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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1877
Page
8
Notice from J B Gobsage Co limiting liability for debts to those made by written order. Claims against anyone connected with Tax Tsizcu are not to be allowed. Signatures required for accountability.
A jumble of city notes from Sidney reports new subscribers to the weekly Travois and weddings, health remarks on measles, tree transplanting, and local industry. Mentions of the Columbus Ze, banking removals, and a forthcoming roll of life for a Laramie rolling mill. Several local residents and visitors are named amid casual hometown chatter.
The Black Hills mail now travels via the Sidney Short Cut, speeding deliveries to Cheyenne and beyond. Passengers from Custer and other Black Hills towns favor the route to connect with trains, arriving days or a week earlier than the Cheyenne wagon due to snow and route dangers. The Sidney post office becomes a distributing hub, with Dudley managing the emergency.
The Clay County Globe reports Sidney T LecRarn claims county clerk Allen got lost in Sidney and needed a policeman to guide him to the depot. The piece notes rapid town growth near the railroad due to Black Hills gold rush traffic and questions the Telegraph’s casual remark about Allen’s Second Street stroll. The Globe invites the Telegraph to respond in due course.
Work continues on a 6 by 6 shaft at Sidney coal mine north of town. At 20 feet a vein of soft coal was found with minimal slate, and miners now probe a second vein as geologists note deposits in nearby bluffs. Farmers in Nemalia county began wheat sowing while potato prices rise, prompting renewed farming activity and timely drilling.
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