Five Years Ago City plans to take over Sioux Villa housing
Sidney City filed with the Federal Public Housing Authority to assume ownership of Sioux Villa to prevent abandonment. The project has been at capacity since WWII. Nearby, a new south Sidney elementary school and North Ward addition were announced, with bids from ten contractors for a new sanitary sewer system serving Grabill and Johnson additions.
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Grabill
Johnson
Sidney
Cheyenne County
Herbert Stevens
Stevens
Harold Tremain
Denver
Detroit
Michigan
New York
Washington, D.C
Henry Holtman
Ernest Knackstedt
Fremont
Knackstedt
Albert Erickson
McPherson
Kansas
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Pensacola
Flair
Clair West
Tracy
Linden
Calif
West
Las Vegas
Henderson Nevada
Francis West
Diamond Engineering wins Grand Island paving bid
The Diamond Engineering Co. of Grand Island was awarded the contract to lay paving in District No. 2 at 1.83 dollars per square yard, totaling 14,413.25 dollars, the bid accepted Wednesday. Sidne y grows as Mrs. James F. Powers of Ottumwa Iowa, sister of Charles H. Gardner, praised the city as progressive after visiting early this week. The annual city election is set for next Tuesday April 4.
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Potter
Elsie Mikelson Anderson
Cheyenne County
Nels M. Christensen
Sidney
Emanuel Troutman
Verna Livingston
A. E. Wright
Carl Hellwig
Lu’ L. Christy
Leo J. Thomas
George Thompson
Carl Hutchison
Armed Forces
Army
Robert Wesley Baker
Maurice William Gordon
Alvin Herman Bruns
Orrin Paul Wittig
Navy
Earl Edwin ‘Long
Joseph Charles‘ LaMay
Harrison
Ina Mae Kinton
Stockton
Calif
Harlan Kinton
Camp Stockton
Robert van ‘Gundy
Scottsbluff
van Gundy
Earl Johns
L. F. Durbin
Leo LaRivere
Greenlee's
Sidney Sunday
Alliance
LaRivere
Diamond Engineering Company
Grand Island
Ninth’ Avenue
James F. Powers
Ottumwa
Iowa
Charles H. Gardner
Powers
Middle West
Roaming Havana Trip Highlighted by Pineapple Feasts
Dr Simon and wife toured history through Havana this week enjoying a fifty mile auto trip through Cuban plantations picking and eating pineapples bananas and other fruits. They visited Moiro castle at the President's palace and other sites of note. Miss Martha Greenlee and Miss Elda Bacon spent Saturday and Sunday at the Greenlee home with Miss Baton as principal and Miss Greenlee assistant at Emerson school in Alliance.
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Simon
Historia
Havana
Ithrough
Moiro
Martha Greenlee
Elda Bacon
Greenlee
Baton
Miss Greenlee
Emerson
Alliance
W. C
Rube Lisco
Gladys Lisco
Miller
Bridgeport Stages Moral Reform and Local Happenings
Bridgeport closes saloons at midnight and Sundays as a moral reform cue while a flood of local updates fills the pages. The telegraph office shifts upstairs, new hello girls, a Union Pacific depot phone, and a dispatchers’ office phone. the UP shopmen form a baseball team with Lynn Sherwood captain. Senator Millard asked Roosevelt to speak June 1. A six-coach train carried the new Chinese ambassador Sir Liang Chen Tung Cheng through town. Sidney saloon managers take new leadership. a trainer from the east arrives for trotters. Mark and Ed Whitman plan new farms. engineer Tracy breaks his arm. fires threaten Sidney. goods for the Idaho exhibit burn near town. a long list of local residents and events fills the column.
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Bridgeport
Lathrop
Alice Dick
Hilma Anderson
W. W. Cummings
Union Pacific
Portland
Potter
Lynn Sherwood
O. V. Morrison
J. H. Millard
Roosevelt
Sir Liang’ Chen Tung Cheng
Sidney
M. H. C. Young
Black Hills
Nebraska
Cheyenne County
Mark
Ed Whitman
Miles
South Divide
Tracy
Round House
Doran
Tobias
Idaho
August Thompson
McLernon
North Platte
Hinman
McDonald
Baker
Probate of handwritten will admitted in New Haven
A typewritten will is now admitted to probate under Connecticut law. Judge rules writing counts as writing under the statute. W. F. Cody is expected home mid-April and has formed a partnership with Dr. Carver to stage a grand Western life show featuring Indians, cowboys and related curiosities. Western Nebraskian lists grand and petit jurors.
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New Haven
Connecticut
W. F. Cody
Carver
D. W. Shepard
C. Johnson
H. T. Bradford
Ben Tibbitts
Neils Mikkleson
H. M. Brann
A. G. Newman
Frank Cross
J. R. Williams
Charles Edmann
J. Hi. Gridley
Wm. Carrington
Wm Hanks
N. M. Fitch
James O’kane
W. Murray
Petit
James McNair
Daniel O’donnell
J Tappin
W. H. Baker
R. E. Patterson
H. Barrett
Andy Tabor
Ben. Moore
S. J Brown
George Michael
Wm. Collier
James O'Neil
N C Stone
Fox
Cochran
M. Fitzharris
Easter Dinner Hosts Mark Mt. Vernon Gathering
Mt. Vernon residents attended Easter Sunday at Virgil Walters with Keith Sprenger hosting. Guests included Ed Caywood Eileen Schart craft Lafler McElroy Ells Madden and other area families. Additional calls and visits occurred at W A Smiths Lingwall Vendll McMillen and related households.
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Keith Sprenger
Ed Caywood
Eileen
Jerry Schartcraft
Bob Lafler
E. T McElroy
Michael
David Ells
Raymond Madden
Virgil Walters
Frank Klentz
W. A. Smiths
Jennie Hammond
Martha
Arthur McMillens
Don Lingwall
John Lingwall
C L. Walters
Lloyd McAfee
Ferris
Declaration delayed: independence signed after Lexington hostilities
The Declaration of Independence was signed more than 14 months after the first Revolutionary War hostilities at Lexington and Concord, marking a long struggle before formal independence was proclaimed.
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Lexington and Concord
Sea Way Upgrade Set to End in 1959
Work on the St. Lawrence Sea way is expected to complete in 1959 enabling larger ocean vessels to load at ports in the Middle West, boosting freight capacity and regional commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Lawrence Seaway
Middle West
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Sidney, Telegraph
R. E. Roche
A. S. Hardy
F. A. Bush
Kenneth Agnew
O. A. Olson
Leon Fine
Democratic Central Committee
Don Dey Ermand
Dalton
Henry‘Blome
William Goding
Bud Livoni
Harold Chesebro
Colorado Agricultural College
Fort Collins
W. H. Burgess
James Hand
Fred George
Kimball Reservoir
Minna Pettett
Marjorie
Tulsa
Okla
Houston
Tex
U.S A
Zollars
MB. Nivens
Ft. Morgan
Colorado
Chet Miller
Clifford E. van Valkenberg
Mary C. Harris
Julesburg
van Valkenberg
Avery Company
van ‘Valkenberg
O. M. Harris
Joe Hahler
Fred Johnston
Frank _ Nolan
A. K. Greenlee
Co. C. West
W. R. Weeden
M. W. Dimery
Frederick Zimmer
Gerald Pitman
Regis College
C. E. Couch
Robert Jones
Omaha
J. H.i Nicholson
Syei Iverson
Laramie
Lincoln
The
State University
Jered Percheron
Mr Babb
A. Hardy
Arthur Boydston Hardy
Joe Swenson
Parker Streets
Niobrara
Valentine
Chappell
Fred Dormann
Bob Anderson
Lileen Hutchison
Roy Anderson
M. I. Club
Vera Klentz
Henry Glanz
Aleata Johnson
Bessie Hammond
Winnie Lingwall
Mabel Sprenger
Violet McAfee
Evelyn Revell
Minnie Lingwall
Lloyd Reineka
Clarence Evans
C. H. Hammond
R. D. Helzer
Scott
Katie Helzer
Killham
Jack Vencill
Jas. C. Johnsons
Holyoke
Colo
Jas
Jack Venciuls
Margaret
London
New Zealand
Australia
Mt. Vernon News
Ivy
Erry
Ucar
Yiled
Farah
Jean
America
North Platte Monument Co
F. E. Longan
Rep
Halliwell Waves
Supreme
Western Drug Store
Skiltee
Saule
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