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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1924
Page
15
A Scientific American style survey explains why animal feuds arise among species. Predators, rival predators, and threats to young often drive hostilities, while many animals avoid unnecessary conflicts. Snakes and other reptiles show perplexing enmities, and avian predators shape crowd behavior among herbivores.
A judge tests Tony Scored on citizenship questions about the U S capital and president. Tony answers ineptly and is dismissed, then blurts a crude defiant line about a mine, shocking the courtroom before leaving.
In a domestic vignette a six year old criticizes a family luncheon. The head of the house plans a guest, the mother corrects, and Gladys examines the table with a blunt remark. Her reaction underscores the contrast between expectation and reality in a home scene.
A dispute between two lawmakers over a minor issue escalated into vigorous debate with unparliamentary language and violent threats. The sergeant at arms arrived to separate the pair as onlookers shouted for order, noting the fighters were 40 feet apart and exchanging only gestures.
A snippet from Mrs W E K about a boarding house witness noting how clearly conversations can be heard and a quip about time wasted. The contributor adds a humorous exchange on hair styles and cosmetic fixes with a husband’s influence and eighty dollars to change minds.
The sawfly pest ravages European pines and now threatens defoliation of pine trees in the United States. New England nurseries and estates, along with some North Atlantic states, have already been attacked by the pest, long noted as a major European forest scourge.
Miss Coral Sherman spent the weekend visiting her brother at Sterling. Dr. Hugh Mantor removed tonsils for Fern Poquette last Friday. Charles Semerad and family moved to Gurley where he is in business. Miss Agnes Semerad returned from Kearney after normal training. Mrs. Emerick of Alliance, daughter of C. P. Chambers, is here for treatment. W. R. Gaylord of Lincoln is in Sidney to oversee his crop near Dalton. Claude Gross returned from officer training at Fort Des Moines. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kurz left for a month’s vacation at Rawlins, Wyoming. Robert Oberfelder left for a business trip to Denver. Miss Sadie McFadden to administer a rural mail carrier exam at Sidney high school Saturday for a Dalton route. Miss Mabel Halston visiting Sterling and Denver during courthouse leave. John Seifer and family and friends visited Sidney last Saturday. August Nelson of Potter was a Sidney visitor. recovering from a hip injury. Miss Ruth Dunn to enter Berkeley University in California. Ernest Worden and relatives left on a two week motor trip to Denver and Grand Lake. No fool like an old fool.
Born to Mr and Mrs Henry Cruise of Sidney on Friday August 1 a son Judge Tewell. G P Kratz and John Pantenburg returned last Thursday night from a fishing trip at Sand Lake about 75 miles southwest of Laramie Wyoming. They caught the limit in record time.
Dr. Harry Mantor treated Adrian Brockelsby last Wednesday for a bad cut and broken finger. Brockelsby, six miles northwest of Sidney, was injured when his finger caught in a pulley. Lewis Olson near Point of Rocks boasts the best field of certified seed potatoes in the state, ten acres and the only certified seed plot in the county this year. German police dogs are gaining attention in Sidney with the chief training a six month old pup and a relative of the chief’s canine purchased at Alliance. Twenty five outfits in Bronson are installing Union Pacific safety electrical appliances, with engines not yet installed. The new invention is expected to operate from Sidney to Cheyenne by year’s end. A new local freight westbound at 7:30 each morning was started due to rising UP business, per Agent W. J. Shoemaker, while the eastbound local remains.
Marion Butera and Edward Konvalin pleaded guilty before County Judge Chambers to stealing Earl Atkins’s Ford coupe. Butera was paroled to K A Morgan of Omaha while Konvalin was sent back to the state industrial school at Kearney after parole revocation. Atkins, supervising road work near Lodge Pole, reported the theft when the car was taken in daylight. the sheriff at Chappell arrested the pair east of the city.
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