The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-10-27
MEeRAskA NEWS AND NOTES
items Of Interest Taken From Here
and There Over the State.
The Midwest Life.

A10CO4u. NO COmPA0y oOAuS UuSIucSS
| In Nebraska has any stronger home
endorsement tan The Midwest Life.
The agency force Of The Midwest
Life has recently been incrasd by
the addition Of Mr.. w. p. Hancock.
formerly with the Northwestern Mu-
tual, who will work in Lincoln: Mr..
A. L. Pope, who takes charge of the
agency at York; Mr.. w. n. Peterson.
who will make North Platte his head
quarters. and Mr.. G. 8. Southworth.
who will aid Mr.. c. L. Williams in the
development of the Norfolk agency.
There are plenty Of good openings left
for men who are producers or who are
capable of becoming producers. Write
the company for an agency.
Ten requests for teachers came to
the Office Of the Peru normal school
in one day. Calls are coming in DAHL.
from Nebraska, Oklahoma. California,
Kansas. Missouri and other states.
Corn huskers want 5 cents a bushel
for picking corn in the vicinity of
Wyoming. and they claim it will be
hard work making living wages at
that. The yield in that vicinity will
run about fifteen to eighteen bushels
per acre.
To his father. as his next best
friend. the Burlington Railroad COM
pany paid the sum of $500 to Edmund
Hodgson of Grand Island, the Swear
old child, who recently was run over
by freight car and who lost part of
an arm and part of leg.
Without relative in the world, NJ.
Gregorian. an Armenian. who came to
Madison county twenty-six years ago,
and who by day labor saved $4,000,
died recently and willed his money
to three hospitals, two in New York
City and one in Omaha.
Annie Griffin, the Chicago younk
woman who jabbed Chief of Police Pc
terson of Fremont with hatpin three
or four weeks ago, was found by the
insanity commission to be fit sub
ject for treatment at the asylum at
Lincoln.
One of the largest and most sue
cessful breeders sales this season
was held in York county on the Ce-
dar Bank farm. This was sale of
pure bred Poland Chinas that sold as
high as $40.
Milwaukee CNis.) dispatch: Nebras-
ka university won the first in the
judging contest at the dairy show
here, taking three throphies. W.
Forbes won first in the individual con-
test.
The State Normal Glee club has
made arrangements to sing at the
State Teachers association at Lincoln
in November. They have also agreed
to give programs at several places on
the way back.
There is an excellent opportunity
laundry equipped for business. but
the proprietor met with a serious &C. |
cident last-spring, and since then all
work has been shipped away.
The Western Seed Irrigation compa- |
ny of Fremont has 1000 pounds of
cucumber seeds harvested from 152
acres in the vicinity of Albion. The ,
company contracts with the farmers
and pays % cents per pound harvest
ed, or 10 cents per pound just for the
growing. In the fall boys are hired
to pick them up at $1.75 day.
The threshing engine and separator
of T. L. Eggart went through bridge
on Turkey creek near De Witt. The
engineer was pinned under the engine
fill 20 h. bot IS no
creek. but fortunately he suffered
only bruises on the legs and arms.
The machinery was damaged to the
extent of $500.
Horse thieves made a big haul in
Grand Island, when they secured two
teams of heavy draft horses. one from
John Tilley and one from Mr.. Mare
and taking a harness from the Grand
Island Electric company stables and
a wagon from another barn. The two
teams were valued at $500 and $500
each and the total value of the proper
ty is over $1,000.
The beds of silica sand near Beaver
City comprising several hundred
acres. have been opened and the sand
Is being shipped in carload lots to
Mass, where it will be
used by a large manufacturing con-
Germ. but for what purpose has not
been disclosed. These beds of silica
have been known for years. In 1892
options were secured upon them by a
large concern at Cleveland. o.. and
several carloads were shipped east. it
was claimed to polish glass.
Among those who will speak at the
National Corn Show in Omaha are Gif.
lord Pinchot, chief fores--- i the de-
partment of he interior; Willet NJ.
Hays, assistant secretary of agricul-
lure; the governors of Nebraska. Colo
RADIO. Missouri and North Dakota;
lanes J. Hill, builder of the Great
Northern and head of railroad en-
pire: presidents, deans and profess
;ors of the state universities and agri-
cultural colleges of Nebraska. Kan
,as, Missouri. Iowa, the Dakotas and
Illinois.
d. ]. w. Kalkus. who has been To-
lated in Nebraska City for some time.
has been rendered and has accepted
he position o. state veterinarian for
he state of Washington and the chair
If pathology in tile state university.
Isaac Troyer, the Wymore man ar
'ested several days ago for alleged
was arraigned and plead
ID not guilty. His bond was fixed at
800 and being unable to furnish same
vas remanded to the county Jail. Z
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