The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1918-10-31

price or hogs In ncCOfuance WIFI tne
| promises OF year ago and to pass
measures which will free the grain
markets from sudden and unwar-
| rnnted declines. In lengthy re-
| port submitted at the meeting II
| was shown that in spite Of n shortage
in the 1918 crop, corn dropped 53
cents per bushcl In price on the
| Omaha market In twenty-one days.
The State Council OF Defense has
again called upon people Of Nebraska
to rid the state of the common bar
berry bush. which harbors rust and
causes its sprend to wheat and other
| cerepls. TO emphasize that the coun-
I'll Is in earnest this time. II states
that Summary action" will follow on
| the heels of all cases OF refusal to
comply with the order.
s. w. Sanford of Fremont has been
made superintendent OF the state hog
cholera serum plant, which was rec
emily ordered reopened by the board
| OF regents OF the state university. Mr..
| Afford had charge Of the plant until
| II was closed by the legislature year
ago.
Another Nebraska boy has received
recognition for bravery "over there"
The French government decorated
Earl Lenning of Schuyler for perform
ing daring feats under heavy enemy
FIRE according to word reaching his
parents ut Schuyler.
| A total of 1887 University OF Ne
trnska students have entered Uncle
Sans service, which places orr state
educational institution fourth In the
list Of state colleges Of the country In
percentage OF students In the service.
Nebraska soldiers who become in.
sane I'm service will be cared for at
the three state asylums, the state
board OF control has decided. Sixteen
soldiers have been received at these
institutions in the last six weeks.
A rumor Is current in western Ne
braska that the monster twenty-four
inch oil well near Harrisburg, drilling
Of which has been going on for rbout
q year. has struck oil at depth OF
over four thousand feet.
Records Of the state health office at
Lincoln up to last Tuesday showed a
total Of about $4,000 Influenza cases
I'm Nebraska. with death rate OF
about 2 per cent, which Is considered
remarkably low.
Dodge county's new court house,
erected ut cost Of $225,OOO was ded-
icated last Saturday. The building
WINS erected to take the place OF the
one destroyed by fire three years ago
next December.
Berlin precinct, Otoe county, wifi
n quota Of S72.315, was one Of the
first communities IN the Kansas CIT,
district to exceed Its quota and win
an honor dag In the Fourth Liberty
. Loan drive.
People Of Riverton are greatly ex'
, cited over the prospects Of finding oil
I In the vicinity. A movement for the
organization Of company to drill
this fall Is now on foot, II Is reported.
/. Because Of the influenza epidemic
: the state convention Of the Nebraska
, Bankers association. scheduled FOL
Omaha this week, has been postponed
, The meeting may he held next month
Nearly 1000 persons attended thu
v dedicatory services Of the new Meth
9 odist church Mt Cortland. The church
Z was erected Mt cost Of $4,000 and 1
= was dedicated free Of Indebtedness.
n An average Of thirty food regula
tion violators are penaliZed eacl
o month In Douglas county. Penaltie
. have ranged from brief closing t,
n large contributions to the Red Cross.
l. The apple crop IN Dodge and sur
rounding counties Is reported almos
" Il complete failure. only few orch
g nrds producing anything like no,
n mai crop.
" Poor corn crops in Seward count
this year has resulted In farmers q
h the county offering to assist farmer
le In other counties to harvest thei
d crops.
70 The war industries board has turf
al down the application Of the NJ
b. braska Corn Meal Mills for n perm
H. to erect $4,000 elevator In Beatric,
,e So numerous have gophers becom
IN Dodge county that measures hay
a. been taken to rid the county of I'll
n pest.
er Potato growers Of western Nebrask
are again urging the establishmei
IL OF potato -four factory.
IL Niobrara's new Touring mill
he now in full operation and turning o,
high grade product
st The state council Of defense sent
sc message to President Wilson sugges
m. Ing mo armlstice with the Germs
he government while the German arm
~ are In the field" and urging uncont
tlonal surrender rs the only basis
~ peace negotiations.
ka The laying Of sidewalks hcncefor
OIL Ia to be passed upon by county nj