The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1921-03-10
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
Timely News Culled From AL
Parts of the State, Reduced
for the Busy.
SCORES OF EVENTS COVERED


Dewitt Is making preparations to
hold an old.fashioncd polling bee.
Tecumseh has let the contract for
the Improvement to the present water
service.
An oil company with capital Of
$1,OOO,OO0 has been organized ut Ply
mouth.
The $4,000 bond issue for new
school house ut Murdoch was de
feated
Zen Il. Mann was accidentally shot
and killed while on a wolf hunt near
Stockyille.
The First Baptist church at Grand
Island celebrated It's 50th anniversary
last week.
Five gray wolves and four coyotes
were slain In roundup near Plntts-
mouth last week.
The Gering city council has already
sold lis $1,000 funding bonds that
We're issued recently.
The state high school basket ball
tournament will be, leld ut Lincoln
March 10. II and II.
Fire, caused by an overhented f'ue,
did 100000 damage to McCook's $780,
900 high school building.
There Is a serious epidemic of small
pox at Pawnee City, forty-one cases
now being under quarantine.
The convention of Federated Wom-
ems clubs for tie First district will be
held at Falls City April tot.
General John J. Pershing will de-
liver the commencement address at the
University Of Nebraska In June.
The Greeley council OF the knights
OF Columbus has opened club rooms in
the Greeley State bank building.
Coyotes are crowding in on Hastings
despite the rOundups in which scores
of the animals have been killed
Mrs. Charles TOay committed sui
eide Mt her home, near Valparaiso, by
shooting herself through the heart.
Miss Esther KrOycr was recently
unanimously reelected as secretary Of
the kearney Chamber of Commerce.
Milk was being sold mt retail i'm the
Minden market last week for cents
a quart, break of 3 cents In the price.
Professor J. J. Fialo of Superior has
been engaged as director Of the Te.
cumseh Military band for the coming
year.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Nash celebrated
their tiftieth wedding anniversary last
week at the home of their son, Leon
ard. in Palmyra.
Crop statistics for 1920 show that
Nebraska has stepped into first place
in alfalfa grown. This applies to
acreage yield, and tonnage.
death crossing" near Big Springs
where six persons have been killed
now is protected by newly patented
signal bell and wigwag signal.
The Deshler brass band has been
under the leadership of its present d.
rector, Henry Sitter since its organi
cation, twenty-five years ago.
The Arthur county commissioners
have almost completed Plans for the
right of way for tie new state road
between Arthur and Keystone.
'Kimball county farmers have SOLD
at least 80 per cent of their 1926
wheat crop. Conditions for good
crop I'm 1921 could not be better.
Pierce probably will finish its frs
paving project April 1. Twenty-eigh
carloads of brick now on the way vii
be sufficient to complete the job.
Twenty-three hens laid twenty-foul
or more eggs each during the Januar!
egg-laying contest being conducted b.!
the College Of Agriculture at Lincoln.
AS result of the annual crow hun
by the Oakdale Gun club, 144 crow!
were killed A banquet with man!
shooters present from Neigh followed
Mr.. and Mrs. George Kuhr, ST., cele
brated their golden wedding anniver
sary at Blair last week. They have
resided in Washington county Al years
Louisville boasts the greatest show
ing of twins attending the publi
schools of any like sized town In tn
state, there being four sets in that In
stitution of knowledge.
John Flessner, a farmer living nea
WymOre, was found by his wife In
dying condition at the barn, where h
had gone to do the evening chores
Death was due to heart failure.
The legislature has been asked b.
the house finance committee to apprC
| pTlute TSI,<St, tttfO W Tuii Tic Stut
government for the coming two years
The Buffalo county supervisors hav
purchased over $4,000 worth of rOa
building and maintenance equipmen
including two Holt caterpillar tractor
and four twelvefo0t steel maintainer'
Warden Fenton of the Nebraska pei
: itentiary has notified sheriffs of tn
state to send no more men convicted Q
crimes to the prison for the presen
The penitentiary Is crowded to til
doors, with 6l2 inmates, 200 more tina
normal capacity.
County Attorney J. G. Cook at FIR,
mont, announced war on all game VII
lators and states that he will insis
upon jail sentences for all who fail
observe the closed season laws by di
turbing the large fiocks Of mlgrator
birds that are passing over that Sc
ton daily.
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