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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1924
Page
13
Receipts 10 000 fresh cattle dull and lower. Hogs steady to better. Fat lambs 15 25c lower at 12.75 13.25. feeder lambs up 10 15c at 12.00 12.60. Sheep and lambs quotations include lambs good to choice 12.50 13.40, feeding lambs 11.50 12.40, wethers 6.00 7.75, yearlings 8.00 10.50, fat ewes 4.25 5.75. Trade overall on 22 700 lambs and 10 300 hogs noted.
Omaha reports cattle fattening rapidly as grasses dry and cure for winter feed. Alva Ash of Lakeside cites a fine summer, with fattening stock increasing last week. He estimates fall cattle numbers similar to usual, with two loads already here.
A young man gives a harp pin on a birthday and a jeweler values it highly, prompting the giver to reveal his wish to return an expensive gift. The jeweler urges marriage, and the couple wed, a tale from the Chicago Journal.
A biographical sketch notes Charles Farrar Browne born 1834 in Waterford Maine died Southampton England March 6 1867 at 33. It recounts his rise as Artemus Ward a Cleveland humorist lyceum showman and famed London influence with Savage Club honor and quips about life and debt.
A Philadelphia druggist Townsend Speakman ventured from medicine water to flavored carbonated drinks during the American Revolution. His success sparked a nationwide rise in soft drink consumption, with Americans drinking about 8 billion bottles last year.
A woman descends in wrath upon her husband at the stage car. He replies with a calm greeting and contrives a quick defense by claiming he came to see her after hearing she was coming down town. The judge notes the scene as a sharp domestic confrontation.
Street merchants on Bond Street seek to restrict traffic to create an exclusive shopping area. They argue current public vehicles and buses clog the thoroughfare, preventing the rich from parking and shopping there. They launch a movement to reserve the pavement for select use.
A report outlines how power turbines in California streams imperil the salmon fishery by destroying spawning grounds. Of 158 young salmon averaging about one and a half feet, 49 were recovered alive after passing a water turbine set at 50 pounds per square inch.
Local readers report visits and travels including Mr and Mrs Bennison and daughter Martha leaving Bronson after four months, Miss Marie Keley visiting the Anderson home, and multiple social events such as dances in Gurley and picnics in Johnson grove. Various residents attend meetings, help with farm tasks, and care for the ill, with upcoming Farmers Union plans and a Believed September 6 gathering.
Meadow Lawn items detail visits among Waterville residents Mrs C H W Lindquist and daughter Evelyn visit from Waterville for two weeks with sister and aunt Mrs W B Schlins. Local moves include threshing by Charles and Elmer Mayer and visits among Morrow Schlins Mann Kreader and Bartlin households. A combine accident injures W B Schlins. various calls and outings occur in Dalton Sidney Northport and Sidney area.
North Sidney resident Frank Goodwin returned Tuesday from Dix where he handled business. Mrs Bailey with her family from Manning Town visited Louie Bailey at the Jim Sparks home. Gladys Shindle aided Mrs Frank Goodwin recently. The Good Health club met at Mrs Brockersby's with strong turnout. Agnes Chambers visits her aunt Mrs Jim Sparks for a week. Jim Sparks and Louie Bailey visited Oren Batley in Sidney Tuesday evening. Mrs Paul Sparks drove to Sidney midweek. Sterling tends the Maley farm for fall crops. Huntsman residents Mr and Mrs Hughes spent Sunday at Elmer Hughes’s home.
Sextor Mrs Peter Nelson and Tilma visit Mrs C C Crowell. Charles Stevens of Pine Bluffs paints district 13 school interior. Miss Alice Freda Angeline Prince visit Miss Myrtle Nelson. Mrs C C Crowell at George Reetz’s. Nelson family visit daughter Alice in Dr Taylor hospital in Sidney. Dan Duncan family in Potter. Charles McKee ill with blood poison. Emil Carlson and Theodore in Sidney. Oberfeelder brothers visit Lewis Brott in Sidney. Homer Fisher family moving to Potter this week.
A children’s matinee on Saturday September 6 offers a box of school hose and a chance to win stockings for ten cents. The program includes Rin Tin Tin in Where the North Begins, promising an exciting dog act for boys and girls to enjoy.
We express sincere appreciation to friends and neighbors for kindness sympathy and for floral offerings during the sickness and death of our husband and father Mrs A B Johnson Clyde M Johnson and family
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