Base ball league plans spur towns to form home teams
Dalton Delegate reports Potter American Legion backs a home team for summer and considers Gurley Chappell Lodgepole Peetz Kimball Pine Bluffs and Dalton forming two leagues with two games weekly. Local voices favor non salaried teams to avoid graft worries while other towns weigh costs and travel. The Roundtable urges community support and league organization.
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Dalton
Potter American Legion Post
Gurley
Chappell
Lodgepole
Peetz
Kimball
Pine Bluffs
Orton
Legion Boys of
Potter
Pritchard
Johnson
Theeason
High School Notes and Classroom Quips Collage
A mixed roundup of school items and jokes from the senior high, including poetry parody on geometry, reading plans for Spencer Faerie Queen and Carlyle Burns, Eskimo phrase curiosities, a late start due to cold, and witty definitions of school life. Mentions new bookkeeping teacher, maps in history classes, animal images tied to grades, and questions about a senior pennant and Africa as a grade topic.
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Raymond Minor
Miss Falck
Athens
Africa
George
Why Georgia is Absent and Juniors Have Pep
Questions on absence of Georgia and pep among juniors appear in a school notice column. Entries note a Latin query for nonny, tasks to improve activities after basketball fades, and calls for an airy bedroom, a missing date, a senior play with an all star cast, and universal perfect attendance through May 13.
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Georgia
Hagemeister
Josephine Stanton
Edgar Leafdale
Dean Hagemeister
Potter Hi
District 47 Items Chronicle Local Visits and Travel
Mr and Mrs Albert Nelson left for Cheyenne last Saturday. Albert Nelson John Nelson Sam Wikstrom and Ever Larson called at the John Carlson home on Thursday. Mr and Mrs John Nelson and children Mr and Mrs Jesse Lamberd and children and Mr and Mrs Jesse Ellsworth and daughters visited the Sam Wikstrom home on Sunday. Sam Wikstrom and John Nelson were county seat visitors on Friday. Mr and Mrs Chas Smith were Sidney visitors on Saturday. Mr and Mrs Barlow of Dix visited at the W Mathewson home a few days last week. Quite a few from this district attended the Herman Schubarth sale on Tuesday. Chas Nelson has been sowing wheat forsee Flintjer for the past week.
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Albert Nelson
Cheyenne
John Nelson
Sam Wikstrom
Ever Larson
John Carlson
Jesse Lambert
Jesse Ellsworth
Chas. Smith
Sidney
Sidney Visitors On Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Barlow of
Dix
W. Mathewson
Herman Schubarth
Chas. Nelson
Methodist Church Notes Pastor Chas. O. Troy
Services next Sunday include Sunday school at 10 am and preaching at 10 am on The power of the Resurrection. Epworth League gathers at 6 30 pm. Evening service to be announced morning hour. Prayer meeting follows Wednesday at the usual hour.
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Epworth League
Gas From The Oil Well Sparks Potter Town Banter
A column from Potter recalls local chatter about residents considering leaving, rumors among residents about scandals, and humorous wordplay on happiness and near beer. It notes Carl Depue and Karl Fricke taking a trip to Sidney by air, and ends with an informal query about who is the town’s best looking man.
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Potter
Angora
Sidney
Bonnie
Clarence
Charley
Happy
Carl Depue
Karl Fricke
Potter town and the broke young man street ballads
A jumble of song titles and verses linked to Potter town scenes. It recalls a youth wandering Potter town amid jokes about cash and debt, interspersed with notes on performances and local personages, including X ray quips and a playful Longfellow parody.
Notable quotes highlight press tone from Chicago papers
A compact glimpse at how Chicago newspapers handle language and style. It notes phrases labeled Chicagoese and cites sources like Boston Transcript Chicago Daily News and Chicago Journal of Commerce. The fragment hints at Colombia becoming the gym of the ocean and evokes nostalgic meeting lines.
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Colombia
Chicago Journal of Commerce
Plumbers Delay Convention Over Gavel Return
A St Paul News report notes a plumbers convention was delayed as the chairman returned to the shop for a gavel. El Paso Herald adds golf needs no high arbiters at big pay. Kansas City Star compares old cars to pale grass on worn sidewalks. Ohio State Journal jokes about the line between girlhood and womanhood.
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St. Paul
el Paso Herald
Kansas City Star
Ohio State Journal
Sweet Young Thing Chooses Bathing Suit For Beach Trip
A cheeky note in the Nashville Tennessean hints a young figure will select a swimsuit from a moth hollow tooth era whim, then head to the shore, reflecting playful local voice and era style.
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Nashville
Oklahoma bugs blown by oil scraps in wind gusts
The phrase the myriads of green bugs overrunning Oklahoma may be scraps of gilt edged oil certificates blowing about according to the Indianapolis News.
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Oklahoma
Indianapolis News
Study on Fruit Transport Behavior Aids Agriculture Bill
The agricultural appropriation includes a $20,000 allocation for studying how fruit behaves during transportation. The Detroit News notes the fund could assist chaperone needs for peaches and similar produce.
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Detroit News
Old Fashioned Workman Boasts Of Daily Labor
A Golden Colorado Republican note recalls the old fashioned workman who patters downtown on Saturdays boasting of how much work he could finish in a day.
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Golden
Colo
Republican
Village board minutes set salary for marshal at 175 a month
Minutes from the village of Gyz on February 11 approve the hiring of McPhail as street commissioner and marshal at 175 dollars per month. Potter pays 25 dollars yearly to the marshal, and the board believes wage increases could yield better service from the office.
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Board of Trustees
Gyz
McPhail
Potter
Notice of Sale in Potter Nebraska 1921 Auction
Pursuant to a court order the trustee in bankruptcy will sell at public auction in Potter Nebraska at 1 p m on April 2 1921 the stock of goods fixtures and other property of Barden Hatch Garage Potter Nebraska for cash only. An invoice and appraisal may be inspected at the trustee office in Potter or at the garage. The right to reject any bids is reserved. Charles Gunderson Trustee. m 25
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Ditrict of
Nebraska
North Platte
Potter
Barden & Hatch
Charles Gunderson
Community auction sale at Rumely Transfer House
Announcement of fresh inventory alongside an exhibit of new machinery including New Century cultivators and Go Digs. A big community auction is set for Saturday afternoon, March 26, on the Rumely Transfer House lots in Sidney Nebraska. J. W. Reinmuth, proprietor.
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Sinclair Oils
Rumely Transfer House
Sidney
J. W. Reinmuth
News of Potter Eight Years Ago Revival and Moves
Rev Murless conducted revival services in Lodge Pole this week Mrs Lewis Lafferty has been sick Paul Rabbas from Hooper visited a few days James Reddy and family moved to Sidney Ted Biggs resigned as depot helper Geo Thornburg and family moving to Thornburgs ranch Wm Gustafson sold farm stock and machinery to Otto Bergt Joe Keough stationed at Bushnell Review Publishing Co R D Brown editor manager
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Murless
Lodge Pole
Lewis Lafferty
Paul Rabbas
Hooper
Mr. Coats
Hillsdale
Ted Biggs
James Reddy
Sidney
Wm. Gross
Cheyenne
Geo. Thornburg
Ed Thornburg
Wm. Gustafson
Otto Bergt
Joe Keough
Bushnell
the Review
the Review Publishing Co
R. D. Brown
Leafdale Social Roundup and Local Visits
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dvorak and family visited the Cizek home Tuesday evening. Miss Lilly Hougen and Miss ten Brink visited area homes with several residents hosting visitors including the Osberg and Anderson households. Local residents made trips to Hackberry Kirk and Kimball, with several callers at the Leafdale and Bowen homes.
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Leafdale
Frank Dvorak
Cizek
Lilly Hougen
Gilbert Hougen
Alvin Johnson
Hanson
Mesars
Clarence
Alfred Johnson
Miss Ten Brink
Waterman
Mildred Anderson
C. H
Oscar Johnson
Pete Beckman
Hackberry
C. H. Osberg
Kirk
Joe
Lester Bowen
Alfred
Kimball
H. B. Leafdale
Anthony Leafdale
President Endorses Near East Relief Appeal
Washington reports the President fully endorses Maj. Gen. Leon ard Wood’s nationwide Lenten sacrifice offering for Near East Relief to aid starving Christians. The letter urges continuing private American generosity, stressing the relief’s humane impact and wishing success to the relief movement led by Wood. TABREN HARDING
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Washington
Leonard Wood
Madison Avenue
New York City
Near East
Tabren
Harding
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Big Springs
Julesburg Grit
Lodge Pole Express
Mickie
Charles Sughroe
West Newspape Union
Everngoon
NAN News
Kowr
John Gluggs
Methodist Church
Chas. O. Troy
Pete
Ray B
Harry
Lillian
Stevie
Potter Bridge Club
Hite Bros
Elmer Waite
Dr. Linch
the Wabash
Potter Bankers
Henry S
Longfellow
Potter Town
Potter’s
Dewey
Metsker
O. F
Quincy, Ill
Whig-Journal
and Wise
Publishers’ Auxiliary
Boston Transcript
Chicago Daily News
Near East Relief Appeal
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