The Red Cloud chief., 1911-12-07
BRIEF NEWS OF NesRAsKA

The new system of waterworks and
electric lights for Ogalalla are near.
ing completion.
Robert McNair. a Kenesaw farmer,
lost number Of cattle from the eat.
ing OF cornstalks.
The Platte County Corn Growers
association will hold its meeting at
Columbus. December Is and 16.
Owing to the large number Of bur.
glaries. Fairmont has now two mar.
shals and two night watchmen.
Naponee will have newspaper,
j. A. Barker having moved the Wood.
run. Kas., Sentinel to that place.
Celebration of the Michigan Nebras.
ka result at Lincoln Saturday was q
joyous and at times boisterous affair.
Civil service examinations will be
held January 6 for rural carriers at
Clarkson. Filley and Louisville, Neb.
The commission form of govern.
ment plan will be voted on in Ne
braska City within the next ninety
days.
The river at Nebraska City is
blocked with ice and dealers in that
article are already stalking out their
fields.
Charity Organization society's tag
day resulted in the collection of 81
1858 on the streets Of Lincoln Sat.
urday.
Mrs. Fannie Freeman, an old resi-.
dent of Fremont, who located at that
place in 1874. is dead from heart
failure.
Miss Grace Moore, a York news.
paper woman. has bought the Teller
from Frank & Son and will take ur
its management at once.
A year old baby escaped unhurt
but its mother was seriously injured
when she leaped with it in her arms
from a burning building at Omaha.
Charles Clems has been acquitted
of the murder Of Frank Smith al
Franklin on the night of September
IL. The jury was out eighteen hours.
A number of farmers around Hast.
ings have reported the death of cat.
tie from corn stalk disease. Robert
McNair. living west of the city, re-
ports five head dead from the disease.
Jefferson county farmers are feeling
pretty blue over the prevalence of hog
cholera in that county. The disease
Is general and hogs are being forced
to market regardless Of weight or con.
dition.
Rev. c. Sparks Of Canon City, Colo,
and president Of the Rocky Mountain
synod Of the English Lutheran church.
has accepted the call extended to him
by the church Of his denomination at
Auburn.
Grandma Riley. who is probably the
Oldest woman in the state, celebrated
her 111th birthday recently. She is a
colored woman and resides in Hast.
ings. She enjoys good health for one
OF her age and can see WE'LL
The Presbyterian churches Of Au.
rora have united under the leadership
Of the Aurora Sunday School associa.
tion to take religious census of the
city and country district lying within
two miles Of the city limits.
Miss Bessie Clayburg, whC was seri.
ously burned about two weeks ago
when live Goals fell upon her clothing,
setting them afirs while she was EN-.
pioyed in the laundry at st. FL "a.
teth's hospital at Lincoln, died Friday
morning.
The husking OF corn in Hamilton
county is proving an agreeable sur
prise to farmers. A large part Of the
acreage is averaging from twenty-five
to thirty bushels to the acre. The
September estimate was ten bushels
per acre.
A seventy.dve yard run made by
Howard Spurrier ~ the last half min.
ute Of the game netted the only score
made in the Cotner academy vs. Wes-
leyan academy Thanksgiving day con.
test at Wesleyan. Cotner won by .
score Of to o.
The city Of Tecumseh is advertising
for bids for proposed public improve.
nents amounting to $29.500. the bonds
having been recently voted. The i'm.
provements will consist Of an i'm
proved water service with a new con.
crete reservoir and sewer mains.
Jefferson county claims the distinc.
tion Of having ~one of the largest
sorghum factories in the United
States. This factory is located at the
little town Of Endicott and is owned
and managed by Fairchild Brothers.
It has been running for a number Of
years and the business of 1911 ex-
ceeds that Of any other year.
H. H. Putnam and X. Butler waSe
badly hurt when an auto tire blew
out and the machine Topped over near
Schuyler.
NJ. d. Hurst, aged seventy.four
years, died at his home at Humboldt
at an early hour Sunday morning
Death was due to asthma.
In accordance with the action taken
someA time ago by citizens of Lincoln,
q campaign for funds to buy the two