Local notes report weather and community events in 1909
Snow and cold persist with slow Grand Island line trains and late arrivals. Local fair at Congregational church profits, births and marriages, new hotel and livery man makes good, and farmers from Idaho visit for Christmas with produce.
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Grand Island
Heirs of General Sevier May Share $300 Million Claim
Jasper Sevier of Steele City area is among heirs who may receive part of a $300 million payment the U S government reportedly owes the Sevier family. The claim stems from lands ceded after the Revolutionary War in Tennessee, North Carolina and Alabama. The government valued the lands at 8 447 594 dollars with six percent interest, and later returned much of the terrain to it.
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Jasper Sevier
Steele City
United States
John Sevier
Sevier
Tennessee
North Carolina
Alabama
State railway commission to sue Rock Island for full crew violation
The attorney general will sue Rock Island Company for violating the full train crew law by running trains numbers seven and eight with insufficient crew. The defendants include Superintendent Brown and Trainmaster D Burley. Penalties include fines from 100 to 1000 dollars for the men and for the railroad as applicable.
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The
State Railway Commission
Rock Island Company
Brown
D. Burley
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