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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1914
Page
7
Our Correspondents report T M Province awarded the Peetz to Armstrong mail contract as the lowest bidder. He will operate a Ford car purchased from A. L. Johnson. Multiple local trades, moves, and community notes follow including property sales, farming plans for 1914, church construction, and a growing storage depot proposal by Continental Company.
A large number of grade pupils and some high school students are out with mumps or colds. About half of the Ft. Morgan high school’s 220 students are ill. Miss Greenlee’s classes are healthy. sewing and manual training progress well. Seventh grade toys, eighth grade pedestals, and an upcoming May exhibit are planned. Miss Meade, Miss McKercher, and Mr Willis supervise fine needlework and woodwork. Neubauer reports 70 enrolled, 30 awaiting admission. new spring class not accepted due to state ruling. Children aged five will start next September. Mann’s class dramatizes readings. Caesar studies engage students and hint at Mexican tensions. Botany and Agriculture courses run a month, then practical garden work awaits. Western Nebraska Championship honors go to the Sidney team after notable travels. Basketball finals start next week with grade matchups for the school championship. Local high school entries in the District Declamatory contest include Bassett, Foster, and Hurt. results to follow. Overcrowding and new Minor Reviews shift cooking to a later start, with city ladies ready to cooperate.
The Farmers Institute or Club of Peetz elected GQ Wasson as president and Robert Wood as secretary treasurer for the coming year. They voted to join the Farmers Co operative Association of Logan County and to hold monthly meetings each last Saturday. A new Maxwell auto was purchased by M H Kraxberger. Journal notes show deaths and injuries from a Ponca fire affecting Ed Watson family and Mrs Watson seriously. Mrs A H Clemmons travels to Deadwood for her brother John A Stannus's funeral. visits among local residents and planned population growth to 500 in five years.
Chicago markets report closing prices for wheat, corn, oats, pork, lard, ribs with May and July figures. Cash prices listed for No 2 hard wheat, corn and white oats. Cattle receipts total about 12,009 with ranges for beef, steers, stockers, calves and cows. Hog receipts near 28,000 with price bands for bulk, light, heavy, rough and pigs. Sheep receipts around 22,000 with westerns, yearlings and lamb ranges.
One hundred dollars reward offered for an uncured case of catarrh by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney and Co Toledo Ohio cited as honest and able to fulfill obligations. Cure taken internally and affects blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free, price 75 cents per bottle, sold by druggists. Also Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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