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Chase county voters will be asked at an election next month to approve a $16,500 bond issue to assist in financing a county high school building. PWA funds have been asked to complete the cost of the $30,0000 building.
Four-H club members who sold baby beeves shown at the Nebraska state fair this year got a total of $4,972 for the animals, or an average of $103 a head. The average was $12.11 a hundred, about $2 higher than the top of the Omaha market that day.
The annual Nebraska State Teachers Association district conventions, scheduled for October 23-26, will bring to the state many distinguished personalities. Convention cities this year are: Lincoln, Omaha, Norfolk, Hastings, Holdrege, and Sidney.
Plans were being made for carrying out a proposal for a new water plant at Loomis, as the result of a special election in which $10,000 bonds for the project were approved 100 to 20. The election was held September 17. The village has applied to the PWA for a loan to assist in financing the improvement.
The historical room of the Hastings museum contains what is believed to be the first piano brought to Clay county. The "Model B, by Simpson & Co.," was presented to the museum by Miss Lora Meyers of Sutton. It is four feet long, four feet high and two feet wide, and its keyboard has a range of only five octaves.
The proposal for the construction of a new municipal airport in Grand Island, as a PWA project has the approval of the bureau of aeronautics of the department of commerce, city officials have been advised. The airport, according to plans, will cover a section of land and include four full length hard surfaced runways, a hangar and administration building.
A. E. Anderson, state and federal agricultural statistician, recently reported the August ratio of prices farmers receive to prices farmers pay for non-farm products stood at 84 per cent, the highest since 199. He said latest reports reaching his office revealed the index was 84 per cent, three points below the highest ratio of the last twelve months, but above any other August figure since 1929.
P. L. Hall, receiver of the National bank of Ashland, recently announced the comptroller of currency has authorized a second and final payment of 30 per cent to depositors of the bank, making a total of 100 per cent returned. The bank suspended business March 4, 1933 and went into receivership July 16, 1934. The total paid out in receivership dividends amounts to $179,969.
The state board of control recently announced bids had been let for food and meat for all state institutions. The contracts are for the quarter beginning October 1. In several instances the bids were considerably above those of a year ago, particularly in pork, where increases have been phenomenal. The bid on bacon was $26.43 a hundred pounds, as compared with $8.77 in 1934. Contract for ham was awarded at $22.70 as compared with $7.30 in 1934.
Uncle Sam's man-made forest, the western shelter belt area, will be enlarged by more than 12 million trees within the next year. Shelter-belt officials in Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas already have made plans to set out millions of seedlings next year to add to the miniature forests now growing under the federal plan to aid rainfall and climate in the plains states. The Nebraska 1936 program calls for planting of four million trees in strips across the state. Land purchases are to be complete by October 15. This year 1,250,000 trees were set out in the state.
A loan for 50 thousand dollars was secured recently by the Nebraska Certified Potato Growers' association co-operative at Alliance. The money will be used by the association to finance certified growers for harvesting their potato crops this fall, and was obtained from the Omaha Bank for Co-operatives. About three hundred certified growers, members of the association, with approximately nine thousand acres of potatoes, will be eligible to get loans. The harvest will begin about October 1. It is believed, however, that a large percentage of these growers will not need to borrow money in order to pay harvest expenses.
Charles A. Bowers, secretary of the Nebraska State Teachers' association, reports slight but steady improvement in the financial condition of schools in the state. In a survey recently completed, Bowers drew three major conclusions with regard to the school year which has just begun. 1—Finance—Slight improvement. 2—Program—Elimination ceased, replacement and some expansion noticeable. 3—Personnel—Less harassing criticism, working conditions generally better, tenure of administrators still below normal.
David Bryant chapter of D. A. R. will sponsor setting of a marker on the Nebraska City cutoff of the old Oregon trail. Regents of Nebraska chapters have been invited to attend. The marker will be placed on Highway 76 at a point seven miles south of Wahoo. A. E. Sheldon of Lincoln, president of the State Historical society, and Mrs. Sheldon, president of the Native Sons' and Daughters' society of Nebraska, will be guest speakers, together with the state regent, Mrs. Grant W. Baker of Omaha.