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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1903
Page
4
The page lists subscription prices and advertising rates for The Telegraph, including one year and six month options, display rates per column inch, business locals per line, professional cards per month, and legal notices. It notes postal circulation details and class matter status in Sidney Nebraska.
The editor promotes western migration, urging eastern states to welcome landless families. He cites Teddy Roosevelt’s possible visit to Sidney and praises farm moisture conservation advocate Campbell. The piece notes improving streets near Rose Street and the B and M depot and calls for continued civic work.
Special correspondent notes the revenue bill passed both houses and awaits governor signature. It creates county assessors to work with county commissioners and the state secretary on deputy assessors and county valuation. The piece reflects on rising personal property valuations and a reform-minded legislature.
Report notes disciplined conduct in the statehouse with no major rowdyism or boozy excess. It cites a push to high appropriation bills totaling nearly four million, the senate’s likely reductions, and a conference-set adjournment around Thursday noon amid lobbyist efforts to hurry bills.
Land transfers include Frank Shelly to Kitty Shelly for two lots in Clarkson's Addition Sidney priced at 1500 dollars. H A Collins to N L Kro sinn for lots 3 and 44 priced 82500. G C Newman to Olive Newman for northwest quarter 2615-4850 priced 150. Newman to Mary Newman for southeast quarter 2215-4848 priced 800. Stanton to Portrey for northeast and southeast quarters 301 and 322-1651 priced 1500. Tappen to Stimpson for block 138 Oberfelder addition Lodgepole and 10 acres northwest 311446 priced 1400. F A Anderson to Wm Schuler for lot 26-1748 priced 300. C Van Valin to Ollie Van Valin for half interest in all of 9-1253 priced 1000. F W Leater to Fred Blain for northwest 28-2249 and other quarters priced 200. Babcock to Webster for northwest 8 and lots 3 4 416-50 priced 240. Elizabeth Blain to W C Brown for southwest 421-48 priced 500.
The Chicago Record-Herald showcases its Comic Colored Supplement a breezy weekly at Sunday edition. Four color pages and four B and W pages deliver fresh jokes witty illustrations and instructive humor to lift blues and entertain readers.
Ed C Nud of Sedgwick County Kansas suffered sciatic pain and used Ballard's Snow Liniment. He reports relief after three 50 cent bottles and now walks without crutches. Available at D J Scanlon's with prices 25c 50c and 1.00. The Telegraph offers neat job work and legal blanks.
Clyde Spanogle rode with Mitchell on Friday returning Tuesday. J Trinnier and family visited the county seat Saturday. The Telegraph editor F A Gapen spent Sunday in the valley. Mrs Haxby millinery opening fell flat on Saturday. Train No 801 damaged a band car, Blakeman and crew escaped with breath. Several residents and visitors stopped in for varied errands and social calls amid town growth and new housing being built.
Ranching community cheers as snow melts and green grass returns. Jacob Eckert sows Spring rye while Jacob Mayer buys seed wheat for upcoming planting. Ed Mayer to work at Webster's ranch. James Davison and Hiram Eckert haul hay from Dalton. Charley Mayer works for Davison. James Davison finishes husking last year's corn. Miss Birdie Otteman completes school term and departs for Sidney. Will Gustafson and Albert Burk visit Ickes. Miss Gertie Collert visits. Maude and Marie Davison accompany her home. David Eckert visits family and returns to Redington with Anna Eckert.
Dalton residents report meadow lark song signals approaching spring. Miss Sadie Hanna closed a successful school term on Friday March 27 and returned home to Bayard Saturday morning. Local activity includes post office inspector visits, potato loading by Perse and Morrow for Reinmuth, Woolsey shipping 72 hides, Reinmuth touring Cheyenne, and L O Clough children ill with what is believed whooping cough.
Riverside report details Tolle ill health and Tolle Bros ranch work on Gulch Creek with horses moved to the ranch. Ed Smith Robt Walsh Geo Bisass and M Ahrens hunted young cedars for their ranches. Marcus Hanway Anthony Johnson aided Arthur North with a refractory heifer crossing the river. Grass growth begins as warm spell continues. Rev Noyse from Cleman discussed church work. Mr and Mrs Johnson visited Mr and Mrs Myers on the south side. Geo Elsass socializes with local friends.
Albert Burk trades his homestead to Gust Carlson for a quarter section near Sextorp. Albert Nelson of Sextorp visits T. A. Epp Friday night. Miss Birdie Ottemann hosts a school entertainment and games. Stock feed declines as some weaker stock still grinds. Thomas Epps trades horse with Jacob Mayer of Ickes. A W Olson of Sextorp trades horse with Thomas Epps. Burk spends Wednesday at Gustaf gon's. School resumes Monday after a three month layoff with hopes pupils resume strong.
A rental notice for a room formerly occupied by the Sidney Cigar Company beside the Oberfelder stone block. Term reasonable to desirable tenant. Oberfelder has new stock of Stetson hats in latest shapes.
The ad promotes health by eating nourishing food and taking Herbine after meals to aid digestion. It claims many women fail to digest food, growing pale and weak, and asserts recovery comes from improving digestion. Available for 50 cents at D. J. Scanion's.
A note on the Prairie Farmer weekly and monthly magazines linking with the Telegraph title, outlining a year long collaboration or publication arrangement and its implications for readers and contributors.
The Prairie Farmer and Prairie Farmer Home Magazine offer a combined one year package for 150 dollars paid in advance. The deal includes The Telegraphic?, livestock market reports from Chicago Kansas City and Omaha and full color home magazine supplements. The offer aims for 500 new subscriptions and promises value beyond blank paper.
A fragment listing officials in Lodgepole including treasurer sheriff coroner and attorney with several district and school board members. It includes religious and parish schedules for Evangelical Lutheran, Methodist, Catholic, and Christ Church, with service times, Sunday school details, and clergy names.
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