Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-11-03
THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA.


Cedar Rapids has experienced a
great building boom this season.
The York Commercial club is NOV
ing in the matter of getting a new
depot.
c. F. Pettigrew, a Chicago con-
tractor, is to put in gas plant at Co
lumbus.
There was a good attendance from
Nebraska at the exposition on Ne
braska day.
Johnson county is shipping potatoes
by the carload to Kansas and Mis-
souri, points.
Joachim Miller. six miles north of
Utica, blew the top of his head off
with a shotgun. No cause is given
for the act
At Hardy, Matte Forsha fell from
footbridge into the Republican river,
but was rescued as she came up the
third time.
Nebraska dentists are not we'll
pleased with the present dental laws,
and will be before the next legisla-
ture for relief.
AT York Charles and William Marke
were arraigned before Judge Taylor
and held in bonds of $1,000 each on
charge of kidnapping.
Charley Smolinski. Polish lad,
while fishing in McPhersons lake east
of Columbus, caught turtle which
weighed nearly thirty pounds.
The city council of Wymore has
granted franchise to the Gage Coun-
ty Independent Telephone company
and work on it's lines will be COM
menced.
The new mill which has been built
in Ithaca by the Ithaca Milling COM
pany, with capacity of 100 barrels
per day. commenced grinding wheat
last week
After a successful pastorate of
seven years, Rev. f. f. James of Ere
mont, pastor of the Christian church,
has rendered his resignation, to take
effect next month.
The new wagon bridge across the
Platte river at Schuyler has been
nearly enough completed that teams
are crossing daily from Butler county
in great numbers.
Stanley M. Rosewater of Omaha
won out in a competition with over
$50 students for one of the two va
cant places on the Unitrsity of Mich
igan Glee ane Mandolin clubs.
The Fremont Concrete and Artific-
ial Stone company filed articles of in
corporation. Richard Whitfield. F.
McGiverin, Conrad Hollenbeck and A.
q. Littlechild are the incor2orators.
A. s. Gregaret, who is looking after
the sugar beet crop near Ames, says
he has sixty-five acres still in the
ground, the gathering of which is de-
layed on account of the heavy wealth
er.
At Lincoln, Louis Folts is dead and
his bride of three months is under
the care Of physicians from the eff
fects of inhaling gas that escaped
from an instantaneous heater in their
bath room.
The work of excavation for the new
Burlington depot at Crete has been
begun. Since the burning of the old
depot last spring a small wooden
shanty has done service as a pas
senger depot.
The new church edifice of the Unit
ed Evangelical denomination at Hast
ings was dedicated last Sunday at
three services. The new church is a
wooden structure erected at cost Of
$1,000 and has seating capacity Of
500.
Farmers who desire the privileges
of winter institute can get full par
ticulars by writing to Prof. T. l.. Lyon
OF Lincoln. The farmers institute is
supported by the state and is under
control of the regents of the Univer-
sity of Nebraska.
Bert Egge, the 17-year-old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus Egge of Tecum-
sch, has disappeared and his parents
are alarmed at his absence. The
young man was employed on a farm
east of Tecumseh.
County Attorney j. II. Linderman of
Dawson county secured a requisition
for the return of Leonard E. Morton,
who is under arrest at Loveland. Colo.
MORTON Is accused OI SeIIluS mOuSy
under false pretenses.
Extensive improvements have been
completed about the Hastings asylum
this summer, the greater part of the
work having been done by the in
mates. Numerous new walks and
drives have been made.
Mrs. Catherine Ziska, formerly of
Wilbur, imagined that she was tor
mented by demons and tried to com
NIT suicide in the county jail at Lin
coin. A prisoner gave the alarm and
the woman was rescued.
The owners of bottom land on the
Little Nemaha river. between Auburn
and Nemaha City. have organized a
mutual company for the purpose OF
Strengthening the Little Nemaha river
and cleaning and dredging the same
TO prevent the overflow.
The Farmers State bank of Ans
ley has been incorporated with cap
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