The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1916-02-17

luDtlHdtit HAS bttu buiii'
The Boy Scouts Ut kearney are agi- |
tating the question of providing .
club room for the company.
The Beaver City FIGURING mills /
burned to the ground II few days ago
with a loss of $4,000.
Crawford has an organization or
Seventh Day Adventists, with a mem
bership of thirty eight
The annual meeting Of group one
Of tho Nebraska Bankers association
will be held in Beatrice May 10.
Over 400 Eagles, members Of aerie
No. 147, attended the dedication OF
their new $4,000 home at Lincoln.
The postoifice grounds at Beat
rice and Holdrege are to be improv.
ed at the expense of the federal gov
eminent.
w. j. Herbes, formerly publisher or
the Cedar Rapids Outlook, has pur-
chased the Lindsay Post from John
NJ. Heney.
John r.. Bartholomew of Columbus
was found dead on the Union Pacific
right. of-way near Schoeders mill 1t
Is believed heart failure caused his
death.
Directors Of the new Fremont Ho-
tel company have elected Frank Fow-
Ter president The new hotel Is to
be built in the spring at cost OF
$4,000.
The date of the banquet for law
makers and former lawmakers or Ne
braska scheduled for February 25th
at Lincoln has been changed TO Febru.
airy cath.
The petition for saloon at Crooks
ton, which had a remonstrance filed
against it, was withdrawn at TIE hear
ing, which permits Crookston to be
dry this year
Lincoln, after a lively contest sue.
ceeded in landing the 1917 convention
of the Nebraska Retail Dealers asso-
citation, at their meeting last week in
the capital city
While carrying home box OF live
ducks, John Schipmann, a resident OF
Fremont. slipped and fell on the Icy
walk and broke his neck. He died
almost instantly.
A large number of converts are re-
ported in the revival meetings which
are being held in the Methodist
church at Oakdale under the leader.
ship of Mrs. Mabel Guam Stevens.
While soldering a barrel brought to
the shop where he is employed for
repairs, Elmer Bush OF Morse Blum
was quite badly burned when the re-
ceptacle exploded. He saved himself
from a severe burning by rolling in q
snowbank.
The Nebraska Telephone company
has purchased controlling interest In
the Edgar Home Telephone company.
They have just completed the con-
struction of complete outside sys-
TEN. moving all poles to the alleys
where possible.
Along with paving construction
going on in Kearney there Is dis
cussion as to the narrowing or the
streets In the residence section OF
that city. The streets as laid out are
very wide. and the paving will be
heavy unless the streets are narrow
ed down.
One hundred and fifty-three pleas
ure cars. shown by sixty-one manufac-
! turers, twenty-six commercial cars
from nineteen firms. and balcony
full of motorcycles will constitute the
chief display at the Omaha Auto
Show in the Municipal Auditorium
, February 81 to 20.
Omaha's new Grain Exchange build
ing, when finished, will have one OF
the most elaborate systems OF wiring
in any building in the country Pres
ent wiring plans call for about seven
ty-three miles of telephone, electric
, light and telegraph wires. none OF
} which will he visible.
Leonard Minis, who lives near Ia
, BILE Rock. topped the St. Joseph. Mo.
, hog market recently with carload
. of porkers Of his own raising ant
, feeding. This is the second year II
, succession in which Mr.. Minis win
, ter shipment has sold at tho top 70
, day on which they were sold.
Now that the Nebraska State
l. league has disbanded, there Is talk II
4 a number Of towns of the defunct cir
a cult Of organizing independent teams
J. It is possible an Independent league
Q with two or three games weekly, ma!
|, be formed with Hastings, Beatrice
@ Fairbury, Kearney and one or tw'
other towns in the league.
h A load of lambs from the Leader
4 Bros lots at Richield, sold for II
). per hundredweight on the Sout
n Omaha market a few days ago, TIL
4 Is the top mark of the season and tn
highest price ever paid this seaso
L of the year
a The building fever seems to hav
d seized the population Of Crete. Tn
d new Congregational parsonage wa
}, completed few days ago; the ne'
!, Methodist church Is nearly ready, an
n ,oyar.l fpa neW Residences are bein