The Red Cloud chief., 1911-09-21
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA,

An agitation is on foot in Aurora Il
organize a Y. M. c. A.
The harvest home festival at Hill
dreth was a big success.
The national convention OF postmas
ters Is In session at Omaha.
Free delivery Of mail may be estab.
lished shortly at Broken Bow.
The receipts Of the state fair will
amount to more than $4,000.
Rev. Francis Brown, pastor OF the
Baptist church at Surprise, has re.
signed.
Fffty-one county fairs will afford
amusement and instruction for Ne.
braskans this year.
Great preparations are being made
Tor the corn show and horse fair at
Deehler, September 10 and 20.
Claud Floyd. rural mail carrier Out
OF Beatrice. has purchased an automo
bile and will make his trips in 1t.
| Civil service examinations for mali
carriers at Cedar Bluffs, Martell and
| western, Neb., will be held October 4,
Nebraska's corn crop will probably
be larger than that of last year, &C.
cording to the Burlington crop report,
Rev. II. Danielson, pastor of the
Danish church at Fremont for several
years, has been transferred to Grand
Forks, n. ID.
Robert Sadler, negro, who escaped
from Jail at Central City, hid in a
trunk at his home at Clarks, where
he was found.
Abel .Shaffer, young farmer neai
Hooper, was mangled by a freight
train at that place, while trying &C
cross the tracks.
The pioneers and old settlers asso
citation Of Harlan county, Neb., will
meet In annual reunion at Orleans
September 20 and 81.
The October term Of the United
States federal courts, districts of Ne.
braska, Lincoln division. begins on the
first Monday In October.
Edwin Overlook, farmer near
Pickrell In chasing a COW to the barn
slipped and fell in such way as to
break his left arm near the shoulder,
DIR. Thomas II. Ward, a pratticing
physician in Omaha for twenty.six
years, dropped over dead at the break.
fast table in his home Sunday morn.
ing.
Miss Ednice Murphy, charged with
melting the hanging of Charles Sellers
of Cody. was given preliminary hear,
ing and bound over to the distric'
court.
A rain storm almost equaling q
cloudburst visited Beatrice early Sun.
day morning, flooding the streets and
lowlands. The precipitation was three
inches.
While trying to board a freight in
the Burlington yards at Broken Bow,
Fred Forbes. 33 years OF age, was
thrown under the wheels and badly
mangled.
While driving his car Sunday at the
rate Of forty miles an hour, near Pax
ton, Chris Thorning crashed into a
barbed wire fence and received seri
Gus injuries.
The decomposing body OF Edward
Graham. an old soldier, was found in
his bachelor home at Kearney by an
old comrade. He had evidently been
dead several days.
While left alone for few moments
In her room at St. Bernard's hospital
at Omaha Sunday morning. Abble Fro
lik OF Crete. Neb.. committed suicide
by hanging herself with a towel.
Louis Hornkohl was shot by his
brother Charles ON the farm of Nc
Donald Bennett, near Wilsonville
which they had rented. The brothers
quarreled over the division OF hay.
Rev. Thomas Bithell, pastor OF the
Methodist Episcopal church Of Ere.
mont, and at one time president OF
the Methodist conference OF that dis
trict, has announced his retirement.
Miss Jeanne Boyd, a Fremont youns
lady, ts developing a remarkable tai
ent In musical line, being the author
OF a number OF popular airs, including
the score Of meritorious operetta.
Her friends predict a great future fol
her.
An increase of over 200 in the total
enrolment OF the Lincoln city schools,
exclusive Of the high school, is indi
Gated by the reports OF the various
principals to Superintendent W. l.
Stephens.
Roland McQuiston was seriously III
jured and John McQuiston suffered a
broken ankle when an automobile IN
which they and Jim Wheeler and John
Blair, all Of Pender. turned turtle Q
mile from Beemer.
A flower parade will be one OF the
features Of the big German celebra.
tion to be held in Lincoln in October.
The citizens of Gretna will hold
silver anniversary picnic September
% to commemorate the twenty.ffth
anniversary Of the town.
August Anderson. living near Jun.
iata, has two acres planted to turnips
and It 10 estimated will harvest from
400 to 500 bushels from the plot.
c. w. Cramer and his wife Of Valen.