The Red Cloud chief., 1911-08-03
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA.

~ as FrOnt1er days.
The cornerstone of the new Odd Eel.
lows temple at Salem was laid Sun
day.
Cedar Bluffs is making big prepara
tions TO celebrate It's silver anniver
sary July 26.
| The Nemaha river at Salem Ia near.
~ Dry and great numbers of fish are
caught by hand in the holes of the
river.
Joseph Yosta. who was injured in
threshing machine near Dorchester. 1,
improving.
Fairbury now has a new police
force, the mayor having removed the
entire force.
george Haywood, an old resident
was drowned in the Platte river east
OF Springfield.
Havelock will celebrate the connie.
tion of her waterworks system soma
time in August.
The Catholic church in Aurora has n
new pastor in the person of the Rev.
Father McKenna.
large portion OF the town of Tn.
adilla that was destroyed by fire in the
spring Is being rebuilt.
Wymore is making big preparations
lor running race meet to be held
there August 2. 8. 4, and 5.
Inc old settlers picnic and reunion
OF JEFFERSON county will be held in
falrbury some time in August
arthur Siter of Dewitt, the bow
who had his skull fractured by being
kicked by horse, will recover.
James Bacakos of Beatrice got
mixed up with an electric fan and will
lose several fingers as result.
Mrs. Mary A. Havens, a residen. Of
Nebraska since the early seventies.
died at the home of her sister in IRE.
mont.
The Odd Fellows will hold their an.
hual picnic at Avoca August 3. A
large line of attractions is being sc.
cured.
Alva steele Of Plattsmouth was so
badly injured by being kicked by n
morse he was leading, that his recoy.
cry is doubtful.
NJ. s. Poulson has resigned as suner.
intendent Of the Nebraska anti.s,loop
league. The resignation will take eff.
feet on August /.
hoy Glothar, Humboldt boy, LOST
a finger when he attempted to super.
intend the removal of a sickle bar |
from a moving machine.
Grasshoppers have appeared on the |
farms in the vicinity Of Rokeby in
large numbers within the last few days
and are doing considerable damage
to crops.
The potato crop in Johnson county
Is the greatest failure it has been in
twenty-five years. But few growers
VIII get as large yield as their seed
to.
The dairymen of Beatrice have
combined and boosted the pric, OF
milk up to fourteen quarts for 81.
giving as a reason the extremely high
price Of feed.
Inc general store Of ]. W. Modesitt
OF Aida was burglarized, the thieves.
however. gaining entrance only to the
basement. They carried away about
Voo "oitH VI CdHueu gOOuS.
The rain that visited Nebraska Sat.
urday night was heaviest in the south.
east corner of the state. the center OF
the heaviest downpour being at Bea.
trice and between Dewitt and Crab
Orchard.
According to the report Of the school
census enumerator. Nebraska City has
1897 school children, or forty.nine
more than the census of 1910 showed,
Or these 632 were males and 965 fe
males.
Gale Harlan, an employe at Capital
beach at Lincoln, proved himself a
hero when he jumped into the swim.
ming pool at the edge OF the lake and
rescued Miss Edith Thomas, seven
teen years old, from drowning.
Charles Farnum. farmer west OF
Fremont, has rigged up an irrigation
outfit by meant of pump propelled
by gasoline engine with which he is
supplying water for a ten.acre tract Of
potatoes. The potatores are doing
line and the yield will be large.
Charles Ryslavey. employed in the
water department OF Beatrice, was
BADLY burned about the hands and face
'y an explosion OF sewer gas. The
nan was In deep ditch repairing a
sewer and had struck a match to more
closely examine the work when the
explosion occurred.
Grain in Burt county is turning out
much better than expected. Some
wheat yields as high as forty bushels
% the acre are reported.
Secretary Mellor OF the state fair
'eports that concessions amounting to
5000 have already been sold Last
'ear at this time the total was $3.50.
'ut at the end OF the fair it amounted
o $12,90s.
Ad Decker. who lives between Ell.
wood and Lexington. had his family
'M IN an auto when one wheel came
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