The Red Cloud chief., 1922-04-13

NOteu io4 10 4D III IuNOr VI Sunudy
baseball
The Nebraska State Medical assoc
iation will hold it's annual meeting in
Omaha April 24-27
More than 1000 bushels of corn were
contributed by the North Loup vicinity
to the Near East relief.
The Omaha Commercial High School
is now known as theOmaha Technical
school. Some 2,7OO pupils are enrolled.
o. NJ. Shore of Oshkosh has asked
for bids preparatory to erecting SI0,-
600 motion picture theatre building OF
brick and tile.
| Charles Trimble, secretary, an
nounced that at least 400 horses will be
entered in the Ak-Sar-Ben races 10 be
run In Omaha June 3-17.
Mount Vernon, o.. playing sterling
basketball. defeated Sutton, Ncb., 80 to
IA, at Chicago, in the first game of the
semifnals at Chicago university.
The South Side postoflicc In The fu-
ture will be known as South Omaha,
the name II bore prior to South Om-
ahas consolidation with Omaha.
Health Commissioner Pinto has
scheduled n rat killing contest in Om-
aha. II Is to STRAIT soon and continue
until May 80 Prizes VII, be given.
Cambridge won the state American
Legion basketball championship ut
kearney by defeating the Central City
veterans quintet by the score of % TO
13.
Meeting to protest against school
taxes, mothers of Gage county school
boards, voted in favor of q motion sug-
gesting a cut of 20 per cent in the sui
aries Of school teachers.
Bonds for Il new school-house at
Prague, Saunders county, carried by n
vote of 135 to If. This means a new
100000 school will replace the one
destroyed by fire in January.
a committee from the Commercial
club at Crete to select free camping
ground for tourists has met with quite
n problem in having so many places
they don't know which one to use.
Work of graveling the Meridian high
way near Madison has been completed.
The county is furnishing the sravel and
residents along the road distribute it,
Total costs on the first project were
$4,000.
ElmwoOd's community house will be
dedicated on Memorial day. according
to present plans. The building Is being
erected by the American Legion, and is
said to be one of the finest Of its kind
in the state.
Telephone wires i'm the business dis
trict of Pawnee City are being put un-
der the ground before paving opera
tions are started. The cable carries
more than 500 wires. Lines in the res
ident section also will be sunk.
Articles of incorporation for an or.
gnnzation to buy and sell the grain at
Leigh have been filed and directors and
officers of the association chosen. The
capital stock is $4,000, with $4,000
paid up. An elevator will probably be
built.
Nearly $4,000 people visited the rest
room at Bloomfield dulsng the past
year. Residents of the city are not
included In this number. The visitors
came from IS different states and three
were also guests from Canada and
Toxic, Japan.
Edward Brass and A. L. Van Alstine,
/. prominent western Nebraska cattlemen,
have leased the Willis Beck ranch of
, 10000 acres near Alliance, and have
: announced their intention Of putting ut
, least 1900 head of cattle on the range
for summer feeding.
Following the two victories of tho
Sutton High school basket ball team,
champions of Nebraska, over YanktOn
, Is. d. high school. business men of
Sutton have arranged to send the local
! team to Chicago to take part in the
national tournament.
. The Ray Lamb post of the American
I Legion of Bloomfield, is making prepar.
, atiOns for big carnival dance OH
I April 20. The affair will be conducted
2 on the French style and there will be
: Monte Carlo, French bar dugout,
Apaches underworld, cafetaria supper
, and other features.
4 Playing on the floor at home with
2 her S-month-old baby sister, the 3.
$ year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Glen
0 Peebler, of West Point, got n can of
= talcum powder and sp inkled some
= over the Infants face. Attracted by
n the child's screams, the mother rushed
e into the room and found the baby's face
r completely covered with powder. The
s nostrils were clOgged. The baby I'M
l. mediately became seriously Ill and was
q rushed TO Fremont by automobile. The
9 baby died after physicians had spent
{ the day trying to save her life. Ply
+ sicians said the powder caused con
gestion of the lungs.
!, Omaha Elks are preparing for {
: drive 10 raise funds for the erection o.
n a clubhouse and home. The mark il
n set IA S1,000,000.
:. While hunting for fishing worms
= Harold Henderson, A, was struck IN th'
e left eye by the prong of a pitchforl
d welded by his brother, Howard, T. II