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Aug. 4, 1950
LAUREL- The University of Nebraska conferred 454 degrees Friday. Donald S. Erwin was among the graduates.
Aug. 4, 1960
LAUREL- At a recent monthly meeting of the Laurel Lions Club it was decided to sponsor the construction of a shelter house in the pool park. Cost will be approximately $750.
Aug. 4, 1950
COLERIDGE — Two cars were quite badly damaged Saturday afternoon in a freakish accident that occurred 2-1/2 miles west on the No. 20 detour south of here.
Sheriff Ralph Clement reported the accident as follows: Verle A. David, Chambers, was driving a truck attempting to climb a hill when the truck developed motor trouble and quit running. While Mr. David was attempting to back the truck down the hill it jack-knifed across the road. A Wyoming car driven by W. M. Fendley came over the hill and took the ditch to avoid hitting the truck. While Mr. Fendley was taking pictures of what had already happened, a second car, driven by Oliver Brown of Winthrop, Iowa, came over the hill and also took the ditch crashing into the Wyoming car. There were three other passengers in the Brown car. No one was reported injured in the accident.
Aug. 4, 1950
COLERIDGE — WAR SCARE PRICES — The other day at a cattle auction in Belle Fourche, S.D., a runty little dwarf Hereford calf weighing 70 pounds sold for $22.50. On the same day in Chicago, a woman borrowed $100 with which to purchase nylon hose to be hoarded. Another woman lugged home 20 2-pound cans of coffee from a store.
All about us we see evidence of war hysteria. In times like these, it takes a lot of good old-fashioned common sense to cope with problems as they appear.
Nobody knows what the little doggie calf might be worth. A few years ago he would have been tapped on the forehead with a hammer. For those of us old enough to remember when fat range cows sold for $25 per head in the fall of 1924, the current speculative fever is “nuts.” From H. J. Gramlich, Ag Agent for Chicago & Northwestern railroad.
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