The Red Cloud chief., 1914-09-03
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA

Alliance.
Three carloads Of grapes have been
shipped from Peru this season.
Ohiowa's fire department has In
creased its fire fighting equipment.
Roy e. Tilden Of Benedict has been
selected as postmaster Of that place.
The five-year-old son OF Charles
Roland was drowned in a pond near
Fairbury.
The business section OF Crawford
Is to be heated by steam from the
power plant.
Mrs. Lottie w. Cobbey, widow Of the
late Judge j. E. Cobbey, is dead at her
home in Lincoln.
Whether or not Fairbury shall have
movies on Sunday is to be settled by
a special election.
About $500 former Nebraskans in
southern California held a reunion at
Long Beach last week.
The old settlers annual picnic at
Wahoo last week was the most large
ly attended for many years.
Ohiowa will have installed a mum.
Der Of electric street lights as SOC as
the material can be secured.
w. H. Pitzer captured a black jack
rabbit neal Percival, and 1t Is said to
be the "only one in captivity"
David w. Ferguson. a butcher, famil.
iarly known as "Scotty." dropped dead
while working in a silo near Ayr.
The largest attendance on record
120-was registered at the Adams
county teachers institute last week.
Glenn WEIGH, at Hastings, five years
old, stepped on a nail, and is in a seri-
Gus condition with blood poisoning as
a result.
Mrs. Napoleon Demers. near Tecum-
sch, fell from a tree while picking
peaches. receiving wounds that may
prove fatal.
Fire, thought to be Of incendiary
origin, destroyed the lumber yard Of
Young & Bolton at Hebron, causing
a loss Of about $4,000.
Madam st. Henry, a member Of the
faculty at st. Bernard's academy at
Nebraska City, has seven brothers
serving in the French army.
James McKern Is dead at Fairbury
! from injuries he received when thrown
under a Rock Island freight train at
the sand pit near that place.
C. M. Crunkle Of Beatrice was
thrown from a horse during the mill.
tary maneuvers at Ashland and re-
ceived injuries that caused his death.
Fire destroyed the general store Of
Frank Grover at Bennett, and badly
damaged the stock of the Frank En-
yeart merchandise company next door.
Garrett Hartley. a we'll digger, was
killed when he plunged fifty feet down
a we'll shaft at the home Of William
Nichols, eight miles south Of Platts-
mouth.
The Holiness camp meeting at
Weeping Water, under the auspices of
the Nebraska conference Of Mennonite
brethren closed a ten day session
Monday.
The body OF John Szchla was found
in the road near his automobile, ten
miles northwest of Schuyler. 1t ia
supposed he was alone when he met
his death.
A number Of harness dealers from
all sections of the state will congre-
gate in Lincoln, September s and 8.
to effect an organization of retail har
ness makers.
The Galloway fair association has
decided to hold no exhibition this fall
on account Of depleted funds from last
year. Bad weather put the associa-
tion several hundred dollars to the
bad.
The dream Of the Nebraska farmer
Of dollar wheat was realized by w. c.
Moore, a farmer living near Martell
who SOLD 1,400 bushels of No. 2 wheat
ing 81 a bushel for It.
The principal activities Of the state
university and the state experimental
farm will be displayed In a handsome
exhibit in the old horticultural build
ing on the state fair grounds. This
is q new departure and is calculated
to arouse much interest In the vari'
GUS departments of the state univer
sity.
Grand officers of the order assisted
In the laying Of the cornerstone Of the
new Masonic temple at Bloomfield last
week.
Beatrice is being considered as q
candidate for the location for q
Masonic o%rphanage which the Nebras
ka grand lodge has authorized to BIZ
established.
The matter Of exhibiting at the state
fair has received much favorable con
sideration from the members of the
Nebraska Manufacturers association
and the leading lines will be well rep
resented at the exposition September
I'll.
The annual horse show OF the bust
ness, mems association Of Auburn will
be held during the week of October 10
A brother OF d. M. Rosenberg o
Hastings, who fled from Russia whel
the war broke out, Is stranded in Bel
GUM, and has sen home an urgen