Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-11-22
County Division Convention.

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thirty at his county division con-
vcntion held at Anslcy last
Thursday.
The lines agreed upon contcm.
plate cutting the county into
four parts.
The range line between ranges
20 and q, through the entire
length OF the county, IL the line
dividing the east from the west,
giving five ranges on the west
and four on the east. ~
The proposed dividing linc of
the west portion extends from
range 20 on town line 10 to west
side OF county.
The proposed liuc separating
the east portion commences at
the northwest corner of section
30, town II, range 20 and extends
to the east line of the county.
Each Of the proposed counties
on the west would contain twenty
townships. The proposed
county in the southeast would
contain TO-, townships, while
the northeast would have 1873
townships,
The west line is a mile west of
Broken Bow and the north line
half mile north of the corporate
limits of Broken Bow.
c. Mackey, of Anslcy, was
elected chairman of the Division
committee and Il, G. Pinch, OF
Merna, secretary.
NJ. s, Eddy was elected n
member OF the committee from
the northwest, II, IL. Brcga from
the southwest, w, ID. Hall from
the northeast and G. Mackcy
from the southeast,
Each OF the committeeman is
in the real estate business and no
doubt will influence many sales
OF real estate IN their respective
communities by their county seat
talk.
II is said that 3rcga, III years
past, has worked the county seat
racket very successfully and the
other members of the committee
will doubtless try to profit by the
same methods.
The main arguments advanced
by the divisiouists always have
been that the people outside OF
Broken Bow were i'll favor OF
division, and their great stock in
trade has been to try to prejudice
the voters against Broken Bow
by using any preteXt to accom-
plish their purpose. One illus
tratiou was the hue and cry last
fall over the county fair simply
because the ostrich, that was
advertised TO race during the
fair, failed to put i'll its appear
aucc,
The managers fully satisfied
all reasonable persons that tn,
failure was no fault of theirs vet
they were blamed just the sam,
and the town of Broken Bow wa,
accused of trucking the public.
AS a matter OF fact thc dircc'
tors of the County Agricultural
society are located III variou,
parts of the county and the man,
agemeut of the fair is entirely il
their hands.
Broken Bow usually puts NJ
from $500 to $1,000 subscription
each year in addition to thei
regular patronage TO assure tn,
fair financial success but asid,
from that the city is not in any
way responsible for the manage
ment of the fair.
Az matter of tact the agri
cultural department, the horti
cultural and floral departments
cattle and hog departments, 4
we'll as the implement depart
ment were never better repre-
scented than they were last fall
Those who attended the fai
with the desire OF seeing lin
exhibition OF the products of tn
county were not disappointed
But the few sports who care onl
for horse racing and oStric
races doubtless were disappoiu
ed and blame Broken Bow for i
The RRrvsucAE has AWAY
maintained the great majority ,
the people Of Caster county a
not in favor of dividing III
county and the last vote, whic
gave something like 2D00 majo
ity out Of @>00 votes against W,
in substautiNtiou of our poSitio
IL is not uutreQpeu,ly a IA
that people, against their be
Judgment will do the coutraI
thing purely for spite, and il
upon that theory the diviSiC
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