Potter Notes Reflect Rural Life and Local Trades
Rural bits report Clara thinking about husking corn while Pete Beyer builds a barn and plans a house. Fall wheat sales look strong and grain hauling grows. Local visits, farm sales, religious services, school news, and social events fill the week in Potter and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pete Beyer
Chas. Stacy
Robert Epps
T. E. Quinn and Son
Dalton
Messrs. Baker
Flood
Epps
Tom
Sidney
Fred Cushing
North Platte
Local social and travel notes from Springdale area
Mr and Mrs Walt Nelson were callers at Springdale Ranch Sunday. Elmer Youngland has company from eastern part of the state. W E Chambers spent Monday in the west end of the Draw. W W Chowins left for Minatare Neb Friday to visit Mr and Mrs Robert Chambers. Chambers and Chowins cribbed corn but report much soft corn. Mickkelsen Bros and Clyde Gorman came from Wells County Corp to stay until after Thanksgiving. Dc C Henderson was in Wednesday proving a fine quarter of land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thornburg’s
O'Cock, Co
W. Johnson and Son
Sidney
D. H. Shultz
Osceola
Ed Thornburg
Omaha
Wm. Breiting
Potter Bank
Bridgeport
Harrison
Idaho
Rodman Place
B. F. Thornburg
M. D. Berg
Potter Market
Walt Nelson
Springdale Ranch
Elmer Youngland
W. E. Chambers
W. W. Chowins
Minatare
Neb
Robert Chambers
Messrs. Chambers
Chowins
Mickkelsen
Peter Beyers
John Daugherty
Frank Portrey
L. F. Cunningham
A. Stimka
Beyer Bros
Hildreth
Esther Selch
Dist
Dick Abbadusky
J. R. Devine
Chas
Stacey
Robert Epps
Local Movements and Farm Activity Across the Divide
Residents from Lorenzo and surrounding area travel to Burlington Sterling and Crook Colorado for visits and business. Farms near Des Moines Iowa owners Reynolds and Williams report half sections and praise the country. Local threshing crews Roy Nelson, Alva Westcott, Earl Hiett work flax fields. a buggy salesman circulates while pink eye spreads on the divide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCarthys
Elmer Youngland
Sidney
Burlington
Lorenzo
Mr. Nickolds
Sterling
Curryville
Penn
Roy Nelson
Alva Westcott
Earl Hiett
Nebraska
Omaha
Colredge
Frank Cross
Colorado
John Ajak
Orvill Miller
Mr. Miller
Mr. Fuller
Deafness Cure Offered By Catarrh Remedy
An advertisement explains deafness results from inflamed Eustachian tubes and catarrh. It claims constitutional treatment can restore hearing, offers a $100 reward for incurable deafness by catarrh, and promotes Cheney’s Catarrh Cure with Toledo Ohio origin and toll free family pills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J Cheney & CO
Toledo
Woodrow Wilson's Election Praised In Local Update
The column notes general satisfaction with Woodrow Wilson's election and the belief a proven governor will provide a square deal. It also reports local activity including building contracts, farm sales, wheat shipments, school enrollments, livestock trading, and a祝 baby birth amidst influenza concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodrow Wilson
Albert Jeudes
Carl Bartells
Ewarts
Degree of Honor Lunch Brings In $11 20 Profits
The Degree of Honor group held a Tuesday night lunch that drew strong social turnout and raised eleven dollars and twenty cents for the treasury.
Massacre Rumor Triggers Russian Cruiser Departure
Reports claim massacres of Christians in Jaffa Palestine prompted the Russian cruiser Oleg’s commander to weigh anchor and hastily depart for the district on November 21 in Athens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Greece
Jaffa
Palestine
Oleg
Editor acquitted in Goheen murder case at Claremore
Claremore Oklahoma November 21 H O Jeffries editor of the Nowata Advertiser was acquitted of the charge of murdering Mrs Irene Goheen an advertising solicitor employed by him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claremore
Okla
H. O. Jeffries
Nowata
Irene Goheen
How to Tell If Hair is Diseased and Needs Rexall Tonic
A health check suggests pulling a hair to inspect the bulb color. White and shrunken bulbs indicate disease and possible loss. pink and full bulbs imply healthy hair. Rexall 93 Hair Tonic is offered to treat dandruff scalp irritation stimulate roots tighten existing hair grow hair and combat balding. Two sizes 50 cents and 1.00 at Sidney Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rexall
Sidney Drug OO
Tidal Wave Wipes Out Jamaican Towns Savanna La Mar Lucca
Kingston reports from Jamaica that Savanna la Mar and Lucca on opposite coasts were nearly destroyed by a hurricane and accompanying floods. About 2,000 residents live in each town. forty two lives were lost in Montego Bay as the gale lasting days struck. Telecommunication remains cut as the governor travels with tents and food supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savanna la Mar
Lucca
Kingston
Jamaica
Montego Bay
I Alet
Detroit dynamite conspiracy trial ing men questioned
Patrick J. Dugan testified at the dynamite conspiracy trial that eleven International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers officials were present when a Detroit job was discussed for a blast. He named Herbert S Hockin and others as involved in caucus after the June 1967 explosion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
International Association of Briage and Structural Iron Workers
Patrick J. Dugan
Dugan
Detroit
Herbert S Hockin
Ortie E. McManigal
Hockin
Frank M. Ryan
Labor Federation Battle Over Industrial Plan at AFL Convention
Rochester N Y November 21 The AFL furor over Sherman antitrust law subsides as delegates press industrial unionism. Conservatives led by President Gompers warn the shift toward industry based organization could transform the federation into a political party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
N. Y
American Federation of Labor
Presiddent Gompers
Death in Moose initiation shocks Cumberland WV area
Zadock Troxell Offner, son of Keyser school board member Isaac H. Offner, died during a Moose initiation in Westernport. Authorities investigate after witnesses report a horse play branded chest with an electric battery, the candidate reportedly dying of excitement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
Zadock Troxell Offner
Isaac H. Offner
Keyser
W. Va
Loyal Order of Moose
Westernport
Initiation Ritual Burns Student in Boise High Fraternity
Harold Kahn age eighteen suffered severe burns after a KVYA initiation rite at Boise high school. The incident involved painting the body with collodion and lighting it with a match. Five students face possible arrest and fraternities may be banned. Kahn was rushed to a hospital for treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Ida
KVYA
Harold Kahn
Young Kahn
Fatal Fire Sparks Burned Farmer in Middletown
Middletown New York November 21 A spark from a pipe held by farmer John K Gilson ignited his long whiskers and clothing causing fatal burns. In New York Minnie Hauck former grand opera singer died in Munich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
N. Y
John EK. Gilson
Minnie Hauck
New York
Mme
Munich
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Clara
Potter
B. F. Gaither
H. W. Struble
Jennetts
F. Thornburg
Potter High
Kimball
Clarence Hogan
Grand Island
Ella
Struble
Georgia Thornburg
Thurston, Hie
Joe Johnson
Johnson
Bundy
Grundy
Freda Anderson
Young People’s Christian Endeavor
Bea
Ald
Louis Lafferty
Qleson
Main Street
Chris Peterson
Bethel
J A. Graham
Miss McFadden
Miss Bohne
Misa Osborn
Fred Nelson
S. R. Sweet
Cuttlery
Elliott
American Bank
C. J. Hellwig
North Side
Blacksmith
North Divide
Nesl and Bros
Peter Keopp
Hahler & Johnson of
Scott
Stark
Oklahoma
Ryan
Labor Federation
A. R. LE Sueur
Sidney, Nebraska
Sidney Lumber CO
U. P
Rock Springs
Hanna Coal
Cavite
Schlitz Beer
Tobin Biock
Sidney Marble Works
Columbus
A. A. Clark
Ferdinand Schulz
Fremont Brewing Company
Gackenheim
Sunnybreek
Sidney, Neb
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