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TWICE A WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
Official Taper of the City of AUianc
VOLUME XXVIIL
(Eight Pages)
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY", NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1921
NO. 67
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CITY MANAGER
PLANS CHANGES
IN FIRE DEPT.
F ORKING OUT WAYS TO REDUCE
MAINTENANCE EXPENSE
INnmber of Paid Members to be De
creased Kemmish Gires Sta
tistics for 18 Months
City Manager N. A. Kemmish has
urned his attention to the Alliance
volunteer fire department. He has un
der consideration some plans for re
organizing the-work , of the depart
ment, among which is Included the dis
charge of pome of the paid firemen, the
transfer of others to part-time work,
the removal of the fire truck to the
Ixiwry & Henry garage and the devel
opment of a system whereby the vol
unteer firmen will for the great part
lo the fire fighting.
Mr. Kemmish has gathered some
statistics from the records of the fire
department showing the number of
men who have registered their names
.as attending fires, and the cost of
maintaining the fire department in this
ity, as compared with other cities of
the me sixe in Nebraska. He also
takes up the matter of insurance rates
.and explains some of the changes he
xpects to put into effect.
The city manager has issued the fol
lowing statement:
No doubt everyone will be inter
ested in knowine something regard
ing the workings of the Alliance fire
department We are all interested in
jseeinff Alliance have a good efficient
and economical fire department. We
.have therefore gone over the records
in this department for the past eigh
teen and one-half months to ascertain
;those who have registered as reported
for duty at fires and what it has cost
the citv to maintain this department.
During the period from January 1,
1920 to July 15, 1921, inclusive, inese
-records show that the fire department
was called out forty-nine times. A
part of these calls were falsa alarms
but should be considered as fire Calls.
The following are the names of men
appearing on the official register who
av been on the Daid department at
-. : " tU'rm.. - i i. 1 - 1 - L U : I
various urata during nun pant nun-,
teen and one-half months and shows
the number of fires attended by each
man:
Carl Anderson, 27; Carl Rockey, 25;
K. D. Fivecote, 15; Henry Sitzman, 10;
S. Longtin, 10; V. E. Byrne, 9; Addison
Bishop, 7.
Carl Anderson and V. E. Byrne are
the only two remaining on this paid
lepartmcnt at this time.
The following are the names of
"members on the volunteer department
whose names appear on the official
fire record and shows the number of
fires each man attended during the
past eighteen and one-half months:
Ward Hall, ex-chief, 24; Ed. Bren
nan, 13; Charles Schaefer, present
hief, 13; R. J. Trabert, 13; Claude
Hazelton, 12; Denny Ryan, 12; W. H.
Blume, 10; W. E. Edwards, assistant
-hief, 8; Charles E. Safford, 8; Lloyd
Thoma3, 7; Roy B. Burns, 7; O. C.
Moore, 5; A. Wickerman, 5; George
Ellis, 6; Guy Smith, 4; Charles Hill, 4;
A. Haskins, 4; W. A. Blue, 3; W. R.
Harper, 3; Joe Farrell, 3; Dr. Hand,
3; J. J. Glarem, 3; Olaf Kuhn, 3; Ross
Sampson, 3; L. L. Williams, 3; A.
Brost, 3; Charles Wycoff, 3; M. E.
Reardon, 3; P. Kuhn, 2; T. O. Rome,
2; Ray D. Butler, 2; L. E. Burrows, 2.
There are thirty-four men who at
tended one fire during this eighteen
months' period whose names appear on
the register. - ' ' '
Our ttate statute provides that all
members of a volunteer fire depart
ment in rood standing in this state and
all persons who have been members
in good standing for five consecutive
years in this state shall be exempt
from serving on grand and petty juries
of the justice or me peace courts oi
the state ana irom inuiua uuiy mi
time of peace and from the assess
ment of any poll tax. U also pro
vides that no fire company Khali have
on the roll3 at any one time more than
seventy-five persons and no noon anu
ladder shall have more man nuy mem
bers. The statute provides that a mem-1
mer to be in good standing is nereoy
defined: to be those who keep their
lues promptly paid up and are present
and render active service when called
out for the legitimate purpose of the
organization. The by-lawa of our Alli
ance fire department require that all
members absenting themselves for
drills or parades w thout a reasonable , compieteu u v......u
Sse shall forfeit their membership 'cently .Purchased X-ray W'i'1?1
in the department but may be re-in- has placed bister M. ConsoUta, R. N.,
stated upon meeting with certain re- trained X-ray technician graduate of
?,uirements. The by-laws also require. St Elizabeth'a hospital of Chicago in
that it shall be the duty of each lirf- charge of the department,
man to register personally upon a The machine at the hospital is the
register especially provided fcr this largest and latest Kelly-Koet model
purpose at the engine house. This made, with a twelve-inch spark gap,
register must be made within twenty- and equipped with a safety device
four hours of the fire. Thia is the which assures absolute safety during
register from which these names were ( its operation.
compiled. From the rules here fore, a, W. J. McNamara, expert X-ray me-
roember to remain in good standing
must attend at least one fire each three
months which is equivalent to four
fire per year or six fires during the
eighteen months' perioiL k will b
een from the above statement that
about eleven men during the past
;.l.AAn mnntKi nra licrihle to Le
-exempt from poll tax." Each member
(Continued on Page 8)
THE WEATHER
Fair tonight- and Wednesday;
much change in temperature.
not
Sixteen-Year-Old Boy
Unconscious Nine Days
After Serious Accident
Orville Hucke, sixteen-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hucke, living
near Hemingford, was seriously injur
ed several days ago, while raking al
falfa was still unconscious Saturday,
although nine days have elapsed since
his accident.
He had driven too close to the fence,
and one wheel of the rake caught on a
fence post. His brothers, who were
with him in the field, heard him call to
the horses to stop, and looked up in
time to see the horses break loose
from the rake and the young man
dragged from the seat. In some way
he became entangled in the lines, and
was dragged for thirty rods. The
horses were running at a high rate of
speed, and the youth was unconscious
when he was picked up after the lines
broke and released him. He sustained
a broken nose, broken collar bone, a
skull fracture above the right eye, and
a cut on the right jaw that required
four stitches to close.
CAMPFIRE GIRLS
TRIP TO SPRINGS
BEGINS JULY 31
ALLIANCE MEN WILL
THEM IN AUTOS
TAKE
South Dakota City Planning to Enter
tain Girls Will Camp in
City Park
Alliance Campfire Girls, to the num
ber of sixty or more, are busy making
plans for the annual outing, which is
scheduled for the first part of August.
Under present plans, the girls and
their guardians will leave by automo-
ti for Hot Sorines. S. D. on July 31
me inp win oe muue in nuvuuwmm,
and business men will be asked to con
tribute cars for the drive. A sufficl
ent number, of them have agreed to
furnish a car so that the transporta
tion problem is regarded as settled
The girls will stay either one or two
weeks, probably until August 14.
Complete plans have not been made,
but it has been settled that the girl3
will camo at the city camping grounds
in Hot Springs. There is available at
these grounds water, benches for
tables and an ideal camping site, a
few blocks away from the big Hot
Springs plunge. The management of
the Dlunire has asreed to give the girls
the advantage of his lowest rates, who
will be able to take regular morning
swims,
E. W. Martin, president of the Hot
Springs Commercial club, has written
the Elks committee, which raised funds
to send the girls on the trip this year,
that Hot Sprines is prepared to d
ever'vthinir Dossible to make the rtay
of their guests a pleasant one. The
camp park, he writes, is a good one,
is situated beneath a erove of pine
trees, commands a beautiful view of
the citv and is both healthy and at
tractive. Hot Springs will not be able
to supply the necessary tents, but win
take care of the water supply and will
furnish wood for the rirls.
The Hot Springs Commercial club
will arrange to give an auto excursion
for the CaniDfire Girls during their
stav. which will orobably take them
out to wind cave, the fchow spot of
that part of the country. The city has
a strong woman's organization under
the name of the Civic club, and also
a ioe& 0f Campfire Girls, both of
, whom have promised full co-operation.
a meeting of the guardians win oe
held Thursday evening of this week,
at which final arrangements will oe
made. There are some ninety Camp- (
fire qj jn the city, but a number of
these will be unable to go on the trip,
St. Joseph's Hospital
Finishes Installation
of X-Ray Equipment
St. Jo-eph hospital of this city has
chanic of Omaha, who installed the
machine, congratulated the hcspiral
Stan on its selection of equipment, end
stated that the local hospital is now
equipped with a better X-ray depart
ment than most of the greater hospi
tals in larger cities. The machine is
the same model aa that us! in the
I Mayo Brothers clinic at Rochester,
Minn., but is larger.
BU1LDING0FTHE
MUNICIPAL PIER
BEGUN MONDAY
WILL RE ERECTED
ROY SCOUT C
NEAR
AMP
THE
Public-Spirited Citizens Subscribe $150
to Furnish Free Ra thing Fa
cilities to the County
Alliance is to have a municipal pier,
and unless all indications fail, it will
be completed within the next ten days.
Saturday two or three Alliance men.
Chief Jeffers, Sheriff J. W. Miller and
Penrose Romig, started a subscription
paper about, and in the space of a few
hours had sixty or seventy-five signa
tures, the amount pledged bo ng $450.
Since $.00 was all that was rrquired
to construct a pier and a bath house,
the orders were given ' and Monday
morning, bright and early, material
was being hauled to the grounds. Chief
C. W. Jeffers and Sheriff Miller are
getting additional subscriptions today.
The new municipal pier will be con
structed about three hundred yards
south of the present Boy Scout camp,
on the east side of Broncho lake. The
pier will be built on piling, and will
extent eighty-five feet out into the
water, and five feet wide. There will
be a good spring diving hoard, lhe
bath-house will be sixteen by fifty feet.
half to be used by men and half by
women. It will have a cement floor.
The women's side will have individual
rooms, about fifteen of them, but the
men will not be allowed to retire to
an anteroom to don their swimming
trunks or flourish their towels.
The location selected is on land
owned by the county, and permission
has already been given to erect the ,
bath-house and build the pier. The
beach here is said to be as good as
any place on the lake. The slope is
fairly even, but it will be dredged and ,
leveled lor a Fliace Ol two or inrw
hundred feet, so that it will be ideal
for smaller children, who will be able
to swim near the water's edge with- .The Vray meeting was attended evening they will encourage and up
out occasioning heart failure in their k wnvomttiv ritizena alontr the P0" their, Bayard -bretnern through
parents. At th's part of the lake there ;
' .1 t. -1 1 .,:il
are no ueru nuien. onu n iiiihuiik nui:sra roni-hara im ntnpra nnn nuniimm
1 1 t - i
be comparatively safe. have joined the organization, which 1 Kfneral and other fpeoch-making riig
Tha mntrihntinns. with the excen- .. i. rr.Uro.in nnt nltaries. but in addition to being an
tion of that of Jim Huntert who headed
the list with $30. and that of the Uonsj
ciud, which
will
enterprise,
are
from 50 cents to ten
dollars. In this ca?e, those who car-
rii the naner ubout did not make anv
ness men, realizing that they have
uainiuiui abic-uift, i" vn w
donate $100 to the',on(r the route and then seek help of "bs have promiaed an entertaining
mostly in small rnilnfv commissioners, states and the'even"MT. anl f .ere. As anT a"K.er
oeen nit preny neaviiy ior uonaimns ai,,i thirty inches high in six-incn let
of one sort and another the past few , Xeri m black on a white blackground.
months. The subscribers were largely There will be two posts at each turn
those who will ue the new swimming an( one marking pole every mile on a
Iwach. A number of railroaders placed
their names down.
As planned by the promoters, the fa
culties at the municipal pier will be
free of charge to all who come. This
was one of the conditions laid down by
the first man to contribute, and every
one following agreed with him. The
both-house will be open to all who de
sire to use it. The Boy Scouts, who
run the neighboring camp and swim
ming hole, have agreed to keep an eye
on the bath house and will keep it
cleaned up. It may be that they will
decide later to rent towels and bathing
suits if the prospects seem good.
Plans for this year are quite mod
est. Only the pier and bath house will
be built Next year, if conditions
warrant, an additional sum will be
asked for, with which to provide show
er baths and .other improvements.
Trees will also be-set out, it is hoped.
Broncho lake has never been more
popular for swimming purposes than
this year. The Country club beach has
been used largely and often, and the
Boy Scouts are making good use of
their facilities. The general public
has flocked to the lake in larger num
bers than ever before. Saturday eve
ning seventy-two cars were counted
on the east side of the lake, and there
were 205 people in swimming last
Wednesday evening. The lake is get
tine to be a popular place for picnic
parties. A number of the automobiles
carry canvas covers so the car can be
converted into a dressing room.
The movement for a public pier at
Broncho lake was started by the Alli
ance Lions club a couple of weeks
ago, but the same idea has been in
the mind of other citizens. The club
appointed a committee to formulate
plana for getting funds, but the other
fellows beat them to it a trifle by get
ting out a subscription paper. The
Lions club promptly subscribed a sub
stantial sum. lhe idea was popular,
as nearly every man approached put
his name down for some amount. The
building of the public bath house and
the pier will be a welcome source of
entertainment during the hot weather,
and the men who were responsible for
bringing the idea to public attention,
aa well tjs thouse who carried it out
so promptly, are deserving of especial
credit
Ralph Borgelt has received a seven
volume set of the Free mason's Cyclo
pedia, which deals with all phases of
Masonry. This has been placed in the
library at the Masonic Temple and will
be placed at the disposal of all Masons.
The books were a gift from his mother
at the time he received his third de
gree.
CROSS-COUNTRY
HIGHWAY TO PASS
THRU ALLIANCE
THIS CITY ON THE GOLF-PLAINS-CANADA
ROUTE
Chanibrr of Commerce Will
Delegate to Wray, Colo.,
Meeting August 4
Send
for
Fortune is again smiling in the di
rection of Alliance. According to a
dispatch in Sunday's Rocky Mountain
News, this city is slated for a place on
the new Gulf-Plains-Canadian high
way, a great trans-country road ex
tending from the Mexican border to
Canada. Plans have already&een per
fected for marking the highway in
Colorado and Nebraska, and by Au
gust 1 there is expected to be nearly
three hundred miles of the highway
marked. The members of the cham
ber of commerce discussed the new
highway at the noon luncheon Monday,
and it was decided to send a delegate
to Wray, Colo., for the nextftmeeting
of the association on August 4
The News gives the following infor
mation concerning the route j of the
highway and plans for the future!
"Eastern Colorado citizens who are
back of the Gulf-Plains-Canadian
higlnfay have already started to 'put
it over and at a meeting held in wray
Friday night plans were perfected for
marking the highway in Colorado and
over into Nebraska. The highway is
proposed as the great trans-country
i . i ' . . . i r ! - 1
road eNienaing irom me mcxicun win
der into Canada.
M 'Before August 1 there will be 283
mile. of the highway marked," said R.
J. Welton, who attended the Wray
mpol nir Thiu u.ill tw from Kristoi
through Burlington, Wray, Holyoke
and Julesburir in Colorado to Oshkosh
;an(i i.w. KpK. Plans are already un-
dcrway for extending the highway on
through Alliance, Neb., into Montana
,.! nn f'una, nnrl from Krififn
through Limon, Cheyenne Wells and
t umar ac,OSs Colorado.
propo;tHj highway, county commission-1
f" -j--" i ft t
1 . . .... . 1 1
k v taid their first year's dues. The .
u orjfanize each, community
I 'i I
'Marking has already been com-
i it,. ;n;rn;a "f: P c h
: Dopn coDvrifirrueu. mis lniKinu in
' ine put on sip-ns ten inches wide !
straight road.
"'It was explained at the Wray
meeting that many of the roads are al
ready made, but they will have to be
connected up, and all graded ami sur
faced to make it the ideal highway
that is proposed. The highway will
be the only cross-country highway in
the west'
"The next meeting of the organiza
tion is set for August 4 in Wray."
Box Butte County.
Sunday Schools to
Meet at Hemingford
The Box Butte county Sunday school
convention will be held at Hemingford
on July 26. A splendid program has
been arranged for the instruction ana
entertainment of the delegate. The
pro'rram follows:
9:30 a. m. Devotional, Prof. R. L.
Embree.
10 a. m. Address of welcome, Alex
M airhead.
Response, Rev. S. J. Epler.
Reports, appointment of committees,
etc.
10:45 a. m. "Getting Behind the
Su)Krintendent," Arthur Gregory.
11:15 a. m. "Suggestive Program
for Sunday School," Miss Margaret E.
Brown.
12:00 m. Basket dinner at church.
1:15 p. m. Devotional, George E.
Schneider.
1:30 p. m. "Problems of the Rural
School," Mrs. B. V. Blanchard McNey.
2 :00 p. m. "The Sunday School and
Its Mission," Rev. C. R. Mattison.
2:20 p. m. -"The Church and Week
day Religious Education," Rev. A. J.
kearns.
2:40 p. m. "Making the Sunday
School a Living Thing," Mrs. Jennie
Reed,
3:00 p. m. "The Undeveloped Re
sources," Rev. M. C. Smith.
3:30 p. m. "Worship in the Sunday
School," W. H. Kimberly.
4 :00 p. m. "Training for Devotional
Life," Mrs. Margaret E. Brown.
5:00 p. m. -Business session.
8:00 p. m. Address, W. H. Kim
berly. 8:30 p. m. "The Outlook, in the
Orient," Misa Margaret E. Brown.
Mrs. C. L. Finch returned yesterday
from a ten days' visit with her par
ent at Julebburg, Colo.
Mrs. A. E. Kitchen has returned
from Colorado Springs, where she has
been spending her vacation.
Express Company Will
Be Ordered to Change
the Rates on Ice Cream
The chamber of commerce received a
telegram Monday morning from the
interstate commerce commission,
which will, it is hoped, mark the end
of the argument over express rates
which has been hanging on for the
past few months. Seme time ago the
Alliance Creamery company enlisted
the aid of the chamber of commerce
in un effort to equalize rates on ice
cream from Alliance to Hot Springs
and intermediate points, as compared
with the rates from cities in the
North Patte valley to the same points.
The rate was then ocer $2 per hun
dred pounds and the rate to Hot
Springs was ordered reduced to $1.04
by the interstate commerce commis
sion. The express company, however,
refused to chanee rates to intermedi
ate points, and for several weeks the
creamery has been paying $1.04 per
hundred to Hot Springs, and $2.10 to
Edgemont, several miles nearer. The
chamber of commerce took the matter
ud with the commission and the tele
gram yesterday advised that a formal
order, covering rates to the interme
diate towns, will be forthcoming im
mediately, its effective date to be an
nounced within the week.
ALLIANCE CUBS ,
GO TO BAYARD
THIS EVENING
TWENTY MEN TO MAKE TRIP BY
AUTOMOBILE
Lions From This City Will Be Present
When Bayard Club Receives
Its Charter
Twenty members of the Alliance
Lions club are leaving this afternoon
in automobiles for Bayard, and this
evening they will encourage and up
tTJn Ordeal of receiving a char-
. Than uHH h a Hiatrwt n-nvornnr
- - n . .
Ha.
occasion for solemn thought, there will
bo ome merry-making.. The Bayard
that they may fail to deliver the goods,
Alliance Lions have prepared a few
stunts that will make the festivities
' more festive. It is going to be one
large evening if both of the clubs get
to eo in or in proper form
La.st Thursday the llayard Lions
came over to Alliance for a friendly
call, and walloped their hosts to the
fearful tune of 20 to 1. The return
visit of the Lions is made too late for
baseball, because the Alliance cubs
feared defeat and the B-syard cubs
feared bloodshed If the two teams ever
again get "together on the diamond.
If the Alliance men get even, it will
be a victory of brains over brawn, or
something like that, and they hope to
get even. A charter presentation ought
to be the chance of a lifetime.
The following Alliance Lions plan to
make the trip: W. L. O'Keefe, Frank
Abegg. Frank Brennan, C. E. Adams,
J. S. Rhein, Clay Harry, True Miller,
John Henneberry, Jack Kane, Ed. M.
Burr, Charles Brittan, J. W. Guthrie,
Dick O'Bannon, Bud Schafer, Cal
Walker, Lee Basye, M. D. Nolan, Lou
Reynolds.
Police Round Up
Three Taxi Drivers
Without Licenses
Art Garrett, H. G. Dentler and FA
Bishop have been notified to appear in
police court at 2 p. m. Wednesday, to
explain why they are operating auto
mobiles for hire without first procur
ing fro mthe city clerk a license'. The
ordinances provide a license fee of $10
per vear, and already seven taxi own
ers have paid the fee. Complaint
aginst the three men were made by
other drivers who had paid the license
money.
Dr. Einar V. Blak was arrested Fri
day evening by Officer Stilwell, and
charged with violating traffic rules by
turning his car in the middle of the
street Hearinsr was set for 4 p. ra.
Monday, but Police Judge L. A. Berry
allowed postponement until today at
the same hour.
State Officers Have !
Nice Words to Say of
Reception in Alliance
City Manager N. A. Kemmish has
received the following letter, dated
Monday, from .State Sheriff Gus A
Hyers:
"Please extend to your chamber of
commerce and the good citizens of
Alliance our appreciation for the fine
entertainment and courtesies extended
our delegation while in convention in
your city. It will be long remembered
as one of the successful meetings of
the state."
RECOMMENDS A
CUT IN FREIGHT
RATES ON STOCK
MAY ELIMINATE THE SS
PER,
CENT RATE INCREASE
An Examiner of the Interstate Cett.
metre Com mi union Holding a
Hearing in Washington
Reduction of present live stock rant
throughout the western territory where
meat-producing animals are raised ha.
neen recommended to the interstate
commerce commission by one of-its
examiners, and a hearing thereoa it
now in progress at Washington, ac
cording to a telegram received Friday
by the Nebraska railway commissioau.
The proposed reduction would elem-
inate the 35 per cent increase allowed
to the railroads by the interstate com
mission in its order of a year age.
In his report to the federal commis
sion, Examiner Disque said that th
rates on certain 'commodities are1 stifl
ing industry and should be reduced b
meet economic requirements." Kio.
opinion was further expressed that
this reduction in the case of live stock
should be approximately equal to the)
advance allowed in 1920.
As to traffic in general, the exan-
iner stated his belief that it would b
"unwarranted at this time and no ade
quate compensating benefit would, h
thus achieved.
' His report urged the railroads them
selves to eliminate high rates on lr
stock, Especially for the longer hauls.
The industry would be materially
helped thereby, the report declared.
Hearing on Grain Rates August 15.
As a result of complaints filed At
Washington by state commissions of
Kansas, Iowa and Minnesota, the In
terstate commerce commission will
conduct a hearing there on August 1&
relative to . a reduction on freight
charges on grain, grain products ami
hay. . If live stock rates are reduced,
in the meantime, it will be interpreted
as forecasting similar action on thee
other commodities, since the same coa
ditions affect all of them.
A conference of state commissions
interested in presenting facts and ar
guments in support of . reduced rates
will be held .at Chicago, on July 20,
in the offices of the Illinois commission
there. The Nebraska commission will
be represented at this meeting by one
of it members and probably also by
Special Counsel La 51 aster.
Present Rates Defnded.
Present freight rates have no rela
tion to the condition of the live stock,
industry in the west, Kenneth F. Bur
gess, representing the railroads, de
dared Friday before the Interstate
Commerce committee in oral argument
on the shippers' plea for relief in the
states where utilities commissions,
have intervened.
Previously representatives of the
live stock interests had declared that
the rates were destroying the west and
would result in the railroads beia?
among the worst sufferers in the end.
"The railroads should not be allowed
to sacrifice the future of the west on,
the altar of present revenues," S. H.
Cowan of the American Live Stock as
sociation said.
Rate reductions asked by the ship
pers amount to $34,000,000 a year,
which would be but 1.2 percent of the
total value of the market of the live
stock shipped on western roads. Mr.
Burgess declared. While the value of
the live stock on the farm" in 1920, he
added, had suffered a deflation of
$819,000,000, the freight rate increased
in that year on the western roads was
only $7,488,000.
Discussing the Friday report of
Examiner Disque, which held that the
rates on live stock were low from a
transportation standpoint, but because
of conditions prevailing in the indus
try trey are high from an economic
standpoint, Mr. Burgess said:
"lhe economic standpoint represents
a new test of reasonableness un
known to the law, without giving any
measure to tell what would be reason
able and if you find that these rates
are reasonable from a transportation
standpoint I challenge your jurisdic
tion to reduce them.
Under the law, he said, rates on one
class of traffic could not be decreased
so as to throw a burden on other
classes.
Seven-Year-Old Son of
Former Alliance Woman
Is Drowned at Billings
Word has reached The Herald that
Billie Farker, the seven-year-old son
of Mrs. Nellie J. Parker, met death
by drowning in the Yellowstone river
near Billings, Mont, last Tuesday.
Funeral services were held at Billings
on July 14.
The child's mother was a former
resident of Alliance, her maiden name
being Nellie Baker. She was the
daughter of Rev. O. S. Baker, at one
time pastor of the Methodist church
of this city. Mrs. Parker now is a.
resident of Billings.
Dick Strong returned Sunday froa,
his homestead in Wyoming.