The Red Cloud chief., 1921-01-27

Samuel JACOBS, Sc, Oldest Odd Eel.
low In Nebraska, died ut Omaha last
week Of Illness incident TO cid age. Mr..
Jacobs had lived In Nebraska fifty
five years
A fOurteen-room residence property,
valued at $4,000, has been purchased
by board Of eighteen trustees among
Omaha Masons to provide home for
needy boys.
Two hundred and seventy Webster
county farmers were entertained with
n program and oyster supper at Red
Cloud the other evening by local
farmers union.
]. Is. Northcutt of Nebraska City
celebrated his ninetieth birthday an
niversnry last week by skipping rope
and engaging I'm a few other mihor
athletic exercises.
G. ii. Gustafson. for the past seven
years president Of the Farmers Co.
operative Educational union, was re-
elected to the office at the recent ses.
sion of that body.
More than $50 Lonesome folks" Of
all ages, creeds and stations, looking
for friendship Of the fright sort" met
In the Unitarian church ut Omaha and
organized Get Acquainted" club.
One of the last acts of the Midwest
Implement Dealers association, before
1t closed its convention at Omaha. was
To adopt five little Armenian orphans
and donate $500 for their support for
n year.
Compared with 1910 there was a
large falling Off in live stock receipts
at the packing house centers through
out the United States. This was an
parent at Omaha. but more pronounced
elsewhere.
The most terrific blizzard in the
recorded history of Nebraska occurred
thirty-three years ago January IL.
Scores of lives were lost and the dam
age to cattle and other live stock was
tremendous.
Mike and Bernard Tierney, who
plead guilty to charges OF stealing
thirteen dozen shirts from box car
near Valley. were sentenced to three
years in the federal peniteniiary ut
Leavenworth.
The body of an unidentified man
was found In n box car at Chapel. A
search by the coroner and sheriff re-
vealed only number OF old jack.
knives, table knives. forks and spoons.
all apparently worthless.
Attorney General Davis has filed a
brief in supreme court defending the
right of the juvenile court in the carry
ing out of the objects for which Il was
created, to try and sentence adults
without calling In a jury.
During 1920 there was shipped from
Hay Springs 100 cars Of cattle, 10
cars Of hogs, fifty four cars Of wheat
and 1O6 cars Of potatoes. Conservative
estimates Of the value of the foregoing
shipment would he over SSOO,OOO.
Mrs. Evelyn Press McElhaney, con.
victed Of numbering Earl Il. Anderson
at Alliance and sentenced to 30 years
in the penitentiary, is now an inmate
or that institution and has been as
signed to the laundry department.
WOrkmen of Nebraska suffered o.
OPT accidents during the two-year
period ending January 1, according to
the biennial report of Frank Kennedy,
secretary Of the State Department of
Labor. OF these accidents IS were
fatal
Fifteen hotels and bathrooms at Lin.
coin have complied with the rules and
regulations adopted by forty-One fra
ternities, sororities and other organiza-
lions of the state university I'm fight
N nSt t.vI, mi. I'll. ~
students claimed were being charged.
The judge, superintendent of schools,
county attorney and treasurer OF
Franklin county, have moved their Of
fees from Bloomington to Franklin,
whittier the county clerk, sheriff and
assessor preceded them soon after the
recent election by which Franklin was
declared the county seat.
At the meeting Of the Nebraska Ter
ritorial Pioneers Mt Lincoln last week,
the following officers were elected: J.
G. +. Mckesson, Lancaster county,
president; G. Il. Adams, Douglas, vice.
president; George II. Hastings, Saline,
vice-president Minnie Z. Knots, Lam
caster, secretary-treasurer.
AAchiy ciSnty -SlA
years of age, widow Of the youngest
brother Of Logan FOntenelle, last
chief of the Omaha tribe Of Indians.
appeared before the opening meeting
Of the Nebraska state historical So
ciety at Lincoln and presented that
organization with gold necklace set
with brilllants, which had been given
to her by Peter A. Sarpy when she was
twelve years Of age. The necklace was
in handbag covered with beads, the
work having been done by Indians.
Inability to collect on Its customers
notes is given as the reason for the
closing of the doors Of the First Na-
tional bank ut Chappell, pending ac-
ton OF the national bank examiner.
A motion picture machine is oper-
ated one night week to exhibit edu.
cational films and better class enter
talnment features to the grade school
pupils at Geneva.
Omaha's total grain receipts during