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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1905
Page
1
A scattered page of classified notices lists shop offerings from Eagle Pharmacy and Pil Kensington, banking prompts to Alliance National Bank, and rewards for lost items. It advertises potatoes, ribbons, hides for trade, and a cash only shift with price cuts of 10 to 20 percent. Miscellaneous notices urge settling debts and selling goods at reduced cash prices.
Estrayed from 10 miles north of Alliance on Aug 25, a black mare with a small forehead stripe and about 830 pounds. Reward offered for information leading to recovery. Notify P H Dillon Alliance Neb box 69. Also listed are local notices about feed and flour purchases, real estate loans, a dentist, an opera house, and a sale of 500 bushels of Red Turkey Winter Wheat seed.
A dark red Jersey cow with X brand on the right hip was taken up by E. W. Ray of 711 Missouri Avenue.
Mail Clerk recalls last Tuesday scene near Guernsey where an ore train wreck on the Colorado and Wyoming road caused two deaths and a broken leg. A lone car derailed down the grade and struck a caboose carrying conductor Lenn Briggs Brakeman and Mrs. Ladd causing instant fatalities. Burlington local crew aided clearing debris.
Guy McConnell son of Rev. and Mrs. J. M. McConnell died after several weeks of illness. Funeral services are set for 7:30 this evening at the church, with the body to be taken to Little York, Illinois, tomorrow morning for burial beside a brother. He was about nineteen and well liked by all who knew him.
Prairie fire season opens with a blaze along the Bellwood range near Angora. A new ranch house and hay stacks burned before Denver train crews arrived with a way car of firefighters led by Claim Agent Boyd. Six fires were extinguished along the right of way.
Arrangements for the Old Settlers meeting at Barkhurst's grove four miles northwest of Alliance are under way for next Saturday with a full program. It includes songs, an invocation, an America rendition, remarks by local figures, recitations, and orchestral selections by the Old Settler Orchestra, with participation by Grayton Muse and others.
The Pioneer Grip list was divided between Turner ALD and Times after their purchase. The Herain portion will be mailed to subscribers this week and until expiry. Herain adopts cash in advance. unpaid subscriptions will be stricken from the list.
Religious denominations may use city water free of charge but remain subject to same rules. Watering limited to approved hours and only with a nozzle. Violators will be prohibited from city water after notice. By order of the Mayor.
There will be no preaching service at the United Presbyterian Church next Sabbath. Sabbath school, Young People's meeting, and Thursday evening prayer meeting will not take place as usual.
Herman Peters arrives in town to arrange shipping four cars of sheep to morrow. Local buyers and transport operators prepare for transfer and handling at the clandestine yard.
Local notes record A B Tolliff returning to Rumer's as salesman, several residents visiting Omaha and Denver, and numerous moves. The infant son of J A Huston died with burial in Hemingford, while Alva Sherwood of Hemingford lost his son Alva in Michigan after a horse accident. Community events include Epworth League meeting, barber shop opening, and a large Progressive Card party hosted by Mrs. Wm Mitchell.
Railway workers and their movements are tracked in Alliance with multiple personnel changes. E T Enyeart leaves the freight house, S G Tillett departs for Chicago, and J N Redfern from Chicago relief department visits town, among other staff transfers and visits.
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