Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1908-02-27
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, PoIit.
lcal and other Matters Given
Due Consideration.

cltlZen, 0led last week at the age or
"a.
Charles Kemp, a stranger, was ar.
rested for lifting articles exposed by
the merchants of Harrington for adj
vertising purposes.
The Beatrice Board of Education
hoid meeting and decided to call a
special election on March 10 to vote
bonds in the sum of $4,000 for the
erection Of a new high school build
ing.
The farmhouse occupied by Mrs.
Herzberg and son, southwest of Platts.
mouth, was destroyed by fire, to.
gether with all the furniture, house
hold goods and clothing, while the
family were away.
South Omaha is to have mer.
chants exchange, and articles of in.
corporation were filed with the sec.
rotary of state. The capital stock
amounts to $4,000, the sum being di.
vided into $50 shares.
Word has been received at Table
Rock of the death at Colorado Springs
January 10, of Elisha Slower, who was
born and reared in that vicinity. He
was a son of the late Elder M. M.
Slower pioneer settler.
The Burlingtons well boring car,
containing engine and machinery sta
toned at Utica, burned. 1t is not
known how the fire started. The car
was nearly burned when the Utica
fire department began work on it.
rhn xNpI Do 10,
of Neigh fell from tree at the school
house grounds recently and was Sc
riously injured He struck on the
back of his head and the conclusion
was severe enough to render him I'M
conscious for time.
Mrs. Richard Vitte of Nebraska City
left home a few days ago and left
her grandson, Albert Howe, a 5-year-
old boy at home with the other chill
dren and when she returned found
the child had fallen upon the stove
and was fatally burned.
A Japanese workman named Ioll.
ava was severely injured at Grand
Island by the breaking of a wire
while some heavy iron was being
transferred in the local freight yards,
from one car to another. One arm was
broken in two places and a severe
cash cut in the head The injury is
not fatal.
The Ashland Board of Education Is
spending several hundred dollars
in building a dyke along the north
bank Of Salt creek to save a portion
of the high school from being washed
into the stream. The undercurrent
has been cutting at that point very
rapidly and several hundred yards of
earth have disappeared.
The Nebraska State Rifle associa.
ton was organized at Lincoln by the
election of Charles Schwarz, presi.
dent; Major e. H. Phelps, treasurer,
and Major j. NJ. Birkner, secretary
and executive officer The object of
the association is to promote marks
manship among the people of the
state, both guardsmen and citizens.
The Hicks & Galloway five-week re-
vival meetings at Minden came to an
end with the biggest audience ever in
attendance. The total number of con-
verts numbered 512. Financially the
meetings have been an unusual sue
cess. One of the results of the meet
ings is the beginning of a movement
for Young Mems Christian associa-
ton building.
The police of Nebraska City ac-
companled by postal official,
searched the home of Joe Jones, the
eolored man arrested on the charge
OF robbing mail sacks at the Missouri
Pacific depot, found leather pocket
book which had been taken from the
Seventh street mail box when it was
broken open and robbed in December
Two mail boxes were broken open and
robbed that night.
william Kemplin, held on a charge
of entering and robbing the Oshkosh
drug store at Oshkosh on the night
of September 81, 1907, pleaded guilty
before County Attorney i. o. Pfeiffer
When search was made few days
ago almost all the stolen goods were
found in Kemplln's chest in his room
where it had been kept since the night
it was taken. The goods, consisted OF
watches, chains, etc.
Saturday was Tag day" in David
City and it proved red letter day"
The citizens are contemplating the
erection of $4,000 library and gym
nasium building and to this end over
$500 had been subscribed The
Kings Daughters, to boost the move.
ment, fixed Saturday as Tag day"
and installed tag stations in all the
bushes houses in the city to receive
free-will offerings for the benefit of
the enterprise.
Father Murphy has appealed to the
supreme court from the recent de-
cision of the Seward county district
court, which onjoined him from inter
fering with Father Francis A. OBrien,
who has been appointed to succeed
him by Bishop Bonacum.
Mrs. Sarah Baldwin of Plattsmouth
celebrated her ninetY-frst birthday