Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-03-14
News Of a Local Nature
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city Tuesday.
Mrs. John Fodge is sufferin,
from a severe attack of inflam
matory rheumatism.
Charles Scholz fell from a hors
that became fractions, yesterday
and one of his arms was broker
at the wrist.
You are invited to attend tn,
social to be given by the Bus,
Bees at the residence of d. NJ
Amsberry tomorrow (Friday,
evening.
Horace f. Cannon smil
serenely since last Saturday
when asked if he knows of any
new arrivals in the city and says
it's boy---the finest in the land
Ray Skinner, residing 8 miles
northeast of this city, will not
deny the report of the arrival on
Monday Of fine boy baby that
may some day be president of the
United States or a Senator from
Nebraska.
At the Busy Bees social to-
morrow evening at the residence
of D. M. Amsberry a most en-
joyable time is anticipated. Re-
freshments will be served. You
are invited to be present and
enjoy yourself. D
Poor sidewalks, dirty streets,
masses of flying paper and ash
heaps are poor advertisemen ts
for town. They give visitors
to the city and prospective I'M
vestors a bad idea of the place
and its people.
Beauty Broken Bow. Let
that be the slogan of every
citizen and-act. In a-surpris-
ingly short space of time it can
appropriately be changed to
beautiful Broken Bow" and
back up the title with the goods
delivered.
c. L. Gutterson, c. H. Hol-
comb, Willis Caldwell, William
Worth, Frank E. Taylor and DR..
Bartholomew composed a party
that visited the Gold Medal mine,
near Hill City, South Dakota,
last week. They found the
property more tiAttering propo-
sition than they had anticipated
with prospects of high assay to
the ton Of ore. Share holders in
the Gold Medal feel pretty good
on account Of their investment.
Only very few dollars would
be required to paint the city hall
building which has as much of
decayed appearance as some of
the sod shacks erected at the
time of the discovery Of Custer
county. A vest of paint would
add some to its appearance and a
coat of paint to cover the vest
would change it from an eye-sore
to almost "a thing of beauty and
a joy" to citizens and tax payers
who hope to see Brokcn Bow
beauti6ed,
The public sale at the Will
Frey place, g miles south of this
city, last Friday, was, in the
vernacular of the enthusiast, "a
hummer" An unusually large
crowd was IN attendance, bidding
spirited and good prices realized
on everything offered, thirty
mules selling at S11O each. The
total amount realized was be-
tween eleven and twelve thous-
and dollars, about six thousand
dollars worth of the property
having been disposed of at
private sale.
The REPUBLICAN was con-
pelleG to discontinue issuing the
supplement because the
postoffice department ruled that
such supplement was not
germape to the paper and there
fore not admissible to the mail |
for transmission at second-class
rate, one cent per pound, but
would require one cent stamp
attached to each paper. The
remainder of the story, "Kate
Gilmore, Leading Lady" which
begun in the edition of the sup
plement dated February 9TH, is,
therefore, published on the first
page of this edition of the
REPUBLICAN for the benefit of |
those who read the first part.
1t would be a very easy matter
and an inexpensive one for every
body to know whether or not the
letters they mail are received by |