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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1904
Page
1
The ad promotes local buying with delivery and guarantees. It lists items including a drop end couch for 7.00 a go cart sleeper at 85c, and other prices such as two at 2.00 25c and 1.00, inviting customers to visit for daily new bargains.
A telegram from Washington withdraws large blocks of land along the North Platte river from disposal except restricted homesteads for the North Platte irrigation project. The fields span townships 15 through 20 in several ranges, with eight and a half townships in this county affected and stretch from west Keith county to near Bridgeport.
The Commercial Club of Omaha and the South Omaha Stock Exchange will travel to Sidney on June 25 for a mixed business and pleasure outing. Wholesale houses and South Omaha livestock interests will be present to meet Nebraskan business leaders, with Thirteenth Infantry band and Mendelssohn male quartet providing music. The train arrives at 4 32 p.m. and departs at 6 00 p.m. for a 90 minute visit.
Peter Erickson died at Potter on June 13 1904 aged 51 after months of illness beginning with facial muscle paralysis. He was interred in the village cemetery Tuesday after a Lutheran Church service conducted by Rev Hayes. He left five daughters and a surviving wife, with community sympathy for the orphaned children.
Thursday brought U. P. payday as Ollie Cambria shipped a carload of horses to Binghamton New York. Supt. Stenger and Trainmaster Clabsugh visited Sidney Monday night as stone masons begin abutments for a new steel bridge east of town. New York Central and Hudson River officials rode through Sunday in a private car en route to private business. Jay Stuart of the U. P. railroad in Omaha visited Sidney Tuesday, en route to Cheyenne to visit his parents. Union Pacific starts monthly supply cars to distribute oil stationery and track supplies. cars were in Sidney Monday. A new Union Pacific time card goes into effect June 19 after line improvements from Omaha to the coast shortening running times. the Overland Limited will drop about three hours. Management fears roadbed instability on the Lucia cut-off may prevent passenger service despite fixed dates. C. B. Smyth, longtime Union Pacific shops and roundhouse foreman, is transferred to Omaha as assistant mechanical engineer, with E. Jones resuming as foreman here and returning to Ogden then Omaha before coming to Sidney.
Reports from Sidney include theater notes about The Telephone Girl songs likely to be popular after the show. A saloon license hearing for P H Schlesinger is set for June 25. Weddings, business visits, bank leadership changes, and a pole accident near Julesburg are also noted with local officials and parties named.
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