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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1925
Page
9
The Sidney Telegraph lists subscription rates including one year postage paid for 1.50 and nine months postage paid for 79. It notes table copies priced at two sixes, with advance payment required. The notice is filed as second class matter with the Sidney post office in Nebraska.
The Telegraph lists winners in county offices including H. Doran as county clerk S Fishman as county treasurer J W McDaniel sheriff H E Gapen county judge Edith Morrison county superintendent L H Bordwell county surveyor J J Barks county coroner and J B Halston commissioner The new roundhouse nears completion with use expected soon James Devine Felix Polacek and H C Olander filed final homestead proofs before Judge Gapen Clayton Radcliffe visited from Lincoln to vote Many houses under construction show strong progress.
The Sidney district court will convene next Monday with Judge H. M. Grimes presiding. The docket lists 100 cases, including two criminal prosecutions under the Aquor law. Sports editors Raud Griswold and Louis Houseman were in town en route to the Jefferson-Ruhlin fight in San Francisco, Col. W. F. Cody visited on Saturday heading to Cody, Wyoming, for the town’s opening, and the courthouse fence replacement is noted as not extravagantly charged.
The Cheyenne National bank closed its doors Friday on last week. Herman Schroeder of Union Pacific married Miss Elizabeth Fix at Norfolk and returned to Sidney to start housekeeping. The wife of Herman Leiner in the German settlement died after drinking carbolic acid mistaken for castor oil, buried in the German church cemetery. Fred Kurth, a popular farmer, raised over 500 bushels of rye and cribbed 1000 bushels of corn.
James J. McIntosh, a long time resident of Cheyenne County, is described as a man of probity and courtesy and as capable as any to fill the county clerk position. He has an active business presence locally and has recently refitted his Rose Street business location and moved his operations.
Readers note a Cheyenne paper reports garter length averaging seventeen inches while the Telegraph editor finds an average of sixteen and three quarters inches. The piece contrasts fashion and local opinion as families settle into permanent homes and young men adjust to seasonal changes.
A Crook community notes week includes hog sales and shucking corn, visits among residents, and a large crowd viewing a passing gun. Ernest Briney is improving, Crook football defeated Sterling on Friday, and Holyoke was visited for a game.
A Friday evening Father and Son banquet at the Presbyterian church drew a nice crowd and a fine program. Attendees called it one of Crook’s nicest events. Several local residents and visitors from Sterling were noted in attendance or calls around the event.
West Sidney residents report visits among Scheer Nelson Glassburn and Lingwall families. Families from Draw attendance at a Lorenzo dance included Milan Wilber Max Dewitt Addie Glassburn Francis Gross Irene Weatherwax and Ruby Carper. Stowe threshing helpers include Milan Glassburn Theodore Lingwall and M J Elliott. Farmhouse construction on the A M Anderson place nears completion. Henry Walker called at the Kragel farm Tuesday.
Mr and Mrs M N Polk and Mr and Mrs A J Seheer with Geraldine joined L Seheer family for supper Monday. Charley Sprenger drove to Sidney Friday. Frank Klentz threshing for Fred Stowe this week. L Seheer and niece Viola Kragel attended Busbroom funeral Monday. J F Shtilbam shopped in Sidney Thursday. Wilber Glassburn visited TL Scheer Monday. Theodore Lingwall helps Fred Stowe thresh.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during the sickness and death of our son and brother Irvin. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Busboom and family.
Persons desiring to borrow two thousand to two thousand five hundred dollars at eight percent interest may call on W. P. Miles.
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