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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1937
Page
5
Mr and Mrs Lyman Melvin of Bridgeport relocate to Potter and reside in the Algor Erickson property in the northeast part of town Mrs Melvin is the daughter of W C Sheets For sale 1929 used Baldwin Combine 18 miles north of Bushnell priced reasonable N H Mcihenney Box 643 Sterling Colorado 6m
Oma Laura Lee Reed of Sidney visits sister Mrs Boyd French in Potter Neb as a note in the community classifieds. Ralph Robertson offers a used gas range at a very reasonable price and is seeking buyers in Potter Nebraska.
When you think undertaker, think Rice Funeral Home in Sidney Nebraska. Phone 107.
Mrs Edward Walter of Cripple Creek Colorado visits her parents Mr and Mrs John Seyfang. If you want to see a real ball game be on hand next Sunday at 2 30 The Bearcats and Ft Waren have a habit of playing heads up hall.
Mr and Mrs D F Enevoldsen attended the district bankers convention at Alliance on Thursday of last week.
Mr and Mrs C E Biggs visited Mrs Anna Sanders in Kimball yesterday. Mrs Sanders recently underwent a minor operation at a Kimball hospital.
Mr and Mrs Herman Karlin and daughter Mildred and son Gerald and Mrs Anna Gluer and daughters Carolyn and Margaret of Columbus Nebraska visited the John Witt home at the start of the week. Mrs Karlin is a sister of Mrs Witt and Mrs Gluer is a daughter of Mr and Mrs Witt.
Mr and Mrs Thos Iverson return from Omaha where specialists removed a breast cancer from Mrs Iverson a few months ago. Doctors report tests show the growth was completely removed and she may now expect a complete recovery, a hopeful development.
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In Cheyenne County Nebraska the county court will hear Leora M. Reetz petition for probate of George H. Reetz Last Will and Testament on June 14 1937 at 10 A M in the Sidney court room. If granted letters testamentary will issue to Leora M. Reetz. Dated May 21 1937. County Judge Robt A Barlow. Lawyer Paul L. Martin. May 28 June 4-11 publications.
Union Stock Yards Omaha June 2 1937 receipts show 6000 cattle with steady to firmer tone. Best steers around 14.00 while cows and heifers steady. Cornfed steers and yearlings listed with price ranges for various grades and loads of feeding steers, slaughter heifers, beef cows, stock cattle, and calves across good to fair quality classifications.
Receipts of hogs at Omaha Tuesday were 3,500 head. Local packers and order buyers showed little interest keeping trade slow. Prices were steady to 10 15 cents lower than Monday with desirable butcher weights at 11.15 to 11.35, medium and mixed packers 10.75 to 11.15, and sows 10.25 to 10.40.
Receipts of sheep and lambs at Omaha Tuesday reached 6000 head. The fat lamb market held steady from Monday with natives at 11.50 to 12.00 and Californias at 9.40 to 9.50. Fed lambs remain in active demand and aged sheep quotably unchanged.
The Amphioxus is presented as an early vertebrate link dating back over 420 million years. It lacks a true backbone and cranium, having only a cartilage rod, yet it supposedly spawned sharks, fishes, reptiles, mammals, and humans through evolutionary progression.
The Detroit News notes Samuel F. Smith in 1832 used a German hymn tune found by William C. Woodridge and Lowell Mason to write America. Mason considered translating or composing verses to that music. The origins of God Save the King and its tune are uncertain with references to Henry Carey and John Bull, and Britannica citing 1745 as an earliest date.
A London Answers Magazine note preserves the tale that early naming of days and months drew on Saxon origins. It imagines months as Chilly, vegetation, spring, grass, flower, summer, hay, harvest, autumn, wine, slaughter, and winter months reflecting seasonal life.
The note states Benjamin Franklin first linked two certainties death and taxes in a 1789 letter to M Leroy of the French Academy of Sciences. It cites his line Our Constitution is in actual operation but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. It mentions Charles Dickens in David Copperfield echoing the line sixty years later with Barkis saying it was as true as taxes is.
The piece notes that starting from two parents and their two parents, the line doubles each generation, reaching 58 generations back to Christ. A writer in Pearson's London Weekly claims about 144,207,695,790,946,939 births would have occurred since Christ to produce any one modern person.
Lee Hagemeister and family left last Friday for a few days visit with relatives in Pawnee City Nebraska. They were expected to return on Wednesday.
The Farmers National elevator in Potter has been closed for the month of June after being purchased by Colton Grain Company. Local sources confirm the sale and temporary shutdown as part of the transition.
Supt and Mrs L A Wiemers and their child depart Sunday for California to spend most of the summer there while Mr Wiemers attends school.
Seed for sale offering Siberian millet with state test 91 germination. Price 3 cents per pound. Contact John H. McGrane located 5 miles west and 1 mile south of Gurley Nebraska. Respondents invited to purchase.
HW A Warner becomes the mail carrier between the depot and post office replacing George Thirlwall who resigned June 1.
Mrs Herbert Johnson had a major gall bladder operation at a Kimball hospital Tuesday morning and is reported convalescing satisfactorily.
An Omaha area ad claims Leto's Pyorrhea Remedy provides quick certain relief from gum disease. The notice urges purchase from Thayers Drug Store in Potter Nebraska and asserts a guarantee with directions for use.
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