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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1913
Page
1
Mr Goodman invites readers to donate through The Review to help 1500 poor Omaha children enjoy Christmas Day. Support Miss Maggee and the Omaha Daily News effort. offerings delivered to the Revenw office become receipts with printed names. Do it now to share peace on earth.
Building committee invites bids to complete the M E church at Potter Nebraska. Bids to be opened January 2 1914 at 2 p m. Committee reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Plans and specifications by Wm MacAdam C W Jonson Grant Brady Fred Nelson Advt committee.
A foot of snow and rain improve alfalfa and grain outlook and ground conditions for next year. Mr and Mrs Momer Sickles away as son Beldon accidentally started a fire while rebuilding a tire, but neighbors helped save the house. Miss Birdie Muler hosted a Thanksgiving dinner for Miss Baldwin with guests Mr Pain Ralph Darnell Harvie Darnell and Miss Gladys Kelly. Miss Gladys Perkins visiting sister in Torrington.
Trena and Richard Schmidt return to school while George Petersen enters the high school. Prof Stevens and Misses Dur lin Stewart McFadden and Osborne are set to attend the Association in Sidney tomorrow.
The village of Minatare awarded the water works construction contract to J. S. Schwartz of Colorado Springs for 13472 dollars at a meeting held last Saturday night.
A young man asks how to edit a paper, but the editor declines, saying he is busy and only the editor. The scene highlights the divide between eager readers and seasoned newsroom roles.
Alvin Coates, age 16, of Potter, seeks farm work arranged by month.
H L Challburg endorses a combined water and electric light works proposal for the town and urges adding a creamery or cheese factory. He pledges to donate an acre of land for an ideal site, noting that proximity would lower costs by sharing power, light, and water supplies for a lasting local enterprise.
The state university announces a winter course for busy people running January 6 to February 17, 1914. Enrollment costs four dollars, boarding and rooming range four to eight five dollars per week, with total costs not exceeding forty dollars. The principal notes Nebraska’s prosperity depends on educated farmers and the course aims to boost agricultural profitability and rural permanence.
The Ash Grove schoolhouse hosts a Christmas Program and Box Supper on Tuesday evening December 16 at 7 30. Ladies are asked to bring boxes and all are welcome to attend.
The Lincoln Highway project is hailed as the second direct ocean to ocean route, with Nebraska holding the largest mileage among the thirteen states it passes. About 450 miles of the 3000 in Nebraska will be built, including towns like Fremont Columbus Grand Island Kearney Lexington Gothenburg North Platte Ogallala Big Springs Chappell Sidney Potter and Kimball. Citizens are urged to contribute funding, with certificates available at the Potter State Bank and a target of 125000 to be raised by next July, or money returned.
A local school schedules a Christmas program Thursday evening December 18 at the M E church. The program includes songs recitations play candle drill dialogues and various class performances featuring students such as Maynard Griffin Lillian Brady Edna Lafferty and Roy Jacobson among others.
A formal resolution proclaims the Lincoln highway as an ongoing memorial to Abraham Lincoln. The text urges swift construction progress and aims to unite patriotic sentiment, stressing low-cost fitting memorial status and nationwide appeal.
The Epworth League will entertain at the M. I. church tonight at 7:30 for a good old social. Attendees are urged to come with a desire for a good time and will likely enjoy it.
L M White and Nels Thurston travel to Potter while Thurston attends the county commissioner meeting in Sidney. Henry Walsh clears snow on roads. A sleigh accident occurs near White's place after drifting. John Walsh shoots 16 rabbits and buys hay. Feed scarcity and travel from Herdon to Potter noted. Potters praised as ideal town of southwest Nebraska amid heavy snowfall.
The Philomathian Society and the Hill Top Club meet every other Friday after noon at the schoolhouse. Watch for announcements in this paper.
Catholic church schedules services in the hall on the fourth Saturday at 10 a.m. Additional notices are issued periodically.
The Omaha Daily News profiles Simon Fishman, treasurer of Cheyenne County, who moved there at 22 with little money. He now owns two stores and over 2000 acres valued around 40 to 50 dollars per acre. A Russian Jew, he declined to run for state treasurer amid county work, operates farmland by tractor, and notes over 1,000 tractors in Cheyenne County. He attended the state county treasurer association meeting, of which he is president.
Nebraska is called the state without a mine yet it contributes to US mineral output via clay pits sand and gravel quarrying mineral waters sand lime brick and pumice. Pumice leads US production with Parker noting Nebraska’s near monopoly and 1912 clay pits accounted for most value of the state’s minerals. Ads note Kimball photographer and barber services appear amid the bulletin.
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