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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1909
Page
1
Today’s history in brief lists residents and visitors in Sidney during the week. Names include W F Bassett Ralph Cary C A Barton Miss Besse Hackett L C Stockton J H Scherer Dr Callahan May Kane Miss Grace Hackett and others with moves, visits, and a land sale note. The note also mentions a wedding and a contractor injury delaying a building start. Hog prices and a shifting diet theme appear alongside editor visits and land purchases by Clyde Haskins.
The Philadelphia Press halted last week's auto relay after a crash near the end of the run left one man dead and two seriously hurt. A flawed mechanism caused a car to flip, delaying the race. The Philadelphia-Seattle relay will resume today, with Ervnn Mathewson of Denver driving from Sidney to Cheyenne in an Oldsmobile.
At the state fair Beatrice Pate won first prize for water colors in the under twelve class for a poppy painting. The child, daughter of a professor, showed notable brush control and nearly flawless design and received a dollar prize check.
Tacoma reader B T Clark seeks M QO in payment for The Telegraph. E E Rumsey, longtime resident and former Cheyenne City figure, asks to move his newspaper address to Palisades Colorado reflecting relocation and the peach town.
Dalton residents hosted delegates and friends for the Cheyenne county Sunday school convention on Monday and Tuesday with well attended sessions and insightful talks. Rev C H Lewis and Miss Brown appeared as state field workers on their first visit. Morrill County formed a separate organization. officers for Cheyenne and Morrill were elected. Sidney attendees included Mrs Ahrens and Rev Gunderman. A Friday sale at Sidney Mercantile Company and a October 15 annual ball by Modern Woodmen and Royal Neighbors were noted.
The Sept 2 1909 meeting includes approval of minutes and settlement of unclaimed warrants with Morrill county and Cheyenne county. Western Bridge and Construction Co. won a steel bridge contract across Lodgepole Creek and three smaller bridges. Multiple claims were audited and paid. An adjournment followed with a note on a circulating subscription to fund a street sprinkler downtown.
Cheyenne county district court will convene Monday October 4 with thirty three cases on the docket including two criminal cases. Jurors drawn for the term include W W Chowlas O P Grant Wallace Oosterhoudt George Kratz Charley Stanton PF A Rowan Isaac Olson Albert Morrow WW Wassum Chris Weyerts Lloyd Remsburg Joseph Johnson William Bundy William Schwartz George Gildwell O D Minshall C D Laing Chactey Luger H W Struble John J Pischor RR Relnmuth Walter J Nelson F G LaSelle Frank O Kane
The production of East Lynne promises a grand dramatic experience with moving scenes and comic relief. Audiences of all ages witness a life lesson as the play unfolds and triggers tears followed by laughter. Don't forget the Friday Oct 1st performance.
The school hosts a weeklong art exhibit featuring two hundred pictures from ancient and modern times. Grades rotate nights to attend, starting Wednesday with high school night and continuing through sixth seventh grade and third fourth grade nights and a final Saturday for younger pupils. Normal training students and enrollees are listed, and a lecture series begins October 19 at the Tobin opera house with Steele Entertainers and notable performers. The week includes varying temperatures and a fire needed in the morning.
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