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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1913
Page
6
Potter residents report a busy week with visits from Edith Stark and others, farm sales at 52.50 per acre, new building plans east of Foster Implement, hotel talk, and a steady grain harvest. Shoppers and travelers share updates on kin, weather, school events, and community activities across Sidney and surrounding areas.
The district records cool frosty weather this week. Local residents report visitors from Sidney and California. Several families, including Busacker Kellams and Gade households, were noted guests north of Lodgepole and in Sidney. A new baby arrived for Mr and Mrs Hayer. Illness touched Little Forest Planck. neighbors hope for rapid recovery.
Mr and Mrs Portrey and family visited J E Nelsons last Sunday B K Bushee and family of Kim Ball and J J Cunningham and son Kenneth of Cheyenne visited the Cunningham families Saturday A Limbeck is sowing fall wheat this week about 100 acres Ralph Reinmuth is having a large barn built John Miller and wife of Potter visited A Limbecks Sunday Large quantities of corn are being cut for feed but much of the early corn will be allowed to stand and mature Mother Nature delays frost and two weeks of good weather may yield one of the best corn crops in years Mrs Fred Beyer traded in Sidney last Friday Mrs John Beyer and Miss Jennie Armstrong drove to Sidney Saturday afternoon.
Clara reports threshing busy with wheat yields from 10 to 25 bushels and oats 35 to 60. Mr Pomeroy arrived from Santa Ana to the ranch. Johnston and family visited The Hard Times Ranch. Frost delayed corn. Doty Bros. sowed fall wheat for McNish Land Co. Mrs Selch and Mrs Quinn visited The Boy Ranch. Fall wheat looks fine and flax remains to be cut. Jos Riley works for Higgins.
Mrs Henry DeBrunner arrived from Colorado Springs on Friday evening to visit her parents Mr and Mrs Fusha. Verne Bates left Wednesday evening for Lincoln. Emil Crandall, who had been visiting his brother the past three weeks, left yesterday.
Eleven degrees below freezing grips the area as North Divide endures a bitter Wednesday night. Reports note widespread colds and illness with several residents, including Charles Higgins and his wife, illness affecting their tonsils. Local activity includes A Limbeck’s construction contract with Miller Bros. for a house barn and granary on See 1-15-51. Frank Portrey and family host Pease Portrey visiting from southern Missouri while J Brudeen of Sidney handles local threshing work.
Live stock prices at South Omaha show mixed demand across cattle hogs and sheep. Cattle receipts were about 8,000 headed with steady to firm values for best offerings, hog trade slow with prices down, and sheep and lambs totaling around 36,000 head with uneven but active movement and varied prices for different classes.
Readable pricing for wethers and ewes with varying quality. Wethers fair to good priced at 400 to 425 dollars. Wethers feeders listed at 400 with 4.50. Ewes good to choice at 400 yielding 4.25. Ewes fair to good at 375 to 400. Ewes feeders priced at £3.00 560. Cull sheep range from 200 to 300 dollars.
Chicago markets show wheat Sep 5 ½ to 6 cents up, corn Sep 73 ½ to 74 cents, oats Sep 40 ½ to 42 ½ cents. Live cattle receipts 18,000 with beeves 7.25 to 9.40, western steers 6.30 to 8.40, calves 8.50 to 12.00. hogs 29,000, lower 5 to 10 cents, bulk at 8.10 to 8.55, pigs 4.25 to 8.00. sheep 45,000, lambs 5.50 to 7.20. Cash prices list No 2 hard wheat 74 1/4 cents, No 2 corn 74 to 44? cents, No 2 white oats 42 1/2 cents.
Seneca Nebraska September 24 large crowds greet dairy train speakers visiting the Sandhill region. Homesteaders and stockmen number in the hundreds, with four hundred at Mullen Hyannis Whitman and Bingham. Today's run goes Seneca to Broken Bow and tomorrow Broken Bow to Grand Island.
Over 200 visiting delegates attended the state convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in Fremont. Mrs Blair, now in California, discussed women’s impact since gaining the ballot with over 100 saloons closed. Mrs Patterson of Sioux City urged local unions to act, noting Iowa’s long efforts for suffrage and reform.
Julius E. Johnson, a prominent farmer five miles west of Ravenna, was killed while threshing. A fork caught on the drive belt, whirled around the flywheel, and struck him on the head and neck, causing fatal injuries that led to his death a few hours later.
Bertha Liebke, known as Fainting Bertha in several states, will be liberated from the hospital for the insane at Hastings on October 22. The date marks her release back into the community after confinement.
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