The Red Cloud chief., 1920-11-18
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
Timely News Culled From All
Parts of the State, Reduced
for the Busy.
SCORES OF EVENTS COVERED

verSity or Nebraska TO a debate, to he
held in Lincoln during the Christmas
holidays. Prof. Fogg has wired that
he believed the contest could be ar
ranged.
"Standish Of Siundish," q play with
New England setting of three hun
dred years ago. was given by the book
review department Of the Woman's
club OF Geneva to a large crowd.
Two sisters were brides in a double
wedding mt Columbus, when Herman
l.. Mueller and Miss Anna Nelson,
Manville @. Reeves and Miss Gladys
Nelson were united In marriage.
Proposed Incorporation of the Ne
braska State Bar association will be
considered at the twenty-first annual
convention Of that organization, at
Lincoln. December 27-2S.
The Nebraska college of agriculture
Is setting n g record with a 7-year-
old HOlstein cow. In 2S3 days she
produced 24,SS1.S pounds of milk and
1,104 pounds Of butter.
Frank Kennedy, secretary Of the
state labor department, says there Is
a shortage Of 5000 corr huskers I'm
Nebraska. Farmers are paying 6 and
8 cents a bushel.
Those In attendance declare the
meetings of the state teachers at
Omaha last week were the best yet
held. The registration was nearly
5000.
The bonds for building n new court
house and three concrete bridges
Ncross the Platte river near Oshkosh
carried by a majority OF about 300.
Students in Journalism at Nebraska
Wesleyan Mt University Ulace will or
ganize a journalistic fraternity to In
clude both men and women.
Work at the Big Chief oil well at
Red Cloud has been discontinued, fol-
lowing the finding Of salt water at a
depth OF 1925 feet.
The attendance Mt the fifty-fourth
convention Of the state teachers assO.
citation ut Omaha last week reached
nearly 5000.
The COrnhusE r foot ball team de-
feated the New Jersey Rutgers on the
New York polo grounds with a score
Of % to o.
Penn State defeated the University
Of Nebraska football team, 20 to 0, by
a combination of forward passes and
long mi
The tw%enty-first annual convention
OF the Nebraska State Bar association
will be held at Lincoln December q
and 90.
Total beet cash revenues to the
farmers of the state will amount &c
about s1O,0OO,OOO for the season Just
closed.
North Platte has organized what Is
thought to be the only ladies' band In
the state, and practice Is held weekly,
A smooth stranger worked Off a LOT
Of bad checks on Beatrice merchants
and they are trying to locate him.
Otto Miller Of Fremont fell dead a.
he bent over to pick up a hammer
while building an election booth.
Heavy rains have delayed corn
husking In Saline county, two inches
having fallen I'm some sections.
/ Everett j. Lake, republican COVER
nOr-elect Of Connecticut was a former
resident OF StrOmsburg.
A special election may be called &c
decide whether Sunday movies will be
permitted ut Hastings.
1t Is understood that permits to xii
beaver In the state will be revoke,
by the game warden.
Half fare railroad privileges 10
ministers have been withdrawn by tn,
railroads of the state.
The Nebraska Irrigation association
will hold its annual meeting at Gerins
January 16 To 1S.
Emma BOtsrord has been commits
stoned as postmaster at Wayside Il
Dawes county.
Steps are being taken to form a ma
tional guard organization In the
state.
punch boards and other gambling de
vices.
Burwell shipped twenty-six carlOd'
Of cattle In two days last week.
A branch OF the Salvation army ha
been established at Alliance.
Releases of convicts from the stat,
penitentiary are expected to come pro
fusely within the next month on nc
count of the crowded conditions exist
ing there now. There are 53S convict,
enrolled at the present time and owe
eighty OF these are out in the rOa
camps. ,
Edgar Mathers Of Falls City, Neb,
is one Of fifty-three Boy Scouts 4
whom President Wilson sent letters o
commentator for making the hes
records In the sale of War Savlni
stamps during 1913. Mathers turne'
I'm the highest number Of subscription
Of any Boy Scout in Nebraska.
At a special meeting Of the Tecun
sch community club to take up tn
matter Of nm adequate water suppl
for that city the club voted unan
mously to support the city council !
securing a publication plant to flte
the water from the drainage ditc
alO,.x the channel OF the Nemaha rive
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