Oberfelder Building: Sidney’s Historic Family Store Demolished
The Oberfelder brothers Bob and Joe shaped Sidney’s early growth by opening a general merchandise store in 1876 and remaining active into the 1900s. Their hand hewn stone Oberfelder Building on 10th Street near Hickory was once the town’s largest retail hub, a symbol of frontier commerce as Sidney centered around Front Street and the Union Pacific.
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American Exploration Co
Nebraska
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Blanche
Clarabelle
Lillian
Arthur
Leona
Irving
Hazel
William
Detroit
Clark Fuller
Hanna Oberfelder
William Oberfelder
Bob Oberfelder
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Isaac
Omaha
Union Pacific Railroad
Cheyenne
Ft. Sidney
Sidney-Deadwood
Black Hills
Hearing on courts to be held in Sidney Nebraska
A series of Nebraska State Bar Association hearings on court system functions will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday Feb 10 in the Cheyenne County Courthouse district courtroom in Sidney. Attorney Tom Shanahan of Ogallala will lead the session, with Sidney attorney Frank Mattoon arranging. Public input is welcome on municipal county and state supreme court issues. written comments may be sent to the Court Study Committee, 1019 Sharp Building Lincoln 68508.
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Cheyenne County
Sidney
Tom Shanahan
Ogallala
Frank Mattoon
Mattoon
Kimball
Keith
Perkins
Devel
Nebraska
State Supreme Court
Bar’ Association
Court Study Committee
Sharp Building
Lincoln, Neb
Herboldsheimer wins state Voice of Democracy contest
Potter senior Tom Herboldsheimer won Nebraska’s Voice of Democracy state contest at the Mid-Winter Conference in Norfolk. The first southern Panhandle winner advances to the national contest in Washington, D C, and to a Disneyworld trip. Christie Hasch and Dave Cantral placed second and third. The event drew 1349 participants. Herboldsheimer earned 300 in savings bonds.
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North Platte
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Germany
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Mary Louise Knapp
Kimball
American Legion
Minatar
Miss Knapp
John D Knapp
Kimball County High School
Nick Swanstrom
Sidney High School
Lincoln
VFW
Carl Schroeder
Tekamah
Washington
Marion Whitaker
Sidney
Workers return to jobs amid winter relief efforts
Upstate New York and northern New Jersey workers begin returning to work as gas supplies stabilize. About 350000 workers, including 220000 industrial workers and 500000 students, are resuming routines, with New Jersey industries reopening to 150000 workers. Some southern industries stay closed as reserves rebuild. Coast Guard rescued 31 refugees from a snowbound Buffalo base. severe blizzards since Jan 28 caused 10 foot drifts.
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United Press International
New York
New Jersey
Brendan T. Byrne
North Jersey
South
Buffalo
Coast Guard
Lake Erie
New York City
California
General Motors Corp Auto Assembly
South Gate
Chalmette
Sidney Board of Education meets with long agenda
The Sidney Board of Education will meet Tuesday at 7:15 PM in the Junior High Library. Items include the 1977-78 contract negotiations with teachers, contracts for Supt Ron Reichert and Business Manager Roger Willmart, a timeline for a possible building program, and discussion of an athletic policy for the junior high. It will be Jerry Epstein’s first meeting since his January appointment. Service awards will honor Bob Cook and Dr CJ Cornelius and Dr John Platt, who retired.
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Sidney Board of Education
Ron Reichert
Roger Willmart
Jerry Epstein
Bob Cook
Cook
CJ Cornelius
John Platt
WIFE plans trips to organize chapters and testify
Women Involved in Farm Economics members will meet Tuesday night at the Fort Sidney Motor Hotel to map travel to form affiliated chapters and discuss a DC trip to testify before the House Agricultural Committee. Nearly a dozen communities have inquired about starting WIFE chapters.
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Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
WIFE
Joy Ankeny
Washington, DC
House Agricultural Committee
Fatal shooting tied to I 80 gas station robbery
A 23 year old Indiana man, James E. Spence, died after a Keith County deputy sheriff shot at a fleeing vehicle four miles north of Grant following an Interstate 80 gas station robbery near Paxton. Two juveniles from Highland, Indiana, were jailed in Ogalala with the car wrecked and the stolen $148 recovered. A coroner's inquest absolved the deputy of charges.
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Paxton
James E. Spence
Highland
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Edson Webb
Nelson
Grant
Spence
Poppy trial near Hemingford ends amid weather and secrecy
In Box Butte County southwest of Hemingford a unique poppy cultivation project, tied to Ag Specialties N. V. of St Louis under Mallinckrodt, has been halted. Cold winters and wind damaged plots, with 133 acre and 96 acre fields affected. Land listed for sale and several staff moved away as the venture, begun nearly three years ago, faced harvest challenges and secrecy.
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St Louis
Box Butte County
Tts
United States
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Iran
Heron
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