The Red Cloud chief., 1919-09-11
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Nebraska.
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The long awaited mandamus suit Of
the Hall county farm bureau against
the Hall county board of supervisors,
to which many other counties In the
state are said to be looking for n SUI
prenle court test of the constitutionali-
~ of the law requiring boards to
finance such bureaus when legally Pc
titiOned to do so, was filed In the dis
trict court mt Grand Island.
Nearly 1000 persons attended n
mass meeting of farmers at plckrell to
protest against the recent breaking up
Of Il farmers meeting I'm Beatrice and
10 name n committee to confer with
Governor McKelvie and ask him to
take steps TO remove city and county
officials who are said TO have failed TO
properly protect the farmers.
A number Of prominent eastern
physicians predict that the recurrence
of an influenza epidemic the coming
winter In this country Is unlikely. A
number Of Nebraska medical men have
expressed similar views.
Farms in Cunning county are chang
Ing hands at unheard Of prices. A
small tract near West Point sold for
$500 an acre and several large farms
have sold recently from $3.50 to $3.50
m acre.
Reduction in hog prices on the
South Omaha market during the last
week I'm August was the sharpest
I'm the history Of the market. The de-
crease amounted to $3.50 rer hun
died.
Preliminary steps for the ~Organiza.
ton of a farmers creamery company
capitalized at u half million dollars,
was taken at a meeting of about fifty
Gage county farmers at Beatrice.
Alliances new theater, built at a
cost of $S5,OOO, and said to be the
finest found in a town the size Of Al
lance anywhere In the country, was
opened to the public August 30.
william G. Billiard, 60 years old,
prominent Omaha business men and
well known over the state, was killed
by a fall down stairs from the second
floor of his home ut Omaha.
A bunch of live wires at Sutherland
are agitating a proposition to hold a
street fair or some sort of an affair to
exhibit a sample Of the splendid crops
raised In the district.
The Red Cloud city council award.
ed a contract for t~hirty-eight blocks
Of asphaltic concrete pavement at $2.2t
per square yard. The work is to be
finished by December 1.
1t Is reported that lakes in the north
and northwestern part of the state are
LITERALLY covered with wild ducks
Many hunters are expected to invade
the region this fall.
1t Is reported that Ogallala's new
hotel building, which has been stand
ing for a year partially erected, ma!
be finished by January list or sooI
after.
Wheat fields in Keith county hav'
yielded the greatest crop ever grow
In that part of Nebraska. Many field
, produced from 40 to so bushels to tn
acre.
, The board Of education at Meadow
Grove awarded a contract for the ereC
I ton Of the new high school gym
| nasium. The building will cost $S.45t
Cecil f. Laverty of Burwell ha
been appointed assistant state attol
t ney general to succeed Judge Raip
? Wilson, who resigned recently.
A A public market has been establish
I ed at Grand Island where producer
[ Of food may dispose of their wares q
rect to the consumer.
Cattle prices dropped rs cents
$50 per hundred and sheep $3.50
!, hundred at the South Omaha mark'
during the past week.
Citizens of Beemer turned the
4 clocks back to the old time Augu
v 81 upon recommendation of the VI
s l0ge board.
There Is considerable agitation
v several eastern Nebraska counties IL
i a free wagon bridge across the Plat
river.
v A flour mill with a capacity OF II
, barrels per day and to cost arouI
h $50, 900, is to be erected at Sidney.
a A movement is on foot to build
n new hotel at Axtell. A new hotel
the towns one greatest need.
The average wheat yield In Linco
~ county has been placed at nrte'
u bushels to the acre.
e Streets Of Shelton will soon be
81 tip-top shape. The work of paving
n number of them will be finished
N fore hong.
r. Columbus is soon to have an au
truck line, giving daily freight servi
ID between the city and towns within
,e radius Of thirty or forty miles OF t
III city.
We ]. G. Petersen, prominent weste
IN Nebraska architect, was awarded
g contract for the plans and SUPERVISE
M of construction f0S~the Kimbail cou
no high school to be erected at kimD
at a cost of 100000.
i, Work on the Hastings-Ayer fede
aid highway will begin about the IL
of this month.
' During the week Of October ~