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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1928
Page
4
The U S A theatre unveils the Won der Electrograph a mammoth musical unit. It opens Monday September 10 and will run for three hours with various novelties. Jesse Crawford records will be in stock and three horns will be installed for stage and lobby use. World leading artists will be available during picture showings.
Observers note visitors observe the new traffic signal more than locals. Tourists are cautious, salesmen most careful, while many women drivers fail to stop fully at crossings. Complaints arise over longer light-change periods than visitors are used to, with periods over 30 seconds mentioned.
Authorities note a nationwide pattern of K of C burglaries tied to religious tensions in the current political climate. In Columbus Nebraska the hall was entered and desks and safes rifled but nothing stolen. only a pair of rubber gloves remained. Grand Knight Peter Lakers says robbers sought literature and passwords, not valuables, since the ritual was made public years ago.
J C Koenig of Davenport Iowa suffered severe burns to hands face and neck when a radiator cap blew off his car on the Lincoln highway just west of Davenport as he tried to remove it to reach Julesburg before midnight. His wife drove on after emergency treatment. One eye was badly burned and he continued toward home.
Miss Alice Muriel Gunderson of Potter united in marriage with Clarence Everett Findlay of Stanwood Iowa at the Maley home Tuesday afternoon. Rev H C Welker officiated at five o clock with Mrs Maley and others attending. A dinner honored the newlyweds after the ceremony. The couple will reside in Sidney.
Weather signal lights at the Sidney air mail field completed by crews from the Salt Lake City office of the U S department of commerce. New border lights and signal lights are visible for miles in every direction guiding aviators from Sidney to Cheyenne and to North Platte with weather condition forecasts.
Dalton announces plans for its eighth annual fall festival featuring a community produce exhibition. The date will be set this week to allow a full display of root crops, reflecting a strong production year and a robust civic event.
Attendance at the Nebraska state fair in Lincoln nears a record high with daily gate tallies showing unprecedented turnout this week. Exhibits are up and visitor numbers exceed prior marks as over a hundred Sidney residents travel to Lincoln with many more countywide arriving by car with families.
Railroads prepare for the sugar beet harvest sending beets from the North Platte Valley to refineries. Gondola cars are being equipped with sides and flatcars repaired to handle what is anticipated as one of Nebraska’s largest beet crops in history.
Fred Albaugh of Sidney was arrested Saturday morning by Sheriff Nelson for illegal possession and transportation of liquor. Nelson took Albaugh’s Buick and confiscated eight quart bottles of liquor. bond was posted later the same day for release pending disposition of charges.
Word reached Thursday that Ed Ingwerson of Lodge Pole died Wednesday in St Luke hospital Denver after several weeks there. He was an old time county resident. Funeral arrangements are not yet set. An obituary will appear in the Telegraph’s next issue.
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