The Red Cloud chief., 1913-11-20
BRIEF NEWS OF NesRAskA

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chicken show during the winter.
Spelling bees are becoming popular
again in the schools of York county.
Wymore is planning to organize a
stock company and build an opera
house.
The Hastings Woman's club is agi.
tating home for aged people at that
place.
The socialist cooperative store at
Fairbury is facing bankruptcy pro.
ceedings.
Thirty-five cars of stock were ship
ped from Harrison and Coffee Siding
in ten days.
The coal famine at Anselmo has
been broken by the arrival of several
cars from Wyoming.
Rev. g. W. Stansbury of Blair has
accepted a call to the pastorate of the
baptist church at Central City.
Over score of conversions was the
result of the revival at the Christian
church at Shubert, just closed.
The fiftieth anniversary of the mar
riage OF Mr., and Mrs. T. A. Wilson OF
Tecumseh occurred last week.
Game. In Jefferson county is unusu.
ally plentiful this fall and over 500
hunting licenses have been issued.
TO secure a merit badge in forestry
boy scouts are required, among other
things, to identify % kinds of trees
There Is a movement afoot to re-
organize the militia company which
Columbus once sent to the Philippines.
Rice Bros. railway circus, which
has been tied up in Shelton since Sep
tember 6. has been shipped to Chicago.
The Republican river at Oxford has
less water in 1t now than 1t has had for
forty years at this season of the year.
August Boese. a farmer living near
Fairbury. was severely bitten by
horse while working around the AMI.
NAL.
William Bowen, 12-year-old Ne
braska City boy. lost his right foot
when he attempted to board moving
freight train.
fre originating in the creamery
building at Curtis destroyed a number
Of business houses, including the tele.
phone exchange.
The Methodist church at Pawnee
City has raised fund Of $1.7OO to in.
stall pipe organ and to repair the
church building.
A contract has been awarded for the
placing Of $50 telephones in the new
$l15,OO0 hotel to be opened at Hast
ings January I.
William Flege. who has twice been
on trial for murder. will face the third
at the January term OF the district
court at Pender.
Over 600 converts were claimed by
the management OF the recent revival
at Grand Island. the most successful
ever held in the city.
Chris Larsen. a farmer residing
near Wolbach. was asphyxiated by gas
at the home Of Lincoln relative with
whom he was visiting.
L. P. Hansen, an Omaha saloon.
keeper, has received a "blackhand"
letter demanding $1,000, and he is
afraid 1t Is not practical Joke.
Juan Martinez. a native Of Argen.
tine, South America. was held up and
shot in the Burlington yards at Lin.
coin by footpads, whom he claims re.
lieved him of $S4.
A. II. Jackson committed suicide by
severing his jugular vein with
pocketknife and shooting himself
through the head at his home at Lin.
coin.
Two members OF the Fremont
Y. NJ. c. A. board of directors, c. c.
Pollard and W. +. Smails. have served
since the association was
first organized, twenty-five years ago.
w. Fl. Harrison, prominent lumber
dealer of Grand Island and for years
a leading republican Of the state, died
Sunday at Clarkson Memorial hospital
at Omaha, following a paralytic stroke.
A municipal free legal aid bureau
will be inaugurated by the city com.
mission at Omaha Immediately after
the first Of the year.
Ray Donlen caught a fifty.pound cat
fish by pulling it out Of a shallow pool
where it had floundered at Ashland. II
was nearly four feet long.
Mrs. Qually of North Platte was
burned to death by starting a fire in
her stove with hay, The hay blazed
up and set her clothes on fire.
Truman A. Barbour. resident of
Harvard since 1871, was found dead
In his bed by a neighbor, death sup
posedly resulting from heart failure.
Lester Boggs, the 9-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. II. Boggs, of Tecum.
sch, may lose the sight of his left eye
as the result Of being shot with an air
rife that he was handling.
The Louisville board of education
has intimated to the teachers that It is
not good form or for the best interests
Of their pupils to attend the moving
picture show every night In the week.
Henry schelee lost seven head Of