POTATOES ARE THE
THINGS jHAT CLIMB
Price Goes Up 75 Per Cent
During Last Twelve Monthi,
With Beans Close Behind. .
SOME MEATS ABE LOWXB
Washington, Nov. 29. Retail prices
of foods in the United States as a
whole advanced J per cent from Sep
tember .15 to October IS, making a
16 per cent increase for twelve
months, as shown in reports compiled
today by the Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics. The figures came from 725
retail dealers in forty-five principal in
dustrial cities. , ' ,
In the thirty days covered in the
reports, meats declined in price from
1 to 6 per cent, but all other articles
given, except tea, coffee and rice, ad
vanced from I per cent for hens to 6
per cent for butter, bread and sugar
and 1 1 per cent for eggs.
Relative price changes for a number
of articles during the month, putting
the average 1915 prices at 100 per
cent, are given as follows:
nerroaooo. Pel. Butter J
dirloln nuk ICheeee J
Roo.r.4 ............ M"k
Rib rout SBroed s
'.Chuck roael SHOW- , n
Plate boiling beef.. lCorn meal 4
!or ckopo. SPolatoea
Hem. no change. Onleni
lnoraaaee. Pot. Beano I
Smoked Hull .... IPrunea 1
I.ar4 miliar I
Kin 11
Tables giving prjee increases for
twelve months show potatoes lead all
foods with an increase of 75 per cent
and beans next with 55 per cent.
There were no price reductions, but
coffee, tea and rice remained sta
tionary. Some of the year" price
advances are given as follows:
,-. Pel. . '
BlrWIn ..
I Roller ....!
Round
Rib nest
Chuck rout
Plate kollliK beet.
Pork chope
Smoked baeoa ...
smoked ham
Lord
Hene .......
tin
: TCheeea ,
. SMtlk
. S Broad IS
. sriour II
. tMea!
. iPotatoefl TS
.leOnteao ,.,..4S
1, R.n ..
..II
Is Prunes
lit Sugar .
.. 1
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Physical Valuation '
Of Union Pacific
.' About Completed
Washington. Nov.' 29. Congress
will b saked for another $3,500,000
appropriation, for physical valuation
of interstate railroads, with a view
to completion of all field operation!
in three years from next January and
windup of all the work a year later,
Charles A. Prouty, director of physi
cal valuation, announced today. Mr.
Prouty said the total cost will be
kept within the original estimate Of
$15,000,000 to $20,000,000.
Valuation experts are at work in
various parts of the country. Field
work has been completed on the
Union Pacific lines west of Salt Lake
Citx. ; v.-, .- :
So-far reports have been made on
les than five roads, all lesser Im
portance. Valuations of the big
transcontinental lines will be delayed
until the Interstate Commerce com
mission, of which the valuation serv
ice is a part, passes upon questions
relating to overhead charges, allow
ances for contingency, interest during
construction work, what constitutes
reasonable prices and other elements
ot value, wnen tnese are aeierminca,
the reports will be expedited, each
road being allowed thirty days to
make protest and present arguments
before final value tion. No hearings
are likely before the end ot January,
Held to District v
Court On Charge
Of Eeckless Driving
Beatrice, Neb., Nov. 29. (Special.)
Glen vicMullen of the Crab Or
chard neighborhood, charged with
reckless driving of a touring car on
the highway the night of August i,
last, when his car collided with I
Ford driven by Mrs. Harry Dean,
seriously injuring her and her sister,
Mrs. Rudolph Schwarti, and three
others in the McMullen auto, was
given his preliminary hearing vester
dav before Judge Ellis. The defend
ant waa bound over to district court
in the sum of $300, which he fur
nished.
Four suits for wages were filed in
Justice Ellis' court against Robert
Atterbury, proprietor of the circus
wintering at the driving park. Claude
I.awson sues for $132: J: G. Fink for
$V8; O. J. CHppinger for $24, and w.
M. -Baker for SI IK. , lite plaintiffs al
lege they have been in Atterbury's
employ and have received only a part
ot their weekly wages.
The Odell Corn and Poultry show
ia being held at that place this week
and large crowds are attending daily.
There is a fine display of corn and
birds.
- The funeral services of Dena, 5-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Schmidt of the Pickrell vicin-
. ity, killed by an automobile while
returning from school Monday after
noon, will be held Thursday after
noon at 2 o'clock from the German
, Lutheran church northeast of the
city.; ;.. , - ,
' V Fairbury Newa Notes.
Fairbury, Neb., Nov. 29. (Special.)
A unique departure in holding the
"safety first" meetings of the' Rock
Island occurred today, when this
meeting was held in the Fairbury
Commercial club rooms, Instead of the
, Rock Island freight house. The Com'
mercial club invited the Rock Island.
employes to use the club rooms here
after. '
Lewis Brown has returned from a
trip to Topeka, and resumed work as
' engineer on the local runs on the
Fairhtirv-Hnrton district.
- The Jefferson County Live Stock
association is taking steps to secure
land in or about fairbury tor a per
manent home and erect - buildings.
Wilt Brothers of ..Delaware, OWL,
have leased the Conrad building and
are equipping it as a moving picture
theater. . - . ,, ,
How 1 Cm Cotdo.
Avoid exposure one droito. Bat right.
Tako Dr. King's Nl,w r loco very. It kllla and
dee trove the cold gonna. All drugglali.
AdvorUaement. - f ".,:'.;. . !. t,
RED CROSS ASKED TO
STOP WORKIN SERBIA
Bequest to United States from
Austria-Hungary Is Cause
of Surprise. f :
EELUI' GREATLY NEEDED
Washington, Nov. 29. Austria-
Hungary has asked the American Red
Cross to discontinue (relicf work in
Belgrade and in other parts of north
ern Serbia conquered by the Teutonic
forces, when supplies now on hand
have been distributed. The suggestion
reached here today through Ambas
sador Penfield at Vienna. The Aus
trian government expressed its deep
est gratitude to the Red Cross for
what has been done and gave no rea
son for asking its discontinuance.
,-, i . ,- ', , i
' lea vross omciais ncrv, ourpnacu
at -the request, say the work prac
tically is at a standstill because of
thu imoossibilitv of securing supplies
since Roumania entered the war. The
work will necessarily cease about De
cember 1.
Nearly $75,000 has been contributed
to that section from this country,
while 100 carloads of supplies from
Roumanian relief . committees and
eighty from Swisa committees have
been distributed by the American
agents. Edward Stuart, assisted by
Charles, Fox, has cared for about
36,000 people in Belgrade. Dr. Ed
ward Kyan has endeavored to reacn
about 100,000 in the interior.
American relief in aouthern Serbia
)w is thrown into greater impor
tance by Austria's request and espe
cially' by the advance of the allied
armies about Monastir. Reports from
that city say 200,000 people are in
distress, as the retreating armies of
the central powers are said to nave
stripped the city bare of food and
auppiiea. Shipments are being pre
pared for that section.
Wuhlniton, Nov. (HpmUI Tl-
ffm,)--Jweph P. Pure ha hu bn ftp
pointed noNtrntatftr at Kramer, lncutr
county, Ntbranka, vie W. P. Wtllaft, rt
i.fntd,
Tli QvlitlM That Dm Nt AffMt RaM.
Ht.rM.uaia nf It tottle and laxatlv effect.
Idaiatlva Dramo Quinine can be taken by
anyone without cawing nrvainM nor
rtnsinr tn the head. There u only one
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FLEET SUBM ARINES
Contracts Awarded for Con-
traction of Large Number
! of Undersea Vessels.
TWO YEARS TO CONSTRUCT
Washington, Nov. 29. Secretary
Daniels awarded contracts today for
more than $65,000,000 worth of new
fighting ships for the navy, including
four battleships at $11,000,000 each;
two fleet submarines at approxim
ately $1,190,000 each, and twenty-seven
coats submarines at from $994,000
each. j, 1 . i -
Washington, : Nov. 29. Secretary
Daniels today awarded contracts for
twenty-seven coast defense and two
800-iton fleet submarines.
Eighteen coast defense submersir
blea went to the Electric Boat com.
pany at $697,000 each; six to the Lake
Torpedo Boat company at $694,000;
three to the California Ship Building
company on lake designs at $698,000.
One fleet submarine went to the Elec
tric Boat company at-$1,189,000 and
the other to the Lake company at $1,
195,000. ' .
Some minor modifications remain
to be fixed, but the Navy department
has insisted upon .certain features of
construction.
All the bida are close to the limit.
Kruttschnitt to l
' Relief of Railroads
San Francisco. Nov. 29. Julius
Kruttschnitt. chairman of the execu
tive committee of the board of direc
tors of the Southern Pacific railroad,
who is here today from New York,
asserted that the railroads not only
were unable to oner any help in the
high cost of food situation, but were
themselves suffering from high prices.
lhe railroads, said Kruttschnitt,
e paying almost incredible ad-
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vances for all of the materials they
use, yet, in face of these increases
the price of the commodity which the
railroads have to sell has been re
duced. '
"The railroads are making every
effort to relieve the car shortage
situation, but their efforts are ham
pered by the congestion in manufac
turing shops and rolling mills. They
are endeavoring to ease the tension,
increasing the rapidity of the circu
lation of their equipment.
"The American Railway association
has appointed a conference on car ef
ficiency and issued an order to all
roads having an excess of boxcars
to rush them back to roads that were
suffering from a deficiency. The ef
fect of these steps should be felt with
in the next week or fifteen days."
Four Men Rob Hazleton
State Bank and Escape
Hazelton, Kan., Nov. 29. Entering
the Hazleton State bank early today,
four bandits blew the safe and es
caped with $12,000.
The robbers, after securing the
monev, went to the telephone office
and took tne two men mgnt opera
tors out of town with them in an au
tomobile to prevent the -giving of an
alarm.
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TIGHTEN GRIP ON
ROUMANIAN ARMIES
Eesistaice Weakens ai Teu
tonic forces Fnsh Along with
Their Bapid Drive.
BATTLE ABOUND MONASTIE
London, Nov. 29 The situation of
the Roumanian armies defending Bu
charest appears increasingly critical.
Only to the northwest of the capital
do the Roumanian lines seem to be
holding at all firmly and even here
the capture of Curtea de Arges, on
the Argenchu river, although that
point is eighty miles distant from Bu
charest, seems to indicate a weaken
ing of the Roumanian resistance in
this direction. On the southwest the
peril is imminent with the enveloping
movement of the central powers
tlacinc their forces within forty miles
of the capital.
News dispatches have reported the
Roumanian government and diplo
matic officials leaving Bucharest for
Jasy, 200 miles northeast of the capi
tal, near the Russian frontier.
The raoid oroeress made by Gen
eral von Falkenhayn's armies moving
east in Roumania, of course has- been
largely made possible by the opera
tion of the Danube forces under Field
Marshal von Mackcnsen.
It still remains to be developed
whether the process of flanking the
Roumanians out of their positions is
to be continued by other crossings of
the Danue still further east. The
southern bank of the river is held by
the central powers to a point beyond
Tchernavoda.
That the retreat of the Roumanians
toward the nearer defenses of Bu
charest is already under way and is a
precipitate one, is indicated by to
day's German official statement, which
announces a disorderly retirement of
the Roumanian forces along the entire
VVallachian front.
Russians Take Offensive.
Possibly as a diversion in aid of
the Roumanians, the Russians have
taken the offensive near Kirlibaba, on
the Golden Bistritza, in the Carpath
ians, northwest of the Roumanian
frontier. Attacks here, Petrograd re
ports, netted them the ridges of
heights east and south of Kirlibaba
and the capture of more than 700
prisoners.
Berlin says the Russian attacks, de
livered at many points along the Car
pathian and western Moldavian front,
resulted only in local successes, which
were paid for dearly.
With the exception of the Rouman
ian front, none is more active at
present than the Macedonian. What
ever may have been the result of
heavy fighting there, regarding which
German and entente accounts dis
agree ,the allied armies do not appear
to have slackened the force of their
offensive in the Monastir region.
. , Paris today announces an important
advance by the Serbians in which
two heights were captured, notably
one northwest of Grunish(e, east of
the Cerna river, where an effort is
evidently being made to bring the line
up to a level with that within the bend
of thes team towards Monastir. Mean
while an advance by the Italians is re
ported in the region west of Monastir,
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which progress has also been made
by the French.
Transports Reported Sunk.
Berlin, Nov. 29. (By Wireless to
Sayville.) Two large Russian trans
ports bound from Hulsingfors for
Revel, were sunk in the latter part of
October as the result, it is believed,
of striking a mine, says a dispatch
from Stockholm to the Overseas
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