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Newspaper
The Jansen News
Location
Jansen, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1920
Page
4
The Jansen News is published weekly on Thursdays by J. J. Fast. Subscription costs $1.50 per year. The publisher notes care to avoid typographical errors but does not assume responsibility for them. Entered at the Jansen Nebraska post office as second class matter.
The editor and his family enjoyed roasting ears from the Byron Phelps place in the southwest part of town. The wholesome crop included a nice patch of sweet corn and a well kept garden, and they appreciated the gift and the tasty ears.
The Publicity Committee of the Constitutional Convention will publish the constitutional amendments in Nebraska newspapers to inform voters before the September 21 election. Publication starts the week of August 30.
An earlier report misidentified the Ford from the south in the Harbine crash. The correct driver is Charles Crinklaw, not Azra Loth, and he was driving with Mr and Mrs Loth and four children in the vehicle.
The front of the former Jansen Mercantile Co. Store displays closing out sale bills announcing stock will be cleared in eight days. Despite a small stock, the store will see unprecedented activity as the rapid sale proceeds over seven days.
Mr C W Rohrbaugh plans to occupy newly acquired land along the Blue river near Fairbury next spring and may fish there occasionally. He invites Beach of Bellaire Kansas to join in a summer reunion of the old fishing trio.
O Neill community outlines a program spending about 81000 on city waterworks with extended mains and a 150000 gallon water tower. The Central Power company aims to widen canals at Kearney and improve transmission as part of a regional power expansion including Cambridge. Harvest yields include 74 percent oats per acre near Harbine. Local marriages, visits, and birthday celebrations are noted along with threshing activity and several local residents’ travel and work arrangements.
The closing out sale will begin Friday August 20. Work has been done to arrange stock and advertise to locals and nearby towns. A large staff of clerks is engaged to handle the sale when it starts Friday morning.
Mr H Friesen travels to Wilber Nebraska where an inventory was made for his traded merchandise and he now manages a new business. He plans to move his family there soon and expects Wilber to offer good prospects for a thriving enterprise. The note appears in Garden City Kansas News via Henry D Ens.
The piece describes how cemeteries in Santiago de Cuba hold tombs stacked in cemented tiers with marble slabs and brass rings. It notes Spanish practice of renting plots by term, after which unrenewed graves are moved to a common graveyard to make space for newer burials. Marti and Estrada Palma are honored figures, with Maceo uniquely remembered as a national hero.
Local notes from Reedley California report weather heat a new Stevens car for Jack Friesen, travels and visits among families including the Thiessens Loewens Walls and Fast. Death of George Ens announced to John H Thiessen, birthday celebrations and peach harvest activity noted with Agnes Wall cutting 25 boxes at 10c.
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