North Side posts office plan eyed to ease parcels
Postmaster Davis pushes for a Fourth Ward branch in North Side drug store run by Jerry Bowen to sell stamps money orders register parcels and handle parcel post. If supported the proposal will be sent to senators and representatives for post office department approval. A petition circulates while sidewalks and a mailbox at Fourth Street are also discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ES. Davis
Fourth Ward
United States
Post Office Department
Washington
North Side
Jerry Bowen
North
Davis
Fourth Street
Union Pacific Manager Charles H Ware Weds Nell Nesbitt
Omaha Bee reports Charles H Ware general manager of the Union Pacific quietly married Nell Nesbitt yesterday night. The ceremony occurred at the home of Dr. and Mrs J J Anson in Dundee with Rev. G E B Fisher of Dundee Presbyterian church officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ware Maries
Omaha
North Platte
Charles H. Ware
Union Pacific
Nell Nesbitt
Mra
J. J. Anson
Dundee
G. EB. Fisher
Dundee’ Presbyterian Church
Longest Ballot Ever Faces Nebraska Voters in August Primary
Nebraska voters will vote August 15 in a primary featuring the longest ballot. Off year elections have been abolished so county officers, state officers, and congressmen to be elected now along with new suits and coats arriving at Wilcox Department Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Wilcox Department Store
Sioux Lookout legend of smoke signaling and tribal clash
An account by ER George Hall recounts Sioux Lookout near North Platte as a smoke signaling peak for the Sioux. A legend describes Ojibway and Shoshone meeting atop the hill and a fierce duel ending with an Ojibway death and scalp, with a sand monument once marking the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux Lookout
George Hall
Oneonta
Kan
Platte Valley
Mr. Hall
North Platte
Ground broken for new electric plant in North Platte
City officials and North Platte Electric Co. executives led a ceremony on Front Street as work begins on a new electric and gas plant. The project includes a large main building, a gas facility, and multiple smaller structures with five million pounds of material expected. Concrete bases will be poured first, with a dedicated track to ease unloading and coal delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Todd
French
Morey
North Platte Electric Co
W. H. McDonald
Frank Pleisticker
E. §. Davis
BE. A. Crosby
A. P. Kelly
Ira L. Bare
Pew
Front Street
Two Boys Sentenced to Reform School
Two seventeen year old boys, Ucen Bowers and Fred Wilson, were sent to the Kearney reform school until age twenty one. Wilson pled guilty to entering a house on East Second Street and robbing it. Bowers admitted stealing electrical appliances from Union Pacific and also pled guilty.
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Reformatory
Ucen Bowers
Fred Wilson
Kearney
Wilson
Yankee Robinson
East Second Street
Bowers
Union Pacific Oficers Combs and Wiedman
Union Paelic Company
Grant
Notary Nagel Faces Removal Over Land Deed Scandal
Complaint filed with Governor Morehead accuses John H. Nagel notary of Dickens county of taking Mrs. Jane C. Blakely's acknowledgment for a 400 acre deed without her presence or knowledge. Land sold to BE J Moore of Guide Rock for 56000 with funds paid to an agent and later deemed not valid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nagel
Morehead
John H. Nagel
Dickens
Jane C. Blakely
Hastings
Plant site to see a flurry of activity soon
The article notes that the engines and hollers are moving to the road and within a week or so there will be substantial activity at the plant site.
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Norfolk
Beatrice
Paris
Bifle
MeGovern
Olive McGovern
District Court
Bartle McGovern
Grand Island
James Andrew
MR. Hale
Kansas
Redmen
Co. F. Temple
Lia
Boyd Arrowes
North Platte, Nebraska
Ogalalla
Hershey
Cozad
H. M. Porter
W J. Landgraff
A. J. Salisbury
H. H. Musselman
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