The Columbus journal., 1908-10-21
mesaAskA NEWS AND NOTES.
Items Of Greater or Lesser lmpor-
lance Over the State.

Items OF Greater or Lesser u"P0s
lance Over the State.
Roy Hickman. aged q years, was
accidentally shot by the discharge OF
his Winchester shotgun half mile
east of Max. and died from the effects
Of the wound an hour later.
The Seven Valleys bank of Calls
way, which Is the Oldest institution OF
its kind in Custer county, is soon to
change its name to that OF the First
National bank of Galloway. with u
capital stock Of $4,000.
Farmers should all have telephones.
Write to us and learn how to get the
best service for the least money. Ne
braska Telephone Company, 18th and
Douglas streets, Omaha. Use the
Bell"
County Attorney Rawls OF Cass
county fled q complaint in Justice
Archer's court charging Matt Bozarth
with murder in the first degree for
the killing of James Dyer, October
6, at Greenwood.
The attorneys for James Lille. re-
Gently convicted of robbing Thomas
Martin, an old soldier who resides
near Rockford, have prepared b:!l
of exceptions and will carry the case
to the supreme court.
N. C. Peterson, a Danish farmer.
living northeast of Friend. committed
suicide, by shooting himself through
the head. Dependency is given as
the cause. Peterson was unmarried
and lived alone on his farm.
For the second time this year the
lumber office of S. D. Ayers at Central
City was broken into and the safe
opened and robbed. and just as 1t hap
pened the time before, there was no
money in the safe.
The Dodge county poultry associa-
ton at a meeting held at the court
house voted to hang up big list OF
prizes for the show this year. the
show will be held at Fremont Decem.
Der IL to 10.
A child of August Kempf. living on
East Eleventh street, Columbus, was
drowned by accidentally falling into
barrel of water. Tie child was about
1-year-old, and jus: commencing to
walk.
The new Burlington depot ct Al
lance, which has been more than
year in building, was thrown open 10
the public last week and in its conf
,pleted condition is at once the most
ial lopOt h,IiId-
in in the state outside of Omaha.
Hog cholera is rapidly decreasing
the herds of hogs in and around Brad
shaw and Hampton. Hundreds upon
hundreds of hogs have died and thei'
seems to be no stop. Farmers are
selling their hogs, no matter what age
or weight. fearing the disease.
Alfred Harmsen, aged fifteen. son
of Henry Harmsen. a farmer, dropped
dead at his home. four miles north
east of Fremont. Young Harmse2.
when he went home from school COM
planned that he had a sore throit. He
was an exceptionally strong boy.
The barn on the farm of Worthy
Luce in Todd creek precinct. Johnson
county, was burned together with its
contents. There were 300 bushels Of
corn, four tons of hay. farm imFlS-
ments, harness. etc. in the barn a2a
they were lost The ccrn belonged 10
Mr. Luce.
From reports coming in. York Coun-
ty will have one Of the largest ami
best corn crops raised in many years.
The quality is extra good and already
reports are coming in where corn has
been shucked yielding from fif;y-iive
to seventy-five bushels to the are. At
the price received corn land will PRO-
duce from $25 to iS45 per acre, th-t
can be bought for $s5 to $3.50 per acre
Secretary of Agriculture James WI
son, while in Nebraska City person
ally inspected the packing plant "
Morton Gregson and the Union stock
Yards and found them in fine oondi-
ton, and paid the firm a big compi:-
ment for the way in which they had
overhauled and fitted up the plant
and yards during the time they have
been shut down.
The largest corn ever exhibited i'll
Jefferson county is being shown in
the windows of Goodrich Bros bank
at Fairbury. 1t came from the farm
of H. ]. Cook. who lives five milts
north of Fairbury The largest ear
measures sixteen inches long. There
are about a dozen ears in the display.
and nearly all of them crowd the six
teen-inch mark closely.
The new city directory just pub
lished shows large increase in the
population of York. According to the
last United States census York made
the largest growth of any city in Ne
braska excepting South Omaha, and at
the present and past rate of growth
York will maintain its position of
making the most rapid and greatest
growth of any city in Nebraska.
b. L. Sheppard. travelling salesman
for the Marshall Pennyweight Scales
company and Mrs. Leona Bruner.
stewardess at the Lincoln Commercial
club were found dead in the apart
ments of the man in business block
on North Eleventh street. Gas pour
ing from the room caused an inquiry
by occupants of the block. and when
the door was broken down the room
was so filled with gas it was impos-
sible to remain in it.
Vital statistics on file in the city
clerks Office show that during the
past three years 337 deaths have oc-
Cured in Fairbury and immediate vi
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