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Excerpts from newspapers. TOPIC: 100 YEARS AGO. Compiled by Doris Dilbone in Oct.,
1999
100 Years Ago - October 1899...Pg 2
Well
Drilled at Ballou
Arrangements are being made to put down a test well
for oil on the farm of George White southeast of Ballou. The derrick has been erected for
several weeks. The machinery and engine arrived this week and the work drilling will soon
be commenced. Shelby County Democrat, Oct. 6, 1899
Back from Gold Rush
George Kraft, who went to the Klondike gold fields
last spring, arrived home Tuesday. The Dutch band and a
large number of George's friends were at the depot to meet him.
Shelby County Democrat, Oct. 6, 1899
Met
Hometown Boy in Klondike
George Kraft, who returned from Alaska this week to
spend the winter at home, met Anthony Rheinish, formerly of this city, at Nome, Alaska.
Rheinish has been away from Sidney for over twelve years. He was twenty years of age when
he left. When he left home he said he was going to California. During all the time he has
been away he never wrote home and this is the first information his folks have heard
concerning his whereabouts. There was no apparent reason for his leaving home as he did.
He is now located at Nome city and has an interest in some mining claims in that vicinity.
Shelby County Democrat, Oct. 13, 1899
Before Astronauts
Miss Ida LeRoy, the lady aeronaut, who made balloon
ascensions during the street fair in Sidney a few years ago, was injured at Flora,
Indiana, Wednesday of last week.
Shelby County Democrat, Oct. 13, 1899
Before
the Mayor
Gertie Jones, an old offender, was taken before the
Mayor Monday afternoon on a charge of loitering. She pleaded guilty, was fined $10 and
costs, and sentenced to jail for ten days on bread and water. This is the sixty time that
she has been before Mayor Nessler, on various charges.
Shelby County Democrat, Oct.13, 1899
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