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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1927
Page
11
Spring Canyon reports the largest turnout in years at the Crook school election, with Wm. Sincock elected to succeed Chas. Krenger. Local residents attend funerals, birthdays, shop in Sterling, and host and attend social events. A twister hit Crook causing damage, and heavy rain occurred briefly. Notable items include a junior weiner roast, a Mothers Day program, and P.T. A. meeting in Crook.
Mr and Mrs August Mielke were business callers in Potter on Wednesday. District 13 had no school on Monday. Miss Lundberg could not face the storm from Sidney over the weekend with home folks. Dewey Matthewson and son Wendell visited Peter Nelson Saturday. Local boys held a baseball meeting Friday to elect officers and plan for upcoming games. Mrs Charley McKee cared for the sick at Jesse Lambert home Tuesday night. William Minor and Bill Smith attended church in Potter Sunday. Jerome Kalfka and family shopped in Sidney Saturday. Liord Shaw and son of Dix spent Sunday with Peter Nelson. Harold Bratt missed Monday school due to illness. Hibben of Norfolk visited C C Crowell’s family. The windmill on Frank Trayis place blew down Monday.
Curiosities span ancient fortunes and modern trivia revealing Robes of wealth for Croesus Seneca and WHerius, a cat awarded bravery medal by the Rescue League, and the first Ruthwell savings bank founded in 1810. The Serpentine paper boat anecdote and the biblical use of the word and highlight quirky historical notes.
Sunday afternoon showers gave way to sleet snow and a blizzard as a ship arrived signaling Russia shed monarchy. Local social rounds include visits between the Kreader Morrows Cobb Rathbun and others, Mother’s Day dinner, and neighbors sharing meals and errands amid wintry travel disruptions. Notables include J C Kreader, Alta Cobb, J E Morrow, Al Morrow, Coleman Kreader Jr., Bud Mayers, Ed Zorn, Miss Kocour, and the Morrow and Rathbun households with multiple visits and gatherings noted.
Mr and Mrs Andrew Nelson and sons visited the Fred Beyer home Tuesday evening. Fred Engel called on John Engel Tuesday afternoon. Sunday dinners included the Frame Hargens Leonard and Beyer families at Fred Beyer and Hilbert Borcher homes. Hazel Bales stayed with Shirley Nelson in Sidney. Chris Rohde joined Emanuel Troutman on a fishing trip Sunday.
The men in the Heavenly Mountains of Turkestan wear long thick braids and baldness is nearly unknown among them.
Rain and snow visited the vicinity this week. Miss Loretta and Ruth Osborn recover from measles, as do A. H. Draper and Ethe Guills family. Mr and Mrs Harry Scott welcomed a baby boy born Friday. Various visits include Ed Guill home, J C Guill, Jack Sears, Leonard Freeburg, and W L Bauman in Sidney. Fishing trip with B E Osborn and Leonard Freeburg. Mother’s Day flower work with Grace Aid.
Approximately 90 co operative wool marketing associations operated in the United States in 1925 with about 50,000 members and $10,000,000 in business. Most activity came from regional pools across 28 states, with sales agencies in major wool markets and new state or regional groups forming after 1920 following wool price declines.
Farmers of McDonald Kansas form the Wheat Growers club with a large golf links and restrict membership to farmers. The Londonderry Nova Scotia jail, vacant twenty years, is sold to a cobbler for thirty five dollars. About one hundred words were added to English in the past year.
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