The Columbus journal., 1902-12-10

Ma 1uss I. HagA vho 1ue nan,
yeors ~ tie lss1ing auGie tseeAse q
th1 city and vho wa1 ths inspirsr 70
many of our bet musiciana, has agail
looated in ColumbuA For the pct fsv
yesss Mra Pags be- been teaching il
Hastings and Sohuy3sc.
During The suov storm Tuesday
night Of Lest week quite . fall oe tn
,, beautiful vas ths RESULT and this w
followed Friday night By . coaPas d
inches vhioh nsds vssy faif slsighing
and the merry jinG3s q ths bslh vsss
hard On ths strsses of Tie city Ill day
Saturday.
Without any apparent Gauss, tha
mousy mazket il this locality seems e
b stringent Whilsmost oe ths farmer
srs mon than busy sathssins corn and
cleaning up ths email grain crop they
ars anable to eonmeocs to move their
pcodieia, still tn. JoUaxAL can 80 no
rsason Yhy, in Tie near future. money
shoald not become very plentiful.
-Nn Eklsbsrry Of Bonestssl. South
Dakota formerly .of Colfax county, il
visiting Nm E. J. Young north Of the
city. Owing TO the extension Of The f.,
e. 4 n. v. railroad and also the cootem-
plated opening of The Rosebud agency
next yser the town Of Booestesl = ex-
pseisnchg . great boom. many families
ut the present time living in tents.
-THR JOURNAL i in receipt Of letter
from 'ths manager Of tho Metropolitan
Stock Go. which had been sdvertised to
appearin this city, in which he states
that tho company closed their engage
meotSt Fullerton on sccount Of sickness
Of tvo Of The company, and that there i
no truth to The rumor that the company
failed financially. Ths show viii b 10
oeganissd and expect to play Columbus
thi0 season.
Efforts 70 discover . workable coal
mine in Nebraska having thus far failed.
attention u bsing diverted to deposits OF
peat. There arc said to b boes in
Dakota, Seward, Logan, Cedar, Dixon,
Thomas and Platte counties. In Logan
there u . deposit six miles long and
fifteen fest thick. A company may b
organised to work it but We fear tho
operators will not cut much peat.-Fre-
mont Tribune.
AT the Last general meeting Of the
Woman's club it vas decided to do some
charitable work st Christmas time. Any
person having knowledge Of any ono in
destitute circumstances will pleass notify
the following committees: First ward,
Mra N. Brugger. Mn. ". 7. Rickly and
Miss Emily Seeslks; Second ward, Mn.
II. p. H. Oehlrich, Mrs. A. Heintz and
llias Alice Luth; Third ward, Mrs. F. II.
0eer. Mn. Sarah Brindley and Mra 7.
Dack.
-C. K. Davies returned Thursday
from Chicago where be spent nearly .
weeks time taking in the sights ct the
Fat Stock Show. His young son accom-
panied him on the trip. Many 6ne
lpecimens OF stock vere on exhibition,
md Shamrock. champion Of the show.
was sold at auction for 56 cents . pound
on the boot to New York City party, 6
,ents higher than last year. At Sham
rocks Weight Of 1906 pounds. his selling
price ves $l.Ol0sa
AT the annual election Of officers Of
Baker Post, G. A. r., on tho 9Th the fol- |
owing were named: Commander, A. W. |
Clark; Senior Vice, r W. Young; Jr.
vioe. Rz:Weldon; Q. Il. J. b. Galley;
t. Hahn; Surgeon. Ed. CLARK; /
D. Of D., r l. Rossiter; O. OF g., J. N.Y.
No; trustee, e. U. Rector; delegate to
he national encampment, r z Weldon;
l. Hahn. The installation OF
,dicers will take place the first Saturday
10 January.
Tho building occupied by Swift &
20. ON Thirteenth street was tho scene
u quite blaze Monday evening about |
7:30. from the intense heat OF . stove,
which vas too near . partition, and b.
|ore the fremen could reach the place
lbout $50 damage vas done to the
building and about $3.50 to the property
II the Swift company. The building 10
owned by VIM. McEves. Al usual, the
ire department. were soon on tho ground
md did effective service.
Tho city librarian, Miss Fannie Geer,
reports that during tho month Of Novem-
ber 312 books were read BY ls3 patrons.
This 10 the largest number OF books
taken out in any ono month since the
opening Of tho library. A new list Of
books is being prepared which will cost
about 500 and will consist mainly OF
novels and juvenile reading matter. The
books arc FREQ for the public to read and
moro people should take advantage Of
The good literature in the library.
Ono Of our exchanges says that .
young lady has . bean Who u in tho
habit OF calling at her homo nix nights
10 tho week and stays % late that he has
become Q nuisance. The other evening
- tho clock struck eleven she gave him
} pencil and paper and told him to make
sleson ciphers in . straight line and
draw . perpendicular line down from tho
right side Of the first and . line up on
he right side Of the fourth, down on tho
right side OF the sixth, up on tho right
.ide Of tho eighth, up on tho right side
y the tenth, the lines to b about IN
inch jh length. Then che told him to
read what he had written. The hint W.
Dtartlihg and tho fellow has not been