Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-06
STATE JOTTINGS.

Sunday shaving at Norfolk is prohibited
by ordinance.
Corn planting has commenced in various
sections of the state.
The clerk of Buffalo county gathered in
SS04. during April.
There are nineteen irrigating tanks in
Fremont, licensed at $500 each.
The state press unanimously agree that
''now is the time to subscribe as well as
liquidate."
Indianola has tackled the question of
waterworks. The natives realize that its vir-
tues should be piped.
The Omaha Association of Congregational
churches will convene at Fremont to-mor-
row, for session of three days.
The business of the Kearney postofice for
April amounted to 81 l51, an increase of $245
over the same month last year.
BY singular coincidence Wahoos water
works were put in operation just as the sa-
looms were corked with an injunction.
Fremont shows gain of 215 school child
rem in year. There are 6,2l2 in the county.
an increase of $40 in twelve months.
Blair called the turn on the liquor men by
raising the license to 81 900, the amount to
be divided between the school fund and the
city treasury.
The Democrat peers into the future and
exclaims: "When paved, Beatrice will have
the finest streets Of any city of the country.
We say, when paved Just when, we will
not say"
The State Medical association will swap
prescriptions and experiences at Kearuey on
the 2lst After gravely discussing the ills
and pills Of mankind they will diagnose a
banquet at the Midway.
What profiteth a man who gathers the
dross of the world and hides it in a trunkl
The Rev. Schmitt, of Blair, is seriously
$52 in that way.
The fifteenth annual tournament. of the
Nebraska State Sportsmens association
will open in Norfolk, on the 2lst inst. About
$500 will be hung up IN purses, and some fine
shooting is expected.
A combination of Brazil, Brown and Boose
furnishes salacious food for the gossips in
Nebraska City. The first two are apparently
anxious to bask in the sunshine of Boose,
but the law stepped IN and temporarily pre-.
vented scrap.
Dave Hillyer and Ike Hedgecock, pilgrims
from Kansas, tarried on the bridge at Rulo
and were relieved of their spare cash. about
$37 by highwaymen. They were given a
pair OF sore heads as momentos OF the meet
ing, but their names were permitted to go in
peace.
The editor Of the Phelps County Herald
Is a man OF merry moods. Twenty six weeks
ago he launched the Herald on the uncertain
tides of public favor, and has had varied
and lively race for bread and butter. Ac-
cording to his own confession, the commun-
ity has at last rewarded him with the title OF
colonel. 1t tckles the fancy but fails TO fill
the long felt want in the region of his waist
band
Charley Ref, of Grand Island, visited
Omaha last week and spent day sampline
prohibition in Council Bluffs. Mr.. Ref is
now thoroughly convinced that in order to
be fully understood the "beauties OF prohibit
tion' must be actually witnessed with one's
own eyes, as they present spectacle of such
dazzling delight as to create doubt II simply
related by one who has seen Like the
sweetness Of smack, it must be experienced
to be appreciated, as 1t can not be described
even by the most verbose enthusiast.
A funeral procession was rudely halted
out at Shell Creek Platte county, one day
last week. The active Imagination of the
hearse driver conjured up wild weird cry
from the corpse, and generously stopped TO
inuuire the cause. The box was opened and
doctor sent for, but the corpse gave no eyi-
dence of life The incident filled the neigh
borhood with CHASTITY yarns, while the driver
insists that his passenger muttered a blood.
curdllng protest against the omission OF
"Frends of the family invited" from his
obituary.
"Show me the newspapers OF the county"
exclaimed western sage, land l will tell
you the character Of the people" There IA
more truth than sentiment In TINS homcly
saving Newspapers are the mirrors of pub
lie and private life. In form and contents
they reflect surrounding conditions Their
patronage is a barometer OF their influence
as well as of the prosperity OF the community.
Taken as a whole the press of Nebraska is
unsurpassed by any state in the union Of
equal population Active, vigorous, enter
prsing cleanly printed and well patronIed,
the daily and weekly papers reflect the pro-
gress and prosperity of the people. Always
leading and guiding public AFFAIRS, yigllant IN
local concerns and energetic in defense OF
local interests they are truly maps Of busy
life, its fluctuations and its vast concerns"