Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-09-28
OVER THE STATE.

hunters bagged 35 prairie chickens.
The Shelby school was two weeks
late in starting on account Of diph-
iberia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Kreinert of
Cunning county last week celebrated
their golden wedding
The enrolment at the Peru normal
on the beginning of the second week,
or fourth day of school, was 440.
An acetylene gas plant in the hard
ware store of r. II. McAllister at
Grand Island exploded, causing a
damage of probably $1,000.
Because his wife was applying for
a divorce and refused to live with
him, Frank Smear of Beatrice tried to
end his life by taking poison.
1t is said that the Burlington is
short of trainmen at Wymore. TWEEN
ty-seven new firemen were on duty on
the southern division at last report.
Unconscious for six months, Mrs.
w. j. Sloan of Pierce, totally para
lyzed, has succumbed. She was 60
years of age and had lived in Pierce
county for fifteen years.
While sitting in his dooryard ]. w.
Weaver of Buffalo county was acct
dentally shot in the arm by Oliver
Poore, who was hunting with a small
rifle in a nearby corn field.
Mrs. George V. Grassland of Wayne
was terribly burned about the hands
and arms by the explosion of a gaso-
line stove tank. Her escape from
frightful death was a miracle.
threshing machine on the farm Of
H. c. Tibbets. near Wauneta, caught
fire while the crew was at dinner.
The machine was badly damaged and
$50 bushels Of grain were burned.
John Morrissey, anaeronaut from
Omaha, made a balloon ascension
from the fair grounds at Tecumseh,
down he landed in the Nemaha river.
Wood River mills have increased
their working force and have made
longer running hours, this being
made necessary by the large crop of
wheat which was raised in that vicin-
ity.
While playing with some other boys
Sunday, Harry Heron, a young son
of Thomas Heron, was pushed over
the anks of Death Gulch, Frontier
county, and seriously injured by the
fall
Lightning struck the farm house of
Rush Hartzell, four miles east of
Pickrell. The building caught fire
and burned to the ground with all it's
contents. Loss $1,000, partially in
sured.
Six new brick business houses, one
cement block, an $4,000 Young Mems
Christian association building, doz-
en- residences and thousands of feet of
cement walks are some OF Central
City's improvements for this year.
The new First Congregational
church, which is being built in Ash
lash at a cost of $4,000 will be
ready for occupancy about October l.
The main building consists of audto-
rum with aiseating capacity of 400
Bertha Hahn. a 17-year-old daugh-
ter of Lewis Hahn. a Dodge county
farmer, eloped with William Calhoon,
a farm hand who had been working
near the Hahn farm this summer.
The father of the girl is hot on their
trail.
Kelm & Co. of Tecumseh will go
into the manufacturing of cement
building block business. They have
bought a machine and will buy suit.
able building for their shop. They
winter
Rev. Charles H. Sudbrock of West
Point, pastor of the German Metho
dist Episcopal church, has been re-
tanned in his present charge for the en-
suing year to the great satisfaction
of his parishioners and the people OF
the town.
The east wall and a portion of the
floor of the packing house and can
ming factory at Fremont fell in, carry
ing with them about 10000 cans o
corn which had been boxed but not la
beled. The wall was discovered to b.
in a shaky condition just before tn,
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been sent under it to examine its con
:, dition had come out only a few min
: utes before the collapse or they woult
= have been crushed. The packing sea
? son will be over next week.
Frank S. West of Wood River,
|. prominent stockman, has just return
!. ed from Europe, where he has bee
n for the purpose of buying horses. II
e purchased them in Belgium but dur
), ing his trip visited in England
d France and Holland. He states tina
y a Nebraska farmer could easily max
l. fortune in France, raising hog
It They sell there at ten cents per poun
and corn can be shipped from Sout
t. America for 6S cents a bushel an
D. alfalfa can be successfully raise,
d Few people, he says, are engaged
V this business.