Reading Notes From Local Exchanges Stir Small Town Ties
A patchwork of brief items from area newspapers traces visits, family events, illnesses, and travel. Ed Chambers and wife visit in Dakota City. Miss Nelle Fleming stays with Fleming parents. Bob Way plans return from Waterbury Nebraska. Eva Graham and Elnora Borg visit Dakota City. Poker of local kinship and hospital updates weave through Emerson, Ponca, Wakefield, and nearby communities.
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Wakefield
Art Buyto
Eva Graham
Elnora Borg
Walthitl
J. I. Matousek
Louie Viasek
Honer
W. H. Mason
Sioux City
Homer
Dallas Lane
Gurley
Fern
Methodist
Omaha
Lane
Ed Irby
Opal Nixon
Dorothy Irby
Hamer
Farm Bureau pig club offers prizes and loans for youths
The Farm Bureau begins a pig raising membership drive for ages 10 to 18. Each member must own a pig under 12 weeks, start feeding by May 1 or July 1, and keep records. Prizes include trips to Lincoln, cash awards from Hampshire and Chester White associations, Armour Farm Bureau funds, and state prizes.
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Farm Bureau
Lincoln
Hampshire Association
Hampshire
Armour’s Farm Bureau
Hampshire and
Chester White Association
Cholera Serum Sold at One Cent Per CC at State Plant
The State Serum Plant at the University Farm Lincoln offers anti hog cholera serum at one cent per cc, two cents per cc if virus alone is ordered. The serum was purchased from reputable producers and retested as potent. The plant also has fresh cholera virus of extra quality.
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University Farm
Lincoln
Dakota County Board Awards Bridge Contract and Sets Road Plan
The Dakota City board awarded the bridge project to Beatty Contracting Company as the lowest bidder, with a road work schedule set for district tasks and blade work at 85 cents per hour plus round-trip drag rates. Adjournments scheduled for May 1 1920 and August 6 1905 establish the centerline and route for Portis Road in Dakota County Nebraska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dakota City
Nebraska
Board of County Commissioners
John Feller
C. W. Fisher
William H. Rockwell
George W. Leamer
J. 8. Bacon
Beatty Contracting Company
Ikhart Bridge and Iron Company
Beatty
Comnae
Nebrana
Llows
O. W. Picher
Geo. W. Leamer
J.S. Bacon
Portis Road
Ropermself Road
Thenty
Bond Approved for Omahi Precinct Page Officer
Pat Gormally labor 3000 Bond of Richard J. Hart as constable for Omahi precinct approved. Od adjourned to meet May 24.
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Pat Gormally
Victor N. Hansen
Richard J. Hart
Omahi
Floods of 1881 Devastate Dakota Territory and Missouri River
The Ponca Journal recalls the April 23 1881 flood with scenes along the Missouri and Dakota Territory. A small sail boat ferried people from house to house on the river bluff while vast ice, up to thirty feet high, raged through Green Island and surrounding country. Attorney Gantt and Sheriff Jones trekked to Sioux City by wagon, hand car, and boat to recover mail and freight, returning with a portion of the town’s mail.
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Ponca Journal
River Bluff
Dakota
Missouri
Dakota Territory
Sioux City
Jackson
Ponca
Ance
Green Island
Attorney Gantt
Sheriff Jones
Covington
For Sale Homes and Lots in Dakota City and South Sioux City
Property dealer Mrs. Charity Hart offers several Dakota City residences for sale amid high rents and about thirty lots in South Sioux City. Auto phone 87645, Sioux City, Iowa.
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Dakota City
Sioux City
Charity Hart
Iowa
Ford Mechanics, take it to the Ford Hospital
Homer Motor Co. reports a Ford related repair matter guiding owners to seek hospital service for mechanical issues.
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Ford
Ford Mechanics
Homer Motor CO
Program characters from Scene 1 to Scene III listed
Recitasion Rocm. ror four scenes includes Dorothy Harold Maurice Christine Ted George Gladys Helen Lorraine Geraldine and others. The room and gymnasium settings are noted with names linked to characters and actors in this stage script fragment.
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Dorothy and
Harold
Gymnasium
Ted Graham
Maurice Niemeyer
George Herger
Laurence Frederick
Gladys Frederick
Helen Smith
Lorraine Ostmeyer
Geraldine Helkes
Hungry A Comedy a La Mode at the Commissary
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a historical comedy titled Hungry A Comedy a La Mode featuring Tobias a commissary man Mose and an envious mortal. Mentions Vernon Fueston and Gary Quarters in a past meal time scene near a commissary.
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Tobias
Mose
Patty Saves the Day
A fragmentary program lists students and performers including Misa Nelson Patty Steele and Maisie Marsh with roles such as The Mouse The Maid and The Gardener along with ensemble names and dates indicating an eighth grade or school stage show titled The Present Act I The Eighth Encore and Act II with several cast members and musical pieces noted by initials and partial phrases.
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Aif
Lbbooeel
Republic
Ed Chambers
Ray
Laurel Advocate
Nelle Fleming
W. E. Fleming
Central City
Bob Way
Waterbury
Neb
Bloomfield
Toledo
Sherry
South Sioux
A. B. Rien
Ross Polley
John Rahn
Verna Ebel
Harry
Donald Ebel
Emery
Annie Austin
Veda Harris
Clara Cook
O— Emerson
Frank Sleeney
Harry Sleikes
Robert Poule
Grand Genette
Randolph
W. J. Maun
W. M. O'Neill
George S. Hanse
Kir
Win
Canada
Northwest
Hogans
O'Neills
Hubbard and
St. Young
Weivan
D. Wood
Eet University
Thos, Graham
J. A. Wetmore
Don Forbes
S. H. Bridenbaugh
Elizabeth Leahy
E. J. Smith
Goodwin State Bank
Dakota City High School
Wm. Spence
THE
Herald For News
F.o.b. Detroit
the Board of Commissioners
Dakota County
Wm. Hohenstein
Labor Protest Fund
Galneadanionae District No
Standard Oil Co
Sedi
Nebraska Culvert & Mfg
Dingo GS
Eradter and Hitech
Nebraska Culvert & Mfg. Co
Victor N
Maaher Iabor
E. H. Loonila
Fred Jacobson
M. T. Beacom
Dan Hartnett
Geo. Hickok
Fred Nelson
Geo. He Beam
Fom
Mekak
Gormanly
Hogh
Eo Hileman
Knudsen
OU A A. Leonard
Ford Hospital
Robert Harold Everett Maurice Dorothy Christine
Senwe
Annes
Patty
Misa Nelson
Maisie Marsh
Helen Hilton
Sidney Marsh
Maisie
Oliver Prescott
Patty Steele
Mouse
Lilly
Sara Hill
Kate Dean
Bob Wright
Mr. Lane
Cave
Flace
Iol
Grad
Serpe
Rosie Perry
Ruth Orr
Walter Seymour
Aid Perry
Geraldine Heikes
Pearl Powell
Etic
Ary Lauritsen
Mildred Ream
Porter
Ekert
Arthur Seymour
Eee el
Ernest Giese
Alties
American Legion
Lorraine Ustmeyer Freckler
George Be
Helen Smithy
Iiadys
Frederick
Lawrence Frederick
Jackson State Bank
Jackson, Nebraska
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