The Red Cloud chief., 1915-03-18
BRIEF NEWS or NEBRASKA

Table Rock will vote on the wet"
or dry" question at the spring cleo
ton.
The Southwest Nebraska declama
tory contest will be held at Lincoln.
March "a.
The Southern Nebraska Develop
ment company has bought the Sp
perior electric light plant.
National Commander General Pal
mer will be one OF the speakers at the
G. A. r. encampment at Fremont, May
Is to 20.
Greenwood will form an independ.
ent telephone company, many business
men and farmers having already sub
scribed for stock.
One Of the largest poultry farms in
the central west. containing 1.620
acres, will be established near Kear.
ney this spring.
Henry Christofferson, a farmer near
Fremont, had finger amputated as a
result OF slight cut while butchering
several weeks ago.
Miss Kate Boyle, for twenty-five
years an operator for the Nebraska
Telephone company at Omaha. has
been retired on pension.
Members of the Elks lodge at Ere.
mont are making elaborate prepara-
lions to take care of the convention
which occurs there May 10 and II.
Amos Hamm. 10 years old, fell from
a train near Fairbury and broke
leg. He dragged himself for over
mile through snow drifts before get.
ting aid.
The body Of an unidentified man was
found alongside the Northwestern
track near Crowell. 1t is thought he
was stealing a ride and fell from a
train.
There were 10.9OOO0o bushels OF
wheat in the hands Of Nebraska farm
ers March 1. according to the crop re-
port of the United States department
Of agriculture.
At the state convention Of the Wood.
men Of the World. at Norfolk last
week. Earl stiles. head consul. was re-
elected as were most Of the other
head officers.
The South Omaha Stock Yards com.
pany has offered prizes amounting to
5000 for the best lads" on exhibition
at the editorial association meeting at
Omaha next month.
The family Of Mrs. Dora Jansen. at
Lincoln. had narrow escape from
death by gas asphyxiation caused by
q defective furnace. Strenuous work
OF physicians finally saved them.
The high school basketball tourna.
ment in session at Lincoln last week
is declared to have been the largest Of
its kind ever held in the United States.
Not only in number Of entrants, but in
attendance.
While a Hastings minister was de.
livering a sermon on Thou Shalt Not
Steal" some degenerate slipped into
the cloak room and annexed brand
new overcoat belonging to one Of the
worshipers.
Petitions have been circulated at
Auburn asking that referendum ordi.
nance be submitted to the voters on
April for the purpose OF enabling
the city to vote on pool halls the same
as on saloons.
According to a bulletin Just issued
by them. a quarter mill levy to pro-
vide for erecting building for the
state historical society will mean an
expenditure Of but fifty cents by each
man owning a $4,000 farm.
An order for 5000 sets Of European
war harness, on which most Of eighty
employees have been working day and
night for nearly three months in the
J. H. Haney factory at Hastings. has
Just been completed and Ia ready for
delivery.
s. H. Bailey Of Stella, who has kept
q record for one years chicken bust.
ness which he has followed on small
scale. finds that he has made a net
profit of $4946 during the year on an
purchase OF eighteen hens.
Will H. Parry, a former resident Of
Syracuse has been appointed by Presi.
dent Wilson as a member OF the fed
| eral trade commission from the state
Of Washington.
Prof. C. ]. Pierson, former super
intendent of schools in Nemaha coun
ty, has been made president Of a new.
ly organized entomology club at the
University Of California.
Thirty-two Gage county farmers in
creased their yield Of oats twelve and
a half bushels per acre last year by
treating their seed oats for smut.
! Their fields were just an average Of
the county.
Florence s. Vette OF Nebraska City
has brought suit for 100000 against
five saloon-keepers Of that place, for
alleged damages for selling liquor to
her husband.
The Union Mutual Telephone COM
pany of Union has bought the inter-
ests of the Lincoln Telephone & Tele-
graph company in that territory, and
will consolidate the lines.
A part Of the material for the con.