The Red Cloud chief., 1919-12-11
C0RNHUSKER ITEMS.
News Of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout
Nebraska.
Of INTEREST TO ALL READERS

Nebraska City, Crete and numerous
other places In the state have been
closed because Of the coal strike. Thea
ters have been closed at Omaha and
business generally curtailed the state
university at Lincoln was ordered
closed last Monday. The drastic regu-
lations issued by the government for.
bidding fuel to all industries-save es-
sentials, are expected to cause a zen.
eral paralysis of business I'm his state
ana to close virtually all schools and
places of amusement until after the
holidays at least.
"A recent statement on crop produc.
lion In Nebraska this year, issued by
the state department of Agriculture.
shows that more corn, winter wheat.
oats, rye and wild hay were grown I'm
Nebraska In 1919 than 1918, while
spring wheat, barley, alfalfa hay and
potatoes showed a decrease compared
with last year.
No race has been found of the
three yeggmen who robbed the Hay
den Bros department store in the
heart of Omaha's retail district of cash
and .jewelry to the amount of about
$4,000. Police Of Omaha say It was
the most daring robbery In the history
OF the middle west.
with eighteen teams competing, Ne.
brnska won second place Nov. 30 at
the international livestock exposition
stock-judging contest at Chicago.
Texas was first over Nebraska by a
close margin. It is regarded as the
strongest and best contest eve had.
Delegates to the Constitutional Con-
ventiOn have been petitioned by Omaha
to make it possible to either consoli.
date the governments of the City of
Omaha and Douglas county, 'Or form
n new county to conform to the city
limits.
Land values in Saunders county are
increasing. Six years ago Eli Keiser
bought 40 acres of unimproved land
north of Ashland for $4,000. Three
years ago he erected a modern home,
and has just sold the property for
$4,000.
Formation of cooperative associa-
tons throughout the state soOn will
be started. Governor McKelyie Is hav-
Ing printed some pamphlets containing
the laws regarding the forming Of as
sociatiOns of this kind which will be
distributed to the public.
Plans for n sos, 900 automobile and
tractor factory have been adopted by
the officers of the Cove Motors Works.
who intend to build their plant Mt
Fremont, which is TO be the distrib-
nting center for their finished products.
Nebraska university football team
won the greatest victory In the annals
Of the athletic records Of the State
college, when the squad defeated the
Syracuse, n. Y, eleven at Lincoln
Thanksgiving Day by a score of 3 to q.
The contract for Ill blocks of brick
pavement in David City has been let
to an Omaha firm, ut a total cost of
s1S9,OOO. When this is completed,
David City will have 80 blocks of good
pavement.
Two hundred buck privates," who
served under General Pershing over
seas, will meet him at the Nebraska
state line and escort him t. Lincoln
when he arrives in December to spend
Christmas In the Capital City.
Actual suffering from lack OF fuel
was reported to the Nebraska Railway
commission in a telegram from Kill
gore. which said the village had been
without coal for ten days.
a handsome Partridge Wyandotte
cock, owned by Fred Karre, of Cotes-
field, was awarded the sweepstake
prize ut the Omaha Poultry show. The
Ord Is valued at $500.
Members or the farmers union Of
elevator and produce association in
Pawnee City.
Petitions signed for two additional
paving districts at Geneva will give
the city five and a half miles of paved
streets.
Loss Of stock, snOwbound mails, and
suffering among the poor resulted in
Arthur county from the blizzard last
week.
coal, David City's municipal light
plant discontinued its night service to
patrons.
Mrs. Roy Wiles, wife Of n young
farmer living southeast OF Louisville,
died from burns received when a car
of kerosene exploded. She was start
ing the kitchen fire and was pouring
oil from the a into the stove when
the accident occurred.
That farm land in Nebraska Is be-
coming more valuable by leaps and
bounds Is attested by reports that Mrs.
Anna Brown of NickersOn refused an
offer Of $500 per acre for her S0-acre
farm, and Paul Bize of Nemaha county
turned down $500 an acre for a 100
acre tract.
A Fremont firm plans to construct
ten new cottages at once In an effort
to relieve the house shortage In the
city.
Silks and furs 10 the value of 81, 800