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Newspaper
The Telegraph News
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1932
Page
1
Sharp hog price gains led agricultural markets, with Omaha reports showing a top of 4.05 and averages rising to 3.65 to 4.00. Feeder pigs up 40 to 75 cents, sows at 4.00 to 4.75, and a weaker year earlier. Demand for fed steers and yearlings remained strong as farmers eye July shipments.
Domestic wheat markets fell further in the week ending June 24 due to higher new winter wheat marketings and tepid demand. Harvesting advances in Ohio Valley and western Texas, Oklahoma rain delays, and sharp marketings at Fort Worth Wichita Hutchinson and Kansas City frame a broader crop picture with Europe yeilds improving and rust and grasshopper threats noted.
Sidney will entertain members of the Western Nebraska Bar association and their wives for an all day meeting Wednesday. About seventy five lawyers and judges from Nebraska’s thirteenth and seventeenth districts are expected. Charles Goss chief justice and Byron Clark retired Burlington general attorney are on the speakers’ program.
Franklin Hornaday son of Mr. and Mrs. C W Hornaday spent the weekend with his parents while en route to Los Angeles and Hollywood for a four month engagement at the Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador hotel The voice star formerly Frank Hazzard has recent New York appearances in radio and film and will also appear in NBC coffee hour broadcasts from the Ambassador with Jimmy Grier's Cocoanut Grove orchestra The west coast trip follows a year in New York City where he appeared in Vitaphone shorts and state productions Other notes include meetings at the courthouse country club and a banquet with speakers from Sidney North Platte Scottsbluff Kimball and Bridgeport and plans for the 1933 convention of Western Nebraska lawyers
Fay Clark of Hemingford welterweight knocked out Billy Reitz of Holyoke in the seventh round of a ten round bout the main event of the American Legion card Friday night. Clark delivered bludgeon like rights and lefts cutting Reitz’s face. by the third round Reitz was glassy eyed and staggering as Clark used a shell like stance to dodge blows.
Rev Louis H Kaub and Rev J H Patterson announce plans for a larger 1933 Bayard pageant. They credit community support for the 1932 success and say Hastings College and Nebraska Wesleyan will be invited, with more costumes, improved scenery and lighting, and broader participation from local groups.
Bunker Hill touched Peetz for 8 to 5 as Ross Bales and hitters Phelps and Raddatz powered a seven inning lead. Peetz rallied with two runs in seventh and eighth, Stibley with three hits for the losers. Closman hurled a masterful 9 strikeouts for Sidney as they topped Gurley Cardinals 4 to 2.
Plans for the Kruegers July Fourth at their scenic Sidnay lake outline a one day program with horse racing rodeo sports fireworks dancing and stunts. Admission is one dollar per car with free picnicking grounds and parking. Standstand and evening dance charges apply. Water tests confirm lake purity.
Local mortician M G Rice says elm scale can be removed by a strong hose stream. Scale of ten leads to tree death if not cleaned weekly. Water works as well as chemicals. avoid letting scale grip the tree to prevent death.
Bankers report mid month conditions show ample moisture across Nebraska with winter wheat improving in eastern areas though panhandle districts lag. Corn stands at 78 with replanting and weeds common. rye and other small grains gain after wet weather. Prices move lower for grains and hay while hogs and cattle rise. wild hay promising, pastures excellent, but risk to oats and barley from heat.
George Lee and his Brunswick recording orchestra, a Chicago direct group, headline Friday at the city auditorium in an unusual dance attraction. The colored musicians have played Scottsbluff and Bridgeport, lauded as the finest Western Nebraska has seen, with admission only one dollar per couple and balcony seating at 25 cents. George and Julia Lee are noted entertainers with the orchestra.
Wells brothers, Chicago millionaires, closed a major land deal in Nebraska by purchasing the Frank Boone ranch, 20 miles east of Angola, at 10 dollars an acre for cash. The 5,800 acre property features hay valleys and modern facilities. The buyers also own the Club ranch near Lisco and manage cattle across western Nebraska.
Softball has become the citys national pastime in Sidney after a game between the Telegraph and Cheyenne County Lumber. A local league is forming with 12 to 16 teams. Two diamonds will host simultaneous games at 15th and Jackson as rosters grow. A committee will draft rules and a schedule. playoffs may crown a city champion. The sport draws big crowds and appeals to all ages for fitness and fun.
Jean McIntosh captured the ladies flag tournament at Sidney country club Sunday with a 44 for nine holes and reaching the 11th hole before exhausting the 50 stroke limit. Mrs. Joe Simodynes finished second and Mrs. J A Bentley third. McIntosh also won the longest drive award with a drive over 200 yards off No 10 tee.
At the Fox Theatre manager E M Boyd offers a white baby to the audience for adoption next Saturday evening. The infant comes from good parents and is being given away because the mother cannot care for it. Details are sparse and seating is limited.
The piece recalls 1860s 1870s Cheyenne county life as pioneers and soldiers fought Indian raids while settlers built homes, married, and launched the Sidney Telegraph. It notes Fanny Fisher born 1869, Henry Neuman and Miss McMurray's 1869 marriage, the first Sidney newspaper in 1873, and Edward Creighton stock ranching beginning in 1869 amid rustler fears.
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