Bunker Hill social notes and honor roll list
Joe Beyer returns home after five months away in the east. Local families visit and call on neighbors including the Jeudes, Beyer, Mall, Lessman, and Powell households. March honor roll at Bunker Hill School includes Bernice Beyer Dora Ehmke Lornie Engel and Doris Thurston. A birthday party honors M H Moll’s son. Various visits by Bayne Beyer and related families. Clara Mohart visits Peetz. Ralph Bayne and Raymond Beyer attend school. George Hendricks and wife visit Earl Bayne. trips to South Dakota noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Beyer
William Jeudes
Frank Beyer
Pete Beyer
Albert Beyer
Fred Beyer
Charles Lessman
Mall
Bunker Hill School
North Divide social notes and local projects update
John Jones called at the Ted Borcher home Wednesday afternoon. Neighbors traveled to Cheyenne and Dalton for visits. Martha Cornell returned from Ithica and Denver. A large turnout attended the M E church pageant. A test of the Ord filtration plant using North Loup river water proved satisfactory. Peru’s municipal power plant rebuild nears completion with a 25 horsepower pumping motor recently bought.
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John Jones
Ted Borcher
Thomas W. Hawkins
Cheyenne
Martha Cornell
Ithica
la Cruise
Sidney
Ed Brockersby
Ed Wolverton
Charles Glant
C. B. Kinton
Lowell
Elmer Hughes
Dalton
Roy Neary
Margaret Miller
Dorothy Lipke
George Rippe
Ray Frame
Charles Lieber
Denver
M. E
Ord
North Loup
Peru
Weaver Opposed to Repeal of State Guaranty Fund Law
A rumor that Governor Arthur Weaver would oppose repealing the state guaranty fund law stirred Senate banking committee discussions. The panel weighs two house bills and a senate substitute, seeking protections for depositors and a plan to cover the guaranty fund deficit. Weaver reaffirmed his pledge to uphold the platform and strengthen the bank guaranty. Kiwanis group in Gordon urges the village to install an electric white way under a power company contract.
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Arthur Weaver
State Senate
Senate Banking Committee
Wellensick, Jeary and
Neumann
House
Senate
South Dakota
Weaver
Republican Party
Banking Committee
Kiwanis Club of
Gordon
Power Company
Nebraska Legislature Faces Three Major Issues in Closing Weeks
Nebraska's legislature nears the fourth month of the session with banking legislation code reform and departmental reorganization plus general appropriations as the three main tasks. Recent actions include Bowring highway bill and higher class B intangible tax from 5 to 8 mills. Governor Weaver may oppose repealing the guaranty law and debate over H R 425 code reform heads to the Senate where Perry Reed and his supporters vow resistance to Weaver’s one man rule.
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Weaver
Lincoln
Nebraska
House
Senate
Perry Reed
Gasoline tax boost opens nine million for highways
Roy Cochran, secretary of the public works department, begins planning the year's highway program on the basis of an estimated nine million dollars in additional revenue. Total state receipts from automobile registration and the three cent tax are expected to reach about 6.25 million this year, with two million more from federal aid.
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Roy Cochran
Public Works Department
Plan to Expand County Road Network With New Funds
Cochran outlines a plan to use additional funds, not counting receipts from the fourth cent, for highway maintenance and new road construction. About two and a half million dollars will back maintenance of existing highways, with the rest allocated for expanding the county network to provide graveled connections from every county seat town within two years, aiming to complete much of the work this year.
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Cochran
Corn Shows Comprised First Organized Grain Demonstrations
Corn shows marked the first organized effort of Nebraska boys and girls club work with early records dating to York in 1909. By 1911, Ruth Pratt’s sewing work joined displays, as prizes were offered for 16 garments and articles, under W. H. Brokaw’s recollection.
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Nebraska
York
Corn Club
W. H. Brokaw
Extension Service Now
Seward
Ruth Pratt
Ruth Gard
Beaver Crossing
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Bunker Hill
North Divide
Kensae
Port Celow Glass
America
Semple
Dirrct
Renee
Kansas City, Missouri
Willys-Knight
Studebaker
Gurley
John Deere Gang
John Deere
John Deere Lister
Fundingsland & Millett
Farmers State Bank
Mrs
Lucy Jordan
School Board
Jordan
Sidney Schools
Mrs. Jordan
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