Harbine News: Obituary and Local Visits
Word reached Harbine that Jim Dyer of Lincoln died yesterday and will be brought for burial. Local visitors include Aug Kunhter and four children from Idaho, Mr and Mrs Scott Miller from Diller, and Gertrude Mudrow. Chicken pox remains plentiful in Harbine area. Walter Peterson of North Dakota visited. Grant Beam moved to Beatrice. tom Ewing from Lincoln transacts business here. Henry Peters Jr moved onto Paul Sandman farm last week.
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Jim Dyer
Lincoln
Harbine
Aug. Kunhter
Ririe
Idaho
Willem’s and
Gon Lawrence
Shea
Scott Miller
Diller
John Brassch
Free Logan
Gertrude Mudrow
Fairbury
Walter “ Peterson
North Dakota
Grant Beam
Beatrice
Joe Price
Cornelia Lottman
John Huffman
Leslie Nickeson
Tom
Ewing
Henry Peters, Jr
Paul Sandman
Church Activities and League Elections Notice
Sunday School at 10 a.m. Epworth League at 6 30 p.m. Evening service at 7 30 p.m. A League Cabinet meeting Tuesday elected Miss Specht and Miss Wolforth as Fourth Vice President. Eight new members joined last week. Join the church and enjoy the services and a cordial welcome.
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Epworth League
League
Sunday School Drive And Church Week Events
The congregation plans to boost Sunday school attendance next Sunday at 10 am with invitations to absent members. A sermon at 11 am titled Bringing In The Sheaves will seek a churchwide offering for the year. Evening service features Children of God topic as part of Church Week. C E Society gathers at 6 30 pm with Pearl Diller leading. A social at Willis Clark home yields about $5 for the treasury with snacks served.
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General Assembly
Children of the Church
C. E. Society
Mias Pearl Diller
Willis Clark
Omaha speakers promote economy campaign in state
Fifteen people who came to Omaha seven years ago have returned to Poland after amassing fortunes. Sam Cohen in Omaha fell three stories from the David Cole Creamery, picked himself up, lit a cigar, and returned to work. Transfers of real estate in Jefferson County ending March 1 totaled 866,144 dollars according to J Monroe Davis abstractor.
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Omaha
Poland
Sam Cohen
David Cole
Jefferson County
J. Monroe
Davis
Beatrice Express reports defeat of state indebtedness proposal
The non partisan league plan to use the sky as the limit for state indebtedness and to fund socialistic activities like North Dakota was decisively defeated in the constitutional convention.
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Sky
la North Dakota
Beatrice Express
Beatrice Express Notes On Home Purchases And Rural Lands
The Altoona Tribune quotes Beatrice Express discussing a Kansas proposal for a state funded land sale and resale to settlers on easy payments. It suggests such a plan could aid Nebraskans and rural home buyers, comparing to savings and loan success for city residents.
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Kansas
Nebraska
Savings and Loan Association
Beatrice Express
Prehistoric Tree Trunk Found in Iron Mine
In the Hellman iron mine near Taconite Itasca County Minnesota a pine trunk with branches and cones was found. The wood is not petrified and remains sound as if felled recently. This is reported as the first such find on record for the iron ranges.
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St. Paul
Minn
Hellman
Taconite
Itasca County
Minnesota
Mississippi River
Great Iron Ranges
Tax exemption proposal aims to ease unfair property taxes
The Fairbury Journal notes an proposed exemption of the first 200 dollars of personal property, arguing current taxes hit the poor hardest and that collection costs may equal or exceed small taxes. It targets widows and poor families while addressing evasion by the well off and itinerant workers.
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Heasty
Fairbury Journal
The Keokuk Dam and its Giant Hydroelectric Plant
The article lauds Cooper for building the Keokuk Dam across the Mississippi River. It describes a 42 by 29 by 53 foot concrete dam with a 400 by 110 foot lock, a 10 000 horsepower turbine powerhouse, a 850 ton generator, and the largest freshwater dry dock and ice fender. It notes land clearances, roads, and thousands of acres cleared, with litigation in about ten cases and 289 tons of dynamite used. Construction began January 5 1910 and first current reached St. Louis July 1 1913. The plant cost 26 million dollars and powers cities from Portland Maine to Los Angeles California.
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Mississippi
Cooper
Hugh L
Pershing
France
Panama Canal
Waters
St. Louis
Portland
Los Angeles
Cal
Prospectors Seek Hidden Riches in Western Austria Camp
In a rugged Western Austria setting, two prospectors establish a camp near Perth and push toward the trek back as their search for wealth unfolds. One man, Aronsetc Pay Sloe, spots a gleam in darkness near a tent, uncovering what appears to be almost pure gold, marking the start of Covlganile.
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Austria
Perth
Aronsetc
Post Card Travels for Years
Boston, Mass. A postal card mailed July 31, 1906 at Fort Ethan Allen Vermont by Hazel Macy reaches H B Macy of 270 Atlantic Avenue after 18 years en route to his late father.
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Boston
Mass
Fort Ethan Allen
Atlantic Avenue
Fort
Macy
Hazel
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J. S. Taylor, M. D
Globe Pharmacy
Fairbury, Nebr
M. J. Powell
A N. Thoms
Hinds’. Bank
Jefferson Co
J. Monroe Davis
First National Bank
Fairbury, Neb
Col
A. L. Tristman
General Auctioneer
Diller, Neer
Calkins Bros
NEBR
Henry Eden
Odell
H. R. Royle
Bell Phone
Bletzbeck & Hale's Implement Store
Beatrice, Nebr
Diller Record Office
O.C. Diehl
SB. Viers
Diller, Nebr
Diller Veterinary Hospital
Hliet
Waggoner Bros
Methodist
Altoona Tribune
Artmeus
County Library
American Library Association
The
Wonders of America
T. T Maxey
Keokuk Dam
Frank T. Pearce
Diller - Rebraska
Record Office
D. Swift & CO. Patent Lawyers
Washington, D. C
Ford
Sree Pa Dee
C. G. Catlin Co
Fed Sales and Service
Fordson Tractors
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