The Red Cloud chief., 1913-08-28
eRlEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA

j. ID. Bishop has assumed charge as
postmaster at Peru.
This years alfalfa crop IL OF ex.
cellent quality and well matured.
A carload OF home grown grapes
was shipped from Peru last week
Columbus is making 1t warm for
bicycle riders who use the sidewalks.
Every effort is being made to make
Lincoln German day a complete sue
cess.
Apple buyers are already in the
southeast Nebraska orchards making
contracts.
Fremont lost out on it's fight for q
share of the appropriation for agricul
tural shows.
A new opera house for Hastings is
the aim of the Chamber of Commerce
OF that place.
The Better Babies contest of the
Nebraska state fair has already at.
tracted 225 entries.
Due to water shortage at Falls
City, the Missouri Pacific is preparing
to bore wells there.
The Commercial, Ad and Merchants
clubs at Fremont will merge and be-
come one organization.
Nearly 100 Otoe county teachers
were registered for institute work AT
Nebraska City last week.
The Minden Commercial club is
pushing the proposed irrigation ditch
to be put in in that vicinity.
A big program has been made ur
for Omaha and South Omaha day, Fri
day, September 5. at the state fair
Francis Brooks, a Lincoln boy. was
seriously burned while attempting te
all an automobile tank with gasoline
A scourge of hog cholera has broker
out in Valley county and Is raising
havoc among number of fine herds
A severe storm caused great dam.
age to apple and other fruit trees In
the neighborhood OF Howe last week
Anton Sacher Of Steinauer, is dead
at Las Vegas. N. NJ. to which place ne
went recently for the benefit of his
health.
Henri de la Roche, an aviator who
was injured in fall at Omaha o
couple Of weeks ago. died at a loca
hospital.
Nebraska railway men expect 9
slump Of business during the next few
months. owing to the shortage OF the
corn crop.
Hastings chautauqua was short 81,
500, but 1t Is claimed that Barnum &
Railey's circus took $4,000 out of the
town in one day.
Miss Helen Miller, a 20-year-old ON
aha girl, has started on q hike" foi
Denver and expects to reach her des
tination in four weeks.
One Of the grandest affairs ever
pulled OF at Broken Bow was the in
itial banquet OF the Public Service
club Of that place last week.
Seven.year.old Charles Peters Of
Peters had a leg broken by a kick
from horse and dragged himself 100
rods towards home before reaching
aid.
While attempting to pass an auto.
Ernest and Leon Sterner OF Platts.
mouth, were thrown from . motor
cycle and sustained serious cuts and
bruises.
One Of the peculiar things connected
with this years alfalfa supply. is that
the yield Is much heavier on the newer
fields and the older stands where one
would expect heavy crop, is light.
Fred Lawrence Is in a hospital at
Lincoln as the result Of injuries re-
ceived when he attempted to eject a
couple Of tramps from a train near
hickman. He is Burlington brake
man.
A class Of seven boys from the
Congregational church at Weeping
Water with their teacher. NJ. NJ. Red
enbaugh, will take a hundred mile
hike through eastern Nebraska and
western Iowa.
One Of the new features OF the state
fair this year Is to be the boys en-.
campment under the supervision Of
the city Y. M. C. A. This is the first
time that provision has been made for
the care OF the boys who attend the
fair.
Neigh was struck by q disastrous
electrical storm last week that caused
considerable damage.
AS result Of three small children
playing with matches In a haymow,
the barn belonging to ]. 8. Temple
! ton, and containing carload Of hay
belonging to Ray Lilly, was almost to-
| tally destroyed by fire at Wahoo.
York high school will conduct an ex.
perimental farm in the future. the
school board having leased from the
city a part Of East Hill park for that
purpose. The course In agriculture
will be conducted along the lines Of
| the state school.
The Burlington has arranged to run
q number OF special trains to Lincoln
during the state fair. September l to
| 8, inclusive.
The rural free delivery carriers Of
Saunders county held their first an.
uual picnic at the high school park In