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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1914
Page
5
A Dallas man visiting his rural cousin describes city pleasures from golfing and dancing to late nights. The cousin counters with rustic pastimes such as buggy trips, baseball, attic poker, and farm routines extending from sun to clock, highlighting contrast between urban and country leisure.
Clara auctioneer A A Sharp says time is money and has bought a brand new Ford car from the Sidney agent to speed his work. The note mentions prices for butter red wheat macaroni wheat oats and other commodities in a fragmented OCR snippet.
St Patrick s Catholic Church lists Father Link as pastor with Mass Sunday at 10 o clock and an evening service at 739. Instruction each Saturday 20 o clock.
Francis H Garrett, pastor, announces Sunday services at 10 a m Bible school 11 a m and 7 30 p m preaching with 6 30 p m Christian Endeavor. Willing Workers meet Thursday afternoons.
Christ Episcopal Church announces Easter Day Holy Communion at 10 am with Sunday School and Easter music. Evensong at 7 30 pm. April 17 features Ladies Guild gathering at 3 30 pm and a church business meeting at 7 30 pm to elect officers. Low Sunday April 19 includes Holy Communion and Morning Prayer at 10 am. Rector H Lascelles, priest.
Rev J H Utesch leads services at 10 00 am and 7 30 pm with Sunday School at 10 00 am. Choir practices Tuesdays at 8 00 pm. Dorcas Society meets Thursdays at members homes. Church council meets first Monday each month. Confirmation class at 2 00 pm Saturdays in winter.
Rev E J Hayes pastor details Sunday school at 10 a m sermons at 11 a m and 7 30 p m league services 6 30 p m Sunday prayer meeting Thursday 7 30 p m choir practice Friday 7 30 p m ladies aid Wednesday afternoon
Services will be held at the Dun Kard church Sunday afternoon at the usual hour, inviting parishioners to attend prayers and fellowship.
All members of churches elsewhere are invited to commune at the Lutheran Church Easter Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. During the morning service there will be one adult baptism and two confirmations. There will be no communion service at night due to the special after service Beauty For Ashes. This will be a service of song and recitation by the Sunday school. The Sunday school offering Easter Sunday morning will be for Church Extension. Sunday night after the evening service there will be a congregational meeting and all members are asked to stay for that meeting.
Statement of Ownership sworn March 30 1914 lists BF A Gapen as publisher and seven eighths owner with H E Gapen holding one eighth. no bonds or mortgages. Notary Henry E Gapen certifies the document.
The BODG cas Ze BODG cas Ze Sidney Lodge No. 196 AOUW honored Deputy Grand Master Workman Frank G. Simms of Seward Nebraska. The hall filled and extra chairs were needed. Several candidates were initiated and a drill team assisted by Simms. Addresses by Simmons Oberfelder and Williams marked a historic evening. A smoker followed and a April 23 meeting will feature Mr Simms aiding another large class.
John Juarson of Dalton came to the county seat on Monday, detailing a routine visit to handle matters at local government offices.
Costello and Sid Schroeder are student brakemen on the fourth division with Sam Brown of Green River Wyoming supplying in Ros Collins absence. John Costello spent days in Omaha on company business. J White serves as machinist helper replacing Henry Gould. Harold Willis shifts to the freight depot. Sid Schroeder brakes on the fourth division while Win Couch covers for Don Devine who is ill. Oscar Stewart takes a traveling position, W oD McLeish is Lehigh Valley traveling passenger agent. Fred Chart resigns firefighter role. Frank Hengl succeeds Ralph G Adams as traveling freight agent for the Chicago Great Western visits Sidney Wednesday. Ed Hughes promoted to cellar packer. Jess Krueger becomes boilerwasher. Frank Schroeder starts at the roundhouse as hustler helper, replacing Frank tengs. Don Devine returns from three weeks off. Roy Collins at Cheyenne hospital with a broken patella. John Witters and Harold Willis shift at yard and freight offices. Claud Stoeckham travels with No. 1 to Ogden as Iowa and Nebraska officials plan California sites for Panama Exposition.
Carl Rutner visited Sunol on Monday while Frank Vosika represented Lodgepole. J B Campbell of Lodgepole came to the county seat Tuesday. Jake Hansen from Dalton visited Thursday. Fred Johnston arrived from his north divide home last Saturday. Ed Collins and Ed Fischer visited from ranches near Laura on Thursday. Martin Boreson broke ground Friday to build a modern house on west Second Street. Dr J B Sampson of Creston Iowa stayed as an overnight guest Tuesday. Frank Rowan traveled Wednesday from the northeast country to visit his children at the high school. The Metropolitan hotel has passed into the hands of A S Hardy with J M Swenson taking immediate possession. Frank Rihn from Dalton was in Friday and reports wheat conditions are very good.
Old newspapers offered at this office for shelf lining carpet underlay and many other uses convenient for crafts or packing. suitable in various sizes and conditions.
Jake Schwender of Bridgeport visited Dalton on Thursday circulating a petition among residents to establish a saloon in the city.
Martin Baker of the Mere was setting up Easter eggs with salt for callers Friday. The display featured a new fashionable maize shade and described the interior as mighty good for eating on a cold morning.
Lincoln April 9 The York telephone hearing before the state railway commission entered a second inning with Lincoln Telephone applying for higher rates at the York plant. An independent valuation was requested. Expert Stone testified the York plant would cost 75000 and maintenance should be 1 percent.
A surprise railroad decision cuts lumber freight rates from the Pacific coast to Missouri river points. Hearing at Lincoln before Interstate Commerce Commission Special Examiner Wood. The 24 to 44 cent per 100 pounds reduction forecasts $0.75 to $1.50 per 1000 feet or $18 to $35 per carload, boosting Nebraska lumber business.
The Nebraska Anti-Saloon League board of directors announced it would abandon plans to push a law banning saloons within two miles of state institutions. If enacted, the measure would have closed many saloons in cities with state institutions, including Omaha, Lincoln, and Kearney.
Sheriff Kunkle investigated an attempted safe opening at Hugo Haase's store in Schuyler. Lyle Sprecher was caught by a store guard, placed in the county jail, and awaits his preliminary trial in Schuyler.
Yankton South Dakota April 9 A fire destroyed the Dakinhal girls dormitory at Yankton College built in 1889 costing 25700 with 18000 insurance Nearly all students were absent for classes Four girls on the fourth floor escaped safely College men emptied the building before the walls fell
In New York on April 9, Jacob Theis aged 79 and his wife 78, distressed at being a burden to their grandchildren, hanged themselves in their grandson George’s Fi sixteenth avenue home. A Grand Island postmark accompanied a plain note and a bundle of bills directed to the treasurer, with a request to dispose of the funds. The letter promised the treasurer would be guided by the recipients’ wishes. Separately, precinct assessors plan to enroll all farm residents over 21 under new headings in agricultural statistics, adding Occupants of Farms and updating Time Employed on Farms and Amount of Wages Earned.
Mrs. G. C. Dunn of Arnold Pennsylvania reports Chamberlain's Tablets eased years of bilious attacks and stomach trouble from the first bottle. She says after one bottle she feels like a different person and urges easy access by all dealers.
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