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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1910
Page
4
The pamphlet extols Box Butte County Nebraska noting rich soil mild climate ample rainfall and plentiful water. It highlights butter production capacity wholesale business papers banks depots churches lodges stockyards services and civic infrastructure plus a U S land office and a well developed fair association.
Box Butte County offers 320 acres well improved 12 miles from Alliance at 25 per acre with easy terms. Also 160 acres 4 miles from Alliance at 15 per acre, 1240 acres 10 miles from station at 42.50 per acre. 150 acres under cultivation with fair improvements 20 per 20 acres, 44 miles north of Alliance. County spans 80 by 86 miles with 60 school districts and low taxes. Potatoes and wheat thrive. county settled in 1885-86.
A brief note lists several recent customers including J. P. Barger of Chariton Iowa Ed Rumell of Reserve Nebraska Richardson County and Dan Eicher of Milford Nebraska Seward County Mr Davidson of Orchard Antelope County Petersen of Aurora Nebraska Hamilton J W Smith of Mason City Nebraska Custer County. It states there are many others.
Alliance shows three graded schools including a high school with enrollment over 1,000 and three modern buildings. It lists St Agnes Catholic academy, three large hotels, water works with nine miles of mains, electric lights with day service, a telephone system with rural lines, and a creamery.
A notice from E T Kibble & Company promises to refund expenses to anyone who complies with the stated conditions. The guarantee seeks to reassure customers about potential costs incurred.
Heavy Aug rain leaves Lincoln submerged in many areas. Antelope and Salt creeks overflowed, flooding streets up to five feet deep and washing out tracks. The penitentiary engine house is flooded and power lifted. Rock Island depot traffic requires wagon transfers. Basements flood, Burlington yards submerged, and trains stalled or diverted.
Seward reports four and three quarters inches of rain flooding cellars and washing out curbing on new streets. Trains from the west are detained by Milford washouts. Boyes-Hulshizer mill dam washed out by flood. Ulysses and David City recorded seven and five inches. Stevens barn struck by lightning and burned.
Osceola Nebraska reports the heaviest rainfall in county history on August 30 with a record downpour causing flood concerns and surface runoff across streets. Local authorities note saturated soil and disrupted travel as residents assess damage.
An electric storm caused six and a half inches of rain by 7 am registering in the government gauge. The county suffered extensive damage to roads and bridges, surpassing any storm since 1885 when a waterspout damaged railroad property.
An explosion from a gasoline stove at the home of Alex Vergin in Utica Nebraska Aug 30 causes Mrs. Vergin mother of Mayor Vergin to catch fire. She jumps into a rain barrel and is submerged to the neck in water. Her arms, face and head are severely burned. In Hastings a barn fire kills eight horses at W A Dieken and damages another barn owned by Wilhelm Vollmer.
The following order relayed by Adjutant General Hartigan approves the election of William H. Orris and Walter D. Sonneschein, both of Company B, First Infantry, as first and second lieutenants respectively, to rank from August 15, 1910.
In St Paul Nebraska a large Catholic assembly laid the cornerstone for the new church built by St Peter and St Paul congregation. In York Nebraska the Adventist state camp meeting opened for a twelve day session expected to draw over 1000 attendees from across the United States.
Hastings Nebraska August 27 Mrs EB E Wilber was seriously burned while kindling a fire with kerosene. Her clothing caught fire and she ran outside rolling on the grass to extinguish the blaze. She had little chance to recover.
Grand Island Nebraska August 27 during Frontier Day events an unscheduled race for the bride saw Jay Palmer manager of the Independent Telephone Co attempt to lift Miss Bennet from her saddle after a 150 yard lead. Both rider and Palmer fell but Miss Bennet escaped injury and Palmer was not seriously hurt as crowds watched the spectacle.
In Murray Nebraska on August 29 an aged woman Mrs William Shera was found dead in her Rock Bluff store with three bullet holes in the head. Police suspect robbery but say definite clues have been found. She had spent the night at her son Will Sheras home and was last seen walking toward her store five blocks from any other house. She planned a visit to Omaha to see a daughter when her daughter Ada Keenan failed to hear from her prompting a Rock Bluff search that uncovered the body.
Aug 22 Bruning Nebraska windmill tower sixty feet high with thirty spectators during a picnic performance partially collapsed. Two died from injuries and two others were severely hurt. Victims include John Knutzen with a broken back and Mr Schrock with fatal internal injuries. James Meyer cut and bruised. Mr Rasher bruised with a broken leg. several others with minor injuries.
In Lincoln Kentucky an Aug busga note warns that corporations that have not paid are facing actions within three days. Officials cite Leeir Lubuds as a referenced party in the warning.
Omaha report notes George Hamilton of Cambridge University, England, accepts the Latin chair at Bellevue College. Hamilton, educated in America, earned honors at Cambridge and spent a year at Oxford, strengthening the college’s classical studies program amid local academic gains.
A severe frost hit Alliance and surrounding district on August 29, killing all young vegetables and much corn. Dr. C. Smith reports half an inch of ice on a barrel of water outside his ranch six miles east of Alliance.
Alliance Nebraska August 29. J W Haggard Burlington brakeman died at Belmont in an uncoupling accident when he fell under the pilot of a helper engine. He was rushed to Alliance but expired en route.
Camille Gillett, riding a horse named Camille in Lexington Nebraska, was knocked unconscious when the horse reared at an automobile. The animal fell backward and crushed him, and he died without regaining consciousness.
Friends fear artist J Laurie Wallace is buried in the ruins of his studio at 4370 Izard Street after a severe wind and rain storm blew down the building in Omaha.
Miss Lillie Crimmer, for fifteen years an instructor in the women’s department at St. John's College in Shanehal China, died at the local Presbyterian hospital from an illness contracted in the Orient.
Seward Nebraska August 27 report Burdette Boyes and cousins Mr and Mrs Olmstead fell ill from ptomaine poisoning in potatoes. A physician aided to steady heart action until relief was achieved.
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