The Red Cloud chief., 1912-06-20
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA


charging OF fireworks within the city |
limits.
The boys at the industrial school at
kearney have put out $4,000 tomato
plants.
The body of an unknown man was
found In the Missouri river near Peru |
Saturday.
The canning factory at Kearney has
been completed and IL now ready for
business.
Deshler Is arranging to celebrate
the Fourth Of July In the oldfash
Toned way.
The Nebraska State Holiness asso
citation is In session at Epworth Lake
park. Lincoln.
Tecumsch is experiencing a short
age in water, the old well on Clay
street being about dry
A special train OF nineteen cars o'
cattle was shipped from York Mon
day evening to Chicago markets.
Mrs. Matilda Hawkins fell dead
while ironing In her home near Ray.
mond. Monday afternoon.
The city council of sutton has es.
tablished a permanent park fund and
will make an annual levy for It's main.
tenance.
st. Matthews Episcopal congrega.
ton Of Alliance has the plans OF
fine new stone church to be erected
this year.
Among the students receiving de
grees at the commencement exercises
at Wesleyan university. was Mrs. Ella
May Hursey. 80 years Of age.
Sixteen bicycles have been stolen In
Fremont since the first Of the year.
Last fall fully twenty owners OF b.
clcles reported their loss to the police,
While repairing window, ID.
Wagner, Of Alliance. slipped and his
head was forced through the glass.
piece OF which was driven into an eye
ball
The state occupation tax Ia not due
until July I. but more than 100 cor
| porations have already paid In re-
sponse to notices sent out by the sec
retary OF state.
Theodore Stanisics. who suiclded in
the city Jail at Lincoln some months
ago, left an estate valued at over $780,
900. He was charged with completely
In case Of arson.
John Zimmerer, Jr.. Of Seward has
returned from trip around the world,
mostly made in an automobile, going
over deserts and mountains never be
fore travelled by an automobile.
In a program furnished entirely by
the members Of the class, forty-hve
students of the high school graduated
at Grand Island, receiving their diplo
mas from Superintendent Barr.
Plans and specifications for mod
ern fire department building and jai
are being made for the city Of Sutton
Il is proposed to erect a cement blocl
building 45x50 feet on city property
The stockmen's convention at Al
lance. June 20, 21 and %. It is though
will be the largest and the entertain
ment will be the most elaborate o
any in the history Of the association.
Fred Post and his nephew. vii
Post. both residents of Winslow. were
seriously injured when threshint
machine and traction engine they were
driving went into creek near Fonta
nellie.
Edgar will celebrate the Fourth o
July in both old fashioned and new
fashioned style. The Commercial clul
ia busy preparing a program that II
expected to eclipse all former celebra
tions in this city.
G. C. Johns. secretary OF the Ne
: | A.> ~ Hra
Island. and Miss Pearl Brown Of Nor
folk were married Tuesday at th'
, home OF the brides parents, Mr.. ant
Mrs. Samuel Brown Of that city.
Sales Of fresh beef by the Soutl
Omaha packers at this city averaged
q year ago S.93 cents per pound. Sale
| for the corresponding week this yea
{ average 1l.68 cents per pound, o
! nearly 3 cents more to the retailer.
: In spite of the cold. the rain and tn
, heavy skies, two camps of the Mod
, ern Woodmen and one lodge Of tn
Workmen Sunday carried on their an
D nual decoration of the graves Of tn
. dead at Wyuka cemetery at Lincoln.
|. There will be five numbers on tn
}. lecture course for the summer schoo
. 1T Peru, the first Of which will b.
given by the Steckelberg Concert CON
pany. Prof. Wiley. the pure food es
q pert. will deliver lecture during tn
| course.
r Fifty Nebraska Bohemians hav
o Joined q party OF 1900 countrymer
' who sail from New York City to al
= tend a Jubilee at Prague, BOhemia
z celebrating the Rftieth anniversary o
0 the founding Of the Sokols. an organi7
" alton of Bohemian physical culturisti
y The Fremont merchants associV = To-
0 has decided not to continue closin
Fremont places OF business for base
I ball openings. celebrations. and tn
q like, excepting such closing Is aske
for on holidays.
o More than 100 Nebraska boys a.
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