The Red Cloud chief., 1914-11-12
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA

Lincoln's Belgian relief fund has
reached over $1,000.
A Belgian relief fund has been
started at Tecumseh and aneat sum
raised.
The company of national guards at
Holdrege may be placed on the cav.
airy list.
Nebraska has ten million dollars In
It's permanent school fund, and yves
nc public debt.
Broken Bow will establish a city
sewerage system. the contract for
which has been let.
Burglars have beer busy In the resi-.
Dental part of Fremont. several homes
having beer entered.
Fire starting from a defective fue
destroyed a big portion OF the busi'
ness district of Oconto.
MILFORD Haines, Il Broken Bow
young man, was accidentally shot
while out hunting rabbits.
Nebraska City has organized .
booster club, the chief aim of which
Is to further a movement for a county
fair.
Curtis is enjoying a substantial
building boom, a $4,000 home for the
local telephone company being among
the improvements.
A commercial club with 107 cnartef
members, about half of which number
are farmers about there, has been or
ganized at Dorchester.
+. II. Helm, 20 years old, OF Lincoln,
may die as a result OF a mistake in
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,or headache medicine.
The wanderlust has again seized
Frank Harrison OF Lincoln. and he
will start on his eighth trip to Central
America the middle OF December.
over 100 delegates attended the
district convention Of the Woman's
Relief Corps at Plattsmouth. Omaha
was chosen as next meeting place.
Amos Kline. an aged blind man lv.
ing near Virginia, walked of a porch
aud fell a distance OF ten feet, receiv.
ng injuries that caused his death.
Chicken fanclers In the vicinity OF
Wymore have organized a poultry
association and will have a chicken
show during the farmers institute at
hat place.
DR.. Karl Cornell, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. ]. Connell OF Omaha, will as
sumo charge Of the American hospital
ambulance corps that IL to be organ
ICED in Europe.
A burglar at the home Of Harvey
Beescn at Lincoln fired several shots
at HE reflection in a mirror. evidently
under the impression that 1t was the
head o: the house.
After three years Of life with .
broken neck. Harry Shower Of Hooper
Is dead. He has never been able to
move q muscle in his body since the
accident three years ago in June.
Falling thirty-five feet when a steel
hook holding a suspended scaffold
broke at Hastings, Peter Hemple and
Philip Hahn, brick masons sustained
, serious injuries. They we're picked up
unconscious.
, Not in years. say railroad men and
others In touch with conditions. has
, there been such a demand for labor
ers on Nebraska farms as at the pres,
, ent time. The demand, according to
these people, far exceeds the supply.
Albert Kilgore. q farmer near Ew.
ing, q few months ago started q mod
est pork packing house on his farm.
1t is yet in an experimental stage. but
! he Is swamped with local orders, and
/ has been compelled to enlarge his
plant.
The state Christian Endeavor union
will hold its annual convention at Lin
1 coin, November 1915. An unusually
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and many noted individuals in Chris.
tian Endeavor circles will address the
convention.
At a meeting Of Omaha stock yards
/ officials and live stock dealers 1t was
/ decided that every %precaut!on would
4 be taken to prevent the spread Of the
1 foot and mouth disease to the South
| Omaha yards. A strict quarantine was
1 placed On all live stock.
The floral building at the fair
grounds at Auburn was damaged by
fire, the flames being extinguished
only after a big portion Of the roof
had been destroyed.
The Tohzalin hotel at Wymore,
erected several years ago at a cost Of
over $50. 900, was sold at sheriff's sale
for $12, 666 to satisfy a judgment held
against 1t by an Illinois bank.
y Albert Noble Of Valparaiso, aged %
n was almost instantly killed when his
brother fell down an e%mbankment
y while they were hunting, accidentally
Q discharging q shotgun he was carry
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y Harry Meradith. twenty-one years
IS sid, was killed and three other occu
n pants OF an automobile were seriously
d injured when their car turned turtl<
ID near Holdrege.
10 The cement factory at Superior
d which was constructed at a cost Of
r. about 81. 600. 900, and which opened FOL
hnsinnsa a faW waaks AGO has tam