The Red Cloud chief., 1909-09-23
NEBRASKA HAPPENINGS.
STATE NEWS AND NOTES IN CON.
pENsEp FORM.

| ioIh ColleBe ODeneu monday LOT INC
twentieth year. Rev. J. w. Burket
made the opening address. The at
tendance was good for the initial day.
The Dawson county fair association
opened Tuesday. The parade, led by
the Lexington band, was witnessed
by large crowd
The Custer county fair opened Tues
day morning with all arrangements
and details complete. 1t is one of
best efforts in this direction ever put
forth in the county.
The Presbyterian congregation at
York have unanimously elected Rev.
Thomas +. b. Smith as pastor for the
coming year. Rev. Mr.. Smith has
been with the congregation for the
last year, by appointment to fill va.
cancy.
gattling section is to be organized
at Beatrice. Adjutant General Harlin
has assigned the two gattling guns
of the Nebraska National Guards to
that city. The organization will con-
sist of thirty men and two officers and
will be separate Of company G.
Fremont's new Country club wants
to make some extensions in it's build
ing and to gravel the road leading
from South Broad street into the club
grounds. Consequently the new club
which has but little funds, is going
to give fair during the winter.
Plans are being perfected for Wig
orous campaign to raise a fund suf-
ficient to pay off the current indebted.
ness of Hastings college, now amount.
Ing to $4,000. Indications, it is said,
show that the college will soon be a
self-supporting institution.
According to the Wyoming Tribune.
published at Cheyenne Wyo.. viii.
liam Hudson. brother of Simon
Hudson, who was sent to the peniten.
tiary from Johnson county on a
charge of forgery, has been appre.
hended in the state given. The man
Is accused Of forgery in the west.
The fifth annual industrial fair OF
the Crow Indians will be held at the
Crow agency September POPS. The
fair is given to create a friendly com.
petition between the Indians in the
raising Of farm products, stock and
poultry In the racing nothing but
stock owned by the Indians will be
permitted to enter.
Resolutions calling upon the officers
of the law to put forth their utmost
efforts in capturing the murderer of
Othello Ratliff, the colored boy found
dead under the steps of the Kellom
school week ago, were passed by
the Omaha negro business league
when it organized Monday. A reward
OF 5000 for the capture OF the muir.
derer was offered by the league.
Buffalo county boasts of one school
district that is a little out of the
ordinary. That is district No. ia,
and 1t is peculiar for the fact that it
does not owe a cent Indebtedness
anywhere and it has on deposit $4,000.
Only about twenty pupils attend the
school and most of the acreage in the
district is taken up by the Watson
ranch.
The west Nebraska conference of
the Methodist church formally opened
in Kearney Wednesday evening, al
though the regular work did not start
until Thursday morning. Bishop War
rem opened the conference. which was
featured with an address by Il. J.
James OF Kimball, Neb. Delegates
and clergymen have been coming in
rapidly. Thursday morning there was
fair attendance.
farmer who lives nine miles south
west of Tecumseh, has bought the
hardware and furniture stock Of
Bailey & Cathcart of Brock. Neb Mr..
Health traded his 160.acre farm In on
the deal. The farm is valued at $l2,.
900, and the hardware and furniture
stock will be taken at invoice. Mr..
Health will take possession OF his
store between this time and Novem-
Der /.
After twenty years work and the
expenditure of $4,000, George Mar.
shall OF Fremont has completed to
his own satisfaction his invention of
non-releasing Corliss valve engine.
A firm located at Milwaukee is to
manufacture the engine and put it on
the market. Mr.. Marshall is wealthy.
and says that he does not care to
make any money out OF his invention,
but he had made up his mind that
he could perfect an idea that he got
two decades ago and is glad now it
Is done.
James Mckinney, whose horse and
buggy were taken from the hitch rack
In Auburn a few evenings ago. has
found the harness and buggy in a
cornfield about ten miles southeast of
Auburn. The horse came home the
next morning after he was taken. BY
following the horses tracks Mr. Nc
kenney succeeded in finding the
buggy. It was evident that the horse
had been taken from the buggy and
ridden to the east for a considerable
distance. Mr. Mckinney and Con.
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