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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1917
Page
8
The Nebraska House discusses box car shortages and actions to aid railroads, a plan for a new state capital funded by a one mill levy, and a commission to oversee construction. The session also covers tax reform, water power development, and a bill to curb fire insurance rate competition. Buffalo Bill funeral procession attended by several lawmakers.
Stearns and Mr Howard meet lawmakers while over 200 district visitors attend the Organized Agriculture event. Representative Thomas misses Wednesday and Thursday for the Nebraska State Volunteer Firemen's Association convention at Auburn. A special Pullman train of Sheridan county boosters arrived at 4:30 p.m. Monday, escorted by a Lincoln commercial club committee including Branch, Ray, Biche, Bunting, Elliott, Irons, Vance, Culbertson and many others.
Goodstreak Items George Petri and Charles Green were business callers in Bridgeport last Wednesday. Clarence Sickott and family spent Sunday at Bert Miller's. Albert Ackers took his sister to Alliance where she will attend St. Agnes Academy. Mr Calvin Derr and Mrs Joseph Derr were in Alliance last Friday. Eva Miller has been ill recently. Charles Tiernan and Ed Deuker visited Bert Miller Sunday. Mr and Mrs Will Marquett visited relatives in Alliance last Sunday. The Goodstreak Telephone Co held a special meeting in District No 10 next Saturday night. Calvin Derr was a business caller at Lawrence Ackern last Friday. Mr and Mrs Bert Miller and children and Mr Lyle Derr attended the dance last Friday night at William Vogels.
The report outlines Box Butte and surrounding counties as major potato areas with elevations around 4,000 feet, soils ranging from fine sandy loams to loamy sands, and key shipping points like Hemingford Gordon Rushville Alliance and Scottsbluff. It notes 1.59 million bushels expected from 2,500 cars, early Ohio and Pearl varieties, irrigation impacts, seed handling, planting dates from mid May to mid June, and common diseases with late blight and potato bugs not prevalent in upland areas.
The article describes potato disease management, pests, and harvesting methods in eastern and western Nebraska. It notes diseases such as Fusarium wilt and bacterial wilt, proper crop rotation and seed treatment, and common insects like cutworms. Digging starts September, yields range 60–250 bushels per acre, and handling methods include diggers, pickers, and grading. Marketing channels include local dealers, large firms, and direct shipments, with growing emphasis on grading and storage.
The Market News Service operated from Alliance as part of the Rural Organization of the US Department of Agriculture. It distributed daily bulletins with potato prices, shipping prices, and destinations to 725 growers and associations, reaching about 70,000 copies. The service saved growers over 300,000 dollars by delivering early price data at no cost, expanding potato production across Western Nebraska and several midwestern states.
Mary E. Kinney, a Omaha bookkeeper, won a restraining order from Judge Sears preventing John F. Kinney of Minneapolis from interfering with or seeking custody of their three minor children. Kinney had earlier secured a habeas corpus writ forcing Mrs Kinney to bring the children to court. The Minneapolis divorce decree granting custody is alleged to have been obtained by fraud in the wife’s petition for divorce here.
Falls City Nebraska man Carl Thornton Smith employed at a farm was kicked over the left eye and found unconscious by the Babb family. He was brought to the city hospital for treatment.
A badly injured man, about 36, was found with head and eye injuries in a collision near Fadle City. He had worked four months for Babb and previously three years at Brownlea in Cherry county Nebraska and in Belby county Illinois. Doctors fear meningitis but hope for recovery if it does not set in.
Douglas County filed with Auditor Smith a claim for 2013.18 dollars for transporting souvenirs to state institutions. The bill includes 103.04 for feeding and 258.94 for conveying prisoners to the penitentiary.
Two men of African descent chat about money to show social tone and poverty. One claims nearly $40 in hart mish. The other notes FP once had about $400 with interest eroding it, illustrating financial hardship.
The text credits Galileo with discovering pendulum isochronism influencing clock regulation. It notes his use of the pendulum to develop a tiny device enabling doctors to count pulse beats, a precursor to the stethoscope, with his son later applying the pendulum to the lock.
A fragmentary report claims the base of the Venus of Milo bearing the sculptor’s name was destroyed to persuade a French king that the sculpture was older than its true date. The alleged act aimed to enhance the artifact’s prestige and antiquity.
A clipped quotation note presents a moral about warmth and honesty, contrasting refined speech with plain language. The fragment references a countryman and a velvet King metaphor, attributed to Spurgeon, without additional context or events.
The funeral of Mrs Sidney Cram was held Friday afternoon at Lakeside with burial in Lakeside cemetery. Mrs Cross died January 1 at age fifty three after years of cancer illness. The family lived on a Pawlette area homestead nearby.
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