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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1927
Page
5
State reports show Nebraska’s moisture improving, with oats underperforming in the northeast and better yields in western districts. Rye and barley yields rise projected, tame hay at high levels, wild hay strong, and pasture condition at 87 percent. Alfalfa moisture short in some counties, but overall favorable outlook for crops.
The report lists crop conditions across items such as potatoes sugar beets flax buckwheat sweet potatoes and apples with percentages of condition and forecasts in bushels or tons. Noted figures include potatoes 88 percent and 7 231 000 bushels forecast apples 65 percent and 857 000 bushels forecast grapes 82 percent and 1 803 000 pounds forecast as well as other crops and area figures.
In Julian Nebraska billions of African termites invade the town destroying homes workshops and a brick schoolhouse. Residents fight back with cyanide fumes as churches a parsonage stores and a school suffer damage and vacancies rise. The queen ant lays about 80 000 eggs daily while brood groups shift from under nourished to well nourished soldiers and workers. Local notices include dressmaking instruction and used car ads with a lost engraved silver purse reward.
Howard Hickok of Council Bluffs Iowa, nephew of Wild Bill Hickok, plans to sue the Nebraska State Historical Society claiming a pamphlet defamed his uncle by calling him a coward who killed not bad men but innocent people. He will travel to Topeka Kansas to gather data and present authentic information about the plainsman and Indian scout.
Greenville Ohio story of T J Burns who on his seventy seventh birthday smoked a cigar gifted at Gettysburg on his fourteenth birthday. He preserved the ten center in cotton and moisture, delaying the moment to savor it. After 63 years he finally smoked the cherished relic.
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