Local News Highlights from Alliance Area
Sergeant BE McCann arrives to lead Alliance U S Army recruiting station. Miss Mayme O'Donnell returns to Portland after visiting parents. Dr W J Mahaffy aids injured auto crash victims on Lincoln highway. Sylvia Hawkins and Barry Hooper wed by Judge Tash. Dr Thomas Allen visiting Alliance from Schuyler. Hay fever relief sought in Boulder by Dr F M Knight. Lincoln Lowry family heads to California via Studebaker Six. Elis family travels to Pacific coast. Sherman captures Starkweather at Pringle. Sunday sermons at Methodist church and lawn union meeting. Ladies Aid meets for Red Cross day. Band concert and benefit dance for band. Condra survey team in city studying potash district. Wigand Maunier resigns. Pilkington becomes auto fire truck driver. Mrs Hood and daughter plan Alliance home. Mrs C W Graham and daughter visit Alliance.
Death Comes At Noon To Mrs Della Comas
Mrs. Della Comas wife of Marcus Comas died at the Drake hotel in Alliance after arriving July 24 for medical treatment. She had lived in Alliance and Antioch, born in Cleveland and married in 1906. Survived by husband a son a sister five brothers and her parents. Funeral in Alliance time to be announced.
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Della Comas
Marcus Comas
Drake Hotel
Comas
Alliance
Antioch
Cleveland
Ohio
Wage Increases For Rail Shopmen Under McAdoo Order
Washington confirms wage hikes for railroad mechanical department workers under federal control effective January 1 1918 with eight hour days and overtime. Rates vary by craft from 68 cents to 45 cents hourly plus monthly foremen pay of 185 dollars. Back pay to January 1 1918 to be issued. eight hour day returns August 1 1918 with overtime rules.
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Washington
McAdoo
Ofce
Carmen
Een
Red Cross Home Service Details Support for Families
The American Red Cross home service explains its role aiding soldiers families at home. It provides information and assistance to keep morale high, with offices in the Civil Service room of the post office building and hours Tuesday Thursday Saturday 2 to 4 pm. Contact secretary Mrs. H. P. Toohey at 274 North 815 Toluca Avenue.
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American Red Cross
Home Service
Red Cross
American
the Red Cross
The
Civil Service Room
Post Office
H. P. Toohey
Toluca Avenue
Chester Snow Buried in Alliance
Funeral note for Chester Snow burial at Greenwood cemetery with reflections on death and faith. Poetic tribute recalls his manhood devotion and the hope of eternal rest in God’s acre. Gates to immortality and the coming morn of faith are affirmed.
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Chester Snow
Alliance
God's
Acre
Card of Thanks for Kindness After Death
The Snow family expresses heartfelt gratitude to friends for unwearying kindness during their son and brother's illness and death. They praise flowers, offers of help, and comforting support, and ask that those who helped be sustained by friendship in return. J. K. Snow Mrs. Alice D. Snow Charles Snow Arvilla Snow.
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Mos
J. K. Snow
Alice D. Snow
Charles Snow
Arvilla Snow
Obituary of Mrs. L. N. Worley of Alliance
Mrs. L N Worley of Alliance died July 27 at 2 a.m. at 812 Box Butte avenue after months of illness. She was born in Council Bluffs in 1862 and survived by her husband and five children Ralph Guy Izola Mabel and Harvey. The funeral was held at home with Rev J W Morris of the Methodist church officiating. Burial followed in Greenwood cemetery.
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L. N. Worley
Alliance
Worley
Box Butte Avenue
Aye Brothers Hospital
Rochester
Minn
J. W. Morris
Methodist Church
Ralph
Guy
Izola
Mabel
Harvey
Cuncil Bluffs
Greenwood Cemetery
Two Twins Born to Regesters Die in Days
The Regosters welcomed twins on Tuesday July 30, a girl who died that day and a boy who died July 31. Interment followed July 31 at Greenwood cemetery. community offers condolences to Mr. and Mrs. Vern Regester.
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Vern Regester
Greenwood Cemetery
Oliver D. Alexander One Week Old Passes Away
Oliver D. Alexander aged one week son of Mr and Mrs Horace G Alexander died in Alliance on July 309 and was buried in Greenwood cemetery on July 31.
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Oliver D. Alexander
Horace G. Alexander
Alliance
Greenwood Cemetery
Henrietta L Castle Dies at 80 in Alliance
Henrietta Lavena Castle aged 80 mother of Mrs Roy Nelson Alliance died July 30 at 701 Missouri Avenue. She was born in New York state and buried Thursday afternoon in Greenwood cemetery.
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Henrietta Lavena Castle
Roy Nelson
Alliance
Missouri Avenue
Greenwood Cemetery
Castle
New York State
Silk kimonos and Madeira work on sale at Mrs Simmons
Mrs R Simmons offers good prices on silk kimonos Madeira fancy work and many crocheted yokes inviting War Savings Stamps purchases as part of the fundraiser event.
Also Mentioned on This Page
BE. H. McCann
Des Moines
Iowa
U. S. Army
Mayme O'Donnell
Portland
W. L. Walker
Chadron
W. J. Mahaffy
Cheyenne
Lincoln Highway
Sylvia G. Hawkins
Barry N. Hooper
Tash
Thomas Allen
Schuyler
Nebraska
F. M. Knight
Boulder
Colo
Mountain
Lincoln Lowry
California
Studebaker
H. J. Elis
Pacific Coast
Butte, Montana
Burlington
Sherman
Godsy
Custer County
South Dakota
Jease Starkweather
Charlie Wayman
Pringle
S.D
Starkweather
North Dakota
Morris
Imo
Ladies’ Aid Society of the Methodist Church
Chas. W. Grassman
Sweetwater Avenue
Red Crosse
Alliance Fire Department
Armory
Band Alliance
G. F. Condra
Nebraska Conservation and Soil Survey
City
Wigand Maunier
Leonard Pilkington
Pilkington
Coursey & Miller
Orm Mra
C. W. Graham
Hemingford
Smock
Heatley
Hooper
Billings
W. A. Bennett
Fred Poffenberger
Broken Bow
Broken Bow-Seneca
J. R. Willis
Neville
Walgreen
Vandiver
Douglas, Wy
Oming
McGuire
Ravenna
Dan Fitzpatrick
Lincoln
Dan
Pat Nolan
Johnnie
H. Hf. Arback
the Round House
Thedford
Home Service Branch
Fancy
Earth
Jerusalem the Golden
Mrs. Regester
Wilson
Dick Parriott
Herald
Happy Hollow
First State Bank
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