Dalton News and Personal Gleanings
Dalton residents and visitors figure in a roundup of local moves. Ww C Anderson and wife visited Wildreth, Dan Rick returned from St Louis, Hicks from Spring Ranch dropped by, and families linked to Willis, Hill, Harr, Poole, Ewing attended funerals in Julesburg. Local officials changed hands as Albert Christensen became school treasurer. A Dalton Women’s Club meeting occurred, a school entertainment was planned, and roads and sales events paced the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. A Rowan
Harvey Heizer
H. C. Eckert
Miss McFadden
Sidney
Wm. Schuler
Denver
J. L Willis
Chadron
The
Dalton Cooperative Society
J. L. Willis
Omaha
Albert Christensen
Board of Education
Sidney Poole
Julesburg
Jesse Ewing
H. A. Armuth
Alliance
Henry Mayer
Dalton Women’s Club
Grand Prairie Local Notes: Jorgenson, Sales, and Sightings
J C Jorgenson hauled three pigs to Dalton weighing 1030 pounds. Mr Nelson of Potter bought cattle. Miss Julia Johnson visits sister in Colorado for two weeks. Mr and Mrs Johnson attend Pomeroy sale. N S Hoagland and wife visit Holdrege with relative. Cawley and daughter Kayser stay with Mons Johnson. Denver oculist fits glasses for Grand Prairie residents. Mrs Booth visits sister Johnson. J C Jorgenson brings a new spring wagon from Sunol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Jorgenson
Dalton
Mr. Nelson of
Potter
Julia Johnson
Colorado
Sidney Draw Threshing Near Completion with Bridges
Threshing ends in the Sidney draw besides minor flax work. W R Dean of Central City installed two steel bridges this week. County Superintendent Mrs Stark visited the school on Tuesday the 156th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. R. Dean
Central City
Stark
Consumption Takes 350 People Every Day
An advertisement promoting Scott's Emulsion claims daily consumption in the United States prevents disease to strengthen the body. It cites tubercular risk from weakness and asserts the product aids tissue growth and blood formation, with no alcohol or habit-forming drugs. The ad lists Scott & Bowne Bloomfield, NJ and the number 4376.
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United States
Potter School and Town Notes Highlight Friday Program
Potter news outlines a literary society meeting for Oct. 17 with songs, recitations, a debate on Indian mistreatment, and a school program. Local events include a relief for Elmer Hicks after a sand wagon accident and Mrs. Lafferty's chiropractic trip to Sidney. News mentions weddings, funerals, a near marriage, new building work, and a Catholic masquerade planned between Oct. 25 and 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ree
Livestock prices at South Omaha on Oct 15
Cattle receipts 5,773 today, 23,700 for three days. Trade slow with declines of 10-15 cents on beef cattle and even weaker demand on range cattle. Hogs about 7,199 head, prices down a dime on heavy hogs, lights off 15-20 cents. bulk sold $7.75 to $8.00. Sheep and lambs: 42,000 head, killing lambs 15-25 cents lower. fat ewes steady. feeding lambs weak to 15-20 cents off. quotes for sheep and lambs listed by grade and weight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Stock Yards
South Omaha
Finest of the season prize night for unique costumes
Five dollar prizes lure cones wearers to a costume contest with an ad to appear next week and a date notice. Mrs Reddy hosts a surprise for ten year old Marie inviting schoolmates for games and treats. Peter Hansen travels to Denver for his brother's marriage as local real estate men visit town.
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Reddy
Marie
Potter
Miss Lawrence
Johnson Block
Peter Hansen
Denver
Local notes and travels around Higgins area
D. J. Davis of Lodgepole was here taking orders for Fremont Nursery. Frank Beyers drills a well for J. B. Halston on land he bought near Higgins. A. Limbeck visited Sidney last Saturday. W. E. Swatzlander finishes threshing with about two weeks work left. Montauk ranch sale drew a large crowd and prices were high. C. E. Higgins recovering from typhoid. Eugene Wilcox selling grain quickly and plans to move east with family. Fred Beyer traded in Sidney Saturday. Neighbors went to Bronson to help fight a prairie fire Sunday. Mrs. Frank Portrey and children drove to Sidney Monday.
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D. J. Davis
Lodgepole
Fremont
Frank Beyers
J. B. Halston
Higgins
A. Limbeck
Sidney
W. E. Swatzlander
Montauk Ranch
C. E. Higgins
Eugene Wilcox
Fred Beyer
Bronson
Frank Portrey
Five Hundred Rescued From Welsh Mine Disaster
A massive explosion at Universal Colliery near Cardiff traps hundreds of miners. About 460 Welsh workers die, with around 400 rescued and many injured. Rescuers reach groups of men entombed in galleries amid collapsed passages and fiercer fires on the west side.
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Universal
Cardiff
Wales
Kinkead promises December beef trust inquiry
Representative Kinkead of New Jersey says the House judiciary committee assured a thorough December investigation into the beef trust. He pledges to prove criminal violations of law and notes much of Senator Kenyon’s evidence may be used to illuminate possible price gouging against consumers.
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Beef Trust
Kinkead
New Jersey
House Judiciary Committee
Kenyon
Gamboa Dyke Blown Up Opens Panama Canal
President Wilson triggered a White House blast to dynamite the Gamboa dyke and clear the way for canal waters while earth slides at Cucaracha and Gold Hill complicate opening. Senate recess under currency delay eyed. Senator Cummins presses for action before adjournment.
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Wilson
White House
Panama Canal
Gamboa Dyke
Cucaracha
Gold Hill
Hoke Smth
Senate
Democrats
Congress
Cummins
Discovery of vast Arctic land beyond 81 North
Russian steamers Taim and Waygatch under Commander Wilitsky, after three years north of Siberia, arrive at St Michael for coal. Wilitsky reports finding a landmass as large as Greenland extending beyond latitude 81 north and longitude 102 east.
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Waygatch
Wilitsky
Siberia
St. Michael
Greenland
Wilson Grants Clemency In Three Cases
President Wilson exercised executive clemency in three cases. He lightened fines on three St. Louis men cited under the rivers and harbors act, commuted the sentence of a murderer confined in the Atlanta penitentiary, and remitted a $1000 fine imposed on a Nevada counterfeiter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
St. Louis
Atlanta
Nevada
Special attorney appointed to prosecute SP anti trust case
James W Orr of Atchison Kansas is appointed by Attorney General McReynolds as a special attorney for the department of justice to prosecute the government's pending anti trust suit seeking to force Southern Pacific to relinquish its ownership of the Central Pacific. Orr will commence work immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James W Orr
Atchison, Kan
McReynolds
Department of Justice
Southern Pacific
Central Pacific
Orr
Ranch Worker Slays Mountain Lion With Rock
Edwin Ertlupe, a ranch employee, was found unconscious beside the carcass of a large mountain lion in the Malibu mountains north of Santa Monica. Though armed with a rifle, he was unable to use it as the beast sprang, and he killed the animal with a rock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Ertlupe
Malibu
Santa Monica
Cal
Ertlupe
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