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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1903
Page
1
Local notices list many visitors and residents in town. Lyman and Boyer of Bayard visited, Simon Fishman returned from the East, and J. K. Dykman noted as a stockman in town Tuesday. Several families and professionals are mentioned with travels, illnesses, and new arrivals.
A mixed Cheyenne County update notes local ads stressing one advertising effort, political activity with a populist district judge candidate and a Democrat convention, and farmers like Louie Schuetz reporting large corn yields. It also covers church and Sunday school officers, newspaper moves, a fatal Geneva train accident, and a state education memo on teacher salaries and term lengths.
Sheriff Babb inspects Bridgeport fences and repairs gaps. Catholic Ladies plan a September 17 opera house supper. Mrs. Bullock meets Miss Margaret Wright, starting Wiegand district school Monday. Street work on Rose Street praised. Father Lambert to lead forty hours devotion in November. Anniversary High Mass for Father Flood Monday. James C. Hudson nominated for county judge with Civil War and Navy service background. long career in farming, policing, real estate, and insurance noted. Schools open with high attendance and prospects of a strong term.
Mr and Mrs John Daugherty return ed Sunday evening from Denver Anna Pantenburg shipped a car of horses Tuesday and accompanied them east Lecture tickets delivery begins October 19th Sidney is talking of holding another street fair and old folks reunion this fall A dance at Herdon schoolhouse is planned for September 19th with music by August Pultz V H and VY F Kucera Mrs A B Knox Sidney school teacher mentioned as a possible Republican candidate for county superintendent of schools
Master Mechanic Geo Thompson and other UP officials visited Sidney with reports on car department staffing averaging eighty workers. Updates include a new ten foot longer turntable at North Platte, a concrete and iron bridge job east of the Burlington viaduct, and a planned cheap one way rate Sidney to western points. Freight and passenger movements are discussed along with shop reorganization and power status of locomotives.
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