29 Dec 1916
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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1916
Page
1
Numerous notes from Steele City and surrounding towns report visits kept, travel, and small events. Residents including Elmer Barber, Beulah and Elsie Babcock, Fern Barber, and Ed Thrapp Bruce Harris are mentioned with family visits, teaching duties, and holiday trips.
Prices for the home talent play A Texas Ranger to be shown tomorrow night are 35 25 and 15 cents Children under 15 pay 15 cents L R Justis and family from near Wray Colorado visit relatives around Hollenberg Mr Justis has farmed in Colorado for two years and is thriving Mrs Frank Lenker and children who stayed with Mr and Mrs Zweifel for four weeks left Tuesday for Gooding Idaho
Ray Barber announces daily fresh oysters in a rock supply and invites orders a day ahead. Word arrived last Saturday that Mr. Y. Musser died in Ingleside Hastings and his body was shipped to Washington Kansas for burial. Mrs Musser returned from Mount Vernon Washington to attend the funeral.
C. T. Clark began a crew to cut ice and fill his ice house on Thursday. If weather stays favorable, about 300 tons will be stored for next summer. Ice runs from .74 to 9 inches thick and is good quality, cut in the river bed north of the west bridge.
All schools in the community are on vacation this week. Congregational church services next Sunday include Sunday school at 10 am and preaching at 11 am and 7:30 pm. Morning sermon: Things to Leave With the Old Year. Evening sermon: Things to Strive for in the New Year. Everyone is welcome.
The notice requests all individuals indebted to Van Orsdol and Crane to settle their accounts promptly by cash or note. An early settlement is appreciated.
A state farm survey shows the top five flocks earning 247, 154, 153, 107 and 104 dollars per 100 birds while the poorest earned 67 down to 15 dollars. The survey concludes every flock was profitable and urges keeping records to know exact profits. Blanks for record keeping are available from the University of Nebraska poultry department.
C L Day publisher of San Luis Obispo told the California Press association in San Francisco that 800 country papers in the United States had suspended publication since newsprint prices rose after the European war began. The Booster of Bruning Nebraska announced its final issue last week.
The Steele City Telephone Co held its annual stockholders meeting at the opera house parlor. Reports show a good business gain over 1915 and a prosperous outlook. Directors discussed rebuilding plans and allocating about 2000 to 8000 dollars for work next year.
A cryptic fortune fragment hints at a linkage between fae and sand interpreting common poetic connections. The line appears garbled, offering no clear event or named entities for deeper reporting.
A resident asserts there are handsome public baths in Kansas City while a country cousin interrupts with a sighting of a passing motor cycle with a side car and quips about one of the bathtubs departing.
Reed Ellermeier visits Lincoln this week with his father. He expresses sincere thanks to friends and supporters who voted for him in the auto contest. Fern Barber reports about fifteen couples dancing at the opera house in Steele City, organized by local young ladies with music by the Shepherd Brothers orchestra.
Advertisement notes Chamberlain's tablets are excellent for constipation. They are pleasant to take and mild in effect. For sale by all dealers.
Jacob Cook and daughter Jemnie returned Tuesday from a months visit in Richardson county. A sister and nephew accompany them and plan to travel west into Western Kansas in a few days. Meanwhile the Dakotas endure one of their worst snowstorms in twenty years with reports of up to 17 inches, accompanied by blizzard conditions.
When nervousness is caused by constipation, take Chamberlain's Tablets for quick relief and better digestion. For sale by all dealers.
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