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Newspaper
The Jansen News
Location
Jansen, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1921
Page
1
Immature pallets reduce egg production and increase crowding in poultry houses. Keeping them with hens lowers meat available for feed scraps and sour milk, and can trigger pecking and cannibalism. It is cheaper to sell small pullets now than feed them all winter and risk weak chicks later.
The Nebraska College of Agriculture cites three dairy fundamentals: breeding, feeding, and selection. Breeding is the most important, with higher production achievable by superior purebred bulls. Proper feeding and culling inferior animals follow to raise average herd output.
General complaint from many towns and villages that electric lighting is inadequate and evening service does not meet needs. Citizens urge twenty four hour service as the impetus for contracting with large central stations for steadier feeds.
Otto Spielman plans to organize a wolf hunt in Cub Creek precinct north of Jansen. The proposed five by five mile territory lies around the old Plymouth road with rounds on the George Sellenrick place. Wolves are plentiful and a successful hunt would reduce winter wolf numbers near Jansen.
Former resident Frank Penner and Miss Kate Agatha Penner of Beatrice wed at 4 30 Thanksgiving day at the bride’s sister Mrs Peter Penner 1001 Scott street with Rev H D Penner officiating. About eighty guests attended a bountiful dinner following a white georgette gown bride carried white roses and lilies of the valley. Kate Penner daughter of Mrs Henry Penner has practiced nursing in Beatrice and Mennonite Hospital. Frank Penner has long worked with Peter Jansen and will reside at Mr Jansen’s home.
The Annual Winter Corn Show of the Nebraska Crop Growers Association will be at the Agricultural College in Lincoln on January 3 and 4, 1922 during Organized Agricultural meetings. Premium lists are available from the Secretary at the Agricultural College. A big corn year is expected and exhibits there should be excellent.
Mr and Mrs Pete Ratzlaff welcomed a baby girl born Wednesday November 30. Formerly Miss Goldie Fast, Mrs Ratzlaff resides in Fairbury. Various local families and clubs are noted with visits and gatherings, including the Meinhold Ruhnke family, Kengington Club at Miss Bernice Thiessen’s, and a Christian church social for the Young Ladies and Young Mens Triangle Classes with about 54 attendees.
Nick Koop sustained a severe cut over his left eye Friday afternoon while cutting timber in Cub Creek. He was dragged logs from the creek when a heavy limb struck his face, knocking him unconscious. His brother John found him and he received medical treatment from Dr. Murray, with several stitches to close the wound.
The Post 24 officers were elected for the ensuing year at a regular meeting in Fairbury last Thursday. Commander Carl Palmburg Jansen Vice Commander H T Fast Jansen Adjutant Norris Read Fairbury Finance Officer Earl Else Henry J Broekmeyer elected to the Executive Committee to represent Jansen Fairbury Nebr. Mrs Joseph Criger resigns deputy county clerk. Florine Stutevoss named successor. Stutevoss is daughter of Henry Stutevoss of Fairbury and has worked for the Federal government three years.
Agronomy specialists from the College of Agriculture describe a Cass County property that has long grown corn, wheat, and oats under a loose lease. After three years of soil-building practices including red clover alfalfa sweet clover and manure, the land shows surprising gains in fertility and productivity, suggesting landowners can raise yields by rebuilding organic matter rather than pushing cash crops.
In a hopeful update the condition of Herman Rempel son of Mr and Mrs H F Rempel shows steady improvement since September as family members gain confidence that the crisis has passed and recovery may follow this hardship.
A sister in Mountain Lake Minnesota writes Tuesday that their aged father has been seriously ill with kidney and bladder disorders. He required medical aid and showed some improvement by the time the letter was mailed Monday.
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