The Red Cloud chief., 1921-04-07


health.
The Goth anniversary of the arrival
of the Soldiers Free Homestead coll
ony at Gibbon will be celebrated
April 7.
The district convention of the I, O.
.. f., bcld at David City last week,
was one of the most successful held i'm
recent years.
The ninth annual spring meeting of
Nebraska live stock feeders will be
held at the College Of Agriculture, ut
Lincoln, April IL.
While watching for q street car,
Helen Farr, a 13-yeur-old Omaha girl,
had two braids Of hair clipped from
her head by some miscreant.
Eleven OF the corps of sixteen teach
ers In the West Point city schools have
declined the appointment. The pre-
Vailing low salaries Is apparently the
cause
AS result of the joint efforts Of
the community club and the city coun.
Gil. Madison will have a tourist park.
equipped to take care of the needs of
autoists.
Hundreds Of dollars worth of feed
was destroyed when the barn on the
Calvin Duncan farm, near Wymorc,
was struck by lightning and totally
destroyed.
According to figures just made pub
lie by the State Department Of Trade,
bank deposits In the state have fallen
Off over S13,OO0,000 I'm the four months
ending February %
Two-thirds of the herd of Short
hOrns on the Bowman ranch near Bea-
trice, have been found to be tuberculur,
as result of an investigation conducted
by local veterinarian.
Gus Flyers, state sheriff. has offered
reward of 5000 for information lead.
ing to the arrest of L. ii. Claridge.
missing president of the defunct Bank
ing House of Castctter of Blair.
Platte county is now equipped to do
its own road building, through the
purchase of one Of the big grading
outfits operated by the state depart
ment of public works last year.
III. Nj. Wells, who has gone into the
poultry business near Auburn, prob.
ably has the largest incubator In the
state. The incuabtor is built in Sec
tons and has total capacity of 1900
eggs.
Reduction Of the number of Nehras.
ki'S Judicial districts from eighteen to
nine with two additional judges a.
lowed for each district. has received
the approval Of the lower legislative
branch.
Stock to the extent of 100000 will
be subscribed by Omaha Jews for the
purpose of establishing an Omaha
colony In the heart of Palestine, under
the direction of the Zion commons
wealth.
There are nearly 1000 colonies of
bees In Douglas county, according TO
III. &. Cook, president of the Douglas
County Honey Producers association,
and the number is constantly on the
increase
The Increase in parcel post business
at Wymore has necessitated the em-
plOymcnt Of an additi, nal carrier for
city delivery. and whose work will be
confined entirely to the delivery of
parcel post packages.
The fourteenth annual encampment
of the United Spanish War veterans,
department of Nebraska, will convene
at Lincoln, on June T., Ii and II. This
encampnent will be reunion of all
Spanish war veterans
VIII Reed DunrOy, dramatic editor
Tnd newspaper man, a former Lincoln
boy and university graduate, is dead
IN Chicago. supposedly of alcohol poi
soning, caused by ''mOonshine" wills.
ky taken to secure relief FIR a cold.
1t Is estimated that farmers of Chey-
enne county spent nearly a million dol
lars last year in various kinds of
worthless stocks. The county farm
bureau will endeavor to protect them
against a repetition of the experience.
For the first time In the history of
Gage county women assessors will
participate in. the annual assessment
campaign which opened April l. Mrs.
Verna Pugsley and Mrs. w. w. Dun
can of Beatrice are the first of their
sex to be appointed as precinct as
SCISSORS
h' lIlSl 'UIIout VI tulllt anu HOGS
to be sent by charitable institution
In Nebraska, was received at the South
Omaha stock yards last week from
the odd Fellows state home at York
The hogs, which, with the cattle, had
been raised by the institution, topped
the market.
The Bloomfield band which has been
diSprraniZpd for several spnSons IL
to be again brought to life, with II
membership Of about twenty pieces
A petition with 22J signatures ask
ing that the Sunday movie question
he put on the ballot at the spring cleo
ton has been filed with the city clerk
of Hastings.
Deputy Sheriff Toiles Winterstcen
of Fremont narrowly escaped death
when he sunk in quicksand to his arm
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