The Columbus journal., 1908-09-23
nesaAskA NEWS AND NOTES.
Items Of Greater or Lesser lmpor-
lance Over the State.

lance Over the State.
Receipts of the Fillmore county fair
were over $500.
Tecumseh schools opened with an
Unusual large attendance.
The contract for the new school
Building at Fairmont, to cost $4,000
has been let
M. d. David of Bloomfield fell from
an ice wagon receiving injuries that
proved fatal.
Bessie Robertson of McCook set
steel trap for rats but instead thereof
caught a big bull snake.
The Edgar Canning factory closed a
successful season. the entire pack
amounting to about 100000.
The new Iliff Chapel church was ded.
icated at Memphis Sunday by Rev. T.
c. Iliff, a speaker of national reputa'
ton.
A young man by the name of Burk-
holder is in the custody OF Sheriff
Gillian at Seward The charge against
him is that of attempted rape.
Successful bidders for the govern.
/ ment postoffice building at Grand
island have been looking over the site
preparatory to commencing operations.
Word was received in, Beatrice last
week stating that Horace Mitchell, a
former Beatrice resident, was killed
! in railroad accident at Atchison. kas.
That David City will have a public
library and gymnasium building is
now a certainty. The $4,000 has
been raised and nine directors were
elected.
Word has just been received in Peru
that the European party led by Profes-
sor w. N. Delzell, landed safe in New
York after pleasant sea voyage to
their home land.
Harold Kesterson, the Shelton lad
who broke both his arms at the wrist
in fall, while making a slide for life.
was taken with lockjaw and died after
suffering intensely.
The cost to Buffalo county of the
recently primary election was $915.15.
There were 1909 votes cast in the
county making the expense Of each
vote cost 56.8 cents.
The infant baby of Clyde Lynch and
wife of Humboldt had peculiar expe-
rience, beng attacked by rats in the
home and severely bitten about the
hands, one or two of its fingers being
partially gnawed away.
Farmers should all have telephones.
Write to us and learn how to get the
best service for the least money. Ne
braska Telephone Company. 18TH and
Douglas streets, Omaha. Use the
Bell"
With the record of the largest at
tendance, best displays and greatest
number of racing events in its history.
the Dundy County Fair association
meeting came to a close. The attend
ance was good and the exhibit fine.
While stacking hay at his home
three miles south Of Platsmouth, R.
Sponii fell from the stack and landed
On an inch gas pipe in such a manner
IS to cause it to penetrate the arm and
come out at the top of the shoulder.
An unknown man about twenty-five
years old. committed suicide ty stab
bling hirAef with knife as Union Pa
cific train No. was leaving the
Kearney yards and threw the knife
from the train The body was re-
moved from the train and shipped to
Grand Island. He was not identified,
but was en- route t. Los Angeles.
William Prowett of Fullerton re-
ceived a telegram from Washington in
forming him thai he hal been appoint
ed clerk of the insular treasury in the
Philippine Island. Mr.. PrQwett grad
uated from the Fullerton High school
in June. 1907. Last December he took
the civil service examinations, passing
with unusually high markings.
The building fund of the Young
Mems Christian association at FIRE.
mont was given two substantial lifts.
C.. A. Smith, an old resident of FIRE.
mont, made a contribution of $4,000.
Mr.. Smith previously had given 5000
to the association. Elmer Williams,
cashier of the Fremont National bank,
made a contribution of $500 to the
fund.
Judge J. w. Johnson of Plattsmouth
has been entertaining in his home an
old comrade of the civil war. A. H.
Pratt, aged Is years. They each en-
listed in the First Nebraska regiment
in 1861 and during the battle of Shiloh,
Mr.. Pratt had his hat blown off by
cannon ball and he was left on the
field of battle for dead. During the
night he regained consciousness and
found his way to the Union line in the
morning and asked to be sent to the
front.
The last legislature appropriated
$24,411 to pay bounty on wild animals.
This was for old claims that were on
file. The legislature also appropriated
$35, 900 future Gains, but this was
vetoed by Governor Sheldon. Clerk
Lawrence of the state auditors Office
is now busy adding up the claims on
file that have not been paid and which
will come before the next legislature
in the form of deficiency claims. He
has not completed the work, but esti-
mates the total at $4,000.
The annual statement of the Ne
braska City chautauqua has been
given the public and it shows that the
meeting cost $3,66S42 and that the re-