Alliance Council Considers Nebraska Telephone Franchise Terms
Alliance city officials after delays review a proposed Nebraska Telephone Co franchise amendment. The committee proposes six business lines for key city offices, removal costs at company expense, conduit and pole work rules, a three year building obligation, free police fire alarm service, a rate schedule, and annual financial statements.
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Nebraska Telephone Company
B. K. Haldeman
Grand Island
Alliance
Weather Outlook for Alliance Vicinity
Cloudy and much colder tonight and Saturday with fresh northerly winds. Light snow likely in the western portion.
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Alliance
County to appoint highway commissioner amid bids and petitions
County commissioners met in regular session at the courthouse and will remain in session for several days. A highway commissioner will be appointed as petitions from Jake Bicknell supporters and a remonstrance with 255 signatures are reviewed. The board also ordered a surplus war department Caterpillar tractor and a five ton motor truck to improve Box Butte county roads at low cost.
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Court House
Jake Bicknell
Bicknell
Box Butte
War Department
Cannon and Wheeler Wrestle to a Draw at Armory
After two hours and twenty minutes of brisk wrestling last night at the armory A B Wheeler and Steve Cannon battled to a draw. The crowd expressed satisfaction with the entert a inment Wheeler praised Cannon's development and noted that any man pinning him would have a hard contest. Cannon will wrestle Joe Stakes at the Ypheum Theater in Scottsbluff next Wednesday evening as the late firemen meet.
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A. B. Wheeler
Steve Cannon
Armory
Wheeler
Cannon Ias
Cannon
Joe
Notice to American Legion Members for Address Update
Notice to members requests complete reports of member addresses to national headquarters so 1920 member chips and magazines can be sent. Members should mail or communicate address changes to W. E. Edwards secretary at 211 Sweetwater Ave City 15.
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THE
American Legion
Memors
American Legio Magazine
W. EB. Edwards
Setary
Sweetwater, Ave
City
Thrift Week 10 Observances Announced Nationwide
Observance runs January 17 through January 24 with events in Alliance and other cities. Activities include National Thrift Bank Day, Share With Others Day, Life Insurance Day, Own Your Home Day, Make a Will Day, Thrift in Industry Day, Family Budget Day, and Pay Your Bills Day to promote thrift and financial planning.
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United States
Vaudeville at the Imperial Saturday and Sunday shows
The Imperial bills a corking Saturday with Hoop-la photoplay a circus tale and a top tier vaudeville lineup Fitzgerald and Anderson sing dance Beatrice McKenzie and Ray Dawn present Liberty Lane plus Tom Mix Hustler's Vindication and A Rose by Any Other Name. Sunday offers The Invisible Dand third episode and Lila Lee A Daughter of the Wolf with thrilling smuggling themes. Monday features Charles Ray Hay Foot Straw Foot described as a premier rude picture.
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Hoop-la
Joe McGee
Fitzgerald
Anderson
Butler
Demuth
Lila Lee
Comery
Charles Ray
Betty
Provo Pioneer Clark Perkins Visits City After 34 Years
Clark Perkins of Provo 8 D a early Box Butte County resident was in the city this week renewing acquaintances and reminiscences. He homesteaded here about thirty four years ago and is heading back to Provo after visiting relatives in eastern Nebraska and Missouri.
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Clark Perkins
Provo
Box Butt County
Parkins
Nebraska
Missouri
Alliance Seeks Aerial Mail Station Status
Rufus Jones of the Community club reports Alliance hopes to gain an aerial mail landing station as part of a planned expansion. A reply from KE R White indicates funding must pass Congress and routes surveyed beyond Omaha await action, but Alliance may be considered if appropriation enables expansion.
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Rufus Jones
Community Club
Alliance
United States
Washington
Jones
Omaha
People of
Congress
Settling Up With Coal Borrowers
Special Agent T. J. Smith of the Burlington reports active settlements with coal borrowers during the strike. In towns like Seneca Mullen Hemingford Antioch Lakeside Ashby and Bingham many residents took coal from cars in transit. Smith has settled with over two hundred at a uniform ten dollar per ton rate, with one court case won for full repayment from Ed Benjamin of Antioch.
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T. J. Smith
Burlington
Seneca
Mullen
Hemingford
Antioch
Lakeside
Ashby
Bingham
Mr. Smith
Smith
Ed Benjamin
Plumbe Buys Johnson Residence in Local Purchase
R. E. Plumbe president of Alliance Packing bought the M. E. Johnson residence at 803 Laramie Avenue early this week and plans to move in soon. He intends to make his home in the city and will board at the same place with his mother.
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R. E. Plumbe
Alliance Packing Company
M. E. Johnson
Laramie Avenue
Boilermakers' Alliance Ball At Armory This Evening
The first annual dance of the Alliance local of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Iron Shipbuilders and Helpers will be held at the armory this evening. The hall is decorated and many tickets sold while a jazz orchestra provides music for a grand event.
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Alliance Local
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers
Volunteer Fire Dept Special Meeting on January 18 1920
Members are urged to attend a special meeting in the club rooms to complete convention arrangements at Scottsbluff. President George J. Hand requests urgent presence for planning and coordination.
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Scottsbluff
Anxious pair plead guilty in cash and property case
Alonzo Isiah and Joe Price pleaded guilty before Judge Tash on charges of willfully keeping cash and checks belonging to Phillip Lore and receiving stolen property. Both were bound over to the district court on $500 bonds and sought to plea to begin serving their time quickly.
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Alonzo Isiah
Tash
Isiah
Phillip S. Lore
Lore
Joe Price
Rushville
District Court
Eighth graders and teachers earn certificates in Alliance schools
Since adopting the Palmer method in Alliance public schools, students have earned 597 awards. The current Central school eighth grade includes six pupils with final certificates. This year ten teachers and one normal trainer have earned teachers certificates.
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Palmer
Alliance Public Schools
Central School
Alliance council meeting reviews smallpox report and grants land lease
The Alliance council approved sending four delegates and the fire chief to the state convention with a $125 appropriation. Dr Hand reported 226 smallpox cases since April 1 with two influenza deaths. few new cases remain. West Lawn requests more street lighting. James Koehler seeks prorated taxi license fees. The Guardian State Bank was tabled for depository status. Dan J Colerick seeks police vacancy. Charles Hill seeks lease of 14 by 50 foot city land for coal sheds near the power plant. council approves five year lease at $25 yearly with cancel clause.
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Alliance Volunteer Fire Department
Scottsbluff
George J. Hand
West Lawn
Hill
Junk shop ad seeks second hand clothes and items
Round up your second hand Jobes salts and overcoats and bring them to the 164 Cleaners and Taffirs. We pay cash for them. Any color any size. Visit 164 Cleaners 213 Boz Butte Ted's Place.
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Elise
Hem
Eanere
Boz Butte
Ted
City Council Considers Discontinuing City Mission
The council appropriated 156 to settle the mission debts and will decide if the mission should receive future funding. City Manager Smith was asked to arrange temporary quarters for Police Matron Mrs. Sharp as debate continues on whether to keep the mission as a relief operation or discontinue it.
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Smith
Sharp
Mission Board
Tilo
Tts
Elks Lodge To Host Dance On January 20
After repairs at the Elks lodge social activity returns with W R Harper as entertainment chairman. A jazz orchestra is booked for a dance aimed at both younger and older couples, set for Tuesday evening January 20.
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Elks Lodge
W. R. Harper
Alliance Light and Water Dept Sees Net 639 in December
City Manager C. C. Smith reports to the council that Alliance light and water departments earned 6073.04 with expenses 4533.50 and construction 1000, yielding a net 639.64. Coal used totaled 465 tons. total consumers, 963.
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Light and Water Departments
City of Alliance
C. C. Smith
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Estate Railway Commission
W. R. Johnson
W. R. Metz
Thrift
the Imperial
Alliance Not Forgotten
KE. R. White
Johnson
Boilermakers
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