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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1902
Page
8
The timetable lists trains No. 1 Overland Limited No. 101 Fast Mail No. 3 Pacific Express No. 5 Mail and Express with stops where freight trains carry joints. Timings include 7:00 p.m. 1:15 p.m. 4:05 a.m. 9:55 a.m. for passenger movements to and from stations.
Market listing shows prices in Sidney for commodities including Wheat Corn Oats Rye Potatoes Eggs Butter Chickens Hogs Cows Steers and Hay with figures 43 50 29 15 noted for per bushel and per hundredweight terms.
Local items advertise blood sarsaparilla meats at City meat market and cheap eggs and butter. Dentists and studios offer services. wagons for sale. land office blanks. help wanted for housework. auction sanctioneer offers sales weekly. found pocketbook claim. piano giveaway by The Omaha Daily News and subscription offers.
A stream of brief items notes visitors and residents: M. J. Sanders visited Bridgeport on Sunday. Grace McIntosh returned from Omaha. E. V. S. Pomeroy and wife visited the county metropolis. Mark Spanogle, fusion candidate for county attorney, was a Sidney visitor. J. Neubauer moved to a Burlington post in Alliance. several locals made purchases or ran errands, including Dr. Webster and J. C. Wolfe.
The Britton ranch two miles west of town is for sale at a sacrifice with details available at the First National Bank. Local activity includes visiting engineers from Green River to Rawlins and a busy trade week as farmers and stockmen arrive. Sidney orchestra reorganizes. local figures report crops and winter stock feeding conditions. A stock dispute on Myrtle Street ends with heated language not fit for print.
The land office continued Kirby vs Miller to a later date. Iddings wins restoration of his reservoir filing after a reversal by the general land office commissioner. Mosby discusses fence removal with the interior secretary. Cattle sale records and western Nebraska grain estimates also noted.
Charley Endsley of Redington renews contacts in Sidney. Uncle Jake Eckert hauls two wagon loads of goats from his farm 24 miles northwest of Sidney. Marshal Stubt tightens patrols against grafters. Bert Davison back to work at Prase Son's Store after illness. Halloween dance hosted by Lady's Maccabees at the Rink Friday with supper. William Jennings Bryan visits Sidney en route to Utah and Nevada and plans a private tour of Nebraska. Mac Radcliff ships eleven cattle cars and John M Adams six cars to South Omaha. F M Clark of Kimball ships three carloads of sheep to South Omaha. E V S Pomeroy ships a cattle car. Albert Davis to ship five carloads of sheep to Kansas City.
Providence Chapter No 108 Order of Eastern Star at Masonic hall rolls active plans for winter events. Worthy Matron Mrs Callahan drives efforts to boost membership as petitions await committee action. A Schubert Club and Lady Quartette Company of Chicago visa is eyed for November 18 with discounted tickets. Sidney club forms for literature art and science study meets Mondays at a member’s home. The fifteen member limit remains in place.
About fifty neighbors and friends gathered Thursday evening to bid Mr. and Mrs. B A Lathrop farewell before their departure for Sidney Nebraska. Oysters were shared as a feast and well wishes were offered for their future welfare in social and lodge circles. They plan to move in about a week to make their home in Sidney.
John Coble of Wyoming, a wealthy cattleman linked to the Tom Horn murder case now underway in Cheyenne, was in town on Wednesday. Local hotels are full as crowds of strangers fill the streets, evoking memories of the Black Hills excitement of the 1870s.
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