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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1913
Page
16
The Sidney school system is praised for high salaries, selective hiring, and a twelve grade program with nearly 400 students. The high school is accredited, nationally recognized for gold medals in drama and oratory, and leads Western Nebraska in basketball and debate.
The Sidney High School is a large modern stone building with steam heat electric light and showers. It features a science laboratory gymnasium and a well equipped assembly room with lantern slides. The domestic science program uses the Crete Plan and offers six cash prizes for cooking and an eighteen lesson sewing course. Enrollment relies on eighth grade diplomas and rural tuition. many students live at homes around Sidney while working. The Board of Education, led by Superintendent W. J. Braham and Principal J. D. McMillan, is composed of six men including J. L. McIntosh Leroy Martin A. K. Greenlee Simon Fishman L. O. Fundingsland and J. A. Bentley.
The article extols Mr. C. W. Hornaday eight years with a thriving Cheyenne County grocery and notion store. It notes a 22 by 60 foot premises, pure foods, sanitary practices, fair weights, and consistently low prices. It lauds his neatness, service, and reliability as a upstanding merchant on the Line for Sidney and Cheyenne County.
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