Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-11

| twelve road petitions, besides lot of other
business. one Of the former was granted,
two rejected and the, others Will come up
later. 1t is expected that petition will
be filed for the formation of a drainage
district under the recent act Of the legisla-
ture, so that something can be done very
soon towards controlling the Platte river
west OF town Two other drainage dis
tricts in the Platte valley are also being
considered.
ALDA-Alda is soon to have a bank. AL
though nothing definite has been decided
upon, there IL but little doubt but what
a bank will be put in before the summer
is over Quite a few visitors from differ
ent parts Of the state have been here with
a view Of putting in bank, but not until
movement " on foot to establish one dur
ing the summer. There are quite num-
Der of stock feeders in the community and
with their assistance there Is but little
doubt but what bank would flourish.
NEBRASKA CITY-Jerry Grinnell, who
has long been a resident of this city and
perience Monday night. He was on his
way home and when near the Tenth street
bridge two men stepped out Of the shadow
of the bridge and one Of them struck him
on the side of the head with a sand bag.
The blow was sufficient to knock him down,
but he was not rendered unconscious. He
got up and ran to his home which was
near by, and, securing shotgun, came
back, as he expressed IT, for the purpose
of getting his hat which he lost when he
was knocked down. His assailants had dis
appeared when he returned
FREMONT-The new city council met
last evening and elected A. w. Murphy
president pro TEN. and Albert Eddy pur-
chasing agent. Mayor WOLF appointed the
usual list Of committees and made the fol-
lowing appointments, all Of which were
Confirmed: Street commissioner, ]. II.
Fletcher; chief Of police, Otto Peterson,
| city attorney, c. h. Abbott; city physician,
| DR. l.. b. Smith; chairman Board OF Public
| Works F. N. Morse. No appointments were
made for water commissioner or city en-
gineer II was generally understood that
/ AMnNE vurF11 .NG.fV IL
sition for the present, but a new man is
| looked for in place Of Engineer ]. w. An
drews, who has held the position for the
/ last fifteen years.
| UPLAND-There was trouble at the meet
| ing OF the Upland Board of Education last
night. 1t was the regular meeting to elect
teachers for the next year. Miss Harriet
work. Miss Hanks OF Peru was engaged
! for the next grade. There was only one
applicant for the principalship. so It was
decided to wait a week or two for further
applications. The fight came over the
teacher for the intermediate grade. One
Of the directors wanted to re-engage Mrs.
Collins; the other two wanted to defer en-
! gaging her until more applications had been
received. on motion by one Of the latter
to adjourn, the first director announced
that unless Mrs. Collins contract was
signed at once he would refuse to sign
any more contracts until after the new
board election in June, The outgoing di-
however and adjournment resulted. AS 1t
stands at present Upland cannot engage a
principal or intermediate teacher until July,
when most OF the good teachers are en-
gagged.