The Red Cloud chief., 1919-10-02
Nebraska boys and girls won twelve

Nebraska boys and girls won twelve
prizes at the Interstate Live Stock
, fair at Sioux City, Ia, including first
Tor pig club judging and second In s.in-
ming. With eleven teams competing, 3
Seward county boys, Norval Clark,
Peter Pratt and Walter Briggs, took
high honors as Judges of pigs. and
three Omaha girls, Mary Haney. Ruby
Crippen and Anna May Boland, second
place In canning
Governor Mckelvie has called upon
Director General Hines of the rail.
oad'administratiOn TO take some ac-
ton tn save hundreds of thousands Of
bushels Of wheat In western Nebraska
from rotting on the ground. because
| freight ears for it's shipment have not
been furnished. Great damage has al
ready been done and further loss will
follow unless relief is had soon.
The state board of educational lands
: and buildings approved valuations of
! school lands In the counties of Boone.
| Buffalo, Chase, Dawson. Harlan, John
! son. Pierce. Richardson. Sarpy. Web
ster and Wheeler, which show an in
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| ton of these lands was S3lO.S32. The
new total on the 1895 acres re-valued
! is Sl,4497SO.
Hall county Is said to have saved
considerable money by doing It's own
! work on the cOunty's section of the
state highway system now under con-
! struction. The work throughout the
4 10 irtt nj Gnip n
/ building cost about 80 cents II cubic
yard, it being much less than projects
let by contract.
Nebraska's only general (outside Of
General Pershing) to participate i'm
the world war; Brig Gen. Geo. Hair
I ries. arrived at New York from over
seas. He was the first American of
ficer to enter Berlin during the war.
Only two of the several thousand
hogs exhibited at the state fair, which
were ordered quarantined after ship
ment home because some Of the ami
mails had been exposed to an infec-
tious form Of bronchitis, have died.
The first shipment of supplies to
leave Nebraska for the hungry children
steamship Jason, which left New York
September 20. The shipment consisted
of $4,000 cans of condensed milk.
WOrkmen in the av OF rebuilding a
bridge on the Rock Island, near Desh-
Ter, which had been destroyed by fire,
were forced TO suspend operations
when a fiveinch rain fell in the dis
trict.
Reports from Washington to the eff
feet that General Pershing will not
make his western trip as planned
caused the Lincoln Commercial club to
Temporarily halt its plans for big re-
ceptiOn.
The Nebraska School of Agriculture
opens at Lincoln October 10. The coli
lege offers training in agriculture
and home economics to all persons
with common school education.
An army motor transport unit,
bringing $4,000 worth of equipment,
will be established In the military
training department Of the University
of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Contracts have been let for state
aid bridges across the Platte, near
Central City and Grand Island, the two
10 cost approximately $4,000.
Because of so many alleged Illegal
raids and number of damage suits
filed against it's members, the Omaha
moral squad has been abolished.
Buffalo county's farm bureau is to
be a permanent institution. A suitable
building for housing the enterprise is
to be erected at Kearney.
A hundred cO-eds at the University
Of Nebraska have enrolled in millinery
and dress making courses, according
to registration officials.
Paving of the principal street of
Ainsworth was brought to stop last
week due to the inability Of the con-
tractors to secure cement.
The recent heavy rain at Superior
| washed out the dam of the Southern
Nebraska Power Co., the oldest dam in
the Republican river.
Lovers of football at Lincoln predict
that Nebraska will have one of the
best teams in the history of the State
University this year
The big potash plants at Antioch
, have again resumed operation and the
town is beginning to show some of Its
old time spirit.
Work on paving the three miles OF
the Lincoln highway west of Column
bus is not expected to start until nexl
spring.
A homecoming celebration for Brown
7 county soldiers and sailors Will be
, held In Ainswortli on October II
and II.
, Falls City people are vlgorousl!
: backing a movement to build new
up-to-date hotel In the city.
t Work of paving more than 100 miles
{ Of public roads In Douglas county viii
begin early next spring.
A =. II. Stewart, Buffalo county agri
A cultural agent, has accepted position
4 with the extension bureau of the STATE
university.
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