The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-04-08
NEBRASKA POINTERS.
STATE NEWS AND NOTES IN CON-
-. DEVISED FORM.
.1'HEPREss, PuLP|r AN0PuBLIc
What is Going on. Here and There That
. :: is Of Interest to the Readers
- Throughout Nebraska. :: :.


"A. D.. Beers was. arrested at Raven
ma charged with making bogus money. |
:. West Point people are moving in
the matter. of providing an auditorium
for: the town: -:
:" The. new Methodist. church at :Da-.
venport has been formally dedicated.
Its cost is about $4,000.
e.: Work has begun On The EilIs'' build
ing a; York. p. J. Creedon 4 Son OF
Omaha. have the contract. =
Mr.. and Mrs. E.. H. Barnard. 'pion-.
GERS of Fremont. will celebrate their
golden wedding with a dinner party
April II. :. :.
:: The large, modern farm. house of :.
Phillip Scheer. who lived :ten miles
south of Beaver City. was burned,
with its: entire contents. e. :;
The Merchants band at Nebraska.
City has been .':reorganized with:
twenty-seven players and. ordered
suits. similar to those worn by the reg:
ular army officers.
"A prairie fire devastated the sand
hill country. nor;h. of Paxton; Hun
dreds of tons of hay on the river bot
tom were burned: Frank McFadden
: lost several head of cattle
Court No i2N, Tribe OF Zen. Hur,
was. organized at Grand: Island with
:12O charter members, by Organizer:
Way. The degree team of. the Lin
coin. court did the initiatory. work
The city council Of Lincoln. voted 70
: pay the $S7 900 for. a state historical
site. The money will be paid in two
installments; $4,000 will be paid the
first year and the expenditure will be
included in the next leyies.. =:
;: The. will of. Henry, w. :kruse, the
Dunbar banker. who died short time
since, has been admitted to probate.
/ He had an estate of $4,000 and: it.
goes to his eight brothers and sisters,
he never. having been married >.
:. A great union evangelistic. cam
paign is in progress in Holdrege. A
big tabernacle sea.ig' nearly $500 has .
been built epescialy for the meetings.
Rev. Milford H. Lyon: the Illinois.
evangelist. is leading the movement:
f. Platte county wants to be in it at
the corn show at Omaha, and Albert
Stenger has. called a meeting of the
+ farmers for: April II; to organize so
that Platte county. may capture the
prize for the. best corn. that will be
raised in the state; =. -;
County Attorney H. L. Ladd of Sher- :
idan county. has been active in prose
cutting merchants for selling butter
packages unbranded as. to weight and
has reported the eight suits in which
the defendants pleaded guilty and
paid a fine of $40 and costs. -, =. .
| =. The season for destructive storms
is at hand; WIND and LIGHTNING will
destroy and damage buildings and kill
and MAIN stock in barns and pastures
Project yourself by insuring them in
the Nebraska Mutual ins. Co., home
Office. al South. Twelfth street. Lin
coin. Neb. Write us for particulars.
In Saunders county a fire started by,
a locomotive; it lis thought, consumed
a large quantity of stacked hay. Fire
originating on the premises of. M.
Weeks in Ashland, got beyond the
mans control: and spreading into" the
Ashland city. park. damaged nearly
sixty fine shade trees of ten years
growth: -: -;
=. Prairie fires Of late have: done con-
siderable damage: A blaze that
started at :KelsO. six miles east of
Mullen, burned a strip of country
| eight miles wide south to the Dismal
river, nearly thirty miles long. De-
[ spite the hard fighting of the citizens :,
in that locality the flames swept mer-
rily on leaving destruction. misery,
| and homeless ;homesteaders in. its.
wake. :. -. -.
:. Corn is not: only coming from all:
latitndes of the globe to the. national
corn exposition in Omaha. but arrange
ments are being made at the request.
of western corn growers. to, display
corn grown in all attitudes. Nebraska,
| Iowa and Illinois corn grows in an al.
titude ranging from 1000 to $500 feet
| above sea level. But there are places
| on the American continent where corn
is growing and prospecting ,4s5O0 feet
above; sea level. q. :: ..;::;:..: -,
| Chewing the cud of sweet ,cortentin
! the. form of gum is recognized by the.
Estate Of: Nebraska as: a necessity
among its. wards only: in the peniten-
/ tiary. -. About 1850 packages of the
sweet stuff :is: bought every three:
| months to be distributed as rations in
the. penitentiary. Those who do not
care for two plugs of chewing tobacco.
or one plug and enc package. of smek-
+ ing tobacco or two packages of smok.
! ing which the state provides weekly,
,csn take:a ration of chewing gum: =.
/ The; relations which have existed
for a. number of years between the
+ Presbyterian church of St: Paul and
Rev: DR., George A. Ray as pastor have
been. severed by the reverend gentle
man having received and accepted a
call to one, Of: the: Presbyterian
churches. in Council Bluffs. = 49,.
H: c.: Moore. the druggist at Pal
myra, who was: arrested for selling
liquor. without a license and for, prac-
I ticing' without being registered. went
into. the district court and pleaded
guilty to one of the. counts in each of
1.-THE charges. He was. fined $1Og on
the count for selling, intoxicants:' -.
1 Emil :Giessler. who, was arrested
! charged with: stealing: a wagon load of
grain from the farm of w. H.. Bowman,
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