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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1911
Page
5
Six thousand bodies burned or buried near Harbin with sixteen coffin stacks and seven pits. Fourteen hundred from Chinese town and Russian quarter combined. Mortality also high among physicians hospital attendants as panic spreads and old rituals clash with medical efforts.
Sioux Falls Feb 6 The latest prisoner to be lodged in the state penitentiary is John Piper of Winner Tripp county who pleaded guilty and will serve two years Piper was charged with stock rustling in Lyman county.
Washington February 9 The house passed the senate bill requiring inspection of locomotive boilers on interstate railroads.
The second medal contest will be held at Kimball County High School this evening with six contestants. Judges include E B Jacobson, principal, and Edith H Morrison. Admission is ten cents. program starts 7 30 after the opera house concert. Girls and boys quartets will sing. Contestants and topics: Vance Doty The Grime Against Kansas Milton Wright The Character of Napoleon William Hudson Gettysburg Lewellyn Martin War with Mexico Albert Greenle Nomination of Blaine Elmer Nelson The Orient and the Occident.
The Alliance Sidney debate will be held Tuesday February 28 at the Tobin Opera House under the Nebraska High School Debating League. Special music will accompany the program. Despite late arrivals and other engagements the Sidney team prepares with cautious optimism to face their champion opponents with a panel of judges including J D Velin W L Greenslit and Nellie Crandall.
Logan County Sterling squad guided by M D Boland fell to Sidney with an 88 to 16 defeat before a large crowd at Sidney gym. Sidney showed speed and passing edge and outplayed Sterling throughout, despite Sterling’s recent wins. Sterling’s girls later enjoyed an oyster supper.
Mies Morrison visited Weyerts and Ingwereon schools this week and found them in good condition. The regular teachers examination is set for February 17 and 18. Potter School board will hire a teacher for northern pupils unable to attend the current school due to distance. Dr. W A Clark of Kearney Normal attended a Sidney visit to confer with county superintendents in western Nebraska called by the state superintendent of schools.
Sunday February led by Rev Luther Ludden the Western District field secretary Rev Sorensen was installed as pastor of the First Lutheran Church of Potter Nebraska He arrived last October from Evanston Illinois where he studied at Northwestern University earning a BA in 1910 He previously graduated from Western Theological Seminary Atchison Kansas in 1908 and is presently a correspondence student at the University of Chicago]]>
Sunday Feb 12th is Sexagesima Sunday with 10 a.m. Sunday school 11 a.m. litany and phor a 11 a.m. sharp and 7 30 p.m. evening prayer. The morning sermon explains the day and discipline and the evening sermon on Body and Soul titled Outward and Toward. The Ladies Guild met Feb 10 at Mrs Simon's residence.
German Lutheran services will be held Sunday February 12 at 2 30 p m in the Lutheran church two blocks east of the post office Rev A Wagner pastor continuous worship for the local congregation.
The Methodist sabbath school will present a Lincoln temperance program on Sunday evening February 12 at 7 30 at the Methodist Episcopal Church. A dedication for the new church at Higgins is planned February 19 with full notice to come in next week's Telegraph. Sunday school services at the Lutheran church occur Sundays at 10 30. Rev Henry Zinnecker invites Sidney residents to attend.
William J. Maneeley formerly of Sidney died February 2 in New Plymouth Idaho from heart failure. He worked in Sidney at Domer Teeter Co Real Estate and served as Chief Clerk at the U S Land Office under John M Adama. He later clerked in Boise and managed a 40 acre orchard before passing. He left a brother Fred, a widow and three children.
February first marks the implementation of revised practices at the United States land office aimed at simplifying proceedings and reducing costs. The changes limit contest rights to parties seeking title or interests and require grounds to be based on nonrecord factors. In Kansas City, the Council of Woman's Clubs proposes a hotel for working girls offering affordable room and board, promoting sanitary modern housing as a remedy for low wages.
A synopsis notes the treasury of Chessone County for 1910 per the annual report of County Treasurer W I Wood. It mentions a new stock of branches at S R Sweet's and outlines receipt details for the year.
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