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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1913
Page
4
A damaged fragment shows a November 26, 1904 date and Steele City Nebraska, mentioning second class mail and a congressional act. The garbled text prevents full extraction of action or authority but indicates a postal or legal notice surrounding mail service.
The item lists September 5 1913 church services with Sunday school at 10 am and preaching in the evening. It also includes an odd page ad for the Lincoln State Journal touting a special one dollar rate to January 1 1944, plus a testimonial about Chamber Cough Remedy from Tipton Iowa and a local drugstore sale mention.
Local items report C W Slaughter at the state fair and Edgar Walbarn in a Lincoln bakery. Misa Theressa Jones attends Peru school. Mrs Tuma visits town. Maude Slaughter returns from Fullerton. Labor Day attendees from Fairbury. Bertha Smith visits in-law family in Swett. Katie Jones resumes teaching at Broken Bow. Walt family visit in Guide Rock. Glenn Wells visits grandparents Beach. Laws moves to Charlie Reynolds property. Woods family moves from Auburn.
Ida Hollenberg and Pillow of Elwood visit the Nation family. George Parks left for Idaho for work. J W Nation visited Steele City. A dance is set for Saturday at the opera house. Frank Rose and George Park rode to Washington by motorcycle. Davie went to Phillipsburg to see his sick brother F M. School closed a week for cleaning and repairs. Ed Wilkinson and daughter Lillian of Irwin visited. The M E Sunday school held an ice cream supper last Saturday evening with good attendance.
A sample of feterita, a new drought resistant plant, is shown at the office. It resembles kafir corn but grows larger and yields more. It adapts to dry climate and reportedly tolerates drought better. Milt Jennings, Mr. McNish, A. S. Bower and others have a lot of it this year.
A letter from William Pearson dated August 21 1913 from Boise Idaho describes three weeks in the city with friends and relatives from Steele City. He notes local irrigation wealth fruit crops and land prices ranging from 200 to 1000 per acre with 300 typical. He details visits with Colonel Marsters Elias Ames and others and reports on harvest threshing season autos streetcars and social life including a digression about local liars and Nebraskans perceptions.
Record drought year in Oklahoma shows rainfall under wi inches. Feterita grown with kafir and milo yielded 50 to 85 bushels per acre, while kafir and milo produced 10 to 25 bushels per acre. Feterita offers the same feed value for all stock and poultry as kafir or milo.
A caller reports that Bobby was kept after school and asks Miss Adair for the reason. The teacher reveals she found Bobby using a pocketknife to cut plug tobacco, explaining the incident.
The manager notes difficulty in recalling players who performed all winter as they struggle to adapt to nine innings after a four act show. He warns it is hard to get them to switch from stage fare to long baseball outings.
Mrs. C. J. Martin of Boone Mills Virginia writes she suffered five years with stomach trouble yet after taking three bottles of Chamberlain’s Tablets she is a well woman weighing 168 pounds. She says she can eat anything and feels better than in ten years and invites locals to vouch for her. Chamberlain’s Tablets are for sale by dealers.
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals decision in Egghorn vs Smith held that deposited rock and earth, during double tracking work, became realty passing to foreclosing purchaser. The case noted a five year delay in claim, vegetation growth, and material property status as realty rather than personal property. Diarrhoea remedy advertises Chamberlain's Coke Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with cure claim.
Silver nickels and cents totals 896.00 490.78 8 071.76 giving 52376.06 cash. Commission expires April 30 1919.
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