The Red Cloud chief., 1913-05-15
sRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA.

city marshal at Deshler.
The Wymore fire department will
build a $1,000 auditorium.
The Christian church at Albion is
holding evangelistic meetings.
Richardson county will have heavy
crops Of alfalfa and red clover.
Fullerton has voted $4,000 bonds
for the extension of her water system.
The town of Berlin, that was de-
stroyed by a tornado, is being rapidly
rebuilt.
The annual convention OF the State
U. c. T. will be held at Fremont May
16 and II.
The York county Sunday school con.
vention will be held in Bradshaw May
II and Is.
Grand Island Knights Of Columbus
recently initiated a class of nearly
sixty candidates.
Barneston has granted license for a
pool hall, the first since the organza.
ton CT the town.
There Is not a poor piece of winter
wheat In Thayer county, according to
crop observers there.
Rev. Mary A. Helser. pastor Of the
Congregational church at Wisner, has
rendered her resignation.
A number Of employees in the car
shops at Fa!rbury, laid of during
April, have gone to work.
Chicken thieves are thriving around
Nebraska City. one breeder having
lost nearly hundred chickens.
The first annual May festival Of the
pupils Of the Beatrice public schools
was held with 1000 people in attend.
ance.
Miss Rebecca Essom OF Beatrice,
has lemon tree from which she re.
Gently harvested nearly a bushel of
fruit.
Lightning struck the large barn OF
Carl Rhode, near Columbus, and sew.
eral head Of stock were burned to
death.
Anton Claudis, a Greek laborer at
North Platte. paid about six dollars
each for shooting seven ducks out OF
season.
Drainage district No. in Nemaha
county has been completed. and there
is now little fear Of the floods OF
former years.
The city library at College View
now has 1925 volumes on its shelves.
Two hundred books were added during
the last year.
Despite the somewhat serious cpl.
demic Of diphtheria in Lincoln, there
were only two deaths reported as due
to the disease.
An effort Is being made to secure
ex-Speaker Joe Cannon to attend the
meeting of the Nebraska G.. A. r. to be
held at Fremont.
Two hundred licenses to hunt in the
state have been issued by the state
game and fish commission since the
early part Of the year.
Bishop TT hen OF Lincoln. assisted
by priests of the diocese, confirmed a
class Of about eighty in st. Joseph's
Catholic church at York.
John Cullis, a fourteen.year.old boy
who was injured in the Omaha tor
nado. succumbed to his injuries in a
hospital there last week.
A baseball team has been organized
among the Wymore high school stu.
dents. Business men have subscribed
$35 toward buying uniforms.
The state board of agriculture has
made application for a quantity OF the
newly discovered parasite which is
said to war on the alfalfa weevil.
The postoffice at Kinney will be dis.
continued after May 81. and after that
date all mail for that office will be
handled through the Wymore Office.
Kinney Is six miles east Of Wymore
on the Burlington.
Final preparations for the opening
of the Nebraska State Baseball league
nave been completed. The season will
be officially started on May Is with
games in these towns: Hastings at
Grand Island; Seward at Columbus;
York at Kearney, and Superior at
Fremont.
Some one with peculiar ideas Of the
proprieties burglarized the home of
Ex-Governor Aldrich at Lincoln last
week, and got $1.30 for his pains.
The sixth annual debate Of the Ne
braska High School Debating league
will be held in Lincoln on May II, and
will decide the championship for 1918.
Prof. Hardy W. Campbell, Burling.
ton farm demonstrator. will farm six
ten-acre tracts according to his meth.
ods close to Hemingford this summer.
He says that section is well adapted
to his methods of soil culture and ex.
poets to show the farmers how they
can more than double their yields.
Agitation for a seven-for-a-quarter
street car fare is growing deeper at
Omaha and petitions are being circu.
lated to attain that end.
A petition signed by thirty-eight
residents OF the town of Pickrell has
been filed with the board OF super
visors asking that the town be
incorporated under the laws Of the
state.