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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1936
Page
2
The Telegraph, a weekly Sidney Nebrasa newspaper edited by V Doran, announces subscription pricing for years and zones. It lists publication address 932 Tenth Avenue Sidney and notes post office registration as second class mail matter.
London decreed martial law in Palestine to quell Arabs opposing Jewish immigration and land ownership. Since April, more than 200 lives were lost as a general strike aimed to resist the British mandate. Gen Arthur Wauchope announced the proclamation, expecting initial focus on troublesome districts to frighten rebels into capitulation.
Three men and a girl died in a fiery plane crash along the Burlington railroad right of way near Naperville after taking off from Chicago airport to photograph a streamlined train. Pilot Oscar Hanold of Chicago and three Detroit photographers were among the deceased. A large camera lay open at the wreckage.
Topeka. Governor Landon commented on President Roosevelt's civil service policies, signaling how federal reform measures might influence state administration and hiring practices amid ongoing national debates over merit systems.
The presidential nominee said if elected he would appoint a capable executive to reshape the postal service on a business footing. Detroit 11 of 12 Black Legion plotting suspects were convicted in circuit court. Eleven convicted of first degree murder or second degree murder. two cases with jury waived. Judge Moynihan imposed second degree murder for those without jury. Michigan law caps first degree murder at life. second degree leaves sentencing to the court.
Ten men including an assistant vice president of a Denver bank were indicted by a federal grand jury in a probe of bonds taken in Midwest robberies. All defendants except one who is still sought were arrested after postal inspectors traced a months long trail in the Midwest where thousands of dollars worth of bonds disappeared from mail pouches.
Former high school classmates will serve as pallbearers for Conrad Killian aged 20. He died in a hospital Saturday night from football game injuries as members of the athletic club attend the services in a body at the Christian church.
Stockville Earl Foster was fined 500 dollars and costs after a county court conviction for illegal sale of liquor. He was the sole defendant among five men arrested in Republican River Valley raids by state liquor commission inspectors who declined to plead guilty. the others received 100 dollar fines plus costs.
In southwestern Oregon about twenty thousand residents fled flames from a vast forest blaze. The Bandon fire’s death toll climbed to nine as federal and state forest officials warned the 400,000 acre fire complex posed a widespread hazard and evacuation orders remained in effect.
Grim faced state police at Coquilla glanced at a sky black as night as residents feared shifting winds would worsen a fire that had already damaged acres and endangered Myrtle Point, expressing hopeful prayers to God amid the crisis.
Fred Irwin visits the Ed Miles residence forenoon as Mrs. F Gunby attends a farewell party at her home hosted by the FN club. Dozens of neighbors including Johnsons, Spikers, Jorgensens, Tremains and Lostrohs appear in a sequence of visits, dinners, and carding events surrounding travel plans and upcoming district 239 school program.
Mrs Hubert Bondegard reports a sequence of Sunday and weekday visits across the Route One community. Families including Degenhart Earnhart Christensen Rexroth Stevens Poggensee Withers Oades Schwartz Hiansen Kastens Schwarz Heiliger and others shared dinners calls and visits at several homes and hospitals in a lively small town social ledger.
Mr and Mrs Leo Degenhart Mr and Mrs Arthur Stoll Mr and Mrs Richard Bartling Mr and Mrs H Withers and John Grimes spent Thursday afternoon at the August Christensen home the men helping raise a granary.
Mr and Mrs Pete Nelson and family plus others travel and visit in Denver and eastern Nebraska for ten days. Local residents attend family gatherings, dinners, and Sunday school events. An aluminum demonstration was held at Art Schubarths home with Paul Simerson and N Redeen also in Sidney for business calls.
Community notice invites all to the annual picnic at the Niehus grove near Redington on Saturday. Ernest Langley of Sidney Draw reported cattle purchases in the area Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Nelson traveled to Sterling on business Tuesday. Anna Olson of Sidney visited the George Jung Charles Dedic and Alfred Johnson homes Friday. Wheat grown by local farmers promoted by Jersey Cream flour sold by O. P. Skaggs of Sidney Nebr. Telegraph Want Ads Get Results.
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