Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-07
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit-
ical and other Matters Given
Due Consideration.


torn field near South Omaha, formerly
resided in Cess county.
A burglar entered the plant Of the
Fremont Seed and Irrigation company
by kicking in the door OF the engine
room, and secured $40 in money.
A new town has been laid out in
Jefferson county. 1t Is known as Shea
and is located between Endicott and
Diller on the Burlington railway.
Miss Myrtle Fletcher. aged 15, Of
Tekamah, eloped with Walter Mason,
Mason has been in the employ Of the |
Tekamah Ditch company for the last
year.
The project for securing the perma'
nent location of the Lutheran semi
nary at Lincoln is still hopefully con-
sidered.
Auditor Searle has been enjoined by
the district court of Garfield county
from registering school bonds to the
amount of $500 for school district No.
IT Of that county
At Kimball petition Is being circu-
lated praying the village board Of
trustees to call an election for the pur.
pose of voting water works bonds to
the amount of $4,000.
The Catholics of Crab Orchard and
neighborhood have decided to build a
church in that city. Two lots have
been purchased, the church people
paying $500 for them.
the two Hastings saloonkeepers who
were arrested on the charge Of selling
liquor on Sunday, were given hear
ing and fined each $50 and costs.
Some Of the farmers near Stella are
getting from fifty to 100 bushels OF
genitan apples .from their. orchards.
Earlier in the season it was thought
the apple crop would be an entire fall
ure.
Business men of Hastings who are
booming the new $4,000 hotel move
ment haven't taken kindly to ex-Sen-
ator Dietrich's proposition to remoaei
the Boostwick and sell 1t to the new
company.
At a large meeting held In Mullen
more than $500 was raised with which
to construct telephone line from
Mullen north to connect with the ]. l..
Roseberry line, which has northern
oatlet at Valentine.
The leaders of the United Brethren
church of Nebraska and Kansas are
considering the advisability Of purchas-
Ing Hepperlen's hospital at Beatrice,
to be supported by the conferences
adjacent to that territory
Rev. W. A. Mathews, pastor of the
Park Place Baptist church at Aurora
ILL.,, after accepting call to Fremont
to become the pastor Of the church
there, has decided not to come. He has
accepted call to a Chicago church, q.
DR.. Z. Benjamin Andrews Of the
state university fatty refused to dis
cuss the resignation matter. He as
serted that he had not thought of suct
thing. He had no intention of re
signing. "As for my health" he de
clared. at was never better"
Superintendent McBrien has now rec
ognized sixty-three high schools II
which normal training will be laugh
in conformity with the law enacted b.
the late legislature, appropriating $50
900 for this purpose. In addition Z
the schools already named and pull
lished, he has named the schools @
Ord and Randolph.
A lot Of laprobes, whips and Owe
coats, stolen from school hous
. nine miles southwest of Beatrice, wer
found in draw near Wandersee's far1
by Sheriff Trude, with the assistanc
of the Beatrice bloodhounds. A far
hand working in that vicinity admitte
that he and a man named Cool, l1Vin
near the Kansas state ..ne. took ii
/. property.
y Inc 4-year-old son Of Fred Miller,
!. farmer of Richardson county, suffere
Il death in a peculiar manner. He he
t. accompanied his father into the cor
. field and ran on the opposite side
:. the wagon to pic. up an ear OF col
which fell to the ground. AS he d
:. this the team started and the lit
fellow was crushed by the wheels, d
ing instantly.
At a meeting of Lyon Post No.
Grand Army OF the Republic, Graz
Island, consisting Of resident me
% bers of the Grand Army and not &C
- nected with the Soldiers Home, n
IA olutions were adopted by unanimo
n vote endorsing and asking the Boa
20 Of Public Lands and Buildings to r.
. cind the rule recently adopted rega
ing the pensions of the inmates OF
- Soldiers Home.
i" A couple of hunters who could fl
nothing else to shoot at killed sever
fine puHets belonging to Ed Essam
No Gage county. The latter gave cha
m and compelled the nimrods to pay
,ei the fowls or get arrested. and th
paid.
~. After changing his plea four din
a ent times from guilty to not q