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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1914
Page
7
The February issue of Midwest Magazine published in Lincoln by Will M Maupin offers a narrative on Nebraska's 1913 productivity. It avoids dry statistics while presenting figures as a readable story, urging all students, businessmen, educators, and Nebraskans to read it.
Fred Falkerts arrived from Weyerts on Wednesday while Fred Lehmkuhl visited from Lodgepole on several occasions during the week, indicating active social activity and guest exchanges in the community.
Former Illinois statesman Shelby Moore Cullom, long time U S senator and veteran Illinois legislator, died in Washington after a week long illness. Born November 22 1829 in Monticello Kentucky he served in the U S Senate from 1883 for 25 years and held four terms in the Illinois Legislature and multiple terms as governor and congressman.
Market report notes hog fattening is widespread this season with farmers stockpiling hogs. Saturday egg receipts flooded stores and priced at twenty three cents per dozen, reflecting broad activity and rising costs.
An advertisement urges quick action against colds, warning they can lead to serious diseases. It praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for loosening a cold, aiding expectoration, and helping the body throw off the illness, with sales via dealers.
The National Live Stock association closed its Denver convention by naming San Francisco as the 1915 meeting site and reelecting H A Jastro of Bakersfield California as president. New officers include first vice president Dwight B Heard of Phoenix second vice presidents J B Kendrick Sheridan C M O'Donel Bell Ranch NM M K Parsons Salt Lake I Y T Pryor San Antonio TX C B Rhodes Orchard CO treasurer John W Springer Denver secretary Sam H Cowan Fort Worth TX and T W Tomlison Denver as attorney.
Edward C overbaurgh was sentenced by Judge Grimes to an indeterminate term of from one to twenty years in the penitentiary after pleading guilty to forging a check for $12.50 in Kimball Nebraska on January 29.
Mexican rebels under Villa concentrate forces for a decisive clash at Torreon as trains push more troops south from Chihuahua. Villa’s army nears Jiminez and Torreon with little resistance, while the Vera government readies a desperate defense to halt further advance toward Mexico City. Federal General Selasco moves north to Bermejillo and Napimi along the railroad.
Armed detachments of American sailors from the cruiser Montana guard the American legation and key facilities in Port au Prince Haiti. German bluejackets and marines take protective posts at other foreign legations and German stores as President Michel Oreste seeks refuge aboard a German cruiser after street clashes erupt in the capital.
A lone bandit boarded the rear sleeper of a Michigan Central train at Jackson Michigan and held up four passengers. Two reluctant but seated porters assisted poorly before a porter signalled the emergency brakes and the robber escaped after about fifteen minutes with roughly 300 dollars.
Captain John T. Chancey, a fifty year special employee of the House of Representatives and holder of the longest continuous service at the capitol, died at age eighty four.
Brigadier General John J Pershing returns from Manila to assume command of troops stationed at the Presidio San Francisco in a ceremony marking the change in leadership.
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