Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-10-04
NEBRASKA NOTES.

BARRIERS of Fremont have raised the
price of shaves.
McCooks new opera house has been
opened to the public.
The Catholics of Dawson have be-
gun the erection of a new $4,000 par.
sonagc. Mr.. O'Bricn Of Stella is the
contractor.
The Sioux City, Homer & Southern
railway was sold at sheriff's sale for
$40 700. James A. Foye Of Sioux City
, was the purchaser.
In the county court Mt Tekamah Ed
ward Richards was sentenced to nine
ty days in the county Jail by Judge
Basler, for wife beating.
The second annual flower show and
baby show will be held in the opera
house at Dawson for two days the
latter part of October or the first OF
November. The merchants Of the
town have offered premiums.
A barn belonging to Mrs. M. Nelson
of Beatrice as destroyed by fire, to-
gether with a lot Of furniture and
household goods. The loss Is about
$500 with $50 insurance. Small boys
and matches were the cause of the
fire.
w. G. Hartman of Staplehurst, one
of the heaviest dealers In horses in
| the state. lost his new barn and con-
tents from spontaneous combustion of
hay There being no wind the fire.
men were able TO save all outbuild-
lngs.
The body of Ben Thomas, who was
/ killed by being kicked by horse, near
Wichita, Kas.. arrived in Auburn and
| the body as inferred in the cemetery
| at Brownville. The deceased was well
known throughout the eastern part OF
the county.
ID. ]. Sinclair of Omaha, postoffice
| inspector, was in Beatrice investigat-
| ing charges of characterization pre-
ferred against II. C. White, one of the
mail carriers. He is charged with
using vile and indecent epithets to
G. III. Van Horn. mailing clerk.
Food Commissioner Il. L. Redfern'S
latest bulletin contains results OF
tests on twenty-seven samples Of vim
egar, which were masquerading as CT
| der vinegar. Thirteen of the samples
tested are sold contrary to law, &C.
cording to the report Ten are as rep
| resented. and four are very low in the
quality test, though passable. Nine
samples Of soda fountain syrups were
tested and eight were founu preserved
in benzoic acid. Many of the sam
pies of lemon extract were found to
be colored.
To thousand head of sheep belong
ing to r. A. Templeton of Tekamah
were unloaded at the Burlington stock
yards in Oakland and will be driven
from there across the country to Mr..
Templetons ranch north of Tekamah.
Mr.. Templeton started from Wyoming
with 5000 head of sheep. but lost all
but 1000 in wreck on the Burlington
near Alliance.
Mrs. M. ]. Byrne OF Dawson was the
victim of an accident by which she
sustained a broken ankle. She, in
company with Mr. Byrne and her sis
ter, Mrs. Hogan, was about to start
on a drive and was already in the
buggy when the team became restless
and broke loose from the rack, and in
endeavoring to alight from the buggy
Mrs. Byrne fell so as to break both
bones of her ankle.
Fra,k Kelley, the man who created
so much excitement in Lexington by
getting drunk and driving his family
out of their house at the point of a
revolver and holding a crowd of men
) at bay by pointing the gun at them
, from an upper window, was brought
before the board of insanity and plead
| ed guilty to the charge of being a
dipsomaniac, and was sentenced to the
asylum at Lincoln as such.
, Fire originated in the restaurant
! kept by Mrs. hewitt at Dorchester
The hole building was aflame before
the alarm was sounded. Another
building burned that was occupied by
Miss Johnson as dressmaking es
adjustment All her effects were
safely removed, but the restauran
', stock was a total loss. Insurance OF
, buildings is reported as 5000 and stool
$500, hich Is regarded as fai
amount.
County Superintendent Bowman o
= Lancaster county will help the peopl
!, of Sprague enforce the compulsor.
= school law. An appeal was sent t.
. him from this little town saying tina
many of the boys chose smoking cigar
" cites on the streets in preference {
. attending school. The superintendent
sent copies of the school law, shown
that the parents may be held accoun
n able in fines il the youngsters do nc
" submit to discipline.
n While engaged in sinking we'll O
It. the Pierce property in the bushes
C. part of Arapahoe, Albert Deliemant