Fairbury Visitors Elson Smith Family Callers Sunday
Elson Smith wife and son Donald of Fairbury were callers here Sunday afternoon.
22 May 1936
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Newspaper
The Steele City News
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1936
Page
1
Elson Smith wife and son Donald of Fairbury were callers here Sunday afternoon.
A Bluebonnet girl advances to a Hollywood pageant with national attention. Jury selects the contestant from the local region as participation boosts fame and potential prizes.
The largest and oldest maker of washing and ironing equipment named Thor is highlighted alongside a power company connection. He atrice.
The market notes wheat oats and corn values with a focus on hog and hen prices. Palmer's Pharmacy advertises copies of the high school annual for sale.
The Presbyterian group plans Evening One A for All meeting and hosts Daily Vacation Bible School next week from morning to afternoon with 3 classes. Mrs Mary Drake and a team of volunteer teachers will lead sessions in the school building, inviting all Sunday school aged children.
Guy T. Justis nephew of Mr and Mrs W C Palmer of Steele City on the way to a conference in Washington D C held by the Children s Bureau of the U S Department of Labor He will also attend the National Conference of Social Work in Atlantic City A Baker University graduate he lived with the Palmers while in school and studied at Baker University in college
George Hudson of Diller visited Thursday as Mrs. Henry Meyers traveled to Shea to see her relatives the Oaks. Mildred Kenning closed a district school year with a picnic and ice cream. The James family of Texas planned Wyoming travel to visit Earl James. Blaine James and family visited the Kenning home, and several locals helped on farms while others visited relatives.
Jefferson county farmer Lee Cramb and others pasture eight acre contour fields last year when bids fluctuated and yielded nothing. This year Cramb grows his entire 150 acre corn crop on contour rows to improve results.
The twenty first annual 4 H Club Week will be held at the University of Nebraska College of Agriculture on June 16. L J Frisbie state club leader announces the event and about four hundred people are expected to attend.
The Greenwood Oil Co filling station shows a inviting appearance after installing new gasoline pumps and a station building. Although not fully finished, storage tanks are in place and landscaping may start soon. The building awaits its first paint. Parts of the old building are used to construct a garage and warehouse at the rear.
Workmen pumping sand for graveling from the river west of Steele City yesterday brought up two bison skulls from the river bed and displayed them in the windows of the T W Zoellin Cafe. The skulls are in an excellent state of preservation.
Tomato plants priced at 50 cents per hundred or two dozen for a dollar. cabbage plants 40 cents per hundred or two dozen for 30 cents. George Bax announces sales. Extra copies of the high school annual, over fifty pages, available at Palmer's Pharmacy.
An excerpt on the importance of spice in cooking and a garbled set of recipe fragments. It references mustard paprika cayenne anise nutmeg and lobster with caper sauce and a cream sauce using butter cream and nutmeg with lemon juice. It preserves a dated, instructional tone amid corrupted text.
Mildred Yount, reputedly Texas' richest girl, possesses a $15,000,000 fortune from father Miles Yount Beaumont oil magnate. She will display several of her finest horses at the Texan Centennial Exposition opening in Dallas on June 6 during the $25,000,000 World's Fair of the Southwest.
The Steele City Womans Club met Thursday at Miss Susan Taylor's home with eleven members present. Advertisements urge readers to brighten homes and businesses as electric rates remain low, and a note invites subscriptions to the Steele City News.
The Steele City baseball season opens with an unorganized club under Geo McLachlin. Last year’s creditable showing gives hope that local enthusiasm for the sport will rebound and the team will build momentum this season.
Jefferson County shows receipts of funds from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation covering disbursements to banks financial institutions and individuals from 1933 to 1936 totaling 120 350 dollars.
Miss Leonore Steele came back to her residence in Western last Saturday, marking a quiet homecoming after a period away. The event centers on her return and the local social note of the week.
An advertisement notes a Sunbeam iron weighing 3 pounds with a trade in allowance for the old iron. It also promotes an Automatic Electric Roaster using the same principle as an electric oven and claims low operating cost due to cheap electricity, all in Adv-20 copy.
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