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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1918
Page
9
Local items note visits and travels of residents including Jenhkens Perry, Mr and Mrs M Russell, Catherine Wood and Maury Wood from Denver, and Jas Corrigan family. Updates on hospital stays, war news, church meetings, Odd Fellows installation, and vacation travels plus civic notices and Navy yeomen enrollment.
Suave oil at 50 percent discount on autos, Stanecolin Standard Oil 380. A range of greases and hard oil plus gear oil available. S. A. Schmitt Implement Co. of Sidney Nebraska promotes these products in half barrel lots.
Take inventory of self and study one’s character. If discord, discontent, or disgust exist, begin the fight of life to eradicate it. Without this work, one will be a miserable failure as a farmer and an object of neighbor pity, Farm Life.
Rusted barberry bushes spotted in Sidney and surrounding yards threaten wheat with red rust spores that can travel long distances. County Agent Gould and Dr E M Wilcox lead a statewide campaign urging immediate removal, aided by the State Council of Defense and local agencies. An ensuing canker disease endangers popular trees, with a suggested remedy of trimming and whitewashing trunks with carbolic acid. Mr Dawson from the State Entomology Department assists locally.
John Newton reported a horse struck by lightning during a storm while Rose Kirk spent Wednesday evening with Eunice Booth. Glen Johnson works for Guy Gilbert. Earl and Arnold Morris of Bronad visited relatives. Sidney visitors included J B Smith and Watsy Dickinson. Red Cross progress noted with hospital garments and refugee materials arriving. The Overseer Mrs C Smith emphasized neat garments. Picnic at 700th’s Dam with Pierce Rogers Hudson Carter and Booth family. Plowing shifts of Floyd Powell from North Divide to South Divide. Mrs Dwight Liggett visiting C W Smith. Mrs oo Mayer visiting North River aunt. Anna Hornicek had adenoids removed. Hody Jolson home after visit to Allingtons. J D Newtons dined with Art Dodrill. J J McIntosh and family visited on return from Lodgepole. John Newton and Art Dodrill traveled to Kimball for business. Henry Pavlat and wife visited friends in Colorado. War Saying Society event planned with patriotic program on second Thursday evenings.
A concise philosophical remark declares remembrance as the sole paradise from which one cannot be dispelled. It casts memory as an enduring refuge and source of solace beyond loss.
Director of Columbia School of Journalism frames Imperial Germany as a long-time oppressor of freedom. He cites Berlin’s diplomacy to suppress Balkan liberty, supports Armenian massacres, and opposes Turkish reforms. The piece asserts Germany threatened Samoa, Manila, the Monroe Doctrine, and other states, and urges war in France or elsewhere to defend humanity’s liberty.
A six year old daughter of a attorney is taught to trust prayer for all wishes. On a warm day after winter she prayed for an auto ride. An hour later a neighbor offered a ride for one child and the girl told her mother that if she had prayed with her she could have gone too. The mother wonders.
The note recalls plans to wear winter coats as cold weather returns with Baseburner thoughts. Will Davis came back from Norfolk feeling improved, his barn nearly finished and cellar work begun. Several locals visited, including AL Pierco, Walter Wassum, the Hille family, and others. A telephone meeting occurred at Ray Frame’s, with neighbors attending across Frames and Wassums. Crops are thriving and harvest is expected in about two weeks.
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