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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1912
Page
8
Notice from February 9, 1912 states Gus Dressen has bought the entire stock of harness from Jacks & Cunningham. He promises no price advance due to lack of competition and offers liberal terms and courteous treatment, inviting customers to view the stock.
Sundance resident R O Partlow reports extreme cold and heavy snow. Livestock losses are expected. cattle are offered for free in nearby ranges, with hay and corn costs sky-high. Temperatures dropped to 80 degrees below zero and stayed near zero for weeks, leaving ranges barren.
The grammar department shows 15 pupils enrolled with average attendance 12 and 1 tardiness case. Twelve pupils finished the month without absences or tardies, including Perlie Reynolds Reid Ebermeier Carroll Wilson Pay Clark Mae Green Hallie James Elsie Babcock and Paul and Walter Jacks. Visitors listed include Florence Luhm Jessie Cranes Dan Bracken and Clay.
The library, open Saturdays from 3 to 4 30 pm, offers access to books for 26 cents for three months or 61.00 annually. A large collection of old volumes is complemented by sixteen new books recently added to the shelves.
Ollie Reiber shopped in Steele City while Parker Bros. sawed wood for S. B. Davis. Cecil Nutter of Washington visited Hollenberg on Tuesday. Mrs Chas Barber of Diller and Chas Miller and wife from Wichita stayed several days. Roy Derrick Lyle Derrick Virgil Welch and others from Fairbury visited Tuesday. Rev Salley was unable to preach Sunday due to illness. Fred McKay, working in Beatrice, spent Sunday with family. Geo Crane the huckster from Steele City delivered cabbage Sunday. Roscoe Wilkie Ahlers L L Earhart and R A Hyland visited Fairbury Saturday. Mr Carrel and wife of Edgar Neb spent Sunday with Velma, the liveryman. Ahlers spent Sat and Sun in Fairbury and Steele City, returning Monday noon.
A traveler writes from Fresno praising El Paso for its size and mines from Old Mexico while expressing disdain for much of Texas. He notes diverse train passengers including Negroes Mexicans Chinamen and Greeks and recounts a trip through canyons and tunnels before arriving in Los Angeles and Long Beach for a bath.
A well known doctor propounds a curious theory about aging and politics. He argues that politicians, and the average person, share similarities in temperament and approach as they age, suggesting common patterns across public life and private life.
A Civil War veteran recalls rapid death, gruesome battlefield observations, and flesh wounds that disabled him briefly at Fair Oaks Fredericksburg and Petersburg. He describes a near fatal chest impact at Chancellorsville and the horse's response as comrades carried him to safety.
In a Southern Alabama court a Black man named Mose Tupper faces a life-taking charge. The judge offers free counsel, but Mose declines, asking the matter be dropped due to lack of funds and desire not to waste the court’s time.
A writer in the Army and Navy Journal recalls Little X a popular officer in 1910 maneuvers. He wore cavalry swagger and slept in his spurs. An unpopular lieutenant colonel commands the regiment and tests X, who salutes and asserts he has not had a drink since coming to vamp.
The reflection suggests prosperity hinges on saving for the future. It argues no person is truly prosperous unless they set aside resources. The passage emphasizes prudent financial habits as a marker of well being.
The piece notes that millet accepted steady payments of 200 dollars a month from art dealers in exchange for all his work. He regarded sale prices, even up to ten thousand dollars per painting, as the dealers’ concern while he painted for joy and independence.
A Tokyo compiled list shows 1 018 Japanese worth a quarter of a million dollars or more in the empire. Japan's population is about 51 million with most people poor, yet the ranks of the wealthy have grown from 441 ten years ago to over a thousand, indicating rapid accumulation of wealth.
Soboss-Well notes a quirky literary figure buys a farm and pivots to poultry, keeping over a thousand hens. Pick quips that the writer must be good to fund such a flock, with amused tone about the switch from literature to farming.
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