The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1919-11-20
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News OF All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout
Nebraska.
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS

An organizer FOR the Nouportisot
league named Buell. met with Shove
OF eggs while making an address I'm
school house few miles from Spnld
lng according to his story filed II
court there. Buell. charges eigh
! Spaiding business men and farmer
living nearby with assault an,
battery He says he was spnt
tered with rotten eggs, suffered grley
Gus damage physically, mentally. and
above all. sartoriaIly. Trial of ia,
ease has been So; for November ~
In an effort to check the goplc,
menace. which is threatening the nj
Ialia production of the state. the STA,
University College Of Agriculture Fix
tension Service IL conducting poison
ing demonstrations in Johnson. Saun
ders, Richardson, Gage and Lancaslc,
counties IL Is estimated that gophcrs
cost the farmers of each southeastern
county 100000 year, and cause an
annual loss to the state of $1,000 600
Injunction proceedings hnyc beon
brought In the Johnson county district
court at Tecumseh by several farmers
To prevent County Treasurer Lawrence
from paying $4,000 county warrants
issued during the last four years The
charge is made that the county wrong.
fully issued warrants for Soio.713Go
after the legal limit of 81 per cent of
the levy had been issued each year.
Suit to enjoin the Woodmcn of the
world from putting the new increased
rates into effect on January /. 1920
has been filed i'm Nebraska CITY bv
several members of the fraternnl order
The charges are that the new rates
violate the orders constitution and by.
laws and the laws of the state.
IL has become known around the
state house at Lincoln that plops aro
being laid for strict enforcement of
the state and federal anti-liqu0r laws.
ny closer cooperation of the oeiciaIs
or the government, state, counties and
cities of Nebraska.
Regional Director Il. II. Ashton ~
chicago has turned down request
from the state railway commission
that Nebraska agency be authorized
to pass on the distribution of coal
seized by the federal government with.
In the state.
Nebraska, It is said, is leading all
states In this division in Red Cross
roll call. Pawnee county has over ten
thousand new members and Kimball
county already has enrolled more than
last year. Prospects are for a record
Several western as well as several
eastern counties report shortage of
corn shuckers. Eight cents busheI Is
about the standard wage. This means
hat many men shucking good corn
make 81 to SIS day plus their board.
or the $4,000 Nebraskans who served
With the colors during the war only
5000 have Joined the American Legion
II this state, according to President
line of the organization, who appeals
o service men to join the Legion.
Nebraska had her first real touch OF |
winter last Monday week when n |
swept over a greater portion
II the state, many districts reporting /
snowfall of from two to twelve
inches.
a beautiful memorial tablet to John
on county's 500 men who served In
he world war was unveiled on the
curt yard campus In Tecumseh Nov.
!, In the presence of several thou
and persons.
production of corn in Nebraska this
ear will approximate l6s CO., 900
ushels, according to preliminary es-
mate announced by the state depart
rent of agriculture ut Lincoln.
More than 800 delegates attended the
nnual convention of the Nebraska
hristian Endeavor at York. G. @.
'obbs OF Aurora was chosen president
urora won the 1920 meeting.
The entire community of Waterloo
lined In the celebration of the fiftieth
cdding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs.
s. Sibcrt, longtime residents of the
'wn.
burglars broke into the Farmers
Mon Store at Lindsay the other night ,
I'd carried Off merchandise to the
Hue of $1,000.
Robbers looted the store of Frank ,
udek mt Schuyler and secured $4,000 $
orth Of silk, silk waists and silk
,irts. ,
Omaha citizens voted 2 to in favor
$o,OOOOOO bond issue for the i'm r
ovement of the public schools of the q
ty and for 100000 issue for the $
ectlon of a new police station and Z
ty jail.
1t has been announced that John II
ulbert, chief engineer of the New
'rk penitentiary. will be paid $500 v
r manipulating the electric chair 4
hen A. V. Grammer end A. b. Cole, "
nvicted of numbering Mrs. Lulu {
'gt In Howard county July 3, 1917, II
e executed mt the state prison at Il
ncOln, January o, next. o
Five OF the twelve delegates elected
the constitutional convention i'm s
'uglas county were candidates sup O.
rted by organized labor. p
Blue Springs committee of three
nai Sin 10, . |