The Omaha guide., 1956-01-27
From Around Nebraska

From Around Nebraska
Prominent in the minds Of many in the vicinity Of Blair these
days is the patronage which the new Community Hospital will
have when it is completed at Blair. An annual report from the
Sherman County Sacred Heart Hospital at Loup City revealed
some interesting things last week and these facts might have a
bearing on what a new hospital here will do.
The Loup City Hospital, during 1855, served people from forty
towns. There were 1874 Individual patients during the year and
II different religious denominations were registered.
Over three million pounds of butter were produced by the
Madison Coop Creamery in 1855, the Madison Star revealed last
week. The butterfat to make all that butter came directly from
farmers in the Madison Area. Egg purchased from farmers in the
area totaled Gill cases or nearly 3 million dozen, the report
shows. The Madison Creamery has a payroll Of 81 to 40 persons
and there are approximately $500 active patrons of the business.
All of this business produced ready cash for both the farm
producers and the workers in the immediate Madison vicinity.
The fastest growing business in Butler County David City, in
the past ten years has been the sale Of rural electricity, the Ban
nerPress revealed in a yearend summary last week. Rural cleo
tricity sales are now 20 times as much as they were 10 years ago
and preparations are being made to handle still more current in
the near future.
One of the factors involved is the rapid growth of irrigation,
for which electricity has been used to operate the pumps.
Wouldbe purchasers of auto and truck license plates at On
ava are being Excused" at this time, according to the Onawa
Democrat. The newspaper explained last week that there is a
shortage Of plates and the usual January 31st deadine has had to
be extended to February 18th.
Wahoo is to have a new postmaster and there are twelve ap-
plicants for the job, the Wahoo Newspaper stated last week. The
Civil Service Commission will have to make the decision of who
gets the job.
Teenagers at Arapahoe carried out a peanut sale last week
to raise their share Of that communities needed funds for polio.
The kids sold bags of peanuts to anyone who would buy and when
they added up their receipts they discovered that they may have
been selling peanuts but the results figured up into a worthwhile
sum.
At Lexington twelve merchants have discontinued the use Of
trading stamps and have announced that the change will be effec-
tive February 18th.
The merchants have explained that the give-away is too ex-
pensive and cuts too deeply into their profits.
Moreover, with so many merchants giving stamps of one kind
or another, the Special benefits which each had hoped to derive
has been nulliied to the point that they are no longer a paying
proposition.
Retail stores in Fairbury have announced that they will close
on Saturday nights, breaking a precedent of many years stand
ing. Instead, the stores will be open Thursday night to provide
afternoons shopping time. Business has been falling off on Satur-
day evening for some time, the Fairbury Journal has noted, prin-
cipaly because of a change of living habits on the part of many
people. The Farbury merchants feel that Thursday night would
be a better shopping evening for most folks.
A sheep raiser at Pawnee City is taking the spotlight on live
stock oddities this week. The Pawnee Republican related a story
last week about a eve which had triplett lambs 16 days apart.
The first lamb was born December 10th. Then, on January 18th,
the eve gave birth to twin lambs.
The entire family" seems to be getting along satisfactorily.
The Wahoo Chamber Of Commerce has been instrumental in
the forming of Wahoo Industries, Inc. and has sold $4,000 worth
of stock. The corporation will promote industry for Wahoo by
furnishing buildings or grounds as the business may need. There
are over 100 stockholders.
A committee of women faced the city council at Seward one
evening last week, to urge that some action be taken on the clos
ing Of unused csterns and cesspools in the community. The
Seward County Independent didn't reveal what started it all, but
it did state that the ladies had made a survey Of the town and had
discovered that there were Sc untitled cisterns and cesspools in
the town which were potential danger spots.
The ladies were seeking an ordinance making it mandatory
that the holes be filled and rendered harmless.
At Meadow Grove a rural fire district has been laid out and
farms have been assigned numbers which will be their station
numbers in the event Of fire. The numbers are prefixed by a
letter which indicates the district in which the farm is located,
the Meadow Grove News explained last week.
Crete is putting on an intensive membership campaign for the
Chamber of Commerce. The drive was fingered By a kickoff
breakfast and the success of various teams has indicated that the
Crete Chamber will have 200 members next year, the Crete News
has stated.
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