Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-03-22
NEBRASKA BRIEFS

Center was highly successful.
Cupid is said to be working over
time in and about Humboldt.
Some cases of diphtheria are re-
ported in the vicinity OF Madison.
The Plattsmouth public library has
just added about one hundred new
volumes.
The new bridge over the Blue at
Barneston is completed and has been
opened for traffic.
Ice dealers in North Platte are
short on supply and it's price is liza,
BILE to go skyward.
Harry Palmer of Hastings got
tangled up in a runaway and had his
right leg badly broken.
Over twenty cars of live stock we're
shipped from Cook within two weeks,
besides many carloads of grain and
flour.
The Crabtree Forensic club has ar
ranged for debates with the Crete high
school on April q and the Humboldt
high school on May 4.
The steel work OF the Great North
ern bridge at Fremont has been COM
pleted. One man was killed and sew
eral injured during its construction.
AT Humboldt Carl, the fourteen-year-
old son Of Charles E. Williamson, lost
his left foot by falling beneath the
wheels Of an incoming freight train.
Last weeks issue of the local paper
at Cambridge contained the names Of
twenty-six parties who have moved
from the east and located on farms in
that section.
Water containing an oily substance
has been found on several farms in
Rocl1land township, Gage county. The
matter is to be thoroughly investigated
by residents of that locality.
At Plattsmouth in the case of Chas.
S. Johnson against the Bankers Union
of the World, fraternal insurance
company, County Judge Travis gave
the plaintiff a judgment for $S25.
Hugh Williams, alias William Alton,
who has just finished paying out a
fine in the county jail at York for
assault, is held on a charge OF deser-
ton from the United States army.
Roy Meyers of Stella went to bed
with his brother in apparently good
health and when his brother awoke in
the morning he found Roy corpse
beside him. Heart trouble was the
cause of his death.
The members of the Woman's
Christian Temperance union have had
printed and are circulating circulars
containing an exact copy of the petit
tons of the saloon keepers and CIV
ing the names of the signers.
Because Hans Stolley, Saunders
county youth, induced Fred Schroeder
Of Fremont to endorse a check for
him, he has been made defendant in
criminal action that charges obtain
ing money under false pretenses.
A letter has been received at Hast
ings signed by Andrew Carnegie's sec
rotary, stating that Mr.. Carnegie will
give $4,000 toward the 100000 Hast
ings college has been trying to raise,
provided the entire amount is Sc
cured.
The mortgage Indebtedness in Stan
ton county for February is: Farm
mortgages filed, thirty-four, $112,600;
released. twenty, $95,62616, city, filed,
three, $1,75795; released, ten,
$7,942.75; chattel mortgages filed, $685.
631.SS; released, $32,972.7S.
Since the organization of the Bay
ard Commercial club the business men
have injected new life and revived new
activities that have lain dormant for
several years. Through the untiring
of ri, nh
have come in and more are on their
way.
In answer to numerous questions
raised at the meeting of the county
assessors in Lincoln some time ago,
Secretary Bennett of the State Board
of Assessment has, with the aid of
the legal department, prepared let
ter to be sent out to the various as
SCISSORS. The letter first will be pre-
scented to the board for its consider.
alton and endorsement before being
mailed
After having been separated from
his son for thirty-three years-ever
since the son was babe OF three
months-and not knowing whether
that child to which he was father
had ever lived and grown to manhood
or, instead, succumbed and gone to
grave D. H. Carver was surprised last
week when that son, now a middle
aged American citizen, stepped off the
train at Pierce for a visit with his un'
known parent.
At the state experimental substation
| south Of North Platte q number OF
feeding experiments are now in prog
ress. the results of which, however,
cannot yet be determined Included in
these experiments are about seventy
five head of young stock and seventy
hogs. The cattle are divided in four
pens. Those in one pen are fed alfalfa
and cane; in another alfalfa alone is
fed; in third prairie hay and cane,
and in the fourth prairie hay.
| A large amount OF real estate has