Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-02-01
NEBRASKA BRIEFS

one of his mules.
The Nebraska Telephone company
has just completed a new farmers line
running northeast from Beatrice.
The Hastings Fuel and Light COM
pany has reduced the price of gas
from $2.25 per 1000 feet TO $1.90.
Arthur Clark, a young married man,
was brought to McCook, from From.
tier county, and is in Jail for attempted
criminal assault.
Cecil Frease, the 5-year-old son and
only child of Mr. and Mrs. F. II.
Frease of Leigh, was drowned in his
fathers ice pond, near his home.
The executive committee of the East
Central Nebraska Teachers association
met in Fremont to outline a program
for the meeting April 5, and z in
Fremont.
Rev. Louis Frank of Fremont, trav-
cling missionary in the United States
for the German Lutheran synods, has
resigned and will return with his fam
lily to Wilhelmdorf, Germany, in May.
Sarah j. Markell has filed a petition
in the district court of Adams county
praying for a divorce from her hus-
hand, John Markell, on the grounds of
cruelty and ungovernable temper on
the part of the defendant
A number Of transfers in real es-
tate and farm lands have taken place
recently and many strangers from diff
ferent parts of the country are now in
Custer county looking over the situa-
ton with a view to locating.
The members of the Southeastern
Nebraska Poultry association met at
Beatrice and elected the following Off
GERS: President, Frank Cllppinger;
vice-presdent, d. S. Whitcomb; Sec
rotary, Frank Lenhart; treasurer, DR..
J. S. McCleery.
The board Of county supervisors of
Dodge county decided to reconsider
the action it took some time ago in
refusing to buy a dredging machine
and voted to go to Burt county in
body soon to inspect the dredging out
fit in use there.
The merchants and business men Of
Osceola, with very few exceptions,
have signed an agreement to close
their places of business at 1880 p. M,
not even having the back doors open,
during all the time of the evangelistic
| services at the Methodist church.
The crew of a southbound Missouri
Pacific train picked up a stranger be-
side the track mile south of Platts.
mouth who was suffering from a cash
on his head. He claimed that his
companion tried to rob him of $3.50
| and had knocked him off the car.
Arthur Lamb a 16-year-old runaway
was arrested in Hastings in response
to telephone message and an officer
of that institution came and got him.
The boy left the school in October
and since then has been as far as
Mexico.
After two weeks work on the
Booze farm mystery Sheriff Bauman
of Dodge county declared he is prac-
tically without clew and the mystery
is as deep as it was the day the body
was found. Mr.. Bauman made this
announcement after he had run down
every clew he had.
The Fairmont Creamery company
has increased its capital stock from
100000 to $1,000,000 making It the
second largest creamery in the United
States. The company intends to open
up an Office and mandatory at Omaha
and continue the one at Fairmont and
will deal in milk, butter and eggs.
Word has been received at Albion
from the insane asylum that Martin
Haley, formerly of Boone county, had
died at that institution. Haley shot
and killed man by the name of Say
ers some sixteen years ago, but was
adiudged insane by the jury and was
sent to the asylum, where he has been
ever since.
The girls and boys basketball
teams of the Aurora and Grand Island
High school engaged in two contests
at Grand Island. resulting in victory
for the girls team of that city and a
victory for the boys team of Aurora
A large attendance was present and In.
teresting and closely fought games
were witnessed.
Workmen on the two new ice houses
Of the Union Pacific railroad at North
. Platte, upset bucket of tar between
the two buildings and this caught fire
from the lamp which was being used
; to heat the tar, and Immediately an
q enormous confiagration began, which
destroyed more than one-half OF the
largest ice house in the world.
Building operations in Fairbury fol
y, 1905 amounted to s192,S76. The Rock
u Island Railroad system extended fol-
addition to round house, coal chute,
and other yard improvements, $53,54G
and brick buildings erected in the city
/ cost $4,000. New dwellings erected
, fifty-six, and their cost was $97, 800
u Barns, additions and shops made III
the total of S192S76.
After having lain in Jail severa
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