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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1898
Page
8
The fragment lists timetable details for East and West routes with passenger and freight trains, including Freights 1% and 22, various departure times around 5:50 p.m. 7:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m., and notes on freight carriers and agents. The legible portion mentions E.R. Brieson as agent and references Way Prelzurg and Cattociut vans.
A jumble of town news notes sickness visits and travel. Mrs Jessen and Henry Bunghert are ill, Dr Yurletz and Dr Murtless practice in nearby towns, Peter Benson recovers at home, and Mrs Merriman visits from Potter. Many residents travel to Omaha Lincoln and Cheyenne while others attend events, land office business, and lodge meetings as winter moves in.
In a period of tight money people chose practical Christmas gifts that last. Shoes hats shirts sweaters mittens overcoats and scarves were favored as necessities. BH. T. Doran offers a complete line at very low prices with guaranteed satisfaction.
Photographer Mine Rankin announces availability for Christmas season work from December 1 to 17, 2008 in Sidney. Local organizers and studios are invited to contact Rankin for assignments and collaborations during the holiday period.
The Catholic Church plans three services at six, nine thirty, and eleven o clock with a choir singing, music by Father Muenich. A dinner for Sunday-School scholars is planned at the Court House after Methodist services. Episcopal Church to feature a program and Christmas tree.
A long running land dispute over a homestead entry on section 33 township 19 range 50 was decided in favor of J H Barnhart by Secretary Bliss of the Interior Department after appeals. The local land office had ruled for the contestant, the commissioner reversed, and the Secretary affirmed the commissioner's ruling that the entry by the defendant remains intact.
The text notes plans to leave Santa Claus in Sidney a week from Sunday if behavior stays good. It mentions a knowing youth who is generally well behaved during this season and participates in Sunday school. It hints that engagement may waver outside this period and after a particular event attending clubs becomes unlikely.
Last Saturday the Breisch residence hosted an open house with watch woman overseeing activities. Ruth Breisch entertained about fifteen children in the afternoon and the youngsters enjoyed themselves.
The noti fication states that assistant postmasters in third class offices will be bonded like first and second class offices. Bond amounts follow the postmaster’s bond, with the sum set at 31 500 for this office.
The testimony is taken but no receipts can be given until the new register takes his place. D. W. White and Mrs. C N. Beebe proved on homesteads near Camp Clarke. Geo H Kendricks Harrisburg bus P Curran Quitman Mo Frank S Pierce Marion Iowa C WCvigier Marshall Ll proved up on timber claims.
Wm G Pickerill and Maggie M Phillips of Longmont Colorado were married Wednesday morning by Judge Neubauer. The ceremony at the Neubauer residence was simple and unostentatious. The couple will reside in Redington and have stocked up on furniture and household goods.
The Chowins stock is being rapidly disposed of by Sheriff King. Sales occur on Saturdays and the prices realized have been fair. Today’s sale is expected to close out the remainder of the goods.
The contract for filling the ice house at this place was awarded to Chas Trognitz this week. He expects to begin work immediately if the weather stays favorable. Superintendent John Lanktree was in town Tuesday with a crew shaping the ice house.
A collage of foreshadowed humor and ads from a Chicago paper page sketches frost on pumpkins, jokes about actors, fashion costs, and local bargains. It notes McMullan’s meats, Essig furniture and sewing machines, Doran ties, and Dr Harris female health attention, with quips on gowns, barber shaves, and a Times giraffe joke.
The Fremont Tribune credited Dodge county with the top medal at the exposition, but Boone county actually won the gold. Platte and Cheyenne counties dispute, noting Sidney school displays the genuine medal while Albion and Columbus papers echo the correction.
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