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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1914
Page
6
Potter diary notes a busy week with Electoral results, Lutheran and M E church activities, school coal supplies, and a large grain influx. Local officials inspect water and lighting, farmers begin elevator operations, and visits from Wahoo, Sidney, and Aberdeen figures are recorded amid social events and dances.
In Grand Prairie a young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bard fell from a horse last Saturday and broke her arm. Ray and Oscar Hoagland went east at week’s start. Will Sharman visited Stroms burg Monday evening. Lee Johnson attended an automobile school course in Omaha early this week. Mr. and Mrs. Planck visited Lodgepole Monday. Ira Paup is building a new home replacing a burned one from last summer. Ethelyn Rodgers stayed with Mrs. Planck Tuesday night. Sherwin and Harris of Sterling, Colorado, hunted for lost cattle through C. Pp. Friday. Mrs. Claude Vorhies, visiting her parents, returned to Upland Wyoming last Wednesday. W. Wassum, Sidney visitor, was there last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Puthor and daughter Janet of Sidney visited Mons Johnson last Sunday. Joe Schad of Peetz, Colorado, was in G. P. during the week.
Frank Portrey, John Beyer, and Albert Siebenaler scraped dirt around the Catholic church on Monday. F W Jarrett butchered a hog last week. Frank Beyer visited with Frank Berenik last Sunday. A P Siebensler's autoed to Sidney with F Portrey last Sunday. They shared a meal with Portrey. John Sauer brought flax Monday worth $1.10 a bushel. Neighbors attended the Scott and Bancroft sale. Herdon hosts a dance tonight the 14th with sandwich supper and lively music. Next week John Anderson holds a big sale with a large lunch.
Fifteen pupils enrolled in Pleasant View schools. Students who were neither tardy nor absent in September and October named Lillian Stines Venita Stines Opal Hicks Nina Ferguson Iva Heimer and Kate Heimer. New enrollments include Edgar Hicks Owen Hicks Ninna Ferguson Iva Heimer Viola Chambers Berdella Chambers and Leland Hicks in eighth grade. Fifth grade includes Kate Heimer Opal Hicks and Venita Stines. Second grade Marguerite Jarrett. First grade Berenice Ayersworth Lillian Stines Fred Pultz and Erma Saurs. A dance attended in Evan Stines new barn Saturday night. Dessie Helmer visited sister Mrs Will Scheele ving in Banner County. Geo and Henry Schrear have the finest corn field in the county. Hettie Hurd teaching in Pete Nelson district visited sister Helen Saturday. Edgar Hicks finished his second year working for Will Goding and started to school Monday. Harry Courtright photographed the north part of the county last Sunday. Will Gustafson living in east
Kimball county residents visited the Hicks home on Sunday with Miss Bertha Hurd accompanying to visit her sister at Stines'. Mrs. B. E. Brothers, mother of Mrs. Will Goding and Mrs. Chas. Stanton, has been visiting recently. Mrs. Geo. Hicks is improving from an illness. Some fall wheat looks promising though most is not yet up, and the future remains in question. The note ends with a plan to report more often and a line about not looking out for candidates.
Ed Walsh picks corn this week with help from Chas Hendrickson and Pat Keenan. Pat Keenan begins hauling wheat to town on Thursday. Various local residents visit briefy, with several trips and visits noted among Eckert, Juell, Morrow, McNulty, Kreader, and Mayers households.
Clara reports strong turnout at the Scott-Bancroft sale last Tuesday with Fred Korsemeyer purchasing multiple calves last Monday. Mrs. Brown and daughters remain on the homestead, while Mrs. Siebenaler visited The Ash Grove Ranch Monday. Norman and Enland Sauer husking corn in eastern Nebraska. L F Cunningham back from Colorado and other states studying real estate options. He plans to decide after a lengthy rest. Aylsworth Brothers finished haying. H Ehmke busy digging.
Residents discuss fence work on section lines and tease a wet ticket vote next election. Mr and Mrs EE Quinn visited Sidney. Helen Hurd spent the weekend at W Gustafson near Bethel. F W Johnston of Dalton visited relatives after a Potter dance. Ehmke Harms and Borcher traveled to Sidney after coal. Fred Beyer sold cattle and delivered them to Dalton.
Lady Barclay, descendant of John Jay, urges Americans to donate to the ambulance department of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, led by the queen. The piece, with a strong wholesome tone, features an American-speaking cast and arrives at the theater tonight with seats available at Sidney Drug Co.
A reflective verse compares a man without his wife to a grove lacking a tree and calls the man the biggest fool in life for drinking no Rocky Mountain Tea.
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