Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

time as TO his plans for the future.
TECUMSBH-At a meeting OF citizens
here a committee composed OF Messrs.
hugh La Master, I. u. Hopkins, william
Ernst, William Fornefelt. George Miller
and A. 4. Comstock was selected TO secure
an engineer and take up the matter OF a
sewerage system. Propositions have pees
there is no doubt but what the sewerage
system is coming.
TECUMSEh-The annual meeting OF the
stockholders of the Johnson County Home
Telephone company, the local independent
company, was held at the office OF the cor
poratiOn, in Tecumseh, yesterday afternoon.
p II: Wood OF Lincoln, president OF the
Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph company,
bought the interests in the enterprise OF
Otto j. Wettstein of La Porte City, Ia, the
original promoter OF the company.
BLAIR-Kelly.& Mckay. the oldest flour
and feed dealers OF this city, closed out
their retail business yesterday and will
now give their entire attention to the out
PtbSes S on ,se Acme TSe m giIm S Ss W enisYe the ! t s5s
business for many years and now Mr.,
Mckay will give most of his time as a
salesman on the road and Mr.. Kelly, will,
as in the past, be the manager Of the mills.
BEATRICE-Articles of Incorporation
BEATRICE@Announcement has been re
eeived here of the marriage of Karl ID
weaver, a former Beatrice resident and
a son Of Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Weaver of
South Beatrice, and Miss Georgia Howard
which took place a few days ago at the
couple will make their home in Chicago,
where Mr.. Weaver is engaged in the insur-
ance business.
COLUMBUS-The body of Mrs. Carl
Snodgrass was brought here from Burning
ton, Ia, and inferred in the Catholic GEM
etery. Mrs. ~Snodgrass had a stroke OF
paralysis several months ago and did not
rally. She was married here in October,
1898 to Carl Snodgrass, and was the
daushter Of Mr. and Mrs, Thomas o,Con-
nor. The funeral yas held from the home
of Mrs. B. T. Westbrook, and from there
to the Catholic church.
HUMBOLDT-The local Baptist congre-
cation has arranged with Rev. Fred Arnold,
formerly of this city and lately a student
at the Grand Island college, to take the
passionate of the local church during the
coming year. The young man has been
assistant pharmacist at the soldiers home
in the above city during the last two years
and will devote a portion of his week days
to similar work here. The new pastors
parents reside in this city.
OXFORD-The preliminary hearing of
Audrey j. Heather on a charge of obtain
ing money under false pretenses was held
here Thursday. Heather, 1t Is charged. last
agent here, to sign a sight draft with him
on a Colorado TOWNSHIP company, and drew
$50 expense money from a local bank on
the strength of the endorsement. He was
venes in February at Beaver City.
ALMA-This afternoon Sheriff Carroll put
Lloyd McNeal, the prisoner held on the
charge of burglary in the sweat box with
the result that Nate Tanner, Albert Neff
and Clarence McNeal, are now under arrest
charged with burglary for breaking seals
here. A railroad detective has been here
on this case, but 1t is due to Sheriff Car
r rSlIs Shr9 psnaty that sSsrt re 9 KtiISsgg gang ssu wS9
Tanner and Neff this afternoon.
REPUBLICAN CITY-County Assessor
T. j. Kirty has announced his deputies for
the year of 1909 as follows: A. D.. Hedden,
Alma township; Allen Elliott. Antelope; d.
ID. David, Albany; John Bantam, Eldorado;
Henry Adams, Emerson; w. s. Shoemaker,
Fairfield; Orley Cassell, Orleans; ]. f.
Ziegler, Prairie Dog; J. c. Millaken, Ruben:
j. A. Smith, Republican City; ]. A. Gondie,
sappa; P. G.. Abraham. Scandinavia; P. G..
Turkey Creek; J. F. David, Washington.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Al II. TIolling-
worth yesterday received o telegram from
Senator T. j. Burkett at Washington, d.
G., stating that the bill appropriating S1S, 900
for the purchase of a site for the addition
to be built to the Beatrice postoffice had
passed the senate. A bill appropriating
$4,000 for the enlargement of the postoffice
was passed some time ago and the passage
of the bill yesterday assures Postmaster
Hollingworth of the much needed additional
room asked for some time ago by him.
NEBRASKA C~ITY-During the high wind
which prevailed yesterday a large furniture
car attached to a Burlington freight train
was derailed and turned over on the Bur-
llHBIOn DTluBe as IL was CROSSING. Inc Wlnu
was blowing seventy-five to eighty miles
an hour. The car fell so it did not break
over the railing and go into the river. 1t
was righted and placed back on the train
after a number of hours hard work and
the line was cleared for trains. Had the
car gone over the railing or broken It down
it more than likely would have pulled the
entire train into the Missouri river.
BEATRICBEAt a meeting of the Board
of Supervisors yesterday the following list
of deputy assessors submitted by County
Assessor Hemphlll was approved: Adams
township, M. W.. Dixon; Blakely, ]. L.
Rhodes; Barneston, George Humphreys;
b. Knouse, j. r. Craig, w. J. Todd. Jack
Ashenfelter. o; NJ. Enlow Dan Penrod,
4. Gully; Fflley, F; NJ. Anderson; Grant,
j.. r, Higgins; Glenwood, G. Jeffries,
Highland, O.. d. Smith; Hanover, l.. F..
Fowler; Hooker, T.. A. Atkins; Holt,
George. Balderson; Island Grove, d. Doug
las; Lincoln, Edward Pefferman: Logan,
c. NJ. Smith; Liberty, John Anderson: Mid
land, William WaXham; Nemaha, William
Jewell. Paddock, Frank Masek; Rockford,
j. b. Reiff; Riverside, s. D. Vertrees
Sicily, Albert Barker; Sherman, ]. II. Hale;
Wymore, Gus Marquardt, James Crawford.