Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-03-28
News of a Local Nature,

and friends for a week.
Miss Ida WEIGH, of Senaca,
who was operated on for appendi-
citis at the Broken Bow hospital
last week is now able to sit up
and will return home in a few
days.
By referring to the first page,
our readers may note the second
of series of continued stories
on the manure spreader problem
published by the Lltchfield Mig,
Company.
Fred Collins, of Chaple, Neb.,
who came to the Broken Bow
hospital for treatment of dis
located shoulder and broken
collar bone, was discharged and
returned home last Sunday.
Hugh Wells, a student at York
college, came home last Thurs
day night for visit of week
and will return to school work
next Monday. Since coming he
has had slight attack of mumps
and recovered
We earnestly commend to our
readers the serial story on the
Litchfield Manure Spreaders,
which appears this week, on the
first page. Do not neglect to
read the whole of this series as
they appear weekly.
Frank Berkmier, one Of
Broken Bows expert carpenters,
has been kept busy contin-
uously during the past winter
and enough work now in sight
to keep him hustling until the
chilling winds come again,
heralding the near approach of
another year.
Next Monday is the date when
the fellow who has nothing else
TO do will be abroad with some
new tangled scheme he has been
studying all winter and spring it
on his fellow citizens as a joke
and all because it is the 1st day
of April-when all are supposed
to be fools.
H. M. Pickins, one cf the old
timers near Berwyn, occupied a
cushioned chair in the REPUBLI-
CAN sanctum last Friday and re-
galed the associate scribe with
"reminiscences of early life in
Custer county when every day
was like unto a holiday and
everybody happy, light-hearted
and free.
S. Powell, pioneer in the
county, residing near Weissert,
who has had heaps of satisfaction
tickling the soil, although some
years with but little success, was
city visitor Tuesday bring
ing sunshine and good cheer,
aud reported his neighbors in a
healthy condition, eager and
ready to begin blowing and
planting.
Manager Walker, of the Gold
Medal mine, at Hill City, S. D.,
writes the secretary, DR.. Bar.
tholomew, of this city: that
the first clean up from the
mill was an eye-opener and
the production more than fatter.
ing. The company know now
they have a valuable property
and will double the capacity oil
their mill from a five to a ter
stamp. The price of shares is
advancing steadily and that they
will reach par in a short time is
certainty.
On or before next Monday
not after-is box rent day at the
postoffice. The new ruling by
the department at Washington
is that boxes, upon which the
rent is not paid on or before the
first day beginning the quarter
must be declared vacant and mai
addressed to the renter placed il
the general delivery boxes. Or
account of the recent raise O.
81 per year for boxes in thu
broken Bow Office quite numbe
of citizens quit renting boxes a
the time of the raise and nuner
Gus others have declared thei
intention of doing so.
The real-estate and insurance
Office of Eastman & McGraw wa
the scene of much business las
Saturday. The senior membe
Of the firm is on a Texas triI
and the junior member decided
would be good time to "ho,
out" the dust, the accumulation