Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-06-06
MlecELLANEoUS NEWS NOTES
HERE AND THERE.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Social, Agricultural, Religious and
other Matters Having Reference
to This Commonwealth Alone.


A heavy wind at Albion did much
damage to buildings and windows.
The Fremont High school will turn
our thirty-nine graduates this year.
Heavy rain visited Deuel. county, in
surfing bountiful crops of wheat and
rye.
sneak thief broke into a barber
shop at Milford and stole thirteen ra-
Eors.
Chester county's thirty-fourth annual
teachers institute will be held June
to 16.
Forty-one persons united with the
Episcopal church, Fremont, on a re-
cent Sunday.
e. F. Thorp of Otoe county fell from
q scaffold, breaking his right thigh
near the hip
Tecumseh BARRIERS have raised the
shaving price to Is cents on and after
the list of June.
Church people of Alliance are in a
movement to have all screens re-
moved from saloons.
Bank statements of the First Ma
tional and Omaha National banks show
deposits of about $13,OO0,OO0 cash.
Bridgeport's town board is consid-
ering the matter of ordering perma-
nent cement sidewalks about the town.
Southwestern Nebraska got effec-
tive relief from the long period of dry
weather Heavy showers fell over a
wide district.
Frank Jones, a Union Pacific Sec
ton hand, died at Grand Island from
burns received by the explosion of
gasoline can.
David Hopkins of Dewitt died re-
Gently from poisoning contracted by
piercing the palm of his hand with the
horn of a catfish.
The Valparaiso state bank has re-
duced the capital stock from $4,000
to 5000. Two of the five stockhold
ers wish to withdraw.
A horse market has recently been
established in Ravenna, where men,
bers of the equine family will be sold
for shipment to the east.
The annual estimate of the expenses
of the city of York for the fiscal year
beginning in August, 1907, and ending
in August. 1908, is $S1,45O.
A tornado swept the outskirts of
Hastings and did considerable damage
to property, and also injured John
Murphy. The storm was followed by
heavy rain.
A new organization has been formed
in York to be known as the Farmers
exchange, of which Bernard King is
the president The company is erect
ing large brick building.
Colonel H. C. McMaken celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary of his arrival
in Plattsmouth by inviting all of the
old settlers who came that year or
previously to Cass county, also his
children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren.
The proceedings against Charles
Williams for the murder of his father
on the 18th of last September, have
been dismissed by the court at Au-
burn. His brother Clarence, who adj
mitted having fired the fatal shots,
was cleared last winter.
According to the records Of the
county court of Johnson county for
twenty years from January /, 1887, to
January /, 1907, there were 2,01S mar
riage licenses issued. During that
twenty years there were bnt 1877 appli-
cations for divorce filed in this county.
G. " Bartlett, who was arrested at
st. Louis, Mo-, charged with embez-
zling $4,000 of the funds of the COM
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formerly manager of the Nebraska
City Telephone company at that place
and made that city his home for sew
eral years.
The surveyor of the port of Lincoln
gets SIS a month and fees, the fees
amounting to enough to make the
salary about 500 per month. The
surveyor of the port, by virtue of his
office, is custodian of government
property in the city, but he draws no
pay for his services in this position.
| The Nebraska Bankers association
has advised the banks at York of a
new graft that is being worked upon
! farmers in Nebraska who are ap-
preached by an agent for a new style
!
the proposition of an agency is pre-
scented to the farmer and upon It's &C
ceptance he is asked to sign what he
understands is an agency contract or
something of that nature, but It devel-
ops that il is really a note for usually
$3.50.
A Crete editor tells how to get rid
of dandelions. He says: Sprinkle the
pest with Il mixture of 20 per cent cop.
peras and so per cent water. 1t is a
sure killer and doesn't mjure the
grass.
The crop conditions in the state
are jus. as good as they were last sea.
son, and the cold weather has done
little but retarl the grain. Reports