The Red Cloud chief., 1915-03-25
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA

OO6u Will vote on the liquor queS
ton this spring.
kearney will have q place in the
state baseball league.
w. b. Truman is the caucus nomi.
nee for mayor of Auburn.
Sunday, May 8, will be observed
over the state as Mothers day.
Edward Barnard, nine years old,
was killed by a jitney bus at Omaha.
Retail clothiers of the state are or
ganizing a branch of the national asso'
citation.
Max Umbright. former Lyons boy,
pean war.
William Troope. of Nehawka, was
stricken blind while attending a NOV.
ing picture show at Omaha.
A jitney bus company of local citi-
zens has been organized at Grand
Island with capital Of 10000.
special Nebraska train to the San
Francisco exposition is possibility
being developed over the state.
Automobile races will be the special
feature of the state fair this fall, the
races continuing over Saturday
DR.. kigin, acting state veterinarian,
destroyed number of glandered
horses in Polk county last week.
Fremont's new Empress theater,
costing $4,000. has been completed.
and was formally opened last week.
Six towns-Beatrice, Kearney. West
Point, Fremont. Tekamah and Wahoo
are now In the state racing circuit.
Frank N. Rawlings, pioneer of the
state and a resident OF Lincoln for
nearly forty years, is dead at his home
there.
The saloon question will be put to
vote at the spring election at North
Bend. The town has been dry for sew.
eral years.
To stimulate the interest OF local
growers. York county is contemplat.
ing an Independent corn contest the
coming fall
Races between an automobile and
an aeroplane will be daily features
at the Nebraska state fair Septem.
Der to 10.
Ed Faris, Tecumseh telephone
lineman. sustained serious injuries
when he fell from the top OF pole
when 1t broke.
The twenty.second annual session OF
the Southeastern Nebraska Educa-
tional association Is being held at Lin.
coin this week.
A pin prick several weeks ago ne
cessitated the amputation Of a por.
ton of the right hand OF Mrs. F. r.
Fixen of Inland.
Joseph E. Alexis OF the state uni.
versity has been rendered the associ-
ate professorship OF languages in the
University of Utah.
G. A. Gregory, an inspector in State
Superintendent Thomas office. has
been rendered the SUPPLEMENTARY Of
the Crete city schools.
The Omaha Auto club will issue a
magazine devoted to the boosting OF
good roads and the general advance
ment OF Nebraska's resources.
Leslie Pine. a rural mail carrier at
York. was stricken with "snow blind.
ness" while on his route and for a
while was in critical condition.
The department OF botany at the
state university has Just received
from Prof. Juan Corrig, at Santiago.
a mammoth collection OF Cuban ferns.
Petitions are being circulated at
Lincoln asking that the question OF
Sunday theaters be submitted to the
voters Of that place at the coming cleo.
ton.
A high school competition stock
judging contest will be held April 3
at the university farm at Lincoln un.
der auspices Of the animal husbandry
department.
III you spend in Fremont the dol.
lars you earn at Fremont there will
be more dollars in Fremont for you to
earn" has been adopted as a slogan
by the lad" club at that place.
Miss Edith Ragsdale had her hand
badly mangled when It got caught in
wringer in the laundry at College
View. Only prompt action OF physi.
clans prevented her bleeding to death.
A number of habitual dope" fends
are in the Omaha jail. almost dement,.
ed as the result of inability to obtain
drugs prohibited by the federal law
now in effect.
Work has commenced on Fairbury's
big tabernacle in which revival ser.
vices will be held from March 26 to
April rs by the several Protestant
churches OF that place.
Schools, theaters and churches Of
Ainsworth have been ordered closed
by the board OF health on account OF
the number of scarlet fever cases.
Public and private gatherings are pro-
hibited.
The new $4,000 school building at
Stella has Just been completed, and
with its strictly modern equipment
| and seven teachers is an object of
particular pride to its patrons.
w. c. Shreve, for twenty years JAM.
tor OF a Beatrice school, was the re.
| cipient of fruit shower from the