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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1913
Page
1
Local column highlights a series of short notices from Reid to Fairbury. Reports include people selling goods and services, moves and visits, Arbor Day planting, school staffing changes, farm and harness shop ads, and a major lightning strike that destroyed a barn with animals and grain losses.
For sale ten tons of prairie hay priced at $6.50 per ton. Contact Henry Williams Manager Ind Hay Co Steele City Nebraska. Grant Wing of Omaha visited relatives in the area for a week then went to Hollenberg to visit his wife's parents Mr and Mrs Weber. A K P lodge banquet and dance were held in the opera house last Friday with music and toasts followed by dancing. Mrs Harry Luttman near Fairbury suffered severe kerosene burns from a stove fire while cooking. a doctor from Fairbury was summoned.
A local notice states that eggs produced within three miles of Diller and Washington are taken to be sold there due to lack of cash market in Steele City. The speaker offers cash market price at the cream station and seeks testing cream accuracy as a priority for producers.
In Ayr two miles from Glasgow stands William Burns cottage where Robert Burns was born. An American visitor asked to see the Burns cottage and remarked that he cannot see how the poet found time to live there given his fame.
A brief quotational note credits animals with human virtues. The excerpt highlights dogs’ gratitude, cranes’ vigilance, ants’ foresight and frugality, elephants’ honesty, and horses’ loyalty as learned lessons. Attributed to Doni. xete.
Amiel notes that love at its peak is sublime and invincible guiding souls toward the Infinite and eternity. He characterizes love as profoundly religious and capable of becoming a religion in itself.
A reader recalls a child named Helen Smith ending a prayer with a formal closing. She stammered at first then finished with the line Oh very truly yours Helen Smith.
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