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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1934
Page
5
In a school update Kinley earns honor roll for speed Opal for accuracy in an advanced typing class. Geometry covers concurrent lines while beginning algebra finishes factoring. Bookkeeping begins third set of books. After holidays G A A classes will be organized. An eight week basketball and gym course ends this week and a ping pong table is placed in the math room for girls.
Wednesday the seventh and some of the eighth grade wrote letters to Willomine Johnson. The seventh and eighth grades with Mrs Slocumb and Miss Blair sent a plant to Willomine Johnson last Thursday. A short Christmas program is being prepared for Friday at 1 30 pm in three parts. First the story of Christmas. Second a play Christmas on Time with many students named. Third Introducing Santa Claus with Santa Claus as lead.
Mair and Howard Sheets attended a Sidney program with several excused last Monday. Absent all day Monday were Barbara Anderson Marion Malone and Richard Mathewson. Robert Lee Gibbins missed last week due to illness. Mrs Hagemeister visited Wednesday. The class studies Christmas stories this week. Perfect spelling last week went to Donald Enevoldsen Edwin Kaderli Beulah Hicks and Marvin McMillan.
Second and third graders report their Christmas tree is decorated and their room is ready for the holiday. Several students were absent last week due to illness.
Mrs Hagemeister and Joyce Juelfs visited Wednesday for Joyce fifth birthday. Dorothy James Callaway Lillian Robertson and Stanley Davis joined Thursday. Ray Madden spent Monday with cousin Harry Warner. A Christmas program is planned Friday at 1 30 inviting mothers fathers and all residents to attend.
Word reached here of the death of Mrs John Stull who lived 17 miles north of Kimball. The Stull family formerly resided in this community and all regret her passing. Funeral services were held in Kimball on Wednesday afternoon. A full obituary will be published next week.
Mrs Viola Mudge visits Beatrice with son Nathan and relatives for the holidays. Teachers plan vacations at various Nebraska locations: Miss Blair in Minatare Mrs Johnson in Hemingford Miss Morrow in Ainsworth Miss Hansen in Hazard Mrs Quein at the ranch Mr and Mrs Lancaster in Gering and several couples stay in town. Miss Moon departed earlier for unspecified plans.
Last week in Washington DC a note recalled Christensen brothers from Denmark visiting Kimball. They learned to eat sweet corn off the cob in American fashion and took seed home. Word reached the community this week that they raised a bountiful crop of excellent sweet corn and shared the method with friends.
Bridgeport rancher HBC Forest Turvey was found not guilty by a jury after pleading self defense in the fatally shooting of Marion Wagner. The case against him centered on whether the shooting was justified under threat. Sterling and Carl Erickson received pardons for volunteering as TB serum trial patients, risking their lives for a potential cure.
The Cheyenne based Wyoming Hereford ranch won Champion bull and Reserve Champion for a 750-875 pound steer at the Chicago International. King brothers of Laramie took first and second in Corriedale ram and Corriedale ewe, plus reserve Champion fleece in the market class, grand Champion fleece and pure bred wool in division 2, and Champion fleece in division 2.
Cheyenne reports a rash of gold fever as Morris Willadsen, 28 miles west on South Crow creek ranch, discovers gold nuggets in his chicken coop crawl and a vein along the creek bank. Placer gold runs $7 to $9 per ton. He leases part of the site to an expert miner. North Dakota and Colorado firms watch developments.
Clinton McAuliffe Post American Legion at Chappell will begin a December 28 fundraising drive to finance a basemented Legion hall on a 50 by 100 foot plot with a five foot foundation and 13 inch walls. Harold McAuliffe donated gravel and farmers offer help with excavation and dirt disposal. contributions to the building fund will be accepted. In Bayard area, a two car crash injured ten people near railroad, with Senator McCarter in critical condition and others wounded, hospital transfers noted. Also, researchers say Cheyenne was the first U.S. city to have both arc and incandescent lighting, tracing the 1882-era Central Station and Edison Electric involvement. Last week, local social notes list Irma Nelson returning to school and several visits by residents.
By order of the District Court of Cheyenne County Nebraska Emil Carlson vs George Benotz Leora Reetz and Dan Heimer the sheriff will sell the SW quarter of Section 1 Township 15 North Range 52 West at public auction for cash at the east door of the courthouse in Sidney on January 15 1935 at 10:00 A M to satisfy the judgment with costs and accruing costs W W Schulz Sheriff R P Kepler Attorney Pub Dec 14 21 28 Jan 4 11
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