Wartime Servicemen Return Home in Nebraska Town News
Local families welcome Gwendolyn Jorgenson home after WAVES discharge at Great Lakes. Carter Kokjer graduates as USNR Ensign at Notre Dame with 935 peers as the last Notre Dame midshipmen class. Ranks promotion news travels through Sidney with Sutherland and Figner postings. Holm and Bennett attest to air force honors. Agnes Mercer returns from WAC service to Sidney, after two and a half years overseas. Multiple families celebrate transitions as veterans resume civilian life and await new assignments.
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Gwendolyn Jorgenson
A. J. Jorgenson
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Carter H. Kokjer
Thomas EF. Kokjer
Sidney
U. S. Naval Reserve Midshipman’s
Navy Drill Hall
University of Notre Dame
USNR
Notre Dame
Keneth Sutherland
Kathryn Sutherland
Sutherland
Paris
Judge Advocate
ETO
Earl Bennett
Army Air Forces
Davis-Monthan Field
Tucson
Ariz
Bennett
Farm Income To Set Record In Nebraska
Rufus M. Howard state director of agriculture predicts Nebraska farm income will hit a record 700 million dollars this year, with crops driving gains though costs rise. Through August income totals show substantial year over year gains, aided by grain stocks and higher cattle prices, while hogs lag.
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Rufus M. Howard
Nebraska
Howard
Army Sergeant Promoted in Germany Station
After three years and two months in service with two years sea duty Sgt D W Green is at the 15th Army Headquarters in Bad Neuheim Germany. He will head the Publication Section as Chief Clerk and help compile a war history. His parents Mr and Mrs C D Green in Salem Mass have word of the assignment. Joy Fastenau returned home to Gurley after an honorable Army discharge son of Mrs Mathilda Fastenau.
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England
France
Belgium
F. R. Craig
H. P. Craig
Sidney
U. S. Marine Corps
Quantico
Virginia
Mike
Seattle
Washington
Pacific
Navy
Gene Dey Ermand
San Francisco
Calif
Don Dey Ermand
Dalton
Maryland
Roy Forward
Forward
Will Forward
Gurley
Mr. Forward
15Th Army
Theater General Board
Joy Fastenau
Army
Mathilda Fastenau
Battle Sharpened by Marksmanship at Bunker Hill
America earned the Battle of Bunker Hill through precise musket fire. British troops fired from the hip while American marksmen delivered accurate shots, shaping the encounter's outcome.
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America
Bunker Hill
Beet Harvest Half Through in Western Nebraska
Beet harvest in western Nebraska is about fifty percent complete with two weeks remaining barring bad weather. The Great Western Sugar Co. manager P H McMasters said conditions have been good and yields may exceed last year while fields around Lodgepole Sunol Sidney and Potter report about twelve tons per acre. Most beets go to the Scottsbluff factory.
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Nebraska
P. H. McMasters
Great Western Sugar Co
Lodgepole Valley
Lodgepole
Sunol
Sidney and
Potter
Farm activity notes from Sunnyside area
Sunnyside appears to record local farming tasks with named residents. Lester Theis picks corn for Chester Bruns this week while S F Irwin worked for J A Talich last week. Mrs Dale Talich and her son returned Monday from a week visiting relatives in the eastern part of the state. Ed Block and Grafton Crabb joined a farm bureau membership drive this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Theis
Chester Bruns
S. F. Irwin
J. A. Talich
Dale Talich and Son
Ed Block
Grafton Crabb
Farm Bureau
Community Notes of Visits and Family Events
Thursday night Phyllis Brandl joined Mary Joan Block while Mr and Mrs Sylvester Wassum of Tekamah visited Ralph Talich and dined at E A Johnson. The Feikerts families and Theis household hosted several gatherings as 4 H club members attended a Sidney banquet. Arthur Peters returned from army discharge. Harry Lee and Kenneth Darling married in Sterling on Oct 15. Telegraph Want Ads Bring Results.
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Phyllis Brandl
Mary Joan Block
Sylvester Wassum
Tekamah
Ralph Talic
E. A. Johnson
Lloyd Talich
Ralph Talich
Ed Block
Miss Ingwerson
Sidney
J. A. Talich
Dale Talich
Arthur Peters
Harry Lee
Kenneth Darling
Stersling
State Orchestra Reaches North Carolina’s Wide Spread Tour
The state supported orchestra tours across North Carolina from mountains to seashore, a journey over 500 miles, bringing classical music to Tar Heel citizens and ensuring broad public access to performances.
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North Carolina Symphony Orchestra
America
Tar Heel
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Jack Ookie
Universal
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Sunnyside
Frigidaire
Nelson’s Refrigerator Service
Commercial Frigidaire
Guy Tremain
Little Ronnie
Raymond
Alva Hart
Wm. Bullock
Mary Burbank
Charles Feikert
C. E. Feikert
John Theis
Telegraph
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Ient Credit
Big General Catalog
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Ea Pwg
Berlin
Tokyo
M. H. Robineau
THE
Frontier’ Refining Company
the Frontier Refining Company
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Evangelistic
E. W. Marshall
Minneapolis, Minn
Jackson Sts
Kenneth Beckman
Gering, Nebr
Ralph E. Kersey
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