Dear Folks Reflections From a Sidney Writer Weekend
Frances Craig recalls a Sidney Teachers Convention with 1400 attendees at Sidney Junior High, noting helpers, coffee breaks, and lively banter. She travels to Bridgeport for a VFW meeting, meets friends, discusses a gas tank incident, and recounts a past blizzard and daily routines with humor.
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Sidney Junior High
T. R. Tillotson
Darrell Hunt
Arland Tangeman
Mary Bale
Lodgepole
PTA
Sidney Educators
Sidney
Bridgeport
Myrt Harris
Dalton Harrists
Glenn
Gamble’s
Neal
Ruth Jane
Bev
VFW Civil Defense
Bill Schulz
Gene Morris
Portland
Ore
Doyle Foland
Bill Wolf
Massey Harris
George Hossack
Case
Cliff Larson
Ray Pierson
Oliver
Doyle
Rae Jones
Moline
Busekist
Doris Sensei Mowry
Hardy
9Th
Jackson
Willis King
Craig
CARE Offers Hope Across Holiday Season
CARE will deliver food-for-peace gifts during the holidays to orphans underfed children and disaster victims in Europe and the Western Hemisphere and parts of Asia. Each 22 to 25 pound package, funded by donor dollars, carries the donor’s name and address and a message. deliveries span West Berlin to Afghanistan and Korea with milk, corn meal, flour, fats, beans, and rice. Packages may be redirected if stockpiles run low, and orders can be placed through the Midwest Regional CARE Office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Milwaukee
Wis
West Berlin
Italy
Greece
Poland
Yugoslavia
Europe
Colombia
Ecuador
Haiti
Afghanistan
Iran
Israel
Jordan
Turkey
Hong Kong
Korea
Vietnam
Pakistan
U.S
CARE
Midwest
E. Wells St
Wisc
Nebraska 1890 Football Debut No Outside Games Against Omaha YMCA
The 1890 Nebraska football team played its first outside game against the Omaha YMCA on November 27 at the Omaha baseball park. Nebraska won 10 to 0 amid rough play and fumbles, with 40 student supporters traveling from Lincoln. The Hesperian described the clash as a hard fought, rowdy outdoor contest, ending in Nebraska celebrations on returning to Lincoln.
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University of Nebraska
Omaha
Nebraska
the Hesperian
Lincoln
Hesperian
U of N
Con
University
Y.m.’S
YSMCA
Omaha Bee
Nebraska U
Roscoe Pound
Nebraska University Opens Competitive Football Era
The enthusiastic party, after serenading the State Journal, Professor Bessey, and Steward Dales, headed home dreaming of football in Omaha as Nebraska University began its foray into competitive football.
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State Journal
Professor Bessey
Steward Dales
Omaha
Nebraska University
New Sheridan County Area Has Oil Leases
Rogers Badgett of Madisonville Kentucky files 9550 acres of oil leases in Sheridan county marking first leasing in central and northern areas. Previous leases were in southern central and western Sheridan. Leases require a 50 cent per acre rental unless a well is drilled within six months of July 1 1961.
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New Sheridan County
Rushville
Rogers Badgett
Madisonville
Kentucky
Sheridan County
Badgett
Badgetts
Hearing Set For New Ogallala State Bank Charter
A hearing is scheduled for November 8 on the application by Melvin H. Adams of Brule for a Keith County Bank charter to be located in Ogallala. The Nebraska Department of Banking hearing will be at the Statehouse office.
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Ogallala
Keith County
Ralph E Misko
Melvin H. Adams
Brule
Nebraska Department of Banking
Statehouse
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Frances Craig
Chevrolet
RIS
Louis Chevrolet
RTELY
Detroit Public Library Automotive History Collection
Old
Ogallala State Bank
Tae
Motorola
Nothi
QVER
Home OF Quality
Busta
St. Patrick's Church
St. Patrick's
Fish Pond
Country Store
Rambler
America
Sidney Auto Sales
Illinois
Telegraph
FDIC
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