Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-05-03
OVER THE STATE.

citation Will be held at the high school
building at Seward on April 2S.
There is a prevalence OF measles in
Fremont. The police have tackled up
twenty-five cards of warning within
week.
The postofflce department. has an
nounced an examination for carriers
of the rural mail to be held in West
| Point on May s.
In the county court at Tekamah
Judge Bassler found Il. G. Dill guilty
of Illegal voting and fined him fifty
dollers and costs.
Governor Mickey has accepted an
invitation to deliver the address at the
Memorial day exercises to be held in
Stanton on Decoration day.
The total amounts OF deposits in the
four banks of Beatrice, at close of
business on April 6, shows up the
handsome aggregate Of $1,521,61S.
The evening Of April someone went
to the West Point school house near
Benedict and broke out ten window
lights and took coal from the coal
house.
Frank Roach, who for two years had
served as trainmaster at Fremont for
the Northwestern Railroad company,
died last week. His malady was pneu-
monia.
DR.. r. w. Latin, at one time district
clerk of Gage county, and former
member of the legislature, is lying
critically i'll at his home at Wymore of
Brlghts disease.
At Kearney, B. f. Walston was ex-
amined by the insanity commission,
adjudged insane and ordered commit
ted to the asylum at Lincoln for treat
ment. He will be taken there at once.
Both of the Table Rock brick yards
are now in full operation, each plant
turning out from 10000 to 10000 brick
per day, which will find ready mar
ket. These yards both have a large
pay roll.
Rev. John A. Address, who has been
pastor OF the Congregational church of
Chadron for the past four years, re-
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the Congregational church Of Weep
ing Water, Neb.
Because debate at the Minnesota
State university has proved n financial
loss for the last four years, the univer-
sity has withdrawn from the Central
Debating league composed of the lead
ing western colleges.
Active work on the extension of the
branch Of the Union Pacific from
Stromsburg to Central City commenced
last week and many graders and outfits
have been passing through David City
from Omaha, Lincoln and other places.
The Table Rock coal mine is now
seventy feet deep. and Is going down
at the rate of four to five feet per day.
A poor quality of coal has been passed
and a four-inch vein of as good coal
as is found anywhere has been passed.
A souvenir copy of an interesting
volume was received by Governor
Mickey. 1t has been published by Mrs.
r. w. Furnas and was edited by the
late r. w. Furnas. The book contains
the first Arbor day proclamation
which was issued March 81, 1874; also
brief articles by Dean Bessey of the
state university, Peter Youngers of
Geneva and other well known Nebras-
kans.
Instructions have been given by Sec
rotary of State Galusha to his assist
ants to mail the new notarial commits
sions applied for so that the notaries
will receive them about the time the
old commissions expire. Notaries have
been applying for commissions sew.
eral weeks before the expiration OF their
commissions at the same time 1t is
impossible to issue the new commits.
sions as soon as requested.
The one hundred and twenty stu
dents taking agriculture instruction
under f. M. Gregg, associate professor
in the biological department at the
Peru Normal school, have begun work
on their outdoor gardens. Each stu
dent has his own plot of ground and
cares for the same.
H. r. 223, providing for the convey
ance of the interest in lands of an in
sane husband or wife, passed by the
last legislature, Is believed to be in
valid, all because someone in the
house or in the house enrolling room
was careless enough to leave off of
the enrolled bill the amendments.
The county commissioners have in
| structed the county assessor to take an
enumeration of Cedar county, while
taking the assessment OF the county
1t is believed the census of the county
will show a very large gain, as the pop
ulation of both the county and town,
have rapidly Increased in the past six
years.
The city council Of Beatrice passed
a city ordinance fixing a penalty of a
$25 fine upon any bartender or any
employe in a saloon selling intoxi-
Giants to a minor The same ordinance