The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1921-04-14
Elmwood has an epidemic Of measles

ABOUT May u.
Sixty-two Of the rural school dis
tricts in Gage county have contributed
$14036 toward the China famine fund.
Leo Porter, n 15-year-old Brainerd
lad, will lose the sight of his left eye
from BIB shot fred by comrade
during their play.
The warden has notified shcriffs i'm
the 93 counties of the state to send no
more prisoners to the penitcntiary UNI
til present crowded conditions are re-
lievpd
Gus Linn Of Kimball who has served
on the village board of education for
thirty-0ne consecutive years, has de-
ciihed to be candidate for reelection
this spring.
Several hundred delegates from var
ious parts of the state attended the
celebration and banquet of the North
iIatte kiwanis club, which received
its charter last week.
stephen J. Taylor, the oldest settler
or Franklin county, Is dead ut his
nome at Riverton. He came to Frank
lin county with the first company of
| actual settlers i'm 1870.
A class of nearly one hundred, one
of the largest in the histc~y of the
Beatrice high school, will receive d.
plomas at the annual commencement
exercises to be held In May.
Superintendent +. l.. Rouse of the
Peru Normal school has been elected
superintendent of the public schools of
ScootsbluH for n term of three years,
succeeding G. NJ. Matheney.
Mrs. Clarissa Lloyd, who died near
Fairbury recently, was buried within
200 feet of the site of the sod house
erected by herself and husband I'm JEFF
ferson county fifty-one years ago.
A goat ranch Is to be established by
DIR. ). b. Fiers, who has lately bought
an eighteen-acre tract near Diller,
which he is stocking up with some of
the best bred goats in the country
The northwestern section of the Ne
braska state teachers association,
comprising the counties I'm the Sixth
district. has just closed successful
three-day convention I'm Alliance.
Marvin, S-year-Old son OF County
Treasurer and Mrs. Mike Tritsch, Is
in hospital ut Plattsmouth, suffering
from burns which may prove fatal as
a result of being scalded by boiling
water.
April 1 marked the opening of the
fishing season in Nebraska, but fish
ermen are cautioned by George w.
Roster, chief of the state division of
fish and game, not to take bass or
trout until May /.
With both legs practically severed
from his body, William Praul, repre-
sentative for the Holdrege Bottlng
works, was found lying beside the
Burlington tracks at Cambridge, dying
u few hours later.
York high school won the highest
team hOnOrs and Murval Thompson of
Friend the highest individual honOrs
at the seventh annual state high school
livestock judging contest at the COL
! lege of agriculture last week.
baby boy weighing but one pound
and six ounces was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred J. Hiedeman on their farm
near Big Springs, March II. He now
weighs one pound twelve and One-half
ounces, and is perfectly normal and in
fine health.
A team of horses, seventeen tons Of
hay and four hundred bushels of corn
| were burned when fire of unknown
origin destroyed the barn and corn
{ crib of Gene Miller near Pawnee City.
a large amount of harness was also
r burned up
. Fire completely destroyed every
2 building except the house on the Ira
Mathews farm, near Imperial. Eight
| cen work horses, ten cows, seven
( calves, all harness, 1000 bushels Of
2 corn and twenty-eight loads of hay
were destroyed in the blaze.
. Receipts for hogs at the South
$ Omaha stock yards in March fell
q 10000 short of Il year ago M the same
time. but the average weight was six
q pounds heavier than In March, 1920
= Cheaper and more corn explains the
A increase in the weight of the hogs.
G. G. Leach, a produce dealer, has
y maintained since January | Il truck
+ delivery from Beaver City and nearby
e towns to Alma, hauling poultry and
eggs. with one commercial car and a
u trailer he has hauled Sl3,2U22 worth
?. of eggs and So, S04.S 81 worth of poultry
d "Cadet" and "Topsy," owned 10y
d George w. Ainsworth of Haveock, Il
member of the Omaha Kennel club, re-
d Gently won first prizes mt the Chicago
n dog show. Cadet is an airedale ant
IS Topsy took first female puppy priz'
d and the first novice prize in the Amer
lean bred class
n Fire destroyed the general store ant
II postoilice at IIuntsman. 1t was no
D discovered until 1t had made sucl
Roadway that the loss was total
n Miss Iva Powell, Ia years old, ;
le member OF the Knox county pig club
O. was winner of a big bunch of frs
g. prizes at the county fair last fall, ant
o. will have herd on exhibition Mt th'
coming state fai..