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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1916
Page
8
Small sectional maps of Cheyenne County for sale by The Telegraph Five cents each. Subscriptions for all magazines and periodicals will be taken at this office. Apply any time.
Advertisement notes sale of old newspapers for pantry shelves and carpet linings. Mentions trunks grips and hand bags at Jackson & Son's Bee Hive Store. Also seeks second hand stores and ranges. Includes Peanut Roaster in good condition for sale by Jackson & Son.
A four year old brown mare with two white hind feet weighs 1250 and bears a Z brand on the jaw. A light bay horse weighs 1100 and is described as wild. A chestnut mare with a pulled broke tail weighs 1000. Notification directed to W. L. Bates in Lodge Pole Nebraska.
The Sidney Mercantile Company will accept sealed bids until July 29 for the old store building at Lincoln Highway and Rose streets. The sale covers the structure down to the foundation with specific fixtures reserved. Ten days are allowed for wrecking and removal of lumber, with the award going to the highest responsible bidder. Also includes sale or rent notice for Gurley Hotel.
Eighty five head of native cattle including steers cows and heifers for sale at the Persinger ranch two miles east of Lodgepole Nebraska. Also for rent 160 acres of plowed fenced land ten miles west of Sidney Carrie Cook. Taken up a light bay mare eight miles east of Gurley Otto Krueger. Want horses to buy or war horses to trade A A Bauer Sidney Nebraska.
Sidney Nebr ad list offering help to build a home with motto Look Girls Leap Year Grah man Men and teams wanted for threshing crew long job and good wares by E S Flagg Sidney eight miles north on Dalton road plus pony for sale with pony cart and harness auctioneer Vv F Kucbra handles sale entries
Tuesday V. Klein hired a hobo to weed his yard while awaiting Semerad’s occupancy. The worker instead destroyed the garden rows, prompting a call for sixty days of hard weed cutting. Klein paid the wage at a hotel. The incident sparked objections over the vandalism of cultivated plots.
Inventor Pr H Barringer Cox announced in San Francisco that he perfected a subterranean wireless telephone and disclosed a new physics law asserting electric energy can be transmitted over a single conductor. He positions this as a major breakthrough in electrical science.
Canadian missionaries Rev. W A F Campbell and his wife were stabbed to death in their summer cottage at Karuizawa by a burglar using a Japanese short sword. Karuizawa, an American missionary summer center, is greatly agitated by the murder.
Officially in Mexico City the differences between the United States and Mexico are regarded as satisfactorily settled. Details of the Lansing Arredondo conference are expected to be released soon.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch humor item notes Willie asking how to tell twin sisters apart. Cecil replies that kissing one leads to the threatened tell by the sister’s mother, while kissing the other prompts a threat to tell her father.
Classified brief noting a lost jacket north of Colton last Saturday and a call to bring it to the office. Also advertises a nearly new Ford for sale by M. W. Osborn, a neatly furnished bedroom for rent by Hilda Berkland, and a request for a woman to do chamber work for Mrs. C. E. Frandsen.
Mrs. Knox at The Telegraph office. Ada Mack visits sister Mrs. Devine in Sidney. John Barton, brother of Congressman Barton, was in town. N H Tank transacted county business. Olson couple attend funeral in Laramie and return. Dawson children visiting grandparents in Sidney. Frances Willard Union hosts well attended ice cream social at Methodist lawn. Greenlees return from Hastings auto trip. Andy Ladine and wife shop in town. own ranch northwest of Sidney. Rev A Corbett arrives from Boomville Mo to stay a month. Charlie Hamilton party from Gurley travels to Sidney. Mrs Wilnes returns from funeral in eastern state. Harry Bixby in Omaha for motorcycle race win, will visit friends. Mrs Ella Ericson Letts of Alabama visits C E Harper, then goes to Potter.
F A King left Saturday for Excelsior Springs Missouri to hasten recovery from inflammatory rheumatism. Miss Valeska Neubauer and Miss Grace McFadden went to Denver for a relaxing vacation with no set return date. Mrs F E Warnke and three children departed for Burley Idaho after five weeks with relatives. John Livoni and wife host Mrs Livoni's Bitter Creek Wyoming relatives with a family dinner last Sunday. Ella Stafford from David City Nebraska arrived Monday to spend a month and recover from heat through her children Frank Stafford and wife.
Dr Zike and his children returned Sunday afternoon from a several day auto trip to the east. They left Wauneta on Sunday and encountered the hottest and driest spell the region has seen this year.
A. J Jorgenson and family and Leo Osborn and family left Sunday morning in their cars with full camping outfits, aiming for the mountains northwest of Cheyenne where they expect to have the times of their lives.
Mrs CF Consigny of Denver arrived for ten days with the Misses Radcliff and Irene McLernon, a former Sidney girl, visiting friends by the score. L A Brown family moved last Thursday to Gothenberg Nebraska for property interests and other inducements, taking their two children as active workers in their new community.
Miss Myrtle Hiett a Los Angeles primary teacher spends two months with her parents Mr and Mrs W Thifett south of Sidney and other relatives. She praises California climate and is retained in the local school year after year. She hopes her parents will spend the coming year with her.
Mrs A W Lindberg and daughters Esther Huldah and Marcella arrived home Saturday morning after a year in Portland Oregon. They liked the city and hope to visit again. Esther recovered from injuries suffered in an automobile accident three months ago and can walk a block and back now.
Western Drug Company touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a quick solution for constipation. The ad claims weekly consumption keeps users regular and content, associating benefits with Swan Tree branding.
Minor Hinman of North Platte completed a 200 mile night relay from Pine Bluff to North Platte in 7 hours 20 minutes. Driving a fully equipped five passenger six cylinder Saxon car he faced mud graded stretches and stopped for gas. he reported no mechanical issues and noted auto tourists along the road amid rattlesnakes in the area.
The Burk company presents the popular drama Uncle Tom's Cabin under a mammoth water proof canvas seating 2500. Prices are affordable for all and the Saturday night performance is the season’s best option if you can only attend one show.
W. G. Brewer and his daughter Emma came back Saturday evening from Denver after spending nearly a week there. They made the return drive by car. Mr. Brewer received medical treatment for his injured eye while Emma enjoyed the pleasure parks with friends during the visit.
A feature extols woodland waterfalls and local beauty within a week long August drive campaign. It urges motorists to explore their own states, with 500 000 cars planned to tour scenic spots starting August 6. The message advocates seeing America first by exploring near home and planning August vacations by car.
E P Osgood writes from Hereford Arizona renewing his subscription and noting crops look fine and his folks are all OK It has been some time since M Osgood has shaken hands with his Sidney friends.
Hay buyers from eastern markets are in this and neighboring markets to contract the season crop. The gathering may signal a shortage or increased demand, suggesting the hay should bring a good price.
Sidney Eudora lodge hosts an ice cream cake and lemonade event on the James Worden lawn Wednesday July 26 starting at four o clock. Bring your change along. The Committee.
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