Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-17

Rittenhouse rewsding in the. north
part of the city, are reported very |
i'll with typhoid fever.
Mrs. Effie Dodds, clerk of the
U. S. land Office, left last night |
for Cheyenne, Wyo., for visit
with friends. She will be gone
lbout thirty days.
Ole Johnson, of Round Valley, |
who recently purchased the Amos
Noble property in the east part
of the city is building new
barn on the premises.
1 Mr.. and Mrs. Loren Amsberry
arrived in the city from Spokane,
Wash, Tuesday night. After a
few days visit here they will gol
to Missouri and visit with Mrs.
Amsberry's mother, who is in
poor health.
The Broken Bow lodge of Odd
Fellows is being represented at
the grand lodge, in session at
Omaha, by A. w. Drake.
Mayor George, Jos. Pigman, DR..
Bass and Will Purcell are also
in attendance.
Our country correspondence is
unusually good this week, but it
is unavoldably crowded out. AZ
ditional pages will be added to
the regular edition of the REPUB-
LlcAN next week and the cores
pondents' offerings will be given
space.
James II. Sterncr, a prosperous
young farmer of near Galloway,
was in the city yesterday on
business IN connection with max
ing final proof fer a chunk of
Uncle Sans domain which he
has established a right to claim
as his own and his only.
]. L. Candy, who moved from
this city to Oklahoma number
of years ago and has not been
here for six years, arrived last
Friday for a visit with his
brother, Jesse, and old friends.
Mr.. Candy easily notes the great
Improvements in Broken Bow
during the past six years and
says he does not know of another
town that has made as many
and substantial improvements.
! Two weeks from next Tuesday
is election day, yet one would
hardly think it, judging from the
amount of campaigning which
has been so extremely silent
as to be painful-almost-to
those candidates who, in other
years, have had strenuous time,
been ripped up the back and
plastered all over from the filth
tank which is now the exclusive
property of the Custer County
Beacon.
Tuesday morning Sanders Van
landingham and Misses Myrtle
Lyell and jamie Cooper left for
Paris and other points in Texas
to visit relatives-which abound
there in large. numbers-expect-
ing to be absent from home about
four weeks. A post card receiv-
, ed here this morning indicates
they are now IN Kansas City
rubbering at the tall buildings
and wondering how many jumps
, it would take to reach the tops if
r the buildings were laid down fiat.
The Federal grand jury in
session at Omaha two weeks ago
returned an indictment against
t Arthur Norcutt on the charge of
having broken into the U. S.
5 postoffice in this city ON the
2 night of July Sth and removing
;. therefrom S45 in currency. Since
his arrest, ten days after the
A robbery, he has been in the
), custody of Sheriff Richardson.
e Last Friday deputy U. S.
marshal came and took him to
Grand Island where he will be
e held until a hearing by the
t Federal court next February.
: Those of our merchants who
~ were recently inveigled into ex'
"a changing good Uncle Sam cur
;. rency for defunct Georgia banl
notes may fine some consolation
:, in knowing that two fellows who
- performed the same trick a
Blair, Nebr., last week, wer,
arrested. After consoling them
y selves with this information thu
e aforesaid Broken Bow merchant
e are entitled to weep, for thu
lie sharpers testified the bills wer,
y taken by them for good money
"a and they had no knowledge the1