The Red Cloud chief., 1913-10-23
BRIEF NEWS OF NEsRS.skA

state league next season.
Hastings has started in on q war
against cigarets and the "makin's."
Nebraska City 10 having trouble with
4 surplus Of tramps and mendicants.
The Richardson County Teachers
association Ia In session at Humboldt.
The new German Lutheran church
near verdon was dedicated last Sun.
day.
Fremonters have organized a musi.
cal art society with q membership Of
over 100.
John Metz Of Seward had both bones
in his right arm broken by the kick
OF horse.
Mr.. and Mrs. X. X. Morledge cele.
brated their golden wedding at Hast.
ings last week.
Superior is about to come into DOS.
session Of one Of the finest parks In
southern Nebraska.
The Lutheran convention which has
Just adjourned at Wahoo will meet
next year at Deshler.
Several hail stones larger than eggs
were picked up after the storm that
visited Burwell last week.
The Prince OF Monaco who has been
hunting big game with Buffalo Bill out
west. has returned to his home.
The German.American alliance has
decided to make German day at Lin.
coin a permanent annual AFFAIR.
Lincoln has gone into commercial
lighting. and Is furnishing the com.
modify to a number OF patrons.
Frank johnson. a laborer at Lincoln.
fell into vat OF hot asphalt and was
badly burned about the legs and arms.
Norfolk will get the next meeting Of
the Nebraska Blacksmiths. Horse
shoers and Wheelwrights' association.
Chicken fanciers OF Fremont are
planning on holding the biggest county
show ever held in Nebraska In Decem.
Der.
An order against the slot machines
in Tecumseh has been issued from the
Office OF the county attorney and the
machines have vanished.
Fred Keim. a 9.year-old Tecumseh
boy. suffered fractured arm when he
fell from swing on the school
grounds.
Mary Wyers. II years old. a Nemaha
county girl was bitten by a rattle.
snake. but suffered no serious incon.
venience.
Mrs. Lena Faulkner Of Tecumseh
raised peaches that weighed seven
ounces and were nine inches in cir.
cumference.
Channel cat and croppies to the
amount OF ten thousand have been
placed by the state fisheries In the
waters around Wahoo.
Only five d the 400 prize hogs sold
to Nebraska stockmen by exhibitors
at the state fair were found to have
been subjected to cholera surround.
ings.
o. p. Hockinson Of Swedeberg was
struck and instantly killed by a North.
western train one mile east of Ceres.
CO. His automobile was completely
demolished.
The fourth annual German day cele-
bration at Lincoln came to q close
Thursday afternoon with the ending OF
the combined historical pageant and
flower parade.
Charles Jackson. Falls City grocer.
had an exciting tussle with a burglar.
when he returned to his store after
closing, late one night. The intruder
finally escaped.
An effort upon the part Of Hastings
grocers to secure an ordinance charg-
Ing truck peddlers IS day for solicit.
ing in the residence district was unani.
mously defeated by the council.
The epidemic OF rabies among Om.
aha's dumb animal population. pro-
nounced by City Veterinarian Hall
several weeks ago to be the worst in
his experience in the city, is over.
Jack Brandt Of Pawnee City was
shot In the face by the accidental dis.
charge OF gun in the hands OF q
companion while out hunting.
Hastings boasts the only messenger
boy In the state who makes his de-
liveries In an automobile. In the per.
son Of Verne Scriven. employed by the
Western Union.
~ sHuSoiu wOuuu WuO ICSIotcIcu
for Land at Broken Bow says that the
consideration shown ladies' who de-
sired to register was marked. They
were given place in line and aided in
registering In every way possible.
No horses In the state have been
found thus far to be affected with the
disease which ravaged several Ne
braska counties a year ago and which
was thought to have been caused by
eating second growth grass following
the early fall rains.
Mahlon Meeker. a farmer residing
near York, Ia feeding his hogs a sec
Ond grade OF -four. He mixes the -four
with shorts and feeds the mixture
without cooking Il.
While alighting from his horse. DR..