Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-26
OVER THE STATE.

| The summer school at Peru has an
| attendance of eight hundred.
There were fourteen deaths and
| four births in Columbus in June.
Whore wheat has been threshed the
yield is generally better than was an
| ticipated.
4 little son of Mike Sullivan of
| Utica had his right hand nearly shot
| to pieces by large cannon cracker
| II required fifteen stitches to close the
wound.
The farm residence Of Robert
Schram, two miles southwest of Pa
| pillion, burned to the ground, with all
| its contents.
With nearly all the hot, sweltering
days of summer yet before them, the
| citizens of Harrington are confronted
with an ice famine.
Walter Cash of Fremont, colored,
tried to commit suicide by taking poi
son. He had been drinking heavily
since the Fourth and had some little
trouble with his wife.
John Schneider has just completed
taking the school census and reports
| that in Columbus there are 755 males
and III females between the ages of
5 and 81, total of 1882.
Jesse Hill and George Fulton of Be
atrice were each sentenced to the
county Jail for sixty days for throw
ing cayenne pepper in the faces of
! young women passing along the street
The postmaster of KCarney receiv
| ed official notification of the passage
of the bill providing for postoftice
! building in Kearney. 1t is already evil
dent that there will be strong rivalry
for the site.
Dr. w. e. McCray, veterinary sur
| geon, who has been located in West
Point the past year, has been appoint
ed an Inspector in the bureau of anil
NAL industry and has gone to Chicago
to assume the duties of the position.
The list of entries for the circuit
race meeting to beld in Beatrice the
week of July % is out and comprises
some of the best horses in the west.
There are twenty entries in the
2:30 pace, eleven in the 2:22 trot,
twenty in the 2:16 pace, eight in the
Ply trot, seven in the 3-year-old trot,
twenty-four in the 1922 pace.
There Is a substantial gain in per-
sonal property In Frontier county as
shown by the abstract of the county
assessors returns. In 1906 the as
sessed value of personal property in
Frontier county was $598,200, in 1906
1t is $695,090, gain of $96,710 assess
ed value. improvements on real es-
tate add to its assessed value S21, 779
The mortgage record of Platte coun-
ty for June shows farm mortgages
were filed amounting to S52,1S1, re-
leased $3S,S33; town mortgages filed
$1S,S25, released SALTS; chattel mort
cages filed $24,91S, released $13,673,
, making the increased Indebtedness
J amount to $29,24O.
Unable to close his mouth after a
: yawn, Jacob Moneypenny, farmer
, residing a few miles south of Platts-
mouth, went to town and DR.. Z. w.
Cook soon had his jaws at work again.
While walking down the street his
jaws again became set and he return.
ed to the physician
= No license has yet been issued by
/ the insurance department to the West.
y ern Life and Indemnity company OF
J. Chicago to do business in Nebraska
/ Special Examiner Virgins, who went
e to Chicago to investigate the company
u having recommended the license to be
o held in allegiance for the present.
l. Farmers in the vicinity of Pawnee
IS City are just beginning to thresh theil
e wheat, which is making a fine yielC
e and of superior quality. Thus ia
e. three fields have been cleaned up
e. Charles Barnetts field yielded forty
a four bushels per acre, Frank Ander
e. sons thirty bushels and Titus Davis
OF thirty bushels.
A number of the members of tn
Grand Island fire department met an
decided to hold carnival in tn
w streets of the city during the week {
mt August ell. The proceeds will go t
lie the moneys raised for the entertain
re ment of the next annual conventio
p- of the Nebraska State Volunteer Fir
es mems association, to be held there /
gs January.
dy Mr.. McSweeney of Kansas Cit
ng who is to establish a packing plant
to- Beatrice, in company with a commi
,st tee from the Commercial club visite
several proposed sites along the BIZ
river bottom. AS the necessary bonC
have been raised, Mr.. insolvency a
se- sures the Commercial club that wol
an will be started on the plant within t
he days after the site is agreed upon.
on W. f. Bryson, living near Adam
ed on Thursday afternoon started Il
of harvester cutting his wheat AS ia
a as 1t was cut it was hauled to t
ar threshing machine, which was runni
his in the same field, and was the
threshed. The wheat was next haul
two miles to Adams, where it was r
through the elevator, some of it bel
SUI ground into -four. The -four was tn