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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1876
Page
5
Community notices specify that communications must be in hand by Thursday for the next feature, with Tuesday timing preferred for lengthy items. Advertisements of any class must be received by noon Friday.
A collection of brief items from the Lincoln Journal style column notes various local ads and happenings. It lists goods at McDonald's and Borgquist's, prices for eggs and butter, new stock and cigars, produce, Army recruits, wagon loads of hides, and transport updates. It notes a bridge open at Sidney, mentions Centennial attendance, and contains light social commentary and local humor.
Reports from Cheyenne detail several frontier incidents. J. C. Sanders and two others were said killed near Sand Creek and scalped while protecting settlers. Fort Laramie dispatches note mail driver Clark killed near the Red Cloud Agency. Indian attacks disrupt wagon lines. Cheyenne residents recount skirmishes, lost livestock, and a death of W. C. Shaw on Iron Creek. Local figures debate cattle counts in Cheyenne, Lincoln, and Keith counties.
Messrs. Jarret and Palmer announce a June 1 attempt to travel from Jersey City to San Francisco in 84 hours by rail aboard Pennsylvania Railroad No. 100. The journey starts 1 am, with a 444 mile first leg to Pittsburgh in 10 hours, then Chicago, Omaha, Ogden, and finally San Francisco by Sunday dinner time. Only 20 passengers will ride, each with a silver-embossed book ticket costing 500 dollars. Also noted is a Brooklyn woman’s ruse to buy a dress, gifting her husband a beaded shaving case filled with old paper pattern tissue, prompting a defensive remark about a absence of pockets.
Sidney Nebraska May 1 1876 the co partnership between P Rumsey Son and Laramie W T is dissolved by mutual consent the business will be continued by P Rumsey Notice to Debtors all accounts not settled by June 1 will be placed in the hands of an attorney for collection C A Moons Sidney Neb May 6 1876 ae
For sale or rent a building now used as a saloon and barber shop with a theatre attached. Possession by June 1 1876. Also a two story dwelling with seven rooms renting for 2000 per month. Inquiries to W Jauntsoy Sidney Nebraska. If not disposed of by June 1 it will not be sold.
In the matter of the Estate of Robert W Porter deceased a legal notice announces proceedings seeking settlement of the estate. The notice identifies the decedent and directs interested parties to respond or appear as required by the court and applicable probate laws.
The Republicans of Cheyenne county Nebraska are requested to meet in mass convention at the Court House in Sidney on Saturday afternoon May 20th 1876 at 4 oclock for electing a delegate to the State Republican convention to be held at Fremont May 23d 1876. H Sxyper, GEO W HEIST, Chairman, Secretary, Sidney Neb May 19th 1870.
H Williams & Co lists ales and food at American House for travelers. It promotes the Calcargo and North Western Railway as the oldest shortest Omaha to Chicago route with steel rails and early Chicago depots. It urges tickets via Marshall Cedar Rapids Clinton Fulton and Old Pioneer Route for northern Iowa Illinois and Wisconsin paths. Through cars Pullman sleepers and day coaches are highlighted with maps timetables available at through ticket offices or from agents Moonrain in Omaha and Syeawerrt in Chicago.
C. T. Markison returned from Omaha last Tuesday. John Van Der Weilan left for Cheyenne Thursday evening to start a new business there. Chas. Smith of the Omaha Republican visited us Monday. Frank J. Yates of Red Cloud Indian Agency arrived in Dear's Kidney and Black Hills Stage. Frank Wright came down from Laramie City yesterday and has rooms at the Spider's Nest. He plans to leave for Lincoln at month’s end to serve his country and will miss the Centennial.
All persons indebted to me call and settle immediately and those with accounts may present them on or before May 25th. Wa. J Transison.
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