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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1907
Page
3
George Bennett and Henry Seymour have completed forms guiding city and precinct assessors to value railroad property in 919 Nebraska towns. The process includes two reports sent to railroads with ten and eleven forms, through county clerks to the state board, due by March 1 and May first.
Mrs. F. A. Draper of Cedar Rapids Iowa received state rail commission help after being billed 4.56 for baggage storage by Union Pacific. She rode the 2 cent fare line to Barton Nebraska and baggage was delayed at Big Springs. The railroad official later confirmed the charge was unwarranted and she need not pay.
Residents of Mason City and Litchfield report fires from Burlington engine sparks. A complainant cites a fireman smashing engine screens for better draft. The commission questioned the practice, learned firemen deny orders to damage screens, and demanded a broader investigation.
The Nebraska National Guard says its marksmanship standings declined at the national school but will continue target practice to develop marksmen. Nebraska finished 40th in the team match with 2306 points, while last year they placed 29th with 2353 as overall national competition saw others improve. The U S Navy won the team match with 3421 points. Only five members per company may qualify as markmen to attend the state school where twelve are chosen for the state team.
The Nebraska Supreme Court rules Ray O. Castle is entitled to the Lincoln city council seat held by William Schroeder. Mayor Brown appointed Schroeder to fill the Eaton vacancy. The court holds the vacancy lasts until the next election, and with Castle unopposed the council must canvass the vote and seat Castle.
State Superintendent McBrien issues first apportionment from the forest reserve fund. Total Nebraska reserves amount to 589,002.93 acres earning 0.001341 cents per acre, totaling 790.37 dollars distributed to Blaine 852, Thomas 103.39, McPherson 312.29, Grant 200.73, Cherry 165.44. One fifth to school districts, one fifth to road fund, three fifths to enumeration of school children. Reserves are itemized for Dismal River, North Platte, and Niobrara with acre totals by Blaine, Thomas, McPherson, Grant, and Cherry counties.
General Manager A W Sullivan of Missouri Pacific acknowledges the state railway commission recommendations to repair tracks and improve the roadbed in Nebraska. The letter states the policy to fully meet the commission's desires and to complete all work as early as possible given available labor and materials.
The university law library will be enlarged in days to meet growing needs. The partition wall with a seminary room will be removed to form one large space, and the hall to the library will be included, increasing book space by about a third. The city libraries plus this facility offer substantial resources with over 140,000 reference books available to law students.
E. L. Fulton, elected as one of Oklahoma's new congressmen, studied at the Nebraska university about twenty years ago from Pawnee County. He left to sing on the comic opera stage, joined the Lillian Russell company for four years, then practiced law in Pawnee with music as recreation. Fulton staged operas in southern Nebraska and wrote an opera praised by some. He moved to Oklahoma three or four years ago and became a silver Republican in 1896, once a candidate for lieutenant governor.
The state railway commission, at the Burlington’s request, allowed matching Black Hills rates set by Northwestern. Omaha, Lincoln, Fremont, Nebraska City, Hastings, and Grand Island origins are included. The Burlington may cut brick rate Geneva to Edgar from 3.5 to 3 cents and sand rate Grand Island to Cairo from 3 to 10 cents. It may set Grand Island sand rates to Broken Bow 4.5 cents, Merna 5 cents, and Anselmo 5 cents.
Superintendent Pearse of Milwaukee and Andrew S. Draper of New York will address the Nebraska superintendents and principals meeting in Lincoln October 24 to 26. Draper discusses normal training in high schools, a feature recently adopted in Nebraska. Pearse will speak on school administration.
Keokuk welcomes Governor Sheldon to be guest of the city for President Roosevelt's October 1 visit and the governor has accepted the invitation.
At the final meeting of the state board of education a claim of 1195.65 by Prof. Caldwell, formerly Peru normal faculty and later with a Lincoln business college, was rejected. The board ruled no faculty member paid by the state could receive extra pay for diploma pen work. Caldwell testified he did the work off duty.
Practical notes on using sour milk in breakfast breads and cakes. Recipes cover biscuits cornbread sour milk corn cake pancakes and soft gingerbread with measurements for soda salt sugar and lard or butter. Emphasizes proper soda amounts and discarding spoiled sour milk.
Two motzas and motza meal combine with ground almonds raisins sultanas eggs and spices to form a paste. Shape into ovals fry in hot fat then serve with clarified sugar.
Beat the yolks of two eggs with half a cup of sugar and a heaping tablespoon of cornstarch dissolved in milk. Cook in one pint boiling milk for three minutes, cool, flavor with orange extract, and fill a baked crust. Beat egg whites with half a cup of sugar, orange extract, spread on top, bake until lightly browned.
Instructions describe preparing a salmon substitute by simmering, draining, mixing with pepper and salt, mashing with a fork, and forming in small molds with melted butter. The result is described as indistinguishable from fresh salmon when served.
Instructions to butter muffin tins and bake eggs in compartments for five minutes. Ready to serve on a hot platter, this method yields an attractive dish. Eggs are seasoned with salt and pepper before baking.
Select silk to match the glove shade and mend the rent. Buttonhole stitch the edges around once or twice according to hole size. Join the edges with a close buttonhole stitch to complete the repair.
Water used to boil rice yields a starch suitable for lace and handkerchiefs. It provides a soft dainty stiffness that enhances appearance and charm in fabric and laundry work.
Census shows 424 residents with 50 not at home and eight marriageable girls. Four remaining suitors, including Julia Channing and Marian Hopewell, face careful future plans as Hancock's summer resort character influences courtship. Sophronia Easton declines age and vows to marry away from town, while the Shaker settlement adds a photographic prompt amid a lighted streetless main.
Alonzo J. Whiteman former mayor of Duluth and noted thief is moved from Ashburn to Dannemora prison. Ill health at Auburn prompted the transfer. Whiteman was convicted of stealing 760 dollars from a Buffalo trust company. He once taught in the Auburn prison school and allegedly coached inmates in crime before turning to stenography, capable of 100 words a minute after reform attempts.
Pat James Jones of New York arrived to wed Emily Jackson but the license office was closed and the ceremony was postponed. Marshall Richardson, also a suitor, persuaded Emily to abandon Jones, and Richardson and Emily obtained a license and married.
A large Chinese goose named Doc, owned by A. A. Bibb of 302 Tenth Street NW, wandered Pennsylvania Avenue and Fourteenth Street before reuniting with his master. Weighing about 20 pounds, Doc struts with Bibb, deterring crowds and alarmed when Bibb disappears, yet dislikes women despite being friendly to most men.
A New York chart records 6 357 fires in Manhattan and the Bronx for the year. Carelessly dropped cigarettes and matches cost the city about 2 500 000 annually with 23 fires daily and total losses near 10 000 000. Tuesdays are peak fire days and the 6 00 to 7 00 pm hour shows the heaviest activity.
A report from Washington warns the Lapps face rapid decline as numbers in Norway Sweden and Tunisia fall below 54 000 with Norbotten housing about 3 000 Lapps. Reindeer herds have plummeted from 30 000 to 7 000 in 12 years, blamed on demand for meat and proximity to rail routes. Education and urban schooling are also said to deter nomadic families from returning to the inland life.
Fred Dubois of Grove, Indian Territory leaped from a moving train then crawled eight miles to a farmhouse after breaking a leg. His brothers searched, the train stopped, a storm drenched him, and he stitched a makeshift splint from weeds and suspenders to reach a hospital in Joplin Missouri.
Dover Delaware Alexander Minner secretary of the council of Bowers Beach kept a six month record of 25 hens. They laid 2008 eggs with 10 percent saved for hatching. After costs he shows 25 hens 188 young chickens and 23.88 in cash.
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