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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1923
Page
8
Nebraska’s September crop report says corn may rank among the largest on record if frost avoids damage with 247 million bushels forecast. Barley yields are the largest on record, oats second, hay heavy, spring wheat down, and pastures excellent, while rye and potatoes show mixed results across counties and regions.
Judge Joseph Oberfelder presented a United States flag to the Noble Grand of Sidney Lodge No 91 with remarks on unity patriotism and the lessons of the flag. The ceremony included supportive talks and light refreshments as the evening stressed civic and fraternal values.
Emory Johnson explains love and humanity drive his popular screen productions. He highlights railroad engineers and workers who serve the public in Westbound Limited after hits like In the Name of the Law and The Third Alarm. Special tickets used.
Henry Bartling a longtime Sidney resident and Cheyenne County pioneer died at his son Fred's Redington home Tuesday at age 78. A meat market operator and rancher, he lived nearly fifty years in the area and is survived by his widow six children. Funeral services were held at the Fred Bartling home Thursday afternoon with burial in Redington cemetery.
Edwin Brendel a 30 year old harvest worker from Starbuck Minnesota died last Saturday from double pneumonia at the J W Hardin farm six miles southeast of Dalton where he had worked about a month. He leaves a wife and two sons who went to Sidney and took the body to Starbuck for funeral services. The body was shipped Tuesday from Campbell funeral parlors. Brendel an ex serviceman bore five shrapnel wounds.
Glen Emerson Simpson, six year old son of Mr and Mrs Roy G Simpson, died Monday morning fourteen miles southeast of Sidney. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the home with Rev T S Holmes officiating. Burial followed in the Christian cemetery near the home.
Leon Fine operates a exclusive women’s ready-to-wear store in New York City. Misses and women are urged not to miss the latest Fifth Avenue styles offered at moderate prices.
McDonald Motor Sales displays the new Ford cfrs with a higher radiator standard across models. The lineup gains a streamlined touring car, sturdier runabout, and a redesigned four door sedan with added interior space, locking doors, revolving window regulators, and improved luggage capacity.
A brief notice offers a waffle supper at the M. E. Church on Friday priced at 15 cents. The item also mentions a thrill ride on the West Bound Limited for readers seeking entertainment.
An extraordinary window display at the Thayer drug store features Cheyenne county crops for Harvest Festival promotion. Exhibits label growers and include Bearded barley forty bushels per acre by Frank Goodwin white onions fancy home grown carrots tamered plums red garden beets pumpkins by George Neiman untrri gated sugar beets by C. D. Green pop corn by R. R. McDonald garden cucumbers by George Higgins and F. Wentland sugar cane by Bob Owens Turkey Red wheat twenty bushels per acre by Glen Bales pie pumpkin and potatoes by J. Edward garden huckleberries by C. P. Millett. One display at Attorney W. P. Miles’s office shows samples of every county crop, including a twelve-foot corn stalk. H. J. Burns of Lodge Vale brings five cars of improved squaw corn, planted June 20, promising at least sixty bushels per acre, with ears about twelve inches long.
A Nebraska boy climbs a corn stalk to see how corn grows but cannot descend as the stalk supposedly grows faster. Three men attempt to cut it down with axes to rescue him from starvation, though the stalk supposedly keeps regrowing. The boy reportedly lives on raw corn and has discarded several bushels of cobs.
A new note on tickets for the Westbound Limited appears with Gennett Record playing on phono graphs at Larson's Music Store. The snippet suggests a promotional event or sale of music equipment and records at the store, highlighting the novelty of the tickets and in-store demonstrations.
Thieves broke into the Edgar Hite residence west of Potter while Mr and Mrs Hite and their son were in Potter. They pulled the screen door catch to gain entry and stole Edgar s Sunday suit Mrs Hites suit waists jewelry including Edgar s watch furs and other valuables Lyle s savings bank was looted of small change. Police note the crime was likely planned by someone knowing the owners were away.
A early Tuesday blaze at Dr W S Franklin's Bayard dairy barn and milk house destroyed the boiler and bottling area while four buildings burned. The family slept through the alarm and all other structures were saved. Investigations yield no clues. Miss Dorothy Thornburg now works as secretary in the doctors' offices.
The Christian Missionary society will hold a meeting at the home of Mrs. Stanley Wolfe on Thursday September 20.
Hear the new Gennnett Records, they play on any phonograph, promoted by Larson's Music Store.
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