Livestock Prices and Local Transfers Reported
Livestock prices at South Omaha for week ending Aug 9 1920 list transfers of property in Fairbury and surrounding areas with values up to 6500 dollars. A Goertzen public sale is announced on Aug 24. Construction on the Blue River hydro electric plant projects a 200000 dollar cost delivering power to Gage County towns.
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J. Monroe Davis& Son
Abstracters
Fairbury
Nebr
Mamie Shepherd & Hus
Chas. H. Hodges
Endicott
Jesse W. Fouts
Ova J. Mayborn
Stanley B. Williams & Wf
Orville R. Hiner
Jacob F. Goertzen
Rev. J. Fast
Cressman Farm
Jacob A. Friesen
John J. Ratziff
Goertzen
Blue River
Buarneston
Gage County
The Western Sea in Harper's Magazine
Harrison Rhodes writes in Harper's Magazine that the Pacific resembles a calm, aloof ocean with fogs that carry no salt scent. He describes a sapphire, breathless sea on sunny days and contrasts it with the Atlantic’s odor and rotting seaweed.
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Pacific
Harrison Rhodes
Harper’s Magazine
Sunday Market in Gilead Spot Sparks Local Trade Talk
The Omaha Bee notes a shift from Sunday as a day of test to a day of terror for surgeons coroners and police reporters amid Brockmeer couple remarks in Jenpan stations. Locals in the vicinity express interest in selling creas locally to avoid shipping duties.
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The
Omaha Bee
John Brockmeer
Gilead
Jenpan
Friegen Returns to Work at Friesen Store After Vacation
Arthur Friegen resumes duties at the P. M. Friesen store Monday after a two month vacation in California. Mr and Mrs Jacob Reimer of Mead Kansas are visiting relatives here.
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Arthur Friegen
P. M
Friesen “Store
California
Jacob Reimer
Meade, Kans
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Anna Brockmeyer
Mary Behrens
Jansen
Sheriff of
Jefferson Co
Mary Olson
Ned
James
AL Axtell” & Wf
George
Alice A. Staley
Nelson
Sallie M. Wolcott
Rosa Taylor & Hus
William Pearson
West
T’s. Suab
Steele City
Harry O. Hanneman
South Omaha
Western Sea
George Monagh Sons
Jansen Mercantile Co
Mercantile
H. C. Friesen
Jansen Mercantile Company
A. B. Tegley
T. C. Morgan
Fowler’s
Sunkist
Fisher
Fast’s
Jansen Lumber Co
the Quality Yard
Jansen Light & Power
Cotsalt A.J. Thiessen
P. Time Tang
Omaha
Denver
Ioing East
St. Joe
State Bank of
Partic
Philadelphia
Mesha Fairbury
John Weber
Lodi
Califor
Bud Copple
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