Steele City and Fairbury Notes Update from May Gatherings
Local items report notables visiting from Blue Springs and Fairbury, a W R C delegate chosen for Cleveland, farm activity including cattle and hog shipments, a new barn being built west of Steele City, and a Steele City school board hiring Wymer as principal at fifty dollars a month with two teachers at thirty dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steele City School Board
Prof. Wymer
Endicott
Amy Reynolds
Leila Craig
Charley Gaisford Jr Returns from Oklahoma Land Filing
Charley Gaisford Jr returned Sunday evening from Oklahoma where he filed a homestead on land formerly entered by Albert Cully of this place and secured a relinquishment from him.
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Charley Gaisford, Jr
Oklahoma
Albert Cully
The B and My rail service runs sleeping and dining cars
The report notes that The B and My lines have been operating both sleeping and dining cars on all trips.
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The
Injury at Work when Pully Struck Nelson
Thos. Nelson suffered a facial cut requiring stitches after a pulley struck him during wiring work. A group of workers were tightening telephone lines when one wire broke and the pulley swung into his face.
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Thos
Nelson
Girl Bitten Twice by Family Dog on Grandmother's Farm
Miss Bee Bell twelve year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Alex Bell was bitten twice Tuesday evening while playing with a dog at her grandmother Mrs Maria Green's residence located 44 miles southwest of town. The family had little fear of any further injury.
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Miss Bee Bell
Alex Bell
Maria Green
Beatrice Chautauqua and community notices featured
W. M. Riddle drove to the county seat Wednesday. W. F. Wilson of Odell feeds 280 head for July markets. Beatrice forms a permanent city music department. J. W. Sutton and family visited Steele City. The Woman's Aid Society will host an ice cream social on June 1. Frank and Nelsons relatives visited Endicott. A Beatrice chautauqua brochure is available. Notices warn not to graze cows on Presbyterian yard. Church trustees issue orders. After July 1 peanuts, fruit and train butcher books will end on the Q system. Aid Society will meet May 18 to plan repairs.
Beatrice Chantanqua Announces 1901 Program and Dates
Beatrice Chantanqua issues a 1901 program featuring a new talent array for a western chautauqua, two week outing from June 2 to July 4 with rail rates within 200 miles. Secretary F B Sheldon, Beatrice Nebraska, offers details. Diller telephone central station move near finish with overhaul and new lines adding twenty to thirty phones and improved service.
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Beatrice Chantanqua
Beatrice Chantanqeua
Nebraska
Kansas
Jane
F. B. Sheldon
Beatrice
Diller Telephone
People’s ‘State Bank
Funeral services for Mrs. Wm. McGowan observed near city
Elid W. T. King of the Christian church officiated Wednesday afternoon at the funeral of Mrs. Wm. McGowan aged 61 who died Tuesday at their residence five miles northeast of the city after an illness of dropsy following grippe. Interment was in Prairie Home Cemetery with many friends riding to the final resting place.
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Elid. W. T. King
The
Christian Church
Wm. McGowan
Peter Boiliot
Is Grippe
Prairie Home Cemetery
Mayor of Diller Sprints Through Endicott in Odd Ride
In Endicott Nebraska on May 11, 1901 a man on a top buggy with a boy on a horse sped through town at high speed past river ford and brush. A farmer mistook them for fugitives and called for halt while noises resembling Dr Fairchild and smallpox rang out.
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Endicott
Boiler Room Workers Protest in Chicago
A fragmented report notes dissatisfaction among workers at a Chicago based factory in Illinois. Attendees claim honesty and experience are undervalued and wages near nine thousand dollars yearly are insufficient. Local authorities were not cited.
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Harry Strokey
J. D. Fanders
D. R. Kelley
Fairbury
Chas. Densmore
City
Plattsmouth
Olive Ballard
Patrice McElwee
Rocky Mountain
Madison Medicine Co
Fred Jeffryes
R.S. Jeffryes
Blue Springs
Sammy Clark
Steele City
Diller Yard
Zook & Son
St. Joe Monday
Ensley Carmichael
J. B. Zook
Ella Zook
Cleveland
Henry Eaton
Thos. Copeland
Marvnville
Pension’ Office
J. O. Blauser’s
A. L. Tristman
Chas. Reinhart
W. C. Frisbie
Diller
H. C. Brock
Fairsbury
Milton Fry
Jeffryes
J. P. Reynolds
Dave Ireland
Hanover
Leslie Batterbaugh
W. H. Hauver
H. E. Green
Diller Lodge, No 183
Grand Lodge
Nebraska City
J. L. Gilmore
Shawnee
J. T. Briggs
Clark Wells
EB. J. Loock
Irving, Kansas
Presbyterian Ladies Aid Sciety
W. M. Riddle
W. F. Wilson
Odell
J. W. Sutton
Woman's Aid Society
Christian Shurch
Frank Nelson Sand
Presbyterian Church
Womans Aid Society
Christian
Endicott, Nebr
Erie
Ieee Manufac
Chicago
Ill
J. Monroe Davis
First National Bank
Nebr
Miss L
Ballard
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