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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1923
Page
11
County commissioners hold meeting as local officials report visits and births across Sidney and surrounding towns. Multiple residents are listed for weekend travel, family news, and community activities including a county Sunday school convention in Nebraska.
F P Green and family left Sidney Wednesday for their Illinois home after visiting Nebraska Colorado and Wyoming. They stayed in Sidney with C D Green. Donald Bassett manages the Chocolate Shop in Cheyenne for Corbett Ice Cream of Denver. V F Kneera returns from Milligan Mo where his mother, 85, is ill. Work on widening cuts between Sidney and Lorenzo begins this week by the Burlington. M A Shipman reports F P E Williams of Utica stricken blind in harvest work. Superintendent Liebendorfer hires Jess M Randoll of Lincoln as Sidney High School math instructor. Mrs Eams of Lisco improves after injuries from a prior accident. Minnie Aden visits from Fox Park Wyoming. Highway contracts from Sidney to the Colorado line sublet at 16 cents a yard. former bid 18 cents. Joe Hassnstahl leaves for Oshkosh to head local music firm sales and organize bands at Broadwater Oshkosh and Lewellen. He will visit Sidney periodically.
B W Bonham director announces the Sidney Juvenile band will travel to Omaha on September 13 as guests of Union Pacific to provide music for the big celebration. They will furnish entertainment at the Union Pacific event in Omaha.
Mr and Mrs G W Lindsay and Mr and Mrs J W Lindsay are visiting the A G Maley residence. They arrived last Thursday from Stanwood Iowa.
Sheriff McDaniel arrested seven men at Gurley Sunday night on gambling charges. They were fined one dollar plus costs and sentenced to fifteen days in jail, but the sentence was suspended on good behavior. John R Snavely of Waterloo Indiana, a Cheyenne county pioneer, is visiting. Snavely homesteaded in the county in 1886 and resided here until 1864.
Miss Willian Brady daughter of Grant Brady of Potter will replace Miss Emily Gould in the county treasurer’s office. Miss Gould will attend Hastings college this fall.
Four men were arrested Sunday noon by Sheriff J W McDaniel for allegedly stealing an automobile at Chappell a few hours earlier. They were taken to Chappell later by Sheriff Peterson of Devel county. McDaniel said the men were transients from Tillinois. They claimed they had been put off a freight train near Chappell and took the car they found beside the road where the owner had left it while fishing.
The Farmers Gnon band of Bunker Hill makes its first Sidney appearance at the municipal platform on Saturday at 7 45 PM. The group wearing new uniforms will perform thirteen selections under Fred Seamers who organized the band and serves as director. The farmers of Sidney Cheyenne county take pride in this rare local ensemble and expect a large crowd.
Mrs Nelson hosted an afternoon bridge party at two oclock in honor of Mrs Crosby of Omaha visiting. Three tables were played with abundant garden flowers throughout. A luncheon followed. Mrs Pettibone won first prize and Miss Sullivan took second prize.
The U S theater fills nearly every night last month as Affie Tanger and his college girls orchestra provide entertaining specialty acts in addition to regular shows. Mrs Weeden hosts a three table bridge afternoon with prizes won by Mrs Gordon Bryant and Mrs Lowe and out of town guests from Chicago Lincoln Wisconsin Tekamah. Mrs Claude Golding holds a second afternoon bridge in honor of her sister Miss Sullivan with four tables and prizes won by Mrs Lowe and Miss Alma Kime, followed by luncheon.
Dr TL T Jones of Warne owns land on both tables and tends crops in Sidney with his family. He backs crop rotation smaller farms and diversification and expects more cattle and hogs to aid agricultural prosperity in Cheyenne county. Ed Red Crowley, struck by a car, was hospitalized in Cheyenne Thursday. Dr HA IL Mantor reported a crushed first lumbar vertebra likely needing a plaster cast and cautioned the injury may end playing ball careers.
Claude Gross, a Union Pacific ticket agent in Sidney, and his wife returned last Friday from Sausalito California where Mr Gross served as ticket agent for three weeks. He took a leave of absence to consider a possible change to a new post, which proved unsatisfactory. He states Sidney is not a mighty good town and is glad to be back. The couple are temporarily living in the Hardy apartments, their former home having been sold.
Sidney reports a thief broke into the United Lutheran church parsonage during a thunder storm and stole church funds. Rev. W. T. Kahse’s family notes the loot, about $12, was hidden in four separate amounts for specific uses and concealed in various spots.
A one day event at Cheyenne County Trading Co features 150 new coat models. The advance showing is scheduled for Monday August 27.
The thief used a window to gain entry at the front while all other doors and windows on the other sides failed. An ouija board was found with the money taken. The housekeeper slept on the upper floor and heard nothing. Rev. Kahse was away at the time of the robbery.
Miss Dorothy Stowitts and Charles Stanley Durkee wed in Sioux City last Friday. The bride, daughter of the late A. D. Stowitts of Sidney, trained as a nurse at Omaha Methodist hospital and served with Visiting Nurses. Durkee, son of G. M. Durkee of Omaha, also studied at Central High and the University of Omaha. They will reside in the Alhambra apartments after September 15.
Descriptions unfold of frantic children fleeing and men shouting and praying at a telegraph office besieged on the division. No engine available to evacuate trapped inhabitants, a warning that readers should view the scene twice for full impact.
Rev J Wilcox of Kimball preaches Sunday morning at the Methodist church. Dr M E Gilbert presides at the quarterly conference. Rev A Corbett will celebrate Holy Eucharist Sunday at 10 am at the Episcopal church.
R. Br. Lemmon, a returned missionary from South America, will speak at the Christian church Tuesday at PM.
Sidney and Gurley Lutheran churches join for a special mission festival at Potter Lutheran church on Sunday with morning and afternoon services Rev. K deFreese of Omaha to preach and both choirs to sing.
A.M. plans for a new school building will be filed following church services. The choir will meet Tuesday night for organizational work and practice.
The Cheyenne County Trading Co announces a one day visit by a ready-to-wear salesman on Monday August 27. He will showcase 150 new ladies coats from the line for direct purchase, allowing customers to avoid ordering.
A fine quality piano is offered for immediate sale from a public warehouse. No reasonable offer will be refused. For full information write today to The Knight Campbell Music Co in Denver Colorado. The ad ends with a cryptic line about sending it to the laundry.
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