The Columbus Telegram from Columbus, Nebraska • 1

The Telegram LUMBU THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 6, 191G 17 Historical iSta MtjiuiiER 32 eo i nr 4 Tinm 1 SWEPT FKOM TOP IXrROYKXKNT AWAR1JS MADE A Germicidal Soap Choice Business Property Singing, and laying eggs Is way of expressing her happiness. Do you want your hens to be happy and be money makers for you thia whiter? If so use Conkey's Poultry Tonic Three vacant business lots, located between the Henry Ragatz Co. store and the new $25,000 block now under construction for sale. Boettcher Co. Is unexcelled as a Germicide and Antiseptic in all forms of Skin and Scalp diseases.

Price 25c per Cake Pollock Co. MM The IKGKOL Store Tha Drugglat on tha Corner. Wheat hopped to $1.50 on the lo cal market this morning. This is the highest price ever quoted by local buyers, and is full 3 cents above the quotation two years ago at this time when wheat took its first dizzy climb after the beginning of the war. Wood Smith returned to Omaha Monday after spending the week end here and at Fullerton.

Mr. Smith has taken a position with the Standard Metal Works, of Omaha, and is spend ing several months in the house fa. miliarizing himself with the business, preparatory to going out on the road after the first of the new year. The family will continue to reside in Co lumbus for the present. After Saturday, October 7, no nat uralization papers will be issued anywhere in the United States for a period of thirty days.

This is due to the fact that Tuesday, November 7, will be election day. Federal regulations, "says C. M. Griienther, clerk of the district court, at whose office naturalizations matters for Platte county are handled, provide that no papers shall be issued during the thirty days im-'rtiediately preceding any general election. The order applies to first papers as well as to final naturalization papers.

Next Tuesday, The Hus-man and Huttner Land Sale at the Court House, 2 p. m. C. M. Gruenther, referee.

which had been used to repair a sandy road a quarter of a mile from Fulltrton proved to be a trap of destruction for a big Studebaker auto owned by P. E. McKillip, the well known real estate man of Humphrey, last Saturday afternoon. According to a party of Columbus autoists who witnessed the accident, the straw was piled deep and loosely in the center of the road, leaving a driveway on either An auto on one side and a team on the other, however, blocked both avenues of travel for Mr. McKillip, and heswung his machine to the middle of the road in an attempt to pass them.

The shifting straw furnished poor traction for the wheels, and stalled the machine. A tongue of fire from the engine's exhaust set the straw ablaze, and in a few minutes the car was the center of a merrily burning bonfire. When the flames sTiMiided only the fire-warped and i Speice Echols Columbus, Mrs. Barclay Jones will entertain the Alpha Kensington club at her home next Tuesday afternoon. Mrs.

Loveless, of Bellwood, was a guest Tuesday afternoon of Mrs. C. H. Buschman while returning from Brule to her home. At Brule she visited with Mr.

and Mrs. Earl Buschman and Mrs. Loveless' niece, -Mrs. John R. Taylor, of this city, who is now staying with her daughter, Mrs.

Busch man. At a special session of district court last Friday, the Union Pacific through its attorneys confessed Judgment for $600 in the case of M. E. Jer-uzal, administrator of the estate of Louis WilczenskI, vs. the Union Pacific.

On July 14, little 6-year-old Louis WilczenskI was struck and instantly killed by a fast train while he was standing on the west-bound tracks in the east end of the Union Pacific yards watching a freight train pass on the other track. Jeruzal, as administrator of the child's estate, Instituted suit in the district court for $2,500 damages. Representatives of both parties to the action agreed upon a $600 settlement of the claim last week. The company confessed judgment for that amount before Judge Thomas in court to have the settlement made a matter of rec ord. Because he hit Harry Ellsworth between the eyes with a billiard ball after Ellsworth had attempted to eject him from the billiard hall Wednesday evening, Henry Person was arraigned before Judge O'Brien yesterday afternoon to answer to a charge of assault filed by County Attorney Otto F.

Walter. Person pleaded not guilty, and the case was continued for a day or two in order that he might engage the services of an attorney. The trou ble arose when Person used language in the Whitcomb Ellsworth billiard hall of which the proprietors did not approve. According to witnesses, Ells worth attempted to eject Person from the room and a scuffle ensued in which Ellsworth is said to have struck the younger man with a file, inflicting a skin wound. After they had parted Person picked a ball off a nearby table and shied it at Ellsworth, striking him in the forehead Just above the nose, cutting a gash to close which a physician found it necessary to take several stitches.

The injured man was taken home In an auto, and Person was lodged in jail pending his arraignment before Judge O'Brien. to Neb. Mrs. Victor Stahley left for her home at Manhattan Beach, Wed nesday after spending several weeks with relatives in Columbus. Mrs.

William Clark and children returnedto their home in Spalding last Saturday after a visit at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Juonr. Mr. Clark came down from Spalding and accompanied them home Mrs.

Mary J. McWilliams, of Monroe, has Issued invitations for tho mar riage ot her daughter, Miss Grace Elizabeth, to E. A. Gerrard, prominent pioneer and properly owner of Mon roe. The wedding Is to take place Wednesday, October 18, at 5 p.

m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Light ner, at Monroe. At St.

John's Evangelical Lutheran church in Grand Prairie township last Monday morning at 11 o'clock, Re v. Holm pronounced the words that maae Edward Krumland and Miss Hermina Brakenhoff husband and wife The bridal couple was attended by the bride's sister, Miss Anna Brakenhoff, Miss Hilda Holm, Herman Kuennoman, and Prof. Lehman. Only immed iate relatives were bidden to the wed ding. Arter the service the guests were treated to an elaborate dinner at the home of the bride's father, Hrakenhofr, about a mile from the church.

Both Mr. Krumland and his bride are members of old substantial Platte county families. After a honey moon, trip to Omaha they will go to housekeeping on Mr. Kruniland's farm five miles north of Columbus. Local apiarists marvel at a wonderful structure of honey-comb uncovered at the farm home of Christ Wuot-rich last week when workmen removed the siding from the old Wuetrich residence in preparation for rebuilding it.

Between the siding and the wall of the house they uncovered" a monster comb of honey eight feet long, sixteen inches wide and four inches thick. It had been deposited there during the summer by a swarm of bees which had been crowded out of the home hive somewhere in the neighborhood. Under the eves of the building were two small holes where telephone wires once entered. The bees had appropriated those two holes as a doorway their hive. Mr.

Wuetrich removed more than two hundred pounds of first grade honey from Its Btrange depository. At the present price of honey the find was worth a nice bunch of money. Sagging Telephone Wire Causes Ac eldent In Which Two Brake. men Are Injured. win or uoiumbua, was rather seriously injured, and another brakeman named Murphy, of Lincoln was badly scratched when they were swept off of the top of a Burlington rreignt train by a low-hanclnit tele phone wire at a crossing about two miles southeast of David City a few minutes after noon Saturday.

Both men were members of the crew on the freight train No. 31 which was making its regular run from Lincoln to Columbus. A few minutes before the train was due to reach David City, they climbed out of the caboose and started over the tops of the freight cars toward tho head end. The train was moving at the rate of about twenty-five miles an hour. At a highway crossing two miles out of David City a telephone pole had been burned off, letting the wire sag low over the tracks.

It cleared the tops of the cars, but caught both brakemen across the legs, sending them spin ning through the air to the ground, one on either side of the train. Conductor Dunn heard the wire strike the cupola of the way-car in which he was sitting. Looking back, he saw the two men on the ground, and he brought the train to a stop by applying the air. By the time the train could be backed up to the crossing, Murphy was on his feet. He had been pitched through a barbed wire fence, but had miraculously escaped injury, except for several bad wire Eaheart, lying in the road beside the track regained consciousness just as the other members of the crew reached him.

They loaded him into the caboose and at David City he was given first aid attention by the company physician. He was then brought on the same train to Columbus and taken to his home where his family physician at tended him. It was found that several ribs were broken, his left shoulder badly bruised and sprained, and that he had received other injuries which may lay him up for two or three Brakeman Murphy completed his run to Columbus and then left Saturday afternoon over the Union Pacific for his home at Lincoln, to take a few days vacation while his wounds healed. j-Mrs. John Sullivan has returned from a visit with the James Ward family at Humphrey, and the Joe Bittner family, at Lindsay.

Mr. and Mrs. E. M. LaGrange, of Fullerton, came down Tuesday and visited until Wednesday at the Wood Smith home.

They went to Omaha Wednesday, accompanied by Mrs. Smith, to attend the Ak-Sar-Ben. Marriage licenses have been issued by Judge Ratterman during tho past week to Henry Wolfe and Josephine Lamraers, both of Columbus; Edward Krumland and Hermina Brackenhoff, both of Platte county; Michael Dahl-houser and Anna M. Oberhauser, both of Madison county; Joseph Matya and Catherine Chochon, both of Platte county; Edward Allen Gerrard and Grace E. Mc Williams, both of Monroe; Arthur Wieseman, of Osceola, and Helen Boss, of Duncan; Lawrence M.

Jensen and Anna M. Peterson, both of Newman Grove; Henry Mohrmannand Lydia A. Peters, both of Columbus. -Members of the Presbyterian church held a meeting Tuesday evening to discuss the erection of a new Federated church. Rev.

Thomas Grif fiths read the report of the Omaha Presbytery, which approved the fed eration of the local Presbyterian and Congregational churches and which authorized a committee from the Pres bytery to confer with the church board here relative to the disposition to be made of the property. It was the con census of opinion among those present that if a new Federated church is built the site of the old Presbyterian build Ing should be used. No definite action will be taken, however, until after the Congregationalists hold a similar meeting next Thursday evening. Charles Harper, a teamster driv ing for Al Duncan, was dragged nearly half a block and painfully bruised, Wednesday forenoon when his team ran away. Harper had just finished delivering a load of coal at the John Held home at Sixteenth and RIckly streets, and started back to the Kram er office.

He dropped one of the reins and in an effort to recover it, he stepped down onto the wagon tongue. The team started to run, and Harper was Jolted off, falling between the mules. He was dragged nearly half a block, and the wagon ran over his chest. F. R.

Gregorius, who witnessed the accident, took the injured man in his car to the Albert Duncan residence where he was attended by a physician. Though his body and legs were badly bruised, no bones were broken and he was able to be up again Thursday. Otto Merz caught the team before any damage had been done to the wagon. Committee Announces Winners in the I-awn and (iarden Contest Movement Awakens Interest, After making a thorough inspection of all the lawns and gardens in the contest conducted during the past summer under the auspices of the Civic Imnrovement. Ion C.

C. Gray, p. Stoddard and John neueoorg, announced the awards the first of the week. Cash prizes were given only to those who did all their own work in improving their lawns ana gardens. They were as follows lards, First, $20 Mrs.

Bert J. Galley. two $15 each Mrs. II. L.

uusscii; Uharles Bowen, Two Thirds, $10 each Mrs. M. Bloe aorn; Dr. u. V.

Campbell. Two Fourths, $5 each J. A. Gutzmer anu jonn Uoersch. Nine Fifths, each Paul Rodnk Mrs.

carl Ewert. Mrs. Jacob Schwnnk Kate Borndt, P. J. Schaecher, Towne i-eavy, Marguerite Frischholz, Mrs.

a. senrocder, Caroline Radford. Gardens. First, $10 Theodore Moersen. 1 Second, $5 W.

A. McAllister. Four Thirds, $2 each W. O. Wilson Mrs.

Louis Schreiber, John Stooffel Herman Ballou. In awarding the prizes for lawns the fudges took into consideration not oniy tne degree of improvement made, Dut also the general appearance pro uucea Dy me worK and whatever park mg was undertaken. In their tour of inspection they saw many lawns which presented an even more pleasing effect than some of those for which prizes were given, out they were not enrolled ior tne contest. In addition to the cash nrizes award. ed those who did their own work, the juages gave nonorable mention to W.Abts.A D.

Becker and H. A. Clarke wno naa their premises artistically parked by professional gardeners, and to M. Brugger, Henry Hockenberger ana a. m.

I'ost, who made great improvements on their lawns with some assistance from hired help. A special award of $25 worth of nursery stock, donated by Holm uison, or bt. Paul, to the net-son having the best-kept lawn, regardless of whether the care was given by the owner or a paid attendant, is yet to be maae. ine committee is to have another meeting before announcing its aeciBion. 1 Campaign Productive That the Civic Improvement leanue's campaign has aroused considerable in terest and been productive of much good is very evident.

Never before was such a general effort made to keen the lawns and gardens In Columbus looking spick and span. Nurserv sales men declare that Columbus has nroven the best field for them In all Nebras ka, as unusual Interest has been dis played by local property owners In decorative flowers, shrubs and trees, i ana in naving tneir lawns parked in artistic manner. When the Improvement Leacuo re sumes activity next spring, President Howard Uarke says, the cardans will probably be dropped from the competition, and prizes will be awarded only for lawns and for a series of five cut-flower displays, such as those con ducted at the Purity drug store once a montn during the past summer. The gardens have been found imnractlcal rrom a contest standpoint, as thev do not all flourish at the same time of the year. inaications are that next snrlne landscape gardening: will he dono tn L-oiumhus on a much larger scale than this year.

Already, it is said, many property owners have under-consid eration plans for parking their lawns, among them being Dr. W. S. Evans, J. H.

Galley, Mark II. Rathburn, II. j. Jiorstman and G. B.

Spelce. H. W. Abts, who secured a most beautiful effect in the parking of the ground west or his residence this summer will extend his program of landscape gardening to the remainder of his premises. The Needlecraft club resumed its meetings this week, being entertained yesterday afternoon by Airs.

Herbert Clark. Mrs. Wm. Fonteln will be hostess at the next meeting. Open house for members and their friends will be maintained by the Y.

M. C. A. management at the association building next Friday evening. A general invitation has been extended to all friends of the institution, men, women and youne folks, to attend.

There will be a short program and other sociabilities. Maennerchor hall was taxed to its capacity last evening to accommodate the crowd which attended the entertainment held under the auspices of the Sons of Herman lodge to commemorate the landing of the first German colony in America, at Germantown, October 5, 1683. The evening's program consisted of a song by the Sons of Herman; selection, Maennerchor orchestra; song, Swiss and German Maennerchors; address, Rev. Koolen, of selection, Maennerchor orchestra; solo, Miss Clara Segelke; humorous sketch, R. Lips; song, Swiss and German Maennerchors; solo, Mrs.

Frank Rudat; orchestra number. The remainder of tho evening was devoted to dancing, and a light lunch was served. and get them started right. There ia nothing in it that can hurt the senal-tlve organs it Is Just a good medicine containing the elements that help nature do its natural work. They lay, not because they are forced to lay, but because they feel right and are getting the good out of the food they oat.

Get a Pall or Package and start feeding it now in the dry or wet mask. We'll guarantee it to give you satisfaction or will refund your money. Also be sure to have Conkey'a Roup Remedy and Conkey's Cholera Remedy at hand. They're good friends In times of need. We sell them.

BACK'S AT Members of the Old Fashioned Dancing club will have a dancing party at Orpheus hall this evening. The ladles of the Federated aid will meet at the home of Mrs. 0. O. Burns next Wednesday afternoon.

Members of the entertainment com mittee will be Mrs. Burns, Mrs. Meays, Mrs. Gus Ernst, Mrs. E.

G. Carter, Mrs. C. O. Hlckok and Mrs.

J. II. Beers. Bible study classes will be a feature of the winter's program at the Y. M.

C. A. Secretary I. R. Divine has invited all members who are Interest ed In the movement to attend a get-together lunch at the association building at 6:30 o'clock this evening.

After the meal classes will be organized for men, high school students and mem bers of the Junior department. Rev. Thomas Griffiths will lead the men's class; Rev. Harry F. Huntington, and J.

Hale, the junior classes, and C. C. Sheldon, the high school boys. Arraigned before Judgo O'Brien for a preliminary hearing on the charge of having obtained credit on a check for $3 drawn on a bank in which he had no funds, J. F.

Cooper, of Norfolk, made admissions in court yesterday afternoon which may involve him in serious trouble if the authorities shall care to push them. Using the name of J. F. Turner, by which he is known to some of his acquaintances, Cooper handed Landlord Scott of the Evans a check for $3 Wednesday morning in payment of a hotel bill incurred by himself and a womnn whom he had registered ns his wife. The check was drawn on the Citizens Bank of Norfolk.

Mr. Scott's suspicions were aroused and he communicated by phone with the Norfolk bank. The bank stated that he had no account nor credit there. Cooper was arrested in a saloon later in the day by Offi cers Jaworski and Schram. When he was taken before Judge O'Brien yes terday afternoon Cooper admitted his guilt.

Cross-questioned by County Attorney Walter, Cooper admitted that the woman with whom he registered at the hotel was not his wife but was a Mrs. Wilson, from Grand Island; that he spent four days here with her dur ing the county fair, and neglected to pay a $13 hotel bill at that time; that he is a married man and has two child ren, but does not live with his family. Judge O'Brien bound him over to the district court, and fixed his bond at $500. The Bodmer 80 near Creston For Sale This is one of the best 80-acre tracts in Platte county. Becher, llockenberger Chambers Co.

smoke-blackened frame and other metal parts of the big touring car were left oooooooooooooooooooooooooo Cold Snap in October Gathright predicts cold weather October 4 to 9. Better fix up your broken window panes wjth new Glass The wholesale price advanced recently, but we're selling at the old price and our stock is complete. on Block Phones, 80 oooooooooooooooooooooooooo mm The Duty of a Dollar Every dollar has a duty to perform. If it does not work for you it will work for some one else. It is hunting for a home, a place where it can work quietly, without being traded, or sold out to some one.

The chances are, that' thousands of dollars that were once yours, are now producing a good income for the person who was wise enough to hang on to them. This bank will help you hang on to your money. 4 per cent interest paid on time and savings deposits. COLUMBUS STATE BANK The Oldest State Bank in Nebraska 6.