The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1921-04-14
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings in Nebraska
Given in Brief Items For
Busy Readers.

headquarters of the Elks.
Madison has decided to hold no
Fourth of July celebration.
Lincoln street car men have accepted
a 10 per cent reduction i'm wages.
The Civic club of Neigh realized
1921 on its flower sale, held recently.
The grand council of the Royal Ar
canum will meet In Omaha April &c.
The commercial club at Pierce has
decided to celebrate Independence day.
Twenty children were baptized into
the Episcopal church at Galloway last
week
Work on Omaha's new S2,O00000
High School of Commerce will begin
shortly.
The legislature has appropriated
$1,000 to provide for state fish pond
near Peru.
Women of Comstock have formed
an organization called "The Ladies'
Community Circle"
A class of thirty-five were initiated
last Sunday by Beatrice council,
Knights of Columbus.
The Blue Springs Community club
has more than doubled its membership
in the last three weeks.
Imperial women are making plans
to form an auxiliary to the American
Legion post of that place.
Holdrcge will hold an airplane meet
May D, q and THE first asseinblage
of the kind held I'm the state
A class of about 125 was initiated
into the order of Dcmolay at Masonic
temple at Hastings recently.
Adams county will furnish twenty
five markers for the graves of eX-
| service men within her borders.
A volunteer fire department with
| twenty.eight charter members has
been organized at Blue Springs.
Scottsbluff sugar companies have
contracted for nearly 100000 acres of
sugar beets for the coming season.
Fifteen thousand bushels of wheat
! was purchased by Gage county flour
mill ut price of $l.2S per bNshel.
Valparaiso's new modern school
building, to replace the one destroyed
by fire in 1919, is nearing completion.
County Agent Scott is soon to start
n drive against prairie dogs, which
have done thousands of dollars of dam
age in Cheyenne county each year.
Alfred Stevens. 60 years old.
dropped dead Of apoplexy while shay
ing customer In I'm Omaha barber
shop.
Beatrice defeated proposition to
return to the council system at spe.
cial election last week by a vote OF
$50 to 1,162.
Over 100 conversions resulted from
the revival meetings just closed al
Columbus. Nearly $500 was raised fol
the evangelist.
During the week of April IL the
Nebraska Farm Bureau federation will
conduct membership campaign in
Thayer county.
Edward Matthewson of Wakefield
was seriously injured when the car he
was driving, ran into an embankmen
near that place.
Mrs. Jessie GosSard died at hel
home in Columbus of blood poisoning
caused by n scratch on the finger Will,
HiuhinS SuIutl.
james G. Dahlman at Omaha an,
Charles w. Bryan, headed the list o
nominees in those two cities ut til,
primaries Tuesday.
The SiN-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs
VIII Mueller, living near Nelson, wa
burned to death in fire started Will,
playing with matches.
| A
burned few weeks ago will be 70
built with Il larger output, from
10O-barrel to 30Oburrel
The Rev. A. NJ Koran, formerly pas
tor of the Baptist church ut Ceda
Bluffs, has been elected pastor of III
First Baptist church at Wahoo.
The Omaha Y. NJ. c. A. opened
drive to raise $4,000 Within twenty
four hours one-half of the same ha
been subscribed, the total being raise
inside II week.
Bloomfield citizens who proteste
before the state railway cOmmissio
against the increase in telephone rate
We're told the raise was justihable an
no relief was possible
N'NHIh WIS tNlcHueu an IlNlluIlO
To members Of the American Legion /
, Nebraska 10 establish a summer cam
nj that place.
The new 50O00O-gallon city waite
r reservoir ut Sidney is located on I'll
, site of the first fort In western n,
braska. built In 1867 while constru
ton of the Union Pacific was in pr
n gress.
a At n recent meeting of the Gag
. county farm bureau, II. q. Croker ,
Filley was named to assist Count
. Agent Isist in arranging for the CO
lection of corn for people who al
n starving I'm foreign lands.
. a fire occurred mt the Nebraska Co
> solidated mills plant at Ravenna, VIII,
q n short circuit In one of the electr
:, motors on the second floor started
. blaze. The damage was not serious.
!. Charles ID. Durland, Il pioneer bus
nessman of Norfolk and one of Il