Local Harvest Notes and Community Appointments
Natives harvest and stack grain as Pultz cuts oats at Montauk Ranch early week. Mr and Mrs Quinn visit Sidney. Stine family travel to Herd for berries. Beyer and family visited by J Beyer. Nelson Goding and Hiemer buy a new separator and plan threshing. Steam plow and threshing crews active. Cunningham, Bayliff families plastering. hired help scarce.
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Clara
Pultz
Montauk Ranch
T. J. Quinn
Sidney
Stine
J. Beyer
Fred Beyer
Nelson, Goding and Heimer
Simms
G Cunnningham
Messrs
Bayliff
South Divide News Briefs From Fulton Area
Will Fulton reports several jobs on the divide this week with grain looking good though the yield per acre is not yet known. The Telephone men board at Fulton's. Guy Shaw of York county builds on his farm and will move when finished. John Shaw and son Miles visit Ed Hiett. A wild west show at Roy Nelson’s ranch drew about two hundred spectators led by Len Sherwin of Winston, featuring steer roping riding and bucking. Riders John Walsh Henry Walsh Ray Bayne Walter Blair and Guy Ramsey praised. Harvest runs full tilt on the divide. Walter Nelson sprained his knee and is temporarily laid up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Fulton
Guy Shaw
York County
John Shaw
Miles
York
Ed Hietts
Roy Nelson
Len Sherwin
Winston
John Walsh
Henry Walsh
Ray Bayne
Waler Blair
Guy Ramsey
Walter Nelson
Cattle Industry Warns Congress To Protect Beef Supply
Officials at Chicago stockyards and the Live Stock Exchange warn that cattle raising needs protection as prices soar and supply tightens. President Jones calls for rapid federal or state legislation, noting western grazing lands were opened for settlement but are ill suited for farming.
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Chicago Stock Yards
Live Stock Exchange
Congress
Jones
West
Montana
Colorado
Wyoming
Idaho
Dakotas
Arother Bank Failure Suit Against State Planned
Lancaster county to sue the state for 5090.40, the amount in the Capital National bank at the 1893 failure. Suit filed in the district court of Lancaster county.
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Lancaster County
Capital National Bank
District Court of
Teancaster County
Vice Consul McMaster Shot in Colombia in 1910 Case Return
William Bruce McMaster American vice consul at Cartagena Colombia was shot and killed. Dispatches say cause unknown with an investigation under way. Born in Colombia of American parents in 1875 and a long career as a rancher before joining the consular service in 1895.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William Bruce McMaster
Cartagena
Colombia
State Department
McMaster
Kemper
United States
Consular Corps
Corn In Fine Shape In August Crop Report
The August crop report shows corn 80 percent of normal, indicate yield 26 bushels per acre on 108,110,000 planted acres, total production about 2.811 billion bushels. Winter wheat yield 151 bushels per acre on 25,744,700 acres, total 390 million bushels. quality 90.7 percent. Spring wheat condition 90.4 percent, yield 1481 bushels per acre on 19,210,000 acres, total production about 299.0009000 bushels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Houston Victory Endorses Dry Farming Method
In Bozeman Montana on August 15 word arrived that the local land office decision in the Mrs K K Houston vs B W Spaulding desert land case has been confirmed by Washington officials. Houston contended the land was not desert land since adjoining land yielded profitable crops without irrigation and the ruling recognizes modern dry farming methods, affecting hundreds of homesteaders in the west.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bozeman
Mont
Kk. L. Houston
B W. Spaulding
Washington
Houston
Fairbury Chautauqua Opens Eighth Year With Gore Lecture
Fairbury Nebraska hosts the eighth annual chautauqua session starting tomorrow with Thomas P Gore the blind Oklahoma senator delivering a lecture on Social Duty on Sunday. Many Fairbury residents plan to camp at the city park during the event.
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Fairbury, Neb
Aug
Fairbury Chautauqua
Thomas P Gore
Oklahoma
Fairbury
Selection of a Cream Separator by T F Wintteneusy
A farmers guide to choosing a cream separator explains centrifugal separation, bowl diameter, and disk stacks. It covers durable construction, spiral gears, phosphor bronze bushings, bowl bearings, ease of use, and sanitation, warning that price alone hides quality.
Four Charges Against Motorist in Auburn Case
Auburn Nebraska August 8 County Attorney Hawxby filed three counts against Herman Barber near Julian charging him with four provisions of the automotive act. On the German American picnic night Barber drove into James Parsons team causing a broken leg and crippling a horse. Mrs Kellys team nearby was also struck, with both horses crippled and one later killed.
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Auburn
Neb
Hawxby
Herman Barber
Julilan
Barber
James Parsons
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Arother Bank
South America
Land Office
C. J. Hellwig
North Side
Blacksmith
T. F Wintteneusy
The
THC Service Bureau
Puradadiro
Mexico
Jefe Politico
Mexico City
Minister of the Interior
Perry
A. R. LE Sueur
Sidney, Nebraska
Ree Cal
Sidney Lumber CO
U. P
Rock Springs
Hanna Coal
Nebraska
Schlitz Beer
Tobin Biock
Sidney Marble Works
Columbus
A. A. Clark
Proprietor
J Fremont Wholesale and Retail
Ferdinand Schulz
Fremont Brewing Company
Pilsner Beer
Guckenheim
Sunnybrook
Yellowstone
Sidney, Neb
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