The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1921-03-17
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
Timely News Culled From All
Parts Of the State, Reduced
for the Busy.
SCORES OF EVENTS COVERED


The Liberty Christian church is be-
ing remodelcd into modern structure.
III. IL. Hall of lloag has taken charge
OF the elevator at the Liberty Grain
Go. ut Liberty.
The State Press association has
been invited to hold it's summer SEES
sion In Omaha.
ID. Nj. Amsberry, secretary of state.
suffered stroke Of paralysis and Is
In serious condition.
Pilger shippers chartered n special
train of twenty-seven cars to make "a
quick shipment of cattle.
The Rev. I. +. Carney of Harvard
VIII assume the passionate of the
Christian church at York.
Membership In the Wymore Com
munlty club has increased from GS to
l2O IN the past two months.
Ii. Is. Bryner. farmer near Gala
way, had two ribs broken when he fell
from thirty-foot windmill.
The Federated Woman's clubs at
Albion are contemplating recognizing
on new and more helpful basis.
DR.. Z. "A. Anderson of Stromsburg
Is dead after an illness of ten weeks
with cerebral spinal meningitis.
CITY politics Is boiling at West
Point, and conventions have been
called for nominating candidates.
The Union Pacific wreck at Gilmore
last week was the first that has occur
red on that system In eight years.
A. V. Pease, for ~ years In business
In Beatrice, has sold out and will de-
vote some time to travel and rest.
The 5-year-old son of Henry Ander-
son, near Akron, died of ptomaine
poisoning after few hours illness.
The shortage caused by the closing
or the CASTELAR, bank mt Blair last
week may reach u half million dollars.
A scout troop has been organized by
boys attending the Baptist church at
York. The pastor will be scoutmaster.
An epidemic of measles that has
prevailed among children at Lodge
Pole has subsidized, with no serious
cases.
FairmOnt will hold special election
April ., to submit bonds In the sum
of $4,000, to enlarge the electric light
plant.
A woman, Mrs. Mary Oberly. has
entered the race for city commissioner
for the first time in the history of
Omaha.
Al special election at Blair 500
600 bonds for the erection of a munich
pal ice plant were voted by ma jori-
ty. OF 81.
According to the chief Of police at
Lincoln. there Is more high class crime
going on now than ever before known
in that place.
William Steinmeyer, Clatonia farm
or, has lost three head of fine cattle
during the past few weeks from the
bite of mad dog.
For the first time In last twenty
years, York has not harvested an ice
crop. No place in the county has a
pound of ice stored.
The home of w. II. DeIIart at Bur
well burned to the ground I'm Il fire,
the origin of which is not known. But
few possessions were saved
G. Il. Benger of Galloway was re-
elected secretary of the Nebraska
Hereford Breeders association at the
annual meeting at Hastings.
Emil Rothschlld, wealthy Omaha
grain man, was found dead on the
Kitchen floor Of his home. Death had
been caused by asphyxation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. a. Mitchell of Alma
last week celebrated their sxtieth
wedding anniversary with dinner
at the G. A. II. hall in that place.
Trumbull's sixth fire within few
years wiped out the towns last store
when L. Bauman's general merchan-
| disc place was complete destroyed.
Peter Truelson, AZ, an inmate of
the Feeble Minded institute ut Beat.
rice, met horrible death when he
jumped into tank of boiling water.
j. G. FOrney and son sold forty.
three head of Duroc sows and gifts al
Beaver City for an average price OF
S2ll per head, the highest of any sale
ever held In western Nebraska. The
first thirty head sold for an average
of S2S7.
In order to relieve the housing
situation ut Big Springs, capitalists
| navy huHlDcI VI neW dwellings, uiluei
construction.
Omaha packers and manufacturers
Of perishable food products face al
unheard of famine in natural ice
Packers say the shortage will be close
TO 100000 tons.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the automobile belonging to J. G. Ham
ilton of WahOo while the family was
visiting near Ashland. The machine
was parked near a hay stack. which
caught fire In an undetermined man
ner.
Over 5000 was realized by the Biz
Springs high school at "A carnival, thu
first entertainment of the kind to b,
undertaken by its pupils.
Several persons were painfully In
jured when the bleachers, erected n
Ashland for the Bricker and Sherman
hog sale, collapsed just before the sell
ing was TO have begun.
The pickrell livestock nssociatiO