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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1924
Page
4
Public notice from Steele City Nebraska indicates mail service terms for periodicals and notices. It lists advance payment requirements and subscription handling dated December 11 1924, with reference to postal regulations and republication as second class matter.
The examination for the Breele City postmaster position has been canceled after the Post Office Department withdrew the request for the test. The action ends the hiring process for the post.
A brain teaser asserts that if a man could jump as high relative to size as a flea he could leap across the Atlantic. A second query asks how many generations since Christ, with an answer of about fifty nine generations based on a 33 year standard. A third question about Milton Rabon and citizenship is answered with Yes, as per law.
John Malady helped John Janssen chop wood this week. Hilda and Vera Janssen spent the weekend with home folks. Luther Breazeale made a business trip to Fairbury Monday. Howard Williams visited Rocky Hollow school Thursday. Mr. McCaun was in the neighborhood for coon hunting Saturday night. John Janssen and Perry CarriCo were visitors at District 3 last Friday. Rose Malady worked for her sister. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Williams spent Sunday at the Broadaton home.
The primary room works on a sand table scene titled A Street Scene the Night before Christmas. Fourth grades prepare picture study books as nine paintings are chosen. Civics study begins in eighth grade using Hughes text with a future Constitution unit. Steele City lost to Endicott 23 to 32 on the road as lights failed, delaying a rematch due to a scarlet fever scare. the team bought navy and white uniforms and plans a home game when facilities are ready.
District No 80 Charney Wells quarantined for scarlet fever. Earl Nutter and Will Kelly visited Albia Friday. The fifth and sixth geography class had an exam on Great Britain Tuesday. Mr Otis Allen and Warnke family hosted Sunday gathering. Mr Deems ill last week and Kermit Warnke assisted. Will Kelly and family visited Earl Nutter’s family Sunday. New sandbox reference table praised for seatwork use.
Mr. Kolb died Friday evening at his daughter Mrs Kate Blake Frank Martin has been ill but improving and little Jackie Justis is mentioned. Joe Hoxie and crew finished plastering in Fairbury and moved to Washington. Baptist Sunday school classes will entertain on Christmas Eve at the Baptist building. The R N A held their officer election last Friday afternoon. Juniors met at the Froehlic home last Friday and enjoyed a lively evening. Miss Zola’s birthday was to be observed the following Sunday.
See Borderland at the Steele City Lyric Theatre on Saturday night featuring Agnes Ayers in a live performance.
On a Friday night a man slipped on orange peel finishing head injury. He found a paper underfoot and realized it was a book cover titled You Never Know Your Luck.
Auction notice for 520 acres three miles south of Hollenberg Kansas to be sold December 16 1924. Hollenberg State Bank will show the place at any time. For particulars contact Praise Realty Company Bremen Kansas or Clyde B. Scott Auctioneer.
A stone resembling the leather sole of a shoe was found embedded in Triassic rock in Nevada. Geologists and paleontologists debate whether it is a freak of nature or a fossil, with claims it mimics a worn shoe and may challenge accepted ages of the rocks. The specimen prompts questions about ancient human activity or misdated Triassic ages.
The Sears Roebuck Agricultural Foundation chart shows major U S exports by country. The United Kingdom leads in consuming American fatin exports and buys the most cotton, wheat flour tobacco corn and condensed milk. Germany buys about 1 011 614 pounds of cotton last year.
Local ad lists household items including dishes for sale at Read Bros. in Fairbury. The notice mentions stock and pricing with limited readable figures and entries.
A fragment references a very delicate piece of apparatus named Weleh used for divining the earth’s mysteries. The note hints at experimental tools and methods in antiquated research.
State Line Lutheran Church lists regular German services every Sunday at 10:30 a m and Sunday School one hour earlier English services alternate Sundays at 7 p m The next English service is Sunday December 4 led by Rev W Lobsien pastor.
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