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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1880
Page
3
Great wholesale reduction of 25 percent to close stock at I Rubel & Co to make room for fall stock. Cigar buyers urged to take advantage of below value prices as inventory is cleared.
Local items report Guckenheimer Rye whisky at I Rubel Co stores and Pennsylvania distilleries. Julesburg cattle shipments. California goods in demand. new drug store planned at Heapid City. Democrat papers expanding. rail line weather, repairs, and stage schedules. Lockwood House rebuilt under new proprietor William Lacey with updated facilities.
The Sioux City Journal biography of Boone May drew ridicule in Sidney for errors about a treasure coach plot and a supposed 1879 duel. Local guardians Gale Hill and Billy Sample deny any such conspiracy or town duel, noting May’s bloody duel with Kane is misremembered, while urging accuracy.
Mr J W Penglase displayed a carved tomahawk to the Sioux dancer Little Big Man. The weapon bore notches from border warfare and the Custer massacre. Penglase sent the relic to an eastern collector building a cabinet of Indian curios.
A Civil War era column notes a hospital with one patient and few discharges. Lieut Rockafellow makes a tying trip to Omaha while Major Stanton passes through on leave to Omaha. Several men re-enlist or plan to, and Col Compton with Mr Rumsey visit the South Platte for a hunting trip. An error in last week's paper is corrected and a horse incident causes minor injuries.
E H Cowles and stage messengers in town. Dr Bogg returned from Chicago. Elijah Tusler and John M Adams visited. Boott Keith of North Platte made a flying visit Tuesday. Mosers Drake and Barrett from Lodge Pole seen in Sidney last Saturday. Judge Neubeust back from Knights Templars conclave in Chicago. Miss E C Smith of Greenwood stayed a couple days. E S Newman, Huating Stockman, arrived from the east. Fred Kennedy rode in from the north. crutches to be shed soon. M J Galligan went to Cheyenne for a couple days. General Grant and family passed through. quiet travel. Mrs J T Thoelecke back from North Platte with Berths, daughter of Louis Thoelecke. Mrs Fred E Clary east to Muquequeta Iowas for a couple months. D F Russell arrives from California. stays a few days. George W Liscom from Montana here a day. Mrs George W Barnhart of Duncan Station visits. Sam Hindman goes east with family to Grand. enters hotel business. W M Lacey and family arrive from the west. Lacey’s son joins them at the Lockwood House. A bouncing boy born to Mr and Mrs Lacey since leaving Bidney.
The Deadwood Pioneer changes hands and expands to an eight-column four-page Democratic issue under RK D Kelly and Col Pat Conan. Kelly, a Nebraska newspaperman, is praised for reviving the paper with Col Dogan’s support and the town of Bidmey cheers the democratic shift led by Hancock and English.
The September number of Frank Leake's Popular Monthly offers a comprehensive mix of articles and fiction. Highlights include The Campaign of 1600 Nominees of the Two Parties by an opening feature and essays by Frank Norton on Arcadia customs and Spain royalty.
Help wanted for a reliable young woman to perform chamber work at the Metropolitan Hotel. Immediate application to angletf Mus. Jno. W. Grrr.
Sale notice for a Malf Desen Geod Mulle two year olds with three-quarters and seven-eighths bleed ed short horn. apply to C. A. Moore in Sidney Nebraska.
Auction style notice announces the sale of a slaughter house and butcher shop in Bidney Nebraska by H V Redington Co. Terms offered. The fragment hints at catalog sales and general merchandise including glasses telescopes thermometers and optics, with distant references to New York brokers and a printed catalog.
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