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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1933
Page
4
Sunday school meets at ten o'clock with cordial welcome to all. Morning worship at eleven features special music by the choir and Mrs Ray Arnell. Masons attend Saint John the Evangelist service. Vesper grove services at five. Sermon series begins two sermons on Understanding the Bible. Join to deepen present life.
The annual gathering will be held in the grove south of Redington on Thursday, June 29 at 10 a.m. Each school will give a fifteen minute program. A basket lunch at noon. A special speaker in the morning and an afternoon of recreation. All are welcome.
O. D. Aldrich from Lincoln visited over the weekend at the Geo. Reetz home, spending time with local friends and seeing the rural area. The social call highlighted friendly ties between neighbors in the region.
B. L. Walker visited North Platte last week to answer a summons for juryman on the federal grand jury but received excusal from service.
Potter lodge No. 318 officers were installed at a well attended Wednesday meeting. Ralph Robertson was named worshipful master with Cc. E. Biggs senior warden and D. F. Enevoldsen junior warden. Other officers include IM. W. Mayer treasurer Peter Hansen secretary Roy Jacobson senior deacon Charles Smith junior deacon Rev. H. S. Sorter chaplain Alfred Arnell marshal Clarence Rogers senior steward Byron Paviat junior steward A. J. Ames tyler. Joe Johnson served as installing officer Ray Arnell retires as master.
Mrs Katherine E Cannon Crosby 71 mother of Willis Crosby Omaha mortician died Wednesday at her daughter's home in Hastings after months of illness She lived in Omaha years ago then moved to Potter Neb Since her husband died in 1980 she resided with her daughter Surviving are another son Russell of Omaha a sister Mrs Jennie Whittaker of Sandpoint Ohio and a brother James N Canron of Hood
River Oregon relatives Elizabeth Mangum of Hastings and Edward Crosby of Chicago attend funeral at Crosby Mortuary Friday at 10 am with burial at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
The Fox theatre in Sidney screens The Big Cage on Friday and Saturday with Clyde Beatty in a cage with 40 lions and tigers. Also shown Sunday is Fell Below from the Astor Theatre in New York, headlined by Robert Montgomery with Walter Huston Madge Evans Rob ert Young and Jimmie Durante in the MGM submarine drama praised by New York critics.
George Gunderson Sr has been on the sick list for a week and confined to his home suffering from high blood pressure. Reports say he is somewhat improved at this writing.
A nostalgic column from G A 8S recounts local anecdotes and boasts. He parries bread price shifts credited to the Gasman, mentions Potter Society plans by Chris Christenson, denies John Witt’s Pine Bluffs visit, mocks beauty ads, and recalls Edgar Howard speeches.
Donald Micmillan of Sidney spent the week end in Potter. Ted Englert of Dalton was a business caller in Potter yesterday. FOR SALE One Baldwin 12 foot combine good shape cheap Lloyd Juelfs Och7ma.
A memoir recounts 1885 explorations from Sidney to Potter and Kimball County Nebraska. The author describes homestead life on upland and Lawrence Forks, loss of a child, building homes, and being among the first settlers north of the railroad. He later ranches near Bay State holdings, notes cattle growth, and the impact of the Kinkaid Act.
A. Bergman recalls selling cattle and moving back to a three-claim homestead after Congress ended the “free ranch.” He rebuilt, farmed with improved equipment, then in 1912 tried Campbell’s dry farming. The next year Kimball County yielded its finest wheat, possibly the first summer-filled winter wheat there, as Bergman notes to the editor.
Billy Heinemann and family of Lar amie were visitors at the Geo Reetz home from Friday to Sunday.
B L Walker and family visited the R W Michales home at Crook Colorado last Sunday in a friendly social call.
Norman Lee Patterson of Kimball has been visiting at the Bert Christensen home, according to a brief local social item noting his visit and the hosting household.
Local report notes Dr J J Fiegenschuh a business caller in Sidney yesterday forenoon. The brief item records his presence and timing without additional details.
Mrs Walter Henry and son Clarence joined Mr Henry on a Denver trip last week. Mr and Mrs Fred Johnson and Mrs Emma Olson were also in Denver for business last week.
Gene Binning and family of Dix were Sunday evening visitors at the Thayer home for a social call.
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