The Red Cloud chief., 1909-08-05
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit
leaI and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.

OF the Masonic temple.
Frank Burgess, manager of the Bos
ton Ideal Opera company, playing an
engagement in Beatrice. Is suffering
from spider bite on the lower lin
which may prove serious. He is re-
ceiving treatment at a local hospital
having been forced to give up his work
on the stage for the present
Corn Is king and cooks are queens
Is the announcement made by York
County Boys Agricultural and Girls
Domestic Science associations. who
VIII hold an exhibition at York. com.
mencing Tuesday, November 23 and
ending November 81. The best of the
exhibits will be taken to the Omaha
Corn show.
A large amount OF new wheat is be.
ing handled In the locality OF Beatrice
at present. In two days 10000 bushels
OF this years crop have been deliv.
cred at the elevators at Pickrell. the
grain bringing the top price, s1.O2 per
bushel. No less than eight threshing
outfits have been supplying the eleva
tors at Pickrell
Building operations in Beatrice are
being pushed. Local carpenters. plas.
| terers and masons are all busy
Among the buildings now in progress
OF construction are the new Kilpatrick
Office building, the Beatrice Automo.
bile company's garage, and John l..
Schiek livery barn, firemen's head.
quarters and Dole Floral companys
block.
The plans and specifications for n
new brick court house to be built at
Bridgeport are now being advertised
for. The court house will cost SOS.
600. bond issue of $4,000 has lust
been voted for this purpose and this
with the $4,000 cash donation of the
Lincoln Land company, will secure
one of the finest court houses in the
west for Nebraska's youngest county.
The 7-year-old son of Otto Stark,
who lives five miles west of Martins.
burg, was gored by bull. The boy
was badly bruised with a rent five
inches long on the right side which
penetrated the intestines and another
In the back besides being trampled
all over. No place as large as a hand
on his entire body escaped. 1t is
thought he will recover.
Certain members of the Nebraska
State Historical society have protest.
ed to State Auditor Barton to prevent
the payment by him to c. s. Paine
salary as secretary of the society at
the rate of $1,000 year. AS a result
Mr.. Barton will pay no more salary
vouchers for Mr.. Paine until the mat
ter has been passed on by the legal
department of state.
After ten days of activity, the 200 |
Nebraska national guardsmen, con-
shutting the First brigade, left Ash
land for their homes. leaving in camp |
only little guard in charge of Major |
e. III. Phelps, who remained over to |
conduct the target practice of the |
team that goes to compete in the ma.
tional rife tournament at Camp Perry, |
o.. the middle of August. The camp |
was said by everyone to be the best |
ever held In the state.
The early apple crop, says Ne |
braska City dispatch, Is exceptionally |
good and several cars have been ship |
ped out. The crop will be a heavy |
one and 1t Is found that those orch. |
ards which have been sprayed and |
properly looked after have borne fruit |
that will bear shipping, while those |
that have not been cared for are not |
fit to ship. being very defective. The |
late crop will be very light and only |
in sprayed orchards will it amount to |
anything.
Harvesting In this section, says an |
ALT tal, l.. IL.
and some threshing is being done. 1t
Is claimed that wheat will make be- |
tween twenty and thirty-five bushels |
per acre and the test will be from |
sixty to sixty-two. Oats are rather a |
light crop as whole, owing to the |
late freeze, but some fields will make |
good yield The elevators are
offering to contract wheat at 81 per
bushel, and many of the farmers will |
sell direct from the treshing machine.
The last report of the weather bur-
eau for Nebraska, for June indicates
that that month had rather more than
the usual amount of rain. The precipi-
tation was 4.26 inches, which Is more
than a quarter of an inch greater than
the average for the month during the
past thirty-four years. West Point
was favored with 9.94 inches. The
temperature was rather greater than
normal for the month. standing as
an average at SO degrees. The high
est temperature at any time during
the month was 10S degrees at Beaver
City.
The attorney for Mrs. Maud Moran
IF Nebraska City, wife of Attorney w.
+. Moran. who after hearing cover
ing five weeks before the commits.
sioners Of insanity was declared in.
sane, has gone before Judge Fl. d.
Travis and secured writ of habeas
corpus. The hearing IL set for Aug. 2.
Two boys ran away from the indus
trial school at Kearney last week.