The Red Cloud chief., 1912-05-09
BRIEF News OF NEBRASKA

Broken Bow is to have a sub-station
Tor its fire department on the north
side of town.
Cedar Bluffs has voted an $4,000
issue Of bonds for the installation OF
an electric lighting system.
The board OF education Of York will
make no change in the teaching stan
Of the public schools for next year.
May 81 has been settled on as the
date for commencement exercises for
the Fremont high school class Of 1912.
Thieves broke into Shepherd L
Burkes warehouse at Broken Bow and
took several hundred pounds Of -four.
Great preparations are being made
to entertain the state G. A. II. en-.
campment at Beatrice May IA, Is and
16.
Sitting in his easy chair. smoking
and Joking with friends, J. e. Howland
Of Silver Creek died suddenly of heart
disease.
John X. Remmers Of Wymore. aged
seventy.two years, was killed almost
instantly Monday afternoon by the
kick Of q horse.
The thirty.Grst annual convention
Of the Nebraska state pharmaceutical
association will be held ut Beatrice,
June IL, IL and 13.
Farmers all over the state are cry.
Ing for more help to push the spring
work. Most of them are from month
to six weeks late with tho crops.
When r. s. Cleckner OF Tecumseh
was sitting barefooted In front of the
kitchen stove, pot Of boiling meat
was overturned, burning him severe.
ly.
The Congregationalists Of Albion
celebrated their fortieth anniversary
with banquet Thursday evening.
The local church was established in
1872.
The large new brick First Presby.
terian church was dedicated at Dun.
bar Sunday free from all encum.
brances. 1t is a credit to the town and
community.
Miss Winnie Smith q Fairbury
young lady, contracted a serious case
Of ptomaine poisoning from eating ice
cream and for time her life was de.
SPARED Of.
Rev. Edwin Darrow. for the past
three years, pastor of the Peru Bap.
tist church, has accepted call to Mt
Ayr, Iowa, where he will begin his
work May 10.
Frank Burning OF Benkelman, who
accidentally shot himself with q 22
calibre rifle two months ago and was
taken to q hospital at Kansas City,
Mo-. died there.
The two-year-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy Clark, near Broken Bow, was
drowned by falling into hole four
feet deep which had filed with water
from the late rains.
The smallpox situation in Wymore.
which created considerable excitement
about three weeks ago, has been great.
ly relieved as there has not been An.
other case reported.
Six new residences are under erec.
tion in the city of Stanton, ranging in
price from $4,000 to $1,000. The con.
tracts have been let for several others
that will be as good IL not better
houses.
Lucy Ogorzolka. five-year.old child
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Ogorzolka, liv.
ing near Cambridge, was burned to
death as a result of venturing too
near patch Of burning Russian
thistles.
During an electric storm at Aims.
worth the power house of the Aims.
worth Electric Light and Power com.
pany was struck by lightning and con.
siderable damage was done to the ma.
chinery.
Dale +. Mcdonald OF York. who took
the civilians examination for com.
mission as lieutenant in the army, has
received notice that he has passed
the examinations successfully and will
receive q commission
A building boom. livelier than any
other In the last ten years. Is on in
Fremont and scarcely a day passes
without ground being broken for from
one to four new homes in the resi-.
dence portion of the city.
Dundy county was visited by one OF
the darkest days known around that
vicinity, followed by four-inch rain
and farmers are feeling jubilant as II
almost insures good wheat crop "a
we'll as an excellent alfalfa crop.
Graves Of departed members Of the
Fremont fire department will be
marked with bronze tablets bearing
appropriate inscriptions. The direct.
ors OF the department have appoint.
ed a committee to select suitable
markers.
The new Lexington high school
building has been formally opened to
the public. The building cost between
$4,000 and $4,000 and is considered
the best In central or eastern Nebras.
ka.
While sowing oats in a field on his
fathers farm near Fremont, Hans
Lass. aged "a. was seriously injured
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