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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1926
Page
9
City council ordinances call for August 11 election on ratification of sale of the light power steam and water system to Western Public Service Company with a 25 year franchise. Editorial urges careful study, notes current profits but warns politics may affect municipal plants.
The piece urges regional pride as western Nebraska booms in a record wheat harvest. It highlights Cheyenne County yields surpassing expectations, wheat protein levels, and a shift in U S milling center toward Nebraska and Kansas. Nebraska Consolidated Mills president A L Kinney touts improved flour bleaching and rising demand for Nebraska wheat.
New tests indicate shallow artesian wells tapping an underground river about fifty feet below the Lodge Pole valley surface could provide economical irrigation for roughly 200000 acres. Charles D. Green and partners plan main canals from the Wyoming line to the Platte river with no pumping, using flowing wells at Potter, Sidney, Kimball and other points to feed large receiving canals and ditches.
A reflection urges calm public discussion of political questions among neighbors and friends. It argues loyalty to liberty and shared prosperity, urging humility, good nature, and conceding others’ patriotic motives as essential to preserving social harmony over party zeal.
An editorial questions why Sidney, rich in water and rail access, does not become a flour manufacturing center. It argues the city and county overlook a great opportunity, blaming indifference for missing the chance to build flouring mill factories in the wheat belt. It appeals to pride in nature’s gifts and the need to seize advantageous conditions.
R P Kepler announces as a candidate to succeed himself as Cheyenne County attorney. He has served four years with a record of efficiency and economy, including recovering county funds from a failed bank case and prosecuting more criminal cases than any predecessor. He holds state association roles and is urged by local supporters to return him to office.
In Denver, the Harvey presents a family run hotel in the heart of the city offering rooms with bath for $1.50 and without bath for $1.00. Elevator service is available and a ladies rest room is noted. Good rooms for lease at low rates.
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