Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-02

uonal hank Of this city. Her funeral will
be held at 2 y. m. today. She leaves tiNe
children.
BEATRICE-FoIIowing is the mortgage
report for the month Of June: Number OF
mortgages filed, Il: amount. Sl.No; number
Of farm mortgages released, p; amount,
SS3.523. Number Of city mortgages filed, g
amount. S2l.6l4: number Of city mortgages
filed, 30; amount, $1,000.
BEATRICE-Company c met last even
ing and adopted the constitution and by
orders from the adjutant general all OF the
Krag-Jorgensen rifles were packed and
will be shipped to Lincoln. They will be
replaced by the Springfield rifles.
NEBRASKA CITY-William ]. Bennett
and Miss Marie +. Goeden of Lorton came
to this city and were united In marriage.
They will visit for 2 couple OF months at
Lorton and from there go to the north
western part Of the state, where the groom
owns a large ranch. Both are popular
young people.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS are well com
pleted for the coming celebration in this
city. and indications point to a large at
tendance. though with. good weather con-
ditions many Of the farmers will remain
i'm the fields looking after their crops ana
the weeds. which received such a start dur
ing the recent rainy weather.
NEBRASKA CITY-M. L. Crandall OF
Burr was seriously. II not tate Y
yesterday by a team which was hitching
IN. They became frightened and ran away.
The wagon was dragged over Mr.. Crandall
ana he is seriously injured. Mr.. Crandall
is manager OF the Paul Schminke company,
elevator and lumber yards, at that place.
NEBRASKA CITY-Frank Schwake. was
struck in the head and seriously injured
by a pitched ball. He is confined to his
bed. THIS is the second accident of late
on the grounds. the other being the break
ing of a collar bone for Judge Paul lessen,
who was catching and a foul tip struck
him on the shoulder, breaking the collar
bone.
SEWARDL-H. T. Jones. president of the
InnnG' National hap III pf this HitV has nnn=
lshed his intention of building a S2O,OW pub
lie library and presenting II to the city
Of Seward, It Will be OF Bedford stone;
fifeproof, and a beautiful and substantial
building. 1t is his intention to locate it on
the south side of the square, ON the south
east corner.
sEwARD-T. II. Wake has Purchased
the controlling interest in the Jones Ma,
tional bank in this city. Mr.. Jones still
retains the presidency for so long a time
as it is his pleasure. Judge Thomas. the
vice president and bank attorney. leaves
the bank entirely. Mr.. Jones always in
tended to dispose Of his bank interests
when he had reached the age OF 10 and
has carried out his intention.
NORTH PLATTE-The three days con-
vention Of the Ladies Of the MacCabees was
ended yesterday. In the morning, a school
of instruction was conducted by state
Commander Miss Mark. The Cozad and
Sutherland lodges united in these services.
At the afternoon session twenty-five ladies
were initiated as members of the order.
In the evening a reception was had at
which refreshments were served.\
NEBRASKA CITY-At Lorton, at the an.
nual election of school officers a claim OF
Frank Riggs, a detective who was called
upon to look up the record of Prof. Ed
wards, who was teaching the school, ant
some of the taxpayers wanted him re-
moved, was allowed. but the moderator
has refused to sign the warrant on. the
advice of the. county superintendent anc
the matter will be taken into court.
BEATRICE-Wiliam Waxham, govern
ment weather observer, yesterday COM
pleted his report for the first half of the
year. During the last six months the tota
amount of rainfall has been 26.9 inches
The average rainfall for the last fifteer
years has been 1921 inches. During tn,
month of June 1926 inches rain fell, which
lacked but a fraction of being as much al
the rainfall for the first five months.
NEBRASKA CITY-There is a livel!
fight on down in Pleasant Grove school dis
trict over the moving of the school house
At the election held last evening twenty
six voted to move and seventeen against
but the law does not permit the moving o
the school house unless 1t is three-fOurth
of a mile from the center of the district
and both sides will have surveyors on
there to ascertain just how near tn
center of the district it is located and ma,
call another election to decide the matter.
NEBRASKA CITY,. w. Johnson of tn
pure food commission, because of the fac
that there has been considerable troubl
up to, the standard in this city, has advise
County Attorney w. d. Livingston to re
quest the city council of this city to pas
an ordinance governing this matter an
Licensing the dealers and dairymen. II
says It should be so drawn as to forfeit tn
) license to sell milk or cream of any on
convicted of violating the same. He think
II the best way to regulate the matter.
} NORTH PLATTE-The work of con
3 structing the new Keith opera house /
) this city is progressing rapidly. The stee
I supports for the stage have just bee
put in place and their height is sevent
feet. This will make the Keith theate
tha hfnhaqf httil1inU I'm tho pitV F I'll
building will meet a need of long standip
in this city and it will be thoroughly MOD
ern Throughout. Peter Wind a. Co. O
Council Bluffs. have the contract for tn
construction of the building and the cor
, tract calls for its completion by Septem
Der l.
BEATRICE-The Fifth district CONVEX
> ton of the Christian church closed II
Bible school session last night. In IN
afternoon Mrs. w, II. Ashby of this cit
gave an address on Bible school rallies;
c. McLucas of Fairbury conducted a roun
table on Bible school work. In the evenin
II. H.. Moninger of Cincinnati gave an &C
dress on Methods which was of unusuj
I interest. He closed his work with the cor
n vention by addressing the class OF gradl
r ffes, s HTmoeE Mps f Sarah T Weystc STe MIS- Mrs. "
II. McCann and Miss Lura Paine, all res
dents of Beatrice. There are about 100 deli
gates in attendance. The convention close
, Thursday morning.
Z HUMBOLDT-The annual school meetin
took place Monday evening at the hig
school building ana reports or the year
t work were listened to by a large crowd
= patrons. Nine months of school were o.
q dered for the ensuing year and the gait
ering authorized a levy of sufficient si7
to raise 5000 which would be needed
s carry on the school another term. Messr
4 c. l.. Hummel and w. Skalak were chose
to fill the vacancies on the Board of Educj
a ton caused by the expiration of terms
]. f. Walsh and s. NJ. Philpot. The pi
. irons authorized the board to proceed
such manner as they saw 1T to aid
, the testing of the validity of the new his
u school law, which is being assailed in II
y courts of the county by a number of II
l county school boards, who object to II
districts paying the tuition of students
q the high school in the cities.
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