Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1910-09-08
IN BRIEF.
News Notes Of Interest From Varioul
Sections,

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falling upon him.
The people of Exeter doomed their
town with a two days political and
baseball carnival.
The former postmaster Of TIE
cumseh will locate in Montana and
engage in farming.
Fire Of unknown origin destroyed
the hotel, butcher shop and a cream
receiving station at Pauline.
Franklin firemen carried away all
honors at the county firemen's
tournament held at Hildreth.
The annual state camp meeting OF
the Seventh Day Advents is being
held in York, the session to last ten
days.
The chautouqua at Loup City en-.
joyed a splendid patronage, attend.
ants being much pleased with talent
and management.
During a heavy rain a barn belong
ing to Fred Stephens, northeast of
Seward, was struck by lightning and
completely destroyed.
A farmer who has lived in
Nuckolls county for thirty years says
he never saw a more promising out
look for the oat crop.
The fourth annual reunion of the
Fort Kearney national park as
ISOLATION closed it's three days ses-
sion at Kearney. 1t was the most
successful ever held.
Jacob Frey of Pawnee county fell
into a well and was nearly drowned
before being rescued. A rope tied to
his body kept him from going en-
tirely under the water.
A dispatch from Hecla, says that
section of the state was visited by
heavy frost, completely killing all
kinds of garden truck. The injury
lone was greatly lessened by the
fact that the frost only struck in
spots.
Word has Just reached Stella of
the suicide in Kansas City of DR.. B.
Bell Andrews, jr., a brother of DR..
G.. M. Andrews of Stella. The de-
ceased was formerly a resident of
that place, practicing medicine with
his father.
While attempting to board a NOV
ing train at Linscott, a blind siding
just west of Dunning, Frank Osborne,
a member of the Burlington line
gang, had his right leg amputated be-
tween the ankle and knee. 1t is be-
lieved he will recover.
Two we'll dressed men, travelling in
an automobile, called on the saloon
men in Wilbur and Dewitt asking
for campaign funds in the interest Of
-Dahlman's election for governor of
Nebraska. They obtained quite a
sum of money and then vanished.
Jesse McCawley, son of County
Judge McCawley of Grant county,
committed suicide by shooting him
self through the temple. He was at
J.. H. Monohan's ranch and had been
respondent for some time owing to
i'll health, from which he could get no
relief.
The Dawson County institute
closed after the largest enrolment in
the history of the country. Miss
Frazier of Alliance had charge Of the
primary work, Prof. o. w. Neale Of
the Kearney normal presented arith-
metic didactics and had a special
exhibition Of pictures:
An operation was performed on
Henry Grover, who vas kicked by a
horse at his home near Arborville in
the northwest part of York county
and had his skull crushed. The
operation removed the pressure of
the skull on the brain and it is now
believed he will
Two boys who escaped from the
reform school at Kearney were cap
tured at Axtell. They were dis
covered in a cornfield about two
miles west of town. They had had
nothing to eat all day and were max
ing a meal of green corn. The boys
were taken back to Kearney.
Several of the Hrmers in the vi
cinity of Nebraska City are exhibit
ing samples of their growing corn
which they claim will go from 100 to
10 bushels to the acre. The corn is
fully developed, the cob is filled out
to the end, and nothing short of an
early frost can prevent a big crop.
The hog cholera demonstration be.
ing conducted at South Omaha, says
the Lincoln Journal, is progressing
satisfactorily though there has been
very little in the way of new develop
ments. Another of the pigs unpro-
tected by the a~nti-cholera serum
died, leaving only two more of the
unprotected alive. DR.. Shore per-
formed a post mortem examination
and found the typical hog cholera
LESSONS very plainly developed. The
two remaining unprotected pigs are
we'll advanced with the disease AID are
not likely to hold out very much
longer. While the four original
cholera pigs and four unprotected
p;ro boro d;od %bo oirb4oo, ,;co