Seven Days Note and Local Social Roundup in Sidney
A week of personal mentions includes Mrs. Roscoe Zimmer and children traveling to North Platte and Cozad, and visitors like E. E. Rumsey from Cozad. Notes on weddings, family visits, and neighbors pepper the page along with local events and civic plans from Sidney residents. The piece also highlights a successful Palmatier Slater concert, sidewalk improvements by Dr. Simon, and calls for a bandstand to support weekly concerts. Nearby county notes mention a rainy spell aiding grain and ongoing public enterprises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opera House
Palmatier Slater Concert Co
Sidney
Masonic Lodge
Palmwaller
Sidney Defeats Kimball On Home Grounds In Opener
The Sidney baseball team opened the season with a 5 to 2 victory over Kimball on the Sidney diamond. A good crowd enjoyed a spirited game despite uneven practice, with Kimball promising revenge on May 22 at Kimball and Gadd filling in for catcher Agnew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Diamond
Kimball Boys
Sidney
Kimball
Agnew
Gadd
Bridgeport Nine
Esbon Closman
McKibbin
Buartholomew
Kimballites
Bergman
Dr. Mockett
Hargis
Cleaman
Pettit
O'Kane
Kimball— Plaster
Painter Bradstreet
Mockett
Union Pacific Plans Major Improvements This Season
The Union Pacific intends extensive work including concrete and steel gang activity near the steel water softener, a new steel tank, and removal of the old one. Over 1400 feet of ten inch main will be replaced with twelve inch main. stand pipe moved west. Crossing changes involve Maple and Pine streets. Maple crossing held pending Pine street approval. A new freight depot will be built on Vine street three blocks west of the current freight house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Grant Harper
Bixby
Heft
North Platte
Sidney
Maple Street
Pine Street
Myrtle Street
Vine Street
Iuade
Railroad Expansion and Rights of Way Through Omaha
The Union Pacific plans a new building measuring six by eight feet? no, six by eighty feet. Five more tracks will be laid in Front street yards, with a forty foot street margin. A federal Omaha court decision grants the railroad a 400 foot right of way through Nebraska, up to the sidewalk line, allowing exclusive use for tracks if warranted by the court ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railroand
Front Street
Federal Court
Omaha
Union Pacific
Nebraska
Railroad Notes Highlight Local Crew Movements
Peter Jesson took a few days off due to a sore eye while Roadmaster Hammer checked switches. Traveling Auditor Dawcon conducts his annual inspection at the railroad hotel. J. R. Williams and Andy Lindberg travel to Lincoln for the Workmen Grand Lodge. Will Jenson returns to the bridge gang after hospitalization in Omaha. Two large freight engines, ninety feet long and 150 tons, with sixteen drive wheels, oil fueled, passed through Thursday en route to Southern Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammer
Dawcon
J. R. Williams
Andy Lindberg
Lincoln
Grand Lodge
Will Jenson
Bridge Gang
Omaha
Southern Pacific
Dan McAleese Heads to Mexico for Thirty Day Trip
Dan McAleese departed Tuesday for a thirty day pleasure trip to Mexico and intervening points. He expects to find a promising land and plans to enjoy the journey, returning after the allotted month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan McAleese
Mexico
Dan
Up-to-date Telephone System Under Lathrop Oversight
Under B A Lathrop management the telephone system is modernizing rapidly. The central office gains new furniture switchboard wall and desk telephones and improved apparatus. Walls floors and woodwork receive careful finishing with a new booth for patrons and writing desk. Further improvements and a refined bookkeeping system are planned as Sidney advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. A. Lathrop
Chaon
Lathrop
Finsuces
Sidney
Eye doctors relieve symptoms at Sidney
Weak inflamed eyes and cross eyes with head ache and dizziness were treated by Dra. Bowlby and Perrigo of 304 Paxton Block, Omaha, at Sidney on May 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dra. Bowlby & Perrigo
Paxton Block
Omaha
Sidney
Hotel May 21 Doc tora Hot Springs notice
Be sure to see the Hot Springs Doc tora at the hotel May 21st. The note highlights a presentation or event labeled Doc tora at a Hot Springs hotel on a May date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hot Springs
LeGrand Hotel
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kratz
E.R. Kratz
First National Bank
American Surety Co
Vienna
Clean Kitchen Restaurant
Ziebert & Wilson
Proprietors
Closman & Ripley Plumbing
Masonic Building
Western Realty
W. E. Swatzlander
Mgr
F. B. Tobin
Schlitz Beer
Tobin
Morrill County
Roscoe Zimmer
North Platte and
Cozad
E. E. Rumsey of
City
Sterling
Maggie Fisher
Julesburg
J. J Lewien
Arkansas City
Kas
Mre W N. Foster
Higgins
Amy Langford
J.E. Trinnier
Kansas City
Gad
Joseph Downing
Philadelphia
Henry Leichty
Louis Wasem
Mr. Downing
Leichty
Cupid
Belle M. Stoutenborough Club
C. H Mooney
H. V. Redington
Amall
Campbell & Sells CO
Denver, Colorado
Sidney, Nebraska
Petittard
Olvon O'Kane
Muaths Wehr
Milton McKibbin Plecher
Bergman Gudd Watcher
Bartholomew
J. C
Baldwin
Sidney Souvenir
Eastman Kodaks and Supplies
JI. C. Baldwin
Cleburne Block
Railroad Notes
Peter Jesson
Cheyenne County Abstract
COM. Hadley
H. T Doran
H. E. Gapen
Cheyenne County Abstract Co
H. T. Doran
American Fidelity Ce
Home Florist
J Z. Easterday
C. D. Essig
Yaegle
Denver
the Pioneer Hotel
D. J. Scanlon
E. J. Sweet
Sidney, Neb
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