The Red Cloud chief., 1922-08-17
OF NEBRASKA
IN CONDENSED FORM
Recent Happenings in Nebraska
Given in Brief Items For
Busy Readers.

hNSuS "
to September 2.
Omaha Elks are laying plans tc
erect a million dollar home and clul
house at that place.
A new LaErance fire truck costing
S12,T5O has been received by the
Kearney fire department.
The state convention of the Ameri
can Legion auxiliary will be held al
York September Is to 20.
Charles Durland of Norfolk was
elected president Of the Northeast
Nebraska Tennis association.
Mrs. Ed Pyles of Blair was serious.
~ burned when II can of parafiin
lgnited and set fire to her clothing.
The farm bureau survey shows
twice as many hogs in Custer county
as in any other county of the state.
Arrangements are being made to
welcome ,25O guests at the tournament
of the Omaha gun club September
3 and 1.
Iork's appropriation bill for this
year has provided for $500 for adver-
Using the city and $1,000 for music
and entertainments.
Nearly $4,000 was cut off Gage
county taxes by the board of supervis.
ors which adopted a levy one-half mill
below that of last year.
Lindsay Is facing n winter without
coal. None Of the coal dealers there
has Il pound of coal in their bins and
no prospect of getting any.
Edward Woosley was spearing Ash
in a lake near Omaha, and by mis-
take ran a three tined fork into his
foot. 1t had to be cut out.
The first crop of peaches in Pawnee
county for several years is now being
marketed. The crop this year is
abundant and of good quality.
The boiler house ut the state indus
trial school for girls at Geneva burn
ed, the origin probably being from
spontaneous combustion of coal.
The election held at Arapahoe for
the -urpose of voting bonds for 100000
with which to build a new high school,
carried by II vote of 800 to us.
Teachers have been secured for
nearly all rural schools of Gage coun-
~. The teachers of the majority of
the 1873 schools will be inexperienced.
Arvilla Jean, 2-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed ~HollingsEead of Com
stock, drank n quantity of kerosene
from a bottle and died three hours
later.
Traces of oil in a gravel pit near
Kearney have aroused the curiosity
of citizens of that place, and talk of
development is being strongly in
dulged In.
Frank McManus, Il prominent farmer
near Palmyra, was badly injured when
he became %entangled i'm the belt of q
gasoline engine which was being used
In farm work.
A car confscated at York by Chief
OF Police Olson and PatrOlman John
Pollard was found TO contain 60 quarts
Of bottled in bond Canadian whisky
and Gordon gin.
Oliver Hohnholdt, a IL year old
Bloomfield lad, was seriously hurt
when he fell from the running hoard
of an automobile upon which he had
chopped" for a ride.
A carnival held by the happy har-
vester class Of the Bigsprings Metho-
dist Sunday school netted 5000 for
windows of the new $4,000 church
nearing completion.
The proposal to issue school bonds
to the amount Of $4,000 for the u
pose of erecting a new building at
Hooper carried at a special election
by n vote of 235 to 131.
George w. Spiegel, Beatrice business
man and fine horse %fancier, announces
the sale of Lady Midnight and Sylvia,
two magnificent saddle mares, to Pro-
fessor Bedini, for six years riding
master to the King of Italy.
Mrs. Helen Linderman, nominated
on the republican ticket for state
representative from the F%ifty-ninth
district, has announced she will be
unable to accept the nomination.
Word has been received at Table
Rock of the death of Charles A. Nc
Gee ut his home In Kalamazoo, Mich,
who for sixteen years wal a resident
Of Pawnee and Johnson counties.
Farmers in Knox county are try
Ing to locate two smooth crooks who
sold them n hog remedy" which
caused their hogs to die. The men,
they say. represented themselves to
be working with the state department
Of agriculture.
Fremont police claim that many
recent raids on chicken houses, I'm
some Of which as many as 200 chick
ems have been taken at once, are
attributable to Omaha professional
chicken thieves" who drive out in
trucks ut night, rob the roosts and
market their product early the next
morning.
A shotgun accidentally discharged
as he snatched it from an auto to
shoot a rabbit, caused Frank, o, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Gauger, of STRAIT
ton to lose his left rm.
The annual convention and camp
meeting of the Nebraska conference