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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1946
Page
6
Lightning hit a straw stack on the John Treinen farm south of Sidney during an electrical storm Sunday evening. Rural firefighters arrived to find the stack split in half and burning through. The stack held eighty tons of straw valued around $800.
Captain Jack Samples of the Scottsbluff recruiting office announced three changes in army enlistment rules effective June 30. The dependency benefits act expires, veterans reenlisting within certain grades face a 20 day limit, and pamphlet No 12 16 ends allowances for enlistment in former or qualified grades. Samples urged men to enlist this month before June 30 to benefit from the revised terms.
July 23 is Cheyenne County 4 H Demonstration Day set by County Extension Agents. All 4 H members presenting demonstrations at the fair should do so then with Lincoln volunteers on hand to assist and offer tips for improvement. Members are urged to begin preparing now to maximize help on July 23.
Betty Schaffert reports a busy period in Grand Prairie with callers visiting Sidney and Scottsbluff shoppers. Notes include fishing trips at Otter Creek, vacations to Albuquerque, Prairie View Sunday School picnic, and Vacation Bible School enrollment. Social calls span Schaffert, Kreader, Juelfs, Walker, Mayer, Shoemaker, and Juell families.
Wedding anniversary celebrations noted for Monday as Ernie Nichells’ family returns from hospital. Dick Juelfs and family hosted Sunday dinner at Clarence Rogers home. Annabelle Brogren visiting Chadron attended Fathers Day at home. Billie Juelfs fell from a tree, needed two stitches, then grew ill and was moved to Dalton Hospital. C. C. Club to meet Thursday with Mrs. Bill Schaffert. Weather: heavy rain welcomes moisture. Mrs. Harry Shinker cared for sister E. Nickells. Grover Sanders visited Sterling Friday. Daily Vacation Bible School closed at Prairie View with a fine program. teachers Mrs. Gross and Miss Robertson.
Mrs. E W Zalesky and daughters and Mrs John Oliverius and son cared for business in Sidney. Carl Miller left for Gordon after two weeks with W R Brown. Ernest Bonser dined at Ed Ahlberg home. Charles Oliverius visited E W Zalesky. Ed Ahlberg called at D E Dickinson. Arnold Haack and David Lodgepole and Louie Haack visited E W Zalesky. Ernest Bonser called at G W Bonser in Sterling. Ethel Carothers and son John called at W R Brown. E W Zalesky and Mrs John Oliverius visited LeRoy Stuart. Glenn O Dickinsons returned home after Sterling visit. G W Bonser of Sterling dinner with Joe Oliverius. later Oliverius party visited D E Dickinson. Evelyn Bruns of Lodgepole visited E W Zalesky. Frank Suchy repairing truck for Joe Oliverius. Mrs Fred Kilgore called in E W Zalesky. John Jamison of Crook was business caller at D E Dickinson.
The candy industry pioneered cellophane use in the United States evolving from overwraps on candy boxes to broader applications and ultimately wrapping individual hard candies.
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