Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-07

Wallace, a well known couple of Melbourne,
today celebrated the fortieth anniversary
of their wedding. One hundred frineds and
neighbors assisted them in making the
event memorable.
GLENWOOD-Judge Green this morning
sentenced Charles McCauly to thirty days
in the county Jail on a charge of petit lar
ceny. Harry Howard, who broke into
Carey & F1eming's dry goods store, was
given an indeterminate sentence at Fort
Madison.
MARSHALLTOWN-The Board of Super
vlsors OF Marshall county today let the
contract for six new concrete bridges in
the county to cost $11 $50. The contract was
awarded to M. NJ. Stark & Co. of Des
Moines. Work is to begin in April and the
last bridge is to be completed by the mid
die of Augus
GRANT-Fred Bury. living near Grant,
lost ninety-seven head OF cattle in the storm
one week ago. He had 16 head, and being
without shelter they drifted away and when
round an but eight head were frozen. The
cattle had but recently been shipped in from
the west and were not In good condition to
go through such a storm.
ATLANTIC-Cass county in 1908 paid out
$,2s2.4O for a bounty on gophers, the small
boys OF the county receiving the greater
part of this. Gophers are getting to be a
great pest in this county and it is only
the vigilance of these small boys in regard
to them and the bounty hey bring that
keeps the county from being overrun with
them.
NEVADA-Because he betrayed the con-
fidence of a friend, who gave him shelter
for the night, and while the friend was
asleep stole $40 in money from his clothes,
William Barnhart OF Nevada was today
sentenced to serve five years in the Ana
mosa reformatory by the Story county dis
trict court. Barnhart was indicted for
grand larceny.
ATLANTIC-Mr. and Mrs. W. c. Terbush
of this city yesterday celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary and their chill
dren and grandchildren were here in num-
bers for the event. Mr.. and Mrs. Terbush
have been residents OF Atlantic for many
years, he having been city marshal for a
long time. The couple are known and re-
spected all over the city.
IDA GROVE-The will of Mrs. Homer
Bradshaw, WHO died very suddenly, leaves
5000 to Miss Alice Bradshaw OF Des
Moines, a niece, and the remainder to be
divided equally between her two brothers,
]. w. Osgood Of Decatur. ILL.,. and 3. III.
Osgood OF Wynn, Ark. Mrs. Bradshaw was
afternoon company and died within a very
few minutes after reaching home.
CREsToN-The Burlington's new super
intendent, w. A. Card, arrived here last
tendent w. b. Throop and superintendent
Teahoff Of Ottumwa and went out over the
division nT | this so morning to fami ssGtTtDt himself
Newton goes to Texas in a few days, where
he will be engaged for several weeks in
special work for the Colorado & Southern
road, recently taken over by the Burlington.
MARSHALLTOWN-The thirteenth an
nual meeting of the Central Iowa Retail
Lumbermen's association will be held in
this city on Friday. February %. A meet
ing of the directors will be held preceding
the opening session OF the convention. The
officers of the association are: President,
A.. B. Miller of low Falls; secretary. c..
r. Greet, Eldora. and treasurer. Andrew
Rath of Ackley. The association numbers
among its members practically all of the
retail lumber dealers OF central Iowa.
LOGAN-Judge Woodruff has just decided
that the Soldier river engineering project
as planned by j. S. Wattles and Mum, en-
gineers, is not in line with the drainage
laws OF Iowa and has therefore remanded
the project to the Board of Supervisors OF
Harrison county. The plan was for the
reclamation OF 1000 acres OF land at a cost
of SlOl 900. The other decisions by the Judge
permits payment in full for the excavation
on the Boyer river cutoff No. 1. also on
No. 2. but withholds 20 per cent on the vii
low creek ditch for the completion of the
same as contemplated by the original con-
tract. The cost OF the Boyer river cutoff
No. 1 was $4,000; Boyer river CUTOFF No. 2
$500 Willow creek, when complete, $1,000.