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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1911
Page
8
Local items include phonographs records and sheet music moved to a ten cent store with same prices. Furniture and candy stock updates at Jackson Furniture Co and a sale on blocks in Wellner's Sidney addition at $320 and $100 for late blocks. Also listed are a rental, magazine subscriptions, and a diarrhoea remedy notice.
The ad highlights the best gasoline engines available with prices for the Chore Boy at 45 dollars and the Hired Man at 55 dollars. It also pitches a gasoline lighting plant and invites customers to discuss lighting needs. Jackson Furniture Company promotes a free clothes pin apron with wallpaper orders at Sweet's.
Multiple ads offer dairy cattle and milk cows for sale in Dalton and surroundings, eggs and poultry buyers for Denver, land near Dalton at 27.50 per acre, various rooms and houses for rent in Sidney and Dalton, a gunsmith and repair shop, ready made clothing at Thornbury's, and a piano lessons notice with Miss Blanche Faber in Sidney on Wednesdays and Thursdays starting May 30. Other items include a four-wence auto trade, a bartered exchange for cattle, a magazine pair offer, and a Sanitary harbor of office space for rent in Cleburne Block.
The Cheyenne County Board of Equalization will meet at the county clerk’s office in the Court House, Sidney, Nebraska, on June 13, 1911 to equalize property assessments for 1911. Taxpayers with grievances must appear. complaints after this date will not be heard. Also notices of a German lesson, a fireproof safe for sale, a lost watch, and a piano rental inquiry.
Notice from Cheyenne County Clerk H T Doran in Sidney Nebraska invites sealed bids for fifty thousand dollars of five percent court house and jail bonds. Bids due by noon June 19 1911 with public opening by the county board. bonds payable to bearer at Lincoln after twenty years with optional redemption after five years.
For sale dairy farm near Sidney offering 480 acres within six miles at 1500 per acre half cash and terms to suit. Includes six room house 12 acres alfalfa 200 cherry trees 300 fruit trees 28 by 42 barn granary and outbuildings. Inquire at The Telegraph office Mrs Wilson upstairs north side of Benda building.
Fine line of candies cigars and tobaccos offered with pool hall for sale. Only place of its kind in town. Contact E W McGregor Kimball Nebraska for details.
Pasture for fifty head of horses inquires of C F Livoni three miles south of Sidney Nebraska. Furnished room for rent with bath inquire Mrs Corbett. For sale southeast quarter 27 15 48 near Sanol Nebraska owner accepts first fair offer. A R Thompson 512 Scrippe Building San Diego California.
320 acre homestead advertised with all expenses paid from here and a first class farm location. Features include black soil and good water at 80 feet. Addresses interest to W T Youne Jr county surveyor of Kimball County Kimball Nebraska for investigation.
A registered Hereford bull, 15 months old, priced at $50, is offered by M. E. Webster in Dalton, Nebraska. Also seeking a girl for general house work with inquiries directed to Mrs W E Swatz Sander.
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for a catarrh cure, touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as effective and taken internally. It claims endorsements from F. J. Cheney & Co and a Toledo bank, with directions to buy at 75 cents per bottle and to use Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Court House and Jail construction bids invited by Cheyenne County Nebraska. Sealed proposals due by 2:00 p.m. June 27, 1911, Sidney. Plans by The Fall River Company Architects. Bid guaranty via $25 plan deposit and 3 percent certified check. Bids to H. T. Doran, County Clerk, with right to reject any or all bids.
Notice of sale wording for livestock and a warning from Fur ther trespassing and damage to property must cease. VANGORDER and BRENNAN, managers, warn that forced entry to the opera house will lead to prosecution. Pac R BorGQUIST, Sidney Nebraska listed as contact.
Come out from under the smoke and dust and buy a residence lot in McFadden's New Addition to Sidney. Own water works with plant thirty feet from surface. Lots are selling quickly and are priced cheaply, urging buyers to act now.
Mrs Agnes M Boyer North Platte deputy commander visits Sidney this week at the Metropolitan Hotel. Memorial exercises Sunday at two open to the public with reception plans coordinated by business leaders, Commercial Club, hotels and band. Saturday evening initiation class to be held in hall. Monday reception at six and banquet at U P Hotel followed by dance at Tobin Opera House for banquet ticket holders. Earlier, Mrs Robinette of Sodtown attempted suicide with strychnine. overdose failed and motive linked to unpaid piano payments.
Washington reports President Taft believes peace is restored in Mexico and begins gradual U S troop withdrawals. About 2000 marines at Guantanamo will return home. The San Antonio maneuver division will be split into smaller units and dispersed across Texas. Warships at Guantanamo and San Diego remain under consideration for withdrawal.
Washington June 8 The interstate commerce commission suspended advances in freight rates on oil meat and oil cake by the Great Northern Northern Pacific and Omaha railways until October 7. The rates would have become effective in a few days and affect heavy traffic across the northwest.
Just before the superior court docket closed attorneys for Nat Goodwin filed suit to recover stocks bonds and real estate from his divorced wife Edna Goodrich valued at more than 25 000.
Hastings Nebraska where Mrs Cyrus McCormick donates 10000 and Cyrus H McCormick 5000 toward a 1000000 endowment completion by January 1 1913 announced at the 25th annual commencement. The McCormick family adds 15000 to the 190000 endowment now invested. Richard Lee Metcalf associate editor of the Commoner awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters.
Lancaster June 5 The county attorney plans an injunction to end the Master Plumbers' association of the city alleging it to be an unlawful combination. A member complained the group has tied with supply houses to push non members from business by securing lower prices.
Closing prices show July wheat at 92 1/4 cents and September at 90 cents. Corn futures touch 54 1/4 cents for July and 55 3/4 for Sept. Oats quoted July 37 1/4 to 37 1/2 cents, Sept 38 1/2 cents, Dec 39 1/2 cents. Pork July 14.90, Sept 14.65. Lard July 8.20, Sept 8.30. Ribs July 8.02 1/4, Sept 8.02 1/4. Cash: No 2 hard wheat 92 3/4 to 94, No 2 corn 53 4/4 to 54 4/4, No 2 oats 35 4/4 to 36.
Chicago cattle receipts 1700 steady to a shade higher with western steers around 475, stockers and feeders about 385, cows and heifers near 240, calves 5000 to 7800. Hog receipts 30000 weak with light 565 to 620, mixed 580 to 620, heavy 565 to 610, pigs 555 to 610, bulk about 600 to 610. Sheep receipts 20000 steady natives 300 to 455, westerns 325 to 465, yearlings 435 to 540, lambs 425 to 720.
South Omaha cattle receipts total 5100 with steers $5.35 to $6.15, cows and heifers $4.20 to $5.85, stockers and feeders $4.00 to $5.75, bulls $4.19 to $5.10, calves $5.50 to $8.00. Hogs receipts 16000 with heavies $5.70 to $5.75, good butchers $5.80 to $5.85, choice lights up to $6.05. Sheep receipts 7000 with wethers $1.35 to $1.50, ewes $3.45 to $4.50, lambs $6.50 to $7.00.
The advertisement promotes an annual clearance stock with $50 to $150 savings on used Steinways and other brands. It guarantees West's Largest and Oldest Music House backing each instrument and offers easy terms. Mail a penny postcard to Dept A, Knight Campbell Music Co., Denver. Mrs C C Healy of Grand Island, sister of Frank Mitchell, was notified of his serious accident and visited him. A nurse from Cheyenne assists Mrs Ellis.
2200 equity in gond Jdvel 160 acres seven miles from Sidney near a school. 65 acres in crop. Buyer wants a nice house and lot in Sidney. valuation noted. Quener in town till Monday. Call at the office of The Telegraph.
Prices named for thousands of tomato cabbage sweet potato celery pepper and other garden plants at Sterling Greenhouses Sterling Colo. Includes Marcu Johnson Props listing plants and stock for sale to gardeners and farmers.
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