Unmarried farmer Pete Vaughn attempts suicide on Berea area farm
Alfred Vaughn known as Pete, forty, attacks his brother and brother in law with a knife after a mental lapse likely from heat. He slashes his throat, is wounded, treated at a city hospital, and is out of danger with possible transfer to a private hospital.
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Alfred Vaugan
Berea
Mr. Vaughn
Pete
Kiiswerh Vaughn
Elmer
A. H. Mabon
Vaughn
Elmer Vaughn
Mabon
Berney Shepard
Pete Vaughn
Toughy McClure In Court For Bicycle Theft Again
Walton McClure known as Toughy faces juvenile court after aiding a bicycle theft. He admitted hiding the bike near the Baptist church and told of a louder peer pressure to join in. Judge Tash postponed sentencing ten days to place him under a boys' convent program or, if not, send him to Kearney’s industrial school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walton McClure
Stephen J. Epler
Rex Thompson
Alliance Hotel
Toughy McClure
Toughy
Chesf
Reed
Sherrif Miller
Sherriff Miller
Buster Dunbar
Reuben C. McClure
Degger
Yen
Boys’ Industrial School
Kearney
Weather Outlook for Alliance and Vicinity
General forecast for Alliance and area calls for fall conditions tonight and Wednesday with warmer temperatures in the southeast portion tonight.
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Alliance and Vicinity
Labor Day planning meeting schedules events in city
Representatives of local unions met at Red Dish Hall Monday evening to organize the Labor Day celebration on September 6. R G Ives chaired the committee with W I Hiles Charles Jefferson George Davis Arthur Ralls L B Herbaugh Judge Bullock and C E B Roberts. Plans include a doubleheader baseball game footraces a watermelon eating contest a potato race and a roof garden dance. Burlington shops will close as much as possible and funds come from a pro rata union assessment.
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Reddish Hall
R. G. Ives
W. I. Hiles
Charles Jeffers
George Davis
Arthur Ralls
L. B. Herbaugh
Judge Bullock
C. EB. Roberts
Roof Garden
Burlington
Willie Sneed Sentenced for Home Burglary and Theft
Willie Sneed pleaded guilty in district court to breaking into the home of Meubert Adams in Alliance on July 15 and stealing a gold watch chain and a coin purse valued at $40. He received from one to ten years in the state penitentiary and a $100 fine with costs totaling about $16.7. Judge W. H. Westover presided. Sneed had been jailed since the theft awaiting the plea. He must pay the $100, with overtime work optional for penitentiary inmates. if he refuses to work, the sentence extends automatically until extra days satisfy the judgment.
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Willie Sneed
W. H. Westover
Sneed
Meubert Adams
Alliance
Tom Mix film at Imperial Tonight
The Cyclone starring Tom Mix plays at the Imperial tonight. Will Rogers appears Wednesday in Jes Call Me Jim. Thursday and Friday show Why Change Your Wife in Cecil B. De Mille’s hit with Meighan Swanson and Daniels.
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the Imperial
Tom Mix
Jim Fenton
Miss Butterworth
Paul Benedict
Paul
Belcher
Mike Conlin
Jim
Mike
Cecil B. DeMille
Thomas Meighan
Gloria Swanson
Bebe Daniels
Five Gallons of Hooch Captured in Alliance
Chief Oscar Reed seized a Studebaker Six towing a keg of liquor in Alliance, capturing bootleggers Fred Thompson and Albert Corwin. They fled with Ray Thompson driving. arrests followed with notes, a code in a notebook, and a store of tools. Proceedings target liquor sale and interstate transport.
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Fred Thompson
Albert Corwin
Ray Thompson
Studebaker
Berea
James Kennedy
Hemingford
Thompson
Reed
Alliance
W. L. Clark
Edward F. Pfling
Maywood
Chicago
Ecounty
Keegan Sees Board Likely to Approve Appraising Board Claims
County Assessor J A Keegan says the board of county commissioners will probably approve about $144.50 in claims from precinct appraising boards, far below the $1 900 estimate. He cites official support letters and a cost saving in Box Butte county, noting the plan has department sanction and may reflect uniform real estate assessment across the county.
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Attorney General's Department
J. A. Keegan
Board of County Commissioners
Keegan Cage
Herald
Puch
Scotts Bluff
Keegan
Box Butte
Alliance
Frontier Days Event Ends With Cowboy Ride Incident
An impromptu Frontier Days celebration in Alliance featured a cowboy in chaps who tried to ride his horse into a near beer parlor on Box Butte. He exited halfway through the doorway and dismounted to buy cigarettes.
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Alliance
Box Butte
Earnest Block Visits Edgemont to See Mother Mia
Emma Block of Alliance returns home while Earnest Block of Edgemont visits his mother Mia.
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Earnest Block
Edgemont
Mia
Emma Block
Alliance
Bia
Miss Kathrine Baker Joins Fashion Shop Millinery Department
Miss Kathrine Baker has accepted a position with the Fashion Shop in the millinery department, signaling a new chapter in the store's hat lineup.
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Kathrine Baker
Man With Mania for Killing Reported Violent Wanderer
Chicago warnings identify David J Landrigan a 31 year old former patient from Massillon State Hospital for the Insane. He escaped in June 1920 and has wandered the country with a mania for killing prominent citizens over imagined wrongs. Weight 150 pounds height 6 1 2 feet dark brown hair and eyes neat appearance calm when talking but becomes suspicious when speaking of his mother.
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Red Cross Home Service
Chicago
David J. Landrigan
State Hospital For
Massillon
Cabd
Landrigan
Red Cross
Lorain
Home Service
Toledo
Rural Route Established From Alliance Post Office
The post office department approves a new rural route from Alliance with Route No. 1, covering 29.4 miles. A single carrier will make Tuesday and Saturday trips from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., at a salary of $1,170 yearly. Service starts October 16. examination date to be announced. Patrons must install official mailboxes prior to start.
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Post Office Department
Alliance
Robert Graham
Alliance Post Office
Happy Hollow
Habeas Corpus Writ Denied in Urban Zediker Case
Judge W H Westover denied the writ of habeas corpus for Urban Zediker held in the county jail on $2,500 bail. He refused to reduce bail after denying the petition, stating the county judge’s assessment of witnesses should stand and the case proceed to trial.
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W. H. Westover
Westover
Tash
Burton
Edgemont Man Visited Alliance Friends on Sunday
Robert Ats of Edgemont spent Sunday visiting friends in Alliance, reporting a quiet day with no incidents or travel issues.
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Robert Ats
Edgemont
Friends In
Alliance
Marking Kimball Alliance Road Aims for New Highway Route
Minatare and Melbeta progress on marking the Kimball Alliance road with a new route via Huffman Lake Wrights Gap Hendrickson hill and Kimball. They plan to extend markers north to the On to Alliance join the Black Hills Trail and seek state highway designation for a route resembling the old Oregon Trail.
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Kimball
Alliance
Minatare
Melbeta
Minatare Free Press
Minatare Commercial Club
Lodgepole Valley
Platte River
Commercial Club
Harrisburg Road
Wright's Gap
Ted Cars
Huffman Lake
Hendickson Hill
Hendickson
Minatata
Bein Bridge
Black Hills
Nebraska
Allignes
Pumpkin Creek
North Platte
Lake Minatare
Melbeta Live Wires
Morrill
Scottsbluff Counes
Board of County Commissioners
Grubbs Moves Headquarters After Wife's Death
W C Grubbs formerly from Alliance has moved his headquarters and will oversee a district in Hamilton York Seward Saunders Polk Butler and Lancaster counties. He will represent Marsh & Marsh of Omaha in distributing groceries to the trade.
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W. C. Grubbs
Alliance
Burr
Hamilton
York
Seward
Saunders, Polk
Butler
Lancaster
York County
Marsh & Marsh of
Omaha
Aurora Register
Alliance Rifles Meet at High School Gym for Equipment Check
All members of the Alliance Rifles will meet at the High School Gym on Wednesday August 25 at 8 P.M. for equipment check and discharge. All guns should be thoroughly oiled with 3-in-1 oil when returned. Signed W. R. Pats, Captain.
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Alliance Rifles
W. R. Pats
Miss Grace Pacht Spends Sunday With Lois Wily
Miss Grace Pacht spent Sunday with Miss Lois Wily in Scottabluf in a social visit noted by local observers.
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Grace @pacht
Lois Wily
Scottabluf
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Alfred Vaughn
M’clure
Arange
Mr. DeMille
Lt Them
Box Butte County
Oscar Reed
Businss
Bhople
Judge Westover
Attention Alliance Rifles
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