Interesting Bits of News Told in Brief
No sugar beet price change for 1925 after agreement between Great Western Sugar and Beet Growers association. Ed Hotalling escaped a Ford truck rollover by smashing the cab glass. Mitchell gains a share of new bass and trout distributed in North Platte valley streams. Mary Horner fractured her left arm after a roller skate incident at Bridgeport. Ernest Blome to open a farm implement house in Dalton handling International Harvester lines. Hawk Springs reservoir contract awarded to Olsen & Olsen of Denver with work starting next week. Miler hospital installs a Fischer machine for electric treatments. local lab now well equipped. Minatare to get a new brick and stucco theatre building by Harshman and Clough. Potter mail routes delayed one hour to sync with No. 3 train. post office workers to manage added tasks. Mrs. Bartlett notes the change for patrons.
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Potter
No. 3
Bartlett
Cheyenne County Publicity Highlights Farming Growth
Cheyenne County Nebraska shows dramatic growth in cultivated acreage from 15 thousand in 1904 to 420 thousand last year, with rising assessed values from 956 thousand to 30.6 million. Grain and merchandise shipments, freight revenues, and cattle values climb, reflecting new business and prosperity across several decades of land development and diversified farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha World Herald
Cheyenne County
World Herald
Telgraph
World-Herald
Nebraska
M. A. Shipman
Sidney
Auto turns over twice near Jess Campbell farm
Fern Melius and Miss Sparks rode in a car that flipped twice seven miles northeast of town when the accelerator locked. Melius suffered bruises and scratches, Sparks escaped with minor scratches. Windshield and top damaged, overall damage slight beyond the wreck. The drivers were lucky. speed was moderate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fern Melius
Miss Sparks
Jess Campbell
Miss Melius
Old Time Stage Driver Challenges Oregon Trail Narrative
An elderly Califormia resident, 93, writes to correct Midwestern readers about the true Oregon Trail route. He recounts driving stages from St Joseph to Portland, the Lodge Pole Creek path, and Camp Clark near Scotts Bluff, arguing the marked trail would be wrong and shares personal career details from 1877 onward.
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California
Oregon Trail
North Platte River
St. Joe
Portland
Oregon
Missouri River
West Coast
Iowa City
Council Bluffs
North Platte City
Old Fort Laramie
Nebraska
Two Platte Rivers
Lodge Pole Creek
South Platte
Chimney Rock
Scotts Bluff Rocks
Platte Rivers
March & Stephens
Sidney
Camp Clark Bridge
Bob
Joe Oberfelder
New York City
Louie
Scotts Bluff
Platte River
Town
Jim Stephenson
Omaha
Billie Welch
Stockton
Girl Near Death After Scottsbluff Auto Crash
Henry Kauffman of Bayard and his two daughters were in a serious crash near the Scottsbluff sugar factory Monday afternoon. Emma Kauffman, 13, was reported in critical condition with internal injuries and possible death, after the car skidded and rolled. An older daughter escaped with minor injuries while Henry was badly cut and scalped, later recovering. The Minatare Free Press reports the incident and hospital updates from West Nebraska Methodist in Scottsbluff.
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Henry Kauffman
Bayard
West Nebraska Methodist Hospital
Scottsbluff
Emma
Kauffman
Minatare Free Press
Couple Narrow Escape As Ford Coupe Flips on Street
A Ford coupe driven by Ray Powell turned over after hitting a ditch at the east end of Second Street in front of the E. J. Frederick home. Miss Edna Harris suffered painful bruises and was unconscious briefly but recovered. Powell was uninjured. Local paper JTulesburg Grit-Advocate reports the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Second Street
E. J. Frederick
Ray Powell
Edna Harris
Powell
Jtulesburg Grit-Advocate
Will Erect School Building In Garden County
Seventeen firms attended the bid opening Monday for the new Garden County high school building. A $13,000 spread separated the low and high bids. Regents will inspect work by the two leading bidders Phillips and Son and McMichael of North Platte before awarding the contract. Probing and heating contract awarded to John Grieve, electrical wiring to A D Riddle, both of the city. The project is estimated at about $46,000 and slated for completion by August 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden County High School
Phillips and Son
Mc-Michael
North Platte
John Grieve
A. D. Riddle
Garden County
The Green Barrier Shows Pasture Fire Peril in Drama
A two reel motion picture from the Department of Agriculture titled The Green Barrier warns against burning woods to improve pasture. Set in Piney Woods, the film depicts a forest fire driven by wind that endangered a farm home and family. It promotes fire resisting grass like lespedeza and urges better pasture management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
South
Mississippi
Plot to destroy auditorium at Omaha found in gas leak
A plot to damage Omaha s municipal auditorium during a car show was detected by police last Thursday. Building officials found the venue filled with gas after the main gas pipe was unscrewed. No arrests have been made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Omaha Polie
Municipal Auditorium
Four Mexicans Arrested by Mitchell Policeman
Night Marshal MecNeff of Mitchell arrested three Mexicans at a local place yesterday. They used strange monikers. In their car, about four gallons of hootch was found. Vehicle license had been taken under Pedro Cervantes, but none of the men matched that name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MecNeff
Mitchell
Pedro Cervantes
Flax Good Change Off In Spring Wheat Area
Federal and state encouragement boosted flax planting in the spring wheat belt of the northern Great Plains, raising acreage and potential production. Wilt disease and land limits spurred diversification, with 1923–24 gains on old land and mixed flax wheat farming showing profitable, weed- and heat-canker reducing benefits.
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Great Plains
United States Department of Agriculture
North Dakota
Minnesota
North’ Dakota
Ben Gomez Fined for Contraband Makings on Farm
Ben Gomez faced a one hundred dollar fine plus costs after being found with excess contraband liquor on his property a week or two earlier. He began paying the judgment on installments to cover county maintenance expenses.
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Ben Gomez
Bridgeport News-Blade
Gathman Family Moves Within Gurley Area Nebr Farm
Walter A Gathman a reputable farmer from Gurley Nebraska has relocated to the Wikner place two miles north and two west of Voetz According to Sidney and Gurley papers the Gathman family is highly respected in their former home Peetz Gazette reports the move reflects a steady rural community pattern
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Walter A.gathman
Gurley
Nebr
Wikner Place
Voetz
Sidney and
Fowl Epidemic Now Under Control in Nebraska
The outbreak of European fowl pest in Nebraska is now controlled by embargoes on poultry shipments and thorough disinfection of returned poultry cars. Caution remains to prevent spread from infected flocks as federal authorities with a $100000 appropriation seek its origin, whether Europe or the middle west.
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Nebraska
Congress
Europe
Middle West
New York
Development of West 15 Shown in Nebraska Motion Exhibit
A large audience in Representative Hall viewed three thousand feet of films and about fifty colored slides depicting the high plains Wild Cat Ridge and western Nebraska irrigation districts. The program covered prairie to farming on Dawes Box Butte and Cheyenne plains with potatoes and the four million bushel annual state seed crop featured. Professors and locals highlighted wheat corn oats and potatoes while Jim Cook’s Agate ranch fossils and the University of Nebraska museum items were shown.
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High Plains
Wild Cat Ridge
Nebraska
Representative Hall
Dawes
Box Butte
Cheyenne Plains
H. O. Werner
The
Agricultural College
Texas
Oklahoma
Jim Cook
Agate
James Cook
Harold
University of Nebraska
F. E. Reader
Kimball
Lodge Pole
EK. P. Wilson
Good
Wild Cat Ridge scenic reel shown near Mitchell
A motion picture reel showcased Wild Cat Ridge extending seventy miles between Pumpkin Creek and North Platte valleys. It featured Chimney Rock Wild Cat Mountain Hog Back and Scottsbluff with views stretching to Laramie Peak Wyoming. Local officials described ascent irrigation scenes Oregon Trail parade and university remarks at Mitchell farm station.
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Wild Cat Ridge
Pumpkin Creek
North Matte
Court House
Jail Rocks
Chimney Rock
Wild Cat Mountain
Hog Back Mountain
Scottsbluff Mountain
Trocky Mountains
Laramie Peak
Wyoming
North Platte
Bridgeport
A. B. Wood
Gering
North Platte Valley
W. N. Barbour
H. Yensen
Scottsbluff
Gerling
Avery
University
Mitchell
Irrigation Film Explores Great Plains Water Projects
An extensive account details irrigation from the Big Pathfinder dam on the South Platte to storage and diversion for crops. It follows Minatare dam construction, Tri-State dam fishing, and irrigation of alfalfa beets corn oats wheat and other crops, highlighting the country home of former Speaker A. N. Mathers.
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Pathfinder
South Platte
Casper
Minatare
Tri-State
A. N. Mathers
Also Mentioned on This Page
Great Western Sugar Company
Beet Growers Association
Ed Hotalling
Mary Horner
D. L. Horner
City Cafe
Tenth Street
Ernest Blome
Dalton
International Harvester Company
Olsen & Olsen
Denver
Colo
Hawk Springs
Torrington Telegram
Lyman
Miler
Western Nebraska Observer
BE. O. Harshman
C. E. Clough
Tafe
Gering Courier
Shipman
Los Angeles
Cal
Midwest
Girl
Coupe
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