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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1924
Page
11
May 4 through 10 marks National Music Week with Sidney and Cheyenne County organizing programs to promote better music. The article extols music as a language of sentiment and praises local talent, predicting Sidney will host standout events that will boost interest in quality music.
A discussion on a proposed bill to raise postal department wages for clerks carriers and other workers. It notes salaries are below living costs and weighs funding via higher rates or parcel post tweaks. Proposes removing politics from the department and promoting civil service postmasters as career goals.
Mrs. Hutchinson visits her parents in Oshkosh. Gus Wellner is constructing a six room stucco bungalow on West Third Street. Deputy U S Marshall Wright of Chadron visited Sidney last Friday on business. Mrs J O Johnson and Mrs Wm Ritner of North Platte plan a Friday visit to the T A Wendt land home.
A selection of quotations on music opens the piece. Local notes report R. E. McLeester visiting his sister in Omaha, moves for the Oren Maley farm near Sidney, and the Clarkson family taking their home. Denver trip details include Haworth and Bentley families riding in the Haworth car last Thursday and Friday.
Henry Ward Beecher quote frames the scene as Mr and Mrs Leslie Neubauer host the Sidney Juvenile band in a Wednesday event. Sixty boys are treated to ice cream while other attendees include Mr and Mrs Vest Mr and Mrs Uptогrove and Miss Jessie Pippin who returned from a Denver weeklong car trip in the West car.
County Superintendent Mrs Fletcher announces the annual eighth grade promotion exercises will be at the Tobin Opera House on May 14 with Newton W Gaines of the state agricultural college as speaker. Sidney Boy Scouts met at Eastward School Monday with Rev Light visiting and giving a fine talk. The Scouts plan a Father and Son banquet soon. Sunol High School won its first baseball game of the season 9 to 5 over Lodge Pole at Sunol Wednesday. Sunol battery: Allington pitcher Olivieri and Hornicek catchers. Next Sunol game at Lodge Pole next Wednesday.
Air mail service engineer Jack Berry visited Sidney and assured Postmaster Pindell that night mail flights would commence July 1. Lamps along the Chicago to Cheyenne route will be reset to guide landings near suitable spots. Four houses are under construction in Sidney, including Dr. Simon Bungalow on east Lincoln, Fred Stuht’s home in southeast Sidney, Gus Wellner on West Third, and E. V. Ayle’s new house in the west part of town.
Postmaster Pindell states that sending chain letters through the mails violates postal rules and such letters are discarded. He notes he cannot catch all letters but a few still arrive weekly. The district court term for Cheyenne County opens with Judge J L Tewcell. next term will be a jury term starting November. The term remains quiet aside from land cases.
Rev W T Kahse of Sidney attended the Midland conference in Fremont with more than 200 Lutherans at the Pastors and delegates banquet. The college plans a 500000 goal to build new facilities and enlarge endowment funds as enrollment triples since moving from Atchison, while endowment stays flat. Midland remains the sole United Lutheran college west of the Missouri River at a strategic western position.
Joe Hahler and three companions G P Kratz C S Radcliffe and Mr Johnson left Sidney on a Sunday in Hahler s car for a two weeks trip to the Mexican border heading for a southern journey with plans to return.
John H. Severn returned to his Peetz home after a three week stay at Dr. Taylor's hospital in Sidney for a nervous breakdown. Anna Jorgensen underwent an emergency appendectomy at Dr. Taylor's hospital in Sidney at 2 o'clock Tuesday morning. Dr. Harry Manroe assisted in the operation.
Mrs. C. E. Colyer came back to her Torrington home after a two month stay with her daughter Mrs. Harry Mantor to mend a broken shoulder.
Mr and Mrs M E Oliver of Sidney welcome a son born Friday April 25. Rev and Mrs Peters of Sidney greet a daughter born Wednesday April 30, their second and third children. At Sidney Union Pacific depot a Mexican woman, Mrs Cruz Padilla, went into labor Tuesday evening while traveling with her husband. Dr Harry Mantor attended and the baby was born at the Commercial hotel that night as the couple rode from the east toward Kimball.
The Girls Friendly Society of Sidney plans a tag day in Sidney this Saturday to raise funds for the Children Saving Institute of Omaha. The King's Daughters met at J. L. McIntosh home for a business and social evening. Mrs. McIntosh served lunch, netting $100 from an Easter Monday dance. Mrs. Golding and Mrs. Hodgkin attended the Sixth district Federated Women’s Clubs convention in Alliance as Sidney delegates, where Golding chaired the Americanization committee and spoke. Nearly 100 residents and guests attended the annual Sidney fire department banquet at the Union Pacific hotel with a three course dinner and speeches. Mrs. Edward Furer was elected recorder for the Fifth and Sixth districts of the Royal Neighbors of America at the North Platte convention, where she reported Sidney activities. Mrs. Chambers and Mrs. Wam. Willis also attended.
The Cheyenne county Republican convention at the Tobin opera house elected delegates to the Lincoln state convention, endorsed President Coolidge and Norris, and formed a new county organization with Dimery as chairman. Delegates Miles Schroeder John and Russell left for Lincoln. precinct chairmen were named across multiple townships.
Non professional Sidney team prepares for season with strong lineup including Collins catcher Closman pitcher Boyd first base Slack shortstop Bushong third base. Local talent expected to boost Sidney toward another championship run as schedules form with Cheyenne Sterling Scottsbluff Julesburg and other nearby cities likely to visit. First home game tentatively set for the second or third Sunday in May.
The Southern church of the middle west plans a June 5 to 12 assembly in Fremont Nebraska using Midland College facilities. Renowned Lutheran leaders will attend and a course will deepen church life involvement with numerous young participants and Marie Siedow guiding as chaperone.
A reflective line from Emerson on nature's moods shaping age and youth, noting how nature places an old head on young shoulders and a young heart beneath four-score winters, illustrating enduring contrasts in human perception.
An auction sale of 74 flower plants is planned for Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Rasch Barber Shop. The notice invites bidders to attend and bid on the available plants.
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