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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1913
Page
5
Usual services at the Methodist church next Sunday with Sunday school at 10 a m preaching at 11 a m and 8 p m. The Epworth League ice cream social last Friday raised fifteen dollars. A catechism class is to begin at 9 a m on Saturday September 13th. A church picnic is being discussed with a committee to set date and place.
Pastor Rev. J. H. Utesch outlines Sunday worship at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Choir practice Tuesday. Despite heat and strong chautauqua lectures, morning service was fair. choir performed Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing. He urges Sidney members to unite with Trinity Lutheran Church and request church letters before September first.
Christ Church notes list Sunday school at 9 30 morning prayer and sermon at 10 30 evensong and sermon at 8.00 pm with the evening service devoted to railroad men. Rev B F Gaither North Platte Neb district superintendent will preach at the Methodist church next Thursday evening July 24 at 8 o'clock.
An eastbound freight engine derailed and overturned at Northport injuring two men. Engineer C. F. Clark sustained hip and back sprains while Brakeman C. Millhollin suffered a bruised foot and sprained back. The accident was caused by a brake rod dropping under the engine.
Lincoln July 15 John Grant Pegg sealer of weights and measures of Omaha will arrive in Lincoln with Dr Speilman of the Lincoln department to assist Food Commissioner Harman in preparations for the new weights and measures law which goes into effect next Thursday.
In Omaha on July 15 a wave of closures hit at least a dozen small meat markets over the past two weeks. High meat prices have cut trade and left many customers dissatisfied with service and supply.
A brief advisory notes that milk and cream are available by phoning the St George Ranch at any time. It emphasizes convenient access to dairy goods, likely an advertisement or public notice encouraging contact for product availability.
Lincoln July 16 demand for cars to move Nebraskas vast 1913 crop and last year’s remnants has grown. rail commissioners consider an emergency order requiring daily car reports and extraordinary relief. Burlington 1000 cars from eastern divisions expected tomorrow eases strain on Rock Island and Missouri Pacific. Recall case against Lincoln mayor J D Houston reviewed by Nebraska City attorneys before the Nebraska supreme court.
Omaha dispatch reports General Manager Holdrege surveying Burlington lines in the southern half of the state. Wheat crop reportedly harvested with general threshing. only a limited area near McCook shows damage. Corn in Red Willow County needs rain as leaves curl, but overall aligns with river regions. Rain is needed statewide though east of the center little damage noted despite heat.
Madison Neb July 16 An adjourned district court session resentenced Henry Stehr for the murder of his stepson in Norfolk in January 1911 to two years in Lincoln state prison. The term began November 27 1911 with an indeterminate sentence of one to ten years previously imposed. If good behavior time is allowed Stehr may have already served the two year term and could be released within days. His wife and child live in Madison.
In Omaha on July 16 Charles T. Yates and his wife and sister were stopped by two armed youths while driving near Poppleton avenue and South boulevard. The bandits searched the party, took 350 dollars and minor jewelry, then stole Yates’s trousers and hat before fleeing in the car.
Beaver City Neb July 16 John Melroy aged seventy a longtime Furnas county settler was fatally wounded by two shotgun blasts at his Melroy farm ten miles north His son Grover Melroy twenty five is jailed charged with the shooting The elder Melroy reportedly struck his son with a batiron at supper time
Norfolk Nebraska July 15 Editor F E Martin and William Nicolas Jr both of Battle Creek were arrested on a charge of assault to do bodily injury filed by Mayor C J Verges of Norfolk. Verges says he was attacked at a baseball game over an umpire decision. Verges and Martin sustained bleeding noses.
Religion shows the eternal development of the one life guiding both duty and nature. The religious man perceives this inner law, though the infinite cannot be fully grasped. Each moment of life is contained in the development of the one life, with outward nature reflecting that inner life.
The 1828 Drury Lane benefit for Grimaldi ended with the star wheeled on in an arm chair and breaking down as he attempted to sing his famed ditty Hot Codlins. Despite memory loss, the event raised £1700, a record sum for years.
In a letter to the paper Geo S Banta secretary of the Cheyenne Frontier committee notes a $1000 purse for the steer roping championship at the August 20 to 23 celebration. Scout Frank Maisch of Oklahoma set last year's world record at 33 35 seconds for roping and tying. A large field is expected as contestants aim to beat Maisch and claim the prize with steer roping featured daily.
Beatrice Nebraska on July 16 Miss Ella Piper was seriously injured when thrown from a buggy in a runaway. A small bone in her neck was dislocated and she was unconscious for a time after the accident. The vehicle was completely smashed.
Edward B. Phillips, convicted in Indianapolis of conspiracy in an alleged dynamite plot, is the first of thirty-three men to be released from the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth Kansas. He was released on parole and immediately departed for his home in Syracuse New York.
W. D. Magli, a Whitemound Wisconsin merchant, bought and stocked Chamberlain's medicines to supply customers. After his purchase he grew ill, and he states one small bottle of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was worth more to him than the entire stock. For sale by all dealers.
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