The Red Cloud chief., 1920-05-06
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings in Nebraska
Given in Brief Items For
Busy Readers.

WORK has begun on the ScottSblufT.
kimball state and federal aid highway.
The knights of Columbus Of McCook
plan To erect a new home To cost about
$4,000.
All North Platte dance halls now
operate under license issued by the
Welfare Board.
Farmers of Gage county are MAN.
ming To SOW Il large acreage of sugar
cane this season.
All high school students mt Norfolk
are members Of the newly organized
Overall and Denim clubs.
Governor McKclvir has issued II
proclamation calling upon the people
of Nebraska to observe Monday. Nav
., aS Mothers Day
The annual conference for teachers
ANA those Interested in vocational r,u.
cation will be held AZ the university
state farm, Lincoln. May 81 to June :.
\ summer camp for Lincoln business
women and working girls is being
planned by members of the Eiwnnis
club. II will be- held on an eight-ucrp
tract AT Milford.
Erickson will join with the farmers
ANA ranclImcn of Wheeler county, i'm
one big community or commercial
club to work for the lettering of con.
ditiOnS I'm the county.
Thus far this year 2,13O motor We
hicle licenses have been issued to Ne.
inaha county automobile owners. II
Is estimated that more than $4,000
has been taken in from this source.
Jofn Otonnor. county assessor of
'odge county, has adopted II method
ot advertising assessment returns i'm
the newspapers in order To catch the
TAX shirkcr and GqualiZe the tax bur
den.
Miss Emma Mcscrvey of Fremont
was selected by Dodge county demo.
Gratis as their nominee for state repre-
sentative. She was the only woman i'm
the state Ia be nominated and if elect.
ed will be the first woman 10 sit in tho
legislature.
II Is reported that the Sinclair oil
and Refining company, the largest i'm.
dependent company in the country, is
~ '''''H lNl HE .NlllIIltt uS Ilt
site for one of the largest refincries |
in the west, 10 care for its large pro-
duction in Wyoming.
Hall county sugar beet were
given II pleasant surprise the other day
when they received II letter from the
American Beet Sugar company enclos-
ing Il 81 per ton bonus for all bccts ,
they raised during The last season.
There was no obligation on the part of |
the sugar company To grant this bonus.
One of the most unique gardens I'm
Nebraska this year will be planted mt
Stella by Mr.. aud Mrs. Guy Harris. |
who recently returned from n trip 10
all Latin-Amcrican state. All the
seeds were brought from Peru ana
Chile, ana several of the vegetables
that will be grown are unknown TO the
United States.
Eph Johnson, farmer neal Uehling,
has sent To the soil survey department
of the state university samples of fire
clay taken from his farm for decision
as To the prospects in commercial de
velopmcnt. Two acres of farm land
have II sub-SOil of the clay, declared
To be of excellent firc-rcSisting quality
ana great tensile strength.
Old residents of the Norfolk vicinity
say that the rise of the Elkhorn river
ut that point the past week was the
highest i'm twenty years. The flood
partially destroyed the Northwestern
bridge, five miles west of Norfolk, and
caused thousands of dollars damage
TO property all along the river from
north of Norfolk to points below Ere
mont.
The death Of former governor Silas
a, Holcomb In ~Bcllingham, Wash, re
calls, that in the past five years seven
Judges and former judges of the Ne
braSka supreme Our have passed
away. They are: Conrad ~IIellenbeck,
January -, 1913; Manoah u. Reese,
September %, 1917 Francis G.. Hamcr,
August 10, 1918; Thomas q. &. Harri-
son, May 30, 1919; Samuel II. Sedg-
wick, December -, 1919: Albert j.
Cornish, April Is, 1920; SlIas \. IIol.
comb, April -, 1920.
Many families living in the south
part of Norfolk were driven from their
homes last week when the Elkhorn
river overlooked ana inundated II large
area of the city.
While Governor Mckclvie was i'm
Beatrice last week he discovered II
deed to n half-mile of the south ictty
of the harbor M Galveston. Tex. 1t is
owned by the State of Nebraska.
Return of Wyoming cattle and sheep
from Nebraska ranges, where they
have been feeding during the winter,
has already begun, according to re.
ports from O'NcilI.
1t cost II Lewcllen man 800 in fines
when he was found with fourteen
muskrat skins In his possession unlaw-
fully.
The Overall club movement has
reached Nebraska and organizations
have been perfected ut Omaha, Lin