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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1906
Page
11
A Denver Post weekly passage argues that farming success hinges on faith and work rather than irrigation scarcity, contrasting eastern praise of farms with western claims. It notes a Colorado irrigated-field perspective shaping favorable views, urging practical methods over excess irrigation.
William E. Curtin reports Eureka Springs Arkansas as a draw for health seekers from the North who brought enterprise but left the town with an unfinished look. He notes streets yards and woodpiles unsightly while commending the sheriff for recent cleanup efforts and urging residents to improve the town to welcome new arrivals.
Col. Francis O. Wisner founder and longtime editor of the Bayard Transcript died at St. Joseph hospital in Omaha after an operation for gall stones. He had gone to the hospital seeking relief from pain, the procedure initially successful but he did not recover.
The Bayard Transcript notes the death of Col. F. O. Wisner born 1837 in Cleveland. He edited Bayard Transcript and founded Oshkosh Herald after military service in the 8th Wisconsin Infantry "Old Abe." General John M. Thayer dies in Lincoln aged 86. his Nebraska career spanned farming politics and four-term governorship. A satirical piece in the Public Ledger lampoons editor practices. A Birmingham visit by A. B. Persinger recalls the Iron Age paper and Birmingham, Alabama’s cholera-era roots.
The government will plant 500000 two year old pine seedlings in the Dis Mal river forest reserve near Halsey. The sand hill country soil is poor for farming but suitable for pines, aiming to expand timber supply and prove land can be productively used. About 100000 seedlings will be shipped from Halsey to other reserves. There are already several acres of young pines near Halsey thriving.
In a domestic rumor the Missus confronts her spouse after spotting a kiss with a younger man through a keyhole. The maid admits uncertainty about how it happened as tension rises in the Cleveland home.
Earl McConnell and A L Adams are ill and under the weather. Dan Dexter and J Sherer cullers at Lee Buck's. Adams family trip to Bridgeport. Ed Lane's horse cut by a wire fence. Blizzard keeps scholars home. roads blockaded. Ges Auldrup arriving with family to settle. Hill with carload of goods north of Dalton. wife to join soon. Woolsey sold coal during storm. Keiser family moving in with 1280 acres. Dr Robison from South Dakota opening a drug store to boost town.
Irving notes Pat Rowson remains home with grippe while W. E. Kilby handles Walsh’s ranch duties. Robert Walsh has fully recovered from grippe. Snowbound days limit vows, but improvements expected next week. W. A. Parker paid the Platte Valley line crew and visited.
The stock subscription period for the proposed beet sugar company is extended by one week as the committee works to raise 75000 dollars to secure the project. The earlier report misstated factory cost as 300000 dollars. the correct total is 750000 dollars.
Ed Linnett of Ft. Laramie Wyoming has won the contract to grade the point and arrived last Saturday with his outfit.
Travel agents promote cheap through trains to Montana Puget Sound and Portland with Colonist tickets. Special Homeseekers rates March 6 and 20 for North Platte Valley Big Horn Basin and Southwest. Winter Tourist rates to Southern resorts. irrigated lands rising in value. cheap one way California tickets until April 7. grand Pacific Coast tour with April 25 to May 5 excursion. sustained low California Puget Sound rates through summer. contact Burling ton agents for best routes.
The Telegraph, official county paper, and the Twentieth Century Farmer, an up to date farmers’ magazine, are priced at $1.50 for one year.
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