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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1911
Page
5
Dr Charles R Van Hise urges that amid diverse nationalities and environments one should judge others with charity. Do not impugn motives or rush to prejudice, credit good motives, and separate person from ideas while firmly holding one's own convictions.
A speaker denounces woman suffrage, arguing women belong in the home not politics. He questions why women should vote or socialize at polls, claiming political life harms home life and a woman’s dignity. He vows to continue opposing suffrage and to keep women in their “proper sphere.”
A historical editorial condemns women who do not earn their living as parasites. It argues nations decline when women of leisure abandon labor and urges women to enter industry or other productive work to restore national vigor.
Judge J B Cobbey, Beatrice pioneer, died after an appendicitis operation at a Beatrice hospital. Republican candidate for Nebraska supreme judge last week. Compiler of Cobbey's Annotated Statutes of Nebraska. He served as U S commissioner for this district in his third term and left a widow and eight children.
Mrs. Dr. T. B. Charlton of Clinton Iowa visits sister Mrs. J. A. Bentley. Ella Erickson returns from the east and visits at Potter. Mr Hornaday and wife depart for Cozad to visit his parents. Messrs Short and Evans return from Wyoming with 35 to 40 pounds of trout.
Partial returns from sixty nine counties show Judges Rose and Letton renominated on the Republican supreme bench with Francis G. Flamer replacing Root. Cobbey trails Root. Democratic results show Stark securing nomination alongside Oldham and Dean. Republican railroad commissioner Hall leads Beebe. Democratic Harman leads Furse. University regent hopefuls Miller and Knapp lead on the Democratic side.
Mrs. R. H. Willis and her daughter from Dalton travel Thursday to Cheyenne for Frontier Days and plan a stop in Denver before returning.
Dr Brown now practices in Lodgepole every other day and meets country patients several days weekly at the Fulton Ranch south of town. After Sunday's storm the sun hardly appeared, bringing a touch of winter chill. St Patrick’s Church services on Sunday August 27 include 8 am low mass and 10 am high mass with a German sermon and benediction. Frank Schroeder left Sunday after visiting Sidney friends to resume duties as fireman on the U S Steamship South Dakota at Mare Island.
Printer C M Davis died after a switch engine failed to couple in Columbus Union Pacific yards. Davis, asleep on the track, was found under a car with multiple injuries and died during removal. Also killed were Floyd Oliver and Carl Hiser in a Rock Island freight crash near Havelock. engineer Art Fuller survived after jumping clear. All victims were Fairbury residents en route home from work and were survived by families.
Mrs Stokes adds McClure s The Country Gentleman Good Housekeeping and The Blue Book to her renewal list Mayor Patterson of North North Platte visits Sidney to study modern municipal methods for potential adoption in North Platte
Herman Wasmer challenged Mathersson to shoot him and was wounded in the side. Mathersson, a Union Pacific signal supervisor, drew a revolver and fired after a quarrel witnessed by Mrs Wasmer. Both men are jailed on shooting with intent to kill. Mrs Wasmer sides with her lover.
Fairbury police raided the craps game south of the river in Fairbury, dispersing sixty five players. Special Officer Conner and deputies concealed themselves then charged. Five were arrested. others fled, some crossing the river or leaving town by the first train.
Dr George Koenig a 72 year old physician from Arago township Richardson county died by hanging himself from a tree. Family found him about half an hour later life extinct coroner Wilson and undertaker Reavis called from Falls City. He was born in Germany and had lived in Richardson county forty years. He practiced medicine for many years.
Labor Commissioner Guye urges shop and factory owners to prepare for the new factory inspection law enacted in the late state legislative session. He sends official blanks for owners to report factory accidents, stressing protection of life and health over profit.
University of Nebraska expert Professor Montgomery says portions of the state having received recent rains can expect a normal corn crop. He notes the crop is maturing and has benefited from showers in the last two weeks, likely yielding more bushels than earlier pessimistic forecasts.
Prof. Austin Emery and Miss Mary Moody with Will Moody and wife, parents of the groom, visited Sidney with the newly married couple Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moody and accompanying Rev. Kavanagh for several days.
Barbara Kucera youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs V F Kucera arrived Thursday from California and Oregon points to stay with her parents at their ranch nine miles east of Sidney. She is accompanied by her friend Nelle Morey.
The court issues a writ requiring Judge Dungan of the Tenth judicial district to permit a supersedeas bond in the injunction suit by Minden Edison Electric Light Co against the city of Minden. Judge Sedgwick’s opinion did not address the bond’s validity, central to the dispute.
A. G. Powell of the state railway commission tabulates four years of data for the first four months noting slight wheat car declines, increases in stock and other carloads, and heavier interstate freight revenue. Passenger ticket sales within the state also show a substantial gain.
The Minneapolis and Omaha Rail Road company becomes the first to apply to the state railway commission for permission to cut rates to Lincoln during the state fair from two cents per mile to one and one half cents for a round trip. Railroads typically make this reduction during the fair.
Fremont County Attorney Cook files information before Justice Johnson accusing Louis Rogers and Mrs. Caroline Rietsche of first degree murder in the infant found dead ten days ago in a box car near Colon. Neither defendant has counsel.
Attorney Frank T. Ransom, representing the South Omaha stock yards, was in conference with the state railway commission regarding the yards’ application to raise hay charges from 20 to 25 dollars per ton and corn from 1 to 1.10 dollars per bushel.
Memorial report for the pioneers and old settlers reunion at Tekamah on September 1 notes fifty nine deaths in the past year among prominent regional figures.
The jury found Harry Forbes John Evans and Charles Taylor guilty of robbing the Citizens Bank of Giltner after a roughly forty minute deliberation. The case was finished and submitted to the jury.
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