The Red Cloud chief., 1912-02-15
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA
Bradshaw will have another ba

| Tbs various churches ~ Beaver
City have started series OF union
meetings.
| A call has been issued in Fremont
for funds for suffering Chinese in the
famine districts.
| An interesting and successful re-
| vival is being carried on at the Chris.
tian church at Hebron.
The Odell farmers elevator COM
pany has declared Il 6 per cent divi.
dend for the annual business.
Fire which started early Saturday
morning destroyed the Gass furniture
store. the largest in Columbus.
NJ. Morgan. who was injured by
fall at Walthill died at II hospital
where he was taken for treatment.
John Russell of Galloway was Sc.
verely injured when heavy piece Of
steel rail slipped and fell on his foot
Frank Rogers was caught in the
belt Of corn shelter near Seward
and will possibly lose a leg as the
result.
John B. Donovan, q we'll known Ne.
braska newspaper man, is dead OF
heart disease at the home OF his sis.
ter in Omaha.
Several large cinder cars in the
Rock Island cinter pit at Fairbury
took fire Sunday morning and were
consumed.
The typhoid epidemic at Lincoln
has been put to rcut after the devel.
1f ,,.t,
were fatal.
The men and religion forward
movement which has been sweeping
over the country during the last six
months is now in full swing in Lin.
coin.
Howe had an oyster supper at the hall
Thursday. About 200 persons were
present and enjoyed the merrymak.
ing.
Fred Hunter OF the university
school OF agriculture will be the
speaker at the Thayer County Teach
ers' association at Hebron. Febru.
ary17.
A bunch of thirty.three ten.months.
old hogs. averaging 321 pounds. raised
by Swigle & Gering Of Adams county,
topped the st. Joseph market one day
last week
Members OF the Fremont Auto club
are cooperating with the South Da.
kota State Auto club in an attempt
to put through a new road between
| Fremont and Sioux City,
January. 1912, will go on the records
of the Nebraska weather bureau as
one Of the coolest Januaries since
the department began to keep tab on
temperatures ,twenty-six years ago.
The Commercial club at Kearney
was host at 'get acquainted ban
duet which was given for travelling
salesmen who make their home in
hat place. About seventy were pres.
| snt.
The annual report Of the Burlington
indicates that Alliance stands fifth
in the state in point of revenue re.
ceipts, being superseded only by Oma-
ha. South Omaha, Lincoln ami Grand
Island.
The Malmo cornet band, assisted
by the Prakup orchestra of Wahoo,
gave an enjoyable concert at the
former place to a big house and con-
liderably augmented its eXcheQuer
thereby.
A fife and drum corps Of twenty
five pieces belonging to the National
Association OF Civil War Musicians,
will be one OF the attractions at the
Grand Army encampment at Beatrice
m May.
A petition Is being circulated
,mong the business men OF Hastings
asking the city council to take the
initiative toward securing for that
place the municipal ownership OF a
gas plant.
Grandmother Fenton, widow OF the
late Daniel Fenton, died at the old
home farm in DeSoto. on the Blair
road. Tuesday. There she settled with
| ner husband when they came from
Boston forty years ago.
The eX.members of the Nebraska
legislature in Nemaha county are
moving towards county organization.
| mere are sixteen eX-ieSlslatOrS IN
Auburn and twenty-three in the coun.
ty, besides lieutenant governor and
chaplain.
The raskaIowa-South Dakota
fair association, which held meetings
1t Sioux City and at which Secretary
w. II. Mellor Of the Nebraska state
board Of agriculture was an attend
ant, will prohibit the use Of hobbies
in all horse races after 1914.
Business men of Dewitt are con,
tcmplating the organization of stock
company with $4,000 capital for the
purpose OF building dam across the
Blue river in order to furnish light
and power for the town
The steel for the extension OF the
Kearney and Black Hills branch OF
| the Union Pacific from CallaWay tC