Alliance Growth Through Ten Years of Development
F M Broome of the Lincoln Land Company outlines Alliance’s rapid expansion over a decade with new additions Wyoming Sheridan Nebraska and County additions. Many lots sold to residents. future sales by metes and bounds and new plat filings will extend north and east of the high school with a new street west of County road.
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Herald
F. M. Broome
Lincoln Land Company
Alliance
J. R. Phelan
Albert Johnson
Big Horn Avenue
First County
Second County
Wyoming
Sheridan
Nebraska
Fair Ground
Drake
W C T U Notes on initiative and referendum explained
Mrs Francis B Heald state president W C T U outlines initiative and referendum aims and reasons. She argues the people should rule through petitions and votes, criticizes delegated representation, notes the commission form of city government as a model, and urges women to study political economy to discuss these questions at home.
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Francis B. Heald
Nine Mile Canyon Notes and Local Appointments
Nine Mile residents report farm labor activity with E B Wood farming for G W Horn and various neighbors visiting Minatare. Weather brings rain hail and snow while a creamery agent sells separators and several locals buy them. Harry Long injured by a colt during a riding incident.
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Earl Mowry
P. P. Wilcox
Harry Derr
Malinda
Nine Mile
Eva Styles
Haines
W. G. Crismond
L. D. Hewitt
A. Z. Nicola
Minatare
Frank Beeson
George Horn
George Denton
Jack Long
Lewis
Banner County
Vira
Iva
Edna
Elsie Horo
Ermina Knight
Dem
Alliance Creamery
Harry Long
Harry Io
Canton Con Hofmann Helps Wintens Plough Crew
Community notes record local trades and visits in Hemingford Alliance and surrounding areas. Names include Louis Barta Orvis Brown Frank Caha and families, Mrs W A Hood Bert Langford and others with social calls and travel details. A comet spectacle and weather mention finish the gossip column.
Lightning Strikes as Mrs Thompson Disconnects Phone
A storm causes a lightning strike while Mrs Thompson is disconnecting a telephone. She is knocked down but not hurt. The note suggests installing a lightning arrester to prevent shocks.
Hubble's Flat Community Notes and Social Calls
Helen Lore stays with Mrs. B Lore while Mr. Lean seeks signers for a new post office. Waggonver attended church. Arthur Lore's family visited A Ross at Wind Spring. Edd Sweery traveled through Hubble on the way to Minatare. Frank Nearud and Geo Denton families visited Roy Denton. A Wickers schoolhouse box supper May 17 raised funds for new seats. Some neighbors sell beef cattle to buyers in Scottsbluff.
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Lean
Wagnover
Hubble
Arthur Lore
A. Ross
Wind Spring
Edd Sweery
Minatare
Frank Nearud
Geo
Rollen Ross
Edgar Barger
Scottsbluff
Community Notes From Quaker Valley
Willie Vantress remains ill while Dr. Churchill treated him. Leo and Marie Haworth visited Reno on Monday as Sunday school and church gather at Mr Shoffner's. Mrs Eastgate canceled her planned New York visit. Blair family joined James Jamison for Sunday visitors as Frank Johnsons moved back to their claim. Local farmers report corn planting nearing completion. A Saturday freeze damaged early potatoes and tomato vines. Edwin Orwen fell on a disc causing facial cuts and bruising but is recovering.
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Leo and
Marie Haworth
Reno
Mr. Shoffner
Reno Area Planting and Travel Notes Highlight Local Life
Mrs Mastrude visited C E Mc Falls last Wednesday. Miss Gladys Hier quit school last Friday due to illness. Chas Leistritz and sons move a fence for Henry Hier this week. Mrs E A McFall attended a banquet in Alliance. Elmer McFall helped Mr Elmore plant potatoes. Cc E McFall and Jesse Nelson and wife joined ranchers in Alliance. Farmers plant spuds oats prepare corn. Henry Hier will plant about fifteen acres after seed corn trip to Alliance. Lula Nelson and cousins visited ten miles south for a few days. Mr and Mrs B E Betebenner Mandie Berry Mrs Switzer and others went to Alliance to see St Elmo. Many from Reno area attended the Sunday school convention in Bingham last Thursday and returned Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cc. E. McFall
Jesse Nelson
Alliance
Henry Hier
Lula Nelson
B. E. Betebenner
Mandie Berry
Hemingford and Alliance Social Roundup and Baseball
Hemingford residents mingle with Alliance visitors and nearby towns as stars of society and sport fill the week. Ardmore and Hemingford clash in baseball with a 13 to 4 Hemingford win. Notables travel, visit, and repair cars while Miss Muirhead heads to Toronto and Europe via Quebec.
Infernal machine found on Dennison porch ends in dynamite
Omaha May 23 police seize an infernal machine on Tom Dennison’s porch. A suitcase packed with dynamite and a raised hammer revolver were found after his daughter Frances noticed the box on the porch and the bag was dragged to a vacant lot. Frank Erdman, claiming to be an agent of Elmer Thomas, is held after Dennison warned he would murder him. Detectives cut the string and opened the box to reveal dynamite in chalk dust.
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Omaha
Tom Dennison
Frank Erdman
Elmer Thomas
Erdman
Dennison
Craford
Frances
Pound
Cote
Mitchell
Hell
Hinzie Heads Travelers Group in Nebraska Leadership
Charles W. Hinzie of Omaha to lead the Grand Council of Nebraska United Commercial Travelers for the coming year. Grand Island awarded the next convention. Officers named include Grand junior counselor Paull Trueblood of Grand Island and past counselor Samuel F. Erskine of Norfolk. Executive committee members are E. A. Plumber Holdrege E. B. Abbott Beatrice Rudolph W. Bock Grand Island Pearl H. Patterson Chadron. Representatives to the supreme council include Hinzle Omaha Walter B. Sain Beatrice Samuel F. Erskine Norfolk Fred W. Hawkins Fremont D. C. Hewitt Hastings Charles J. Lyon Omaha John A. Traphagen Lincoln Colonel E. W. Gettin Omaha.
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Omaha
Charles W. Hinzie
Grand Council of Nebraska
United Commercial Travelers
Grand Island
Grand Council
Paull. Trueblood
Samuel F. Erskine
Norfolk
Frank BE. Coolaworth
Henry E. Moss
Hastings
William H. Boney
Lincoln
Sentinel
Andrew Randklev
E. A. Plumber
Holdrege
BE. Abbott
Beatrice
Rudolph W. Bock
Pearl H. Patterson
Chadron
Supreme Council
Columbus
Charles E. Hinzle
Walter B. Sain
Fred W. Hawkins
Fremont
D. C. Hewitt
Charles J. Lyon
John A. Traphagen
E. W. Gettin
Money For Public Schools In State Apportionment
Lincoln May 23 State Superintendent Bishop certifies semi annual school apportionment and county shares. Garden county excluded due to no census data. its share will go to Deuel county when Garden census is taken. Total apportionment 324 266.89 up from 293 192.49 last year. Per child allocation 0.87297 vs 0.79 last year. Children enumerated 371 452 up from 369 855.
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Lincoln
Bishop
Barton
Garden
New County
Devel County
Deuel
Supreme Court Rules Railroads May Not Trade Mileage for Ads
The Nebraska Supreme Court has declared it illegal for a railroad to issue mileage to newspapers in exchange for advertising. This ruling opening remarks greet the Nebraska State Press Association at its annual convention in Lincoln.
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Lincoln
Supreme Court
Nebraska State Press Association
Omaha Plans Two Day Aviation Meet This July
Omaha announces a two day aviation meet starting in July. A telegram from aviator Glenn H. Curtiss confirms that terms offered by the Aero Club of Nebraska have been accepted.
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Omaha
Tvo
Glenn H. Curtins
Aero Club of Nebraska
Shippers Meet in Omaha Discuss Railroad Pressure
Shippers from the Missouri river valley assembled in Omaha to review railroad efforts since the Chicago rate meeting last week. They will examine correspondence from a railway purchasing agent showing railroad organizations pushing shippers to drop their protests individually.
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Omaha
Missouri River Valley
Chicago
Watson Dies in Kansas City Visit
F M Watson, longtime Alliance resident, died in Kansas City. He was the fourth in his family to pass in three years including a brakeman son killed on the road and his mother who died in a kerosene accident while making a fire. Three children survive.
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Sirvivyo
Surveyors in Burwell Hint at Railway and Power Projects
A Burwell party of surveyors is mapping the old grade and staking the track as rumor grows of a Burlington line into the Black Hills. A second crew resurveys the Burwell irrigation ditch with plans to convert it to a water power site.
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Burwell
Neb
Burington
Black Hill Country
Editors In Yearly Council At Lincoln Meeting
The Nebraska editors gather for the annual association meeting in Lincoln on May 24. The report notes many editors are well fed, some taking a rare day off, and others working hard to enjoy life while some expect to profit less from the visit. The session began this morning.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Jean
Hfe
Orchard Crops Fail As Nebraska City Sees Short Apple Yield
Horticulturist B Dwyer, manager for Morton brothers at Arbor Lodge, reports the big orchard will yield far fewer than 75 bushels this season, down from 10 500 bushels last year. He fears many local orchards share the poor outlook as peaches plums and cherries are scarce or gone.
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Nebraska City
OC. B. Dwyer
Morton Brothers
Arbor Lodge
Boosters Gain Town a Depot in Wayside Nebraska
Long Pine Nebraska May 24 As a result of Omaha boosters visit to Wayside the town will get a depot General Manager Walters of the Northwestern says so The visit is remembered by citizens and railroad officials were convinced the town needed a depot due to strong local turnout from surrounding areas
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Boostera
Long Pine
Neb
Omaha
Nebraska
Walters
Northwestern
Farmer Struck by Runaway Team Near Burlington Depot
In Sidney Nebraska on May 24 a farmer named David T. Hall was unloading cream at the Burlington depot when a delayed Billings passenger rushed into the yards. His team bolted, throwing him beneath the wheels and fracturing his collarbone and injuring his spine, he was taken to a hospital in Cheyenne for treatment.
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Sidney
Neb
David T. Hall
Burlington Depot
Billings
Cheyenne
Three Thousand for Two Ear Drums Verdict in Omaha Plant Explosion
Fred Niece was awarded $3000 by a district court jury against Farmers' Cooperative Creamery Company. Niece claimed the loss of his ear drums due to an explosion in a trap at the company's plant on May 24.
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Omaha
Fred Niece
Farmers’ Cooperative Creamery Company
Niece
Stonecutter Dies in Accidental Crushed-Load Incident
Omaha reports John Rhine a stonecutter was crushed to death while lifting a 3,600 pound stone with a derrick. The tragedy occurred as he attempted to move the heavy load.
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Omaha
John Rhine
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Clarion Call
Lura Vance
Lura
Nine Mile Canyon
E. B. Wood
G. W. Horn
Jack Ritter
Iva Coger
J. Ritter
Beverly Cogar
Ernest Thompson
Moorehead
Ralph
Hope Sunday
Effie Wilson
Ella Nicola
Con Hofmann
Wintens
Louis Barta
Hemingford
Orvis Brown
G. H. Clayton
Frank Caha
W. A. Hood
Ben Curtis
Bert Langford
John Caba
Frank Hanna
John Moravek
C. Hall
Snake Creek
Frank Cahn
Grandma Langford
Crawford
Helen Lore
Mrs. B. Lore
Quaker Valley
Willie Vantress
Dr. Churchill
Edwin Orwen
Mastrude
C. E. McFalls
Gladys Hier
Chas Leistritz and Sons
E. A. McFall
Elmer McFall
Elmore
Aving
Angora
Nebru
Mr. Thorpe
Colorado
Ben Johnson
Agnes Muirhead
Pearl Petrie
Ruby Wildy
Floyd McClusky
Clarence Marshall
Miss O’lera
Bridgeport
Grace Waddell
F. E. Harris
K. L. Pierce
Joel Sheldon
C. J. Wildy
Ardmore
J. C. McCorkle
Isaac Rockey
Frank Caine
Asistor
B. L. Fenner
Lena Wildy
Jake Osborne
B. E. Johnson
Waisner
W. Spencer
Rupert Walker
Norbert Frohnapfel
St. Elmo
Pine Ridge
Barge
Mayme Miller
A. M. Thompson
Della Hicks
Clark McIntyre
Ray Woods
Dick Kenner
Mat Beaumont
Messrs. Root and
Carrell
West & Shindler Hardware and Implement
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Clyde Watson
Geneva
James Blundell
McEuen
Miss Wildy
New Athens
Miss Muirhead
Toronto
Canada
Dr. Muirhead
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Holsten’s
Nebraska News
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Knights of Grip
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F. M. Watson
Garfield
Morton
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