The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-08-19
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.

NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
Item. of Greater or Lesser impor.
lance Over the State.
Nebraska City has made its annual
tax levy per cent lower than last
year.
United Brethren at Shelby have
laid the corner stone for their new
church.
The farmers elevator at York has
proved to be a highly successful In
vestment.
Big polithical guns, it is said. have
not drawn well at NebSaska Chautau-
quas this year.
Barneston. Gage county. IS now
without a saloon. whereat old boozers
are In a sullen state.
Ainsworth had a hail storm that
made smithereens of twenty-seven
lights in the school house.
Out in Deuel. county they are get
ting forty bushels of wheat to the
acre and corn appears the best ever.
Elmer Duncan, young man about
twenty-three years of age. was arrest
ed at Beatrice charged with bootleg
ging.
Many eastern people are this year
visiting relatives and friends in Ne
braska and are delighted with the
state.
A half-section of land two and a
half miles west of Hemingford was
sold for $25 per acre. This same sold
for So per acre four years ago.
At Fremont preparation is being
made for the opening of the new $780,
900 Young Meu's Christion association
building during the week ending Sep
TENDER IA.
As evidence that Dodge county land
is not declining in value witness the
sale last week of a 4O0-acre tract in
Pleasant Valley township at the rate
of $11O per acre is ohronicled.
John Frerichs. of Gage county.
prominent German farmer, was kicked
in the stomach by a horse and Sc
riously injured. While his condition is
serious, it is thought he will recover.
Elmer, aged 10. and Charles. aged
20. sons of David James. were
drowned in the river six miles below
Nebraska City. The family resides at
Minorsville. They had gone in SWIM
ming.
Miss Mary Booking was killed at.
Lorton by a Missouri Pacific train as
she was making crossing. The road
had allowed the weeds to grow so high
that approach of the trains could
not be seen.
Old friends and neighbors of the
Pioneers and Old Settlers association
Of Burt county have been invited to
attend the sixth annual reunion and
picnic, which is to be held In Te-
kamah. August %.
Division of Knox county is being
agitated again, the plan being to divide
the county east and west, and a petit
ton asking for vote on 1t this fall
will soon be presented to the county
board for consideration.
Jay Webster. age eighteen, son
of AL Webster. farmer living about
fifteen miles north of Tekamah along
the river. was drowned in the Mis-
souri,. He was a good swimmer, but
never rose after he jumped into the
river.
August Is and &c the Northwestern
Nebraska Dental society will meet In
Hastings for its semi-annual meeting.
This society is one Of the strongest In
the state, comprising about twelve
counties and the cities of Grand Island
and Kearney.
Many Beatrice people read with
regret regarding the removal of Union
Pacific headquarters from Beatrice to
Marysville, Kas. The company en-
ploys about $50 men in Beatrice and
the Commercial club will do all in its
power to prevent such a change.
Practically every section Of land In
Sioux county is now filed and has a
bona fide resident on it. Before the
Kinkaid law was passed this land was
all the range of q few cattle COM
panies. The entrymen are raising
splendid crops of all kinds on the
land, which has similar soil to east
ern Nebraska. and ACCOMPLISHMENTS
are hard to buy at any price.
Ingersoll Bros. who are sinking a
deep we'll for Gilbert E. Hanks on his
farm south of Nebraska City, are down
to q depth of 1000 feet and have
struck several traces of oil and they
have encountered a number OF layers
of shale. which Is encountered above
oil fields. Their well is dry and ex-
psct to 60 the depth of 1000 feet. Mr..
Hanks is not bring for oil. but Is after
a big flow of artesian water to supply
his home and farm.
The Omaha Corn exposition has ar
ranged to hold an agricultural con-
gress during the exposition this win
ter. Plans are made for a number ol
noted speakers. Among them will be:
William J. Bryan. Zeferino Domin-
quez of Pueblo, Mex; Judge H. E.
Deemer of Red Oak. Ia. judge of the
supreme court of Iowa: Governor
Cummins of Iowa, Editor Henry Wal
lace. Governors Buchtel of Colorado.
Hoch Of Kansas and Sheldon of Ne