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Liverpool Grain Prices.
Writing for the Press.
From the Ohio State Journal.

From the Ohio state Journal.
A clear, concise statement is always
stronger than a long argument, for the
truth shows itself in clean statement
when It will lose itself in a long argu-
ment. The best thinkers, those who rule,
put their thoughts briefly and clearly.
Then people read them and understand
them There is more ability shown in
stating truth or principle in 100 words
than in 800.
We speak Of this for the benefit of cor
respondents. in the hope that they will
favor us with brief and concise letters.
To excel in this is real excellence. % It
is strenuous task on an editor to read,
correct and prepare for the printer a
lengthy manuscript. CO Ten men read q
short communication where one reads a
long one. CD The truth can be better
taught In just enough space to present 1t
than IL IT Is spread over a great space.
"a The printer man reaches for a short
letter hungrily-please appease him.
There Is public duty In writing to the
press that arises whenever a thought.
suggestion or fact occurs to one that tho
people should know about. One can do a
great deal Of good this way If he writes
with judgment and honesty Of purpose.
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Society at Caracas.

From the Atlantic.
The ladies Of the government were the
most gorgeous Of tropical butterflies
They wore all the colors at the same time
and jewels in profusion. but you seldom
looked farther than the paint and pow
der. I had seen a darby girl in Porto
Rico powdered until she looked like a
rusk. but she was at rest! These gaudy
Spanish, Spanish Indian, Spanish Negro
creatures were pinked, and scarleted, and
whted on face, throat and neck until the
original color appeared only on the upper
arms: and after they had danced for an
hour one thought of the delta OF the Mis-
sissippi in the old green geography! And
so we all danced. painted and implanted
alike, and only the unbelievable nores-
cent description in the next morning 8
paper can give an adequate conception of
what the Caraquenians thought Of 1t.
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MICHIGAN PLANT TO RESUME.
About 1000 Men to Be Put to Work
in Car Works.

DETROIT. Mich. November 13-Ar-
engagements are being made for the open
ing this month of the local "peninsular"
plant of the American Car and Foundry
Company. About 1000 men will be put
to work at first and this number will be
gradually increased to the full strength
Of 1900 Orders for $50 structural steel
cars have been received. principally from
the Hartman lines.
The local plant of the same company.
known as the michigan plant, has al
ready started with about 700 men work.
ing on contracts for repairing 5000 cars
for the Michigan Central and other rail-
roads.
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Liverpool Cotton Prices.
THE BALTIMORE MARKETS.

Special Dispatch The Star
BALTIMORE. Md. November I3-wHEAT-
Qufet: spot contract. 1.O41sa1 OiA: spot No 2
,ed western. 1.o61.al .0ia.; November, Iona
I.4s: December. l.05i3al. O5ss; steamer No 2
ied. lOlt1al .0ls,: receipts. 5I.7s7 bushels: ex-
,nts: 22V0Oo bushels: southern grade. Lola
'pfN-Quict; new spot mixed. 69baB9a. .
rear. 6GA. att: January. 66a6GIs; February fS :
neamer mixed. 6ts6Ii.; receipts. II $50 bushels
l"w southern white corn, 63aiaIl: new southern
FELLOW corn. -.
oATS-firmer: No white. 5ina55; No 3
White. a3l1a54l3; No. mixed, 80; receipts
f.lSI bushels.
RlE-Firm; No. western export. Sassy; re-
,aipts. !. o.; bushels
HAI-Steady, unchanged
GRAIN FREIGHTS-Very quiet. unchanged
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Cost Of Unpreparedness.

From Army and Navy Life.
The total amount OF pensions paid by
the United States between 1865 and 1908,
inclusive. was $685.. 6e3 364.42, and the
cost. maintenance and expenses OF the
organization for the payment Of these
pensions during the period were $122.574,
49,. SO. a total of $3.777.2 81, s2S.3s. exceed
ing the amount OF money in circulation
in this country in 1907 by more than
81 ,13O.OO 600! Ponder this in connection
with the tremendous sacrifice of life, and
you will begin to realize the cost OF un-
preparedness.
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A True Heroine.

From the Chicago News.
What is your idea of . heroine, John?'
asked the wife of his bosom, as she
looked up from the novel she was read
ing.
"a heroine, my DEAR" answered John,
lis woman who could talk back. but
Doesn't
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THE GRAIN MARKETS.

CHICAGO, November 13.-Decer,ber
wheat opened easy today, u to Y lower at
1.O2N to 1O3. owing to moderate de-
cline at Liverpool, but soon firmed up to
1.03Aa1. OBS on reports Of drouth in south
ern Argentina.
December corn opened ~ lower to &c
and advanced to 62ts.
December oats opened haA lower at
49A and for a time held at that :gure.
Provisions prices at the opening were
2h to 121ac lower.
Close: Wheat-December. 1.O3A; May.
1O7h; July, 1.01A.
Corn-November, 62%; December, S2X 4;
May. 62%: July. 62hs.
Oats-December. 49a49a; May, 51a5lM |;
July, 46h.
Pork - November, 1437h; December,
14.45: January, 1914; May, 18.U7h.
Lard-November, go; December, 9.1O;
January, 9.1Oa912h: May. 9.221a.
Ribs-January. S.35aS.3712; May. 1924.
Rye-Cash. IS; December. 72ha74: May,
78a79h.
Barley-Cash, 6Oa65.
Timothy-November. 3S7a; March. 3.95
a4.1O
Clover-November go: March. $50.
After December wheat had sold up to
]. 03a1 OBS the market weakened on real
izing sales. December selling of to 1.02Aa
1.02h. The market closed fairly steady,
with December Il higher, at 1.03A.
The corn market was strong nearly all
day, and closed at the highest point, with
December up sc, at 62N.
Liverpool Grain Prices.
LIVERPOOL, November 13.-Wheat-
IS Nd: futures barely steady; December,
IS: March. Is 91zd; May. Is Cd. Corn
Spot steady; American mixed old, Is I'd.
Futures quiet; March. IS SID.
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THE COTTON MARKETS.

NEW YORK, November 13.-The cotton
market opened steady at decline Of 1
point to an advance Of 2 points. which
was about in line with the cables, and
ruled quiet during the early session with
fluctuations irregular Shortly after the
opening prices showed net advance of
2a3 points on near month covering, but
later the market was rather nervous, and
during the middle of the morning was
about 2 to points net lower under scat
tering liquidation, and selling against
purchases in Liverpool.
Futures opened steady. November, 91O
asked; December. 907; January, $50;
March. $50; May. S.S7; July. aS1.
After showing net loss Of sa1O points
under local bear pressure and liquidation,
the cotton market rallied later in the fore
noon on covering and reports that the
south was Withdrawing offerings Prices
at midday were about unchanged to =
points lower. Spot quiet: middling nm
lands. 9.35; middling gulf. go.
~, estimated receipts at the ports today,
week and 661OS bales last year.
For the week. 10000 bales. against
4s2 ABB last week and 357 243 last year.
Today's receipts at New Orleans, l4.Ol7
yates y. against o:6lS last year. and at
Houston. 1885 bales, against 10, les last
year.
NEW YORK, November 1a-co,,on
spot closed quiet. 10 points lower: mid
ding uplands. 9.25; middling gulf. go: no
sales. WV Az
Liverpool Cotton Prices.
LIVERPOOL, November 13-Closing:
cotton-Spot in fair demand; prices six
points higher; American middling fair.
bS; good middling. GIT; middling. sos:
low middling. ass: good ordinary. Ara:
ordinary. 394. The sales of the day were
1000 bales. of which 400 were for SPEC
niation and export. and included 6OOO
American. Receipts. 1900 bales, includ-
Ing 1900 American. Futures opened
steady and closed easy. November. An.
November December 400: December.
January. 4.67: January February, 4 .66lh.
tebruary- March. 4.8I; March-April, 1917:
Apri!-May, 4;6s: MayJune. 4.6s,s: June,
suly I"'; July-August. 4.67la: August
September. 4.6lH; September October 4 ~.
Observation-Disclosures, AZ
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Washington Stock Exchange.

sales.-Regular call. II O'Clock noon-Wa flashing
ton Rwy. and Elec. As, 81 900 at 81.
Capital Traction. 1 at 1887.
Washington Rwy. and Elec. COM, at 1885,.
80 at 80, SO at 30, 80 at 30. so at 38Is 80 at
39h. 80 at S99s, 80 at 40, 90 at 40. 80 at 40.
so at 40
Washington Rwy. and Elec. pfd.. 80 at s9A.
so at S9H 30 at SeH.
Washington Gas. % at 81. 25 at 81. 8 at "a.
Riggs Fire Insurance, 100 at rs, 100 at rs.
100 at ~. 200 at rs.
Graphophone CON-, 10 at 21h.
After call-Washington Rwy. and Elec. CON-,
30 40 100 40.
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Closing Quotations.

Closing Quotations.
At the close of the stock market tn
following stocks had changed in pric
since above quotations. there being n
ahange in balance of the closing prices:
RAILROADS.
At. Top. & 8. Fe, COM. 96A.
Bait. & Ohio. CON-, 1O6A.
Brooklyn Rap. Tran, 54K.
Canadian Pacific. 17SA.
Ches. & Ohio. 46A.
Chi. & CT. West, COM, 93s.
Chi, Mil & st. Paul. COM. 1904.
Denver & Rio Grande, COM. 34A.
Erie, CON-, 35%.
Erie. list pfd., 49A.
Great Northern, pfd., 14OA
Illinois Central. 146.
Interboro Met, CON-, IL.
InterbOro Met. pfd.. BAN.
Kansas City Southern, COM, 30A.
Mo. Kan. & Tex. COM. 35&.
Mo, Kan. & Tex, pfd.. 6Si4.
Missouri Pacific. SO.
New York Central & Hud. r., 1151.
n. Y, Chi. & st. Louis, CON-, 81.
N Y. Ontario & Western, AN.
Northern Pacific. 1881.
Pennsylvania, 1904.
Pitts, CHM. Chicago & St. Louis, 81.
Reading, COM. 140A.
Rock Island, CON-. 22%.
st. Louis e. San Fran, I'd pfd., 32k.
st. Louis & S.W., pfd., So.
Southern Pacific. 117k.
Southern Railway. CON-, 26i2.
Southern Railway, pfd., CO.'S.
Texas & Pacific. 32M.
Third Ave. 81.
Toledo, ST. Louis & West, CON-, SO.
Toledo. st. L. & W.. pfd:, CO.'S.
Union Pacific, CON-, 1917.
Wabash, COM, Is.
Wabash. pfd.. 1888.
Wisconsin Central. COM, 30A.
wisconsin Central, pfd., 56a4.
INDUsTRIALs.
Amalgamated Copper. STA
Am. Beet Sugar, COM, 2S1s.
Am. Can. CON-. On
Am. Car and Foundry. CON-, 47la.
Am. Car and Foundry. pfd., 1O7A.
Am. Locomotive, pfd., ON.
Am. Smelling Ref, CON-. 96X.
Am. Sugar & Ref, com. 1851.
Am. Tel. & Tel. 1921
Am. Wooden. pfd.. %.
Anaconda Copper. 53h.
Col. 6; Hooking Coal & Iron. 22&.
Consolidated Gas, n. Y, 1494.
Corn Products Ref. pfd., 76A.
Distillers' Securities. 35h.
General Electric, 1871.
Great Northern Ore, "A.
International Paper. 12k.
International Steam Pump, 333s.
Mackay Companies. COM. 76%.
National Biscuit. CON-. Oh.
National Lead. CON-, S47s.
Pacific Mail SIS, 29ia.
Railway Steel Springs, conn.,, 445s.
Republic Iron & Steel, conn.,, 2Sas.
Republic Iron & Steel. pfd., S9A.
Sloss-Sheffleld Steel & Iron, CON-, SO1a.
Tennessee Copper. 40E
U. S. Cast-iron Pipe. CON-. -.
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Pawtucket Plant on Full Time.

PAWTUCKET. R. l., November 49,
The Fales & jerks Machine Company.
which employs 400 hands. will go on
full basis next Tuesday. after having run
forty hours weekly since spring.
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Factory on Full Time.

FITCHBURG. Mass. November ID
The plant of liver johnson Company,
manufacturers Of firearms and bicycles,
will be operated six days week. begin
ming Saturday. 1t has been running i've
days weekly for several months. Six hun
dred hands are affected.
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Va. Car. Chem. COM. 3SA.
Westinghouse Flee. Man, 911s.
BONDS.
Inter Metro. AVS, 71h.
Penna. Convert. 3l1's 1915, 9S1s.
Union Pacific Convert. As. 1Ook.
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The World Of
Finance and Trade
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co, bank
ers and brokers. Hibbs building. members
New York Stock Exchange, Washington
stock Exchange and Chicago Board of
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,ONDoN. November IL. 4 DIN.

Bar silver. quiet. % LIED per ounce.
Money, 1 per cent.
The rate of discount in the open market for
short bills il ~ per cent
The rate of discount in the open market for
three-month bills is ~ per cent.
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Government Securities.
CURB QUOTATIONS..

Quotations furnished by r.. +. Hutton 4 Co.,
members New York Stock Exchange; G. Bowie
chipman. manager. 1901 y st. nv.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-26
POWDER PUFF STARTS ROW
Indiscreet Preacher PrOvOkes an Ex-
DIOsiOn that Blows Up
His Job.

When the Rev. j. H. Moore, pastor Of
the Christian church of Taylorsville, Pa,
attacked card playing among male members
Of his church the girls thought it great
fun, but when in last Sunday nights SER
mon he attacked the powder puffs in the
which almost blossomed into a riot in the
church. Next day the minister announced
that he would resign.
The phrase from the pulpit which caused
the explosion was, Il would as leave have
a blacksnake in my house as a deck of
cards, and l have my own private opinion
of any woman who uses a powder puff"
But the pastor got no farther. At least
half a dozen young women were on their
feet expostulating against such talk from
the pulpit, and the minister was compelled
to desist from his attack and finish his
sermon along lines more safe. So intense
has the feeling become that the Rev. Mr..
Moore decided to leave the congregation.
The young women whose powder puffs he
attacked are raising by subscription suffi-
cient money to pay the hateful thing the
two months salary due him and let him
GO"
The minister narrowly escaped mobbing
at the hands of indignant members of his
congregation, who assert he has gone
farther than the laws of the church permit.
Philadelphia North American.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-26

- vou don't want murder on your soul you
had better keep out"
TIL burgler then left the room and MISS
Burns said: Don't go out the front way
or you will get caught
She listened to the footballs OF the our-
r,ar as he descended the back stairs ana
then Jumped out Of bed and gave the
alarm.
Policeman Straub had just tried the back
door of the Alburger home and touhd 1t
omen. He damned the door and took up a
position on the outside.
The buralars. scared by the noise, made
a break to get out of the place. and almost
ran into the arms of the policeman VINO
was hiding in a shadow with his revolver
drawn. He commanded them to matt as
thew ran from him, and fired in the air
One Of the men stumbled and fell and
Uas captured by Straub. He was taken to
the station house, where he gave his name
as John McEnery. Special Officers East
lack and Vail arrested another about 3
o'clock and he gave his name as Francis
Mulligan.
After sending his man to the station
house straub went into the house and
found a large quantity of silverware packed
in a burlap bag ready 10 carry off, but
nothing else had been disturbed.
At the hearing in the morning Miss Burns
was congratulated by Magistrate Grellis,
hut she smiled and said: 1T takes more
than a man with a gun TO brighten me. l
onlv thought of Mrs. ADMINISTRATIONS
Gtrn
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-26
LOCATING A ROCKY CATAPULT
How a LispinE Engineer in Militia
Camp Spoiled the Sport of
RiOtiDR Miners.

One Of my friends who is a member of
the peace society is greatly disturbed over
the invention of Hudson MaXim's new
ro!seless gun. He does not fear it half so
much because of its possible use in war
fare as of it's value to assassins.
What chance has any of our kings or
presidents got If this gun is to be intro
duced?" he was worrying yesterday. Just
give an anarchist one of these guns and
he can sit at an upstairs window and pick
off reigning sovereigns as they ride along
the highways and no person will ever be
any the wiser
| Which just reminds me of a playful trick
a bunch of rioting Pennsylvania miners
once played on the troops who had been
called out to quell them. The miners had
a cheerful habit of getting after the troops
after dark. They would hike away up the
mountains somewhere above the camp, So
lect a good, springy sspling, and use It
for a catapult to lombard the mark with
stones all night long.
1t was simply impossible to tell where
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-26
PASSING OF THE YANKEES
Few of the Real stock Left ana a
Total Disappearance Not
far Distant.

Raoent census Investigations, together
with the result of genealogical researches
have brought to light the surprising fact
that the real Yankee is fast disappearing
Like his predecessor, the American Indian,
this original stock of the first white set
tiers in New England, is passing, with this
difference, that while the indian has been
eliminated the Yankee is being absorbed.
Abroad. particularly in England, the Gus
tom stlll holds of referring to all Ameri-
cans as Yankees, and this accounts for
the survival Of a term which will soon
have no real application. The day is not
far distant, It would seem, which will mark
the last of the real Yankees, when a chron-
icler may tell Of their passing as Cooper
told of the last of the Mohicans.
Indeed, the disappearance of the real Yam
kee from New England is in many ways
similar to the disappearance of the Indian,
Each race in turn. after dominating a very
large territory. centered more and more in
one small district. With the red men Of
New England this was the territory on
which King Philip made his last stand;
with the Yankee II is Cape Cod
On Cape Cod, indeed, the Yankee is still
to be found. It was there that he first
settled, and it seems likely it is there that
he will last survive. For more than two
hundred years this sandy spit Of land has
been the center OF Yankeedom. generation
following generation with less change in
all that time than has occurred in the last
two decades,
1t was at Provincetown that the Pilgrims
landed nearly three centuries ago. so thai
the cape comes naturally by its Yankee
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-26
SERVANT GIRL A HEROINE
Took More Than a Burglar with n
Gun at Her Head to
Scare Her.

Four burglars entered the house Of Mrs.
Mary Alburger, at Ridge avenue and Hunt
ingdon street, Philadelphia. shortly after !
o'clock on the morning of September 16,
each man with a red handkerchief tied over
his face. One of the burglars went to the
room OF Nellie Burns, a servant, pushed
a revolver against her forehead and told
her II she cried out he would blow her
head off.
Miss Burns is not one of those women
who faint, and she coolly said to the burg
lar: "You are in here now. but I don't
know how you are going to get out"
What do you mean?" whispered the
burglar.
why, we have a Waterman and a spe-
cial officer detailed to watch the place, so
you are in a bad fix"
The burglar then started to go into the
front room, where Mrs. Alburger was
sleeping, but the girl stopped him by say
ing: There's a sick woman In there, and
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-26

the stones came from in the darkness.
The presence of numerous habltat!ons
around the mountains sides made indis-
criminate shooting in the dark out of the
question. Consequently several nights OF
this kind of warfare had the boys all on
uneasy seats.
1t was the young engineer who usped
who set il all right. Some of the troops
were sitting around a campfire one night
when a boulder about the size Of a paving
stone came sailing through the air, just
grazed the top OF the tent and landed in
the center Of the group.
"Thit sthill, thit sthill!" shouted the
engineer who lisped. Now Wen get them
thure."
He got out some Instruments. measured
the height Of that tent top. got a line orr
the exact spot the big powder had first
hit, and did a lot Of figuring on the back
Of an envelope.
That's where he ith,' he declared, and
he pointed up the mountain in the dark
ness. Tomorrow well find him and hlth
catapult.'
As soon as 1t was daylight a searching
party set off up the mountain and the
engineer who lisped led them 10 the SPOT
where the catapult was with scarcely any
trouble at all. Better than that, they cap
tured the gang which had been doing the
work.-New York Telegraph.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-26
Killing Due TO Accident.

GREELEY CENTER. Neb., Sept. 25.-
Especial Telegram. AT the inquest today
upon the body of William Oles, the man
who was found dead beside the Burlington
tracks south of town last night, the jury
returned the following verdict:
We, the jury. do say that the said w. II.
Oles came to his death on September "a,
1903, by being struck by some part of the
Chicago, Burlington & quincy passenger
train going west about 5:45 O'Clock and not
feloneously. No blame attached to engi-
neer, owing to the height Of the grass
along the railroad track.
The evidence at the inquest disclosed that
the deceased had fallen asleep with his
head resting on one of the ties just outside
the rail, where he had been sitting watch
ing the races on the fair grounds, and upon
lying down his body was hidden from the
view of the engineer, owing to the grass
which extended to the rail. The judge was
near 20 years OF age and had been a resi-
dent Of Greeley county for thirty years.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-26

dog owners. GreyAounds owned by w. B
Butterfeld, Charles Jones, Ed. Gordon
Samuel Blvens and Clifford Horn will be
entered In the races.
HAST1NGS-The Seventh Day sdventists,
who have their state conference head
quarters here, have purchased forty acres
Of fine farming land just outside the city
limits. but near their tract in College ad-
ditiOn, and will cut Il up into small tracts
for sale TO members OF the denomination.
BEATRICE. W. Mecum arrived in the
city last evening from southern Kansas
TO push the case against Thomas Hopkins,
who has been in jail here the last week
young daughter Of Mr.. Mecum In this city
nearly a year ago. Hopkins was arrested
last week at Winfield, Kan.
HASTINGS-A sunset social, for per
sons 20 years or more old will be held IN
the Methodist church Wednesday. septem-
her 81. There will be an open meeting 10
which all are invited. but at q banquet
only persons who have reached the age
OF 70 will be admitted. The event will be
a repetition Of one given a year ago.
HASTINGS-A local checker and chess
and checker club has been organized ana
representatives will be sent to the forth
coming state tournament in Lincoln to
compete in the contests and also 10 en-
deavor to secure the mex tournsmenut LOT
inEs. A. C. Shoemaker and Walter NJ. Ellis
are the officers.
BEATRICE-Mrs. Eva Bivens yesterday
filed suit in the district court against
Guy Ellis Of Omaha, Joseph Ellis of this
city and others to recover the sum of
"a. 100. The plaintiff alleges this amount
Is due her for money loans made to John
Ellis, now deceased, father OF the two
boys named as defendants. She sets forth
that this money was invested In real estate
by the elder Ellis and title thereto put In
the name of the sons.
HASTINGS-The annual reception Of the
Young Mems Christian association mark
Ing the beginning of fall festivities, was
conducted Friday night. Several hundred
! persons attended. The association is be
ginning its second fall season in it's new
home. Membership is increasing at a salts
factory rate. John Snider went to Fremont
Thursday to represent the local association
at the state executive committee meeting
He is detailed to make an effort TO secure
the 1909 state convention for Hastings.
McCOOK-The Northwestern Nebraska
Dental society met in annual session here
today, with a representative attendance
of over fifty dentists from all over this
part of Nebraska. Morning and afternoon
sessions OF the society were held, several
clinics and papers were offered and a
very profitable and socially enjoyable SEES
sion OF the association was held. The next
session of the society will be held in Su-
perior. next fall. The officers elected are:
President, ]. NJ. Prime of oxford; secretary,
w. A. McHenry of Nelson; treasurer, ].
A. Gainsforth of Holdtege.