Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-05-31
OVER THE STATE.

be ready to make engagements.
Valley has voted to enlarge its
school building in time for fall term
A ferocious dog at Fremont bit sew.
eral children before being despatched.
The state dental society held It's
annual meeting in Omaha last week.
Edgar proposes to celebrate on the
glorious Fourth in a becoming man
ner.
The graduating exercises of the Ne
braska City high school will be held
on Friday, June /,
David Gooring, a young farmer
living near Barmeston, has been ad.
judged insane and taken to the
asylum.
York county farmers who have tried
the home made split log drag are loud
in praising the wonderful good work
done by it.
Daniel Freeman Of Gage county, the
first man to take a homestead in Ne
braska, Is home from the SOUTH where
he spent the wintor.
At a meeting of the citizens OF
Adams they voted to hold a street
carnival July q and 20. ]. A. Miller,
chairman; w. G. Gray, secretary; f.
b. Fisher, treasurer.
GoverpQr Mickey and DR.. Edward
A. Ross Of the University of Me-
braska will address the class Of eigh.
teen graduated from the state normal
school at Kearney May 20.
G. w. Pullen of Litchfield, ILL.,, has
leased the coal prospects on the B. D.
TAFT farm southeast of Nebraska
City, and will put a force of men ut
work and prospect the deposit.
The accountants who have been T.
aiming the treasurer's books of the
city Of Falls City and the Falls City
school board finished their work last
week and reported that they found
Treasurer Irving Bod short in the city
fund $6,065 and in the school fund
$3.50.
A member of the demi-monde liv.
ing on the outskirts of Grand ISL
and appropriated a rig standing in
front Of one of the places, drove to
the city and picked up the little child
of Mrs. Bernth, driving away with 1t.
She was overtaken and the child re-
stored.
The supreme court affirmed the de-
cision of the lower court in the case
of the Rohrbough Business college of
Omaha to the effect that the college
Is school and is therefore permitte'
to deduct from it's value for assess
ment purposes that part used exclus-
lively for school purposes.
The $4,000 stock for the new Com
mercial Stock company Of Nebraska
City has been subscribed and the
stockholders will meet for the purpose
Of electing officers and directors. The
| company has been promoted to fos'
ter all good things for the best inter
ests of the town and induce new in
dustries to locate there.
Mrs. G.. II. Westgate and son, Ray.
mond, were both seriously injured Ia
runaway accident that occurred at
the Burlington passenger Depot in
York, when passenger train arriv.
ed, soaring the horse that ran into
the Westgate horse, causing it to be-
come frightened and turning over the
buggy, throwing both on the ground.
The officers of the United States
land office at North Platte have begun
the publication of a notice notifying
the public that on August 20, 1906
the ely of township 10 and also the
e1h Of township 16 in range 33 in Lin
coin county, will be restored to home
stead entry, the same having beer
withdrawn for irrigation purposes
prior to the time when the Kinkai,
act took effect. This land is situated
near the Birdwood creek and there 1
vacant in the land to be restore,
about 5000 acres.
The next encampment of the Gran
Army of the Republic will be held Il
Fremont. This was decided at tn
business meeting of the veterans a
most unanimously A big fight o
the part of Lincoln has been antic
pated, but failed to materialiZe, a
nearly all of the veterans resent wha
they think scant attention paid t
them by the citizens and business me
of Lincoln and the opposition to tn
capital was almost unanimous. B,
cause of this when the motion wa
made to hold the next encampment
Fremont it went through with
: whoop.
? A supreme court decision which wi
: be of interest to every real estat
broker in the state is that of the cas-
of Jane E. Barney against George
Lasbury, in which the verdict of Il
I district court was reversed and I'll
r cause remanded. Lasbury sought
S collect a commission for the sale
d real estate on contract not in wri
ing as the statuto provides tt
court decided that he cannot recov'
on quantum meruit for servic'
s. rendered in accordance with the co
s tract, or for the value of his time e
l. pended in that behalf. Only when /
r has written contract on the specit
~ narcel Of land con n real estate hrOly,