Club Smoker Best Ever Held Says Burlington Mayor
Burlington leaders and Commercial Club members met Monday night in city hall for a well attended smoker. Mayor Romig reported on the Municipal Convention at Kearney and outlined discussions on milk ordinances good roads street paving garbage disposal auto laws and street grading. He noted Alliance elects representation for the first time and suggested a 25 cent license milk ordinance with pasteurization. Plans for magnesia road material and a Sioux City Cheyenne highway were discussed along with paving trends and garbage disposal options.
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Commercial Club
Romig
Kearney
Alliance
Mnneapolis
Cheyenne
Sioux City
Norfolk
Chadron
Remig
Box Butte Avenue
W. D. Fisher
Hastings
Alliance civic events and elections schedule summary
A local timeline lists a March 8 banquet and club election, March 10 operetta at Central School, March 22 farm lands auction, March 24 public land opening in the North Platte project, March 18 primary filing deadline, April 4 city election, April 27-28 state convention, May 6 school of music program, and June 5 Wortham Carnival with brand notes on coffee pricing.
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Alliance Commercial Club
Phelan
Central School
Box Butte
Alliance of Government Land
North Platte Project
School of Music Entertainment
Totten & Co
Wortham Carnival Company
Alliance
Sth
Alliance merchants boost co operative spirit in Nebraska
A Nebraska convention of local insurance agents in Grand Island drew about two hundred registrants. Alliance failed to land the 1917 meeting by six votes, but Mass Bonding and Insurance Co official Harry Koch praised Alliance Commercial Club members for their cooperative boost and urged continued efforts for next year.
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J. W. Guthrie
Nebraska
Grand Island
Harry Koch
Omaha
Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company
Alliance
Guthrie
Alliance Commercial Club
Kearney
Koch
Frank Martin
Nebraska State Association of
Reed alias Shanklin charged with vagrancy in county court
Frank Reed, alias Shanklin, previously dismissed for receiving stolen money, was re arrested on a vagrancy charge. In Police Magistrate Roberts' court Reed was fined 25 dollars and costs with the fine suspended if he seeks or maintains employment. He loafed in town without visible means of support and was warned after officers offered him a work option.
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Frank Reed
Shanklin
L. A. Berry
Robert Mairocht
Costes
Roberts
Reed
Alliance Businesses Relocate Ahead of Federal Building
Five businesses on Box Butte avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets in Alliance move offices to clear ground for a federal building planned this spring. Vendors vacate by March 10 with several seeking new locations or merging with others.
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Alliance
Box Butte Avenue
Fourth
Fifth
Federal
Robert Piester
Box Butte
Miss Sanquest
L. E. Johnson
Alliance Cleaning Works
Drake Hotel
BE. Fee
T. 8
Fielding
Commercial Club
Fee
Norton
Philip Nolte
Damaged Goods shown as moral drama at Imperial Theatre
Alliance moviegoers will see Damaged Goods a seven part feature at the Imperial Theatre next Monday night. The vital drama portrays the terrible consequences of vice and the ruin from abusing the moral law. Prices for matinee and evening shows are listed in the ad.
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Imperial
Alliance
Imperial Theatre
Moving Picture
Mr. DuBuque
The
Herald
Funeral of Mrs. Cory at the Home Tuesday
Mrs. Jenette Slattery Cory died at her daughter 8S O Carrs home after a nine weeks illness from a third stroke. Funeral services were held at 304 Toluca Street with Rev J B Carns and Rev Layton officiating. Interment followed at Greenwood cemetery. Surviving children include Mrs 8S O Carr, Go l Alliance and William Cory Hemingford. The obituary notes her birth in New York in July 1838 and that she was 78. A separate item mentions a petition seeking George E Hall renomination for state treasurer.
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Thomas Cory
Greenwood Cemetery
Cory
Jenette Slattery
New York
Jefferson County
Wic
O. Carr
Alliance
William Cory
Hemingford
Clark Cory
Salem
Oregon
Elmer Edmondson
Ringold
Nebr
Essie Cox
Albany
Ore
Public livestock sale postponed to next Thursday
F McCoy who advertised a sale of livestock farm implements and household goods eight miles southwest of Alliance and one mile west of Letan postponed the sale to Thursday of next week March 39 due to bad weather.
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F. McCoy
Alliance
Letan
Marriage licenses slow in February 1916 reports
County Judge L A Berry issued eight marriage licenses in February 1916 slowing the year’s pace. January had several, and the year ending January 1 shows 143 licenses in 1914 and 152 in 1915, nine more than the prior year.
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Judge Berry
L. A. Berry
Berry
Keller Named Vice President and President of Two Southern Lines
E S Keller formerly with Burlington at Omaha becomes vice president of the Colorado and Southern and president of the Fort Worth and Denver City and the Wichita Valley Railroad on March 1 1915 following A D Parker retirement Keller had left Omaha to serve as general manager of the Colorado and Southern earlier this decade
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E. S. Keller
Omaha
Burlington Lines
Missouri River
Colorado & Southern
Fort Worth
Denver City
Wichita Valley Railroad Company
Southern
Stallion Sale Planned by Finch Brothers in Alliance
Finch Brothers of Joliet plan a sale of stallions in Alliance on March 26 managed by Oscar Braman. A carload shipment of two and three year olds including Belgians Percherons and Shires will arrive for the sale scheduled for Saturday March 25 with further details to be announced next week.
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Oscar Braman
Finch Brothers
Joliet
DeGroff's Comedy Sensation Tops Local Stage
Thursday and Friday audiences enjoy DeGroff's sensational wire walkers performing serpentine dance with colored alider amid usual high class photo plays and entertainment.
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DeGroff
19000 Acres to Open at Alliance Land Auction
Burlington plans a two week land sale beginning March 22 listing seventy five thousand acres in western Nebraska. W B Howard and the Alliance Commercial Club back the event to attract thousands of home seekers and three thousand five hundred attendees at sale day. Col D R Paschal, an experienced auctioneer, predicts high prices and strong demand for Box Butte county land.
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Burlington Railroad
W. B. Howard
Omaha
Alliance Commercial Club
Rex Butte County
Alliance
Nebraska
United States
New North Flatte Valley
Burlington Railroad Company
City Hall
Col
D. R. Paschal
Des Moines
Canada
Box Butte County
Col. Paschal
Cheyenne
Wyo
Huncesrford
Crawford
California
Tennessee
Weather Report and Local Sale Notice
Government observer Hicks records daily highs and lows from February 24 to March 1 with snow totaling seven and three quarters inches in February. Forecastes fair weather and a modest warming trend tonight. Also notice Laing's shirt sale offering 60 cent shirts in sizes 14 to 18 at 10 o clock Saturday morning.
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F. W. Hicks
Laing
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Ayor Romig
Burlington
C. & S. Coffee
L. H. Highland
Compliments Alliance
Co-Operative Spirit
Harry A. Koch
Dept. Manager
Ed Jeffers
Second Street
Fager
W. D. Zediker
George E. Hall
Citizens of Alliance
Phelan Opera House
John W. Guthrie
W. D. Pisher
RB. BR
Gov't Observer
Hicks
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