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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1920
Page
1
Alliance Neb Aug 17 1920 letter asks what American Legion stands for on unions strikes and mob action at Great Bend Kans and in Denver. J B Miller replies urging internal remedy and calm inquiry, offering discussion with Legion members to correct abuses without smearing the order.
Omaha Bee reports unanimous stance by Election Commissioner Moorhead and district court judges that women cannot serve on juries yet. Amendment to statutes is needed to include women. current law excludes them. Jury pay remains three dollars daily and exemptions are broad for many roles.
Guestave T. Erickson and Miss Mary E. Brown of Alliance secured a marriage license on Wednesday. Erickson, a carpenter, and Brown are both eighteen. The groom's telegraphed consent from his Rockford, NJ father delayed the license by several days due to a mailed reply.
Old Ed Howe cites a Chicago Tribune quip criticizing the use of pep as a tired audience is urged to sing the second verse again. He says pep is often about doing things that need not be done, drawing sympathy for the grouch.
Miss Alva Reed, once a high school teacher, was visiting the home of Mrs. Fred Carlson on Wednesday.
Chief of Police Reed learned from Ardmore officers that the badly decomposed body of Charles Smith was found in the weeds near Ardmore. He died of gunshot wounds, believed killed four weeks prior after involvement with the alleged robberies tied to “Red Mike.”
Burlington brake man Sam H. Fink of Alliance suffered a crushed right hand when a freight engine moved forward while he sat beside the tender. The injury required amputation of a large portion of the hand. he was treated at Hyannis and later moved to St. Joseph's hospital in Alliance.
F M Finkbine, a prominent Des Moines businessman, spent Tuesday in Alliance area visiting land in Hex Butte county. He toured territory west of the city, praised local crowing efforts, and noted Alliance’s rapid progress and becoming a real city. He returned to Yes Mulacs Tuesday night.
Jim Hunter traveled abroad Thursday after several days of illness, marking a notable recovery. The report notes his condition improved and he resumed normal activities following the bout of illness.
Thieves broke into the A. B. Jones company garage early Thursday and took a new Reo Six used as a demonstrator. Entry was gained by prying the basement door and propping the bar. The burglars also entered the Buick garage but left after seeing the GM C truck blocking a passenger car. A Chadron theft and other area break ins are noted as renewed car theft activity.
Over a thousand labor union members will observe Labor Day in Alliance with a 1 PM parade from the depot followed by a 2 PM address by G C Porter of Morrill County at the fair grounds. The afternoon includes races and contests, a ball game Alliance Q versus Bayard, and a watermelon eating contest for colored men.
A. Segar resigns from his summer job on the state highway and returns home to Scottsbluff to attend school this year.
Vaughn and Sons sold three gasoline and oil stations in Alliance Hemingford and Antioch to Mutual OM Company news City for well over £50,000. TD McNitt named local manager overseeing all three stations. Mutual plans wholesale operation with local agents for Samenon gasoline Radiant kerosene and a range of lubricants and greases.
Today ends the special campaign to keep through August without a single fault to an employer. The score is not quite perfect though all but one of the accidents were minor. Up to August 26 the only mystery was Edgemont machine who lost a finger at the first joint. Both the score and some injuries have been marked minor, and men show great interest in the no accident drive.
A man gave his name as F. J. Moore from New Castle Wyoming, fined ten dollars plus costs totaling fifteen. Night Watch Trabert arrested him near midnight Tuesday at Burlington station and escorted him to the city jail where a drunkenness charge was filed Wednesday morning.
The Hell Ship with Mandlaine Traverad is shown at the Imperial, featuring Paula played by Mise Traverse as a girl captain who seizes command after her father’s mutinous death. She subdues the crew but faces love and gender limits. Also on the program are The Detectress and Nazimova in The Brat. Houdini in Terror Island on Sunday.
A. St. Rankin, local commercial manager for Nebraska Telephone in Bridgeport, visited Alliance Wednesday evening after a daylong car inspection of the Bridgeport Alliance toll line. He traveled back to Bridgeport by train that same evening.
Miss Naomi Veach of Rushville visited Judge and Mrs I E Tash on Thursday. She taught in Alliance last year and will move to Mullen to begin a new teaching position for the coming term.
Two gentlemen may rent a furnished room in an all modern Toluca home. Phone 279 for details.
Partly cloudy and unsettled tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. Conditions suggest minor fluctuations in low and high readings across the area.
Fred Thompson of Denver was found not guilty of bootlegging in county court before Judge Tash. He was arrested after a booze car and five gallon keg were seized near Hemingford. Allen A. Cox pleaded guilty to liquor possession and transport in Box Butte county.
Within a week or two countywide electric signs will blaze, erected by Cox electric league members. The nine thousand member group spans the United States. The model sign shows a circle with an X, designed by George Williams of New York who also originated lighting the Statue of Liberty.
The northwest Nebraska M. E. conference met in Valentine and issued assignments including Alliance to M. C. Smith Kirmingford to A. J. May Marsland to be supplied Crawford to E. C. Newland Harrison to Claire Van Meter Whitney to J. L. Shaw Chadron to Clinton Snneff Antioch and Lakeside to C. H. Burleigh Mullen to Edward Magil Morrill to F. R. Williams formerly of Marsland The conference was hosted in Valentine by Rev. N. G. Palmer, a former Hemingford and Crawford pastor.
The Nebraska territorial pioneers association meets September 1920 at the Grand hotel Lincoln with sessions from 10 a m and a noon luncheon. Headquarters will be at Agricultural hall balcony on the state fair grounds. Eligible members are those who have lived in the state 35 years or more and may register at the meeting or the fair.
Miss Leila Nabb has accepted a position at the Alliance Candy Store. The move places her in a customer service role at the local sweet shop strengthening its staff lineup.
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