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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1912
Page
6
Neslund brothers and Robert Sims drove to Sidney last Saturday. Haying is in full swing and grain is expected to fill out well with recent rains. Harvey Mullen and the division crew rebuild tracks north of town. Local events include weddings, church notes, and choir organizing as Potter reports crops excellent and commerce expanding with a new grain warehouse and drug line.
Plan emphasizes buying mowing machines or binders to harvest oats efficiently. Advocates shared equipment, early cutting, thresher use, and storing oats properly. Promotes legume crops like cowpeas, soybeans, and peanuts to enrich soil with nitrogen, improve humus, and support high livestock feed value and farm profitability.
Miss Agnes Van Dietz visited her sister in Peetz and returned to Moline Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. A. L Johnson welcomed a son. The Ribble family visited Peetz from Sidney. Mrs. W. R. Perkins and son from Lead SD visited. A. Robinette returned from Broken Bow. Mrs. Robinette’s mother joined for a visit. Willard Shack slowly recovers from illness. Louis Pilger’s visit from Pilger NE. his father, a merchant, greeted guests. Hardware firm M A Kraxberger & Sons sold a carload of binders and two headers. Wheat harvest is underway after a good upland crop. F L Whitelock attended the Republican assembly in Denver. Gertrude Gallagher came back from Sidney. Cloudburst last Thursday caused damage within miles, washing out 700 feet of railroad track and moving one 7200 pound iron culvert two miles to land on Clemmens farm. Gertrude Gallagher and Ira Jay reported farm shocks washed four miles from their fields. School contractors listed in Peetz notes.
John Ajack visits eastern Nebraska while Mrs. Palmer summers in New York Hazel. Resinina school gains Hand as teacher. Peter Lenzen busy with grain. mud hampers field access. Telephone crews at work on the divide. Sandys host boarders. Mrs. Miller sells stock at auction and plans Colorado homestead. Geo Fischer sells cattle. Oscar Brandt threshing outfit active. Will Fulton to start threshing when grain dries.
Phillip Nelson of Dix Mercantile was in Potter Monday night. Danneburg’s new clerk at C. W. Johnson’s is Mr. Anderson. Mrs. Struble and Miss Douglas with Miss Irma visited Pine Bluffs on the way home from Cheyenne Saturday. Wm Struble and wife visited their parents here Sunday. The Hensen daughter from Butte Montana visited her parents Mr and Mrs H Petersen of Danneberg. Ned and others from Potter visiting their son in Potter. Dr Groha a Lutheran divine will preach next Sunday. Miss Douglas left for West Branch Iowa after visiting Mrs Struble. Ed Thornburg and wife were at Kimball last Friday. Mrs B F Thornburg entertained guests in honor of her daughter on Tuesday. Mrs Struble hosted a dinner for her son’s wife on Wednesday. Stephen Stevens urged by his physician to seek nerve-specialist treatment. Catholic women plan to form a Women's Aid Society soon. Dr Shultz drove to Redington Tuesday to check hay crop. Clarence Johnson will attend college in the east next year. Morgan Wallin and bride visited his parents north of Potter earlier this week and called on Potter friends. Morgan once helped at Potter U P station. Praise for the new restaurant circulates. Messrs McAdam and Stanton are
Market report from Chicago shows mixed grain quotes with wheat at Sept 92 3/4 cents and Dec 92 1/2, corn Sept 61 1/2, Dec 54 1/2, oats Sept 30 1/2, Dec 32 4/5, plus pork and lard futures. Cash grain bids: No 2 hard wheat 93 95 1/4, No 2 corn 74 1/4 to 84 3/4, No 2 white oats 30 1/2 to 20 1/2. Cattle receipts total 21,000 with steer prices around 5.70 per 100 pounds, hogs 24,000 with bulk 7.75 to 8.25, sheep 36,000 with natives 3.20 to 4.70 and lambs 4.40 to 7.75.
Beatrice Nebraska August 8 Forrest Bryant a young man who was impaled on the handle of a pitchfork while threshing near Holmesville has died.
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