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Newspaper
The Telegraph News
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1938
Page
1
Western Nebraska winter wheat should start ripening around July 10 and aim for its largest harvest since 1990. Observers report good overall condition with blight and Hessian fly damage in some fields, while hail remains the main natural risk to a big yield. Farmers plan to bind and bale straw to preserve remaining wheat hay.
Rev. Otto H. Wittig of Ruskin Nebraska will arrive Thursday to lead Trinity Lutheran church southeast of Sidney South Divide. He brings his wife and five children and will teach the parochial school succeeding Rev. Pralle who left for Auburn. A new parsonage built by parish members awaits the Wittigs.
R P Kepler completed his filing for Cheyenne county attorney on the Republican ticket yesterday morning. With his filing three men seek the office including A J Kinnersly also a Republican and P J Heaton a Democrat.
Enrollments for the Civilian Conservation Corps will be accepted at the county assistance office in the courthouse until Saturday July 3. The vacancy will be filled shortly and recruits sent to the CCC camp near Mitchell. Youths may call at the assistance office for full requirements.
The Agriculture Department signals reduced export hopes for wheat and moves to store surpluses under a loan program. Projected world demand and rising Canadian and Argentine production threaten trade prospects, with loan rates to be announced after July 1 estimates.
Elvin F. Frolik of the Nebraska College of Agriculture announced field meetings in 46 Nebraska counties to show which small grain varieties adapt best to state conditions. On farms in this year's cooperative tests, agricultural college representatives will explain results and answer questions. Schedule includes Deuel barley on June 30 Garden barley oats and spring wheat on July 1 Kimball winter wheat on July 2 Cheyenne barley on July 5 Scotts Bluff barley on July 6 Sheridan barley oats winter wheat and spring wheat on July 7.
Edward L. Hyde of Sidney has gained his certificate of active membership in the Nebraska State Bar Association. The move makes association membership a prerequisite for practicing law in the state. Hyde delayed applying due to ill health and noted in a letter that suspension for non compliance is not disbarment.
Sidney to host a city wide Dollar Days sale Friday and Saturday July 1 and 2 with merchants placing key merchandise on sale at clearance prices. The Telegraph will carry participating store ads and promotion builds on last year’s Sidney Days campaign.
Gov R L Cochran filed for renomination without a speech other than I shall run on my record. A Democrat born in Avoca and raised in Brady he graduated civil engineering from the University of Nebraska in 1910. He has served as state engineer since 1923 and held public office through both parties. He did not plan a formal campaign.
Evelyn Doran won the ladies one club golf tournament at the country club Sunday. Thelma Ladegard and Evelyn Tompkins tied for runner-up, with Betty Simodynes posting the fewest putts and Mrs. Kermit Moore earning the consolation prize.
Dr P P Cheff pastor of the Presbyterian church left yesterday for Grand Rapids Michigan where he will join Mrs Cheff and continue to a Lake Michigan beach resort to spend the summer. They expect to return early September.
Filing closes at midnight Thursday June 30 for Nebraska public offices. August 9 polls will feature many contenders with Cheyenne county lacking national or state candidates. In Cheyenne county three seek the 43rd legislature while incumbents largely filed. William J. Shuman of North Platte joined the 5th district race Saturday as the first Republican entrant, with Democrats Harry B. Coffee of Chadron and Ed McDermott of Kearney the only Democrats so far.
Mrs. Minnie Kathryn Green wife of Joseph Green died Sunday after a long illness Funeral services are set for Wednesday at two o clock at the Methodist church Rev J J Sheaff will officiate Interment will be Greenwood cemetery Gehrig Funeral home in charge She is survived by her husband and children Dolores 19 Marvin 15 Roland 13 and Joan 8 One brother John Buess of Nebraska City and a sister Mrs Mack Collier of Fairmont West Virginia She moved to Kimball in 1915 and to Sidney in 1918
Rev. George Flora a Gurley native and Midland College graduate will deliver his final sermon at the Methodist church in Sidney next Sunday before departing for a five year assignment as a missionary to Liberia Africa. He has led the Lutheran church at Oshkosh and has many friends in the territory.
Dolores Hopewood has taken first in the Fox theatre popularity contest with 26 510 votes as Sunday closes. Emelene Glassburn is second with 24 380 votes and Florence Seimers is third with 22 630.
The equalization board meets here June 28 and will hear requests for personal assessment adjustments. After adjournment no changes are allowed by law. At the last session several adjustments were made, and farmers protested the wheat storage rate.
Services were conducted at Christ Episcopal church for Mrs. Sarah C. Lieber 49 wife of Dr. Charles Lieber. She died at the Lieber farm near Sidney nine weeks after illness. Burial was in Sidney Greenwood cemetery. Survivors include husband son Ted and siblings. Pallbearers and out of town attendees listed from Waukegan Omaha Ames and other places.
Sol Willis 1H W Ells and Red Porter arrived after attending the International Fire Chiefs convention in Boulder on Tuesday and Wednesday They spent Thursday in Cheyenne for the Wyoming State Volunteer Firemen convention held that day
A late Thursday hail storm struck Cheyenne County from two miles north of Huntsman to the east Dalton area damaging wheat. Farmers estimate varies but fields in Huntsman and east Dal show heavy impact with large hail stones. The cloud traveled northeast from Sidney after a brief southward rise, with the worst losses reported in the east Dalton region.
Funeral services were held at Chappell for Frank O. Carlson 64 a Deuel county pioneer who died in Sidney on Saturday June 18. A Sweden native Carlson came to this country with his parents in 1878 and moved to Deuel county in 1885. He served as president of the Deuel County State Bank for years and resigned recently due to ill health. He was named one of the ten master farmers of Nebraska in 1931.
Mickey Willis, 59, Pueblo Colorado, jailed after selling cigarets to minors at Kim ball and breaking into Bogle's cafe in Bushnell. Willis pled guilty to a felony charge before County Judge Vogler and was bound over to district court after being found in a box car with a sack of candy gum and cigarets.
Union Pacific warns merchants that a supposed advertising solicitor is active in the territory claiming endorsement by the booster league. Railroad officials deny any knowledge or approval of the advertising plan and urge caution.
Sidney officials report a balanced county general fund signaling improved finances. Mayor Roche says no move to buy motor vehicle testing equipment and a station likely won t be installed this year. State enforcement of the inspection law seems unlikely in an election year, per local officials.
The Nebraska State Medical Society positions polio serum across eight physicians in the state with main stock in Omaha and Lincoln as an emergency network. Dr. Floyd B. Clark chairs the convalescent serum committee shaping rapid procurement within six hours of diagnosis.
The Rotary club installed new officers led by Dr. G. H. Thompson as president succeeding Guy V. Doran. O. J. Weymouth became vice-president, absent for the ceremony. Marius Christensen is treasurer, Leon Fine secretary, and Charles Sill sergeant at arms. No board changes. Donald Fahy reported on his Cornhusker Boys State camp experiences in Lincoln.
Banner county high school regents face a water drought as a driller sinks two wells this week. One well proved a dry hole while the other yielded only a gallon per minute, far below the school's needs.
County Treasurer Louis Wasem announced that all outstanding warrants have been called in and the general fund now shows an accumulated balance near three thousand dollars. Heaton and commissioners credit long-term budgeting and a foreclosure program begun in May 1937 for narrowing a forty thousand dollar overall deficit.
Mrs. J. F. Young of Northport formerly Margery Fuller of Sidney died last Tuesday night. Funeral services were held Sunday. interment in Forest Lawn cemetery west of Bridgeport. She was born in Fort Dodge Iowa and resided in Sidney as a girl. Surviving are her husband three sisters Lori Fuller and Mrs. O. F. Lundelius of Los Angeles Mrs. H. H. Flesher of Kennewerk Wash and two brothers Clark Fuller of Sidney and L W Fuller of Los Angeles.
Robert E. Morrison 66 of 840 15th Avenue died suddenly at his home yesterday around noon. He had worked for Union Pacific for some time. No funeral arrangements were set, awaiting word from relatives. The body was taken to Rice Funeral Home. A fuller obituary will appear in the next issue.
J Paul Hansen filed for reelection as county surveyor last Friday becoming the last current county official to enter the race. The Democrat is completing his first term with no opposition yet on either ticket. The filing deadline in Nebraska is Thursday June 30.
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