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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1876
Page
5
The Didney Telegraph announces rate changes in local columns with charges at 2 cents per line and special locators at 15 cents per line. All black lines will be charged due to under heading Spectal Locata.
Delayed mails may become regular bulletins. VanTassel exceeds two thousand cattle. The Centennial sign in Sidney is the finest and most costly. Residents debated jury service. Hosier & Lawrence moved two thousand cattle to the North Platte. Coffman & Paxton grazed four thousand more south of the river. Sidney merchants sent over five thousand two hundred sixty four dollars in gold dust this week. A horse buggy and harness raffle is planned next Saturday with tickets at local stores. Mr C A Morinau became sole agent for a valuable patent candle alarm. Government shipped 150 tons of freight from Sidney to Med Choul Agency last Monday. Freight is never idle near Sidney. Cheyenne county stockmen say grazing is excellent and many leases untapped. Adams, Redington & Haas slaughtered 35 hogs and 16 cattle of various breeds last week. Sidney boasts superior male singers and hopes to form a quartette. U.S. election wagers totaled 11,463,906.02 dollars, much of it on the losing boat. Huge freight volumes reach Sidney weekly as locals profit. Four thousand per day are moving east for the Republican Valley R R project. A deserter with horses and arms faced guards and a long sentence at Leavenworth. Keeline & Bon range near Julesburg hold 4,000 cattle. last season 12-15 hundred headed to Chicago. Tallys show 1,375,921 data changes in the election, with one county far away not yet heard from. A Clarke precinct may form to cover the North Platte river region, servicing over 100 voters. Citizens enjoy marching to the barracks to hear the Infantry band play.
Henry Brown reports heavy mining exodus from Deadwood to rich placer finds at Beaver Gulch and Wolf Mountain in the Bear Lodge range, with more than two thousand miners departing in three weeks. Silver lodes at Bear Buttes are also noted and a Building and Loan association urged for Sidney. An Omaha excursion train with 108 participants arrives for the Conductors Brotherhood trip to Salt Lake City and San Francisco.
A grand raffle offers John Griffin's trotting mare with buggy and harness, raising Saturday evening at H Williams and Co Sample Room. Tickets are sold at Dr Frye A Williams Co W J Harbison Wm France Allenspach South Saucher D Carrigan M Urbach J Mahoney W J McDonald Joe Lane GU W Dudley A Svlomounson. Only one hundred tickets printed and selling fast. The report also lists the recent Grand Jury foreman Joseph Clebure and others, plus a long discussion on county jail and political counts involving several states and disputed election results.
Advertisements from McDonalds and Solomonson mark the page with notices on clothing items underscoring sales and new stock. Listings include a butchered mix of prices, offers, and business updates for Baldry McDonalds Loomis Jorgans and Bowers with references to local trades and a sewing machine for sale.
Snowflake Flour and fresh Ranch Butter headline a cluttered ad spread. Dudley’s whiskey and small profits motto appear beside prices on shirts, blankets, and crockery. Morian and Moore list winter clothing and hardware stock. McDonalds advertises eggs, codfish, and lemonade while Clarke’s, Anderson & Williams, and Tom Clarke’s push coffee and lunchrooms.
At Morian s store customers find ammunition and guns at low prices Gary s gun shop offers corks wine jewelry at bottom prices Miedecke s sells wares Pumpkins and squashes McDowald s fresh Lake fish at the American These inviting stock for inspection Moore s stock ready for purchase McDonald s hosts new fare sellers Mr Theolecke opens a storefront at McDonald s for quality goods and fresh produce McDonald s advertises bargains in comforts and blankets Genuine castile soap at the new drug store Hay delivered by HH Clarke
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