Open air concert disrupted by rain and crowd dispersal
A light shower and brief squall dispersed a large Sunday crowd at the post parade ground where an open air concert was in progress. The band halted mid program as the weather worsened, while other local notes report weather damage, livestock losses from lightning, and upcoming community events.
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Post Parade
Knights of the Green Cloth
T.f
Boston
No. 19
Big Springs
State oratorical contest honors go to Arthur Oberfelder
Arthur Oberfelder of Sidney won the dramatic class at the Lexington state oratorical contest held Friday evening last week. He now wears two gold badges from the North Platte district contest on March 30 and the Lexington state contest. Sidney also notes track results with Sidney High placing fifth in the western Nebraska meet at Scottsbluff, Morrill taking first, Scottsbluff second, Alliance third, and North Platte fourth.
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Lexington
Arthur Oberfelder
Sidney
Arthur
North Platte
Will Davis
Union Pacific Bridge
H. T. Doran
Sidney High School
Sparks Family Reunion and Monument Dedication Planned
L S Sparks and wife with four children return to Omaha after visiting relatives. Their parents hosted a large dinner six miles out, bringing together six sons and three daughters-in-law in a first ever shared meal. A May 26 1916 Oregon Trail Monument dedication in Lewellen Garden County will feature music addresses and a picnic at the opera house. Sidney High School class of 1916 graduates listed.
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L. S. Sparks
Omaha
J. C. Sparks
Lewellen
Nedraska
Garden County
Oregon Trail Monument
Opera House
Sidney High School
Alfod Bentley
Harry Bixby
Brube Crock
Jay Closman
W. Cunningham
Vera
Sidney Area Sees Record Graduating Class of Forty
Sidney public and parochial schools report a record class of forty graduates this year. From Sidney High School names include Frederick Ahrens Joe Bartholomew Lester Clark and others. from St. Patrick's Academy list features Margaret Armuth Virginia Barlow Helen Beyer and more. The Sidney Coal and Ice Company led by Fred E. Stephens plans a new office and sales location on Fourth Street behind the recent tabernacle construction, with the tabernacle building underway by C. S. Radliffe.
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Sidney
Sidney High School
Frederick Ahrens
Joe Bartholomew
Lester Clark
Harvey George
Harold Griswold
Rolfe Hine
Clifford Iverson
Rolland Jones
Jack Lowe
Gerald Thomas
Clifford Wit
Irene Bell
Thelma Baker
Natalie Butherus
Nellie Davis
Lillian Elstep
Delilah Erwin
Lillian Hostetler
Harriet Jones
Pauline Markey
Ruth Moxon
Ruby Oberg
Emma Weissman
Marybelle Wooldridge
St. Patrick's Academy
Margaret Armuth
Virginia Barlow
Helen Beyer
Bernice Dailey
Bernice Haney
Dora Hemmer
Virginia Herbert
Josephine Killham
Bessie Meenan
May Nolan
Francis Petty
Catherine Schwartz
John Delaney
Donald Roth
Francis Schwartz
Billy Miles
Thomas Patrowsky
Fred Pierson
Francis Wellner
Harold Henke
Charles Pierson
Sidney Coal & Ice Company
Fred E. Stephens
Fourth St
C. S. Radliffe
Sidney notes of deaths births and a weekend crash
L T Poole 60 longtime manager of John Deere Plow distributing plant died after a brief illness in a Sidney hospital. A weekend auto crash on the town’s west edge injured George Porter Weldon Thomas George Hinn Gordon Tobin and Lois Simpson. Twin boys Jon Dee and Ronald Lee were born Saturday morning to Mr and Mrs John N Hansen at Roche hospital. Clarence Alexander of Omaha and George Flora of Gurley accept pastoral calls to Oshkosh and Lewellen. Business remained dull after a two day storm but crops look promising for later earnings. The drive to enforce the city parking ordinance continues.
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L. T. Poole
John Deere Plow Company
Sidney
George Porter
Weldon Thomas
George Hinn
Gordon Tobin
Porter
Lois Simpson
John N Hansen
Roche Hospital
Jon Dee
Ronald Lee
Clarence Alexander
Omaha
George Flora
Gurley
Western Theological Seminary
Midland
Cllege
Local policing boosts compliance and draft notices update
Chief Harvey Vizina reports progress as enforcement continues with street parking moved to side streets or homes. Postmaster John Martinosky says parcel post restrictions are lifted and Ernest Worden notes an end to freight shipment embargoes tied to coal shortages.
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Harvey Vizina
John Martinosky
Ernest Worden
Union Pacific
Potter women hurt in moored plane crash near Potter
The two Potter women and wife of Dean Hagemeister 53 Potter were injured when the 170 Cessna model plane piloted by Hagemeister pancaked into the ground shortly after takeoff. Condition reported satisfactory by Cheyenne County Memorial Hospital officials.
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Potter
Cheyenne County Memorial Hospital
Dean Hagemeister
Hagemeister
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