Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-08
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News of Nebraska.
OSCEOLA-Rev L. NJ Grigsby's congre-
cation. fifty Of them or more, were In at
tendance at the Epworth assembly at Lin
EDISON-S. NJ Lyons and family have
returned from near Bloomington Mr..
Lyons lost his entire crop during the floods
of the Republican river, and will try Fur
mas county once more.
FALLS CITY-John r. Smith has sold
his farm adjoining this city on the north
farm included 16O acres. This gives gem
eral idea Of the price of Richardson county
land.
LEIGH-The Northwestern hotel at this
place changed hands this morning. Dubsky
g. Knapp, who were the owners for the
past six months, sold to Edward Lee and
II. c. Kemper, who assumed charge TINS
morning.
FALLS CITY-Monday, September II, is
the date set for opening school The board
at the last meeting decided to discard he
Princes arithmetics, that have been used
in the schools here for number of years,
and adopt the Smith arithmetic.
EDISON-Willam Tower sold a bunch of
$40 head of hogs to the local buyers here.
They were the finest bunch of hogs ever
shipped out of Edison, averaging 1856 pounds.
Ten cars of hogs and four of cattle were
shipped from here during the last week
EDIsON-Dr. J. r. Cameron, Beaver
City boy and veteran of the Spanish
American war was united in marriage to
Miss Neda Corbin at Ashland, Ore. Both
bride and groom are well known here, Dr:
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OF Furnas county.
OsCEOLA-The Second Regiment band of
the Nebraska National Guard is to get a
little taste of soldier life for the next ten
days, for It has orders to start tomorrow
morning on foot for Silver Greek, on the
main line of the Union Pacific railroad, and
will take cars from there to Kearney.
PLAATTSMOUTH-Th members of the
Grand Army of the Republic and Woman's
Relief Corps gave reception Saturday
evening in honor Of Mr.. and Mrs. c. w.
Green, who expect to remove to University
Place Mr.. and Mrs. Green have been resi-
dents of Plattsmouth for twenty-seven
/ years
FREMONT-The pattern room of the
Fremont foundry was entered by burglars
some time between Saturday night and
this morning and about 500 worth OF pat
ternmaking tools belonging to George
Heizenbuttle taken. Some of them are
marked with his initials. There is no clue
to the thieves.
OSCEOLA-Simple and impressive services
were held at the First Methodist Episcopal
church here yesterday morning in memory
OF Bishop Isaac Joyce. The Methodists of
Osceola feel very keenly the great loss the
denomination has sustained in the death OF
the bishop and the morning service was
set for the memorial service.
| FREMONT-The signal corps of the Ne
braska National Guard left this morning
LOT the stdtS elClliPIlleiI n iit,r -
There were thirty I'm line, squad having
, been there since last Monday laying out
the camp and rife ranges The corps is
| fully equipped with signal apparatus the
same as is used by the regulars.
FALLS CITY-The county jail contains
| FIVE prisoners at the present time, Elmer
Tuttle of Salem, for disturbing the peace;
| Thomas Foy, selling whisky to Indians,
bound over to district court; Joe Hinchman,
| disturbing the peace; William SutlIn OF
| Omaha, disturbing the peace; Oliver WellS,
| striking and wounding little colored boy.
| HUMBOLDT-Jeremia Vance, re-
! spected citizen of this place, died yester-
| having been in helpless condition for
| some time. The remains were taken on
the afternoon train to Geneva, the old old
children who passed away many years
ago.
| HOwELLS-The local Foresters lodge
| gave a picnic here which was a grand sue
cess. The weather was of the picnic sort
| and large crowd enjoyed the day. Base
ball was the leading feature in the after
noon, when HOwells defeated Snyder, while
| in the evening all enjoyed the dance with
music furnished by the famous Howells
band.
EDIsoN-Jesse Bard, whose home is
| northeast of here, is the victim of a pc
| culiar accident. While working around .
cornsheller his jacket began 70 wind around !
once around when his brother, Ezra, seized
him and tore the jeCket from his body. Al
| though terribly bruised no bones were
| broken.
LEIGH-The harvest Of late oats is OF
| in this vicinity in full blast, and by the enc
| of the week all small grain will be in the
shock. The yield of all small grains viii
| be good. Some winter wheat and early
oats have been thrashed and the yield anc
quality is most satisfactory. The weather
is most favorable for corn and good croI
| Is assured.
HUMBOLDT-Th old building on tn,
lots owned by the city was sold at public
auction Saturday afternoon to F. r. But
terfield, and Will be removed at once II
preparation for the erection of the new
city hall, for which bonds were recently
voted. 1t is generally understood that thu
new public building will be constructed o
| cement blocks.
/ nj
residing near this city, reported to thu
police yesterday that some unidentified per
son placed a quantity of strychnine in
watering trough on his premises, sup
posedly for the purpose of killing his stock
portion Of the drug found in tn
thoroughly investigated.
FREMONT-The Parker Amusement com
pany, which was denied the right to ruI
carnival on the streets OF this city som
time ago, are running their shows thi
| week on a tract in the southeast corne
Of the city near the roundhouse. Thei
| grounds are enclosed by canvass. The,
came here on their own account, withou
the aid or support of any organization.
| BROKEN BOW-Herman Papineau,
/, | 3-yeaT-Old boy, was another victim OF III
severe electric storm Of last Saturday. II
was standing near the kitchen windOV
when lightning struck the house, entere
was not only badly burned, but lay /
an unconscious condition for several hOuri
, victim, Is improving.
AUBURN-A. r. I.oder assistant Unite
; States engineer of Washington, ID. c., ha
arrived with the surveying Instruments an
is now getting ready to do the preparator
work for the object lesson road acros
! the bottom east of this city, which wi
extend for a distance Of one mile. Th
| Commercial club of this city has been az
| yised from Washington that the machineT
= has been loaded and that with the eXpe
4 | labor 10 do the constructing, will be o
the ground in the very near future.
SCHUYLER-The first suit against n
- | Ehrnberger drainage ditch was filed la
Q | Saturday. MS. Joseph Bliss and Frar
| Bliss each ask 5000 damages, as the dtC
passes through their land, and +. A Wei
!, man asks 1900 damages on the san
l. | grounds The three persons named a
!. represented by the Fremont attorney,
F. Gray, who took prominent part
fighting the bitches in Dodge county. T.
gene BTiad. landowner southeast OF d
| city, filed a complaint on the grounds III
n II turned the course Of water from Ian
4 north of his place onto his farm. Nume
= Gus other complaints are expected TO
: hled soon. The ditch will have plenty
n | opposition.
: Fire Under Water
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