The Red Cloud chief., 1915-01-28
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA

meet at NOrlOiK Aprll ~.
Grand Island is to have II sub sta
ton or branch %postofiice.
Tecumseh got sixteen inches OF
snow during the recent storm.
The State Farmers union urges the
adoption of u non. partisan primary
law.
University Place is making efforts
to raise funds for "A Y. NJ. e. A. at
that place.
ID. G. Fitzpatrick was found dead In
a snow drift "a short distance from his
home at Falls City.
Retailers OF the state will hold
their next annual meeting at Lincoln.
February % to 26.
The Lincoln telephone company will
have to pay $500 or more each month
as a federal war tax.
Laura Peterson OF Plattsmouth fell
on a sidewalk while returning from
school and broke an arm.
DR.. l.. G. kigin, state veterinarian,
has rendered his resignation to the
live stock sanitary board.
Officers Of the N. n. q. will hereafter
be compelled 80 pass annual mental
and physical examinations.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Bigger Of Uni
versity Place celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary last week.
Rev. c. e. Markham OF Cedar Rapids
has accepted a call to the passionate OF
the Baptist church at Tecumseh.
Rev. II. Hallerbcrg. for eight years
pastor of the German Evangelical
church, near Arlington, has resigned.
The old wooden bridge cross the
Platte river at Kearney Is to be re.
placed with a modern concrete struc.
ture.
Arthur Anderson had his left hand
tofn off while feeding a corn shredder
on the farm Of Charles Shaffer neal
Axtell.
Judge Conrad Hollenbeck, chief jus.
ticc of the Nebraska supreme court,
died at Lincoln. Thursday, of heart
failure.
The C~ornhusker basketball team
won second game from the Kansas
"Aggies' 26 to 20 and tied first. IL
to IL.
Over 1900 sacks of Nebraska grown
apples were given away at the closing
OF the state fruit growers association
show at Lincoln.
Miss Louise Stegner, who was dis
missed by the teachers committee OF
the 1914 Omaha board Of education.
has been reinstated.
In turning his team to avoid strik
ing a little girl, Fireman Will Hyland
was thrown from the cart and seri
ously injured at Omaha.
Johnny Svejda, a ~ten.yearold Oma
ha boy. lost three fingers when he at
tempted to investigate the interior Of
a dynamite cartridge with a hairpin.
The widow Of Nick Feilen. whs
died in a drunken stupor in the Ne
maha county Jail, has brought sui,
for $1,000 against three saloon keep
ers and their bondsmen for sellin.
him liquor.
The annual meeting Of the Ne
braska Peace society will be held a
the First Presbyterian church at Lin
coin, February II. Many prominen
speakers and workers along this lint
will be present.
The Shorthorn breeders association
at Lincoln elected Charles Richie O
Gresham, president; f. w. Cosgrove
Farnam, vice president; Irwin VIII
son. Belvidere. secretary; Alder
Johnson, Douglas, treasurer.
Dwight S. Dalbey of Gage county
president, and A. w. Richardson o.
Lancaster, secretary Of the Nebraska
Good Roads association, were re
elected at the meeting held at Lin
coin in connection with organized
agriculture.
John l.. Outright, jr.. recently ap
pointed vice consul at Nottingham
England. has been recalled, on &C
count OF local objection to pro-Ger
mar sentiment he expressed in
private letter to friends at his hom'
in Lincoln while a resident at Co
burg, Germany.
Alfred Larson was found near ALI
ance, December 16, with both fee
badly frozen and amputation wa
necessary to save his limbs.
The soldiers home farm near Crane
Island has received several head o
cattle from the farm OF the Norfoll
asylum. The cattle are OF the Hol
stein dairy type and will furnish mill
for the inmates Of the home.
Mrs. Henry Flyr lies in a critica
condition at her home near Hastings
suffering from FIVE broken ribs AM
possibly a fractured skull as the re
suit of a runaway accident in whicl
she and her husband were victims.
Nearly 900 were in attendance a
the state firemen's convention at Nc
braska City last week, and 1t is sal
to have been the largest and bes
ever held.
s. w. McCune OF Lowell lost a wa
let containing $1,000 in cash and Sc
curities at Hastings and didn't kno,
OF 1t until informed by telephone tina
It had been found on the street there
Moro than 100 students at Hasting