The Red Cloud chief., 1904-03-18
nebraska Hofes.


Four ~octogcnarians died at Omaha on
the same day. One of them settled there
rs early as 1856.
A team of mules, probably one OF
the finest in Gage county. was sold on
the streets of Beatrice for 1895.
One OF the finest country school
houses in the state is said to be that
of district No. 3 in Dodge county.
Elgin, Nebraska, is to have a new
school house. II will cost $4,000. Con-
tractors at Elgin have secured the
work.
Out in Sheridan county the farmers
are organizing for more extensive and
better directed operations In raising
potatoes.
The city council Of Grand Island Is
taking time by the forelock in passing
ordinances to insure quiet and SAFETY
on July Fourth.
The new revenue law say every man
must swear to the number of his dogs,
and pay taxes on every dog, and double
taxes on lady dogs.
The Plug family in Nebraska are
engaged I'm better business than their
namesakes in Russia. One of them out
at Exeter is expert in dairying.
The Rev. c. w. Savage of Omaha,
IN twenty years has married over LOO
couples. Yet the reverend gentleman
himself was very slow in marrying.
or the proposed $4,000 endowment
fund for the Hastings college, $4,000
has now been subscribed, of which $2G,-
nnn .u1n,ng frn,, gnIcnrihnro nntGiHn M
Hastings.
Nebraska may have no fancy enter
tainment at the st. Louis fair, but when
II comes Z the exhibit OF agricultural
resources, Nebraska will be there with
the goods. -
Beatrice Is said to be enforcing the
law for the prevention OF the sale OF
tobacco to minors. II Beatrice Is really
doing this 1t is about the only town in
the state that Is.
A forty-acre piece Of farming land
north of Fremont sold at 500 per acre.
The same land sold a few years ago at
S55 per acre. that price being regarded
as high at that time.
About thirty new buildings are al
ready contracted for by the people OF
the vicinity of Ord to be put up right
away. The same kind of news N
from other Nebraska communities.
The Norfolk Leap Year club is being
flooded with communications from all
over the state. Two of the members
have already succeeded in landing VIC
Tins. They hold their meeting mystic
riously once each week.
Fremont has a dog whose breed
ought to commend itself to telephone
companies. The dog is perfectly con-
genial to all persons except alone to
those who try to sponge the use of his
owners telephone. For these he has
no federation.
The Rock Island has announced that
a 3,000-mile ticket will be placed on sale
in the near future. The ticket will be
good for one year from date Of sale. It
will be honored over every mile of the
Rock Island and Frisco systems and
their auxiliary roads.
Lester Somers, a 4-year-old Fremont
boy. installing arsenic pills for cough
drops. and swallowed some. A doctor
and a stomach pump being handy, the
mistake luckily did not prove fatal,
but tUt oOy = tiOtutI Hdo louuu a hCW
place to store arsenic pills.
The contract has been let for the new
church building OF Trinity German
Evangelical Lutheran. Lincoln, to be
erected at the corner Of Thirteenth and
II streets. adjoining the present edifce.
The new church will be of brick, will be
ffty-six feet by eighty feet and will
cost about $12, 900. The old frame build
Ing will be left where 1t Is and fitted
up for the use Of the parochial school.
A successful beet harvesting machine
has been invented and completed by
W farmers living near McCook. The
machine operated by one man with
-four horses harvests and loads three
acres of beets in a day, the equivalent
OF what -four men and fourteen horses
car do under old methods. 1t cost:
about the same as a grain harvester.
Lincoln county has scored the initia.
ton OF a new annual grain industry II
the raising and shipping Of upland rye
for the St. Louis distillery market
O fifteen carloads being marketed
The rye yields forty bushels to the acre
brings 3S cents and Is excellent in quail
ity.
The citizens OF Wausa show tn,
proper spirit in sticking together ant
pushing any project that is for tn,
benefit OF the community. Difference
of opinion sometimes arise, but whel
1t comes to the Anal struggle, every
n takes a hold and does everythinI
possible towards making a success @
the undertaking, whatever IL may be.
Ernest Bessey. OF the University o
Nebraska, $50, at present studying II
the University of Halle. Germany, will
go to Algiers, Africa, to study the dat
palms which grow there. He does thi
at the request OF the United States dc
partment Of agriculture, Shortly afte
his return to Germany he will tax
the examination for the doctors degre,
II. J. Lee, Of Fremont, is the oldes
hardware merchant who has been col
tinuously in that business in Nebraski
lie begain in February. 1870, just thil
ty-four years ago. N. NJ. Pillsbury. {
., the same city, disputes Mr.. Lees It'll
claiming priority by a month or two.