The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-07-15
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES
Items Of Greater or Lesser lmpor.
lance Over the State.

Items Of Greater or Lesser lmpor.
lance Over the State.
The corner stone of the new Elks
building at York was laid last week.
We publish a list of Omaha business
houses In another column. In writing
or calling on them please mention
this paper.
By prompt action the farmers in the
vicinity of Malcolm thing that they
have succeeded in exterminating the
Canadian thistle which recently
threatened to become such a pest
throughout the neighborhiid. The
seeds, it is thought, were brought in
in some eastern grass seed sOwed in a
certain pasture. and grew unnoticed
for season.
Ninety per cent of the retailers in
Nebraska who were asked by the Dry
Goodsman and General Merchant (St
Louis), which paper issued prosper
ity edition" about the business out
look, replied that they expected to do
as much or more business for fall
than they did last year, while only
fNom so to IS per cent of the mer-
chants in other states gave as good as
SuranceS
Ditch matters are engrossing the at
tention of the Dodge county author
tiles at present, a petition has been
filed by owners of property lying nsrth
Of Fremont for a ditch seven miles
long, varying from twelve to thirty
feet in width and six feet deep. The
proposed waterway will drain thou
sands of acres which the signers al
lege is now unfit for cultivation be-
cause of an excess of moisture.
At the various scenes of the wrecks
caused by the late storms, says Ge-
neva dispatch, the debris is being
gathered, this being an arduous task.
At some of the places new barns have
already taken the place of the old. At
the Merriam farm new barn is up
and large new foundation for resi-
dence laid south of where the old
home stood. Much of the corn and
small grain on the lowlands Is COM
ple;ely destroyed.
An ordinary life policy in THE MID
WEST LIFE of Lincoln. Nebraska.
for one 25 years of age would cost
$2O.91 for the first year and $16.4O a
year thereafter. Payments after the
first year could be paid every quarter
at a cost of $4.35 a quarter. THE
MIDWEST LIFE is an old line COM
pany and is furnishing safe and sound
insurance, good for all time, at rate
which is within the reach Of all.
Agents wanted Write for particulars.
D. Glen Beaver, superintendent of
the homeseekers' Information bureau
of the Burlington is arranging for the
winter trip of the exhibit car which
will be started east about September
Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming.
one-half the space being given to dry
farming and the other half to irriga-
ton. Wisconsin will be added to the
territory covered by the car, which
last year visited Iowa, Illinois and
northern Missouri.
There is a lively fight on in Pleas
ant Grove school district, Otoe county,
over the removal of the school house.
At the election twenty-eight voted to
move the same and seventeen against,
but the law does not permit the NOV
ing of a school house unless it is three
fOurths of a mile from the center of
the district and both sides wifi have
surveyors out there to ascertain just
how near the center of the district 1t
is located and may call another cleo
ton to decide the matter.
A feature of the Fourth of July cell
ebration at North Platte was. the pub
lie wedding at high noon of Joseph
Beirbower and Mrs. Walling. which
was witnessed by several thousand.
The ceremony was performed by
Justice Grimes of the district court on
one of the main streets of the city.
The groom was married with his hat
on. The couple were the recipients
of many and various gifts which had
been offered to the couple that would
get married on this occasion.
In behalf of the Territorial Pho
neers of Nebraska l want to urge all
the officers and members of the Coun.
ty Pioneer associations to make
special effort to get as many of their
members and others to join the state
association of Nebraska Pioneers"
said President A. N. YOst Of the Ne
braska Pioneers at Omaha. Il would
like also. to see pioneer organiza-
ton in every county in this state. and
there is no reason why there should
not be. All it costs to organize is an
effort, and very small effort at that"
The total fatalities from the disas-
trous wreck on the Northwestern line.
near Clinton, a small station west of
Valentine. has now reached thirteen.
of which four were train man and
nine were tramps, who were beating
their way. and officials say there may
be more bodies buried beneath the
enormous piles of coal. The spot
where the culvert was washed away
has never been known to contain
more than foot of water at a time
and when the double header plunged
into the hole it was filled with nine
feet of water