Local Farming Notes and Social Rides Across Elm Creek
Diggings continue with dust settled after last Sunday show. Farmers harvest corn yielding 10 to 20 bushels per acre. Elm Creek visitors Mr John Ball and Mrs Siebenaler returned home after a car ride. Ed Litty sale drew buyers. Frank Bernick and John Borcher bought cows. Albert Siebenaler went to Sidney for lumber to build a granary. Ed Swatzlander works flax and drills wheat on section 36. Local candidates remain active in the neighborhood.
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John Ball
Siebenaler
Lucian Siebenaler
Elm Creek
A. P. Siebenaler
Frank Bernick
John Borcher
Albert Siebenaler
Sidney
Ed Swatzlander
Local Column Highlights and Community News
Jim McNulty finishes epuch picking and builds a new bungalow ready for occupancy. Ed and Ford Weikhorst visit, Mrs Weikhorst returns from Omaha hospital improved. Farmland rain aids late sowers and fall acreage prospects. Several local residents visit friends, move houses, or attend house warms. Jake Mayers returns from Germany and shares feelings about New York soil and a fallen soldier brother.
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Jim McNulty
Jim
Ford Weikhorst
Potter
Drenguis
Scribner
Kreaders
Ed Weikhorst
Omaha Hospital
M. F. Palmer
Tyndall
Souh Dakota
Godings
R. H. Godings
Kimball County
Frank Lipska
Justiss
Scottsbluff
Mr. Cassidy
Omaha
Automobil
Kreader
Anton Rudd
Sidney
Brother
Ong
Neb
John Davison
Mr. Rudd
Idaho
John Eckert
Pat Keenan
Carl Ehninger
Hooper
J. C. Kreader
Dalton
Hedlund
Chas
Hendrickson
George Shinker
Scribnr
Jake Mayers
Germany
New York
Joe Vogler
Anna
George
Petersburg
Earl Robinson
Allen
Sidney Spent Weekend at Al Morrow Home Sunday
Sidney spent the weekend at the home of Al Morrow on Sunday. The brief social note places Sidney at the residence for a short visit during the weekend.
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Sidney
Ers
al Morrow
Postcard notices and accident report from the county draw
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Moore and Will Moore were callers at Mr. Walley's Sunday. James Henderson sustained burns on hands and face from a gasoline line can explosion. A few threshing jobs remain in the draw. County Surveyor Bordwell was laying out a new road in the draw this week. Chas Hammond Ed Ruther and H J Elsen plan to depart for the east Saturday. Mr C P Chambers and son Ezra spent part of the week in the north half of the county.
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Hugh Moore
Will Moore
Pzra
Live Stock Prices at South Omaha Report
Union Stock Yards at South Omaha reports a moderate cattle run of about 5,800 with corn-fed cattle fairly active and steady, grass cattle tighter, and prices 10 15 cents higher on desirable beef steers and feeders. Hogs total about 5,500 with prices slipping 20 cents for packers and 10 15 cents for shippers, top at 7.90. sheep and lambs show strong activity with fat lambs steady and best around 7.50, feeders and yearlings mixed, range prices listed for lambs, ewes, and wethers.
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Union Stock Yards
South Omaha
Germans Lose 30 000 Men in Teuton Rout
Russian embassy in Rome issues a dispatch claiming a terrible defeat in Russian Poland. The German forces were driven from Suwalki and Lodz provinces, abandoning transport and guns. Telegrams from Petrograd report 30 000 killed or wounded and 20 000 prisoners.
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Rome
Lodz
Suwalki
Russian Poland
Sostriwiec
Petrograd
Defenders Halt German Forge in East Prussia Front
Petrograd reports German forces on the East Prussian frontier adopting a strategic defensive posture after burning Ossowetz and destroying frontier rail lines. Heavy fighting at Augustowo and Suwalki. Russian artillery inflicts losses as Germans retreat with limited ammo. Russian statement confirms Austrian detachment defeated in the Carpathians and captures of an artillery park and convoys near Salivo.
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Petrograd
Carpathian Mountains
Berlin
East Prussia
Ossowetz
Russian Poland
Drostkon
Augustowo
Suwalki
von Hindenberg
Poland
Opatow
Spus
Lysagory
Radom
Warsaw
Ivangorod
Koenigsberg
Vladislavoff
Ratchka
Tchernoganja
Vistula
Opalow
Sandomir
Carpathians
Sanok
Salivo
Sixty Foreign Ships Enter U S Registry Amid War
Washington reports sixty foreign built vessels totaling 233781 gross tons have been admitted to American registry to avoid capture in the current war. Fifty four had sailed under the British flag, with four German and two Belgian ships completing the list.
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Washington
Department Commerce
Prince Eiitel Fried rich Injured in Battle Horse Fall
Berlin reports Prince Eiitel Fried rich, second son of Emperor William, was thrown from his horse in a recent battle and injured his knee. Prince Joachim, the emperor’s youngest, has recovered from a prior wound and awaits permission to return to the front.
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Berlin
Prince Eiitel Friedrich
William
Prince Joachim
England to Lay Mines Declares British Counter Stroke
The British official information bureau announced the government will lay mines in certain areas as a counter-stroke to the German procedure.
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England
British Official Information Bureau
Rivers and Harbors Fund Allotments Announced
Washington on October 8 reports the board of army engineers has allotted the 20 million dollars appropriated by Congress for river and harbor improvements this year. The Mississippi river commission receives the largest single allotment among recipients.
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Washington
Congress
Board of Army Engineers
Mississippi River Commission
Cubs Take Opener From Sox in Chicago Series
Chicago Nationals beat the local Americans 4 to 2 to gain the first advantage in the Chicago championship series. The game opened the series with a decisive early lead, setting the tone for the showdown.
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Cubs
Sox
Chicago
Chicago Nationals
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West Washington St
Sidney, Neb
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