The Columbus journal., 1908-04-29
NEBRASKA NEWS AND. NaIeA

Items Of Greatsr or Lesser lmpora
ance Over the State. - I.
Masons Of Fairbury are planning tt
erect a temple. -. -
Bertrand has voted bonds for Z
| $4,000 school structure.
Burglars entered a. store at Polk
taking 5000 worth of goods.
Ministers of Nebraska City are
| going to make war on saloons.
| County after county in Nebraska Il
! getting in line on the corn show.
David McKibben. Sarpy, county. e
years old, was found dead in bed.
Every town in Washington couny
is dry with he exception of Cal
'h0un.
Fifty head of hogs recently shipped
from Seward county averaged 49,
pounds.
The elevator. of the Duff Grain com.
pany at burlington burned with all its
contents.
Fairbury was not hurt by the panic
and will do a great deal of building
this year.
Farmers of Sarpy county are inter.
esting themselves in the national
corn show.
The corner stone of the proposed
new Methodist church at Tecumseh
was laid last Saturday.
School children of York county will
grow corn for exhibition at the
Omaha show in December.
The implement house of Adcock &
Lowe at Davenport was totally de-
stroyed by fire.
In accordance with their plan the
graduating class of the high school
of Beatrice presented to the school i
fine bust of Abraham Lincoln.
The Woman's Home Missionary so
ciety just closed a most successful
three days district convention in
Fairbury.
J. Ransom Walden, a prominent dem
fist of Holdrege, committed suicide.
No. known reason is given fOf the
act
A. L. Pound. constable in Justice
Minor s. Bacon's court. Lincoln, and
at one time sergeant of the Lincoln
police department, dropped dead at
his home.
The Commercial club of York is
working with a committee of the old
soldiers in arranging for the next
state encampment of the veterans to
be held at York.
The sheriff of Brown county ar
rived in Ainsworth with E. E. Kaiser.
who was arrested in Hepburn, Ida,
for obtaining money under false pre-
lenses in Brown county.
At the quarterly meeting Of the
Blue Springs Farmers Elevator COM
pany 1t was voted to increase the cap
ital stock from $4,000 to $4,000.
The company is in flourishing con-
dition.
Work has again been resumed on
the $4,000 Catholic church in Fair
bury. the foundation of which was
laid last fall. The contract calls for
the building to be completed by De-
cember 1. 1908.
At Beatrice Judge Raper Overruled
a motion for a new trial in the case
of the state against James Lille and
sentenced defendant to eight years in
the penitentiary He was convicted
of robbery.
People of Blue Springs are excited
over the report that an effort was be-
ing made to open saloon there. 1t
is said it would be impossible to open
any sort of a moist goods emporium
In that city.
In Washington county Mrs. Grace
E. Halter was appointed by Judge
Kennedy to the position held by her
late husband, Theodore Halter, clerk
of the district court for Washington
county.
A boat capsizing on Diers lake in
Dodge county caused the death of
George johnson, a well known young
farmer. who was drowned in twelve
feet of water. His body was re-
covered
Charles E. Branstetter for the past
twelve years a resident of Havelock,
was found dying in a field near the
railroad yards as the result of a dose
of strychnine. He died soon after
being discovered.
Beatrice citizens are anxiously
awaiting the fate of the bill intro
duced by Congressman Hinshaw pro-
viding for the purchase of additional
land and the erection of an extension
of the postofice in this city.
Captain Ycst. president of the Ter
ritorial Pioneers association of Ne
braska. was at Milford preparing for
the reunion to be held there this sum-
mer. There will be 500 people in at
tendance.
Mrs. Thomas Arnold, living a few
miles south of Waterloo. Douglas
county. stepped into a bunch of
snakes and was bitten several times
about the ankle. She was greatly
frightened until it was known the
reptiles were not venomous.
A very strange accident happened
to the six months old boy of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Ash of Weeping Water.
The little fellow was sitting on the
floor playing with an egg poacher.
The small end was in the child's
mouth and by accident he fell for
ward and the poacher was forced in
to his throat The child died in three
minutes.
A meeting of local sockmen was
held in Hyannis. They resolved to
ask the Northwestern Stock associa-
fion'S assistance in inducing the state