The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1918-11-28
PROVOST Mariana, Anderson of Ne

to As inclusive, registered on Sep
TENDER 81, last, under the manpower
act, will be dropped from the lists.
Those who have not yet filled out
their questionnnres are relieved
from doing so, but the blank ques-
tionnares are to he mailed back or
handed back TO the local boards. Lo-
cal boards are directed to enroll and
classify all 1S.yenrolds, the sane as
II the war was going on.
In response to a protest sent In by
Supt. Demll OF Coleridge, Attorney
General Reed stands pat on his for
mer opinion that school boards cannot
legally pay teachers their salaries for
the time that schools were closed dur
ing the recent influenza epidemic. He
stated In his reply TO Mr.. Demil that
the schools were closed by law, and
that IL Is the duty of the lnw-making
body to remedy any condition which
existed OF an unsatisfactory nature
because OF the law.
Twenty-Five thoroughbred Holstein
cows of n herd of 1O1 animals owned
by the Woodlawn dairy, near Lincoln.
have been condemned AZ tubercular by
State Veterinarian Anderson. The
condemned animals will be killed.
Changes in the ruling Of the national
war board concerning construction or
public utilities will permit road anu
highway construction without special
permit, according to an order received
by the state council OF defense.
The sum of $1,000 was paid for
ShOrthorn cow at a sale In Omaha
recently by John Ruwe, Hooper stock
raiser. This Is said to be the highest
rrice for n cow OF that breed ever
paid in this country.
At the request of the State Board
Of Health that no unnecessary public
gatherings he held. the dedication OF
the new Dodge county court house at
Fremont has been postponed indeh-
nitely.
Governor elect McKelvle will ad-
dress county commissioners. supervis-
ors, highway commissioners and
clerks Of the state at their annual
meeting at Hastings December 3.
and 3. :
Nebraska's potato yield will be
100000 bushels under last years
production, according to a government
report The yield this year is csti-
mated ut S,S75OO0 bushels.
Governor-elect S. Il. McKelvie spent
$4,000 to be elected November D, ac-
cordlng to his statement filed with
the secretary Of state. 1t cost Gov
ernor Neville 81 ,09S to lose.
Mrs. Silas A. Holcomb, 80 wife of
Judge H0lcomb, former governor and
Nebraska supreme court judge AMI
present member Of the state board OF
control, died at Lincoln.
Reports regarding appointments
when GOvernor-elect Mckelvie gets
into Office give the adjutant general
ship of Nebraska to Major Jesse v.
Craig Of Beatrice.
Washington advices to the Ne
braska food administration are to- the
effect that the licensing plan for deal
Ing in food stuffs is to continue for
another year, at least.
Fuel regulations will be maintain
ed regardless Of the signing Of the
armistice according to word received
from Washington by Fuel Admins
traitor Kennedy ut Omaha.
VIII Maupin, Nebraska publicity d.
rector, figures that the states total
production of agricultural and live
stock in 1918 will be worth more than
500 100000.
The synod Of Nebraska, postponed
from October 1910. will meet In the
First Presbyterian church of Lincoln,
December 80, unless health conditions
should hinder. ,
The Dodge County board of super
visors has decided to construct the
six-mile stretch of concrete roadway
on the Lincoln highway west out of
Fremont.
A record potato yield was made In
Grant county this year. A total Of
$50 bushels were harvested from
1t is estimated that Nebraska's four
sugar factories will produce 100000
sacks of sugar, each weighing 100
pounds, this season.
The Deshler Red Cross celebrated
the news of the armistice by voting
$500 to the Nebraska base hospital in
France.
The first potato flour plant in Ne
brnska and the second In the United
States will soon be In operation In
Rushvillc
Win Polack of Able, %, was In.
stantly killed and four other persons
were more or less injured In an auto.
mobile wreck near Fremont.
Over 1000 bushels OF corn and
1000 bushels Of oats were lost when
| fire destroyed big elevator at Valley.