Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-02
STATE JOTTING ).
Ainsworth has a new barber shop.
Ainsworth will have q new hotel,

Work lhas commenced on q nsw brick
yard at Shelton
A number of brick blocks will be built
kearney this year.
The usw town board Of Hebron has
Fixed saloon license at $500.
York has q new roller skating rink just
started by some professor"
During the past month IS 1 % acres of
school land have been leased.
The Masons of Norris are talking about
organizing q lodge in that town.
Twelve new buildings have been erected
in Aims worth during the past month.
They are talking Of organizing a hook
and ladder company at Tecumseh.
Several frame buildings were blown
down in Neigh during the recent wind.
Thayer county recently paid over 81, 000
to the state for the care Ct insane per-
sons.
TIE Logan valley bank at Wayne has
bought II type writer, the first one brought
to town.
A Kearney paper estimates the value of
last weeks rain to Buffalo county farmers
at $4,000.
Work on the foundations of the 800, 900
business block has been commenced in
Hastings.
Holt and Brown counties are the destina.
tion of many of the immigrants now COM
ing into the state
The Grand Island hospital fund Is
fine for its being built.
A Sl0, 1000 Touring mill will be built at
Fullerton by q mill company organized
there u short time ago.
A Hebron man has purcha ed a $3.50
, sota fountain, which he will use in his bus.
mess place in the town.
Fullerton will have a national bank.
, Chsrncey Wiltze, of the Grand Island
. eating house, will be PRECEDENT.
The new parsonage for the Methodist
, church at Stromsburg has been inclosed and
/. will soon be ready for occupancy.
. Red Cloud lays the claim of being the
most important point between Lincoln and
I Denver on the B. Il NJ. railroad.
} The Kearney foundry is again running.
Casting is d me every day and busiI ess fol
the enterprise bids fair to be good.
! A farmer was knocked off his horse and
robbed of $500 by two men near the
, depot in Aurora one night last week.
Kent, in Loup couoty, has raised $500
and appointed a committee to raise S50(
more to build o bridge across the Loul
river.
a The new horns for the Fairfield bras
= band have arrived, and quiet loving resi-
. dents of the village have moved into tn,
D country.
o The calico hop given BY the Fremon
!, social club last Wednesday evening was
fine entertainment. About fifty couple
o attended.
Q The Pacific hose company at Grant
a Island is putting itself ia training for tn
state tournament which will be held II
Lincoln next fall.
The annual association of the West Ne
o hrssks Mission Of the Methodist Episcopa
church will be held at Gibbop, May 18th
Z 10th and 18th,
The finances of Thayer county are i
goo condition. There yet remains 81, 40
a cash on hand, and the levy If 1882 has nc
yet been irawn on.
Wahoo young men go to church sn
put their brogau5 on the cushions. tn
papers are sitting down onthe rustic dude
IL in a very severe manner.
lie A large amount Of young stock is cou
a ing from Missouri and Kansas to NebraskG
Of II is first shipped to Blair, thence so Fol
b. Niobrsrs and Valentine.
le Since the escape Of several prisoners froi
9, the Burt county jail, the people of th
NJ county are seriously discussing the prop;
sltion Of building q new bastile.
= The Methodist church in course Of col
n struction a. Elm Creek was considerable
injured by a recent wind storm. TT
o. damage was estimated at 500.
A colony of two hundred families hay
er just located in Holt county on what
of known as the ''unorganized strip" lyir
n. between the Niobrars and Keyapah
rivers.
"a The new $1,000 elevator tuilt at Fai
te bury last fall was totally consumed on Il
70 night of April 18th. The whole town,
rs. the business portion of it narrowly escape
n. destruction.
at The spring meeting Of the York Coun,