Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-19

SUNDAY afternoon 0Aeu - years ne VIZ
the father OF fifteen children, eleven q
whom are living. The funeral was held
yesterday afternoon at 40.
WAYNE-Wayne Is making many Inn
provements in the way Of hundreds OF feet
OF cement walks, and numerous residences
are in course OF construction. Robert Mel
which will be occupied by the popular hard
ware firm OF Nicely & Craven.
osCEOLA-Pastor Grigsby OF the Meth
odist church Is trying to convince his peo-
pie and everyone else that the Epworth
assembly OF this year at Lincoln is TO be
a hummer, and nothing better has ever
been held Osceola will send a good repre-
| sentation while the assembly lasts.
PLATTSMOUTH-Ro Probst, living
at Mynard, three miles south Of here, eN-
perienced a painful accident this morning
while operating a gasoline engine. His
hand was caught, and ms nns s so SO p S,
to amputate the second and third finger at
| the first joint.
! YORK-York county farmers are most
| sgreeably disappointed in the yield OF
winter wheat and the quality. Every wheat
raiser says that the crop of winter wheat
/ county and the quality is better yet Only
/ four weeks ago farmers were feeling blue
| over the Hessian fly scare.
| PLATTSMOUTH-Th brotherhood OF
| railway trainmen held their annual picnic
/ here Sunday. An excursion Grain OF SIX
| the large crowd near Patterson's park:
Many. OF the people here attended and
| nelpeQ 10 make Lne plCulC a suCCtSo-
| COLUMBUs-Robert Wager, aged "a
| years, died at the family home in this city
last evening. He has been III for "ome
| old age. He was born in Germany, but
came to America over fifty years ago. He
one daughter, all living in this city.
| SCHUYLER-Prof. f. b. Sherman handed
in his resignation to the school board to
| accept the position at Columbus. The
school board will have special meeting
tomorrow night to act an the resignation
and consider applications Tor the pos oisiuo on
| GREETED by the citizens as he was a prime
favorite with all
BEATRICE-The hve-year-old son Of
near being killed Sunday. Mr.. Hoagland
was returning from Dewitt in buggy and
frightened and jumped into the rear of
the buggy in which the lad was riding,
breaking Il down and seriously injuring the
child by striking it on the head with It's
hoofs.
MISUNDERSTANDING has commenced
out on the bluffs. Wheat Is doing eXcep-
tionally we'll and it is thought the average
. will be from eighteen ITO twenty bushels
per acre and perhaps more Some heids'
five or forty bushels. Corn is growing
fast since the weather became. warmer
bumper crop.
wAYNE-Postmistres Helen McNeal
, gave a lawn party on Thursday evening
of her cousin, Miss Wallace of Houston,
Texas Progressive hammock was the
) added aeite to the occasion. Miss McNeai de-
parted Friday morning for Omaha and
Council Bluffs, where she Will spend tw9
weeks vacation visiting relatives and
: friends.
! CoLUAfBUs-August Pollen, a farmer
living in Woodville township, has made
the first claim under the new bounty las
} and has left three wolf scalps with County
, Clerk Graf which will net him $50. He
} was driving binder when the sickle be.
came clogged and when he examined II
, he found he had driven over a nest OF
young wolves. One Of them had cloggeg
s the sickle and the other three ne klle1
with a whip stock.
FREMONT-Albert Patterson, the boy
e who was shot on an island in the Platte sun
Y day afternoon is still living and in the opin'
ion of the surgeons has possible chance
of recovering. The bullet has not beer
Z the back fracturlng one of the bones OF
3 the spinal column and entering the lungs
q There is only slight clue to the I5rties
who did the shooting. They are believed
to have been OF party or young neI
! who were firing at a target
SCHUYLER-Harve is on In full blast
!, The yield of small grain is very heav!
q | and of extra good quality. The hay croI
is abundant and the haying season Is on II
| full blast Corn is coming along In gooC
3 shape but Will need rain badly in couple
I of days II the warm weather keeps up here
{, The warm spell has been on now since las
Y Thursday and shows no signs OF abating
Z The thermometer here registered S de
grees in the shade. Farmers are ju6ilasn
Q points to most prosperous year.
. BEATRICE-Yesterday Deputy Sheriff
5 John Trude brought back Charley cain
y who broke Jail here about a year ago. HI
was arrested in Wymore the other day 70
9 stealing, and after serving out his sentenc
e try. He did not 60 so he was brough
e here yesterday ana lodged in jail Tn
: deputy also arrested William Hsimsn a
a lodged him in Jail. He viii be taken be
n fore the insanity board i3r nearing tnrrgS a a
d insanity.
3 WAYNE-The rededicatory services OF 81
t. PauIs Lutheran church were held last Sab
bath and attended by a large audience.
n handsome new addition has been added t
Ii the church building under the supervision
d of its energetic pastor, Rev. c. ]. Ringer
The following ministers were present I
y son. Kan. field secretary OF the Board O
Church Extensions; Rev. L. p. Ludden o
!. | Lincoln, Neb.. western secretary Boar
s. s. Of Home Missions and NJ. L. Mellick Q
- Omaha. The dedicatory sermon was de
~ livered by Rev. L. p. Ludden.
n sCHUYLER-The proposed Ehrnberge
h drainage ditch is the cause of considerable
le S who are assessed Ss and as over half
Z the town is assessed considerable hghtin
are assessed up in the hundreds Of dollar
are contemplating fighting II. M.
Bohman, one of the local hay barons, ha
employed an attorney to prosecute a clail
for damages, as the ditch goes throug
his land. Mr.. Bohman is assessed abor
5000 Others will fight it, but the chance
are that 1t will go through.
GRAND ISLAND-Mr. John Mohr, jr
and Miss Nellie Culbertson, living
Prairie Creek township, seven miles mort
of the city, have sprung a complete SUI
prise upon their relatives by announcin
their marraigI last March, at Kearne!
Tho young people were known to have bee
engaged and the neighborhood had bee
anticipating the wedding celebration, bl
were by good wits outwitted Since the
marriage they had been living as befor
with their respective parents, none of whoi
objected to the match and the only reaso
being the avoidance of the charivari partie
which have become so unpleasant and NJ
torious.
COLUAIBUS-At the last meeting of III
board OF education, Prof. e. b. Sherman
Schuyler was elected superintendent
the city schools here to al the vacan1
caused by the resignation of W. M. Kerr
Mr.. Sherman was one of the forty al
y applicants for the position aud has bee
Is SUPERINTENDENT of the Schuyle. schools fC
m | the past Six years and comes here veT
| highly recommended. The Lo.trd also Il
p, the contract for the gymnasium acd!tio
I'd 10 the high school and the work has bee
Nv | commenced. This will cost almost $50
= | the building being 40x70 feet with a lars
OI basement in which will be located u
lathes and other mechanical devices, u
upper floors for manual training. III
building is to be compl ed by September ]
GRAND STANDINGS Vanscoy, en-
ployed at the home of Mr.. and Mrs Berl
| Guist played a coOl-headed IL not hero
part in the eXtnguishing OF a fire ye
terday. She suddenly discovered that Il