Engaging news and social events in Sidney Nebraska
A series of social happenings in Sidney include Miss Eileen Cortney’s eighteenth birthday picnic at Legion Park, engagement news for Martha Crellin to Rev Cecil G Rickard, and multiple club gatherings. La Plaisir Club hosted former members in Lincoln, while Jean Ann Igo celebrated a second birthday with a large group of family and friends. Lodgepole Saddle Club prepared for a county fair horse show, Thimble Club planned Northside Park picnic, Judy Cochran honored at a luncheon and a Fox Theatre outing, and Country Club hosted a bridge afternoon with prizes for top players.
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Eileen Cortney
Legion Park
Miss Cortney
Gloria Peetz
Gerry Weller
Patricia Mohatt
Rosemary O'Neil
Therese Maher
Miss Crellin
R. B. Crellin
Ewing
Nebraska
Martha
Cecil G. Rickard
G. H. Rickard
Priest River
Idaho
Ewing High School
Nebraska State Teachers College
Wayne
Sidney
Rickard
Tekoa
Washington
Wessington Springs College
Wessington Springs
South Dakota
la Plaisir Club
Julius Cochran
Long Beach
Calif
Blaine Grabill
Lincoln
Lincoln Inn
O. J. Weymouth
Howard Mann
Charles Fisher
Lodgepole Valley Saddle Club
E. L. Hoover
Gordon Tobin
Paul Hakes
Thimble Club
Irene Canfield
Clifford Jensen
Wendell Boyd
Alvin Hoffman
Earl Russell
Northside Park
Carl Haze
Community Circle Meetings Across Local Churches
Thursday events list Willing Workers Society and W S C S General meeting in church parlors. Junior Circle hosts. Presbyterian Circle meets in church parlors. Dorcas Society at Trinity Lutheran Church parlors. St Paul’s Aid Society at Mrs John Miller home 1056 6th Ave with co-hostesses Mrs Hurst Pittam and Mrs Rudy Munderloh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willing Workers Society
Mothers Helper Club Meeting Notes and Craft Plans
The Mothers Helper Club met at Eleanor Beyer’s home on June 17 with all members and two visitors. They planned sewing projects including needle cases and aprons or pin cushions for the next meeting, then shared lunch. Evelyn and Ardis Schuler hosted a July 22 session with seven members and two visitors, where pinafores and aprons were discussed and modeled, stitches practiced, and lunch served.
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Mothers Helper Club
Eleanor Beyer
Evelyn Schuler
Railroads as Nebraska's Settling Force in 19th Century
James Olson examines how railroads built Nebraska by attracting settlers and selling land. Massive ads, lectures, and colonization agents encouraged eastern and European migration. Railroads offered low prices and liberal credit, with excursions and ticket credits to entice buyers, backed by state cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neparaska
Nebraska
Europe
Nebraska land boom era and railroad lands ads
The text notes Nebraska export efforts and agricultural exhibits sent to eastern fairs, Governor Furman active in publicity, newspapers urging railroad land purchases, and policies discussed at length leading to a late 19th century land boom from the Missouri River westward. Telegraph want ads reflect results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Robert W. Furnas
West
Missouri
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Jean Am Igo
Gretchen Igo
Arthur Kanthack
Kanthack
Jean Ann Igo
Carole Atkins
Neal Atkins
Johnny Olson
Ward Olson
Carole Mollott
J. J. Mollott
Kay
Carol
Ann Estelle Thomas
Leo J. Thomas
Terry Spiker
Keith Spiker
Johnny Deir
Pat Deir
Roger Robbins
W. H. Robbins
Vicky ‘Witters
N. E._Witters
Johnny Livingston
Vern Livingston
Jean Ann
Saddle Club Meeting
Hakes
North Side Park
North Sidez Park
Judy Cochran
Bonnie Lou McDaniels
Tetty Murray
Loretta Reineka
Beth and
Paula
Gentle
Georgia Kennedy
McDaniel
Fox Theatre
Country Club
Lowell Davis
Robert Clark
Ross Barker
Alvin Duis
E. D. Worden
EB. A. Winter
B. W. Schulte
Py Bensss
Saya Ie
Elia Kazan
Louis de Rochemont
Sharyn Moffett
Century-Fox Triumph
Fies
Jon Coominell
Pontesed
Soney Giddell
Columbia
Ipuie
Little Lulu — News
THE
Telegraph
Old
James’ S ‘Olson
State Historical Society
Railroad
Jenkins Venetian Blind Company
Scottsbluff,Nebraska
Chatham
Tay Lo
Eveyone
the Children’s Playhouse Presents
Tin Soldier
Sidney, Nebr
Art Reynolds
Chatham Sutton Chatham Woolshire
Chatham Airloom
Lamsdown
Ote
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