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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1947
Page
3
The notice explains that assessments are payable in ten equal installments with the first due within 50 days of passage and delinquent after that date. Subsequent installments delinquent yearly over nine years, each carrying 6 percent annual interest from passage until delinquency. Interest accrues annually thereafter.
The council adopts a resolution authorizing special assessments and interest to form a sinking fund for District Paying Bonds. Four members vote yes Pierson Christ Porter Hellwig. none vote no. The mayor declares the resolution passed and adopted after majority approval.
The Clerk reported an adjourned meeting of the Mayor and Council of Sidney Nebraska to sit as a Board of Equalization for Paving District 17. The council heard protests, inspected properties, and adopted a resolution finding no damages, approving valuations, and levying special assessments totaling the cost of street improvements at 28 59260 dollars for the district excluding intersections and areas crossed by other streets.
District 18 of Sidney Nebraska is approved with a $3 706.63 valuation and special assessments. The council notes prior publication in The Telegraph on Nov 11, 18, 25 and Dec 2 1947 and confirms inspections of adjacent properties. The resolution enumerates assessments per lot based on benefits and damages from street improvements.
The resolution states assessments on each land parcel must reflect the special benefits from the improvements and be a lien from passage. It details certification to the City Treasurer and County Clerk, payment terms of ten installments with set delinquency dates, and interest rates 6 and 9 percent after delinquency.
The text outlines ten installments with the first due 50 days after passage and nine more due at 1 through 9 years. An interest rate of 6 percent from passage applies to installments after due dates, rising to 9 percent after delinquency. Mayor declares the measure with Pierson and Christ noted.
A playful note on berry naming contrasts true botany with common usage. It explains that strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and loganberries are not true berries, calling them dhapelets, while true berries include grapes, bananas, and tomatoes. Cranberries and blueberries are named honestly as true berries.
Bananas do not grow on trees but on an herb in the lily family. Botanists classify the fruit as a berry. The banana plant is an annual, completing its life cycle in 12 to 18 months, producing only one stem of bananas in its lifetime.
More than two million people in Britain now patronize British holiday camps, spread across resort areas throughout the British Isles. The holiday camp is the British version of the American dude ranch and marks a recent development in leisure. Connecticut leads in rural electrification with 94 percent of its 22,241 farms powered, followed by New Jersey at 91.5 percent and Massachusetts at 90.5 percent.
Sugar consists only of carbon hydrogen and oxygen with no nitrogen phosphorus or potassium. Shipping sugar away removes no fertility from the region but the fertility remains in farm soils redistributing value. The farmer should use beet by products and farm grown seeds to return fertility and gain higher yields at lower cost.
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