The Omaha guide., 1955-11-04

ing contest. Merchants In downtown AlnSWOrtn fuTnlSned the
windows and participants daubed away at whatever sort of illus
tration they found to their liking. The painting was expected to
draw a big crowd. The paintings were judged and prizes were
awarded and the pictures were left there for a few days so that
those coming to town could see the work done.
Lightning striking a transmission pole near Oakland, Ne
braska, plunged that city and a large surrounding area into dark
ness last week when it burned up five miles of copper line and
some transformer equipment at a rural substation. Oakland
was out of current for nine hours and some farms were without
current for fifteen hours, reported the Oakland Independent.
Construction of new buildings in Crete is three times more
than in 1854, the Crete News discovered last week. Permits for
the first ten months of 1855 amounted to $174575. the newspaper
reported.
The total will go much higher, for Crete has just let con-
tracts for the construction of a $4,000 school house and the
FormFit Garment company is to have a new building which will
cost $4,000.
The sugar beet harvest is under way at Lexington and the
Herald reports the yield to be a record-breaker. The quality is
good and the sugar content is high this year. Payments to farm
ers in the area run into the millions Of dollars.
The Hooper Band which took part in the marching contests
at Grand Islands Harvest of Harmony" meeting last week. was
one of the three bands to be awarded a superior rating, the
Hooper Sentinel revealed last week. The town was proud Of
their bands accomplishment.
The cloud seeding promoters were jubilant Sunday at Albion
where .16 inches of rain was squeezed out of clouds which might
otherwise have passed over. Seeding generators were operated
as conditions began to look right and much Of the area in the
seeding tract was dampened.
Y Some of the newspapers in the target area" inferred that
there might have been rain anyway-but who knows? Others
point out that cloud seeding is like life insurance. How can
T. Wu6tuer II Will u ue6OeQ!
Anyhow, it rained.
West Point has a new fire station and to celebrate its compile
ton, the fire department held open house one day last week.
Several hundred persons visited the new quarters and looked over
the equipment. The youngsters got to sit behind the wheel of
the largest fire truck so that they could find out what it feels
like to be a fireman. The West Point Republican pictured one
lad at the wheel of the truck
Pierce county may join the cloud seeding area, the Pierce
County Leader revealed last week. An effort is being made to
collect $9.260 to carry out the work in that area.
At Neigh on Halloween the city council provided a free
movie and free roller skatng-provided the kids would sign
a pledge that they would conduct themselves the same that night
as any other night. There was also a football game scheduled
SO the kids should have been kept busy and out of mischief.
Plans are going forward at Loup City for the construction of
an ice skating rink to be used this winter. Youngsters are being
supervised in a cleanup program of a vacant lot and the city
owned grading equipment is to prepare the banks of the skating
pond, the Sherman County Times reported
Arapahoe a big Halloween party was carried out which in.
cluded a special invitation to rural districts to participate. Prizes
were given to the district coming from the farthet distance and
the largest number present.
again, as they were several years ago. But a farmer near Mead
is chuckling about it all and sent a note to the Wahoo Newspaper
telling them that he had the Lion" tied to a tree in his yard
It turned out that the lion was a part boxer and part collie pup
which has short hair and a coloring of light tan. It is a large
dog, thereby making large tracks and possibly leading someone
to believe that the oftheardof mountain lion in that area had
returned.
So that there would be no shoohngs, the farmer tied the
dog up.