The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1909-07-08
NEBRASKA HAPPENINGS.
State News and Notes In Condensed
Form.

pacity.
Forty-two marriage license were is.
sued in June by the Dodge county
judge. This is the record for any
month in the history of the office.
A new state bank was organized in
David City, to be known as the Butler
county state bank. The capital is $685..
600, which is fully paid ~lp.
The Midwest Life OF Lincoln wants
a local agent to represent it in every
town in Nebraska. For particulars
write the company. 1t pays good
commissions.
While working around threshing
had finger SO badly smashed in a
gearing that amputation was neces-
sary.
Thomas Cole and his wife, pioneer
settlers of Nebraska City, were thrown
out of their buggy on their way home
and both seriously injured. 1t is feared
that Mrs. Cole is fatally hurt
ID. NJ. Mckinney, former mayor of
Hastings and pioneer settler was
stricken with paralysis in Santa Cruz
Cal. His condition is critical and his
son has been called to the bed side.
Owners of camp grounds on the
Platte and Elkhorn rivers, near Ere.
mont have formed an association for
their own protection. A fund is to be
maintained for the purpose of prose.
cutting trespassers.
Work on the excavation for the new
government building at Kearney has
been started. The Northwestern Con.
struction company has the contract
for the building. 1t is to be finished
by the last of May next year.
Charles d. Densmore, formerly Of
Wymore, died Sunday at his home in
Oketo, Kan. Mr.. Densmore was one
OF the oldest residents of Wymore
He was at one time employed as a
fireman on the Burlington.
The Office of the Grand Island steam
laundry was burglarized and eighteen
dollars in cash were obtained. The
thieves tried unsuccessfully to get in
to the inner cash box of the safe and
thus missed obtaining $500 more.
number of small whirlwinds,
formed into a tornado southeast Of
Beaver City Friday evening and ragged
over territory of two miles wide
and thirty.five miles long, extending
from Beaver City to Woodruff, Kans
DIR. Mark Davis, a pioneer resident
of Beatrice celebrated his ninetyfifth
birthday anniversary Saturday. He
has been in feeble health for the last
two years, but was able to entertain
severa, of his friends on his anniver.
sary.
Frank Trailer, the nine-year old son
Of John Trailer, of Beatrice was shot
under the right ear by Dee Hardin
while the two boys were playing with
a pistol shooting blank cartridges. 1t
is not expected that the wound will
prove serious, although the services
of physician We're necessary.
On the 26th day of April, 1906, The
Midwest Life was authorized by the
insurance department Of this state to
do general life insurance business
on the level premium, legal reserve
plan. The stockholders are Nebraska
people. associated together to insure
Nebraska people, and thereby to keep
within Nebraska the premiums paid
for their insurance. The business
methods of The Midwest Life are clean.
1t sells and always has sold life in.
surance as life insurance. Home Of
flee 1907 20 street, Lincoln. n. q.
Smell. president. Write for an agency.
Seth, the fifteen.year-old son of Mrs.
j. Magley, living fifteen miles north
of Mead, went to the barn Monday
| morning to harness team Of mules,
preparatory to a days work in the
field. About half an hour afterwards
and the side of the barn. Medical aid
was summoned and after examination
IL was found that his injuries consisted
of six kicks.
The recent rulings of the Nebras-
ka insurance department through the
auditor of public accounts, the Hon.
s. II. Barton, did not affect The Mid
| west Life, in the slightest degree. 1t
| had never used estimates; sold
special or board contracts; placed
misleading Statements" on the face
of its policies or elsewhere, as to how
or in what manner its policies were Sc
cured; or, sold stock, bonds or Sc
curities' OF any insurance or agency
company as an inducement to take
life insurance with it. The rulings
against such practices are in harmony
with the position publicly taken by
The Midwest Life ever since its or
ganization. Home office 1907 90"
street. Lincoln. y. Y. Smell. presi
dent. Write for an agency.
During a thunder storm Friday.
lightning struck Ed Whachter's resi-
dence in North Madison, tearing off
portion of the roof and some Of the
plastering. Fortunately no one was