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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1904
Page
2
Fragmentary timetable lists include Overland Limited No 2 No 1 3 Pacific Express No 5 Mall and Express No 6 Fast Mail and other services with times such as 4 90 a m 8 45 p m and 5 10 p m. Some freight trains are noted as not calling at certain stations.
Reivous EGoen traveling freight agent Campbell of the Burlington visits town on Wednesday. E Harriman is elected president of Union Pacific to succeed Horace Burt who lately resigned. Burt tendered his resignation to the board. The next meeting will act on the resignation. Burt plans a months long trip with Mrs. Burt, likely settling in Omaha. Bart has led Union Pacific since its post receiver era, coming from the Chicago and Northwestern where he was third vice president.
Ralph Long visits Cheyenne while John Cleaman is absent this week. Sixth graders study fractions and new enrollments include Maggie Jones and Marguerite Kane in Grade six and Grade five respectively. Annie Stuht and Anns Lif reentered school, Edgar Dedrick and Laura Briesch attend as visitors amid attendance of 53 in Gramma r Dept by January 5. Mrs Fast visits Grades five and six Tuesday afternoon.
The following letters remain unclaimed in the Sidney post office advertised. E Hendee Baldman Thos F Bweeny Mrs Nancy Eckert WH Stegall James Keegan Wickhare Johnson Ches Johnson Omas K Blue Weit McLEENON Postmaster credits indicate a standard rural notice.
Oberfelders offers linen collars and coats at low prices, with notices for Doran Studio sales and photo mounts. Hunts for goods at Harper & Wright and D J Scanlon's, plus local rentals, dental services, and a winter weather note from Columbus Times. An infant's pneumonia death is reported in Bayard Transcript with community sympathy.
Mrs Helen L Bullock national lecturer and organiser of the Women s Christian Temperance Union recently lectured at the Methodist church to large audiences and helped form a local branch with fifty Sidney women joining The officers elected are Mrs W M Fuller president Mrs Julia Ahrens vice president Mrs Ruth Fast secretary Mrs Lydia Davison corresponding secretary and Mrs E W Murless treasurer The group plans regular weekly meetings and aims for active community work in a broad field.
The Swain and Arington Company scored a grand success last night in In Old Kentucky with about fifty School of Mines students front and center applauding leading lady Mayme Arington. The company is praised as good and every performance well staged. The Little Minister will be presented this evening at Tobin Opera House on January 13 and 14.
All parties indebted to the under signed will take notice that all accounts must be settled on or before the 15th of February 1904. C. E. Harper.
A compact collection of Turkish proverbs offering practical wisdom on daily life. Highlights include the value of present gains, hospitality roles, restraint, patience, honest speech, and balanced judgment in family and social settings.
A showman traveling through the Scotch highlands forfeits a gorilla after a tour. Found by drovers near Pitlochry, the dressed carcass prompts puzzled locals. They conclude the strange animal is a minor English visitor of no consequence.
A London Tid-Bits snippet shows a chemist boasting of a stock in trade and joking with bystanders about keeping a spirit of contradiction. He leaves to fetch his wife who returns dragging a band and the gag pivots on her being part of the show.
We thank friends and neighbors who assisted during our mother’s sickness and death. Emil Carlson John Carlson Mrs Lager Mrs Barricklow. Special Notice. We will make a special bargain price on any of our heaters HaRPrr and Wright.
Several fine hound pups are for sale in thequire of C. J. Osborn in Sidney Nebraska.
Classified note states a six room house is in first class condition and credits E. Doran as the contact.
Personal excursion leaves Lincoln at 2 10 p m and Omaha at 5 25 p m January 14 1904. Travel through St Louis Nashville and Atlanta with through sleeping cars to Jacksonville Florida. Twelve hour stop in St Louis for World's Fair grounds visit. Return with liberal stopover privileges and full service by the excursion manager. For details contact Burlington agent or J Francis Omaha Neb.
An old advertisement promises a one day cure for colds using Laxative Bromo Quinine Tableta. It claims all druggists refund money if it fails and features E. W. Grove’s signature on the search box. The copy emphasizes quick relief and consumer assurance.
A dialogue contrasts perceptions of Mr Blakley with a remark from the Boston Transcript about an attractive persona. The exchange highlights a farewell tour query and a confident reply from a prima donna in Washington Star style.
The page lists senate and congressional district names and campaign notes, a state official slate, and local church schedules. It also includes school board candidates, fraternal orders, and service times for Evangelical Lutheran, Methodist, Catholic, and Episcopal churches plus Dunkard and veterans groups with meeting details.
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