Golden Wedding Celebration in Steele City
The town marked the Golden Wedding Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Allen T. Phelps on Thursday August 9 with a 4 o'clock outdoor dinner on the Kendall lawn. Seventeen states contributed gifts and coins, and a church reception followed where a cash purse of 26 in gold was presented to the couple.
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Steele City
Allen T. Phelps
E. W. Kendall
Kendall Gardens
Andrew. Phelps
Nancy Forsha
E. W.kendall
Neb
Russell Campbell
Russell Jr
Buddy
Carrol
Elnor
Beatrice Arnold
Darwin
Fairbury
Lee Forsha
Kansas City
Glenn M. Kendall
Harvard
Nebr
Effie Evans
Evaline
Mamie
Thornburg
Ella Armstrong
Minden
Khow
Phelps
Union
New York City
San Francisco
Florida Coast
Canada Line
Ladies Aid
Presbyterian Church
Thayer County Fair Deshler Admits Free Kids
Children under 15 enter free daily at the Thayer County Fair Deshler from August 21 to 24 with no charge for admission.
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Thayer County
Deshler
Wanted Hesar for sale by owner of good farm
Cash price and particulars offered by D F Bush of Minneapolis Minnesota for a farm sale. Local advert seeks reliable buyer details and contact options for the deal.
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Hesar
D. F. Bush
Minneapolis
Minn
Golden Wedding Day Tribute and Local Notices from 1928
A poetic dedication to Mr and Mrs Allen marking fifty years together with memories of love and faith. Also real estate transfers recorded for Fairbury Nebraska, and community club notices including 4-H and WCTU activities with dates and names.
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Allen T. Phelps
J. Monroe Davis & Son Title
Fairbury
Nebraska
Ora Cox & Wi
Arch Groves
Floyd Ellsworth
Johanna Mees
Champ’s Add
Fairbur
Clarence M. Hyslop
Lee
Rosie V
Golden day of our lives wedding anniversary note
Note of appreciation to relatives friends church and community for fiftieth anniversary honors. Thanks to Ladies Aid Society choir and all who helped with gifts colors and words. Wishes blessings and enduring memory with thanks from Mr and Mrs Allen T Phelps and funeral directors M O Sampson H A Richardson. Dr Leach dentist offers cash work guarantee. Steele City and Fairbury Nebraska.
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Eay
Ladies Aid Society
Allen T. Phelps
Introducing New Queens for August Mating and Winter Stores
The best time to introduce new queens is August to ensure mating and laying early in the month. Each colony needs a young vigorous queen. Beekeepers should ensure abundant stores for fall brood-rearing, especially in clover regions and apiaries producing extracted honey where the brood chamber often lacks stores.
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Apiaries
Miscllaneous Circular 99 M Judging Dairy Cattle
Farmers can obtain the Miscel laneous Circular 99 M from the U S Department of Agriculture Washington D C. It explains judging points and how to use the score card. The circular includes scales of points for principal dairy breeds and a general score card for dairy cows.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Grain sorghums as livestock feed and processing notes
Grain sorghums provide very good feed for all livestock, especially in semiarid regions. They resemble corn in composition with similar carbohydrate levels, but sorghum has less fat and more protein. Ground sorghums are advised except for sheep or poultry, and head chop offers corn-and-cob like value for low roughage diets.
Chiggers Breed Nuisance Across Humans and Poultry
A 19th century guide notes no perfect chigger protection yet. It explains the pest does not burrow but injects irritants, urging high boots in infested areas. It also warns chiggers attack poultry, especially late hatchings, and recommends flowers or fine sulphur dust on birds and housing.
Lost Poland China hog seeks owner in Diller area
A black Poland China hog, missing since August 6, has been found stray or stolen. The animal weighs about 275 pounds and is tied to Roy H. Edgington of Diller who can be contacted by phone.
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Poland
China
Roy H. Edgington
Diller
First Presbyterian Church News and Schedule
Sunday services at 11 a.m. with Sunday school at 10 a.m. Enthusiastic plans include an 8 a.m. preaching, 7 p.m. Endeavor, and a progressing Sunday School after vacation. Missionary Society met with Mrs Grétzinger. County Sunday School picnic Friday at Fairbury park. Ladies Aid meets Aug 22. Pie Alamede social Aug 24 at the church basement.
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Missionary Society
Grétzinger
Fairbury Park
Ladies Aid
Local Social Roundup From Beatrice Area
Rocky Hollow John Janssen visited Beatrice Monday. Fred Kenning called at the Janssen residence Sunday. Margaret Jones stayed with Vera Janssen Saturday night. Myers helped Janssen stack alfalfa Thursday afternoon. Charley Compton and family visited the Malady home Wednesday. Art Kenning finished threshing and moved his machine home last week. George Banahan and family plus Ma Lady and Chas. Compton households visited the Compton home Sunday. Charley Glen Compton and Raymond Beetle left Monday to help Mr. Packer east of Diller build a tile barn. Perry Carrico and wife returned from California Friday. they have summered with relatives.
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John Janssen
Beatrice
Fred Kenning
Janssen
Margaret Jones
Vera Janssen
Charley Compton
Malady
Art Kenning
George Banahan
Chas. Compton
Charley
Glen Compton
Raymond’ Beetle
Packer
Diller
Mrs Forsha and Lenker Visit And Stay
Mrs. N M Forsha traveled to Fairbury Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Anna Lenker visited her son and family in Odell over the weekend.
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Anna Lenker
Odell
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Mrs. Pheip
Caroline E. Laughlin
Portland
Oregon
Hazel E. Carver
Fred W. Schwitow
Herman Burkhart
Mary B. Williams & Hus
Alta Aubert
Galbraith’s Add
J. A. ‘Brunt
John Rogge
Thompson
Aidte
Jefferson Co
Fred Damkroeger
Joseph Ward
Ralph P. Howell
McLucas
Otto P. Seeman
May Leona.Bunday
Warren Place
Nettie Godden
4-H
KE. E. Shultz
C. C. Andrews
E. E. Shultz
Robert Thompson
Rob’t Thompson
M. O. Sampson
H. A. Richardson
Leach
Golden Rule
Hagenbeck
Wallace Circus
George Jackson
Wortham
U. S
First Presbyterian Church
John E. Filinger
Endeavor
Rocky Hollow
Mr.Myers
Mrs. Perry
Carrico
California
E. B. Ackerman
Optometrist
Eyas
A. D. Ackerman
Jewelers
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