The Columbus journal., 1908-12-30
MesaAskA NEWS AND NOTES.

NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
Items a. cne1ter os Lesser lmpor-
lance Over the State.
Homer Carothers of Utica was quite
badly injured at Shickley BY a fall
from . freight car.
The Baptist ladies' at LOup City
cleared $50 on a supper they gave
few evenings ago.
The annual meeting of the Nebras-
ka Territorial association will be held
in Lincoln, January II.
The two months session of the last
grand jury of Douglas county cost the
county over $1,000.
While Robert Day Of Gage county
was currying a mule the other day
it got unruly and kicked. striking Mr..
Day in the face and fracturing the
Jaw bone.
The Cooperative Creamery associa-
ton at Germantown will hold its an
nual meeting for the election of OFF,
GERS for the coming year January 5,
1909, at 1 O'Clock.
Lewis H. Clarke. a waiter at the
Elite bakery in Hastings, was quite
badly scalded from his hip to his knee
by pot of boiling coffee falling from
a table onto him.
Farmers should all have telephones.
Write to us and learn how to get the
best service for the least money.
Nebraska Telephone Company, 18th
and Douglas streets, Omaha. Use
the. Bell"
J. o. Walker died at Ong very sud-
denly He was i'll only two hours.
His age was about Sc years. He was
president of q chain of banks en-
bracing Geneva; Deshler, Clayton.
Edgar and Clay Center.
The Fremont Canning company will
raise corn on the $50 acres of land for
which it has contracted. The COM
pany heretofore has depended upon
corn brought in by the farmers, but
was unable to get enough for it for
its annual campaign.
The adjutant general Is preparing
for the state inspection Of tire COM
LANES of the Nebraska National
Guard, which is to take place be-
tween January IL and February -.
Tie inspection is required by act OF
congress and will be done by officers
of the guard.
Mrs. R. p. Starr of Loup City re-
ceived a very nice heirloom from an
aged aunt one day last week 1t was
q neat little diamond ring, the one
placed on her grandmother's finger by
her grandfather when they were mar
ried. Mrs. Starr will be the custodian
of it in the future.
The other night Mrs. George Buff
fington of Herman, an old lady 20
years'of age. but quite active. retired
feeling as well or better than COM
mon. and next morning her husband
woke up about 6 a. m. and found her
dead in bed beside him, she having
expired some time during the night
without waking any one.
Negotiations are under way for the
building of an alfalfa feed mill in
Hastings. Some mention was publicly
made of the plans some days ago. The
promotion of two other projects of
similar nature has been started.
While three sets of men stand ready
to build a mill, only one of the pro-
jects is likely to be carried through.
Vera Ross, aged IA, Scribner girl.
is the champion apron maker of the
world. Miss Ross carried off the
prize in the handmade apron class at
the National Corn exposition at Oma-
ha. She was awarded a sewing ma
chine. Dodge county's school exhibit
won the first premium for the best
collective county exhibit at the show.
Robert J. Fraas has commenced &C
ton in the county court at Seward,
in which he asks for 1000 from Isma
Bowker, the village clerk at Pleasant
Dale, Seward county, and his bonds
cense in 1907 and contends that he
sustained damages to the above
amount because the clerk failed to Is
sue it promptly.
Samuel Wymore, after whom the
town Of Wymore was named, suffered
a stroke of paralysis. Mr.. Wymore
settled in Gage county in 1863. He
at one time owned the land upon
which the towns of Blue Springs and
Wymore are located. Some years ago
he moved to Idaho. where he now
owns considerable land. Mr.. Wymore
is q years Of age.
More than fifteen years after the
death of John L. Martin of Merrick
county his heirs have started suit for
the partition of his estate, and divi.
sion either of the land or of the pro-
ceeds of the sale of the land among
the several heirs. During all these
years the estate has been in the pro-
bate court and It was not until lately
that q petition for a final settlement
was fled by the widow, Elmira Mar
tin.
It is found on checking up the reg
istration of the Peru normal for the
last few years that the registration
In the junior and senior classes is
four times what is was In 1904. 1t is
also found that about one-fourth of
the normal graduates have been grad
uated in the last biennium. This
shows q remarkable growth of the
school. indicating an increased de-
mand on the part of the state for
trained teachers. 49,