Sidney Works for Fourth Straight Conference Win at Gering
Sidney's fourth consecutive North Platte conference win hinges on healthy players as top scorer Willard and Buehrer recover from ankle injuries. Powell returns to tackle slot while Kennedy fights flu. Gering, fresh from a Bridgeport defeat, hosts the Maroons in a key clash tonight. The season concludes with Armistice Day hosting Chapell and a finale at Kimball on November 19.
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Gidney
Gering
Maroons
Sidney
Leo Shuman
Oshkosh
Wayne Willard
Dale Buehrer
Dick Powell
Stan Kennedy
Shuman
Bridgeport
Scotts Bluff County Eleven
Chappell
Ximball
Farm Bureau Drive Slated For 1949 Membership Push
Cheyenne County Farm Bureau completes plans for a 400 member drive starting Monday through Wednesday. Members asked to pay 1949 dues in advance. Kickoff dinner at Lincoln Inn sets theme A Stitch in Time in Forty Nine. Committees and Sid ney members listed. drive ends with Victory dinner November 16 at Sidney City Auditorium.
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Cheyenne
Farm Bureau
Berton Cunningham
Gurley
Clayton Berry
Earl Munshaw
Elmer Westerhoff
Dalton
Ralph Anderson
Potter
George H. Fleming
Walter D. Johnson
Verlin Livingston
Arthur C. Borcher
William George
Sidney
Ed Block
Lodgepole
Sidney City Auditorium
Flight Breakfast Canceled Ahead of Kimball Air Fair
A Sunday event offering a free flight breakfast for western Nebraska flyers has been indefinitely postponed due to a special Air Fair at Kimball on the same day. The announcement said the breakfast will not occur as scheduled while preparations for the Kimball fair continue.
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Western Nebraska Flyers
Kimball
Witterd
Winter Drug Company
Airport events and Civil Air Patrol reorganization shelved
Breakfast for aviators in Sidney Sunday morning marked the planned reorganization of the local Civil Air Patrol unit but the effort was shelved for now. The Kimball Air Pair will fly from nine to three with acrobatics floor bombing cross country racing and formation maneuvers by the Wyoming National Guard. Sponsored by the Panhandle Cloud Dusters.
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Sidney
Civil Air Patrol
Kimball Air
Wyoming National Guard
the Panhandle Cloud Dusters
IGA stores announce $925000 contest in Sidney
Rudy's IGA Store in Sidney promotes a major contest with a $925000 prize and a $25000 prize component. The weekly ad in The Telegraph highlights it as one of the largest public offers by a grocery or affiliated industry.
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IGA
Rudy’s
Sidney
Rudy
The
Telegraph
Kimball County Extension Plans Achievement Day
Kimball County extension leaders schedule their annual achievement day for Wednesday after noon November 10 at the Kimball County courthouse. Cheyenne County extension members are invited to attend.
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Kimball County
Cheyenne County
Court House Break-In At Harrisburg
The Harrisburg courthouse was entered early Monday morning. Sheriff J. G. Shaul reported vaults in the clerk and treasurer offices were tampered with but not opened, and a small amount of money in the clerk’s drawer remained untouched. The intruders pried a door lock to gain entry but did not remove any valuables.
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Harrisburg
Banner County
J. G. Shaul
Shaul
Nebraska Traffic Death Toll Near 1947 Level
Nebraska highway fatalities by October 25, 1948 reached 269, compared with 206 at the same point in the prior year, according to statistics released by the Nebraska State Safety Council.
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Nebraska
Nebraska State Safety Council
Car Collision Causes Four Hundred Dollars In Damages
At 5 45 Wednesday afternoon a head on crash at the Hickory and 9th Avenue intersection caused about 400 in damage. Kenneth Keifer drove a 1935 Ford coupe east on Hickory and Mathias Treinen turned from 9th onto Hickory in a 1941 Dodge two door. Each car sustained about 200 in damage.
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Hickory
9Th Avenue
Sidney
Kenneth Keifer
Mathias Treinen
Keifer
Treinen
Divorce Petition Filed in Kinnersley Case
Edyth May Kinnersley petitions for divorce from Albert J. Kinnersley Jr charging extreme cruelty. A restraining order was issued against the defendant. The filing appears in Agnes J. Armstrong versus Martin E. Arm.
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District Court
Edyth May Kinnersley
Albert J. Kinnersley, Jr
Clerk of District Court
Agnes J. Armstrong
Martin E. Arm
Card Of Thanks to Doctors and Hospital Staff
Expresses gratitude to Drs Grimm and Babbitt hospital staff and friends for kindness during recent illness. Signed Ernest Langley.
Education Week Emphasized In Local Notes And Court Filing
The document notes a divorce action where the plaintiff seeks an absolute divorce on grounds of extreme cruelty following a 1928 marriage in Sidney. It lists numerous social visits, gatherings, and a Halloween party at the district 27 schoolhouse, plus multiple excursions and family events surrounding the Armstrongs, Nelsons, Hammond, Sprenger, Kientz, Lipke, and Sell families.
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Strong
Armstrongs
Sidney
Mount Vernon Social Notes from Mrs Hammond's Column
Mrs Ella Howe was a Sunday dinner guest of Mr and Mrs John Sell. Mr and Mrs E G Ruhter visited the Milan Glassburn home. Walter Hammond and Clarence Evans hosted supper. Lawrence Sell and the Sells spent the weekend visiting. M A Nelson stayed in Denver with relatives from Wednesday to Sunday.
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Harvey George
John Sell
C. H. Hammond
Milan Glassburn
W. R. Nelson
M. I. Club
Dist
Warren Nelson
W. R
Ed Lipke
Denver
Frank Kientz
Clarence Evans
Keith Sprenger
Kenneth Muellers
John Sel
Sterling
Joe McMillen
Lloyd Reineka
Wilma
Wendell Johnson
Lester Johnson
Lorenzo
Ralph Fleming
Lee Hawkins
Calvin
Ethel Kilentz
East
Kent
Ella Howe
E. G. Ruhter
Walter Hammond
Lawrence Sell
John Sells
M. A. Nelson
First Flag Raised at Fort Schuyler in 1777
The first known military flag raising followed Congress authorization on June 14 1777. At Fort Schuyler New York the garrison improvised a flag from shirts for white stripes scarlet cloth for red and a blue field from a cloth cloak of Captain Abraham Swarthout.
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Continental Congress
Fort Schuyler
N. Y
Congress
Abraham Swarthout
Pigeon Brain Tests at Penn State Show Navigation Clues
Experiments on homing pigeons at Pennsylvania State College reveal certain brain areas do not govern homing. A pigeon with one eye can navigate and hearing is not required. The pecten inside the eyeball appears to be the main organ for navigation by pigeons.
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Pennsylvania State College
Poultry Meat Shown As Substantial And Nourishing
Poultry meat is described as substantial and nourishing, offering high protein and minerals that compare favorably with other lean meats, according to the article.
Nebraska First Graders Finish Fewer Than Most
A brief note contrasts low high school graduation rates with the start of schooling in Nebraska. It mentions Peach Specialties filling halves of canned peaches with cranberry jelly and heating them as a dish, recommending them with chicken or ham.
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Nebraska
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Gering Tenite
Farm Bureau Drive
Air Fair
Court House
Ernest Langley
L. P
Secas Tank
Detherow
Winterizer
L.P. Gesser
ORBER
Greensburg, Kansas
Mrs. Elberne Luehrs
Keith Sprengers
Marsha Sunt
Dennis O’keefe
Claire Trevor
Edward Small
Eagle Lion Films
Fox Theatre
Lois Ferguson
Mount Vernon
C. H.' Hammond
Goodyear
General
Willard
Plymouth
Dodge
DeSoto
Chrysler
King Electric
11Th Avenue
John
Dalton’s Clothing Store
Dan W. Allen
Judas Iscariot
Bible Baptist Church
Jackson Streets
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