Neighboring Notes Reveal Local Post Office Growth and Oddities
The Broken Bow post office reaches 110000 in annual receipts as residents push for free delivery and a federal building. A Beatrice boy escaped a sixty foot well after a rabbit chase, hours of digging followed. Norfolk Press notes modest mail service gains, while Fremont hotel staff face risqué publicity rumors.
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Broken Bow
Beatrice
Norfolk Press
Northwestern
R. R
Burlington
Lincoln Journal
Exchange Table
Fremont
Norfolk
Fremont Hotel
County Clerk Becomes District Census Director
Jos. Pigman resigns as county clerk to become census director for Nebraska's sixth district. Deputy W. H. Osbor ne Jr. is appointed to fill the unexpired term. The piece notes Pigman's eight years of service and his plan to devote full time to census work next year. A closing anecdote from a sermon follows.
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Jos. Pigman
W. H. Osborne, Jr
Pigman
Sixth
Nebraska
Baisch
Hemingford Happenings Travel and Visits Report
Local notes list residents and visitors traveling to Alliance Minatare Chadron Ashland and other Nebraska towns. Dates show December 1909 activity with multiple trips to Omaha Logan county Livingston Mont Fairbury and Billings among others.
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Miss Sweeney
Miss Roberts
Alliance
Lewis Kuhn
Livingston
Mont
Joe
Wolfe Fiiemuth
Lena Wildy
Illinois
E. Rasmussen
Iowa
Clark Old
Mr. West
Ben Johnson
Omaha
Notice to bid bonds for Box Butte county officers
By order of the Board of County Commissioners bids will be received at the County Clerk for furnishing surety bonds for a term of two years from January 1, 1910 for the officers elect of Box Butte county including County Clerk County Treasurer County Superintendent County Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff. W C Mounts Clerk.
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Board of County Commissioners
Box Butte County
W. C. Mounts
Cement Contractor Advertisement in Alliance Nebr
Cement contractor J. J. Vance of West Lawn Alliance Nebraska offers estimates for cement walks cement blocks and all kinds of concrete work.
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J. J. Vance
West Lawn
Alliance
Nebr Ag
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C. W. Brennan
Sec’s and
Treas
Fletcher Block
Alabama
Hemingford
Roy Kent
Minatare
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Jake Osborn
Virginia
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Fairbury
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Mrs. Oldt
Mrs. Miller
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Billings
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Senete, Kans
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