Ash Grove Notes on Local Happenings and Weather
Henry Kayne and Robert McAdam help haul hay at Potter while Andrew McAdam also works hay. Ford Wickhart and family visit Mr. Smith. Wickhorst buys two cows and calves from A W Johnson. Ash Grove sees foggy days and cold, with school closed December 22 and Mrs Johnson’s whooping cough improving. Some residents plan to move to Oregon soon.
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Henry Kayne
Robert McAdam
Potter
Andrew McAdam
Ford Wickhart
Miss Taylor
Mr. Smith
Ray McAdam
Ash Grove
Joe Joe Johnson
Oregon
Sidney Social Notes and Local Movements
Oren Pitts now boarding with the Lawrence Ivy family. C. G. Lawrence and aunt Mrs. Carmon visit Redington to see sister Mrs. Wagner. James Bertramson returns from California. Ed Nelson and James Bertramson break horses recently. Neighbor Mr. Johnson dies at Grand Island. John Anderson returns from Sterling sugar plant. E. W. Dye comes home Sunday. Howard Swain family visit Kirkpatrick. James Eads and sister visit Glassburn ranch. J. M. Nelson Harley Gale and both Mrs. Ivy and Mrs. Carmon visit Sidney last week.
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C. G. Lawrence
Mrs. Carmon
Redington
Mrs. Wagner
James Bertramson
California
Mr. Ivey
Potter
Mr. Johnson
Grand Island
John Anderson
Sterling
Mr. Hazlett
E. W. Dye
Howard Swain
Sidney
Kirkpatrick
James Eads
Glassburn Ranch
J. M. Nelson
Harley Gale
Ivy
Carmon
Peetz News Highlights Local Travels and Events
Mrs F L Whitelock and Gertrude Gallagher traveled to Sidney on Tuesday and Thursday respectively. The U B Church plans Xmas exercises for children this Saturday night. Billy Lowe visits his aunt Mrs Whitelock. Literary society met Friday at Van's hall with a good turnout and will meet again next Friday. Mrs L W Davis and husband left for Denver. Mr Shadd of Lodgepole is in town. Margaret Gleason heads to Denver for the holidays.
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F. L. Whitelock
Sidney
Gertrude Gallagher
U. B
Literary Society
Van's Hall
Marshal Ousts Parsons From Land Near Rulo
Deputy Marshal Hense ousted John Parsons of Rulo from an eighty acre tract leased from an Indian woman near Rulo. Indian lands may not be leased until after the twenty year trust expires unless the interior secretary approves. Judge Walden in Beatrice ordered the heirs of Lord Scully to pay $20,000 inheritance tax on holdings in Gage and Nuckolls counties.
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Hense
John Parsons
Rulo
Secretary of the Interior
Walden
Beatrice
Lord Scully
Gage
Nucholls
Final Estimate Shows Corn Crop Worth One And Half Billion
Government reports total value of eleven crops excluding cotton at 3.7696 billion dollars, up about 190 million from last year. Detailed figures list bushels and values for corn and other staples with acreage and price per bushel or ton as of December 1, 1911.
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Department of Agriculture
Juror Waldron Hurt But Improving At Home
Harry W Waldron of Kansas City, the juror who disappeared last week and sparked a mistrial in the Dr. B. Clarke Hyde case, is ill at his home with no serious condition and expects to resume his route duties in a few days. Also notes a Christmas reflection and a farm stock sale by D. R. Jones.
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Harry W Waldron
Kansas City
B. Clarke Hyde
Thomas Swope
Spirit of Christmas Hope and Longing Across Time
The piece reflects on Christmas spirit as a universal longing for better things. It contrasts festive hope with social divides, notes how modern thought sees humanity expanding toward the stars, and calls for mindful joy and compassionate acts during the season.
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Santa Claus
Nebraska State Grange Holds First Annual Session
The Ne braska State Grange met in Broken Bow city hall last week under National Organizer Charles B. Hoyt. Thirteen of twenty-one local granges attended as sessions remained official behind closed doors. Resolutions favored parcels post and an initiative referendum constitutional amendment. A further resolution argued raw materials on the free list harm producers and do not help consumers.
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Nebraska State Grange
Broken Bow
Charles B. Hoyt
Nebraska
Nebraska News Highlights From State Board Sessions
The Nebraska state normal board met in Lincoln to replace the Peru normal water plant with a fireproof pumping facility costing 2500 to 3000 dollars, while bids for a pumping engine ranged from 535 to 611 dollars. The Chadron normal School appointment dispute over a physical culture teacher ended with Elizabeth Hopkins chosen over Edna Fox. The Northwestern railway case heard right of way valuation disputes, and Governor Aldrich announced plans to file for renomination, dousing senatorial speculation.
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State Normal Board
Lincoln
Peru Normal
The
Penu Normal
State Board of Education
Delzell
N. P. McDowell
Shellhorn
Chadron Normal
Edna Fox
Illinois
Elizabeth Hopkins
Denver
Colo
Northwestern
State Railway Commission
Cleveland
Wisconsin
South Dakota
Hurd
Aldrich
George Coupland
Sudden Death of Schuyler Druggist Harry Westveer
Omaha dispatch reports Harry Westveer, about fifty, a Schuyler druggist with stores in Schuyler and Fremont, died of heart failure at Clarkson Hospital where his wife was undergoing surgery. Coroner Crosby says arterial rupture caused death. burial to take place in Schuyler. Westveer had been in good health prior to the incident.
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Omaha
Harry Westveer
Schuyler
Fremont
Clarkson Hospital
Crosby
Schuyler For Burial. Prior To His Sudden Demise, Mr. Westveer
Inheritance Tax Upheld Despite Widow Dower Rights
Nebraska Supreme Court sustains inheritance tax collection over a widow’s dower claim and a son’s wage-based exemption. Statewide economic note reports 50,665 cream separators on farms as per the 1911 grand assessment roll, totaling over 650,000 nationwide.
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State Supreme Court
Nebraska
Tramp Killed in Rail Wreck on Lane Cutoff
A tramp died instantly and another was fatally injured when an empty freight train derailed four Union Pacific cars at Lane cutoff. The incident disrupted line traffic and prompted a damage assessment by investigators.
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Lane Cutoff
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Ford Wickhorst
A. W. Johnson
Oren Pitts
Lawrence Ivy
Ed Nelson
PEETZ
Billy Lowe
Mrs. Whitelock
Marshal
Parsons
Scully
Waldron
Judea
D. R. Jones
Shakespeare
Itamlet
Prince of
Denmark
State Grange
Nebraska News
State Norreal Board
Ses
Sion
Peru
Chadron Normal School
J. P. Lindgaard
Sidney, Nebraska
Sidney Lumber CO
U. P
Rock Springs
Hanna Coal
Holman
Neb
Ross Holman
Ansley
Sherff Penn
Loup City
Charles Willis
Richard Huff
Sidney Mercantile Co
Sidney Con
Mercantile Ipany
OUR
American Bank
Sidney, Nebr
A. Pease & Sons
the Capitol
Schlitz Beer
Tobin Biock
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