Oberfelder seeks writ to force full value assessments
Oberfelder and Company petition the district court to compel seventeen precinct assessors to assess real and personal property at full value rather than one third. Judge Grimes scheduled a hearing for April 7. The suit seeks payment on 159 county service claims totaling about 4500 dollars from 1894 to 1896, blocked by no funds or levies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oberfelder & Co
Halligan and Wilcox
Grimes
Cheyenne County
Lands Transfer Near Redington and Local Directives
C D Essig sold a quarter section near Redington to W G Pickerell for 600 dollars. The report covers local trades, visits, shipments, a new stationery and cigar store opening, farming prospects, a large horse sale at Union Pacific yards, and public reading room board actions with Union Pacific talks and local officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. D. Essig
Redington
W. G. Pickerell
Etter
Union Pacific
Board of Control
Murlless
Chas. Osborne
J.C. Hudson
R. D. Harris
Supt. Baxter
First National Bank Announces Capital Paid and Lease
The board of directors paid in the necessary capital stock and ordered bonds deposited with the U S treasurer. A five year lease was made for the lower west half of the Callahan block. Fixtures from A H Andrews Co Chicago were ordered. A fire proof vault will be built from the ground up. The bank aims to open between May first and fifteenth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First National Bank
United States
Chas. Callahan
Callahan
A. H. Andrews Co
Chicago
Sidney Separator Station sale eyed to open steam laundry
A Creamery Package Manufacturing Co. representative in Sidney met local stockholders to discuss disposing of the idle separator station built by Omaha firm. Stockholders owe 1,200 of 2,000 dollars for the building. insufficient milk production led to closure. If sold to open a steam laundry, proceeds would repay paying stockholders and the Package Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Creamery Package Manufacturing Co
Omaha
Package Co
Fremont Creamery Co
Package Manufacturing Co
Severe Windstorm Disrupts Telegraph Lines Across Region
A mid night Tuesday storm struck with snow and sleet, toppling fences and crippling telegraph poles along Union Pacific and Burlington lines. About twenty poles fell between Sidney and Bronson, cutting telegraphic service from 2 AM to 8 AM. Repairs linked Sidney to Omaha and North Platte by 8 AM, but west wires remained unusable until late afternoon. Train service was delayed Wednesday due to the storm's brief but fallout heavy impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Burlington
Sidney
Bronson
Omaha
North Platte
Bridgeport
Alliance
Hornaday and Fletcher Wed at Potter Home
Mr Chas Hornaday and Miss Mabel Fletcher were married at the groom's parents home in Potter Wednesday evening. Rev W H D Hornaday of Cambridge Neb officiated. The couple, both well regarded in Potter, received congratulations and a wedding supper followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Hornaday
Mabel Fletcher
W. A. Hornaday
Potter
W.H. D. Hornaday
Cambridge
Neb
Potter School
Tellgraphe
Sheep Herder Injured by Train Near Angora Station
Leo Kapka, a sheep herder, was struck by a Burlington passenger train south of Angora station on Friday night. He was taken to Sidney for medical care, regaining consciousness after arrival. Dr. J P Dullard treated him, with the doctor favoring trampling over engine impact due to lack of broken bones. Kapka improves with rest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Lowery Bros
Aheep
Angora
Leo Kapka
Sidney
J. P. Dullard
Kapka
Dullard
Government land probe targets dubious Dalton filings
Special agent W. R. Lesser examined eleven homestead filings at Dalton made by African American men accused of fictitious entries and prepayment schemes. Witnesses testified as the investigation expands to Alliance with forty five similar cases. Prosecutions may follow for defrauding the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. R. Lesser
Government Land Department
Sidney
Mr. Lesser
Dalton
Itia
Lesser
Land Office
Alliance Land Office
Department
Spring House Cleaning at Esusig’s Furniture Store
Timely advice on spring cleaning highlights new stock at Esusig's Furniture Store. Carpets rugs window shades linoleums and accessories in brass wood and oilcloth styles arrive with sample prices. C D Essic promotes a complete department store experience to save customers trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esusig
C. D. Essic
Potter area bull herd start after April first
A resident near Potter Nebraska announces plans to start a bull herd four miles west of town after April 1. The notice is signed by Robert Gunderson of Potter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potter
Robert Gunderson
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J.J. McKintosh
J. T. Xcindosh
American Bank
Nebraska
Europe
Palace Livery Barn
M. E. Washburn
J. Frep Dawson
Rose Street
Sidney, Neb
Kruse Bros
Schlitz
Milwaukee
Zang
Porter
Front and Rose Streets
Sidney Meat
Co. Girmann
J. E. Ickes, Prop
Che
Schlitz Beer
Trwine
F. S. Bush & CO
Jacob Schwender
C. W. Klee
N. P. Nelson
Sextorp
Leach
C. J. Hysham
South Africa
Myron Sager
Rho Slawson
H. P. Slawson
Lodgepole
Bestrice Creamery Co
A. B. Knox
Ray Wellner
Raymond
Republican State Central Committee
Lincoln
Sedgwick
James McShane
F.M Troy
Scotts Bluff County
Jos. Kellar
Kellar
Keller
The
Sidney Separator
Hornaday-Fletcher
Dr. F. C. Beebe
Pricea
C. C. Darnell
Sidney Neb
Ohio
W. H. Davis
W. H. Adams
P. BR
Borgquist
L.f.closman
Clara E. Britton
ASH Frocery
S. Wooldridge, Prep
California
Cash Grocery
Idney Opera House
Bassett & McIntosh
Standard Lecture Bureau
Des Moines
Col
A. L. Bixby
Sidney Drug Co
Bassett & Mlintosh
Lessees
Pionday
Harry Webber
Nip and Tuok
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