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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1920
Page
2
A comical anecdote circulates about a farmer and a smart man using rural slang for a week. The man boasts of Thursday’s adventures from driving to the country club and dancing to town, while the farmer retorts with a Wednesday filled with farming and late-night tasks, ending with a routine breakfast and mulin’ again.
The Nevada text book commission met in Reno on Wednesday and adopted Our America by Gitteau as the standard history text. Old Europe and Young America were readopted while Stories of Later American Life were selected for fourth and tenth grades. Geographies were re contracted for next year as revisions could not be obtained in time for the coming school year.
Prof Frederick J Pack told Elko Oil Field Corporation stockholders no oil indications exist near Adobe Flat six miles north of Elko. He explained oil forms and anticlines, found no domes or anticlines, and advised against further search. Directors voted to terminate the company and refund about ten dollars per member from fifty total, after each invested one hundred dollars.
The report details monthly average prices for hogs cattle sheep and veal from 1915 to 1920, noting a long rise in hog prices to 1919 then a decline to December 1919 and a modest rise in January 1920. Sheep and beef cattle show varied movements, with beef peaking in May 1919 and overall 1919 prices lower than 1918.
Salt Lake Tribune reports Herman F. Wallstein, a Salt Lake mechanic, invents a gravity driven screen to separate grit, claiming 90 to 100 percent efficiency, no clogging, and threefold capacity versus existing screens. No motors or power needed. installation already tested in major plants.
Extract chronicles mining progress at Phoenix and El Dorado claims with ore faces up to ten feet wide and silver values over 500 per ton. Reports July 4th holiday revived, Rescue Hose Company ball, track meet at Willows, Julius Minoletti returns from Switzerland, and weddings of Joe Rebaleatti and Violet Hancock.
Albert Kimball of Elko Nevada filed under Sec 2306 Revised Statutes to enter 40 acres described as NE of SW% of Section 14 Township 28N Range 51E Mt Diablo. Protest affidavits due August 10 1920. objections on mineral character or other grounds to Robbins Register first publication July 10 1920 last August 7 1920.
The annual meeting of stock holders will be at the company office in Hill's Furniture Store Eureka Nevada on Saturday July 24 1920 at 2 o clock p m. C H Hill Secretary Eureka Nevada July 2 1920.
Dr. Mabel K Young remains in her office on Spring street ready to perform all kinds of dental work. Office open all day and evenings. All work guaranteed.
The Nevada Transportation Company gives notice that beginning January 1 demurrage will be charged on all cars held over. Advertisement. 4 and Sexton.
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