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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1926
Page
11
A crowded round of short notes records many residents and visitors. Lincoln business trips, Cheyenne Frontier days, Denver visits, and travel to Tulare across Nebraska populate the item with names like Cozad Bauer Miles Mikkleson and Albaugh while noting farm harvesting, car purchases and church visits.
The Union Pacific operates a division with a large crew of more than 100 men engaged in replacements and maintenance along the main line, demonstrating extensive ongoing rail work.
Fragmentary OCR mentions a gift shop selling diamonds with phrases about spare money and investing in a diamond. The readable bits include price cues like 95 and odd references to payments. No individuals or organizations are clearly identified.
Miss Rose McFadden the milliner is in Denver this week visiting friends and buying fall stocks for her store. Mrs Holmes is in charge of the store during Miss McFadden s absence.
George Porter of the Porter Oil company with Mrs Porter and Marjorie Wright visited Gothenburg on Sunday and spent the day with friends. Mrs John L. Coen Mrs Cal Chesars of Sterling and Mrs F L Whitelock of Los Angeles visited friends in Sidney on Wednesday. Mrs Whitelock is a guest of Mrs Coen.
Dr Samuel Light pastor of the Sidney Presbyterian church will take a four week vacation. Part of the period will be spent in key centers of the state.
Joe Hahler of Hahler Buick agency with B P Hamilton and J W Rogers of Lodge Pole Buick attend a Buick dealers convention in Lincoln this week.
Colonel and Mrs. Persinger of Lodge Pole visited the city with Mrs. Dye, sister to the colonel. Mrs. Dye came to have her eyes treated by Dr. Sherrerd during a brief midweek stay.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Zike and their family drove to Cheyenne on Wednesday to attend Frontier days. They will visit relatives in Wyoming then travel to Denver for a short visit.
A. F. Plorin, a well known Lodge Pole resident, visited Sidney on Friday and registered as a regular subscriber at The Telegraph. Mrs. Ton Fine and son Leonard went to Denver for the weekend and visited relatives. Leon Joseph of Coalgate, Oklahoma, brother of Mrs. Fine, accompanied them and is visiting at the Fine home. L. T. Poole of Sidney, longtime area resident, renewed acquaintances and conducted business in Bridgeport on Monday.
Summer clearance sale lists hats priced at 1 2 and 3 dollars. McFadden Mil department store advertises all summer hats at discounted values.
Mr and Mrs A S Hardy and family enjoy a vacation at Grand Lake living in a mountain cottage and plan to stay until September 1. Burlington railroad reports rising passenger numbers with trains running at or near capacity on the division. Ben Fulton of O K Barger shop suffers cuts and bruises after a collision with Tom Neimeller near the Union Pacific station intersection. both cars damaged.
Mrs. F. QO. Burgess came back Saturday night from a two weeks stay in Lincoln. Her nephew Charles Forney accompanied her and will stay until his parents arrive, then join them in the mountains for August.
Eastbound tourist business on both the Burlington and U P railways is running higher this season, with officials predicting 1926 will bring the heaviest excursion activity since before the war. Local visitors include H B Morfett and Tom Iverson of Potter district who visited on Friday. Morfelt reports a newborn son to Frank and Mrs. Edgar of Point of Rocks. Mrs. Edgar, a Morfelt daughter, is the deputy clerk of the district court who recently resigned. Ruth Dimick will fill the post temporarily until Rote Walsh, now at the American bank, assumes deputy clerk duties.
Mr and Mrs B D Hutchison returned Tuesday from an extended vacation through Wisconsin and Iowa lasting two weeks. They traveled back via the Black Hills region and stopped to visit notable points of interest along the route.
Maynard Butler a Minneapolis wheat expert visited Sidney with eastern milling men to inspect the local crop. They expressed pleasure with the quantity and quality being harvested in the county this season.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Hutchins of Mason City Nebraska are visiting in the Sidney territory. They traveled by car for their first trip to western Nebraska. Mr Hutchins is a nephew of C G Hutchins and also of G C Hutchins of Lorenzo, visiting relatives in the area.
Mr and Mrs David Caffall of Beaumont Texas stopped in Sidney this week to visit at the Ludwig Larson home. They traveled via Kansas City to see a daughter, passing through the Black Hills Yellowstone Park and Sidney. They left Tuesday and plan to return home through Cheyenne and Colorado Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond W. Bauer and family have left Mrs. Bauer’s parents Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Miles to travel by car to Hot Springs Arkansas. They will stay a short time, then go to Ponca to visit Mr. Bauer’s relatives for several weeks before returning to Lincoln.
Harold Parks and his son from Ord visited Mr. J. J. Parks then traveled to Cheyenne on Thursday for the Oregon Trail celebration. Judge Joseph Oberfelder of Sidney is in town on professional business and to enjoy the Ger ing festivities of the Oregon Trail celebration this week.
The M. W. Osborn Motor Company reports strong sales of the new G-Boy trucks to farmers in the area. Last week delivered a fleet to local customers and this week sold units to Olson & Sons, W. T. Thienhart of Kimball, and Otho Campbell of Dalton.
B L Hyde misplaced a valuable keepsake watch while playing on the Sidney course Sunday July 17. He believes it was dropped on the fairway or taken from his locker and is greatly aggrieved over the loss.
A Sidney city clerk writes to readers arguing against selling the municipal light, power, heat and water systems. He cites Hanson audit figures for 1925 showing earnings, depreciation concerns, and the city’s current finances, warning that selling would raise taxes by about six mills to cover new operating costs. He asks the newspaper to publish the letter to aid voters.
Mr and Mrs R D Overholt of Peru Nebraska with son Donald and daughter Marion spent the week visiting friends and tending land in the Sidney area He notes the large wheat harvest in western Nebraska drawing attention from eastern Nebraska and predicts rising demand and better prices for western Nebraska land.
W M Taylor of Farmers Elevator Huntsman visited the city Monday morning reporting a wonderful wheat crop in the district. He said the company is working around the clock handling shipping and storing thousands of bushels daily, with yields above average and other crops in fine shape promising one of the best harvests on record.
In a 15 round battle at Ebbett's Field Brooklyn Jack Delaney defeated Paul Berlenbach to claim the world light heavyweight championship before about five thousand cheering fans. Delaney earned the decision in a hard fought title bout.
The Illinois Mine Workers announce the organization has voted 25000 dollars for the relief of British miners.
M. W. Osborn Motor Co advertises several Ford touring cars for sale with starters. Priced to sell. Local buyers urged to act quickly.
North Sidney reports Mr and Mrs Wilson and the Barhams visiting sisters Mesdames Paul and Claude Sparks. Mrs Paul Sparks returns home improving after hospital. R R Owens mourns death of husband and father, funeral in Chicago. Local helpers assist with Paul Sparks household tasks. Jim Sparks engine incident sparks fire on Hugh Moore farm burning acre wheat and several acres hay. John Jonese and L B Barham family visits. Owens family gatherings at Goodwin home.
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