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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1906
Page
15
In the March 20 issue of the Weekly Denver Post, the author extols the farming region's virtue. He praises deep plowing and shallow cultivation, noting sustained yields for twenty years and lauding soil, climate, roads, water, and schools. A Western observer from Colorado contrasts irrigation hype with proven methods.
William E. Curtis recalls Eureka Springs Arkansas as beautiful yet unfinished with streets and back yards littered by rubbish. He notes Northern settlers bring enterprise but residents and authorities must clean up and beautify the town to welcome daily arrivals.
Col Francis O Wisner founder and longtime editor of the Bayard Transcript died at St Joseph hospital in Omaha Sunday morning following gall stone removal surgery. He had sought relief by the operation and, though the operation was successful, his condition failed afterward.
Obituaries recount Col. F. O. Wisner of Bayard and Gen. John M. Thayer of Lincoln, noting Wisner’s Civil War service and editorship of the Transcript and Herald, and Thayer’s long Nebraska career from farmer to governor. The government plans 500000 two year old pine seedlings for the Dismal river forest reserve near Halsey to boost future timber and demonstrate land productivity.
A. B. Persinger of Lodgepole Nebraska, founder of the Birmingham Iron Age, visits his former Birmingham home after thirty years. He notes many changes, recalls only a few familiar spots, and says he cannot locate a file of the old Iron Age, which began in 1872 after a cholera epidemic.
The caller reports seeing a kiss between a wife and a young man in the kitchen last night. The maid asks how this happened, suggesting they may have been looking through a keyhole. The Cleveland Leader notes the domestic scene and questions of fidelity.
The Dalton item list reports Earl McConnell and A. L. Adams sick or under the weather. Dan Dexter and J. Sherer visited Lee Buck. A. L. Adams and family traveled to Bridgeport. Ed Lane lost a horse at a wire fence. Blizzard closes roads and slows school. New residents arrive as Gus Auldrup and Dr. Robison plan drug store and settlement growth.
Pat Rowson remains home with grippe while W. E. Kilby handles work at Walsh's ranch. Robert Walsh has fully recovered from the grippe. News is light due to snow but aims for better next week as W. A. Parker pays off workers on the Platte Valley line and visits.
Ed Linnett of Fort Laramie Wyoming has secured the contract to grade the point and arrived last Saturday with his outfit for the job.
The Telegraph issues a travel and promotional note offering cheap through train fares to Montana Puget Sound and Portland with one way Colonist tickets. Special Homeseekers Rates on March 6 and 20 into the North Platte Valley Big Horn Basin and Southwest. Daily winter tourist rates to Southern resorts through April 30. Irrigated lands rise in value. free publications available. Cheap one way tickets to California through April 15 with through tourist sleepers. Spring and summer Pacific Coast tours with April 25 to May 5 excursion and ongoing low California Puget Sound rates.
The subscription committee for the proposed beet sugar company asks for a one week extension to secure 75000 more, aiming for an 800000 cost correction noted by the North Platte Tribune. Congressman Kinkaid says he will oppose cattle leasing measures despite district sentiment, backing the settler and homesteader.
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