The Red Cloud chief., 1913-10-09
eRieF NEWS OF NEBRASKA.

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Diller boasts OF having the best
roads In the state.
| Polk H. to have water and electric
lighting system costing $4,000
Wymore is making efforts to secure
. sewer system for that place.
The magnificent 100000 athletic
park at Beatrice was dedicated last
week.
York will compel infractors Of the
| city ordinances to work on the streets
hereafter.
J. w. Dodd, q Fairbury laborer, fell
while pushing a wheelbarrow and bit
off his tongue.
The fortieth annual convention OF
the state w. G. T. U. will be held In
Omaha next year
Mrs. X. j. Woodwork OF Wahoo suf.
fered a broken wrist when she fell off
the porch at her home.
A charter has been received for the
organization Of lodge of the Knights
of Columbus at York.
Miss Alice Cleaver OF Falls City is
soon to start for Paris to spend the
year studying painting.
Marie Strauch, three years old, was
burned to death at Lincoln when her
clothing caught on fire.
Thomas OGorman, coroner OF Hall
county, was fatally injured in an auto
accident near Wood River.
j. l.. Slocum has sold the apples in
his twenty.acre orchard near Shubert
TO st. Joseph buyers for $1,700.
Mrs. Mary Flynn, 81 years old, was
found dead In bed AT Seward by rela.
tives who had called to visit her.
The Iowa.Nebraska Public Service
corporation at Norfolk has been ad.
Judged a bankrupt in federal court.
Frank Worthington, Beatrice boy
was killed at fire at Billings. Mont.
by being run over by hose truck.
Chicken fanciers of Fremont are
planning on holding the biggest county
show ever held in Nebraska in Decem.
Der.
The vestry Of the Episcopal church
at Central City has extended t call tc
the Rev. +. w. Henry of Pittsburg
Kan
Attorney Henry Num- Of st. Paul,
who accidentally shot himself in the
foot while hunting, died from blood
poisoning.
Prizes Of $50, $40 and $40 are offered
at the German day celebration at Lin.
coin for QUITO town clubs marching In
the parade.
The commercial lighting ordinance
was passed by the Lincoln city com.
mission without dissenting vote and
without comment.
A vicious dog attacked six-year.
old girl at Fairbury. and tore several
bad gashes In her face and arms be.
fore 1t was beaten OF.
Many OF the Nebraska booster edi.
tions issued throughout the state were
credit to the publishers ana the
offices putting them out.
James Weeks accidentally shot of
two OF his fingers and portion OF his
left hand while hunting ducks on the
Elkhorn river near Neigh.
Frank Manley. a conductor on the
Union Pacific, was held up in the resi-.
dence portion OF Grand Island and re.
lieved Of a diamond ring.
Lyle Jackson, a former Beatrice boy.
died at his home at Houston. Texas,
last week OF blood poisoning caused
from pimple on his neck.
The mid'state poultry association
will hold its annual show at SCOTS.
blum In connection with the annual
corn show, December 10, II, 70.
Accidental discharge OF n shotgun
which he was carrying on his lap In
wagon caused the instant death OF
VIM. Scott. aged 35, near Valentine.
Helen De Bruler a tive.year.old
Broken Bow girl, was killed when she
slipped under the wheels while trying
to climb upon the rack of a moving
wagon.
John McCauley. one Of the early
settlers OF Saunders county, died at
his home near Ithaca from the effects
or kick by horse received several
weeks ago.
For four days Mrs. Fred Wagner of
Johnson suffered pain in her right arm
after fall in the yard, but she did
not realize the arm was fractured until
she consulted n physician.
valley county, according to figures
complied by the state board of aericul.
ture, Is perhaps the leading pop corn
growing county in the United States
The crop has proven profitable.
Frank Bartos. an Omaha printer, Is
the best cotton crochet lace maker in
Douglas county His display Of lace
was awarded the blue ribbon in the
fancy work exhibit at the Douglas
county fair.
Probably the oldest man in the state
Is Thomas Morris Of Custer county,
who was born at Berrew. North Wales,
In 1894, nearly 100 years ago.
Bert Mar's, the Rock Island brake
man who was shot and killed by
tramp at Limon, Colo, was a Falls
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