Forty Years Ago In Steele City Area Harvests And Local News
Forty years ago this week in Steele City and vicinity: first wheat harvests began led by Will Barton Frank Eick and F D Carr. oats fields headed out and looked fine. Mrs Beckie Hoyt, wife of the Crow Agency Indian agent, visited J B Diller. Steele City did not celebrate the Fourth for the second time in 17 years. Diller Telephone Co set poles toward T P Price’s residence. town poles painted red white blue. Junior Endeavors of the Christian church hosted a picnic at Will Carmichael’s with listed club members. School board elected WC Line and BF Lightner replacing J P Lowe and D W Van Horn. 20 mills teacher fund and 5 mills contract approved. new school building cost $5,558. Other items include potato sales, Beatrice chautauqua attendance, and local visits by residents/in-laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WC Line
BF Lightner
J P Lowe
D W van Horn
Fifty Years Ago in Mathias and Nearby Towns
Fifty years ago Mathias boys donated a pig for the 4th celebration and J Johnny Weers agreed to maiaze the contest. Fanders and Bixby bought a half interest in a Steele City hardware store with Geo Bixby slated to manage. A barn fire west of town burned Hanley’s place after children played with matches. Montana began voting by the Australian system in 1889. Joe Sadle bought corner lots north of the Record office and ran a meat market. Ed Wagenaar closed his hotel where the city hall stands and pursued other business. The Record noted the city had one good hotel, the Commercial. At the school election W H Mathias was reelected moderator. Levies funded teachers, contingencies, and building. $1 per outside scholar was charged. Accidents with horse rigs were common, including a unmanageable horse and a rider trampled foot. A town council special meeting reconsidered a saloon license. remonstrants signed by local residents, but after no attendees, the license was granted then returned, then canceled. The July 4 program was printed with nine toasts, two of them not entirely patriotic.
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J W Handley
A Ballard
F Powell
J A Bodell
I M Kendall
E Wagonar
Gov
Fred W. Arnold
Smithsonian Institute and Nebraskans in Washington
Commentaries recount the Smithsonian endowment’s growth from a private bequest to a $1 8 million annual funding for research and publications. Nebraska Day features the Lincoln Cathedral Choir in rain plagued Capitol rotunda, with tours to Mt Vernon and Arlington for eight Nebraskan singers. The Unknown Man bust in the White House hallway is noted as a long standing mystery.
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Nebraska
Washington
Great Cathedral Choir
Lincoln
New York
Navy Band
Capitol Building
White House
Fourth of July program prompts a speaker to decline
A letter from J. Fouts criticizes the committee on the Fourth of July exercises for assigning him to a toast without permission. He objects to his name being linked to a tasteless, demanding subject, declaring he respectfully declines to respond and informs readers of the misstep.
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Jn Fouts
Outs
Jwf
Nebraska Representative Harold Stevens Visits Capital City
A Nebraska representative from Grant named Harold Stevens visited the Capitol City last week, seeing many sights at the Tidal Basin along the Potomac and attending a fine assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed States
Potomac
Nebraska
Harold Stevens
Grant
Capitol
Love Affair stars Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer at Paramount
Film listings note Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer in Love Affair with added Cartoon and Paramount News. Saturday features The Jones Family in In Hollywood and Gene Autry in Home On The Prairie. News added.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ritz Brothers
the Gorilla
Cartoon
Universal News
Freeview
Buck Jones
Irene Dunne
Charles’ Boyer
Added
Paramount News
Jones
Hollywood
Gene Autry
Also Mentioned on This Page
Will Barton
Frank Eick
F D Carr
Beckie Hoyt
Crow Agency
Montana
J B Diller
Steele City
Arthur Mills
Diller Telephone Company
T P Price
The
Christian Church
Lucile Miller
Ora Zook
Gertrude Lamb
Silva Miller
Daisy Lamb
Ethel Zook
Goldie Miller
Elsie Lamb
Will Carmichael
Henry Henrichs
Ida Bixby
Gladys Irene
Wood River
Samuel Barber
Thos. Copeland
John Zook
Seymour Townemaker
J O Blauser
Dick Hays
Hubbell
Geo Riddle
Hardy
Geo Townemaker
Chautauqua
Beatrice
Elmo Hadley
Raymond Wright
Lightner & Hutchinson
Witty
Beatrice Chautauqua
Fred Clark
Mathias Boys
Andohnny Weers
Fanders & Bixby
Geo Bixby
Hanley’s
Joe Sadle
Jake Henrichs
Ed Wagenaar
W H Mathias
J J Adams
Iera
Frank Powell
Dr. McElwee
Ynaggoner Brothers
Sfuneral
Stovrne
U. S. Capitol
Carl T. Curtis
Smithsonian Institute
Capitol City
Columbia Institute
United States
James Mithson
Smithsonian Institution
Smithson
Duke of Northumberland
Royal Society of Ngland
U.S
Senate
House
Mt. Vernon
Arlington
John Mercer
Red Cloud
Chas. Sandall, Sr
York
Robt. Miller
Holdrege
Max Corey
Alexandria
Catherine Galbarith
Bernard McKean
Fairbury
Erwin Roeser
G. Clayton
Grand Island
Medicinal and Allied Products
Bonham Theatre
Fairbury, Nebraska
Wallace Berry
Tom Brown
Laraine Johnson
Sergeant Madden
Allen
Armour’s Star
Sunkist
Blue Barrel
Kraft
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