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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1913
Page
6
Community items recount residents visiting relatives and traveling to Denver Pine Bluffs and Kimball. Election plans, school notes, church services and guild gatherings mark Easter week as blizzards and wrecks test the season.
Roy Nelson hauls hay from Rocky Ridge farm, Devine family now on Fred Stowe farm, C A Hammond bought a new buggy from town, W W Chowins traveled to the county capital, Monday the Smith family from Fremont County Iowa moved into Roy Nelson's house, sale at Mr Stowe's well attended with good prices, School in 156 closed Friday with an enjoyable program by the teacher and students.
Mr John Dobbs lost the windmill wheel in the blizzard. Farmers plan to sow between one and two hundred acres of spring grain this year. Fall wheat survived winter well and promises a good crop. Walton Blair encountered misfortune.
Mrs R K Jorgenson of Sunol hosted a surprise party last Saturday night in honor of Mrs Farnsworth. The gathering was well attended and featured several beautiful presents for the guest of honor.
An array of early 20th century items include a department rule order from Secretary Houston, a Washington apoplexy death of Mrs. Levin, a $250,000 fire at Shreve Chair in Union City, and Kansas Senate’s defeat of a women’s minimum wage bill. Also noted are Tokyo area fires, Missouri’s direct election amendment ratification, Roosevelt wedding date, New York murder case, postmaster appointments delay, a Sunbury fatality, pope health rumors, James Fowler’s tenure as antitrust aide, British rail strike resolution, Senate leadership vote, Darrow jury outcome, Edgar Clark’s IC Commission chairmanship, and February gem imports reaching record levels.
The report covers a Dutch life insurer manager arrest for defalcations, anti trust talks between Attorney General McReynolds and railroad interests, President Wilson backing tariff action, a London suffragette sentenced for arson, a court review of mail order trade restrictions, Berlin doctor Friedmann's American tuberculosis serum trial, state actions on direct senatorial elections, Mrs Woodrow Wilson's philanthropy to Goucher College, Mary Pettegrew Keyes's death at 100, and Bryan's stance on U S foreign policy amid global events.
Prairie fire reports show the blaze swept five Kansas counties and the eastern half of Kearney county. The burned area is about fifty miles wide and eighty miles long, ending in Ford county. Pasture land, hay stacks, feed, and ranch buildings were destroyed, with only McCueran spared as the fire crossed the landscape.
Colonel James Hamilton Lewis a Democratic candidate secured a constitutional majority in both houses to win the United States Senate seat on the fifteenth ballot. The tally shows Lewis 164 votes with Sherman 9 Funk 22 Berlyn 4 Norris Brown aligning with Pullman interests. Lincoln Wareh 27 reports Norris Brown as state attorney for the Pullman company. Frank Benson resigned but will stay as consulting counsel. Mr Brown was appointed before leaving Washington. Mr Ransom continues as suite attorney for the company.
Mrs J A Stevens of Bridgeport Nebraska testifies Doan's Kidney Pills cured kidney trouble and lumbago years ago and relief has been lasting. Many in the vicinity endorse the remedy. If your back aches ask for Doan's Kidney Pills at 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents. Remember the name Doan's.
Very small sheep and lamb receipts with no quotable price changes. About 2,800 cattle today and 2,600 over three days. best beefs firmer, heavier grades dull. Veal calves active, cows, heifers steady to weak. feeders mixed. Sheep and lambs slow but near steady. prices listed for various grades. total day totals and three day totals noted.
Chicago markets closed with May wheat at 90 3/4 cents and July at 90 1/2. May corn 53 cents and July 54 4/5. Oats May 34 cents and July 34 1/2. Hog receipts 20,009 with prices 9.10 to 9.25. Cattle receipts 9,500 with beeves 7.10 to 9.15 and westerns 6.85 to 8.20. sheep receipts 20,000 with natives 6.50 to 7.60 and lambs 6.78 to 8.60.
A reader asks for a hay stack measurement method to estimate tons. It covers measuring width and length, using overthrow, computing cubic feet, and adjusting tons per cubic foot based on stacking duration from fresh to several months old.
A youth era quote shows Dorothy correcting her spoken praise for cake. Her mother guides her to replace love with like and avoid awfully nice and just. Dorothy repeats the corrected sentence, yet complains it sounds like bread.
Two men discuss a malfunctioning watch that stopped sometime during the night. The exchange is quoted from the Boston Transcript, conveying a brief, everyday incident.
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