Local notes touch travel visits and events around town
Edward Rebhausen will leave for Hot Springs to seek medical treatment. Mrs Huddart and son Don head to Broken Bow for a week. Bert Simmons joins Booster ball team in the infield. Mayme McMicheal returns from Sidney. Dr A L Lane arrives from Cuba Illinois for a week. Mrs Gene Barney visits Omaha and returns home. George Sizemore visits Woodbine Iowa. Arche Hood leaves for Des Moines for a couple weeks. Mrs Brooks Meadows hosts a Kensington for Alma Vogt from Omaha. Prairie chickens predicted scarce due to wet weather. Jos Murphy and Loretta Murphy return from Salt Lake City with a delightful trip. P H Smith’s barn near Sutherland burned after lightning strike. five head of horses, arnes, and grain lost. Nancy Beightel former North Platte resident dies in Los Angeles. J W Tannehill and two children visit A B Garricks in town. Catholics vs Methodists game postponed by rain. rescheduled. Dean Bowker returns from Omaha and Lincoln to lead Sunday services. Early communion at 8, service at 11. Crabapples 50 cents per bushel at the farm. A W Larson reports wheat yield 35-40 bushels despite hail damage. Spicer and Christ hold five cent dances at Lloyd Opera House nightly. Erickson homestead sold for 71 dollars per acre to H F Brede. Miss Jessie Robison visits father B F Robison. Commercial dinner menu announced for Monday at Christian church.
Sub Irrigation Meeting Aims to Safeguard Platte Valley Water Rights
The Kearney Daily Hub reports plans for a Platte Valley sub irrigation meeting, likely at North Platte, to push legislation safeguarding water rights and government cooperation. Local men urge action as drought looms and fear the river may run dry if flood waters are retained by dams, risking crop losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kearney
Platte Valley
North Platte
Platte
Road to county line set along hills after wrangling
After a long wrangle over routing the county line road along the railroad right of way or an older survey, agreement was reached yesterday. Herminghausen and White reportedly accepted the hillside route and landowners agreed to abide by damage appraisals, with work starting today under Supervisor Cocks, per the Sutherland Free Lance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herminghausen
White
Sutherland
Boosters Defeat Big Springs 7-2 in Local Game
Boosters beat Big Springs 7 to 2 on the local grounds. Neither team scored until the sixth inning when the Boosters put two on the scoreboard. Big Springs tied it in the seventh, but the Boosters rallied for five runs in the eighth. Fussell struck out fourteen for the visitors, while Artley fanned eleven and allowed two hits as Boosters had seven hits off Fussell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boosters
Big Springs
Fussell
Artley
Presbyterian Pastor to Speak at Wood River Church
The Rev. Horace G. Clair of Wood River Nebraska will occupy the pulpit at the Presbyterian church next Sunday August 22. A full attendance of members is requested and all friends are invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace G. Clair
Wood River
Neb
Presbyterian Church
Local items and notices mix of social news and events
Local social and community brief highlights include visits by Misses Desper, Ridgely, Fenwick, and Whelphy. birthdays and gatherings hosted by Mrs. Gatherless, Mrs. Alden, and others. Also reported are the Arabic sinking, hurricane death toll rising to four hundred, harvest efforts for sweet clover, a vehicle collision, a fire destroying part of a property, and upcoming Lincoln County Better Baby contest and baseball games.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weing and & Orton
Lincoln County Fair
Mothers’ Club
Edmund Dickey
W. R. Maloney
Also Mentioned on This Page
Black
Edward Rebhausen
Hot Springs
Ark
Wm. Huddart
Don
Broken Bow
Bert Simmons
Stockville
Mayme McMicheal
Sidney
A. L. Lane
Cuba
Ilinois
M. E. Scott
Gene Barney
Omaha
George Sizemore
Woodbine
Iowa
Fred Virich
Arche Hood
Reibhausen
Des Moines
Brooks Meadows
Kensington
Alma Vogt
The
Free Lance
Jos. Murphy
Loretta Murphy
Salt Lake City
P. H. Smith
Nancy Beightel
Cora Lawrence
Los Angeles
J. W. Tannehill
Vada Tannehill
Norfolk
A. B. Garricks
Dean Bowker
Lincoln
Episcopal Church
N. B. Spurrier
A. W. Larson
Drady
Clarence Spicer
Adam Christ
Lloyd Opera House
Stamp
Erickson
Goslin
H. F. Brede
Saturday Evening Post
Clinton
Jessie Robison
Rawlins
B. F. Robison
Tribune Force
Christian Church
PS Tbo
W. A. Haberstro
Basso Cantante
Kearney State Normal School
Keith Theatre
Imietus
Sword of
Ferrara
Tipperary
Tours Déerkoven
Nevin
Bruno Hubu
Harry Gatherless
Henry Iddings
W. D. Alden
Siebert
Grand Island
Miss May Desper
Gering
Atothe Win
Engle
California
Carl Earhart
Panama Exposition
Las Vegua
Levi Duke
W. M. Cunningham
Cedar Rapids
Gulf Coast
Texas
John Lunney
Oklahoma
Lunney
Margaret Scharmann
Liverpool
Birdwood Grove
Messrs. Boyle
van Cleave
George Coates
Lucile Ridgely
Cheyenne
Vini
Alex Fenwick
Streitz
Lierk-Sandall
Locust
Care
Mise Thelma Buse
Council Juffe
Elmer Coates
Mrs. Pollard
Schuyler
James Guyman
Frank Osterhout
West Ninth Street
Emma Gardner
Billings, Mont
Arthur Pink
Mlinois
W. J. Crusen
Dorothy Hinman
Tuesaday
Kansas City
Denver
Marion Fenwick
Lucille Ridgely
Mary Whelply
Fremont
Esther Kelly
West Third Street
Mrs. Ogden
Arthur
Ray Cimming
Elizabeth Weir
Mary Whelphy
Anna Kocken
Montauk
Tom Watts
Tila
J. H. Megarty
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co
Reynolds Block
Denel County
Chappell
Nxt
Duel County
Lincoln County
Lincoln Dyers
Stote
Nurses. Registry
North Platte, Nebraska
George 5. Dick
Pres
Kearney Gitte Norinal School
Major Haberstra
God
Man
George G. Ware
St. Luke’s Church
G&j
J. S. Davis Auto CO
North Platte, Neb
Base
Lincoln Cleaners and Dyers
North Platte Boosters
W. W. Birge CO
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!