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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1909
Page
4
A Baylis Illinois subscriber writing to The Telegraph extols Sidney Nebraska praising its thriving business avenues and rich surrounding farms. He notes cheap land inviting new farmers, urges a town sewage system, and highlights strong building activity and healthy growth across the valley.
The article notes North Platte pressing for a drainage system while Alliance and Julesburg weigh high estimated costs of 45000 and 22500 respectively. Sidney benefits from natural drainage enabling cheaper line piping. Weekend land tours by Sidney firms stirred local activity as buyers hunted parcels despite stormy weather and general market chatter. Tafthaa directs his cabinet to speak, prompting comparisons to Roosevelt.
Dalton Hanna Harm visits mother in Sidney while Florence Millar returns to Bridgeport. Various residents move, travel or visit: Hurst to Wayne County farm, Henry Devoe to Sidney for business, Willis to Alliance, Adam to farm southeast town, and many local social and business updates. A dance fails, schools report, and a railroad line outage noted along with community meetings and farm transactions.
Flo Brennan resumes school after visiting friends. Dr. Anderson departs to Rosalee Nebraska for his new home. Mrs. Thomas is ill this week. John Walford hosts his brother. James and Neil Thompson from Wayne Nebraska join to work on their town place. Uncle Van Winkle returns to school after a month away. Mrs. Lee Buck and Miss Sage visit Exeter and return to see their ailing father. Mrs. Win James travels to Edgemont South Dakota to stay with her sister in law.
Mrs Thornburg mother of B F in town from eastern Nebraska. Mr Jensen Kirk merchant in Potter over Sunday. Mrs Pockett Wyoming visiting Mrs B F Thornburg. Yewman lodge forming with McKee Bros C Lawrence among charter members. Woman's Aid M E church met with Mrs Bundy. next with Mrs Chas Johnson. Jay Hastings Osceola attended ranch case Tuesday. Women's Guild Lutheral church met with Mrs Struble. Notes on words and manners. Miss Mamie McKee returned to Cheyenne. Mrs Lou Wilson Kirk left for Greeley. Potter prospers though croaker. rest room for rural wives urged. Standard Oil vindicated by Judge Anderson in Chicago. wonder at his fee. Geo Peters and daughter Kate in Sidney via Lodgepole Tuesday.
Mary Buchanan, one year two months and seventeen days old, dies in North Platte. The Brebanans are quarantined. Mary Mary’s funeral held Sunday. Nebraskan extracts show Mrs. Helen Wilcox dies of pneumonia, daughter Gertrude Wilcox to university. many local griefs and memorials noted. Death of Miss Viola Fellows amid storm. injuries, recoveries and local moves update Lodgepole residents and surrounding kin.
The Union Valley piece notes a lingering blizzard with blocked roads and deep drifts around homes and barns. It lists new births from two families: Hinrichs and Jurgens each welcomed a girl, and Thompson and Frerichs each welcomed a boy. Henry Hinrichs returned from Illinois with his son John after a visit there. The column remarks the storm as a bowling blizzard and predicts ground absorption and spring grass with warm weather.
Miss Edith Sage visited her father last Monday while Raymond Broa hauled lumber from Dalton for a new barn. The Highland Literary show last week drew a good crowd and attendees praised the program.
Classified notice offers a business for sale with good reasons for selling. Respondents are directed to send inquiries via Lock Box 446 Stewitt's Building and mail a postal card to Baldwin's two for district of Columbia.
An ordinance in Sidney Nebraska imposes an annual license-occupation tax of two hundred dollars on all retailers of intoxicating liquors and provides collection, penalties for nonpayment, and uses funds to maintain the village water works. It repeals prior conflicting ordinances and takes effect after passage, approval and publication.
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