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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1921
Page
9
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Grand Prairie residents Mr and Mrs Henry Flesner visited Frank Heinzman. Frank Lundgren and family called on Elmer and family. Beebe family spent time with Windsheimer relatives. Meyers family and Eva Meyers visited Lillie and Earl Holm. Grace Foster helps Mrs Jack Hubbell with threshers. Forrest Planck assists Beebe during harvest. Bertha Dykeman returned home to Lodgepole after three weeks with Windsheimer. Leslie Gillen shocks wheat for Albert Frerida. Johnson and Hernbloom families visited Walter Hernbloom. Charlie Rogers arrived from Michigan and works for Will Frerichs. Windsheimers and Dykemans hosted visitors in Lodgepole. Alek Pierson family arrived from Oregon and plan to settle in Sidney Cheyenne county. They own land locally and will build a house soon.
North Divide Mossinger Bros. oversee Sidney business on Wednesday as light rain drifts in from last Friday. Local farming notes say threshing continues with satisfactory grain yields. Visitors pass through from Richardson and Nemaha counties as families plan Frontier Days in Cheyenne and family reunions with Mrs Clyde Kinton and relatives.
A sequence of visits and trips marked the week with numerous locals calling on neighbors and relatives in Wm. Rolide's area. Walter Happel, John Borcher, and others traveled to Sidney, while the Farmers Union meeting drew a large attendance Thursday evening.
Edwin Aurick hosted Sunday afternoon visitors. Mrs Theo Borcher spent Monday with John Borcher. William Rolie drove to Sidney on Tuesday. Mrs Fred Beyer and family visited Frank Beyer on Tuesday. Mrs Glen Bales and family drove to Sidney Tuesday afternoon.
Pleasant Valley notes residents at Granpa Lauderback in Crook and reports Orrin Maley gradually improving enough to sleep after burns. Messages recount Grandma Bonser ill in Holdrege, Texas trip for Boomer family, and local harvest activity with headers at A B Jetnik’s. Disturbances include a Crook wreck with no injuries, river flood rebound, and Mr. Miles breaking his arm while hitching a team.
Maple Grove notes show Miss Fern Miller aiding Mrs. F A Johnson with harvest cooking while community members visit relatives and help with harvest. Andrew Johnson travels to Sidney for repairs. families including Miles, Sharman, Gabriel, Johnson, Rasmussen, and Anderson share meals and support harvest efforts across Gurley and Kimball areas.
Sidney residents and visitors were active with callers at homes in town. Names include O W Pitts Jimmie Johnson Fd Nelson H S Steele Ray Pitts Alfred Birt Cody Patterson and the Brooks Tallbert and Votter households plus families from Council Bluffs Iowa visiting for harvest.
A playful poem segment shows a young lady from Guam aiming to swim for a lark as the sea proves dangerous with a shark nearby. The piece closes with a punchy rhymed segue to a psalm reference, adding local tone.
Washington July 25 Hearings on the tariff bill passed Friday by the house will begin Monday before the senate finance committee chaired by Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania. The panel hopes to conclude hearings within two weeks, barring interruptions from Treasury funding discussions. The plan may merge tax revision with tariff measures as an emergency, with emphasis on the American valuation feature and dyestuffs embargo provisions.
United States Shipping Board officials seized five major steamships formerly German liners now chartered to United States Mail Steamship Company. The vessels George Washington America Susquehanna President Grant and Agamemnon, valued at about 25 billion? dollars, range 20 000 to 25 000 tons. Rentals owed since March 31 totaling roughly 400 000 dollars prompted the action.
Washington July 25 Joseph P Tumulty former secretary to Woodrow Wilson will seek appointment as temporary receiver for the Pusey Jones Shipbuilding company of Wilmington. The move will be opposed by the United States Shipping Board according to Chairman Lusker.
Col William Joseph Simmons, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, orders a sweeping investigation into tar and feather parties tied to the Klan in Texas and Oklahoma. The probe targets activities across the two states as authorities seek to uncover abuses linked to the organization originated by Simmons in Atlanta.
Sunday evening guests included Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Matthewson at the Pete Nelson residence. Mrs. Brett and Miss Johnson returned from Denver. Potter visitors came by Thursday. E. J. Sanders returned from Sidney after medical treatment. Mrs. Jesse Lambert and children visited her sister Mrs. Sam Wickstrom. Dan Heimer and Harry Courtright called at the Pete Nelson home. Florence Fisher and Mrs. H. B. Fisher with daughters June and Florence visited the George Reetz home. Mrs. Wall Matthewson and Mrs. Ellsworth with daughters visited in Sidney Saturday.
City council of Sidney met in special session July 20 1921 with Mayor Grabill and eight council members. Omaha Trust bid to print bonds and take two issues of 22000. council approved contract allowing bond sale at 114 plus 50. Minutes note July 22 1921 adjournment and actions to poison city dumps August 1 and extend heat line up to 1000 at policy cost up to 1000.
A brief humor note cites Boston Transcript quip about Helen marrying a rich elder who seems near death. The joke highlights the suitor's continued spending on shoes, implying ongoing indulgence regardless of fortune.
At Union Stock Yards Omaha on July 21 1921 cattle on sale 5400. Beefs sold strong to 15 higher. top yearlings 9.75. fat cows slow to lower. feeders quiet. Hogs up 25 to 40 cents with bulk 9.00 to 10.25. best light hogs 10.50. Sheep and lambs, 10 500 head, western fat lambs steady to slightly lower. top lambs 10.40. fat yearlings 5.25 to 7.50. ewes 8.25 to 5.50.
The London Saturday Review notes at least three reform attempts to reshape the world are futile, each proving ineffective in changing core structures. Analysis suggests systemic barriers and entrenched interests hinder meaningful progress.
Local ad urges readers to visit SIDNEY LUMBER CO. for building supplies and timber products. The brief notice emphasizes showroom availability and competitive pricing to attract contractors and homeowners.
A letter warns that sensational yield reports inflate public expectations. It cites front page claims of 40 to 45 bushels per acre near WAVERLY and Princeton, noting these boastful figures overlook average yields and winter losses. The writer urges conservative reporting to avoid misinforming consumers.
A compact meditation urging self examination and certainty. It advocates basing life choices on solid reasoning and science rather than guesswork or inherited customs. Emphasizes preparedness to justify personal beliefs with clear, rational grounds.
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