Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-28
GATHERED FROM EXCHANGES
AND PRESS DISPATCHES.
Miscellaneous Items Of Interest Bear
ing Upon Many Subjects of
General Concern.

Work has been resumed on the Y.
NJ G. A. building at Beatrice.
At Sutherland Frank Durland had
his leg mangled in ha ypress.
Tekamah will hold bond election
to provide for an electric plant.
An attempted Jail delivery in Has
tings, was discovered and foiled.
Farmers institutes here and there
are generally quite well attended.
Hastings is now enjoying the great
est prosperity known since 1887.
F. w. Taylor, brakeman, fell from
the cars near Ruskin and was badly
injured.
Johnson county mortgage record
shows a decrease of about $4,000 for
January.
Wertz G. Johnson have just complet-
ed the purchase of $50 town lots in
Chappell
New buildings of the Nebraska Nor
NAL college at Wayne were dedicated
last week.
The home of Ed. Gibson, just across
the river from Nebraska City, was
destroyed by fire.
The farmers institute of Washing
ton county had the attendance abbre-
Waited by bad roads.
J. H. Grow, an old settler of Nance
county, fell down stairs, receiving in
juries from which he died.
The Standard Bridge company has
been given the contract to repair all
bridges In Burt county this year.
w. w. Butler, living near Belgrade,
got his hand so badly mashed in a
creamery that amputation became
necessary.
Alfalfa meal is much sought after
around Superior by stockmen as a
feed and the manufacture is growing
enormously.
c. e. Smart, former resident OF
Beatrice, suicided at Davenport, Iowa.
He had two wives, and even then life
was not worth living.
The Clay county farmers institute
which closed its session last week,
adopted resolutions declaring against
federal seed distribution.
Miss Ollie Morrow, teacher in the
public school at Red Cloud, died from
the effects of surgical operation to
relieve her from appendicitis.
A school election was held in Louis
vile for the purpose of voting $4,000
bonds for building an addition to the
public school. The proposition was
defeated.
Matt Lief, who was accidentally shot
at wolf hunt near Utica. died from
his wounds. He had lost too much
blood and nothing could be done to
save his life.
The city council of Beatrice, decided
to close the Paddock Opera house on
the 18th, unless in the meantime the
additional exit is opened as ordered
some time ago.
Rev. John Madley, popular pastor
and an orator of acknowledged abil-
ity, has resigned-the pastorate Of the
Presbyterian church at Oxford to enter
a wider field of service.
An elopement epidemic struck Cul-
bertson recently, four couples having
taken their departure In one week.
None of the girls were over 16 and the
boys averaged about 20 years of age.
Directors of the Seward County Tel
ephone company held a special meet
ing. 1t was voted at recent meeting
of the company at Beaver Crossing
to increase the capital stock from $780,
900 to 100000, and the board is ar
ranging for the building Of lot of
new lines.
William Boch, one of the original
members of the German colony from
Wisconsin, who laid out Norfolk in
1866, died recently and carried with
him to his grave the secret OF the
hiding place in which he had stored
a quantity of gold. Some Of his fam
lily believe it to have been $4,000, and
It may have been more.
At a masquerade ball In Fender,
given by the citizens in general, two
colored men, Frank Shepard and Sam
Minis, cooks at the Commercial hotel,
disguised themselves, as did their
white neighbors, and danced with the
elite of the city until a late hour,
when at one of the saloons they I'M
masked, and by so doing nearly pre-
cipitated small race riot.
A system of manual training for
boys Of the seventh and eighth grades
Of Geneva with work benches, tools,
material, etc, in connection with do.
mestic science, is to be initiated in
the school, which is declared to have
a perfectly equipped kitchen for the
latter study. The Geneva Equal Suf.
frage club is to assist materially in its
institution and support
Friend will soon have some bonds
to sell as last week the vote for bonds
for an electric lighting system was
overwhelmingly carried, only 80 votes
being cast against the proposition
William Buchanan, who represented
Otoe county in the house of represent
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