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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1916
Page
4
Classified notices from Sidney Nebr list requests to buy SecondHand stoves and ranges. A. J. Boellins at D.R. Jones office handles inquiries while several ads promote real estate, building and loan options, and local services. Neighborhood listings include homes for sale, lodging, and rental inquiries along with a sale of musical instruments and auction notices.
The Ladies of the Methodist church reserve November 7 for a dinner in church parlors anticipating large patronage due to election day. Further notice will be given.
Mr and Mrs C A Glassburn came back from Denver Tuesday hopeful Mr Glassburn will keep sight in an eye pierced by a pitch fork weeks ago. A A Rudd and family hosted Lew Acherson John Swanson and Brust and daughter from eastern Idaho during a recent visit. Bequests near 1 990 000 to Joslyn kin accompany a 5 million plus estate for the widow. Hoagland leaves North Platte for Washington to represent Nebraska in Beaver River Power Co v United States at the Supreme Court. Miles offers to form Western league club in Grand Island and Hastings if a suitable franchise is secured. For sale gray mare team in foal about 2400 pounds.
Mrs. Knox remains the reposter for The Telegraph with Black 222 listed as the residence phone and 17 for the office line. R. D. Devine returned from York after visiting friends, while Joseph Oberfelder attends Grand Lodge A O U W and serves as D of H delegate from Sidney Lodge 122. Judge Chambers and wife visited their son R O Chambers and spouse, as J J Parks takes a vacation from LeSeuer lumber yard to spend time with his son near Lost Spring Wyoming.
Sheriff McDaniel and County Attorney Radcliff left Monday for Lincoln with prisoners Frank Connell and R Granger Lukens to begin life sentences in the State Penitentiary for murder tied to the Sunol bank robbery on July 28.
D F Bennett and wife hosted a brother and nephew of Mr Bennett and their wives. Mr and Mrs J A Sparks returned Wednesday from an eighteen day automobiling trip visiting relatives in Dixon and Cedar counties. Burt Stafford of Mergenthaler Linotype Co Chicago installed an electric heater on The Telegraph linotype, replacing the gasoline heater. Mrs W J Shoemaker planned an extensive Pacific coast trip visiting sister Mrs McLernon and California relatives, possibly a month or longer. Mrs Wiseman was buried at 4:30 PM Wednesday with Rev L E Lewis at the grave. she was about thirty. Relatives at the funeral included two small children, an aged father, and a McCook Nebraska brother.
The S. B E. D. X. club gave a kitchen shower for their president Miss Sadie Godell who was to be married in a week. The event was hosted at Miss Mabel Perry's home with all but one member present. A luncheon was served and at eleven thirty the gathering ended with affectionate good nights to the young president.
Mrs M A Shipman and sister Mrs Mason from Wheatland Wyoming attended Ak Sar Ben then visited other eastern Nebraska cities. Last Sunday was state wide Sunday school day with many attending church. Property transfers include H Bockstadter cottage sold to H E Litsey and John White bungalow sold to an eastern party. Julia Scanlon in Lincoln for Grand Lodge of the D of H as chief of honor and elected delegate.
Attorney and Mrs. A. H. Wood returned Friday to Denver after spending ten days in town with Attorney Wood retained in the Connell defense. Elmer Dresser of San Francisco visited with his brother Fred Dresser and family, the first meeting in twenty four years, sharing much to say.
We correct an earlier figure stating 14 buildings for the season. The revised total is 16, comprising 22 distinct departments of business across the projects. Readers are invited to verify the department count themselves.
Mrs H Ehmke Sr of the north table travels Thursday for a family visit. She will stop first at Columbus, then travel to South Dakota to see a brother she has not seen in forty years.
Governor Moorehead appoints Robert Oberfelder as a delegate to the National Irrigation Congress to be held in El Paso Texas from the 14th to the 18th of this month. He has accepted and will attend. The report also notes a July 28 overland trip by Frank Connell with attorney G S Redde, Mrs Ruth Connell and Harry Connell, and a car bill of sale to his parents. Mrs Oscar Harris visited sister Aliva Mitchell near Gurley for a week.
F. W. Vath underwent a procedure Wednesday at Mayo Brothers' hospital in Rochester Minnesota. Messages to Mrs. Vath report his condition as satisfactory. Miss Sophia Gould returned from Omaha with news that her mother is comfortable in a private home and will come home when strong enough. Ernest Gould remains with his mother and Sophia resumes duties as chief operator at the local telephone exchange.
Mrs J A Bentley entertained last Friday with a five hundred party using seven tables. Assisted by Mrs Lowe and Mrs Scott and her daughter Genevieve, scores went to Mrs W E B Swatzlander first and Mrs J W McDaniel second. Mrs J E Swatzlander took consolation with 80. A two course luncheon followed.
Nebraska items note the National Farmer Equity union convention in Omaha on December 20, a cigar shop fined for unlawful cigarette sales, a serious Grand Island runaway injury to Mrs. G. L. Reuse, and DeWitt Lee named York Y M C A secretary. Snow hits Ellsworth and northern areas, a manslaughter ruling in the Etta Barackman case at Valentine, federal investigators sent to Nebraska over hexcal shortages, rail car demand outpacing supply, a Heatrice pharmacy robbery, a fatal auto crash near Ekborn, a funding endowment for Nebraska federation clubs, and other statewide notices including abductions and tax questions.
A terse aphorism attributed to Dr. Johnson stating that innocence yields no fear of scrutiny and no suspicion of speech. It frames a principle of untroubled reputation and calm conduct amid questioning.
Mysterious Smith will stage a free street exhibition featuring an escape from a regulation straight jacket while hanging by the feet from a telegraph pole. The show opens Monday at Tobin Opera House with vaudeville, Olga the mind reader, and many illusions including doves, canaries, live ducks, rabbits, and spirit hand effects. Reserved seats are available at Vath's Pharmacy.
Mrs H Null returned Thursday of last week from North Platte where she visited friends for a week and witnessed motorcycle races in which her son John and Reuben Crock won forty dollars worth of prizes. See our new line of Kodak albums at Western Drug Co. See F A King for abstracts.
C. E. Harper has bought a motor hearse and ambulance rated at 50 horsepower, capable of high speed in emergencies. Mr. Harper will respond to calls within fifty miles of Sidney to convey the sick or injured to or from doctors, trains, or other places.
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