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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1916
Page
16
Miss Eila Hood visits Antioch while F M Broome and H H Fink call on Alliance friends. Local sales at Darling's draw crowds as seasonable goods go on display at 98 cents, and a nine pound birth brings joy to the Mahaffys. Community members travel, call on officials, and report small town business and fines in March.
Alliance Volunteer Fire Department holds regular meeting and schedules a smoker along with a wrestling and boxing tournament at the club rooms on Friday evening May 12 attended by members and businessmen. New officers for the coming year were elected and a new boiler for heating the plunge was approved to be purchased at once for opening for the T. P. A. convention on April 28 and 29.
The National Music Supply Company opened a Victor Store in Alliance with John Wiker as manager and Miss Eva Duncan in charge of music. The formal opening Monday featured Victrola records played all day. The store, opposite the post office, attracted many visitors as Wiker announced a large selection of machines and records with high priced models arriving soon.
By order of sale from Box Butte County District Court a public auction will be held May 1 1916 at 10 o clock A M at the west front door of the Alliance Courthouse to sell the SEQ of Section 25 Township 26 North Range 50 West wheat of the sixth principal meridian Nebraska. The action lists George A Crim as plaintiff and John Pelter and Arthur N Smith as defendants with Norvas Bros and B F Gilman representing the plaintiff.
Hemingiord department reports residents visiting relatives and traveling between Alliance Edgemont and Canton. Residents include Finchers Williams Saling Rockey Pitman Franzen Kinsley Esther Baker Ella Brown Jack Burns candidate in the Democratic primary and Weddell family. Also notes illnesses, a stroke, transfers at Forest Lumber, and local job changes.
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