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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1921
Page
13
Agricultural note for Cheyenne County farmers outlines winter care for breeding stock. Advice covers free range exercise, frost protection for combs, regular male exams, separate feeding if hens overeat, draft proof dry housing with 3 to 4 square feet per bird, and lighter yarded conditions. Emphasizes balanced ration with limited beef scrap and use of green feeds or sprouted greens to maintain egg production and fitness.
In Swan Nebraska Silas Breen a 65 year old bachelor farmer failed to appear at the post office for two weeks. His body was found at home partly eaten by cats and dogs he kept. He died of smallpox. His effects included 50 dogs 37 cats many other animals and $4500 in cash on his writing desk.
Miss Margaret Fedde head of the college of agriculture home economics estimates a farmer wife’s work at 4004 a year for a family with two or more children. She assigns weekly values to meals washing cleaning sewing child care milking and more, noting farm women work over thirteen hours daily in summer and winter and many perform tasks like baking washing and sewing.
Automobile insurance notice referencing Farmers special term policy and a brief address cue for an electric shop near the American Bank, indicating a local business notice or classified style item.
The City Council met in regular session Friday evening February 4. Mayor I E Grabill and councilors Jorgensen Nelwig Schroeder Freytag Lowe plus clerk Fred Stephens attended. Minutes of previous meeting were approved. Appropriation Ordinance No 56 read and warrants ordered. A committee of Lowe Freytag Jorgensen to visit Union Pacific superintendent on north side drainage under tracks. Councilman Schroeder, seconded by Jorgensen, motion to have the City Engineer order 500 feet of ornamental electric wire for display purposes, carried. Clerk instructed to consult Chamber of Commerce secretary about attending Lincoln hearing on rising telephone rates.
The town bought a new five mile fire whistle installed at the power plant. It sounds like a peanut vendor's whistle and can be heard for three blocks in calm weather with no talking. The village clerk ordered a larger whistle twice. the current one will be removed and returned when it arrives.
Mrs Maybelle Roe was found guilty of first degree murder and given life imprisonment for killing real estate operator McCullough Graydon in Venice California last September. Two days later Mrs Petre was likewise convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life for Jacob Charles Denton’s murder last June. It is claimed California has not before convicted a woman of first degree murder. SIDNEY LUMBER CO special sale on box chocolates every Saturday at the Rexall Store.
In the County Court Cheyenne County Nebraska In the Matter of the Estate of Mars E Judd Deceased On reading and filing the petition of Lovina A Belden praying that Administration of said Estate may be granted with process and notice as required by law and that the hearing be set on a stated date and time by the court
Order assigns February 26 1921 at 10 A M for hearing on petition to appoint Solomon Wills as Administrator. County Court will hear the matter and determine if the petition should be granted. Notice requires publication in The Telegraph weekly for three consecutive weeks prior to the hearing. Dated January 20 1921. (Seal) Co. P. Chambers County Judge.
Clyde Augustine is notified that A. R. Ellsworth holds a lien dated January 28 1921 filed January 25 1921 in Cheyenne County Clerk to secure 45 owed for pasturing two mares. The lien will be foreclosed at public auction February 26 1921 selling two grey mares about 14 years old and weighing about 1100 pounds each on the southeast quarter section 29.
A legal notice states a property sale scheduled for two o'clock P M on the stated day in Township Fourteen Range Forty-nine West of the Sixth Principal Meridian Cheyenne County Nebraska Dated February 4 1921 A R Ellsworth.
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