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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1924
Page
7
Recent happenings in Nebraska summarized for busy readers. Short items cover sports, community events, and notable local updates from across the state.
A compendium of local reports from Comstock to Hastings covers livestock shipments, Beatrices river pageant plans, road surfacing near Fairbury, long serving Blair Odd Fellows member Uncle Jim Justice, burglaries in Miller, Adams county reunion at Hastings, military training camp enrollment growth, Seward golf links opening, plans for a Bloomfield National Producers' Alliance, Winnebago pow wow, harvest labor demand slump, Lincoln Civilian aides to the Seventh Army Corps, rising bonded debt across counties and cities, wheat harvest incidents near Hastings, Curtis farm field day, Nebraska wheat production outpacing 1923, and a near-miss elevator accident at the Omaha Daily Tribune.
The July crop report shows Nebraska corn acreage steady year over year with improved conditions in some crops. Eastern Nebraska faced excessive rain while the west dealt with drought, yielding varied prospects across corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, potatoes, and hay.
A rural mail carrier survey by the Division of Crop and Livestock Estimates shows the Nebraska spring pig crop at 84.3 percent of last spring with 80.6 percent sows farrowing. Across the corn belt and nation, results show marked reductions in spring pigs and farrowings with average litter sizes around five to five point zero five.
The autumn pig crop in Nebraska fell by 10 percent while the corn belt states posted a 3.8 percent drop and the nation 6.5 percent. Spring hog numbers fell more than expected due to high corn hog price ratio and sow losses. Current hog numbers hint at a stabilization if price ratios improve, though uncertain corn crop outcomes and demand abroad and at home loom.
A verse laments a failed auto purchase. The speaker recalls spending a fortunes on a car two years ago, now deteriorated and unreliable. The poem mixes humor and rueful pride as the vehicle’s faults drain finances and the owner longs for another car purchase in the future.
Radcliffe Hodghin and Shyde, agents, offer loans on Cheyenne County and other western lands. Terms available on request.
Legal notice states H W Cuddeford holds an agister's lien on two mules owned by C C Cary for feed and care from June 4 1922. At 10:00 AM August 11 1924 at the seller's place in Cheyenne County Nebraska the property including a black five year old male mule and a dark brown four year old horse mule weighing about 1000 pounds will be sold for cash to satisfy the lien of $100 plus interest.
The county court in Kid ney Indiana announces two hearing dates for claims against the estate of John C Schulenberg on August 8 1924 and November 8 1924 both at 10 o clock A M The claims must be presented within three months from August 8 1924 and debts paid within one year from August 8 1924 This notice is signed and sealed by the county court July 5 1924.
Leo Shofan announces purchase of the Commercial Cafe from E. B. Young. Young must pay all debts against the business up to August 1, 1924 and no claims are assumed by Shofan. Public notice claims not to assume liabilities.
Horace J. Cary plaintiff seeks foreclosure of tax sale liens on numerous Sidney Cheyenne County Nebraska parcels. The defendants include listed lot blocks in Sidney and Clarkson additions with unknown owners. Judgment by September 1, 1924 if no answer.
By order of Isola B R Watson clerk of Cheyenne County District Court a judgment against Ernest Day and Mary Day wife of Ernest Day has led to a sheriff’s sale. The property is the southwest quarter of section one township sixteen range fifty three west of the sixth meridian. The sale will be at the east front door of the county courthouse in Sidney Nebraska on August 10 1924 at 10 o clock A M to satisfy the order and judgment with interest. J W McDaniel Sheriff of Cheyenne County Nebr dated July 14 1924.
An order of sale issued by the Clerk of the District Court of Cheyenne County Nebraska directs a public auction at the courthouse front doors in Sidney on August 11 1924 at 11 oclock for cash to satisfy a judgment in a foreclosure action brought by Union Loan and Savings Association of Lincoln against Mary Swatzlander J C Swatzlander and other named defendants. The property is all of Lot 51 in Morrows Addition east of the center line, through the partition that divides the double house into two residences, with dated July 10 1924 and Sheriff J W McDaniel overseeing Radcliffe Hodgkin and Hyde Attorneys.
A quoted adage notes that what is earned with hard effort tends to be kept longer than inherited wealth. The speaker attributes financial prudence to the labor of earning rather than receiving.
Train notes show east north bound No 802 and No 804 departures with times garbled in text. Mentions West South No 301 and No 303 departures and a stop at Alliance and Bridgeport area with date 82008.
A readable fragment lists individuals including J. A. Bentley M. W. Dimery R. P. Kepler A. J. Jorgenson Paul L. Martin J. L. McIntosh R. P. Oberfelder A. E. Phelps and Dr. BR. E. Roche as part of a local public notice.
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