The Columbus journal., 1909-06-23
NEBRASKA HAPPENINGS.
ststs News and Notes In CONDENSED
Form.

Form.
Abram E!eston, Harlan county pi
oneer, IS years old, VINO has been
in rugged health. was the victim of q
paralytic stroke. affecting all one side
Of his body.
| ! The state Sunday school conveatiSu
was formally opened In Kearney Tues.
day. Eight hundred delegates are
present. Nearly every county in the
state was represented. 3
~'Mrs. AIMS Bjorgum while driving
down a steep hill near their home .
few miles east Of. Lyons. was thrown
from buggy by a runaway horse. Her
leg was broken in two places.
James Harris Masters died at his
home at Syracuse Friday, aged 80. He
was one Of the pioneer settlers of this
part Of the state and the foremost
horticulturist Of the state.
Walter A. Williams, a veteran hard
ware man at Hildreth, died Monday.
He was an old settler ard homestead
er and had been in business for about
twenty years. He died after a long
illness.
The Hastings board Of education met
Tuesday night and carvassed the bal
lots of the school bond election which
was held few weeks ago. 1t was
found that the bonds had been lost
by 2S2 votes.
Charles Brice Of Gresham, entered
plea Of guilty Monday morning be.
lore Judge COrcoran to the charge of
having unlawfully taken $50 from DR..
Rose. He was sentenced to serve one
year IN the penitentiary.
The Beatrice fire department has
closed contract with the Lachman
company .hippodrome shows to hold a
carnival in Beatrice the week of July
y. The proceeds will be applied to
the building fund of the department.
1t is rumCred that c. E. Noyes will
plat forty acres of his property lying
just west CT Louisville and bring in
new addition. 1t has been several
years since an addition was made to
the original Plat. Surveyors are now
at work On tie farm.
The last number registered at tie
state normal in Kearney was S7e.
This does not include the pupils of
the model school room. President
Thomas and his corps Of teachers are
making arrangements to care for
from Loco to 1900 students.
The big cattle feeders of Dunbar.
of c. J. Mullis, ]. p. Baker,
Brickneil Bros, H. s. Baker, John
Duncan. George Easley, o. c. Baker.
N. T. Harrison and w. S. Ashton. have
shipped from the yards to Chicago
md Kansas City markets over forty
lars OF top-the-market cattle during
he past week, with many more to fol-
Cw.
S. E. Evans has brought a suit in
ederal court against Marshal Cole of
|uniata, seeking to recover $1,000
lamages. About six months ego Mr..
Evans was arrested at JuniaIa while
MARSHAL Cole was investigating a for
cry case. MIR. Evans was found to
ave NO connection whatever with the
ase, and he now sues for false in
resentment. i.a, ..F.., .s.r..r
An automobile race will be the fea- ,
ure of the Fourth of July celebration !
which will be held in Louisville on ,
saturday, July 3. Several Louisville I
Dung men are now driving cars for !
'maha automobile companies and they 4
re planning on entering the race. d
About fifteen automobiles are now r
wned by residents Of Louisville and q
be surrounding country and these
ill be entered.
George A. Murphy, well known in
ebraska and former resident of Be-
trice. but now Of Muscogee, OIL, is
eing prominently mentioned as avail {
bic timber of the republican nomina-
en- of governor of Oklahoma. Mr..
Iurphy located in Oklahoma about
even years ago. He has taken an &C n
We interest in republican politics in g
Ie new state. He was at one time the p
publican nominee for lieutenant gov
nor Of Nebraska. u
Carl Carlson, who has been manag- =
g the Morehouse farm near Fremont, -
as found dead about II o'clock Sat
day Eight, lying beside the road :,
70 miles east CT Fremont. Carlson
'idently had dropped dead from heart
ilure. He was about thirty years
age, and single. Carlson left the .,
I'm at Z O'Clock to walk to the city. >,
was known that he suffered from =,
art trouble. but his condition of late h.
I'd not been alarming. -:
The silver anniversary of the found
8 of Fremont college was celebrated
,nday night by the Fremont CONNER
II club, which held its annual ban T.,
ct in the dining hail of the dormi- -
~. The celebration commenced at an
: o'clock, when a cannon, manned by r.,
soldiers was fred of twenty-five N
hes en- the west corner of the COL 70,
ye campus. Music by the college s.
nd of twenty-seven pieces added to
E noise. This was the signal for
: assembly of the members CT the
club. numbering 900. An t;f
" was devoted to an inspection Of N,
; college grounds and buildings be- TO,
e the banquet. ka
lr. Dysart, living five miles south
st of Peru. shipped seventy head of
tie to Chicago last week. which
ped the market. The cattle aver Ing