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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1909
Page
1
Local notes recount business trips to Omaha and Denver, housing moves, a new Halladay auto arrival, a county attorney illness, and various residents visiting family, with an auto wreck and multiple misfortunes haunting the week. A Longtime resident’s mother in Ireland dies at 102 after a prolonged illness.
Local management brings the Rag Time Tramps to perform with song and dance to win community favor. Public praise from the press accompanies their appearance at the open house next Wednesday October Uth.
In the county judge's office last Monday at three o'clock Frank E Torbes and Grace A Hackers united in marriage. Attended by Frank Stafford and Miss Reta Hazelwood, the ceremony drew many friends. The groom works for Ziebert and Wilson. the bride was with the Sidney Mercantile Company. They plan to move to McCook Nebraska after Mr Forbes closes his contract. A wedding repast followed in the VanGorder apartment and a bridal course was served at Ziebert and Wilson's restaurant Tuesday night. Best wishes accompany the couple as they travel.
North Platte Tribune reports Union Pacific opened bids Saturday for grading an eighty three mile double track from North Platte to Julesburg with twenty bidders. C F Perry of North Platte filed a bid amid in region sub contracting work. Expect contract award within two weeks and rapid work through fall and winter. The project aims to complete Omaha to Julesburg by next fall and Julesburg to Ogden the following year. Also notes vaudeville act The Rag Time Tramps at the opera house October 6 and a lost brindle bull pup in town with a one dollar reward.
A man about thirty was found in a box car in the west railroad yards at 1 30 PM Sunday. Coroner Wright impaneled a jury after no identity could be established from his body or a business card. Morphine purchase and barber shop receipts raise questions, but the jury could not decide intent. The body was buried by county funds.
The relay progressed to sixty six and three fourths hours and arrived at 8 42 a m Wednesday. The Stevens Duryea auto driven by Joe Fillian of North Platte carried Miner Hinman Jas McDoneld and Ira Bare of the North Platte Tribune. Dr F C Beebe of Sidney acted as chauffeur and conveyed the message in a Ford to Cheyenne. Harry J Kingston of the Philadelphia Press rode along. The route is praised as the best natural road on the round the world highway with fine photographs by Hall.
The piece describes new city crossings with cement work and lanterns, merging metropolitan signals with a rural atmosphere. Weeds line pavements near the business district, with Russian thistles replacing traditional symbols of romance in the country lanes.
The delinquent tax list is smaller than last year and now fills half a page. Higher land values have reduced the record of unpaid taxes though some owners still neglect to settle debts until their names appear in the list.
Under current law precinct assessors will be chosen by election this fall rather than appointment as last year. Nominations are by petition. If a precinct fails to elect an assessor the board of commissioners and the county assessor will appoint one. The term is two years and re election is not allowed.
Co L Tate and wife and Mrs W T Tate traveled from Lodgepole in Mr Tate s car for a repeated Friday sale at the Sidney Mercantile Company store.
At about 11:30 a.m. N G Brewer and helper John Tucker were hit by a siding train while crossing east of the Union Pacific depot. Tucker escaped with minor injuries but Brewer suffered serious internal injuries and was left under care at home as observers call the crossing a life risk and a duty for safety measures such as a viaduct or watchman.
A lunch room blaze at the U P Hotel triggered an alarm from the electric plant and a swift fire company response. A quick thinking man used a water-filled bat to quell the flames before the crowd dispersed after the false alarm.
Clare Edens, back from Chester, arranged a contract in Sidney for a new house on a north divide farm. The fifth residence built by Edens in the past year brings a new family to Cheyenne County, marking a lasting impact on the region and a legacy for his memory.
John P. Fischer, government weather observer for south Cheyenne county, records September rainfall at two and eighty two one hundredths inches. The month had twenty three clear days, three cloudy days, and four partly cloudy days. The peak rainfall reached one and a half inches on Sept. lat. Obrfelder Clothing Co. advertises headquarters for men and boys apparel at popular prices.
The Oberfelder Clothing Company carries a strictly up-to-date line of goods for nobby dressers and is noted as the shop of choice for the town’s best dressed residents.
Prospect town promotes a rest room for Sidney organized by the Belle M. Stouten borough club led by Mrs. C. C. Callahan. The project seeks a comfortable space for renting tidying and baby care with donations from Epworth League Christian Endeavor St. Margarets Child, the P B Os and the Kings Daughters.
Notes from the public schools praise fortitude and kindness in students. Oct 1 or Oct 10 seating for Baldwin's Vet lecture by bass soloist A C Steele. tickets at Baldwin's and Steele Entertainment Co. A fundraiser totals 32.75 with 77.07 remaining to buy pictures for rooms. Anne Radellife and Alfred Shipman travel notes. eleventh and twelfth grade offerings expanded. Miss Ethel Kilne piano solo praised. Supt. Whitehead visited to review facilities.
The Union Pacific whitewash gang from Cheyenne is painting the two local roundhouses and machine shop. Foreman Bixby begins work Tuesday lifting the Union Pacific Hotel about eighteen inches. Supt. McCart repairs a broken water main as Foreman Smith finishes new mains and heads to Utah. Peter Jessen resigns from the roundhouse, Joe Larsen visits Cheyenne, J. R. Williams returns from Kansas.
The report details Dr Beebe traveling from Sidney to Cheyenne in a Ford, arriving after the Oldamobile relay car. Hollister of Cheyenne visited Hart, J B Hire opened a new restaurant in Dalton, and Reverend Gross planned Lutheran services. Also noted are land seekers from Tobias, a Telegraph report on the relay, and Oberfelder's stock and Jackson's school supplies.
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