The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-28
NEBRASKA INCIDENTS
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Occurrences Over the Cornhusker
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SlntS tAlC Dul Niti
sustained by the court in Lincoln.
They will lay energetic and system
attic siege for the woman vote, WIN
organizations throughout the entlre
state. If the women Of Nebraska take
advantage Of their new privilege, II
: will increase the normal vote OF his
state from 100000 to 100000.
At the state potato show at Scots
bluff, Box Butte county again won
most prizes, winning the NeWberry
eur over every county in western Ne
braska for the best quality exhibit
Of spuds, and the fine silver cup given
by the ScottSbluff Commercial club Tor
the best arranged exhibit, also seven
teen individual prizes. The 1920 con
ventiOn goes to RuShcille.
A petition signed by 500 men of the
farming community of Cunning county
was presented to the county board,
asking for the abolition of he farm
bureau and discharge Of the county
agent. The board took action and
granted the petition and disseminating
the bureau, consequently letting out
+. L. -Glassburne, the present county
agent.
Nebraska'S two United States sena-
tors, Hitchcock and Norris. split their
vote on the suffrage amendment when
the senate turned it down for the
fourth time, Norris casting his vote
for the resolution and Hitchcock
against it. Both houses of the state
Legislature had called upon Senator
Hitchcock to support the measure.
The Sheldon farm, near Columbus,
was selected rs the site for The per-
manent Y. NJ. c. A. boys camp, ac-
| cOrding to unanimous decision of the
committee which met III Lincoln. c.
G.. Sheldon gives the boys the land
! and a building. which is in memorial
TO his father. The site is Il pictur-
esque one.
England's embargo on American
products anticipated an embargo the
United States will have to declare to
protect American interests and labor
against competition with nations
J where labor standards are lower, Gov
ernor McKelvie wired III answer TO Il
query from the New York American.
G.. III. Schmelling, who formerly
lived near Norfolk, told friends there
that his three sons, James, Frank and
Richard, were killed i'm the battle of
the Marine. They were fighting with
American units, composed mostly Of
Iowa men. The Schmellings now live
at Shenandoah, IN.
A movement is on foot at West
Point to call a'special election to vote
bonds to take over the gas and cleo.
trio light plant of the city. Many
complaints against the service rem
dered by the company have been filed
with the city council.
1t took 81 OOH 19 to run Nebraska
in January, 1919, according to war
rants issued by State Auditor Marsh.
The semi-aDnual appOrtionment of
500, 123 in state school funds distrih-
uted to every district in the state
helped sweli the total
Governor McKelvie, on his return
from Washington, asserted at Lincoln
that he is in favor of a Nebraska state
constabulary of sixty men, to patrol
the state against booze runners and
auto thieves, q substitute for the old
Nebraska national guard.
Up to last Monday, twelve counties:
Dodge, Gage, Boone, Butler, Dixon,
Dawson, Howard, Nemaha, Polk, Sar-
So yy,1lox, aud NE,rnn hn1 raonhnl
their quotas i'm the campaign for $780,
4, 600 in Nebraska for relief in the near
east.
Arrangements have been made for.
the construction Of state highways
from L%odgepole to Dalton, from Potter
to Dalton and from Sidney TO Bridge
port, via Dalton.
Clinton MattOcks, Cherry county
man, twice reported killed in action.
has arrived at his home from France.
He reports he had never been in front
line trenches.
Grain dealers over the state predict
that corn acreage in Nebraska will be
kept low this year because of the gov
eminent guarantee Of a wheat price.
Plans have been formulated and
money pledged for the erection of a
modern 23-room hotel building to cost
$4,000 at Dalton.
Parties at Brock refused $500 per
acre for a half section OF land ad-
joining the Brock tOwnsite.
Corn prices at the Union Stock
Yards, South Omaha, cropped from
$500 to SIZE per bushel.
1t is estimated that more than 5000
persons in Douglas county will lose
the right of suffrage as n result Of the
'full citizenship" requirement passed
at the last session of the legislature.
David A. Best of Omaha, who. had
charg. of prisoners savings at the
state cenitentiary at Lincoln, has been
charged by the state board Of control