The Red Cloud chief., 1922-10-26
news OF NEBRASKA
IN CONDENSED FORM
Recent Happenings in Nebraska
Given in Brief Items For
Busy Readers.

short 165 potato pickers.
Eycavating for the Icy Presbyterian
church at S%cottsbluff, to cost, when
completed, $4,000, has begun.
or the 100 teachers in Jefferson
county, $50 attended the District
Teachers association at Lincoln.
Merchandise to the value of 81 800
was stolen from the general store Of
Il. A. Starlin at Filley, I'm Gage
county.
A movement Is under way I'm Gage
county to take over the Hastings.Hol-
drege oil interests and to push the
search for oil.
Scarlet fever is reported to have
broken out among scholars Of the
Burchard schools, and the schools have
been ordered closed.
Ceremonies for laying OF the new
capitol cornerstone at Lincoln will
take place at IL a. m. Saturday, Nov
ember II, Armlstice day.
Fifty-five relatives were present Mt
the golden wedding celebration Of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. +. Holstein, pioneers
Of the Herman neighborhood.
Big Spring elevators are experience
Ing trouble In getting grain cars o
take care Of the large amount Of
wheat moving In that territory.
The free employment bureau at
Omaha has received calls for nearly
500 corn pickers ut 4 and Az cents
q bushel. with board and room.
The Hershey public schools have
The largest enrolment i'm history Of the
district. The high school has an in
creased enrolment of so per cent.
firing Of the fight I'm the United
States courts for reduced electric
light rates, the people of Aurora are
talking of establishing a municipality
owned plant.
and blind, is dead ut Omaha Of in
juries received when she jumped from
a veranda at the county hospital to
the ground fifteen feet below.
Howard barrow, near Endicott, lost
finger while putting up hay. He was
just finishing the job when his finger
oecame fast In the hay press and was
completely severed.
AL SkoOg OF Fremont, was probabaly
fatally injured when his car topplc,l
INTO a ditch off the Lincoln Highway
pinning him beneath the wreckage
and breaking his back.
About 1900 alumni Of Creighton
university are expected to return to
Omaha to take part in the annual fes-
tivities which are being arranged for
Homecoming day, November 10.
Dodge county has eight new school
buildings under construction. Six Of
these are In the towns and two in the
rural districts. Several other rural
districts have remodeled or improved
heir school houses.
George j. Dining, proprietor Of Red
Rose farm, near York, had on exhibit
lion at the National Swine Show at
Peoria, ILL.,, n display Of Duroc-J Jersey
hogs. He took a'total of fourteen rib
oons with thirteen hogs.
Attending n sunset reception given
by the Christian church OF Liberty.
Allen Sharp, SO, pioneer of southeast
ern Nebraska, took his first automo-
bile ride. He also enjoys the distinc-
ton of never having attended a movie.
Six hundred pounds of roast beef,
one thousand buns, one hundred gal
Ions of coffee and ice cream for all
were some Of the big eats" which
were served the North Platte post of
American Legion at n barbecue staged
last week.
Chief Bremen of the Fremont DO.
lice force says that no less than twenty
girls have asked him for the address
OF l1bert Wooley, a California farm
err, who addressed n letter to the FIRE.
mont police urging them to find a
meat, sensible wife"
Silas Hayes celebrated his ninety.
ninth birthday at his home in Table
Rock last week. He was born Oc-
tober Is, 1923, and at the time OF his
birth James Monroe. the fifth presi-
dent Of the United States, was serv-
Ing his second term. His first vote
for president was cast for James X.
Polk In 1884. He Is the father of
fourteen children, all Of whom are
living except two.
A pure-bred w%hitefaced Hereford
calf, owned and raised by n little girl,
won the first premium as the prize
calf Of the Sand Hill Beef club at the
Ewing live stock show and fair. Little
Miss Levina Bennett was the proud
)wner of the calf, which brought S1O5
In the sale ring.
Harry Anderson, n Nebraska City
youth, dreamed that n dog was chas-
Ing him and was about to take n bit
out OF his leg, when he made n vicious
kick at the animal. In his nightmare,
the boy struck the foot board Of an old.
fashioned wooden bed so hard as TO
break his little toe.
The Department Of Agriculture and
the agricultural college at Lincoln are
advising Il careful watch for the first
hog to show signs Of cholera. If the
herd is treated Immediately 1t is gen
orally possible to save the herd with
but few losses. If the disease, how