The Red Cloud chief., 1921-04-07
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings in Nebraska
Given in Brief Items For
Busy Readers.

| ""''''opit SDttutTS III one Uuy.
The Ord Retail Dealers association
has designated April q as Bargain
| day.
The new 100000 public school build
Ing at Blue Springs was dedicated last
| week.
The state Federation of Women's
CIubs VIII meet In Omaha April -
and H.
james S. Ewart, prominent grain
| man or Lincoln, Is dead from "a stroke
of cpOplexy.
A lodge Of the Brotherhood of
American Yocmen has been organized
| M superior with a charter member
| ship of IS.
Rebckah lodge has been organized
at Liberty, with charter membership
Of forty-two.
The census shows there are sixteen
persons to every square mile of terri
tory In Nebraska.
Tornado winds last week caused
considerable damage to a number of
towns over the state
The state legislature Is making
plans to finish up It's work and ad.
jOurn about April Is.
Nearly fifty were baptised and 1915
received into the Methodist church at
| Sydney Easter Sunday.
Rev. Charles .Savidge, the Omaha
Marrying Parson," has Just perform
ed his 5,OO0th ceremony.
Eighty converts were baptized in
the river at Taylor as the result of
the revival meetings just closed by
congregational church there.
The nineteenth child has just been
born to Mr.. and Mrs. George Knepper,
living on farm near Salem
Rev. w. l.. Bright. pastor of the
First Lutheran church of Nebraska
City, has rendered his resignation.
Dean j. "A. Hancock, former pastor
o. trinity cathedral Mt Omaha, is now
pastor of a church at San Francisco.
Odd Fellows of the state will ceie-
brate at Omaha April 30, the 1921 an
nirersary of the founding of that or.
der.
Eggs have dropped at Galloway
from ID cents to IL cents per dozen.
ana local dealers expect them to 10
lower.
a temporary water famine is feared
at Galloway. Mains have burst and II
VIII be several days before repairs
can be made.
The Murdoch electric light systen.
has begun serving patrons. The power
Is brought from Omaha on n high
tension line.
Ravenna Is having a siege of scar.
let fever, three or four cases having
been reported and quarantined within
the past week
The body of c. Ruben, an Omaha
grocer, was found lying in pool %
blood In the rear of his sto.e. with
his throat slashed.
AT the collection taken up at st.
MichaeFs church of Spalding for tire
relief of the suffering people of Ire
land $1,000 was raised.
The 18th annual convention of the
Second district, Nebraska Federation
OF Womcn's Clubs, will meet in Omaha
at the y. w. G. A. April 10.
On account of the difference i'm price
OF to cents I'm favor of Galloway,
large amount of wheat and corn Is
being hauled to that point from other
towns.
with the present plentude Of labor,
the Union Stock Yards company of
Omaha tells the railway commission
1t VIII new be able to provide full
crews on switch engines.
Superintendent Fred ID. Schneider.
who has had charge of the Cedar
Rapids school for the last three years,
has been elected to head the Loup
City Schools for next year.
At the Northwestern Nebraska Bas-
ketball tournament at Chadron, at
which sixteen counties were repre-
sented, Alliance won first place, Chad.
ron second and Long Pine third.
Automobile thieves, who had stolen
machine from George Hoover of Elk
horn. finally abandoned II near FIRE.
mont, after stripping II of everything
but the engine, body and wheels.
The Rev. Louis Il. Humphrey, for
the past three years pastor of the
First Presbyterian church at Litchfield,
has resigned To take up work in the
presbytery of Boulder, in Colorado.
ture show this summer. Roy Patter-
son, former owner of the Sun the
alter, which burned to the ground will
he the promoter
Test b0rings to determine the M.
ture of the soil structure for the new
Nebraska sapit0l have been made ut
the four corners of the proposed build
ing, to depth Of over 100 feet
Following the discovery of 81 coun-
terfoit dollars in park at Omaha,
secret service operatives and police
are endcavoring to find Il band of
counterfciters believed Tn be operating
in that city.
Superintendent j. II. Armstrong of
the Wayne public schools has tender
ed his resignation TO take effect AT the
close of the present school year.
The Randolph Community club has
tals al