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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1936
Page
3
Local residents share visits and meals across families in Grand Prairie. Alike Albert Frerichs, Mary Wolff of California, and many Johnsons host gatherings, attend meetings, and work harvest alongside relatives and neighbors in a busy week of civic life.
Vera Sparks celebrated her birthday with a party at the George Higgins home in Sidney on Wednesday afternoon. Guests included Thelma Qostrander, M. E. Sparks, Lucile Schulz, Ada Schulz, Emaline Glassburn, Irma Nelson, Catherine Higgins, and several Sparks relatives. Other items note Bobby Rathbun breaking an arm in South Dakota, visits from Henrichs and their daughter Betty, Dr. and Mrs. Lieber returning from Evanston to manage ranch interests north of Sidney, a death in Falls City, and various local visits and travels among Sidney residents. A baby girl Arlene Joyce Bolke arrived July 8, formerly Veronica Wellner. Conrad Glant on navy furlough visits Sidney. Ruth Kinton visits Margaret Miller, and multiple households share weekend calls and visits around Sidney.
Route One community notes describe visits and gatherings among local families including Bondegard, Rowedder, Grimes, and Christensen households plus a Sunshine club picnic. A relief survey by Mark Werner notes drought and grasshopper losses across 16 counties, with northern Sheridan Dawes and Sioux counties most affected and some farmers facing no crop return. Continued drought in the Platte valley shows no urgent emergency relief need at present.
The Alliance district WPA office received an order to boost its worker quota by 150 men aligning with President Roosevelt's plan to create 75,000 new WPA jobs. The move aims to rapidly expand public works employment across the district.
Market quotations list farm commodity prices including Wheat 97, corn 70, cat animals 30, barley 40, old roosters 5, colored hens 12, leghorn hens 9, leghorn springs 12, heavy springs 15, butterfat 32, eggs 15.
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