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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1908
Page
5
Alliance community organizers announce a Fourth of July celebration with executive and finance committees named. Special features include baseball and automobile races, with plans for parades, fireworks, and staged events. residents urged to attend.
Local notes report Daniel Eagan visiting Alliance for the stock show and several residents attending meetings, travels and visits. Attendance at lodges and church events are noted along with moves to Omaha Denver and Lincoln. Weather comments and farm moisture worry accompany constellations of local names and comings and goings.
Whitton's Moving Pictures and Illustrated Songs to be shown Friday night in Alliance. Prof Whitten relinquished prior rights to allow a free public event funded by the entertainment committee. A 30 minute moving picture exhibition will open after 8 pm followed by the stockmen's annual ball. Thursday and Saturday shows priced 10 cents for children and 20 cents for adults.
Railway workers and families are spread across Nebraska and nearby states. Many staff members travel to Omaha Mitchell Deadwood Denver and other locales for visits and town assignments. An accident near Buena Vista S C claimed an Italian laborer named Guilitto as the train struck him on a handcar at night.
Mrs. C H Tully hosted a large party Tuesday afternoon. Mrs F W Harris hosted a dinner Monday evening for several ladies. Mrs R J Lawrence will host a luncheon today for Mrs W C Taylor and Mrs Davidson who plan to move to Sheridan. Mrs W E Cotant held a reception for Mrs F M Dorrington Mrs J Case Cornell Mrs W J Adams and Mrs Ellen Ford visiting Alliance. Fort Robinson baseball split two games with Alliance on their grounds with 7 6 goose eggs for the soldiers and 19 1 for Alliance. Bridgeport visits Alliance today and tomorrow to face the conquering team.
Estray report states a blue roan mare, unbranded, about 1600 pounds and 7 years old strayed onto premises about November 1907. Owner must prove property at Water R, Ken, section 12, two 26, range 46, Sheridan county.
Classified notices announce a buyer seeking 40 acres prairie near Alliance at 2.25 per acre with inquiries directed to the Herald office. Also listed are beer and whiskey ads, a lost gold locket, a Percheron stallion for sale, and local rental and lease offers with contacts in Bridgeport and Alliance.
All persons indebted to Everett Cook are requested to pay at once. Accounts not settled by May 20 will be placed in the hands of a collector.
For sale a 20 by 50 foot frame building now used for the Burlington lunch station at Alliance. Covered with corrugated iron, suitable for various uses. See Hotel Northwest Cafe for details.
All parties knowing themselves in debted to King's Place are urged to call and settle at once. All accounts not settled by May 7 will be placed with a collector. Special sale of muslin underwear at Regan's. For rent furnished room close in.
A fragment notes a plan by a wholesale phonograph company to place one unit in each county for a weekly information list. A monthly $10 payment is to Rico and references W. Williams in Chana III.
Classified notices urge parties planning construction or repairs to consult S. C. Beck to save money before spring work begins. A lost watch notice offers reward for a large open-faced silver timepiece with Elk’s head mark, return to A. J. Macy or The Herald office. Bulls for sale: four Shorthorn bulls from the Ed Meyers herd, viewable at the Welch ranch in Bingham.
A mixed batch of small items and notices from Alliance including lost gold watches and a bracelet, a reward for return, inquiries at The Herald office, entertainment at Crystal Picture Parlors, rental listing, livestock sale, washing machine ad, windmill and hardware listings, a refrigerator promo and local businessman notices. The Herald office is a contact point for rewards and inquiries, with several items tied to local residents and businesses.
The Freeman Cattle (omay) adopts a Nebraska address in Filsworth Sheridan County to engage in cattle and livestock trading. It plans to buy sell mortgage and develop real estate with capital stock details and ownership rules.
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