The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-30
ORieF NEWS or NEBRASKA

Br0wnville is to have new pank.
Hastings Y. NJ. e. A. will try to In
crease It's membership to 500.
Elwood will submit the postoffice
contest to vote of the patrons.
8. J. Smith, q pioneer resident OF
Cortland, is dead at his home there.
The dates for the farmers institute
In Burt county will be February 1S
and -.
over 5000 birds were entered at the
state poultry show at Grand Island
last week.
Jerry" Simpson OF Fairbury has In.
vented and perfected an air cooled"
gasoline engine.
The new Congregational church at
York will be ready for dedication
early in the spring.
Owing to the warm weather last
week the Northwestern discontinued
Its ice harvest near Fremont.
The Union Pacific stone crusher
east Of Wymore has closed Down on
account OF weather conditiona.
The state oratorical contest will be
held at York. February %. Eight
state colleges will be represented.
Charles Gilmore Of Fairbury had his
right eye cut out with whip while
loading hogs at South st. Joseph.
| The new athletic park contemplated
by number OF prominent men OF
Beatrice will probably be given up.
The Blue Springs Farmers Elevator
company last year handled over 1885,.
600 bushels of corn, wheat and oats.
Over a hundred conversions so far
is the result Of the union revival ser.
vices being carried on at Humboldt.
The state volunteer firemen conven-
tion at North Platte last week was an
interesting and we'll attended session.
The Aurora city schools finished the
first semester OF the year with the
largest attendance for any preceding
time.
Harvard chapter No. 20. o. f. s..
celebrated the twentieth anniversary
Of its organization In an appropriate
manner.
The Improved Order OF Redmen Of
Plattsmouth. at its last meeting. ar.
ranged for the third annual fiddlers
contest.
Information has been received at
Fairbury that Ray Hall. former resi-.
dent of that place. had suicided at
Burlington. Wash.
The city federation Of boys work
ers at Lincoln will take census Of
the boys Of that place during the
month Of February.
Attendance at the Fairbury high
school has reached $50 students and
1t has been necessary to increase the
faculty with two instructors.
The new Aurora Young Mems Chris.
tian association building was formally
opened to the pupils when 500 people
were present at the dedication.
Plans for o complete new sewerage
system are being entertained at Ban.
croft. The council has been consider
ing the proposition for some time.
A party Of about twenty-five Ne
braska people will attend the worlds
seventh Sunday school convention.
which will be held at Zurich. Switzer.
land, July 8 to 16 Of this year.
While hunting near Exeter. Julian
Peterson found cached" in a hedge a
quantity Of dynamite aud nitroglycer.
inc, and several lengths Of fuse. evi.
IDENTIFY but recently placed there.
The board of education at Madison
has elected Superintendent Dell Glib.
son Of Lyons, Neb., to succeed Super.
intendent Oberkotter at Madison at
the close Of the present school year.
While pursuing coyotes on Dorsey
island in the Platte river. G. H. Riley
of Saunders county "treed" q coon
and captured Il. 1t Is believed to be
the biggest animal Of its species ever
caught in that section. 1t weighs
twenty-eight pounds.
At the closing days session OF the
: Nebraska Home Economic association
; held at the state farm at Lincoln, Mrs.
.. A. f. Davidson OF that place was
!. elected president while other ohicers
= named were Mrs. r. d. Ream OF
Broken Bow. vice president: Mrs.
Mann. Bethany, secretary, and Miss
Irene Miner. Red Cloud. treasurer.
Fremont druggists have decided to
launch a move to secure the 1914 con.
vention OF Nebraska druggists for
y that place.
The remains OF Mrs. Fred Schu.
: : maker, who died recently at Rocklege,
J. Fla, were inferred at her old home at
Silver Creek.
While suffering an attack OF mental
= trouble recently Charles Roscoe OF
!. !. Clatonia chopped of some Of his toes
y with hatchet.
. Sparks from stove in the laundry
at the asylum at Lincoln started a
, fire in a shed. but It was put out with
little damage.
A farmers institute will be held In
Wymore, February II and IS. There
will be seed and soil tests by govern
- ment experts, in addition to regular
: features.