Olday Trade Sale Promises Bargains For Holidays
Local store advertises a vast post holiday stock with Carlisle shoes in aid and goat, machine needles novelty cards, pins, china ware, dinner sets, and gifts. It highlights low prices, broadcloths, prints, gowns, cloaks, jackets, and footwear, inviting customers to inspect the expansive selection and special deals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlisle
Ge A Gard
Brie
Hort
Jong
Indies
Melton
Met
Local Election Results and County Seat Prospects
Banner county voters chose John E F Logan for clerk C W Van Pelt for transfer H Walters for judge J W Thomas for surveyor Clara Shuniway for superintendent A He Dunlavy for county attorney AP Robinson for coroner KE M Cowen Ire Paver and G W Rockafuld as commissioners Harrisburg led with 234 votes Ashford 18 Freeport 192 Banner 74 Centropolis 4 Banner Centropolis eliminated from race Denel county tally Chappell 898 Froid 206 Big Springs 205 Oshkosh 186 Denel City 43 plus oil indications and discussion of deeper coal prospects in the region.
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Hane County
Banner County
John EF. Logan
C. W. van Pelt
H Walters
J W. Thomas
Clara Shuniway
A He Dunlavy
AP Robinson
M. Cowen
Ire Paver
G. W Rockafluld
Harrisburg
Ashford
Freeport
Banner
Centropolis
Decel County
Denel County
Chappell
Froid
Big Springs
Oshkosh
Denel City
Coal vein discovery near Evanston boosts Wyoming energy hopes
Reports from Cheyenne indicate a bore at the Alay mine, three miles from Evanston, has exposed a twelve foot coal seam and a seventeen foot layer beyond, with six inches of clay between. The find, described as the hardest Wyoming coal yet, excites local interest and promises a strong coal and petroleum supply for the region.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Alay
Syanston
Wyoming
Evanston
Practical Remarks On Forming Local Development Associations
A letter urges forming community development groups such as a Sidney prospecting or Cheyenne County Development association. It recounts a Wenona tale of mobilization, meetings, and coal prospecting leading to a mining company, urging investment to boost regional wealth and health.
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Tennant
Board of Trade
Boards of Trade
Sidney Prospecting Association
Cheyenne County Development Association
Thihvots
Wenona
Armory Hall
Chowlas
Illnois
Army notes transfers and promotions at Fort Niobrara
Private Ferdinand M Zeiem moves from company 1 to 6. Private Daniel O Connell becomes corporal in II company. Two promenade concerts set for Post Hall tonight 8 to 10 30 pm. Private Ferdinand Nau from Columbus Barracks at G Company. Sergt Stowell assigned to C Company. Private Wetzel and Private Simonds promoted to field musician. Private Chas D D Kennedy appointed acting hospital steward at Fort Niobrara. First Lt John S Parke leaves 21st for Fort Omaha to supervise military convict. Musician James Glynn promoted to private and serves as adjutant clerk. First Sergt Schwenkenburg discharged. intends reenlistment in Philadelphia ordnance detachment. Sergt Henry Newman appointed in his stead.
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Ferdinand M Zeiem
Daniel O'Connell
Post Hall
Ferdinand Nau
Columbus Barracks
Sergi Stowell
Wetzel
Simonds
Chas DD Kennedy
Hospital Corps
Fort Niobrara
John S Parke
Fort Omaha
Neb
Andrew Fisher
James Glynn
Adjutant’s
Sergi Schwenkenburg
Ordnance Detachment
Philadelphia
Sergt
Henry Newman
Youth Returns From Bushnell Case With Odd Tales
Daniel Adams delivered the case material from Bushnell last week. He is not a young man, being in his eightieth year, with recollections of his grandfather’s preaching at age 100 and a grandmother who knitted socks in her teens. The notes recount long days and plenty of idle chatter across eras, with no clear conclusion.
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Meturna Kram Bushnell
Daniel Adams
Bushnell
Anaes
Win
George Washington
John F E Nesbitt Appointed to Key Committees
State Senator Nesbitt is appointed to the judiciary committee as chairman and serves on agriculture federal relations enrolled and engrossed bills county and county boundaries library railroad and rules. Representative Rayner joins judiciary ways and means privy councils and elections livestock aid grazing interests.
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Nesbitt
Rayner
Judiciary
Waya and Means
St Koayneics Moves On University Expenditures
Reports from Lincoln show Henry St Kayner's resolution directing the state university regents to provide an itemized two year expenditure account. The press criticizes the board for secretive dealings and calls it a rigid close corporation in the Farratte trade actions.
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Lincoln
Henry St Kayner
State University
Farrattestal
Temperance lecture tour by Rev George Scott spans lodges and church
Rev George Scott lectured on temperance at the Post Theater Wednesday evening and at the M B Church Thursday evening. He formed a new district lodge after visiting Stars and Stripes Lodge No 67 1 0 G T. He stayed at Sergeant Coulter s.
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George Scott
Post Theater
Stars and Stripes Lodge
District Lodge
M. B. Church
Coulter
Where Did It Happen The Ledger Patch on County Fare Costs
The Philadelphia Ledger notes Nabinski county spent 2698 dollars and 25 cents last year to run the poor fare program. With only two papers in circulation the daily cost per capita runs just over five dollars, a rate comparable to a class hotel charge.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Nabinski
Denver Smallpox Fear Trials Debated In Legislature
Reports claim 40 smallpox cases in Denver while citizens flee the city, a claim strongly denied. A bill was introduced in the legislature to cede Fort Sitney's jurisdiction to the United States.
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Denver
Dadley
Sidney
Stephes Aitelive
St Rayner
Legislaure
Fort Sitney
United States
Railroads Cutting Through the Fields in the West
Four hundred teams and 1,000 men are at work on the Northwestern branch grading from Alliance Nebraska to Oil Creek Wyoming. Kilpatrick Bros Co lead contractors aided by Good weather. Union Pacific surveyors move from Dana station to map a line aiding Platte valley farmers and Colorado park plans.
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Northwestern
Alliance
Box Butte
Oil Creek
Crook County
Wyoming
Kilpatrick Bros & Co
Union Pacific
Dana Station
Rawlins
Platte Valley
National Park of Colorado
Rayner Faces Off Over House Bill 34 in County Debate
district lawmakers hail Rayner for exposing a scheme to burden Cheyenne County with petty misdemeanor costs. Rayner warned the bill would flood the treasury with unpayable claims, risking bankruptcy, as Caldwell argued against it. The measure was defeated amid strong press praise for Rayner.
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Rayner
House
Jim Caldwell
Lincoln
Omaha Teralad
World Inits
State Journal
Pays
St Rayner
Cheyenne
Cheyenne County
Caldwell
Henry St. Rayner
Local merchants face competition from eastern markets
Readers hear a critique of western merchants blamed for high prices as residents shop in Omaha Chicago or eastern stores. The letter argues price pressure, transport costs, and consumer dissatisfaction drive trade away from local shops. It also mentions Green's August Flower cures and political notes on university funding and legislators.
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Omaha
Chicago
J.T. Johnston
County Treasurer Reports Delinquent Taxes and Collections 1887
County treasurer Adam Ickes reports the 1887 tax list totals 75 000 with 8 000 delinquent. Amounts paid include U P Ray Co Sidney village Ogalalla Cattle Co Bay State Cattle Co W U Telegraph Co and other lands outside Sidney bringing total to about 658 000. About 9 000 has been collected from all proved up lands town lots and personal property in the county.
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U.P. Ray Co
U.P
Sidney Village
Ogalalla Cattle Co
Bay State Cattle Co
W.U. Telegraph Co
Sidney
Adam Ickes
Col Poland Lectures On Red Cross And War Laws
Col Poland gave an engaging post theater lecture to the garrison and citizens on the Red Cross and its modification of the laws of war. He outlined the origin duties and struggles of benevolent societies, chiefly from a wartime perspective, promising further notes next Thursday on Treatment of Prisoners of War During the Civil War.
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Poland
Red Cross
Oakes Sketch Club Draws Large Pipestone Audience
Oakes Comedy Company gave an entertaining show in the opera hall last night in Pipestone Minnesota. The house was packed to near standing room, and the troupe's ladylike and gentlemanly manners won broad approval from the audience.
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Oakes' Comedy Company
Star, Pipestone
Minn
Oakes Sketch Club
Opera Hall
Pipestone
Death of Mrs Snyder near Sidney noted in notice
In Sidney Nebraska a notice lists letters unclaimed for the week ending Jan 20 and reports the death of Mrs. M.S. Snyder nine miles southeast of Sidney. She was buried at the German Baptist church and was grandmother to L. C. Olmstead and mother to Mrs. M. A. Worden and A. St. Snyder among others living in the east.
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Sidney
Nebraska
Snyder
Laing Secures Lincoln House Insurance Committee Post
Geo. H. Laing wins the clerkship of the insurance committee in the Lincoln house and declares plans to publish a new legislation work soon surpassing current market offerings.
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O Laing
Lincoln
Geo. H. Laing
Insurance Committee of the House
Bemusing Notaries in New Counties Formed
A clerk forwards to the secretary of state a certificate of removal due to division of community for all notaries in new counties formed from Cheyenne Chey CHIC.
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Shite
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