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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1925
Page
12
A correction states that E W Cass has been the office man for John Deere Plow Company in Omaha, replacing the misnamed position. TJ Poole is and has been the manager for that company.
Henry Vick and his son Louis arrived from Dalton to county seat Tuesday. Vick bought 86 fifty pound Duroc pigs to feed with corn at 1.38 dollars per bushel, confident he can profit on the market.
Doctors report births and injuries from Gurley and area including several Mexican families. Patterns include multiple births, tonsillectomies, appendectomies, and a broken collarbone from a New Year’s Day ice fall. Names include Ahren Meenan Johnson Hughes Dias Tarrets Hernandez Livingston Couch Buettners Lambert Cliftom and Drs Roche Hater Taylor Potter.
Jertrude Peters and her husband Rev W F Peters faced a sudden loss as their infant fell ill on the last day of the year. A fever quickly rose, leading to a tragic outcome for the youngest child in the household.
Two physicians could not save Gertrude Adele who died after one day of suffering at eight months old. Funeral held Saturday at the south Lutheran church. Rev Ludwig officiated, burial in the Lutheran cemetery south of the Dun Kard cemetery two miles south of Sidney. Relatives from the north congregation—Henry Sorge, Albert Jendes, Will Jendes, William Schwartz—arrived despite bad roads. Mrs Peters and her family extend thanks and sorrow.
B M Beale of south of Potter and his son traveled to Sidney through drifted roads Saturday after receiving a telegram Christmas night announcing the death of Charles F Harrison in Delta Idaho. Harrison died at a neighbor's, Denver Smith's, during Christmas dinner. Mrs Beale and Mrs Harrison, sisters, immediately went to assist the sorrowing family. The Harrisons settled in Natn county in 1908, later moving to Buhl Idaho and then Tet a Idaho. He was about sixty three years old.
County valuation is 28 423 885 dollars with state taxes 51 162 90 and county taxes 488 42. School taxes total 232 076 00 and Pell taxes 4 087 50. Other items bring the county tax levy to 496 114 26.
Old circus men recount the white Indian elephant brought for Barnum Bailey shows. Barnum and press writers welcomed the ship and examined the white creature, dinner followed, a skeptic asked if it remained white. Barnum answered God made the color, not men.
A Portland Press Herald item recalls a peddler selling wooden nutmegs. Grandmother bought them, but the nutmeg produced sawdust. The piece argues advertising builds confidence and trade, noting no wooden nutmegs are sold today and praising advertising's modern role.
Phillips frames the drilling of southern Algeria artesian wells as a quiet invasion of an old civilisation by a newer power. French failures and luck marked初 the start in the Oued Hir where two ancient rivers merged and drainage stretched across a vast desert. The first flowing well in 1856 astonished natives as wells unlocked new cultivation and settled life replacing nomadic wandering.
A rare flightless teal on a Hawaiian island sanctuary can be shot by a man on foot and dies if fresh water on the barren island dries up. The bird’s survival hinges on scarce water and sand encroachment threatening its habitat.
The piece remarks that Americans tire of high taxes and rising prices yet can be grateful for living in the United States. It argues Europe’s conflicts stem from racial and linguistic diversity in cramped spaces lacking room for support. It asserts the U S can feed its own people by meeting mutual needs if required.
The speaker extols a shared language and the right to democratic government. He notes Americans accept majority decisions and argues Sidney should remember these blessings when troubled by local worries.
Sidney residents Mr and Mrs Sidney Siedel celebrate the arrival of a 10 pound baby boy named Patrick on New Year’s Day. The family plans to home the infant and celebrate with relatives at various Sidney gatherings.
The communication urges road improvements as mail delivery suffers. It recalls neglected weeds in 1924 and hopes for better maintenance in 1925. Local residents report travel by horse or wagon to Sidney and note grippe illness in Iris Ford while John Kurz hauls corn from Sidney. Mrs Boyes and children celebrate New Year’s dinner at Mr and Mrs Henry Yowell’s Sidney home.
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