The Red Cloud chief., 1920-01-22
C0RNHUSKER ITEMS
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout
Nebraska.
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS

Two hundred delegates representing
Nebraska and %nelghborIng states, met
at Omaha the other day and organ
lied the Missouri Valley Dur0c Breed
ers Association. II was said to be
the most important gathering In the
history of the hog-ralslng industry of
the middle west. The purpose Of the
organization Is to promote a sentiment
among farmers to breed Duroc hogs
anu 10 urge cooperation of hog rails
ers In this part of the country.
The state bureau of pardons and
paroles has made known that John G..
Elliott, formerly president of the Far
mers State Bank at Decatur, who was
sentenced to from one TO seven wears
In the state prison at Lincoln on n
charge Of embezzlement In connection
win the operation of the institution,
was released from prison March 81.
1919. ten months after he began sery.
Ing his sentence. upon papers approved
by Governor McKelvie.
h consolidated school question
will be discussed AT the meeting of the
Association Of Rural School Patrons to
be held In Lincoln, January -, during
the week of Organized Agriculture.
During this week. there will also be n
poultry show. Il fruit and flower show
n Il corn show ut the Commercial
club and the university farm.
Cheered 10y their success In reducing
he price of eggs ana other foods
members of the Woman's club nj Lin
coin are planning to attack the price
OF clothing. They promise Ia make
last years hat and gown do until
prices reach a "sanc level"
Nebraska owners of slot weighing
machines must pay annual license and
inspection fees of So Immediately. or
the machines will be confiscated and
owners subjected to fines. Chief
George A. Williams Of the state bu-
reau of markets announced.
Nebraska will he well represented
at a meeting at Denver. January 30.
called by farm organizations of several
western states to devise ways and
means to fight the sO-called sugar
trust.
DR.. w. F.. J.. Gatz OF st. Paul Metho-
dist church OF Lincoln has accepted
the appointment rendered him by the
Nebraska conference Of the EpwOrth
league as dean of the institute. which
will be held I'm Lincoln, July 20.
Beatrice Farmers Union voted In
favor of the establishment OF u general
store in the city by the Farmers
Union State exchange. Three stores Of
the kind are to be operated in the
the state.
A huge snowplOw, which is pushed
by two tractors and pulled by twelve
horses, has been constructed by the
Commercial club Of Venango for the
purpose Of keeping the roads open.
Licenses were granted during 1919
to 2S,l $50 insurance agents and 46s
insurance companies were granted
authority to do business I'm Nebraska
by the state insurance bureau.
Several men have been arrested In
connection with the robbery Of the
Farmers State bank at Benson, Il sub.
urb Of Omaha, Of cash and bonds to
the amount of $4,000.
Nine men and one woman. alleged
members of the communist party OF
America, were arrested at Omaha dur
ing the nationwide roundup of radi'
Gals over the country.
Organized agriculture meetings,
which will be held In Lincoln Janu
airy 10 to "a, are expected to draw the
largest crowds In the history of better
agriculture.
The new consolidated school build
ing at Holmesville, Gage county, erect
ed at n cost of $4,000, has been com
pleted and turned over TO the schOo
board.
The new proposed 100000 stool
exchange building which was to b,
constructed at South Omaha the com
Ing spring, Will not he built until mex.
year, reports say.
1t Is rumOred In western Nebraska
that the Union Pacific is to extend il:
line west from Gering this year.
The Smith theater at TecumSeh hu'
been leased for meeting quarters 70
the local post of the American Legion
Stanley T.. Hahn, Post No. 154 of the
American legion, has been organizes
at Blair with AZ charter members.
Figures compiled by the government
show that u total of $613,025 was eX
pended o II the Lincoln Highway In Ne
braska In 1919.
More than 5000 has been raised b,
Bpatripe citizens IN furnish new uunf
tets for the local post of the American
Legion.
Omaha retained its position as til
second live stock market of the world
In 1910, being exceeded only by Oh
cage Total receipts of cattle, hogs
sheep and horses at the Omaha markc
amounted to $3.50 800 head during tn
year,
Bad condition Of fields througho,
Nebraska during the past two week
has caused Il considerable curtallmen