This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Day Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4340 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. December 3, 1908. "SIDNEY'S LIGHTS TURNED ON TUESDAY EVENING".-- On Tuesday December 1st occurred one of the most important events in the history of Sidney. On that day or evening rather, the long looked for electric lights were turned on and for the first time in her history, Sidney's streets were well lighted. We now have in Sidney, backed by Sidney's enterprising business men, one of the best lighting systems to be found in any town of its size in this or any other state. One that Sidney's people may well be proud of. The work, under the efficient management of Harry B. Day, has been pushed from start to finish, as fast as material could be gotten on the ground. When the building was started Mr. Day said, barring accidents he would have the plant ready for business by Dec. 1st. And though a part of the mechanism for the plant had been lost in transit and failed to arrive, Mr. Day was true to his word and turned on the lights at the time agreed on. Belated citizens will no longer be obliged to stumble along in the darkness or carry greasy foul-smelling lanterns. Sidney has come out of the darkness into the light. N.B.: The Farwell's lived ten miles east of Sidney, atop the rolling loess prairies in southeast Prairie township. During the hot, dry, 1930's, we could sit outdoors and see the Sidney lights in the evening, lighting up the skies atop the loess bluffs.--W.F.