Merchants Transfer & Storage Buys Sidney Branch
Merchants Transfer & Storage Co Inc of Scottsbluff purchases Sidney Merchants Transfer & Storage from Dave Doberstine. Sale effective Saturday. Sidney becomes a branch of Merchants of Scottsbluff. Doberstine remains branch manager with Viola Lundburg as office manager. Sidney HQ at 815 Hickory St. Merchants operates nationwide and is Allied Van Lines stockholder agent.
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Merchants Transfer & Storage Co., Inc
Scottsbluff
Sidney Merchants Transfer & Storage
Dave Doberstine
John Sohus
Sidney ‘Company
Merchants of Scottsbluff
Doberstine
Merchants
Viola Lundburg
Sidney
Hickory St
A. R. Davis
Nebraska
Allied van Lines
Three Cars In Freak Collision In Cedar Driveway
A 12:30 p.m. Sunday crash at 1640 Cedar involved three cars all in one Wieser vehicle. Maynard Wieser started the car in gear, hitting Ray Bayne’s parked car, which rolled back and struck Dan Duke’s curbside vehicle. Damage to Bayne’s car about 50 dollars. officers Gerald Brester and Sanford Butcher investigated. A separate two car collision was reported on 11th Avenue at 10:30 p.m. Friday between Irene Hall’s 1955 Ford and Robert M. Adams’s 1961 Rambler. damage to the Rambler listed at 15 dollars.
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1640
Cedar
Maynard Wieser
Ray Bayne
Dan Duke
Birch
Wieser
Bayne
Ervin Smith
Hall
Adams
Ogallala cuts high school price and redrafts plan
Ogallala board of education trimmed about 254000 from the high school project and scrapped the octopus shaped design for a plain two story plan with two wings. A new site east of the football field was chosen and Kenneth Clark of Emerson and Clark was hired to draft revised plans for a second bond issue targeted for late November.
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Ogallala Ogallala
Lincoln
Wheat Show Set Thursday in Lexington
The 19th annual Nebraska Wheat Show opens at Lexington High School at 9 a.m. Sponsored by the Nebraska Grain Improvement Assn. the event features a film, panel on a wheat revolution, and talks by Everett W. Green Dr John A. Johnson and Herman Steen. An evening program will crown a Wheat Show Queen and award winners.
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Lexington
Nebraska Grain Improvement Assn
Lexington High School
Millers National Federation
Everett W. Green
State Railway Commission
John A. Johnson
Kansas
District Court to Hear Three Jury Cases
Three jury hearings are set for the October term of the 13th Judicial District. Jurors report at 1:30 p.m. First two civil cases involve Keith Schwartz et al vs B R Hibbon et al for 64,564.05 and J L Nienhueser vs Harvey J Miles for 1,963.45 plus costs. The third case is State of Nebraska vs William C Koehn for third offense drunk driving.
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13Th Judicial District
Keith Schwartz
B. R. Hibbon
J. L. Nienhueser
Harvey J. Miles
Heaton & Heaton
State of
Nebraska
William C. Koehn
Cheyenne County
Frank Balderson
Clinton & McNish
Union Pacific Car Slated Here Tuesday
A Union Pacific exhibition car will be near the Sidney depot Tuesday for a program aimed at high school students. More than 300 students are expected to view the Agriculture in the Space Age exhibit as described in the Farm Corner column by Cheyenne County Agent Ivan Liljegren.
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Union Pacific
Sidney Depot
Cheyenne County
Ivan Liljegren
Obituary of Bert J Bates Pioneer Lad of Lodgepole
Bert J Bates born December 28 1866 in Merengo New York came West to Lodgepole Nebraska at nineteen to regain health He died Friday at his Lodgepole home nearly 76 years after arriving He married Isabelle Scanlon in 1888 and had five children Ruby Bates later joined him as homemaker after his wife died in 1934 He helped build Wyoming Capitol drove the first horse streetcar in Cheyenne and raised horses before returning to Lodgepole where he ran a livery and real estate business His life centered on industry integrity and kindness remembered by family and friends with the poem noting his life and soul.
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Bert J. Bates
Merengo
New York
George
Ellen Bates
Lodgepole
Nebraska
Mr. Bates
Isabelle Scanlon
John and
Mary Scanlon
William L. Bates
Denver
Colorado
Ruby Bates
Frank Kucera
Colorado Springs
Harold Rowan
Broken Bow
Neb
Howard Hayden
Kansas City
Missouri
Bates
Golden Rod
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Old Fort Warren
Old Camp Clark
North Platte River
Bridgeport
Ruby
Bert
Cowboy Prayer: A Cowboy Speaks to the Lord
A brief poetic fragment presents a cowboy speaking to God about creation and the world he loves. The lines reflect reverence for the land and the notion that God finished creation and called it good.
Life as I begun on the open plains prayer
A poetic appeal for a hard and honest life. The speaker seeks work under an open sky and partnership with wind and sun. They desire honesty, gentleness, vigilance, and guidance on a long dim trail toward the Great Divide, ending with an Amen.
School Enlargement Discussed at Peetz
Peetz Colorado residents heard a plan for a 50000 addition to school facilities. The proposal includes new classrooms and a teacherage for faculty housing, presented by school board president Frances Roelle and member Ernest.
Delinquent Taxes Noted by Harrisburg Treasurer
Harrisburg County Treasurer Robert Dick reports delinquent real estate taxes totaling 5026.30 and town lots 84.62, the smallest real estate list in years with only two 1959 leftovers. He turned over 46665.68 in personal property distress warrants to Sheriff Jim Snyder. by midweek all but 2891.42 had been collected. Oil royalty related delinquencies linger at 537.41.
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Harrisburg
Robert Dick
Jim Snyder
Peetz school plans outlined by new superintendent
Maurer said no tax increase is needed and the present four mill levy would cover the proposed addition with rental income paying off the teacherage cost. He outlined future plans at a future meeting and noted costs for gym equipment, shop tools, a banner for the band, and new books. Maurer is in his first year as superintendent, coming from Keenesburg.
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Maurer
Mauerer
Peetz
Keenesburg
Chadron Cardinals Tame Bridgeport 27-0 in Tilt
Chadron High's Cardinals defeated Bridgeport 27-0 in a non conference game. Chadron scored once per quarter with two passing and two rushing touchdowns. Bridgeport committed three fumbles and had a long drive stall at Chadron's five yard line.
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Chadron High
Cardinals
Bridgeport
Chadron
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ATC
Victor Champion
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CAR Service Headquarters
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Brantley
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Clarence Lurber
Phillips
Globe-Telegraph
Jackson
Zonolite
Zennttriss
Compem
Cheyenne County Number Co
E. B. Myler
Sionty, Nebraska
Chadron Cardinals
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