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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1923
Page
9
One year postage paid costs 1.50, six months 0.75, single copies available. The notice notes advance payment and confirms entry at the Sidney Nebraska post office as second class matter. Foreign advertising representation is THE AMERICAN PR ASSOCIATION.
Mr and Mrs Ed Ahrens hosted a party bus on February 17. A Lincoln centennial program honored the city. Anna C Stuht wed Leo E Os born February 14 1909. The couple toured Colorado after an elaborate wedding. Sidney’s Band gave two street concerts this week. The Fireman’s Mask Hall was a success. Net proceeds totaled 196 dollars. Nebraska wheat claimed top honors for light bread flour with W D Stek of Grand Island presenting the winning sample among 36 entries.
The Telegraph reports two hogs from Denver were driven into a roundhouse to escape freezing temperatures. Miss I Bordwell, Lodgepole’s primary teacher, visited relatives in Sidney on Saturday. Mack Radells returned from his ranch this week, noting he fed stock ten loads of hay daily during the cold spell, costing about 80 dollars per day for 14 days.
The Telegraph notes a business men's association was organized and its constitution and by-laws adopted. A. C. G. Nelgon died at their ranch in Greenwood. The child of Sergeant Schultz died after a tonsil operation. Wheat farming may grow with the promise of a flour mill. Some farmers plan to plant 10 to 40 acres.
The Biological Survey reports an average annual workforce of 266 hunters and trappers, with cooperation from states, contributing 196 405 dollars to predator control. Positive evidence of 30 986 predators collected includes 61 amounts: 60 large gray wolves, 27 185 coyotes, 2 827 bobcats and Canada lynxes, 173 mountain lions, and 114 bears. About 80 000 predators killed saved livestock and game valued at over 4 million dollars. Skins sold totaled 34 202.75 dollars, with 22 375 dollars from skins taken in the same year.
A rainy day activity suggests cutting used stamps from letters for a picture puzzle. Children trace or create new designs on paper then fit stamp pieces by color, using 1 cent for green 2 cent for red 4 cent for brown and 80 stamp values.
A. B Peirce, who has lived in Sidney for six months while working, will move his family this week to a farm south of Lodgepole. The Tuesday meeting of the T. N's with Mrs Ernest Worden and a dozen ladies concluded with one of Mrs Worden's delightful luncheons.
Dr Jonas, renowned Omaha physician, met with railroad doctors here Saturday to discuss shared duties. J C McNish, president of The American Bank, returned Sunday from Omaha after two months of medical treatment with highly favorable results.
A. Maley and wife and Oren Maley with wife and son arrived Saturday morning from Santa Anna California. They left their large farm interests to return home to manage early presence on the scene.
George Schroll, Morrill county agent, spent a brief Monday in Sidney while en route by car to his new job in Kansas. He resigned sixty days ago to pursue more lucrative and less demanding employment.
Miss Effie and Emma Larson of Cheyenne visited friends in Sidney on the eleventh and twelfth of this month and stayed at the Wooldridge home. Miss Effie is enjoying work as a typist in the legislature during this session.
Local notes list Mass times for Catholic and church services at Christ Episcopal and Methodist churches. A Lincoln address last Sunday drew a large crowd with patriotism, church choir singing, and planned meetings with Rev E C Staley as guest singer. Pastor William Kilburn invites all to attend.
United Lutheran Church asks attendance for Bible school at 10 a.m. and worship at 11 a.m. Next Sunday is a special day for prayer for colleges universities and seminaries with the sermon The Great Foundation. Also reminds adult class Thursday choir rehearsal Friday 7 15 p m and junior catechetical class Saturday 1 30 p m.
Grace Church Gurley announces Bible school each Lord's Day at 10 a m. Evening worship at 7 30 p m led by Rev W T Kahsbe pastor.
A Lincoln financier lauds Western Nebraska, noting $2 per hundredweight potatoes fob Kimball and a farmer with sixty acres earning up to $6,000. He cites 300 percent more farm equipment contracts, irrigation developments, and tractor-driven land improvements forecast to boost Kimball county as eastern Nebraska tenant farmers learn the region’s opportunity and profitability.
Dr M E Pettibone, dentist, operates an office above The Larson Music Store. Phone 419 listed for patient contact and appointments.
Despite widespread illness, Sunday services drew strong crowds. The pastor continues a series on Personal Evangelism in the morning and Moral ity and Religion in the evening. Bible school at 10 am, Christian Endeavor at 6:30 pm on the topic temptations to lie and overcoming them led by Floyd Whittaker. Thursday prayer meeting at 7:30 pm followed by choir practice. Pastor John Hewitson, 501 West 8th Street, phone 406-J.
Last Sunday morning Rev Norman B Olney of Dalton conducted services at Dalton and Kinkaid school house. Next Sabbath he will preach morning and evening worship at 11 am with senior and intermediate C E at 6 30 pm and Junior C E Mondays at 4 15 pm. Visitors welcomed. Rev Samuel Light, Pastor.
The International Bible Students Association holds a weekly class each Sunday at 2 pm at 102 street. All interested in Bible study are invited. Clara Downey serves as Class Secretary.
Detroit News notes pearls with fine luster and large grains gathered from the Mississippi River command high prices in India where Hindu women prize the slugs for embroidery and necklace work. Baroque rough pearls are cheaper and plentiful, while tiny dull slugs accumulate by the peck.
A brief show runs one solid week by the Boxed B Trousdale Stock Company. The company stages a comedy style production titled Bend It to the Laundry, inviting local audiences to enjoy a week of performances.
J. F. Migliario a brakeman of Cheyenne was standing on his caboose platform in Sidney Tuesday afternoon when he was knocked off. His scalp was badly cut exposing bone for six inches. He received emergency treatment and was taken to Cheyenne on No 17. He may have had other injuries.
The Ladies of the Altar Society will host a bake sale at Central Meat Market at two o clock on February 24th. The committee includes Miss Muensterman Mrs John O Neal Mrs Ed Crowley and Miss Maggie Peetz. When you need printing of good quality come to The Telegraph.
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