The Columbus journal., 1908-11-11
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
Items Of Greater or Lesser lmpor-
tanee Over the State.


items Of Greater or Lesser lmpor
tanee Over the State.
Ora Smith. q York boy. had his leg
broken in a football game.
At Crowley they are boasting of a
banner potato yield of 800 bushels on
less than one acre.
J. L. May of Dawson county lost
twenty-four head of good steers from
an overload of alfalfa hay in their
stomachs.
Burglars entered the Banley State
bank and made their way through to
the roof. but got nothing. The safe
was undisturbed. They secured tools
from a blacksmith shop.
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
Rev. p. T. O'Reilly. pastor of the
st. Mary's Catholic church at Nebras-
ka City. has resigned to accept the
position as secretary of the archbish-
op at Chicago. Father Bernard OF
western Nebraska comes to take his
place.
While lettering along the railroad
tracks north of Bancroft two boys OF
that place found several revolvers and
a watch in a pond of water near one
of the railroad bridges. One of the
revolvers, a Colts police special, has
been identified by a hardware man in
Lyons, whose place was broken into
and from which a number of revolvers
and several boxes of ammunition were
taken.
Following is the Gage county mort
gage record for the month of Octo-
Der: Number of farm mortgages filed,
is; amount, s41.S9S. Number of farm
mortgages released. 2S; amount. $780,
COZ. Number of city mortgages filed.
81; amount. s2S.2S4. Number of city
mortgages released, "a; amount, $24.-
754.
Yves Eads of Stanton county, while
pulling stumps with a stump pulling
machine, had the misfortune to have
both of his legs broken. He was lead
ing the team and a bolt broke. which
threw part of the machine against his
legs, breaking both of them. One OF
the horses legs was also broken and
in such a way that the animal had to
be killed.
Charles H. LAYERS of Boston has
been selected general secretary of the
local Y. NJ C. A. at Beatrice to sue
ceed Fred Metts, who recently resign
ed to accept a similar position with
the association at Rapid City. S. D..
Mr.. LAYERS was until recently assist
ant secretary of the Boston associa-
ton and at one time was engaged in
association work in China. He will
assume his new duties November 8.
Eugene Morey. a civil engineer. w.
H. Hand. DIR. Martin. v. B. Sample.
w. S. ClapD and Theodore H. Bolte,
all of Kearney. are the names of those
who have fully incorporated the pro-
posed Kearney & LouD Valley rail-
road. The capital stock is fixed at
100000 common and $4,000 prefer
red. The plan is somewhat more
comprehensive than at first proposed.
as the terminals selected are Kearney
and Hyannis.
A number of Austrians who work On
the Rock Island section at Ellis were
beaten and robbed the other evening.
supposedly by two of their fellow
ccuntrymen. The men make their
home in a car and were awakened
about midnight by two masked men
who had broken into the car, and
while one of them held revolver
the other beat the Austrians into in
sensibility. afterward rifiing their
clothes. The robbers secured about
$50.
The West Point Farmers Institute
society has published its list of prizes
to be awarded at the forthcoming
county corn show. For the best
bushel of corn, any color, SIS is offer
ed. For yellow corn. ten ears. first
prize. $40; second. IS; third, Sc;
fourth. 81; fifth. s2, and on the three
next best 81 each. TIE same premi-
ums are offered on white corn. Prizes
are offered also for the best single
ear of corn. for sweet corn and pop
corn.
The corner stone for the new Meth
odist church at Humboldt was laid
last Sunday in the midst of a large
crowd of spectators. the pastor, Rev.
A. S. Buell., being assisted in the
ceremonies by Rev. George I. Wright
of Nebraska City, district superin-
tendent, who delivered an address af-
ter the ritualistic work was completed.
Underneath the stone the church au-
thorities placed a history of the soci-
ETY. since its organization in 1871,
when the old church was erected.
Uncle Joe Worrallfi printer and Ne
this week. says a Tecumseh dispatch.
While there Uncle Joe took the pains
to look up the real estate in johnson
county belonging to a certain man who
drew a farm in the Rosebud drawing.
According to the ruling of the govern
ment, a man must swear he owns no
more than 160 acres of land or he can.
not register. This lucky man. accord
ing to Worrall, owns 200 acres in John
son county. The printer reported the
case to the government authorities.
Thomas Stanley of Kenesaw had
over 100 bushels of potatoes of less