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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1926
Page
3
A brief classified item notes a piano bargain describing a slightly used instrument with a prominent red finish. Details on maker, model, price, and contact are unclear in the fragment, but it reads as a local sales notice for a consumer item.
Short classified ad offers grapes and tomatoes for sale with a contact note. Also advertises a six year old milk cow for sale in February at a reasonable price. Contact Ike Woods or T. B. test ed.
Local items list residents traveling to Marysville Kansas Boise Idaho and Rochester Minnesota. Many visits to relatives, trips to Lincoln and Omaha, and a large fair notice for Deshler Thayer County Fair with free admission for children under 15.
Miss Nellie Wallace and Mr. David Clark wed Wednesday afternoon August 18 1926 at the Fairbury Methodist church. The ceremony was by Rev E M Furman. The couple will reside in Madrid Nebraska where he will be high school principal after September 1.
Hope Kagner Knauer wed Lee Scott of West Virginia Kansas in a ceremony at the bride’s Seward Nebraska home on Wednesday August 4 at 9 30 am. The vows were spoken by the bride’s father with close relatives present. After a wedding breakfast the couple left by auto for a trip to the Ozarks. Mrs Scott a Kansas canon enamel graduate returns to Garrison Kansas for school work next year where Scott serves as superintendent.
The Steele City Chautauqua draws a crowded audience and well liked programs. Today is the last day and the Pilov Give and Take will close the week of high class entertainment. Financial success and next year’s plan depend on the full program. The same company returns with an entirely new lineup.
William Fuqua died Monday August 9 after overheating and Mrs. T J Shisler died Thursday August 12 after a stroke on the courthouse steps in Fairbury. Relatives attended both services with Fuqua’s funeral held Sunday at Steele City Presbyterian Church and Shisler buried beside her son in Steele City cemetery.
Jane Eva Shisler born January 21 1865 in Illinois died August 11 1926 at Fairbury Nebraska aged 61 years 6 months 21 days. She married Wesley Negar in 1881 at Lenox S D and had eight children with three predeceasing. Surviving children include Austin Kansas City Alvy Steele City Alice Martin Lee Summit Amy Fugus Steele City and Alts. Also 22 grandchildren. Widowed in 1911, she remarried in 1922 to Thomas Jefferson Shisler of Stanberry Missouri. he survives. She belonged to the Methodist church in Kansas City later Baptist and Rebecca and Royal Neighbor orders. Described as a kind loving mother.
We thank the Royal Neighbors and Rebecca Lodges and friends for their kindness and floral offerings to our mother Mrs. Jane Shisler. T. J. Shisler Austin Negus Will Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fuqua Charles Martin Alvy Negus Mrs. Altamay Fuqua.
Mrs. A. E. Outhier near Washington Kansas hosted a reunion last week with her brother R. L. Barr of Douglas and other Outhier family members including John Outhier Orin Outhier and George Outhier of Bartiston Neb. The gathering honored John Outhier family ties and included local friends and relatives. A later note mentions R S Wilfrey had tonsil surgery in Lincoln eight weeks ago and other small town events such as ice cream at Palmers creamery and cattle losses from a recent lightning strike.
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