The Red Cloud chief., 1913-06-26
BRIEF NEWS or NEBRASKA.

Nuckolls county commits sioners
have decided not to permit Sunday
ball.
Over hundred delegates attended
the sessions OF the p. Il. o. conven.
ton at Hebron.
two months old baby girl was left
On the doorsteps of a Lincoln couple,
who will adopt 1t.
To hasten work on the Tecumseh
drainage ditch the contractors will
put In a second dredge.
Henry Arp. a farmer residing near
Washington. sustained fractured arm
and leg when he fell from the hayloft
Of his barn.
The Wymore city council has
passed an ordinance calling for a ref.
erendum July 1 on the question of
Sunday baseball.
A contract for decorating the Sew.
ard county court house has been let.
All the rooms throughout the building
will be decorated.
A little son Of Richard Mason at
Howe was caught in the gear of a
gasoline engine and had his hand
crushed and torn.
At meeting of the Wahoo CONNER.
cial club it was decided to boost for
the county fair and two big bargain
days for that place.
The alfalfa in the upper Platte val.
ley was never in better condition than
at present as result of the favorable
year and abundant rains.
1t seems reasonably certain that the
Wayne normal will get the new ad.
ministration building that was asked
OF the board OF education.
l.. G. Anderson lost several fingers
In a sausage machine in n Fremont
butcher shop, and has brought suit
against the proprietor for $4,000.
Clifford McCosh and his wife were
badly injured Sunday night when an
acetyline gas plant exploded at the
home Of Henry Bremen at Beatrice.
Beatrice is assured OF nineteen
blocks Of paving in the residence dis.
trict and petition is now being cir.
culated for paving fourteen blocks
more.
The old Tribune building at Ere.
mont, the home in the pioneer days
of the Fremont Tribune, Is being de.
molished by order Of the state fire
While attending a case OF ptomaine
poisoning, DR.. Guidinger OF Dodge
was attacked by the same malady, and
another physician had to be called to
attend him.
Weeping Water is to have the dis.
Of being the smallest town in
the state where chapter OF the
Daughters Of the American Revolution
may be found.
The explosion OF mail order oil
stove in the home OF John Brauer at
Deshler came close to causing a dis.
astrous fire. Prompt work of the fire
department saved the building.
Vic" Holmes. a well known resi-.
dent Of Wymore Is dead at his home
in that city, following a stroke Of apo.
plexy. Mr.. Holmes was formerly
street commissioner of Wymore.
There is talk among the baseball
fans" Of Beatrice for Sunday base
ball to be played at the driving park,
just outside the city limits. The mat. |
ter will be taken up with the board |
Of supervisors.
A brick school house near Steele |
City was destroyed by fire, involving
a loss Of $4,000 to the district The
fire was discovered early in the morn
ing and 1t is supposed that tramps
were responsible.
The Gage county board OF supervis
ors will readvertise for bids for the
building Of county bridges. In May
the annual bridge bids were read but
rejected by the board on the grounds
that they were too complicated.
The ditching crew with the power
dredge at Sterling on the Nemaha
drainage ditch project ditched the big
channel for the river a distance OF
forty rods, contrary to the proper sur.
vey, and the work will have to be
done over.
The IL year old son Of Rudolph, Gun.
her, near Tecumseh. was caught in
The cogs Of a power pump and lost a
eg.
Adjutant General Hall has appointed
Major A. Fl. Hollingworth OF Beatrice
as temporary commander of the ma.
chine gun company for the purpose OF
assisting In recruiting II to full
strength.
w. c. Norton, editor Of the Hum.
boldt Standard has gone to Rochester.
Minn., to consult with physicians and
II thought best to submit to an oper.
alton for relief from a long standing
Internal trouble.
The Beatrice Cold Storage company
has purchased the Blair Poultry and
Creamery company's plant which will
be operated in connection with the
Beatrice establishment.
Friday, the 18th, while too strenu.
'usiy celebrating his 39th birthday.
Joseph Hendrie Q3 letters) was ar.
'ested and fined $13 by a Hastings
Judge (13 letters). Hendrie says he