The Red Cloud chief., 1918-02-21
SHORT STATE NOTES
News Of Nebraska Told IN
Condensed Form

tlOn on Aprli z, tne tnOney W oe uSeu
to improve city schools.
Reports from Washington are to the
effect that work will be vigorously
pushed on Ashland's new postoficc
this spring.
A hundred German textbooks were
stolen from the Seward High school.
The school board had previously
voted to discontinue the course
A movement Is under way at Kear-
ney to utilize every vacant lot in the
city for garden purposes this summer.
II Is planned to have school children
do most of the work.
Attorney General Reed advocated
CONSUMPTION Of I. w. WIS into en-
pioyment under military restrictions
I'm n speech before the State Associa'
ton of T%hrashermen ut Lincoln.
The Classical association of the
middle west will hold Its fourteenth
annual meeting in Omaha April a. o
and 9. Thirty states will be repre-
scented and about 800 delegates are
expected to attend.
One of the few Nebraska men
known to have been on the Tuscania
when torpedoed Off the northern Irish
coast was Patrick MCGOWAN, jr.. OF
York, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Nc
Gowan Of York.
Marshall Dawson, Gage county far.
mer, has obtained a test of 100 per
cent from his seed corn. He planted
| M .u,.I and ax,a,x, ono IF thpm Npr.
minated. the stalks now being about;
1--WE inches In height.
According to present plans there are
seven labor candidates, seven social
list candidates and scores of individual
candidates who will aspire for city
commissioners Mt Omaha ut the pri-
maries April o.
County Agent Rist who has been
making a thorough canvass of the
seed corn situation and winter wheat
condition In Gage county, reports that
In $50 tests Of seed corn conducted,
the test showed an average of 81 per
cent terminating.
The laying of the cornerstone Of the
social science building at the Univer'
sity Of Nebraska at Lincoln, recently,
was hailed by university men as the
symbol of q new era of education and
characterized as particularly fitting In
the present crisis of world history.
The council Of defense Of Cunning
county has decided to adopt the card
index system Of enrolment for each
person in the county. This will o
all property possessed, donations made
for war purposes and much other val.
liable information.
Stanton was stirred again the
other night by the report that the
Cermania hall had been opened after
being closed by the yellow paint"
artists. Someone reported that the In.
scription on the hall, "Closed for
ever" was being disregarded. The
matter resulted in several citizens
being summoned before the county
council Of defense.
Director Pugsley Of the agricultural
extension service Of the University of
Nebraska has received assurance from
the United States Department OF Ag-
riculture that the government will
send a potato starch expert to THU
state in the near future. Mr.. Pugs-
ley proposes that the vast quantities
Of potatoes in western Nebraska ba
turned into starch. He estimates
that there are $500 cars Of potatoes
IN the hands Of growers in Nebraska.
asst year these growers greatly In.
creased production. Unless som
means Is found to turn to good ac-
count the supply, production next year
will naturally be decreased.
Plenty Of good food, shoes for every
man, warm and comfortable barracks,
with good sleeping quarters, oppor-
tunities for wholesome recreation in
camp and c~onsiderate treatment from
their oficers-these are conditions
prevailing at Camp Funston under
which Nebraska's men and those OF
other neighboring states are being
trained to fight for Uncle Sam, as re-
ported by Governor Neville upon his
return to Lincoln from a three-day
visit to the camp. Governor Neville
and his party went to Camp Funston
to dedicate the new Nebraska build.
Ing there.
Captain Walter Anderson, provost
marshal Of Nebraska. Is preparing
county quotas for the 300 Nebraska
men to be called to Camp Funston,
February %, rs the last Is per cent
increment of the first draft. These
men will be selected by local boards
under the new classification, he says.
X. Fl. Walker of Scottsblufr is re-
corded as Nebraska's first volunteer
shipyard worker. Nebraska's quota In
the drive for shipyard volunteers Is
$500 men. The campaign will be dl.
rected by the state council Of defense.
State. Food Administrator Wattles
has designated Thursday OF each
week rs "Potato Day" in Nebraska,