Nebraska Eldorados in Cheyenne County Farm Gold
The State Journal notes rising mining fever and exceptional farming yields in Nebraska. Lewis Brott’s 80 acre Cheyenne County site yields about 4000 dollars this year using dry farming and alfalfa seed at high value. Experts caution exceptional results do not justify a boom, though science may expand farming profits.
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Lewis Brott
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Cheyenne County
Stephens
Remarkable Tale Of A Child On A Roof And A Hidden Truth
A claim circulates about Sid ney and a bright or highly deceptive toddler. A two and a half year old supposedly climbed a two story house roof, paused by the chimney, slid to an annex roof, fell and balanced across a rainwater barrel by neck and heels, with no rescue status confirmed.
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Sidney
If You Must Die Time Your Funeral This Sunday
In the heat, ministers oppose Sunday funerals arguing the departed should rest. Ball managers fear the crowd will rush back from burials to attend the first game, urging respect for the dead over haste. The piece questions why the dead cannot bury the dead without rushing back to sport.
Conservative progressiv ness taft and roosevelt teased by locals
A jumble of columns notes blunt political hints and humorous asides. The piece mocks stand partism calling it conservative progressiveness and comments on Kinkaid’s re nomination and Collier’s Weekly interest. It also jokes about wives fans, church ladies aids, a drowned three year old babe, and a bedbug sighting at a Sidney home.
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Taft
Roosevelt
County Court Rules on Bridge Contract and Bond Election
Judge Grimes rules for the county in two cases from a special term. The North Platte bridge case holds the county cannot use its funds for a bridge outside the county and may cancel the contract. The bond election case upholds the validity of the pre election procedures and that all statutory steps were followed.
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Western Bridge & Construction Co
North Platte River
Radcliff Ranch
Morrill
Martin
District Court
Doran
Revered Lutheran Leader Remembered by Sidney Residents
Rev. C T L Fisher, long time Sidney pastor who helped establish the church, visited Friday on his return from the mountains to Virginia. The community honors his memory as its first minister. Notables include Mayme and Ida Tobin of Cheyenne en route to Peru, Mrs J H Joris of Santa Cruz visiting relatives, Judge Grimes sentencing Earl Beam to two years in reform school, Joe Habler at Cheyenne auto races, and Mrs Neubauer with daughter returning from Denver.
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Adolph Bratz
Fred Bratz
Dalton
Missouri
Samantha Proctor
Nebraska
Nebraskia
Senate
United States
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Geo. C. Junkin
Lincoln
Cheyenne County
Said
James Tucker
Frances Mauldin
John W. Harper
HK Sidney Telegraph
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Marguerite Stowitts
Dorothy Stowitts
Helen Stowitts
Arthur D. Stowitts
Sidney Telegraph
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Harvest and heat mark rural progress and woes
Harvest continues with threshing in full swing and corn. potatoes safe and good. Rainy spells hinder shelling, damp weather keeps straw tough. Cattle buyers and land agents busy. new homes near completion. Local residents report illnesses, family visits, and weather impacts from Oregon fires.
Prairie fire started by lightning near Byers fence
Albert Jeudes and his father were fencing the north half of 3-15-50 when a prairie fire began Monday noon from a lightning strike on Byers’ fence. The blaze burned two pasture sections before being stopped.
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