The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1921-03-31
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings in Nebraska
Given in Brief Items For
Busy Readers.

Omaha April - and 30.
Hastings wants To vote ON Sunday
theatres AT the coming election.
Mrs. Frances Rehing died very sud.
denly of lOckjaw. at West Point.
Morgan krebs of Scotia Suicided by
shooting himself with a shotgun.
| The Ioup Valley Poultry Associa.
ZION has just been organized al ord.
Sc0ttSbluff has organized Lions
club with George kimbrougl as prpsi-
| dent.
Broken Bow has just organized n
Demolay chapter. Sixty boys took the
| work.
The Coumbus fire department will
| hold its second annual fair April 6
| to ..
An odell merchant claims to have
handled 300 dozen eggs in one day
recently.
Rev. William Oeschger has resigned
ms pastor of the Christian church at
| Valparaiso.
Electric light rates In Elmwood have
been boosted TO flat rate of 70 cents
per kilowatt.
drive for 900 members is shortly
to be conducted by the Beatrice Cham.
Der of Commerce..
| A force is progressing RAPIDLY with
me brick work on Beaver City's new
$4,000 auditorium.
Mr. and Mrs. W. w. uemmett of
Burwell celebrated their golden wed.
ding anniversary last week.
The district convention of the state
federation of WOmen's clubs will be
held AT Central City May and 4.
Jhe Ord band has been reorganized
for the season, with Tom Wright as
manager and Kirby McGrew. leader.
Work on the 100000 Valley county
court house ut ord has been resumed.
oiicials expect to occupy it IN July |.
y near race riot resulted ut Weep.
ing Water when IL local Stone com
pany imported Mexican quarry work
ers.
n lodge of the Order of Demolay
VIII be organized at Beatrice under
the auspices of the local Masonic
lodge.
Franklin academy students recently
netted over 500 ut Il circus, the pro-
ceeds being turned over to the city
schools.
II is probable that the matter Of a
municipal light and ice plant fer Os-
ceola will be voted upon at the spring
election.
Seward now has one of the largest
fire trucks in the state. Ii cost the city
$4,000.
Mrs. w. s. Leet of Plattsmouth has
been selected aS chaplain for the state
ID. A. Il.
Oshkosh beet raisers have signed the
sliding scale contract for a $3.50 Der
ton minimum proposed by the SUGAR
company.
The Boy Scout Band of forty pieces.
of thadron, will be one of the attrac-
lions at the state fair at Lincoln, Sep
teinber ) To 10.
The Danish societies of Minden eel.
ebrated the admission Of fifty new
members with II banquet ut which over
400 We're seated
The regular biennial legislative
league banquet will be held this year
at the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce
on the evening of April I.
Little Edwin Dahlgren, : years old, ,
was badly scalded when he fell into |
II vat of boiling water, which his par
ents were using in butchering hogs.
Scottsbuff city council has decided /
to buy four lots half mile from the /
center of the business district for
camping ground for automobile tour
lists.
federal road gang is raising the |
grade at Turtle Creek on the Loup |
Valley highway. The state bridge /
which was put in last fall can now be /
used.
Fire OF mysterious origin started In |
the basement of the Overland theater
at Nebraska City, created considerable ,
damage before ii was finally extin-
guished
The Rev. Charles Knight Wheeler
of Jacksonville, Ala, has taken charge
of the pastOrate of ST. Andrews Epls- ,
copal church at ScottsblufI, which has
been without Il rector since last De
cember.
Buyers from five states were pres
ent at the annual Hereford sale Of .
kuhlmann Bros, held in Chester.
The entire offering of forty head sold
at i'm average of $l65.
While fumigating the Hayslip room
ing house at Ansley, the building
caught fire and before IL was discov-
cred the entire inside was ablaze. This
leaves Ansley without hotel.
Ord Community Service club serves
a. MONDAY lunch every Monday. open
for everybody. Travelling men, visit
oiS and women are invited. Ord Is
said to be the smallest town in the
state with this feature.
. &, l.. Clark of Lincoln, rural high
school inspector has been elected SUI
perintendent OF the Red Cloud city
schools.
Secretary j. Il. Hart of the depart
ment of trade and commerce has
named A. ID, Touzain of Omaha, for