The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-27
NEBRASKA HAPPENINGS.
State News and Notes In Condensed
Form.

not putting in larger acreage.
The Rev. D. F. Rodabough of Elk
Creek was badly hurt by being kicked
on the leg by horse. No bones were
broken but he was painfully bruised.
S. c. Brooks OF Tekamah is a Ne.
b-aska man who had the honor and
the pleasure of hearing Lincoln de-
liver the famous Gettysburg address.
M. H. Scroggins has sold the 76.
acre farm between Kearney and Buda
for $124.50 per acre. AS near as can
be learned that is the highest price
paid for straight farm land in Buffalo
county.
William Emerson of North Bend has
closed a deal for the purchase of the
flour mill at Mapleton, Iowa, and will
take possession as soon as the nee
essary arrangements can be COM
pleted.
R. E. Grinstead, who lives near
Salem, and who is we'll known, was
badly hurt Friday in runaway acct
dent. The runaway was caused by an
automobile.
Charles J. Chapman, for some f1f-
teen or sixteen years foreman of the
Norfolk roundhouse in the Elkhorn
service, died Monday morning in the
Southern Pacific hospital at Sacra.
mento, Calf
A man living in BARLEY, Red Will
low county, drove 40 miles against
biting northwest wind the other day
to attend a farm sale and get a
oh 10
that just suited him.
The resident age of the old settlers
| association of Nance county has been
placed at twenty-five years continuous
habitation, which excludes some of the
prominent members. An organization
! is to be formed soon.
The Bank of Edison has changed
hands, w. G. Springer, N. A. Petty
grove and other Oxford parties having
purchased the same from the present
owners. J. M. Mohney of Oxford will
assume control March 1.
The best ten ears of yellow corn,
the best single ear of corn and sweep
stakes in corn, won at the farmers
institute in Plainview, were raised on
the Mrs. ]. N. Miller farm, three miles
southwest of Plainview.
While playing with can of powder
and some matches, Glenn Ellis and
Gordon Kellogg, two young men living
in Knox county, caused an explosion
that injured the eyes of the boys and
badly burned their faces and hands.
Mrs. McQuown of Palmyra has just
received word from brother that
she hasn't seen for twenty-five years
and hasn't heard from for seventeen.
He lives now in Carlisle, KY, just four
miles from where ne was born and
raised.
Owing to his illness. Mr.. Watt Of
North Bend, concluded to part with
the farm he recently bought of Frank
Bump, and E. p. Hill sold it to C. H.
Sheldon of Columbus for the neat sum
of $11,400. This figures out about
$66 per acre.
A dispatch from Gothenburg says
that churches, lodges, schools, clubs.
places of amusement and all the other
public gatherings of adults or children
have been placed under ban by a
proclamation issued by the board of
health in an effort to stop the rayages
of scarlet fever.
The work of tearing down Leigh 5
old public school building has been
going on for some days and by it one
of the towns ole landmarks will be
removed. It was in this building
where goodly number of citizens re-
ceived their education and spent a
part of their childhood.
Miss Hannah Gnuse, a sister of Will
liam Gnuse, living north of Arlington
is confined to her brothers house by
a broken limb, caused by fall from
chair The lady is over eighty years
old, and of course her recovery is very
SLOW, but reports from her bedside
indicate she is improving very fast
The county surveyors estimate OF
the construction of the Cunning and
Dodge county drainage ditch north OF
Crowel1, was filed simultaneously
Wednesday afternoon at the Offices
of the county clerks of both counties
The boards of the two counties, CO
operating, ordered the ditch con
structed some time ago.
A Johnson county farmer has dis
covered that hogs can be fed greer
stuff in the winter, chen it is damp
The fourth cutting of alfalfa get<
green when the dampness strikes 1T
and the hogs eat it just as they DE-
in summer. This farmer throws the
hay over to his hogs every day, ant
they are fattening very fast on the
ration.
The Whalen diversion dam in Nor
rill county is now completed and the
farmers of the Platte valley can BIZ
sure of all the water they want tt
use for the 1909 crops The last par
of the work was rip-rapping the sides
and front of the dyke with gravel rC