Bridgeport Welcomes Three New Business Ventures
Bridgeport adds Baynes Dairy Farms a Bridgeport Laundromat and a Cornhusker Wholesale auto and tractor parts store to its growing business base. Baynes Dairy Farms will offer home delivery from new county buildings west of the Northport highway junction. Howard Allen’s Bridgeport Laundromat opens Monday August 15 in a West 8th Street building behind the News Blade. Richard Blome plans a new Cornhusker Wholesale store to handle tractor and auto parts and accessories.
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Bridgeport
Bridgeport Laundromat
Baynes Dairy Farms
Northport Highway
Baynes
Nebraska
Howard Allen
West 8Th Street
News-Blade
Richard Blome
Cornhusker Wholesale
Garden County Fair set for late August entry day announced
Garden County plans to stage the annual fair with entry day on Thursday August 25 and an emphasized agricultural exhibit. Officials promise a wide entertaining program and improvements to the fair grounds to attract Garden County residents. Wheat harvest boosted county car loadings in July with 30 carloads from Lisco, 26 from Lewellen, 58 from Oshkosh and assorted cement lumber machinery and limestone received or shipped.
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Lewellen
Eanest
Fair Board
Garden County
Oshkosh
C.B. Davis
Lisco
A. R. Keever
Merrill
Union Pacific
Scotts Bluff GOP Women Hit 320 Members
Scotts Bluff County Republican Women's Club becomes Nebraska's first to exceed 300 members with 320 active paid members. Omaha GOP vice chairman Mrs. Anne Batchelder announced the milestone as two clubs exist in the state.
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Scotts Bluff
Scotts Bluff County
Republican Women’s Club
Nebraska
Anne Batchelder
Omaha
GOP
Arthur Garden County Road Program Starts in Two Counties
About 22 miles of road work underway in Arthur and Garden Counties. Arthur projects include five miles of oiled surface on Highway 92 to Bean Soup Lake and five miles Bucktail to a southwest farm area. In Garden County grading of 11 miles of mixed in place bituminous surface from Rackett to Ashby. Missouri Valley Construction Company has equipment and the job should last about two weeks. Lawrence Enfield of Geneva contracts Arthur County work. the firm of Thomas Benjamin and Clayton of Grand Island engineers all two-county road work north of Ogallala.
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Arthur-Garden County
Arthur
Garden Counties
Arthur County
Bean Soup Lake
Bucktail
Garden County
Rackett
Ashby
Missouri Valley Construction Company
Lawrence Enfield
Geneva
Thomas, Benaamin and
Clayton
Grand Island
Ogallala
Crawford Ram Sale Scheduled for August 27
Crawford Nebraska hosts the sixth annual ram sale on Saturday August 27 at the Crawford Hereford Breeder Barn. The Northwest Nebraska Sheep Improvement Assn sponsors the event featuring 190 head including 60 ewes and 130 rams. Consignors come from Minnesota South Dakota Wyoming Colorado and Nebraska. Back to School Days run August 26 and 27 with Crawford schools starting August 29. Pine Ridge back to school special appears August 24. Big budget cut likely as county budget and tax fund needs shrink by about 55 000 and 65 000 respectively.
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Crawford
Northwest Nebraska Sheep Improvement Assn
Crawford Hereford
Minnesota
South Dakota
Wyoming
Colorado
Nebraska
Hemingford Under Major Gas Main Construction Drive
Hemingford becomes a hub of paving and utility work as Kansas Nebraska Company crews install gas mains and service lines. Major piping to be finished this week with Foran Construction moving to Crawford. Alliance crews replace 6 inch mains with 8 inch lines and extension to Chadron expected in two to three weeks.
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Hemingford
Panhandle
Kansas-Nebraska
K-N Men
Foran
Crawford
Alliance
Chadron
Big Springs Swim Meet Set for August Afternoon
Big Springs hosts a Saturday meet starting 1 30 p m with free style races and age group divisions. Art Wolverton will judge diving with a display expected around 3 45 p m. Spectators welcomed gratis. local area bounded by Holyoke Chappell Oshkosh Ogallala and Grant. Jack Sutton of Chappell previously won the boys 5th through 8th diving gold in 58 and 59.
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Big Springs
Holyoke
Chappell
Oshkosh
Ogallala
Grant
Art Wolverton
Jack Sutton
Angus Tour Set for Northwest This Weekend
Northwest Nebrass Angus Association announces the 1960 Angus Tour to be held Saturday August 20 and Sunday August 21 with planned tours and events across the northwest region.
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Rushville
Northwest Neb
Angus Assn
Old-Time Threshing Bee to Draw Large Crowd in Bridgeport
Bridgeport hosts the fourth annual Old Fashioned Threshing Bee on Sunday Aug 21 with events starting at 930 am and a parade of old equipment at 130 pm. The event at the Leonard Woznick farm east of Bridgeport on US 385 expects around 1000 attendees after growing yearly since 1957.
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Bridgeport
Leonard Woznick
Doug Reetz
Potter
Ida Mae Barr Rescued From Fire by Dayton Firefighters
Ida Mae Barr 82 was carried from a burning second floor apartment by firemen. After oxygen, she quipped she would rather go next door to visit her neighbor, then urged readers to go to church Sunday.
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Dayton, Ohio
Ida Mae Barr
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