The Red Cloud chief., 1913-11-27
Dairymen Planning Campaign.

Dairymen OF the state are planning
to inaugurate a campaign at the state
meeting of organized agriculture look
ing to the separation of the dairy com.
mission from the administrative side
of the state government and placing
II with the state farm dairy interests,
there to come under the charge Of the
regents OF the state university. Other
dairymen are preparing to fight the ac-
tion on the ground that the practical
and theoretical work cannot be COM
bined from business standpoint and
that the board Of regents. which is
given no power to enforce laws. would
be continually hampered in perform
ing the duties now outlined for tho
state dairy commission. The point Is
also to be made that the commission.
even II 1t were possible to operate 1t
under the university management,
would not be able to get the money
that It does under present conditions
Opinions on Selling Schemes.
Rafting OF houses and lots under
the old scheme Of selling hundreds
and hundreds Of numbers at low
prices. or at any price for that mat.
ter, is not permitted under the state
lottery law. according to an informal
opinion given citizen by the state
legal department Neither can the
right OF a storekeeper to sell GER
tain amount of specially priced goods
to each customer be denied. The lat
ter question arose when some Ne
braskan objected to a merchant re.
stricted him to the purchase OF six
which originally sells at three bars for
quarter, was bargain at the special
sale price and the complainant want
ed to lay in a supply at the reduced
price. The merchants advertising
set out that only six bars would be
sold to a single customer, which is
within the rights OF the storekeeper
according to the state legal lights.
Imitation Butter Signs Missing.
While the big state law book has an
anti-oleomargarine statute between its
pages, state institutions are breaking
the law and using thousands OF pounds
OF the product without posting the re-
Quired sign, Limitation Butter Used
Here" The discovery has just been
made by Food Commissioner Harman
and his deputies. who have started
campaign in an effort to enforce the
statutory provision. The first provi.
sion relative to obtainment Of license
to sell imitation butter Is half.heart.
edly compiled with by some mer-
chants, while the law governing the
use OF the product is rarely obeyed.
In substance. the law says that no
keeper or proprietor OF any bakery.
hotel. public institution. dining car.
restaurant. saloon. lunch counter or
place Of public entertainment shall al
low the use of imitation butter without
first displaying a sign, 10x14 inches IN
size, on which are the required words.
State Health Inspector Wilson has
returned from the vicinity Of Beaver
Crossing and Goehner. where he found
several cases Of scarlet fever and
from near Polk. where five cases Of
smallpox were located. Quarantine
regulations in all Of the cases are be-
ing strictly enforced, according to the
official.
Pool Picks Out Homestead.
Labor Commissioner Pool has re-
turned from Grant county. where he
picked out a homestead following in
the wake Of his success in the recent
~ conducted drawings at North Platte.
The official drew No. 65. but on ac-
count of disqualifcations and with.
drawals of those ahead Of him was
finally given an opportunity to make
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