Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-03
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Poilt-
Ical and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.


ton ON the question of putting in q
sewerage system.
The new Y. NJ G. A. building at
Hastings has been dedicated. The
structure cost $4,000.
Thomas McComas died at Bassett
as the result of an injury received by
falling out of wagon.
Kimball is discussing a water works
proposition and will vote bonds on
that question in few weeks.
Bishop Keene of Cheyenne, Wyo.,l
confirmed class of fifty at Holy
Rosary Catholic church in Alliance. !
Frank Robinson, the most prosperi
Gus and respected colored man in Mel
braska City, died suddenly of heart
| failure.
The Law and Order league has orr
ganized in Hall county for the puri
pose, IL is believed. of closing every
saloon in the county on Sunday.
The barn of s. ]. Rice. in the north
east portion Of Harvard, and long
distance from the nearest flreplug,|
was destroyed by fire last week.
Kimball county is overrun now with
buyers of real estate. Land has adj
vanced and is still going up. Good
crops prevail generally all over the,
county.
The Sheridan County AGRICULTURAL
society closed a very successful four
days fair and carnival, The attend
ance was the largest of any fair ever,
held in the county.
Reliable information has been re-
ceived that the Burlington will, In q
very short time, commence the re-
building and enlargement of its paint
shops in Plattsmouth.
Mrs. j. H. Chamberlain, living north
of Ashland, who was bitten by rat
tlesnake, is improving and Is past thel
critical stage, While walking in thel
orchard she was bitten.
Superintendent Avery Of Pawneel
county recently received from the
State Fair association check for $63.
for the premiums won on his educa-l
tional exhibits at the state fair.
Judge and Mrs. w. ii. Newell of
Plattsmouth have gone to Portsmouth.
o., where they will attend reunionI
of the surviving members of the FiftyI
sixth and Ninety-first Ohio regiments.l
York college opened with an in,
crease in attendance over last year.
and with good prospects for the year.,
The enrolment of the York schools is'
1,O25, of whom $50 are in the high
school.
r. J. Wolcott, fireman on Unionl
Pacific local freight No. So, was In
jured at Waterloo quite severely, be-
ing struck on the head by the gate OF
| the cattle ohutes while the engine was
switching.
A substantial building boom has set.
In at Clarks. The Clarks State bank !
just incorporated with an authorized
capitl of $4,000, is beginning the cree
ton Of fine building to be finished
about November I.
Word has been received in Oakland,
of the death Of Mrs. Ira Thomas att
Wenatche, Wash, of malarial fever.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas were residents
of Oakland from 1880 until few years.
ago, when they moved to Washington,
William Koehner, formerly Of Elk,
horn, who has been residing with his
son near Osmond, was accidentally,
killed while returning from Osmondi
with load of lumber. His horses bel
came frightened at camp of gypsies,
| and threw him out Of the wagon, the.
wheels passing over him.
Contracts have been let at Exeter
for an upto-date system of water
works, city hall and Jail, ard fran
chise granted private parties for fur
nishing electric light and power sery-
ice. In addition TO these, contracts
have been let for nine brick business
buildings.
Secretary to the governor, Dimery,'
has returned from Central City and
| Chapman, where he Investigated the
causes leading up to the death Of
| James McGirr, near Central City July
| 16 last. He Is rather inclined to be-
lieve McGirr was struck by Union
Pacific train and met his death In that
way rather than at the hands of a
mob.
O. M. Robson, from five acres Of
ground on his ranch just north of
Bridgeport, cut the heads of wheat
grass and threshed more than 1000
pounds of seed, which he sold direct
TO the government for $175 He then
cut the remaining grass and found
that he had ten tons of choice hay
worth So per ton. His five acres made
Just $255.
70. o. Fuller, who for more than two
years was clerk to the register and re-
ceiver Of the United States land office
at North Platte, in the civil service,
has been reinstated and has returned
to- assume his former office at an in
creased salary.
William Graf of Grand Island, aged
10 years, was dragged quarter of a
mile behind a runaway horse and yet
| no serious results are feared. He had