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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1938
Page
2
Community items list visits, social calls, and small events in Eagle and nearby towns. Families including Ingwersons Humes Lenz Borges Rahe and Frerichs appear with dinners, shopping, church events, corn work and hospital notes. A baby girl Shirley Ann was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Alvoid. Funeral for Everett Humphries held near Lisco.
Residents report a weekend of visits and dinners across several households. Noteable gatherings include Bunco and Chinese checkers at Anchor school preparations for January 6, P T A meeting at Liberty, and multiple dinners at the Hume, Rahe, and Cortney homes. Local chess and card games feature Mrs. LaVern Queen and Mrs James Hume.
Multiple short items record visits and calls at the H. J. Elsen and other local homes in South Colton and Sidney area, including Mrs. Elsen, Wayne Elsen, Wayne Sharman, and others. Attendances at dinners, supper gatherings, and a turkey school are noted, plus a school absence for Marcheta Benedict and a comment on the fencing sport with its mask history.
Mrs Franzes Egging and daughter Lucille visited the Cortney home last Monday to Friday while Mr Egging was in Wyoming. Andrew Johnson visited the Albin Johnson home Tuesday evening. Carol Junker spent Wednesday evening with John and Chris Junker. Mrs Leslie Johnson, Mrs Ed Miles and Anna Jorgensen visited Albert Johnson Thursday afternoon. Charles Wise and daughter Nancy attended the Tremain home Thursday evening. John and Chris Junker called at the Miles home Friday forenoon. Mr Anderson of Fremont visited the Albin Johnson home Wednesday morning. Elmer Gade and family spent Friday evening at the Albert Brands home. A large crowd attended.
Fragmentary OCR notes recount General Robert E. Lee starting the first journalism classes in the United States and mention Mexico's population mix, Buenos Aires subway expansion, and Yugoslavia shipping eggs abroad. The text is incomplete and reads like a stray montage of unrelated statements.
Marvin Anthony, proprietor, reports moving Kemmerer Pea and Lump coal to customers and expects a car of Pinnacle Lump on track soon. He notes a stoker purchase to heat his facility and provide hot water, saving time and money.
We offer a low priced screen door with a paper up to screen size for drafty doors. Also advertised is a 1939 calendar for purchase. Lou Houge of the Farm Organization mentions office furniture made for Telegraph offices, crafted by Joe Meick.
Russia announces a 1938 grain harvest that shattered prior records, signaling a strong agricultural year. Officials credited favorable weather and expanded sowing areas for the historic yield, with government reports detailing nationwide production milestones.
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