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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1935
Page
5
Nelson transacted business in Choyenn last Wednesday, detailing a routine financial matter and meeting local officials amid routine commerce activity in the town.
Leon Osborn of Sidney was a business caller here last Tuesday. Stewart Nelson, a student at Boulder, Colo, is home for the holidays. Mrs. Ray Mathewson has been helping with work at the bank during Mayer's absence. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kayne left Monday to spend the holidays with their daughter, Mrs. Valeri Schwartz. Harold Thayer, a student at Dana College, Blair, is spending the holidays with his mother in Wim. Helsing recovered enough to be up on Christmas day after several days illness. Harry Witt of Manhattan, Kansas, arrived home Sunday to spend the holidays with friends. Rodney Bertramson, a Nebraska University student, is home for the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. George Marsh of Sidney were Sunday evening callers at the J. M. Hughes home. Want to trade prairie hay for about 30 bushels of dry corn, soon. Enquire at Review office. Miss Zada Olivette Sloan of Kearney and Miss Jeanetta Sloan of Sidney are home for the holidays. Miss Cleo Tourney of Crawford is spending the holidays at the August Schmidt home.
Ralph Robertson drove a bus filled with school children to a free picture show in Sidney last Saturday forenoon.
Potter students at Chadron are all home for the holidays. The list includes the students from Chadron, Wayne State, and nearby towns who are returning to their families for the season.
Avis US names LaVonne Vesey and Catherine Wickhorst among individuals connected to an internal listing. The brief note also mentions Maxine Wells in relation to the same matter, suggesting a related or overlapping involvement in the notice.
Mr and Mrs Bert Christensen are performing chores at the Ray Fisher farm while the Fishers are visiting at Ravenna Nebraska.
School children and faculty enjoy a two week holiday vacation and will resume on the morning of January 6.
The Wim Hagemeister home hosted an annual Christmas day family reunion with Helsing Dean Hagemeister Lee Hagemeister Bruce Hagemeister and Liloyd Juelfs families gathering to celebrate together.
The quarantine for scarlet fever at the Davis home in Potter has been lifted. The Dewey Larson family on the south divide are now under quarantine. This and the Herboldsheim case are the only ones in this community that we have learned of.
Potter Lodge No. 313, A. Pr. and A. M. held a meeting last Thursday where A. F. Whitmire of Sundl led the presentation and Rev. Sheaff of Sidney delivered an informative talk. Members enjoyed an oyster stew after the session.
A large crowd attended the Christmas program at the M. E. church Sunday evening. The youngsters performed various exercises and a pageant. Santa Claus, in a Coulier style, made a personal appearance and handed out bags of candy and nuts to the children.
Favorable reports come from Mr and Mrs Lee Shoemaker who were badly injured in the auto crash that killed Mrs Shoemaker s brother Clayton Mayer. Both left Dalton hospital Monday and returned home to convalesce.
A family reunion was enjoyed at the home of Rev. and Mrs. C. R. Tanner on Christmas Day. Guests included Rev. Tanner's brother M. A. and his wife of Indianapolis Indiana, his sister Mrs. H. C. Hall and husband of Scottsbluff, and his sister-in-law Mrs. L. G Tanner and daughter Virginia of Scottsbluff.
Visitors at J. M. Hughes residence during Christmas included Mr and Mrs Lu J Juynes of Huntsman Miss Mary Alice Hughes of Scottsbluff Mr and Mrs H G Kinkaid and children of Hartington Nebraska and Mr and Mrs.
Maurice Nelson and the daughter of this community, Mrs. Kinkaid, is a daughter of L. J Hughes and sister of J M Hughes, highlighting local family connections noted in the notice.
The campfire girls of Nesoci group and their guardian Mrs Mudge plus the old group held a Christmas counsil fire at Elanore Nelson's home last Wednesday evening. Several mothers attended and four new members were received into Nesoci group, Lois Jensen Dorothy Tobler Beulah and June Hicks.
Sealed bids due by 2 PM January 7 1936 at the County Clerk or Commissioners Room for county printing and related items including notices proceedings announcements tax lists audits and reports. Also bids for oil grease hauling ash and trash from the County Courthouse for 1936. Seal: I L Pindell County Clerk. Pub Dec 20 27 Jan 3.
The jury in the Midgley of Mitchell manslaughter case could not reach a verdict after about thirty hours of deliberation. Judge Irwin discharged the jury and ordered a retrial at the next district court term in Gering.
IR P Scott died at his Bridgeport home at 71 from diabetes. A civil engineer by training he surveyed irrigation projects Belmont and Prowne Creek and served as Cheyenne County surveyor. He helped place the first state markers in 1913 and married Jessie Poole in 1897 near Dalton. He was a longtime Bridgeport businessman and a Jordan Medal wearer at Camp Larke Masonie lodge.
Ed Sanders, longtime settler and farmer, arrived with his parents in 1890, grew up on the Sanders ranch, and later built a thrifty farm. He served as a mail carrier from Sidney to Camp Clarke and was valued for his word and helpful nature. Neighbors and business people recall four and a half decades of association, with many autos from Potter, Sidney, Dalton, and nearby areas paying respects at his passing.
Mrs Marble Peters from Carpenter Wyoming disappeared from her home and was later found wandering on a highway near North Platte. Authorities believe she may be a victim of an amnesia attack.
Yoe Johnson, Clyde Brady and Thos Iverson were callers in Denver Monday, contributing to the day’s community chatter and local engagement as residents discussed events and вопросы.
Christmas day visitors included Mr and Mrs C W Johnson Miss Lulu Johnson Victor Johnson and family Leonard Johnson and family Chris Dubbah and family Joe Johnson and family Mrs Matilda Anderson and Maurice Hendrickson in attendance at the Clarence Johnson residence.
A column of pithy maxims and humorous sayings on life. Notes include a singer assaulted in a London theater and quips on marriage, time, gardening, and behavior. The tone mirrors a late 19th or early 20th century periodical style with pithy one liners and social humor.
Receipts totaled cattle 10,000 hogs 5,500 and sheep 4,000 as Union Stock Yards Omaha reports opening week activity. Steers and yearlings steady to higher with best steers at 13.50. cornfed cows 4.25 to 7.00. fat hogs 9.25 to 9.40. sows 8.25 to 8.40. Lambs and sheep mixed, light lambs firm in light supply. buyers cautious on early rounds.
A mosaic of brief items reports Paris under streets mushroom farming interest in 60 city firemen in New York Louisville Pain street workhouse Soviet officers taking dancing lessons Eskimos modernizing Greenland huts Spokane adding parks since 1891 native Chinese dentistry cows driven 25 miles then returning 80 hours carbon monoxide deaths rising Bear Valley stocked with six adult black bears.
Facts from early 20th century reports cover US airplane wheel use in 1910, large English greyhound race attendance, Palestine radio links, NZ unemployment tax exemptions, US accident death disparity, using 4000 ship weather observers, Montana and Wyoming dude ranch earnings, bans on photographers near French barracks, and 15 million US sportsmen spending $750 million on hunting and fishing.
Market quotes show feeder lambs and native types with prices ranging from 5.00 to 10.75 dollars. A club of 100 men in Ljubljana bans handshaking, rebelling against a central European convention. Tit-Bits notes a 25 foot fossil sea snake vertebra found in North America and deposited at the Smithsonian.
A collection of aphorisms from Bates Paley Freeman Emerson Colton Beecher and Butler on virtue habit conscience and reading. The lines suggest motive and moral agency with emphasis on character and self improvement.
A collection of disparate facts highlights high polo pony prices, urban rat damage in Chicago, mosquito breeding from water, walnut imports from China, US motorist insurance costs, early library guidance for moviegoers in Los Angeles, and recovering elk populations in Virginia with 200 in Giles County.
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