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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FLY QUESTION Just about this time of the year there are many injunctions in the public press to “swat the fly,” with a promise of the most direful results if this warn ing be not followed. But few people know much about the real truth of the fly question, beyond the fact that the house-fly is a carrier of the germs of certain diseases, such as typhoid fever, intestinal disorders and tubercu losis. There is, however, another side to the question and some of the greatest entomologists on the North American continent, dis cuss it in the June number of Popular Mechanics Magazine. The following question is rais ed: “If the fly be exterminated, supposing that were possible, would it tend to upset the ‘bal ance of nature’ and result in some other plague that might be even worse than the flies them selves?” And it is argued: Similar things have happened before. The decimation of the coyotes resulted in a plague of gophers. The mongoose was prac tically exterminated and the rats multiplied so as to become a menace. The weasels were killed off and the rabbits overran the countryside and ate up every green thing in sight. The Eng lish sparrow was imported to de stroy the measuring worm and now people arc wondering how to kill off the sparrow which has increased so alarmingly as to be come a pest. In northern China the wolves kept down the mar mot or land otter, but when the natives waged war on the wolf the marmot increased and spread the plague.” FALLS CITY BOY MAKES GOOD SHOWING AT ATHLETIC MEET In their account of the High school athletic meet held at Lin coln yesterday, the State Jour nal has the following to say con cerning one of Falls City’s athletes: Reavis of Falls City was the real attraction in the pole vault, although Rector of Omaha was the winner n? the event. Rector had been doped to win the vault and he took it in easy form. Reavis, however, seemed to jump at the bar, springing over it by main strength rather than by an exhibit of scientific form. With improved form, it was pre dited that Reavis may later do record-breakir g vault ing. LARGE ATTENDANCE AT THE FUNERAL OF MICHEL RYAN The funeral of Micheal Ryan was held Friday morning at 10: 30 at St. Mary’s Catholic church in Dawson, the services being conducted ly Father Walsh of Kansas City. A large company of relatives and friends gathered to pay their last respect to one honored and loved as Mr. Ryan was. He has for many years been very popular and among the most progressive of Dawson citizens. At the time of his death he was president of the bank at that place. His two brothers, L. A. Ryan of St. Louis and Martin Ryan of Denver were unable to attend the funeral on account of sick ness in their homos. He leaves a wife and children to mourn the loss of a kind fa ther and devoted husband. Sheriff Fenton and family, Mrs. Coleman and N. B. Judd from here attended the funeral. TEN TONS OF BREAD FOR TWENTY THOUSAND MEN Years of study and experiment have enabled the experts of the War Department to perfect a field bakery equipment for the army that is claimed to be the best of its hind in the world. At San Antonio. Texas, in the big military camp, the 12 huge ovens that stand out in the open pro duce 20.000 bs. of the finest bread daily, baked in 10.000 creamy loaves. Ties, cakes, and pastry of all kinds are baked when the ovtns are not filled iwith “the staff of life.” The bakery at, the big camp is de scribed , villi illustrations, in the June number of Popular Me chanics Magazine. It, says: “The big evens stand 12 in a row and on either side of them is a line of tents in some of which the materials are kept, in others the sj onges are set, the dough ‘proved,’ or let rise, kneaded, and made into loaves, and in still ethers the bread is cooled and kept on racks of wire noting. “All this equipment, includ ing 1ho oven, is collapsible, and each unit, consisting of the two tents, one oven, the necessary sponge cans. dough troughts, kneading tables, bread racks, etc., may be folded or telescoped and packed on 01 e wagon, the total weight falling under 3,000 lb.” MARK TWAIN’S PROFANITY When Mark Twain began to write for the Atlantic Monthly he came willingly under its niles, for with all his willfulness there never was a more biddable man in things you could show him a reason for. lie never made the least of that trouble which so abounds for the hapless edi tor from narrower minded con tributors. If you wanted a thing changed, very good, lie changed it; if you suggested that a word or a sentence or a paragraph had better be struck out, very good, he struck it out. His proof sheets came back each a verit able “mush of concession,” as Emerson says. Now and then he would try a little stronger lan guage than the Atlantic had stomach for, and once when 1 sent him a proof I made him ob serve that I had left out the profanity. He wrote back: “Mrs. Clemens opened that proof and lit into the room with danger in her eye. What profanity? You see, when T read the manuscript to her I skipped that.” It was part of his joke to pretend a violence in that gentlest crea ture which all the more amusing ly realized the situation to their friends.—W. D. Howells in Har per’s Magazine. Latest Vaudeville Jokes. “You didn’t know 1 was a poet did you? Here is something of my own composition: ‘Alary had a little mule; it followed her five miles to school; teacher slapped it with a crooked rule; for six teen weeks there wTas no school.” 9 9 9 “Are you good at arithmetic? If I gave you two rabbits and Sam gave you five rabbits, how many would you have?” “Eight” “Eight! Don’t you know, you dummy, that, five and two make seven?” “Oh yes, but I’ve got one rab bit at home.” • • • “Did you ever see my last girl? My, but she was beautiful She had red hair, you knew*. Tt was so red that when she pui her head on my chest it gave me the heartburn. She had an awful temper, though. I had a fight, with her the other day and she knocked three of my teeth down my throat. I have been afraid to sit down for a week for fear I’d bite myself.” • • • “We will now conclude with that sympathetic little ballad en titled, “They Are Digging Up Mother's Grave to Build a Sewer. ’ ’ GIRL KILLED BY AUTO \ - Weeping Water, Neb., May 21. Friday afternoon Gus Mohr of Avoca, while driving into town, ran over the young daughter of Tom Sherfev. The child died that night. Mr. Sherfev resides a half mile north of Avoca. Air. Mohr, owner of the auto, is the Avoca saloon keeper, AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON | SPECIAL TO THE DAILY TRIBUNE Current News And Events of Im portance In Which Ne braska Figures Universal peace for the world is quite the rage, and the latest chapter in promoting it centered around tlie presentation of a gold medal to Andrew Carnegie, who has been thus officially re cognized by a gathering of re presentatives of the nations as ‘‘the benefactor of humanity and the foremost apostle of peace.” The good old Scotchman is gett ing about all the honors that one man deserves There is a sugges tion to name a national park in Arizona after him. The people of that Territory, while not ob jecting to conferring further honor upon Mr. Carnegie, arc not showing any great enthusiasn over the park idea, which takes in a quarter million acres of val uable land. If the bill recently passed by 1 he House is concurred in by the Senate, the membership ol' the House of Representatives w ill be increased to 433. The present membership is 391, and under the present seating arrangements, there is already a lack of room in the Chamber. In order to provide for the increased mem bership, the 391 desks will be removed and the Members in future Congresses will be obliged to occupy benches, as in the case in the British Parliament. While cf course it is very convenient for the Members to sit at hand some mahogany desks, still as a matter of fact, their clerical work is all done in the spacious office building erected a few years ago During the last ses sion, the Senate failed to concur a similar measure which was sent over by the House. This failure upon the part of the Senate was attributed tc the desire to con clude the affairs of Congress on March 4th. and the measure per taining to re-apportionment was left as unfinished business. Captain Evelyn Briggs Bald win, the Arctic explorer, is in Washington working out his plans for an expedition to cross Hie Arctic Ocean by way of the North Pole. It is the purpose of Captain Baldwin to enter the pack-ice to the northwest of Point Barrow, Alaska in 1913, and to make fast to a large ice floe which he states will be car ried along just as a ear is drawn by a cable. In four years’ time the ship and the expedition will have followed mechanically in straight courses over the north ern curvature of the earth, cross ing the Pole. Captain Baldwin has converted scientists to the be lief that his plan is feasible and correct, and that through the use of a ship which cannot be crush ed by ice packs, that bis plan cannot help but succeed. But 'me wonders bow any man can lay out a program which re quires so much patience and hard work as that involved in this en terprise. Representative Henry, Chair man of the Committee of Rules, asserts that he has received suf ficient assurance from leaders in both branches of Congress to pass a measure to change the date of the Presidential inauguration from March 4th to the last Thurs day in April. This legislation ha hpen attempted at different times for a hundred years. HELD ON SERIOUS CHARGE. Teeumseh Neb., May 21. — Sheriff William Fenton of Rich ardson county brought Robert Sutton to Teeumseh and Sutton is now in the Johnson county jail. He is charged with a statu tory crime in Falls City, and the feeling against him was so in tense that tht sheriff decided t° bring him here, BACCALAUREATE SERVICES Tlio baccalaureate services were lielil at. 1 ho First Presbyterian church Sunday evening. The service began promptly at 8 o’clock with a pipe organ prelude by .Miss Maude Graham. Dr. Bailey read the scripture lesson, and Rev. (1. L. Neide offered prayer. Excellent music, was furnished by the High school glee club. The sermon of the evening de livered by Rev. J. R. Nanninga, was an able one and was in every way appropriate and fitting to the occasion. The benediction was pronounc ed by Rev. 0. M. Kevc. The graduates, seventeen in number, marched up the center isles at the opening of the servi ces and were seated .just, in front of the pulpit. The following are the members of the class: Thomas Coupe, Faye DeWald, Celia Dittmai, Xenia Gladwell, Jeffrey llorrocks, James Hut chins, Robert Mason, Riniee Nan ninga, Leon Norris, Lena Rarnel, Grace Reavis, Flora Selmek, Ber tha St umbo, Bertha Trefzer, Laura Trefzer Ruth Wilson, Priscilla Wocdring. COURT HOUSE NEWS From Friday's Daily. Judge Churchill of Omaha is in town. Mr. and Mrs. Miles Shields were transacting business at the courthouse this morning. Mrs. John Crook is home again. She lias been with an opera comp any all winter. The final settlement in the es tate of Oscar Larabce, deceased, will be made tomorrow in the county court at 9 a. m. Hearing of the claims in the estate of Anton Kern will be had tomorrow at 10 a. m. in the county court. John Mitchell and Jessie Per kins, colored both of Falls City, were married Saturday at. three o’clock by Judge Gagnon. THOUGHT HE WAS A MONKEY. Crazy Man Climbs Tree in Front of Helcj Gould’s Home. New York May 20.— Laboring under the delusion of being a monkey, a young man caused con siderable excitement by his ac tions in front of Miss Helen Gould’s Fifth avenue home the other morning. He took off his hoes and climbed a tree in front f the house. Then he perched himself upon one of the branches and gave an excellent imitation of a monkey, gesticulating and chattering at the crowd which soon surrounded the tree. Final ly a policeman arrived upon the scene. He ordered the man monkev to come down, but the after paid no attention to the order. There was nothing left to flic officer than to climb the tree amid the cheers and jeers of the crowd and to bring down his prisoner by main force. At the station the prisoner gave his name and added that he had be come a monkey after he had rend that monkeys are received into the homes of millionaires. He was sent to Bellevue to undergo ilie rather unnecessary formality of having his sanity tested. JURY CALLS H. H. HOERR GUILTY OF BEATTIE ROBBERY Wymore Man Accused of Aiding in Kansa Case Convicted in Short Order. Beatrice, Neb., May 21.— Af ter a hearing which consumed a week, If. II. Hoerr of Wymore, charged with complicity in the robbery of the Beattie, Kan., bank alst winter, was found guilty by a jury in the district court at Marysville, Kan., this evening. The case went to the jury at 9:30 o’clock and a verdict was rendered a half hour later. When Hoerr was arrested at Wymore a few months ago, he was op erating a rooming house, where, it is alleged some of the bank robbers had their headquarters, i G. A. R. MEMORIAL DAY May reminds us that the ver nal gladness of the year has ar rived, nature every where is full of the good and tender senti ments of Memorial Day, and that day, May 30th should he devoted to the commemoration of a great national sacrifice of loy alty and edvotion by our com rades who have gone before. Once a week in this great and powerful Republic, the devout people gather in their houses of worship to celebrate their Sab bath day by glorifying the Clod whom fhey owe all that they have. Once a year the lovers of 1 lie country have their Independence day, when with bursting rockets and booming guns they celebrate the birth of the nation they love and to which they owe their lib erty ; and once ayear Thanksgiv ing day is fittingly observed by a grateful people, who, acknow ledging and apreciating the bless ings of God offer to Him their gratitude and praise for Ilis di vine gifts. But greater and dearer than all those dajs, because it com prehends all, is Memorial Day, founded by the Grand Army of the Republic and observed by admirers of bravery and lovers of liberty all over our land, irre spective of age or sex, race or creed. On that day the living veterans make their annual pil grimage to the graves of their loved and lost comrades. On that day a grateful people hrong to the cemeteries and with rever ent cars listen to the word of God as it falls from reverent lips. On that day the blessings of the Almighty are recognized by the poem of joy and liyms of praise that ascend to Ilis heavenly throne, and on that day our country’s foundation is celebrated! in common with our country’s salvation. Equal honor is paid to its founders and its savers. Washington, the father, Lincoln, the martyr, and Grant the savi our, are eulogized in verse and praise and the whole nation rises in gratitude to the brave men, living and dead, who offered their lives on the altar of person al liberty and national unity. It is hoped that a vigorous ef fort will be made to secure a more active and general partici pation by the public, and a most cordial invitation is hereby ex tended to the churches, schools, all patriotic orders and the pub lic generally to unite with and co-operate with the Post in the observance of Memorial Day. Comrades of the Post, the \V. It. C. and patriotic orders, and friends who desire, will meet at the Post hall at nine o’clock a. m. with flowers and proceed to (he Steele cemetery, and there place floral offerings of love and the starry banner on the graves of those who were once so near, and who arc now so dear to us. The afternoon services will he celebrated at the Park auditori um at 2:30 p. m., a fine program has been prepared by able talent for the occasion. The Sunday preceding Memorial day, May 28tli has, by long usage become a part of the regular excerciscs. Divine service will he held at 2:30 p. m. at the Park auditori um under the management of the churches in the city. This speaks for itself and needs no further comment. It is hoped that no one will miss this service. E. P. Qlines, Levi Frederick, Adjutant. Commander. CHAFIN AT FREMONT. Fremont, Neb., May 21. — Eugene Chafin who was candi date for president of the United States on the prohibition ticket, three years ago, spoke at the Y. M. C. 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Announcement was made today of the designation of fifty, twen ty-three of them to be located west of the Mississippi river, where the heaviest deposits here tofore have been made and where the department feels hanking facilities are eomparatviely limit ed. The postal hanks will open for business on dune 10. Among the new western offices arc: Colfax, Tn.; Lindsbork, Kan.; Virginia, Minn.; Desoto, Mo.; , IToldrege, Ni b.; Williston, N. D.; Lead, R. D.; and Rawlins, Wyo. PLANS INTERBURBAN LINE FOR TEKAMAH Tekamah Neb., May 21.-—Dr. John W. Van Horn of Montours ville, l’n., arrived here this morn ing from Blair, where he is stopp ing with his brother-in-law, W. II. Harrison, and met several of the citizens here and made a pre liminary observation trip through this city for the purpose of ulti mately determining whether the construction of a trolly line of railway is feasible between Te kamah and Decatur, which is eighteen miles north of here in land. He "ill return with another party later who will be interest ed with him in the undertaking and who is an expert in trolly line construction. His intention is to use the McKeen motor cars m operating the line if built. Te kamah will grant a free right-of way over the street through the city, enabling the line to connect with the present line of railroad at the south end of the switch yards. Mrs. John Pfann and Miss Le na Pfann of Nebraska City "'ill be in the city for the next lew days.