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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1917)
ALLIANCE HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPT. , jtgf JEM WWW Oeorge Neuswanger arrived in Al liance Tuesday to take up his new duties an county agent for Box Butte county. He la a very pleasant fel low to meet and will without doubt make friends fast. The first work of Mr. Neuswanger of course will he to get to know the people of the county. The field work in connection with the office of markets in the marketing of Box Butte potatoes will ive the new county agent an excel lent opportunity to get acquainted with the farmers and ranchers of rhe county. John McCoy, M. D. Offices and Hospital Reddish Block Telephone 81 W. H. Robinson, of Council Bluffs, has been in Alliance this week look ing after his business interests and advertising his big sale to be held at Fair Valley farm on Wednesday, Sep tember 19. The sale Is a big one. and is fully advertised elsewhere in this Issue of The Herald. Mr. Rob inson will plant some seventy-five .teres to wheat on his other place this fall. Real Estate. Loam and Iniur tnoe. F. R REDDISH, Redditb 81ock. 15-tf-727 Mrs. A. P. Keil, sister of Mrs. J. W. Tynan of this city and well known here through her former residence, died Sunday morning in Denver af ter a lingering illness. Mrs. Tynan was in Denver and Mr. Tynan left Tuesday to attend the funeral. ja If you don't see me before order in that new fall suit we will both lose money. New woolens now on display. Roy B. Hums, KEEP-V-NHAT Tailors and Cleaners. (O-tf-8602 A contract of sale was entered in to this week for the sale of the E. P. Sweeney ranch of 2680 acres located ast of this city. The buyers are Morton Sweeney and Jess Wilson. The consideration is said to be in the neighborhood of 835,000. The new owners will take possession the first of March, next year. Considerable hay land and one lake containing potash are contained in the tract. K. N. Foss left Monday for his home at Omaha following a visit at the home of his sister here, Mrs. Hay Stansberry. Mrt, Ray Stansberry is enjoying a visit this week from her mother, Mrs. Ellen Foss. of Omaha. Mrs. Foss arrived in Alliance Monday and will stay an indefinite length of time. s s Miss Kunice Overton arrived Sun day night from her home near Spo kane to spend the winter at the home of her sister, Mrs. I. Van Graven. Feagins ft Son, commission mer chants, report that within the last thirty days they have purchased 275 car loads of feeders on order for eastern stock men. They expect to have purchased better than 300 car loads before the week Is over. Horace Bogue arrived in Alliance Sunday following a three weeks' bus iness and pleasure trip spent in New York. A part of his time was spent in looking at the new merchandise and buying to fill the needs of his store. The Commercial Club gave a din ner at the Alliance hotel Wednesday noon for Perley Beach and Jay Vance, who left last night for Fort Riley to Join the national - army. Those in attendance at the Commer cial Club dinner other than the guests of honor were four in num ber, being: Earl Mallery, president of the Commercial Club; H. M. Bush nell, Jr., secretary; County Judge Ira E. Tash; and County Clerk W. C. Mounts, who is also secretary of the exemption board. The Commercial Club plans to feed the other drafted men before they go to Fort Riley. m Work is going along nicely on the new federal building now being erected in Alliance at the corner of unpaved Box Butte and Fourth streets. A ear load of interior fin ishing material. Including windows, etc., was received this week and since that time n number of carpen ters have been busy. The work Is fast nearlnc completion, although there seems to he considerable vet to do. On Saturday Miss Alforctta LiMon started to work carrying messages. It is said the management is anxious to hire one or two more girls. Miss IManehe Kibble returned from Denver Monday where she at tended the Hnnual meeting of the stock holders of the Nehrosku Pot ash Company. L. F. Ilulan. until recently of Antioch but who has tak en quarters at the Drake hotel, was also in attendance at the meeting. Mr. Hulan. who has been general manager of the company, has re signed the active management of the company, being succeeded by Harvey W. Lamb. Mr l.amb is already at Antioch and has taken up his duties as manager of the company. When the new pipe line front the potash plant at Hoffland is completed to the Ryan and Richardson lakes on the James Rice ranch, the company will have access to 320 acres more :of water. The lakes are located some fifteen or sixteen miles from the plant. Work on the pipe line will start immediately, the pipe hav ing already been unloaded at Hoff land. Fred Smith, who gave his home I address as Oceola. Ia., but who stat ed he has been employed at (.Jrand Island for a poriod of seventeen months, was arrested at the Burllng- tun depot here Saturday morning on suspicion. It was found he had six pints of booze in his grip. He con fessed to having purchased the liquor in a saloon at Douglas, Wyo. In imposing sentence Judge Tash gave him a lecture and a thorough "call ing." The fine was 8100 and costs. Not being able to pay the fine in full, Smith was sent to the county Jail until he could secure the funds or otherwise satisfy the law. Emil Seeling, who was at the local hospital for treatment, returned to his work at the Herman Krause ranch Tuesday. He was brought to the hospital after accidentally shoot ing off three fingers on his left hand while cleaning a gun. The first two fingers are entirely gone and the third finger is off at the first Joint. i j Mrs. L. H. Highland and Mrs. L. 7. Hollow. ty left Wednesday night I for Newton, Kans., for a visit with j their parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Da- ivid. They went via Denver where ! they stopped over to visit a brother and an aunt, i I J. W. Outhrie, insurance man, goes this week to Mackinaw Island, Mich., to attend a national meeting of the agents of the Equitable Life. He is one of the seven Nebraska men who j attend the convention. One of the i i -it-Hi r iur Kiinnnnnre is inai the agent must have written flf0, 000 In business during the past year. A special train will take the dele gates from Chicago to Michlgsn. Jake Herman and wife left Tues day morning for a trip through east ern Nebraska, going via auto. They will visit Lincoln, Omaha and other nearby points on the trip. "Silent" Jim Heeler, all-around sportsman, has surprised his friends ithe last few days by appearing in public clad in an up-to-the-minute II. iialtbarh left the last of week for Billings. Mont. the Mrs. Vem Andress Is visiting this week with friends In Dead wood s D. Mrs. Jim Jamison of Hoffland was here the last of the week having some dental work done. Five new boilers are btttn in stalled In the new boiler room at tin potash plant ot Hoffland. Three new swlnsens have also been installed H. O. Valleau and daughter. Miss Monetise, or sparits. Nebr.. are golf coat. Jim refuses to tell where guests at the A. V. (lavln home this the goir links are. but evidently has week. Mr. Valleau is an old timer been taking golf lessons perhaps he n the railroad game here, has been practicing auto polo with a ! Ford. n. B. Kelthlv of Walla Wmiim ' Wash., has been buying mules in th (' .1 FUgnt, representative of the vicinity of Alliance during the past L. C. Smith typewriter, reports the wecK. He is shipping the mules sale or one silent eight and one silent east. Mr. Kelthly bought the Big three model machine to Box Butte mil mules. C. C. Smith assisted county, ana a silent eight model to Principal Crawford of the Alliance high school. Former Sheriff A. D. New of Rush- Mr. Kelthly. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mild Crawford were guests of Mr. Mrs. W. A. Bennett Saturday r id and a nd vllle, Sheridan county, motored over Sunday. They were on their wav to Uuliinl kin . .... '!.....,.. n. . l 111 UUJ nun nin null i nil i in ' , via jLjOUIS. business, returning morning. home Sunday iiiimniiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiniimj mt.nmmmninininiiiiimmr WHY! Does The Fashion Shop sell more Ladies' Ready -to-Wear Garments than any other Alliance lore There is a Reason TheJOnly Exclusive Ready-to-Wear Store in Western Nebraska i mi' i " ff C. M. Looney and R. C. Strong. two of our live-wire traveling men, returned recently from the Black Hills, where they spent vacations in company with their families. Oeorge Darling has rented the west room on the ground floor of the . Masonic temple building for use as a storage room In order to care for the Immense stock of furniture and house furnishings which he is stoek- , ing up with. I Oeorge Darling, Edison dealer, re ports the sale of fine Edison ma chines to a Orand Island party and a fine Chippendale mahogany model to O. C. Moore of Alliance. ' The fire department was called out at 6 o'clock Sunday morning to ex tinguish a small blaze In an out building at 420 Laramie avenue. A few minutes' work with a garden hose sufficed. Clarence Schafer has resigned as bookkeeper for the Keeler-Coursey garage and his place has been taken by E. M. Martin. Mr. 8chafer has accepted a position with the Burling ton. - J. C. MofBtt of Baldwin, 111., forty miles from St. Louis, was an Alliance visitor last week. Mr. Baldwin came to Box Butte county in 1888 and has been gone from the county eighteen years. He homesteaded south of Al liance. While in the city ho greet ed many old friends. s T. E. Stevens, president of the i a . i. rj.JiiAiinM nn wr nf 1 1 riff. roil "7 iinmnnrt Wtf, giving part of his time to this land, was an Alliance and Hoffland r ' " ' . . Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Rosseau of Phoenix, Ariz., who have been visit ing at the home of Mrs. Rosseau'a parents. Dr. and Mrs. L. W. Howman. left Monday for Hay Springs for a visit of about a week before return ing to their home. A baby boy was born Thursduy to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mashek, living twenty-five miles north and east of Alliance. Mrs. Ray Hoag left Tuesday night for McCook where she is visiting at vbe home of Mr. and Mrs. George Smith, former Alliance residents. Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. Show of Hoff land are the parents of a baby boy, born to them Monday. Misses Tilma Smith and Bernice Nienabore of Antioch were over Sunday guests of friends in Alliance. Miss was in day. Anna Hoffland of Antioch Alliance on business Satur- Mr and Mrs. C. A. Laing are home from a visit with relatives and friends In Sarpy county. Mr. and Mrs. II. J. Marr of Bing ham were Alliance visitors the last of the week as was also Mrs. Ruth McCarty. Judge J. H. Broady of Lincoln, widely-known Lincoln attornoy, was in Alliance today, stopping over be tween trains for a short visit with Lloyd Thomas, editor of The Herald. Judge Broady Is an instructor in the law department of the state unlver v ness the pioneers in the potash business and deserves much of the credit for i the rapid advuncemont of the indus try. Adolph Carey with Mrs. Aville Hart and son, all of Ladora, la., ar rived Sunday for a visit with Joe Carey. O. A. Odell and relafves. They were much surprlsod at the crops which grace the farms of this vicin ity, coming as they do from the corn bolt of the country. Ears of corn, from ten to fourteen inches long, taken by Mr. Odell from the Bhort stalks of the local fields, amazed them. er, Lloyd being a member or tne committee which drew up the prohi bition bill, and Judge Broady assist ed the committee in the drafting of the bill. He was much Interested this morning in the trial held In county court, the chargo being brought under the prohibition law. The Judge left this afternoon for Bridgeport and Srottsbluff on busi ness relating to cases in which he Is interested. W. D. Rumer. head of t' e Rumer Motor Company, returned Wednes day afternoon from a trip to Casper, Wyo. Mr. Rumer is general western representative for the Jackson Auto- c m ,i, i I.., tVia mobile Comnanv and on the trip nr- r . 1 . UBI 111, ill-' i IV. V v. j - - Mitchell automobile, autoed to Gor-'need for a representative at Cas per. don Wednesday on business. Charles Spacht left on 4 4 today for Plattsmouth. Nebr.. where he Leo N'icolai of the firm of Nlcolai & Son left Wednesday evenlnp for win tenrh mathematics and at hlet ics . Denver. He will return before the in the high Bchool. He will stop ov- end of the week, driving back a new er In Lincoln for a day to attend the Oldsmoblle Eight roadster, state fair. I .... .. .... j . .1. vance nna wire leu Wednes day night for Lincoln, accompanying their son Jay that far on his way to Fort Riley . where he and Pearle Beach will enter the cantonment as the first of the new army from Box Butte county. Mr. and Mrs. Vance will take in the state fair at Lincoln before returning. The remains of Mrs. L. D. Carter, a former resident of Alliance, passed through Alliance Sunday enroute to Table Rock, Nebr., for burial. Mrs. Carter was killed at Portland, Ore.. Thursday in an accident to a riding device called "The Whip," used in amusement purks and carried with carnivals. The husband accompan ied the remains Mr. Carter is a Clayton Worley left this noon for former Burlington fireman. The fam- ; ncoln to "tend the state fair. Mr ily left here about five years ago. I Worley left Wednesday night but he Their small son was burned in a took the wrong train and found him flre In a barn at Seneca ,ust before ! M on the way to Denver before he the family moved from this city. got "wise. lie came pack and , . started over again, making sure this Albert E. Mitts. 13-year-old son of !"" nat he was on a trrtln bound eastward. Frank Scanlon of Axtell. Kara., who has been visiting his brother, John, returned home Wednesday Bight. John Scanlon and wife were in from Curly, Wednesday. t Mr. and Mrs. Ray Frost were suf- i prised this week by a visit from Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mltts, living near Ellsworth, died Sunday morning from ptomaine poisoning. The body was taken to Rapid City for burial. Miss Caroline Kirchnavy of Chad ron has been visiting here with Miss Mable Ormsby tor several days. ! School opened in Alliance Monday morning as per schedule. All teach ers were here for the opening The Frost's brother, who arrived Wed- riuviiiuvin 19 m w w u: iar;;e8i nesdav 111 iue nisiory or tue schools, rne enrollment in the freshman class is especially large. I Mrs. Charles Pennicuick is home from a visit of several months with TOO I, ATE TO ( LAHHIKY FOR RENT- Ttt-n aiiituo ... ... ., i . . . . - - ii i ..,...,.-,. a.nu Mien.ia ai iMR Aiigeies, nisneu rooms. One of two and one and other California points. of three rooms, at S2l Big Horn ave- The Rebekah 'circle will meet with Fourth Tef3 to" k" 322 W Mrs. L. T. Burrow. 606 Missouri, this T VT' f key nfi..r.. ...... a . I J. U.'i UTLin n ii f nm j . . " 1 rj" rosnion . . ,ii i,uiuiauu. n 1 1 II III IT mAlsl n I. ... I as chamber rooming house resident of Alliance, will conduct Phone i 06 and ask rrm,nHU services at the city mission Sunday Jf-U 8570$ Jacobson I'm uu cm up ami every j night next week. A general Invita-1 FOR 8ALE Five-room residence tion Is extended. It is hoped the at- at 609 Sweetwater avenue Electric tendance at all meetings will be lights, city water, bath. Barn Ideal ,arge . . , ; down-town location. A bargain and Mrs James Fairfield and Mrs R. l2j92& " J Wilson of Antioch w,r vi.u I. ior runner in here Monday. The first edition of the Antioch News will be Issued today. formation, price and terms. o-tr for sai.k Hf.n.KiT2jrr . - ..uiv. F.UUUB 1 II- 1 DP f Iodine V. ....... I Antioch New. .iiceeerf. h Alll. -"""""" "ccouill of ii i i a Born to Mr. and i.rs. H. D. Ha kef, a baby hoy, on September 6. Ut. Maker Is a government mall clerk. Mrs Oeorge Fleharty was a visit' or In Alliance from Curly this week. 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