Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-26


/ GRAND 1sLAND-John n. Kirby a MEM
| Der Of the Soldiers Home. died at Stock
/ well. Frontier county. Sunday.
! BEATRtCE-Mr. oliver F. Richards and
/ Miss Jane Griffin. both OF this city. were
/ united I'm marriage Saturday night. Judge
! Walker officiating.
BEATRGCE-The new trunk line Of the
| Home Telephone company between Be
| atrice and Blue Springs has been completed
| and was put in operation Saturday.
BEATRICE-,The firm of Roberts &
! McCulloch, who recently leased the Her
| aid printing Office. has dissolved partner
ship. Mr.. Roberts will continue the bust
ness.
/ Ht-MBOLDT-An epidemic Of rnea sles
/ which has been prevailing for couple Of
/ weeks stu continues undated and il inter
fering considerably with the attendance at
| the city schools.
/ FREMONT-The democrats have COM
pleted their city ticket by nominating G.
X Schaener for councilman from the Third
| ward: But little interest is being taken IN
| the city election.
BEATRICE - Camp No. gN, Modern
Woodmen of America, will hold a rally
camps from other towns in the county
are expected to attend.
The following officers were elected: Presi-
| Busch; treasurer J. A. Smatlan; manage
DIR. 4. J. Chollette. All communications
are to be addressed to the manager
ATRICE-Yesterday afternoon at 3
o'clock occurred the marriage of Mr..
Frank Beedy and Miss Maudc williams,
!
residents Of Beatrice for some time.
TABLE ROCK-A large wolf was caught
IN a trap on the farm of c. H. Lane a
mile out of town. last night. 1t was turned
loose to be captured by the trailing hounds
recently purchased and brought here for
that purpose
FREMoNT-A drizzling rain and fog has
prevailed here all day today which, while
not welcome to churchgoers. was appre-
ciated by farmers. The roads are in bad
condition and will probably be worse be-
fore they are better.
! BEATRICE-The funeral of Asa +. Bailey
was held Sunday afternoon at 2:3O O'Clock
from the Methodist Episcopal church. The
services were conducted by Rev. n. \. Mar
tin and were largely attended by many of
the pioneer friends Of the deceased.
MINDEN-The NJ. l. S. s. club entertained
a number OF their friends at the Humphrcy
house Friday evening. The parlors, three
in number. were beautifully decorated, COM
bined with the club colors. Luncheon was
served and the evening was spent in ali
kinds of amusement.
GRAND ISLAND-At the local declama-
tory contest for the purpose of deciding
upon the representative OF the Grand Island
schools In the district contest OF the State
High School association, Miss Ida Rouse
won first honors and will represent the local
school in the Hastings contest two weeks
from last Friday.
SCHUYLER-During the last week the
county commissioners have had men at
work measuring the spans of the Platte
river bridge. They also took measure
ments Of the piing and the number OF
to have an estimate made as 70 the amount
It will take to repair the bridge
MINDEN-The women of the Library as
! ISOLATION gave one of their first series OF
entertainments Friday evening for the bcne-
fit of the public library and II was a great
; success The supper was the finest ever
spread here for the public and the crowd
, was large. The proceeds were $S5. They
will continue with suppers and other en-
tertainments.
? WEST POINT-J f. Losch, nominee for
the school board on the citizens ticket, and
+. ID. Sharrar. nominee for councilman
from the Second ward, hayc declined the
nominations, William -. Eggert has beer
: nominated for member of the school board
, and Il. #, Krause as councilman. These
nominations materially strengthen tho
: ticket.
BEATRlCE-H. w Hill OF this city will
soon commence the erection of building
I5xl5O to be used as transfer house. II
is to be erected on South Second street
; and will be modern in every. way. The
building at present occupied by Mr. Hill
has been leased by the Blue Valley Fruit
= company as storage and commission
l house.
TABLE RoCK-The anti-license people OF
, Table Rock are making great efforts tC
elect their ticket here this year. To this
I end they have secured Rev. Eugenia F. st
: John OF Salina, Kan, temperance apostle
who Will speak here on the subject at tn,
! opera house Thursday, Friday and Satur
! day evenings next and Sunday Afternoon
GRAND IsLAND-Judge Paul and jury
in the district court are engaged in listening
to good deal Of expert and other testi
against the city for 5000 damages al
4 legged to have been sustained by reason o.
a fall on a defective sidewalk. While walk
ing along an old, decayed wooden walk II
J June 1904. on dark night, accompanied b,
: her father, Miss Hansen fell and SUSTAINED
injuries as alleged in the petition, which
have not yet been quite overcome.
FREMONT-The subscriptions for thu
a new YOUNG Mems Christian association
day noon. Special meetings in the interes
, OF the building were held this afternoon
uona ne S6 PSr tSe atter IN excusTev fo
the women. At the opera house addresses
were delivered by State Secretary Bale!
shurches owins to the extremely b Sn
weather the attendance was not large.
WEST POINT-The applications 70
n liquor licenses shows that a number o
: business changes are in prospect. Messrs
u Meister and lckman will retire from tn
/. Nindel ana Fred Ruediger & Co, respec
: lively Frank johnson has sold out 20 Jo
c kase and Frank Coda has sold half In
d and owns a half interest IN the bushes
. Of Fred Ruediger 4 Co Melergard Ia
business OF that stand viii run in the nam
=, OF H. Meiergard & &C.
HIIMBOLDT-Wor has finally been re
: celved from the humboldt train Of emf
province Of sssEat ihSwan and it i
|
l. about the 10th only after innumerabe de
lays caused largely by the severe storm
II and drifted SHOWS. All got through 4
a fairly good shape except Arthur and Wa
= ter INLAND. two well known young me
& OF this city, I'm whose car fire starte
In some manner and before IL was dis
a covered the smoke and fumes caused tn
suffocation Of four head OF horses.
GRAND ISLAND Yesterday was the las
4, day for the filing OF petitions for the var
II Gus offices to be filled by the voters o
4 Tuesday, April 3, and the result shows tina
there viii be "A contest only as to waite
IS commissioner X. o, Waters who was az
IS poiDted to the office about six months ag,
and has made an excellent Official is
candidate for recollection. while Charlie
re Wasmer, also a capable and quite pOpula
m citizen will contest A third party is 90
by petition, without any caucus strength
and is therefore not expected 10 draw OVt
III leo votes II. 4. Edwards, Henry Rosi
- wick and G b. Norris have no opposiuO
IL for members OF the school board, ana Chr
Birk Albert Etting. John Schwynn an
e. George Lesser have no opposition for IL
ID council. The death of Mr.. Hooper, clt
D. | clerk creates a vacancy which will be nile
"A ( by appointment. there being not suficicl
~ time for a legal election.
GRAND ISLAND-While Engineer Doul
f. las and Fireman Monk were bringing dow
h. two mail cars from North Platte on
=. hurry order they gave crew OF Japauei
T. section men a scare which will no doul
\. l make the latter more careful in the futur