The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1916-02-03


hundred
Planview will soon have Carne-
gle library. The Carnegie board has
allowed the funds for the building
and the city council has passed un or
dinance to support It,
Omaha was selected as the place
Of the first annual exhibition of rec
ord swine. by representatives. of the
National Swine Growers association.
who met in Chicago recently.
d. j. Wilbcrton of pilger sent his
first herd of fat stock. consisting OF
forty head, averaging over l.2oo
pounds, to the South Omaha market
the other day and got the top price
Of $S.15.
A. l.. Mohlcr. president OF the Un.
ion Pacific railroad, who YVES serious.
ly injured when lie fell on the ice
while skating ut Omaha, Is much i'm
proved and is expected to be about
soon.
Henry Brackhan was burned to
death at his home twenty miles south
east OF York as result Of the eNplo-
sion of the contents of "a can of kcro
sene with which he WAS starting the
kitchen fire
The Mcpherson county board has
ordered special election for April
IS. to vote on the proposition to ISSUE
bonds to the amount Of $4,000 for the
construction of q new court house
at Tryon.
William Fisher OF Beatrice was
killed at the home OF his sister,
Mrs. Henry Synoves. residing on a
farm near Belleville. Kas.. being
caught In the fly wheel of a threshing
machine engine.
Directors OF the Midwest Retail
| Implement Dealers association, after
the annual convention at Omaha. de-
cided to hold the next convention
also in Omaha, the dates to be De-
cember G, and 8, 1916.
Several hundred delegates are ex'
pected to attend the annual state con.
vention of the Y. NJ. G. A. at YORK
February Is. 10 and 20, according TO
officials of the state association who
are busy with plans for the meeting.
Two banks In Harlan county paid
their taxes under protest pending the
supreme court decision on the valid
ity OF the new law that superseded
the Smith mortgage tax law which
permitted banks to escape taxation
on their capital stock.
Machinery OF all kinds for mixing
concrete will be in operation. turning
out the various kinds OF useful ant
ornamental articles made Of this ma
terial, at the tenth annual Midwes
Cement show TO be held In Omah'
February 20 to March 4.
Clerk Of the Platte county distr'c
court, c. NJ. Gruenther, as referee
sold nj public sale at the court hOus'
In Columbus. in the nciahborhood o
, live hundred acres of Platte count.
land, at an average price OF $l35 pc
acre.
All records for single months hot
receipts at the South Omaha stool
market were broken in January. Th'
previous record mCnth for hog re
ceipts was February, 1912. when tn
: receipts for that month totaic'
55O.O32 head. The total for las
, month ia nearly 100000 head.
Nebraska health officers at thei
:. annual conference In Omaha. indcrse
proposed Nebraska law for ccmhir
, ing the pure food, hotel inspection
and various other health movement
under one head. The bill, to be N
", troluced in the next legislature, WI
p, also cal for sanitary survey Of tn
. state. More than 100 Nebraska town
:, we're represented by their health of
GERS.
). The city manager plan Ia being az
, yocated by many residents Of Beatric
at the present tine. Beatrice was Tn
first Nebraska city to adopt the con
:, mission form OF government and IN
:. same interests behind this move. ar
y behind the city manager plan. 1t
suggested as the city election Is al
y preaching three men enter the rae
', for the commission who will conser
I" TO serve without pay.
e Fourteen thousand acres Of irriea
ed lanu are TeHuy ioi eI'iy III "
:, North Platte project and applicat or
~ may be made at the Alliance land O
y fee up to March "a. Drawings wi
u be held later. according to an a.
:, nouncement by the United States !
y terror department. The departmeI
" SAYS that the farms will contain fro
u forty to eighty acre farms, and TN
= homesteaders will find nearly GO,o'
y acres already In cultivation In the
- entity and the land is IN the cent
Of a rapidly growing country.
y 0. G. Smith Of Kearney director
u the State Fair association and prof.
d. nent stock raiser, filed his petition
'e be placed on the republican prima
IL ballot az candidate for senator fro
" the district comprising Sherma
Kearney and Buffalo counties.