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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1916
Page
2
Bargain offer for a seven room house with two lots on East Lincoln W Highway. Details are sparse in the fragment. Contact local real estate listings for full terms and price.
A teen agent praises the One Minute washer as superior in every way and labor saving. The ad compares it with a Quality washer priced at 12.50 and 89.00, selling through R. E. K. Jackson. Also seeks second hand stores and ranges and notes a 3 speed Excessor motorcycle in perfect condition for sale via Mr Osborn at phone 165.
Lost South Bend gold watch finder to newspaper office for return and reward. Cc CG AYLSWORTH.
55 gallon underground fuel tank with pump offered by R. E. L. Jackson for 1000 dollars. Local item description notes Good condition and ready for installation.
Mrs Knox remains the contact for Telegraph tips at Black 222 while office lines stay open. Reports include Mrs Miller's improving health, births near town from Brauer and Thomas, and visits by Angus McDonald and S McClenaghan relatives. Gene Davis settles in new bungalow. Barker family moves into former Davis residence.
L. O. Jones, state organizer of the Nebraska Dry federation, will be in Sidney late this week and speak Saturday evening May 20. Mrs. and Mr. Cramer of Broadwater were dinner guests of the McClenaghans Thursday while in town for Grandma Scherer’s funeral. Mrs. Gates and Mrs. Gould visited Chappell last Friday with former neighbor Mrs. E J Hayes. Grace Johnston and G. H. Webb traveled to Wymore due to a relative’s death. Charles Trognitz has returned from Denver after a major operation. he is recovering well.
The Dorcas Society announces a bazaar and supper on May 27 at the opera house. Bazaar opens at eight o'clock and supper begins at a quarter to five. Plenty for everybody.
The Lodgepole graduation exercises were held last Wednesday. On Thursday the class arrived in Sidney by auto and spent the afternoon posing for pictures and enjoying themselves.
FOR SALE 5d STEAM TRACTION ENGINES 18 ten yard Pump and Freight Traction Wagons Stationary and Portable Boilers and engines Derricks Stone Crusher Pumps Excavators Hoisting Engines all sizes A 850 000 CONTRACTING OUTWIT CHEAP for quick sales L Bartlett Minatare Neb Peanut Roaster in good condition for sale by Jackson Son.
Keith Neville, publicly known as the Democratic nominee for governor, visited the city on Tuesday driving a Buick roadster and handling business. WTE Boggs, a local farmer for two seasons, expresses satisfaction with his land investment bordering the town to the north and predicts land prices will rise sharply within the next two years.
The advertisement offers choice seed corn at one dollar per bushel and directs inquiries to Fred Eurth in Sidney Nebraska. The brief notice provides a specific price and a contact for buyers seeking seed corn.
F Dresser and family spent Sunday in Kimball with Reverend Harry Hornaday of Idaho who was summoned to Nebraska due to the grave condition of his father in law, Judge Lessing, in Kimball.
Wednesday night supper by the ladies of the Christian Church at the opera house drew a good crowd. They provided chicken and fixings and event proceeds totaled about sixty dollars.
Mrs Rood of Lincoln spoke at the Christian church Saturday night and the Methodist church Sunday night on the city federation cause. She also attended the city council meeting Saturday evening after her lecture.
A French navy dirigible reported from Toulon fell into the sea off the Sardinian coast after catching fire over the Mediterranean. The envelope’s remains were towed ashore at Toulon. Four of the six aboard are confirmed dead.
The Cutlers' company formed well before Henry V's charter. Early in the prior century a fierce quarrel with the Sheathers arose over sheath quality. The Sheathers accused the Cutlers of selling inferior foreign blades while the Cutlers claimed Sheathers provided unworkmanlike sheaths. London Spectator.
The Ladies of the Degree of Hon or Lodge No 122 will hold an exchange on Saturday May 27 at the Moore Photo Studio with many good foods available.
Mrs Anna Hart hosted the Altar Society with help from her daughter Mrs Sager on Thursday afternoon. Mrs Hattie Edgar of Scottsbluff spent much of last week in town and left Monday. The Terry Dressmaking School opens Monday June 19 with arrangements for all out of town pupils with Mrs M L Easter day.
A plush coat was taken by mistake at the last Eudora lodge meeting. Please return it to Moy3s Gertrude O Kane at Cheyenne Cour ty Trading Company's store. Mr and Mrs N G Brewer returned Monday from Denver after a fortnight there. Mr Brewers eye injury is improving. Many people visited the circus Wednesday from sister towns and country precincts. names could not be listed.
A small gathering of intimate friends honored Mrs. E. W. Puthoff with a birthday lunch last Monday night. The event featured a carefully prepared meal and was enjoyed by all attendees.
Mrs Charles Couch and her young daughter returned Wednesday from a several week visit in the eastern part of the state. The Couches have moved into their own home on the east Lincoln highway, which they had leased for the past year.
Miss Esther Lindberg, badly hurt in a Portland auto crash three weeks ago, managed a few short words from her hospital bed this week. Doctors believe she may be able to travel by mid June as the family plans to resume their journey home.
The Gage Millinery Man will be here Saturday May 20 bringing Liberty Gage hats. White lace with purple trim gold detailing for a Chicago convention. Popular in seven hundred shops. full line of mid-summer hats. Ladies across the territory scheduled viewings and can select their hat. Buy Gage hats.
At the Chadron convocation Mrs. Pinkham Mrs. Lowe and Miss Bassett attended to represent the choir and Sunday school. Reverend Ives, a former local pastor, visited briefly during the transfer. The group returned Saturday reporting a refreshing inspiring convention.
Orville Bradbury travels to Denver on Sunday for medical care after a pneumonia attack last winter while fighting a fire. A throat enlargement followed treatment, allowing him to resume carpentry work, but renewed throat trouble now necessitates his departure for Denver.
The BR. D.'s led town society by entertaining husbands at regular intervals. Last Friday evening the club and husbands gathered at the McClenaghan home with potted plants in the rooms and a three course refreshments menu. Two guessing games were played with Mr. Osborn winning one and Mr. Erickson the other.
The American and The First National Banks installed a Burroughs adding machine that processes a teller balance, checks, and deposits with apparent intelligence. It accepts input, shows final balance, avoids mistakes, records overdrafts, and runs on electricity with automatic shutdown after two minutes of inactivity. A witty aside compares its value to a sensational water rate.
A fragment lists grain prices and poultry items with numbers. Wheat oats rye corn butter old hens young chickens appear alongside unreadable digits and decimals, indicating a local price table.
The Barnes circus rolled into town on a special train of a dozen coaches and flat cars. From seven in the morning until ten at night crowds filled front street in front of the depot as the animals and performers dazzled two thousand spectators with multi ring acts and daring stunts. Guards watched the cages while the kitchen fed four hundred daily and the crew kept meat fresh in a refrigerated car. The show impressed locals with skilled girl trainers and no vulgar side shows, though a camel had to be killed in Cheyenne for meat shortages.
An estray report lists a five year old bay gelding and a six year old bay mare with blaze faces. Both wore leather halters and are branded on the right jaw with a neck yoke brand. Report sightings to The Telegraph office.
Mrs Flancher of Cheyenne visited last Friday with Mrs Bangert and other acquaintances, sharing a social call and updates during an afternoon gathering in the city.
EB W Murless and A King compile abstracts and perfect titles while listing a Holstein calf for sale, indicating an agricultural item offered alongside professional services in property documentation.
Call and see for yourself. We sell a large amount of goods on easy payments. We have a very complete stock of Ice boxes Ice Cream Freezers Clothes Wringers Lawn Mowers Rubber Hose Oil on Gasoline Stoves Step Ladders Ironing Boards Cream Cans Express and Coaster Wagons Sewing Machines Window Screens Screen Doors Granite Ware Cook Stoves and Ranges Window Shades Clothes Baskets Washing Machines Electric Engine Hand and Water Power. Also nearly everything in Furniture. If you have not what you want we will order for you just what you want at a small commission We sell rugs 15 percent above wholesale cost. In fact we can sell you most anything.
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