The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-11-19
NEBRASKA NEWS
IN CONCISE FORM
State Occurrences of Importance
Boiled to a Few Lines for
Quick Perusal.

pS'h SaldDliSiItu dt AIll;lUCt.
Burwell shipped twenty-siX carlOds
of cattle In two days last week.
Omaha has begun Il crusade against
punch boards and other gambling de-
vices.
Steps are being taken TO form Il ma
tional guard organization in the
state.
Emma Botsford has been commits
stoned as postmaster at Wayside III
Dawes county.
The Nebraska Irrigation association
will hold its annual meeting at Gering
January 16 to IS.
Half fare railroad privileges for
ministers have been withdrawn by the
railroads of the state.
1t is understood that permits to kill
beaver in the state Will be revoked
by the game warden.
\ special election may be called to
decide whether Sunday movies will be
permitted at Hastings.
Everett j. Lake, republican COVER
nor-elect of Connecticut was a former
resident Of Stromsburg.
Heavy rains have delayed corn
huSl,!ng in Saline county, two inches
having fallen in some sections.
otto Miller of Fremont fell dead as
he bent over TO pick up n hammer,
while building an election booth.
\ smooth stranger worked off Il lot
of bad checks on Beatrice merchants
and they are trying to locate him.
North Plette has organized what is
thought TO be the only ladies' band in
the state, and practice is held weekly.
Total beet cash venue to tie
farmers of the state will amount to
about S10,000,0O0 for the season just
closed.
The t~wenty-first annual convention
Of the Nebraska State Bar association
will be held at Lincoln December -
and %.
Penn State defeated the University
a combination of forward passes and
long runs.
The Cornhusk + foot ball team de-
featcd the New Jersey Rutgers on the
New York polo grounds with a score
of 2S to 0.
The attendance at the ffty-fourth
convention Of the state teachers asSO-
citation at Omaha last week reached
nearly 5000.
Work at the Big Chief oil well at
Red Cloud has been discontinued, fol-
lowing the finding Of salt water at a
depth of 1928 feet.
Students in journalism at Nebraska
Wesleyan at University Ulace will or
ganiZe Il journalistic fraternity to in
clude both men and women.
The bonds for building a new court
house and three concrete bridges
across the Platte river near Oshkosh
carried by a majority of about 800.
Those in attendance declare the
meetings Of the state teachers at
Omaha last week were the best yet
held. The registration was nearly
5000.
Frank Kennedy, secretary Of the
state labor department, says there is
a shortage of 5000 corn huskers in
Nebraska. Farmers are paying 6 and
s cents a bushel.
The Nebraska college of agriculture
is setting Il new 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.
Proposed incorporation Of the Ne
braSka State Bar association will be
considered at the t%wenty-first annual
convention Of that rOonizotic or
Lincoln, December 27-2S.
Two sisters were brides in q double
wedding at Columbus, when Herman
l.. Mueller and Miss Anna Nelson,
Manville G.. Reeves and Miss Gladys
Nelson were united in marriage.
"Standish of ~Standish," n 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.
Princeton has challenged the Uni
versity of Nebraska to a debate, to be
held in Lincoln during the Christmas
holidays. Prof. FOgg has wired that
he believed the contest could be ar
ranged.
Due to a change in the date Of the
Clay county poultry show the show
of the cooperative association Of Fill
more county has been set for Deem
Der 1 to g.. Entries will need to be
closed at 10 80 p. m, November 30.
Releases of cOnvicts from the state
penitentiary are expected to come pro-
fusely within the next month on ac-
count Of the crowded conditions exist
ing there now. There are 53S convicts
enrolled at the present time and over
eighty Of these are out in the road
camps.
Edgar Mathers of Falls City, Neb.,
is one Of f%ifty-three Boy Scouts to
whom President Wilson sent letters of
commentator for making the best
records in the sale Of War Saving
stamps during 1913. Mathers turned
in the highest number Of subscriptions
Of any Boy Scout in Nebraska.
At a special meeting of the Tecum-
sch community club to take up the
matter of an adequate water supply
for that city the club voted unani-
mOusly to support the city council In
securing n publication plant to filter
the water from the drainage ditch