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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1909
Page
12
An editorial argues Nebraska law requires public notices for liquor license applications in county papers and these notices, though restrictive, protect the public. The piece cites Alliance and Lincoln examples, saying publishers endorse neither licenses nor divorces and that notices deter alcohol sales.
The Alliance Junior Normal promi ses an unusually large attendance and asks teachers to provide rooming. Those with rooms for the eight weeks starting June 7 should notify O E Phillips at phone 28 on May 22 or mail details including price, location and number of floors.
Notice announces a special session of Box Butte County Commissioners in Alliance Nebraska on June 4 1909 at 16 o'clock to submit names for a petit jury for the June 21 1909 District Court term. County Clerk W C Moura signs the notice.
The new time card, effective last Sunday, lists departures of trains including Nos 42 44 41 43 35 401 and local freight with routes to Grand Island Lincoln Edgemont Black Hills Billings Denver Bridgeport Guernsey and Denver and notes most times in Mountain time except Nos 44 42. Routines show arrivals ahead of departures and vary by day for some services.
Brakeman C. P. James leaves service while Conductor J. S. Ward gains a new car and crew. L. Hurst from Cheyenne becomes a switchman. Mrs. Lovie Mackey visits Alliance parents. C. D. Love of Broken Bow visits Vaughn brothers. Harry Gantz named private secretary to General Superintendent Bracken. Ed Harman of Red Cloud passes through Alliance en route to Billings. Fred Vaughn arrives as flagman on trains 39 between Ravenna and Seneca. A. E. Bates quits Alliance to farm in Hardy Nebraska guided by his father’s new land purchase.
Edgemont officials and visiting executives visited town on company business this week. Engine 645 moved to Alliance for the Denver Deadwood line and more S1 engines arrive in Chicago for western passenger service. General managers Bracken Holdrege and Master Mechanic Bartlett traveled the high line aboard engine 802 to inspect performance.
Martha Schlaman visited Alliance on Wednesday. John Anderson returned from the east and said his father died Monday. Miss Nerad left for home Saturday. Mike Techacher’s team frightened a load of sand, broke fences and caused damage Thursday. Clark Olds has recovered enough to walk with a cane.
Marsland reports brisk growth with new buildings rising and a steady crop of oats and wheat. Local residents face illnesses including typhoid fever and several minor ailments, while social visits, trips to nearby towns, market news, and small incidents fill the week.
M Hutton of Hemingford, a local real estate man, stopped in Alliance after closing a sale in Grand Island. A 14000 acre tract near Hemingford was bought by a party who plans extensive farming, dairy use, or cultivation, benefiting the region over speculative holding.
Delegates from Chadron Gordon Harrison Alliance Hemingford Lust Crawford and Hay Springs organized the northwest Nebraska and southeast Wyoming Odd Fellows Association. Alliance lodge 165 elected Gregory Zam F H Pardee and E M Martin as delegates. Judge Zarn and Mr Pardee assisted in the organization.
Rev Graves of Alliance spent last Sunday in Bridgeport and held services in the Episcopal church both morning and evening. It is probable that services will be held in this church hereafter on Sunday evenings instead of Mondays.
Rev. Joseph Westley died Friday night after long illness. Born in Kentucky in 1828 he moved to Indiana, joined the Free Baptist church, and served as minister before settling in Nebraska in 1870 at Grand Island. He led churches as pastor and evangelist, served in the Civil War, and leaves a wife and two daughters. Funeral services were conducted at the Baptist and Carpenter churches. He was remembered as a devout, faithful Christian and community pillar.
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