Prairie Gem social notes and local updates
Mrs Hockinson and son visited Clyde Lovall. Lovall guests included Mr and Mrs Cuddeyford Ayde and family from Sidney and Mr and Mrs Lee Kinkaid of South Divide. Chambers horse injured on barbed wire. Cuddyford and son handled business with Lovall. Clifford Hammond works for Lovall while replanting wheat. Ladies Mutual Improvement Club met with Mrs Pete Howe. next May 18 at Mrs Ed Howe. Chambers sod work near Sidney Draw and for Mr Melton. Minnie Oldershaw returns from Bridgeport. Helen McDaniel and Gertrude Brewer visit Kimball weekend with Mr and Mrs N G Brewer. Francis Herbert in France with his company. he sent a brief card from camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Mutual Improvement Club
Pete Howe
Ed Howe
Chambers
Sidney Draw
Mr. Melton
Francis Herbert
France
Francis
SUNOL NEWS ROUNDUP OF FAMILIES AND EVENTS
Mr and Mrs Potter How ard welcome a daughter born May 6. Mrs Friend Dickinson expects home soon from Tot Springs for rheumatism treatment. Bert Allington camps on the south divide listing corn. Andrew Nelson drove from Potter Sunday to visit his sister Miss Uncapler. Hershel Mapes badly burned when gasoline exploded. he jumped into water and Flames were stopped. Mrs Joseph Ruttner returned from relatives near Sidney. The Kucera sale drew many buyers and Geo Sine acted as auctioneer. Several from here attended The Kaiser showing in Sidney. Red Cross has about 45 members but cannot work due to lack of materials. Mrs George Dickinson sick with measles but improving. Mrs W Smith tended bank while Mr Smith clerked the Kucera suite. Mrs Ora Grigzel of California visiting her mother. The sudden death of Mrs Dan Dick inson shocked the community. sympathy extended. George Allington and John Kucera took cattle to Chappel after the sale. Mr and Mrs Mons Johnson of North Divide dined with daughter Mrs Walter Craig. Tate Allington and wife visited Lodgepole relatives. Red Cross plans an ice cream social soon. Mr Burbank and a large crew are at work on the new school building. Demers & Son unloaded a car of machinery this week. BE B Smith works for Floyd Powell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potter Howard
Friend Dickinson
Tot Springs
Bert Allington
South Divide
Andrew Nelson
Potter
Miss Uncapler
Hershel Mapes
Joseph Ruttner
Sidney
Geo. Sine
Dan Dickinson
George Allington
John Kucera
Kucera
Chappel
Mons Johnson
North Divide
Walter Craig
Tate Allington
Red Cross
Burbank
Demers & Son
BE. B. Smith
Floyd Powell
Lorenzo Red Cross Ladies Host Meetings and Dances in May
Red Cross ladies held a regular meeting on May 1 with Mr Murphey of Denver speaking on Red Cross work. An all day sewing session followed, with 17 Peetz ladies in attendance and a piano selection by Mr Arnold of Sterling and Mr Meath of Denver. Several local families visited Sidney for Camp Gunston band, and a well attended dance with Spanish Troubadore music was held in Lorenzo. The next dance is set for May 15. Numerous local residents visited Fleming and Blair, with new families planning to move from Blair. Earl Herges returned to Twin Falls after attending his brother-in-law Dale Riders funeral. Mrs Knox visited relatives near Dix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Murphey
Denver
Peetz
Arnold
Sterling
Meath
Andrew
Clackman
Sidney
Whitelock
W.A. Fulton
Schuyler Mason
Jessie Mason
Logan Gage
Bert
Leonard
Mary
Ethel Walker
Fleming
J. H. Warrick
C. A. Warrick
Blair
Earl Herges
Twin Falls
Idaho
Dale Riders
Bringing Up Father Abroad at Tobin Opera House
The George McManus cartoon musical comedy Bringing Up Father Abroad comes to the Tobin Opera House on May 15. Jiggs and Mrs Jiggs tour Ireland after being swindled aboard a ship, with a brilliant company led by Walter Vernon and Louise Earle. Percy Walling plays a comical bogus don as the lively chorus entertains from curtain to curtain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George McManus
Father
Tobin Opera House
McManus
Jiggs" Mahoney
Jiggs
Ireland
Anther
New York Harbor
Walter Vernon
Louise Earle
Miss Earle
Percy Walling
Don
Pleasant Valley News and Local Election Highlights
On Saturday residents traveled to Sidney for shopping and social visits. A school election at Pleasant Valley elected C. E. Simpson treasurer and G. W. Gage president as families gathered for meals and fellowship. Mary Teresa Vacik Dickinson of the area died April 30 at 36 11 10. Funeral services were held at the home with interment in Bohemian Slavonian cemetery and community sympathy extended to the family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G.” P. Rishel
Sidney
Harry Louderback
C. Louderback
Mesdames Herbert, Fisher
T. W. Simpson
Gene Pierce
P. R. Simpson
Ollie Wilson
John Louderbach
Edward Biiney
C. Louderbach
Dan Brandt
Branche
D. E. Dickinson
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Margaret Seda
Migs Fern
Little Glenn
Lisco
Nebr
Bro. J. K. Simpson
Grand Prairie Weather and Community Notes
The article chronicles pleasant weather in Grand Prairie with green crops and notes on spring cleaning and gardening. It records Miss Mabel Leafdale returning to Potter Nebraska after a successful school term, a noon picnic for school patrons, and various local visitations and gatherings including the Christian Endeavor at Peniel. A fire caused a $9900 loss to Frank Goodwin’s granary and grain, while Mrs Heinzman recovers from grippe and several residents visit relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel Leafdale
Potter, Nebr
Bake sale raises forty five dollars for Liberty Bond
The King's Daughters bake sale surpassed expectations by earning forty five dollars from their goods. B A Jones contributed the needed five dollars to cover their Liberty Bond subscription as planned. Subscribe For the Telegraph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. A. Jones
Also Mentioned on This Page
C. W. Hornaday
Post Office
Sidney State Bank
Lincoln Accident Insurance Company
Lincoln
Nebraska
Frank R. Means
Dist
Mac L. Abbott
Claud W. McCord
A. J. Lindberg
Prairie Gem
Minnie Oldershaw
Bridgeport
Kimball
Helen McDaniel
Gertrude Brewer
N. G. Brewer
Livoni & Son
SUNOL
Lorenzo
Mrs. Knox
Victor
Dix
Telegraph
Opera House
Sidney Battery Station
Hardy Hardware Store
Pleasant Valley
Grand Prairie
John Shelly
A. C. Miller
Vianek
Walter Weaver
A. G. Weaver
Uncle Sam
Peniel
Mabel Johnson
Wm. Sharman
Orville Miller
Alfred Jorgensen
W. ©. Robbins
Aden Swensen
Heinzman
Frank Goodwin
Central Meat
Peter Peetz
Wier & Hamilton
Victor Machines
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