Farmer's Institute Postponed for Sidney View Future Date
In a letter dated December 7 1896 Mr BE McLernon Sidney Nebraska explains that due to a delay in coordinating Institutes along the Union Pacific only after all towns align can Sidney hold its Farmers Institute. The date will be announced later and attendees will be notified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. McLernon
Farmers Institute
Sidney
Mr. BE
McLernon
Nebraska
Union Pacific
Ciu
Pb. W.taylor
Commissioners Proceedings From Sidney Nebraska 1896
The December 4 1896 record shows the county board meeting with all members present. Claims approved include bridge fund payments for Henry Fushia and W W Young. Official bonds approved for local justices of the peace assessors road overseers and constables. Notices include an inspection trip to Camp Clarke on December 8 and adjournment details. Advertising and medical product notices follow, including Ballard’s Horehound Syrup promotion and unclaimed letters list. County correspondence notes local news from Redington and Riverside.
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Offics Board County Commissioners
Sidney
Nebr
Henry Fushia
Firth Booth
Wea
W. W. Young
W. C Bullock
P. Chambers
TH. E. Gapen
Ben H. Pusey
King Precinct
Harvey Stephens
Justice of the Peace
Bayard
N. P. Lyngholm
Bronson
William Peters
P. J. Dunn
King
M. L. Nash
Lodgepole
Fred Bratz
Union Valley
A. Gunderson
Potter
Henry Anderson
Bronron
Henry Henricks
Magle
Camp Clarke
Literary Notes and World Events in Review of Reviews
Jerome K Jerome’s last story for The Ladies’ Home Journal, An Item of Fashionable Intelligence, will appear in January outlining London high society life. The Progress of the World analyzes the Venezuelan boundary arbitration, US stance in the dispute, the Cleveland administration, Turkish policy, the European scene, Rosebery’s resignation, and English politics in a concise monthly survey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome K. Jerome
Ladies’ Home Journal
London
Review of Reviews
Great Britain
United States
Cleveland
Lord Rosebery
Cheyenne County Teachers Meet at Potter For Quarterly Session
A large delegation from Sidney attended the regular quarterly session of the Cheyenne County Teachers Association at Potter last Saturday. Despite pleasant weather and poor train service, most teachers traveled by road, with Mr Doran and Mr Killen arriving on their wheel. The group discussed grammar knotty points and school discipline debates, valuing travel as part of professional zeal. Sidney teachers look forward to hosting the next meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
Teachers’ Association
Potter
Doran
Lodgepole
Killen
Cheyenne County
Esven
Tax Payers Warning on Cheyenne County Personal Taxes
Sidney Nebraska November 25 1896 County Treasurer A Pease gives notice under 1895 statutes that personal taxes must be paid by January 1 1897 or distress warrants will be issued. Voluntary payments averaging fifty dollars daily from December 1898 may defer warrants, otherwise levy and sale of personal property will occur.
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Sidney Nebr
Nebraska
Cheyenne
A. Pease
The Christmas Tree Almost Without Expense
Plan festive decorations with low cost kid made crafts from pinwheel paper. Use colored sheets, gold and silver accents, and simple folding and cutting to create chains nets lanterns and bird cages. Children help complete the tree in a few afternoons, adding charm and shared effort to holiday memories.
New Buffet Smoking and Library Cars On Overland Route
New composite cars operate daily between Salt Lake City and Chicago on the Chicago Union Pacific and Northwestern Line. The Buffet Smoking and Library cars are modern in design with writing materials and current periodicals. The Overland Limited runs these cars, and Union Pacific first to inaugurate this service. Tickets should read via The Overland Route.
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Chicago
Union Pacific
Northwestern
Salt Lake City
Overland Limited
Dr Kings New Discovery praised by Rev Gunderman
Letter from Rev J Gunderman of Dimondale Mich extols Dr Kings New Discovery after his wife suffered prolonged coughing during pneumonia and flu. He notes rapid relief and high satisfaction with results. Trial bottles offered free at W F Bassett s Drug Store with regular sizes 50 cents and 1.00.
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J. Gunderman
Dimondale
Mich
Dr. King
Baptist Church
Rivers Junction
Pheumoniat
Lugrippe
Union Pacific to Sell Round Trip Tickets Within 200 Miles
The Union Pacific will sell tickets to any local point on system within 200 miles on December 24 25 and 31 1896 and January 1 1897 with a final limit of January 4 1897 at one and one third fare for a round trip. BE. R. Breisce Agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
BE. R. Breisce
Union Pacific Introduces Minneapolis to Los Angeles through Sleeper
Through service from Minneapolis and St Paul to Los Angeles by a Pullman Tourist Sleeper via Sioux City and Columbus Nebraska with no car changes leaves Minneapolis Thursdays at 7 40 p m and St Paul at 8 15 p m returning from Los Angeles at 2 p m every Thursday. Union Pacific touts faster west time and urges early space applications through local agents or General Passenger Agent E L Lomax in Omaha.
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Union Pacific
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Minn
Los Angeles
Cal
Sioux City
Columbus
Neb
Itig
California
E. L. Lomax
Omaha
Free Silver Club to Form Permanent Organization
The Sidney Free Silver Club will meet Saturday evening December 19 at 7 30 o clock at the former headquarters in the Oberfelder block. The gathering aims to form a permanent organization and invites all interested in the free silver campaign of 1900 to attend. A D Stowirts is Chairman and D F McKay is Secretary.
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Sidney Free Silver Club
Oberfelder Block
A. D. Stowirts
D. F. McKay
Judge Hill Greene Stricken In Broken Bow Shock
Lincoln reports Judge Bill Greene of the Sixth district was taken ill while presiding in Broken Bow. A stomach ailment forced adjournment and kept him confined to his hotel room after an earlier bout of tonsillitis. The illness unsettles his friends and halted a criminal case.
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Mr. Compton
Robert Vance
Bill Lyons
Mr. Gibson
Father Nunn
Broken Bow
Bill Greene
Lincoln
Popocrats
Greene
Congress
Brokenow
Sidney
School Notes and Student Achievements
Dan Stafford leaves the Intermediate department while Jennie Oldershaw and Peter Jessen miss school due to illness. First Primary pupils craft little booklets from mottoes learned this term. Gordon Cramer earns special mention for writing improvements. Fannie Bergman and Della Ragan win ribbons for reading in Second Primary. Katharine Sharmer tops the number class for rapid calculation. Kindergarten considers a Christmas program the day before Christmas.
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Dan Stafford
Jennie Oldershaw
Peter Jessen
Katharine Sharmer
How to Prevent Pneumonia and Cough Remedy Claim
An old advertisement extols Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the best safeguard against pneumonia during cold season. It cites user testimony from Olagah, Ind. Ter and urges households to keep the medicine, noting 25 and 50 cent sizes available from druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Olagah
White's Cream Vermifuge Promises Safe Worm Remedy
Cream Vermifuge is advertised as a purely vegetable worm remedy that cannot harm and will expel worms. It claims to restore growth, vitality, and sleep in children showing worm-related distress, with large bottles and small doses priced at 25 cents, sold at Seanlan's Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seanlan’s
Electric Bitters Promoted as Universal Tonic
Electric Bitters described as a seasonless medicine aiding languor, liver sluggishness, and bilious fevers by cleansing the system of malarial poison. It claims relief from headache, indigestion, constipation, and dizziness with a 50c to 1.00 price at W. F. Bassett's Drug Store.
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W. F. Bassett
Also Mentioned on This Page
Grand Clearing Sale
Arbuckle’s
Lion
Glenwood's
Riverside
James. McMullan
Farmer's Institute
Commissioners Proceedings
Bridge Fund
A. W. Atkins
W. R. Woop
J. WV. Harper
W. GC. Bullock
Ballard
W. B. Evans
Clearwater
Kans
Scanlan’s
Bucklen
Herbert Luplow
H. L. Hillman
Redington
McKinley
Edna Johnson
Anthony
Johnson
Davis
Kelley Putney
T.S. Mekie
Gering
I. N. Hughes
Ark
Wyoming
Harry Lee
Boyer, Jr
Chimney Rock
Berg
Mr. Bitting
The
County Teachers’ Association
King Solomons
St. Paul, Minn
Los
Angeles
Free Silver Club
Judge Hill Greene
Electric Hitters
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