The Red Cloud chief., 1909-08-26
NEBRASKA HAPPENINGS.
State News and Notes In Condensed
Form.

switch engine while performing his
duties at Hastings Wednesday night.
4 sixteenyear.old son of o. Wen.
del, living near Keene, was badly hurt
| by moving machine which he was
running on his fathers place He will
recover.
Dewie the ten.year.old son of J. w.
Whitlock Of Elk Creek, jumped off
a shed while playing few days ago.
sustaining complete rupture. He
is under the care of physician.
North Platte is to have candy
store. Bye q Harrison OF Alliance
having leased the store room in the
Keith theater building. The candy
kitchen will be opened about Septem.
! Der /.
Lucas Peatrowsky. u young business
man of West Point. has removed to
! Wisner. whore he has purchased
/ shoe store. He has been for some
years the manager of the Olvcrius
shoe store in West Point.
Harry Goble, former Beatrice
| boy, was among the lucky ones who
drew land in the Flathead reserva.
| ton lottery. In "A letter to one of
his brothers in Beatrice. Mr. Goble
states that the land he drew Is worth
$4,000.
The best yield of wheat that has
been reported near Dorchester was
that raised on u. Worley's farm north.
west of that town. There was 1iO3
bushels of wheat threshed from SO
acres, making an average Of 81 bushels
per acre.
Citizens of South Omaha, Florence,
Benson and Dundee will be officially
invited by the municipality of Omaha
TO meet with delegation made up of
Omaha citizens for the purpose of
talking over the situation and deter.
termining the best method of effecting
a consolidation
The Douglas county teachers in
stituto will be held next week, begin.
ming Monday morning at $50 and
continuing through the week, with
forenoon sessions only. The institute
will be held in the high school build,
ing and Superintendent Yoder expects
about $50 teachers will attend
Harry e. Davidson, a fifteen-year.
old boy, was arrested charged with
stealing SIC worth Of ammunition and
firearms . ON the McGrath Hardware
company of Hastings. On account OF
his youth, County Attorney Hartigan
has made application to have him
n bod En-,
William Garman, liveryman OF
North Platte. has been looking for
man who engaged single rig for
snort drive Sunday. The man ap.
pears to have taken a permanent
drive with the horse and buggy and
Mr.. Garman has offered reward OF
$50 for the arrest and conviction of
the party.
In spite Of the intense heat Sunday
afternoon, a crowd which numbered
into the thousands listened to Senator
va Follettes address at the Seward
shautauqua. His discussion was
along the line of national issues and
he held the attention of his listeners
Notwithstanding the torrid surround
ings by his rorceful argument.
The Beatrice Lawn Mower company
and the JONI Automobile company
have consolidated. the stockholders of
the latter company closing the deal
Thursday. The articles OF incor.
poration of the automobile comapny
were changed permitting the increas-
ing OF the capital stock from $4,000
to $4,000. George A. Culver has been
elected general manager of the con.
solidated company. The new insti
tuition will commence business when
$4,000 OF the capital stock have been
paid In and will manufacture auto
mobiles and lawn mowers.
The first tornado that ever struck
the sandhills visited Thedford Satur.
day evening. 1t took Rev. Mr..
Sprague's summer kitchen down the
street, demolished Henry Crows liv.
cry barn and ]. c. Ewing's stable,
took the cupola, bell and all, off the
church, the chimney off the school
building, and did much other damage
to trees, windows and windmills. It
was accompanied by terrific electri.
cal storm and downpour or rain. j.
M. Bass and John Milroy were in the
livery barn and were caught In the
wreck. Bass had a leg broken and
Milroy was seriously hurt
The smallest and most valuable gar
den in Omaha is located at the corner
of Seventeenth and Harvey streets.
1t occupies about twenty feet on Har-
ney and fifteen feet on Seventeenth
street. The piece de resistance" is
thrifty peach tree, about twelve feet
in height, in the center of the garden.
The entire track Is utilized, In which
are growing tomatoes. squashes,
beans, corn and a miscellaneous va
riety OF garden sass, peculiarly tooth
some to the Italian gardener who OPP
crates the fruit shanty Immediately
adjacent. The ground on which the