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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1917
Page
2
An article details C. J. Young's shipshape car floor for Burlington trains with a layered magnesite cement surface and insulating sub floor. The design promises high sound and weather insulation, easy cleaning, and durability amid heavy vibration.
A Burlington bridge near McDonald’s spur west of Grand Island caught fire from an engine’s sparks before noon Monday. Trains Nos. 40 and 42 were delayed as the bridge burned, then cribbed up and continued two to four hours late.
Burlington locks in 115 acres west of the tracks north of the material yards in Have lock from Woods Bros of Lincoln. The purchase expands the company’s Have lock holdings to 425 acres and sparks talk of new shop departments at Have lock.
Alliance personnel including C E Dowell and C A Sprague left for Deadwood to take permanent posts. A Gregory and son Clif ford depart for an extended eastern trip visiting Chicago New York and naval yards. O H Newman arrives to become Extra Dispatcher in Alliance. Varying transfers and seasonal returns wrap a busy regional rail personnel shift with engine 4007 entering service on the Deadwood line.
Several railroad staff movements and travel plans are listed. Mra B A Strand travels to Missouri to visit parents. Trainmaster J E Johnson departs for Lincoln to resume engineer duties. F G Guerley to replace him as trainsmaster. F A Hively plans to leave the service around March 20. L L Smith to become Alliance Chief Clerk. Perry Buckles moves to Sheridan as Chief Clerk with George Keough replacing him. J P Phelan to Casper Division trainmaster. F L Givin becomes division office clerk. Mrs J L Bederman visits Casper. C Co Dye seeks operator examination for road service. Max Fountain examined as operator. E E Young departs for Sterling and returns. H J Hoagland discusses car service rules.
J R Drent chief electrician of Lincoln visited. C J VanDuren returned from Douglas with a 640 acre homestead filing. J E Tunnel and roadmaster Jack Gilmore were here midweek. Conductor M I Colvin laid off and visits Tacoma for six weeks. Brakeman A Bishop injured from a box car fall at Newcastle. Mr and Mrs Henry Burger move to Sheridan for Mr Barger’s work. Biggerstal Y to Alliance to join wife and two children. they will stay while he works there. Mrs Harry Shedden and newborn son returned from the northern Hills. Brakeman James Lynch and wife leave for a long vacation to Chicago, Minneapolis and Omaha.
If your child is pale dull sometimes flushed irritable and fretful attend to this condition at once the chances are your little one is suffering from worms. Kickapoo Worm Killer lozenge form is pleasant to take and expels the worms at once. Only 25c at all druggists.
Revival campaigns have drawn crowds in Alliance with a major series planned. Dr. C. B. Nusbaum of Colorado Springs will open the revival at First Methodist Episcopal Church on Sunday March 25, with singer Folsom Jackson leading the musical portions.
Ad for monthly payments to buy a lot. Snoddy and Mollring are agents for the Nebraska State Building and Loan Company. The notice promotes real estate financing and property purchase through the state loan firm.
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