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CONDENSED STATE NEWS The new $60,000 Y. M. C. A. build ing at McCook is being rapidly subSuffering a stroke of paralysis while in a dentist's chair, E. F. Ruch, fifty. six, resident of York county for fifty. two years, is dead. John Peacock, Burchard's last civil war veteran, is dead at his home in that place. He fell and broke his hip on Christmas day. School teachers at Fairbury will read the bible daily in their classrooms. No comment by teacher or pupils will be permitted. Fire, believed'to have started from a defective flue, destroyed the Burling ton depot at Hoag. Most of the contents of the building were con sumed. Value of building constructed and started in 1924 in Omaha totals $12, 268,858. This has been exceeded in one year only, according to city records. The $5,000 home of J in Ledehoff at Fremont was entirely destroyed by fire, the nine members of the family being forced to flee in their night clothing. W. E. Sparrow of Sidney, crashed thru larget plate glass window when the brakes on the car he was driving failed to work and he crashed over the curb into window Miss Carrie Hesseltine, formerly a teacher in the Broken Bow High school, but for Le past seven years engaged in missionary work in India, is home on furlough. Dr. Oliver Everett, Lincoln, hasn't missed a Husker football game in nineteen years. He has seen every contest at home and has accompanied the squad on every trip Knox county board of supervisors has bought a large snow plow to be used in clearing the main roads. The machine clears path 21 feet wide and requires a powerful tractor. Opening, by drilling, the safe of John W. Conley, deceased, of Broken Bow, Judge Ford, administrator, found $6,800 in money and $500 in Liberty bonds. Conley died July 30. Paul Jessen, former district judge of Nebraska City was elected president of the Nebraska State Bar as sociation at the closing Lession of the annual convention at Omaha. The Cozad Commercial club pledged its quota of $370 toward the maintenance of a farm bureau agent in Dawson county, to carry on activities among women-fo'k of the county dur ing 1925. Five hundred and thirty rabbits were killed by 60 hunters of the Chappel district in a community hunt, with a view to ridding the country of animals that are doing much damage to crops and trees. A trip to Scotland was the surprise Christmas gift of the Rev. D. K Miller, popular Presbyterian pastor at Cedar Bluffs, from his flock of 250 at the Christmas tree exercises. Mr. Miller is a native of Scotland. According to local weather officials December, 1924, was one of the five coldest Decembers recorded in the fifty-two years on record in the state. Twelve sub-zero days were recorded in the present month. Omaha is the third corn market in America. It is the first primary grain market, receiving more grain shipped directly from the farm than any other city. As a market for all grains Oma ha ranks sixth in the nation. The amount of grain received in that market exceeded 67,000,000 bushels in 1923. Sixteen women's clubs of Scotts bluff country have signified their in tentions of joining the extension course projects of the farmer's union this year and seventeen boys' and girls' club are also enrolled. The Newcastle State bank and the Homer State bank, in northeast Neb raska, are two of the eight failed banks throughout the state which have failed whose receivers have succeeded in turning some of the assets into cash 80 that money amounting to near'" a quarter of a million of dol lars id being turned into the state guarantee fund. Morris Steinke. 40, escaped inmate of the state hospital at Hastings walked twenty-four miles to his home at Shelton. His feet were 80 badly frozen that it may be necessary to amputate them. Fire shortly before noon Christmas day, destroyed the beautiful home 01 August Reinking at Papillion. The home and contents were valued a $38,000. It was one of the show places of Papillion and the surround ing country. two stories high, finished in black walnut, and had thirty-two rooms. Constructed in 1880. it had long been a landmark. Clarence L. Freye, thirty-six, Elk City farmer, was instantly killed at his home when the gas tank of his lighting plant exploded The cause of the explosion has not been determined The metropolitan utilities district, supplying gas to Omaha and suburbs, announced its Christmas greetings in the form of a substantial reduction in the price of gas to householders. M. W. Bowen of Keyston- and his younger daughter were asphyxiated and his wife and elde: daughter are in a serious condition from the effects of gas from the heating stove in the Bowen home. Workmen at Lincoln are getting the senate and representative halls in order for the coming of the legislators, who open in the old capitol at noon January 6. Congressman A. C. Shellenberger of the Fifth district is seriously III in a Washington, D. C., hospital. He has been in bed for a week with.a bad attack of gall stones. The big auto bus running between Beatrice and Lincoln went into the itch near Hickrel and turned over on its side. Five passengers were in car at the time but aside from a severe shaking up they escaped injury. A shipment of 3,900 ounds of rabbits was sent from Elk Creek by express to a firm in New York City. Nearly 800 rabbits were in the lot, which represented the collections of a dealer f om local hunters for the last week. The bond issue election in school district No. 12, in which York is located, aroused but little interest, owing to extremely cold weather. Less than. 200 votes were cast and there were but thirteen votes against the proposition. Fifty-seven head of pure bred shorthorn and polled shorthorn bulls, cows and helfers, brought an average of $104 per head, when they were sold at the Columbus stock sales pavilion in the eighth annual pure bred cattle sale at that place. In the twenty-six years that Emory Arrison, local carrier of mall on a Nebraska City route, has been on the job, he has walked on an average of more than twelve miles each day, 312 miles every month, 3,744 miles a year, or a total of 97,344 miles since he began work in 1898. Farmers along the rural routes served by the Kearney postoffice are serving hot dinners to the mail carriers in appreciation of their efforts. Service on some routes has been interrupted because of tremendous snow drifts encountered, and the severely cold weather. The outstanding feature of December receipts at South Omaha was the heavy run of hogs, the total for the month standing at 435,000 head, an increase of 134,000 head, as compared with a year ago. Total receipts for 1924 have been 3,977,000 head, the largest year's receipts on record at this market. Robert G. Cox, sixty-six, an early I ncaster county settler, was killed and his wife, fifty-eight, severely burned about the head and breast besides sustaining bad cuts and a broken arm, when a carbide lighting plant in the basement of their farm home, near Lincoln, exploded. Col. J. H. McClay, for years clerk of the Lincoln division of the federal court, is dead at his home in that place. Colonel McClay was a member of the legislature, county official and banker, and was for years a well known figure in Nebraska politics. He is the father of W. L. McClay, postmaster at Lincoln. Omaha has more telephones per capita than any other city in the world, according to statistics received by the bureau of publicity of the Chamber of Commerce from the American Telephone and Telegraph company. That city has 58,826 telephones, or 284 for each 1,000 population. Judgments aggregating $64,100 aside from the interest thereon, were entered by the supreme court against the state bank deposit guarantly fund in a number of cases where district courts had given decrees for the guaranty fund. In all but one of these cases the district court decrees are overturned. Eva B. Shuman, Mairbury county superintendent was elected president of the Nebraska State Teachers' association at the closing session of its CO vention in Omaha. She succeeds J. A. True of McCook. J. G. Masters, principal of the Central High school, Omaha, was elected vice president, and John F. Mattnews of Grand Island was re-elected treasurer. Chief Game Warden George Koster has issued an appeal to farmers to use a little grain in feeding quall while the snow is on the ground. Otherwise, he says, there will be few quail left in the state. The first cheese factory in the state located six miles east of Scottsbluff, in what is rapidly becoming the foremost dairy section of the state, began operations October 6, and the first day's run produced 60 pounds. The quantity produced has increased at the rate of about 100 pounds per week, until the daily output is now 700 pounds. Among the other things that the Nebraska good roads boosters will ask from the next legislature will be new highway markers to conform with the national marking scheme. A dairy cattle judging contest and a fat stock judging contest will be held at the Organized Agriculture meetings at the Agricultural College, Lincoln, according to the official program. Both contests will be managed by college students who have represented Nebraska in national judg. ing contests, and will be open to farmers and students who have not been on college teams. J. E. Paxton of Sargent, 37 years of age, tips the steel yards at 635 pounds; height, 6 feet, 6 inches; neck, 22 inches; reach, 76 inches; biceps, 23 inches; waist, 72½ inches; thigh 38 inches; calf, 27 inches; and forearm, 161/2 inches and he wears a No. 12 shoe. A special rate of fare and a half has again been secured for round trip railway tickets to Lincoln and return during Organized Agriculture week. Beginning January 3, all depot agents of Nebraska will sell these tickets which will be good for the return trip until January 10.
