Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-26

a fine brick business building on South
Main street IN West Point.
TECUMSEH 90 The prohibitionists OF
Johnson County have called their county
convention for Crab Orchard Saturday,
September 90 The call announces that a
county ticket will be named.
WEST POINT-Fred Meinken. who has
Just completed his studies at an eastern
college. has been appointe Instructor in
a German Lutheran parochial school in
Texas for which state he departed this
morning.
PLATTsMoUTH-s thieves stole
coat, pair Of shoes and several other
articles OF merchandise at NJ. rangers
store YESTERDAY portion OF one Of the the
thieves to reach the goods.
WEST POINTING regular district Sun
day school convention will be held at Ban
on September q. A large delegation OF
Sunday school workers from Wisner and
Beemer will be in attendance.
BEATRICE-w. A. Washington has sold
his farm of 240 acres near Filley TO A. X
Davis for $4,000 or se667 per acre. Mr.
Davis has a farm of 200 acres adjoining the
Washington farm, making him a place Of
44O acres Of choice Gage county land.
PLATTSMOUTH-Th farmers Of Avoca
and vicinity at recent meeting discussed
the project Of organizing farmers ele-
vator company. 1t was decided to build
an elevator at once for handling the grain
products Of those interested in the project
WEST POINT-Balthas Kittel and Miss
Bodil Peterson. were united in marriage
by County Judge Dewald at the court
house on Saturday. Mr.. Kittel Is farmer
residing in Howard county and the bride
a well known young woman OF West
Point.
GENEvA-The grades in the school have
become crowded that the school board
has secured the Freewill Baptist church
| for a portion of the Fifth grade and have
had 1t seated and furnished for this pur-
/ pose: 1t will be in charge of Miss Maud
4 Combs
oAKIAAND-M Kerl Of this city has a
\ surveyor at work plotting his land, just
| will put the lots on the market at once.
| He has sold corner lot, sSx1S2 feet, for
$1,000 to H. ]. Hansen, a farmer living
west of town
| GENEVA-At a meeting OF the Indepen-
dent Order of Odd Fellows board they de-
cided to rebuild their hall and this morning
new National bank building just in course
! of erection, to be Of the same proportions
as the one burned.
| WEST POINT-F. ]. Roseuheld who
| operates the second largest peony farm In
| Nebraska, located two miles east OF West
Point, is shipping peony roots daily 70
| eastern points. Large quantities OF this
product are shipped to Philadelphia and
| to South Bend, Ind.
| TECUMSEH-The management of the
| johnson county fair is buslly engaged in
miums. All premiums are being paid in
! full. Notwithstanding. the fact that the
fair was almost completely abandoned this
year on account of rain.
| BEATRICE - Herbert Shattenkirk, a
driver of one of Cummings and Laugh
! Inns delivery wagons, drove over an en-
bankment near Fishback's poultry house
causing the wagon to overturn and fan
upon him in such manner that he sus-
tanned severe internal injuries.
PLATTSMOUTH-Mi Livermore Of
New York City, national president of the
woman's Foreign Missionary society. ad-
pies societies at the Methodist church
last evening. Miss Livermore discussed
the manners and customs of the people
ovaI h1r IL L., lodi
TECUMsEH-Hon. A. B. Allen of Te-
cumseh, who is private secretary to Gov
ernor Mickey, has left Lincoln for an ex, ,
tended visit to the northwest. He Will
stop in Spokane, Seattle, Portland and
other points of interest In Washington
and Oregon and will return home by way
| of Salt Lake City and Denver.
WEST POINT-Sheriff +. W. Kloke and
H. E. Kelso, deputy sheriff, returned yes
terday from Glenwood, Ia, and Council
Bluffs, where they went to testify before
the grand jury In several horse stealing
cases. These officers have been very
active in apprehending a plumber TaSa,,t OF no.
OAKLAND-Rev. c. J. Mellberg, who has
been the pastor of the Swedish Methodist
Episcopal church. west of this city, for the
mon Sunday and leaves this week for
Lincoln to take up his duties as presid-
Gabrieison will have charge Of the con-
gregation here for the ensuing year.
BBATRICE-The teachers Of the Be-
IaIrlCe QlStTlCl nelu a meeting III TIC SOuIL
house Saturday to discuss the reading
circle work outlined for the years study.
The books chosen for this years reading
are Hitchcock's Louisiana Purchase and
Elements of Pedagogy. Meetings were also
held by teachers in other districts through
out Gage county for the same purpose.
| OGALALLA-Saturday night the store of
A. Nelson was broken into and some mer-
chandise stolen, consisting of reyolvers
and cutlery This morning the goods were
found secreted in the livery barn. Arthur
| Allan WhO silent in the barn the night OF
the robbery, was arrested and has con-
fessed to the crime. He was in scrape
fifteen days in jail for breaking Into a
car at that place.
BEATRICE-A woman giving her name
as Dora Dordal arrived in town Satur-
day afternoon over the Rock Island and
was Immediately taken to the City hotel,
where she gave birth to a child which died
hide her Identity, but said she came from
Nuckolls county and expected to meet
friends at Tecurnseh and go on to ST. Jo-
seph, where she had been called by the
illness of her mother.
oGALALLA-There has been no frost.
Corn is all out of danger. Reports from
of all kinds of small grain. The heaviest
yield of winter wheat so far reported is
forty-one bushels. 621s pounds to the bushel.
Sugar beets are a splendid crop and will
be heavy yield. Some fields are esti-
mated at twenty-five tons to the acre.
Andrew Nelson, in North Platte valley. has
twenty acres which Il is thought will yield
thirty tons TO the acre
sTOCKVILLE-The Frontier county fair
closed yesterday. The gate receipts were
the largest since 1898. The exhibits OF agri-
cultural products were good. The racing
was unusually poor, some OF the events
not filling at all, There were nine entries
of driving teams. j. II. Boyle of Grant
precinct was awarded first premium of
/. driving team and Clyde Riley second. An
drews' balloon caught fire and burned last
evening after his ascension. The Are Is
supposed to have caught from sparks In
side.
BEATRICE-A case was heard in county
court wherein Mrs. Charlie Mumford
sought 70 secure a writ OF ejectment
against her brothers, Fred and Frank Var
Boskirk, the controversy being over the
possession Of farm of i6O acres. Before
his death Lincoln Van Boskirk decided the
land 10 his daughter, Mrs. Mumford, he
retaining the and profits until his
death. He later leased the land to his sons
the lease expiring March, 1906 The plain
tif sets up the claim that after her fathers
death she is entitled 10 possession OF the