Sidney People Active In Business Visits And Travel
Local residents and visitors engaged in business matters and social travel across Nebraska and nearby states. Names include Mark Martin, F W Portrey, Berthoud Colo guest F L Biddinger, Miss Mable Holcomb, Clarence Jolliff, Ray Breternitz, and many others. Flights of activity cover Omaha and Lincoln trips, football games, and family visits with several spellings and places noted.
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F. L. Biddinger
Berthoud, Colo
Mable Holcomb
Clarence Jolliff
Ray Breternitz
Sterling
Golf club prizes tallied for visiting players
Messrs Larson and Wookey of Gurley won the prizes offered by the Potter golf club for the lowest scores of visiting players in the Tuesday afternoon match among Dalton Gurley and Potter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs
Larson and
Wookey
Gurley
Potter Golf Club
Dalton, Gurley
Potter
Potter Review
Local hostesses host Halloween themed gatherings and card games
Mrs Dorothea Johnston hosted a six o clock dinner for sixteen with Halloween decorations and prizes for cards. The East End Bridge Club was entertained at Mrs Fred W. Stuht's home with first prize to Mrs Joe Simoydnes and second to Mrs A J Jorgenson. The Womans Benefit association held a meeting at the I. O. O. F. hall with ten initiates and a Halloween party. Mrs E L Hyde hosted a 1 pm luncheon at the Country club for her sister Mrs Haven Belnap with a yellow bronze chrysanthemums decor and a bridge session with multiple prize winners. Hostesses J McIntosh and Grace McIntosh gave a 1 pm luncheon at the Union Pacific hotel for 37 guests, with yellow bronze chrysanthemums and bridge results. A large card party at St Patrick's auditorium featured five hundred and bridge, with coal and poultry prizes donated by local sponsors and plans for another event next Friday. The Farms Dairy advertises three color cream bricks available by call.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothea Johnston
Josephine Jordan
Carl Livoni
East End Bridge Club
Fred W. Stuht
Joe Simodynes
A. J. Jorgenson
H. D. Brumage
Hottess
E. L. Hyde
Country Club
Haven Belnap
Minnville
W W . Jordan
Clara McNish
Goldwin Doran
B Cc Grabill
Beinap
Hammond
J . McIntosh
Grace McIntosh
Union Pacific
E. L. Uptegrove
Thomas O'Connell
L. G. Lowe
St Patrick's Auditorium
Stevens and Klein
Julia Scanlon
John Peetz
Frank W. Portrey
John Seyler
W. J. Kretz
Thrilling Marines defeat mail bandits in new Telegraph tale
A serialized Telegraph adventure depicts Marines under General Butler crushing a West region band of mail robbers. Major Phillip Howard and a young Marine lieutenant lead a patrol into danger as a mail train is dynamited, airplanes arrive, and a mystery unfolds ending in a punchy climax with Sergeant Bill.
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Telegraph
West
Bill
Alliance Stores Require Addresses for All Checks
Alliance merchants adopt a uniform plan to request customers to provide their address when paying with checks. The rule applies to all offenders and those with good reputations alike. The purpose is to curb short check losses by improving identification at time of purchase.
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Alliance
Postmasters Ordered to Speed Up Special Deliveries
Second Assistant Postmaster General John H Bartlett issued an ultimatum directing postmasters and special delivery carriers to accelerate special delivery mail. Carriers failing to locate addressees or report failures to earn an 8 cent fee will not be tolerated, and no accumulation of special delivery letters will be allowed to profit employees.
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Postminster
John H. Bartlett
Morrill County Men Sentenced in Lincoln Penitentiary
Bridgeport News Blade reports two Morrill county men began serving sentences at Lincoln State Penitentiary last Friday. Glen Snyder, a bootlegger, drew six months to two years and a $500 fine. Henry Payne faces one to seven years on a larceny conviction. After Payne and Snyder were removed, Lloyd Moyer remained jailed in Morrill County on a forgery bound over.
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Bridgeport News- Blade
Morrill County
Lincoln
Glen Snyder
Henry Payne
Payne
Snyder
Lloyd Moyer
District Court
Lodge Pole Improves Its Street Lighting System
At a village board meeting on Tuesday night, five main downtown blocks will get modern iron street lights. Three blocks on the Lincoln highway, the block south of the depot, and the block in front of the opera house will each receive a light at each end and one in the center. The change is praised as a great improvement over the former plan.
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Lincoln Highway
Opera House
Lodge Pole Express
Postmaster Pindell Installs New Parcel Post Scales
Postmaster Pindell has installed a new set of computing scales in the parcel post department of the local post office to weigh packages and indicate postage in various zones. Increased business this year made the addition possible.
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Pindell
Parcel Post Department
Local fowlry concern seeks 40000 pounds of turkeys
Sid ney Ice and Storage manager C R McDowell announces an ad on page 2 of today's Telegraph calling for 40 000 pounds of turkeys for the Thanksgiving trade. The plan aims to fill a large contracted dressed stock order for an eastern packing concern. Turkey growers are invited to note the appeal.
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C. R. McDowell
Sidney Ice & Storage Company
Telegraph
Platinum hoax hunt on Iron Mountain prompts Cheyenne search
Cheyenne investigators report an intensive search on Iron Mountain led to a lead resemble a platinum nugget found by city engineer Paul Revis, who brought it to a jeweler. The metal proved 99 per cent platinum, but officials say the deposit lies higher up the mountainside and no platinum has yet been located.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Iron Mountain
Paul Revis
Chey- Ene
Bevis
Nebraska crop acreage estimates praised by federal official
Dr. S A Jones of the U S Department of Agriculture crop report board credits Nebraska for near perfect preliminary acreage estimates. Jones, in Lincoln aiding local bureau, highlights the state assessment system and its accuracy as final 1927 acreages are compiled.
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Nebraska
States
Federal Department of Agriculture
S. A Jones
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Lincoln
Jones
Acreage estimates sharpen crop statistics and guidance
Agriculture officials stress that acreage figures, gathered by direct survey and an acreage meter, improve state and local crop statistics. Jones notes estimates gain accuracy from 3,000 mile surveys and 2 to 5 percent farm samples, aiding farmers and buyers by reflecting regional variation and feed supply conditions.
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Jones
Department
Nebraska
Card of Thanks for Sympathy in Bereavement
We express sincere thanks for the kindness and sympathy shown during our recent bereavement in the death of wife and mother. Special thanks to the English Lutheran church choir and those who sent flowers. Nels Nelson J J Germain Mr and Mrs H W Garber Dr and Mrs Glenn Bliss Miss Marcella Lindberg
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English Lutheran Church
Nels Nelson
J. J. Germain
H. W. Garber
Glenn Bliss
Marcella Lindberg
Smallpox Reported Across Rural Morrill County
Morrill county board of health reports several smallpox cases in rural districts with about 60 percent of pupils in three schools infected or exposed. No deaths so far and most cases are light. No current cases in Cheyenne Kimball or Deuel counties. No schools closed yet.
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Morrill County
Tax Reduction Battle Looms in Senate and House
Washington reports three political shadows hover over the Ways and Means panel as a new tax bill is drafted. The treasury seeks a reduction under 300 million dollars, Democrats push 400 to 500 million, and western independent Republican senators hint at limiting the scale. Administration Republicans and Democrats appear aligned on cutting corporate levies and excise taxes first, with debt reduction seen as a factor.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Capitol Hill
Senate
Treasury Department
Mellon
Treasury
Atmar Stores to Open Two More in West Nebraska
Atmar Stores will open two additional department stores in western Nebraska, adding Scottsbluff and Chadron to the Sidney location opening in April. B W Atwater, Bridgeport manager, will oversee all western Nebraska stores.
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ATMAR
West
Nebraska
Sidney
Atmar Stores Company
B. W. Atwater
Bridgeport
Western Nebraska
Scottsbluff
Chadron
Mr. Atwater
Bridgeport Herald
Gardner Retrieves Stolen Buick in Nebraska City
Charles Gardner of Sidney Nebraska arrived to reclaim his Buick coupe stolen Sunday near Sidney and found parked along the roadside near Atwood Monday. The thief fled after the gas tank ran dry. The Altar Society of St Patrick Church schedules a full bazaar on November 16 and 17.
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Charles Gardner
Sidney
Nebr
Atwood
Sterling Advocate
St. Patrick's Church
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