Girls Win Prizes in Greenlees Sewing Contest
Nearly 100 entrants including teens Helen Doran and Ruth Osborn won awards for best nightgown and pajama in the sewing contest. Mrs Eakes earned best linen dress, Mrs Clarkson best step in and vest, and O B Pearson best little boy's suit. Several entries were disqualified for rule violations. judges were Mrs Hunt, Mrs Adams, and Miss Swingley.
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Greenlees
Helen Doran
Ruth Osborn
Eakes
Clarkson
O. BK. Pearson
Hunt
Adams
Swingley
Sidney High School presents Brother Elks dramatic club
The Sidney High School Dramatic club staged Brother Elks at the U S A theatre Monday night drawing a nearly full house. The three act comedy features engineer Stanley Baker heroine Eugenia Marcotte and a cast of ten with five freshmen or sophomores. Professor Randol received praise for direction as the orchestra performed a concert before curtain.
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Sidney High School Dramatic Club
Brother Elks
U. S.A
Ellis
Brother Elis
Randol
Stanley Baker
Eugenia Marcotte
Curtis Jolliff Noy Chambers
Gladys Zimmer
Marvin Trictt
Francis Matteson
Kenneth Mahr
Nellie Davis
Harriett Jones
Blanche Hookham
Beulah Knaub
Lilly
Ruby Elston
Franklin’ Wornaday
First Visit To Town In Over Ten Years
Jim Whelan returned to Alliance after more than a decade away and viewed the count house and a newly developed town center including Newsberry’s hardware, the Elks club, post office, Lowry and Henry garage, and the Methodist church. His son Clyde handled the business while he stayed home due to age.
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Aliance
Jim Whelan
Count House
Yeek
Newsberry
Elks Club
Lowry and Henry
Mr. Whelan
Jim
Alliance
Clyde
Births Outpace Deaths In Kimball County In 1923
Kimball County shows health through 1923 records from Registrar Peterson of Kimball and DeLong of Bushnell. Deaths totaled 34 in a population around 4 000, less than one percent, while births reached 93, nearly triple the number of deaths. Most decedents were past middle age per the Kimball Observer.
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Kimball County
Peterson
Kimball
DeLong
Bushnell
Unwieldy Warships of Ancient Greece and Rome
The article notes ancient warships were built with as many as four and five banks or rows of oars, called onrs, creating unwieldy vessels.
First Meeting of Creditors in Ericson Bankruptcy
Oscar W. Ericson, a resident of Cheyenne County Nebraska, was adjudicated bankrupt on March 11, 1924. The first meeting of creditors will be held at Walter W. Hoagland’s office in North Platte on Sunday, April 1924, at 9:00 a.m. Creditors may attend, prove claims, appoint a trustee, and examine the bankrupt. Walter V. Hoagland, Referee in Bankruptcy.
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Oscar W. Ericson
Cheyenne
Walter W. Hoagland
North Platte
Lincoln County
Nebraska
Caucus Debates Endless Ballots in City Elections
In a fractured caucus process multiple groups met at the schoolhouse and opera house to nominate candidates for city offices. Key figures include W. P. Miles, J. Daugherty, A. X. Cheenlee, and Dr. Witham, with initial ballots showing no majority for police magistrate before final results favoring Dr. Witham.
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JL. G. Lowe
School House
Carl Ledbetter
Mr. Winders
Third Ward
East Ward
Arnest Worden
Charles Gardner
Herman Sc
Frank Schroeded
R. V P. Kelper
John Daugherty
Paul L. Martin
A .X. Cheenlee
W. Johnson
John McCleneghan
TL. W .Taylor
Glen Moore
Paul I. Martin
Dr. Witham
Farewell party for Woods in Cheyenne county
Wood and family were honored at a surprise party given by neighbors at their Cheyenne county home last Thursday. They will soon leave the county, and the community praises their active service in social and church life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WN. E. Wood
Cheyenne County
Bake Sale by First Division ME Ken Singston
The First Division of the ME Ken sington will hold a bake sale Saturday March 22 at Leonard's Grocery at 2 00 PM.
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Kensington
Leonard’s Grocery
Tractor School a Big Success at Avery Service
Attendees of the Avery Free Tractor Service school last Friday and Saturday praised the program. Instructor A. W. Neihart presented thorough instruction on tractors threshers motor cultivators and plows, stressing proper operation and care to keep machines productive and crops thriving. The Avery company plans to hold another service school next year.
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Alli
Avery
Heyl
Avery Company
A. W. Neihart
Episcopal Lenten Services at Christ's Church
Lenten services will be observed at Christ's Episcopal church next Wednesday March 26 at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. by Bishop Beecher of Hastings with Arch Deacon Wells of Whonney and Mr Winnie a Denver attorney and layman. A 7 p.m. parish banquet will be held in the Methodist church parlors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ’s Episcopal Church
Beecher
Hastings
Wells
Whonney
Winnie
Denver
Methodist Church
Ideal Auto & Electric Service Opens In Sidney
Hans O Temte announces the opening of Ideal Auto & Electric Service in the former Sidney Produce building on west Lincoln highway. Temte, a master mechanic and electrician, previously worked in Sterling and for the past year and a half in Sidney, earning a reputation as a first class mechanic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hans O. Temte
Sidney Produce Company
West Lincoln Highway
Ideal Auto & Electric Service
Mr. Temte
Ife
Sterling
Sidney
Box Supper by Farmers Union Local No 750 at Olson school
Farmers Union Local No 750 presents a program and box social in Olson school house District No 68 on Friday evening March 28. All ladies are asked to bring baskets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers Union Local No. 750
Olson
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Sidney High School
District Court OF the United States
District OF Neibraska North Platth Division
Walter V. Hoagland
Caucus
Woods
Bake Sale
BOX Supper
United States
Radio Corporation of America
P. R. Helm Radio Club
17Th St
Omaha, Neb
Boy “Art Schaffner & Marx
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Jasop Roche
Betty Jewett
Leila Wendtland
Elvira Campbell
Vera Mahr
Kathryn King
Ruth Dimick
Avis Rogers
Virginia Halston
Ann Kurz
Mae Breternitz
Agnes Semerad
Mesdames Puthoff
Birmingham
F. G. Griffith
Frank Tobin
Elizabeth Worden
Jeanette Puthoff
Larson
Dorothy Hart
Mr. Hassenstab
Elizabeth Couch
Franklin Hornaday
Jess Randol
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