Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1908-03-26
Condensed Local and Personal Paragraphs

DR.. w. II. Cole was in Berywn
Monday evening on professional
business.
Banker Varney, of Ansley,
left his strong box long enough
on Tuesday to visit the county
seat.
Miss Martha Fodge, Of the
Custer College, gives private or
class instruction in elocution and
physical culture.
Geo. F. Pulliam, of Moulton,
Iowa, who has financial interests
in this county, was attending to
business in the city Monday.
Remember Reese's public sale
of Duroc Jersey bred sows and
gifts at Broken Bow, Wednesday,
April l, 1908. See add in this
paper.
H. G. Case, of Mason City, was
in Broken Bow on Tuesday and
reports his line of business-real
estate-as flourshing in his
locality.
Sanders Vallandigham has ac-
copied a position and is now en-
gagged in attending to the wants
of customers at the H. B. Drake
dry goodsery.
Rev. ]. E. Ingram, of Lincoln,
who officiated as a minister in
this city about fifteen years ago,
arrived Monday for short visit
with old-time friends and ac-
quaintances in this vicinity.
Howard Graham, one of the
pioneer merchants, of Broken
Bow, now located at Seattle,
Wash, was in the city Tuesday
renewing old acquaintances, and
expressed, surprise at the rapid
and substantial growth that had
been made by this city.
b. c. Empfield, of Anselmo,
has faith to the fullest extent in
Custer county soil, and does not
pass up any good opportunity to
add a bunch of acres to his
possessions. Last week he pick
ed up an S0-acre isolated tract
belonging to Uncle Sam,
Mrs. Hopper, state organizer
for the Womans Christian Tenn
perance Union, arrived in the
city last Saturday morning, but
owing to the quarantine being
placed on the churches, was un-
able to deliver an address. On
Monday she went to Ansley.
Old settlers say that we are to
have an early spring. We have
an early spring, however, about
once every so often-whether the
old settler says so or not. The
old settler has various ways of
predicting what the season is 60
ing to be by the kind of weather
we have had during the winter,
and by the way the various wild
animals are acting and sometimes
the old settler is correct in his
observations.
1t was advertised last week
that there would be "Bache-
lor's Honeymoon" at the opera
house tomorrow night, but
the order by the city council pro-
hibited the asse mbling of audi
ences-for the present-will pre-
vent not only a bachelors, but
every kind of honeymoon where
a public gathering is necessary
to make the honeymoon go.
Broken Bow theatre-goers are, of
course, greatly disappointed, but
should cheer up. No Honey
moon" is better than more small
pox.
On Saturday of this week at
l o'clock the Groat & VanAnt-
werp store on the north side will
certainly be thronged by those
who want rug at a bargain,
They have one hundred rugs,
which will be sold at $1.75 each,
not the shoddy rugs, but rugs
that are actually worth from
$500 to $3.50, and we venture
the assertion that every person
who inspects them before the
hour of sale will be on hand
promptly at l o'clock in order to
secure one. The rugs are now
on display and can be inspected
at the store.
With the commencement of po
litical activity comes a flood Of
communications, in many Of
which the writer does not give