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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1923
Page
1
Next Sunday June 10 at 10 o'clock the M E Sunday school presents a children's program. The cradle roll superintendent Mrs Fred Harris will issue certificates and urges all cradle roll children in the neighborhood to enroll. Call or send a card if any child is not yet enrolled. Remember Master said Suffer the little children to come unto me for of such is the Kingdom of God.
Ten years ago in Potter a weekend street altercation left a Greek with minor scalp injury after an Italian claim of accident. Rev. Martin Mortensen will begin church duties June 8 1913, staying summer vacation and returning to friends. No.4 passenger train ran on the new south track between Potter and Dix. Grant Brady reported by D J Davis to have the finest wheat on an 80 acre tract northwest of Potter with heavy yield potential. Joe Keough fell fifteen feet while photographing on the bluffs but escaped serious injury.
Persistent rains flooded Cheyenne county areas from Monday evening through Tuesday afternoon causing water on plowed fields and full water holes. Hail fell in spots but spring crops remain promising. several locals hobble from minor accidents while others visit kin and tend cattle.
Rev R W Pruitt of Potter attends the Nebraska conference summer school of theology at Nebraska Wesleyan University University Place. Bishops and professors conduct sessions with noted speakers including Bishop Thomas Nicholson and Chancellor I B Schreckengast discussing biblical themes and ministerial training.
A Monday evening rainstorm drenched the Divide with about two inches in three hours, bringing some hail but no expected damage. Farmers shift to millet and Sudan grass, disk fields for summer fallow, and prepare winter wheat for fall seeding. Local social notes mention Frances Hazlitt’s return from Kimball High, visits by Edson Madden, A M Leatdale, and families. The Antelope baseball team lost 16 to 6 to Potter after a strong start, next hosting a Sidney team. Community events include a Farmers Union meeting at C A Mangum’s farm to discuss Calf and Potato Club work.
C. A. Lundin of West Plains Colorado served as a Potter caller on Thursday, adding to local craft and community events.
The community saw 1.33 inches of precipitation on Monday and Tuesday with heavy rain on table lands around Potter. Total moisture for April and May reached 3.55 inches each, bringing 50 day rainfall to 8.43 inches.
A survey of Beatrice to Hastings shows new schools planned and remodeled, industrial plants and infrastructure under way. Projects include pipe organ installation in Aurora, tunnel work on North Platte irrigation, paving districts, housing for the feeble minded, and new hotel management, with farmers in Cunning County expanding soy beans and Dawson County boosting pure bred livestock. Washington County plans 2000 acres of soy, while several counties push steel work and cathedral construction.
Bulletin series from the Experiment Station and Extension Service catalogs provide No. 185 to No. 190 on land tenure potato diseases purchasing power of grains productive seed corn new hybrid strawberries crop rotation under irrigation and circulars on climate wheat soybeans sweet clover hog cholera swine diseases rope silos meals. Copies available free from county agents or the Agricultural College at Lincoln.
Potter’s Young Bear Cats defeated Antelope Divide 16 to 6 on Potter’s diamond Sunday. The game ended in the eighth inning due to a storm. Bear Cats lineup featured Lloyd Juelfs Gene Kaune Artie Kaune George Gunderson Earl Schuck Herman Fricke Harold Christensen Russel Hayes Mike Pavlat with Mike Pavlat captain Ray Bartlett manager. Antelope Divide lineup included Jimmie Johnson Bill Kellim Edson Madden Howard Madsen Roscoe Madden Chris Turman Harry Hazlitt Hugo Hack Jerome Kaufkee. Umpires were Jas Bertramsen and Julius Schwartz.
Mr and Mrs C E Grisham and daughter with I A Lott visited Sidney Saturday afternoon. The editor drove home a new Chevrolet touring car purchased from Hardy Motor Co. Readers, if the Express looks off you know they’re busy learning to master the wheel.
A National Board of Fire Underwriters appeal in New York cites arson risks and the hotly contested districts where fires are set as deadly traps. The piece argues that arsonists escape public accountability while fire losses reach 500 million annually and deaths total about 15,000, urging stronger convictions and awareness.
Lars Olson president of Banner county bank and major land owner visited Kimball on Tuesday. He said Banner county crops are as good or better than Kimball, with winter wheat on stubble ground likely. He noted spring crops offer the strongest prospects in ten years despite poor summer plowing.
Get out the horseshoes as Farm Bureau urges local members to practice for a county elimination contest to select champions for the state meet at the State Fair. Barnyard golf needs little gear and no dues, promoting skill and confidence after work.
Howard Ashley Nelson, born July 2, 1920, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Nelson, died June 3, 1923, at Nebraska Methodist Hospital Omaha after appendicitis and peritonitis. Funeral held June 6 at Potter Methodist church, with large community attendance and burial in Potter Cemetery.
The Nelsons and other relatives thank friends and neighbors for acts of condolence and floral offerings in memory of their loved one. They note the sympathy and help will be remembered.
Miss Goodhand, formerly in the picture theatre business in this city, and her brother have leased the American theater and will open a second theater in Kimball soon. S. D. Vogler, long owner of the American, has leased Fraternal hall and will move his equipment there this week. The Vogler theatre will be named Community Theatre.
Frances Knox resigns after years as city editor to supervise her farm near Gurley. R. M. Pierce of Clarinda, Iowa, joins from the Lincoln Star reportorial staff to fill the vacancy. Pierce is an ex service man and Drake University graduate. Also an advertisement notes June birth gifts featuring guaranteed indestructible pearl beads from 4.75 and jewelry at The Gift Shop on the Corner.
Pine Bluffs Post reports expert analysis by P A Davies. Death Canal a toxic plant causing stock deaths in overgrazed pastures. Symptoms include thirst and rapid decline after early spring grazing.
The 15th of June is the last day to submit applications for seed potato certification at the County Agent's office in the courthouse To pass certification potatoes must be true to type free from varietal mixtures and reasonably free from disease They must have received corrosive sublimate treatment before planting Certification fees are 50 cents per acre with a $5 minimum and cover two field inspections and one bin inspection Put the application in by the 15th County Agent
To January 1st for only a dollar is a new special rate on the Daily Journal with Sunday at $1.50 good only in Nebraska and adjoining states. Every family can afford the Lincoln Journal now. The Morning paper is the only one delivered on rural routes the same day printed. Other Lincoln papers are a day late. Best comics and AP telegraphic Nebraska news. Paper stops when time is up.
Press dispatches say the open shop question will rise as a campaign issue in 1924. The piece argues the republic should not be torn by a principle vital to the constitution guaranteeing individual freedom and protection, stating radicals foment class hatred against big business and sane government.
Local report notes Lewis Willson will visit Potter during the current week, meeting residents and visiting notable sites as part of a scheduled regional tour.
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