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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1920)
THti AIjIjTANCB 11KRAU), FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1920 r it TJ THE 25 DISCOUNT ON 150 BOY'S SUITS 20 DISCOUNT ON EDWIN CLAPP AND WALK OVER OXFORDS AN UNUSUAL EVENT HIGHEST GRADE SUITS We Offer You About 500 Men's Suits Made By ART SCH AFFNER' & MARX " FAMOUS i 1 M AND SOCIETY BRAND " and other Famous Makes'in Men's Clothes at the following reductions. All of these suits are three-piece new Spring andiSummer Goods. Weights are good and can be used all the year round. At original prices these suits were good values at present prices they are Bargains This Sale has started off very well thank you. We would advise our customers not to wait but come now while assortments are still big and sizes unbroken. $85.00 Sui'ts, Sale Price . . . $80:00 Suits, Sale Price . . , $75.00 Suits, Sale Price . , . $72.50 Suits, Sale . Price . . . $70.00 Suits, Sale Price .. $65.00 Suits, Sale Price . , . $50.00 Suits, Sale Price . . . $45.00 Suits, Sale Price . . . $40.00 Suits, Sale Price . . . Our Guarantee of Satisfaction Goes Witli Every Suit Only the Prices Are Changed 25 Discount on all Silk Shirts-Manhattan Arrow and other makes 67.75 63-75 50.75 57.75 55.75 51 .75 i39.7i 1.7! a THE FAMOUS CLOTHING HOUSE- 20 DISCOUNT ON 500 PAIRS BOY'S SHOES Western Nebraskas Leading Clothiers If It's New The Famous Has It 25 DISCOUNT ON ALL MEN'S DRESS STRAW HATS 7C Railroad News . Engineers Munger, . Waker and Sternberg were sent to Seneca to take charge of switch engines, on ac count of the board being cut at Alli ance. . Mrs. It. E. Annablo Is spending a tew days in Ravenna this week. Timekeeper John Carey was in Denver the first of the week for a days sight seeing. Machinist Robert Ati of Edgeraont Is here visiting home folks this weeks. Mrs. H. W. Hays expects to make a visit to Milan, Mo., soon. MIbs Ruby Nelson, daughter of Painter Nelson, is visiting in Arvada Wyo. Machinist Frank Connors and wife expect to spend a few days tn Hot Springs soon.' Mrs. J. II. Rebmon, wife of Mach inist Rebnion, is planning a visit to Basin. Wyo. Mr. Flood, Instructor In Oxy-Ace-tylene welding went to Edgemont this week, where be will assist In work which is to be done on engine No. 714. Mr. Madsen, who has charge of the bridge and building gang, who are putting tn the new turn table, spent a couple of days in Denver the first of the week. Mis Alta Phillips of the store bouse Is back at work again after a short vacation, which was spent In Kansas City. Robert Drlscoll Is looking after the machine shop In connection with bit own dnties, while Machine Shop Foreman Grassman Is taking a short vacation. Ivau Wong nas accepted the posi tion of caller at the round house. Mrs. George Redfern and children expect to leave soon for a visit to Wood Lake, Neb. Mrs. R. E. Munger is visiting rela tives in Edgemont this week. Mrs. A. R. Reynolds left Friday for a visit with her husband at Ard nore. O. C. Tillie, brakeman, returned from Kansas City where be and Mrs. Tillie were spending their honey moon. M. M. Martin, brakeman, Is laying off. W. E. Cot a nt, conductor, Is taking a turn on 41 and 42 pool. J. II. Cantlin, conductor, has goue to Columbus, Neb., . to harvest his crops. E .F. Beaumont brakeman , wao was seriously injured at Seneca, is out of the hospital. C. O. Lanani, brakeman, is in Laic her visiting relatives. Brakeman E. II. Bullock will go to high line and take a try out en Deadwood Pool freight. A. F. Fuller Is coming lu tonight from Lincoln on business. Miss Myrtle Green of the freight office, expects to spend Sunday in Hot Spriugs. Dave Secord, clerk In the yard of fice, is going to Denver for a few days visit to relatives. W. J. Ta gesso r, engine foreman, has gone to Edgemont to spend nine ty days on his homestead. F. A. Rowe, engine foreman, who has been laying off, returned to work this week. Clifford Sward has returned to work after spending a week on his hooeymoon in Kansas City, Me. Earl Hamilton, switchman, has resigned and returned to his home in Southern, Neb. J. Lawrenson, fireman on the local freight to Denver, who has been liv ing In that city, has moved his wife aud three children of Bridgeport. F. E. Wilson, switchman, has re signed and gone to British Colum bia. T. D. James, foreman at the store house, is taking a two weeks vaca tion., Leon Alters, who has been off from the storehouse sick, expects to return to work Monday. Engineers set back to firing: Wal-) lace, Witowack, Sitzman, Hudson, Willis and Person. Alliance switch engines: Trefney, Kberly, Fowler. Cut off engine board: E. M. Coop, tr, C. F. Austin, C. F. Johnson and E. R. Draper. Engineer Lawrence is laying off. C. A. Benneau has laid off and is spending a week's time in Billings and Casper. Arnold Badsgard is taking the place of C. A. Renneau. Fireman II. W. Smith is building a home north of the fair grounds. ALLIANCE BRIEFS William Moon and Charlie King, who had been incarcerated in the city Jail since Tuesday, laying out a fifteen-day sentence for carrying con cealed weapons, broke jail Wednes day night and made their getaway, as yet they have not been re-taken. WILL OPEN DRUG STORK AT 214 1JOX BUTTE AVE. F. A Hershman, brother of Dr. C. E. Hershman, who has recently finished proving up on a homestead near Mlnatare, Neb., In partnership with B. M. Scotten, of Sedalia, Mo., will open a new drug store in the building recently vacated by the Silver Grill cafe. The latter has been employed for the past year by the Holsten Drug Store of this city and previous to that time managed a drug store in Sedalia for ten years. These two men plan a modern establishment, with attractive fixtures and a com plete line of merchandise. They expect to have the new store ready to open in three weeks. Al ready work has begun and with no unforseen delays the place will be ready for occupancy in schedule tmie. Word was received from G. G. Smith of the Alliance Steam Laun dry, who wrote recently to Alliance friends from St. Joseph, Mo., that he has been having the time of his life. They are headed this way, but are not expected to arrive for several days'. Alliance Candy Store, Wednesday returned from Boulder, Denver and Eldorado, Colo., where he spent seven days on a business trip. He reports the crops are looking fine everywhere he went, with the chances very good for large harvests. Sheriff E. E. Burden of Arapahoe county, Littleton, Colo., arrived Wednesday to take Fred llempel and Jl mRuth, who were arrested in Al liance Saturday last for being in un lawful possession of a seven-passenger Cadillac touring car, back to Littleton to stand trial. The sheriff also took the Cadillac with him. to be returned to the owner, Charles Gun t her, of Bennet, Colo. Clay Harry, manager for the Ne braska Telephone company at Al liance, was In Antloch Wednesday of this week, where he checked out Mrs. S. 'A. Bartlett as operator of the Antloch exchange. Mrs. Bartlett has been In charge of this exchange ever since it was installed nearly three years ago, and has proved herself at all times a faithful and competent employe. The telephone company re grets very much to lose the services of this valuable operator. Manager Harry checked In Mrs. Lillian A Hobbs of Alliance to succeed Mrs. Bartlett on the Antloch exchange. D. C. McKim of Crawford, super intendent of the Fairmount Cream ery company, was in Alliance Thurs day on his periodic tour of inspec tion. He has charge of the territory on the Burlington as far as Billings, and on the Northwestern as far as Casper. It is to Mr. McKim that the Herald Is indebted for the first-hand account of the bursting of the gov ernment dam at Crawford Tuesday evening. DISTRICT COURT GIVES C. MEEKS TWO YEARS During a four-hour session of dis trict court Wednesday, Judge West over sentenced Clifford Meeks to a term of two years flat in the state prison for carrying concealed weap ons. Meeks plead guilty to the charge. His home Is In Canada, but he was arrested a few weeks ago by local officers. Meeks will be taken to Lincoln within a few days by Sheriff Miller. L. R. Roeiell, who has been re-ldlna- in Alliance Intermittently ever since it was founded, at present pro- ( prieior oi a rwuims uvwov v j PROTEST AGAINST CLOSING JNRST STREET . A petition was circulated Friday morning respectfully but Brmry pro testing against the closing of First street by the city council, as an nounced in connection with the changes contemplated In grading down the hill on East Third. In less than an hour twenty-two sign ers were secured along Box Butte avenue from First to Third streets, to which should be added the names of eight business men who drew up the petition. Everyone was willing to sign, and already practically every business house in the region covered has signified his sympthy with the protest. The petition gives as its reason the irreparable damage that will be done to property values and business in the district that will be shut off to visitors coming from the south east. The petitioners state that they they take this action by no means in a spirit of criticism of the council for opening up Second street, but they want First street kept open f or traf fic. The petition in lull follows: To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of the City of Alliance, Nebr. : ,The undersigned tax payers and business men of the City of Alliance, Nebraska, do hereby respectfully protest against the proposed action of the City Council as announced in the newspapers of the City, in clos ing from traffic a part of First street in said city, and respectfully petition that instead of closing a portion of such street the said street be brought to a proper grade and maintained in that conditions In support of their protest and petition, the undersign ed call attention to the fact that if a part of such street is closed, it use as a highway will be practically abandoned to the great detriment of business located between First and Third streets in the City of Alliance, that the value of property so located be greatly depreciated, and that Lmany visitors in the city will be de- pnvea or a Ylew of the Burlington statio, park and grounds, one of the most attractive landmarks in the city. v -jr.