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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1940
Page
6
Public health board records reveal most residents were free from ailment while dairies including Four Acres, Charles Kenyon and Platte Valley Creamery offered pasteurized milk. Ten residents reported undulant fever, a milk borne disease, amid local health concerns and ongoing investigations.
Insurance Director Charles Smrha banned including a premium note based cancellation clause in hail damage policies for crops. The provision voids any loss claim if the note is unpaid when due, affecting landowners during the crop year. Applies to assessment bail insurers with September due notes and December loss payouts.
E R Blome files for unicameral in the 43rd district amid questions of popularity. He is known in Cheyenne and Morrill counties through farming, Camp Clarke ranch, and American Legion work. He is the third candidate. Judge John Stoute vile and Joe Steele filed earlier. Two nominees will emerge from the April 9 primary for the August general election.
Six farmers will gain outstanding recognition and 44 others will receive honorable mention. The P F L program promotes balanced livestock and feed operations on Nebraska farms and a free exchange of ideas. Anyone eligible may become a cooperator. application blanks are at the Farm Bureau office in Sidney. Last year the county had 22 cooperators.
Growth in livestock on farms accompanies a modest gain in business outlook. Observers note a gradual shift away from sole dryland wheat, corn, and spring grains toward broader production.
The Current Farm Problems Class sponsored by Liberty Farmers Union will discuss hybrid corn as a safe bet for Cheyenne County. J W Nielsen of Sidney High School will teach as farmers and their wives attend, asked to consider seed development adapted varieties soil effects and seed and silage values. The class meets Wednesday evening February 28 at 8 p m in the west school house district 39.
The Telegraph News lists two sales led by Col. A B Rapp as auctioneer with The American National Bank clerk. On Monday March 4 at six miles north and eight miles east of Potter the sale includes 27 head of horses including a Percheron stallion eight cattle and extensive machinery. Lunch by Bunker Bill ladies. Also L C Jim Hoover organization Runge Brothers as auctioneers with Potter State Bank clerk. On Wednesday March 6 annual machinery and miscellaneous sale at Sidney Sales Pavilion.
City clerk, city treasurer and police judge posts to be filled in Sidney. No active police judge since James Cameron moved. Non political city elections use caucus polls if more than two candidates run, a long-standing, satisfactory practice. First ward caucus at legion room, city audi?ence.
The general caucus will meet in the auditorium, located between the Second ward north side and Third ward Frances Willard east side school buildings, at eight o'clock.
The chamber discusses federal aid issues over road protests as the strip remains abandoned east of town. E R Blome asks for a shelter house table and park benches with a $10 Nebr. Pump Irrigation Association donation to the board. W P Ackerman announces an April 25 fire hazard inspection for business and public buildings aiming to cut insurance rates. Fifty to sixty men will join. Floyd Cropper recalls last night’s boys forum and urges attendance. meeting funded extra support for boys lacking funds.
Frank B. O Connell reports Nebraska game officers checked over 16 000 hunting and fishing permits in 1939 with 1 847 hunter and fisherman complaints investigated. The force covered 488 605 miles, 703 violators were brought to court, and fines fund the state school system. Guns are confiscated and sold yearly at Lincoln auctions.
Commissioner W. H. Smith’s annual findings show Nebraska property taxes last year totaled 46,819,080, down from 66,228,955 at the 1927 peak. County levies ranged from 33,900 in Arthur to 9,677,705 in Douglas, with school taxes 43.5 percent of the 1939 total and township 2 percent. Local party details and a Dalton area social are noted, including a party at Ed Stevens home.
Local families and visitors share Sunday and weekday calls at several homes. Withers Bondegard Earnhart Oades Haskell Hansen Rowedder Duncan Queen Borges Burke and others appear in a sequence of afternoon and supper visits plus butcher chores and a Volkert sale attendance in the Route One community.
Nebraska youths gain access to NYA funds of 10 to 20 dollars monthly with 30 dollars for some graduates. About 704 Nebraska University students earned salaries totaling 8,510 dollars monthly for semes ter work, averaging forty hours weekly. Projects spanned biology chemistry and cancer research while music and farm science tasks provided training.
Wheat prices for Monday February 26 show Chicago futures at May 11.02 and July 1.00 with declines. September 1.00. Produce items include hens 9 cents per four pounds and up, under four pounds six cents, springs nine cents, buttermilk fat 25 cents, cocks four cents, current receipt eggs twelve cents, No 1 eggs thirteen cents, No 2 eggs ten cents.
The native of France is praised for four prides distilling national essence: in its art, its chateaus, its cuisine, and its wines. The wine trade thrives on about 4,060,000 acres of vineyards, a tradition dating back to Roman empire days.
A proverb-like statement notes that more than 80 percent of knowledge is acquired through sight. It emphasizes the importance of visual experience in understanding and learning.
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