The Red Cloud chief., 1912-05-23
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA

seen reorganized.
Stanton contemplates the building
Of a new town hall
The Nebraska dental association
will meet at Lincoln the last OF the
week.
Mrs. Conrad Schlatee. eighty years
Of age, of Plattsmouth, is in a critical
condition from stroke of paralysis.
Fruit prospects are very good
around Sterling. Whe>t is somewhat
killed. but there will be an average
yield.
William Groteka. residing near
North Bend is critically i'll with blood
poisoning. which developed where his
rubber boot rubbed his heel.
A Mr.. Adler has donated to the
city of Ainsworth an elegant site with
building thereon to be used as a
home for the library of that place.
MIR Scoiield, who was so badly in
jured by fall from the roof Of the ce-
ment works at Auburn three weeks
ago. is still alive. but unconscious.
Miss Louise Barr, a University OF
Nebraska senior, has been elected sec.
retary of the Young Women's Chris.
tian association at Iowa university.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to do
nate half the cost of a pipe organ for
the new Methodist church at Peru.
provided the other half is raised To-
cally.
Nebraska eggs are in demand at
Vancouver nritiSh ('nlirp,hin npnl-
ers all over the state are sending
large quantities to that Canadian mar.
ket.
Members of the German classes at
the Fremont high school gave Ger
man entertainment at the public II.
brary auditorium which Is highly
spoken of.
At a recent city election at Table
Rock the question of saloon license
was voted on, and carried by major
ity Of two, under the initiative and
referendum.
c. II. Challis. editor Of the Ulysses
Dispatch, is dead as the result Of a
brief Illness with erysipelas. Mr..
Challis was well known among the
"spopSi hiNh Va Vic StdtC.
The village of College View has
voted to issue bonds to the amount of
$4,000 for the purpose of installing
Its own water system. The PROPOSE
ton was carried by vote of 243 to 20.
The second annual May festival at
Peru promises to be a greater success
than the one held last year. The nor
mol nhnrna nnn bac ~
Mendelssohns great sacred work,
"The Hymn of Paradise"
Orchards In Dodge and adjacent
counties are showing the effects Of
the freak weather of the past year and
are damaged even more than some Of
the nurserymen will admit
Policeman w. j. O'Brien of Norfolk
was shot in the leg by V. st. Clair
Mitchell, a travelling salesman, who
mistook the officer for a burglar. Both
were pursuing the thugs in the dark.
The st. Cecilia society. an organiza-
ton composed of ladies musically in
clined. held its second anuua! musi.
cal festival with houses crowded to
the doors of the Bartenbach theater
at Grand Island.
Ex-senator Luce and wife, Of Re-
publican City, had narrow escape
from death when the team they were
driving jumped from a bridge into
the creek. wrecking the buggy and
bruising them up considerably.
A horse. frightened by an automo.
bile, jumped into hayrack full Of
| Tekamah high school students on
their way to sneak day" picnic,
wounding and bruising several. but
fortunately no fatalities resulted.
John Mclaughlin. son of the late
William Mclaughlin. has paid to Ian.
caster County Clerk Sommerlad $2,.
| 297.75. in settlement of the shortage
in the treasurer's Office during the
period when Mr.. Mclaughlin was
treasurer.
During recent violent rain
storm the residence Of John Hargens
at Uehling was struck by lightning
and Mrs. Hargens. the only occupant
Of the place at the time, suffered from
the effects of the bolt. though she
was not seriously injured.
F.. r. Pratt, proprietor of the Gold
en- Rod dairy at Fremont. realized $40.
149 from the sale of 100 head of cattle
when he closed out his heard of milch
cows and calves. He was forced to do
SO because the river flood left his pas.
lures under three inches of sand.
Phillip Keller, a young farmer OF
Pierce. Neb., marketed load of
steers at South Omaha Tuesday
morning which sold for $S.65 per 100
pounds, the highest price ever paid in
that market for cattle. The twenty
head averaged 1,433 pounds, making
the total of the draft s2,479.09, or an
average Of s12S,95 per head.
The annual May day celebration at
Kearney was held on the Normal cam
pus. The exercises included lawn
fete and picnics. Dandelions were re-
moved from the campus, students and
instructors turning out to dig the nox
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