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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1906
Page
4
Sleeping dining and reclining chair cars on through trains. Tickets sold and baggage checked to any point in United States or Canada. For information maps time tables and tickets write M. A. Shipman Agent or LL. W. Wakeley General Dsnger Agent Omaha Nebraska.
Local time cards show several Union Pacific trains departing Sidney with times for eastbound and westbound routes. Accessible services include the Overland Limited and California Oregon Express among others, with departures throughout the day from early morning to night.
Local items list a mix of land sale blanks from THE TELEGRAPH and various merchants including Stock Foods International Pratt's Scanlon's offering paints medicines and flour brands. It promotes Scanton's rheumatism remedy and Heath Milligan paint while noting boarding at Mrs. Hudson's, music sheets at Yen Cent Store, and farm offers via R P Scott.
Sleighing is good. Geo Humes of Bridgeport was in the city Tuesday. Dance and opera tonight at Tobin Opera House. Rev J W Hageman preached in Lewellen Wednesday. Farmers urged to sow alfalfa and plant shade and fruit trees this spring. A new baby boy born to Mr and Mrs J L McIntosh Tuesday. J C Stickney and Atolf Englert of Lodgepole in the city Wednesday. Henry Davis storm-stayed in town this week. Very little land changed hands due to severe weather. Dan Bergman returned Wednesday from a buying trip to the eastern emporium. John Ickes back from Kimball County. W S Null sick with grippe. The Republican sold to W C Van Zandt. John King visitng town on business. Dr Frazer of Benda sanitarium attended Daniel Morse who is ill. Professors Ritchie, North and Miss White judged the declamatory contest in Sidney. Roy M Brown of Brown Neff lumbering visited. plans to move to Lewellen. J M Jackson takes leave and goes to Kansas City. F L VanGorder and son Clyde arrive from Iowa to open a Sidney grocery. Dr C E Corbin, formerly of Sidney, died in Mitchell Neb. Sheriff McDaniel’s men clean snow off walks then townsfolk clear snow piles downtown. Simon Rubel of Chicago visits Sidney. once with Rubel Brothers. Archie Stevenson, former Sidneyite, revisits and recalls Hidden Treasure case where Judge Stevenson led as counsel. Divide farmers urged to plant alfalfa timber on 160 acres. seed about $3 per acre. Telegraph and Twenty-first Century Farmer offer ends April 30.
Supt Lapp of Union Pacific hotel department visited town while John Kelley left for Sterling to join Burlington steel gang. Ed Brennrn succeeds H RK King as night check clerk. Will Cummings moves to dispatcher's office at North Platte. An extra Japs crew led by Peter Hansen cleans Union Pacific yards. Burlington agent settles Dalton wreck claims. Miss Sugred Johnson named cashier at Union Pacific hotel. Hilma Pierson runs the day lunch counter. Weather delays push Union Pacific and Burlington trains 3–5 hours. Audits confirm A M Dunham’s accounts balanced. Sidney sees Wheatley appointed assistant superintendent of motive power. Wheatley and Hemple inspect local shops. North River branch material arriving. O’Fallons unloads 100k ties. bridge piling en route to Paxton. Snow drifts hinder Burlington lines. fast mail plans eyed to cut Pacific NW times. two 60-foot cars added to mail No. 1. Burlington collision near Akron CO kills Bud King and Geo H Sherwood. two clerks injured. dispatch error blamed.
March 30 event at Tobin Opera House features a Modern Woodman rally and initiation. C T Howard hitched to a sled broke through ten miles of snow drift between the ranch and Sidney on Wednesday. Reverend Frost of Alliance travels to Kimball to conduct funeral services for Mrs A H Amos. Henry Walsh of Bronson precinct and Miss Ella Peterson of Sidney marry by Judge Tucker. Many farmers buy land northwest of Sidney and plan to settle there this spring. Mrs Knox recovering at home after Dalton wreck. she was injured when thrown from a car seat. Tobin ordered opera house lighting upgraded with electric lights to illuminate all areas backstage and seating.
A Tokyo bell cast on December 10, 1862 by Tsuda Sen from metal of pipes once used by over a thousand men who freed themselves from tobacco. Legend says a American missionary inspired the vow to quit smoking, melting pipes into a bronze like bell with a fine ring.
In Wales there are occasional glasslike mineral rings found in the mountains. Some say they form in a snake’s body at age 100, others that they arise from froth and venom when two male snakes meet. Camden notes snakes join heads on St John’s Eve to form a bubble that hardens into a ring, and the finder will prosper.
Persons desiring their houses wired for electric light can have it done on the installment plan. Call and get terms and have your venue wired. Sipney Electric Service Co.
Unimproved 160 acre tract located five miles from Potter Nebraska in Kimball County. Seller contact via Chicago address WHITING, 73 Florence Ave.
Six registered Hereford bulls aged ten months to three years are missing. They were last seen four miles south of Potter, Nebraska. Contact W J Prusst at Potter Postoffice for information.
200 teamsters and laborers hired for winter work on the irrigation canal. Good warm quarters provided. Wages set at 2.25 dollars per day. James O'Connor of Torrington Wyoming directing the effort.
Inquire of CHAS CALLAHAN regarding a fine office room located within the Callahan stone block.
Citizens are invited to haul away any amount of cinders from the Electric Light power house at no cost. The trunks of discarded ash are available to the public for disposal or use as embers and fill during current conditions.
Advertisement announces a quick sale of a farm in section 9 township 15 range 48 Cheyenne County Iowa. Prospective buyers are urged to submit best offers by letter. Contact Frank L Loring Dallas Center Iowa.
North Platte Valley irrigation land available for rent for term of years. Suitable for growing all crops. Write R P Scorr Bridgeport Nebraska.
A fragment notes two books offered at THE TELEGRAPH office with the phrase good as new and inquiries requested. No further details on titles or prices are readable.
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