The Red Cloud chief., 1912-05-30
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA

The Nebraska Press association
will meet at Lincoln, June 3, 4 and 8.
Twenty-one students will graduate
rom the Tekamah high school this
week.
The Seward Cold Storage and Ice
ompany started making ice with its
lew plant.
Preparations are being made to hold
big Fourth Of July celebration IN
Tekamah this year.
Rev. A. A. Brooks of Hastings will
deliver the memorial address for the
! G. A. RS at that place.
A move has been started for macad.
amizing the road leading from Fre-
mont to the Platte river bridge.
At q meeting Of Broken Bow citizens
| 1t was decided to celebrate the Fourth
Of July this year on large scale.
! William Childers caught seven
young wolves in trap he had set for
them on the creek near Oreopolis.
The Nebraska State Association Of
Nebraska Assistant Postmasters will
hold itr annual convention at Lincoln,
June 8.
| A. J. Honey, Union Pacific brake
man residing in Omaha, had his foot
severed by a freight train in the Ere
mont yards.
The public school at North Bend
has been closed by order of the board
o. education because of a case of
Jcarlet fever
| After an illness Of two weeks Mrs.
w. p. Fennett. mother of Mrs. Samuel
Avery, died at the latter's home in
Lincoln, Wednesday.
The village council OF Peru has
been reor ganized with Il. w. Kelley
chai' mar. Frank Martin clerk and
Earle Fisher, treasurer.
Crvilie NJ. Kintz. while working near
Meynaid, fell. catching his little
finger and almost completely severing
he Iiember from his hand.
4. freak Of nature in the form of a
fourlegged chicken has been hatched
out in the yard of August Lingbloom.
q Central City poultry fancier.
Charlie Mccarthy and sister, Kate,
Of Hebron were passengers on the Ill.
fated Titanic. Only the sisters name
appears on the list OF the saved.
The Fremont Commercial club Is
:aking the initiative in repairing the
Morehouse grade. the principal road
between Arlington and Fremont.
Ernest Martell. graduate Of Au-
gustana Lutheran college at Rock
Island. Ill.,. has been assigned pas.
:orate Of the Lutheran church at Have.
ock.
The motion for a new trial for vii.
liam Flege, found guilty OF man.
slaughter was overruled in the dis
trict court at Pender Saturday after
noon.
Rev. Joseph Toms Of Omaha, who
was recently elected to fill the vacan-
cy in the pastorate of the First Con-
gregational church at Ashland, has as
sumed charge.
To a crowded house at the Metho.
livered the baccalaureate sermon for
the graduating class of the Platts.
mouth high school.
The cornerstone OF the new court
house of Merrick county was laid We'd
nesday afternoon with Masonic hon
ors. A'oout two hundred visiting Ma
sons were present.
Mothers at Hastings to the number
OF about fifty met In the high school
building and permanently organized
what will be known as the Parent
Teachers association.
El1ira Falk ten years old. OF Oak
land, was badly injured when she
| Jumped of handcar on which she
was riding and had her clothing
caught in the gearing.
Prof. Elmer Hills Of the Fairbury
high school is holding short session
of summer school in the assembly
room of the high school in order thai
a number Of students may make w
! lost work.
A three.week revival meeting wal
closed Sunday in the Methodist church
+ at Lexington. Every service had con
: versions and the meeting proved Il
be q success. as nearly fifty people
: united with the church.
Miss Fern Harmon Of Fremont hat
he, face painfully singed by pun o
fire from a gas stove. The fire cam'
wher she opened the oven door ant
4 was probably due to leaky pipe. He
eyebrows were burned OF and her hal
singed.
Fifty thousand dollars a day is tn
y estimated amount Nebraska peopl'
}. are paying for automobiles. The sec
retary OF state Is registering fifty o
r more new machines each day and 1t 4
J. estimated that $1,000 is low averag
for the cost OF each.
The Central City school district is
sued $4,000 in bonds tq. provide fund
for the building of a new high schoO
u and a new ward school.
" The coach of the state tuberculosi
n hospital at Kearney, containing ID. Fol
som. Miss Riser, ]. r. Kennard an
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