Local and Personal Notes From the City
George Haxby of Bridgeport was in town Wednesday. Mr and Mrs A Nelson of Potter visited this city Monday. M Ramella has taken H A Stower into partnership in his growing plumbing establishment. At a meeting last week of the directors of the First National Bank, L Neubauer was elected cashier. Mrs A Lindberg spent Tuesday in North Platte with her daughter who is attending Junior Normal there. Vr Klein has been in Lodgepole several days this week fixing up his property there ready for a new lessee. Mrs Dan Kelly had the misfortune to run a needle in her hands last Tuesday and has a badly crippled member as yet. News from an Omaha hospital reports the very grave condition of Mrs A D Stewitts who has been ill several weeks. The Ladies of the MEO Church will hold on Bakery Exchange on Saturday afternoon July 15 in the church parlor. Margaret Uosterly departed Thursday waking for Exeter Nebreski to spend the rest of her vacation with her grandparents. Miss Valeska Neubauer was operated on at St Lukes hospital Denver on the fourth for appendicitis. Reports since are very favorable. Robert W DeWitt of Denver and Maude Isbell of Washington D. C. were united in marriage by County Judge Gapen at his office July 4th. Kenneth Bassett came home Tuesday to visit his parents a couple of weeks. Everybody likes Kenneth and will be glad should he decide to stay.
Nebraska Fruit Growers Seek Freight-Rate Relief in Nebraska
Lincoln July 9 Nebraska Fruit Growers announce a direct appeal to Burlington Union Pacific Missouri Pacific Rock Island and Northwestern freight officials in Omaha to cut intrastate apple rates for the 1913 crop The move aims to avert a drawn out railway commission battle and reflects steady concern over the burden on out of state business and the need for relief.
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Lincoln
State Railway Commission
E M. Pollard
G.S Christy
Southeastern Nebraska Fruit Growers’ Association
Omaha
Nebraska
Burlington
Union Pacific
Missouri Pacific
Rock Island
Northwestern
Pollard
Marshall
Horticultural Society
Mr. Pollard
Fourth at Lodgepole celebrates civic picnic and orderly joy
A Lodgepole Fourth of July celebration drew crowds from Sidney Julesburg and Sunol with free lemonade ice water and a daylong program. The Big Springs band played excellent music while races balls and old fashioned contests entertained. G W Line kept order. the event praised as homegrown and graft free with a grand wagon ride home by mules.
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Lodgepole
A. B Persinger
Big Springs
L. O. Pfeiffer
Chappell
Vern Bates
Julesburg
Sidney
Sunol
G. W. Line
Messrs
Kidney
Fenske
Lehmkuhl
Porter Family Visits Land on North Divide Route
Mr and Mrs Porter and their three children who once lived on the North divide rode out to Mr Bird wells Sunday to inspect the land they still own in the area. The family traveled from the west heading east for a visit.
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Porter
North Divide
Mayers head to Reedley to renew Cheyenne County ties
Jacob Mayer and his wife departed Monday evening aboard the Burlington for Reedley California. They will visit their son Chas Mayer at his home and renew acquaintance with the sizable Cheyenne County colony there.
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Jacob Mayer
Burlington
Reedley
California
Chas Mayer
Cheyenne County
1912 Bridge Club Delights with Season’s Fresh Score Cards
The 1912 Bridge Club met Wednesday with Mrs Hart. All members were present and two visitors, Mrs Tibler and Miss Bentley, attended. Guests praised the hostess for unique score cards with seasonable cartoons. Mrs J L McIntosh scored highest.
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Hart
Tibler
Fire Destroys Oregon Lumber Plant at Dee Ore
A blaze consumed the Oregon Lumber Company plant in Dee Oregon causing about 500000 dollars in damage. Fire crews battled the flames but the mill building and equipment suffered extensive destruction.
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Oregon Lumber Company
Dee, Ore
German Appendicitis Remedy Promises Instant Relief
The note claims many Sidney residents have chronic appendicitis misattributed to gas or stomach trouble. It urges trying simple buckthorn bark and glyc erin compounded in Adler ika, described as a German appendicitis remedy, with a single dose stopping troubles instantly at Laune's Pharmacy.
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Sidney
Laune
Adlerika
Farmers.Warn of Dry Spell as Crops Stand Test
T J Quinn visited town on Tuesday declaring crops can endure another week of dry weather. Mr Weikhorst Potter Emory Planck north-east country and A B Johnson south-west share the view and farmers who hurried fieldwork face similar strain. Corn generally looks fine.
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T. J. Quinn
Mr Weikhorst
Potter
Emory Planck
A. B. Johnson
Anson Phelps Stokes Dies in New York Home
Financier Anson Phelps Stokes has died at his New York residence. The immediate cause of death was apoplexy, and the notable financier is mourned by contemporaries and associates in business and philanthropy.
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Anson Phelps Stokes
New York
Cairo Voters Pay Off Village Water Bonds
Cairo Nebraska residents completed debt payoff on water bonds four years early. Four years past the 20 year term with a five year option, the village board has funded annual payments, and on July 1 this year paid the remaining 3000 dollars plus interest, leaving the village entirely out of debt.
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Cairo
Neb
Ensign Burg Commissioned as Navy Lieutenant
News reaches Sidney friends that Ensign Robert A. Burg has been commissioned Lieutenant in the United States Navy. His naval service record is honorable and notable in several lines of duty. He now serves as an agent in submarine craft management and is expected to perform with credit to the service and country. Burg was born in Sidney, in the Stewitts house area, and Sidney again gains credit from a native son.
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Robert A. Burg
United States Navy
Burg
Sidney
Stewitts House
Ekman Woman Charged With Murder
Salt Lake July 3 Mrs Augustus Ekman self confessed slayer of her twelve year old daughter Frances whose body was found in a trunk at Ogden was formally charged with murder in the office of the district attorney C L Anderson the woman's first husband was released from custody.
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Salt Lake
Augustus Ekman
Frances
Ogden
C. L. Anderson
Former Brazilian President Manuel Campos Saless Dies in Sao Paulo
Former Brazilian president Manuel Ferraz de Campos Salles, who led Brazil from 1898 to 1902, died in Sao Paulo at age seventy three.
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Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sallees
Brazil
Sao Paulo
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George Haxby
Bridgeport
Mrs A Nelson
M. Ramella
H A Stower
First National Bank
A Lindberg
North Platte
Vr. Klein
Dan Kelly
A D Stewitts
Margaret Uosterly
Warking
Exeter Nebreski
Valeska Neubauer
St Lukes Hospital
Denver
Robert W DeWitt
Maude Isbell
Washington D
Gapen
Kenneth Bassett
Kenneth
Cheyenne County Abstract
C, M Hadley
H. T Doran
Cheyenne County Abstract Co
H. T. Doran
American Surety Co
the Telegraph
Sidney and
Nebras
Rai Ae Co
General
Chicago
F. A. Gapen
Sidney, Neb
East Gound
M. m
Matt
A. J. Shoemaker
Baia. m
Sterling
United States
Canada
M. A. Shipman
W.wakeley
Lloyd Mann
Nebraska News
Geneva
S Cc. Bassett
Gibbon
Horace Plunkett
Nebraska Farmers’ Congress
Mr. Bassett
State Journal Acts
State Journal Company
State Auditor
C. D. Traphagen
Monthly
State Penitentiary
National Guard
Adjutant General Hall
J. Ludi
Ackerman
Howard
Pierce
Burns Bunker Company of
E. W. Reed
Livoni & Son
Glenn
Wilson
Kreugers
Marius
Johnson
F. G. Griffith
Oberfelder Bldg
Sing Lee
AfeFadden
Front Street
Standard Oil Company
Ekman
E. Harper
C. M. Wright
Vienna
E. W. Ziebert
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