Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-18

CREIGHTON-The knights of Columbus
held their annual picnic here today in
Creighton's beautiful park. A very large
crowd attended.
CREIGHTON-The water works system
extension is now completed and Creighton
now has one of the best water works sys-
TENS in the state.
BEATRICE-Company and the First
machine company, numbering in all about
100 men, left Tuesday morning for Fort
| Riley, Kan, to attend they annual maneu-
| vers.
| STROMSBURG-The chautauqua which
opened here Sunday Is being well patron
lied. The attendance has been about 1000
/ from the start and the number is gradually
| increasing.
| BEATRICE-John Devoda, a Bohemian
at Wymore, who was arrested on the
/ charge of robbing a tailor shop at that
place, was given his hearing yesterday and
was discharged.
| ALBION-Dr A NJ. Lamb surprised his
| friends by bringing his bride home with
him Tuesday evening. He was married
yesterday at Fremont to Miss Eta Hoare
\ OF Platte Center
! BEATRICE-Arthur McC1intock and Miss
Frances Milford were married here Mon
i day evening by Rev. j. e, Davis. over 100
guests witnessed the ceremony, which was
| followed by wedding supper.
! VALENTINE-Monday morning a squaw
was found dead down by the railroad track,
and upon investigation 1t was found she
was Mrs. Four Feathers. She and her hus-
band had been camping here for several
| days.
i FREMoNT-The Fremont Gun club is
being reorganized. After a dormant period
of six years, new members are being taken
in, and il is expected that there will be
fifty members when the club opens blue
rock shooting ground near the city Sep
TENDER l.
| ALBION-Company M, Second regiment,
Nebraska National guard, left Thursday
night by special train. under the commend
i OF Captain Davis for Fort Riley to parttci-
I pate in the annual encampment. colonel
+. ]. Mack and Adjutant Bull have pre-
coded the company.
sTRoMsBURG-The old Flippen hospital
was sold by the school board yesterday.
/ The building will be torn down and the
i land will be used for the new high school
building. The bids for the new building
will be opened August rs and the building
will be erected as soon after as possible.
RUsHvIILE-At a meeting of the
Booster club Monday night, II was decided
to hold a three-days festival and barbecue
| ball tournament will be feature of the
occasion and strong committees have been
appointed to help make the affair sue
cess
CREIGHToN-This vicinity was visited
with fine rain again Friday and Sunday
nights. Corn looks exceptionally good and
Will make one Of the largest crops In the
history of Knox county. Small grain is
threshing out much better than was at first
thought and will make much better
yield than last year
CREIGHToN-The funerals OF Mrs. F. G
here last week. both being well and very
much thought OF, and the funerals were
both largely attended by relatives and
friends. Mrs. Mccoy was q charter mem
Der OF the Royal Neighbor camp of Creigh
ton, who attended the funeral in body.
VALAENTINE-There was something do
ing at the Home bakery for few minutes
! exploded, and a burst OF flame went VI
TO the ceiling. The explosion put out tht
electric lights all over town, and It wa
rout Little damage was done except black
ening the wall and ceiling.
| FREMONT-Presldent overEaard Of tbs
, automobile club, is experiencing little diff
Guilty II ToSmGlng up c,nb %pon lis annua
! trade excursion. The excursion Will TINS
year be into the Saunders county terri
August %. Sixty members OF the Com
mercial club are to make the trip, anC
forty autos will be needed to take the
crowd.
! died at his home in this city this forenoon
. His death was very sudden and is attri
buted by the physician TO ptomaine poison
ing, supposed TO be caused by eating bacon
However, the physician says that deatf
would not have resulted from the poison
but for the fact that Mr.. Miller had very
weak heart. Mr.. Miller, at the time OF hii
death, was Sc years Of age. He was 4
Z farmer and owned several farms and alsC
had interests IN several banks.
AUBURN-John c. Deuser, an old resi-
dent of this county, died here at his HON,
{ last evening, aged 50 years. Mr.. Deusei
came-to this county In 1865 and was engaged
in the mercantile business at Brownvill,
about fifteen years. He then moved to hii
! farm near Glenrock In this county wher,
he resided until about ten years ago wheI
) he retired from the farm and moved TO Au
burn. Mr. Deuser was quite well-to-do
owning several hundred acres OF good farm
[ land He Is survived by three children, TIVE
daughters and one son. Mr.. Deuser has al
ways taken an active part in upbullding tn
county.
-AURoRA-At the home OF Mrs. saral
Moore occurred last evening the InarriaR
E OF her daughter, Nellie NJ, 20 Larkin Il
Ream OF Greenridge Mo. the'ceremony be
ing performed by Rev. Ralph II. Houseman
! pastor OF CASTELAR, Street Presbyterian
church, Omaha, who graduated with tn
bride from the aurora High school. Tn
bride was for several years a popular an,
very efficient teacher In the primary de
partment of the city schools. Mrs. Ream 4
sister of Mrs. +. A. Steenburg and Mis-
Lillian Moore, librarian OF the Aurora pub
lie library. Mr.. Ream Is a prosperou
merchant Of GreenridEe,