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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1921
Page
4
Ice sells for 1 percent a pound while yearling steers fetch eight dollars per head. Adams Haas and Redington bid ten thousand dollars for a thousand Texas cows. Cheyenne county boasts debt freedom and vast size. General Custer remains are set for transfer to Fort Lincoln. A barracks swimming pool draws crowds beside Lodgepole river.
Governor Hartranft visits from Pennsylvania and remarks on eggs, napkins, and fashion. A popular barracks visit, clean surroundings, and a small revival in Sunday School are noted. Cattle branding, a cheese factory milk price deal, and waste disposal questions loom as heavy rains affect dam works and public channels.
From Dalton Doctor and Mrs. Huntling and daughter Ruth, of Dalton, spent Friday in Sidney with old time friends W. O. Campbell and his mother. Miss Ruth enjoyed the country club and pool.
Mrs Rose Marten and two daughters Tillian and Elvira from Kansas City arrived Monday noon to visit Mrs Martin's parents Mr and Mrs Rich.
Mrs. Schinker and her sisters Mrs. Richard Frans of Lodgepole and Mrs. J R Brown of Sidney plan to relocate here if the climate suits her. Many friends will be glad to have her back among them.
A. R. Barlow of Lodgepole toured Sidney on Friday, socializing with a group of girls and awaiting return to Lodgepole. He joked that if they were chickens he would rescue them from the lake, but said they were only squads and could float without danger.
Mrs Glenn Andrews and Miss Ma bel Perry left Sunday evening for a two week vacation in the east. Perry went to Omaha for a friend's wedding while Andrews stopped in Overton. They planned to continue on to Tremblull to visit relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Osborn and daughter Ruth returned Saturday from an auto trip south. They made headquarters at Burlington Colorado last week while Mr. Osborn tended harvest just over the Kansas line. He harvested and marketed a fair wheat yield during their absence.
A Saturday night near miss occurred when a crowd from Gurley returning from a Potter dance paused on the highway. The Brown bus from Sidney, loaded with youths, narrowly avoided collision by a sudden swerve to the ditch edge. Both vehicles were traveling at a lively pace. drivers warned that caution must be constant.
Mrs Mary Morfeld returned Sunday from Denver where she was hospitalized and operated on for a serious illness. She is recovering nicely.
Cheyenne county will be represented at the Boys Encampment at the Nebraska State Fair by Wallace Challberg of Potter for the town schools and Clement Kretz of Sidney for the rural schools. Clement is champion in the Boys Corn Club. More to follow.
Miss Vera Chambers celebrated her 13th birthday on Wednesday afternoon at her parents home Judge and Mrs Chambers. Thirteen guests aged three to seven attended with games music and luncheon. Her sisters Mrs Anna Emerick of Alliance and Mrs Albin Olson helped host.
Mr and Mrs W C Maston ofRalston Nebraska and Ralph Arron of Greenwood Nebraska visited Co W Pike family in Sidney after a Colorado Springs outing. They drove home Monday praising Sidney and its outlying districts as most favorable seen on the trip.
Visitors at the Fred Reker home in the city include Mr and Mrs Henry Bushman and Christ Hoffmeyer of Bar Branch Indiana and Will Laaker of Aurora Indiana. They will travel by rail to the mountains in the west during this visit, splitting time with the Bushman and Hoffmeyer families on the south table.
Bishop Mitchell decries judging works by wealth, warns against equating art and books with riches. A tale contrasts wealth obsession with a boy buying goldfish and discovering their true nature, illustrating the danger of money minded judgment.
Francis A. Chapman receiver for The First National Bank of Sidney Nebraska announces a chattel mortgage sale on August 22 1921 at The Sidney Motor Company East Door 201 West 2nd Street Sidney Nebraska. Mortgagors C H Perry and W J Perry owe 2551.23 dollars plus ten percent interest from October 26 1920 on a Ford Truck Sandow Truck and 1919 Overland Four listed under mortgage dated July 22 1921. Highest bidder to pay cash.
On March 2 1921 George Ammon mortgaged a Winther Truck Model 439 four wheel drive to First National Bank of Sidney Nebraska for 280 dollars. The debt is overdue with 15 dollars costs. The bank will offer sale on August 22 1921, subject to a prior mortgage by J H McNally dated November 20 1920.
In December 1920 the prior mortgage for 800 dollars with 10 percent annual interest is past due and unpaid. The property will be sold to the highest bidder for cash at the Osborn Motor Co on West 2nd Street, Sidney Nebraska, at 2 pm on the specified date. Dated July 29, 1921.
C E Davis files amended petition in Cheyenne County Nebraska district court seeking to quiet and confirm title to the east half of section seven township fourteen north range fifty two west of the sixth principal meridian Cheyenne County Nebraska. Defendants Warren and Hodgkin and Merrill M Coontz and Coontz spouses are enjoined from any claim to the real estate and must answer by September 6, 1921.
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