Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-28
THE STATE IN BRIEF.

after be closed on Sunday by order of
the mayor.
A large party is about to leave Al
many weeks
Sheriff Bauman of Dodge County
has a mare thirty.two years old that
is just nursing her first colt
Ten cars of stock were contributed
to a special train at Leigh, all of
them except one being shipped by
farmers
Henry NJ Willis of Blue Springs,
aged forty-seven years, was adjudged
insane and taken to the state hospital
for insane.
S. l.. Wright, county judge of Thurs
ton county, died of grip and pneumon-
ia. He was GO years of age and leaves
4 large family.
Plans have been completed to hold
a summer ChautauQuan assembly in
Albion under the management of DR..
c. NJ. Lowe of Genoa.
Rev. Father Locker of the Holy
Trinity church of Harrington has re-
signed as priest-in-charge, the condi-
ton of his health demanding rest.
The home of George Stats of Saun-
ders County, five miles southwest of
Fremont, was burned to the ground.
The house was. a new one, built two
years ago at a cost of $4,000.
A new depot building for West Point
is now an assured fact. Deeds to the
property were turned over to the rail
road company and the old buildings
on the lots are advertised for sale.
At a meeting of the board of county
supervisors of Seward county a court
house proposition was discussed at
some length. That the county is badly
IN need of court house is well
known.
Articles of incorporation and by
laws of the Tecumseh Building &
Loan Association have been approved
by the state banking board and the
incorporation articles filed with the
secretary of state.
The board of directors Of the Com
mercial club of Beatrice extended an
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oraska F. A. r. association to hold the
district reunion in that city during
the coming summer.
After twenty-five years service as
pastor of the st. Johns Lutheran
;hurch and teacher of the German
school at Harper, about four miles
forth of this place, Rev. A. Bergt
handed in his resignation.
Rev. w. NJ. Morrow, the Methodist
Episcopal minister at Table Rock, has
gone with his family to Washington
county, New York, having been
chosen to Dastorate in the New York
conference in that county.
The new music building in process
Of erection for York college will be
known as the Hulitt conservatory, in
honor of John Hulitt of Hillsboro, O.
The college authorities decided to
make this building memorial to Mr.
Hulitt in consideration of his bene-
factions, amounting to $4,000.
A special school bond election has
been called in West Point by the local
board for the purpose of submitting a
proposition to the voters for the is
suance of $4,000 bonds for the cree
ton of an addition to the public school
building and equipping the same.
| While demented and broodng over
business troubles Mrs. Caroline Pfser
a widow, living near Butte, attempted
suicide by hanging. She tied a rope
over the doorway at her home and
standing on trunk tied the other
end of the rope around her neck and
kicked the trunk from under her feet
She was almost dead when rescued
Farmers of Sarpy county are NOV
Ing in the matter of building an ele-
yator.
Several huge cribs of corn belong
ing to the j. H. Lynds company were
burned at Dawson, with 1900 bushels
Of corn and large quantity of oats
The blaze originated from a spark
blown into the chaff from a traction
engine used in operating a corn she'll
er close at hand.
Warren Lloyd of North Platte
owner and manager of the opera
house, and one of the Oldest engineers
on the Union Pacific. died last week
Of pneumonia, at the age of seventy.
four years He commenced railroad
ing in 1850, and has been an engineer
almost constantly ever since in vari-
Gus parts of the country.
While H. W. Burkett. who resides
southeast of Plattsmouth. was look
ing over the effects of the late Rachael
Kearney he discovered a So county
script drawn on the York bank of
York, Pa, bearing interest at the rate
of ] per cent per annum, which was
issued in 1883. Correspondence fol-
lowed and reply came from the bank
that the face value of the script would
be paid upon presentation.
At meeting of the Beatrice Driv-
ing Association it was decided to open
the season with a matinee. to be held