The Red Cloud chief., 1922-10-26

the Rocky Mountains.
The S~cottsbluff sugar factory paid
out $4,000 In cash to farmers in that
region, ms the payment for beets de.
livered in September.
The apple crop in Pawnee county
Is 40 plentiful that choice fruit Is sell.
Ing for 30 cents per bushel, while
the lower grades and culls are being
fed to the hogs.
A conference Of Nebraska postmas.
ters will be held November IL ut the
Scottish Rite cathedral in Omaha. DR..
Hubert Work, postmaster general, Is
expected to attend.
A. III. Waterhouse, superintendent of
schools at Fremont. was unanimously
elected as new moderator by the Ne.
braska Congregational conference ut
It's meeting in Norfolk.
David Eakin of Central City was
burned to death and Mrs. Stevens was
seriously injured and Mr.. Stevens pain.
fully injured In u fire caused by the
explosion of a gasoline stove.
One hundred and twenty-seven babies
were registered and examined at the
better baby conference recently held at
Table Rock under the supervision of
the Pawnee county Red Cross.
Nearly six hundred teachers from
the Fifth district, Nebraska State
Teachers association, were I'm attend.
ance mt the district state convention
Of the organization at McCoOk last
week.
At Pine Bluff three negro prisoners,
one charged with murder, Overpowered
the Jailer and after disarming him
locked him with fifteen other prison
ers In q large cell in the Jail and made
their escape.
Continued dry weather Is causing
much concern among farmers around
Nebraska City. There Is n scarcity of
pasture and cattle are already being
fed hay and fodder, while many wells
are running dry.
Mrs. Florence d. owen of York,
Neb., was reelected grand chief OF
honor. or state president, of the grand
lodge OF Degree of Honor of Nebraska
at the closing session Of the biennial
convention held last week In Omaha.
A covey of six quail settled them.
selves on the top of the Security Ma.
tional bank at Randolph and proceeded
to greet early risers with their CHEEKY
whistle. They remained in their "busi.
ness location" for II considerable time,
Shipments of stocker and feeder
calves and cattle into Nebraska from
the principal markets for the first
eight months OF the year are said to
be considerably more than twice the
number for the same period last year.
Union with the Presbyterians and
other leading evangelical churches of
the United States was decided upon at
the close OF the sixty-sixth annual
meeting OF the Nebraska Congrega.
tional church at It's session mt Norfolk.
Sunday marked the hftieth annlyer.
sary of the organization of the First
Christian church OF Beatrice. and the
event was celebrated in a fitting man
ner by hundreds Of members In the
city and from various parts of the
country.
NebrasknCity's fire department has
started n program OF regular instruc-
ton meetings to be held at stated
periods this winter. The men VIII be
taught first aid work. and proper use
OF all the fire apparatus. There will
be lectures on fire prevention and
fire fighting.
a petition, asking that the question
or changing from the supervisor to the
commissioners form OF government In
Knox county be submitted to the
voters, has been circulated and enough
signatures have been obtained 10 IN.
sure its being placed on the ballot this
fall.
Samples of the oil ana shale from
which II comes on q farm near Neigh
were taken for analysis To Lincoln
The written report has not been recely.
ed but telephone Communication "a,
vealed that the sample contained gas
Kerosene ana crude oil.
Two hundred and slXty-seven posi.
tons were filled through the UnlversI.
ty of Nebraska employment bureau
during the month of September,
amounting to $3.50, according To the
report OF W. NJ. Altstadt, secretary OF
the bureau. There were 495 applica.
lions for jobs 1T calls for student
help and 267 reported placed.