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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1913
Page
2
At a board of health meeting Mayor Barnes announced Alliance will hold a city wide cleanup next Monday. All alleys and back yards must be cleaned or owners or tenants face fines. The board will haul refuse placed in sanitary cans at the back of wards free of charge, but few have used the service.
Rev and Mrs A M Washburn and Mrs Patch of Bassett Nebr came back from Florida where they spent most of the winter after leaving in late January. They stopped en route in Illinois to visit Mr and Mrs Washburn’s three sons. Rev Washburn serves Lakeside charge of the M E church including the Fuatzview church ten miles northeast of Alliance.
Hugh Stitt of Kinkaid claim near Jess in Sheridan county traveled to Alliance to subscribe to The Herald. A surveying corps will resurvey Morrill Grant Sheridan and Cherry counties with three parties of seven to ten men each. Arthur Jengen will head the corps Stitt joins Archibald Celery assistant chief.
Mr and Mrs E F Shielde plan a Dayton Ohio trip to visit friends and return with Mr Shields mother. Relatives there had narrow flood escapes but none were killed. Shields showed Dayton flood stones and water damage photos to The Herald. Mr and Mrs D O Vaughn leave for Grant Nebraska to be with son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs J P Colburn after months at their home.
Mr Colburn sold the Commercial hotel at Grant and will hand possession today. He and Mrs Colburn plan to move to Paxton Nebraska to enter real estate. The notice also mentions Hugh Stitt with a claim near Jess Nebraska and describes bachelor quarters once shared with John McGregor.
An advertisement touts Electric Bitters as the best medicine for stomach, liver, and kidney issues. It cites H. T. Alston of Raleigh North Carolina who improved after using the product and urges others to try it, priced at 50 cents and 1 dollar.
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