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aaaa on of a band of Swedes was led byjnition In several publications Olof Bergstrom, who founded both folklore. Stromsburg and Gothenburg. I V- AisgifBLIC Rival To Bun van Rises days all the wailing coyotes between the Mississippi and the Rockies crawled off and died of grief. Eldad Johnson said "no one except a drunkard sees a whingding anymore because thev cot to whimper Phoenix, Arizona Page Sundav. November 5.

1944 A Stories of Febold continue to; More than one-fifth grow, and he has been given recog-'human race is Chinese. From Nebraska Plains dians named him chief. Febold saw great possibilities in his chief bees" and sold them to the Indians, but when the government took over the Indian lands Febold's was wrecked. He then began selling his bees in the East and they were named "presidential bees." Bergstrom Stromberg liked to tell of Febold's encounters with the weather during the years of the petrified snow, the big rain, the great heat, the great fog, and how, 1 publisher of the Times, and ap OMAHA. Nov.

.4 (AP A new, the country again. Febold had an idea that politicians started that musical wind to keep the farmers' minds off politics. Coyotes Die Of Grief When the ranchers could do nothing about the coyote that invaded their herds, Eldad Johnson said Febold sent to Paul Bunyan for some dismal saugers, "the mournfulest animal that be." Bunyan wrote that the dismal sauger was a forest animal and couldn't live on the lone prairie so he sent a hundred gross of whimpering whingdings. In two star is rising in tne nan oi ioik-lore fame. ing on each other's shoulders and finally cried themselves to death." 'The only historical basis for any of these characters, Beath said, is that Olof Bergstrom is Bergstrom Stromberg.

The immigration from Gothenborg, Sweden, to Nebraska peared regularly from 1928 to 1933, sporadically since. Readers contributed many of the ideas. ai ai ILL PAY his name is eDOin eooiason, i Febold Feboldson is said to have a legendary Swede wnose exploits rival those or sucn strong men as after 20 vears of trying various Paul Bunvan. Mike Fink, Fecos All the law will allow for GOOD USED CARS lirinn For You schemes to moderate the climate. Febold moved to California to set the stvle for all good Midwest- ETV Bill and Kemp Morgan.

Febold Feboldson is strictly Nebraska in origin. Robert Paul Beath. of Washington, D. C. who has made a close study of the rise of this fictitious giant of the plains.

Ration Dates EVERT DAY You will two meat- ration points for ecry pnund ot wast fat delivered to your butcher. EMBER 1 Next date for validation of blue stumps. DECEMBER 3 Next data for validation of red stamps. DECEMBER 21 Last date to use sat NO EXPIRATION DATE All red food stamps and tokens AS through ZS and A5 throuKh PS now valid. EXPIRATION DATE All blue food tamps A8 through Z8 and A5 through VS now valid.

EXPIRATION DATE Sugar stamps 32 and 33. od for five pounds. NO EXPIRATION DATE Airplane stamp No. 1. No.

2 and No. 3 (Book 3) for shoos. ITERKI ART H4S Last date to use sugar stamp 40 for five pounds for home canning. VTAWTEPAPER COLLECTION RCHEDI I.E MONDAY Emerson. McKinley.

Garfield. TUESDAY Monroe. LongfellovK Bookei T. Washinaton. Lincoln WEDNESDAY Jackson.

Capitol. Grant. Afnis. Dunbar. THCRSDAY Franklin.

Grand Avenue. Knllwnrth. FRIDAY Lowell. Stevenson. Washington said recently in umana mat tne tales of Febold have been growing over a period of years.

erners. One of Bergstrom Stromberg's weather stories involving Febold was about the musical wind which he described as "the most demoralizing thing that ever hit the plain." It came during a presidential year about August 1 when the farmers were harvesting their biggest, crop in years. Suddenly a cool breeze swept in from the east, followed by music "mostlv for those old time As "an indomitaDivi aweaisn pioneer who could surmount any difficulty." Febold Feboldson wrestled with ihe adversities of the West, in KTOV an old word with a new present day mraninc It applies to the person who thinks he is real American ritizen and who falls to cast his vote on November 7. KTOV Is the person who is backward in doinc thlnrs. who crahs about how hi eovernment Is beinr run and falls to do his part in corrertinr thincs so thry will he to his likine.

ETOV is not a. tttdin station, from which yon have been listening-to some truths and many He, double lies, compound lies and plain damned lies. KTOV is the chnnce yon have once every four years by which your vote is equal In power to the vote the President of the nited States, iiur vote Is iiist as Powerful a hl. If yon fail to vote yon will he an KTOV. which Is VOTK spelled backwards.

I.e. don't be backward about voting on November 7. RAY KORTE STIDEBAKKU SAI.KS AMI SERVICE HARD OF HEARING Aurex Hearing Aids are fitted scientifically and give you the finest hearing obtainable. They lead the world! We carry fresh batteries for all hearing aids. Courteous treatment.

Bring your hearing problems to us. Experts to serve you Aurex-Watkins HEARING AID SERVICE Suit 604-50(1 fferurtty Bide. cluding tornadoes, droughts, ex treme heat ana coia, politicians ana the Dirtyleg Indiana, "meanest tribe of heathens west of the Mississippi." Created In Newspaper of the Circle UK rhone 3-7301 rtrive In at the sign 106 W. Van Buren originated in the Scandinavian countries and even was said to be related directly to Leif Erickson, who discovered America before Columbus. He came to this country sometime in the early 1880's and settled near Etna, a little community north of Gothenburg.

His exploits seemed always to be recounted by someone who knew him in the good old days. Usually it was his nephews, Bergstrom Stromberg. Herebold Farvardson. Hjalmar Hjalmarson and Eldad Johnson. Bee-Line Boundary Thev were the ones who told how Febold established the boundary line between Nebraska and Kansas.

Commissioned by the President to set the line so they wouldn't have lo use the Republican river' in Nebraska as a boundary as that would be unfair to the Democrats Febold crossed eagles with bees until he produced a strain of huskv bees, hooked one to a plow and plowed a bee-line for the boundary. These same bees involved Febold with the Dirtyleg Indians, on one occasion, Eldad Johnson said. Febold. the bees, and the Indians are responsible for the expression "being stung bv the presidential bee." Febold's bees gained fame among the Indians when an Indian tried to steal a bee, got stung and swelled to twice his normal size. Impressed by his stature, the In circle -two-steps and square dances." Harvesting was over then and there.

Everyone began dancing and singing to the musical wind- It lasted until the second Wednesday in November and then stopped. Then came word from the east 1hat Wall Street had gained control of 3GEX3BLTBASH fuh ST El HW AT HPDB Febold Feboldson, new even to" many residents, of Nebraska, was created by Wayne T. Carroll, lumber dealer in Gothenburg. who wrote a column under the name Watt Tell in the defunct Maquis Rule Has Faults By GEORGE TICKER MILLEAU. France.

Oct. 29 (rolaved)(AP) The best that ran be laid for the French Forces of the Interior in that area ot ranee Gothenburg Independent. The column was started in 1923. Later, Carroll used Febold Feboldson in advertisements he wrote for his lumber company. The fantastic accounts of Febold's prowess continued to grow until stories of him were appearing regularly in the Gothenburg Times.

The tales came mainly from the pens of Beath, Carroll and Don P. Holmes, between Lyon and the Spanisn frontier is that it is showing far more restraint in its dealings with collaborators than anyone thought it would, and the worst that can be said is that it is raDidly forfeiting the eood will of the people by an almost childlike frenzy of play-in? soldier. meeting of townspeople was called in the city square to protest the fact that two collaborators were eiven Denal sentences instead of the, Rye Grass Seed for winter lawns Feeling tnemseives to oe rree men for the first time in more than four years and intoxicated by their victories and bv the praise which the people of France at first la vtMSWWa vished upon tnem. ine rri nas imposed more restrictions on the people and, more important, on the resources of various communities death penalty. These involved two1 wealthy Frenchmen who were al-1 leged to have enhanced their bank accounts under the patronage of the Germans.

But the FFI held: its ground and patiently pointed out that only part of the charges! had proved and that a verdict i of death would place French jus-i tice on a level with that of the Germans. Throughout all France, jails are becoming crowded but the rattle than the Germans ever did. The result has been that all young men who used to mine coal, plant wheat, run railroads and, in general, keep the wheels of the coun I 'laKlsf "iMI if i try turning now are racing aoout of musketry and the blasts of firing) squads are dying away. The FFIj properly can be charged with many! city streets in fast automobiles, wearing picturesque uniforms and 339 W. VAN BLREN MOENIX.

ARIZONA faults, but lynching is not one oi demonstrating what intrepid heroes they are. them. I "We have less coal today, Jess food under the Maquis than under Pcy CDeainiDifDf the Germans," tne mayors or ari least a dozen French towns told me during a 10-dav survey which carried me more than 2.000 miles from the Epinal sector in the north-1 east to the Pyrenees on the Span-! ish border in the southwest. i AND a city after citv was liberated and as the Maquis came out of, 0 hiding and took over civil and mili-j tary control of communities, they! reauisitioned hotels, cafes and whole buildings. In anyj sizable city in Southwestern SSW6 ILcflliJ nidify Hits Cleaned and Blocked Shoe Repairing France today it is almost impossible to get a decent meal outside O.v At Our New the black market restaurants and It is just as difficult for that tragic product of the war, "displaced persons." to find even the poorest lodgings.

In Toulouse, whose present population is twice normal because of thousands of refugees, people were sleeping on the floors of railroad stations, on park benches and on stairways to houses. The situation was so acute that one Toulouse newspaper asked edi 4a Convenient Location lor P'US 1 uxuneus com s-r Term sji 4 oja. ym 9 Rflenderson ius lepot- 11 covert cViar oPen ment. torially are we to get rid of one occupation merely to submit to II f- -ft What gasoline exists is in the hands of the Maquis, ex cept that in the black market theg nitP( it tl dumps where there is plenty for all needs at the prohibitive price of $6 a gallon. Transport has been requisitioned or immobilized be BILTMOBE GLEftMEBS OTHER CONVENIENT LOCATIONS 908 N.

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Jefferson St. E. Van Buren St. Phone 3-3384 for Tickup and Delivery cause of the lack of fuel so that It is impossible to transfer food ven from farms to near-bv cities. This has left the farmer with no alternative but to sell to black market agents.

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