Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-10-18
NEBRAeKA BRIEFS.


ments and engaged an instructor.
Henry Hall of Fairfield has more
! chickens than anybody. His flock of
White Ieghorns numbers between
1000 and 5000
| Miss Adele Koch arrived in West
Point from Chatauqua, n. Y, where
she took special teachers course
! during the summer
| Seven bo"s were fined 1913 at Nor
folk for stealing five melons from L.
Nethaway's patch and plugging seven
| ~ melons In the field
Farmers in Harlan county, accord
ing to the Orleans Chronicle are
stocking up rather freely this var on
| piano and automobiles.
Andrew Carnegie has agreed to give
the York college $4,000 providing
| $4,000 is raised by the college. Prof.
Shell, president Of York college hopes
to raise the funds required
George Thompson of Gordon recent
ly entered himself in a sprinting match
| against sure-enough professional and
beat him out of first money as easy
| as anything you ever saw.
The village board Of Benedict passed
q curfew ordinance last week to take
effect in three weeks. All children I'M
| der the age of seventeen will have TO
be in and under their parents care
at $3.50.
The Union Pacific is going to give
IplINNtIrg "a
the work has commenced. 1t will be
of brick, 40x100 feet, and a platform
1Gx370 The structure will cost more
than $4,000
Joseph ID. Roberts, switchman on
the Northwestern, met death under
car wheels at Norfolk. He stepped
between two cars to uncouple them
and fell. A car passed over bin. cut
ting his body TO pieces
Champion lake, in Chase county,
was drained the other day and hun
dreds of people were on hand attract.
ed by the opportunity to get a long
string of fish without much effort.
They were not disappointed.
Jesse Beans, a 55.yearold farmer re-
siding near Dunbar. has been arrested
and placed in Jail charged with pa
ternity by Miss Ruby Folden. a 81
year-old woman residing near Una.
dilla. The child, girl, was born last
June.
The city officials of Nebraska City
have made up their minds to put
stop to gambling in that city, and
several months ago shut up the gam
bling houses and arrested r. f. Dick.
| man, n white man. and two negroes
caught shooting craps.
Sparks from the passing freight
train lodged in the roof of the depot
at Humboldt and started quite a blaze
before the condition of things was
discovered by an employ of the mills
a short distance away. The fire was
eXtinguished without any very great
damage.
Some one went through the rooms
of the Stock Yards hotel at the feed.
ing station south of Fremont and re,
lieved the guests of suit cases and
| clothing to the value of over 500
Several were obliged to send out for
trousers before putting in an appear
ance for breakfast
An interesting and instructive con,
vention was held in York by the Ne
braska Womaus Home Missionary So
ciety and the Nebraska branch of the
w. b nj. !. at the CONGREGATIONAL
church in that city. Nearly forty del
| nnDtq- frR,,, oil r.
| in attendance
Mr.. Hackariah Buoy, who recently
died at his home in Ewing, was one
OF the very early settlers in Antelope
county. He went there in 1871 and
treated the Indians so well that when
the Sioux raided that territory n few
years later he was the only settler
whose livs stock was not moested.
The Lutheran, Episcopal and Pres
byterian churches will all have new
ministers ut Schuyler in the near fu,
ture, Rev. Mr. Arnold Of the Presby-
terrain church going TO New Jersey.
Rev. Mr. Mills of the Episcopal taking
church in Oregon and Rev. Mr..
Bramtisch of the Lutheran going to
South Dakota.
The report of County Superintend,
ent Il, NJ Avery of Pawnee county, to
the state superintendent of schools
shows the following: There are
seventy-two school districts in the
county; seventy-two frame school
houses; four brick, and two of stone
Seventy-one Of the districts own the
text books, and twenty-nine districts
have nine months of school and forty
or them, six or more
Frank Lille OF Gage county, who
usually raises more good corn than
any enc farmer in that county, has
just finished putting up his seed corr
at his farm near Rockford. Mr.. Lille
goes into his field and selects tn,
strongest and most perfect stalks
These he cuts and carries to a plac,
{ where they are shocked and left t,
cure. From these stalks he select,
/ only the perfect ears of corn, and b,
this manner OF selecting seed h,
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