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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1923
Page
11
Harvest time shows Cheyenne County farmers harvesting vast fields of grain. Despite past losses from winter moisture, cutworms, and black rust, production nears three million bushels on smaller acreage. Experts urge diversifying crops to boost per acre profits and reduce wheat overproduction.
A Kansas City Star report notes 59 deaths at grade crossings in one day last week. The writer argues grade crossings reflect greed over human life and urges action, citing a Sidney crossing as a candidate for replacement by a subway.
Sidney residents and travelers criticize the Burlington depot calling it a twenty year old shack with poor facilities. They note Burlington revenue and city population have grown, arguing Sidney deserves a modern depot reflecting the city’s brick and stone growth.
Mrs Lizzie Campbell visits daughter in Crawford. L Patrowsky’s West Point mother visits Sidney. Mrs JF Meacham operated on by Dr JRTaylor last Monday. Irene Morgan formerly of Sidney now of Cheyenne visits local friends. AC Mantor of College View visits brother Dr H Mantor. Mrs George Chapman of Laramie visits sister Mrs Dan Kelly. Fred Stuht and C M Wright couples go to Cheyenne for Frontier Days. Dunlaps visit Sidney. last resided thirteen years ago. J J McIntosh and Grace return from Yellowstone outing. Bartholomew Donahoe Doran Kelly to Denver for Denver vacation. Alta Sailors visiting Sidney from Omaha. Merta Miller from Lamar returns to Denver Grand Lake. Tobin family travel to York for Knights of Pythias convention.
Stanley Baker and Roy Chambers left Monday for Ft. Des Moines to undertake a month long training in the citizens military training camp. They are the only boys from Sidney to enter the camp which runs throughout August.
Donald Bassett departed Tuesday for Denver to join the Corbett Ice Cream company in its Denver office. He carries a position of merit and faces a promising career in the business world.
M. W. Dimery Paul Martin and A. J. Jorgenson traveled southwest of Cheyenne on Tuesday to survey conditions. They noted Herford area crops lag behind Cheyenne county with beans as the main crop appearing unprosperous. The trio returned feeling elated about local prospects.
Mrs Roscoe Zimmer hosted a six o clock dinner last Thursday for her daughter Gladys turning sixteen. Five young couples attended as a two course meal was served and the evening continued with games and dancing at the Zimmer home.
Stanley Hall of Alvo is employed by W. O. Campbell in Sidney at Campbell's undertaking business. Hall is a registered embalmer. John Killham, who has assisted Campbell, will soon take the state embalming exam and has not yet decided where to locate.
Richard Barger three year old son of Dr and Mrs F A Barger suffered a leg bruise Monday evening while playing in the street in front of his home. It was thought he was struck by a motor truck driven by Jack Poole but the injury was so slight doubt remains. The truck was stopped at once and no blame is attached to the driver if an accident occurred.
Equipment for a three mile beacon system along the Sidney aft mail route has arrived and similar lights are being erected east of the city. The beacons will form a Chicago to Cheyenne chain and may miss night flight start dates this month. The Sidney emergency beacon burns nightly except Sundays until midnight, operated by John T. McIntosh.
A preliminary tournament will be staged by the Central Nebraska Golf Association at Kearney on September 3 4 5 and 6. The association formed at Grand Island aims to foster statewide golf interest and hold annual events open to the state at any suitable venue. The eighteen hole Kearney course hosts the preliminary meet with the annual tournament likely in June.
Miss Elsie Portz of Ft. Dodge visits her parents in Sidney. Rereads show two locals traveling or visiting, with names and places noted in a brief social update.
Miss Orpha Brestel secretary to W T Miles is vacationing at Colorado Springs. Attorney W P Miles returned to Sidney Wednesday from a business trip in Johnson county.
Mr and Mrs R P Kepler came back Sunday after a ten days outing at Rye Colorado.
Leon Fine, a former Sidney businessman, and his wife, now reside temporarily in the Hardy apartments in Denver. Miss Jessie Taylor of Kimball has taken a position in the dry goods department at Cheyenne County Trading Company. Mr and Mrs Raymond W Bauer and their two sons from Lincoln are visiting Mrs Bauer's parents, Mr and Mrs W P Miles.
Miss Lillian Bassett and Miss Vera Bassett of Champaign Wisconsin, sister and niece of W F Bassett, visited Sidney this week while traveling to Estes Park. Miss Josephine Dendinger, who had been visiting her two sisters in Cheyenne on vacation, returned to Sidney Tuesday.
Mr and Mrs W S Doran left last Friday to return to their home in Toppenish Washington. They planned a stop in Denver and Salt Lake City along the way.
Miss Grace McFadden, after a month as a nurse, departed Albuquerque, New Mexico on Monday to reside there pending her choice of the city. The Nebraska State association executive board set August 21 22 and 23 for the thirteenth annual convention to be held at Bridgeport.
Examinations for file clerks at Mitchell and other points will be held in Sidney on August 15. Application blanks may be obtained at the local post office.
Mrs Art Marrall was taken to a sanitarium at Boulder Colorado last Wednesday by her husband for treatment. Their two children are staying with their grandparents.
Miss Edna Granneman and Miss Nellie Niemeller will depart Friday for Kansas City and Omaha to buy a stock for their new ready to wear store. They expect to open by mid month.
Rev. I. E. Lewis formerly led Sidney Methodist Church and now serves in Rising City. He arrived last week to oversee his crops and the current church building here was erected during his tenure as pastor.
Mr and Mrs E J Thayer and Ted Leonard returned home last Friday after a week long trip to Nichols County where they visited friends and relatives and enjoyed a restful break.
Mrs Thayer was away a month, spending part of the time visiting in Lincoln, according to relatives.
Mrs Anna Hart and daughter Mrs Teonard Herrod of Hastings return to Sidney after a two week visit with Mrs Hart's daughter Mrs Jack Sager and husband in Denver. They traveled with the Sagers visiting Estes Park and Cheyenne. Little Virginia Barlow granddaughter of Mrs Hart accompanied them home from Cheyenne.
The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, costing 1 million dollars, will be dedicated to 3,369 Californians who died in World War I during the American Legion national convention in San Francisco from October 15 to 19. Adolph Spreckles funds the memorial. The building mirrors the Paris structure with official permission from the French government. Architect is Henri Guillaume, noted for the Panama Pacific Exposition.
Claude Gross a Sidney Union Pacific ticket agent and his wife left for Santa Hora California where he will work for Northwestern Pacific railroad on a ninety day leave. The couple may not return if Mrs Gross health improves. Their home at 208 Fourth Avenue East was sold to Harry Brumage and F G Clark has taken over the Sidney position.
Peter Rocker died at his home seven miles south of Sunol on July 23 after a two year illness. Funeral services were held at the home last Thursday afternoon. Burial was in Chappell cemetery. He moved with his family from Seward County and lived the farm south of Sunol. Survived by his widow, one son Nicholas and three daughters Katherine Christine Mrs. W. E. Kroeger and Mrs. Roy North.
Madison's board of education trims school funding by $1000 at the high school and eliminates the athletic instructor and the manual training department in further cost reductions.
Last Friday morning a car driven by Miss Nellie Hewitt went out of control on a hill three miles south of Huntsman. It struck the guard rail, breaking a post. Nellie Hewitt and her mother suffered numerous bruises while other occupants Chas Prihm Lawrence Taylor Chester and Earl Nickels escaped injury.
Mr and Mrs William A Radatz of Sidney welcome a boy born July 22. Mr and Mrs John Brauer living 14 miles southeast of Sidney greet a girl born July 23. Mr and Mrs Charles Sprenger of Sidney Draw celebrate a boy born August 1. Mr and Mrs Charles Mann report a boy born July 31. Henry Schleuter has a boy born July 29. Mr and Mrs Henry Mergers of Broadwater announce a boy born July 28 at the home of Mrs Meyers parents Mr and Mrs William Longton in Sidney.
G. K. Baumgartner closed a major deal last week purchasing about one hundred pure bred registered Hereford cattle for L. A. Bursom of Morrill Nebr. and moving the herd to Baumgartner’s ranch near Bridgeport marking an important headline in Morill county livestock circles.
A large number of grasshoppers hatched in the past two weeks across the county and are troublesome in parts, though no serious damage yet. The county agent urges extermination and provides a poison formula: bran 100 pounds, white arsenic 4 pounds, amyl acetate 3 ounces, cheap syrup half a gallon, table salt 5 pounds.
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