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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1923
Page
13
Old Sidman ill and despondent over Sidman’s Sirup a fake remedy. His wife believes in it and the maid’s recovery is cited, until a physician admits using the cure on Sidman and restoring his faith. The twist: colored water and advertising fool the patient and the public, mind over medicine.
Local wheat outlook remains grim with less than ten percent of fall sowing surviving and now many fields seeded to spring wheat. Worm infestations and a hard crust threaten yields, while crust pulverizing equipment is scarce and harrows are the current option. Community news covers Dewey Larson’s appendectomy recovery, visits, Union meeting, Rev. Pruitt’s services, a Sunday School rise, new officers, and local births and parties.
Lodgepole items recount visits and travel including Ed Lehmkuhl and Fred's trip to the Black Hills by auto. Guests include W H McNeeley and wives, Mrs M Frost from Huntington, Indiana, and many local family visits. Also notes on a Junior Play success and residents moving or visiting relatives in Sidney, Oshkosh, Brady and Jwesburg.
Local notes report robins seen in South Colton hurrying north toward more trees. Wheat conditions worsen as sun bakes a wet crust после last snow. Community life includes visits, fishing at Krueger’s, and lively court case State v Cabe ends with not guilty verdict after brief jury debate.
Center residents and families kept a busy week with numerous calls and overnights at local homes. Visits included Mr P J Han at Albert Linton home, Mrs Bancroft and two children at Dick Seimers, and S W Scott at John Groshans and later I S Bancroft. Community events featured Ladies' Aid meetings, Bible study, and a large program with supper at Bunker Jill.
Grand Prairie Mr and Mrs Will Frerichs and young children spent Sunday with Tart Alfred and Anna Jorgensen attended a Farmers Union meeting at 3d Miles Thursday evening. Mrs Henry Flessner and daughters Christine and Annie visited Thinzman s Tuesday afternoon last week. Mr and Mrs Frank Lundgren and family visited Frank Helms. Mr and Mrs Henry Beebe and son drove to Dalton Sunday to spend the day with Mr and Mrs Leonard Wind Mr and Mrs A G Weaver called at the J C Jorgensen home Friday.
Ladies of the Altar Society announce a card party luncheon and dance on May 1 1923 with all invited and encouraged to attend.
Maple Grove ladies from Sidney visited R W Johnson home Thursday afternoon. Mrs Nels Johnson and Mrs Ed Miles and daughter visited W Sharman home. JA WK Anderson spent Thursday at R W Johnson's. Junker motored to Sund Thursday. Farmer's Union meeting at Ed Miles home Thursday evening drew a good crowd with a county agent talk. Next meeting May 10 at Nels Johnson's. Families visited, dined, and attended events in Sidney Gurley Kimball and local homes through Sunday and Monday evenings.
Barney Birchfield of Nebraska City nearly drove off a bluff on a strange road back from Omaha to Syracuse. His car halted with the bank thirty five feet above the Missouri river. the current ran swift and the river was about twenty feet deep. He investigated after stopping and found the river had cut a new channel, leaving him hanging over the edge of the bank.
Grace presented his resignation at the Kimball County Farm Bureau gathering last Saturday and the board accepted it. President Pedrett will secure a new county agent at once and will carry the matter to the Extension Department in Lincoln. Grace plans to leave Sunday for Alliance to assume duties for Box Butte County.
The public school system of Nebraska City demonstrated the importance of fire drills and extinguishers when a fire was discovered in the Second Avenue school building. Fire precautions helped control the blaze and protect occupants as responders arrived.
A small blaze in a school stairway area caused by oily mop rags sent students fleeing. Three hundred children exited in under a minute during a drill like evacuation. Teacher Miss Homeyer grabbed a new chemical extinguisher and stopped the fire before firefighters arrived.
Mr and Mrs John Costello returned last Saturday night from a sixty day trip across much of the United States and Cuba They started east and ended in the west skirting the southern boundary and not by going around the world They visited Cuba and California on the journey in the west they met Sidney residents including Mr and Mrs J H Null Mr and Mrs DeLyn Wooldridge Esther Devine and Florence Parks noting happy people and bustling business locations.
The Kensington church group will host an apron sale and food sale with a noon luncheon in their parlors on April 28. The event supports church activities and features a luncheon served at midday.
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