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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1930
Page
15
The school announces a new term beginning Tuesday September. students should report for limited work starting Tuesday morning September 2 after a delayed start. The notice clarifies attendance dates and early routines for the term.
Sidney Public Schools will open school Tuesday with kindergarten eligibility for children five years old or turning five by January 1, 1931. Parents are instructed to bring children to Central School at 9 a.m. or to the East Side/West Ward buildings for afternoon sessions at 1:20 p.m.
The race for the loop leadership sees Potter pressed hard by Gon with Joss a costly option. Lorenzo must counter Lodge Pole to keep the boys in contention for the fair meet. Phelps and Koeser are expected to handle mound duties in the game.
Cheyenne County records show a 30.8 percent farm growth over ten years in western Nebraska, while other western counties report declines. The data suggests a rural migration toward the panhandle amid shifting farm patterns and population movements.
The Cheyenne County Fair opens next Tuesday with a daytime program including a baseball game and band concert and an evening program featuring a style show vaudeville acts and fireworks. Finals in horse racing and a football tournament will be held on the final day with purses and exhibit reclaims after 6 pm. A big dance will cap the 1930 fair week and entry is free for exhibitors. secretary’s books are open 9 am to 6 pm on the first day and 9 am to noon on the second day for entries.
Eighteen children perform a Tuesday night playset at a public playground. The cast includes Jean Edwards as Six Brackett Fern Paquette as Bar Brackett Zepha Lockwood as 30m Brackett May Doris Zimmerle as Jim Brackett and Janet Larson as Jack Brackett along with Edna Mayer Patty Martin and Virginia Larson in the Brackett clan. Additional roles feature MacGen Jorcan as Tory spy Marie Laudenschlager as a British officer Mary Meenan as Captain Dave Brackett Ethel Muckley as the general Joan Ahrens Janet Jones and others as red coats sailors and more.
A last week update shows the Bohn Peere foursome leading the golfing league with Piggy Wiggly and Finke Creamy Breather as strong contenders. The Walat Warbers also field a fast four, raising concerns among rivals.
A New Bern reader reports dramatic weight loss after nearly three months of Kruschen Salts. She weighs 217 pounds before and 170 pounds after, noting reduced back and abdominal pains and increased energy. She plans to continue the regimen and endorses the product.
Ruth Dimick married a Lincoln man in a tasteful ceremony described with white net gowns and pink and yellow rose bouquets. Attendants included sister Vera Dimick. best man Percy Dimick. sister Dorothy Dimick played the wedding march and Eleanor Rose sang. The bride, Sidney High School graduate, attended the University of Nebraska, Gamma Phi Beta member. Groom, son of Mr and Mrs George B Wylie of Fairbury, Neb., is a 1929 Nebraska grad and Sigma Nu member. A wedding breakfast followed. plans include a honeymoon at Estes Park and other Colorado points before settling in Lincoln.
Swede Swenson of the Sidney club held the line with three safeties as Blake challenged a fan of first ball pitchers. A careless baserunner was thrown out at second, ending the contest 15 to 7 in favor of the Colored Clowns.
Ruth Ommen, a Lodge Pole native and Devel County High School graduate, married John Ommen, a Big Springs farmer, in a small home ceremony with organdie and white decor. A two course dinner followed. couple to honeymoon in Colorado. Also noted is a Legion junior baseball game Sunday August 24 at 2:30 p m Holyoke vs Sidney at Sidney ball park.
The man confessed to numerous stickups before starting a lengthy prison sentence. He named two Sidney victims, George Barker and Gerald Thomas, and described robbing motorists in Nebraska and Sterling style maneuvers. In one Nebraska case he left a victim in the countryside while his female companion drove to town.
The article notes continued moisture lowers grain quality with the most costly damage in protein content. Whether this loss is significant will be known after grading and testing of the ripened grain.
Scout and Campfire Girls progress noted in a troop contest among three groups. Troop 90 leads with 170 points, followed by Troop 99 with 146 and Troop 89 with 144. Junior scouts plan a Tuesday outing to the camp at 4 p m for supper, returning about 8 p m.
Senator Arthur Capper awards silver and bronze medals to two 4-H club girls for best jars of home canned fruits vegetables and meats in Shenandoah Iowa in the national canning contest under the Household Science Institute auspices. Capper praises 4-H clubs, hoping the honors boost home canning among farm girls and aid 4-H work nationwide.
Leaders and extension workers push the National Canning Contest in Shenandoah Iowa offering 470 prizes totaling 4250 in cash cups and ribbons. A grand sweepstakes prize of 609 awaits winners open to all women and girls with no restriction on food type. Entries may cover fruit vegetable or meat divisions or any two or all three. Entries due by October 1 and jars must be quart standard glass jars.
Grace Viall Gray, a nationally known canning expert and contest secretary, says pressure cooking is best for non acid vegetables. The method, recommended by the U S department of agriculture, saves time and fuel while ensuring sterility and preserving flavor, color, and texture.
Sleepy Indians awaken to a strange reveille as American and Missouri mules voice homesickness. British army buyers visit Grand Island to purchase mules for service in India, buying a carload two weeks prior. The mules head east by rail for the long journey ahead.
Concentration point for mules and horses destined for water shipment to distant British possessions. Aids transport of supplies and light artillery as a late but effective American contribution. Grand Island, surpassed only by St. Louis, serves 12 northwestern states and Nebraska in its yard network.
An amusing side feature notes American boys serving as muleteers on slow outgoing ships and returning on liners richer and wiser for the unusual experience. The text also mentions a 2:30 pm event at Sidney ball park and a tease that Telegraph Wantads yield results.
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