Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-04-25
News of a Local Nature


the Advo Grocery store Saturday,
April ~.
Mrs. Geo. B. MAR and brother,
Kirk Douglass, intend to go tc
Ord the first of next week for a
several days visit.
A. L. Scott and wife, OF
Wissert, visited with their parents
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Scott, in this
city, Tuesday night.
Jess Candy says: mot one
drop of water, but many grains
of sand, will build a railway
across Clusters f-ir land.
Leo Dean and Cleon Cannon
spread their names on the
Windsor hotel register in Lincoln
last Lords day and attended
services at the Cathedral.
An examination for teachers
certificates was held at the
superintendent's Office at the
court house last Saturday with
twenty applicants present.
Arthur Callen returned the
first of the week from the sand
hills, where he found section of
land, with 1900 acres of hay land
on which he filed homestead
papers.
C. F. Basch, of Madison, ar
rived in the city Tuesday night
and remains until tomorrow visit
ing with his brother, your "Uncle
Joseph" and family.
H. A. Watts new cottage, west
of the south side school building
is being rapidly rushed to fin
ish, whereat Herbert jubilantly
MARBLES: "Hi-lee, Inflow, see
my home in Broken Bow.
Lon Davis is grooming five
car loads of cattle, near the fair
grounds, and expects to have
them ready for dress parade in
the stock yards at South Omaha
about the LIST of next month.
The sale of S. head of horses
By w. G. Ranney, announced to
occur on May 4th at Richardson's
barn in this city, has been post
poned until a later date which
will probably be made public
within the next two weeks.
C. E. Calkins, of Kearney, has
been appointed on the Supreme
court commission, to succeed
Judge Oldham, who has held the
position for several years. E. E.
Good, of Wahoo, has been APP
pointed as another member of
the commission.
According to the Litch6eld
story, the power is really the
backbone Of the average manure
spreader. 1t became a serious
question as to how little power
can be used and how thoroughly
it can be applied to the mechan-
ism of the machine.
William Downs, of Louisville,
Kentucky, is visiting in the city
with his half-brother, Judge
Reese. Mr.. Downs is very favor
ably impressed with this coun-
try, especially the climate, and
thinks seriously of remaining
here permanently.
If our readers will kindly refer
to the Litchfeld story on our LIST
page, they will notice that the
question of power and how to
apply it. has been made scien-
tific study on this modern spread
err. We certainly think it will
be interesting to follow these
articles.
Judge J. S. Benjamin received
a letter last Saturday from his
son, John, written at Amarillo,
Texas, on the 10th, in which he
mentions having met Hiram
Palmer, who is with carnival
company and had just been
married to handsome and
accomplished young lady.
The graduating exercises of
the school of agriculture at the
State university at Lincoln will
be held tomorrow evening. The
class is composed of thirty mem
bers of which four of the number
are residents of Custer county,
namely: Frank w. Connolly and
Morris E. Meyers, Broken Bow;
William T. Haumont, Elton, and
Curtis B. Benger, Galloway.
A Broken Bow woman, who is
devout church worker, con.
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