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The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 11

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The Lincoln Stari
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Lincoln, Nebraska
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TTTE LiyCOLX SUXDAi' 2 TUJdiK. Nehsaskfl News Gibson and Charlie Johnson also drew big hands. Lloyd Hahn's 50 yard foot race ajialn.st Mabel Strickland on her pony, post- I poned last Thursday, was held this i afternoon. Ilahn had a far better i start and won by inches in 5 2-5 I seconds, The roundup will close Sunday afternoon. Neligh Child Is Expert Swimmer And High Diver CRETE NOTES MISSION Named Head of Reunion Group Congregationalists To Put On Campaign During the Fall.

(Special to The Star.) STANTON, Sept. 13 from the meeting of tho national council of Congregational churches to bo held at Washington, D. October 20 to 28, tho outstanding this fall in tho work of the Congregational churches throughout the various statcH will a tour of tho churches ttvy tcam.H,” e.acli state being by a composetj of a nii.sslonary, a homo ml.s.slunary ami two or more state leaders. Tlev. James A.

Hunter, head of tho Lu Ho stock farm of Jefferson Rov. Paul Leeds, Superintendent of the Plny-Woods Kinder, L.r., will tour Nebraska and uddre.ss the varlou.s Congregational groups, September 16 to October 18. All of tho churches of the Elkhorn valley association will meet at Avenuo church lu Norfolk, September 21, to hear these men and promote a fellowship. Other group rallie.s will he held as folloivs, the first place mentioned being the place where the group of churches will meet: David city, Llnw'ood and Ulysses, September 17; Genoa, Albion, Clarks, Columbus, Monroe and Stiver Creek. September 18; Whsncr, Beerner and West September 23; Scribner, Argo, Dodge, Glencoe, Ilowcll.s and Uehllng September 23; Neligh, Park Petersburg, West Valley and West September 4 Alnsw'orth Burton and Fine September llyannls, Antioch, Arthur, Ashby and Bingham, September Dunning, Brewster, Dry Valley, Haley purdum Seneca, and Thedford.

September 30; Fur- iiam, Bertrand. Curtis, Loomis, Stockdalo and Urhana, October Grant Brule, Madrid Og-iUnla Venango and Wallace. Grand Island, llavenna and Doniphan, October Vork ami Arbor- vllle, October 15; Sowiird, October 16 at Falls City Productive Of Many Thrills (Special to The Star.) FALLS CITY, Sept. Spills galore featured the third program of the Falls City roundup this afternoon. Hugh Strickland, ftirmer national cluxmplon was pinned under his horse which was thrown by steer hut he was able to continue with his other performances.

Mable Strickland, Ruth Roach, Nowata Slim, Chick Hannon, Slim Johnson Fair This Week TECU.MSEH, Sept. next Monday and continuing for five days the annual Johnson county fair will be held in Tecumseh. The officer-s announce that the fair i.s expected to be the best In the hl.story of the a.s.socla- tlon. There will he hor.se race.s on four days, fireworks and an abundance of amusements. Before iii.stalling brakes after they have been rclined form the hand to the tirum, and It will found that they ore then more easily adjusted.

Special to Tho St.ar.) NELIGH, Sept. the S-year-old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. F. M.

Curtis of this city la rapidly developing Into an auuatlc star of the first magultuds. She practically commenced her swimming and diving experience this season, but does stunts stump her elders. She is an expert swimmer and has a number of the swimming strokrv, but It Is as a diver that she particularly. There are several springboards at the deep water jii.st below tho old (lam and the little miss takes her pliinge.s from the one, fully fifteen feet from the water, the only ghi or woman who has the nerv to thl.s. Even most of the and men do not tackle It.

She only makes the high dive, but does It with a grace and accuracy of Judging distance that Is perfect. (Special to The Star.) CRETE', Sept. contracts have hen let for a new moving picture theater for Crete, to bo flnhshod In four months. Gvcr 200 tickets were sold for the state fair during tho wet and many aiio tv'cnt by auto. lians for a Saline county fair to be held In October are working out very nicely.

A good Interest is being shown In the to revive tho fair, as there has not been one held for twenty-tivo years. A.s Robert Warkow was crossing the dam hla foot slipped and he fell backward, striking his head a sharp piece of tin. It rciiuhcd ton stitche.s to 111 Mrs. Talley has gone to St Paul, to attend school marcelling. The Crete dub hold tlm first meeting of the season Friday afternoon at the home of Its president.

Mrs. C. W. Weckbach. It was In the form of a recopti.m to mernht rs, aevontv-six coming Into tho club that day as result of a i membership drive.

Two tt'ams made splendid canvass of the town, one pelting thlty-seven mem- hers and the other thl ty-nine. The prt'prum was ium I with tho i mmtt by a group ef Mr.s. Fred Bot'ki 1. Mrs. Port Johnstui no- rf.ulii I'm Glad to Meet by Mrs.

R. followcil. of various eonimittoes givt-n 1 tliat the outlook for tlie work seems most promising and a Interest seemed to be with every inembiT prest'ut. are now mt'mbi r.s in the club, which duubloii Itself during the TWO HORSES BURN. to The Ftar.l TECU.MSEH, Sept.

Inirn on the- lot of tHo wa.s slroytfl by unknown ori.gin sti rday. Two saiblle belonging to Sheriff E. Nelson, were lost, abo grain, etc. 'There was some Insur.inee. WILLIAM JENNINGS.

William J( nnings, 2049 Worthington avenue, who was elected president of the Iowa brigade reunion as.soelatlon at a meeting In Marshalltown, I.a. He Is torolurn Saturday or J.nnlngs, owner of tho Jennlng.s State h.ank at Davenport, has resided In Nelira.ska for forty years, the la.st four In Lincoln since he retired from active management of the hank. He Is i member of Farragut G. A. and a veteran of Company C.

Eleventh Iowa Infantry. Expurgation Of a Church Cook Book Is Insisted Upon Osceola Planning A Fall Festival And Home Coming (Special Tho Star.) OSCEOLA. fall festlviU has been voted by the community club of O.seeola to he held In this city for three Dates selected are October 1, 3 and 3. Numerous committees have been ami work will Immediately to get a program of events that will please the public. There will be everything usually connected with an affair of tho kind proposed, together with a home coming of former residents of the county.

The first program will he put on by the American day by the old settlers and the third day by tho county farm arg.tnlzatlona. Hpcakcra and good music will for e.irh afternoon evening. Men.hants wrlll join In making the event a popular one. Large Attendance At Harlan Big Annual Fair' (HpecUil to Tho Star.l ALMA, Sept- The Ian county fair, which hero TYIday, was ono of the most successful In the history of these ex- positions. tho day, found the buildings and sheds filled with a splendid display of ag- rlcultural stock and poultry, and the art hall very! tastefully arranged with fancy work and some very largo and magnltl- cent cut flowers, grown here.

After la program, consisting of rope throw'- Ing, singing by a ttlo and a dl.Hi»lay of fireworks, a pavement dance was held on Main street In Alma, which was enjoyed by between 3,000 and 6.000 people. The ('omim rcial club free hot doughnuts, waD'rs, cookh wa.s the day at tin fair, the attendance Ing larsror than ever All chllilren V. re free on that day. Sugar Beet Yield Now Believed To Be Above Normal (i.MAHA, Sept. Lcader.s of the Dougla.s Gounty W.

(k T. tonight asked the circle of tho First Methodist church to recall tho edition of the recently publl.shed cijok hook so that page 74 shouhl bo cut, Pago 74 is tin: ono witlch con; tains an English plum pudding calling for ono glass of brandy anti ono glass of rum as dlent.s. Mrs. F. G.

Othmer, an officer or W. T. took tho in I tho fight agaln.st tho offending page 74 i hellevo that wo shouhl uphold our she sahl. copy of that cotik book should hft recalled and that page cut Elizabeth Vienola. another W.

U. T. U. leadet sidetl In with Mrs Uthrner's statement. is certainly all wrong to have such a reelpo In a church cook she declared.

Meanwhile Mrs. Lee Ross Newkirk, wife of iirominent attorney, and authoress of the offending book, deftmded her work. an English Mrs. Newkirk, who came here from England six years explained. thought It he kept tho way It was In England, sinee they get the rum over here Fillmore County Fair Celebrates Golden Jubilee (Special The ritur.i (iENEVA, 12.

Fillmore i-oimty fair always folhnvh (he state fair ami will be held next WM'ok, Kept. 15-18. This year the will have at In celebration of the pohlen anniversary, The first day a building, erected at a $10.000 will he 1 when Adam' McMullen ill an ss. will ho In charge of tho order. Tho program for each day of the fair has been planned with refen-nce to m.sking fiftieth anniversary the banner year.

The racing schedule will he unusually tlvo exhibits are entered to fill all space uvall- ahlo. Free tIons, afternoon and Intiude a Terrace Garden levios Ktkut on the high vvlr- an.I itcrohallc an nu nt haselmll ami lior.s(*-ib«io pit -hlng and kite flying. hand from the training hool at Kearney will furnish e.u iv. Humbold Festival To Be Big Affair opeclul to The 12 The, sugar-making campaign will start i about October 1, ami Imll- utlons are a ss i heels are out to factories. Sugar company men and the growers thiit high are luiolc.

although ton will be eonaUb rably by th warm bright t.eforo digging bmtns. sugar company that a.r«;..--’ this year Is nbo.it i.ml, with high yiel.lH, qmrtitlty of h. ets will l.irge. If not r-cord- hreaklng, only hut this valley. to Hl MHOlJir.

12. port by i i.ur»« of th- yrlcul- ture. and poultry part i mc.itN of tin- fi and h- ar.l-.tn ilr, be n. xt week. Home ere i 111 the tlon.

The rmijltrv show will l.c wi.b b. thlr-l I In th- T'o on Tin i-li with tin cov tl.iii of tb- J. F.illi 1 t-. of tb lite and tin sn to li.it and fair, opcr, at a. m.

Vt o.lnesd iy cio on lYlday. Rain Puts Grounds In Condition For Kills Catarrh Germ Autumn Plowing ad to Kt N. iN. pt. 1 R.iin ovN Guiic i-all.

day Frbl.iy all fiel.G ougldy soaked. Farmers the iiind Is In exci lli'iit s.iap" for it seeding and a gro A eral'le acreage In the ounty la for pl.intlng full Ths rain to nearly one tm Wymore and roads todav ar. muddy and slippery. Rain Ml all tlie way to the Missouri river, aecoi ding to telephone ami railway and In W.iNhlngl -n and ill counties, fill ON tihmit fourths In-h Inch II In lioud Kiis. Very littb rain Ml of loster and Htraiig.

and west of Rrd Uloud and Edgar only a occurred. In Three Minutes I To II tter of hb.l ri iv i .1 inslivni'V i ti. niii Fr. ii. iitlst.

ni. cjili- li 1 lie I germ In i.iinut it- i Iv. ly hH.rmb tho lb hi id and are like ais m- In a nl-iht To (ii.ive Mild to Introitues I.at.'e» to a inlllb sufl. rers In (me I I (iff. to s.

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Ihiit I Ilf. it-irrl, R. SMITH. Lavcx Btdg. Kansas City, Mo.

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o. b. Toledo Extra'big doors -errni esn entrance and eoilt to both frcmt end rear Like aetttng In and out of a limou- alna. No Incoavanianca to anybody, no dtaromfort. Karh door haa four extra heavy tham ae rough ae yon Ukc.

theae doota ora boUt ta ataei tl Wider seats of any light car bufiti Flaw atnglo- piaco, undivided front tvat, Incbaa wide. If tai- deep. All the elhow-room you want. You know what that mteana to your driving comfort-nnd- fraadom. No mtira 100-mila fatlguaT Widmr bach I ma I Inrhaa wide.

IS inchea deep. You know what Buch ampia aeating capacity to the comfort and pleaanra of paaaaagara. bus aflect. No cTowdingl Big, wide ivindows than aquara ftmet of window tiM air and all tha broad, uninterrupted vtahin of a touring car with cloaed-car protection, cloaad-car anug- neaa. rioaad-car warmth and comfort wbaoaaar yots want iti Latest one-piece windshield aaparially valuable in nlght-drlvtng.

GIvaa rlaar, unutMtructed vision. No neck crmnint- Sitacrenaly back of the wheel and you can alwaya aaa where going. Mora aaally adjuatad yon havo to (uaa with It. Adda greatly to tha ctur'a ance. Kasler to cleun and to keep claM.

One at thoaa little rhinga that mean ao much. You naad this new-day ilght-car feature la thla dlnory cor-vnlua. you gmt Ut Here are the high-spots. Consider them. Check them, point for point with any car you know that sells anywhere near this price range.

Then ask what other light car can I hope for anything even approximating this phenomenal $595 full-size, 5-passenger Sedan' room and to spare for 5 regular people to ride in a smartly designed car, clean-cut, rakish, low, extraordinarily good-looking! body finished in polished lacquer, rich deep blue with glistening jet-black trimmings, as handsome a light automobile as anybody ever looked at. Women love it! A 27-horsepower engine Sturdy, fast, reliable, all the power you need to carry you 50 miles or 50,000. A noble hlll-cllmber. A quieter engine because it has fewer working parts. 20-to-25 miles to thci gallon of gas, often light on of letters from Overland owners report as high as 15,000 miles without a dollar spent for engine up-keep! Sliding gear transmission Three speed, selective, sliding-gear the lowest price ever available in a tight Sedan! Borg and Beck disc type the finest clutches made and used in many of the highest priced cars in this country; Auto-Lite starting, lighting and standard big-car equipment; a rear axle system the equal in size and weight to that used in cars carrying double the weight of this one; Axle shafts of Molybdenum steel, the toughest steel known.

In the entire three years in which Overland has used this axle system there is no case on record where an axle shaft has ever been broken! Chassis Strong, rigid frame with plenty of bracing; springs of Chrome Vanadium steel, the finest and strongest spring steel known to this new-day car every leaf in each spring is genuine Chrome Vanadium, exactly the same material you will find in the finest automobiles! Compare this $595 Overland masterpiece with any other light-car on market. We challenge any owner in America to point out wherein it can be duplicated for quality or for up-to-the- minute equipment, or for dollar-for- dollar value. Step in and see this car. Stand beside it, note the beauty of it. Examine it from stem to the completeness of it.

Ride in the comfort of it. Drive it tho ease of it, the power in it. Easy terms. Only a small amount down. 52 weeks or more for the balance.

Trade in your present car as part payment. Sedan Sfandard OVBRIAND LINCOLN OVERLAND COMPANY B-6664 LINCOLN, NEBR. WILLYS overland FINE 1600 STREET MOTOR CARS,.

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