The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1916-02-03
ALL ever NEBRASKA
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

pave tHlrty-One DOCKS III tne spring |
Four and one-half miles of paving
were completed last year.
l. J. Thomson OF Minden. republi
can. Is the first to file as candi
date for office in Kearney county. IL,
filed for clerk of the district court.
Twelve orphan children wer
brought TO Seward the other day from
New York and placed in homes in tn,
city and surrounding country.
The Lancaster County Board o.
Commissioners has purchased suit
able building in Lincoln and begun
the manufacture of Culverts for coun
ty use.
a. V. Workman, editor of the He
bron Champion. ard T.. II. Kendall
have purchased the Hebron Register
and will combine It with the Cham
pion.
The annual convention Of the coun
| ty treasurcrs of Nebraska will be held
In Omaha February 90 and "a. Peter
Mcintosh Of Adams county. is presi
| dent Of the association.
Five thousand acres of Platte val
ley Land will be put into sugar beets
| between North Platte and Keystone
according to John Bryan, agent fol
the American Beet Sugar company
The town of Hadar, located few
miles north of Norfolk has been in
corporated. Hadar boasts Of a popu
lation of 10S souls and those enthus
iastic over the incorporation expec'
to see continuous growth in the
town.
Madison county's corn crop for 1915
Is figured to have been 4,025,SS7 bush
els. or an average of 3i2 bushels tt
the acre and is valued at S2.0l2,9i4
The county had 1,4S9 acres In win
ter wheat, averaging 1914 bushels tc
the acre.
The village board OF Eddyville has
granted Andrew Sutherland twenty
five year franchise granting him the
right to conduct an electric lighting
system within the town. and has also
ordered that twelve street lights be
installed at twelve principal cross
ings
Eayard II. Paine, OF Grand Island
has prepared his petition for one OF
the nominations for district Judge and
will file the same In the near future
There are at present three candidates
ar the nonpartisan nomination
though 1t is expected there will b.
others.
An agricultural short course will bt
held at Allen March to 10. This Il
the first venture in a short course II
the community thus far. In addition
to the work by the state workers sev
cral local features will be added.
A concrete bridge Of the latest styl
of construction will be erected owe
the Platte river at Kearney. II will
take the place of the mile long wood
en- structure now spanning the river
Application for state aid was mad
many months ago and not until latel
; has the matter been acted upon b.
, tho board.
Joe W. Leedham, editor OF tn
Gordon Journal. has announced hi
candidacy for the republican nomina
ton to the office Of commissioner O
puolc lands and buildings. MI
Lccdham Is student of the Un'vel
si,y of Nebraska and of MOrnngsid
college at Sioux City, and a native G
Nebraska.
Bert Howard announces the sale G
I the johnson County Journal-Trbuna
r Of Iecumsch, to Charles D. Rlauvel
of Arapahoe. Mr. Howard has Doc
interested in the paper for severe
years. Mr.. Blauvelt has previousl
been in the newspaper business 9
j Ararahoe, selling his paper, the Mi
ror last fall.
The smallest known human mothe
e Mrs. Dolletta Boyken, and her tw
j children are in Fremont for a vie
with relatives. Mrs. Boyker, VIII
e was a former Fremont girl, weigh
only thirtyslx pounds and Is twent
seven inches high Her parents an
brothers are normal sized. The hit
4-ycar-old son Of Mrs. Boyken
larger than his mother.
City Health Commissioner Come
y OF Omaha announced that he Intend
TO employ several additional phys
clans as assistants in the health d
=, partment during the prevalence
v scarlet fever These are to check I
suspicious" cases, follow up luara
tines and aid In inspection OF place
Of pubic gathering. There are near
three hundred cases In the city
IT. this time.
u, Petitions were circulated placlr
~ the name Of Senator A. d. Spencer
~ Barnston in nomination for the repu
lican nomination for senator from Il
n Fourteenth senatorial district, col
u priring the counties of Gage and Pa
~ nee,
=, Both elevators at Plymouth ha'
l.. been turning away grain the past fe
days, owing to the shortage OF cal
,s The recent raise in prices has had
,.rIapcy IN hiring I'm the grain nj