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THt FALLS CITY 1RIBUNE Consolidations—Falls City Tribune, j Humboldt Enterprise, Rulo Record, Crocker's Educational Journal auil Dawson Outlook, Entered as second-class matter ai 1 Falls City, Nebraska, post oflice, Janu ary 12, 1904, under the Act of Congress On March 3,1879. Published every Frioay at Falls City Nebraska, by fhe Tribune Publishing Company W. H. WYLER, Editor and Manager. One year.. Six O’ IllthS -. • Three month* ■i0 TELEPHONE 226. The Nebraska legislature conven ed at Lincoln Tuesday January 3rd. “The cold wave which struck South Hast or n Nebraska Sunday, is general thru on I the west. Many sections of the country arc snow bound and the temperature intense. Sunday witnessed tile arrival 4’f more hi'lp in the yards. Despite the severity of the weather quite a little activity is witnessed about the round house. It was a cold reception the new arrivals received, tho none the less cordial and agreeable. Nebraska C’lty is to have a grand jury. This startling hit of infor mation comes with a shock to the knowledge of the citizen* of that quiet place. However, undesirable it may be to have a grand jury prodding around, it Is usually a decidedly wholesome experience, and we pre dict for our sister city, that no real lyurm will befall her through the com ing investigations The illegal voting scandal In Adams County. Ohio lias assumed frightful proportions. The number of unrests and convictions runs into thousands. The men found guilty of selling their votes belong to all elasses and proles Ions. The Incident offers a pittlful commentary upon our boasted citizen ship, this wholesale buying of men for less money than would be asked for a common bog on the market. The "News" sprung a happy New Year's surprise on the people of Kalis -City. Henceforth that paper will ap pear twice a week. While ill'1 change was not wholly uttepxected. *«d, it came at an opportune time and with refreshing newness. The new departure is in general accord with the spirit of enlargement and im proveutent along all lines The idea is bound to prove popular with the majority of News readers and others An epidemic of ha (irippe lias Kails Pity in tow. The doctors and dnu: gists are kept busy answering the numerous t ails for relief While ma ny have suffered great discomfort «o fatalities are reported, li is to be hoped that the strenuous weather that Inis prevailed since New years day will put an affective hamper up on the further progress of iliis an noying epidemic. John D. Rockefeller inis just given $10,000,000 a: a singl > final gift to Chicago University. This makes ids net gifts to that one institution ag gregate 35 millions of dollars. And John 1>. thinks it is enough. We think so too. Now if Mr. Rockefeller will turn his attention to the draining of the Nemaha bottoms or some equal ly servicnblo piece of philanthropy the world will delight to keep the grass green over iiis dust for a few years at least. _ Postal Savings Hanks are now fn actual operation in JO different Amer ican cities. I ncle Sam lias become a banker in a very real if restricted sense of the word. No account will be opened for less than one dollar and no single person may deposit more than five hundred dlola.rs The first series of offices opened are of an experimental nature, it. is pur posed to try the idea out on a small scale before making it general. l)<v velopments will be awaited with in terest. Two more during aviators have given their lives as toll for the priv ilege of learning to fly- Saturday, Moisant fell at New Orleans and was hilled and Iloxsey, his rival in dating closed the season of 1910 at Los Angeles by dropping to hlg death. Both men were distinguished for their enterprise and daring in aerial navig ation, li Is sadly to be deplored talents to mere sp» etacular enter tainment. Both men literally rushed to their death. Tho tp ar approach of another city election is causing sum,, talk aw to tin* kind of complexion the spring j election should assume. Al a time like the present. when everything points so direstly towards n larger and more complicated city adminstra tion, ll appeals to us that only the bigger i* ms that relate* to the slt nation as It now is should he per mitted to come* up. The voters of Falls (Tty should rise above party! in and move solidly for the strongest and most efficient admhistration pos sible. Our proposition Just now is to make adequate* provision for a lar ger city with wider Interests and mor complex relations. The Issues over which this town has been quarrelling for years are not the ones upon which we should permit ourselves to he sidetracked. We trust that past animosity will be* forgotten and bet ter counsel-permitted to prevail. WHAT IS THE 'LAND SHOW.' This question hits been squarely p’1' to til most every western gov ernor, to state boards of ngrleulture and com mercial organizations interested as well ns to railroad companies In the West. Answering the question for these public men that they might reply and show inquirers why their states are Interested, the promoters of the enterprise say it depends on what a man or woman wishes to do and where they live. The "Land Show' will he different to different, classes of people. For instance, if a farmer lives in the corn belt the show will teach him how to raise more corn, how to test, and select the seed, Imw to keep up the land, how to prevent hog chol era and combat insect pests. If a man is looking for a chance <o invest money, the "Land Show' will Point out where the best, opportuni ties are located In the western states. The exhibits shown will tell where Mi,, opportimtth'v for inve*--intent nr>> to be found. If a farmer wants to move, the Land Products exhibit will show where the host locutions are for n(>w homes, whore developed farm- and hearing orchards are offered for sale; where new projects are placing thous ands of a'-res on the market and j where free government homesteads may still bo secured. If a man or wonimnn only wants to see till* west, they can see it under one roof in Omaha. .Ian. 18 to -N. at. this "Land Show', it is a place to learn all about the lands of the west li is a chance t() get n genuine con ception of the producing ability and character of the various sections west of tin1 Missouri river. The exhibit is of interest to the western people and is supported by them because it is a boost for the west - not for the south, the Cana dian northwest or the old eastern lands, but for Nebraska. Wyoming, ltah, Colorado. Idaho, Montana, and the states where the greatest opportunities really are. More Farmers Want Fish. Stream improvement. irrigation ditches and ponds created thereby, have caused the farmers of Nebraska to take more interest in the fish of 'hese lakes and streams, it js pos sible to stock almost everj such pond and plans are being made for a fish exhibit in connection with the West ern band I’rroducts exhibit to'be held in Omaha Jan. 18 to 28. It will be the first such > xhibit made at a Ne braska epxosition since ISOs when an extensive fish exhibit was made at the Trans-Mississippi Kxposition. Wanted: Better Barley in Nebraska. That Nebraska barley should be turned down by the malt companies and large shipments brought into the state from other states, is evidence 'hat Nebraska farmers are not paying enough attention to the quality of their seed and to handling this pro fitable crop. Of the 460,000 bushels of barley shipped to Omaha during the first e leven months of 19lu some 144.000 bushels were shipped on to other na.'kets because the careful buyers ior malting companies could not pay [ the price owing to the quality of the i grain. The 144.000 bushels wen* w,,ld for other purposes, but barley for malting brings the highest, price's. There are interests in Nebraska a lone interests will' ll will buy the en tire crop of barley produced In the state if the quality is raised. They ire now consuming twice the amount they can buy in Nebiaska and whip ping in large qmiu'ities of the grain One of the demonstrations at the i coming Western Laud Products ex hibit to I)* held in Omaha .Jan. Ik t<> t’S, will be for the purpose of show ing the improvement of barley I y breeding, n demonstration of how to produce more and better barley given by experts who have brought barjey growing to a science so simple that a child can understand. Alfalfa Exhibit Will be Large. All the things learned about alfalfa hi the last five years would Make u gigantic volume if compressed Into a book. The wonderful plant has conic to lie one of the most important of die farm crops and has been put to many uses not generally known. Everything which it is possible to demonstrate about alfalfa is to be shown by one of tin1 great railroad companies in a comprehensive exhib hibit being planned for the Western Land I ’rod m ts Exhibit t o be held in Omaha, .human I Mb to i!Xth. Those who are working on the ex hibit ate tlie same experts who col lected the varieties and the alfalfa from the different sections for the alfalfa palace at the National Conn Exposition. Ever since tin* corn shot has done so mniuch to develop*' the alfalfa Industry. Besides the plants and seeds of dif ferent varieties, grown in widely se painted regions, the products of the plant will be shown by the M. ('• iH‘ tors Mill Company of Omaha, a con cern which lias helped to build up an Industry out of handling the alfalfa grown in the west, and which has done much to make a strong mar ket. for the crop. This mill does a one million dollar business annually In alfalfa products, supplying the food i i i-midon*-"'! form for the greet ‘ :lst ern dairy companies which in tutu supply ihe milk and cream of Wash, in ton and New York City. How tli*' plant is handled from the ecd to the feed barns of the east rn dairy companies will all b< howii in the exhibit to be made i* hnaha and one of the best know) :uthoritles on the subject of nli'ulfi will be present at all times, lectin lug daily on the subject of the plant tnd its food values. THE AMERICAN TROUuALORS. On netx Tuesday evening dan. 10, I the third number of the School En | tertainmciit Course will he given by the American Troubadors, This is a Grand Opera sextette of high charac ter! Mr, and Mrs. Clark Mounts who head this company, are known from one end of the United States to the oth t and thru Canada as singing ar tists. They ai'o admirably fitted to take the leading part in this sextette, having spent so many years in simt liar work with other companies. This setxette will render a pro gram of very high class. Every body love3 music. Here is an opportunity to hear the best, and at prices about one-third what it would cost to hear such talent in the cities. Presbyterian Church, Tues. jan. 10 Admission L’oc and .'ale. Season tickets for the four remain ing numbers $1.00. When buying u cough medicine for children bear In mind that Chamber lain’s Cough Remedy is most effect ual for colds, croup and whooping cough and that it contains no harm ful drug. For sale by all druggists. * * * Mrs. Orra Ross who lias been in ill health foi many years was adjudged insane the first of the week and tak en to the State Hospital at Lincoln. * ♦ * Carl Leltzke is at home from Sy, racuse, New York, enjoying a visit with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Chas. 1 -eitzke * » v .1. H. Miles returned Thursday from Los Angeles where he spent a month with his family. CAUGHT, COMING, AND GOING. J. H. Morehead went to Lincoln Monday night. Mrs. Fred Faring!on and baby are quite siek and under the doctor's cam Fri «i Shock was a business visitor in Si>Joe Friday. Miss Maude Nation is ill with the grippe. M Spear is numbered among *he victims of the grippe. Tli ■ banka, rural carriers. and coui ty clerks enjoyed a holiday Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Whitaker's bu by is quite ill with the pneumonia. W. G. Keim of Denver is the guest, of his cousins, A. K, Keim and sis ters. Our old friend Joe Geiger, now of St. Joe, is here visiting old acquain tances. No fault to find with the ice bar- j vest now. Everybody busy putting u | !( inch ice. Bryan Ramsey, returned Tuesday from a visit with his brother in St. Joseph. Miss Alice Keeling will go to Au rora, 111., net* week to visit her sis- j ter. Miss Lois Keeling. Mrs. Frank Norris came down from Wytnore, called here by the death of Iht grandmother. Mrs. Smallwood of Savannah, Mo., was called here Tuesday by the death of her aunt, Mrs. Anderson Miller. Mrs. ,|. M. Pierson of Red Oak la., is here visiting her mother. Mrs. Car oline lioppie and Mrs. Bolding. Mr. and Mrs. P. G. P,aeako0 and children and Mrs. Warfield went to Perry, la., Tuesday to visit relatives, j Miss Dorothy Steele returned Tues day from a visit with her aunt. Mrs. Satnuelson. in Lincoln. .1. c. Wileman from near ijarada returned Saturday from a business' trip to Indianapolis. Mrs. Karl Caruthers of Syracuse * | Nobr. is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. D^n Poteet. Mrs. Kd Fraunfolder and children returned Monday to Verdon after a few days visit with relatives. Mr«. Mason returned hist sa,||rdav from geJuPa, Mo., where she visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tripp. Miss Mary Crotty came up from St. ■toe Saturday and remained until Mf,n • lay when she went to Dawson. Uncle George Grinptcad wag very 111 with pneumonia the first of the; week, nig daughter Mrs. Waggoner of Humboldt canu» down to assist Miss Floy in earing far him. Mr. and -Mrs. Clyde Johnson relum ed Monday to their home in Superior after a holiday visit with the hitters • relatives. Mrs. Fred Shock and sister Miss, Elizabeth Pfaun returned Thursday night from a holiday visit with their parents in Nebraska City. Tom Been was over from Morrill Wednesday looking after matters con nected with settling his father's es tate. The little baby daughter of Rov. and Mrs. Brooks who has been suf- j feritig from pneumonia is improving now. Mrs. Alex Leo returned last Friday from St. Joseph accompanied by her grandmother, who will spend some time here as her guest. Mrs. Everett Peckenpaugh return ed the first pf the week to her home in Ottawa, Kits, after a very pleas ant visit with relatives and friends. Miss Lois Spencer left last Satur day for Madison Wis., where she at tends the University. She stopped in Chicago for a short visit. Mrs. F. M. I’arriott and children, came down from Shubert Monday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Peterson. Miss Katherine Maddox will return Friday, to Mead Nebr., where she teaches, after a holiday vacation at home. Mrs. G. V. Stump and daughter •lennie Pearl returned to their home in Lincoln last Friday after visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Prater on Xmas. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gerdes went to Lincoln Monday, Mr. Gerdes to take his place in the legislature and Mrs. Gerdes to see that they did not give the honorable to vigorous a hazing. Miss Emma Duerfeldt who had her ankle broken in a runaway last week was taken to her home in narada Wednesday of this week. The injur ed member is healing very nicely. ! OBSERVE WEATHER ON FARMS Common Thermometer, Properly Shel tered, Is Very Useful in Ascer taining Conditions. (Hy DEWET A. SEEI-EY.) Realizing his dependence upon weather conditions, the farmer should know what warmth of soil is neces sary to start germination and the amount of heat and moisture required later to bring the crop to successful maturity. Beginning with this knowl edge, the need of actual observations through tho use of accurate instru ments follows in natural sequence, that he may be able to determine how nearly (he weather conditions expe rienced are measuring up to the ideal. Such records cannot be made, how ever, without the aid of good instru ments, since the senses are more or less unreliable as weather recorders. Thermometer Shed and Rain Gauge. Even out-of-door workers are ofteu misled regarding tlie temperature of tlie air or the amount of rainfall dur ing a shower. Some days seem warm when the thermometer reads compara tively low, and others cool, although the temperature may lie much higher. The thermometer alone can be de pended upon to give the true tem perature. No matter how good a thermometer may lie, it will not indicate the true temperature of the air unless it is' properly exposed. The variations in temperature reported by neighbors in' discussing how cold or how warm it was at a given time are more fre-! quently due to lack of uniformity in tlie exposure of the Instruments than to errors in the instruments them selves or to actual differences in tem perature pt the various locations. In n proper exposure the thermom etor should be protected from the di rect rays of the sun as well as from tlie reflected heat of pavements, walls, etc., and at the same time should re ceive a free circulation of air all around it. If the s in shines upon the thermometer, the glass portions and the mercury are heated above the temperature of the surrounding air. In the rime way the heat from the side of a building cr from the surface of tiie ground may make the ther mometer warmer than the free air. : The best place to expose a thermom eter is in the center of a slat-sided! box, two or three feet on a side, with n d'»or opening to the north and hav m ga double roof with an air space between as shown in the illustration. In case such a shelter cannot be se cured or constructed, the next best ex posure is on the north wall of a build-, ii g where the instrument will be pro tected us much as possible from tiro sun's i ys and from the heat of sur foundii 3 objects. Manure the Fields. Manure the rhubarb nil asparagus fields. both crops do best whom there is an abundance of vegetable matter in the toil. .“fi A little moisture is needed to facil itate winter plowing. The community proposition has much to commend it. An inspection of the chimneys and a little mortar now may save a bad lire. Keep the paint brush going until every implement on the place is cov ered. Alfalfa is not adapted to poor lands anywhere until they have been en riched. Fasten down the tops of the hay stacks or, better still, cover them. It pays big. If an agent tries to sell you tree paint chas,e him off the place. Trees do not need paint. A pound or two of nails will make] the tences all tight and save loss and hard feeling between neighbors. Is the harness tied up with string anywhere? Take them off and do the best job of repairing you ever did. Get out some stuff for whiffletrees. Keep a little on band all the time, for you may need them before you know it. Have a bottle of rubber cement on hand and some good glue. Fix tilings, and do it while the other work Is not pressing. If you have no silo, get a feed cut ter and a gasoline engine, at any rate. They will pay for themselves in a single season if you have any animals to feed. Time is saved doing now much of the work usually done in the busy spring, such as hauling stones, clear ing away trees and brush, fixing the grape arbor, etc. With western corn land selling at $200 and even more per acre and corn at present prices, it takes a mighty clever feeder to show a profit at the end of the season. There was not a vacant seat in the large auditorium of the Presbyterian Church when the Trier Sisters gave their delightful program. We expect to have to open the north room for the American Troubadors next Tues day evening. Every seat is good. Card of Thanks. The family of J. G. Schneider take this means of expressing their sin f t re appreciation of the many kind nesses shown by and for the many epxressions of sympathy from neigh, j hors and friends, during their re cent bereavement., in the death of their husband and father. Clias. P. Schneider. Royal Highlanders. There was installation of officers at the Royal Highlanders lodge rooms Ion Tuesday evening and each meat I her was permitted to invite guests I so thut a large crowd was present to enjoy tlie ceremonies. After the busi ness session an oyster supper was served followed by a dance. Wern er’s orchestra furnished the music and the pleasures continued until the wee small hours. All present report a good time. St. Thomas Church. George L. Neide rector, prayer and sermon at 10:45, Theme Sunday after Epiphany; morning prayer and sermon. Theme ‘’The Mag at the Manger Cradle.” Evening at 7:30. Sunday School at !>:4'» a. m. Welcome to anyone. Presbyterian Church Notes. Yes, we surely will have services next Sunday and a busy day at. that. The Sunday School starts out with new officers installed and possessing a spirit of aggression. The pastor will preach at the morn >ng service and Rev. M. C. Brooks ai young people's societies of the towi will meet in our Sunday School room at 6:30 p. m. and a good meeting is predicted. All Presbyterian members and their friends are urged to attend the i'niou meetings so as not only to receive benefit therefrom but to contribute as much as possible to their success. It. Cooper Bailey, Pastor. The Trier Sisters seemed to please everybody but we have expected eVOR more of the American Troubadors Grand Opera Sextette. Presbyterian Church Tues.. Jan. 16. City Council. The city dads met in regular ses. sion Monday night with barely enough present to transact business. The bills of tie first of the month to the amount « f ab-mt $25.00 were allowed and other 1 u: hie s tabled until a full attendance <r the members justified taking up important matters. 300 Pictures Rverv 400 Articles r*r"~— 250 Pages Month A wonderful rtory of the Progressor this Mechan ical A<-.» f*r-truct’ve. but more fascinating than any t* \ magazine for Han*:t rs. Homss, Lawyers, Teachers, Fanvcrs, Ihu ine.ss Men, Man ufacturers, Mechanics. Has 1,200.000 r.aders every month. Imprests everybody. When you sec one you unde . and why. A k the man wrho reads it. \ our new • loalerwill sho’.v you one; or write the publishers for n frtv sample copy. 1i;e “ilcp Soles’* Depl. of 20 pages, ten* -i-5— easy ways to do things-How to make repairs, and articles for home and shop, etc. “tnaii"-; F.’^c’ian’cs” r>p ^s.teiishow ———————— ———-to make mission furniture, v, ireiess, boats, engines, magic, and all the tilings a boy loves. Jt' 50 per g ar, single copies 15 cents ASK YOUR NEWSDEALER Or Addre.s POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE --I.;-. ■ -,n . Chicago Native town patriotism is the mother of home success. Good things to sell, proper publicity in this paper and stick-toitiveness win buyers in this vicinity—buyers mean money, money brings every thing to your door. :: :: :: (Copyright.;.. \* i