Nebraska notes and events from across the state
Bellevue marks 115 years. Bridgeport plans a public playground. The sixth annual homecoming Jubilee set for Friday July 26 at Nelson. McCook reports 47 new homes and six business blocks. Lakoma Country Club hosts the State Golf tournament July 6 to 11 near Omaha. Nebraska hog sales hit 100 million dollars in 1924. Salem area leases and a test well planned by a local company. Harley Maler farm house at Callaway struck by lightning. Mary Resnich burns incident in Lincoln. August Heitman injured in work truck incident near Scribner. George Stine resigns as York police officer for Burlington job at Alliance. Hamilton County Farmers Telephone buys Hampton exchange. Nemaha River bridge washed away by flood waters located south of Rule. Alfalfa specimens sent to ag college for rat diagnosis. Crops improving after rains. corn and winter wheat doing well. C. J. Mitchell of Roca shows biggest South Omaha cattle shipment this year. Lloyd Ruth and Ethel Burnett wedding at Disabled Soldiers convention in Omaha. Rainfall record set statewide. Omaha 2.74 inches. Fifth Disabled American Veterans convention in Omaha. Vacation school opens June 20 at Omaha Social Settlement. Tourist speeding case ends with fine after Lodge Pole marshal stop. May industrial accidents total 626. year to June 1 at 2,946. Madame Schumann-Heink lauded at Omaha DAV meeting. Farmers State Bank of McCook destroyed by fire. $4,000 loss. A.F. & A.M. grand lodge grants Midwest Lodge No. 317 at Hastings. over 80 charter members.
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Hamilton County Farmer's Telephone Association
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Dee Carpenter Drowns While Fishing Near Wheatland
Dee Carpenter of Gering drowned while fishing Sunday near the Turtle Back ranch on the Little Laramie river in Wyoming. His body was found about 25 yards downstream after a night of searching by fellow anglers, with authorities noting accidental drowning likely due to cramps and a sudden change in river conditions.
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Turtle Back Ranch
Wheatland
Blair Carpenter
Dee
Jack Wheat
J. W. Cover
Gering
Hoffman Ranch
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Scottsbluff Star-Herald
Orderly crowd for the Legion's rodeo
Police kept Rodeo crowds orderly with few incidents. Scottsbluff youths faced trouble over a prize fight traffic jam, while a home brew in a car led to a jail stay and a judge hearing. Pete Knob rode out fines, Joe Sears received 30 days, and Charles Brown was picked up with booze after officers confiscated the vehicle.
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Prise
Box Butte Avenue
Tash
iPete Knob
Joe Sears
Pine Ridge
Charles Brown
East Alliance
Rodeo Week Arrests and Courtroom Bonds Reported
A district court held Brown on a 500 dollar bond after prior trouble and recent jail release. Worth Jones paid 50 dollars in fines for drunkenness and claimed other towns as his own. H A Fulks, visiting at the rodeo, was jailed for intoxication after a depot pickup. He reportedly gambled about 900 dollars and sent it out of town. John Griffith fined 25 dollars for misplacing a clarinet. Deserters Franklin Yates Paul Arts and De Witt Terrill were detained for return to Fort Robinson and Fort Crook. Police contend rodeo raids disrupted Quars supplies, reducing drunkenness.
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Franklin Yates
Paul Arts
DeWitt Terrill
Regular
Fort Robinson
Fort Crook
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