The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-11-10

uAVAOu01Ays VI CeileCuVely, 10 me peO'
| pie Of the state, to have these pre-
miums. or the larger part Of them.
sent out Of Nebraska? One sane and
emphatic way to stand up for Ne
braska" Is 10 buy from Nebraska in
surance companies what they have to
sell. especially when it is a good ar
ticle, whether 1t is life insurance, FIRE
insurance or accident insurance.
The premium rates of The Midwest
Life Of Lincoln are reasonable. Its
policies are as good as any on the
market today and none are better. The
premiums paid 1t stay in Nebraska
Marie, the 4-year-old daughter Of
Mrs. Lucy Robinson, was burned to
death at Blair while burning leaves.
The mother was working in restau-
rant, only block away, but when she
reached the little one the girl was un-
conscious.
Henry Rankins. young man %
years Of age. killed himself on a
rented farm five miles southwest of
Spring ranch, Adams county. Two
months ago he was rejected by q
young woman on the day they had set
to be married and it is thought this
preyed on his mind and led to SELF
destruction.
A large barn on the Martin Fritzen
farm in aGge county was destroyed by
fire. A valuable team, several hun
dred bushels of grain and farm nipple
ments were consumed. The loss Is
placed at $4,000. with no insurance.
Nine years ago j. w. Bennett moved
to Fullerton from York county and
purchased farm of $40 acres one
mile east of that city paying $40 per
acre. He sold the farm last week to
r. G. Clark for 800 per acre.
According to the report of the state
treasurer, the balance in the state
banks and in the state treasury Octo-
Der S1st amounted to $573.3O4. This
is an increase of $21. 1000 over the bal
ance last month.
C. r. Johnson, the colored barber
who admitted he wrote suggestive let
tiers to little Lizzie Miller, a fifteen
year-old girl, was driven out of Free
mont by the county officials, who be-
lieved it unsafe for Johnson to re-
main.
Gov. Shallenberger arrived home
from his Southern trip in time to vote
Near CrestOn Mr.. Bockman's young
est son was accidentally shot by an
othther by while out hunting. His in
So. ,,sH
doubts are held for his recovery.
Caught between the bumpers of two
freight cars. Charles Allen, a tramp,
who was stealing ride, had his foot
badly crushed, and was taken of q
Union Pacific freight trsin at Central
City.
The annual boys and girls indus
trial contest and corn show under the
auspices of the county schools. will be
held in Tecumseh on Saturday, No
vember q. Prizes are offered for corn
and work of all kinds the girls of the
school engage in.
Leander Wilson, a farmer residing
ed fire in his potato patch to burn
off the trash and before the flames
were subdued they burned forty-five
acres of corn averaging twenty-five
bushels to the acre.
Postmaster S. D. Cole of Wymore
has been informed that punch mail
service will be installed by the govern
ment on the new trains, Nos. 81 and
sc. to be installed by the Burlington
between Wymore and Lincoln Octo-
Der 81.
Mrs. Foster of Oklahoma, coming
up on the Missouri Pacific railroad,
lost her pocketbOOk out the car win
dow near the Nemaha river. Leaving
the train at Falls City she returned to
the place where it was dropped and
was fortunate in finding it where it
fell
Two young women who arrived in
Lincoln to solicit money for an Or
phans' home in Kansas City were re-
fused a letter by Mayor Love. He said
he considered the young women too
lar away from home for that work. |
and besides Lincoln had all it could |
do to take of its own orphanages.
The Chicago & Northwestern rail- |
road has received permission of the |
State Railway commission to issue |
bonds to the amount of $50, 162, 600. |
Some time ago this road received per- |
from the state of Wisconsin |
to issue bonds to the amount of some |
$50, OOU 600 and about one-third of this |
amount has been issued. Now the road |
intends to issue the other twothirds, |
giving a mortgage on its property in |
this state.
singing by handsomely gowned wo-
men to Accomplishments played at a
portable organ. were a new feature
in the spectacular revival meetings in
A collection of swine bones win |
form a part of the Nebraska exhibit at
the National corn show. This is
queer display but it shows something
Of the most practical sort for the
effect of the various "a
tons when fed to hogs, what corn and
alfalfa will produce in the way Of
bones as compared to the bones pro-
duced by feeding other rations.
The two cases of pono myelitis in
county are said to be getting
along nicely and no new cases have
Citizens Of Thurston and other
adjoining the Indian reser.
vation are preparing to cooperate
with the government commission
which Is now at work among the Oma.