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Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-21
Notes OF Interest.

Notes of Interest.
Mrs. Fred Fitzgerald leaves Satur-
day for Jersey City, N. J., to join Mr..
Fitzgerald in their new home.
Mrs. Ellen Hershey left for Stras-
burger, Neb., Monday to visit her
daughter and family.
Mr.. Charles w. Young of Buffalo,
N. Y, left last evening for his home
after spending few days with his
son, Mr.. Raymond G. Young, and
Mrs. Young,
Mrs. Herbert Rogers entertained at
luncheon at the University club today.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-21

yesterday, Miss Sybil Nelson gave
PRETTY appointed tea at her home
this afternoon. Pink snap-dragons i'll
baskets, tied with tulle bows, were
used on the tea table, and the living
room was decorated with pink asters.
Seventy guests were present. Those
assisting at the tea table we're:
Mesdames-- Mesdames.--
IL Y Cook, Herbert Daniel
Harold Sobotkcr, Chester Neman.
Misses Misses
Alice Duyal Ruth Slabaugh.
Grace Slabaugh,
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-21

Richey- Dickman Nuptials.
The marriage Of Miss Emma Dick
man and Mr.. Charles Reen Richey
takes place today at the home Of the
brides parents in Rapid City, S. D.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-21
Original Cooking Club.
Luncheon and Box Party.
Fidelis Club Party.

Fidelis Club Party.
The Fidelis club entertained 100
guests at a card party at the Happy
Hollow club this afternoon. Tables
were placed for bridge and might've
and twenty prizes were offered. The
hostesses for the occasion were:
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-21
1879 Interest
DIAMONDS

After purchasing our $22.bO diamond
should you desire to buy larger or higher
priced diamond we will allow you your full
purchase price in exchange.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10
ExPERIM ENTS
Teach Things of Value.

Where one has never made the ex-
pertinent of leaving off coffee and
drinking Postum, it is still easy to
learn something about 1t by reading
the experiences of others.
Drinking Postum is pleasant way
out of coffee troubles. A Penn. man
says:
MY wife was victim of nervous
ness, weak stomach and loss of ap-
petite for years: and although we re-
sorted to numerous methods for re-
lief, one of which was a change from
coffee to tea, it was all to no purpose
1--WE knew coffee was causing the
trouble but could not find anything to
take its place until we tried Postum.
Within two weeks after she quit coffee
and began using Postum almost all of
her troubles had disappeared as if by
magic. 1t was truly wonderful. Her
nervousness was gone, stomach trou.
bic relieved. appetite improved and,
above AL. nights rest was complete
and refreshing.
This sounds like an exaggeration,
as it all happened so quickly. Each
day there was improvement, for the
Postum was undoubtedly strengthen
ing her. Every particle of this good
work is due to drinking Postum in
place Of coffee" Name given by Pos.
tnm Co, Battle Greek, Mich.
Postum comes in two forms.
Postum csreaI-the original form
must be well boiled. 15c and 25c pkgs.
Instant Postum soluble powder
dissolves quickly il a cup of hot wa.
ter, and, with cream and sugar. makes
a delicious beverage instantly. zoe
and soc tins.
Both forms are equally delicious
and cost about the same per Gun.
There's a Reason" for Postum.
sold By Grocers
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10

Il haven't the time to prune the or
chard this year" is the excuse often
given and then later on we wonder
why those stout, healthy-looking
trees didnT bear more fruit" Due to
the pressure of early spring work,
neglect is often evident in the aver
age farm orchard in Wisconsin.
But invariably the man who stud
les his trees carefully. and then
prunes them intelligently, taking
pains to protect the wounds from in
lection, as all good surgeons do, is
well repaid for his time and effort
March or April is of all times the
best for pruning the orchard. Fall
pruning is rOt advisable in Wiscon-
sin because of the possibility of win
ter injury to the newly exposed wood.
Late pruning after growth starts
is not injurious to the trees, provld-
ing there is no unnecessary peeling
back of the bark around the cuts.
Cautions must be observed in prun-
ing, as in all other surgical opera
lions. A few of these have been
briefly stated by r. H. Roberts, hor-
ticultural department, University of
Wisconsin, who is conducting a Sc
ries OF pruning demonstrations
throughout the fruit belt of the state
this year.
For young trees-Remove cross
limbs. thin out branches that have a
. H.. a
the new wood to force out a new. Wig
orous growth and increase the num-
Der OF branches The form of the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10
RULES TO PREVENT
FARM TRAGEDIES

With the opening of the busy sea-
son on the farm the chances for .acci-
dents of serious or even fatal ma
ture are greatly increased. Very many
of the very large number of farm
tragedies reported in the state each
year are the direct result of careless
ness.
Accidents from machinery, such as
corn shredders, corn huskers, feed cut
tiers and separators are the most nu-
merous in Wisconsin. The buzz saw,
the ensilage cutter. moving machine,
and tractor often take toll of hui
man life and limb.
Since 1911 accidents from farm ma
chinery have been greatly lessened,
due to the enactment and enforcement
of a law requiring safety devices on
such machines as corn shredders. But
even with the most carefully guarded
machinery where there are cog
wheels, knives and rollers and more or
less rapid motion, the danger is al
ways present, lurking in the back
ground 10 CelCh tue idA IA HOihSA III
whom familiarity has bred contempt.
From a series of unpleasant visits
with victims who had been MANNED
for life while peacefully working on
Wisconsin farms, officials of the state
Industrial commission obtained data
from which they prepared a few sim
ole safety rules and suggestions. These
might we'll be pasted in conspicuous
place in the machine shed or barn on
every Wisconsin farm.
Never use the hands to uncog the
rolls-use a stick or stop the ma
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10
Great Russian Fighter.

More than any other member of the
royal family, the Grand Duke Nicholas
Nicholaieyitch has devoted himself to
the profession of soldering.
AS a youth of twenty-one in the war
of 1S77-1S7S with Turkey, he went with
his father, who bore the same name.
to the Danube and the Balkans, where
the elder Nicholas was commander in
chief of the Russian forces in Euro
pean Turkey.
He was then junior officer in the
hussar regiment and was on the staff
of General Radetzky He took part in
the campaigns of Plevna, Lovcha and
the Shipka pass, received the Cross
OF St George for valor, and established
the foundation of his present high rep
utation as a horseman and expert on
cavalry matters.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10
CHAPTER XI
Bedlam

It was between two and three
O'Clock in the afternoon Of the day IN
which Mirapols went placer mad
when word came to the reclamation
service headquarters that the power
was cut OF and that there were no
longer men enough at the mixers and
on the forms to keep the work going
if the power should come on again.
Handley, the new fourth assistant,
brought the news, dropping heavily in
TO chair and showing his hat 10 the
back of his head to mop his scanned
and sun-browned face.
Why the devil didn't you fellows
turn OUT" he demanded savagely Of
Leshington, Arson and Grislow, who
were lounging in the Office and very
pointedly waiting for the lightning to
strike Gassman ana I have done
everything but commit cold-bl0oded
murder TO hold the men on the job
Where's the bOss2"
Nobody knew. and Grlslow. at least
was visibly disturbed at the question
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10
NonsensicaI.

A naval officer said in a naval argu-
ment at Washington reception:
Some of these naval critics show
such appalling ignorance of the sim
plest sea terms-their criticisms be-
come in consequence such arrant non
sense-really. it reminds me of the
recipe for shirred eggs.
THE humorous recipe for shirred
eggs runs;
'Shirred eggs: Take six eggs, peel
CAREFUL, remove the yolks and haste
the whites with No. 40 cotton. Cut
yolks into quarter sections and sew
them to the white at regular inter
walls, fastening with knots of orange
silk. Gather top edge with pink twine
and draw to a circle. Roast before
open gas jet
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10

Brouillard. chief engineer Of the Niquola
irrigation dam meets J. Wesley Cort-
wright and his daughter. Genevieye. ana
explains the reclamation work 10 theiii-
Cartwright sees in the project a Dig
chance to make money. CortWrght Or
ganizes a company and obtains govern
meut contracts TO furnish power and ma
terial for the dam construction. busy
city springs up about the site Steve Mas
singale threatens TO start a gold rush II
Brouillard does not influence President
Ford 10 build a railroad branch TO the
place thus opening an easy market for
the ore from the Little Susan" mine. On
a visit TO Amy Massingale at her father 5
mine Brouilard tells her Of his need for
money TO pay off his dead fathers debts
and that to be free he would sacrifice
anything save his re for one woman
Though his influence IS vital to the build
ing of the railroad ex ension she tells him
10 be true to himself He decides for H..
Mirapois, tile city OF numbered DAYS.
booms- Cartwright peTsuades Brouiilard
10 become consulting engineer Of the con-
soltdated electric power company In re-
turn for $4,000 stock Rumors that the
government will call halt on the dam
cause Grislow to tell Brouiliard that he IS
leaning TO the Corr s'ria ~ sits@ TO make
the city permanent. Brouiiard denies IL
Permanent building in Mirapols and
real estate boom are in full swing when
the stoppage of work On the railroad
threatens a panic. BrouiiIard spreads the
Massingala story of placer gold IN the
river bed ana starts "a gold rush.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10

chine. Eight men were caught in the
rolls because they tried to uncog them
with their hands.
Every husker should be equipped
with a seIf-feed-either an apron or
gravity self-feed-so that the feeder
will not have to stand within reach
of the rolls. Fifteen arms and hands
were lost because self-feeds had not
been provided.
Every husker and shredder on
which it is possible for the feeder to
get caught in the rolls, should be pro-
vided with safety lever so attached
that the feeders body will strike it If
his hands are caught in the rolls. Eff
cient safety levers would have pre-
vented eight accidents.
1T is always dangerous for the feed
er to cut bands while standing within
reach of the swapping rolls, especially
if the knife is tied to the wrist
THE footboard should always be
kept free from ice or snow. Two
hands were lost because the feeders
slipped on icy footboards.
Every gear can be covered so as
to make it impossible for fingers to
get caught Don't buy a machine with
uncovered gears. Nine men are one
handed because of exposed gears.
Every sprocket should be covered at
the point where the chain runs on it.
Hands and fingers are liable to in
jury at this point.
Belts are dangerous and should be
guarded. especially at the point where
they run on the pulley. Hundreds of
workers in the various industries can
testify to this statement"
Besides the injuries and deaths due
from machinery, there are hundred
and one little ways to bring trouble
and disaster on farm. unless one is
careful and cool-hea2ed.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10

It was AGson who seemed to have the
latest information about Brouillard
He came in about eleven O'Clock.
rummaged for minute or two in that
drawer you've got your foot on, Grizzy.
and .hen went out again. Anybody
seen him since?"
There was a silence to answer the
query. and the photographer righted
his chair abruptly and closet the
opened drawer he had been utilizing
for foot-rest He had long mer,
CRY for tribes. and at the mention of
the drawer a diJquietiGg picture had
flashed itself upon the mental screen.
There were two figures in the picture
Brouillard and himself. and Broailiard
was tossing the little buckskin sack
OF gold nuggets into the drawer. where
il had lain undisturbed ever since -un-
til now.
Moreover. Crislows news OF 3rruil-
lard il he had seen fit to publish IL,
was later than anson's. At one o'clock.
or thereabout, the chief had come in
30 the mapping room for a glance at
| the letters on his desk. One of the lot
| ers-a note in square envelope-he
had thrust into his pocket before go,
ing out
1T looks as II the chief had gone
with the crowd said Leshington when
the silence had grown almost portent-
! Gus. "thOul that wouldn't be like him.
Has anybody found out yet who
touched OF the gold mounted sky
rockets"
/ GTisIow came out OF his brown study
with start. Levy won't all who
gave him those nuggets TO put in his
window | tried him. All he will say
is that the man who left the sample
/ is perfectly reliable and that be die
tated the exact wording of the placard
| that did the business"
ii saw Harlan, Of the Spotlight. hall
an hour ago" cut in Arson. He
plumb raying crazy. like everybody
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10

ward the door of exit when the pro-
moter got his breath.
Here. hold on, Brouillard-for
heavens sake, don't go off and leave
it up in the air that way!" he pro-
tested.
But the corridor door had opened
and closed and BrouiiIard was gone.
Two hours later Mirapolis the phre-
netic had a new thrill. a shock so cleo
trifying that the rumor OF the rail
road S hating decision sank into instg-
nificance and was forgotten. The sud
denly-evoked excitement focused in
crowd besieging the window OF the
principal jewelry shop-focussed more
definitely upon a square of white pa
per in the window in the center OF
which was displayed a little heap OF
virgin gold in small nuggets and coarse
grains.
While the crowds in the street were
still struggling and fighting to get
near enough TO read the labelling pla-
ard, the Daily Spotlight came out
with an extra which was all headlines,
the telegraph wires to the East were
buzZing, and the town had gone mad.
The gold specimen-so said the pla-
card and the news extra-had been
washed from one of tae bars in the
Niquoia.
BY three o'clock the madness had
eliminated in the complete stoppage
of all work among the town builders
and on the great dam as well, and
gold-crazed mobs were franticaily dig
ging and panning on every bar in the
river from the valley outlet to the
power dam five miles away
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10
BEGIN HOT WATER
DRINKING IF YOU
DON'T FEEL RIGHT
Says glass Of hot water with
phosphate before breakfast
washes out poisons.

II you wake up with bad taste, BAD
breath and tongue is coated; II your
head is dull or aching; if what you eat
sours and forms gas and acid in stom-
ach, or you are bilious, constipated,
nervous, sallow and can't get feeling
Just right, begin drinking phosphated
hot water. Drink before breakfast,
glass OF real hot water with a tea
spoonful of limestone phosphate in 1t.
This will flush the poiso1s and toxins
from stomach, liver. kidneys and bow
els and cleanse, sweeten and purify
the entire alimentary tract. Do your
inside bathing Immediately upon arts
ing in the morning to wash out OF the
system all the previous days olson
Gus waste, gases and sour bile before
putting more food into the stomach.
To feel like young folks feel; like
you felt before your blood, nerves and
became loaded with body i'm
purities, get from your druggist or
storekeeper a quarter pound Of lime
stone phosphate which is inexpensive
and almost tasteless, except for a
sourish tinge which is not unpleasant.
Just as soap and hot water act on
the skin, cleansing, sweetening and
freshening, so hot water and lime
stone phosphate act on the stomach,
liver. kidneys and bowels. Men and
women who are usually constipated,
bilious, headachy or have any stomach
should begin this inside bath
ing before breakfast. They are as
sured they will become real cranks on
the subject shortly.-Adv.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10
Values Likely to Dror.

Our soils are producing very little
more per acre than in the latter eigh-
ties, when they sold in Iowa at least
at about one-third the price. Many
farms are in fact producing less, and
our prosperity is not due to advance
in the value of these lands. but to
the advance in the price of their prod
ucts. II the producing value in BUSH
els and tons of land that sells for Szoo
per acre is no more than that of the
same land when it sold for $50 an
acre. something is liable to happen II.
from any world crises or otherwise
the prices OF our products fall even
half way to the old level--Henry Wal
lace.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10

tree must be carefully considered.
which includes the spacing and plac
ing of the main scaffold limbs.
For trees about to bear-Avoid
excessive cutting. Continued heavy
pruning results in a much larger
root than top system. This is likely
to give a surplus of wood growth
over fruiting wood. Pruning which is
more than a mere removal of surplus
branches would increase this condi-
ton of growth and retard the time
at which the tree would come into
bearing.
in old orchards-The maintenance
OF strong fruiting wood is the principal
use for which pruning is employed.
The practice should be to thin out the
old, gnarled spur growth upon the old
branches, with the idea of obtaining
a maximum of fruiting surface over
the trees with no large spaces or holes
in foliage. rather than the complete
removal of these limbs.
Influencing fruiting habits - The
normal apple spur forms vegetative
bud the same season it is fruiting and
this bud develops into a blossom bud
the following season, giving a biennial
fru.ting habit to the apple. On trees
that are sufficiently vigorous some
spurs would be forming fruit buds at
the same time that others were pro-
ducing fruit, and these would conse-
qucntly bear in alternate years, Civ
ing crop of apples each season. But
if the trees are permitted to overbear,
they will be unable to produce fruit,
ana develop blossom buds the same
season, consequently, we have bien-
NAL fruiting habit over the entire tree.
1t would follow, then, that pruning
which would limit the bearing area
of a tree by the removal of surplus
fruiting wood and thus prevent tile
| oysrproduction OF fruit, should give a
good average crop. give increased
vigor TO the trees and result in at
least a moderate crop in the off year
1t follows from this that the trees
should be more heavily pruned in sea
sons when they have a large number
Of blossom buds present than when
they are entering the off year"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10

else, but there is something family
resembling method in his madness. He
figures it that we government people
are out of a job permanently; that
with the discovery OF these placers-
or, rather, with the practically certain
rediscovery of them by the mob-Mir-
apolis viii jump to the front rank as
a gold camp. and the reclamation serv-
ice will have to call halt on the Buck
skin project"
Leshingtons long, plain-song face
grew wooden. you say practically
certain, The question is: Win they
be rediscovered? Bet any of you a
box of PoodIes' Flor de near Havanas
that it's some new kind of a iip-hap
invented by J. Wesley and his boom
ers. What do you say?"
Good Lord!T growled Handley.
They didn't need any new stunts
They had the world by the ear. as it
was"
That's all right" returned Leshing-
ton; maybe they didn't l heard a
thing or two over at Bongras last
night that set me guessing. There was
a piece Of gossip coming up the pike
about the railroad pulling out of the
game, or, rather. that it had already
pulled out"
Once more silence fell upon the
group in the mapping room, and this
time it was Grislow who broke it.
Il suppose 57ariah e getting ready
to exploit tn new sensation right?'
he suggested. and Arson nodded.
"You can trust Harlan for that.
He's got the valley wire subsidized.
and he Is waiting for the first man to
come in with the news of the sure
thing and the location of it. When he
gets the facts he'll touch of the fire.
works. and the world win be invited
to take a running jump for the new
Tonopah." Then. with sudden anxiety:
Il wish to goodness Brouillard would
turn up and get busy on his job It's
something hideous to be stranded this
way in the thick Of a storm!"
IT'S time somebody was getting
busy" snarled Handley. There are
a hundred tons of fresh concrete lying
in the forms, just as they were dumped
with no puddlers-to say nothing Of
half as much freezing to solid rock
right now in the mixers and on the
teIphers."
Grislow got up and reached for his
coat and hat.
I'm going out to hunt for the boss, ="
he said. "and you fellows had better
do the same. If this is one Of Cort-
wrights fip-haps, and Brouillard hap
pened to be in the way. wouldn't put
it beyond j. Wesley to work some kind
Of a disappearing racket on the human
obstacle"
The suggestion was carried out i'm
mediately by the three to whom it was
made, but for a reason OF hiss own the
photographer coutrived to be the last
to leave the mapping room. When he
found himself alone he returned has
tiIy to the desk and pulled out the
drawer of portents, rummaging in it
until he was fully convinced that the
little buckskin bag Of nuggets was
gone Then, instead of following tie
others. he took a 1eldglass from its
case on the wall and went to the south
window to focus it upon the Massin-
gale cabin. standing out cleaT-cut and
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10

At the other extremity OF the trajec.
tory of Grislow's telltale fieldglass
Brouillard was summing himself luxu-
riously on the porch step at the Mas
singale house and making up for lost
counting all time lost when it
spelled absence from the woman he
loved But Miss Massingale was in
a charmingly frivolous frame of mind
That is the fourth different excuse
YOU have invented for cutting me out
Of your visiting list, not counting the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10

distinct in the afternoon sunlight on
its high, shelflike bench
The powerful glass brought out two
figures on the cabin porch. a woman
and a man The woman was standing
and the man was sitting on the step.
Grislow lowered the glass and slid the
telescoping sun tubes home with a
snap.
Good Cod" he unused. its unbe-
lievable! He deliberately turns this
thing loose on us down here and then
takes an afternoon OF to go and make
love to girl He's crazy; it's the
seven-year devil he talks about. And
nobody can help him; nobody-unless
Amy can. Lord. Lord"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10
The One to Help.

I'VE remember sometimes what our
fathers have done for US. but every
one f-us has a tenderer inner spot in
his heart for the place of the mother,
and If you and can help these moth
ers TO live longer and be in their
homes better and stronger women, we
have done one of the best things in
the world"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10
Not the eordian Knot.

What is your name, sir?"
my name is Knott Martin, your
honor"
wei, what is it?"
at is Knott Martin"
Not Martin again! We don't ask
what your name is not, but what it is.
No contempt of court, sir!"
IF your honor will give me leave.
I'll spell my name"
well. spell it."
"K-n-o-doubleat, Knott. Martin.
Martin"
'Oh. very well, Mr.. Martin; we are
through it now, but it is one of the
most knotty cases we have had before
us for some time"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-05-10
Be Careful What You R,u

What kind of white lead paint will
you buy for your house this spring?
Be careful to get the best there is,
as it is cheaper after all. Some kinds
recently sold in Wisconsin as guar.
anteed white lead contained but 5 per
cent of this ingredient, the vehicle be-
ing kerosene and mineral oil.