The Red Cloud chief., 1912-02-22
GRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA

arrangements for an interesting sea.
son.
Mary Meyers fell on an icy walk al
Nebraska City and has brought suit
for $1,O55.
Will b. Kline Of University Place
1as been awarded the Allis scholar.
ship at Yale.
Carl Hahn. former Fremont
young man. Is candidate for gov.
.rnor of Idaho
A men and religion forward move.
ment organization has been estab.
ished at Bennet.
Arrangements are being completed
for holding farmers institute at
Bancroft on February 21 and 22.
Mrs. James Mckee of Farbury was
painfully scalded by the overturning
Of kettle of boiling water on her
arm.
Two tramps broke into Maple Grove
school house, south of York. Friday
night, were arrested and fined SEC
each.
0. r. Elder of North Platte has de
cIlned to run as candidate for presi
Dental elector on the LaFolletts
.icket.
DR.. w. II. Crutcher OF Palmer ha.
gone to kankakee, H., where he will
serve as house physician in the state
hospital.
In an effort to clean off the Ere
mont Y. NJ. c. A. Indebtedness a com
mittee is at work. Over $1,000 has
been raised
The annual stag dance, a big even,
in the school year was held in the
Doane college gymnasium at Crete
Tuesday night.
Prof. w. G.. Green has been re
elected superintendent OF the Clarks
public school. This is his fourth yeai
n that position.
A rumor to the effect that one OF
more cases of smallpox had been re
ported at kenesaw is denied by Ken
esaw physicians.
Mayor WOLF has served notice on
dance hall owners at Fremont that
they must cut OUT the turkey trot'
and moonlight" dances.
Two red foxes were bagged on Ere
mont island in the Platte river by six
young farmers from Saunders county
who were out on a wolf hunt.
Some valuable horses have been LOST
in the neighborhood of Brownville. il
Is thought from eating cornstalks
which had not matured when the hard
frost came.
Noah Lyons OF Unadilla. while cut
ting hedge cut cash In the back OF
his head with his ak, severing an
artery. He was in serious condition
for time from the loss of blood, but
is recovering
Members Of the Bible study com
mittees of the Fremont Men and Re
ligioa Forward Movement had a ban
quet at the Y. NJ. c. A. Monday even
ing and later listened to after.dinnei
talks on biblical topics.
A curfew petition providing that
children under II years of age be
kept of the streets after 8 o'clock at
night unaccompanied by parent,
parents or guardian, has been pre-
sented to the York city council.
An indoor track meet will be held
by the Young Mems Christian associa
tion at Fremont during the first week
in March. The list of events will in
clude pole vault. shot put twenty-yart
dash. potato race, broad jump and high
Jump.
The Lexington musicale rendered ar
attractive comic opera entitled "Ths
Puritans' to a crowded audience IN
the opera house Thursday evening
The fifty-seven characters were
dressed in full costumes especially
procured for the occasion.
The epidemic OF hog cholera that
prevailed In Jefferson county last fall
which destroyed SO many fine herds
Of hogs, is ALMOST extinct, The dis
ease prevailed In the early winter and
many farmers in the vicinity Of Fair.
bury lost every hog they had.
The West Point camp Of the Cunning
county Deutsches Landwehr Verein,
an organization Of semi.military
character composed Of veterans of the
ship Of nearly 100, is steadily growing,
and IL in a fiourishing financial con.
iition
The board Of trustees OF the new
Odd Fellows home Gin York have
planned to put in walks. lay out the
grounds for the planting Of trees and
,hrubbery. put in. driveways on the
approach to the building and many
,ther improvements to add to the
beauty Of the building and its sur.
roundings.
Enrolment in the Fremont public
schools has reached 1.SS3, which Is
new record. OF these, 206 are en-
rolled in the high school.
Seven-yearold Margaret Ulrich of
Hooper was so badly bitten by a
vicious dog that seven stitches were
required to close the wounds on her
ace.
The Central Citys school board is