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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1926
Page
16
March 22 faculty program March 23 chapel talk by Rev Crawford and assembly spelling March 24 assembly singing March 26 commercial contest at Bridgeport The basketball team has been participating in the state tournament at Lincoln and will issue the next Trail next week We will hear more from them then
The senior class selects It Happened in June a three act comedy drama for presentation. Cast will be chosen as the docks arrive and characters assigned upon arrival.
Monday entries recall Jester Clark’s name carved on a freshman beak and debated memory of fresher status. The diary jokes about Bright, a declamatory contest crowd, an unusual afternoon without school, and a Friday with thirteen seniors rather than twelve, implying a long-ago campus moment.
Gladys Sweet Ada Gerard and Frances Greer earned Underwood typing certificates at 30 wpm for 15 minutes. Students vie for the 40 word award while others chase 30 words. Miss Schlichting enjoyed Potter weekend. Margaret Willman and Louis Miller joined the high school.
The notes recount a quiet Monday with students resuming study after exams. Tuesday featured Professor Bright of Chadron who commented that today’s youth are different due to broader opportunities, suggesting that opportunities can lead them to worse choices than fifteen years ago.
Wednesday morning Mr Storkan convened a high school student meeting in the De Molay play to direct singing but Miss Schlichting stepped in to help. Thursday brought a spelling lesson and a query on perfect papers. only Dorothy Garey had all 100s, while several others missed one or two. Friday's chapel was spent studying, except the Juniors who held a class meeting.
The high school hosted a declamatory contest in the auditorium on Wednesday evening. In the dramatic class Vera Chambers won first with The Christus and Frances McDaniel took second with The Littlest Rebel, while in the humorous section Viola Foster won first for Camera Clicks and Elvira Campbell second for her piece. Judges Supt. Finch Dalton Prin. Brunton Miss Christensen Bridgeport, with Miss Stoetzel as alternate.
A published list names Sabina Morton and classmates by grade for high school honors. Notable achiever Mary Virginia Marsh posts a perfect record in spelling for six weeks, with daily perfect scores and top exam marks.
A list of participants received 100 in spelling this week including Emma Welsaman Harvey George Eugice Babb Roland Jones Tillie Elston Harold Thomas Delores Frankeberger Clara Hammer Helen Reed Freda Thompson and Martin at a local event.
Tell Fannie Belle Zike, Helen Bad ziong, Sabina Morton, Irene Brooks, Dorothy Garet, Helen Doran, Kermit Moore, Eugene Davis, Mable Emrick, Esther Shaw, Florence Shaw, Gerald ine Kennedy, Grant Poole, Katie Shel don, Bertha Flo, Bernice Young, Ruth MacGirvin, Viola Foster, Velma Bell, Orval Williams, Helen Johnson, Don ald Jorgenson, Ruth Karvanek, Mar jorie Pettitt.
A 17 year old eager applicant asks for work with no pay and proves his worth by relentless effort. He improves the business with a testing lab and stays through industry shifts. He rises to lead a major electric firm earning twelve thousand a year and other ventures, proving a job seeker can become a powerhouse.
A brief note titled Funny Side Up features Ruth K pondering why a stork maintains a single foot stance. The item appears as a continuation note directing readers to page 8 for the full joke.
Congressmen Simmons outlines farm relief efforts with hearings dragging on. debate centers on a national farm board and an equalization fee to stabilize prices, while Meredith proposes an agricultural commission. Cabinet officials and presidents discuss canalization taxes, with forecasts of a fifty fifty chance of passage and growing cooperative farming data.
Robert G. Simmons notes 39.1 percent rise alongside a debt ratio of 13.2 percent. He promises next week to discuss further progress on farm legislation and the final chapter written in the many chapters on Muscle Shoals.
Planning ahead helps save the dollars by taking stock of garments on hand and deciding what is needed. A wise shopper knows what she wants before shopping and will save time and money by focusing on those spring and summer additions.
S H Pool a former Bridgeport resident, waiting at the Commercial hotel in Sidney for a train to Bridgeport, left his suitcase on the floor while chatting. When the train arrived he and a friend went to retrieve their bags and both were gone, the suitcase containing all his personal effects.
Mrs A B Holt formerly of Bridgeport now in Sterling reports a highway encounter with a cow that blocked her right of way. She stepped into the road to scare it away, the cow wheeled and kicked, shattering the car light and windshield as the Bridge Herald notes.
John Witt, present operator of the Potter flour mill, along with Columbus, Nebraska associates, gains controlling interest in both the mill and elevator of Farmers Grain & Milling Co this week. Witt is described as a hard working food manager with experience in milling and grain, moving stock from larger holders to himself and associates as smaller stockholders liquidate.
The Irish Cobbler and Early Ohio are advised for eastern and southern Nebraska as the earliest paying crops. The Triumph remains the top choice for western Nebraska growers, with Cobblers offering early maturity, smoothness, and higher marketability except in northeast Nebraska.
The Ohio Cobblers and Cobblers are compared for drought and disease resilience. Cobblers resist scab better and produce smooth tubers, while Ohios yield more in northern Nebraska under hot weather. Certified seed is preferred. if unavailable, well treated seed with formaldehyde or corrosive sublimate is recommended.
Instructions describe turning eggs twice daily from day three to day eighteen and cooling them to eyelid temperature. On day seven test for infertility and dead germs, check air cell near three eighths inch, adjust moisture as needed, and keep damp cloths inside under the tray. On day fourteen test again, remove dead germs, air cell near five eighths inch, then refrain from opening incubator until hatch. if moisture covers the door glass on day twenty one, open by a match stick width.
The Tri-county Cow Testing association valued official records at 9065 per cow for R A Rhea of Kennard in a February public auction. Seventeen dairy cows sold, fourteen with records averaged 123 dollars. three without records brought seven dollars each.
The March issue of The Economic Situation, prepared by the Agricultural College, assists cooperative farmers with cost accounting across farming operations. It provides a monthly state economic summary, mailings at no charge, and guidance on production choices based on past results and current trends.
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