Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-11-09
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
LOCAL MENTION.

G.. b. Houder of Dunnipg, was
a city visitor Monday.
S. S. Mcconnell Of Georgetown,
was "a city visitor Saturday night.
Kew. A. Nj. Levac k will occupy
the pulpit at Merna again lie xt
Sunday evening.
Garlic Foote of Dunning. came
down Sunday morning returning
Sunday night on 4S.
; John II. Wood and wife went
to Mason City Tuesday afternoon
to see how the election was 60
ing.
Mrs Harry Sweeny of Merna,
and Miss Cora Foote we're city
visitors Saturday. This Office
acknowledges social call.
The Advo restaurant has start
ed ont we'll under the new man
agement and promises to beco me
one of the most popular haste
levies in the city.
Fred Myers, who was SO severe
~ kicked by horse few weeks
ago and was taken TO the City
Hospital with little hopes OF re-
covery was able to be out to the
polls Tuesday.
c. G Henderson, deputy org an
izer for the Highlanders, of York,
arrived in the city Tuesday
morning and will spend some
time here looking after the inter.
ests of the order here.
The next great holiday event
will be Christmas, which is fast
approaching Begin thinking
up your holiday offerings and put
the announcement of the same
where all the people will see it
in the REPUBLICAN of course.
Broken Bow cast full vote in
both wards Tuesday, and the
country precincts did better ia
this particular than was antici-
pated, Apathy existed through
out the campaign and it is graft
tying that as many people used
the right of suffrage as did.
There was quite a collection
of dogs in Limbo" by last Satur-
day, which the city marshal pick
+ ed up on the streets. No -tavori'
tism was shown, but every dog
{ the eagle eyes OF the marshal
: rested upon running at large was
| gathered in and taken to the
g pound.
/ j. A. O. Thomas has purchas-
ed six-horse power gasoline en-
CINE TO replace the steam engine
now being used in the Broken
Bow Steam Laundry and the
same will be installed IN few
> days. The make is the Column
. bus, which is exclusively used by
the government whenever this
particular kind Of power is used
| The cost of the new engine is
| $685.. Mr.. Thomas is ''never not
ready"
| The Central Telephone Co. i,
! certainly fortunate, as we'll a.
the public, in having been con
nected with the Bell Telephone
t Co. for transmitting long dis
t lance messages. We can nov
II talk with any place in the STATE
a as readily as with people livint
n right here in Broken Bow and re
5 ceive fully as good service.
f trial of the new system has con
= WINGED us Of these facts. We ar
=, glad of the new having replace
D the old system.
i w. II. Davis, for a number o
y years an employee of the Bur
e lington road in Nebraska, in al
X interview in the State Journal o
y Yesterday, says: ~ trave
4 around over Nebraska a grea
i deal. There is one universal
& howl from the public in genera
4 about the service, both in passer
4 ger and freight traffic. Unles
Z conditions radically change fo
= the better | tear there will b
IA some stringent measures passe
- by the next Legislature so sever
. that Nebraska railroads will NEE
y with a great injustice at I'll
H hands of much abused public
| because they will not stop to col
| slider all the mitigating circuu
| stances. Never at a time here
| tofore have Nebraska railroad
II aud especially the Burlington
II had so great a volume of all kind