Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-01-15
Local
Mention.
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on the South Loup Tuesday.
J. +. McCrea of Weisert, made
, this Office a business call Satur-
day.
Major Ellison of Ansley, was a
friendly caller at this Office the
latter part of Fast week.
Y. w. Dean of West Union,
was a city visitor Monday. This
Office acknowledges friendly
call
Sunday night was the coolest
of the season thus far. The Their
mometer registered II degrees be-
low zero.
This Office acknowledges a
friendly call from Tom Wright
and A. II. Banks of the Chronicle
Citizen Monday.
Ed. Meth has sold the Palace
Barber Shop, he recently bought
of M. c. Freed, to Eliza f. Pea
cock of South Loup.
The county board at its session
yesterday named the Beacon and
Chief as the official papers, each
to receive half the legal rates.
George Brown has lost sixteen
head of cattle from cornstalk
disease this week. 1t seems
strange that no one can find a
sure preventative of this trouble.
Sargent Leader.
This office acknowledges the
receipt of a copy of the Biennial
report of the Auditor of Public
Accounts to the Governor of Ne
braska, December, 1902, for
which Auditor Weston has our
| thanks.
+. M. Currie informs us that
he is going out OF the stock bust
ness on his own account, and
will devote his time to the man
ageHett of the affairs of the
Kinsman Cattle Company. -Sar-
gent Leader.
Frank Conley of the Galloway
Tribune, Is treating his patrons
to an interesting write up of the
things of interest he saw and
visited in the Old Dominion in
and around Richmond, Virginia,
on his recent visit east.
J. G. l.. Wisely of Sargent,
came over Monday to attend the
meeting of the Custer County
Editorial Association. He re-
turned to Sargent Tuesday with
the intention of moving to Gull
bertson, where he will establish
a news paper.
Mrs. Mollie Erickson of Brews.
ter, died at her home January 3,
of organic liver complaint. The
deceased was the only daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. G.. w. Brewster,
founder of the town of Brewster
and wife of p. c. Erickson, edi.
tor of the BREWSTER News. She
leaves husband and one child, q
boy eleven years old, father and
mother to morn her death. The
} REPUBLICAN extends its sympathy
to the relatives in their grea'
bereavement.
, One of the Saddest and mos
shocking events we ever chronicl
ed is that which befell the Swear
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Henry Wilke, south of Cooleyton
last Saturday noon. While it
mother was out of the house thu
child's dress caught fire and tn,
clothes covering the front side o
= its body were entirely burned
! when the mother returned and eX
: tinguished the flame, Medica
aid was at once summoned, bu
to no avail. 1t lived but "a hour
. after the aCcident.-Loup Count,
5 News.
e A little church in Pennsylvan
T in recently celebrated the on
I thousand millionth minute sine
Christ's coming to earth. In al
$ article on "Pierpoint Morgan
s his Advisers and his organiZa
K tiou," John Brisben Walker men
= tons that Mr.. Rockefeller i
= popularity supposed to control on
thousand million dollars, an
, that one thousand million dollar
would represent the labor of tie
thousand men since Christ'S com
, ing to earth, calculated at tn
average scale of wages paid dur
:, ing the past two thousand years
u In the same number of tn
Cosmopolitan a very interestin
calculation is made as to wha