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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1877
Page
5
The record from the Distcles Clerk’s Docket shows Thomas McLain was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged on October 18 1877 after the jury verdict. The process notes the judge ordered McLain conveyed to Cheyenne until October 13 1877 and execution to follow on the specified date.
The undersigned offers two large lots in the western portion of the city free to the Catholic Church Society if they raise funds to build. The notice is dated April 18 and signed by H. V. Rapsonerton, Skiney.
The Bank building at Rose and Second is enclosed and paired with the AcDonald mercantile house, enhancing the block's architecture. A new advertisement notes Mr. Dumbreck opening a shoemaker shop on Rose Street, welcomed for quick, skilled work.
The city houses a 16 ball pool table at Derby and Mulroney on Front Street near the Post Office. A Tivoli sociable is planned for next Friday. Walter Cooper the candy maker leaves for the Black Hills tomorrow but W. T. Brinkworth will continue the candy and stationery business at the same stand and daily make pure home made candles. Brady's Sample Room on Front Street in Pratt & Ferris’s former building is well furnished with fine paintings and chandeliers. Brady and WA McNeil are courteous hosts. A ball at Thiele's next Friday is promoted as the week’s event. Knitel & Benschoter's Saloon and boarding house north of the freight depot are in full swing with board by day or week. Bob serves Denver beer and Benschoter provides food for the patrons.
Livingston's sells cooking stoves and camping outfits while W Myers & Co offers wholesale potatoes fruit butter and eggs. Blue Front Store promotes ham bacon butter and potatoes. The Exchange advertises billiard tables and Bascom & Jordan claim the easiest place to spend an evening. Herlihy Mahoney stocks Dublin Porter and Bass Pale Ale. Thiele Wagner shift dancing party details and tickets. Tivoli social next Friday. Mrs J Lloyd launches spring hats and ribbons at Blue Front Store.
Fresh stack of spring millinery attracts shoppers at Mrs Jo Lloyd’s. Suauder is confident in his ability to ace his friends with stylish hats and accessories for the season.
The notice advertises the Greenwood Ranch near Sidney Hills with full stock of canned fruits fish coffee and provisions plus liquors cigars and comfortable accommodations open day and night. It promotes McDonald s and McVey selling sewing machines discounting cash prices and lists various local services including hotels harness makers billiard hall and a bar Oasis open nightly.
A bustling page lists breakfast bacon at Adams Redington and Haas, new stock at Dalton's boots paila and woodenware, fresh oysters and fish at the American House, and hardware, guns, and dry goods at Mr. Morian’s corner Front and Myrtle. Also shown are taverns, billiard halls, clothing, hats, railroad caps, and watches repair by F A Beeler. A reward notice for a lost gold cross is posted for Second Street between Rose and Myrtle.
A reward of two hundred dollars is offered for the arrest and delivery to the Sheriff of Cheyenne county Nebraska of Gus Corman the man who shot cattle herders at Camp Clarke on the Sunday of March 1877 He is described as German descent about thirty years old five feet eight inches tall weighing around 140 pounds with a moustache and goatee a broken sunk left jaw and a bed scar over the right eye The notice is dated March 1877 and signed by Sidney RS Van Tisse WaLmann J J Kinney and Cheyenne county commissioners Nebraska 1877.
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