The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-13
NEBRASKA HAPPENINGS,
State News and Notes in CONDENSED

State News and Notes in CONDENSED
Form.
By unanimous vote of the Silver
Creek board, George P. McGrew was
elected principal OF the schools for an.
other year at a salary of 81 900.
The election to decide on the for.
nation of the Dodge and Washington
county drainage district will be held
in Fremont on Tuesday March 16.
While playing ball near Freedom,
Frontier county, Tim Bomar killed
playmate, Sylvester Cozad, with re-
volver che didn't know was loaded"
John G. Routson, a former resident
of Columbus and at one time the off.
cial surveyor of Platte county, died
recently at his late home in National
City, California.
Cloth and clothing peddlers have
lately victimized numerous farmers in
the vicinity of Harrington of from $6l
to $95 each and got safely away with
the cash.
Tracy LaForge, of Falls City, while
cutting rivet off with a hammer, got
piece of steel in his eye, and took
remove the intruder
Miss Susan Ceiling, who has
charge of the kindergarten school at
Falls City, has made a fine showing
SO far this year. Among the forty
babies who go to school to her she
has had only one tardy mark.
After counting horns and hoofs
since the blizzard of February 9, the
Ditch company near Atkinson find
they are short about 300 head of cat
tie which persisted in the storm. The
loss exceeds by 200 head the first esti-
mates that were made on the basis
of what was known the day after the
storm
At meeting of the stockholders of
the Nemaha county fair and driving
park association it was decided to
discontinue the fair and will sell the
fair grounds. They will plat the ground
of about forty acres into an addition
to the city and sell the lots at pub
lie auction. This will not be done un-
til after the race meeting
Jack" Smith, who was arrested in
Kansas shortly after he had stolen a
horse from A. Zimmerman of Stella
few weeks ago, was tried in the
district court of Richardson county at
Falls City. He pleaded guilty to the
offense and Judge Raper sentenced
him to serve three years in the peni-
Tertiary.
b. o. Bartlett, of Steele City, has
filed a formal complaint with the state
railway commission alleging discrim-
ination in charges by the Steele City
telephone company. He states that
the company charges toll for local
service which is not made to all non
subscribers and this he alleges to be
discrimination.
John Clarence, charged with the
murder of John P. Thacker, near Muir
ray, Cass county, was released on bail
in the sum of $4,000 which was signed
by John Clarence, ST. The hearing was
in justice court before Judge Archer.
The next term of court convenes in
May when the case will be hear Clar-
ence is a cripple, and besides gave
himself up voluntarily is the chief rea-
son he was permitted to give bail.
The Madison county mortgage rec
ord for February, as prepared by
County Clerk George E. Richardson,
is as follows: Farm mortgages filed
twenty two, amounting to 81, 672.50;
released, thirty, amounting to 1884,
$50; city mortgages filed, thirteen,
amounting to $685.; released, TWEEN
ty-one, amounting to $12,251.39; chat
tel mortgages filed, 146, amounting to
$30,472.2S; released, los, amounting to
$26 ,59S AZ
AS w. D. Walker and family of Ara
pahoe were returning from church
their conveyance was struck and over
turned by a. running team which came
up behind them. They were thrown
out. Mrs. Walker becoming entangled
with the wagon with which they col
lided, was dragged about thirty feet
and badly bruised. Miss Mary suffered
fracture of the wrist and is other
wise pretty we'll bruised up. Mr..
Walker escaped serious injury.
Hans Jensen, aged sixteen years,
was shot and instantly killed by his
companion, Walter Brandenburg
while hunting ducks between Plain
view and Creighton, Sunday. The two
youths were hunting near pond. Jen.
sen raised up just as a flock of ducks
flew up. Brandenburg, not noticing
Jensen rising, fired and the full charge
of the gun struck Jensen in the back
of the head, killing him almost in
stantly.
Miss Ada Patterson, who is account
ed one of the very brightest among
the band of down east newspaper
women, is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. M. Patterson, of Franklin, Ne
braska. She formerly attended high
school and taught in Bloomington and
her first newspaper article was pub
lished in the Advocate of that town
in 1888 Today her work finds ready
market, and is seen in her "Chats
with PLAYERS" in The Theatre Maga-