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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1921
Page
9
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Edwin Aurich drove to Gurley Monday morning to transact business in Sidney. Mr and Mrs John Borcher and family with Theo Borcher and Carl Selmidt visited Wm Borcher Monday evening. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Frank Beyer on August 1. Walter Happel and family drove to Sidney on Tuesday. Mrs Glen Bales and family stopped at the Borchers Tuesday afternoon. Threshing is active in the area and grain yields are fair.
Grand Prairie residents shared a busy weekend with visits from Mrs. Heinzman Osceola guests Mrs. Holm and relatives from Polk County, Fre xichs and Fre nchs families, and a birthday surprise for Earl Holm. Children and adults enjoyed the gatherings with meals and good cheer through Sunday.
Maple Grove families and guests are listed visiting and hosting across farms and towns. Highlights include Mr. and Mrs. A N Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. F A Johnson, and relatives visiting Aunt and Uncle Andersons. Ed Miles, W T Sharman, and Emma Baeta mentioned among harvest helpers and social gatherings in the region. Several trips to Nun Colorado, Sidney, and Gurley appear with farm care and threshing work referenced.
Residents from Bunker Hill and nearby farms note multiple autos journeys to Sidney Dalton Gurley and Glen Bales. Theo Borcher family Mildly frequent gatherings with neighbors at Renry Schmidt’s and Welnckhorst home. Sunday meals and threshing assistance highlighted with several trips and calls.
Mrs Esther Carlson and daughter Alice and Oscar Reddeen were Sunday dinner guests at the Robt Boyee home. Miss Florence Fisher attended a Sunday school picnic at Sidney on Thursday. Harry Courtright was in Potter on Sunday evening. Peter Nelson and daughters Hilma and Alice were business callers in Sidney Friday. Mrs Elmer Jacobson, seriously ill, is reported much better. Mrs Ellis and children Florence Elsie and Yommy were Saturday forenoon callers at the Pete Nelson home. Mrs Tom Berns has been helping Mrs Charley Smith cook for threshers this week.
The Society of the 255th Infantry S9th Division will hold its annual reunion at Grand Island on August 30. A detailed two day program includes sports stunts and feeds with entertainment. About 800 veterans are expected and many return cards are already arriving. all 355th men are urged to confirm attendance.
A concise essay argues that every person faces a clear choice between sustained effort and staying obscured. It asserts craving for success is natural, but many choose leisure and minimal effort, risking poverty. True progress comes from deliberate striving, as illustrated by examples and Confucius guidance cited by Brue.
The article notes a surplus liquor stockpiled under Prohibition consuming funds on storage, rentals, and policing. Attorney General Daugherty told officials the government cannot empty the cellar or recycle the seized alcohol, risking further economic waste.
Detroit observers report beer and whisky moving across the border after an Ontario temperance act ruling. Prohibition agents say the activity is not as severe as reports. Numerous power boats were seen landing deer on the Canadian shore and departing toward Lake Erie.
President Marding designates Secretary Hughes to lead the American delegation and handle all remaining meeting arrangements. Other delegation members have not yet been chosen.
Washington August 15 President and Mrs. Harding canceled tentative plans for a cruise on the Mayflower scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. They remained in Washington over the weekend.
Lansing officials report the state public utilities commission approved a Detroit and Ironton railroad route proposed as part of Henry Ford's DT I system. The line would connect with the DT I in Brownstone, pass through Ecorse and Taylor townships, and end near the north Dearborn road by River Rouge.
Readable prices for flour and wheat types, hay, butter and eggs, poultry, potatoes, onions, cattle, hogs, and sheep. Listings show ranges for quality grades, weights, and delivery terms across multiple commodities, with figures such as soft winter wheat at 3.40 to 6.60, butter 29 to 35 cents per pound, eggs from 24 to 38 cents, and cattle quotes from 2.50 to 10.65 per hundredweight depending on grade and class.
The St Louis Post Dispatch notes that nature, a roughneck, disrupts municipal opera with rain and mishaps. Despite setbacks, baseball endures with thrift and vigor. The piece compares weather’s chaos to a missionary ark testing faith, hoping the opera survives the wet spell intact.
The writer lauds his brother-in-law as a good man and pillar of society yet laments his pompous, entrenched views. The piece sketches the tension at family gatherings, noting how his constant declarations provoke fury and push others away. The narrator finally grants grudging sympathy for a man both admirable and irritating.
Receipts of cattle, hogs, and sheep at Union Stock Yards Omaha show a steady to mixed market. Best native beeves reach $10.50, yearlings $10.50, hogs average lower than Monday with tops $10.15, 18,000 sheep and lambs arrive and sell steady with lambs up to $10.25.
The piece cites sayings from the Boston Transcript on human judgment and world woes, noting advice about what others should do and the frequent view that the world is in a hellish state. It reflects on shared cynicism about human conduct and global condition.
The piece reflects on vacation as escape from daily toil and explores mental limits. It argues many people self impose limits and fear failure, urging effort to expand possibilities and lighten burdens, attributed to Della EF Stewart.
A manager questions Tommy about delivering a message to Mr. Smith. The boy explains he waited briefly but the office door carried a return notice and he was told to return immediately, so he left to report back.
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