The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1919-11-20
The legislative committee apno,ntod

'ou'useinent OF cooperative buyn.
ana selling to reduce the middlemcu
prohibition of the storage of foodstun,
ionger than set period. A state pric,
commission 10 make public the margin,
taken IN the handling of goods. A re-
uuireinent that goods from the protlc
or To the consumer be marked with n,
cost price az every stage of the rn,lr
Nn amendment to the state antitrust
law making 1t Illegal for big dealers
10 partition the state into trade terri.
tory for each.
fraudulont whisky dealers are work.
ing the country in the vicinity of FIRE.
iloht, according TO reports which trII
Oh men who allow their prospects TO
sample a fire brand of the stuff. tnl;n
ORDERS Ia he shipped at once. ami NO.
copt checks for so or 800 with tho
understanding that Tie checks will nor
pe chShed until the liquor has been
Sllppcd. So far, so good, bur tl,a
WHISKY doesn't come and the checks
get caShed at the earliest opportunity.
say the compartments.
TIE capital commission. having in
charge the building of Nebraskn's now
! HhoorWD capitol, returned 10 Linco,n
from an inspection trip of the stnto
mousse buildings of Minnesota. Wiscou.
SIN and Missouri The next moetiny
VI tne commission will be held Deem.
per = ~ which time 1t will pass upon
the exhibits of the Nebraska nrchi.
tec's IN the preliminary competition.
u. W. Weisc, who died some timo
ago. leaving go acres of land in Ar.
thur and Mcpherson coun,ios ,,d :,
government bond for $1,000 of the
liird Liberty loan. enriched the stnte
by N2'42o.34. The land brought
Nl,f-o.3I when sold and with the bond
reNerts to the state because there ora
no known heirs.
Rumors are current I'm and arourJ
''esii'er that the Greater Desher Com
phny' which had abandoned plans IN
bui'd railroad connecting n number
OF towns In southeastern Nebraska AMI
northern Kansas, when the war bro,,,,
out, Is making preparations now 10
perfect the project
Vention who pulled through as the re.
suit of votes credited them by mail
need have no fear of losing their sen,s.
according to Attorney General Davis.
VINO refuted a report that his office
had held that voting by mail i'm spe.
cial elections was Illegal.
All restrictions regarding the sale
or bltuininOus coal have been lifted.
according to message received by tho
State Railway commission at Lincoln.
The Information was received from
"A. H. Ashton, regional director at Chi.
chgO.
Twenty-Five farmers southwest ~
Cedar Bluffs i'm Saunders county haye
formed the Farmers Light and Power |
company. They intend to build elec.
tric lines to supply their country
homes with electric current.
Farmers from the sandhill section
OF the state are helping harvest Don.
corn In Valley, Hall and Dawson coun.
lies. valley county is the second larc.
est popcorn producing county in the
United States.
Authority to issue S25OOOO addi.
tiOnal stock to increase their service
and add to their plant has been ask.
ed OF the State Railway commission by
the Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph
company.
The Nebraska School Of Agriculture
1t Curtis has an enrolment of 100 or
W per cent more students than In any
previous year. Every western Nebras.
ia county Is represented in the en-
The question Of recognizing tie
Nebraska Teachers association will
'e submitted to Il referendum vote of
he teachers within the next month.
t was decided at the state meeting at
omaha.
The recent cold spell has caused a
'alt In operations on the state aid road
roject from Fremont to Ames. Slight
less than a mile of the paving has
cen laid. The work will be resumed
ext spring.
Fifty-three head OF stock and two
Judging teams will be the University
4 Nebraska's contribution to the in
irrational live stock show at Chicago
december to O.
proposed special funding bond
'sue to care for registered warrants
l the sum of $240,0O0 was beaten In
he recent election IN Nemaha county.
Blair is to have about three miles of
rect paving In he course of few
'onths. A sewer system Is to be in.
allied previous to the paving
Corn in Garfield county Is averaging
ON ID to 30 bushels to the acre.
The village of Candy, In Logan
'unty, sent word TO state officials
Lincoln that the town was I'm dire 4
rats because of the coal strike. \
here have been only two cars of coal /
1loaded there since last summer, the
essage stated.
Returns from the constitutional con- u
'ntion election in Nebraska show .
at NOn-partisan league candidates .
ent down to defeat I'm many districts.
the 100 dplppates elactad N IL fO. II