The Red Cloud chief., 1919-12-11

y W s'tAt Bop
ul0tiOn, the rural communities send
Ala persons to asylums, while the cit
les send SO, or more than twice as
many.
Hearing on the Burleson interstate
telephone toll rates is to be held I'm
Lincoln, Dec. 10, the state railway
commission announced. The rates
were to expire the first of this month.
but 1t was impossible for the commits
sion to establish a permanent rate at
that time, so the schedule was extend
ed to Jan. 81, 1920.
Shortage of coal has led TO the pos
sibiiity of the state board of contro,
beginning q wood harvest eon some Of
the trees near the Soldiers Home Mt
Milford. "A natural growth of timber
along the Blue river will insure the
institution sufficient fuel to keep the
veterans warm.
Mrs. Roy Clayton Graham of Beat.
rice, has been awarded II verdict OF
Sl3,oOO damages by a jury of the Ian.
caster district court for he death of
her husband, who was killed while
employed by the Lincoln Telephone
and Telegraph company.
The first airplane taxi line in the
world Is the claim of Lincoln, where
the Ensign company, pioneers in tax.
icab service I'm that city. have purcbas-
ed u plane, hired II driver and selected
a landing field for the new branch of
their business.
since farm bureaus Of the state have
been so successful in combating hog
cholera, grasshoppers and other de-
~structive pests, attention Is now turned
10 ridding Nebraska of the gopher pest,
whlch Is threatening alfalfa produc-
ton.
according to announcement by the
war department at Washington, S6.5
per cent of all men registered I'm Ne
Draska for war service were physically
MT. Wyoming alone tops Nebraska,
with a percentage OF S7.2. Kansas ia
third, with $50.
Several deals relating TO a tract Of
land in Platte county, chroniclcd re-
Gently In Il Columbus paper. shows
that the land was bought %thirty.nine
years ago for SO, $50, ana was sold the
other day for the sum of S1SO,OO0.
Gravel is TO be Used as surfacing on
the latest federal and state aid road
project designated for Buffalo county
This is the Lincoln Highway, work on
which will be started i'm the spring and
completed before fall.
The War department at Washington
refused Governor McKelvie's request
to cut national guard companies from
100 to 60 men, basing It's contention
that the latter would be too small for
a peace time state military unit.
Lester kittering, who returned in
June from France, was killed AT Grand
Island by the explosion of n bomb
which he picked up on the battlefieldS
OF France and brought back with him
as a trophy.
Geo. a. Williams, head Of the state
bureau of markets, plans to tour the
state to encourage formation of CO.
operative enterprises, as a means Of
reducing living costs.
Weather records in a number Of Ne
braska cities show that the last few
days of the past month were the cold.
est for November in more than ten
years.
Mrs. Sherman Whitcomb of Beat
rice was instantly killed ut her home
when a shotgun I'm the hands of her
son, Ted, 16 years old, was accidentally
discharged.
The State Railway Commission has
issued an order increasing motor trans
pOrtatiOn freight rates in eastern Ne
braska 30 per cent.
Bayard High School football team
went through the season undefeated |
and lays claim TO the championship of
western Nebraska.
The cornerstone of the new $4,000
Pilgrims Congregational church at
Cortland was laid just recently with
appropriate exercises. i
Farmers unions all over Nebraska
and lows are preparing to combat the
reduction of hog prices, say members
of various organizations in this state.
Elaborate preparations are being
made at Lincoln for the visit of Gen
eral Pershing to the Nebraska capital
during Christmas time.
Thanksgiving was a gala duy Mt
Stella when more than 1000 persons
attended a barbecue on the school
campus.
Farmers Of Gage county report that
they expect to reap a yield of 80
bushels Of corn to the acre.
A movement Is under way at Beat
rice to %reorganize Company G of the
Nebraska National guard.
City officials and civic and patriotic
organizations of Omaha have combine
ed in arranging a great welcoming cell
ebratiOn for General Pershing, sched-
uled to visit the metropolis sOon after
Christmas for inspection of Fort
Crook and Fort Omaha.
Governor McKelvie has notified all
county attorneys to enforce the law
passed by the 1917 Legislature which
requires persons renting garage space
to owners of automobiles to keep a