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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1929
Page
7
High school students and faculty gathered for a weiner roast south of Sunol on Tuesday night October 22. Despite the cold evening a good time was reported with the canon serving as shelter from the north wind and a red hot fire. Refreshments included weiners buns potato chips pickles and marshmallows.
Semi finals were held last Friday with Beulah Billeter defeating Leona Lindley 9-7 in the deciding set. Beulah will face Jean Paviat in the championship once weather permits as participants prepare for more practice in Sunol.
Eight tennis teams, combining juniors and freshmen with seniors and sophomores, prepare for a mixed doubles tournament. In parallel, manual training plans A type hog houses while public speaking class acquires new texts and completes orations and declamations for a public performance. Civics class studies U.S. government.
The first grade will attend a Tuesday afternoon event hosted by Hugh Booth. The second grade has completed two readers and will begin the third reader next.
This week the first graders expect a new reader after a three day vacation. We added four new plants in the windows and doors. Basketball season opened in the primary room with youths practicing using a rubber ball and a wastepaper basket goal. Third and fourth graders study the Children's Hour and Health posters. Emil Harms and Richard Harms returned to school. Viola Hornicek and others hold perfect spelling records.
Marry Paviat and Iona Million spent Sunday night at the J. W. Billeter home. Beulah Billeter stayed with Millard Paviat, guest of Jean Paviat. Margaret Koester is back in school after a two week visit in Petersburg. A surprise party at A. A. Bauer home honored Welby on his 19th birthday with bridge and singing. Loyal Lindley won the consolation, Mr. Wolff high honors. Miss Johnson visited the Nelson home in Sidney and attended a Methodist church party. Leona Lindley, Beulah Billeter, Welby Bauer and Adolph Seda were chosen by Sunol high school students.
Leo Na and Beulah represented Cheyenne county in a Sidney citizenship contest won by top scorers who will advance to the state contest in Omaha at the diamond jubilee. About twenty students competed, marking a new and interesting experience for the county.
Social column records a week of local visits dinners and bridge in Lodge Pole and Cherubim area. People named include Schoenberg Peterson Spindler Barlow Minshall Peters on Bates and Cunningham. Local events feature dinners, a football trip to Ogallala, a Hallowe en party and birthdays plus school P T A meeting and a tonsil operation.
Mrs Elton Addis and two daughters of Omaha arrived Sunday for an extended visit with her sister Mrs L E Lydiatt and family. Mrs Lydiatt and son David of Elwood arrived Friday for a short visit at the L E Lydiatt and A F Grosh art homes. William Emanuelson returned to his Omaha home Friday after a several day visit with relatives. A good rain fell here Sunday night and Monday.
A Meadow Lawn column lists neighborly visits and errands across the week. Mrs George Winkleman and friends called at the Charles Mayer home. Leonard Peterson visited Lloyd Juels. Billy Smith and William Schiotfeld hauled oats for Allen Overman. many others shared meals, weekends, or advised absent friends while several families hosted guests and enjoyed drives to Potter and Sidney. Telegraph Want ad invites readers to place ads if they have items to sell.
Nebraska farmers report a higher than expected corn yield with a state estimate of 221,137,000 bushels, up 29 million from September. Northeast counties Wayne Cuming Thurston average 46 bushels per acre, state average 24.5. Wheat oats barley and root crops also exceed five year averages.
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