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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1931
Page
5
Sunday masses at 7 00 and 9 30 a m with Sunday evening devotions rosary instruction and benediction at 7 39 pm Weekday masses at 7 00 a m Anton Link pastor.
Fragmentary OCR shows a church timetable with morning worship and evening events plus youth leagues and meetings. Names such as Dr Harry E Hess and Charling Mills appear, but many parts are garbled.
Saint Pauls Lutheran Church invites members to attend a mission at South Church. Ladies Aid meets Wednesday September 3 at Mrs Andre's. War school opens September 19 at 9 o'clock. W F Peters, Pastor.
Trinity Lutheran Church announces worship at 11 a m with sermon by pastor T E school at 45 a m Power First Lutheran church holds service at 2 15 pm worship at 3 pm with sermon. The public is invited to all services led by W T Kahse D D pastor.
On Sunday August 30 Weyerts Lutheran Church invites all to a 7 Sunday school session and their annual missional festival. German service at 10 30 am English at 2 30 and 7 30 pm with Rev J Becker and Rev C H Beker as speakers. Lunch supplied by ladies in former years. Pastor B C Wiebke extends a cordial invitation to worship and join in mission work.
A church notice inviting parishioners to attend preaching at 11 am with the morning topic A Few Rows Out of Ten Thousand. The note promises a hearty welcome and urges attendance despite light rain, aiming to improve attendance next Sunday.
CCHO TABERNACLE welcomes attendees with services at 10 am 11 am and 8 pm on Wednesday. W W Edwards is pastor. RIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH offers morning prayer at eight o'clock and the fifth Sunday features an eleven o'clock service led by Rev. J. B. Roe.
Clyde S Brewer and Lilian Johnson announced their engagement at a social gathering held at the home of Mr and Mrs George Johnson. Lilian is Miss Johnson of Missouri and a guest at the Johnson home last week. Clyde is described as a grown man and a graduate of the local school. No wedding date has been set.
Munstermann, a housekeeper, returned after spending three months abroad visiting relatives in Europe. She landed in New York and arrived in Sidney yesterday, signaling the end of her European trip and return to domestic duties.
Catholic ladies plan a Saturday afternoon reception at St Patrick’s church for nuns and sisters. All ladies urged to be prepared for the event.
Funeral services for Frcsyd Webster a 13 year old Dalton youth who drowned last Monday were held at the Dalton Presbyterian church with Rev J E Sargent and Rev Stooks officiating. Boy Scout members who were on an excursion attended the service. He was born March 3 1918 and survived by parents M and Mrs Webster and five brothers. Burial followed in Sidney cemetery with Rice funeral service in charge.
The state faced a record heat streak with June the hottest on record and July 2.8 degrees above normal. Nebraska’s July mean reached 77.5 degrees, higher than June’s 75.7. Santee and Ashland hit 109 in June. Minden reached 111 on July 22. Western Nebraska saw the greatest rainfall deficit totaling only 1.92 inches statewide.
Dwight B. Huss, the man who drove Old Scout in the first transcontinental auto race, returns to Sidney with the famed single cylinder roadster from 1905 on a good roads tour. The antique car, trailing two convoy cars, stops for display before continuing toward Portland after a luncheon memory of 1905. Huss says the old machine rolls as easily on today’s roads as modern cars.
A nationwide illiteracy report shows Nebraska cut illiterates from 13,784 in 1920 to 12,725 in 1930, yet moved from second to sixth in percentage of population unable to read. Data cover counties with fewer than 10 illiterates and counties with over 1000, plus shifts among foreign born whites, native whites, and other races. The report names officials and groups coordinating state efforts to curb illiteracy and notes ongoing government and education actions.
Instructions warn that all stock must receive ample feed before shipment or at first opportunity en route. Without feeding from drought stricken areas, heavy losses from dysentery or shipping fever are likely to occur.
A large portion of the wheat surplus could be removed from the farm board bin this week as several sales and trades near completion. One sale of at least 15 million bushels to China for feeding flood victims is likely, with additional deals possible. A new compromise addressing southern cotton farmers overproduction is also under study, following rejection of plowing under every third row. Congressional and grain members are involved in the discussion.
Nebraska ranges and pastures are in the poorest condition since 1922, according to state and federal agricultural statistics. The report notes widespread dryness across the west and the lowest feed supply in many years due to dry weather.
High temperatures damaged range feed across areas west of the continental divide including Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado. Fall and winter ranges are deemed poor. Short feed and water forced livestock movement from Montana, western North Dakota, Nevada and eastern Wyoming. Hay crops are short in most western states and cattle conditions are generally fair to good except in dry areas. Some shipments occurred due to short feed with many herds downsizing to available forage. Sheep and lambs are in poorer condition with a predicted smaller fat lamb proportion in the west. Indications lean toward a heavy early lamb movement from feed-short areas.
East Gurley residents report a flurry of visits and travel including Mr and Mrs Grover Larson and a baby girl birth at the outset. Local families like Nelck, Ahlm and Gibbons were seen at homes in Gurley Sidney and Lodge Pole, while others attended a Gurley baseball game. Mrs Wayne Gilbert underwent surgery at Dalton hospital and was improving.
Mrs Charles Nelck cared for the baby while Vernon Nelck and others traveled to Hot Springs South Dakota and returned. Several local couples and families visited or dined at various homes including Folkerts Kieselhorst Hinrichs and Nelck households. Nelck supplied ground feed for Mr Gibbons.
The Methodist church group Class of Ambition will hold a bake sale at the Piggly Wiggly store on Saturday August 29. Funds support church activities and community outreach.
Continued from page one, old and young business men note revived activity after a healthful merger. Its work has been noticeably increased since the merger was accomplished. The chamber plans to reconvene Monday to discuss ongoing projects and community business issues.
Mothers whose children were examined at the clinic last spring are asked to report the correction made to Mrs. Ray Hersney.
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