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CORNHUSKER NEWS Accounts of Happenings of All Kinds in Nebraska Town and Country HEALTH A Sore Tongue IS a Barometer of Disease G. W. writes: have had a sore tongue nearly all year. The back is thick and coated the tip is covered with ulcers. smiter from constipation; also have in rignt side of abdomen and Three million-dollar theaters will be built in Omaha this year. The Hebron volunteer fire departm nt is planning to sponsor a Fourth of July celebration. Directors of the Farmers State han! at Helvey have cided to liq. uidate the bank and go out of busiWork on a wholesale poultry, egg and cream house to cost $40,000 will be commenced at Central City in a few weeks. The Burlington railroad will short ly install motor car trains, replacing steam trains, between Kearney, Au rora, and Hastings Nearly 400 boys and girls, the best in the state in club work, are expect ed in Lincoln May 31 to June 5 at the annual Boys and Girls' Club Week at the state college of agriculture. Prof M. M. Fogg. 55, member of the fa. ulty of the University of No braska for 25 years and director of the hool of Journalism, died sud denly at the Lincoln General hospital Plans for bringing the 1927 annual convention of the National Editorial association to Nebraska are going forward satisfactorily, according to le Buck, field manager of the Ne braska Press association. The Nebraska Midstate high school baseball league was formed at Lin coln recently at a meeting of repre sentatives of Beatrice. Columbus. Fre mont, Grand Island. Hastings Kear ey and York high schools. The ashes of Dr. James T. Lees, member of the University of Nebras ka faculty for thirty-six years, who died in California will be buried under a tree to be planted southwest of University hall at Lincoln. "A suitable state memorial for the comrades of the civil war" is the slogan proposed for the G. A. R. of Nebraska by its new department commander, J. O. Moore, command ant of the soldiers' home at Milford District 69 in Adams county will close its school house at the end of the present term permanently. The last three children of school age have graduated from the rural school and there are no others to take their places. Probable expenditure by the Ne braska state highway department for this year is estimated at $6,500,000 Federal aid available on projects in the state is $3,491,841, and probable expenditure by local authorities " $8,500,000. Farm land sales in ten Nebrasks counties. recently reported by the Nebraska Farm Mortgage Bankers association, ranged in price from $80 to $1,040 an acre. The latter price was for ten acres one-half mile north of Falls City. Officers of the Washington county fair have recently arranged with the University of Nebraska for the use of eir Collins dynamometer this fall and will stage the first official horse pulling contest ever pulled off in this section of the state. The first co-operative egg associa tion in the state of Nebraska has opened its office at McCook and the first car of eggs to be shipped from the state under government inspec tion standards left recently. bound for the New York markets. That the receipts of gasoline tax for April. now coming in to the state bureau. will exceed $250,000 and thereby register a gain of more than $50,000 over the same month in 1925 is indicated by the first tabulation which Chief Bass has made returns far. May 31 is the date officially designated for general observance in Nebraska as Memorial day, in a proclamation issued by Governor McMullen This is because the usual date. May 30, falls on Sunday. and according to law and custom the following day will be legal holiday. The delegation of Nebraska. Iowa and South Dakota business men in Washington in the interests of the upper Missouri navigation project, to gether with congressmen from the middlewest and south are putting up strenuous fight for recognition and approval of this project in this ses sion of congress. Three year old Robert Wise. son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wise of Omaha, was scalded to death when he over turned a pan of hot water from the kitchen stove. More than 10,000 teachers in Nebraska will be enrolled during a large part of the vacation season in sixteen summer schools throughout the state, maintained by the University of Nebraska, the four state normal schools, and other universities and colleges to provide special courses In pedagogical training at a time when the teachers will be unemploy ed and can take advantage of them. E. D. Hoover, of St. Paul. proprietor of one of the oldest mercantile houses in Hamilton county. recently took a day's vacation-the first in 36 years. Fairfax Dashiell, senior at Omaha Central high school, was proclaimed state champion extemporaneous speaker at the state high school meet at Oxford. Seven lots of cattle fed in this year's experimental work at the University of Nebraska college of agriculture were marketed at Omaha recently, and the lowest price paid was $9. REPLY our tongue IS an index to the your stomach and intestines, are more or less in the same You should first of all see CO ML that your bowels act regularly every day. Go to the stool BIC the same time eash day. perferably after breakfast, which should be proceded with a glass of cold water. Eat lots of roughage- turnips, cabbage, lettuse, and so on. Tone up the intestinal tract by aking suitable exerdises. Your tongue will soonclear up under such a regime.