Flag display system rolls out in Potter by Legion sale
Potter residents adopt a uniform flag display with poles in curb holders along streets. Flags sold and installed by the American Legion with bases set and delivery completed by Tex Parsons and Happy Amell. In Sidney, a circus drew a crowd yet income was the main lure, as the Dalton delegation notes a mediocre Bluffs show and warns about petty swindles among staff and performers.
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Potter
American Legion
Tex Parsons
Happy Amell
Golf club forms from backyard game pastimes
The Dalton Delegate notes a flurry of locals joining a planned club as they turn a rough backyard game into golf. Beginners call it cow pasture pool or gowf, and after mastering a round without losing suspend er buttons they graduate to golf. George Worth and Lon Dirks praised the sport last year, boosting its appeal.
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George Worth
Lon Dirks
Dalton
Barn Fire Destroys Cavalli Farm Barn Near Potter
The Groves place barn owned by Arthur Cavalli burned in the forenoon with Arthur away in a field a mile away. Mrs. Cavalli found the fire and arrival was futile. Loss included a Ford car eight calves collars halters and much hay. insured status unknown.
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Groves
Arthur Cavalli
Potter
Narcotic Peddler and Accomplice Stopped in Scottediaff
Mike Weber known as Peaches, a narcotic peddler, and Ike Lane were arrested after arriving in Scottediaff on a Burlington freight. Assistant Chief German spotted them before they could flee by night train. Both men are jailed pending investigation. Weber claimed travel through Casper Tla Juana Canada and other cities.
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Mike Weber
Peaches
Scottediaff
Burlington
German
Casper
Tla Juana
Canada
Ike Lane
fScottedluff Star-Herald
Dairy Substitutes Cost Nebraska Dairymen Big Losses
Bridgeport Lions club luncheon featured E L McKimmey of Harding Creamery detailing dairy industry losses from imitation butter. He cited eight uses for U S milk and showed substitutes drain millions, with 56,000 cows and 14 000 Nebraska farms affected, and 41 wholesale plus 2 302 retail outlets selling imitations annually.
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Bridgeport Lions Club
Associated Charities
E. L. McKimney
Harding Creamery Co
McKimmey
Nebraska
United States
Bridgeport Herald
Cost County Foots Heavy Bill From Robber Case
Alliance Times-Herald reports Box Butte County spent about 5000 dollars on costs from the Fashion shop robbery case tied to Zediker Buskrod Gebhardt and Winslow. Jury taxes totaled 1306.90 with 126 dollars per prisoner transported. County attorney incapacitation and affidavits added expense. overall loss to taxpayers tallies.
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Box Butte County
Alliance
Zediker
Buskrod
Gebhardt
Winslow
Denver
John Christie
Christie
Winslow Jury
Gebdhardt
Italian Boy Serves Time For Stealing Watch
Ralph Decca an 18 year old Italian boy who has been washing dishes at a Freataurant was sentenced to thirty days in jail by Police Judge Prouty for stealing a watch at the home of Mrs. E. R. Hodges where he roomed. He said his home is Syracuse New York but he was headed the other direction.
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Ralph Decca
Prouty
E. R. Hodges
Syracuse
N. Y
Western Nebraska Observer
Nebraska Legion Seeks 50 000 Campaign Aid for Orphans and Vets
The American Legion plans a Nebraska campaign to raise 50 000 for disabled veterans and orphans, run by local committees from business, fraternal groups and clubs. Earnings from the national endowment fund will fund care, with a 30 50 split between veterans and orphans. Cottage homes will aid adoption, and the Independence Kansas home attracts attention as a model, with Dan Dabney funding the 640 acre farm. J Edward C Fisher of Beatrice, former state commander, serves as director.
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Nebraska
American Legion
Legion
C. M. Bosley
National Endowment Fund
Mr. Bosley
United States
Veterans Bureau
Bosley
Paul E. Seidler
Seidler
Independence
Kas
National Legion Organization
Dan Dabney
J. Edward C. Fisher
Beatrice
Fire Devours Crow Farm House Near Peetsz
Wednesday evening a coal oil stove burst into a large flame at the David Crow farm home one mile south and two and a half miles east of Peetsz. The single outside door trapped the mother and baby as she wrapped the child in a quilt and escaped unharmed. The frame house and its contents were a total loss with no insurance.
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David Crow
Peetx
Crow
Peetsz
Boy Scouts Capture Three Horned Owls
Bridgeport youths Brue ter Plummer Harok Herbax and Leonard Walker found a horned owl nest near Court House rock. They captured three nestlings not yet fully feathered and brought them home. The Birds are a curiosity and their fate remains a mystery.
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Court House Rock
Brueter Plummer
Harok Herbax
Leonard Walker
Bridgeport
Bridgeport Herald
Heavy rainfall floods Scottsbluff Haig area. roads and ditches overflow
A cloudburst like downpour southwest of Scottsbluff dumped over 21 percent inches of rain in under an hour, flooding streets and cellars. Scottsbluff saw .66 inches in thirty minutes, while Haig area roads ran three to four feet deep, fields flooded, and buses halted. Ditches overflowed, laterals washed out, and traffic diverted north toward Mitchell as the month’s rainfall neared 1.78 inches.
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Scottsbluff
Haig
Union Pacific
Mitchell
Bath Farm
Camp 25
Lyman
Scottebluff Star-Herald
Rain drenches Box Butte County amid promising wheat outlook
A heavy rain swept Box Butte County and the western region from Thursday afternoon into the night, delivering half to one and a half inches. Spring wheat is in fine condition with many fields of winter wheat notable across the county. Farmers, including pioneer Frank Russell, express optimism about abundant crops if rains continue, easing concerns from earlier winds.
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Box Butte County
Harin
Moost
Lincoln
Frank Russell
Alliance Times-Herald
Settlers Fight Over 1885 Morrill County Land Lines
Morrill county residents long occupying land since 1887 face loss as a new survey shifts boundaries and places homes in no mans land. United States government claims the land, while a proposed bill aims to revert to the Ault survey. Delegates seek congressional action through Simmons to establish permanent Ault lines.
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Morrill County
Senator Wood
Gering
Simmons
Scottsbloff Star-Herald
Auto Show Visitor Takes Fishing Tackle
An Alliance auto show visitor, C. K. Baughman of Torrington Wyoming, faced a theft charge after a tackle outfit worth 58 dollars disappeared from Lowry and Henry garage at the show. He claimed to have found the tackle by a road side sagebrush and reimbursed the owner and sheriff after a Wyoming fugitive warrant was sought. The case closed with payment of value and expenses.
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Alliance
C. K. Baughman
Torrington
Wrvo
George Hills
Lowry & Henry
Baughman
Hill
Sheriff Jones
Wyo
Jones
Mr. Hill
Wyoming
Texas Cattle Are Coming to the Hills
Three hundred car loads of Texas cattle head toward western Nebraska as Brass Meyerne and Lowe unload 32 cars at Whitman 13 at Hyannis 27 at Mullen and 15 at Lakeside. Two Denver trains prepare to ship to sandhill ranches amid growing restocking activity and beef shortages. Kilpatrick Bros. moved 1800 head from Amarillo to be pastured west of Alliance for summer feeding ahead of fall market.
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Nebraska
Brass, Meyerne & Lowe
Whitman
Hyannis
Mullen
Lakeside
Denver
Sandhill
Alliance
Kilpatrick Bros
Amarillo
Texas
Alliance Times-Herald
Little Creighton Valley Todd Burned By Lysol
The three year old son of Mr and Mrs Harry Johns was badly burned about the face and mouth after grabbing a bottle of lysol. First aid was given at home and he was rushed to Minatare where Dr Ross treated him. Doctors note alcohols once used as solvent for lysol or carbend poleon and warn severe poisoning could be fatal without a proper remedy.
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Harry Johns
Creighton Valley
Minatare
Ross
Minatare Free Press
Banner County Tops Nebraska Birth Rates in 1924
The 1924 vital statistics report ranks Banner County highest for births with 21 and 2 deaths, while Scotts Bluff County shows third largest births, surpassing Hall Dodge Gate and others. Banner county records 425 net population gain, with a favorable death to birth ratio indicating strong health conditions per the Gering Courier.
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State Bureau of Vital Statistics
Nebraska
Banner County
Scotts Bluff
Douglas
Tancaster
Tak- Inen
Hall. Dodge. Gate
Gering Courier
Horse Stealer Bound Over for Sentence After Guilty Plea
Touls Walker aged twenty one pleaded guilty to stealing a bay mare from James Everett eight miles northwest of Angola. Bound over to the district court for sentence after confessing to an organized horse stealing gang activity in the North Platte valley. The horse was traded to a Lawrence sibling in the community.
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Touls Walker
James Everett
Angola
Walker
Lawrence Brothers
North Platte Valley
Valentine
Ant
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Sidney
Bluffs
Isaacson
BOY Scouts
Haig Section
No Man's Land
A. B. Wood
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