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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1877
Page
5
Local notes from Sidney describe political activity, court cases, law notice updates, and front page items. Highlights include a county convention report with nominees for county clerk sheriff treasurer and other posts, plus remarks on local commerce, transportation and frontier life amid a busy, rumorful frontier town backdrop.
A San Francisco policeman, Me Sully, traveling east, displayed insanity and leaped from a train near Pine Bluffs after leaving Sidney. He died from a self inflicted wound despite medical aid in Sidney. The Cheyenne Sun confirms the tale with details of the plunge and subsequent death.
Freight records from Sidney station for the week ending Nav Ist Gorn list 17 cars with contents including hay apples potatoes potatoes and merchandise such as poles totaling 146,880 pounds. The entry records three cars of hay three of apples one of cab page one of fone and one of potatoes among other goods.
A Sidney report notes Mr Thomas Douglas may run as an Independent for County Clerk. A reply from Mr Douglas questions the claim and states he will support the regular nominees if the convention action stands. The dispatches from Nov 1 1877 reference party naming and denouncement to appear in the paper.
From several named points shipments totaled 2,629 cattle cars carrying 62,580 head. Points listed include Rayling Orden Opnilale Cheyenne Bidney orth Platte eran wleabur Pine Brutis seenes 00 cone a a Ts fivanston and Plum Cree Balt Lake Carter Station Laramie and others.
Special locals promote Pattison's horse shoeing in Sidney. Apple and peach butter at McDonald's. Juel ships new ladies shoes at A&B Brown. 160 barrels Green Apples at Jenny Gantz & Son's. Oysters at Lanting's. Fruits and Flowers hawk a tobacco product at Front street. Cod fish at McDonald's. New York Dry Goods Store beckons for dresses cloaks furs and shoes.
Buckwheat Flour MacDonald announces the largest and least selected stock of dry goods in the city and invites customers to inspect. Larkins on Rose Street offers oysters. Hole in the Wall on Front Street sells pipes chewing and nine kinds of smoking tobacco. Maple syrup available at McDonald's.
The partnership Loomis & Jorgans previously run by Henry Loomis and HWM dissolved by mutual consent on August 10, 1877. The undersigned assumes all liabilities of the old firm and is alone authorized to collect debts due the firm, totaling 6031, Henry Loomis.
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