Kearney Potalo
Growers Wind Up
Successful Year
Weather During Digging Sea
son More Favorable Than
Last Majority of Crop
Early Ohios.
Potato growers in tlw Kearney
district of central Nebraska have just
concluded a very successful season,
according to O. D. Miller, local rep
resentative of the federal and state
marketing bureaus, who closed the
market news station at that point
recently. Their crop was ci good
quality, carefully handled and
packed in new tagged or branded
sacks, bo they were in a position
to take advantage of the active de
mand and advancing market which
prevailed during their shipping sea
son as the result of light shipments
for the country as a whole.
The weather during digging time
this year was more favorable than
in 1920. and the stock was mostly
clean and attractive. State shipping
point inspectors said that only about
one-fourth of the shipments fell into
the No. 2 grade. Nearly 95 per cent
of the crop was Early Ohios. The
yield for the whole district averaged
L . . Art l , , . . , ,
aoout iw nusneis to me acre, wnicn
ii about 30 bushels lower than last
er;,r 1 "s Si
was estimated to be at least ioo
of cheaper seed, sacks and farm la-
bor. ,
Average Price $1.95.
uuring tne tirst iu nays 01 tne .... . x. , . . T . ,c
season much of the stock was rolled d,t,on9 ,n Nebraska from July 15
unsold and diverted from Omaha, to August 15, as they afiect the
but after July 25, which marked the cereal and forage crops of the state,
beginning of a strong and steady j were about norma( although in var
demand, practically everything was!Jou, iocalities the pcsts wm m0re
sold f a b. shipping point. Cash da ; than for corresponding
buyers bought about half the h'P: periods, according to the monthly
l I.. -! . 0nn1,A4 -nnA ntl
imillltis ill ictliwis, acimcu, aiai ii-u ai
$1.90 Jnlv 10. It weakened gradual
ly to $1.50 on the 20th, but an ad
Vance Julv 25 which brought it to
$1.85 by August 1; $2.25 by the 5th
and $2 75 bv the 9th. The highest
price was paid August 10, when two
cars sold at $3. The season's average
was $1.95.
Although more than half of the
table stock shipments of the main
crop, movintr from western Nebras
ka during the fall and winter, go
to points within the state the high
er price commanded by .this earlier
crop allowed longer hauls and all
but 30 of the. 500 cars shipped from
the Kearney district to August 12,
inclusive, ' went outside the state.
Chicago, with a freight rate of 50
1-2 cents, received 123 cars, l he rest,
went mostly to towns and small
cities in Iowa. Illinois, Indiana, Wis
consin and Minnesota.
Demand Good.
The poor quality of the Kaw val
ley crop as the result of late freez
es and heavy rains just before dig
ging time, was an important factor
in creating the demand for Nebras
ka stock in these central states and
the failure, through drouth, of the
early crop usually grown near Min
nesota, is said to have caused the
demand in Minnesota and Wiscon
sin. ' ' - : ' , . .
The field equipment used m pub
lishing the market reports is be
ing moved to Alliance, where a
station will be opened about Au
gust 2? and maintained until De
cember 1. The service this year' is
being carriea on -vvaiii.ij j
the United States bureau of mar
kets and crop estimates and the Ne
braska bureau of markets and mar
keting. Destinations of Nebraska
shipments, number of cars shipped
ftbm each state in the country,
prices paid at shipping points in im
portant states and jobbing or carlot
nnccs in terminal '"""" , . ,
l , ., .whirl
I...... f (!,( dailv reports, which
...:),! trfi to crowers
and
other interested persons who make
application.
St. I ouis University
Will Furnish Radio
Phone Market Report
St. Louis, Aug. .-Announcement
was made yesterday by officials
of St. Louis university, that begin
ning Monday, a tadio telephone mar
ket report at 350. meter wave length
will be sent out in addition to the
tVipr service.
The markets, which will be read
daily at 2 p. m., will include the es
sential features ot tne tiauy uu..M
issued by the United States bureau
of markets. .
vvhilo the intention of the univer-
is estimated the readers voice will
be audible as far away as Kansas
City and Omaha and for a nfce dis
tance in other directions.
Record Grain Shipments"
Start for European Points
Chicago, "Aug. 21. - Iwo record
breaking 'shipments of corn were
made from the Ca urr.et harbor
region for foreign ports. The Cana
dian steamer Westmount carneed
412.000 bushels and the st-amer Lrus
sell Hubbard 401.000 bushels.
Both boats were destined for the
same Canadian port. Depot Harbg
The shipments are part of l.UUU.UW
bushels destined tor curopc.
tofore the record for any one ship-
ment has been 400,000 bushels.
Cass County W. C. T. U. ,
Will Sleet at Louisville
Plattsmouth, Neb., Aug. 21.
fSoecial ) The 13th annual conven
tion of the Cass county W. C. T. U.
will be held at Louisville August
26 An extensive program has been
arranged and delegations will be in
attendance from each of the five
local unions, in the county. Mrs.
W. B. Banning of Union is presi
dent of the county organization.
Nebraskans En Route to
Porto Rico Visit Capital
Washington. Aug. 21. (Special
Telegram.) Among Representative
McLaughlin's collers were the Misses
aMrgaret and Hazel Stowe of York,
Neb., who are visiting Washington
en route to Porto Rico to teach in
the public schools of that country.
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THE tVQUIrAOS- THt T0ZDI
NOSHU- ITS K Yt
ANI VC COMPIMN
Insects Damage
Grain and Forage
Crops of State
. ,. . T i
l est Conditions rrom July
15 to August 15 About Nor-
mai Although Worse in
Some Districts.
T inrnln Atior ?1 Tk inst-ft Mn-
H. bwenk, entomologist of the state
college of agriculture.
Grasshoppers were the most
prominent insect pests on these
crops, the report says, the hoppers
being reported as serious at places
in Knox, Custer and Saline counties
in addition, to the southwestern
counties mentioned in the last re
port. "Shortly after the middle of July
an outbreak of the chinch bug de
veloped in Knox county after injury
in the infested area along the south
ern border of the state had ceased,"
the summary states. "The bugs were
first noticed in the barley fields and
when that was harvested they mi-
' grated to the corn and did consider-
able damage in some 01 tne neias.
Sugar Beet Webworm.
In the North Platte valley there
was a plentiful flight of moths of
the sugar beet webworm during
July, the report says and a neces
sity of fighting this pest by spiaying
developed, says the statement.
"An unusual abundance of beetle
ularis in Kimball, Cheyenne, Deuel
and Morrill counties existed during
the middle of July," according to
-the report, "and as they were found
abundantly in the Wheat tields then
presence caused considerable anxi-
iefy.' With the exception ot a tew
patches ot beets, they did no serious
injury."
Continuing, the report says:
"The greatest number of com-
olaints of injury by insect pests dur
ing the month were in relation to
attacks on strawberry beds, blue
grass lawns and growing plants by
white grubs. A Dodge county gar
den nursery suffered serious injury
to seedlines through these pests and
some reports of injury to grain fields
were received. 1 he usual large num
ber of Complaints of injury by the
melon aohis were received, with re
ouests for information on the con-
tror of this pest. The squash bug
was also frequently the subject ot
inquiry.
Insects Iniure Trees.
"The white-marked tussock moth
continued - more than normally
abundant on shade trees, and the fall
web-worm has been disfiguring
many shade trees over the eastern
half of Nebraska during tne monm.
hv the elm borer and the pop
lar borer has been very frequently
complained of. The scale insects
most freciuentlv reported have been
the white elm scale and the oyster
shell scale.
"The strioed blister beetle contin
ued injury on alfalfa and potatoes,
especially in Thayer and Adams
counties. In Dakota county garden
truck was injured by the gray blister
beetle, and in southern Jefferson
rmmtv notatoes and beets were lo
cally considerably injured by the
banded black blister oeetie.
Forces Guests to Leave
Fire broke out in the basement
of the Elite Furniture company
store in the Northwestern hotel
hnilHinir. Sixteenth and Webster
streets, about 12:30 Sunday morning.
Twenty hotel guests occupying
rnnm cm the second floor were
fnrrpd to leave because' of smoke
uh!rh filled the buildins.
Four lines of nose were run into
tti hasement and the fire was soon
under control. Considerable damage
was done to the stock of furniture
by smoke and water. Sam Rubin
is the proprietor of . the furniture
store.
c. rr. TirtaA
Six lexas House JYiemDers
Are Arrested for Absence
Austin, Tex., Aug. 21. Six of
nine members of the Texas house of
representatives were taken into cus
tody by he sergeant-at arms and
the sheriff and taken under ar
rest before the house. They were
charged in warrants issued last night
with wilfully absenting themselves
from the session to prevent a quor
um. ' '
Tests for Presidential
Postmasters to Be Held
Washington, Aug. 21. (Special
Telegram.) The Postoffice depart
ment has requested the civil serv
ice commission to set a date for
examination of presidential post
masters at 'the following places:
Nebraska Belden. Hooper, Plain
view, Winnebago.
Iowa Arnolds park, Graettinger,
Mclntire, Westgate.
SEE IT IN COLORS
IN THE SUNDAY BEE
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WE NORTH rOLfc
Many Nebraska Producers
Endorsing
New Variety Said to Yield
stand Weather Conditions Better Than Many
Other Kinds Reported to ftesist
Rust Well.
After a thorough trial of Kanred
wheat, the variety which is rapidly
displacing Turkey and Kharkot in
the hard wheat belt, an increasingly
large number of Nebraska growers
from every section ot the state are
indorsing it for general use in prefer
ence to the sorts commonly grown.
In the eastern part of the state, as
well as in southern Iowa, northern
Missouri and central Illinois, Kanred
outyielded Turkey and Kharkof be
cause of its rust resistance. It pro
duced better yields than these va
as !
ricties in western iseDrarKa ai
well as eastern Colorado, eastern
Wyoming and the intermountain dis
tricts of Montana, because Kanred
has greater winter hardiness and
earlier maturity, in addition to iU
greater, rust resistance.
The variety has made no better
record anywhere than in northwest
ern Kansas and adjoining portions
v k nnrTf th, Ircest and
of Nebraska. One of the largest ana ,
most successful growers is AUen
Weaver of Cheyenne com ty. Kan
sas, just across-the state me from
WffhracWa T.ss't vcaf he' sold $40,000
worth of seed and would have had
1,800 acres for pure seed this season,
but for a disastrous hail storm which
destroyed half of it.
Withstands. Rust Well.
A farmer in 'Lancaster coumy,
Vohraska. obtained a small quantity ;
of seed two years ago and grew j
enough last year lor nan.oi.a iw-, i-ruvcu uuu in some cases tne grow
arrp field which had . been plowed ; crs had no kanred at all and in others
Bill, iiviu, "'"v" tL- i en tr . rr, f
9nit 'ioun well oreoared. ' The
remainder of the field was sewn to
Turkey. The land was good,
stimulating rank' growth, a condition
unusually favorable for rust.
The disease reduced a- prospective
40-busheI crop cj lurpey '
bushels. The halt sown wun i
produced 35 busheis an -
total of 880 bushels more on the
Progress of the Crops.
Weekly Crop Bulletla of the Agrieultiiral
HUreBU umn wawiw v.
C'oihmefce.
t'" i ha mm wAttlr tin aiiveraa COIidt-
tUveloDed In the progreM of
crop una Interested perBbiu have been
concerned moetly In observing how far na
ture can to in retrieving ner own
takes. The below normal lemperaiurs ui
the entire corn belt, which gave light bnt
not killing frost In northern North Dako
ta on August 14 and gave something, of a
"scare" in varioua omer ik"u,
been du mainly to night temperatures.
ti,. -,orm .nrt for the moil part sunny
days were very favorable for development
of corn ana -m ir.e iwi"FF
valleys, where drouth was very
up to August 1. the conditions couia not
have been better except In the western
part of that territory, wnere mure ""
...... ,,M hAv hApn beneficial. Early
corn Is very materially Injured In the dis
trict of July drouth, out late corn i
promising. The . Improvement U most
nni.Ma in th lower Missouri. Ohio- and
Tennessee valleys where the later matur
ing varieties ot corn are grown. o
the upper Mississippi river district, where
the corn is now maturing, the crop is ma
terially damaged. '
The crops which show the largest loss
this season are ' oats, hay and potatoes.
The oat crop was ' given an increased
acreage in almost all district this sea
son. It was seeded early and under fa
vorable soil conditions, but adversity over
took it at every critical period of devel
opmentkilling freezes in the seedling
stage, excessive heat at the stoollng stage,
drouth and heat at the filling tage1
The result l the most generally disap
pointing oat crop in several years.
The hay crop was adversely affected by
the same conditions which brought tho
oat crop to the verge of ruia The in
tense heat of the last half of May great
ly reduced the clover and first alfaira
crops by urging them to early maturity.
The second crop of clover Is very llgnt
and in a large part of the country has
been pastured. The mixed hay (timothy
and clover) produces but one crop, wnlcn
Is quite below average. The partial fail
ure of hay is a very serious loss in the
dairy districts of the Mississippi valley,
and since by reason of the high rail
fMifft,t. hiiikv firm nroducta like hay
cannot be shipped long distances and sold
at a price farm consumers can afford to
pay, the short hay crop will probably re
sult in a partial milk famine in eastern
cities. Many of the tenant farmers are
in process of selling out their equipment
rather than to go into the winter with
short forage supplies for their live etock.
Reports from the southern states are
essentially a repetition of last week's
conditions. Cotton picking Is getting un
der way all along the gulf coast. The
crop is spotted In all states, return vary
ing from very poor to good and from
varying causes. The eastern uplands in
North Carolina and Georgia and the west
ern districts of Texas and Oklahoma,
where drouth hurt Ahe crop, are in the
same class with the Atlantic coast plain
and parts of Alabama and Mississippi,
where the rains were excessive. Unusual
Insect damage seems to have occurred in
nearly all districts. These adverse con
ditions, coupled with a 10,000,000-acre es
timated reduction In the area planted to
the cotton crop, seem to Justify an esti
mate of an abnormally low total of pro
duction. The New England and North Atlantic)
states have had nearly ideal weather con
dition for some time past. Farming oper
ations are well advanced and with satis
factory returns in the leading crops. The
grape crop in the lower lake district- is
not meeting earlier expectations and the
early varieties of spuds give disappoint
ing yields. Late varieties of potatoes
promise a fair, crop in several districts,
however. '
The Paclfle coast and Intermountain
state are harvesting their crop under
favorable conditions, though there 1 re
part of damage to apples from drouth
and sunburn In eastern Washington.
While the Puget Sound country ha had
low temperature the California coast and
much' of the Interior has had a consider
able excess of heat. The peach and pear
crops of nearly all the intermountain dis
trict are now going to market, the heav
iest movement of peache from Colorado
orchards now Just beginning. The crop is
of high quality. Irrigation water is hold
ing out well and In all Irrigated districts
beets- and potatoes are developing favor
ably and the third crop at alfalfa 1 re
ported as very promising.
THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1921.
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wiiojcH avl
M0W- ttoW UNO
OOT
must HAVt
JUSt
WftNtfe. if Nt
X-
Kanred Wheat
Larger Returns and With
acres than a similar area seeded to
Turkey yielded.
A county agent in western Nebras
ka has reported to L. E. Call, agron
omist of the Kansas experiment sta
tion, where kanred was developed,
that the variety averaged six bushels
Mi acre better than Turkey and
Kharkof.
But there have been disappoint
ments, too. One case has turned a
good many farmers away from kan
red, while the very nature of the cir
cumstances has only served to make
others more determined to give the
wheat a better chance.
A certain Kansas farmer living in. a
county adjoining Nebraska, , sold a
car load of kanred wheat to a group
cf farmers across the line. It netted
the Kansasan a clear profit of $500
above what he could have got on the
market for the grain. The neat lit
tle profit suggested a temptation
which he was not able to resist. Being
Af;,i a-.u Z.
appeara'nce of kanred and
lTarkey he he might
' . . f
But kanred was commanding pre
ferred prices, so he determined to
sell his Turkey as kanred. Nebraska
farmers in the adjoining county
bought it. The deception might
never have been discovered had not
those who bought the seed aoolied
for inspection this year. The insoec-
tion was refused as an examination
a ou-au mixture, i ne seuer now iaces
a lawsuit and possible prosecution
for obtaining money under false pre
tenses. Adapted to Great Plains.
Kanred is well adapted to the
many Varying conditions of the
Great Plains area, including west-
ern Oklahoma and Kansas, all of
Nebraska and bouth Dakota; the
intermotiritain districts of Montana:
eastern Colorado, and the. Panhandle
of Texas. It has yielded better than
other varieties in the hard wheat
regions of Iowa, Illinois, and Mis
souri, Its principal advantage over Tur
key and Kharkof is its resistance
to some forms- of both stem and
leaft rust. It also has greater winter
hardiness and earlier maturity. These
factors have caused it to outyield
ether wheats in most sections of
central . and western Kansas, the
state in which it was developed, as
well as other states into which it
has been introduced.
In order to insure the perpetuation
of supply of pure seed year after
year, an organization of about 600
progressive Kansas farmers, known
as the Kansas Crop Improvement
association, was formed several
years ago. Co-operating with the
Kansas state agricultural college, the
association conducts an inspection of
fields thought to be pure Kanrad.
Persons buying seed through the as
sociation are practically insured
against deception.
Old Settlers Reunion
At Union Well Attended
Plattsmouth. Neb.. Aug. 21.
(Special.) The opening day of the
Old Settlers' reunion of Cass and
Otoe counties at Union was largely
attended. The American Legion
post of Plattsmouth co-operated with
the committee in making the day an
occasion of a reunion of war vet
erans as well as old settlers. Speeches
hv Attorney A. L. Till of Platts
mouth and Attorney V. E. Taylor,
commander of the Legion post at
Nebraska City with music by the
Plattsmouth Leeion Quartet were
among the special features arranged
for the veterans, many ot wnom were
in attendance. , The Perkins band
and orchestra of Omaha furnished
the music for the two-day event.
Governor McKelvie was the star
fpatnr Saturdav in the speaking line
while W. H. Metz of Nebraska City
also addressed the assemblage.
Irish Opera Star to Spend
Summer in Native Country
Grenwich, Conn., Aug. 21. It
wae announced that John McCor-
mack. whose summer home is at
Collenders Point. Darien. Conn., ex
pects to spend the summer of 1922
in his native land, Ireland. He in
tends to sail for Europe early next
May and will make a concert tour
on the continent and then go to
Ifplanrl for the summer.
He expects to sing a number of
concerts in his native land before
settling down for a quiet rest. His
home is uraystones, county wick
low, which is the home of Eamonn
de Valera, president of the Sinn
Fein government lhe two are
great friends. i
In Los Angeles there are 600
motor trucks daily operating out of
the city as common carriers and
serving the whole of southern Call
forma..
W - W - W!
tD ttt KH0W TMAT iT
"WE WOinH POit WMtH HE
WERt? NO STICK
Alt ICt
HP
Producers To Be
Foundation For
Marketing Plan
Head of v American Farm
Bureau to Call Conference
For Purpose of Ratifying
Co-Operative Plan.
That the producers' co-operative
shipping associations are to be the
foundation of the national marketing
plan of the farmers live stock mar
keting committee of IS ' is the an
nouncement made of the committee's
tentative plan, according to word re
ceived by the Nebraska Farm Bu
reau federation.
Arrangements have already been
made for the establishment of a pro
ducer owned and controlled commis
sion company at the National Stock
Yards, East St. Louis, and a special
committee has been appointed with
authority to select the board of di
rectors for this organization.
President James R. Howard of
the American Farm Bureau federa
tion has been requested to call a
conference of the live stock produ
cers of the nation between October
15 and November 1 for the purpose
of ratification of the plan of the
committee of IS.
The essential features of the plan
to be submitted at that time will
deal specifically with the co-opera
tive live stcok shipping associations
controlled by the growers in their
communities. These associations will
hold membership in the terminal live
stock commission associations which
n turn will hold membership in the
National Association of Live Stock
Producers. Individual growers may
also secure membership in the ter
minal associations. However, no
contract signed by the growers is
contemplated.
The terminal live stock commis
sion associations provide for the es
tablishment of producer owned and
controlled live stock commission
Companies at the markets where
needed. The demand for this or
ganization must come from the pro
ducers themselves, who will thereby
pledge their support in advance.
Subsidiary to the live stock commis
sion company, it is planned to estab
lish a stocker and feeder company,
patronage dividends to be pro-rated
back to the consignor members.
The commission associations are to
be governed by a board of five to
nine members, this board to select
the manager and other employes and
also direct the policy of the associa
tion. The earning of the association
will be pro-rated back on the patron
age dividend plan. The board is to
be selected by the delegates to the
national convention and the voting
to be apportioned on the basis of
shipments consigned and not by
state lines.
Many State Elevators
Join Gram Growers
Three hundred and twenty-five
Nebraska farmers had signed con
tracts with the United States Grain
Growers Inc., at the close of the first
two week's and half of the member
ship campaign ending August 18, ac
cording to an announcement made
from the othce ot state headquarters
here. Contracts closed thus far
represent approximately three-quarter
million bushels of grain annually,
it was said.
Announcement was also made that
97 co-operative elevators had entered
into an agreement with the Grain
Growers agency. lhe co-operative
elevator at Chappell, one of the
largest in the state, is the latest to
sign a contract, the announcement
said.
Church Workers Want Bryan
On Disarmament Conference
Ocean Grove. N. J.. Aug. 21. A
resolution requesting President Har-
rung to appoint wiiiiam jciumigs
Bryan a delegate to the coming in
ternational disarmament congress m
Washington, was unanimously
adopted at a confernce of church
workers and members of the Inter
national Reform bureau. The com
mittee also offered plans for pre
venting boxing contests on holidays
in New Jersey and for the institu
tion of legal proceedings against Tex
Rickard and others responsible for
the Dempsey-Carpentier fight on the
ground of "conspiracy."
Creosote Treated Poles
. Withstand Ravages of Time
V
In July, 1921, the Colorado Power
company, in repairing and stubbing
its power line from Norrie to Ivan
hoe, discovered that the 10 poles
treated with creosote at the Norrie
treating plant in 1907 were as sound
as the day they were put in, while
many of the other poles in this line,
which was constructed in 1908 and
1909, were badly decayed and re
quired stubbing to- make them ser
viceable. The vital statistics are published
on the want ad page.'
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Insects Damage
Nebraska Crops
Grasshoppers Most Prominent
Pests During July and Early
Part of August.
During latter July and early Au
gust, grasshoppers were the most
prominent insect pests on the cereal
and forage crops of Nebraska. In
addition to the southeastern coun
ties mentioned in the last report,
grasshoppers were reported as se
riously injurious at places in Knox,
Custer and Saline counties.
Shortly after the middle of July
an outbreak of the chinch bug de
veloped in Knox county in north
eastern Nebraska. The bugs were
first noticed in the barley fields and
when that was harvested they mi
grated to the corn and did a con
siderable amount of damage in some
of the fields.
During the middle of July there
was an unusual abundance of a beetle
ularis in Kimball, Cheyenne, Deuel
and Morrill counties and as they
were found abundantly in the wheat
fields, their presence caused consid
erable comment. They fed, how
ever, only on certain weeds and in
a few instances on beets and did no
serious injury.
The striped blister-beetle contin
ued injury during latter July on al
falfa and potatoes, especially in
Thaver and Adams counties. In Da
kota county garden truck was in-:
jured by the gray blister-Deetie, ana
in southern Jefferson county pota
toes and beets were locally consid
erably injured by the banded black
blister-beetle. I
The greatest number of complaints
of injury by insect pests during the
month ending August 15 were in re
lation to attacks on strawberry beds,
blue grass lawns and growing
plants by white grubs. A Dodge
county nursery suffered serious in
jury to seedlings through these pests
and some reports of injury to grain
fields were received.
The , white-marked tussock moth
continued more than normally abun
dant on shade trees and the fall web
worm has been disfiguring many
shade trees over the eastern half
of Nebraska during the month. In
jury by the elm borer and the poplar
borer has been very frequently com
plained of during the month. The
scale insects most frequently report
ed have been the white elm seals
and the oyster shell scale.
Probablv as a result of the prev
alence of brood diseases among the
bees, more than the usual amount of
trouble has been experienced with
the wax moth this summer.
Union Pacific Road
To Give Scholarships
In Boy Club Contest
The Union Pacific Railroad com
pany has announced that it w-HI
award a scholarship in the Univer
sity of Nebraska to the highest
ranking club boy in each of 29 Ne
braska . counties this year and 39
counties next year. The scholarship
will be in the college of agriculture,
the school of agriculture or the win
ter short course, and will be worth
$75, plus transportation.
The counties in which the scholar
ships will be given this year are
Adams, Buffalo, Butler, Boone, Col
fax, Clay, Custer, Dawson, Dodge,
Douglas, Gage, Hall, Hamilton,
Howard, Keith, Kimball, Lancaster,
Lincoln, Merrick, Madison, Morrill,
Nance, Nuckolls, Platte, Polk, Saun
ders, Scotts Bluff, Thayer and Wash
ington, i
The prizes will be given this year
among members of all kinds of
clubs. Next year the field will be
limited to corn, wheat and potato
clubs. The winner in each county
will be chosen from the 10 highest
ranking boys, on the following basis:
Sevnty-five per cent on rank in club
work, 25 per cent on activities in
community affairs. The boys must
be between 16 and 21 years old. Each
boy entering the contest next year
must grow five acres of corn, 10
acres of wheat or one acre of po
tatoes. The scholarship is to be used
within a year, or if the boy is al
ready in school, he must use it the
following session.
Man Burned in Explosion
At Hot Springs, S. D., Dies
Hot Springs, S. D., Aug. 21.
(Special Telegram.) While at
work on the state highway near Cus
ter, a premature explosion of dyna
mite, caused by misunderstanding
of orders, resulted in the burning
I P T . at
of George Lemon so seriously that
he died at the Sisters hospital here.
John Sanford, stepfather of Mrs.
Charles Stewart, cashier of the
Stockmans bank, was so seriously
burned that recovery is doubtful.
South Side Brevities
Buy coal buy it now buy it from
South Omt Ice company. You will ret
good coal, good woluht, prompt and cour
teous treatment. Try u for Scranton
hard conl and all kinds of noft coal.
Phone Market 3. or Market 0016.
South, Omaha Ice company, 231 M street.
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Seward to Have
Frontier Days
Wild West Celebration of
Cheyenne To Be Duplicated
At Nebraska Town.
Seward, Neb., Aug. 21. (Special.)
With the exception of the sand a
person visiting this city August
30-31 and September 1-2 would
imagine himself in Cheyenne, Wyo.,
while the Frontier days were in
progress. All of the principals in
the celebration that has made the
Wyoming city a mecca for lovers of
the old west will be here at that
time.
The Seward Amusement company
has made arrangements to transport
100 cowboys and hundreds of head
of horses and cattle from Cheyenne
for the celebration. The live stock
will be furnished from the Irwin
Brothers ranch, which supplies the
Cheyenne event.
Fourteen world champions will be
included in the list of riders, ropers
and other specialists in the amuse
ments of the old days on western
ranches. Twenty-five Indians from
the Sioux reservation will partici
pate.
Plans made by the Seward or
ganization call for the biggest enter
tainment of its kind ever staged in
Nebraska. Thousands of dollars in
prizes will be offered in the con
tegtg 11 of the events staged at
Chevenne will be shown here, from
"bulldoging" steers to riding buck
ing broncos.
The, vital statistics are published
on the want ad page.
A Grand and
Glorious Feeling
After reading of the scores of holdups, and you
are on your way home late in the evening the
lights seem miles apart everything is dark-
you imagine someone is waiting for you in
every shadow and then you finally reach
home with your watch and valuables still intact.
Isn't it a grand and glorious feeling?
Some night, though, you may be the victim, and
then it will be "Life's Darkest Moment"
Why gamble with Old Lady Luck when at such
a small cost you can secure Permanent Peace
of Mind?
Holdup Insurance protects you always never
fails you, for your welfare is its only thought.
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"Pays the
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640 First National Bank Bldg.
GRAIN-
117E solicit your consignments of
all kinds of grain to the
Omaha. Chicago, Milwaukee, Kan
sat City and Sioux City markets.
We Offer You the Services of Our Offices Located al
Omaha, Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebraska
Hastings, Nebraska
Chicago, Illinois
Sioux City, Iowa
Holdrege, Nebraska
Get in touch with one of these branch
offices with your next grain shipment.
lhe Updike Grain Company
"The Reliable Consignment House"
Movement to Aid
Oklahoma Cattle
Raisers Started
Southern Banks Back of Plan
To Educate Farmer May
Ship Illinois Steers to
Sooner State.
ChloafO Tribatte-Oniah Be leaned Wire.
Chicago, Aug. 21. Eugene Arnett
of Oklahoma City arrived in Chicago
yesterday in the interest of a cam
naian to raise the standards of cat
tle raising in the southern states.
According to Mr. Arnett. the bank
of the south and the government are
back of a plan to take Illinois steers
south and to educate the farmers in
stock raising instead of purely crop
growing activities. t
The movement started in Okla
homa, where the banks become tired
of carrying small farmer loans when
the agriculturalists appeared to be
using the wrong taclics. Eighty
nine per cent of the banks of Okla
homa got together and decided to
make no more one-crop basis loans
to farmers unless the borrowers
would try methods advocated by the
government farm experts.
A survey showed that 40 per cent
of the southern farms were with
out a single head of stock and that
farmers were seeking to get a living
only from one crop. Alter me iarm
ers have been prepared to care for
cattle, agents ot an appraisal com
miiiM ar to co throuch the dairy
districts of Illinois and buy thou
sands of steers for shipment soutn.
Thrtr tti'fra acrordinff to Mr. Ar
nett, will serve the needs of the
southern farmers as well as high
priced bulls raised only for breeding
purposes. '
Two Beer Parties Broken
Up; 3S0 Quarts Are Seized j
Two beer parties were broken up
and more than 350 quart bottles of
home brew seized in raids Saturday
night staged by Sergeant Murphy
and Officers Buford, Tr'glia, Vinct
and Samuelson.
At the first place raided, the home
of Mrs. Bert Rock, 6304 North Thirty-seventh
street, 200 quarts were
found and Mrs. Rock was arrested
on a charge of being the keeper of
a disorderly house. In the second
raid at 6309 North Thirty-eighth
street, 150 quarts of beer were seiz
ed and Tom B. Sprecher arrested
as keeper. Several inmates were
booked from each house.
Bishop Lewis Near Death
In Sioux Citv Hosnital
Sioux City, la., Aug. 21.- Rev. W.
S. Lewis, Methodist bishop of China,
is near death at the Methodist hos
pital, where he has been confined for
three weeks suffering from infection
caused by carbuncles. Shortly after
noon he suffered a relapse.
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