School Report Notes Absences and Library Addition
Miss Lambertis spends week at Guide Rock home while Misses Hall and Warner stay in Crete. Public school on involuntary vacation this week due to sickness. Miss Sturdevant visits Weston. Carrie Sandman visited Lincoln and Teachers Association sessions. Diller teachers tour Odell and Wymore. Grimes receives Traveling Library of forty volumes for pupils. State Teachers Association in Lincoln drew 4500 teachers. Booker T. Washington gave the address. Board improvements include resealed primary room and gas fixtures in library and corridors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie Sandman
Lincoln
Teachers’ Association
Warner
Hall
Wesleyan University
Doane College
Diller
Sturdevant
Lamb
Grimes
State Teachers’ Association
Booker T. Washington
Board of Education
Old Settler John Friday Found Dead in Steele City
John AH Friday an early Steele City resident and rural mail carrier was found dead in his home Tuesday morning likely from heart failure. He lived alone since September, with a daughter in town and a letter to his son at York Nebraska left on the table. Friday was a Civil War veteran, former postmaster, and member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and Knights of Pythias. He leaves eight children including Mrs Woods and Mrs Beckwith, and his wife died four years ago. Funeral at 10 this morning at the M E church in Steele City, burial in Fairbury cemetery.
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John AH. Friday
Steele City
York
Nebr
Friday
Ife
Ancient Order of United Workmen
Knights of Pythias
Sam Woods
Herbert Beckwith
M. E
Fairbury Cemetery
Grand Island ads promote gas lighting and business college
The notice highlights gas lighting for the assembly room and other improvements. It also showcases souvenir spoons at A D Colman and a fine line of flatware. It urges readers to apply to the Grand Island Business and Normal College Nebraska for bank and office jobs with no fees until graduation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. DD. Colman’s
Grand Island Business and Normal College
Grand Island
Nebr
United States
Local Notes From Sutton Area And Nearby Farm Activity
Rev J Schaedel visited his former Sutton Nebraska home on Tuesday. C A Scoville lists a good milch cow for sale. An exchange reports a farmer visitor asking a boy about his father the boy says he is in the pig pen wearing a bat. L E Blanger plans an 8 by 56 foot hay and cattle barn three miles northwest of town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. E.blanger
Mrs S J Thompson Returns From Fairbury Visit
Mrs S J Thompson came home Monday after a few days in Fairbury visiting her parents Mr and Mrs J B Zook. Farmers discuss fine seed potatoes from Loock’s two years ago and predict another delivery arriving Monday from the same source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. J. Thompson
Fairbury
Mrs. J.B. Zook
Loock
Ian
Cloak Sale Ad and Local Employment Update
The Cloak Sale Monday Loock and Habicht printed two colored sale bills. Clyde Zook visited from Fairbury and reportedly quit his job with the Burlington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Zook
Fairbury
The
Burlington
Photo Gallery Open Saturday's Only Till Further Notice
W. H. Taytern, A. H. Colman and J. D. Fandera returned Sunday from a trip in Colman's auto to Gosper County, this state. Fremont Logan returned Wednesday from visiting old friends in the Barneston vicinity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Taytern
A. H. Colman
J.D. Fandera
Mr. Colman
Gosper County
Freemont Logan
Barneston
Mrs Geo Pickard Returns to Beatrice to Aid Ill Sister
Mrs Geo Pickard came back Sunday to Beatrice to care for her sister Mrs Geo H Bailey who has been ill for several weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beatrice
Geo. H. Bailey
Elderly Grandma Mathias in Poor Health Near Harbine
Grandma Mathias living with her son Frank east of Harbine remains in very poor health. She cannot lie down and spends both nights and days seated in a big chair, according to Harbine cor. Fairbury News.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mathias
Frank
Harbine
Fairbury News
Automobile oils and lubricants offered for patrons
Automobile owners are informed that a selection of Mobile and Calumet oils plus transmission grease is carried at all times and available for patronage. J D Fanders notes the offering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D -Fanders
Land lottery losers from Aberdeen drawing
Jos Stewart and his son Guy of northeast of town participated in the Aberdeen South Dakota land drawing and registered in the national lottery but did not win a number. The event was reported by the Steele City Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jos. Stewart
Town
Guy
Aberdeen
Uncle Sam
Steele City Press
Birthday Postal Card Party For Frank Frisbie
Frank Frisbie received a postal card birthday party at his parents home last Saturday afternoon attended by about twenty five schoolmates who brought cards and an aunt gifted a postal card album. The event featured outdoor games apples popcorn and a general supper. Henry Brandt who moved to Oberlin Kansas three years ago returned via No 16 and recently sold land for ten thousand dollars far below its cost to leave the country and plans to retire near town buying a small tract. The Recap joins others in welcoming him back to Diller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Frisbie
Bert Frisbie
Henry Brandt
Oberlin
Kan
Mr. Brandt
Diller
Sears Retires From Sears Roebuck With Large Fortune
The Chicago mail order firm founder Sears Roebuck retires after seventeen years in business with about 25 million dollars in his account. The article notes he did not sell below cost and that advertising paid off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sears
Sears: Roebuck
Chicago
Ann
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Pickard & Son
Asendorf & Angell
Miss Lambert
Guide Rock
Crete
Flossie Raymond
Addie Miller
Cottner University
Harrison Line
Hart Schaffner
Marx
Sully
Bart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Ahley & Diller
Fairbury, Nebraska
Mui
J. Schaedel
Sutton, Nebr
C. A. Scoville
Diller, Nebr
Dr.o. C. Diehl
Phose
H. H. Beckwith
Chase’s
Odooorol
Odons
Waggoner Bros
Monk
Wyoming
Mondell
Shea Fea Rou
D. Clem Deaver
Land Seekers Information Bureau
Omaha, Nebr
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