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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1908
Page
2
New millinery weekly at Fish mane and various ads for stoves pasture rental and realty inquiries. Listings include dental services price notes hay rental rooms, an opera house Thanksgiving ball, a three night Ruth Craven engagement with reserved seats, lost plumes, and local sales of cockerels and button making services.
Four hundred eighty acres near Sidney Nebraska with fencing and crop land. Features include a good house barn sheds corrals well windmill and ample broken land. Inquire LeRoy Martin Sidney Neb.
Notice to patrons announces that starting December 5 1908 all telephone rents will have a five percent cash discount when paid quarterly in advance at the First National Bank Sidney Neb B A Jones president Professor W W Burr of the North Platte Station will attend the Sidney exhibit Saturday the 13th and will be one of the judges alongside Miss Wolford Millinery at Fishmans
Cheyenne County Nebraska invites sealed bids for about 800 linear feet of earthwork approaches to a bridge on the North Platte near Irving. Bids due November 9, 1908, with 10 percent bid bond and $500 performance bond.
Notice to contractors from Cheyenne County Nebraska invites bids for grading Break Neck Hill in the NW 1/4 SE 1/4 of section 19 township 19 range 47. Bids by job, 1500 cubic yards, to be approved by the Board of County Commissioners. Bidder to enter contract, provide bond of 100 dollars, and checks payable to H T Doran. October 15 1908 by order of the Board.
Early returns show William H. Taft carrying New York, Ohio and Indiana with a sizable electoral lead. New York Governor Hughes re-elected, Indiana and West Virginia lean Taft, while Colorado shifts to Bryan and Missouri remains pivotal. Roosevelt and McKinley comparisons are noted as results come in.
The piece notes Taft leads in Wisconsin and New Jersey while Bryan tops Kentucky and Nebraska. It mentions Democratic gains in several midwestern states and shrinking Republican plurality in the middle west. Local items report residents, weather, Hallowe en cleanup, and Ruth Craven’s "Bess Of Idaho" engagement at Tobin Opera House starting November 9.
Ohio voters back Taft with about a 50 000 lead while Harmon wins state office by 20 000. Wisconsin Indiana Colorado Minnesota show Taft or Bryan leads with varied margins and party gains. Democrats claim legislature and U S Senate seats in several states as returns come in.
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