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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1925
Page
16
Rod ney Koenig has leased the Royal theatre building and will open it Friday evening with Paramount pictures from Denver. He aims to devote full time to a modern motion picture show for Gering and surrounding communities.
The U S Department of Agriculture explains that lightning prints on skin are not photographs but lesions from a branching electrical discharge. No one has been struck in these cases, and marks resemble tree-like venation but fade within a day or two.
On February 24 Bushnell Lodge 396 of the Odd Fellows was instituted after Grand Master VanCitleve and Grand Secretary Davis arrived with the charter. Fourteen former members and 27 new initiates joined 41 total. A large out of town turnout attended the daytime ceremony in the Buick garage and the evening degree work at the Community theatre. Supper followed at the Lincoln Highway hotel.
Investigation by the U S Bureau of Entomology and the Texas Experiment Station reports benzol as an effective larvicide for screw worm maggots in wounds, with wide adoption by stock raisers due to cost and tissue safety. Progress in repellents includes pine tar oil furfural mix and chloropicrin in mineral oil, aiming for wound healing and long lasting fly deterrence.
A fire again struck a vacant Chappell residence owned by Isaac Woolf on Thursday. No one lives there, and this marks the second arson attempt in months on one of the city’s oldest houses.
State attorney general rules county clerks may issue hunting and fishing licenses to aliens at 15 dollars each even though aliens are forbidden to possess firearms. Licenses permit use of non firearm implements, and officials caution aliens to comply with the firearm ban while hunting.
J W Hanathan, held on a three year penitentiary sentence after being arrested with Frank Thlerce for stealing auto tires from a Kimball garage, escaped from Kimball late last evening. His current location is unknown to the sheriff. Pierce, charged in the same crime, was returned to Kimball after nearly escaping and then jailed in Scottsbluff.
Fal Brown, a Peetz farmer, was granted a hearing on manufacturing and possessing liquor, pled guilty, fined 125 dollars plus costs, and sent to county jail for 30 days. Later that evening Thomas Brown, Ed Brown's son, aged 26, also pleaded guilty, fined 125 dollars plus costs, with no jail term, in a separate county judge hearing.
Adolph Harpstreith a trapper in the Broadwater district was fined 10 dollars and costs by Judge Warry M. Marquis after a county court trial for carelessness in starting a prairie fire that spread and destroyed nearly twenty stacks of hay east of Broadwater. He was sentenced to 30 days in county jail with an appeal noted and the case may go to district court in March.
Sheriff Davis discovered about twenty gallons of mash and a few pints of liquor at Manuel Rodriques’s small beet-dump home. Rodriques was found guilty after a County Judge Marquis trial and fined one hundred dollars. He admitted ownership but said the still belonged to another man, who could not be found. Rodriques remains jailed until the fine is paid.
Secretary of the Interior orders consolidation of Lincoln land records with Alliance effective April 1. Ten more land offices to be abolished and Lincoln records dating to 1850 moved to Alliance with some to Washington. North Platte valley reclamation work drives the consolidation to keep Alliance open longer.
Manuel Reyes a Mexican was granted parole at the Nebraska board of pardons meeting. Convicted of robbers and sentenced in September 1921 to three to fifteen years in the penitentiary. No opposition from officers or county citizens reported.
Chapell Goodfellowship club debated establishing a countywide butter factory. A survey of farmers and timbermen was proposed, with Mr Porter of Lincoln and K J Ekwall of Chapell volunteering to conduct rural district canvassing to assess demand and investment viability.
The Dalton Delegate reports the rural route No. 1 extension will start March 41st with the first mail delivery next Monday. G H Worth will become carrier, replacing J M Iverson, at a salary of 2600 dollars yearly. The post office will relocate to the George Reed building after remodeling begun Wednesday morning. EB Ewing plans to move his hardware stock to the former post office space.
American Museum of Natural History dispatches report an expedition to Agate in western Nebraska to locate a second specimen of the so called million dollar tooth found by Harold J. Cook on his Crook County ranch near Agate. The hunt, by searching parties, aims near the original site to uncover relics of extinct and prehistoric animals as well.
City officials left a council meeting when a bottle broke near Alliance Laundry. Jim Jacobs and Ed Vogel were questioned by police and Ed Vogel with Jacobs posted 200 personal bonds to appear in county court on a charge of unlawful liquor possession.
George C Shields calls for banning repeating shotguns for modern sportsmen. He argues repeaters are no more destructive than doubles, noting vast licensing with 5 521 106 hunting licenses issued nationwide last year. He stresses that triggers must be pulled for each shot and control remains with the shooter.
The state action against Tighner Passmore and Hewson over the Union Pacific coal thefts was continued until March 1 as details delayed yesterday's hearing. The case follows a series of thefts that led to recent trials and convictions in the same matter reported by Scotts Bluff Star-Herald.
Former Wyoming humane officer J Minort was released on bond after being charged with Mann Act violations for transporting Rosie and Mary O Hearn orphans from Casper to Mitchell Nebraska last fall. The sisters were held as witnesses with 11 days in jail before bond was posted and release pending trial. The girls were jailed in Omaha.
A prairie fire in the northwest part of town threatened serious damage until the fire truck arrived from the east side. The blaze was started by the Boy Scouts, but firefighters quickly controlled and extinguished it after reaching the scene.
I Hestbeck cashier of Citizens Bank for five years received appointment as state bank examiner and left for Lincoln to begin duties. His son Fred will stay with Mr and Mrs Ricketts until school year end. Hestbeck is well qualified for the position and expected to do well.
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