The Red Cloud chief., 1913-08-21
sRiee NEWS OF NEBRASKA

Chicken thieves are making life
miserable for farmers around Table
Rock.
The state teachers association will
hold It's convention In Omaha In No.
vember.
One OF the novel sights at the state
lair will be the exhibit Of Shetland
ponies.
Douglas Wallenburg was drowned
while bathing in a sand pit near Cen.
trail City.
The canning factory at Grand Island
has closed down on account of q lack
OF material.
Rev. Frank Smith and wife OF Hast.
ings have gone to Japan to engage in
Missionary work
Neigh was struck by a disastrous
electrical storm last week that caused
considerable damage.
The farm house Of Thomas Rem.
mers near Beatrice, was destroyed by
fire with all its contents.
George Brenton was instantly killed
at Neigh when wagon loaded with
brick passed over his body.
Levi Hitchcock, a Falls City fruit
man, is proudly exhibiting peach
nearly four inches in diameter. ,
Camping out at the state fair will be
a popular feature, according to appli.
cations already made for reservations.
Representatives from over 200
churches attended the convention of
Christian churches at Hastings last
week.
J. A. Yagar Of Fremont will have
charge of the fruit exhibit at the state
fair
Harrison Anderson, a Seward car.
penter, fell from scaffoldng twenty
feet high and had two ribs and a leg
broken.
Nearly all the Shubert fruit growers
sold their apples to a Chicago firm.
The same firm purchased their crop
last year.
Rays OF the sun reflected from q
tin can set fire to a wood pile at York,
and necessitated q run by the fire de.
partment.
Sparks from a threshing machine
set fire to William Roehler's wheat
near Ohiowa and destroyed property
worth $1,000.
The little girl Of w. H. Sutton, near
Plattsmouth, was badly burned when
her clothes caught fire as . brother
struck match.
Charles Shafer, residing four miles
southeast Of Beatrice, threshed five
acres of oats, which yielded seventy.
eight bushels to the acre.
Mrs. Annie Bahr of Eagle was
taken III while attending a circus at
Lincoln Monday and died within an
hour at the home Of friend.
Herman Benein, q young German
farmer living in the vicinity Of DilleI
was drowned in the Little Blue river
near Steele City Sunday morning.
One dead heifer and eight head in
serious condition, was the result OF
feeding freshly cut cane on the farm
Of Henry Hertzell near Plymouth.
A government rife club. to be affili.
ated with the National Rifle associa.
ton. has been organized at Stanton
with membership Of twenty.three.
Johnson county will have to spend
100000 for new bridges along the drain.
age ditch being put in in the reclaim
lowlands, on the Nemaha river bot.
toms.
Mrs. Frank Eberhard, living two
and one.half miles east of Pierce, was
frightened to death when a bolt OF
lightning struck the house she was
living in.
Wheat is yielding from twenty-six
to fifty.two bushels to the acre in
Polk county this year, and some oats
have yielded better than sixty bushels
per acre.
Sam Agursky, an Omaha tailor, at.
tempted to end his life by the gas
"oute, but the timely use Of a pulmo-
tor frustrated his designs and he still
abides with US.
As Louis Lovett, Johnson county
farmer. was resting under the shade
Of his wagon, the team started up and
both his legs were broken as the
wheels ran over him.
Continued dry weather and scarcity
Of feed have compelled many farmers
10 sell butcher stock at q loss.
Heirs Of the late Horace Greenwood
at Wymore will pay to Gage county
an inheritance tax OF over $500.
The Rev. ]. w. Sapp, pastor Of the
Christian churches at Stella and Nema-
ha during the past eleven years. has
resigned to accept q call at Smith
Center, Kas.
A gasoline stove in the home of
Thomas Naylor at Falls City. exploded,
setting fire to the clothing of his wife
and little daughter. who were both
badly burned.
The village OF Pickrell has been in.
corporated.
Carl w. Wilson, a switchman en-
ployed by the Union Pacific, was
killed in the yards at North Platte by
being run over by a switch engine.
While cranking an automobile,