Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-08-15
The PRESS, PULPIT AND PUBLIC
What 10 Going on Here and There That
Is of Interest to the Readers
Throughout Nebraska.


versions, are in progress at Diller.
The new Touring mill at Hol1rege
is completed. It has a capacity of
two hundred barrels per day.
The farmers around Herman are
making it very lively for the tramps
who claim they are hunting work.
Peter Mcmahon has been farming
in Merrick county for thirty years
Ind never in that time has he lost his
crop by hail.
On petition of their clerks, most Of
the merchants of Central City have
gone into an agreement to shut up
shop at p. m. except on Saturdays.
The big agricultural show in Sew
ard county is billed for August q to
80, inclusive. The Blade thinks it will
be the best fair ever held in the
county.
A stable belonging to Prokop jan,
ouch of WILDER, in the rear of hisl
bottling works, was completely de-,
stroyed by fire. Two valuable horses
persisted.
According to the Ravenna News the
wheat crop in Buffalo county this year
is unusually good. The yield is from
fifteen to thirty bushels per acre, ma
chine measure.
The many friends throughout theS
state Of Hon. Trenmor Conse will re-
greet to hear that he lies at his home
in Wahoo seriously Ill with what pur-
ports to be typhoid fever.
Colonel T. ]. Majors and Rev. N.
G. Olinger will address the old set
tiers of Burt county at their annual
reunion on August 80. The meeting
will be held at Folsom park
The Alliance Packing company has
been organized with $4,000 capital,
all of which has been subscribed.
Messrs. Eugene A. Hall, Robert
Graham and James Graham are the
incorporators.
County Superintendent Anna Day of
Gage county has completed her report
to the state superintendent. The
census for this year shows 1926
school children in the county, of which
$50 are males and 5,O75 are females.
The Young Mems Christian associa-
Ition of Hastings has begun a cam
paign to raise the remaining indebted
which was completed several months
ago It will not be opened until the
balance, about $4,000, is paid.
Congressman Richmond P. Hobson
the hero Of the Merrimac, addressed a
large audience at the chautauqua in
Hastings on the subject, Peace and
Our Navy" He advocated spending
fifty million dollars each year for ten
years for the development of the
navy.
The ladies of Alliance will arrange
the display contributed by the farm
ers of Box Butte county for the Bur
lington crop exhibit car. They are
now at work with ribbons and shears,
and when the exhibit is sent to Omaha
to be installed In the exhibit car it
will present a very attractive appear
ance.-
Guy Grosjean and w. H. Woods dug
a very large bone from O creek bed
west of Fort Calhoun, where 1t had
been buried in fourteen feet of soil
and 1t Is supposed to have ben very
large buffalo. Some years ago Urben
Caehelan unearthed portion OF a
tooth that weighed flfty-six ounces,
which was sent to Washington, and
Otto Frahm found the head of fe,
male mastodon at the foot of an
eighty-foot bluff, half mile north
of the old fort.
When the Burlington switchmen al
Nebraska City were pushing a train
of cars on a side track they were hor
rified to find they had run over man
and his body lay partially across the
track. The coroner was called and
after taking charge of the body found
nothing on it to tell the name of the
party, but union card issued by the
Bricklayers union No. rs, of Bronx
Borough, New York. The card
showed dues paid to August, 1907
and bore the name of ]. e. Street.
A severe hail storm occurred in
West Point and vicinity. Gardens
were almost destroyed, many windows
broken and some trees stripped o.
their foliage. The storm was limited
in area, only small section OF farm
ing country west of the river suffering
any damage. Standing grain in the
path of the storm was beaten into the
ground and corn stalks were stripped
Of their leaves. About two inches O.
hail stones covered the ground, some
Of them much beyond the usual size
The Dempster Mill Manufacturing
company at Beatrice. distributed So,
500 on profit-sharing certificates
among it's employees. Men holding
these certificates are entitled to ;
share of profits based on position anC
time of service.
DR.. ]. T. Mathews. of Omaha, whose
certificate to practice medicine wal
revoked by the state board of healtl
as the result OF a complaint that hi
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