Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-12-31
THE STATE IN A NUTSHELL.

holluaE vacation
A branch of the Ant.Saloon league
has been organized at Long Pine and
no-license ticket will be put in the
field in the spring.
In the apportionmemt ur scnoul
money by the state superintendent.
Sarpy county is shown to have 1927
children of school age, and the appor-
tionment is S2,12S.01.
$4,000 barn belonging to Mrs. w.
F. Cody in North Platte was burned
and her splendid residence narrowly
escaped. The fire is supposed to
have started from cigarette smoker.
The mutlated body of Charles
Woodward a farmer living near Gree
lew, was found about 9 o'clock at
night lying in tse street near a saloon,
and young Ed Hurle has been arrest
ed, charged with killing him.
A company has been organized for
the purpose of putting in a second
lumber yard in Clatonia. The COM
pany Is composed of local men ana
has strong financial backing, and will
carry a heavy line of all kinds of
building material
Paul Boob, farmer living in the
southwestern part of Sarpy county,
has finished husking his field OF $50
acres of corn. He was in the hail
stricken part of Sarpy county, and his
whole field only brought him $50 bush
els. or one bushel per acre.
Charles w. Baker. representative
of the Nebraska Central Electric
Railroad company, has been in Hast
ings negotiating for the right of way
for the proposed electric line to con-
meet that city with Omaha. The pro-
posed route from there is through Au-
rora, thence to Omaha by way Of Wa
hoo.
The school board Of Tecumseh dis.
trict has decided to divide the mem.
bership of the grammar school ana
establish another school in the coun-
Gil chamber at the city hall after the
holiday vacation. The grammar
school is so crowded this action be-
came necessary. OF the schools mem
bership of 1875 it is proposed to take
about fifty of the children to the new
school.
William A. Wolfe and wife have
placed the deeds in escrow for the
property which they propose to do
nate to the Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION of Beatrice. The property is
valued, together with the building
thnrnnn of COO hA 90
be turned over to the association
when like sum is raised from other
sources.
Many farmers in the vicinity of Val
ley, Douglas county, raised large guam
titles of vegetables and garden seeds
on contract for seedsmen. Last
spring they contracted to raise seed
sweet corn for $1,25 per 100 pounds.
Owing to short crops elsewhere the
price has gone up and dealers are
offering as high as $40 per 100 pounds
for the seed.
bold thief attempted to get away
with a team of horses and buggy
brara. The fellow jumped into the
carriage and whipped up the horses
in his effort to escape. One of the
animals stumbled and the driver was
forced to jump out. He was nabbed,
but slipped away, leaving his cap in
the team owners hands.
Food Commissioner Thompson an
nounced that he had discovered that
out of thousand barrels of vinegar
labeled pure cider 20 per cent was
distilled. He declares he will begin
prosecutions and enforce the law. Dis
titled vinegar must be so labeled. He
will also prosecute alleged offenders
in Omaha who are supposed to be us.
ing coloring matter in oleomargarine.
Retail grocers met with jobbers and
dry goods merchants at Lincoln for q
mutual heart-to-heart talk concerning
the little green trading stamps. The
matter was debated pro and con, and
nothing decisive was done in regard
to the matter. Jacob Yungblut, who
attended the meeting recently held at
Omaha, discussed the effects and in.
fiuences of the trading stamp system.
Driven frantic by harsh words used
during a family quarrel, Joseph Kalal,
Jr., left the dinner table, walked into
the back ward of his fathers farm
house and blew off the top of his head
with a shotgun The tragedy occur
red one mile northwest of Lynch, and
accounts assign no other cause than
the lads sensitiveness to severe crit
icism. He was 20 years of age and
had always been considered healthy
boy of normal mentality.
Michael Melina sues the Union Pa
cific for $1,995 for three broken ribs
He was employed in the railroad yards
to oil some switch boxes, and alleges
that while busy at that work on Au:
gust 81, a switch engine came along
and took undue liberties with him.
He AYERS that the foreman was drunk
and did not instruct him about the
dangerous nature of the work, and he
also alleges that the engine crew was
running the engine at a reckless rate
of speed.