Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-08-15

DAYS with relatives in this vlcin-
ity on her return trip from
Indiana, left for home last Satur-
day..
Merchant Drake has been
absent from business duties. in
the store the past week, the
heated holiness of the good old
summer time having incdpaciated
him from duty.
Miss Sallie Rankin, who keeps
accurate tab on filings and dis
charges of record in the register
Of deeds Office, returned the first
Of the week from Thedford near
which place she has farm.
Robert Hollingsworth, of
Lincoln, manager of the Ne
braska business for the Dierks
Lumber and Coal company, was
in the city last Satui day associa-
ting with Local Agent Molyneux.
F. M. Cudabeck, of Mullen,
was in the city Monday looking
for school teachers for Hooker
county and will pay $45 month.
He said the schools are all small
and the buildings are new with
up-to-date furniture.
Send your name and postoffice
address to Jules Haumout, Broken
Bow, for a premium list of the
Custer county fair, which will be
held Sept, 1920, and then bring
in something TO exhibit and get
good cash premium.
Prof. J r. Teagarden spent a
portion of last week at Hastings
and this week he and Mrs. Tea
garden are rusticating in the
shade of the trees that fringe the
banks of the sweet-winding,
swiftly-flowing Loup.
Mrs. Jessie Smith and daughter,
Mary, of Provo, Utah, who visited
County Treasurer and Mrs.
Cavenee for about a week, left
for home Monday morning.
They had been visiting in the
eastern states siuce last May and,
to the delight of their host and
hostess, stopped in this city on
the return trip.
There was heavy hail storm
eight miles east of the city last
Wednesday afternoon doing con-
siderable damage to growing
grain. Those who we're wise
had insured with Agent J. S.
McGraw in the Northwestern
Fire and Marine and the losses
have been adjusted and paid
already. That's quick business.
Company NJ, National Guards,
ofthis city, thirty-five brave boys
in line, left Monday morning for
Lincoln where they went into
camp at Capitol Beach for five
days drill. This is short
length of time for drilling, yet
it is perhaps longer than the
company has put in during the
entire year, or since it was in
camp at Fort Riley, Kans., last
August.
Members of the Baptist Sunday
school who went to Clear Creek,
near Westervil.e, last Wednesday,
camped there till yesterday when
they returned home. They re-
port an enjoyable time even
though the weather was extreme
ly hot. The party camped in a
grove on John Welsh's farm and
were most Hospitality treated by
Uncle John" and his SPLENDID
family of whom they speak in
the very highest terms.
! r. A. Hunter went to York
county Monday from whence he
has had a number of inquiries
concerning Custer county lands,
ann ne expects TO round up
bunch OF prospective investors,
bring them here and show EN-
something good that's in store
for all who have energy, enter
prise and, get-there-ativeness
bob" is the real thing when il
comes to missionary work in
getting acceptable settlers.
Will Frey, who disposed of q
lions share of his Custer count
holdings last spring and located
in Kansas City in charge of the
Dierk's Lumber and Coal Co.
interest, arrived in the city last
Friday and will remain until mex
week attending to some UNI
finished business mat ers. "The
lid on" in his town does not