06 Aug 1904
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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1904
Page
1
Le Catalogue Houses advertises low cash purchases and free freight on a large stock of gasoline stoves cream freezers screen doors wire cloth and wire fencing. It emphasizes pay and make good on damages and promises to beat prices from any catalogue house.
A large Sidney gathering at the courthouse organized a Roosevelt Club with D. W. Davison as chair and J. J. McIntosh as secretary. A. K. Greenlee was named president with an executive committee and plans for monthly meetings and campaign speakers.
The upcoming vote on a constitutional convention is set for November 8 following a joint legislative recommendation. The Telegraph serves as Cheyenne county's official publication for the notice. Also reports heavy rain with hail in Lodgepole causing garden and crop damage and a local baseball game score of 13 to 11 in Sidney. County valuation rises ten percent per state Board of Equalization, with 21 neighboring counties seeing increases.
Mahlon Cramer a longtime Cheyenne county resident and Blacksmith turned farmer died at his Simla home on Friday July 29 1904 at age 77 after a paralytic stroke. He was born in Bucks county Pennsylvania and moved west settling in Cheyenne county in 1889. He married Elizabeth Evans in 1854 and they had twelve children nine living. Funeral held at home with Rev. Hageman, burial in Sidney city cemetery.
F H Newell head of the government geological survey spoke in Omaha on a sweeping irrigation program. He cited a 16 million dollar federal fund, a Pathfinder reservoir in Wyoming, and a plan to reclaim about 100000 acres in Nebraska for actual homesteaders at 40 to 140 acres per buyer.
G Skates and his wife traveled by car from San Francisco on July 20 toward Portland Maine stopping at Sidney en route. They cover 100 to 150 miles daily, faced snow, river fords, and breakdowns yet remained cheerful amid dusty roads.
T W Glover of New Zealand past right grand templar of the world I O G T will pass through Sidney on August 14 and 18 to speak on temperance and prohibition. He is endorsed by Ralph Connor C M Sheldon Messrs Stephens Fry and Gordon of the W C T U and leads temperance papers in this country and Canada. Don t fail to hear him.
The Heath and Milligan paint appears durable for ten years and is showcased at D. J. Scanlon's store.
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