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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17

his friends will recognize. His photo
graphs have done him the doubtful
service of giving him proud, rather
naughty, air, as of one who marshals
hosts of facts and figures and who is
always bent on hard achievement. 1t
is the familiar trick of the camera to
pick out in the self-conscious moment
that are at the root of character rather
than those that are familiar to every
body.
The Habit OF Victory.
'Take all great men of business
said banker, H. ii. loved affairs
better than anything else. 1t was not
the struggle for the sake of the fight,
but for the end in view. AS soon as
he won he passed on without a halt
to try another tilt, and he had what
is important, the grit for long
clinch, and what, believe me, is most
important, the habit OF victory"
'Men like the heads of the Stand
ard Oh company are no accidents,
said sharp observer They were
tried out in hundred ways before
they came to control. 1t was the many
sidedness of II. II. Rogers that made
his uprise a necessity in that remark
able group headed by John d. Rookie
Teller. don't know any Of the quail
ties they possess that is not common
in the business world Of America
They are no better and no worse thar
the thousands of men engaged in tn,
conduct Of the higher business Of thu
country, but each one has had SOM
quality notably in excess of the aver
age. Their combination has been II
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17
Expenditures of McBrien.

The expenditures of State Superin-
tendent McBrien have begun to at
tract attention The last legislature
appropriated $4,000 for the support
of junior normal schools, eight in
number. Last year there were five.
and vouchers amounting to S10,061.21
have been filed on the appropriation
of $4,000 for the support of junior
normal schools and less than $4,000
will be available for next year. Other
outstanding claims may yet be filed
with the secretary of state which may
be necessary to cut down the number
of instructors and the length of the
term. The last legislature appropriat-
ed all it was asked to give for junior
normals, but Mr.. McBrien says it was
small appropriation.
The Legislature last winter, appro-
priated $4,000 for the expenses of
the office of state superintendent and
up to this time S6,006,46 Of that
amount has been expended. The state
superintendent had $4,000 two years
ago for Office expenses. Mr.. McBrien
explains that the greatest expense is
the cost of the examination commit
tee, a committee to issue certificates
to teachers, and that this will be less
in the future. He says there will be
no deficiency in either his Office eX-
penses or the junior normal fund.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17
The State Capital
Matters OF General Interest
-- FROM =
Nebrlska's Seat of Government
Complaint Must be Filed.

The state railway commission will
start off on the right foot In the re-
duction of grain rates when a COM
plant is filed by shipper which will
be soon, it is predicted. Powell &
Nilsson of Marion have agreed to file
the complaint. Under the Aldrich bill
no rates established by 1t can be
changed without the filing of a COM
plant by shipper. The Aldrich bill
reduced the rate on carload shipments
of grain Is per cent.
The commission overlooked this i'm
portant provision of the law about
complaint and started out to reduce
grain rates on their own motion under
their own commission law. The rail-
road attorneys permitted the commits
sion to proceed to considerable length
under the delusion that it was reduc-
ing grain rates, and then secured a
restraining order to prevent the pro-
mitigation of the rates. Senator Aid
rich of David City, who was secured
as counsel for the commission during
the grain hearings, tod the commits
sion and the railroad attorneys plain
ly that the commission had started off
OH the wrong foot He told them
that complaint must be filed be-
fore any changes could be made in
the rates.
The restraining order secured by
the railroads was dissolved and a tenn
porary injunction was denied. Since
then the commission has been await
ing a complaint from a grain dealer
and the Marion complaint is the first
to be received. This letter was as fol
lows:
81 see by the paper that the ship
pers have to make a complaint.
will make this complaint, and if it
has to be made personally, will have
Mr.. Powell take this up at once.
MARTIN NILSSON,
Marion, Neb."
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17

resstible because it's action has been
continuous. It's steady business pres
sure, it's suave method, its CONNER
cial reliability have been due, | have
no doubt, to John d. Rockefeller, but
have no doubt, either. that its ire
mendops outreach and conQuering
courage have been greatly due TO the
imaginative side of the temperament
of Henry II. Rogers, He has Inherited
the pioneer spirit"
His Domestic Life.
A man always happy in his domes-
tic relations and devoted TO his fam
fly, Mr.. Rogers has been accommodating
the patliarchal with the regularity Of
his increase in other wealth. He has
been twice married, and his son,
Henry H. Rogers, Jr., and his three
surviving daughters, Mrs. Urban H..
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17
TO CROSS ATLANTIC IN DAY.
inventor of New Gliding Boat is Elk
tremeIy Optimistic.

within a few years." says Will
Magazine, 1.-The crossing of the At
lantic, with it's 5000 miles of stormy
sea, will be a mere pleasure excur-
sion of 80 hours in length. The mar
velous boat, invented by Peter Cooper
Hewitt, which is supported by planes
which glide or slim through the
water, is expected to cut down the
length of the trip to Europe to a day
and a quarter, at the same time doing
away with most of the danger Of an
ocean voyage"
MY first model" Mr. Hewitt told
the Technical World, was entirely
supported by the planes at 16 miles
an hour; the flotation hull being en-
tirely out of the water at that speed.
found, too, that the area of the
planes should decrease with the speed
for economy and safety. So far,
,, peed has only been limited by the
PROPELLER, but the craft will gradually
improve with increased size, and the
ner of the future will be practically
| Independent of weather, and have NO
notion from the waves"
Mr.. Hewitt is known for the in
entiou of the famous light which
bears his name and of many devices
sed on automobiles. His reputation
S that of a conservative and careful
rs well as brilliant observer. His
new gliding boat has been seen anG
approved by many leading scientists
A larger model for which a speed O
20 miles an hour is confidently pre-
dicted, is now in process of construc
ton.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17
Report of Prison Associations.

At the recent quarterly meeting Of
the board of directors of the Nebraska
Prison association the citizens of Lin
COIN and Omaha were congratulated
for the generous responses they had
made in answer to the requests for
funds with which to keep up the work
of the association. The need for more
workers in the smaller towns was en-
phasized and subcommittee will be
organized wit hsome one from the
board of directors will be sent to sew
eral of the larger towns to work up
interest
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17

so that draughts from che pierian
spring might supplement satisfaction
of the ordinary thirst of the villagers.
Commissioner of Highways.
He built grammar school and a
Unitarian church, with parish house
and parsonage altogether one of the
most complete and handsome edifices
in Massachusetts,. He became, at uni
versal request, commissioner of high
ways, and thereafter never were
streets so looked after. He turned
low land into park, beautified the
highways and byways, furnished a
stone approach to the bridge over the
Acushnet river and, lest the traveller
might think i'll of Fairhaven's hostel
ries, erected the handsome Tabitha
lnn-name suggestive of New Eng
land neatness and qualntness.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17

be bright and brainy both. or win
ter evening when he lives in town he
may spend a few hours at one of his
clubs-the Metropolitan, say. There
he would be apt to gather a group of
bright people and smoke single
cigar while good things went around.
l heard him once tell of meeting
whaling captain whom he had known
as lad 40 years before. He took his
old comrade about the town and the
countryside, Identifying old land
marks together. The captain had
been away six years from home and
was to sail on a new voyage the next
day. I'm going aboard now, Hen
he remarked. And won't you go
home first and tell your wife good
by?" / asked. "Blazes, no." replied
the whaler, I'm only to be gone two
years" That seemed, he said, the
most extraordinary utterance he had
ever heard. He saw the humor of it.,
but to a home-lover it seemed sacri-
lege.
When the new high schoo o.
about to be opened ! spent an a.
noon with him, and our talk turned
lutte naturally on education. What
he said then is about as good a key
TO the man and his opinions as any
thing / can think of, and this is the
drift Of it:
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17
Rurllnoton's Receipts.

Ticket sales on the Burlington rail-
road in Nebraska for the month OF
July produced a much greater revenue
ON state than on interstate business
The report filed by the Burlington with
the railway commission places the
state passenger earnings for that
month at 1902 ,S6O72 and the interstate
at 1927, 353O6. At the same rate for
each month in the year, the Burlington
would take in more than $2,SOOOOO
on it's Nebraska passenger traffic alone
in the course of year, to say nothing
of the freight earnings.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17
To Enforce Child Labor Law.

No further immunity from prose-
cution under the child labor law
should be granted the packers and
other large manufacturers in Omaha
South Omaha and Lincoln, as Labor
Commissioner j. ]. Ryder views the
situation. While at Omaha Ryder
learned that Rev. Mr.. Wise and Mrs
Draper Smith, members Of the state
board of child labor inspection, had
agreed not to bring any proceedings
against the packing houses without no,
tice beforehand
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17
Union Pacific Denies Wrong.

The Union Pacific railroad has de
MED that its rates are unreasonable
and unjust on Wyoming coal shipped
to Nebraska points. A copy of the
answer filed with the interstate com
merce commission has been filed with
the state railroad commission.
The commission made complaint
that the charges for shipments from
Rock Springs and Hanna, Wyo., be-
ing blanket rates of $3.50 from Rock
Springs and $3.50 from Hanna, we're
exorbitant, excessive and in VIOLA
ton of the interstate commerce acts.
This is specifically denied and further
the road says the distances mentioned
in the complaint of the commission
are incorrect. The complaint men,
lions the distance from Rock Springs
to the Kansas state line as 594 miles,
when the road says it is Gil. The
actual distance from Rock Springs to
Oakley, Kas., is 66S miles, instead OF
633, as mentioned in the complaint.
Distances for which similar trans
portation charges are made on coal
and which are complained against are
from Rock Springs to Smeed, 341.5
miles and to Omaha, S09.2 miles; from
Hanna to Smeed, 1872 miles and to
Omaha G50.2 miles.
Railroad Commissioner Clarke says
the mileage for the complaints was
taken from the roads tariff sheets and
that If anv error EXISTS IL mist have
been in them.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17
Reese Files His RESIGNATION.

Judge M. B. Reese, recently ap-
pointed supreme court commissioner
to take the place vacated by Judge
N. d. Jackson of Neigh, has resigned
He finds his private business such
that it is impossible to accept the
position. At the time of his appoint
ment the judge said he did not be-
lieve he could accept. Judge Jacob
Fawcett of Omaha has been offered
the position.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17

Broughton, Mrs. w. X. Coe, and Mrs.
w. E. Benjamin, have already pro-
vided him with nine grandchildren.
And he is proud OF them in a way
usual to grandparents, and one may
find their pictures making cheerful
his roomy Office at 26 Broadway.
From this lovable domestic side
one travels easily to his general So
cial outlook That can best be de-
scribcd as frankly American. He is
too sensible of the value of his posi-
ton as n man of wealth to underes-
innate it's possibilities. He mixes
easily in society, cntertains on gen.
erous scale, with an eye to the ele-
gancies so easily within his reach, but
he enjoys most the company of the
gifted, the genial and the witty, for he
rather leans to saying good things
himself and is never happier than
when he applauds a smart saying or a
good story A quiet game OF cards
for the love of the game in congenial
company is his occasional pastime.
He has never developed the fondness
for field games that pleased him in
his youth. He has taken easily to the
automobile, but, like all good sons OF
the saltwater, his liking for the sea
has grown with the years.
At Home on His Yacht.
Nowhere Is he perhaps more genial
ly at home than on his yacht. NO
hurry that sends men to express
trains is allowed to interfere with his
yachting runs to Fairhaven. Hence
the Kanawha is about as we'll known
as Mr.. Morgan's Corsair around the
waters of New York. But 1t Is in
Fairhaven itself that he fairly revels
in life as he thinks he would like to
live it. There he was born and
reared and his affection for the town
and the bay and the country road Is
eXtravagant in it's manifestations
There, in his frequent visitings, 1t is
his delight to move about and chat
with all and sundry old cronies of half
century gone, who call him Hen;
sons and daughters of old friends who
are middle-aged men and women
salute him as Mr.. Rogers, and third
generation little ones. who regard him
open-eyed as the local representative
of magnificent providence. Said a
newspaper man recently: IT couldn't
| find anybody there who would say
anything but kindness of II. H. Rog.
| ers."
Generous to Fairhaven.
He surely has been good to Fair
haven, which picturesque village looks
across Buzzard's Bay to New Bedford
ancient home of whalers and all the
romance and business that came OF
their seafarng. There he built a
great mansion for himself amid beau
tiful grounds, and there he loves most
to live when away from work. But
he alone was not to be the only Fair
havenite who was finely housed. He
built and presented to the citizens {
handsome town hall and a Masonic
hall.
On the death OF Millicent, a be
loved daughter, he built beautiful
public liN"ary as memorial. 1t il
called the Millicent library, and ha
the highest record in the country 70
books taken out and read in proper
ton to the contents of it's shelves
The village wanted water works ant
H. H. Rogers provided them. Tha
they might be doubly useful to Fail
haven, he decided the income from
them to the Millicent library forever
NlNY1SV- S1TTNVTNsA 7MTJJN
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17

IL was in 1856 that Henry Rogers
was graduated from the high school
at Falrhaven. and IL appeared to him
that there was still something else to
build as the fftieth anniversary of
that event approached. So he called
for his merry men all, and commits
stoned them to build and equip the
finest high school ever, and as 1t
went up he watched It and nursed It
And now, with its wonderful fittings,
It's gymnasium, its class rooms, its Of
fees, 1t is at once the most luxurious
and practical building of the kind in
the world.
What is at the bottom Of all this
home love and passion for local adorn-
ment?' a friend of his was asked.
ut is his Amercanism," was the
answer "He loves his people and
would see them second to none in the
world"
Taking Life Easy.
Mr.. Rogers is taking life easy now,
and obeys the behests of his doctor
with a smiling acquiescence that con
ceals whatever Impotence he may
feel at unwonted restraint. You no.
ticed the other day that he had Mark
Twain with him on short yacht
cruise Well, that was not the first
time they had foregathered in the
cabin after day of steaming in the
open. Men like Mr.. Clemens and the
late Tom Reed are the type he most
prizes for companions-they should
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17
Bio Railroad Business.

Reports of the Burlington, the.North-
western and the Union Pacific rail-
roads for the month OF July, which
have been received by the state rail-
way commission, indicate an immense
business in both freight and passenger
departments. The state business in
freight forwarded amounts to more
than half of the interstate business,
while it is less than one-third of the
interstate business in the amount of
freight received durnig the month.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17
Nebraska Educators in Demand.

State Superintendent McBrien has
received word that Principal Crabtree
Of the Peru State normal has received
an offer from a Wisconsin normal
school of $4,000 a year. He receives
$4,000 at present DR.. w. A. Clark,
formerly principal of the Peru nor.
nal and now of the Kearney normal,
has received an offer to take the chair
of pedagogy at Kirksyille, Mo-, at a
salary of $2,OC0, which is much more
than he is now receiving. The rccip-
tents of these offers have not an.
nounced their decision.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17
High School Best Outfit.

For the boy starting out in life
who Is anxious to succeed in business
| believe that the ordinary high school
education is the best outfit.
He is master Of the ordinary i'm
elements of business life, whether it
be mechanical or commemorative is,
he can read, write, spell and figure,
He has at least a foundation of gen.
eral knowledge. Our American high
schools, too, cultivate sense of the
greatness of the country which in
spires him with confidence in her fu-
ture and hence in his own. ! speak
now more particularly of what may be
called the country schools, which
know best. The high school boy hae
had set for him a standard Of good
conduct, and that give and-take, which
is the necessity o. all civilized socia'
conflict.
His great advantage over the col
lege bred man is that he gets his
start in life at 16 or II years of age
as against the 81 or % years of the
college graduate. The high schoo
graduate is proud enough in his way
of what he has accomplished in get
ting his class standing, but he does
not bring his pride with him when h'
is going to work or looking for a job
On the other hand, the college MAJ
who is not entering one of the profes
sions is apt to have more pride thar
the situation warrants, and that is
hamperipg thing, He is expecting tn
world to come to him rather than h
should set out with eager heart /
discover the world
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17
Had Mechanical Gent.

LAS for myself, was very eager to
60 to work after graduating, and in
fact did go to work in less than a
week from the day | left school as a
graduate. My father and were
agreed that / should take up the trade
of machinist, but there was nc chance
Apprenticeship wee limited even at
that time as much as they are now.
The machine shops within reach were
tull so l had to look in another direc-
ton. | wanted to be at work and |
found work. was proud to get three
dollarS a week to begin.
My father said to me, Make your
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-06-07
REFEREES SALE IN PARTITION.

State of South Dakota. &c
County OF Lincoln, l
In Circuit Court, Second Judicial Circuit.
Charles s. Kendall, John p. Robinson. M. c,
Dizer. Henry r.. Valpey, j; S. Anthony, Irene
ney. Mallie II. Merrill, David B.. Macomb
George H. Bull. Thomas F. Salkeld. Charles Z.
Scott, S. d. J. Carter. Herbert G.. Hall, Joseph
f. Ober, Arthur A. Smith, Caroline +. Neal,
George ID. Edmands, Charles D. Barry and
William F. Morgan, PLAINTIFFS.
Jabez l.. Robinson, Calvin F.. Robinson,
Charles r. Folsom, Edward Parker, William
Fl. H.. Stark, Edith G. Rogers, Edwin A. Par
menter, Franklin b. Rogers, Charles H.. Spaul'
ding, Chester w. Clark, and all persons un-
, known having or claiming to have any estate
or interest in, or lien or incumbrance upon the
Sec. u and the Southwest quarter Of Section
eight lSW IA Sec. 81, Lots Three and Four
eight INV IA Section 81, and the North one
half Of the Northwest quarter OF Section sew
and Two / and q in the Northeast quarter Of
Section seven lNE IA Sec; y, except the right
OF way of the Willmar and Sioux Falls Rail
[IOOl, Range Fifty 1901. Lincoln County, South
Dakota, DEFENDANTS.
Notice is hereby given that in pursuance OF a
decree and order of sale made by the Circuit
Court in and for Lincoln County. South Da-
kota. in the above entitled action, duly filed
andIentered in the office OF the Clerk of said
Court on the 2lst day Of May, 1907. the under
signed, referees appointed by said court for
that purpose. will sell at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash. at the front door Of
the court house in the City OF Canton, Lincoln
County, South Dakota, on The 9th day Of July,
1907. at nine o'clock in the forenoon, the fol-
lowing described real estate situated in said
Lincoln County, South Dakota, to wit: The
Southeast quarter of Section seven lSE ii
| Sec. n and the Southwest quarter of Section
eight [SW IA Ser. 81. Lots Three and Four
3 and in the Northwest quarter OF Section
eight INV Ii Sec. 81, and the North one half
of the Northwest quarter OF Section seventeen
N 12 NV ID Sec. III and Lots One and Two
II and 81 in the Northeast quarter OF Section
seven NE IA Sec. y, except the right of way
Of the Willmar and Sioux Falls Railway Com
pany, all in Township One Hundred LIO0l,
Range Fifty sol.
Dated June Bird. 1907.
J. W. CONE,
G. T.. NORTON. Referees.
G. r. C~HARNOCk,1
KEITH, DANFORTH and KEITH,
Attorneys for Plaintiffs,
Sioux Falls, s. D.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-06-07

1t was the most successful and bril-
liant event in the history of Angus
tana college and none seemed so hap
py as President Tuve and his able staff
of instructors.
ALUMNI BANQUET.
The Tenth Annual alumni banquet
ing of May 3Oth, and this brilliant
event closed the most successful year
of the college. The splendid dining
room Of the Rudolph had been decor
ated and specially arranged for the
comfort and pleasure Of the banquet
erS,
At 8 o'clock wei fifty graduates and
professors were seated around the
festal board prepared to enjoy a deli
cious menu with oratory and Joy be-
tween the courses.
James O. Berdahl acted as toast
master and he performed that duty
delightfully."-.
Those who responded to toasts were
DR.. c.. L. Sherman of Luverne, Lewis
Larson Of Sioux Fails, abraham Jens-
son responded to Glass History and
Johanna Jordeth had the prOfetic
vision of a class prophet, and the
closing toasts were by Jennie Berdahl
and b. O. SteffenSon.
Those who participated in this de-
lightful event were:
President Tuye, Mrs. Tuve, B. O.
Steffenson, Hilda Herfordt, A.
Grothe, Minnie Gullickson, Alfred
Berdahl, Josephine Fladager, Abra-
ham Jensson, Alice Hokenstad,
Carl Stumley, G. F. Stangeland, Prof.
Quale, Palma Monrad, Leonard
Helgerson, Josephine Kalstad, Ed
win Wing, Thomas Ringsrud, Els
Their Aus, James Berdahl, Berthina
Rogness, Blanche Isakson, Agatha
Alness, Bertha Salveson: Judith
Salveson, Ida Berdahl, Pauline
Skyllingstad, Marie Hanson. Selma
Karlstad. Alma Nelson, Edgar Her
Wig, Mrs. Lena Jordeth Mold, Jo-
hanna Jordeth, Carrie Hegdahl,
Martha Berdahl, Tilda Berdahl Jen-
ME Berdahl, Sina Haug, Marie Roll
lag, Anna Thorsness, Prof. Berdahl,
Mrs. j. G. Berdahl, S. Ovre, Lena
Christoperson, f. G. Forsberg,
Louis Larson, DIR. G. Sherman,
Anna Overseth, James Overseth,
M. Travaillie, Mrs. WI. Wolfe.