Local notes and changes stir the district weekly
The column records social visits and departures including Mrs. Wicklund’s return from the east, Postmaster Leafdale’s Sidney trip, and a Denver wedding for Mr. and Mrs. Kane. It notes garage sale turnover, farm moves near town, and A. O. U. W. lodge growth to forty two members. Several new arrivals and emigrant cars arrive as Armath hall hosts a March 16 dance to fund ball-team uniforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BE. A. Wicklund
Leafdale
Sidney
Rev. Hornaday
Miss Gilmore
Kane
Denver
Mrs. Kane
Chicago
Wm. D. Eckert
Grand Island
Albert Morrow
W. S. Woolsey
Wm. Swartz
Dr. Hedlund
Armath Hall
Snowdrifts Stall News As March Blows In
Two feet of snow blankets the diggings as March opens amid blustery conditions. Daugherty visits Sidney, stockmen haul feed, mail runs weekly, and locals Portrey Spiker Quinn visit or call at The Pultz Ranch and homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Press
Mrs. Portrey
Mrs. Spiker
John Quinn
Pultz Ranch
Snowy South Divide Reports Weighty Cold Weather
South Divide notes heavy snow and farmers short of feed due to continued cold. Bessie Cross ill with a severe cold. A baby boy born to Born-To KE E Hiett and wife on March 2. A new Livoni Place tenant has moved in, name not yet learned. Mrs. H Silks of Sydney praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for her child's recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie Cross
Ke, E. Hiett
Maine
Livoni Place
Chamberlain
Higgins News Briefs From Dreshler To Dalton
Karl Bartels of Dreshler Neb stays with Al Jeudes and helps him in summer. He bought a horse from L Cunningham. Mrs C Gothmann leaves to tend her ill father in Denver. Martha Schwartz has scarlet fever. Evelyn Zulke has been sick. H Blome moved four miles east of Dalton with farm implements. Snow around Higgins delays the Burlington northbound train about four hours. Mail carrier delivery remains slow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gier
Steve Davis
Carter & Hansen
Carter
A. Carrow
Edgeley
N. Dak
Dakota
Karl Bartels
Dreshler, Neb
al Jeudes
L. Cunningham
C. Gothmann
Denver
Evelyn Zulke
H. Blome
Dalton
Higgins
Burlington
Residents worry as delivery runs shrink to twice weekly
Otto Bergt returns from Altona Nebraska to Higgins to work his farm and the reduced schedule leaves locals uneasy about regular supplies and plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Bergt
Altona
Nebraska
Higgins
Potter Local Notes Mix Church News and Growth Plans
Community updates report Mrs Bundy's condition worsening and Mrs Schadd selling hair goods. Branscom returns from bedside duty and heads to Ogalalla. Efforts push for Potter incorporation amid tax concerns and a new 3-year law watch. School district petitions, store sale to Phillip Nelson, and social events mark a busy period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
L. Lafferty
Dane
Messrs. Griffin and
Lafferty
Miss Morrison
Potter
Phillip Nelson
Birt
Dix
Nora
Mary
Ralph Hensen
Edna
Audrey Lafferty
Leland
Alfred Bundy
Edna Anderson
Trena Smyth
Dorothy McAdam
Agnes Thornburg
Edith
Nina Challburg
Violet Rabbas
Heimer
Washington State
Struble
Redington
R. A
Arthur Branscom
D. H. Shultz
Altona
Republicans Attack Free Sugar Bill As Pro-Democratic Monopoly Plot
Washington march 7 Republicans on the house ways and means committee submit a minority report against the Underwood free sugar bill. They claim it surrenders revenue and destroys competition to aid foreign importers and the sugar trust, arguing it harms beet sugar producers while boosting refiners profits. The report cites 112000 sugar beet farmers and warns the measure would force farmers to pay for tariff reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ways and Means Committee
House
Fordney Mich
Sugar Trust
Democratic Party
Hardwick Sugar Trust
Underwood
Republic
Obituary of John O'Hara 26 in Dalton Nebraska
The funeral of John O'Hara was held in Dalton on Friday March 1. A native of County Down Ireland he immigrated to the United States in 1908 and lived in Chicago until 1911. He died at age 26 from tuberculosis, after seeking a western climate in Nebraska. He died February 29 at 2 a.m. at the home of Mrs. Catherine Ward eight miles west of Dalton. He leaves parents in Ireland and siblings. His funeral was well attended despite a heavy snowstorm and interment was in Dalton cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John O’hara
Dalton
County Down
Ireland
America
Chicago
Denver
Nebraska
Patrick Keenan
Cheyenne County
A. Kampmann
Catherine Ward
Telegraph
Calls Circular A Bluff In Woodmen Meet Fight
Hastings Neb March 7 The insurgent Queen City camp led by Walter Livingston denies head consuls can cancel certificates for dues nonpayment. Talbot threatens suspension but Livingston says state meeting March 20 will proceed and may be the biggest in Nebraska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hastings
Neb
Walter Livingston
Queen City
Talbot
Nebraska
Queen City Camp
Doan’s Kidney Pills Endorsed by Women
In a Nebraska reader testimonial, Mia O. Pearson of Sidney reports kidney trouble and back pains improved after two months using Doan’s Kidney Pills. She urges others with kidney symptoms to try the remedy, noting it strengthened kidneys and eased aches. Sold everywhere 50 cents. Foster Milburne Co., Buffalo NY is the U.S. agent. Remember the name Doan’s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mia
O. Pearson
Sidney
Nebr
Saya
Donn
Doan
Foster-Milwburne Co
Buffalo
New York
Nole
United States
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District 47
Mabel Leafdale
Margaret Nirtfelt
Mrs. C. E. Leafdale
J. W. Reinmuth
Louis Rabe
Weyerts
C. W. Handley
J.C. Dunn
Villisca
Neslund
Mr. Trydle
Sioux City
Iowa
Clara
Divide
Martha Schwartz
North Side
Blacksmith
Mrs. Bundy
Chas. Erickson
Nannie
B. Morfield
B. I. Thornburg
Brett
Joe Keough
Albert Baker
Broken Bow
Wyoming
Kearney
Rap Free Sugar
Bill
Sidney Lumber CO
U. P
Rock Springs
Hanna Coal
Joan O'Hara
Chichester
M. Ramella
Closman & Son
Sheffer
Monument
1St Nat'l Bank
A. Pease & Sons
Sidney, Nebraska
Iler
Bond
the Hiller € CO
Omaha
Nod
HBR
Wal
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