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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-02-01
Married,

AT the M. F.. parsonage Satur-
day night, January q, 1906, Mr..
Harry Townley of Seneca, Nebr.,
and Miss Eva Townley Benia-
maine of Broken Bow, Rev. Allen
Chamberlain officiating.
The bride is the daughter of
Judge and Mrs. ]. S. Benjamine
She has grown up in our midst.
She is lady of culture and re-
tinement and enjoys the esteem
of large circle of friends. She
is a professional nurse, having
given much of her time for sever
al years past to that profession.
The groom has a cattle ranch
in the vicinity of Seneca, where
he enjoys the respect and conf
dence of his nejghbors and bust
ness associates. The wedding
was a quiet one and in fact sur
prise on Judge Benjamine and
vile as they were not appraised OF
the date until after the ceremony
was performed, although they
knew the wedding was pending
The contracting parties left or
the midnight train Saturday
night for Seneca where they will
make their home.
We join with the many friend:
IN extending congratulations.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-02-01
A Good Showing.

The latest figures compiled by
the State Bureau of Statistics
show the total combined products
of farm and factory in Nebraska
during 1905 to have been worth
SSH, 43l, 476.42 as compared with
S501, $50, 190.63 for 1904, which
indicates ten million dollar in
crease each year. The largest
individual item in this compila-
ton is manufactured products at
SIT, l55, 953. Live stock is valu-
ed at 1922, l12, 0S4; corn, $S7, 49,
297; winter wheat, $25, 64l, 223;
spring wheat, 5000, 400; oats,
$40, o38, 219; barley, s., 1872, ZAP;
rye, 81, 4s4, 707. The dairy pro-
ducts totaled in value Sill, 269,-
9S4 and poulty products $40,
5l2. The poultry figures are
fiattering to those engaged in
that industry, They do not, OF
course, include values of blooded
and fancy poultry, Other items
making up the tabulation are
alfalfa, sugar beets, hay, pota-
toes and "other soil crops"
These interesting facts are tc
be found in quarterly bulletin
No. Z, issued by the Bureau.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-02-01
PRIZES FOR CORN EXH1RIr.

Prizes of $500, $500 and $500
will be given to the boys or girls
under eighteen years of age who
bring in the best ten ears of corn
to the Institute. Prizes of $500,
$500 and $500 will also be Civ
EN- to the men or women over
eighteen years of age, who bring
in the best ten ears of corn to the
Institute. All contestants must
be in actual attendance, Prizes
of $500, $500 and $500 will be
given to the parties selecting the
best ten ears of corn out of forty
ears which will be on exhibition
at this Institute. This contest
is open to everybody.
The prizes for corn exhibit and
corn Judging will be based upon
the following;
Cylindrical type of ear.
Wedge shaped kernel.
Well filled but and tip.
Soundness.
Uniformity, and
Yielding quality.
We are also pleased to an
nounce that F. W. Hayes of this
city will give to the boy under
10 years of age writing the best
essay on why a boy should re-
main on the Farm" his pick OF
any pair of shoes in his store.
Also the same premium to the
girl under 10 years of age for
best essay on same subject.
The Institute management will
supplement this last affair by Mr..
Hayes by giving $500 each for
End best essay as above. Essays
to be written by boys and girls
now resident on the farm and
ranch. If away from home at.
tending school does not bar them
from competition.
| We also desire to give the boys
and girls in town a chance tc
stand up for the town and city
The same prizes will be offered
as Tor above essays on the sub
ject: why boy should go tc
the town and city," and why i
girl should go to the town and
city" In this instance the In.
stitute will pay for the shoes sell
ected of Mr.. Hayes.
J. d. REAM, President.
WILLIS CALDWELL, Secretary.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-02-01
Surprise Party,

On last Saturday evening, Jam
uary Goth, pleasant surprise
party was given at the home of
Mr.. w. w. Bishops five miles
northeast of Broken Bow. Games
were played and the best of mus
ic was furnished. At IL O'Clock
a lunch was served. There were
quite number invited that we're
unable to be there on account of
sickness. There we're "a present
being enough to have a good
time, all returning home soon
after midnight.
One who was there.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-02-01
WILLIS CALDoELL. Secretary.

Mr.. o. Hull, of Alma, Neb., Nebraska
Farmers Institute Lecturer, was born in
Pennsylvania and moved to Iowa with
his parent at an early age. He was edu-
Gated in the public schools of that state
and later took thee years course in a
Normal school. After finishing this
course he taught school in his own state
for seven years, aud then resigned to
take up the profession that had been per
sistently calling to him to enter its ranks.
Mr.. Hull became farmer as well as a
student and instructor.
In 1876 Mr.. Hull settled III Lancanter
county, Nebraska, where in 10 years he
accumulated a farm of 24o acres. He
later moved to Harlan county where he
has farm of nearly twice the size of the
former one. Since moving to Western
Nebraska Mr.. Hull has made a special
study of methods for conserving soil
moisture aud has come to have much
tath in the possibilities of farming with
profit during even the dryest seasons in
Western Nebraska.
Mr.. Hull has been especially successful
in three lines of farming: Hog raising
growing alfalfa and proper tillage of the
soil. He was able to grow alfalfa sue
cessfully where others were not, because
he understood the secrets of the soil and
was able to till it as to secure the proper
seed bed. His success in hog raising
was largely the result of the pasture at
forded by his alfalfa fields. 1t is because
of his unusual success in these lines and
his ability to tell others how he accom-
plished this work that he was invited tc
place on the farmers Institute force
His ability was recognized in 1894 anG
1896 when his neighbors sent him tc
represent them in the Nebraska Legisla
ture. He has been on the Institute force
three seasons and has given excellen
satisfaction. Mr.. Hull is one of the me1
who has done the things of which h'
speaks. His subjects are:
Economic Pork Production.
Alfalfa Culture.
Soil Tillage.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-02-01
Thursday, February Il 1906.
Norris Browns Candidacy for United
States Senate.

Attorney General Browns cam
didacy for United States Senator
seems to have struck a popular
chord, especially with the coun-
try newspapers. More than six
ty newspapers Of the state com
mented favorably upon his candi-
dacy last week. Another favor
able indication that crops ont in
connection with the discussion OF
Mr.. Browns candidacy is the as
ISOLATION with his name for Sen
ator the name of Peter Morton
sen for Governor. With such
men as standard bearers on the
republican ticket the opposition
would be without issue.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-02-01
Disirict Court Notes.

dict Tor plaintiil Tor SlS.
The case of Bradley Co. vs..
Martha Power lor the poss, ~
sion of horse Trial had, ver-
dict Tor plaintiff and damages as
sessed against defendant for de-
tention of the horse.
Guardian of Myrtle Gates.
Deed ordered. Matter of invest
ment of funds taken under adj
visement.
Andrews VS.. Barney Kolbo ct
al. Default of defendants except
William and Ethleen Shannon.
Decree granted.
Saraha A. Bryant VS.. c. Il.
Orr. BY agreement J. F. Hutch
inson's name was substituted for
Orr and the judgement cost
which now appears as to Orr
and made to appear against
Hutchinson.
Jens Mortesen VS.. n. Z. Tarle-
ton ct al. This case was one for
which the plaintiff sued num-
Der of his neighbors, including
his son.in-law for $4,000 dam
ages. The trouble grew out OF
a lynching case. 1t appears that
last summer the neighbors de-
cided that Mortesen should be
chastised for mistreatment of
his wife. One night number
gathered at his place of resi-
dence EQUIPPED with rope and
horse whips and administered to
him a punishment such as they
deemed he deserved. The men
we're arrested at the time and
fined for the fracture of the law.
Not feeling sufficiently avenged
Mr.. Mortesen brought suit
against them for damages. The
case was tried by jury, Attor-
neys Sullivan and Johnson APP
peared for the plaintiff and Judge
Wall and ]. h. Dean for the de-
PENDANTS. The jury, after being
out forty eight hours failed to
reach verdict and was dis
charged. We understand that
eleven of the twelve were in fav-
or of allowing damages ranging
from $500 to $500. But one was
evidently of the opinion that a
husband who mistreats his wife
as was alledged in this case was
not entitled to any damages, al
though that was not allowed as
evidence in the case.
The case of h. A. Holeman VS..
VIM. Hickenbottom was a case
in which the plaintiff sued for
the value of colt that died from
being cut in a wire fence, alleg-
ing that Hickenbottom's mules
had caused. Verdict for plain
tiff for $24. II and costs.
The case of K. Z. Brega VS..
Benson & Myers was decided in
favor of plaintiff tor $37. so.
Friedrich Bently vs.Geo. Kaelir
ct al, compromised by Kaelir
paying $62.50.
The case of Woods VS.. Talbot
I was dismissed on compromise al
cost of plaintiff.
State VS.. ], G. Mote, dismissed
Il ]. C. Francis & Gwinn VS.
Claud E. Bates, continued by
agreement.
Clara Croft VS.. Henry Croft
decree as prayed.
Henry Ward Moore VS.. Viii
I liam Fl. Moore, partition o
premises granted.
State VS.. Sanderson. Trial b,
jury. Verdict, not guilty.
: Case of Amsberry VS.. Broker
e Bow Business College, receive
: given order to dispose or leas
property.
Road case of Overseer VS.. Pa
y Riley. Jury waved. Trial had
d Matter taken under advisemen
= by court.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-02-01
Anent the Farmers In.titute.

The business men of Broken
Bow got together Monday Even
ing at the Court house with G..
w. Apple as Chairman and APP.
pointed a committee composed of
L. H. Jewett, Emerson Purcell
and A. H. Vanlandingham to So
licit funds for the expense of the
Farmers Institute to be held in
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-02-01

The monthly report of state
treasurer Mortensen shows that
he has cancelled warrants to the
amount of $5Ol, $50 for the month
OF January and that warrants
amounting to $500 600 were
bought. The receipts for the
month were $3.50, 446.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-02-01

The Farmers Institute for the
winter will be held at Broken
Bow, Wed. II hurs., Feb. 14-15.
1t is time that the people began
preparation for making this meet
ing great success. Interest and
attendance will be amply repaid
by the value to be gained. The
people should make of the lnsti-
tute large social gathering of
agricultural people for the dis
cussion of subjects that are of
value to them, and for the pro-
motion of all their interests. 1t
should become permanent fea-
ture of the educational side of
the community. The value of
the meetings will depend on the
interest Of the people of this COM
munity. They can make of i,
what they will, a success or a
failure. The state management
may perform its part we'll, ant
the speakers may give valuable
addresses, but unless the people
attend the meetings all the worl
will have been done in vain
You are paying taxes to supper
this work, You should come I,
the meetings and get the yalu
OF your money back. The tim
OF such men as come here to ad
dress the people is valuable
There must be a full house a
every meeting if the communit
as to receive the value it shoul
from the meetings. The prog
ressive farmers will attend tn
Institute. No time need be spen
IN telling them to come out. Blu
the farmers who do not usual
leave the farm should be stirre
up. The women and young pee
pie should be brought out. Ever
Institute has something of valu
Tor them, as we'll as for the. es
perienced farmer. The subject
that will be discussed are of praC
tical interest to every farmer
The men who will speak are prac
tical and successful farmers VIII
F. are recognized as leaders in thei
lines OF work. Everybody Shout
make p ans for attending ever
session of the Institute.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-02-01
FARMELs' INSTITUTE PROGRAM.
Wednesday and Thursday, February
18th and 18th. 1906.

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
|, 90 Economic Pork Production. ...
.......Mr %. Hull, Alma, Neb.
Profitable Dairying, ..........,
Ex-Gov. w. a. Poynter, Lincoln.
WEDNESDAY ENENING.
100 Growing Alfalfa and Bronze Grass,
................... Mr. Hull
Essentials of Successful Farming
in Nebraska .... Mr.. Poyuter.
THURSDAY MORNING.
Io:oo-The Founder Type Of Beef Steer,
.....M Mr.. w. ID. Mckee, Lincoln
Trees that Grow in Western Ne
braska. Mr.. c. A. Scott, Halsey
TnURDAY AFTERNOON.
I:3e-Raising Poultry 49,. MIR. Mckee
Windbreaks and Shelter Belts.
........ ........ Mr.. Scott
WILLIS CALDOELL. Secretary.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-02-01

Friedrich the eight is the title
assumed by the new king of Den
mark, who succeeded to his faith
er's throue on the 3Oth. The
late King Christian was in his
seth year and was closely related
to most of the monarchs of
Europe.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-02-01

"The Treason of the Senate"
will be set forth in the future
numbers of the Cosmopolitan
Magazine, beginning with the
case of Depew in the March num-
Der by David Graham Phillips.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-02-01

quality and price-you will find
us not lust about right" but ex-
actly night
We have here the kind of
LU M b f X
that the builder, the carpenter
and the ordinary man wants, and
the prices will move it out of the
yard quickly-not keep it here.
On big lots we are prepared to
submit very attractive figures.
If you have job on hand get
prices.
DierkS Lumber and Coal Co.
Free press., 1906-11-17

of dealing with bad children, having a
theory that he felt might be proved prac-
teal in Surgeons case, inquired in detail
into the boys history. After much patience
it came out that the boy had once fallen
from hay loft while playing, and had
struck on his head.
That was enough to satisfy Mr.
Marsh. To the parents, beside them
selves with worry over their boys ap-
parent innate criminal tendencies, Mr..
Marsh explained that it was his belief
that much of the downright badness of
children is due solely to physical defects
operating adversely on the brain. Re-
move these defects, he went on, give the
bad children normal machines, take away
the abnormalities that irritate them into
so-called natural badness, and their be-
havior will become normal with their
bodies. "As for your boy" he said, in
substance, Il firmly believe that the fall
from the hay loft has made him the
terror he is by causing the skull in some
place to press unduly on the brain,
thereby keeping it from acting normally
Let me have him removed to the city
for examination by the best surgeons
procurable."
The consent of the parents was gained,
and Spurgeon was introduced to clinic
at one of Philadelphia's leading hospitals
by DR.. Ernest Laplace Then it was
discovered that at one point the skull
was seemingly slightly depressed. To
make sure beyond peradventure of a
| doubt, the little patients head was
shaved, careful measurements were
taken with delicate instruments. The
depression was there, but slight, so
slight, in fact, as to escape any except
scientific examination.
AT the point of depression DR.. Laplace
trsphined the skull, thus removing the
pressure on the brain. After two months
spent in the hospital Spurgeon was sent
home, with the wound in his head
healed That was more than FIVE months
ago, and the reports from his parents
in that time show that he is no longer
terror" Stunned as formerly by old
and young, but a very lcvable and nor
NAL youngster in every respect, the play
mate of the young OF his neighborhood
and the pet of the old folks. All Naza-
reth backs up the statements of the par
ents and marvels as much as they at
the transformation of Spurgeon from an
inveterate little criminal into a town
model"
Free press., 1906-11-17

treatment. Take the case If Sturgeon
Welty. Until Mr. Marsh learned OF his
fall from the hay lott there was no clew
as to why he was so atrociously bad.
The various examinations are con-
Quoted along lines laid down by DR.. S.
Weir Mitchell, the country's most IA
nous nerve specialist; DIR. Francis x.
Dercum, who ranks close to Dr. Mitchell,
and nine other well known specialists. The
blanks used in the various examinations
were prepared largely by DR.. Mitchell
himself; this IS especially true of the
blanks used in the mental examination,
dealing, as it does, with the nervous con-
dition of the subject
A fraction less than thirty per cent of
the children examined have been found
to be normal, and of the more than sew
enty per cent discovered to be suffering
from one or more physical ailments the
Free press., 1906-11-17

"He was an involuntary criminal"
says Mr.. Marsh; ''the pressure on his
brain made him SO. Now that has been
removed, his brain acts normally, and
he is good, because he has all the good
tendencies of the physically normal child,
there being no ailment present to warp
these innate tendencies"
Every child that now comes under the
care of Mr.. Marsh's society is first sub
jected to searching examination in or
der that its physical condition in every
part of the body may be ascertained.
This examination is made by two physi-
clans connected with the city's Board of
Health. After it has been completed the
child passes into the hands of DR.. Al
fred Gordon, an expert IN nervous dis
eases, for the mental examination; this
is as thorough as the physical In addi-
ton to these examinations every effort
is made to become familiar with the
child's family history as far back as its
grandparents on both sides. This is not
always easy to learn. Some parents re-
fuse to give the slightest bit of informa-
ton Others are too ignorant to make
intelligent answer to the questions asked
Still others have deserted their offspring
and cannot be located. A history of this
sort frequently helps the examining ply
sicians and surgeons to arrive at the
proper decision regarding the child's
Free press., 1906-11-17

vast majority have been bad, or, as the
sociologists put it, 'of the immoral or
the criminal type" About FIVE per cent
were suffering from adenoid growth.
can adenoid is a fungoid growth, gen
orally accompanied by hypertrophied
tonsil, forming at the back of the nose
and forcing the child to breathe through
its mouth. By reflex action, they have
an irritating effect on the brain" These
are the words of Dr. A C. Butcher, one
of the Board of Hea1th's surgeons work
ing with the cruelty society. To remove
an adenoid growth is matter of simple
surgery, and it is matter of record that
every child so operated on by the society
has changed for the better. physically.
mentally and morally in surprisingly
short time
More often than otherwise the physi-
cal defect to be removed by the knife
Free press., 1906-11-17

Did you ever have your father say
to- you, when you had been more pestl-
ferrous than wicked, Young man, if you
don't behave better I'll have to take you
t9 the doctor and get him to cut the
badness-out of you?"
OF course, he was just joking; the
broad wink you caught him making at
your mother told you that; and you just
looked boldly up into his face and as
boldly laughed; and presently-it was
a mighty good joke-the stern look on
his face melted and his gruff chuckle
was joined with your scofing merriment
and mothers gentle smile.
And now as you look back on this Oke
of threat sprung on you, heaven knows
how many times, and always ending in
fun for all, and for yourself most of all,
won't you be just, bit sorry to learn
that it is joke no. longer, that at last
they are really cutting the bad' out of
boys and girls, veritably Transforming
them from little terrors into models of
the Sunday-school type.
1t is in Philadelphia that they are do
ing this; not in isolated cases, but as
Systematically and as scientifically as a
druggist puts up the prescriptions
brought into him.
The Pennsylvania Society to Protect
Children from Cruelty was the pioneer
in the movement to make the old joke
no longer a joke, but grim reality.
Now, working with the society are the
Quaker City's Board of Health, its
Board of Education, its Department OF
Public Charities and Correction, the
Judges of its Juvenile Court, and its
leading surgeons and medical specialists.
With all these forces arrayed against
them, the chronically bad boys and girls
of William PENIS town are not likely
to remain very long unregenerate-
granted, of course, that their parents
will be only too glad to let the badness
be cut out of their trouble-giving off
spring.
The wonders that have been worked
in the short time that the new method
of tanning terrors" has been in opera
ton, are, to use haclneyed phrase
well-nigh unbelievable
Take the case of Spurgeon Welty as
representative.
Spnrgeon lives with his parents al
Nazareth, Pa, small town short dis
tance removed from Philadelphia Al
the time he came under the notice oi
the cruelty society he was universally
recognized as the baddest boy in his necl
o. the woods. He was so bad that he
gloried in his badness; and when bo,
does that he is about as bad as made.
Benjamin c. Marsh, secretary of the
cruelty society, and the man who sys
tematically inaugurated this new method
Free press., 1906-11-17

ever been irritated almost beyond hu-
man endurance by a bothersome eye?
Then you can well understand the full
significance of these words of Dr.
Butcher:
1T is an everyday occurrence with us
to have children who manifest great
mental dullness made normally bright
by the correction of simple refractive
error in the eyes. Sometimes I have
known child to become normal and
apparently lose its vicious tendencies
two days after it has commenced wear
ing glasses. We have many extraordi-
nary cases of eye trouble. They are not
dangerous in themselves, but in the nerv-
Gus and mental effect on the patient; it
IS difficult to emphasize their importance
too much"
Sometimes defect is to be remedied
by prescribed diet; again, certain sorts
of work will likely eradicate it; or, if
it is incurable, the purpose is to prevent
its development to the point where the
child will become criminal or fit sub
ject for an insane asylum. 1t is abso-
lutely impossible, of course, for human
surgery to perform operations on the
brain itself for overcoming such defect
as that of cogenital weakmindedness.
This is one of the defects that, if looked
after in time, can be prevented from de-
veloping dangerously by favorable occu-
patton and environment
So far, in Philadelphia, the largest
number of transformations have been
brought about by cutting out the bad
ness" Eyes have been made normal by
slip of the knife; tfroats, noses and
ears by the removal of adenoid growth !;
and other parts of the body made per-
feet by eradicating ailments peculiar to
them. The oculist has played almost as
leading a part as the surgeon; never
1
Free press., 1906-11-17

ito be cut out" as boy would SAYS
of very minor character in itself ;-yet
it produces such degree of nervous
ness, and hence mental irritability, as to
make the little sufferer wholly irrespon-
sible-an involuntary member of the i'm
moral or the criminal type. Improve
ment In patients conduct almost in
variably sets in within a few days fol
lowing the giving of the long needed
surgical attention.
Some ailments that tend to make a
child bad are overcome altogether with
out the use of the knife. Have yor
Free press., 1906-11-17

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