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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1911
Page
5
Professor Frankilin UH Giddings of the American Sociological Society argues poverty is not the US problem and morals have deteriorated in 15 to 20 years yet the strong and good grow stronger. He says 5 percent decline while 95 percent gain and public schools digest foreigners without signs of dispension.
School dismissed Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving recess. Report cards for the second six weeks were distributed Wednesday. Lodgepole and Chappell played a very interesting game of basketball at Lodgepole last Saturday, Lodgepole winning 4-18. The seventh grade and high school boys earned a half holiday Wednesday afternoon for twenty consecutive days with no tardy marks. Superintendent Braham has been invited to address a December meeting of the Devel County Teachers Association. Mr Braham is widely recognized as a public speaker in this part of the state. Nebraska teachers met in Omaha last month also invited him, but he declined due to duties in Sidney. Reports from Chappell say Mr G C Chambers, Sidney High School graduate, is serving as principal there with notable improvements and a growing school spirit among patrons and students. Sidney friends expect Chambers to become one of Nebraska's leading educators.
Tuesday November 28 shows Lester Howard Hall of Pachu tolus Colorado and Ella Esther Robbins of Denver. Monday November 27 lists Dennis Fallon and Nettie M Adams, both of Denver. Wednesday November 29 pairs J Stanley Crook of Alliance with Kate Beatrice Shaffer of Atchison Kansas. Thursday November 30 pairs Allen Chamberlain of North Platte with Catherine Williams of Scottsbluff Nebraska.
Louis Priest of the Winnebago delegation in Thurston county was pardoned by Governor Aldrich after serving a two year sentence for treating an Indian friend to liquor. Judge Graves and pardons board member E. G. Maggs recommended clemency citing Priest’s language barrier and lack of understanding of state laws. Priest was convicted under a law prohibiting liquor sales or gifts to Indians. He was sentenced May 4, 1910 and would have been released next January.
Libbey cut glass showcased at Wolf's Jewelry Store highlighting craftsmanship and retail display.
Lincoln Nov 30 The Supreme Court grants Mrs Maggie Davis a new murder trial in Cedar county after ruling trial judge erred by omitting insanity defense. John Furse leaves state post and Thomas Mall succeeds C E Harman as railroad commissioner following Cowgill’s death.
Two hundred delegates from sixty three counties will attend the first annual Nebraska State Automobile association convention in Omaha. Good roads tops the agenda as delegates plan to elect representatives for a national auto show in Washington to push a bill creating federal and cross state highways.
Nebraska case news reports the state supreme court reversing a murder conviction for William Flege of Dixon county and remanding for a new trial. Flege has posted $25,000 bail since last May amid statewide attention.
Bernice Bohnstedt, a stenographer at the feeble minded institute, died Saturday at her parents home six miles northeast of Pickrell after five weeks of typhoid illness. She was eighteen. Rev Stephen S Myrick, former headmaster of Oldham Hall and a noted educator, was inaugurated as the seventh president of Nebraska Central College, the Quaker institution near Central City.
Mrs Helena Steiger did not win her suit against Drs McKinnon and Day ton in Lincoln court. The jury reported a disagreement over the $10,000 claim alleging loss of sight following the doctors operation.
James J. LGB argues that trusts persist due to political theatrics and lax enforcement. He advocates forcing capital backing through cash or fair valuation, with penalties on stockholders or capitalization reductions to end monopolies.
Poem fragment recalls family faces seen in memory while the speaker contemplates life and time, referencing father mother and siblings and remembered pictures on the wall. The tone is reflective and nostalgic with a personal nameless narrator.
A brief poetic scene describes a warm year ending with misty plains. The wind moves over a plain while November sunshine glints on pale gray water and rain-wet roadways.
Despondent over domestic troubles Dick Sisco of Alliance Neb shot himself at his residence in West Lawn. In other news A G Kramer lost his case in Otoe county against Bankers' Surety company as the supreme court decided against him.
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