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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
5
Hemingford residents and visitors are noted in a steady stream of community items. Posts mention travel to Alliance and Chadron, local schooling outcomes, births, marriages, illnesses, and farewells as families move or visit relatives in Sioux County and nearby towns.
Dr Willis paints his house and moves family in. Crawford visitors include Mr and Mrs C A McGogg and James Hollinrake seeking seed corn. Local residents travel to Hot Springs and James Hollinrake’s ranch hosts Red Cloud. Weather slows farming with repeated rain and hail. Civil war veterans Tollman and Pomeroy attend Decoration day.
Miss Fay Hembry and Mrs. Julia Turner are on the sick list. Walter Langford visited FP as a caller last week. Vaughn's and N Leishman hosted at Mr Skinner's Sunday. Fred Crawford called in the neighborhood. Mr and Mrs George Key called at Calvin Hashman's. Miss Dunlap visits Mrs John Love. Ella Hashman returns from Omaha healthier. A prominent farmer has not been seen drinking from the calf bucket since last time. Unity Sunday school notes May 51 attendance 16. Visitor list includes Miss Dunlap and lesson for next Sunday. A young man took home a buggy box full of various items. two young men awoke one morning and...
A setting hen and an old yellow cat appear in a room possibly entering from a closed window. A young man and an elderly man are mentioned alongside a legal suit where Hashman sues Leith. a derby hat is awarded to a good witness. Rainy nights force residents to improvise shelter indoors.
Estray notice for a blue roan mare about seven years old and two hundred pounds missing since November 1907. No brands. Owner to prove property. location Water R Kent section 12 two 26 R46 Sheridan County.
Local ads highlight Geo D Darling offering household furnishings carpets rugs and floor coverings. Mentions John Deere buggies farm loans from F E Reovran and real estate loans via G D Darling, plus Pardy’s Bakery and Crystal Picture Parlors. Also notes used six room house for sale and urgent coal deliveries.
Advert shows a 46 acre prairie site near Alliance offered for sale at 2.25 dollars per acre with inquiries directed to the Herald office. Also lists prices for Krug extra pale beer and Luxus beer, various empty-bottle refunds, whiskey prices, and local hardware and plumbing services by John Hague Company in Bridgeport Nebraska.
C William Beebe explores why animals use their tails. He notes cats balance bodies, express nerves like humans, and describes the sheep tail as a fat store in Asia Minor stock, highlighting curious historic beliefs about tails.
The New York American recounts Australian bushrangers beginning as convicts who hid in the bush and evolved into armed hold ups. It highlights the Kelly brothers, Ned and Neil, key robberies including the Jeriiderle bank loot of 10,000 dollars, and the Glenrowan siege where three outlaws were killed and Neil Kelly was wounded. The gang wore armor made from plowshares and Welch’s nearly a hundred pounds.
Offer for sale the frame building now used for the Burlington lunch station at Alliance. The 20x60 foot structure is covered with corrugated iron and could serve many purposes. Call at Hotel North Wente for particulars. T. H. Basses.
All parties knowing themselves indebted to King's Place are asked to call and settle at once. All accounts not settled by May 26 will be placed with a collector. Special sale of muslin underwear at Regan's. For rent furnished room, close in.
By wholesale phonograph company one in each county to fill out weekly information list with $10 to $100 monthly payments. W. Williams of Chana Til. acts as organizer and contact point for the drive.
Reward offered for return of an open faced gold watch lost on the road near F McCoy's and Bonner. Wanted man and wife on a ranch. Inquiries at The Herald office. Rental: seven room house with barn and city water at 23-1f Seven-story? address. For sale: three year old mulley Polled bull near John McNulty. Lost silver Elgin bracelet and alliance high school pin. Rewards for recovery. Leave at Herald office. Elmer Reed. 2a-t
The public hears a controversial tale from CombH! Magazine about a celebrated conductor accused by his wife of unworthy conduct amid a party invitation refusal. He allegedly claimed she "fles to the afternoon" or "swindles" if she does not lie, with a note on the German word schwindeln meaning feeling giddy.
The Rev Thomas B Gregory argues that wealth without work spoils the character. He contends a rich youth, free from need, becomes idle and dissipates, turning toward harm. True happiness comes from earning bread by the sweat of the brow.
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