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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1921
Page
2
Entrusted for transmission via mail as second class matter at Alliance Nebraska with publication on Tuesdays and Fridays. George L. Burr Jr and Edwin M. Burr serve as editor and business manager.
Dean Dixon urges city teams including volunteer firemen and Elks to form a basketball league and rivalries, with a city baseball league to follow. The Armory floor would host contests, promoting fitness. A national editor advocates farm news focus, arguing farm papers should better serve farmers and profit from affordable, comprehensive farming information.
County authorities report for weeks to uncover half a dozen home brewers near Alliance with stills suspected close to the city. Local reaction centers on prosecuting makers as the bootlegger problem fuels crime and undermines law enforcement.
State Sheriff Hyers and deputies have moved into western Nebraska to pursue bootleggers amid long fighting tales of enforcement elsewhere. The piece urges sustained action beyond a single weekend raid and questions prior federal and state efforts, noting fifty bootleggers arrested in Omaha and seeking a genuine cleanup across the region.
City officials weigh legality of January 4 election as legal opinion from City Attorney Metz is considered and a possible AG letter awaited. Contenders urge qualified men to file for council between February 2 and 12, with a primary likely before spring election.
An editorial argues the American Legion should abandon the four fold compensation push for ex service men. It says the effort harms wounded veterans by bureaucratic delays and shifts focus from essential medical care. The piece questions political manipulation and urges postponing the bonus fight to pursue red tape elimination and better veteran care.
Voters should select men on the council who are not swayed by a $100 a year salary. The Rotary club and volunteer firemen should lead petitions to place capable business men on the new council. Good men can be drafted. Lincoln and others show centralized government works with business-minded administration.
Real estate transfers filed for record for week ending January 22 1921 include deeds between Perry S Mailey and Lena Mailey for multiple lots in Sher idan and Alliance areas with prices ranging from 3500 to 34000. Other entries include Chenin A Newberry to Charles W Brennan and Patrick E McKillip to M H Hu w with substantial sums. The record also notes a sheriff sale of Box Butte addition to Alliance and a small church transfer. A local accident report records three year old Ernest Gremel sustaining a fractured bridge of the nose after falling on an iron step at the Fourth Street market. Carl Hughes and family of Hemingford visited the Epler family.
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