The Red Cloud chief., 1912-03-28
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA

Sttletdly VI tle .>OIIIidI SCIuOf itsi
dents association in its session at Chi.
cagO.
Mrs. Ernest Hunger, wife of Chief OF
Police Hunger of Lincoln, is dead at
her home in that city. She was born
in England in lSi3.
At the Cambridge high school de
clamatory contest, Ethelyn Druse was
awarded first honors. Albert Cecil, sec.
ond and Joe Selby third.
Word has reached Farbury that
John Friesen. formerly of that place.
recently committed suicide in Denver
by drinking quantity Of carbolic
acid.
No stock loss has been reported as a
result OF the recent storm. nor were
there any trains into Burwell for two
days and mail routes have all been
tied up.
Several ministers from the sur
rounding counties met in Peru and
formed an association to be known as
the Ministerial Association OF South.
east Nebraska.
The recently organized mothers
club of Wymorc will establish res,
room down town. Popular subscrip.
tons are depended on to furnish the
necessary funds.
The first mail received at Syracuse
since "Wednesday was brought in from
the cast Saturday afternoon after a
snow plow had opened the track on
the line Of the Burlington.
Ice aorges in Salt and Wahoo creeks
in the vicinity OF Ashland augmented
by the onrush of waters from the
m slted SHOWS have caused flooded con.
tons in that neighborhood.
The stockholders of the United
Evangelical conference assembled in
f.earncy have decided to sell the
Cameron camp grounds near Grand
island, the value being placed at
$4,000. --..
Joseph Hamilton, for fourteen years
county Judge in Boone county. and at
one time member Of the Wisconsin
legislature. Is dead at his residence in
Albion OF pneumonia, at the age OF
eighty.tive.
Grant Mears, sheriff for ten years
in Wayne county. who retired volun.
tarily last fall, has filed for the re.
publican nomination for the Office OF
representative in the lower house of
he legislature
j. Jerabek of Sterling has located g
brother he had not seen for twenty.
two years and who he thought dead
Mr.. Jerabek found his brother in bust
ness in st. Joseph and he left for
there at once.
Miss Lola La Toilette, daughter Of
Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette, will
appear at the Oliver thcater in Lin
coin. Wednesday. March - in an orig
inal lecture on The Democracy OF
Woman Suffrage"
William Ernst of Tecumsch. who is
said to be the first man in Nebraska
sound the warning as to the con.
iition of seed corn. says there Is a
sufficient amount of seed corn in this
state to supply the farmers for this
season.
! At meeting of the SterliHg schoo
board, superintendent o. p. Stewar,
and Principal Miss Shively of Lincoln
! were reelected for the ensuing term
! This will make Professor Stewards
fourth year as superintendent of Ster
ling schools
Considerable interest is beginning
TO be shown in regard to the coming
municipal election at Hebron. Th.
liquor question will be disposed of by
referendum vote, but indications are
hat both the "wets" and "drys" will
nave full ticket in the field
In the declamatory contest of the
| kearney high school, De Witt Foster
a ward OF Bishop George A. Beecher
won first place in a splendid oratorical
production and will represent the
school in the central Nebraska de.
clamatory contest at Aurora, March 80.
, The York city mail carriers. accord
ng to the figures of Postmaster
Shreck, last week carried 3.343 pounds
of mail. or 2S,O7l pieces, stopping TO-.
163 times to deliver mail and travelled
f56H miles. The five carriers aver.
aged fifteen and one.third miles per
lay during the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Stahl cele.
>rated their fftieth marriage anniver.
,ary at their home in Nebraska City
assisted by the members of their fam.
Ily and numerous friends. The couple
we're married at Brunswick. Mo-,
March 10, 1862, and came to that place
shortly afterward.
When Ralph Scott Of Lincoln re.
turned home for lunch Saturday he
found no one at home, and thinking
1t strange. started in to search for his
mother. who usually awaited him.
Having searched the house, he went
into the cellar and found his mother
lying dead at the foot and n little to
one side OF the steps. He immedi
ately notified the coroner. who con
Quoted an investigation and concluded
that death was due to fractured
skull, caused by fall in descending
the steps.