The Red Cloud chief., 1921-04-21
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings in Nebraska
Given in Brief Items For
Busy Readers.

anu power system
kenesaw will celebrate her jOth an
niversary on June |.
The State Dental Society will meet
in Omaha May 16 to 80.
WILDER has voted bonds for munic-
ipal cold storage and ice plant.
The state camp of the NJ. w. A. will
be held at Lincoln May 3 and t.
The Farmers State bank of Pleas
anton has been taken over by the
state.
Hebron Is planning stock show,
corn carnival and baseball tournament
this fall.
WILDER, county seat of Saline, has
live Commercial club with member.
ship of $50.
The new $4,000 Pilgrim Congrcga-
tional church at Cortland was dedi.
Gated Sunday.
Jacob Meyer, formerly hotel inspec-
tor in this state, died last month at
Bucyrus, Ohio.
j. III. Gustofson has resigned his
position as president of the State
Farmers Union.
Prof. Wendell, present eighth grade
teacher, has been elected city superiri-
tendant at Burwell.
Bert Wilcox, farmer living near
Randolph, dropped dead In field
from heart leakage
Paving work has been resumed ut
Chadron after having been suspended
during the winter.
The American Yeomen at Suther-
land initiated a class of tifty-ive can
didates last week.
Mary Jane Marsh, So resident of
Nebraska since 1856, Is dead at her
home I'm Brownville.
The erection of n new town hall at
Overton was defeated ut n recent cleo
ton by = to vote.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Solomon re-
Gently celebrated their golden wedding
at their home at Franklin
York has raised $4,000 toward the
erection of a three-story hospital con-
tanning forty-eight rooms.
A Geneva dairy firm will add
poultry department, starting with
1000 White Leghorn chickens.
Joe Mcclure Of Bruel has sleeping
sickness and the only means of rous-
ing him Is by an electric battery.
Official canvass of the votes shows
that Miss Mary Peterson was elected
mayor of Red Cloud by seven votes.
August Meier Of Lincoln, was elect
ed president of the State Music
Teachers Association at its meeting
at Fremont.
Mrs. Mary b. Conely, OF Omaha,
who recently celebrated her 10lst an
niversary, is believed to be the oldest
woman In the state.
Representative James Rodman. Kim.
ball, was elected president of the Ne
braska Legislative League at the an
nual meeting in Lincoln.
Hog cholera has broken out in the
lthica neighbOrhood, and cooperation
of the stock owners has been asked I'm
controlling the disease.
John Arland, n farmer near Tilden,
was seriously injured when he fell and
was caught under the wheels of a
tractor he was operating.
A total OF 5,O27 bushels of corn, or
five carloads, was contributed by Gage
county farmers and residents for the
relief of foreign famine sufferers.
Ncls Jensen, Il patient ut the Nor
folk state hospital, was stabbed to
death with pitchfork in the hands
of August Click, another patient.
An attendance of over 300 Is aex-
pected NJ the district convention Of
State Christian Endeavor society to
be held in Omaha, April 22 to "a.
a ballot taken by the York Com
mercial club shows that city favors
Sunday ball, erection of q municipal
hall, rest rooms, and concrete walks.
The reOrganiZed farmers elevator
company, which recently purchased
the old elevator plant at Hoag, Gage
county has assumed charge of the
business.
Oman Goble of Hastings was fa-
tally burned when the can of oil
with which he poured kerosene on the
shouldering Goals in heating stove
exploded.
The Fulmer garage ut Columbus was
Nine new automobiles and 3S cars in
storage were burned.
While Doris lInvcrstock, 12-year-
old Omaha gnl was returning home
from trip down town a man came up
from behind and clipped Off eight
inches of her hair braid.
Henry Allison Albn of OSceola, has
been nominated TO take the eXamina.
/ tion for entrance TO the naval academy
at Annapolis. Mr.. Albin is graduate
of the OsCeola High school and NJ
present is student ut the State uni
yerSity.
The German Evangelical congreCa.
ton mt Elmwood has recently com
pIeted n new $4,000 parsonage.
1t has been definitely decided that
Nebraska's 1900 national guardsmen
will go TO camp for summer training
from August II 10 August 81, inclusive,
but II has not been decided where the