The Red Cloud chief., 1918-11-07
LATE DRAFTEES NEXT
More Than 5000 Nebraskans Who Reg.
istered Sept. II, viii Be Summon
ed In November and December.
The first draft from men in the big

lOrs I'm November and December, Stat,
Provost Marshal Anderson has an
lnounced. Nebraska has been caljei
upon to furnish II per cent Of thu
class of 10 and 20 and 80 to 80 to e
10 training camps during the last TIVE
months of the present year. Captain
Anderson said. No announcement II
made mt this time as to the dates o.
enrichment or the camps to which IN,
selects will be assigned. Nebraska ha'
approximately 6S,0O0 avnilablcs in In,
FIRST class of the new draft ages, Cap
tain Anderson stated.
According TO figures compiled by the
Omaha Chamber of Commerce. Ne
braska stands first among all states
of the union I'm the ratio of automo-
biles to population. Between January
and July I of this year, 1917, 400 cars
were licensed, which made one auto
mobile to every 7.6 persons in the
state. Iowa, with 100000 cars, is
second with percentage Of rs.
Nebraska grown potatoes when
properly graded are not inferior In
Quality to potatoes grown In surround
ing states nor do they possess any in
Iherent weakness which is likely to
make them inferior. This summar-
dzes in brief q report made to the
state food administrator by Il. Mead
Wilcox, plant pathologlst of the Ne
,braska experiment station, Lincoln.
% hn g
vet aside November IL as registration
day for all boys who have attained
the age Of Is years 7 months and up
10 Is years. The registration consti-
stutss membership In the U. s. Boys
working Reserve. The two general
Glasses into which this reserve will be
divided Is Industrial and agricultural.
Heads Of the united war work cam
paign have agreed to increase the
cauntry's quota 90 per cent over the
budget of S1705OO, 900. the amount set
when the drive was first being plann-
I'd. This decision means that Nebras-
Ia will be asked to give $4,000, 900 In
stad Of S2,O0O,0OO during the cam
pai0n, which will start November II.
The price Of hogs have advanced
somewhat on the South Omaha mar
ket as a result Of the food adminlstra-
Hons announcement Of minimum
price of $3.50 per hundred for hogs
4uring November. During October the
price went below SIT, despite the food
ADMINISTRATORS efforts to keep 1t up.
Owing to the Influenza epidemic
throughout Nebraska the Baptist state
which had been postponed
from In October to November o, has
now been indefinitely postponed. 1t
was to have been held at Omaha.
With 95 per c1nt of NebHska's win
ter wheat planted end benetiting from
present rains, the state should raise
Its banner crop next year, according to
Professor w. w. Burr, soil expert for
University OF Nebraska.
The board Of control reports that in
the Beatrice institute for the feeble
minded. 1877 OF the 800 inmates are Ill
with Influenza, In addition to n num-
Der of members of the staff and as
sistants.
Madison county boasts of having
two majors in the U. s. army, both
of whom are not yet % years old. The
men are Major Frank Warner and
Major Fred Inglis, both OF Norfolk.
Total expenses for running the state
OF Nebraska for the third quarter Of
this year amounted to S2,139,5l5.5S
Nearly S1,OOO,000 more than was ex-
pended during the second quarter.
The Madison Chapter Of Red Cross,
which includes the cities Of Madison,
Enola and Warncrville, will finance
two overseas canteen workers. This
will cost the chapter $4,000.
The Dunbar Review was forced to
suspend publication temporarily when
the editor, Elmer Smith, and his en-
tire family contracted influenza.
The Burlington employees In Box
Butte county bought more than
$4,000 worth of Fourth Liberty Loan
bonds.
Arrangements are complete to raise
Nebraska's quota of $3,OO0,O00 in the
united war work campaign Nov. Ills.
BY vote OF SO to 2 citizens of the
Holmesville school district rejected n
$4,000 school bond proposition.
The State Railway commission has
granted the Lincoln Telephone and
Telegraph company authority to In
crease telephone toll rates % per
cent and telephone rentals approx
mately 10 per cent. The increases af-
feet GO cities and towns in the state.
Definite announcement has been
made from Official sources that Omaha
will be highly important division
point on the Woodrow Wilson airway,
which will he maintained for air mail
services and other government pur-
poses after the war.
The Fort Omaha balloon school is to
he enlarged to about three times its
present size. The number Of men Ia
a.. n A.