The Red Cloud chief., 1920-11-18

AissiOn to the state high school de-
batting league: Battle Creek. Bloom
field, BurwelI, College View, Cowles,
Dana College Academy, Diller, Emer-
son, Hastings, Lawrence, Ord, RAN
dolph, Red Cloud, Republican City, ST.
Paul, Wakefield, Wesleyan Academy,
and Wisner, and a number of others
are making arrangements TO become
eligible.
|. The Omaha Poultry association will
hold Its seventh annual exhibition and
poultry show November % to %, in
elusive, at the Auditorium. This show
Is h first free educational one TO be
held in the country aud ranks third
In the United States, the Madison
square Garden, n in New York aud
Chicago's exhibition preceding 1t.
Bishop Homer 6. Stuntz, head Of the
Methodist church In Nebraska, was the
guest of honor mt a banquet OF Meth
odist of the North Platte valley at
S~cottsbluff, when 80 churchmen and
women OF that Tlace, Gering, Mitchell,
Minatarc, Bayard and other towns Of
that section gathered to pay their re-
spects.
The constitution Of Nebraska as
amended by vote Of the people from
time to time since 1875, including
amendments proposed by the recent
constitutional convention, has been
printed in pamphlet form. II is a re-
production of the compilation rs made
by h convention and filed with the
secretary Of state.
There is an urgent demand for
telegraph operators for the Washing
tOn-Alaska telegraph and cable system,
Capt. A. Il. Whitworth OF the signal
corps, u. s. A., Omaha recruiting
office, announces.
Fifteen miles Of road have been im-
proved through the action of the
Burwell community club. The mer-
chants contributed $1,000 In cash und
the farmers did the work for half the
usual price.
Samuel VAIL at Falls City. pro-
prietor of the Oldest established mer.
camille house In southeast Nebraska,
has closed its doors and will retire
from business. His stock will BIZ sold
ut auction.
A stranger. about twenty-five years
old, was killed Mt Fremont when hit
by a westbound Union Pacific train at
q street crossing. 1t Is assumed that
he had attempted to board the moving
train.
The department of conservation and
soil survey has sent five motion pic
ture reels, showing the Nebraska state
fair to Tulsa, Okla, where they will be
shown before an agricultural confer
ence.
Three hundred alumni, members OF
the faculty and friends Of the Peru
state normal, met for n banquet and
g~et-tOgether session during the state
teachers association meet at Omaha
An autonomous teachers college as
an item Of greatest Importance to high
schools of the state, was u topic Of
much interest discussed mt the meet
ing OF the state teachers ut Omaha.
Eight hundred hoy scouts at Lincoln
have started on a hunt for fire haz-
ards. and they expect to visit and exc
anime every residence and business
house In that place in their search.
At their annual farm bureau ban
quet mt Holdrege, attended by more
than $50 men and women, Phelps cOun-
ty farmers voted to build n livestock
sales pavilion at a cost Of $4,000.
The United Electric Co.. OF Lexing-
ton has contracted with the village
board of Smithfield to run a transmits
sion line across country and furnish
light and power for that place.
Fields of corn in Hamilton county
are runnig as high as seventy bushels
to the acre. 1t is believed that the
average for the county will be more
than fifty bushels to the acre.
Mildred Kennedy, LOup City high
school student, fell downstairs at the
school and ran a pencil into her arm
several inches. An operation was
necessary to remove II.
Professor James II. Frandsen, n
Of the best known dairy experts in the
state and q member Of the staff Of the
|. university dairy department, has re-
, signed his position.
The city council of Central City has
brought suit against the Central
Power company of Grand Island TO en-
join them from shutting Off electric
. power In the city.
Fred Gains store, Winters tailor
shop, Holenbeck barber shop and the
library of Ansley, were totally destroy
ed by fire, the origin of which is un
known.
+ Burwell is threatened with n con
: famine. Many homes have only n few
days supply of fuel and the amount
Of coal in dealers bins Is very limited
Business women of Kearney have
, organized and are preparing to estab'
lish a Y. w. G. A. In Kearney.
, The committee in charge of Organ
lied Agriculture. the annual winter
meetings of between thirty and forty
farmers organizations to be held at
Lincoln, January 3 to Z, report salts
r factory progress In arranging the pro-
grams. Secretary of Agriculture ~