Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-01
News of NPbrasLa

OSCEOLA-Laurence L. Hoffer and Miss
Minnie NJ. Rosenbury have been licensed
FAIRMoNT-Miss Emma Kergan and
Mr.. Archie Towle were married yesterday
at the Catholic church.
GENENA-Farmers are taking advantage
or the continued fine weather to clean up
their fields for spring work.
PBATTSMOUTH-E r. Todd has gone to
Denver to visit his brother Ami b. Todd.
GENEVA-Yesterday at o'clock Mr..
John Massoth and Miss Julia Kacher were
married at St. Josephs church, Rev Father
Becker officiating.
ALBlON-But a small amount of ice
has been secured and if the spring weather
continues, Albion will be without ice for
the coming summer
NORFOLK - Concrete cement workers
took the first steps here toward organizing
in Nebraska. Sixty are here from the
northern part of the state.
WOOD RIVER-The Union Pacific is very
actively engaged in fixing its roadbed pre-
paratory to laying new steel Gangs of
Japanese and Greeks are busy at work.
Plattsmouth people went to Omaha today
to visit The Land of Nod" in which
Misses Alice and Ethel Dewey of this city
nave the leading parts.
YORk-The Commercial club of York
has hopes of locating an incubator factory
here. The club has made arrangements
to furnish power for small manufacturers
at minimum cost per horsepower.
WOOD RIVER-The sportsmen are get
ting ready for the ducks and geese the
first focks of pintails arriving yesterday.
The Ice on the Platte is breaking up and
the arrival of other game is expected soon.
BEATRICE-The farmers in the vicinity
of De Witt and Plymouth engaged in a
circle hunt yesterday. Three large wolves
were rounded up but got away About
two hundred persons participated in the
hunt.
BEATRICE-.At 10 O'Clock today at the
home of the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
j: w. Wright of Filley, occurred the mar
riage of their daughter. Miss Minnie
Wright. to Mr.. Elon Hill, Judge ]. II.
1nman officiating.
FAIRMONT-The son of Ernest Lemp-
her. while visiting the family of John
west of town, was thrown from load of
hay and broke his leg. The doctor reports
him as doing well
BEATRICE-"The Bellies of Darktown,' -
a minstrel entertainment, was presented
at the Paddock opera house last night by
thirty young ladies of this city before a
large and appreciative audience. 1t was
given upder the auspices of the Episcopal
church.
BEATRICE-W. P. Norcross. a capitalist
pempster COMPANY is to Sink on his farm s"a
well $500 feet deep for the purpose of pros
pecting for coal and oil. For this work he
has offered $1,000 and 1t is more than likely
that the well will be sunk.
PIATTSMOUTH-Colon II. c. McMaken
OF this city has received letter from
Nebraska asking if he can secure the for
mers collection of valuable curios, con-
ssting of Indian relics, minerals old doc
uments, etc, which the owner prizes very
highly.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at high noon al
the brides home near this city occurred
the marriage of Mr. Charles w. Carmar
and Miss Florence Graves, Rev. n. A
Martin officiating. The young couple will
make their home near Sabetha, Kan, after
a visit with friends in this section of the
state for a week.
OSCEOLA-The long talked Of outlet from
now, for the men are on the ground buying
up the right-of-way and it will be but a
short time before the dirt will fly. the
rails be laid and Polk county will have
an outlet to the main line of the Unor
/ Pacific on the west.
BEATRICE-The debate to have beer
held between Beatrice and Omaha high
schools has been declared off. Word to this
debating authorities. The reason given Is
that the distance between the two schools
made the debate an expensive one from a
financial point of view.
WOOD RIVER-The beautiful two-story
residence OF John Nader of Prairie Creel
township was destroyed by + -e yesterday
together with a portion of its contents
The fire evidently started in the attic. fol
some members OF the family who We're II
the yard first noticed fire md smoke com
| ing from an upstairs window.
| TECUMSEH-The annual Johnson County
Farmers institute convened in this city
| this morning. The feature of the day wai