The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-10-18
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Club Help
to Farmers
Agriculture Is Represented on
Various Committees Work
ing for Civic Progress
Organization Growing.
Accomplish Great Deal
BY p. c. POWELL,

Tekamah, Neb., Oct. l7.-Making
the horny, feeding hands of farmers
guiding influences in social and eco.
nomic progress of this thriving Burt
county seat Of 1000 population has
been a successful venture on the part
of the Tekamah Community club
This has been accomplished by
rendering farmers full membership
privileges and chairmanships on i'm
portant committees. The plan has
been in vogue for two years and its
success is attested by the fact that
the club is starting on its third year
with a larger membership and more
extended program than ever before in
history.
"Tekamah is primarily a farmers
town. II 1t We're not for the farmer
there wouldn't be a town, and / think
it behooves every community of this
description-and there are thousands
Of them in Nebraska--to permit farm
ers to take a part in community ac-
tivities." T.. C. Houston, president Of
the club said.
Act On Rail Rates.
For instance. farmers in this vi
cinity have talked high freight rates
and low prices for months. They de-
cided TO make an investigation on
their own accord. The Community
club was called upon to aid
AS a result high officials of the
Chicago. st. Paul. Milwaukee & Oma-
ha and the Union Pacific railroads
were invited to tell the residents OF
the vicinity why such freight rates
existed. From 400 to 500 farmers
listened to talks of these officials.
High cost of materials, high cost
of labor, claimed to be 100 per cent
above prewar prices, and high taxes,
were reasons assigned for prevailing
freight rates by the officials 1t has
resulted in demand by labor union
representatives to tell their side OF
the story to the club.
Bottom Land Reclaimed.
The Community club is taking an
active part in pushing the gigantic
Burt Washington drainage district
project, which has reclaimed $4,000
acres of Missouri river bottom land
from weed patch TO valley filled
with corn and other crops TO delight
the eye and rehabilitate the purse of
the farmer The appropriations and
work will be pushed harder than ever
this year.
A bit of entertainment planned and
executed for the farmer by the Com
munity club this summer was a free
chautauqua. No one. except enter
tainers paid from funds subscribed.
sation.
The free chautauqua was staged at
the same time and directly across the
street from the Old Settlers reunion,
an institution as firmly embedded in
the history OF this historic community
as Ak.Sar.Ben is in Omaha. The
Community club has raised additional
funds to make this annual affair more
successful
Free Outdoor Movies.
Then. there is the free picture show
held once or twice a week on the
street in lieu of band concerts. 1t
has been accorded many compliments
and hundreds gather from miles dis
tant to see up-to-date pictures thrown
on an outdoor screen.
A public athletic field is maintained
by the club. A new station has been
promised for the near future by the
NJ. & o. Six miles of paving Is under
way and will be completed In few
weeks.
At present the club is Interested In
furthering the ambition of the county
farm bureau in presenting to the state
secretary OF agriculture a petition for
Burt county's share Of funds appro-
priated for eradication OF bovine tuber-
culosis
1t is the intention of the club to
comply with every legal requirement
in the new bovine tuberculosis law
and ascertain whether IL is true that
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