Local Notes highlight Sidney events and shops in 1886
May 25 1886 Sidney column lists ongoing ads and notices. McFadden opens bake oven and ice cream saloon. Oberfelders sells goods. new post office planned at Livingston Pumpk in Creek. coroner notes Conley boy remains to Fort Robinson. Reynolds scaffold removed. weddings and church services announced. local officials discuss ditch at First Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Visage Board
Soudan
A. A. Brexen’s
Livingston
Pumpkin Creek
Patterson
Conley
Fort Robinson
Weather, townsite fund raise, court actions and local notices
Rain and showers persist across the county as heat lingers. Tabor townsite fundraisers buy scrip for land. Two civil suits open in Judge Pease's court. Mrs McLernon expands her dry goods store and a new show window goes in. Judge Shuman appears at the Metropolitan hotel for travelers. Marshall Eubank trails two drunken defendants for fines. Inspectors Spangler and Brown audit post office accounts with high marks. Street work continues under Alderman Trognitz. Win Ashby is arrested for trespass amid roundup duties. A bicycle club forms with tentative riding plans and social dangers urged. A June Episcopal festival and bazaar is planned at the Post Hall to aid the church building fund with First Infantry band performing. A floral memorial car honors General Grant at Oakland to Riverside. Barnes plans a fence and farm improvements on Wind section five.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tabor
Judge
Judge Shuman
Metropolitan Hotel
Asd
Grant
John Jones
Marty Winters
Marshal Eubank
Judge Pease
Durbin
Bay State
Union and
Lowe Cattle Companies
L.C Baldwin
Spangler and Brown
Postoffice Department
Sidney
Postoffice
CE ‘Trognitz
First Street
Second Street
Trognitz
Win Ashby
Lodge Pole
WB Meyers
EE Hamiston
Mip Tobin
I. F Shelton
Woz Davis
Jack Brennan
Harry Pritchard
New Episcopal Church
Indies
Grantaml
California
G. A. RR
Oakland
Cal
Riverside Park
Barnes
Mr. Barnes
Land boom and new neighbors surge around Sidney
The note recalls land activity near Sidney with buyers like Leichty and Barnes, a 25 dollar term offer from B A Jones, and rapid price growth from 3 per acre to higher values. It mentions a bachelor settlement, a blacksmith shop, local crops, a new large house, and residents like Dan Oberhime, Collins, and the Bartheling sisters commenting on life and progress as railroad land changes hands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stange
Leichty
Dan Oberhime
G. Bowman
HS. Pitus
Collins
Bartheling
Leichtly
Illinois
Joe Goodin
Joe
Peter Smith Moves Hardware Store to Moore Building
Peter Smith relocates his hardware store from Second Street to the Moore Building on Front Street opposite the depot. He invites all old customers and new ones to visit the larger, newly arranged quarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Smith
Second Street
Moore
Front Street
Sidney Classifieds Offer Local Goods and Services
A string of local advertisements lists bread prices from McFadden, auctioneers, building and farming services by Brett Bros and Trognitz Davis, wallpaper by Essig, wall coverings, carpets, and furniture at Essig, renting a 20 acre truck garden, and livestock sales. Wells, pottery, and farm machinery are advertised. several notices mention room for rent, livestock like a milk cow, and local trades in Sidney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
Notico
Aus Petaatis
BeTeey Bole
Ut Rodi
Sidney Messrs Vannice & Dawson
Easig's
Essig's
J. B. Christ
Essig’s
Trognitz & Davis
Goto Essig
Troonitz & Davis
McPappen
C. J. Troenitz
Frank Hyde
Potter
Neb
Essig
Rose Street
Metropolitan Hotel
Joan Tino
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sidney Elequap
Sidney and Vicinity
Tealonk
Ornany
Metropolitan
Bay of Oberfelder & Co
Nuno
Ty Theolecke
McFadden
Powell & Whitney's
A. Burg
Oberfelder
Powell, & Witsey
Oberfelder's
J. HM. Wilson
McEvoy
Bor Cash
Red Rock
Powell. & Wilrny
Frank Sherwood
Denver
Ickes
W. Paine
Clarkson
Reynolds
Powri, & Winttner's
Doran& ‘Tobin's
AJA Ricese's
Tom Moore
Jack
COB
Qcean
IE. McCormick
Pital
The
Cowboys
Moore Hotel
Dryer
Rat Ickes
Yhobarber
Fantell
Siwechealne Thoms
Yorkwan
Aerade
Marshal Dubois
Idaho
Was & Passenger
Ihey
Albany, N. Yy
Rey
John J. “ Hahcock
Episcopal Church
Masonic Hall
W. HL. Harrington
Charley Hans
Tillie Smith
Father Barrett
North Platte
Hades
Lincoln
Cheyenne County
B. A. Jones
TeleGram
Jet Brett Bros
Lcensed
J M$ Kazer
Fairfield & Co
Trognitz & Oasis
L. F. Shelton
Nas
Rose and
Second Streets
Nebraska
Sidney, Nebraska
Moore Barn
Web
Sion
Como
Harry Winters
Sivney
Neicask A
A. A. Ricker
Neblaska
Jacob Kiefer
General Grant
William J. Brennan
Ev.ives
Alusioal Adee
News Depot
John Phuelfy
C. F Goodman & Co
Omaha
Powell & Whitney
Sidme
Mnebrascka
George W. Fairfield & Co
Tabor Land Office
Surveyors and Civil Engineers
North Platte River
State Association of Surveyors and Engineers
G.S Similth
York
York County
Oberfelder & Co
State
Bill
Nobby
Star Clothing House
Stel
Whitney
Lakeside
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