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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1915
Page
6
Weather winds and dances fill a busy Bronson Peetz week with calls, visits, and upcoming events. People from Albert Siebenaler to Sidney attend services and socials while neighbors, including Murray Haywood and the Meyers family, relocate or purchase land and equipment.
Miss Berniece Teachsel and Mary Watters visited Peetz for the teachers meeting and spent time with Miss Weisz and PD S Coombs. W H Frazier, the C B Q agent, bought a new Easter bonnet. Eight emigrant cars have arrived locally since November signaling a growing eastern farming influx. Van Valkenberg Co now sell Ford autos with repairs and supplies. L Mason of Lynch, Nebraska, arrived to farm after unloading an immigrant car at Sidney and traveling to Peetz. The tone notes local commerce, farming, and community mobility.
Loren Dugger was among Bridgeport travelers Wednesday. Norv Eckert and family hosted Mr and Mrs Hie Eckert for Sunday dinner. Frank White attended the falton gathering Monday. Mrs George Shinker, ill recently, is convalescing under a doctor’s care. Pat and Dan Keenan had dinner with Sam Keckert on Tuesday. Mrs Jim McNulty, suffering Quincy sore throat, is improving rapidly. Frank Weigands and their son visited Ed Walsh for Sunday dinner. Home talent play at Dalton drew John Davison Katherine Walsh Carrie Eckert Alvin Dunne J M Kreader and Mrs J C Kreader Wednesday evening.
Bradstreet reports disappointment across many markets due to poor roads unsettled weather and cautious buying. Some sectors show gains in heavy manufacturing mail order activity lumber demand and textile mills while coal mining suffers short time in anthracite regions and building activity improves.
Judge Anderson ordered Sheriff Dennis Shea City Judge Thomas Smith and Street Inspector Alexander Steel into U S marshal custody over alleged witness tampering in a Terre Haute election case. Seven witnesses, six guilty pleas, testified they were removed from Vigo county jail on a writ of habeas corpus to Indianapolis. Fraud details included a dog registered to vote and a black man casting a ballot in that name.
An Algerian dancer known as Princess Burkalt was killed by her brother Isaac Lizraki at the Zone theater during a crowded Panama-Pacific Exposition show. Lizraki fired about six shots before soldiers from the Presidio disarmed him and took him to the police. No motive was learned.
A cabinet meeting in Washington took up a note to be sent to Great Britain protesting features of the British order in council and seeking detailed information. The two main points considered were the order's probable effects on American commerce and the rights of American citizens.
Since the war began the British army on the continent has lost 1,543 officers killed and 2,883 wounded with 705 reported missing total officer casualties reach 5,081 men.
German envoy to Italy Prince von Buelow pursues neutrality amid mounting wartime pressures. His diplomatic efforts reach a climactic phase as he seeks to avert Italy’s entry into the conflict.
320 acres west of Sidney on Lodgepole creek with water. 185 acres cultivated, alfalfa and hay, fenced, cross fenced, pump irrigation possible. 480 acres RR land adjoining leaseable at 6c/acre. House, barn, sheds, and farm tools. Personal property includes 13 horses and mules, cattle, 90 acres wheat, wagons. Land and listed property priced at 11450 land plus 15450 overall. contact J F Whitlock Real Estate by April 10, 1915.
A note corrects the phrase used for a traditional punishment word. It explains that “gantiope” should replace “gantlet duo” in “to run the gantlet,” and describes the origin as a Ghent derived practice with soldiers lashing the offender as he runs.
A reflective passage compares life to a river’s constant flow, noting that exaltation and temptation occur in bursts, yet it is the steady, ordinary days that reveal our true course and what we are becoming.
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