125 Years
Nov. 2, 1899
Christian Kingseed received a letter from his son William, who is with the party of Shelby county hunters at Sandy Bay, Maine. He said that he had killed two deer thus far, but the other members of the party had killed nothing.
During the past year the service of the Sidney post office has been greatly increased. Two rural carriers and on additional city carrier have been added.
100 Years
Nov. 2, 1924
The oil well being drilled on the E.H. Maurer farm two miles north of Sidney struck a heavy flow of gas at 750 feet down this week. The flow was rated at more than a million feet.
The new uniforms for the Sidney H.S. band arrived in time for them to be worn by the band for the Bradford-Sidney H.S. game this afternoon. They carry out the high school colors of orange and black with orange satin lining. The uniforms were donated to the band by the citizens of the city.
Branch Rickey, noted athletic lecturer and manager of the St. Louis baseball team, gave the opening lecture for the public-school lecture course for the season at the Sidney high school auditorium.
75 Years
Nov. 2, 1949
A new granite war memorial to be erected in place of the wooden one now standing in the courthouse lawn was decided upon by the Shelby county War Memorial committee last night. The proposed memorial is to be a low type monument of light, Stoney Creek granite, 11 feet long, 4 feet high, and 16 inches deep, to cost approximately $3,000.
Girl Scout week has added significance in Sidney today with the announcement of the purchase of the picturesque 35-acre former national guard firing range east of the city adjoining Tawawa Civic Park as a permanent Girl Scout site.
Holy Angels high school’s Wings turned out some fanciful sky writing today as they celebrated their successful takeoff on the 1949-50 cage campaign in which they succeeded in putting the skids under Quincy’s Trojans, 41-33, on the latter’s floor last night.
50 Years
Nov. 2, 1974
The purchase of all the capital stock of Dean, Smith & Grace Ltd., located in England, was announced today by Kermit Kuck, president of Monarch Machine Tool Co., Sidney.
After learning that he would inherit most of the debts while his wife would get most of the property, a local man recently being sued for divorce in the Shelby County Court of Domestic Relations took off his shirt and left it behind as he walked out of the courthouse, naked from the waist up. “If she’s going to get all that, she may as well have this too.”
25 Years
Nov. 2, 1999
PHOTO – These leaves are leaving! Kayla Bodenmiller, 5, daughter of Mike and Sarah Bodenmiller, puts leaves in a lawn trailer in an effort to clean up her grandmother’s lawn in Port Jefferson, her brother, Connor, 3, helps her cousin Dillon Gold, 6, gather up the leaves, as Sarah presides as chief leaf-loader. Dillon is the son of Bill and Bonnie Gold.
Water and sewer service in Sidney is likely to cost the average user about $1.29 more monthly as of the first of the year. And for the “low volume” consumer, the increase is expected to amount to 36 cents more per month.
These news items from past issues of the Sidney Daily News are compiled by the Shelby County Historical Society (937-498-1653) as a public service to the community. Local history on the Internet! www.shelbycountyhistory.org. Visit the Sidney Daily News website, www.sidneydailynews.com to read the rest of the week’s columns.
