The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1921-03-17

$50 worth Of garden vegetables from
plot 2Ox1OO feet.
Glen Shannon has secured an in
terest In the Elite theatre at Pawnee
and will run It full time instead of oc-
casionally, as heretofore.
Women of the Wymore churches
have started campaign for Mrs.
Maurice Jones for mayor She has
consented to make the race
Students of the state agricultural
school ut Lincoln, to the number Of
100 recently made tour of the Omaha
packing houses, stock yards and fac
tories.
Joe Stecher of Dodge, former
worlds champion heavyweight wres-
tier, defeated John Olin of Finland, in
fast and warmly contested match mt
Omaha Monday night
The 2-year-Old son of Mr.. Ucaston,
residing near Beatrice, was badly
scalded when he fell into pail of hot
water that his mother was using in
doing the family washing.
Roy South of Plattsmouth has de-
parted for Chile, South America, with
!
ing Industry. He visited that country
when IN the service MS sailor.
Mayor G. Il. Plass of Madison has
requested tobacco dealers To dscon.
iinue the prominent display of Gig.
arets following u fire In the High
school, said to have been started by a
cigaret.
More than 100 members of the
knights of Pyihias from Lincoln, Wa
hoo, Schuyler. Alvo and Emwood at
tended an initiation meeting at Ash.
land when ten were taken into the
local lodge.
Rev. james A. Hancock. for 10 years
dean of Trinity cathedral at Omaha.
mas resigned due to the Illness of Mrs.
Hancock, who Is now at local hos
pital suffering from II severe nervous
| breakdown.
| Miss Nelma Lois Sutton. prima don.
ma OF the Philadelphia Grand Opera
company Nebraska product, will
sing ut the Southwestern Teachers as
ISOLATION meeting at Holdrege March
%, - and %.
George w. Roster, chief of the state
bureau of fish and game, has received
Il number of reports from various
parts Of the state of violations of state
and federal game laws i'm the shoot.
ing of wild ducks.
Rev. Martha Nichol Of Taylor Is a
/ Nebraska woman minister. She has
been pastor of the Congregational
church there for several months. Rev.
Miss Ware of Edison is another Ne
braska woman minister.
! Bandits at Mitchell entered the
/ Burlington station. held l.. Weekley.
night telegraph operator, helpless mt
the point of their guns while they tried
In vain to open the safe, and beat him
! up badly when they left.
/ Henry Steinman, n pioneer of Thay.
or county residing near Deshler. was
caught by the belt of corn shelter
and suffered fractured skull,
broken arm and other injuries, which
resulted fatally few hours after
wards.
The smallpox situation in Custer
county is clearing up. The number Of
cases. especially In the rural districts,
have been rather numerous, hut UNI
der the rigid quarantine measures now
In effect, the yellow cards are disap-
/ pearing.
The Woodman land near Steele City
/ Is the scene of oil well activity. Fif-
/ teen wagon loads of lumber were haul
ed there for the construction of the
derrick which will be eighty feet high
and require $4,000 feet of lumber 10
construct
\ roundup of what is probably the
only herd of wild antelope now at
large in the United States may be held
in Holt county this spring by the state
and federal game departments. and
the antelope removed TO the federal
game preserve at Valentine.
Joseph Teeter past grand command
er of the Nebraska G. a. r.. Is dead
at his home In McCOOk. He is the
fourth Nebraska G. A. II. head to die
within the last six months, the other
three being J. s. HOagland of North
Platte, Lee Estelle of Omaha and John
+. Evans of North Platte. When Mr..
Tecter was elected head Of the Ne
brnska G. A. II. in 1891 1t had S,l37
I
Mrs. Nancy Garloch of Baden, nine
ty years old, holds several records be-
sides her age. She Is the mother Of
eight children, seven of them living,
fOrty-one grand children, one hundred
and fOrty-three grandchildren
and seventeen great-great grand
children. On her birthday recently
the many descendants sent her a
shower of postcards and she received
tokens from every state In the union
from some Of her two hundred and
eight descendants.
Fire of undetermined origin Tues
day destroyed the farm home Of John
Osborne near Seward. The loss will
exceed $1,000.
The young son of Frank Wegrzyn Of
Burwel is dead of black diphtheria,
the first fatality from the disease
ar,nnn a pnp,har nf rasas ttpIar unn r..