Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-23

WOOD RlVER-The Methodist church
sonage to be erected soon. committee
has been visiting other towns, inspecting
newly built parsonages
WOOD RIVERS II. Graves. who fed
several thousand head of sheep in the west
part of this county last fall has changed
his feeding yards to Monroe and he will
feed 10000 head there this winter
GRAND ISLAND-Miss Hattie Thondal
was united in marriage to John F. Rickert
at the German Lutheran church by Rev.
housekeeping at once at their home in this
city
sUPERIoR-This afternoon Mrs. Newell,
department inspector of the Wotnen's Re
lief corps conducted inspection Of Old Aho
corps No. s. Report has It that the local
| corps was credited with many works of
merit.
WOOD RIVER-Corn husking has COM
menced and the farmers are busy in their
| fields. The yield is much better than ex-
| pected. New corn is being contracted by
the farmers and grain men for so cents
per bushel.
sUPERIOR-An informal meeting of
this week. A st. Halloween program is
| reported to have been one of the most
interesting and enjoyable social events of
the season.
! GRAND ISLAND-The Kearney Military
academy foot ball team defeated the high
school foot ball team of this city by the
| score or 70 to yesterday. The visitors
| averaged about twenty pounds more to
/ the man than the locals.
! OSCEOLA-Two more of the veterans Of
/ the civil war have passed over to flames
| eternal camping ground. Both of these
veterans were old settlers Of Polk county,
! having come here I'm the, earliest 7O's
Z. Cutting.
TECUMsEH-The first event of the Bust.
| ness mems lecture course of Tecumseh
occurred az the Hahn opera house last
+ evening. Inc occasion was the nrst ap-
I pearance here OF the Manning glee club Of
! Boston. The club gave a very delightful
a md
! good sized audience.
TECUMSEH-W Gather conditions have
been much improved in this section the last
few days. lhe farmers are anxious 10
get into the corn nelds, which have been
very wet. There is a scarcity of corn
picKers, and the farmers are onering from
| to cents per busnel ana board for men.
The crop Is good
| TECU MSkt1-Unver Garriss, the 17-year-
old son Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Gariss OF this
city died early yesterday morning of diph-
| liberia Inc disease made It's appearance
in the FANNY two weeks ago, afticrIng two
OF the cnlidi en-. A strict quarantine was at
once put over the premises ana the spread
of the diphtneria very successfully pre-
vented
WOOD RIVER The cucumber threshins
is about finished, and this new industry
has given work to hundreds in this VI
entity. The cucumDers are raised for
seed. They are picked and thrown into a
machine which smaShes them into a pulp
and separates the seed. Several hundred
acres of squash have been raised Tor the
same purpose.
FREMONr-The republican county COM
mittee yesterday afternoon nominated
John c. Cleiand of this city for register
of deeds j. w. Schultz of Scribner, ". A
Granam OF North Bend and S. w. BOYD
of Fremont for supervisors, and instructed
the chairman and secretary to file protests
| aqa inst the damocratic candida tss e. 49,
otnces going the ticket in their party
column on the ground that they were
irregularly nominated
| GRAND ISLAND-Put in the sweat boy
in connection with the well founded charge.
that a steer had become crippled in a car
while being shipped to Omaha, had beer
. | the local markets, Mr. Helm, a slaughterer
admitted that he killed such an ANNA
/ for his employer, j. Clemens dressed IN
took 1t to market where it hung a day
/, but that on the next day, the meat beinl
too badly bruised he took IL TO the feedins
pens several miles from the city and haC
) fed It to hogs.
, SUPERIORITY the original deed 10 tn,
: Andersonyille prison site and by actor
different state societies formed for tn,
| purpose of erecting monuments wer,
I granted the privilege of selecting poSitioni
for their monument, under approval o
the National Womens Relief council Pur
! suant to this the Wisconsin AndersonVill,
Monument association has made its selec
National Women's Relief corps PRESIDENT
placed her signature to the final approva
and deed to the parcel OF land chosen.
, SUPERIOR-The bumper corn crop o
! this section is going into crib now at 1
rapid rate. One large feeding party viii
start shelter for his feed lot Monday
He says the ears are much too large /,
feed whole economically. Fat stock ship
ments from. this section are on the in
crease in volume and i'm value. Renters
who depend on renting farms for mex
years cultivation, are up against hAr,
propositions at this time, and many are Il
despair. So many farms are sold and s.
many are likely 10 be sold that The rento
is likely TO have to buy in order 70 ge
any ground TO till
GRAND ISLAND7-General Superintendent
Parks and a number Of division engineer
and superintendents were in the city Fri
day, on their way over the Nebraska al
vision TO put things in readiness for tn
swift run of the Hartman special throug
this section. II is expected to make IN
distance between North Platte and Gran
| Island particularly level stretch, in tw
hours or better. The head OF the roa
having indicated desire to make spur
over the road the young element is maxim
a strenuous effort to give him the chanc
OF his life.