Funds distributed to county districts in 1917 apportionment
Opald Russell reports the first semiannual school fund apportionment of 1917 totaling $2,280.51 to county districts. Fines revenue adds $2,134.84 from state sources and $154.67 from county. One quarter of funds go equally to all districts. three quarters are divided by average daily attendance across 48 eligible districts. Districts 42, 80, 17, and 67 receive nothing. Details list district by district attendance, amounts, officials, months, and valuations, plus the Alliance city schools with 1,423 pupils and 45 mill tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opald Russell
Atetesources
Joe Carey
Alliance
C. G. Reeves
Treaseurer
Peter Workman
Beulah Reeves
L. Himes
Allance
E. Boyer
T. J. Lawrence
John Parker
Win. Rust
Tommy Woods
Alliance City Schools
Board of Education
F. H. Moliring
EO M. Martin
Vicw
F. W. Harris
G. M. Burns
Central School
Gladys Sheridan
Mary Anderson
Anna Chambers
Della Abbott
Mary Hogarth
Mabel Lucado
Eva Crocker
Hazel Johnson
Elizabeth Conley
Pauline Scott
Esther Terry
Antha Taylor
Emerson School
Mabel Walters
Mae Enele
Lydia Cutosky
Elizabeth Hledik
Mary A. Robertson
Glen Soper
Izola Worley
William Vogel
Fred Schwaderer
Treas
Alliance Defeats Mitchell In Season Opener 35 to 17
A large turnout witnessed Alliance defeat Mitchell 35 to 17 at the high school gym. Alliance led with eight baskets first half and ten second, while Mitchell had four and six respectively. Notable players included Darnell and Coryell for Alliance and Adney and Riley for Mitchell. Crawford refereed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alliance
Mitchell
Sidney
A. A
Mitchell Gleason
Blanden
of Perkins
Mardu Black
Lf Adney
Dedmore Darnell
Riley Thomas
Vancere Loybel
Coryell
Johnson
Ig Loghbel
Black
Darnell
Adney
Perkins
Riley
Crawford
Death of Bernice Armstrong in Alliance Inquest
Miss Bernice Armstrong died at 6 a m in the Barber home 705 Larami e avenue cause Brights disease and heart trouble The 22 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs L Armstrong had come to Alliance to visit her sister Miss Gladys Armstrong and seek medical treatment The parents arrived Tuesday and the funeral is set for tomorrow February 2 with services at the Harbor home
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernice Armstrong
de Loss Barber
Laramie Avenue
Miss Armstrong
Bright
Alliance
Gladys Armstrong
Horace Bogue
Gladys
Barber
Bernice
L. Armstrong
Margaret
Missa Bernice Armstrong
Alliance High School
St. Agnes Academy
Harbor Home
Auto Delivery Wagon Plunges Over Wall at Drake Hotel
Richard Young driving for Alliance Creamery backed into a doorway opening into a brick wall at the Drake hotel. The auto skidded over the south wall into the runway ten feet below, pinning him but leaving him with only minor bruises. The car was freed with a block and tackle and suffered little damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Young
Alliance Creamery
War
Drake Hotel
Mr. Youne
Young
Dry Bill Nears House Action in Nebraska Legislature
Nebraska's dry law moves toward introduction as a special committee combines features from four bills. The group, led by Beal Chappell Sandall Norton Flansburg and Thomas, aims for a drastic but feasible measure with tight import limits red tape a prohibition of advertising prohibition of clubs and stronger anti bootlegging controls. The double election board bill awaits Senate action with county level procedures and a plan to finish counting by midnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
House
Senate
Beal
Chappell and Sandall
Norton, Flansburg
Thomas
Wolfenbarger
Stoecker
Neville
Prohibition Commission
Peterson
Woman County Agent to Serve Three Nebraska Counties
The county board approves funds to hire a woman county agent to work with women in Box Butte Sheridan and Dawes counties. Miss Mary Rohkar, with Alliance as HQ, is likely to be assigned. The effort follows the Smith Lever Act for cooperative extension in agriculture and home economics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of County Commissioners
Box Butte
Sheridan
Dawes
Nebraska State University
Extension Department
Mary Rohkar
Alliance
Smith-Lever Co-operative Agricultural Extension Act
Seward
Seward County
Home-Makers’ Association
Esther Warner
Home-Makeres’ Association
Miss Warner
Chance for a Widow to Find a Companion in Alliance
A June 18 Alliance Herald classified notice invites widows aged 18 to 35 to contact a man signed Lonely through the classifieds. It promotes the Herald as a low cost, widely read way to connect for marriage or other needs in Box Butte County and western Nebraska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cupid
Alliance Herald
Herald
Alliance
Box Butte County
Nebraska
Alliance Seeks Financing for New Hotel
Local capital backs an Alliance hotel project to cost about 85000 to 100000 dollars with 12000 subscribed at a banquet led by J M Miller. A committee will raise the remaining funds, aiming to complete financing within days as city hotels reach capacity nightly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alliance
J. M. Miller
Alliance Hotel
Miller
Hotel Alliance
Aged rancher F. M. Thompson buried at Presbyterian church
Funeral for F. M. Thompson held Monday at the Presbyterian church with Rev. Lewis McIntyre presiding. Thompson died Saturday at his daughter’s ranch home about thirty miles south of Alliance at age eighty six, leaving four sons and two daughters and several siblings and a brother in Texas. He was born May 13, 1830 in Belmont county and lived in multiple states before settling in this county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. M. Thompson
Presbyterian Church
Lewis McIntyre
Thompson
Elbery Peterson
Alliance
Eugene E
Charles E
Lakeside
R. C
Ord
T. J
Dannieburg
A. Dye
Peterson
Bell
Boyd
Chicago
Robert Thompson
Texas
Thomas Mitchell Thompson
Belmont County
Chilo
Dwicht
Mary Lauretta Murphy
Valley County
Club Plans to Sell Mailing Lists of Names
The Commercial Club plans to prepare mailing lists to sell to members for a set price. The lists would include names of taxpayers ranchmen farmers railroad men voters married men single men and others.
Stockmen Reunion Flatters Alliance with Big June Show
Alliance plans a joint Stockmen's Reunion and Box Butte Fair event probably June 27 to 29 blending races bucking horse contests wild west exhibitions and a carnival with dances and side attractions. Organizers expect a historic turnout funded by the Alliance Commercial Club and fair association with shared receipts and expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alliance
Ihs
Box Butte Fair Association
Alliance Commercial Club
The
Commercial Club
Fair Association
Fuch Association
Box Butte County Fair Association
R. M. Hampton
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E. S. Curry
Frank Trinkle
H. W. Nason
Izetti Renswold
F. J. Moeller
Hemingford
Leo Frohnapfel
Hemieford
Lizzie Frohnapfel
Rosa Aanen
Dunlap
Berneice Armstrong
Sen
Woman County
Mary Rohear
Box Butte, Sheri
Dan
Alliance People
P.M. Thompson
Fair Board
Proposti
Tion
H. M. Bushnell, Jr
Hox Butte County Fair Association
Norton
A. H. Groves
John O’keefe
F. BE. Reddish
A. D Rodgers
C. A. Newberry
W. E. Spencer
E. I. Gregg
F. H. Molring
T. Kibble
W. 0. Barnes
J. A. Hunter
J. A. Keegan
Wm. Rust, Sr
L. H. Highland
L. J Schill
Alliance Commer
I. M. Hampton
T. H. Barnes
R. M. Hawpton
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