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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1920
Page
3
Clean Up Week prompts residents to place rubbish in the alley for collection. Lincoln visitors, travels to Des Moines and Richmond, and local social visits fill the week. Classes, farm sales, and club meetings frame a busy Alvo schedule with notices on health, travel, and community events.
Katty The Cass County Improved Live Stock Association held its annual meeting in Mogensen's Hull heave Tuesday with about twenty prominent breeders present. Officers were re elected: Luke Wiles president R C Pollard secretary Searle Davis treasurer. A livestock exhibit featuring horses jacks mules cattle hogs sheep and poultry will be held this fall with ribbons prizes and free admission. A board of managers Luke Wiles R K Pollard Searle Davis L R Snipes will arrange plans. Dunn's pavilion lights water and local ads were donated to host the event in Weeping Water.
Robert Patterson and his wife visited a specialist in Omaha who is treating him for injuries from a recent accident. The doctor expressed bright hopes for restoring his sight, a priceless gift his friends eagerly anticipate in the coming weeks.
Funeral services for Mrs. William Nixon were held at the late home of her sister Mrs Henry Specht on North Eighth Street. Rev A V Hunter of First Methodist church offered a brief tribute and words of comfort. Interment followed at Oak Hill cemetery.
County Commissioners C. F. Harris of Union and William Atchison of Elmwood returned home this afternoon traveling by the Missouri Pacific.
Elmer Kintner, a junior at the country big school, narrowly escaped serious injury Friday when his Ford plunged through the west bridge railing and landed in the creek head first. The car flipped multiple times before coming to rest. witnesses marveled at his minimal injuries as he crawled out and helped remove the vehicle. An eye witness, Louie Paulsen, could not determine the cause of the plunge. For sale brick offer appears at end of item.
A 1920 letter from K Wilson in Great Divide Colorado to his mother recounts building a concrete pump platform, starting dairy cattle with eight Guernsey cows and a purebred bull, and plans for a silo. He notes a long winter, fertile soil, and rising land values with recent sales near Moffat. He compares population growth from 2500 to 9000 since 1916 and invites inquiries about homestead land in the area. He mentions nearby neighbors, a doctor in the area, and hopes to visit later in the summer.
Glenn Perry returned home from St. Joseph hospital in Omaha after two weeks recovering from a serious injury caused by a kick from a young colt on his farm south of the city. He is improving but will need time to fully recover.
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