The Red Cloud chief., 1913-06-19
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA.

A<uSiCc COuVcutlOn at beatrice,
Over fifty pupils are attending the
summer session Of Peru normal.
Postmasters OF the state are hold.
ing their annual meeting at Lincoln.
There is every indication Of q
bumper crop Of wheat in York county.
Fremont is considering the pur-
chase Of a new automobile fire truck.
Hastings high school last week
graduated the largest class in its bis.
tory.
Kearney is to have one Of the orig.
inal old.time Fourth of July celebra.
tions.
The last Of Hemingfords board side.
walks have been replaced with cement
walks.
The state convention OF the p. +. q.
will be held in Hebron, June Is, 10
and 20.
Miss Buelah Raeder will umpire the
ball games at the Eagles meet at
Beatrice.
William Smith, rural mail carrier
at Staplehurst, suicided by taking car.
bolic acid.
Nebraska City's mayor has gone
after the owners, and has issued 900
dog licenses.
Frederick Boyle OF Pawnee had
leg broken in an auto accident at
Loveland. Colo.
Ohiowa Is again agitating city
water plant. The question has been
defeated before.
Frank Huffaker. near Broken Bow,
was kicked in the face by q pony and
badly disfgured.
The seventeen-year locusts have ap-
peared in large numbers in the vicin-
ity of Louisville.
c: T. Boggs. for many years a
prominent resident and business man
OF Lincoln is dead.
Jefferson county farmers are com.
planning Of the long.continued spell OF
cold. damp weather.
Rev. Father Moriarty Of North Bend.
accused Of using city water unlaw-
fully. was acquitted.
The Farmers Grain company eleva-
tor at Bee was totally destroyed by
fire Saturday night.
John c. Stewart and family Of York
have gone to Scotland, where they
will spend the summer.
A. A. Walkup Of Ord. who was
kicked by mule a week ago, died
Monday from the effects.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Armstrong
celebrated their fiftieth wedding an.
niversary at Auburn. Saturday.
The dental Office OF DR.. Z. J. Hoop
man at Madison was robbed of gold
and other metals valued at $500.
: Willard Avery was seriously injured
when hay stacker fell on him as he
was harvesting alfalfa near Edgar.
Louis Danfilaz was instantly killed
when the engine he was aboard went
into the turntable at Grand Island.
Young men Of Verdigre are anxious
to organize machine gun company
for representation in the N. N. g.
Complaint is made that 1t Is dificult
to hear the curfew bell at Fremont,
and whistle has been substituted.
William Maddox, 76 years old, re-
siding near Weeping Water, suicided
by hanging himself in the barn on his
farm.
The first crop Of alfalfa that Is now
about all in stack is by far the heavi-
est ever harvested In the vicinity OF
Garrison.
Ethmer Haynes. at Garrison. ran a
small wire in his thumb, causing
blood poisoning, and he is now in a.
local hospital
DR.. w. II. Kerr of Falls City, en-
route to Minneapolis. was stricken
with a hemorrhage and taken from a
train at Council Bluffs, where he is
now in hospital.
Frank Mulhair Of Lynch marketed
sixteen white faced steers on the
South Omaha market Tuesday which
brought $3.50 hundred. nearly the
same level as the Chicago market.
The steers were fed on snapped corn
and alfalfa.
A license to operate a saloon at Ian.
ham has been granted by the board OF
supervisors to Charles Eckart OF De.
Witt.
The Fremont board OF education has
about perfected plans for a summer
school for the benefit of backward
pupils.
The order of the Degree OF Honor.
which has concluded its district con-
vention at Lincoln. will meet next
year at Utica.
The second summer school session
opened at the Hastings high school
with good enrolment in normal
training and high school subjects
Frank Mastney OF Clarkson got his
hand caught In corn shelter and
will lose several fingers in conse-
Quence.
The new $4,000 plant industry
building at the state university farm
at Lincoln was formally dedicated
Tuesday.
David Primrose, who has had
charge OF the physical work at the
York Young Mems Christian associa.