The Sidney herald., 1955-04-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Mcdonald re-
turned last Friday from Billings where
they attended the oath annual sales
and managers meeting of the Montana
Dakota Utilities Co., Monday through
Thursday. Over 275 employees of MDU,
manufacturers representatives, and all
officials of the company, from the
president down were in attendance.
The program throughout the foul days
was both highly interesting and 1nfor-
NATIVE, Mr.. Mcdonald, company mana
ger for the Sidney division, reports.
Steve Killian is in Sidney today from
his farm 7 miles north of Enid where
he has been located since 1913 when
his late parents hOmeSteaded IN that
community. He was Is years old when
they moved there from Wisconsin.
Seeding operations in that section of
the county have been delayed some
what by recent rains but from a
moisture standpoint the crop prospect
is excellent. he said.
Mrs. Fred Anderson arrived home
Wednesday afternoon via Frontier Air
lines from the East h h visited
with her daughter, Corrine, who is
supervisor of a special floor at the
Greenwich hospital. Mrs. Anderson
describe the wonderful time she had
in the East. which included a guided
tour of New York City, visits to the
large stores and to all places in the
city OF interest to the tourist. and a
cruise around Manhattan Island. Mrs.
Anderson made the trip from Grand
Forks, N. D., by car with Mrs. Alton
Thogerson and her two children. On
their arrival in New York City, Mrs.
Anderson spent a day with them at
Fort Hamilton before they left by
plane for Luxembourg, Germany, to
Join Alton, who will be stationed
there for three years. Mrs. Anderson
said they had a fine motor trip and
that she would not hesitate for n
minute to drive it alone at any time.
They left Grand Forks Thursday fore
noon and arrived at their destination
son called back and talked to Mrs. An
derson shortly after their arrival in
Germany to say they had a very
pleasant trip and had arrived safely.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Marman Jr.,
brought their infant daughter, Vic
toria. home from Billings Wednes-
day evening, where she had been I'M
der care at st. Vincent's hospital. Her
condition changed for the worse later
that night n she was taken back to
the local hospital. The ten weeks old
baby has suffered from A respiratory
ailment since She was a few days old.
DR.. and Mrs. j. S.. Beagle have for
their house guest this week, DR. Beagle's
cousin, OrViLe GOWdy of Information
al Falls, Mimi. Mr.. Gowdy is a broth
er of the late DR.. Gowdy, well known
among the early day residents of Sid
ney. Mr.. GOwdy is returning to his
home from a six months vacation spent
visiting at the home of his daughter
and her family in Long Beach, Califor-
MIA, and with his son and family in
Seattle.
Carl Abelein is reported as making
satisfactory recovery at the local hos
pital, where he was taken the first of
the week for treatment following a
heart attack.
Jim Harmon whose name is familiar
to people who drive from the sign
pointing west to "Harmon'S Gardens
at the cross road intersection on the
highway five miles north of Sidney,
told us the other day that he has
onions, carrots and six acres of
"Spuds" already planted n early in
May will set out his tomatoes and
plant corn and cabbage. Come fall
when the garden truck is ready to be
taken off for market he has a run OF
business. some of it by truck from
across the line in Canada, and last
fall n patron flew up from Medora
customers in the RooSevelt-Sheridan
county area who buy truckloadS OF
vegetables from him for their winter
requirements. These people stop in
Sidney and spend some money too.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Peterson and
Fred Thompson and daughter Ruth
Kay were in Sidney last Saturday
from the Andes community in the
central part of the county. Mr.. Peter
son told us that 220 inches of rain
fell there the previous Tuesday, leav-
ing the fields too soggy to work fol
the Mex couple Of days. Ground con-
ditions are better thar they have been
in years for a good r and farmers
have reason with the timely moisture
to be very optimistic over that pros
pect at this time, he said.