Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-21
Nebraska

given BY Rev Thomas harden, rector of
st. Andrews church, Sunday evening.
Tuesday evening win occur the class play,
Back to Nature" and the commencement
exercises will be on Thursday evening.
Chancellor Samuel Avery of the state
university will deliver the address to the
class.
COZAD-The town is now without electric
lights owing TO a dispute between the light
the machinery. II is reported that the en-
coming up to contract Specifications, In
which case the dynamo will be installed az
the mill and run by power from the mill
engine. The contractors are now working
on the second soft water well for the town
supply.
DUNBAR-Before q big audience last night
at the opera house Dean Charles Fordyce Of
Lincoln delivered a stirring and practical
commencement address. The class OF 1911
numbers ten graduates. to wit: Misses Ar
Edith Edit Morley Motley Lizzie Veieda DDncan and
e Lucille Walker, and Messrs. John Ban
Jamin, Lichten Wallner, William Henry
Harrison, William Boyd Money, Austin
Ruben Baker, Dean Campbell Walker.
COZAD-The annual banquet OF the Com
mercial club was the occasion Of the bury
ing Of the Ratchet and harmony is now be-
ginning to reign where faotional differences
have formerly held sway, and the town is
already feeling the good effects Of the BEN
efcial change, and a full municipal year
seems probable now without a resort to the
courts to straghten out the difficulties
that have continually hsmpered the prog
ress of the town for the last few years.
FAIRBuRY-The third annual COM
menoement of the eighth grades in Fair
bury and Jefferson County schools we're
held In the Auditorium at the city park
Saturday morning; The Diller male quar-
S. j. Megaw of the Presbyterian church
delivered the invocation Colonel ]. W.
Mcconnell presented the diplomas TO the
1% graduates, This Is the largest number
OF students TO ever complete the eighth
grade work In this county.
OSCBOIA-The annual commencement
exercises of the osceola High school were
held in the auditorium Thurday evening.
The affair was in every manner the equal
of any which has ever been held in this
city and the large number of people pre-
sent taxed the large hall to its capacity.
The exercises consisted of orations, essays,
etc. by members of the class and music
intendent Of the schools, presided over the
evenings exercises. There were twelve
graduates in the class of 1911.
WEST POINT-The much-mooted dues-
ton of whether or not West Point shall
have an auditorium Is again to the front.
The members of the Cadet band have for
mulated plan whereby they believe an
Auditorium can be built. with their assist
ance and under their auspices The plan
has the hearty support of numbers of
solid citizens, and a committee has been
appointed to look into the matter and re-
| port at mass meeting Of citizens to be
held next week TO consider the project.
COzAD-The smallpox epidemic is creep
ing closer and closer from Lexington,
Gothenburg and Buffalo. Owing to careful
measures there has not been case OF the
disease in Cozad this winter. although the
report of the Buffalo epidemic to the gov
ernor during the session Of the Legislature
was credited by mistake to this town 1t
is now within six miles from the Gothen-
burg side and the county authorities have
been called upon to enforce a more rigid
quarantine.
NEBRASKA CITY-Louis Adams. a gov
eminent inspector, came to this city this
morning and took charge Of Robert Burger.
a German, who was found to be a subject
for deportation. Burger was arrested dur
ing the winter because he assaulted the
wife of farmer residing south OF the city,
who, when Burger demanded food OF her,
coming to the house as a tramp, set on and
beat her After his arrest 1t was found
that he was wanted in Germany for sundry
and divers crimes and that money had been
given him to come TO this country to enable
him to escape punishment. Burger will be
taken to Omaha, where he will be Joined
by several other subjects who have been
collected there and will be taken to New
York City for deportation.