Celebration of Alliance fire department truck arrival inspires event
The Alliance fire department held a smoker at city hall to celebrate the arrival and installation of a new fire motor truck with over one hundred attendees. Speeches followed by entertainment and a planned December 18 fire department performance at the opera house. details on future gatherings and dances announced.
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Alliance Fire Department
Cears
Leonard Pilkington
Romig and
Snyder
Rodgers
Guthrie
Wieher
Commercial Club
Dr. Band
Handel
Burlington Fire Department
Judge Berry
Lloyd Thomas
Fime
Opera House
Alliance
Fire Department
Gadsby Hall
Moving into Court House Complete Relocation Under Way
The county records began moving to the new court house at 4 pm Tuesday. Chairman Calvin Hashman, board chair, led the first armful of books from the old structure into the fireproof building, followed by The Herald’s reporter and Commissioner Wanek. Noting remaining work, officials plan an opening event around early January to celebrate completion.
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Court House
Calvin Hashman
Herald Reporter
Wanek
European War Spurs Sale of Light Weight Nebraska Horses
Nebraska University farm reports four ready sales of light weight horses once hard to market due to the European war. The cavalry stock weighs around 1100 pounds, stands 15 hands high, and is mostly dark colored with some dark grays and cream colors. Officers of the French army seek well broken, durable animals with good wind and eyes. Mares and geldings fetch about 150 dollars, minor blemishes accepted. The sale links to cotton market effects and shifting European demand easing an overloaded market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Animal Husbandry
Nebraska University Farm
Nebraska
Coyle Couple Open Restaurant At Box Butte Avenue
Mr and Mrs John F Coyle are back in the restaurant business at 217 Box Butte Avenue. After cleaning painting and equipping the former rooms they opened for business Tuesday morning December 1. They expect steady trade despite new competition and invite patrons to see their ad in The Herald.
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John F. Coyle
Box Butte Avenue
The
Herald
Box Butte ranchman sells cattle at South Omaha market
J A Lore a noted Box Butte county ranchman loaded cattle for sale at the South Omaha market on November 19 The lot included five feeders averaging 770 pounds selling at 7.00 per hundredweight and eight heifers listed among the offerings.
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C. H. Tully
Alliance
South Omaha Exchange
Tully-Musser Cattle Company
Phil Dunn
Dunn Brothers
Scottsbluff
South Omaha
E. W. Kine
J. A. Lore
Box Butte County
Haddorff Piano Company expands with Omaha wholesale house
W M Robinson, newly appointed general manager for Haddorff Piano in Iowa and Nebraska, opens an Omaha wholesale house. Haddorff sells brands including Haddorff Clarendon Bennett Sherwood Bishop G. A Anderson and Troubadour. Des Moines and multiple Nebraska stores operate under Robinson with about 100 agencies statewide.
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W. M. Robinson
Iowa
Nebraska
Haddorff Piano Company
Rockford
Illinois
Omaha
Haddorff
Clarendon
Bennett
Sherwood
Bishop
G. A. Anderson
Troubadour
Robinson
Bennett Company
Alliance
J. T. Wiker
Lincoln Musical College
Alliance School of Music
Des Moines
Mr. Robinson
Dnalance
Burgeers-Nash Company
Burgess-Nash Piano Department
Orkin Bros
Special Services at Methodiat Church Next Sunday
Special services planned at Methodiat church include a communion at morning hours with many adults newly beginning Christian life to join full membership. Baptism will be offered. Evening sermon by the pastor. A fifty‑strong children’s class will be instructed weekly Sunday at 3 pm and later baptized and joined with parental consent.
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Methodiat Church
Christian Lfe
Glen Jordan Charged Under Mann White Slave Law
Glen Jordan of Alliance faces federal prosecution in Puebla Colorado for alleged January abduction of Charlotte Lewis from Alliance to Los Animas as a white slave. He has remained jailed since the incident.
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Glen Jordan
Alliance
Puebla
Colorado
Mann
Jordan
Charlotte Lewis
Los Animas
Thanksgiving Dinner at Morrill County Ranch
A family gathering occurred at a ranch in Morrill county twenty miles southeast of Alliance for Thanksgiving. Myers J. Hobbs, son and a schoolteacher in Garden county, joined the celebration at home.
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oOf Uoebbsa
Fmo
Morrill County
Alliance
Myers J. Hobbs
Garden County
Boxing bout headlines Alliance fire department show
The Alliance Fire Department organizes an entertainment event at the opera house on Friday December 18 featuring a boxing bout between Carter and Klussing, two department giants over two hundred pounds. All participants are trained and in good condition with tickets sold by the committee. Dr Geo J Hand oversees conditioning as airlines issue wartime loan warnings.
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Alliance Fire Department
Opera House
Carter
Klussing
Alliance
Geo J. Hand
City Halls Mulls Lower Light and Water Rates
The Alliance city council discussed reducing electric rates for small consumers and delaying water bill payments to speed collections. A proposal to divide the city into four wards and upgrade plant equipment was considered, with action likely at the next meeting. Sidewalks along Box Hutte Avenue were noted as above grade and referred to the street committee.
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Eaity
Rodgers
Romig
Box Hutte Avenue
Miller Brothers Move To Larger Store Space
Miller Brothers plan to relocate their furniture and china store to the former Newberry’s Hardware site at 211 Box Butte avenue across the street. The First State Bank owns the building and will lease the entire premises for a multi year term. move is expected around early January with renovations to create elbow room upstairs for carpets and a basement warehouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller Brothers
Box Butte Avenue
Newberry's Hardware Company
First State Bank
Mrs Dow Delivers Addresses in Alliance After Iowa Leave
Mrs Oner S S Dow of Des Moines secretary for Wo man's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church took a month’s vacation from organizing and lecturing. She visited her son C A Dow in Alliance and spoke at First M E church, Korea the topic of her evening address, leaving today for Iowa.
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Oner S&s. Dow
Des Moines
Iowa
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
C. A. Dow
Alliance
M. EE
Korea
Corea
Wilde visits Alliance sister praises first trip
Misa Marie Wilds of Kearney Nebraska visiting at Mrs. L. L. Kish home on Niobrara avenue will remain in Alliance until after Christmas. This is Wilde’s first visit to Alliance and is appreciated by her sister who has been there only a few months.
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Misa Marie Wilds
Kearney
Nebraska
L. L. Kish
Niobrara Avenue
Alliance
Mias Wilde
Miss Hampton Entertained Hosts Elegant Social Evening
Mies Josephine Hampton was hostess at a grand gathering at her Hampton home on Saturday night honoring Miss Fay Cross Kathella Bryan Larma Johnson Gwen Johnson and Marie Kelley of Mitchell who stayed as guests for a week Chrysanthemums decorated the rooms with white and yellowfive hundred was played and score cards bore chrysanthemum designs Alice Curbon won first prize a white Japanime opera bag Mabel Duncan took the free for all bouquet Virginia Broome provided singing Camille Noire played violin A five course dinner followed with helpers Janet Grassman Edna Bowman Helen Schott Charlotte Mollring Mildred Campbell and Dorothy Smith The guest list included Mrs H P Toohey H F Thiele W B Norton L Smith Clyde Miller B J Sallowe E A Hall L B Marks Wearl Mallory C A Curry C E Hershman and many Misses and Mesdames
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Mies
Josephine Hampton
Hampton
Fay Cross
Kathella Bry“An
Larma Johnson
Gwen Johnson
Marie Kelley
Mitchell
Miss Hampton
Alice Curbon
Mise Mabel Duncan
Mise
Virginia Broome
Camille Noire
Missea Janet Grassman
Edna Bowman
Helen Schott
Charlotte Mollring
Mildred Campbell
Dorothy Smith
Mesdames H. P. Toohey
H. F. Thiele
W. B. Norton
L. Smith
Clyde Miller
B. J. Sallowe
E. A. Hall
L. B. Marks
Wearl Mallory
C. A. Curry
C. E. Hershman
Emily Skiles
Beulah Smith
Pearl Dodge
May Newberry
Nelle
Alice Acheron
Bess
Blanche Kibble
Leora Banks
Grace Fickle
Larma
Nathella Bryan
Marie Kelly
Etta Keane
Laura Mownte
Mariel Duncan
Mary Regan
Doris Young
Josie
Nellie O'Donnell
Mabel
Marie Carey
Page Hubbell
Frances Nolan
Ola Burmood
Margaret Bell
Alice Carlson
Maude Spacht
Ethel James
Frances
Hazel Dowman
Dinner Honor for Local Ladies At Miss Kibble House
Miss Blanche Kibble hosted a 6 o'clock dinner Friday evening honoring the Misses Laramie Gwendoline Johnson Huthella Vegan Marie Kelley and Fay Cross of Mitchell Nevrashka. Guests included Misses Hazel and Frances Bow man Josie Hampton Hess Kibble Pug Cross and Owen doline and Laramie Johnson.
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Blanche Kibble
Laramie
Gwendoline Johnson
Huthella Vegan
Marie Kelley
Fay Cross
Mitchell
Nevrashka
Queata
Mies
Josie Hampton
Hazel
Frances Bowman
Hess Kibble
Pug Cross
Owendoline
Laramie Johnson
Ralls Reports Iowa Visit Finds Good Corn Yet Hog Cholera Worries Farmers
In a long summer trip Ralls toured central Iowa visiting relatives. He returned to Alliance declaring crops are good this year in that region but hog cholera is causing heavy losses among farmers.
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H Ralls
Iowa
Alliance
Herald
Lowa
First Basketball Game Promises Holiday Cheer
The Chadron High girls play Alliance High in the season opener at the high school gym on Friday night. Admission is 25 cents or a season ticket. Afterward Dr. Montgomery lectures in Hastings, Pawnee City, Wichita, Denver, and Fort Collins before returning to Nebraska.
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Chadron High School
Alliance High School
Alliance
Cheyenne
Wyo
Nebraska
Elocution Recital At Had dott Music Store
Alliance School Music elocution department presented a recital Wednesday evening at Had dott music store. The program featured students Ida Martin Madeline Zediker Lara Hawkins Sdith Reddish Lois Boyer Matilda Frinkle and Frances Lockwood in pieces such as Young America Dear Old Yale and Daisy’s Music Practice Hour. A farewell reception for Mr and Mrs Tully followed at the Tully home on Saturday night.
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Alliance School Music
Haddort
Ida Martin
Young America
Madeline Zediker
Mary Elizabeth
Lara Hawkins
Trish Girl
Sdith Reddish
Lois Boyer
Dear Old
Yale
Frances Lockwood
Daisy
Matilda Frinkle
Local Social Notes Highlight Moving Guests and Names
Fragmentary society items mention Currie moving inland and list guests including Mr and Mrs J H Boyd Miss Cynthie Dorris Youn Lloyd Toll and Herman Holster with various unclear remarks and initials.
Mrs O'Brien joins Nolan sisters in Alliance homecoming
Misses Francesa Nolan Josephine and Nellie O'Donnell return to Alliance from Stewart Jaws accompanied by Mrs O'Brien formerly Miss Ethel Nolan of Alliance Mrs O'Brien will spend a month with her parents and friends in Alliance
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Francesa Nolan
Josephine
Nellie O'Donnell
Allance
Stewart
Jaws
Mra. O'Brien
Mise Ethel Nolan
Alliance
Allianer
Fifteen Farmers Institutes Held in Dawes County
Fifteen farmers' institute meetings were held last month in Dawes County with a total attendance of 1,500 under the direction of C. B. Hawk farm demonstrator of Dawes county and the Agricultural Extension Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawes County
Farmers’ Institute
C. 8. Hawk
Agricultural Extension Service
New Millinery The Elite Opens in Alliance
Mrs Zehrung sold her millinery shop to Mrs Sanquest and daughters Cecelia and Mabel. They run a Bridgeport ladies furnishings store and plan an Alliance opening for The Elite. Cecelia will manage locally, Mabel arrived to prepare, with Cecelia to follow. a Herald notice and large ad are planned.
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Sturday
Genoa
Nebi
Mabel
Alliance
Cecelia
The
Herald
Pump Irrigation Feasibility in Box Butte County Explored
county commissioners plan to fund tests of pump irrigation using centrifugal pumps across five to six wells. If 15 000 to 20 000 gallons can be pumped in ten hours, half the expense is covered. A government engineer may provide expert opinion, and farmers are urged to participate to prove viability next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Box Hutte
Alliance
Board of County Commissioners
C. A. Newberry
Alliance Commercial Club
the Herald
Box Butte
Thanksgiving Dinner Highlights at Holloways
Mrs. L. Z Holloway and her daughter Miss Vivian hosted a dinner for friends on Thanksgiving day. The item mentions Nu Bone Corset sold in stores with a phone number 287 for a cor porade measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dee Sifaki
L. Z Holloway
Miss Vivian
War tax in effect on Tuesday across tobacco and finance sectors
The new federal war tax began Tuesday December 1 aiming to raise 100 million. Tobacco liquor dealers bankers brokers pawnbrokers theaters and other outlets must pay stamps on cash or exchange documents. Stamp duties apply to tickets certificates bonds deeds and various goods with penalties for noncompliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Empire Trust Company of New York
Gan Bach
Ba Teavn Ceestn
Jusia Ini Palace
Sheaff Named Manager at Alliance Exchange
AO Sheaff new manager of the Alliance exchange of the Nebraska Telephone Company arrived in Alliance Saturday noon from Fullerton. He has four years with the Nebraska Telephone Company and is regarded as reliable and competent. He and former manager Currie, now District Special Agent at Grand Island, are touring the western end of the state this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AO. Sheaff
Alliance Exchange
Nebraska Telephone Company
Alliance
Fullerton
Shes
Sheaff
Currie
Grand Inland
Mrs J Ellis Hosts Visitor From Norfolk
Mrs J Ellis hosted an informal Monday gathering for M Williams of Norfolk Nebraska who was visiting her sister Mrs K Spencer in Alliance. Williams former Alliance resident left Wednesday for home after weeks with Spencer Bert Sage and children visit Alliance mother Anne Lewis from Sheridan Wyoming.
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Mr. J. Ellis
M. Williams
Norfolk
Nebraska
K. Spencer
Alliance
Mra Whame
Bevery
Mrs. Spencer
Bert Sage
M Anne Lewis
Fron Sheridan
Wyoming
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Ninas
Alliance Hanker
Hawkeye State
Riecital
Mes, Tully Biretontainedd
H. Tully
Tully Home
Bridgeport
Anna Zehrung
Box Hutte County Farm
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Skk Mks
Zahrung
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