Harbine News Items Highlight Local Happenings
Beatrice caller Roy Diller and stock shipments by Will Camp and Wm Germer mark recent activity. Pauline Thompson on convalescent list due to heart trouble. Baptist Easter program planned March 31 with lunch. Harbine seniors and residents attend varied events. Blue Valley ministers to visit March 15 at Baptist church. Carpenter farewell reception and relocation to Sabetha noted. Red Cross day highlights hospital shirts and trench pillows. School notes include new pupils Lydia and Clara Wolters and upcoming St Patrick party notices.
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Roy Diller
Beatrice
Will Camp
Wm. Germer
Pauline Thompson
The
Baptist Sunday School
Martin Mudrow
Beatrice High School
Harbine
Henry Wolters
Edith Flagg
A. D.smalley
G. F. Kroetsching
Wm. Bishop
Ruth Crain
Wilma Kroetsching
Wymore
Blue Valley Association
Baptist Church
Mar. 15Th
J. R. Carpenter
Carpenter
General Red Cross
Lydia Wolters
Clara Wolters
Harbine School
Holland
Fred Arnold
Martin Parker
Willard
Floyd Thompson
School boys plan to organize a Boy Scout Club
The article notes that students at the school are talking about forming a Boy Scout Club this week, signaling youth activities and growing interest in organized scouting among the pupils.
Diller Public Schools Front News and Wartime Activities
Diller Public Schools report eighth grader Ruby Hilder Hazel Fisher started in eighth grade. Rev Wagner visited grades and spoke in the first primary room. Measles disrupt classes with several grades out. teachers fill in as best as possible. The Junior class will present All Of A Sudden Peggy at the opera house March 22 with tickets 25 and 35 cents. Mr. Bresnahan joins staff replacing Mr. Reeve after his resignation. he is a Chicago University graduate and former National Guard member. The Sweet Family musical is set for Friday evening March 15. A wartime morale piece urges readers to plant gardens and support troops, including a call to write the National War Garden Commission for its home gardening manual.
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Diller
Peggy
Opera House
W H. Bresnahan
Reeve
Bresnahan
Chicago
Sherman
Europe
Shell
Steel
Freedom
Guardon
National War Garden Commission
Washinon D. C
Seed Corn Drive Urges Immediate Action Across Nebraska
Nebraska state guidance urges farmers to secure seed corn now for this year’s planting. Some counties report surplus while others rely on outside supplies. An embargo on shipments remains until March 16 to prevent shortages, with county councils and local leaders asked to assist in meeting demand and aiding neighboring states.
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Nebraska
State Council of Defense and Agricultural College
State Council of Defense
County Boards of Commissioners
Farmers’ Organization
Nebraska State Council of Defense
Change on the Streetcar Twist
A passenger offers a one dollar fare by a five dollar bill after the conductor cannot break a dollar. The conductor changes the five into a two dollar bill, forty five cents in change, and a two dollar and fifty cent gold piece, totaling four dollars and ninety five cents.
Livestock Prices at South Omaha Markets
Broad demand lifted cattle and sheep prices at Union Stock Yards Omaha on March 13. Large runs of cattle, hogs, and a big sheep and lamb intake produced higher or steady quotations with prime feeders and lambs leading gains. Cattle sold mostly steady to higher. hogs weaker. sheep and lambs 10% higher than Monday.
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Union Stock Yards
Omaha
Neb
Livestock Market Prices for Lambs and Ewes
The listing shows lamb prices: lambs shorn 12.50 to 14.00, yearlings 12.25 to 14.75, feeders 12.00 to 14.25, wethers 11.00 to 13.00, ewes 11.25 to 12.85, breeders 10.50 to 16.50, feeders 10.50, culls and canners 5.00 to 7.25. Also lambs at 15.50 to 17.00.
War Savings Stamps Echo British Thrift Drive
The text praises British and domestic efforts to fund the war through Savings Stamps. It notes that English people bought five billion dollars in stamps in the past year and that thrift boosted savings bank deposits by over 100 percent.
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