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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1923
Page
1
A rural city paper urges readers to become country correspondents and share local stories. It argues the paper belongs to the countryside as much as the town and asks for cooperative input to print more community items.
The note urges local residents to write weekly letters to keep the community on the map and offer readers more to read. It thanks older correspondents but asks for a dozen more by New Years, offering stamps paper envelopes and pencils to encourage participation.
The Sidney Enterprise is installing a D-sin G intertype typecasting machine in their office, touted as the latest model in typecasting technology.
The forenoon wrought strong winds in a rare Wednesday spell, not lasting long as the afternoon turned still and pleasant. If it had persisted into March or April, residents might have enjoyed days of wind. No harm reported aside from Asa Klenoyer’s radio antenna blown down.
The Ladies Aid will host a bazaar and dinner on Saturday December 8 at the C W Johnson building east of the Potter State Bank. Dinner served 11:30 onward at 40 and 25 cents per plate featuring mashed potatoes, cranberries, apple salad, pickles, buns, butter, pie and coffee. Bring or send articles for display. sale begins at 11. Helpers urged to arrive early. patrons invited.
The Potter high school senior class presents Nothing but the Truth on Monday night December 10 at Leyfang theatre. The three act comedy features a broker's office setting in New York and a Long Island summer parlor with cast including Robert Bennett Byron Pavlat St M Ralston Morris Challburg Dick Donnelly Esther Carlson and Wilma Nelson. Specialties include Tell Me Pretty Maiden by four girls and a male quartet. Tickets 25 and 50 cents with 35 cents for high school students. Showtime 8:00 p.m.
Charles Ray stars in Alias Julius Caesar a First National feature. The comedy drama promises surprising events and broad laughs for audiences who enjoyed 45 Minutes from Broadway. A Toonerville comedy The Toonerville Fire Brigade will accompany the program.
Reminder for the community about the high school stage production of the play Nothing but the Truth scheduled for Monday night. The show promises a strong cast and engaging drama for local audiences.
A petition in Sidney requests Albert N. Mathers be placed on the Republican primary ballot for Nebraska governor. The Sidney Telegraph notes the effort circulating locally to nominate Mathers for the office.
Sunday around 3 50 a m a fire swept through Weyerts burning the dance hall and store building to the ground. Storekeeper HH G Willingham and family were awakened in time to escape with little property. Origin of the blaze and total loss are unknown. hall had been built that spring.
A printer hurries the newsroom as Bilks is declared innocent and a governor-ordered pardon telegraphed. The editor urges calm, directing the headline to read Bilks pardoned with an all‑account of the escape in the print run.
Dalton Delegate reports focal schools reopened Monday after a week’s closure due to scarlet fever risk. Attendance was strong with five absentees excluding quarantined families. No new quarantines. officials believe the illness is checked. Students with colds or illness urged to stay home until recovered.
Friday the Lodge Pole Pharmacy was shut by attachment issued by Judge C F Chambers for the Davis Drug Co of Denver. Sheriff Z W McDahniei and Clerk Coakley O Otten with Deputy J W Billeter seized the store and keys, leaving Lodge Pole without a drug store. In early week Deputy Billeter and County Clerk Olten visited the stock to settle conditions and hoped for a transfer to a party to restore a first class drug store.
Thieves have operated in Dalton for weeks with regularity. Last Friday New Nursey service station entries yielded two tires three tubes and a box of spark plugs. Walford store also robbed for a small cash sum. No clues yet. Residents dread the ongoing thefts and threaten drastic action if it continues.
Orville Griswold of Sidney traveled through Potter on Wednesday and Thursday for Ford business, moving between assignments and meetings.
Potter girls won 23 to 5 and Potter boys 55 to 2 over Dix with Byron Paylat scoring 19, Harold Ball 10, Ideal Lealdale 16, Walter Brady 2, Morris Challburg 6, Bruce Hagemeister 2, Frances Rogers 0. Potter travels to Goodview tonight.
The Potter Review notes urgent holiday card printing advisory. A local supplier reports strong demand for genuine steel dye engraved ecards with envelopes, printing included, priced from 5 to 15 cents per card. They have sold hundreds already and warn orders should be placed soon to ensure timely completion.
M E Church has services next Sunday at regular hours. Both chapters of the Senior League meet in the church basement for a joint session. The evening service features songs and an illustrated lecture. Everyone is invited.
The newspaper thanks contributors C. C. Crowell 3rd, Frank Dvorak, Frank Brady and Q. R. MacAdam of Canada for their recent remittance to the Review.
An advertisement by Frank Brady offers corn shelling services for large or small jobs at reasonable prices. Brady guarantees satisfaction and states he can shell 1500 to 2500 bushels per day.
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