Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1908-01-23
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Poiit-
lcal and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.

Midwinter grain threshing was seen
in Nemaha county last week.
Mrs. Ruth Kellam, a pioneer OF
Beatrice, died at the age OF 30 years.
The new water works system at
Lindsay is nearly ready for operation.
Last year in North Platte was the
most progressive within the history of
the city.
The Humboldt brick plant, shut
down some time ago, has resumed OPP
erations
A number of Grand Island mer-
chants were last week feeced by a
smooth forger.
Nebraska photographers will hold
their next annual convention in FIRE.
mont, June 23 to q.
Smallpox has been in evidence for
some time at Ashland. Two new cases
developed last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. A. Gilbert Of Den
ton celebrated the fifty-sixth anniver-
sary of their marriage.
After vacation of two weeks, the
State normal ut Peru opened with a
number of new students.
Two deaths from tuberculosis have
recently occurred in the family of Mr..
and Mrs. Reimund, Beatrice.
Fred Kroehler, formerly of Platts-
mouth, died last week in Wyoming,
whittier he had recently gone for his
health.
Mrs. Harrison Clark, whose husband
was executed December IS, has been
quarantined in Lincoln for smallpox.
Otto We'll, proprietor of the Vienna
restaurant, North Platte, discovered
that his safe had been robbed during
the night and about $500 taken.
A special meeting of the Bar asso-
citation Of Beatrice was held, at which
appropriate resolutions were passed
concerning the late r. S. Bibb.
J. E. Smith, proprietor Of the dairy
farm southwest of Beatrice. sold
eleven head of Jersey cattle to Joseph
Wiggin Of Tiskilwa, Ill. He received
$3.50 per head.
Bert Hollingsworth, an air inspector
on the Union Pacific, was accidentally
killed at North Platte. While per-
forming his duties he was run over by
switch engine.
The Ladies' Art club of Peru has Sc
cured Prof. H. H. Powers to give
series of lectures on art at it's annual
art exhibit, to be held March 9, 10 and
II of this year.
The body of man supposed to be
William S. Achterman Of Buffalo, N.
Y, was found in a cornfield a mile
west of Lincoln. 1t is thought that he
committed suicide by cutting his
throat.
Olena Swanson has sued the Union
Stock aYrds company of South Omaha
for $4,000. Her husband, Nels Swan
son, was a repairer in the employ of
the company and was killed in the
yards December Z.
The $100-an-acre price on farm land
was passed in Jefferson county when
the Price-Hill real estate agency at
Diller sold tract of fifty-three acres
near Diller for STA an acre and an
eighty-acre tract for $1O2 an acre.
General Manager Holdrege has writ
ten Oil Inspector Allen that the Bur.
lington will not pay oil inspection fees.
general should be asked to start a test
suit to obtain an Interpretation of the
law.
In the disbarment proceedings of W.
L. Newly of WILDER, the supreme
court overruled Newby's motion to
dismiss and instructed the attorney
general to draw up formal disbar-
ment complaint. Newly is accused of
uttering a forged note.
Mrs. Minnie Lewis of Stanton filed
a complaint of wife abandonment
against Ira Lewis and Sheriff Sucker
went to Iowa to get his man Lewis
went TO Iowa and asked for divorce
and made the mistake OF having per-
sonal service on the defendant In the
divorce case. II Lewis is caught his
trial will come off at the next term OF
the district court.
Seven Nebraska mutual fire insur-
ance companies have so far filed abate-
ments OF their business for 1907 with
the state auditor. The companies COM
prise the Jefferson County Mutual, the
Washington County Scandinavian Mu-
tual, the Franklin County Farmers
Mutual, the Antelope County Farm
ers, the German Farmers, Retail
Merchants Mutual of Omaha and the
Platte Mutual of Plattsmouth. All of
the companies are in splendid condi-
ton and show considerable increase
in business during the last year.
A suit entitled State ex rel Cobbey
VS.. Junkin was filed in the supreme
court asking peremptory mandamus
against George Junkin, as secretary OF
state, compelling the purchase Of 400
volumes of Cobbey's annotated stat
utes for 1907.
II. B. Cunningham of Sioux county
filed an application with the state
board of irrigation for a permit to ir-
rigate 200 acres of land, the water to
be secured from Sheep creek The APP