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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1918
Page
4
A roundup of social visits and travels around Alliance Nebraska and adjacent communities. Franks Fair in Lakeside. Swanson and Johnson family ties. public notices include Potash prospects and farm supplies. Military moves, local illnesses, and community events fill the page with names like Epler Johnson Whitaker Graham Overton and Mace.
American soldiers' triumph in France spurred a large Alliance gathering Friday evening. Dr. Mahaffy and George Hellman organized the event, with a parade from Seventh Street and Box Butte followed by speeches, songs, and Red Cross appeals. The program featured Lt. A. F. Jonas, Elizabeth Swanson, buglers Laing and Schafer, and local leaders from defense and Red Cross.
Box Butte county and western Nebraska remain a moisture oasis with abundant hay. Eastern farmers are urged to join forces to buy sand hill ranches and graze stock in summer, as the report compares six months of 1917 and 1918 rainfall and notes July rainfall reaching 3.09 inches by morning. Land in the rain belt can be bought for 30 per acre, with thousands of idle fertile acres awaiting farmers near Alliance.
Eighteen doctors attended a conference in Alliance led by Lt. A F Jonas a noted Omaha surgeon and governor advisory board member. New draft medical rules revoke old exam standards and require reexamination of previously deferred men with free treatment for those made fit. Dr C E Slagle oversaw exams. most newly registered 21 year olds passed.
St Matthew's Episcopal will have no services on Sunday July 28 as Dean Shaw will be away. First Baptist Church schedules Sunday school at 10 am and preaching at 11 am with a 6:30 pm service on the subject Woman's Foreign Missions. The union meeting will be at Box Butte and Fish streets. if rain, it moves to the Presbyterian church.
Rev J W Morris has recovered from illness and will preach on The Water of Life next Sunday morning. A union church meeting is planned for Sunday evening with Epworth League at 6 30 pm led by Miss Mabel Young on Is Christ First in My Life All are invited to attend the meeting and participate in the program.
The notice urges worshipers to attend from 10 to 12 with inspiration and information. Morning subject is Obedience. Christian Endeavor prayer meeting at 6:30 pm. Union outdoors service planned in the evening. Minister Stephen J. Epler invites all to bring a message and a welcome.
D. W. Hughes, longtime Alliance resident now in York, returns to the region and teams with the Fenner brothers to build a small potash plant on the Fenner ranch lakes east of Alliance. Construction has begun and the plant is expected to be running soon.
The Skinner Packing company of Omaha purchases 25 carloads of pure cork board from cork maker Junius H. Stone in New York City. Stone operates a cork factory at Palamos Spain. The cork is for incubating cold storage and a freezer building linked to a new packing plant on the south side, total value about 650,000 board feet.
The report lists railroad personnel movements and incidents. Engineers C J Young and J A McDonald are noted with duties in Seneca Edgemont and Cheyenne while W C Harris and H A Haglund are mentioned in service changes. An engine derailment at a turntable pit near Burlington caused minor delays but no passenger disruption.
Telegraphic dispatch from Chicago reports Charles E. Perkins named president of the Burlington, Iowa born executive now heading the railroad after five years as a director. Hale Holden remains federal manager overseeing this and other western lines under government supervision. Perkins is a relatively young man to lead the company.
A Seattle Post-Intelligencer item depicts a jaywalker crossing diagonally as a motorman, police, and emergency scene unfold. Nurses prepare bandages in the hospital, while a dog at home howls for its master, capturing urban tension and danger.
In a small country town a Shakespeare club heard a young lawyer president defend Shakespeare as author. He argued that only a lawyer could have written the plays, asserting no common man could. A timid woman asked if there are no uncommon men but lawyers, prompting a judge’s wry reflection.
Wanted capable woman for office. Good salary to the right party. Phone 340. Herald office or apply at the office.
Wording invites a capable man or woman to apply for steady paid soliciting. Applicants directed to Box S45 at the Alliance Herald or to call The Herald office for details.
Advertisers in The Herald may place want ads to buy a cow or a horse. Readers with livestock or mounts to sell can reach buyers through the paper's classified column. Contact the office for ad rates and deadlines.
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