The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1914-03-12
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA

The Sunday baseball question will
te voted upon at Kearney in April.
John Cassel Of Stapleton had a leg
broken by the kick of a vicious horse.
Eight or ten houses at Ainsworth
| scare.
The explosion Of an incubator lamp
destroyed the home of John Yockel at
Beatrice.
! The Southwest Nebraska Teachers
association meets at McCook, April 1
. and 3.
The next meeting of the Nebraska
Plumbers association will be held In
Lincoln.
Farmers around Garrison have sub
scribed $4,000 for the purpose OF build
ing an elevator.
The boys and girls Of the Lincoln
high school have organized civic and
Industrial league.
Hastings club women have raised a
found of $500 for an old peoples
home at that place.
Beatrice business men have passed
resolutions favoring penny postage on
first-class matter.
The Burlington shops at Havelock
are again running full time and en-
ployes are pleased
The Elks' lodge at Alliance is plan.
ming to erect club house. costing
from $4,000 to $4,000.
The Fremont Ministerial association
plans to hold services in the Dodge
county Jail each Sunday.
Eight cars Of hogs. the largest ship.
ment ever made from that place, left
Dawson one day last week.
An epidemic OF humps Is enlarging
the facial landscape Of large portion
Of the Inhabitants of Edgar.
Willard Butler, the Fremont boy con.
victed OF killing his father, was SEN
fenced to life imprisonment.
The Methodist church at Tecumseh
Is conducting a series OF revivals that
may continue for some time.
The city council at Kearney has re.
jected all paving bids because Of legal
tangles in the bids submitted.
The triennial convention OF the
Royal Neighbors of America will be
held in Omaha March II to 10
Ex-Governor George l.. Sheldon was
rendered a banquet by members of the
Masonic fraternity at Tekamah.
An historic home erected at Ne.
braska City many years ago by Judge
o. p. Mason has been destroyed by
fire.
Farmers around st. Libory will &c
into the business of raising water.
melons on extensive scales this sum-
mer.
A high school basketball tournament
under the auspices OF the state univer-
sty will be held at Lincoln March II
to IA.
j. s. Bonebright OF Cortland had sew
eral teeth knocked out by the "kick"
OF the crank as he was starting his au-
tomobile.
Efforts are being made by the state
board of agriculture to get auto races
for the first day OF the fair, Monday,
September Z.
Gust Anderson. near Craig, was so
badly frozen when he got lost in the
storm Of last week that he may lose
his hands and feet.
]. +. Mason. carpenter. was at
tackled by wolf in the vicinity of
Plattsmouth, but by vigorous use of
an AK finally killed It.
The general merchandise store OF
Stump & Rounds at Howe was
broken into and large quantity of
clothing and shoes stolen.
Farmers in some sections OF the
state who seeded new fields of alfalfa
last fall report that nearly the entire
stand has been winter killed
Norfolk has purchased the Fremont
baseball franchise in the Nebraska
State league. The entire Fremont
team was purchased in the deal.
The Public Service club of Broken
Bow gave its first monthly banquet to
the members and their wives. there
being sixty-three in attendance.
One of the young ladies on the stem
ographic force at the state house at
Lincoln Is getting around on crutches
as the result of a msstep during the
execution OF the tango dance.
The fiddling contest given by the
Improved Order OF Red Men at the
opera house at Plattsmouth was list
ened to by a crowded house. This
was the fourth annual contest.
For the first time in number OF
years no alfalfa seed will be shipped
into Nebraska from Germany. This is
on account of the unusually large sup
ply produced In the state this Year.
The big living house on the Lancas.
ter poor farm was totally destroyed BY
fire, but its thirty inmates were gotten
ont in safety.
Grant Mcfarland won over thirteen
competitors in the annual contest and
will represent Stanton in the district
oratorical contest.
The town OF Eustis. in Frontier
county, is all worked up over a saloon
fight. For years the town has con.