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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1913
Page
4
Schoolhouse commencement exercises held with graduates Ethel Mack Ibert Ray Funk and Serre Savage. Farm and household staff listed including Philip Burleigh Delia Slocum and Hired Girl at the Burleigh residence. Local visits, travels, and family news from Steele City and nearby farms.
Gladys Gillett is sick at Geo Parks in Fairbury. A Fairbury caller reported Wednesday. Mrs Cassell visited Steette City last week. Jim Kerr and Guy Henderson were in our town Monday.
State agriculture superintendent William Foster proposes gopher control using lye in runways to deter pests in alfalfa fields. He notes lye on the gopher’s feet leads to death as the animal licks it. The potato method from 1910 uses poisoned potatoes in burrows with careful burial to clear colonies.
Philip Fitzpatrick a cattle drover in Meath Ireland was taken to hospital as a supposed dead man after he collapsed in a field. A funeral was arranged and the body moved to the workhouse near Kells before his brother arrived and learned Fitzpatrick was alive. A cord around the neck had been cut and Fitzpatrick woke three hours after being declared dead.
A light romancing tale recounts how a young man fell for a charming woman living in a suburb. The youth visits frequently and appears reluctant to part from her, despite her father's scrutiny and concern.
A brief, quirky scene shows a young man chatting with an old man, remarking on time and manners. The youth apologizes for overstaying and bids good night as the old man smiles, leaving a moment of quiet humor in the Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt.
The Bureau of Standards has expanded its activities in recent years beyond basic length mass and temperature. Photometry for lighting, photometric apparatus, and color measurement are now widespread in factories. Testing thermometers gas water and electric meters and standardizing optical surfaces and tuning forks show the bureau’s growing role in applied science.
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