Market News Service to Start in Alliance Again
The potato market news service, piloted last fall by the Office of Markets and Rural Organization, USDA, will resume in Alliance about September 15. A. E. Prugh led the reports previously. this year he may not be in charge due to Naval Militia duty. Potatoes are rising in production and stir government circles as prices vary and seizures occur in other states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potato Market
Office of Markets and Rural Organization
United States Department of Agriculture
Seiden
Florida
Court House
A. E. Prugh
Daily Market
Kansas City
Prugh
Naval Militia
Civil Service
District of Columbia
Practical method to raise corn on sod in dry land farming
The Herald describes a practical approach to intensified farming in eastern Nebraska. By breaking sod four inches deep, rolling, planting with a sod planter, rolling again, harrowing to mulch, then hoeing for weed control at a cost under thirty cents per acre, a farmer near Scotts Bluff county produced over two thousand bushels of corn the previous summer, averaging thirty five bushels per acre with no irrigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
The
Herald
Joe Pattison
Gering
Scotts Bluff County
Nebraska Officials and Legislators Listed by State
A dense list of Nebraska state and county officials including U. S. Senators Norris Hitchcock and Gilbert Hitchcock, governors, secretaries, treasurers, and judges, followed by district and county officers. The piece notes Mason lectures at Alliance and an advertisement for home grown lettuce, with horse sale prices and a wartime context referencing France and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Senate
Nebraska
Reverent pledge echoed in Grimke quote
A historical quotation from Grimke stresses that fervent love and devoted service to the country require balanced, steady purpose and faithful energy. The lines warn against excessive reverence or zeal that could distort true service.
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Grimke
Horse Inspection Set for May 22 at Alliance Stock Yards
The first horse inspection of the year in Alliance will be held Tuesday May 22 conducted by C L Lester Co. Horses headed for the French government must be halter broke and aged five to eight years. Acceptable horses include those in fair shape with cavalry prices listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masonic Temple
Alliance
Robert Graham
Denver
C. L. Lester & Co
Herald
Alliance Stock Yards
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Regan Store
Market News Service
A. FE. Prugh
Wisconsin
U. S
George W. Norris
McCook
Gilbert M. Hitchcock
Omaha
C. F. Reavis
Falls City
C. O. Lobeck
Dan V. Stephens
Fremont
Charles H. Sloan
Geneva
Ashton C. Shallenberger
Alma
Moses P. Kinkaid
O'Neill
M. Keith Neville
Edgar Howard
Charles W. Pool
Auditor Public Accounta
Wwm
H. Smith
George E. Hall
W. H. Clemmons
Willis E. Reed
G. L. Shumway Railway
Victor E. Wilson
H. G. Taylor
T. L. Hall
Judiciary
Andrew M. Morris
Sey
J. B. Barnes
Co. B. Letton
A. J. Cornish
Wm. B. Rose
J. R. Dean
Francis G. Hamer
Samuel H. Sedgwick
Brown, Cherry
Sheridan
Dawes
Box Butte
Sioux
Wm. H. Westover
Rushville
Cherry
Brown and
Rock
George M. Adams
Crawford
Lloyd C. Thomas
C. Mounts
F. W. Irish
C. M. Cox
Lee Basye
Opal Russell
J. E. Tash
J. A. Keegan
K. E. Knight
Lincoln
Alliance Greenhouse
United States
France
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