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Newspaper
Steele City Standard
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1899
Page
3
An official notice outlines daily office hours with varying start times. The schedule shows evening and weekend timings, noting different closures and service windows. It references O. L. Fowsen, P.M. as the responsible postmaster.
District Court notes a schedule listing hearings on April 7, June 15 and October 11 in 1399 with Judge C.R. LeTros. County Court holds regular sessions on the first Monday of each month under Judge C.C. Bexuk.
Lodge communications list meeting nights in Steele City area bodies A F and A M K of P Modern Woodmen and Knights of Columbus with times and officers. Includes visit invites and weekly gatherings for Drethren and members, upcoming dates and clerical notes.
Steele City Lodge No 151 of the I C C F holds weekly meetings in the G A R hall. Visiting brethren are invited to attend, with J. W. Veves, N. G., and Dd A. KvaGssBE, Sec, listed as officers or organizers.
The text lists monthly meeting times for Steele City W C U and Degree of Honor with presidents and officers, plus the Rice Post No. 14 G A R schedule. Meetings occur on the second and fourth Saturdays at 7:80 p m, with marching comrades to be entertained.
Ladies Aid meets every second Thursday afternoon. The first Sunday in January and Banday Sohoo! hold gatherings. Sunday at 10 a m. A L Blakchley Superintendent Chasawa Ase Superintendent Prayer every Friday at 8:00 p m Rav B Bexar Pastor.
The notice lists worship times with a pastor Rev EB Su Tu. Prayer meeting occurs on Thursdays at 2 30. Sunday services begin at 10:00 a m with a Sunday school and Sunday service times on alternating Sundays at 12 00 a m and 7 38 p m.
Preaching Sundays at 11 00 a m and 1 30 p m. Pastor H H. Aveny leads prayers every Tuesday evening at 7 30. Ladies' Aid Society meets every Wednesday. Sunday school held every Sunday at 12 M. Superintendent A T Pablp s directs activities.
An unclear OCR fragment notes Sunday evening gatherings at TheMedia and Baptist churches. It mentions a half hour event, but details and dates are missing, leaving the overall schedule and participants uncertain.
Educational notice lists Principal W H Converse heading the intermediate department with placements in the primary department Mise Vida Chancellor. Mentions vacations for meals scheduled in June July and August.
The Steele City market lists Wheat at 50 cents and Corn around 200 cents per bushel with rye noted. Hog prices range from 3.25 to 3.50 and pork from 1.50 to 2.50 per unit, with slight variations noted by A. Hawley and A. Phelps weekly corrections.
Frosty mornings and town chatter fill the column with property ads and shifts in residences. Listings include Pine Creek market invoices, shipments to St. Joe, hardware specials, dress goods at Musser, and a notice from J W Peres about debts. A fatal lightning strike south of town is reported, with no name provided.
Hon George D Meiklejohn Assistant Secretary of War will speak at a Republican meeting in Fairbury Saturday evening November. He will argue against Bryanism and defend McKinley with a call for all Jefferson county voters to attend and hear a speaker close to the President.
An array of early 20th century ad blurbs tout Buckien Arnica Salve and Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, claiming cures for sores and aches. The piece also reports Judge Letton’s brief Jefferson county court session in Fairbury and related local political commentary.
A fragmentary British colonial notice highlights Captain C. E. Dennison as a commander famed across Africa, praises Chamberlain’s Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy sold by RT. Taylor, and urges votes for Hon. John S. Stall for judge with endorsements of his fairness and fitness, urging support for Letton and Stull.
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