The Red Cloud chief., 1910-03-10
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious. Social, Agricultural, Polit'
ical and other Matters Given
Due Consideration.

county have formed an organization.
The PresbJterians of Dunbar will
soon erect new church
Governor Shallenberger smoke at
Geneva on Patriotic Citizenship" to a
well.filled house.
w. E. Morrison, prominent mpr.
chant OF Broken Bow, lost a finger in
sausage cutter.
The Laymen's Missionary Move.
ment work Is uppermost in a number
of Nebraska towns.
1t has been decreed that business
men OF Omaha must clean up their
| premises or 20 to Jail.
Beatrice will handle the saloon
question by submitting the matter TO
popular vote the first Tuesday in
| April.
The tenant house on the farm of
Edward lIoworth, three miles south.
east OF Tecumseh, was burned to the
ground
Z. r. Madden OF Johnson county
agrees that seed corn should be test.
Ell, but he Is of the opinion that Il
large per cent of It will be found in
good condition.
Soldiers of the Spanish. American
war viii hold their annual reunion at
Columbus, April 2G, and Major Il. II.
PhelpS. department commander. is al
ready busy acquainting the soldiers OF
the fact 4 good program is being
| arranged.
The spread of the scarlet fever epi.
demic IN buffalo county continues.
Several schools have been closed in
eleven parts of the county and Il mum.
her of small towns are practicable
closed up with quarantine.
The Fremont business college has
closed its doors. Practically all of
the pupils we're transferred to the
Omaha commercial college and Presi.
dent Roush himself has entered the
employ OF that institution.
The women of Kearney are to take
n hand in the saloon fight in that city
between now and March 1G, the date
OF the special election deciding the
fate of Kearney.
In response to letter by Charles
K. Weeks of the Peru normal IA strong
organization of poultry raisers with
twenty charter members was organ.
ized with Prof. Weeks as president
At Sutton Harry Roger, Burlington
round house boss, was about to refill
an oil tank for use about the cars
when the gas ignited. severely burn.
ing his face and neck.
M. u. Welch, druggist at Cort.
land, pleaded guilty in the district
court on two counts to the charge OF
selling liquor and was fined 5000 and
costs.
The report OF Treasurer Brian filed
with the state auditor shows that
during tho month of February there
has been paid into all funds s443..
25O.O9, and there has been disbursed
$23S,O6l.03. The balances at this
time are S9O7,1O1.53, against SOL.
1887 the first of the month. There
Is uninVested in the permanent
school fund a total of S2SS,627.1S.
The decision of the supreme court
that the expense of a county treas.
urer's bond when legally executed bv
qualified bonding company as surety
and approved and accepted by the
county board is binding obligation
OF the county releases ex-Countv
Treasurer Lothair Schultz from pay.
Ing $500 to Seward county.
County Treasurer Hevelone of Gage
county is forcing the collection of
delinquent personal taxes in Gage
county and has sent out 1000 notices.
over 200 taxpayers called at his of.
flee yesterday and liquidated.
Henry bedford a pioneer resident
OF Seward county, died in Oklahoma
recent and his body was taken to Bee.
in that county. He was wellto-do and
few years ago distributed sl5O,OOO
among his children.
1t is thought the winter wheat croD
in some portions of WASHINGTON
county has been injured by winter
weather.
President Crabtree of the Peru nor.
NAL awarded to Miss Winifred Per.
kins the gold medal offered by Miss
Julia Van Dreil. a prominent debater
OF last year, for the young lady max
ing the highest standing in debates.
]. o. Blrnell, brakeman on the
Burlington railroad, was killed near
the Burlington depot in Kearney. II
is thought he slipped and fell under
the wheels.
AT Nebraska City a move IA on
foot and good sum has been raised
for the purpose of erecting a monu.
ment over the grave of Charles w.
Pierce. who was perhaps one of the
earliest settlers in this state. He came
to Nebraska in 1S4S.
The calls for teachers are still MI.
merous. Many country schools are
offering high wages in order to secure
teachers. Several counties in central
and western Nebraska have been
short of teachers all the year. School
authorities are becoming anxious and