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March 26, 1926
LAUREL - F. A. Good, secretary of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce, was a member of the official party that accompanied the Nebraska Poultry Special which was in Laurel recently. Evidently Mr. Good was very favorably impressed with Laurel as he sent the following write-up of the city to the state papers which he represented on the trip. The train is really the result of Mr. Good’s efforts. He was the first to think of it and he is the man who sold it first to the Burlington railroad and the state university. Following is what he had to say regarding Laurel: Laurel’s population hovers near 1,000. “Judge” O’Gara met and conducted us up town, and the big Odd Fellows hall was soon packed. At 1:30, the locks clicked shut on every business house to honor the holiday feature of the occasion. Something out of the ordinary had occurred in Laurel, and we hastened to find and attach responsibility for it all. Flags were posted on the curbs, nearly all of the stores had show window displays, and the number of school posters was legion. A large measure of responsibility was fastened upon R. R. Allison, the versatile editor of the Advocate, who with an able committee, had worked ceaselessly for weeks to register the success attained.
They are very proud of their schools here, and it is all reflected in the sprightly boys and girls; the accomplished teachers and the scores of posters, each reflecting some angle akin to poultry production. Genuine inky tears were evidenced in one poster. The old hen was all a-weepy and the legend read: “Miss Ress didn’t go to the poultry show.”
Another depicted a fair lady at her devotion and the prayer read: “Oh Lord, send us a good day. We want to go to the Burlington Poultry Show.” A barber shop poster noted “Roosters and Turkeys are getting hair cuts and shaves, honoring the Poultry Special.” There were frequent appeals to “Join the Poultry Club.” One little store with a window filled with hats on the one and corsets on the opposite, appealed for business thusly: “With every hat sold during Poultry Week, a souvenir will be given” and “How about a new corset for Poultry Day.”
Perhaps the most notable window display was one featuring the W. G. Ross White Leghorns. One side held some half dozen fowls, the other a hundred dozen or so of beautiful white eggs placed about a basket overflowing with more eggs. Two big White Rock capons made a foreground to a sign reading, Hjalmar Johnson sold 39 capons for $96.
Out from Laurel some 2 miles is the country club of “Lo-Val Lake” with 200 members. The lake covers six acres, and is well stocked with fish. Yesterday a three and a half pound catfish was lifted from its waters. The sportiest little 9-hole golf course in the state is how they tell about it.
A community and Odd Fellows auditorium seats about a thousand March 26, 1926
LAUREL - F. C. Gibson and daughter, Miss Marjorie, of Hartington, were in this city on Tuesday to attend the Nebraska Poultry Special.
Miss Marjorie is very active in club work and this trip was of special interest to her because of this activity. She has been in different classes of pig clubs, and received several prizes at the county fair.
She is at present president of the Cedar County Junior Poultry Club, secretary and treasurer of the baby beef club and will enter a Shorthorn calf at the Cedar county fair and International fair this fall. She also expects to enter a pig in the pig club contest. She will have a hundred and fifty chicks by the middle of April for the poultry club. She won a $10 prize at a tractor demonstration, for guiding and making the best furrow. Miss Marjorie is a grand-daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gibson of this city.
March 26, 1926
LAUREL -The annual meeting of the Laurel Ice Company was held Monday and the reports of the various officers were heard. D. D. Coburn, M. T. Sullivan, Guy Wilson, F. P. Voter and A. D. Felber were elected as directors for the coming year and the officers will be chosen from this directorate.
March 10, 1926
LAUREL - Emmet Maun, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Maun of this city, has broken into the daily newspapers with a vengeance. There has been scarcely a daily paper in the middle west but what has commented on his views regarding higher education and he has been taken to task by most of them for his expressed views.
Mr. Maun is a graduate of the State University of Nebraska and his statements as published in a college paper were to the effect that his university degree had proven worthless to him as far as securing him employment. That he could have had the same employment without it as with it and from the fact he had to serve his apprenticeship in business, he did not think the degree worth anything to him. He also took a hot shot at modern educational methods. We will not attempt to go into details. Our readers have probably all read the story in the daily papers by this time.
Mr. Maun is at the present time employed in Chicago where he has a position in the advertising department of Willeys Automobile corporation.
March 10, 1926
LAUREL - Dr. Carroll of this city had a mighty narrow escape from serious injury Sunday when his car went into the ditch between here and Belden as he was returning from a call in that neighborhood.
The doctor does not know just exactly how the accident happened. He had reached down to shut off the heater in the car and the first thing he realized the car was in the ditch. He was badly shaken up and sustained a bruise or two but was otherwise uninjured. The car did not fare quite so well. A fender or two was broken and twisted and a part of the glass was broken in the coupe. And the next morning the doctor appeared on the streets driving a new car.
That is the first that his many friends knew of the accident. We are pleased that the results were no more serious than they were.
March 10, 1926
LAUREL - The J. V. Harper store is just now ready to show the new spring line of coats, dresses, hosiery and shoes that will make an instant hit with every lady in the community. Mr. and Mrs. Harper returned recently from Chicago where they bought especially for the ladies of the community which the store serves. And they succeeded well.
