Religious Services Announced for Feb 4 and Lent
A service is planned in Dalton on Sunday Feb 4 at 3 pm led by Rev Hillert. Christ Church held a last Sunday commemoration of St Paul with a sermon on ministry call and acceptance. Bishop Beecher of Kearney visited Sidney near Christ Church Rectory and plans to return by Easter for Confirmation.
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Dalton
Hillert
Christ Church
St. Paul
Christ Episcopal
George Allen Beecher
Kearney
Nebraska
Sidney
Bishop Beecher
Potter man H E Couright visits city last Tuesday
H E Couright of Potter was in the city last Tuesday, a short note under city news reporting his visit and location.
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H. E. Couright
Potter
Our City
Nebraska News Pace Reports Bridges Bid Dispute and Rail Bill Support
Nebraska items include Cook seeking mandamus to force readvertisement of bridge bids in Richardson County amid claimed bidder collusion, and county’s plan to build its own bridges. Nelson bill gains rail and tax enforcement support from Hitchcock Brown, with state commissions poised for passage. Delzell pushes seed corn testing. Modern Woodmen leadership denies secession talk. Warrants, mineral-rights offer in Johnson County, and two obituaries from Omaha and Benkelman.
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Lincoln
Fev
Guy A. Cook
Richardson County
District Court
Cook
Supreme Court
State Railway Commission
Hitchcock
Brown
Delzell
Dorcas Society Luncheon Brings Members Together
Mrs Short Mrs Nicholson and Mrs Evans hosted a Dorcas Society luncheon Thursday for about 100 guests in Mrs Short s home. A course meal featured pumpkin pie with whipped cream. Members brought parcels paid a quarter each and swapped gifts, creating merriment as items varied in usefulness and ornament. The next meeting will be at president Mrs Trognitz s home with officers to be elected.
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Mrs. Short
Dorcas Society
Trognitz
Marriage Licenses Friday January 26 1912
Rollie A Hood and Belle Hin shy both of Denver obtained marriage licenses on Friday January 26 1912 in Denver.
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Rollie A. Hood
Belle Hinshy
Denver
Harding pastor chosen for Sidney Lutheran Church
Rev. M. D. Burke of Harding Nebraska will become pastor of Sidney Lutheran Church on April 1. He is married with a son and the congregation welcomes the new pastor after a long vacancy. The will of Curtis D. Essig has been filed for probate with Flora B. Essig as executrix. Otto Nelson of Laura and O. W. Swingley U P assistant tax commissioner were in Sidney for local matters. H. Giegerich of Kaslo British Columbia visited C. C. Callahan, a brother-in-law of Mrs. Callahan. The state supreme court overruled a motion for a new trial in Haas et al vs Wellner et al, settling a multiyear land ownership dispute over unimproved prairie land near Sidney. The case traced heirs of Joseph Haas, who died in 1898, and a deed to stepson Gus Wellner. Attorneys J. L. McIntosh and W. P. Miles represented Wellner. A testimonial on Chamberlains cough Remedy from Enos Lollar of Saratoga Indiana is cited.
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M. D. Burke
Harding, Nebraska
Sidney Lutheran Church
State Supreme Court
Herman Haas Et al
Gus Wellner
Sidney
Joseph Haas
Wellner
Mr. Wellner
District
Supreme Court
J. L. McIntosh
W. P. Miles
Republicans Push Tariff Bill Reducing Metal Duties
The Republican drive to curb metal tariffs failed as insurgent and regular Republicans supported a Democratic revision bill. The measure passed the House 109 to 2 with 35 percent average reductions on metal articles, potentially boosting imports by 25 million dollars and cutting revenues by about 900 thousand. Debate centered on House rules and cloture as leaders clashed with Norris and Tentnot over fair consideration.
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House
Payne Aldrich
Underwood
Norris
Neb
Tentnot
Wis
Mann
Floyd
Ark
The
Republic
Thorne Charges Railroads With Bad Faith At Hearing
Iowa railroad commissioner Clifford Thorne accused western railroads of pushing higher rates in a bid to bypass interstate rules. George N. Brown warned that the commission may suspend any schedule if a general rate increase is found, after a three year effort to unify western rates. Thorne pressed for more time to study the new schedules presented in Chicago.
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Clifford Thorne
Iowa
George N. Brown
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
Thorne
Exminer Brown
Albert Wolter Executed at Sing Sing for Murder
Albert Wolter was executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison for the murder of Ruth Wheeler, a fifteen year old who visited his New York flat seeking work. He left a denial to Warden Kennedy, and died after a single electrical contact, showing unusually low resistance for an inmate.
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Albert Wolter
Sing Sing
Ruth Wheeler
Wolter
New York
Kennedy
State Electrician
Mob executes five generals in Ecuador uprising
A mob broke into Quito penitentiary and lynched Generals Elroy Alfaro Flavio Alfaro Medardo Alfaro A Pagz and Manuel Serrano. Earlier in Guayaquil a crowd shot and beheaded General Pedro Montoro proclaimed president after Estrada’s death. Elroy Alfaro had seized presidency in 1906 after defeating government troops.
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Quito Penitentiary
Elroy Alfaro
Flavio Alfaro
Medardo Alfaro
A. Pagz
Manuel Serrano
Guayaquil
Pedro Montero
Estrada
Woodmen Adopt Readjustment Plan At Chicago Meeting
The Modern Woodmen of America approved a proposed life insurance rate increase. The adjourned Chicago session ended with 460 votes for and 207 against the plan.
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Woodmen of America
Chicago
Robbers Loot Vancouver Bank Branch At Noon
Two robbers robbed the Royal Bank branch in Vancouver at noon and forced manager A. A Stevens and staff into the vault where they were locked in while the attackers took a large sum in the thousands.
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Royal Bank
Vancouver
A. A Stevens
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Thedford
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Otto Nelson
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U. P
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Kruse
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