The Red Cloud chief., 1913-11-13
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celebrated their fiftieth wedding amir
versary last week.
The mid-winter sessions Of organ.
ICED agriculture will be held in Lin.
coin, January 1923, 1914.
Anselmo is facing a coal famine.
Franklin county will vote on county
seat location on November IS.
Mead, in Saunders county, will soon
have its own light and water plant,
both winning at recent election.
John Snedden, Lincoln man, was
buried under 400 sacks of cement and
seriously injured. but will recover.
Much alarm is felt at Lyons on &C.
count of the spread Of scarlet fever.
Mrs. J. Barber of Tecumseh Is suf
fering from burns about the arms, re.
ceived when a gasoline iron exploded,
Work has been started on Fair
bury's new $4,000 artificial ice plant
and a large force of workmen are EN-
ployed.
The Seward fire department will go
to York Thanksgiving day to play a
game of football with the local fire
company.
Members of the German Lutheran
church in York. Seward and Hamilton
counties are planning to erect $5o..
900 hospital in York.
A local branch Of the Nebraska
Manufacturers association has been
organized at Grand Island with a mem
bership Of twenty-five.
Sheldon jackson OF Filley had his
right leg broken in two places just
above the ankle when horse he was
riding slipped and fell on him.
Farm Demonsirator o. ". Liebers
will leave Beatrice soon for Wiscon
sin to purchase number of Holsteir
cattle for Gage county dairymen.
A few days ago Miss Pearl Carey
Of York struck her left hand with a
hammer. Blood poison resulted, and
she Is unable TO leave her home.
The water in the lake near Seward
known as Bignell's pond, became so
low that It was necessary to remove
the fish to keep them from perishing.
Curator Gilmore Of the Nebraska
museum severely criticises the
movies" Of the Wounded Knee battle
as being historically untrue and incor.
rect.
The Nebraska apple crop Is only
about one.fourth Of the crop of last
year. according to A. NJ. Shubert Of
Shubert, Neb, one Of the largest apple
growers In the state.
A delegation Of Gage county people,
300 in number, in charge Of Farm
Demonstrator Liebers. visited the state
farm at Lincoln and put in the day
studying its workings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Wolfe Of Kan.
sas City passed through Nebraska last
week en- route home on the last lap Of
an $4,000 mile journey through the
United States on foot.
About 100 delegates from Ohio. In.
diana. Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
st. Louis, Salt Lake City, Denver and
other points, attended the sessions Of
the Midwest Orthopedic association at
Lincoln last week.
John Snider, Hastings slaughter
aouse employe. slipped on the floor
with knife in his hands. almost sew
ering his left wrist.
In the amateur class at the shooting
tournament at Hebron last week, f. w.
Warner. editor of the Adams Globe.
won first money, with score of 101
cut Of a possible 115.
The owners Of commercial orchards
around Howe have forces Of men
picking the frozen apples preparatory
70 shipment TO cider mills. The loss
in some orchards was small, while
others lost small fortune by the
freezing weather
Jerry Fenton, one of the pioneer citi-
zens Of Richardson county, and the
father OF Warden William r. Fenton
Of the state prison. died at the home
Of his daughter. Mrs. NJ. c. Riley of
Dawson at midnight, November 6. He
was SO years old.
A big Woodman rally and class
adoption will be held in Alma on No.
vember 20 and the local camp has in.
vited every lodge in the county to take
part.
John Knop. jr.. a 17-year-old Rus
sian boy. was instantly killed at the
Lee broom factory at Lincoln while
trying to adjust belt on the wheel
Of a fiber machine.
Dr. c. r. Stewart OF Curtis, while
returning from a professional call, in
some manner lost control of his auto,
which turned over, pinning the doctor
beneath the machine, where he was
found dead short time afterward.
The Seward w. G. T. Y. held a sun.
set social at which all townspepole
over seventy years old were invited to
be guests. A big dinner was served
to an immense company.
All of the old officers and thirty of
the l75 members OF the Hastings
lodge Of the Degree of Honor have
withdrawn. as the elimination OF
trouble within the organization.