The Coleridge Blade from Coleridge, Nebraska • 8

THE COLERIDGE LOOKING BACK 19 YEARS iXi EDDIE THE AD MAN To Paint jjj PAINT AT THE LOW THIS IS AN INTRODUC- ACQUAINT YOU GREAT VALUE Iffl OOft VEA BS OLE 8EV1MIE BATCH SOUGHT A WIFE Bur wrmour success -A CHOKT TJ AC AGO TBIFO ADVEnstna wrm ous of OUR Ut WAUT ADS HEAPED hr AS AptWeSTED FOB 9ISARN! IATV MOW GOOD OUR-VWAkTT ADS ARE' ie Six Studebaker has put thi and larger in the foi it has style comfoi nothing will so add to the protection of your farm buildings I as the judicious use of good paint Seminole Hi BARN PAINT iwy-J is preferred by many people increased by the addition of better paint for the moderate warranted minutes) Mb WOMAN WHO SERVED AS CIVIL WAR SOLDIER DIES A resident of Dakota county for 90 years a woman who disguised herself and served in the Civil war in the Union army for a month before bar lndentity was discovered a woman who never road on a railroad train or saw a vaudeville show a woman who had an aversion to public places and meetings a woman who had lived a-tone in her home In this city since the death of her husband 19 years ago a woman who gave her age as 84 years but believed by neighbors to be at least 10 years older passed to her reward in a Sioux City hospital on Wednesday afternoon of last week In the person of Mrs Satronia Hunt who dated her residence in Dakota county since 1868 At the outbreak of the Civil war Mrs Hunt and her first husband John Smith were farming near Council Bluffs la She decided to enlist as a man with her husband and they joined the northern forces from Pottawattamie county Iowa The disguise was successful for a month until the company captain discovered his soldier was a young woman Undaunted Mrs Smith went into nursing and was one of the first women to go onto the battle fields aiding wounded soldiers The husband died after a leg was shot off during a Civil war battle and his wife returned to Iowa With relatives she journeyed by ox cart into Nebraska settling near this city She was married to John Hunt also a Civil war veteran at Sioux Point 8 the present site of Elk Point Hunt was a corporal in the northern forces and came to Nebraska with ox teams to take up a homestead about three miles east of Jackson Later they traded this tract for land In South Dakota bat the treacherous Missouri river swallowed this The pioneers then returned to Nebraska at the time when South Sioux City known as Covington Mrs Hunt was active until two weeks ago when she became ill Until that time she had prepared her own meals and done all her household work She was known to many lor her extraordinary quilting work I Fifteen years ago she made a gown that she told her friends was to be used as her burial shroud Born In Boone county Missouri she obtained a rudim entry education and then moved to Iowa with her parents Mrs Hunt lived in the Osarks for several years before coming to Iowa An ox team waa used for traveling about and during the course of life she traveled many thousands of miles by ox etam South Sioux City Eagle Atlantic News-Telegraph A friend of the writer now living (Jm where but a man reared in Gass county who has been a farmer and a business man and has held public office advanced a i bought in conservation recently which is worthy of contemplation Speaking of the attempt on the part of politicians to make the farmers believe that the $220 price for wheat fixed as the minimum during the world war was in some way deteri-mental to them and that because Her-b rt Hoover was the head of the food administration it should be charged to by the farmers the man said I nave always been rather ashamed of my war record I did not have a son to give to the service of my country as my boys were not old enough at the time to go to war and I was too old I bought Liberty bonds which I held until a few years after fbe war and sold at an attractive profit I sold corn that I ruined on my farm for nearly $2 a bushel I got $220 for my wheat I sold my hogs at $2250 per hundred and I received a proportionate price for my cattle I made a lot of money by Just staying at home and attending to my own business while Just ns good and better men than I were facing the stench and murk of the trenches for a dollar a day When I bear someone complain now 10 years ufterwards that he did not get enough for wheat or because be had to eat bread made from coarse flour and had to go without sugar and wants to it out Hover because he happened to be the director of the i od administration at the time I know whether to laugh or get There is a sermon In that state- ment which it were well for every man ami every woman who thinks nn they have a grudge against those who 111! bandied war activities 10 years ago to contemplate The truth is that no In the United States who stayed to feed the men who this side during the war had any coming whatever Our Job over doing the fighting for us and for civ-ilisation To attempt now after a decade has passed to make political capital out of some of the silly and small peeves of Individuals because Tbe manufacture of a new insulat-they had to eat coarst bread and go jng board plaster base from wheat that the farm prices of that period straw on a 24-hour production hasis without sugar and to attempt to say announced by the Stewart Inso the highest the world has ever known Board Co of St Joseph Mo The were not high enough is peanut poll- name of their new product is Inso tics with a vengeance Just let that1 Board soik 0 For years farmers of the wheat- growing belt have burned their straw stacks after every harvest as being entirely useless but now science through Dr Sidney Wells of the It GUARANTEED BARN PRICE SHOWN TORY PRICE TO WITH ITS FOR a small expenditure value appearance and This extra-thick paint because its volume can be linseed oil There is no price we ask and it is fully We fully guarantee Barn Well Painted Barn Crellin Coleridge READY TO OPERATE WHEAT HARVEST SPECIAL CREEP FEEDING PROFITABLE FOR HARTMAN GALLON $165 the durability of Seminole Paint is a Sign of Hardware (1000 mil and the prestige of 76 years of quality manufacture Drive it! KNAAK BROS GARAGE Coleridge NebreJt STUDEBAKER The Greet Independent Nebr CEDAR COUNTY SCHOOL NOTES WHICH ARE OF INTEREST By creep feeding his calves and continuing them on full feed the winter and spring EL Hartman of Maxwell Nebraska made a net profit of almost $75 per calf on his 1027 calf crop The calves were allowed to run In a creep to a flfty-flfty mixture of corn and oats from August 15 until the close of the i mature season They were ed November 23 but they never it because they were taking full grain and miss the milk were fed alfalfa In a rack and corn in a self feeder until when oil meal was added to free choice The 19 heifers averaged per head and brought red and the 33 steers pounds and brought $18' on April 25 Their total to that date was $1445501 above the cost of feed a profit of $7497 per Mr Hartman la a stockman who thinks the most profitable way taj baby beef He receives his county extension the agricultural college at Lincoln Any inqulriM project should be addressed to the agri cultural college at Lincoln Mr Hartman is too busy to many letters himself IJfe Is something like continuous vaudeville--half the people are look In a round for 'This Way Oat" and other half for Way The way a young person uses hi spare moments reveals his character DR KNAAK VETERINARIAN Is Safe 49 AUTOMOBILE CAPITALIZATION United States Forest Products Lab-Last minute touches are being given oratories at Madison Wisconsin has to tbe exhibits In the coaches of the produced thi" new from what formerly was waste The straw Is balled and shipped into St Joseph in large quantities sometimes as much as 30000 tons be- Wbeat Harvest Special train which will be operated in eastern and central Nebraska August 13 to 25 Towns all The angry grocer ran swiftly around the counter and aeiaed his fair custom- Ier by the arm you know he blurted your doc has eaten a pound of my best fresh country butter! I saw him do It a second The customer relieved the grocer of her arm and regarded him coldly did not know It" she replied Idly 1 If you are quite sure It was your best batter that It Is quite fresh and that it really did come from the country I don't think there is much reason to suppose if will do him any harm DR SMITH DENTIST X-Ray Diagnosis Coleridge Nebraska OFFICE PHONE T9 RES- B-114 The General Motors company is incorporated for more than a billion dollars next comes the Ford plant worth f750000000 The Chrymler-Dodge consolidation represents if completed a capitalization of $245000000 and the merger of the Studebaker-Pierce Arrow automobile companies will make a capital pool of $190000000 NEBRASKA COUNT TAX LEVIES FIXED along the route are making ready to entertain the people who will visit the train Exhibits will feature control of smut in wheat seed bed preparation good pure seed and the marketing of wheat and also a coach of borne conveniences Agricultural college men and women will be with the train to take part in a brief program at each stop and to ex- The total amount of taxes to be raised in Nebraska this year is $6-419262 $5 7 54574 for the general -INSURANCE" HENRY UARTLNGTON DR A SIMON VETERINARIAN Office and Residence Phone 104 tog on hand at one time and by a patented process Is turned Into what the Armour Institute of Technology has proclaimed as the best insulating board on the market Tbe board has structural strength as well as insulating value and Is one-half inch thick The regular board is four feet wide and from eight to 18 inches high and 48 inches wide Tbe twelve feet long The plaster base Is factory at SL Joseph is working twenty-four hours a day turning out approximately 125000 sq ft of board each twenty-four hours Already export business has developed and some of the most prominent builders and jobbers in the United States have contracted for Inso Board If a business man expects to hold his job he must please his customers just as a congressman must satisfy his constituency If he hopes to be returned to office fund and $687688 for the capitol fund Last year the total was $11779299 accounted for by a special levy of 15 mills for wiping out an overdraft which plain the exhibits and talk to the vis-had accumulated during the pest 10 ltors as they go thru the train Stops years because of a state levy too low Qf from three to five hours in length to meet appropriations made by -11) be made In three towns each day legislature Following la a lint of valuation and total taxes of counties in northeastern Nebraska Counties Valuation Total Tax Antelope $35938417 74083 Tbe Iclal receipts of the State Apportionment lr high school districts for the school year 1927 and 28 $504626 addition tbes? schools receive 141 1-944 from taxes and from tuition from other school districts $3426815 The total receipts with the amount of rnouev au hand for next year is $18744732 For General Control these schools meat $12142 89 The expense if instruction are $10973738: for operating their plants $219755 i was spent for maintenance of the school plant $478432 with the minor expense of auxiliary agencies of fixed charges and debt service the total amount expended $18744782 School Nurse Cedar county waa given the opportunity of securing a school nurse of wide experience to rural work through the Nebraska Tuberculosis Association for two or three months for the school year 1928 and The county was to pay her onehurdred fifty dollars per month for this work The executive committee of tbe Cedar county school board organisation met to consider this matter They were very mnch in favor of securing the nurse It was decided however to let each school board -of each district express their desire as to whether or not they wished to secure this nurse Unless fifty per cent of the schools asked for the nurse Cedar county was not to avail itself of this offer Leas than fifty per cent of the directors answered this question The majority of these were not in favor of the nurse In checking the schools which reported their physical examinations made last fall we find the following school have made no report of such an 3 Aten Hartington Public School Holy Trinity 10 13 29n 37 Coleridge 42 St Francis 48 49 50 Magnet 83 91 94 Sacred Heart and 106 It is very gratifying to see that such a large number of schools employed physicians to make these examinations last year The following schools employed various doctors of the county to make tbe physical examination of their children Districts: 7 9 18 18 22 28 32 34 39 43 44 Randolph 46 51 52 53 55 96 67 74 75 75 77 80 86 87 93 99 Wynot 105 110 114 The total cost according to the annual report for these examinations is $32368 $27443 being paid by the rural districts This is an average cost of more than $1000 per school Pre-School Opening Day A meeting of all rural teachers will be held on Saturday September 1st to the court room County School Picnic Remember Tuesday August 28th is the date for the county school picnic to be held at Lake Lo-VaL Every one Is cordially Invited to attend this picnic Yankton broadcasting station will advertise this picnic on Saturday and Monday August 25th and 27th Listen to The same train will be open to the public at tbe Nebraska state fair probably located on the spur track south of the coliseum A harvest queen will be crowned at practically all the stops Some rural unmarried lady will be chosen by tht local people as their queen She will lead the visitors thru the train after ceremony Is performed LIVE HEARTS IN DEAD BODIES We are headquarters for i Fruits and Vegetables FACTS ABOUT NEBRASKA 33145 36688 83653 Ul(096 83115 111228 42181 68415 58700 -12516 91911 108149 71991 124097 65006 50222 82838 17809832 10179952 40908484 56137349 40347(875 43902224 20992001 33211163 28496578 6075780 44017182 52499965 84496830 90241608 31556402 24380053 40210479 Boyd Brown Burt Cedar Colfax Cuming Dakota Dixon Holt Kepa Paha Know Madison Pierce Platte Stanton Thurston Wayne Literary Digest A new proof that human body usually dies piecemeal one organ at a time instead of at any any single Instant of death has been uncovered by two German physicians Dr Martini and Dr SckelL says Dr Science (New York) We read: "To tbe bodies of eighteen persons lying at the point of death these ex pertinents attached the terminals of the Instrument called the electro-cardiograph a device which records the tiniest quivers of the muscles of tbe heart even those which are too faint to constitute an actual heartbeat watching with this electri heartbeat the heart actions of their eighteen doomed unfortunates Dr Martini and Dr Sckell found their hearts still alive many minutes after the individual showed every sign of being dead On the average the hearts of the eighteen subjects lived for nine and two-third minutes after their owners had died Individual muscles fibers of the hearts probably lived much longer still dying slowly and one by one as tbe stoppage of their blood supply gradually deprived them of the oxygen which all living cells of the human body must have to live This ability of the NEED STOCK TO CONSUME FEED Seventy years ago the question of locating the capital of Nebraska so disrupted the territorial legislature then tnsesslon at Omaha that a majority of both branches seceeded and held sessions at Florence Soon after conventions were held at both Nebraska City and Brown vllle to petition the federal government to attach all of the South Platte country to tbe territory of Kansas Nebraska has 78 certified public accountants 167 abstractors of titles 68 architects 489 newspapers 1609 lawyer 900 dentist 1790 physicians 519 printing shops 280 electrical supply dealers 585 barber shops 148 beauty parlors and 1125 banks and trust companies listed to a recent state directory The average June temperature for Nebraska during the 52 years that re-cords have been kept has been 09-3 degrees with the highest 752 (1911) Next week is canning week for Colorado and Arkansas peaches and also Colo pears Leave your order with us Seal Brand coffee is still the leading coffee used by more people than any other brand of coffee on the market There is a reason for this Its rich flavor and high quality and pleasing taste makes it a favorite with those who use it You too will use it if you try it and the lowest 63 this year The pre- cipltution was 463 inches which waa beats have ceased probably explains heart to live on for some minutes after Plenty of rain all over Nebraska has practically insured a big supply of feed for the coming winter The num ber of livestock on farms Is smaller than usual so the fanners are asking whether or not it would be advisable to buy high priced feeder cattle to use up the farm feeds If conditions run true to form fat cattle prices should remain steady for at least another year It takes several years to get In and out of the cattle business Stockmen and farmers have attempted for only two years to hold their heifers and build up their herds again Just how much breeding herds have been Increased Is an unanswered question Stockmen have tried to bold their heifers but prices have been so attractive that they have sold more of the heifers than they really Intended to sell Cattle from several foreign countries axe quarantined because of foot and mouth disease It this quarantine should be raised cheaper cattle from these countries would tend to lower the market In this country the occasional successes of physicians in reviving persons apparently dead by Injecting powerful stimulants like adrenalin directly into the heart Being still alive although inactive the heart sometimes can be induced to begin beating again and to take up its abandoned duty of keeping tbe blood in WEEDS USE NITROGEN AS WELL AS MOISTURE 22 per cent above tbe average of 379 inches Tbe support of Nebr aka's public school system for 1927 Including the state university and four normals and experimental stations cost about $42000000 About $35000000 was raised by direct taxation The remainder was from proceeds of permanent funds fines and fees Reports from twelve Nebraska coun-les picked at random but fairly representative of the state show that land mortgage Indebtedness decreased nearly nine per cent during 1927 Fewer municipal bond Issues than usual were made during the first six months of 1928 and the public debt of the subdivisions of the state were reduced by approximately three million dollars pf the 37396000 kilowatts of elec- INSIDE INFORMATION 1 i INFORMATION 8 Watch your posture white at various household tasks Keep your back straight and bend from the hips Do not slouch to a chair while sitting at work Sit well back in your chair If your tables rink tuba and other surfaces where you work a great di re not the right bright and cause you to stoop over see whether they could GROCERY Every fanner knows that weeds rap the moisture-out of a stubble fields but the thing that some do not realise is that the weeds also use up much of tbe available nitrogen A crop of grain plus a crop of weeds in tbe raipe year is hard on any land The supply of nitrogen is now the limiting factor of production cm many Nebraska farms Plowing under a Mg growth of weeds does return some humus to the soil but the weeds tie up the nitrogen so that It is not avail-aide until they decay Fields that are to go into wheat this fall may also be disked before they are plowed unless the plowing can be done in a burry Big team hitches and three to five bottom plows or power equipment and Mg plows now make it possible on many farms to get the fall plowing done in a few days The important point is to get the weeds turned under and the ground in shape to conserve all the moisture possible white it stores up a supply at available nitrogen for the ixt gnjs crop inijbot be raised It pays even to have cm rtiCE ti Nimi iunt trie May something less than ten per cent was generated by waterpower Tbe state used 9 per cent more electric energy than to the same month of the previous year as against a national Increase of eight per cent for May consumed in Nebraska Use tbe pressure canner for all non add vegetables Send for Bulletin 1471-F before beginning to do any canning Make both bloomers and dresses for little girls large enough to allow for wide tucks heme to be let when the material shrinks and the child grows A tnck to the bloomers on a level with the lower end of the plackets will hot show nor will a wide tnck to tbe underwaist of a two-piece dress Instead of sdtchlng these allowance tucks Just (mce stitch them every half Inch of their width with moderately long loose stitch Bach time a stitching Is ripped out one Inch Is added to tbe length plumbing fixtures raised when ary to rave fatin' Each costume should have at least one pocket If pockets on the dress spoil the design or If they cannot be used because of plaits or some 'ther feature make one in the bloom- ra A mint flavored gelatin Is appetizing u-ith cold lamb Sliced cucumbers may be platted in the bottom of the a A first Idea is to protect his wife bat it slowly dawns on him that he'll be doing wall if he protects himself.