Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-03-07

is reported as convalescing.
Willis Caldwell left Tuesday
for short business sojourn in
South Dakota in the vicinity OF
Deadwood.
The city council met last night
but did not award the contract
for excavating for the new steel
bridges over Muddy on 4th and
5th avenues.
Misses Grace and Francis
Buchanan, of Mt. Union, Iowa,
arrived yesterday for visit of
two or three weeks with Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. O. Jones.
City politics are just now peace
fully slumberlng, but none need
be surprised if it has terrible
nightmare in a few days as city
election day is but four weeks
hence.
Hon. VIM. P. Higgins, of
Lincoln, formerly a resident of
good old Custer, in the Sargent
neighborhood, created Broken
Bow friends on their own hearth
stone Monday.
Broken Bow Equality club will
celebrate Susan B. Anthony's
birtht ay at the home of Miss
Lincola Groat, Friday evening,
March 18th, at p. m. The
public is cordially invited to at
tend.
May 10 and II are the dates
that have been definitely fixed on
for holding the County Sunday
School convention, at Broken
Bow. Plans are being laid to
make this session better than
any previous one in the history
of the association.
Rev. H. L. Pinckney reached
home yesterday from Madison
county, Iowa, where he was sum-
mcned Tuesday of last week on
account of the death of his old
est brother. There were eight
boys in the family and this was
the first to be called by death.
J. HI. Mcclure, a farmer who
employs up-to- date methods and
is ever alert to adopt the best
ideas in the cultivation of
the soil, was a visitor in
the city last Saturday attend
ing to personal business affairs.
The county supervisors, accord
ing to adjournment in January,
will meet next Tuesday for the
transaction of regular business
and give strict, undivided and
impartial consideration to such
other matters as nay properly
be submitted-with that genial
gentleman, Al Fonda, presiding.
And there you are.
e. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Edwards
left Tuesday morning for Los
Angeles, Calf, going by way of
Salt Lake City, for visit of an
indefinite length of time with
their son, Thomas, who is there
employed in a wholesale honse.
The REPUBLICAN will keep them
posted on Custer county affairs
during their stay on the coast.
Company NJ, the local military
organization, was inspected last
Saturday night by Capt Frazer,
under authority of the State.
The date for inspection by the
Government has not been an
nounced. 1t behooves the MEM
bers to brush up considerably,
however, and be in readiness for
the ordeal, for 'ye know not the
day nor the hour"
DR.. Barthomew, secretary of
the Gold Medal Mining Co.,
with mines at Hill City, South
Dakota, has received a letter
from Manager Walker, written
since he returned there, in which
he makes very flattering report
concerning another ledge of gold
bearing quartz that has been UNI
covered. The Gold Medal people
undoubtedly have good paying
property.
There are some people, it
seems, who thought some other
people were at Broken Bow, but
according to Postmaster Jewett's
report they are not, or, if they
are, have failed to call on him.
Unless called for in a short time
the Broken Bow postoffice will
forward to the dead letter Office
at Washington, D.. c., letters
addressed to the following named