The Red Cloud chief., 1912-01-25
bRtLt NEWS or NEBRASKA

Bloomington, has suspended publica
tiop.
The cider factory at Peru shipped
eleven carloads of cider the past
season.
The fine new $4,000 opera ho,tso
at Palmer was totally destroyed by
fire Sunday.
Revival meetings at Sterling are be
ing we'll attended and much interest
is manifested.
Capt. Cyrus y. Baird. pioneer OF |
Lincoln. early postmaster and promi- |
ncnt citizen, is dead,
The Cunning county farmers insti. |
tutc will meet at West Point, January
81 and February I, 1912.
The annual meeting of the Ncbras
ka state Press association will be held
in Lincoln. June 3, and s.
Dwight Mardis. Of Peru. fourteen
years OF age was "a victim Of coastinS,
having had one of his arms broken.
The Dodge county board has de-
cided to increase the dixie work at the
head Of Fremont island in the Platte
river.
O. r. Little OF humboldt may lose
the sight Of an eye as the result OF
mass of mortar striking that organ
while plastering.
Henry e. McMaken. one of the old
est pioneers of the state is dead Of
Bright's disease and heart trouble at
Plattsmouth. aged -.
The Rev. George Il. Taft Of Norman
Okla. who has accepted the pastorate
of the Hastings Baptist church, has
arrived with his family.
The Alliance postal savings depos.
tory has been made a general depos-
| itory for all Of the smaller repositories
in northwestern Nebraska.
Mrs. I. r. Roach, wife of Rev. I. r.
Roach of st. Paul's Methodist church
at Lincoln, is dead of blood poison
contracted several weeks ago.
The Farmers Elevator company at
Shickley totaled a business of nearly
100000 bushels OF grain last year, and
netted a profit of over $4,000 as a re-
suit.
There were twenty.fOur applicants
for the position of janitor Of the Gage
county court house before the county
board. H. F.. Palmer Of Beatrice has
landed the job.
NJ. NJ. Johnson. inventor and owner
of the Old Trusty incubator. manufac'
tured at Clay Center. is dead at Idaho
Springs. Colo. where he went In Au-
gust for his health.
A mass meeting Is called at Pawnee
for January % to take steps to re-
place the school building recently
burned there. and to secure additional
educational facilities.
The biennial conference Of the Sew.
enth Day Adventist church. now in
session at College View. is one OF the
largest in the history Of the church
and will last three weeks.
Nebraska farmers are feeling ex.
tremely good over the snow lying on
the ground for so extended period
They say 1t insures record-breaking
growth in the spring for wheat.
The Rev. c. +. Stevens, pastor OF
the Central Christian church of Seat
tie, Wash. has accepted a call to the
Christian church OF Beatrice. to sue
ceed the Rev. J. T.. Davis who is soon
to leave.
Milton Y. Powell. for many years a
resident of Nebraska City, has been
elected president of the Young Mems
Christian association at St. Joseph
and will use his best efforts to raise
the $4,000 that is needed by the asso
citation of that city.
Sixty horses have died during the
past week in the vicinity of Firth and
. Hickman. Though an attempt has
been made to find the cause. little
headway has been gained. The symp
, toms are similar to those which fol
low the eating Of loco.weed.
, A coroner's jury failed to clear al
, the mysteries surrouVling the sudden
| accidental death OF Postmaster
! Charles A. Brandt Of Glenville. who
r was found in dying condition be
, meath his automobile in his private
4. garage near his residence at thai
, place.
A movement is on foot in north
i. eastern Nebraska to develop tn,
/, power of the Niobrara river for thu
= purpose Of furnishing current for tn,
l operation OF electrical trains betwcel
I South Sioux City, through Jackson
l Ponca Martinsburg. Harrington
I Bloomfield and Center to NiObrara
n and branch line from Cente
@ through Verdigre and Walnut I,
Mineola.
n Four Hastings young people, Mis-
!. Maude Harter, Miss Cora Wiley
e Charles Hammer, and Chris Roush
escaped possible death or serious in
!. jury when an automobile turned tur
n tie on the asylum road, near tina
$ place.
n Twcnty.four years ago January Il
l. Nebraska was in the grip of the "bi
i blizzard" in which nearly one hur
l. dred lives were lost. Nearly half tina
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