Boots and Shoes Offer for Ladies and Children
Boots and Shoes offers a specialty line for ladies misses and children in all grades with prices described as beyond competition. Visit to view stock and obtain prices before purchasing.
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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1891
Page
1
Boots and Shoes offers a specialty line for ladies misses and children in all grades with prices described as beyond competition. Visit to view stock and obtain prices before purchasing.
Our stock in this line for the coming season is large and complete and we take prices to suit the times which must be very low of course Do not buy your headwear until you see our stock and get PRICES.
Cheyenne County commissioners meet to settle Adam Ickes treasurer accounts after state bank failure. They consider payment plans, inspect assets including land in Laramie City and Omaha, and threaten action against Ickes and bondsmen. A complaint for official misdemeanor is filed and a hearing is set. Neighbors H J Vanderhoof and Frank Johnson noted in Sidney notices.
Country cullings report continues with rainfall sightings, farm damages from a hail storm, and local mishaps. Highlights include Mgr Andrew Hanson losing a pony, July 4 events at Mr Rodger’s, and Miss Jennie Sanderson’s return visit. Expanded notes cover crop destruction in Cactus Prairie and farm accidents nearby.
Garman Nen July 6 1801 reports rain and hailinjury to corn barley and wheat with some rye good in parts. Terrible rain yesterday left ponds in fields. J C McClure visited Garmans on Sunday. J W Wilson has abundant well water. School meeting passed quietly with the same board re-elected. Hoe wood contract let.
In Midway and Bayard reports mix farming notes and local incidents. Crops look promising with small grain and wheat. irrigation buzzes as Belmont and Pumpkin Seed ditches run. A notable accident injures Mrs McConaughy, and a notary public appointment in Midway is noted. Military movements from Fort Walla Walla to Fort Douglas and detachments move through, with resignations and praises for Lt. Bailey.
The Fourth of July observance in Bayant featured a speech by Colonel Mullis and music by Mesdames Stearns Stephens O Halloran and Lonquest with Mr Vandatta Mae Lonquest at the organ. A horse and mule race paced by Sara Powell drew prizes while a large ball at Stearns Hall concluded a day praised as the greatest Fourth ever observed. The note closes with a plea for rain and the Rainmaker's departure.
Special to the Bost-H Hansel reports Thomas Wagoner, a noted stock rustler, was hanged by men believed to be stockowners on June 4. The grand jury had forced him to marry four years earlier, leaving wife and two children entitled to his about one thousand head of herees. The wife, daughter of Frank Buchart of Sidney, now faces an immense fortune. The family left for Minnesota around June 10 with a dilapidated team. The parents learned of the death and their daughter’s marriage and new wealth as they learned of the twins born near Gardner. The wife plans to return to Newcastle. Misses Grace McIntosh, Grace Hart, and Blanche Oberfalder host a picnic for about forty friends.
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