Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-08

office force OF the Dempster Mil Manu-
featuring company were entertained last
evening at a smoker by Mr.. and Mrs. w
H. Eek.
PLATTSMOUTH-The P~lattsmouth fire
department has elected the following oEti-
GERS: President, Ed Weaver; vice presidN Mt,
George III. Becker; secretary. Frank Lib
ershal; treasurer. NJ. Bajeck; chief. Anton
ii. Koubek assistant chief. P. A. McCrary.
SEWARD-W. F. A. Schmidt has dis
posed OF his stock of harness and furnish
ings to Anton Barnas of WILDE who has
moved the stock to that place. Mr..
Schmidt will continue in the real estate
and insurance business at his present loca-
ton.
KEARNEY-The motor car on the Kear-
ney & Black Hills line "froze up on it's
way down from Galloway Tuesday and like
wise the locomotive that was sent up after
and pulled them both IN at 4 o'clock
Wednesday morning.
KEARNEY-The New Era-Standard. a
weekly, changes hands with the issue of
this week. f. NJ. Dunaway, formerly with
the Overton Herald. and j.. e. Updike of
Overton, are the new owners W. l.. Hand,
the former owner will give his entire time
to the practice of law.
NEBRASKA CITY-At a meeting of the
stockholders of the Nebraska City Tele-
phone company Henry Schwake, e.. A.
Duff. A. M. Mum, Ralph Duff and John
w. Steinhart were elected directors. The
directors will meet in a few days and elect
officers for the coming year.
COZAD-Homer A. Wedge and Miss
Martha A. Clark were married January 8
by Rev. w. c. Harper. Mr.. Wedge is one
Of Dawson ,county's prosperous farmers.
Miss Clark had been engaged in teaching
plano pupils at Cozad and Lexington.
BEATRICE-Frank Salts yesterday be-
gan harvesting Ice from his artificial pond
northwest of the city. The ice is seven
inches thick and clear as crystal. The ice
on the river is six inches thick and local
ice dealers expect to begin the ice harvest
in earnest next Monday II the cold weather
continues.
NEBRASKA CITY-The Missouri river
blocked at this place Wednesday morning
and the ice is of sufficient thickness to
enable teams to cross. The icemen have
begun cutting and housing ice. They have
found Ice twelve inches in thickness. AT
the packing house ice has been housed for
the last five days.
NEBRASKA CITY-Fred Felthauser has
filed a suit in the district court praying
for a divorce from his wife, Emma Felt
hauser, on the grounds she refused to live
with him: They. were married at Hentonl,
Ill, on March 10, 1903, and have two chill
dren. The father wants the care and
custody of the children.
FALLS CITY-The good roads meeting
held at the court house Tuesday afternoon
was one of great interest to all. The meet
ing was called to order by County Superin-
tendent T. j. Oliver, and addresses were
made by w. J. Spillman, sent out by the
Department of Agriculture; also by Prof
Warren and George L.. Cooley.
SEWARD-M. d. Lowell, who lost TWEEN
ty-two head of cattle on December % from
theft or their s~traying away from home
has had no clue to the missing animals
although all shipping points within a radius
of eighty miles of Omaha have been com-
municated with, and the cattle have not
been shipped out of the country.
Observation-Disclosures hose company No.
5 met last evening and elected these Off
GERS: II. A. Kuhn, president; Charles
Schank. vice president; G. ID. Kuhn, sec
rotary; c, r. Lock, treasurer; Paul Dresp
foreman; Rudolph Engler, first assistant
foreman; Charles Dukes, second assistant
foreman; John Plebuch, teward.
SEWARD-Mr. Thompson, who occupies
the office OF state architect in Texas. came
to Seward last week to inspect the Seward
county court house. He admires 1t inn
mensely and when County Clerk Suppiger
asked him II he considered the county had