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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1921
Page
4
A stripped entry notes the shipment of an item labeled strictly advance and sent by second class mail on November 26, 1904, from Sweele City Nebraska under 92 degrees of March 1 18T.
A man was found shot to death at the Jansen depot after midnight. Two hoboes on a freight train say they were robbed and thrown off, and the victim possibly resisted. A pocketbook with $8.31 and an address for Connor, Eufala, Oklahoma was found on the dead man. Sheriff Tippin investigated after local officers and an undertaker arrived.
Clark Cuthbert threshing for Leo Crouse Monday. John Malady sold cattle to Ike Bower and Mr. Shane Monday. Emer Kenning hosted Sunday with her parents in Fairbury. Malady helped Walter James deliver corn near Washington Saturday. Charney Pickering and Clay Vaughn threshed for Harry Bakewell and Ray Thomas last week. Opal Compton visited grandparents Tuesday to Friday. Lydia Beiding helped cook for threshers Thursday and Friday. Mrs. Walter Williams and baby visited with her parents Saturday night and Sunday. Thelma Adams returned to Lincoln Nebraska after two weeks with Cuthbert family and Clare Cuthbert.
Kansas weather forecaster Connor cites weather folklore from the Weather Bureau noting that birds and animals detect shifting humidity and air conditions before humans. He explains these signs predict rain and are influenced by moisture levels rather than prophetic power.
Brooklyn Eagle reports on the Kartini movement in the Dutch East Indies where Thrava women led by Raden Adjeng Kartini push toward emancipation. While polygamy persists, upper-class native women attend Kartini schools teaching equality, with Dutch correspondents noting slow but likely ultimate progress.
Mrs Jones laments hard toil and bad luck as she milks and chums daily. The agent advises she fix her outlook, not fate, and attach the head of Pluck to her effort, turning luck into work.
The College Extension Service begins a series of field demonstrations to curb ditching and save farmland. Shows are designed to teach farmers methods to reduce soil erosion and restore productive land on farms in the region near Otoe.
Twenty nine brush dams were built along a ditch at 75 foot spacing with three to five feet depth. Brush was staked and wired, showing a promising result. Land owner praised the Colliery in a letter. Concrete dams appeared in some spots, indicating success. The College plans a practical demonstration on at least one farm in eset county to show what brush or other material can do to stop the growing ditch problem.
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