Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-24
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, PoIit-
ical and other Matters Given
Due Consideration.


Corn husking is now In progress in
some portions of the state.
BARRIERS of Nebraska City have de-
eided to advance their prices.
Robbers operated at Plattsmouth,
securing SIS from one store they en-
tered.
The first lecture in the course at
Pawnee City will be given by Senator
LaFollette of Wisconsin.
Free mail delivery is expected to be
established in North Platte as soon as
the houses are numbered.
After being closed for several months
for repairs, the Model Milling COM
pany at Tecumseh is again at work.
Henry Meyers, respondent and said
to be mentally unbalanced, committed
suicide at Lincoln. taking carbolic
acid
After the summer vacation all the
churches have resumed aggressive
work and are busily engaged in for
ward movements.
At his annual auction sale, A. E.,
Stutt, residing near Avoca, Cass coun-
ty, sold forty-seven Duroc Jersey pigs
In one hour and thirty minutes for
$1,107.
A burglary was committed at
Clarks, robbers entering the Office of
the Foster Lumber company and
rifling the safe, securing SAP in cur
rency The robbers left no clue.
Smallpox has invaded the rural dis,
trict southwest of Fort Calhoun, be-
ginning at the home of William Sierk.
Mr. and Mrs. SierlS both are victims
of this disease, Mr.. Sierk being seri-
ously i'll.
Two unidentified robbers entered
the farm house of John Kost, near
Norfolk, and leveled a revolver at
Miss Mary Kost, aged 16. She tainted
and they ransacked the house, getting
$21. and escaped.
At Tekamah, after being out most
of the night, the jury in the Butts
trial returned q verdict Of guilty of
shooting with intent to wound for
which the penalty is from one to twen-
| ty years in the penitentiary.
Governor Sheldon has appointed
United States Senators e. J. Burkett
and Norris Brown and all the con.
gressmen in the state delegates to the
combination and trust conference to
be held in Chicago Oct. 20 to 20.
The new city directory now being
published in North Platte will con-
tain 2,100 names. Multiplying this by
| 21s, the usual ration in computing the
population from names obtained In
compiling a directory, the population
| is found to be $3.50.
The fruit crop, and particularly the
apple crop, in Lincoln county was not
by an means destroyed by the early
freezes. ]. @. Wilcox went to Suth-
erland and purchased the entire prod
uct Of the Hunter orchard, amounting
in all to 1900 bushels.
]. H. Penner of the Union State
bank, Beatrice, has returned from At
lantic City, N. j., where he attended
the meeting Of the American Bankers
association as delegate from the Me-
braska Bankers association. He re-
ports that the Nebraska delegation
was one of the largest in attendance
and that the delegates from the west
were conspicuous in all Of the deliber-
atoms of the convention.
A shipper who sent carload Of
stock beyond Alliance reports that he
was charged by the Burlington 60
cents bushel for corn for feeding at
| h.
reached $1.S0 hundred was charged.
AS this Is almost more than 40 cents
bushel more at Alliance than at
Aurora, and as the Aurora charge was
held by him to be a rather stiff price,
he has made roar.
Will the price of land adapted to
the raising Of corn advance to $3.50 to
5000 an acre within the next ten
years? That is the prediction of John
p. Thiesen, representative from the
Fairbury district, and one of the most
conservative farmers in Nebraska.
Mr.. Thiesen does not marvel at the
price people are paying for corn land
today, and he looks upon 500 an acre
as nothing out of the way.
A sad sight took place in David City
when the family of John Weber was
separated. Mr.. Weber was unable to
support his wife and three children
The mother, not being able either
was taken to the county farm, and the
three children were taken in charge
by Miss Louise Rankin, representing
the Home of Homeless Children. Miss
Rankin took the two boys and little
girl to Omaha, where she will en-
deavor to find homes for them.
An immense amount of apples have
been shipped from Tekamah this fall
Buyers from Sioux City and Kansas
City have canvassed the county and
purchased the apples for so much a
bushel on the trees.