Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-06
News of NebrnuIkn.

SCHUYLER = Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Bryant have left for Florida to spend six
weeks. .t-.
EUsTIs-A movement is on foot to close
all business houses at o'clock except on
Saturday evening.
COLUMBUS-For several days the Their
zero. The lowest that IT has gone Is 10
below.
sCHUYLER-County Clerk shopka turned
over $3.50 excess fees according TO his re-
port examined by the county commits
sioners.
BLUE HILL-A. D. Baker is suing the
Burlington before Justice Buscrow for
damages resulting from loss OF hay set
on fire by a locomotive.
COLUMBUS-Grace Episcopal church
ladies will give musicale az the nome
of Mr.. aud Mrs. Homer b. Robinson on
the evening of February s.
BEATRICE-Arthur. the S-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs, j. M. Martin; living
eleven miles west of Beatrice died SUD
denly Sunday of pneumonia.
BEATRICE-The Beatrice Electric com
pany has been awarded the contract by
the Treasury department for the complete
wiring of the government building here.
| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of the intense cold
the entertainment which was to have been
given at the school house by the Equal
Suffrage club was postponed to next Mon
HYANNIs-Rev. G. c, Jeffers of ALI
ance preached a special sermon to the
Order of the Eastern Star. He had a
weather.
YORK; Reneker, who was taken sick
at the Young Mems Christian association
building. was taken to his home at Central
Of the grip.
wAcoLJ. Edmond Grass and Mrs, L.
| byterian parsonage in York by Rev. John
b. Creighton. Both are land owners in
York county.
BHATRICE-w. F. Glngrich. cashier at
] the Burlington ONCE here. was called to
| Fulton. Mo-, by a telegram announcing
the death of his father, T. B. Gingrich.
who was 76 years of age.
| BLUE Hull Ford manager OF the
Bradford Kennedy Lumber company, has
sent word that his mother passed away on
Red oak. Ia. for burial.
SCHUYLER-The sixteenth annual mas
querade ball given by the schuyler Turn
ing before Lent viii be held at the Janecek
opera house February u.
BEATRICE-Phillip r. Clauson, a ma
tive Of Ohio and 81 years OF age, died
four miles south of town. Interment was
In Evergreen Home cemetery.
| BEATRICE-while washing a colts eye
Beatrice, was struck by the animal and
sustained two ugly gashes In the face
and severe bruises on the head.
| THAYER-J. Eckles, who has been In
the general merchandise business here for
many years, has sold his stock of goods
| to Harry Price. Mr. Price is a well known
young farmer living near Thayer
BEATRICE-Revival services held tha
last hve weeks at the La Selle Street
Methodist Episcopal church in West Beat
| rice by Rev.. r.. Lewis have closed.
| There have been ninety conversions.
BLUE HILL-The mill has resumed op-
erations after being shut down four weeks
making necessary repairs and installing
a new boiler. The plant will be kept un-
usually busy for some time catching w
with orders.
! WAKEFIELD-Wa Wakefield hunters headed
by Colonel II. p Shumway OF the Cover
I nor's stan and Game Warden James Reid
j have so far succeeded in capturing three
gray wolves. something unusual In this
part OF Nebraska.
RULo--Hog cholera Is appearing az
| various places throughout this section.
1 Peter Neidechen of Wtnnebago valley Is
reported TO be losing some; James Mooney,
1 jr., has lost sixty head, and John A. Ran
| Solph of Minehaha valley has dragged of
| as many as thirty-fiVe head In one day
from its ravages.
| RULO-Snow has fallen here at intervals
from Saturday evening until Monday even
| ing, and the weather promises to give
| more snow before morning. The snow Is
| about four inches deep and sleighing Is ex-
cellent. The last two days have been
genuine winter weather. with the Their
mometer lowering near the zero mark most
OF the time.
| BEATRICE-Funeral services for @. c.
i Ferguson were held from the Methodist
church at Odell under the auspices Of the
l Masonic lodge. Interment was IN Odell
lcemetery. Mr.. Ferguson operated the frst