City Manager C. C. Smith Announces March 1 Resignation
City Manager C. C. Smith told a Herald reporter his resignation will be handed to the Alliance council next week and take effect March 1. He plans to remain in Alliance to tidy city affairs. The move follows reported disagreements with Mayor Rodgers and the finance committee. Smith has been in office six months, relocated from Montrose, Colorado.
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C. C. Smith
Herald
Smith
Alliance
Rodgers
Mr. Smith
Montrose
Col
Mayor Rodgers
Potato Exhibit Car to Visit Alliance on March 19
The Burlington and Colorado & Southern railroads in cooperation with the agricultural college and farm groups will bring a potato exhibit car to Alliance on March 19. A meeting and local potato show will accompany the display with speakers from University of Nebraska and Nebraska potato organizations. The car features potato varieties grading storage and marketing topics plus a model root storage cellar to illustrate proper construction. Local farmers may win cash prizes in a potato variety identification contest and best local exhibits.
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Agricultural Department
Burlington and Colorado & Southern Railroads
Agricultural College
R. H. Howard
University of Nebraska
H. O. Werner
Nebraska Potato Improvement Association
Geo. A. Williams
Lincoln
Neb
Jacob Pedrett
Nebraska
C. W. Pugsiley
Nebraska Farmer
Railroads
Burlington and Colorado & Southern
Settling Up the John Krause Estate
Today was the last day for filing claims against the John Krause estate, one of the largest in western Nebraska. Frank Krause of Fountain City Wisconsin, a dairy farmer with Sheridan county interests, is visiting the city this week. Krause was an early homesteader in Box Butte county near Al Hance. he returned to Wisconsin years ago and his brothers now run the Krause ranch.
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John Krause
Nebraska
Frank Krause
Fountain City
Wis
Sheridan County
Mr. Krause
Box Butte County
al Hance
Wisconsin
Krause
Philadelphia Man Seeks His Uncle
Chief of Police Nora Taylor receives a letter from H M Brady of 1629 Green Street Philadelphia asking for help locating William A Shindel once a resident in the city and last heard from March 23 1890 in Alliance Nebraska where he worked for Burlington and MissouriRailroads Brady seeks his uncle for his mother and pleads for information on his whereabouts or next address.
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Nora Taylor
H. M. Brady
Green Street
Philadelphia
William A. Shindel
Is City
Elphia
Police
Alliance
William A. S
Burlington and Missouri
Nebraska
Three Boy Bandits Headed This Way
Crawford Nebraska police warn of three young bandits traveling by freight train route toward Alliance. The leader, a 12 year old from Lusk Wyoming named Bruce Hitchcock, reportedly took $30 from his caretaker after leaving Crawford. Two other youths about 18 years old accompany him as authorities chase sightings.
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Nova Taylor
Crawford
Neb
Bruce Hitchcock
Lusk
Wyo
Ardmore
Alliance
Eigheen
Traveling Men's Dance At Elks Set For February 20
The Elks plan a traveling men's dance Friday evening February 20. Tickets available from Chris O Ehinger Jack Hawes or W Clark. Open to all travelers not just members with proceeds already building a $50 fund. A free St Patrick's Day dance is planned to keep funds circulating. St Patrick's Day falls on March 17 each year.
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Elks
Chris O. Ehinger
Jack Hawes
W. Clark
The
W. R. Harper
Harper
St. Patrick's Day
County Cork
Alliance family triangle ends with quiet reconciliation
In Alliance a wife elopes with an unnamed lover taking a watch revolver and $105. The husband recovered his possessions and the wife returned, agreeing the lover must leave town. Authorities filed no court action as the couple reconciled.
Emmett Johnson Charged In Horse Theft Case
A warrant was issued for Emmett Johnson on a complaint by County Attorney Lee Basye. He is charged with taking a team of bay horses valued at 300 and disposing of them. Johnson is noted as a well known Alliance resident with local family and neighborhood disputes.
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Lee Basye
Emmett Johnson
Johnson
Alliance
Joyride and Car Smash Near Alliance Hotel Annex
Alliance police and Box Butte county officers searched Sunday evening for Carl Cornwell's car missing from the Alliance hotel annex around 6 p.m. The vehicle was found near the railroad tracks west of the city about midnight in a badly damaged state, missing a fender front wheel and running board. Richard Kriest arranged the necessary repairs.
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Alliance
Box Butte
Carl Cornwell
Richard Kriest
Rail Strike Postponed Amid Wage Tribunal Debate
The Milroad unions hold strike plans in abeyance while negotiations on a wage tribunal proceed. General chairmen meet February 28 as 300000+ workers await relief and private railroad control. Barker confirms postponement but warns a strike will occur if demands stay unmet.
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Washington
Milroad
Tabor
Detroit
Mich
United Brotherhood of Maintenance-Of
Allan E. Barker
Brotherhood
W Dave
Barker
Brotherhood Committee
Two Deaths From Flu In The Kicken Home
Two influenza deaths occurred at the Kicken home sixteen miles north of Lakeside last Sunday. Mrs Aledine Ragher aged seventy four and Morris Pierre Kicken aged twenty one died Sunday morning and afternoon respectively. Funeral services will be held at the Catholic church at 8 15 a m Tuesday with Rev Father Manning in charge.
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Kicken
Lakeside
Aledine Ragher
Morris Pierre Kicken
Father Manning
Subscriptions Save Rate Until March One
The Herald announces a limited offer for Alliance readers to subscribe at the old rate until March 1. Regular subscribers may pay up to one year in advance at two dollars per year, with a coupon recommended for convenience.
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Alliance Herald
Alliance
Brown Resigns From The Times for Montana Daily Post
F. E. Brown left this week for Seneca to visit his parents before moving on to Montana where he has accepted a position with a daily newspaper. His resignation was handed in two weeks ago but he stayed until his successor from Omeba could take over.
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F. E. Brown
The
Times
Seneca
Montana
Mr. Brown
Mr. Jones
Omeba
Weather forecast for Alliance and Vicinity
Fair tonight and Wednesday with cooler conditions. Temperatures will drop toward the southeast portion illustrating a colder spell across the area.
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Alliance and Vicinity
Highland
Miss Edna Honored at Alliance Hotel Announce Party
Mrs Helen O Keefe Mrs W H Ostenberg and Miss Ruth Morris hosted a party for Miss Edna at the Alliance hotel last Saturday evening. About thirty guests attended as the room was well decorated and a pleasant evening followed with refreshments served.
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Helen O'Keefe
Mra
W. HH. Ostenberg
Ruth Morris
Edna Wma
Alliance Hotel
Wailer Leads Choir Event and Margaretas Juniors Party
On Wednesday Dean Dixon Wailer turned the member of the choir at dancing and cards. Friday St Margaretas branch of the juniors entertained at a party and dance in the parish house. They were chaperoned by Mr and Mrs F B Stephens, Mrs Bernard Holsten and Mr and Mrs Dean Dixon.
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Dean Dixon Wailer
St. Margaretas
F. 8. Stephens
Bernard Holsten
Dean Dixon
Friends of the Rhein Card From Salt Lake City
Card dated Salt Lake City signed by Mr and Mrs J B Rhein states weather fine and they will leave Friday for San Francisco.
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The
Rhein
Salt Lake City
Reeding
Reed Returns as Night Chief in Alliance Police
Oscar W. Reed, who resigned as Alliance chief to become deputy sheriff, returns to the city to serve as night chief with rank equal to the day chief. He will work under the mayor's orders and may accompany Sheriff Miller to Lincoln if prisoners are sentenced at a February equity term.
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Oscar W. Reed
City of Alliance
Allen
Rodgers
Reed
Sheriff Miller
Westover
Lincoln
Preliminary Debate At Alliance High School Thursday
The Alliance high school will hold a preliminary debate in the auditorium Thursday at 8 o'clock to decide the new debating team. Admission is free and the public is urged to attend to support the students as they tackle the state board's chosen topic: that Congress should prohibit all railroads doing interstate business. The alliance has a strong debate record with only one district title loss in seven years. The participants listed include the students from the team candidates.
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Alliance High School
Congress
Cole Funeral Wednesday
Funeral services for John H. Cole four year old son of Mr and Mrs H Cole will be held at the Christian church Wednesday afternoon with four boy scouts serving as pallbearers Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery The article also discusses a proposed state printing plant for Nebraska to save on school textbooks noting attempts by Lincoln and Omaha unions and labor groups to establish it and criticizing legislature for spending rather than saving.
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John H. Cole
H. Cole
Christian Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Nebraska
Kansas
California
Lincoln
Omaha
State Federation of Labor
City Faces Tight Budget After Overestimated Levy
City council notes levy will likely net about 35 000 instead of 50 000, due to 300 000 overvaluation. Meeting at city hall postponed, police call to notify absent member, venereal disease penalties approved, claims ran to 10.80 for Weaver and 15.80 for Powell pending review. Discussions include telephone franchise tax, building by the company, and banning upstairs pool halls at 117 West Second.
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Phcqunell
Iho Posal
Nora Taylor
State Board of Health
J. M. Weaver
A. C. L. Powell
Mays
Kays & Albert
West Second Street
Alliance Girls Win Over Bayard in Friday Game
The Alliance high school girls basketball team defeated Bayard 9 to 3 on Friday. It was Alliance's second game of the year with the full team. A doubleheader is planned for Alliance next Friday with Scottsbluff girls facing Alliance and Bayard boys vs Alliance.
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Alliance High School
Bayard
Alliance
Scottsblair
Alliance Girls
Alliance Huskies
Alliance Fortunate in Flu Epidemic
Alliance reports very few changes in influenza during the epidemic. There have been no deaths within the city limits, and conditions remain largely steady compared with other parts of the state.
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Alliance
Carson-Wheeler Wedding at Baptist Parsonage
C. W. Carson of this city and Miss Nellie Wheeler of Wendover Wye were married Saturday evening at the Baptist parsonage Rev J Orrin Gould officiating Mr Carson works on a passenger out of Casper Miss Eva Siede returned Tuesday noon from Sidney where she had been called by the illness of her mother L EB Bellinger of Bingham who has been recovering from flu had a relapse Sunday but getting along very well sew
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C. W. Carson
Nellie Wheeler
Wendover
Wye
Baptist Parsonage
J. Orrin Gould
Carson
Casper
Eva Siede
Sidney
L. EB. Bellinger
Bingham
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