The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1919-10-16

sleeping accommodations enroute Is
unconstitutional. The administration
holds that II is giving to Nebraska
privileges not allowed in any other
state and therefore cannot be per-
mitted.
The city of Aurora has obtained q
Judgment for $4,000 against NJ. Ford,
paving contractor. Suit was brought
on the five-year guaranty contract
made by Ford when he laid In the
city pavement. The asphalt on this
pavement cracked and rotted badly
/ within the five-year period. The case
was held to be an important one and
paving contractors Of the state testi.
| fled as witnesses.
! Sugar beet factories at Grand Island,
Scottsbluffs, Bayard and Gering start
cd operations during the past week.
The 1910 campaign is expected 10 last
100 days with daily output Of 1885,
600 pounds of graduated sugar The
campaign opened one week earlier
than usual this year on account of the
shortage I'm sugar.
Miss Emma Meservey, Fremont
school teacher, started an the hog
business a year ago, buying blooded
animal from William Munderow for
$1,000 Later she got "cold feet" MS
she expressed II, and turned the hog
back. At the Des MOiEes fair she saw
1t take the grand prize ana sell for
$1,000 to Minnesota breeder.
Alliance is to have n $4,000 memoir
| foI h,riI IN
Of soldiers and sailors of the district
who took part In the war. The struc-
ture is to be designed and built with
the idea of providing suitable place
for holding public meetings.
Walter Briggs of Seward captured
a silver cup for the best pig at the Ma
tlonal Swine Show at Des MOines, and
Cyril Winkler Of Lexington won first
In the sweepstakes battle. These boys
won several prizes in various classes
besides.
The government railroad administra-
ton has advised the state railway
commission that 1t will take no inter-
est in the case which will come up in
federal court ut Lincoln, Nov. II. in
volving the Nebraska commissions
class rate No. 10.
The Nebraska University football
team inaugurated its 1919 gridlron
campaign by losing bitterly contest.
ed battle to the Iowa state squad at
Iowa City by score OF 10 to O.
A statement issued by the state
treasurer shows that 1t took S1,012, S25
to operate the state government dur
ing the month Of September, while the
receipts were only $584,177.
COlored persons are daily leaving
North Platte In large numbers, due to
the feeling which exists In the city
since the murder of the late Conductor
Massey by negro.
Several prominent Lincoln business
men have organized an aircraft cor
poratiOn, capitalized at $750,OOO. Head
quarters Of the firm will be In the
capital city.
A crowd of 30 !. w. w. agjtators
was rounded up near Mitchell and sent
. to jail. They have been warned by
authorities that they are not wanted
I'm the district.
1t is reported that the weevil has ap-
peared In much wheat grown In Me-
braska and surrounding states this
! year, and that some damage has al
. ready been done.
, The Farmers State bank of Spauld-
ing is new institution granted
charter by the department of trade and
! commerce with a capital of $4,000.
The Bethlehem Oil company has
leased $4,000 acres near Riverton and
| tn
drilling for oil at once.
Some damage was done to farm
> property in the vicinity of Schuyler
when small tornado passed over the
: district.
Retail clerks Of Fremont have or
ganized union. The local started
I. with a membership of seventy.
> Four members of the family of Ira
AinswOrth, late Dodge county pioneer
Q have died within the last two years.
Kearney Is to have new -four mill
q OF the strictly modern type. The en-
Z terprise is expected to cost 100000.
\ The special bond election for $50.
:. 600 worth of paving intersection bonds
carried, two TO one, In Norfolk.
- A charter has been granted n posi-
. Of the American Legion recently or
= ganized mt Fender.
= Preliminary steps have been taker
~ at Ainsworth to organize post of thu
!, American Legion.
= Odcll is without newspaper, thu
Weekly Wave having ceased publica
ton.
/" A post of the American Legion wal
= organized at Clay Center the Othel
day.
, The village board Of Plymouth ha
70 contracted with the Beatrice Electric
10 company to furnish the town will
lights.
u The principal streets OF Alnswortl
L. are to be lighted In the immediate fu
. ture by a strictly up-to-date lighting
system.
~ The Nebraska college Of agricultur
Is stock Judging team, composed Of G. j
Di Wiedeburg, ID. T.. Moulton, p. II