Secrets of the Commercial Club of Today
W. D. Fisher, secretary of the Alliance Community Club, discusses in The Tradesman how modern commercial clubs advance city improvements and businesslike action. He argues organized effort, active participation by business men, and coordinated club leadership are key to progress and urban beautification.
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Alliance
W. D. Fisher
Alliance Community Club
Omaha Tradesman
Commercial Club of Today
Fisher
Tradesman
Buried Money Mystery Tied to Buck Washington Reflections
Report recounts rumors of a pot of money found by Buck Washington while digging a sewer ditch on Cheyenne Avenue. Friends claim a $150 haul was buried in a shallow hole near a homemade coffin, possibly linked to a past fake wrestling payday in Alliance. The bones found are questioned as animal or human, with editor Broome offering a past skeleton tale as context.
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Buck" Washington
Buck
Washington
Third
Fourth Streets
Cheyenne Avenue
Friends of Friends of
Allance
I Broome
Entloc
Herald Office
Broome
Chadron
Alliance
Allianc
Potash Found in Hyannis Ranch Lake
A lake on Fred Pear’s Hyannis area ranch in western Nebraska is reported to host the richest potash deposit found in the region. Experts say the lake waters could make Pear a multi millionaire at current potash prices and the discovery sparks a rush to probe nearby lakes.
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Fred Pear
Hyannis
Nebraska
Pear
Wilson Case Dismissed in Nebraska District Court
Judge W. H. Westover dismissed the State of Nebraska versus Homer Wilson on appeal from county court. Wilson had been fined 100 dollars and costs for liquor found in the barn he used as his home. The judge and lawyers visited the scene where alcohol was stored and ruled the residence was the barn. No order on the two demijohns of liquor in county custody was made.
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Lquor
Forty-Two enlistments in Alliance weekly recruitment drive
The Alliance recruiting station reports forty-two enlistments this week for the United States Army. Enlistees include Thomas E. Katen Jr and Floyd R. Donovan in aviation, Ervin J. Mackenen in quartermaster, Glenn D. Locke and W. H. Voight in field artillery, with numerous others from Hemingford and distant towns joining in aviation, railway operations, infantry, and related corps.
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Alliance
United States Army
Aviation
Signal Corps
Thomas E. Katen, Jr
Floyd R. Donovan
Willard L. Meyers
Ervin J. Macken
Quartermaster’s Corps
Glenn D. Locke
W. H
Crawford
Samuel V. Wolfe
Minatare
Sanford L. Clements
Chadron
Oliver L. Pitt
Casper
Wyo
Lorenzo D. Chambers
Gillette
Jas. B. Larvhead
Frederick
Geo. H. Busier
Lingle
Wayne L. Clark
Fort Morgan
Colo
Sidney F. Morris
Guy W. Heninger
Evergreen
Buried Hawaiian Queen Honored by Alliance Soldier
John Priess of Alliance, a member of Battery F in the First Field Artillery, took part in the burial ceremonies for the former queen of the Hawaiian Islands. His unit fired a salute, with sixty coal black horses hauling the pieces twenty seven miles to the gravesite. Priess writes of the event to an old schoolmate.
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John Priess
Alliance
First Field Artillery
Hawaiian Islands
John Colerick
Allance
Priess
New National Army
Garden City
New York
United States
France
Westover Overruled Demurrer in Chadron Blackmail Case
On Monday Judge Westover overruled the demurrer by County Judge Tash and Attorney Basye in the injunction sought by Harrington, Fisher and Rooney to prevent their prosecution for illegal liquor possession at a Drake hotel room during the Chadron blackmail affair. The demurrer argued against Judge Weet overreach. the ruling gives officers ten days to answer, with a hearing likely to decide if the injunction becomes permanent.
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W. H. Westover
Tash
Basye
Harrington, Fisher and Rooney
Basyne
Drake Hotel
Weetover
Ableys Celebrate Golden Wedding in Box Butte County
Mr and Mrs Fred Abley longtime Box Butte county settlers hosted a surprise 50th wedding anniversary party at their Hemingford area farm attended by about seventy five friends in twenty autos. County Judge I E Tash praised the banquet as the finest ever served in the county. The event featured gifts including $50 in gold pieces and American Beauty roses, with guests from Hemingford Alliance Custer and Omaha.
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Fred Abley
Box Butte County
Nonpareil
Hemmeford
Abley Farm
C .J. Wildy
Ben Price
Paul Armstrong
Hemingford
M. J. Bailey
Custer
I. E. Tash
Box Butte
Abley
William King
Aliance
Emory Abley
Amos Abbey
Omaha
Rev. Brown
Mr. Abley
Times
Colonel Roosevelt
House
Good Roads Day Planned in Alliance Friday
Tomorrow, Friday, December 7, marks the second Good Roads Day in Alliance. Sparks from engines set fire to scattered road material along the Alliance Hoffland Antioch road, so workers plan to complete as much as possible Friday under S. W. Thompson. Four auto trucks will haul while Art Wright John Wallace and aVughan & Son contribute, plus a Community Club truck. Participants should bring dinner and meet at the club at 7 30 Friday morning. The M. E. ladies announce a food sale on December 15. Joe Smith made a business trip to Antioch Tuesday.
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Alliance
Art Wright
John Wallace
aVughan & Son
Community Club
Mysterious light disrupts North Platte valley nights
Reports from Burlington railroad crews and other observers describe a bright aerial light moving rapidly at night above the North Platte valley near Alliance. Investigations are underway as officials press for the source, with sugar beet factories at Bayard Scottsbluff and Gering noted as potential targets for any malevolent action.
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North Platte Valley
Burlington
Alliance
Bayard
Scottsbluff
Gering
War Savings Committee names Box Butte leaders
Charles Brittan of the First State Bank is named chairman of the Box Butte county National War Savings Committee. The panel includes Robert Graham, R. M. Hampton, John O Keefe, Glen Miller, A. G. Isaacson, B. J. Sullows of Alliance, W. E. Walker of Hemingford, and M. A. Brown of Marple. Government offers two billion dollars in certificates and stamps with stamps maturing at five dollars on January 1, 1923.
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Charles Brittan
First State Bank
Box Butte County
National War Savings Committee
Robert Graham
R. M. Hampton
John O'Keefe
Glen Miller
A. G. Isaacson
B. J. Sullows
Allance
W. E. Walker
Hemingford
M. A. Brown
Marple
Alliance West road signs guide travelers to Scottsbluff Bayard
Secretary Fisher of the Alliance Community Club installed durable road signs along all routes between Alliance and Scottsbluff and Bayard. Main crossroads bear four by four posts with three foot arrow signs, marked A B C and colored yellow and white for easy reading. Route one goes through Nine Mile Canyon while route two turns south toward Bayard, joining near Scottsbluff with clear directions eight miles east of town.
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Fisher
Alliance
Scottsbluff
Bayard
Alliance Community Club
Nine Mile Canyon
Mrs Patrick Nolan and Irene Return From Sioux City Visit
Mrs Patrick Nolan and her daughter Irene have just returned home from Sioux City where they visited Mrs Nolan’s sister, Mrs John Crotty.
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Patrick Nolan
Irene
Sioux City
Knights of Columbus campaign ends with overrun subscriptions
Readable fragments show Box Butte County subscriptions for the Knights of Columbus campaign far exceed the apportioned target. Officials note the oversubscription underscores strong local support and fundraising momentum.
Knights of Columbus drive nets 8000.50 for war fund
Alliance Council 975 reports closing week with total receipts of 8000.50 for the Special War Work Fund. The campus raised 3090.50, surpassing Box Butte county’s 2400 goal by 690.50, with more pledges expected. Local parish collections and prior fund sent totals noted.
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Alliance Council
Knights of Columbus
Box Butte County
Alliance
Neceseee
Hemingford
Bridgeport
Eesecares
Hyannis
Railroad official Weidenhamer resigns for Milwaukee road post
W M Weidenhamer longtime Alliance division superintendent retires from Burlington after thirty years to take an enhanced role as assistant to President H F E Byram on the Milwaukee road. The move, rumored previously, brings mixed feelings in Alliance as friends bid farewell to the popular official.
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W. M. Weidenhamer
Alliance
The
Burlington
Mil
H. F E. Byram
Herald
Weidenhamer
George L. Griggs
West
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Craonne
Ali
Croonne
Westover
Abley's
M. E
Joe Smith
Antioch
WAR Savings Committee
Alliance West
J. W. Guth
C. H. Brittain
Treceurer
VA. Newberry
Rev. P. J. Manning
W. H Buechsenstein
J. C. Moore
Liceo
J. J. Cain
Wm Delsing
Daniel O
J. Betzold
Fred Bollweg
BE. H. Boyd
Frank Breckner Pere
John Breckner
J. W. Breckner
John Brennan
F. J. Brennan
C W Brennan
Chus Britan
Railroad
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