The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1915-04-08
sRiEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA


Exeter was destroyed by FIRE.
Merchants at Ord have inaugurated
cooperative delivery service.
The commercial club at Liberty Is
pushing a project for new hotel.
Peru is already discussing the ques
ton of Fourth of July celebration.
Lenora Kruse, 1 years old, of Avoca.
Tell from hay loft and broke several
ribs.
Dairymen at Beatrice have taken
steps to organize a cow-testing asso-
citation.
Lincoln has secured the national
conference of music supervisors for
next year
The Western league baseball season
will open at Lincoln, Friday, April %,
with Denver.
Fruit prospects over the state are
said to be the most promising for
many seasons.
The Kearney baseball team has
adopted the name "Buffaloes" as its
official "moniker."
Lincoln Commercial club is making
arrangements for an historical page.
ant. June S and 6.
Parker Anderson an old resident OF
Pauline. was found dead in bed. vic.
tim of heart failure.
Syracuse will vote on water exten.
sion. sewer system and electric lights
at the coming election.
Congregationalists of Beatrice are
making arrangements for the erection
of a new $4,000 church edifice.
Chadron Commercial club has an
employment bureau that last week
found places for twenty-four people.
The Wahoo school board put the lid
on cards and dancing by any of the
teachers employed for the coming
year
While excavating for the new school
house at Campbell, workmen un.
earthed portions of the skeleton Of a
mastodon.
Fred FergioI of Seward was in
stantly killed when he jumped from a
moving train at Tamora, his neck be-
ing broken.
According to the figures of the
United States department of agricul
ture, Nebraska leads in the number Of
horses per capita.
Fred Rose. a 1O-year-old boy living
near Broken Bow. had his lower lip
leading to water.
Legislators were entertained by the
Lincoln Commercial club with a ban
quet at which the gridiron stunt was
the prevailing motif.
Roy Dean of Humboldt has Just
shipped by express car load of draft
horses to Ohio, where they will be
used for farm work.
Nebraska City police have requested
citizens of that place to refrain from
feeding the tramps that are over
running that community.
The Beatrice postofiice will continue
as a first-class office, the receipts for
the fiscal year ending March 81 ex'
ceeding the $4,000 mark.
! Fairgrounds will be established In a
number of Nebraska towns this sum
mer, Hastings having planned to spend
! $4,000 on one for that place.
| K. r. Bedell, former principal OF
the Albion high school, has been elect
! ed to succeed l.. f.. Martin to the SUI
perintendency at Schuyler.
Estimate is made that Is per cent
Of the bees in Richardson county have
died of starvation, neglect and dis
eases incident to the long winter.
w. F. Denton, of Sterling. was
elected chairman of the Burlington
system by the order of railway train
men at its meeting held in Chicago.
Freeman Wadsworth, Is years old
was accidentally shot near Wayne
when a gun in the hands OF a com
panion was discharged while on {
hunting trip.
Early and deep blowing is recon
mended in Nebraska by the depart
ment of agriculture to kill the Hessiar
ny, which has to a certain extent sur
vived the winter.
Shickley board OF education will ado
twelfth grade to the schools at tina
place.
A chapter of the Sons OF the Amer
lean Revolution will be organized a
Lincoln.
A number of cases Of smallpox have
developed at Hastings, despite the eff
forts Of officials to subdue 1t. A quar-
antine is now being rigidly enforced
N. w. Smails, recently elected post
master at Fremont, has taken charg'
Of the office, b. w. Reynolds, who re
tires, making the transfer withou
ceremony.
Roy Scarborough. % years old, o
Dunbar. was found dead in an alley a
that place. epilepsy, to which he wa
subject. being the probable cause O
his death.
The Community club OF Liberty
which has a membership of fifty-four
has taken preliminary steps for tn
erection of a new hotel at that plac
10 cost about $4,000.
AS the result OF the shooting @
Mrs. Ida Stout by her husband, Harry