The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-05-12
MEsRAskA NEWS AND NOTES

NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
ltsms Of Interest Taken From Hers
and There Over the State.
The Midwest Life.
A few evenings ago the president
Of the Midwest Life was gratified to
answer an inquiry by phone as to
| whether or not his company wrote
women. An agent of an eastern COM
pany had been trying to sell the wife
Of the Questi0ner an endowment poll
cy. The husband was q believer In
the stand up for Nebraska" idea in
things. and when informed that the
Midwest Life issued insurance on
women an appointment was readily
made for q representative Of the com.
pany to call. These are the acts
which are appreciated as 1t Is the
! practical standing up for Nebraska in
stitutions which counts. Surely the
people of Nebraska are under no Oblf-
cation to help make the big eastern
companies bigger. That is something
| which can be left to their own people.
The Midwest Life issues all of the
standard forms of life insurance poll
cies at reasonable rates. Write for
particulars. Home Office 1907 20"
street.
Arapahoe will have saloons. license
having been granted to three.
W. G. Cross of Beatrice was arrest.
ed for bootlegging.
Catholics are building a $4,000
church at Ansley.
York is doing an unusual amount
of building this year.
Florence, Douglas county, is prepar-
ing for an old-fashioned celebration
on the 4th of July.
The corner stone of the new Roman
Catholic church at Blair was laid with
imposing ceremonies by Bishop Bona
cum.
Merrick county is now without a
single saloon. the last one in the coun-
ty. that at Silver Greek. having closed
last week.
At Beatrice, Ferreno Bertuca,
charged with the murder of John
Preuhs, an l1-year-old boy at WymOre.
was held to the district court without
bail.
The Midwest Life, old line. always
is ready to give a reliable man a
good agents contract either for full or
part time. Write N. z. Smell, presi-
dent, Lincoln, Nebraska.
The Midwest Life of Lincoln will be
three years old May 1, 1909. 1t has
$1,560, 900 of insurance in force and is
increasing its assets and insurance
each month. Agents wanted. Write
the home Office.
At Grand Island Wilhelm Boldt, a
laborer. over SO years of age. died of
exposure. the result of a mishap, it is
charged, while he was under the in
luence of liquor.
The governor appointed Hannah ].
coin insane asylum. in place of Miss
Beatrice McGinnis, whom Supt. o. d.
Woodward asked to resign.
After lying dormant since Jan. /, at
which time the plant went into the
hands of a receiver. the Fairbury Iron
Works and Windmill company re-
sumed operations last week.
The w. c. T. u ladies of Fairbury
have closed deal for the purchase of
a lot near the square for $1,000. upon
which they will erect a building to-
cost $4,000 to be used as headquar-
tiers.
Parker Asbury, living near Du-
buque, was caught beneath a falling
tree which suddenly gave way. Sew
eral bones were broken and he sus-
tanned internal injuries. He is not ex-
pected to live.
At this writing no trace has been |
found of Bert Palmer, IA years old,
who mysteriously disappeared from
his home near Liberty. He was with |
out money and had on his working
clothes when last seen.
1t is feared, says Tecumseh dis
patch, that considerable damage will
result from the freeze in this locality. |
The wind blew from the north all |
night. and ice formed to the thickness |
of half an inch at least.
In addition to the encampment of |
the Omaha High school cadets at |
Ashland, from June to IS. the Uni
versity of Nebraska cadet battalion |
will hold its annual encampment at |
that place from June to 6.
At a special meeting Of the city
council of Beatrice an ordinance was
passed fixing an occupation tax OF
500 per year on each person or firm
operating business of dealing in op-
tons in stocks. grain or provisions.
Gov Shallenberger appointed DR..
Carroll D. Evans of Columbus and
William H. Fitzpatrick of Beatrice as
delegates from Nebraska to the first
American congress of road builders.
which will meet at Seattle July to 8.
In 6.S58 school districts of Nebraska
5000 of which are in the corn
belt" of the state-Supt E. C. Bishop
of the department of public instruc-
ton is looking for $4,000 boys to plant
at least one ear OF good corp and cul-
tivate it with such care that it will be
permitted to enter prize winning
classes at the National Corn EXPOSE
ton in Omaha and the state contest
In Lincoln.
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