Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-20
ALL OVER NEBRASKA
NEWS NOTES FROM PAPERS AND
PRESS DISPATCHES.
A CONDENSATION OF DOINGS
Matters Of a Week as Portrayed by the
Press Locally and Tel
graphically.


cars" that make two trips day.
Exeter Is about to vote for city
water system and a Greater Exeter.
Fairbury had a cleanup day."
when everybody worked, even father.
The Cass county Sunday school con
vention will be held in Elmwood June
10 and IA.
Death is announced OF G. NJ Town
ley, proprietor of the st. James hotel
at Stella.
All indications point to a success
full G. A. r. district reunion at Neigh
July to 5, inclusive. Good speak
ers are being provided.
John Parsley at Lincoln, was sent
enced to one year at hard labor in
the state penintentiary for robbing
John Mumma of $25.
t. j. Langdon has sued Dodge and
Saunders counties for damages as the
result of the accidental death of his
baby by falling off bridge.
David City will make large amount
of improvements this year. The con-
tract for about forty cement street
crossings will be let in few days.
The Missouri Pacific local freight
from Weeping Water went through
q bridge four miles east of Eagle, and
thirteen loaded freight cars dropped
into the creek.
The fortieth annual state Sunday
school convention is to be held in
Hastings from June Is to 20, in the
Baptist church, with 1000 or 1900
persons in attendance.
Augustus f. Schoenberg of Phila-
delphia, Pa, committed suicide at
Chadron. He left a note requesting
that word be sent to Benjamin 9th
ems, his foster father.
The Board of Education of the Val
ley public school has added the twelfth
grade to the high school course for
the coming year, so there will be no
graduating class this year
Higgins, the murderer of the Cop
pie couple, is still in Jail at Omaha.
His examination will not take place
for some time yet, it being unsafe to
take him to Thurston county
Mrs. Meta Baer received the inter.
state scholarship as the best student
of the graduating class of the high
school at York. This entities her to
enter any college in the state free of
charge.
The farms and orchards of Wash
ington county show little effect of the
cold, late spring and frosts. Already
there are many fields of corn which
show good stand and small grain
is doing well.
There is a strong movement on foot
to organize a Young Mems Christian
association in Hebron. Since the clos
ing of the saloons and pool halls the
need of some place of amusement for
the young men is urgent
Mrs. M. V. Sisco, who lives near
Burchard, was severely bitten by
vicious dog, both of her wrists being
badly bitten through. She managed to
hold the animal off at arms length,
thus warding off other injuries.
The Nebraska letter carriers select
ed Lincoln as their place of conven-
ton next year. They elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, G. W. NAL
10y, Fremont; vice president, A. Waite
Lincoln; secretary, Charles B. New
ton of Omaha; treasurer.
Leonard Reeder of Beatrice, the boy
who was thrown from horse several
weeks ago, has partially regained con.
seriousness and the physicians now
believe he will recover. 1t is one Of
the most remarkable cases ever re-
corded there in medical circles.
The school district at Newman
Grove voted bond issue of $4,000.
A great effort was made to get a
double carriage being pressed into
service. The result was that the
bonds carried by vote OF 238 to AZ.
The two travelling mems associa-
tions, the United Commercial Trav-
elers and Travellers Protective asso-
| citation, of Dodge county, presented
Hon. j. H. Knowles with testimonial
as token Of their esteem for his SER
vices in pushing the 2-cent a mile fare
bill and the 2-cent mile mileage
book.
Some excitement was occasioned at
leatrice at the funeral of Mrs. Ida
May Playter, when 1t was discovered
that her husband, who accompanied
the remains from Lincoln, had the
smallpox. DR.. Brash, member OF
the State Board of Health, was noti
fled and Playter and his children were
taken back to Lincoln and placed in
the pest house.
Receiving the message over the
wire which instructed the sheriff tC
place him under arrest, r. S. Cross
alias Frank Harmon, night operator
Tor the Missouri Pacific at Auburn
gave the sheriff the slip and has com
pletely disappeared.
President A. o. Thomas of the Kear