The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1892-08-26
NEBRASKA.
Newsy Notes About Nebraska Places
and People,


and People,
A full grown 'possum was captured
near Elk Creek.
Walter Stout of Friend, has received
an appointment to the Annapolis naval
academy.
John Downey Of Alexandria. lost his
left hand in threshing machine gear
ing.
The North Nebraska fair and races
at Norfolk will be held September 81
to 80.
Rev. Z. H. Baker of York county,
raised wheat that went sixty bushels
to the acre.
The new Baptist college at Grand
Island will open September Ii with
eight instructors.
Methodist ladies of Superior COL
lected aprons from friends in nearly
every state for a church fair.
John Cornelius of Grand Island shot
an arm off while hunting near St.
Michael and is in a %precarious condi-
ton.
! William Hawk of Herman had his
leg badly mangled between his trac-
ton engine and a separator he was
coupling to.
Lamont Inlay of Columbus saved
Leslie Lehman. a larger boy, from
drowning at considerable risk to his
own life.
The Waterloo canning factory is be-
ing converted into a seed house with
the latest things in tanning mills and
elevators.
Our old friend, Col. F. NJ. Woods,
the livestock Auctioneer, will hold an
auction sale of choice Holstcin cattle
at Lincoln. September 21st.
Lamar, Chase county, is making a
strong effort to have the railroad ex-
tended to Lamar instead of stopping
at Imperial, as planned.
Miss May North, daughter of j. E.
North of Columbus, who has been
studying for the stage, has secured ar
engagement with Elsie DeWolf.
A suit over a hog between two citl-
zens of Union has already amounted IN
fees and costs to four times the valne
of the hog.
A ladle Of melted babbit metal ex-
ploded and flew all over w. f. Craw
OF Stratton. burning his face and in
juring his e,yes.
Electric lights are turned on in
Chadron.
A g opera house will be built at
Portsmouth.
Ora Wallace of B~rookwalter lost an
eye trying to show her mother how to
rlay mumble-de-peg.
Culbertson talks of & law and order
league to suppress certain wild and
woody practices that still exist there.
Joseph Masek, near Rushville, lost
his right arm to the elbow by his oxen
starting with the binder as he oiled
the gearing.
The Logan Valley fair will be held
at Wakefield September s to 10.
A drunken night operator at Hay
Springs made things lively on that d.
vision of the road for awhile. He isn't
running any office now.
Otis Corbett and j. r. Hamilton of
Denver have reached Plattsm outh on
their way from Denver to New Orleans
in q skiff. They left Denver June 26.
Threshers sleeping in j. b. Stack
houses barn near Carleton woke up to
find the hay under them on fire. Sew
eral cans of milk and some blankets
proved successful fire extinquishers.
People of Delta, Otoe county, have
to drive five miles to find a barber.
Superintendent Rakestraw of the
blind asylum at Nebraska City has
been out looking for blind children not
in school and finds that an
prevails that the asylum is
. pay institution. No charge is made
tOr BOARD or tuition.
L. Buffalo. a young man of Bell
wood, gave a boy q quarter to call
Ben Smith from the audience at a
grove religious meeting. and when
Smith came out there was IL scrimmage
that nearly broke up the meeting.
10 those persons who are busy with
life and the material things of this
world we come with the questions:
Are you satisfied Are you living the
full life intended for you? Stop a mo-
ment to think of the vast fields of
which you are leaving I'M
trod. Now it is possible for you under
the guidance of Chautauqua to enter
upon this q world. You may start
In slow and as your interest increases
you will find more spare time than you
thought. .Chautauqua is a carefully
.systematized course of reading de-
signed to cover a period OF four years.
The books are standard and the helps
sent from the home office are arranged
TO- how you the best ways for study.
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