Auto wreck claims life of Donald McMillan at 23
Donald A McMillan 23 died in an early Sunday auto wreck on the Lincoln highway near Brownson after a high speed crash from a blown rear tire. His father Archie and Leland Hicks were severely injured. The Ford V-8 left the road, overturned, and struck a telegraph pole. Donald’s funeral was held Tuesday at the M E church in Potter with large attendance from Julesburg and Potter.
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Donald A. McMillan
Donald
Archie McMillan
Leland Hicks
Brownson
Lincoln Highway
Sidney
Union Pacific
Rice
Donald McMillan
M. E
Potter
L. V. Slocumb
Kimball
cMillan
Julesburg
Colo
Hazel Jacobson
Clarence Rogés
Harold Thayer
Clayton \ayer
Slocumb
Ray Arnell
Olos
Junior
Harold
Earl Gilchrist
Gene Schmidt
Richard Juelfs
Clarence Rogers
Nebr
Bidney
Don
Donald Archie McMillan
Archie \{cMillan
Donald Archie
Shelton
Helen Tutt Om
Keren Rae
Martin O'Maley
Chicago
Sara
Marjorie
Bud and
Marvin
Two Men Visit Denver After Short Trip
Lloyd Juell and Lee Hagemeister spent a few days in Denver last week, returning with plans and observations from their trip.
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Lloyd Juell
Lee Hagemeister
Denver
Junior Class Play Staged Tonight at Leyfang Hall
Potter High School junior class presents The Copperhead a Civil War drama at Leyfang hall Friday night curtain at 8 09 admission 20 and 35 cents with good specialties between acts cast includes Joey Shanks Stewart Nelson etc showing strong local student talent
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Potter High School
Josephine Johnson
Leyfang Hall
Randall
Raymond Oeltjen
Kiddies Christmas Program Next Thursday at High School
A Christmas program will be held in the high school auditorium on Thursday evening at 8 o clock. Admission 10 and 20 cents. The program features a skit by The First Grade, a three act operetta by upper grades, and musical numbers by the second through sixth grades. Cast includes Santa Claus Kenneth Schwartz and a long list of child performers with roles and helpers across multiple acts. Santa’s office and Christmas Eve scenes provide timing and festive presentation.
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Robert Johnson
Archie Heimer
Helen Jessop
Sousa
Santa’s Office
Santa Claus
Kenneth Schwartz
Peterkin
Billy Neal
Grouchy
Douglas Reetz
Queen of Roses
Alice Lyngholm
Hattie Sparks
Lynna Stines
Hustle
James Thayer
Nathan
Eric Winn
Robert Slack
Richard Mathewson
Harold Ray Fisher
Delmar Oeltjen
Eugene Royalty
Gertie Iverson
Leota Mae Goding
Helen Harrison
Geraldineforfeld
Carol Cords
Donald Thies
Junior Grothe
Floyd Danielson
Marion Malone
Bernice Schubarth
Harriet Warner
Viola Stormberg
Ruth Stines
Lois Jensen
Billy Shea
Carl Griswold
Christmas Cantata Sunday Evening
The cantata The Worlds Redeemer will be presented next Sunday evening December 17 at Seyfang hall with the High School Orchestra and mixed soloists. A free will offering will be taken after the program which features parts titled He Shall Reign Forever Neath the Starry Heavens Arise and Shine From Lands Afar The Gates of Heaven Unbar The Star of the East Glory to God in the Highest The Song and the Star Christmas Memories He Came to Redeem the World Come Let Us Adore Him and more performed by soloists and choir under Lulu B. Slocumb.
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Seyfang Hall
Marten
Nealth
Hazel Jacobson
Jessie Rogers
Archie McMillen
Augusta Smith
Lulu Slocumb
Viola Mudge
Thurman McMillen
Harold Thayer
Allen Dykeman
Vera Dykeman
Beryle Dykeman
Oscar Redeen
Rambling Through Exchanges: Local News and Notices
A Bridgeport box car break‑in yields stolen sugar sacks. Dalton man Roy Rider jailed for a forged check. A quip on 4 million returning workers and 2,137,000 with jobs. Lincoln highway grading in Devel county near completion. Ogallala driver pleads guilty after a pickup crash, fined. Ford to receive government auto contracts per McCarl. Bridgeport Ice and Storage seeks $15 for cigarettes stolen, $50 for thief arrest. Wyoming stockmen face 15 percent grazing land rent cut. State board remarks on governor and Republicans. Ogallala and North Platte seek veteran Chas. Bankson. Ola Christenson, 70, dies. born in Sweden, moved to Polk then Garden county.
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Wyoming
Ola Christenson
Chappell
Sweden
Polk County
Nebr
Garden County
Frank Paullin Dies in Evanston After Pine Bluffs Life
Frank Paullin, 54, longtime Pine Bluffs area resident, died in Evanston Wyoming. Burial was held in Pine Bluffs. The family moved to Pine Bluffs in 1908 and lived there until last spring. Survived by widow and five children.
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Frank Paullin
Pine Bluffs
Evanston
Wyo
Bushnell teen attempts store robbery at Bogle store
A 16 year old Bushnell boy named Travis tried to rob the Bogle store. He entered the basement then upstairs but fled when the owner, sleeping, began smoking the groceries. He was captured soon after and confessed to the attempt.
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Bushnell
Travis
Bogle
Abduction Suspect Goldie Goldsmith Arrested in Montana
Goldie Goldsmith alias Goldie Morrison, a former Pine Bluff and Cheyenne baseball player, was arrested in Laurel Montana and returned to Cheyenne by Sheriff Carroll. He is named as one of the abductors of Rev John Panos, the Orthodox Greek minister from Cheyenne.
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Goldie Goldsmith
Goldie Morrison
Pine Bluff
Cheyenne
Laurel
Montana
Carrol
John Panos
Pioneer Erastus R. Cole Dies at 64 in Scottsbluff
Erastus R. Cole, 64, longtime North River resident and pioneer, died at his Scottsbluff home. He and his father founded the valley’s first brickyard near Ger ing. His father lives in Los Angeles. His widow and a daughter remain in Scottsbluff.
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Erastus R. Cole
North River
Scottsbluff
Gering
Los Angeles
Methodist Church Notes and Community Update
Pastor B H Murten announces Sunday school at 10 00 a m and Communion at 11 00 a m There will be no evening service to allow attendance at the Christmas Cantata in Seyfang hall The M W A organized Golden Camp No 17416 at Albin Wyoming.
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Seyfang Hall
Albin
Wyo
Brule submits CWIA project for wells and flood control
Brule files a CWIA plan totaling 1015 dollars to sink eleven 16 inch wells for fire protection in town. It calls for 500 feet of hose to reach all buildings. A drainage flood control project and a gravel program covering 30 blocks at 1727 dollars are also proposed.
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Brule
Stormberg Willamine John son closing number
Stormberg presents a closing act titled Three Boys in a Tub performed by Willamine John son. The program concludes with a lighthearted finale featuring the trio engaging in a playful tub skit.
Parton Bob Landon Buried in Edgar Nebraska
Phillip R. Landon known as Parton Bob was buried in Edgar Nebraska. He earned the nickname after reciting a prayer at a funeral along the Overland Trail as a 14 year old. He later became a teamster an Indian fighter and guide. He died at age 87.
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Parton
Bob
Edgar
Nebr
Overland Trail
Phillip R. Landon
December events and local incidents in Geneva Nebraska
A compact listing of community events includes plays, dances, cantatas, and school programs from December fifteenth to December twenty fourth. Also reported are a Bayard burglary with partial loot recovered near Bridgeport, a fatal auto crash in Michigan City involving Eunice Lorena Brown, and obituaries for Julia Hamm Aldrup and related local notes on survivors and family.
Thanksgiving Sunday Farm Aid and Pine Bluffs Service
S W Keller, a Dalton area farmer hospitalized in Aurora for a badly infected hand, enjoyed a real Thanksgiving after sixteen men and eleven wagons finished harvesting his corn. In Pine Bluffs high school auditorium a cross section of groups held Thanksgiving services with Governor Miller present and Carl Sackett delivering the address. County officers from Cheyenne, plus lodges, Legion and Auxiliary, the school band and other groups took part in the interdenominational event.
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S. W. Keller
Dalton
Aurora
Mr. Keller
Pine Bluffs
Wyoming
Miller
Carl Sackett
Cheyenne
Legion
Illa Lafferty Weds Ethan Bowers in Colorado Ceremony
Miss Illa Lafferty daughter of Mr and Mrs Louis Lafferty of Potter announced to friends at the S Sorenson home in Kimball her marriage to Ethan Bowers of Kimball. The wedding took place at Walden Colorado on July 4 1931. The couple kept their engagement secret for two years. Illa grew up in Potter and later worked in S E Torgeson's law office. Ethan, called Happy, finished Kimball High and worked at Grosshaw Lumber then Safeway Stores at Douglas. Best wishes to them.
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Illa Lafferty
Louis Lafferty
Potter
S. Sorenson
Kimball
Ethan Bowers
Walden
Colo
Illa
S. E. Torgeson
Ethan
Kimball High
Grosshaw Lumber Company
Safeway
Douglas
Martin Leafdale Celebrates 85th Birthday at Home
Last Sunday December 10 Martin Leafdale marked his 85th birthday with relatives visiting from Kimball Pine Bluffs and nearby towns. Guests included Mr. and Mrs Erick Anderson and families Mr and Mrs Emiel Leafdale and family Mrs Selma Swanson and sons Melvin and Warren Mrs Emma Olson and Mr and Mrs J R Parrish and child ren. A good supper followed. Mr and Mrs A Leafdale and Edgar came the day before to offer best wishes.
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Martin Leafdale
Erick Anderson
Emiel Leafdale
Selma Swanson
Melvin and
Warren
Kimball
J. R. Parrish
Pine Bluffs
Emma Olson
Leafdale
Edgar
C W A Work Progress This Week in Potter
C W A crews work daily this week on drainage and road projects in Potter. Crews are paid weekly with payments made last Friday by Henry Paviat. Supervision rests with the town board and Alfred Arnell as relief administrator, while Karl Fricke oversees on site, funded by the village. The effort aims to ease local unemployment.
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Potter
Henry Paviat
Alfred Arnell
Karl Fricke
Annual Legion Carnival Next Wednesday
The American Legion plans its second annual carnival at Leyfang hall next Wednesday evening December 20. Highlights include a popularity contest, bingo prizes, geese and turkeys, various games, hamburger stands, and a dance with the Bohemian band of Ord Luckus orchestra. Admission is ten cents at the door plus five cent inside trade cards.
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American Legion
Leyfang Hall
Ord
Luckus Orchestra
Legion
Christmas Program At Methodist Sunday School
The Methodist Sunday school will present a Christmas Eve program at 7 30 p m with songs recitations and exercises by classes from beginners to eighth grade including names such as Betty Lou Harms Shirley Seyfang Ralph Anderson and Bobby Johnson among others the program closes with offerings and a whistling solo by Zada Olivette Sloan.
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Methodist Sunday School
Sunday School
Betty Lou Harms
Peter Hansen
Shirley Seyfang
Donald Enevoldsen
Jean Hagemeister
Lois Hagemeister
Ralph Anderson
Gordon Neal
Kenneth Kaderli
Jimmy Thayer
Charlotte Enevold
Bobby Johnson
Bruce Juells
Zada Olivette Sloan
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Hanna
Pinnacle
WM. Hagemfister Grain Coal
Joey Shanks
Stewart Nelson
Grandma Perley
Rita Miller
Ma Shanks
Opal Heeler
Capt. Hardy
Clifford Herboldsheimer
Milt Shanks
Roland Biggs
Mrs. Bates
Bernice Babcock
Sue Perley
Mary Alice Hughes
Lem Tollard
Earl Anderson
Newt Gillespie
Kinley Herbolds
Sousas Band
Santa’s Air Line
Marilyn Miller
Shirley Royalty
Mable Hadeen
Genevieve Schwartz
Virginia ‘Sparks
Eskimos
Difford Johnson
Marvin McKfillen
June Hicks
Dorothy Walker
Holly Boughs
Elen Connelly
Emma Leafdale
Sophie Fricke
Pearl Mathewson
Delorts
Redeemer
Car Redeen
Alice Hingemeister
Mildred Arnell
Lester Stecher
Lulu B. Slocumb
Mattie Nelson
Lucille Christensen
Viola Miller
Shirley Mayer
Helen Malone
Gladys Smith
Jeanne Nelson
Avis Hill
Vivian Anderson
Alice Morrow
Hdna Vanpelt
Besse Blair
Lorraine Slama
Doris Tutt
Angeline Prince
Elysebeth Goding
Luella Harrison
Catherine Wickhoret
Opal Wheeler
Irma Moench
Alice Hagemeister
Marie Robertson
Alice Carlson
Dorothy Danielson
Maxine Wells
Helen Carlson
Pearl Hicks
Gertrude Nelson
Mrs. Murten
Barbara Whitney
Helen Jensen
la Vonne ‘Vesey
Miriam Reichstein
Margaret Harrison
Laburna Forefeld
Luella McKinney
Wm. Hagemeister
James Coulter
Clayton Mayer
Kermit Nelson
Donald Biggs
Oscar Maedeen
Dean Hagemeister
Virgil Nelson
Donald Erickson
L. J. Hughe
Fred Hruza
Fred Carlson
Duane Lowden
Harry Coates
Tom Fisher Clayton Spencer
Vaughn Jacobson
Keith Schwartz
Harold Wamsley
J. L. Fowler
HEC
Bridgeport
Roy Rider
Myers
Devel County
John Sahling
Ogallala
Warren Fisher
Coptroller
McCar
Ford
Bridgeport Ice and Storage Company
North Platte
Chas. W. Bankson
Methodist Church
B. H. Murten
Copperhead
Firemen
jSeyfang Hall
Santa's Air Line
Lutheran
Skagg
Bayard
Webb
Clark
DeVare
Frank Mark
Eunice Lorena Brown
R. V. Brown
Michigan City
Indiana
Thos. Attey
Camp Clark
Julia Hamm Aldrup
Gus Aldrup
J. F. Hill
Navoo
Ill
Mr. Aldrup
Geneva
Nebraska
Sinila
M. E. Sunday
D. Wills
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