. Dr. Young raised $4,000 Sunday to wards paying off the balance of the indebtedness on the new Presbyterian j church. Rev. Watson of Falls City will be one of the speakers at the tirand Sunday School rally in the grove east of Rock Creek school house on Pennsylvania Ave., Sunday afternoon July 3. Mrs John Ilossack anil little grand son, Neal Mulligan, returned Sunday from a visi* to the former’s brother, James Sinclair and family, near Rulo. If tumors mean anything, the mem bers of the Falls City ball team will need to lead more simple and strenu ous lives or fall from common grace. Mr. VanWinkle’s prospects as wat er commissioner are tied up in resolu tion. A liberal application of city water may effect a re-solution. Christ Beutler, who recently moved to Falls City is assisting Sam Kanel of Nemaha township with his work, during the latter’s illness. Senator Burkett's bill appropriating $67,000 for site and building for gov ernment in Falls City, passed both houses this week. Representative McGuire got his bill providing lor a post office build ing in Falls City through the com mittee. John Crook has succeeded in land ing M e bridge contract for the neces sary bridge work in Harland county. David Liehty and family of Penn sylvania Ave. Visited at the home of John Liehty in this city Tuesday. Falls City is certainly fortunate. Good things are following her way in a most unexpected manner. The Pleasant View school on Rock Creek has employed Miss Crook of Salem to teach next season. Jess Shrimpton and wife of Salem were in the city Tuesday. The drainage board met Thursday morning. Andrew Sipley was down from Daw son Tuesday. E. Wheeler of Stella was in Falls City Tuesday. Ike Smith of Hock Creek was in the city Saturday. Small-pox and measles have the best of the situation. Alexander Leo spent some time in Kansas City this w'cek. —The Air Dome will hold its grand opening, Monday, June 27. J. B. Whipple, Poland China hog sale, November 19, 1910. —If it's shoes you want, call at the Home Shoe store. 14-11 Apricots are ripening. In some or chards the trees are well loaded. The Humboldt Boosters were able to muster seventeen cars Tuesday. Auburn will play Falls City at the park, Thursday, Friday and Satur day. Mrs. Lillian Willard and two dau ghters of Morrill are visiting in the city. Rev. F. E. Day went to Humboldt Sunday to assist, at the Memorial ser vice of the I. O. O. F. The Leo Vinegar Co. arc getting ready for a big sesson. The apple prospects are flattering. Ellen Wyler, Alice and Joe Car ver were visitors at the home of Miss Sophia Wittwer Sunday. Before buying pictures of any kind you should inspot t the line on exhibition at the new store of E. Landrigan. The machinery is being put. in place in the waterworks plant over in the bottom. It is expected to have the p'ant in working order soon. Bryan O'Conner's barn was struck with lightning Sunday morning dur ing the electric storm, and one horse was killed. It was fully insured. .1. < . Martin of Council Bluffs was looking after business here several days tliis week. He was accompanied home by his wife and little son yes terday. Dr. Wilson went north witli the Humboldt Pathfinders to be conveni ent for holding an inquest in * the event of the expedition’s coming to an untimely end. Bert Thorn, living five miles north west of this city was in town Tues day with teams enough to take out the material for a new six room house. Work will begin at once. Falls City is to he congratulated upon having such a beautiful sum 111 1 r playhouse and the opportunity to witness first class companies at the moderate price of ten and twen ty cents. The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist church have pledged them selves not to wear hats during the church service and earnestly request the ladies of the- church and congre gation to follow their example. Amen.—A Man. * i ne cny council nas several nonces to property owners to push the con struction of concrete walks along their property. It' this good work is kept up. Falls City will have a fine system of walks. Rev. I. O. Bowman of Philadi lphia, who conducted a tent meeting in this city five years ago, has for a few months been engaged in revival work on th" Pacific coast, and hopes to be in this city Sunday, July 3. The State Bankers association at their meeting in Lincoln this week elected 1). .1. Riley of Dawson as pres ident of the association. This is a genuine compliment to Mr. Riley, who has the reputation of being one of the most successful of bankers. The Lincoln Commercial Club ar rived in Falls City very quietly on Monday evening, leaving again ea*ly Tuesday morning. They made a shoit stop at Salem, Dawson and Hum boldt Going up town the band de livered a piece or two and every one did his sweetest. Alfred Bucher, one of Speiser town ship's most successful farm^s brought his mother and sister-in-law to fhis city Wednesday. It is fully twenty-three miles to Isely Creek, where Mr. Bucher lives, but he thought he could make the trip home in an hour. Kerr’s new airdome will throw open its doors to start its merry season at 8:00 p. m. next Monday evening and will have as the first attraction "The Dorothy Reeves Stock Co," for two weeks, changing their plays and specialties nightly. The opening bill will be “The Price” and is said to be a strong one. In spite of the constant wrangle ov er the unsanitary and dangerous con dition of Falls City’s water, the town seems to be in a pretty healthy condition. I)r. Greene and Dr. Grif fith are both leaving, no doubt be cause of an insufficient practice. A town whose bill of health drives the doctors to the farm is a pretty good place in which to live. MUs Myrtle Hamel entertained the young ladles kensington dub of the Methodist church in the form of a miscellaneous shower for Miss Maude Maddox, who is now Mrs. Fordyce. Afte • the usual round of festivities, refreshments were served. Then came the mock wedding, the shower of rice, etc. The way of the bene dict is hard. GRUBS IN THE COW’S BACK They Should Be Located and Removed, as Their Presence Causes Pain and Injury. (Bv A S AI.KXANUKR. WISCONSIN OOU.KOK OK AdHHH l.TKIiK.I The raised painful ‘‘bunches" notice able upon the backs of cattle during the winter season and early spring months are due to large grubs or larvae, and are commonly termed "warbles.” The grubs nre tbe product of eggs deposited by the ox warble fly (hupo derma lineata) during fly time in sum mer, and unless destroyed on removal from the bucks of cattle, burrow into the earth and emerge after a time In the form of tiles, to carry on their pes tiferous work. The old and apparently sensible Idea of the life history of these grubs is that the patent fly deposits her eggs upon or just under the surface of the skin of the cow’s back at a place where she can neither protect her self against the (iy by licking with her tongue nor switching with her tall, The eggs then hatch out and the young larvae, after pentratlng the deeper layer of tile skin, form a Rat in tbe connective tissue, where they live and grow In a collection of Inflam matory lymph. This inflammatory fluid is caused by, the irritation set up by the constant movement, of the hard bristles pro trading from the segments of the body of the grub. An orifice will be found in the top of each warble and through it the grub obtains air while growing and makes its escape from the skin when fully matured In the spring. ut recent years government investi gators have published a different theory to the effect that the fly depos its her eggs upon the logs and heels of the animal, which licks them off and swallows them, whereupon the eggs hatch In the gullet and the young lar vae penetrate its walls, find their way into the connective tissue and gradual ly burrow their way therein until they arrive at the one part of the body in which they are invariably found. The latter theory Is little credited by practical stockmen and veterin arians. If it is correct, how comes it that the grubs are found in but one part of the body? And that we do not | come across them In their travels through the tissues? Prevention ol these pests Is to be sought by applying fly repellers to the1 backs of the cattle during fly time and washing their backs with strong salt water during late fall; then each grub that matures should be squeezed out and destroyed. The grub causes much misery to their living host and cause serious damage to the hide for the purposes of the tanner. PLAN FOR MILKFAIL HOLDER While Using This Device There Is No, Possibility of Cow Kicking Over the Pail. From an exchange we get the plan for a mllkpall holder as herewith 11-, lustrated. With this device there is, no longer any danger of the cow kick ing the milkpail over. The holder, consists of a crossbar in tw'o sections, ,which are adjustable relatively to each other and can be made to lit any pall. When the bar Is joined the bent i Milkpall Holder. section encircles the rim of the pail and does not get in- the way of the streams of milk, while clamp and hooks hold the receptacle to it. The milkman, or milkmaid, holds the pail between his or her knees, the cross bar bearing the weight, and is able to give all attention to the milking with out keeping one eye on the near hoof HANDY CARRIER FOR SILAGE So Arranged That Feed May Be Raked Out Into Rack at Any Point Along Route. My silo is built In one corner of the barn, and from here 1 have a track Silage Wagon on Feed Rack. that runs along the top of the feerl rack, writes John 11. Pulle, in Farm and Home. On this track is mount ed a siluge wagon, which is loaded at the silo and then run along the top of the feed rack. The silage may be raked out into the feed rack at any point along the rout* This carrier saves istt e* t, her. and is ipensive Bargains in Farm Land. A diain e to get a homo cheatf in a safe crop country, where they raise crops of till kinds—corn, wheat, oats, alfalfa. Good stock country, no hog cholera. Daily trains, the best of schools and churches. Healthiest part of Nebraska, and the best of water. 320 acres raw buffalo land, seven utile of town, lays nice, for $12.50 per acre. Easy terms. 160 acres, 2 miles of town, fenced, a double granary. 110 acres in fall wheat, lays nearly level. Good black soil at $io per acre. Wheat on this place made 36% bushels to the acre in 1909. 160 acres, five and one-half miles of town, three-room house, barn, well, windmill and out buildings, fenced and cross fenced. 136 acres in cultivation, 35 acres alfalfa, four img pastures fenced with woven wire, lays nice ami extra good corn ground. This is a bargain at $5,000, Kasy terms. 1520 acre ranch, three miles of town, well improved, till fenced, plenty water and farm ground, will raise alfalfa and is an ideal cattle and horse ranch at a rare bargain. For particulars or information write SHIER & SMEKHY. Madrid, Nebr. l*4-2t Perkins County. Makers Weil Prtaum & Co. Chicago Exclusive Styles *11 This two button model for Young Men, designed by Weil Pflaum & Co., Chicago, promises to be come the hit of the season. 1 It is an extremely stylish garment, full of snap, life and color. Intended for the Young Man who wishes something out of the ordinary, yet it car ries no suggestion of freakishness. Made prin cipally in novelty wool ens. A large variety to select from. $10, $12, $14 and $16 Suits STRAW HATS, OXFORD SHOES Seansonable Lines of Men's and Youth's Furnishings Underwear, Hosiery,\’Collars and Ties WAHL &r PARCHEN WE KEEP OPEN.UNTIL NINE O'CLOCK Sold On Its Merit iE3SS»* We sell the Crown Piano on its merits. We can show you point by point where the Crown Piano is superior to any other piano you can buy at any price Remember your piano is the most im portant purchase you will ever make for your home. It costs but little more, if any, to be sure that it is a good one. We sell the Crown on terms as easy as any good piano can be offered to people who know the difference between a questionable “induce ment" and real piano value for their money. Many inferior pianos will cost you more than a Crown, Price does not determine value. I ve sold Crown Pianos in this territory for 16 years. That is good evidence of their merit. I also handle Strech &. Zeidler. Pease and Concord Pianos. These instruments are strictly high grade and too fine to be ped pled from house to house through the country, as a great many dealers do. That alone is proof enough that they are a cheap grade of pianos. Anyone contemplating buying a piano in the near future we will be pleased to have call and inspect ourpianos. AT E. LANDRIGAN'S NEW FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING STORE. OPP. COURT HOUSE. I sell on time monthly payments and take old instruments in exchange CLARENCE E. SMITH