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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1922
Page
9
The Sidney Telegraph notes subscription rates: one year postage paid eighty one fifty, six months six dollars and fifty cents, with single copies offered in advance. The paper is entered at the Sidney Nebraska post office as second class matter.
A three day reunion of G A Kt veterans was held in Sidney with speakers from Lincoln in attendance. The session filled three Telegraph columns to cover the event. Mr and Mrs Z L Haagio announce the engagement of their daughter Tyrone Eleanor Allen to Dr Lincoln G Simon of this city.
The Telegraph will maintain a tent at the fair grounds serving as headquarters for all attendees. The Ladies Guild of the Episcopal church prepared to furnish refreshments. Peter Higgins near the water house is dangerously ill with typhoid fever. The Sidney Creamery Company reports excellent butter quality with a 5000 pound daily capacity. Fever reports link to dead animals in waterways, a source of domestic water contamination.
The Telegraph notes ongoing yellow fever outbreaks on the lower Mississippi with violence and the disease moving east. A new Post hospital is due to be finished and occupied by week’s end. Ranchers focus on rifle and shotgun upkeep as Indian troubles persist. A newly opened Catholic church seats 500, with services by Father Berisha of Chicago. Sidney’s rail expansion and Indian protests intensify, Cheyennes in Indian Territory revolt, and a special train waits on the side track near the Post amid rising tensions.
A column jokes about a proposed Georgia law requiring a husband to obtain his wife s consent before leaving home at night. It speculates on a wife issuing a passport like pass and setting curfews, noting potential domestic strife and questioning how far lawmakers would go if such a bill passed.
Ickes News lists Mr and Mrs Pete Westphalen and sons Ralph and Lawrence and Miss Gladys Julian of North Bend Neb raskua visiting the Weed family. J W Eckert returns from Aurora, Elvera Hedlund visits Gladys Morrow, Paul Weible visits in Egbert Wyoming. Mrs Woods visiting daughter in law Southard. Dr Ada M Gullan of Stockton Cal and John Higgins of Sidney guests at Crest Guill s. Mrs Roger Brennan and Mrs Ed O Cander of Dalton meet G T Club at Guill s and make a dress form. Rose Walsh leaves for Grand Island Business College. Margaret Miller visits Devilla Mowrer. Swanholm of Wahoo visit Edna Morrow and Peter Nelson family. Ruth Osborn weekend at home from Sidney kindergarten. Ruth Muhr Redington visits with Maxine Eckert. S W Eckert family visit Redington Allen Muhr. Broughton returns for a few days. Willard Mowrer and Frank White visit Denver briefly. J H McNew of Bridgeport also noted.
Meadow Lawn residents and neighbors were weekend visitors and callers in Dalton and Sidney. Ruth Osborn and Irma Morrow studied away, while Elvera Hedlund and Vivian Graybill joined Saturday evening calls at Albert Morrows. Families including Eckerts Mayers Nelsons Mowrers and Kreaders spent time with relatives and friends across Dalton Sidney and Bridgeport with several threshing plans noted.
An item records J. K. Davison of Denver visiting his son John Davison for a few days, and J. M. and J. C. Kreader driving to Potter on Saturday, plus a stay with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Morrow.
Miss Margaret Ward stayed as overnight guest of Cevilla Mowrer on Wednesday. Elmer Mayer and family hosted Sunday visit by Leslie Sanders near Potter. Several families, including Wallicks, Westphalens, Ericksons, Ottersoff, Bovee, Eckerts, and Muhrs, shared Sunday or Monday time at friends’ homes. Rose Walsh went to Grand Island for schooling. Morro sisters visited Dalton on Saturday.
The passage lists national foods for several countries: Ireland favors potatoes, India favors rice, Germany favors pork, France is noted for vegetable consumption, Italy prefers oily foods, Russia uses rye, and America is said to have no national food.
The Springfield Republican comments Henry Ford’s stance against high coal prices as commendable propaganda but notes few can emulate the approach. The piece argues the nation as a whole faces hardship and seeks practical remedies beyond heroic individual acts.
A farmer near Shelton shot several local youths who entered his watermelon patch. One boy absorbed most of the shotgun charge, with more than 30 pellets entering the back neck and head, leaving him seriously injured. Police reported no further details at this time.
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