Nebraska Notes From the Genesee and Nearby Towns
Local notes report new officer elections in Forby Rifles at Geneva with Lt Ralph Bringamin elected captain. Wayne Nebraska forms a Speed and Fine Stock association with 15000 authorized capital. Fires destroy a twelve ton haystack at Decatur. Beatrice sees youthful robberies. no arrests yet. Western Bees organize in Beatrice with strong early membership. Bradshaw Bank has 5000 capital, deposits over 125000 and loans near 100000. Bond vote on a 20000 school building passes 149 to 11. Nemaha bottoms landowners form a drainage district at Falls City. Henry Krumwelde saloon robbed in Dakota. a hole sawed in door. $4 in cash and liquor taken. Albion water shortage spurs a new well. Beatrice park fund bequest of 15000 accepted. grounds committee named. West Point to refund 7000 city hall bonds issued in 1900. T N Newkirk of Brooklyn ships 20 draft horses from Blair. average 1400 lb at 135 each. Brown County crops surge. seven steam threshers run. corn and small grain records. Alma resident Robert Vermillion injured in sand bank cave-in. debris saved his life. Will Heice kicked by a colt, badly injuring face and teeth. Sheridan County prospers with many land seekers and rising sales. Wood River preparing to feed many sheep. alfalfa excellent and corn looks favorable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Krumwelde
Dakota
Albion
James Charles
Beatrice
West Point
Attorney General Seeks Writ On Reserve Fund Taxes
Governor Mickey via Attorney General Brown petitions for a writ of mandamus to compel Douglas county clerk Drexel to enter on records the assessed valuation of the Woodmen of the World and Woodmen Circle reserve funds. Values: 407 330 and 40 177, each one fifth of real value. case to be heard when court reconvenes in September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mickey
Brown
Mandamus
Drexel
Douglas County
Woodmen of the World
Woodmen Circle
State Board of Equalization
Supreme Court
Lumber Trust Exposed as Grain Dealers Link Urged
Farmers Grain Dealers assist in gathering evidence to prove a lumber trust exists in Lancaster County. A Lincoln grain dealer predicts suits will reveal the lumber business mirrors grain schemes with an inside ring profiting while small dealers stay protected. He adds Omaha dealers dispute scalper charges and notes the attorney general will use Lancaster evidence to pursue the trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Grain Dealers Association
Lincoln
Lumber Association
Godfrey
Lancaster County
Lancaster
Nebraska Open Season Sets Prairie Chickens and Waterfowl Rules
Nebraska Prairie chicken and kindred birds open for hunting now through November 30. Waterfowl may be shot until April 15, jack snipe and related birds May 15. Limits include ten prairie chickens in September, ten wild geese or brant and twenty five game birds daily, with possession caps. Nonresident license is ten dollars and resident one dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Governor appoints delegates to farmers congress in Richmond
Governor Mickey announces a large list of delegates heading to the farmers congress in Richmond Virginia from September 12 to 22. The roster includes TW Leeper Victor Nelson L L Young Otto Uhling Andrew Beckman William Miller J R Force William Nesbit Samuel Storey and many others from cities such as Omaha Lincoln Cedar Rapids Tecumseh and York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mickey
Farmers’ Congress
Richmond
TW. Leeper
Victor Nelson
Otto Uhling
Andrew Beckman
William Miller
Oakland
William . Nesbit
Samuel Storey
Joseph Hall
0. M. Henig
M. W. Blue
J. P. Latta
C. A. Witherell
W. B. Newton
Tekumah
W. W. Everett
C. W. Babcock
A. J. White
Lyons
William Ernst
D. L. Robb
Tecumseh
A. E. Burnett
A. T. Peters
Li. W. Perin
Lincoln
Joe Young
Thomas Mortimer
Madison
Joseph Davis
Cedar Rapids
Jd. Primrose
Primrose
Wausa
Henry Pitkel
York
P. M. Morse
Brainard
Lee Smith
de Soto
Hugh F. Mcintosh
Alda
Wm. E Baker
Valentine
G. Eb.riceker
Ashland
George Meisner
Shelton
A.C. Donalson
Stromsburg
L. Dennis
Cokeridge
A. J. Kramper
Dakota City
P. O. Avery
Humboldt
Levi Diltz
Almond Anderson
Wakefield
John Bowee
W. J. Freeman
Andrew Young, Jr
J. B. Helen
ae W. _Patterson
Craig
Mel
Plummer
M. Rogers
McCook
Wm. Leary
M Winder
Tilden
T. C. Carter
Blair
M. R. Dutcher
Plainview
H. E. Heath
George W. Hervey
Omaha
T. M. McClure
Elk Creek
Wm.’ Kneeland
Sterling
A. H. Johnson
M. B. Kellogg
Creighton
George ©. Noble
H. A. Talcott
Crete
Joe Mason
Joe Holt
Laurel
Frank Davey
Jackson
R. E. Graham
Brunswick
R. R. Stouffer
South Omaha
R.M. Alien
Ames
C. C. Turney
Ceresco
Wm. Brown
Big Spring
W. G. Whitmore
Valley
John Amsberry
Mason City
Charles Thompson
West Point
Elijah Filley
Reynolds
A. B. Clark
Wayne
E. C. Hill
R. Allen
Dawson
Meiklejohns Plans Large Oaxaca Venture
The Mexican Herald reports George D. Meiklejohn, former acting secretary of war, aims to raise high grade stock at an Oaxaca plantation. He plans to form a company to acquire about 80 000 acres, with partners joining on a return trip to Mexico in five weeks. The venture will focus on cattle breeding and general agriculture, leveraging fertile tropical land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
George D. Meiklejohn
United States
Oaxaca
Mexico
Plans Set for State Teachers Annual Meeting in Lincoln
The executive committee of the state teachers association met in Lincoln to finalize plans for the December annual conven tion. Lecturers include George Crampton Concert Co Dr George E Vincent Chicago University Dr J B DeMotte Chicago Dr C O White Ypsilanti Mich Efforts aim to add James Whitcomb Riley and E A Ross Nebraska. Enrollment expected to rise over past years with statewide reports. The committee also assists the state superintendents and principals association with its October Lincoln meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
George Crampton
George E. Vincent
Chicago University
J. B. DeMotte
Chicago
Ypsilanti
Mich
James Whitcomb Riley
E. A. Ross
University of Nebraska
E. R. Rouse
State Superintendents’ and Principals’ Association
Felebety
The Ideal Wife and Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
A vintage advertisement extols healthful wives as central to family life and civilization. It praises Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a universal cure for female ailments, citing a testimonial from Mrs. Bessie Ainsley of Tacoma Washington and urging readers to seek free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
America
Bessie Ainsley
South 10Th Street
Tacoma
Wash
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Ainsley
Lydia FE
Pinkham
Pinkham Laboratory
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Debraska
Forby Rifles
Geneva
Ralph Bringamin
Wayne Speed and Fine Stock Association
Wayne, Neb
A. N. Heath
Decatur
Order of the Western Bees
State Bank of
Bradshaw
Nemaha Bottoms
Court House
Falls City
Brooklyn
Washington County
Brown County
Robert Vermillion
G. T. Vermillion
Alma
Will Heice
Burt County
Sheridan Countty
Wood River
Nebraska News
INGS
C. W
Mandamuses
Serve Fund
Lumber Trust
Meiklejohn
E. Pinkham
Pany ‘Mabor
DE Laval AM
Grae Ty
St. Louis
LAVAL
DE Laval Separator Co
Randolph & Canal Sts
Cortlandt Street
New York
Jabastineg
Grand Rapids
Water St
N. Y
W.L. Douglas
W. L. Douglas
Dougls Smoes
Gene
Brockton
Mass
Uglas
Douglas
Tus R. Paxton
Boston
Mase
W. N. U. Lincoln
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