Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-07
A., NEWS IN BRIEF.

interest toward securing new depot.
The board of directors of the Beat.
rice Commercial club elected H. v.
Riesen secretary to succeed A. l..
Green, resigned
Mrs. Ravens, an elderly lacy of
Minden, while crossing the b. & NJ
track was hit by train No. and died
within a short time.
The congregation of st. James Epis-
copal church, Fremont, has received
with regret a communication for Rev.
II. T. Moore. now at San Anotnio,
Tex, resigning the charge at this
place.
At special meeting of the voters
of the Syracuse school district it was
decided to add twelfth grade work to
the course of study and make syria.
cuse fully accredited school in the
state university.
Elmer Jackson, a boilermaker at
Harvard, took his two small sons out
hunting west of Havelock, and sue.
ceeded in shooting two of his own toes.
He was sitting on bank waiting for
The Lang broom factory at Beatrice
| is turning out about seventeen dozen
brooms per day at present. These are
all made by hand, but as soon as the
new machinery arrives the output
will be increased to over 100 dozen
per day.
Servants of Uncle Sam in Lincoln
will petition for two shower baths for
the postoffice help and will ask that
such a provision be made in the new
federal building Federal authorities
there think the request will be
granted.
At preliminary hearing before
Meyers was bound over to the May
term of the district court in the sum
of $1,000, on the charge of rape, pre-
ferred by Miss Livonia Egolf of Cor
dova, Neb.
The retail clerks of Norfolk have
organized themselves and have APP
piled to the officials in Omaha to be
admitted to the union. This action
on their part is caused by their dis
like to the prevalent Sunday trading
which is carried on in Norfolk.
Sixty farmers assembled at the
court house in Wayne and passed res
olutions requesting that restrictions
be placed upon the automobile of DR..
Leisenring, whom it is said, has
caused many of the farmers much
uneasiness when passing team with
his new auto. A test case will be
had.
DR.. j. H. Crabs, the oldest practic-
ing physician in Dodge county and
one of the oldest in the state, is Sc
riously i'll with a complication of dis
eases and his recovery is doubtful.
He is n years of age and has been
engaged in his profession for fifty
years and for thirty-five years in Ne
braska.
The Odd Fellow and Rebekah |
lodges of Table Rock are making ar
rangements for the celebration on |
April 26 of the eighty-fifth anniver- |
sary of the American Odd Fellowship. |
Committees have been appointed |
from each of the lodges to complete |
the arrangements for it's proper OBJ
servance.
In the county court at Seward Chas.
Watgen was bound over to the May |
term of the district court on the
charge of wife abandonment. The
section of the criminal code under
which this prosecution was brought
is new one, being passed at the last
session of the legislature and known
as house roll No. 329
Deputy Food Commissioner Thomp-
son has ordered returned to the
wholesale merchants sixty-five barrels
of vinegar that analysis proved to be
adulterated The vinegar was dis
covered in stores in these towns: Co
lumbus, Madison, Norfolk, Wayne,
Emerson, Pender, Bancroft, Lyons,
Oakland and Tekamah.
The Indian Bureau is engaged in pre-
paration of plans and specifications for
the improvement OF the water supply
at the Indian school at Genoa, and
will advertise for proposals for the
work. 1t is estimated that the neces-
sary work can be accomplished for
$4,000 This school is now drawing it's
water supply from the city Of Genoa.
The proposed water system contem-
plates the sinking of several wells, the
erection of tanks and a water tower.
Evangelist Sunday, who has been
holding meetings in Sterling the last
six weeks, has had a remarkable re-
vival about 1,056 people being con
verted. The collection for the minis
ter the last Sunday amounted to the
sum of $4,000 and the women made
up purse of $50 for his wife.
The team of mules, harness and
buggy which was stolen from Lois
lngiverson in Cass county have not
been found. They were traced to
Weeping Water, then to the wagon