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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1937
Page
2
The Simla Womans club hosted a Sunday picnic in Simla while residents enjoyed a series of local events. Notables include Mrs. Waye Freeburg and son Gerald returning from the hospital and J M Kreader showing improvement, with many guests visiting relatives and attending school and church activities across town.
Rules invite girls ages 15 to 20 residing in Cheyenne County to enter the pageant. Early entrants advised. Coupons worth votes circulate via Tuesday and Friday papers and Fox Theatre tickets. Ballots drop in Fox Theatre lobby. daily counting and standings published. Queen crowned June 1 at 9:15 pm. parade honors follow in Sidney. runners up become ladies in waiting.
Mt. Vernon news records a Sunday school at 10 a m and various visits and social events. Attendees include Arvin Livingston and family, Mrs Earl Page and Thurston, the Sprenger family at Bayard, and calls on the McMillen and Koester households. A miscellaneous shower for Roy and Mrs Anderson was held Wednesday evening with refreshments after.
Community members visit, host and travel around. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur McMillen host dinner for Denver guests Earl Hammond and family. multiple gatherings honor anniversaries and birthdays. Neighbors and relatives attend picnics, calls, and clubs across Sterling, Sidney, Kimball, and area.
North Divide residents attended a shower in district 36 for Mrs Kay Anderson, and guests visited the Sparks and Frame homes Thursday and Sunday. Harold Kettler and Robert Sparks called at the Paul Sparks home. C C clubs met at the Seimers home. Bayard pageant attendance and local picnics at Legion park were noted plus several family visits across neighbors.
The text records social details: guest at Catherine Higgins Sunday, Junior Sparks visiting C. B. Kinton home Monday, and the Girls Own Room Club meeting at Fred Seimers home Thursday evening led by Florence Seimers in the leader's absence. Lunch followed. The next gathering is planned for July 1 at the O. L. Miller home.
J W Orr of Lisco visited Sunday morning at Lodge Pole. Mr and Mrs W G Crose conducted business in Sterling Monday. Mr and Mrs F D Barlow spent the weekend in Cheyenne with relatives. Mrs Harriet LaSalle returned home at Chappell after several days with Ruby Bates. Rose Kripal returned from Cheyenne Sunday. The Carters returned to Denver after a visit at the Vincent Carter home. H J Handley returned from a week with his mother in Des Moines. Mrs Florence Bates of Lincoln and her daughter Mrs Robert W Sears and her granddaughter from New York arrived for a few days at the Bates home. Mr and Mrs William LeBarron of North Platte called on Homer Handley Sunday. Mrs Stanley Wolfe arrived Sunday and visited at the J C Wolfe home en route to Sagle Idaho after visits in Pennsylvania and New York. Mr and Mrs G E Minshall trans acted business in Sidney Monday. Mr and Mrs Edward Walters of Cripple Creek spent Saturday with Mr Walters parents Mr and Mrs Noah Walters. Mrs Walter Hernbloom and Kenneth spent Friday to Tuesday with Stromsberg relatives.
Records in Calvi, Corsica, claim Christopher Columbus was born there in 1441 on an ancient tablet. Historians dispute the date and place of his birth, noting no definitive birth record exists.
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