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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1913
Page
8
Local items note a cement walk laid by the Jacobson family and a Thursday Catholic service well attended with hymns by Miss Gallager and Mrs. Smith. Rev Gaither will preach Friday June 6 at 8 p.m. with the Lord’s Supper to follow. all are invited.
The author criticizes picture palaces for overdramatizing romances set in idealized locales. He praises cinema’s potential to portray real people in real streets across the world, with genuine incidents that would better reflect earth and humanity than fictional tableaux.
Agricultural Bulletin reports Superintendent William Foster of the state board of agriculture promoting a gopher extermination method using concentrated lye. He describes jabbing a wagon rod to create a runway, filling it with lye, covering the hole, and having gophers lick it from their feet before dying. A gopher bounty bill failed last session despite noted havoc.
Devel County superintendent Miss Vera Yockey resigns after two terms. The county board accepts the resignation and appoints Mrs G B Brown to succeed starting July 1. Yockey will join a California state normal school in San Diego to oversee new duties. Brown is experienced in school work and regarded as qualified for the office.
It is reported that many farmers have all barns and nooks on their farms filled with the 1912 crop. If grain prices do not advance before harvest time, a wave of large granaries will be erected in the central region of the state this autumn.
A growing custom involves injecting watermelon with a fruit extract while still green using a standard hypodermic syringe. Popular Mechanics notes this rapid fad as a curious culinary reinforcement.
The Standput View notes energy around harmonizing a fractured Republican party. It warns that rank and file voters will refuse to honor men who disrupted the party last year and declares traitors must exit to allow the party to harmonize itself. Men ANH. 5
Frederick O Peterson of Dix Nebraska filed notice of intent to make final three year proof to establish his homestead claim on section 6 township 14 north range 53 west in the sixth principal meridian. The proceeding will occur before the district court clerk in Kimball Nebraska on July 2 1913. Witnesses: Han Sen Hangs Po Robert Gunderson Clarence E Birt George W Perry.
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