The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-25
NEBRASKA.

Lincoln has put in bid for the mex
irrigation congress.
The poultry and stock show at Hast
angs was well attended.
The pupils of the Ansley school have
organized dramatic club.
The Masons of Osceola will celebrate
st. Johns day, the 27th inst.
Ice and snow are out of the way and
corn husking is going forward again.
The Grand Island sugar factory ex
poets to run until the first week in Feb
ruary.
A well organized gang of chicken
thieves are operating in portions OF
Adams county.
Old settlers of Adams county will
hold midsummer meeting the second
Thursday in June.
Sugar beet tops are selling at 81
cents bushel at Tilden, and it is said
they are worth that
The Kearney industrial school has
211 boys enrolled, a lower number
than for several years.
j. r. Stiltz of Gering shipped through
Sidney G0,0oo pounds of alfalfa seed
for the Chicago market
Galloway has organized a new social
club, the object of which is to give
seml-wee5ly dancing parties
The Logan Valley fair association at
Wakefield has been dissolved by vote
of two-thirds of the stockholders.
Oliver, son Of Ed J. Hall, lately de-
ceased, will keep books at the Kearney
industrial school after the first of Jan
uary.
Table Rock has not yet settled the
postmastership question. Two cleo
tions have been held without defiuite
results.
Mrs. j. Curry of Fremont is one of
the sevcntyfive heirs to the Baker es-
tate in Philadelphia, valued at $780,
000,O ,O00
The North Platte Poultry and Pet
Stock association will have their sec
ond annual show at Humphrey Dec. 90,
30 and 81.
John Dolazel of Wilbur wants a di-
vorce from his wife. Six months ago
she ran off with another man, and has
not yet returned.
The editor of the Chester Herald Of
fers to wager $500 on Thayer county
girl who can shuck her seventy-five
bushels of corn a day.
The mail carriers of Omaha and
South Omaha are rustling for the pur-
pose of capturing the national associa-
tion meeting for 1898.
The man who leaves Nebraska in
hopes of finding a better place, says
the Stuart Ledger, would do well to
purchase return ticket.
Grandpa Oakes of Garrison will soon
celebrate his 91st birthday. He enjoys
good health and expects to be here to
celebrate his Tooth anniversary.
Ed Wright, the leading merchant of
Scotia, committed suicide by shooting,
i'll health being the cause, He had
been great sufferer for months.
Mrs. Scott of Lincoln fred four shots
at her husband as he was pursuing her
with big knife. She stopped his pro-
gress, but did not wound him fatally
A considera BILE number of farmers
about North Loup made contracts to
grow seeds for 4 Lincoln firm and are
now preparing the sd me for shipment.
A horse buyer in Banner county pays
. cents pound, regardless of age or
pedigree. Ii is thought they will
eventually seek the market as canned
beef"
Whitecaps went to the house of
farmer in Lincoln county and gave
him three hours in which to pack ur
and pull out. He procured Ninches-
ter and still holds the fort.
Word reaches Hemingford that True
Miller, living twenty miles west, who
accidentally shot himself three weeks
ago, died from the effects of the
wound, blood poison having set in.
c. J. Williams store at Syracuse was
robbed. Entrance was effected by
way of rear window. The cash reg
lister, containing 90 cents was taken.
The register was found near the B. &
NJ. track, west of town.
Mrs. Lydia sharp, one of the old set
tiers of Cunning county, died last week
at the old homestead, near Beemer. of
dropsy. She was born in Bedford
county, Virginia, March %, 1909. She
came to Cunning county in 1865.
Thieves broke into Krug's beer ware
house at Kearney and helped them
selves to what beer they wanted. The
police found a couple of young fellows
with part of the plunder. They were
locked up and, being closely ques-
toned, one of them made confession
The travelling mems Bryan club of
Lincoln is arranging banquet to be
rendered Mr.. Bryan on the evening of
December %, previous to his departure
on his lecture tour. All the incoming
state officers will be present, and many
of the leading bimetallists of the coun-
try have been invited.
c. II. Morrell reports that yesterday
he sold to Kansas City men, ten resi-
dence lots in Havelock, with an agree
ment that building to cost not less |
than 81 900 should be erected on each |
lot by July l, 1897. The purchasers |
were well pleased with Havelock, and |
feel confident it will in the near future |
become a manufacturing center. They |
gave assurances that they would build |
twenty houses in Havelock in the year |
1S9-.-From Nebraska State Journal