Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-27
Nebraska

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sonal property ASSESSED against her OF has
children Of school g
Decides Against Pool Halls.
J. w. Cole Of Culbertson spent $500 for
a building and $500 on fixtures for a pool
hall. Then the village board got together
and passed an ordinance against pool halls
in the village. Thereupon Cole sought an
Injunction, saying that the board was
merely trying 20 put him out Of business
and that hi had a certain vested right
inasmuch as he had invested his money in
good faith.
'The supreme court holds that Cole had
no vested right, that the legislature has a
perfect right to delegate to city boards
+he right to regulate or prohibit pool halls
and similar institutions and says further
that it IS not the business Of courts to in
ouire into the motives behind the acts Of
legislative bodies.
Buffalo County Must Pay.
Buffalo county must pay the $50 pre-
MUM on the bond Of County Treasurer
Gilber p. Haase. The supreme court holds
that after the county board approved a
bond that its discretion as to paying the
premium terminates and that It Is simply
up to the board to pay the premium.
In this case the bond was written and
was afterwards approved by the county
board. The board thought that the statute
relating to the payment Of bonds was not
mandatory and that the board could re-
fuse to pay all or part or none OF the
premium. While not arguing this point
the court says plainly that after the
board has once approved the bond that
there is no question Of the responsibility
of the county. In this case the board de-
cided to pay only $1S5 of the premium.
Under the decision it must pay all Of it.
Corn Crop in Danger.
The farmers of Nebraska are threatened
with the loss Of their surplus corn crop,
worth about S12, 500, 900, according to the
statement Of Prof. Il. G. Montgomery OF
the state university before the Commercial
club Saturday noon, and these same farm
ers can prevent this II they will spend one
or two days in making sample tests Of the
germinable qualities of their seed corn.
Prof. Montgomery detailed the conditions
in different parts of the state, commented
on the fact that his Invitation to speak be-
fore the club indicated a greater harmony
OF interests between rural and urban inter
ests thai once existed and also explained
in interesting manner exactly how seed
LEoAh " hhIC anu " AoA INV AtoaAso ANe
The early fall of 1909 was wet, said Prof.
Montgomery. There was no weather to
dry the corn in most parts OF me state and
when freezing weather came on he ccTn
was not dry enough to Withstand it. Corr
which contains from 10 to Is per cent OF
moisture can stand frequent freezing with
out injury. II it contains 20 per cent one
severe freeze will injure II, and If the mols'
ture in the grain is as high as % Ter cent
freezing weather kills the germ.
Odd Fellows Celebrate.
w. L.. K~uykendall, grand sire of The
Independent order of Odd Fellows, arrived
in Lincoln today. Mr.. Kuykendall was en-
tertained by the Lincoln Odd Fellows dur
ing the afternoon. At 6 o'clock he was tn,
guest of honor at a banquet at the LincolI
hotel, to which only present and past 81 ant
masters Of the order were admitted. In Tin
evening a public reception was neld in his
honor at the Oliver theater.