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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1946
Page
2
Independent Sidney publication issued on Tuesdays and Fridays serves the City of Sidney Cheyenne County and Western Nebraska. It focuses on local affairs, civic notices and community events for OS area residents.
History notes reveal Miss Dell neErRin has started in the county treasurer office yesterday morning and will also assist Dr u F A Barger part time. Other items mention Mrs William Raper visiting from Torrington, Irma Lemkuh becoming bookkeeper for Gibson Wright Motor Co, and local civic and social happenings including a drowning tragedy at Krueger's Lake with Albert Horst and Walters Bartels among the victims.
34 years ago Arthur Pantenburg of McCook visits relatives after four years away in Sidney. Miss Bessie Helmer returns to Omaha after guesting with Mrs. H. B. Mantor. Dr Hedlund of Dalton visits. Rolly M Perkins files final homestead proof with witnesses Bennett and Knox. Wm. E. Friend of Lodgepole files final proof with witnesses Schroll and Emanuelson. Mrs Corbett receives postal confirming safe arrival of Mrs C C Callahan in Burlington Washington. Mrs E Doran leaves for Waddington New York with visit in Kansas City with G V Doran. Orrie Grizzel and wife depart for new home in San Francisco. Mattie Griffith formerly with the Bostonian Opera.
A New York visitor is expected this week. Wm P Anderson, away in the west nine months, spent last week with his parents and left for western Colorado. Will intends to mine awhile, friends hopeful for riches. Warren E Woolsey named Dalton postmaster. new office opens when Washington supplies arrive. Andrew Britton recovering from six month paralytic stroke. Mrs O D Lyon and younger family depart Thursday for extended visit with relatives at Kearney.
Frank Rihn of Union Valley traveled to Sidney on Thursday after securing farmers' backing for the Melbourne rain making project. He is seen as a representative farmer suited to introduce this test viewed as potentially practical. Mrs Scanlon visits Brady Island. The Oberfelder and Co store was robbed Monday night, $60 in revolvers and cutlery stolen through a side door. Mrs Burger and Miss Douglas visit North Platte. Mr and Mrs J J McIntosh spent the week in Omaha for the Masonic Grand Lodge session. A W Lease loaded an aer motor and headed home toward Redington.
John Cornell Lee remains active in the affairs of the Grand Island Commonwealth, continuing to be a recognized figure within local circles. No further details are provided in the fragment.
A local item mentions Silas Garber as Nebraska Governor in a state directory. Other notes describe a Methodist church planned at the Masonic Hall, soldiers building a dam across Lodgepole, iron work for jail cells arriving, a wind mill at John Geodert’s slaughter house, and a ten year old boy driving a ten mule team seen on the streets.
City officials report a higher budget driven by major raises in the street department increasing salaries from 1 cent to 19 thousand dollars, with smaller wage hikes in cemetery and park services. They expect nineteen mill levy plus other revenues to cover the 1946-47 operating need of 78,400 dollars, while back tax income remains limited.
Two petitions seek paving from lth avenue to 23rd avenue on Maple street and all its intersections, plus a Maple street segment from 10th to 7th avenues. Fifty six property owners signed the first, sixteen the second. Petitions call for pavement, curb and gutter, to reduce mud and water. other areas may follow. Alliance General To Readers Digest.
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