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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1915
Page
6
Reports from Peetz Sterling and nearby towns detail holiday travel business errands and family gatherings. Many residents including the Horner Garey Whitelock group and the Davis Raper families spent Christmas with relatives in Sterling Mitchell Lodgepole and Wallace Nebraska with plans for New Year festivities at Van's Hall.
Neighbors met at John Walsh’s for turkey and chicken games with Adam Gunderson winning five turkeys and Lars Olson three. Mrs Walsh helped with refreshments while John Walsh butchered a red hog. Lena Anderson works at Metropolitan hotel again. Ted and Grant Anderson traveled to Sidney last Saturday. A masquerade ball in Potter on New Year’s Eve drew Bronson and Sidney youths. A P Siebenaler hauled wheat to Sidney and John Sauer to Potter earlier in the week. Gene Pierce travels in Colorado visiting Tom Simpson over Xmas and plans to return for New Year’s.
Mr and Mrs Carl Springer host a visit from their son and wife from eastern Iowa. The ladies society of the draw presented a program and held a free Christmas Eve at the Springdale ranch. Will Chowins spent Xmas with Mr and Mrs John Daugherty and returned home Sunday. Grace Tarman shared Xmas dinner with her aunt near Winston. Teachers and pupils offered a fine program followed by a tree and Santa Claus on Christmas Eve in District 36. Charles Portrey spent Xmas week visiting friends at Winston Colorado.
Bert Davison and family and Miss Annie Hayden visited with John and Mrs Davison Saturday evening. An Ickes Gun Club detachment hunted wolves and jack rabbits near Court House Rock, with 382 jacks killed. Numerous locals attended Christmas gatherings, dances, and dinners in Dalton, including the Davison, Walsh, Eckert, and McNulty families. A birthday party celebrated Tom Freeman’s 58th birthday with gifts, cake, and long-remembered festivities.
Clara remains snowbound. Wi Chowins of Sidney Draw spent holidays at The Boy Ranch. Krebs seeks cheap horses and hunted jackrabbits. Farmers Co operative Union met at the school house in Dist 76. School resumes January 4 after holidays. Dalton butchered a hog last Wednesday. Daughertys visited for Christmas at the ranch. Mrs Webb and son from Wallace Neb visited The Hard Times Ranch this week.
In Richmond Times Dispatch style, two women who were close friends drift over social strife. One accuses the other of spreading rumors about admiration and imitation as they navigate public perception and personal pride.
Receipts totaled about 4 500 cattle and 11 500 hogs with a strong demand for dressed beef and fleshy feeders. Cattle prices ranged from common to prime, with steady to a dime higher for many classes, while hogs sold mostly 5 to 10 cents lower early but firmed into the close. sheep and lambs saw steady to a dime higher opening with good killing lambs and western cattle in demand. Prices listed for prime yearlings to canners, various feeders, and stock cattle reflect broad activity at Union Stock Yards South Omaha.
President Wilson said he views differences with the Senate over appointments as not a patronage fight and cited larger questions. He indicated no new moves are planned in disputed nominations, while administration officials insist the president will back his choices.
Dispatches report General Carranza departing Vera Cruz for the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Opposing factions called it a night after Puebla defeat, while Carranza officials noted he had announced plans to visit the Isthmus previously.
Officials of the British foreign office signaled that two smaller European nations, Greece and Roumania, are poised to enter the great war on the side of the Triple Entente. The forecast follows official statements and intelligence leaks from London.
German bishops and archbishops order January 10 as a day of prayer and repentance for the Kaiser's army. Hussein Kemal is named Sultan of Egypt by Great Britain.
About 200 unemployed men stormed a Seattle dairy lunch forcing patrons out and taking all food available. No injuries reported as crowd dispersed after swift police response. Proprietor and customers describe chaotic scene and rapid containment.
The big revival starts next Sunday morning at the Methodist church led by Rev PF Leros Enslow of Elvaston IU. He recently closed a large meeting in Quincy Illinois with over a hundred accessions to one church. The evangelist will feature a strong song service and hopes to draw the community to Sidney, urging prayer and active support to boost local industry through the Bi-Vival program.
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