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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1941
Page
4
Public notice of heartfelt gratitude from Mrs. Emil Carlson and family for kindnesses shown during illness and after his passing. Expresses deep appreciation for support and thoughtful acts from many friends and neighbors.
Mrs LeRoy Gunderson entertained last Friday for the pinochle club. Guests included Mrs Ervin Wheeler, Mrs A M Ross, Mrs Fred Vaughan, Mrs Floyd Sheets, Mrs Chas Nelson, Mrs Rudy Dedic, and Mrs Guy Hite. Mrs Ross won first prize and Mrs Wheeler received consolation.
Wilma Thies is currently employed at the Francis Willoughby residence, performing duties there as part of ongoing domestic work and care arrangements. The arrangement appears to be ongoing without stated end date.
Pleasant View area residents report visits among neighbors including Mrs Frank Mueller and daughter Eileen with Mrs J Sunday of Grand Island. Families travel to Sidney Potter Seward Scottsbluff and Scottsbluff to visit kin, tend repairs, or shop. Rains helped crops yet damaged corn fields and washed out a bridge near Pleasant View school. community members shared meals and attended services and chores while others on trips for weeklong stays with relatives.
Mildred left Thursday for St Louis to meet Vanita Schuessler who is working in Cleveland Ohio. After a short visit in Perry county with Mrs Schuesslers aged parents they will return home.
Too late for last week and Dix area notices list many visits to relatives in Ft. Collins Big Fork Montana and Chadron. Families such as Peterson Grandma Campbell Shaw Miller Killham Gustafson and Goding are mentioned with church activities road work and summer school plans.
Mr and Mrs Clyde Nelson were the Kimball callers last Sunday as part of a community gathering.
Mrs John Nelson and Walter visited Sidney on Sunday in what appears to be a routine social call among local residents.
Bible school sessions run each fore noon for two weeks at the Methodist church, inviting local families and children to attend morning lessons and activities.
Mr and Mrs Ted Mathewson of Sidney were callers in Potter Saturday visiting local residents and enjoying community greetings and light conversation during their trip.
Mrs Marjorie Newton Parsons is visiting friends and relatives here this week. She plans to meet neighbors and attend local events during her stay, highlighting social ties in town.
Local seller Arthur Schuessler offers a Holstein dairy cow about two weeks fresh with a second calf. Buyer may purchase the cow with calf or without.
Mr and Mrs Donald Erickson and Mr and Mrs Joe Stecher visited the Roy Jacobson home Saturday night in a friendly social gathering.
Mrs Ray Arnel and Miss Maxine Wekert visited friends in Potter Saturday and were dinner guests at the Roy L MacAdam home that day.
A brief item announces Alvin Duis Studio in Kimbal Nebraska offering one day service to develop and print photographs at 25 cents per roll. The note reads as a local service blotter from an early Nebraska periodical.
Mrs Anna Nelson was admitted to Sidney hospital last Wednesday and underwent a major operation on Tuesday. The report notes no further details on diagnosis or recovery.
Mr and Mrs August Thies and their family were Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr and Mrs Melvin Meester and family.
Mr and Mrs D F Enevoldsen and their children and Miss Catherine Wick horst were hosted at the Loren Myers residence for a dinner gathering on Monday evening.
Mr and Mrs Byron Paviat and Mrs John Paviat of Sidney were Sunday callers at the home of Mrs Jennie McAdam.
Mrs Edw Maher Edith and Margaret of Denver arrived in Potter Sunday following a long journey that included a visit to Cuba. Mrs Clyde Brady and Jill and Jimmy joined the party and were noted in attendance.
A brief fragment notes a woman traveling to Denver with her mother and sisters for a period. No further names or dates are available in the readable text.
Mr and Mrs D F Enevoldsen and family and Miss Catherine Wiekhorst were dinner guests at the Ford Wiekhorst home Friday evening and at the home of Mr and Mrs Dave Mc Donald Sunday.
Complaints show dogs running in packs molesting livestock near town. Residents urged to keep dogs home after a calf was badly injured by dogs. Authorities advised owners to secure animals to prevent further harm.
Byron Johnson returns from Wesleyan College in Lincoln for the summer. Willomine Johnson, a beauty college student in Grand Island, and Marjorie Frei, Hastings business college student, also come home for the break.
Mrs Floy Christensen and her daughter Marlys arrived home Sunday accompanied by her uncle and agent Mr and Mrs H K Polson of Alliance. Floy has recently completed a successful teaching year at Bingham Nebraska and has recontracted there.
Cal California lamb quotes showed fat lambs steady to stronger at 12.10 with natives at 12.25 per hundredweight. Feeder lambs and aged sheep remained fully steady as market activity held firm across the region.
Receipts at Omaha Monday reached 6000 head with local buyers and shippers active. Steers yearlings and heifers sold briskly 15 to 25 cents higher than last week with best steers at 11.00 to 11.50 and stock cattle and feeding steers in stronger demand. yearlings around 12.10 and heifer calves 10.65. Cornfed steers priced 8 to 12 dollars, feeders 7.75 to 10.75, fed heifers 10.25 to 10.75, cows 6 to 8.50, cutters 6.25 to 7.00, cann ers 5.00 to 6.00.
Physician and surgeon listing for Potteer Nebraska locating one block north and half block west of Potter State Bank with phone number 16.
Mrs Hazel Sleeth and Patricia and Georgia from Kimball visited Im Potter over the weekend, sharing time and conversation during the trip.
Mrs Wim Bates and Mrs Ray Arnell attended a Wednesday dinner hosted by D F Enevoldsen, with other guests present.
Miss Maxine Wells left Sunday for Chillicothe Missouri where she will spend the summer.
The Ladies Guild of the Lutheran church will meet in the church parlors on next Thursday June 19 at 2 00 p m Everyone cordially invited.
Miss Doris Gray of Sidney spent last Tuesday with Miss Jeannetta Sloan at her home.
Nels Thurston joined Joe Johnson on a business trip to Denver last week.
John Robert Pavlat of Sidney spent several days visiting his grandmother Mrs. Jennie McAdam, staying with her during the trip.
Last Friday morning Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Sloan and Jeannetta drove to Fort Collins to collect Olivette Sloan, a teacher in the city schools there who are out for summer.
Omaha opens a 30 day spring race meeting on May 27 with strong Nebraska and Iowa purses. Prominent owners like M. H. Van Berg of Columbus and Morton Whitebrook of Omaha headline a regional showing that has gained national regard since Ak-Sar-Ben’s growth. Local and midwestern breeders including E. K. Murray, Harold Neller, Art Dishong, W. E. Ball, and Earl Beezley field large stables, with Iowans such as George Pruett and J. P. Kantmeyer set to challenge for top money as the circuit expands from Seattle to Agua Caliente.
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