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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1911)
- Prices 60c to $5 Stuckey Co. SOUTH OMAHA MARKITI i i RAILWAY NOH S AND PERSONALS On Tuesday the company began to eut ice again at Mainland. Conductor Dan Hetrlck 1b now on the west end local. Mr. Ray Hoag left last Friday for A ten days' visit with friends in Lin ooln and Haveiock. Fireman 11. C. Wacker left Sunday for Edgemont. He will work on the high in-.- Conductor Prank Calander has tak en a sixty-day lay off. He has gone .to Florida. Rondmaster J. Burns, whose head quarters are at Seneca, was in Al Uauce Saturday. Messrft. Gantz, Butler and Rayan . . m i... I. ...I ..11. ft,.. are office ooya w vpeu hh Elks' play Wednesday eveninft D. Snider, who left her some time ago for the south, has returned and U now switching in the yards. Miss inec Beck, daughter of J. 0. Beck of the Bhops. has been given a position in the postoffice. Switchman George Hicks has been off several days. He has a very painful attack of rheumatism. C. C. Holtorf, assistant superin tendent on the Deadwood line, was in Alliance Sunday. Numbers 45 and 46 both east and west are to have regular crews. The runs will be put up for bid at once. Supt. C. D. Pickenpaugh came over from Sterling on 302 Sunday morn Ipg. He returned on 303 Sunday s.f. Jernoon. Firemen H. C. Sternberg and J. O. Donnel returned Monday from the high line. They will work in the pool here. Miss Delia Nelson, daughter of engineer Nelson, has been out of school this week on account of the mumps. Engineer Allen Gordon has gone to Ardmore where he will take the helper. Engineer Rathburn will come Jto Alliance. Guy Allen, engineer, took switch engine No. 1668 to Deadwood the first of the weeK. mis engine nau been to the Haveiock shops. Sui t Bobbins o( the Aheridan di vision came In on NO. 42 Sunday mornlri In Ms private car. He re turned on No. 43 the same day. Rots Hale and George Hartman have gone to Hillings where they will work for the N. P. They will be under yardmaster George Mehl. Miss Hazel Bennett, daughter of engineer Bennett, went to Deadwood Saturday morning to visit relatives. She returned on No. 44 Sunday. Fireman J. Orland left Monday for Deadwood. He will bump fire man Underbill on No. 141-142. Un derbill will take a narrow gage run. Conductor U. N. Hosklns has been off several days on account of the sickness of bis wife. Conductor Curamlngs has his car and crew. quite sick several days but Is now out of danger. Night Yardmaster T. MacNamarfl returned Sunday morning on 41 from Council Bluffs where he had gone on account of the serious illnes of his wife. He left her much improved John Rickey, an engineer on the N. P. out of Spokane, is here visit ing his brother, brakeman Roy Rlch ey, and bis two sisters, Mrs Rich ardson and Mrs. Walbridge. Hit Saturday two hoboes were caught neftr Billings. They were thought to be the ones who did the shooting on the Sheridan division. Brakeman Frits was sent to Identify them. Brakeman Roy McKenzle, who has been In Lincoln recuperating from an attack of pneumonia, came back Sat urday morning on No. 41. He it much better but not yet strong e nough to go to work. DWH Williams, who for the past month has been night yardmaster at Edgemont, came td Alliance last Sat urday. He will be general yardmas ter here. His wife and family are vlBlting In St. Joe. Mo. Mr. Ford of the yard office has been promoted to a place In chief dispatcher A. V. Gavin's office. Mr. Butler takes Ford's place. W. D. Evans takes the place made vacant by Butler's promotion. Tom Shay takes the place of night bill clerk. Conductors Andrews, Johnson, Ran dall, Campbell and Hamilton went to Sterling Sunday to help organize an Order of Railway Conductors lodge. No Grand Officers put in an appear ance, so they had their trip for nothing. Last Saturday engineer Frank Wil son had a narrow escape from death Millie coming up Provo hill on No. 42. They were running slowly and he was tightening a bolt on the side of the engine when his wrench slipped m.il he fell to the ground. The fire man. J. Bogan, Baw him full and. CATTLJI Heavy supplies last week broke killing cattle a fall tniarter, feeders showing little change. Yes terday with 3300 snd today 4200, the market ha regained 10 to 16c of the decline $6.00 was top paid for Steers and. from this down to 6.60 with the hulk of short fed and warm ed up grades $5.00to$5.60. Light weight cHttle still better sellers than heavies. Best 1176 lb. Feeders, $6 90, bulk being calves, yearlings and 2's at $6.40 to $5.66. Heavy sup plies of cows and heifers, best $5. 00 to $5.40; bulk, however, $4.40 to 4. HO and medium grades $4.00 to $4. 60, owing to the demand for them as stockers Canners rarely sell below $3 25. Veal calves 26 to 50c lower, top $8.00. bulk $6.00 to $7.00. Bulls also 25c lower at a range of $4 25 to $5 00. Believe receipts must contln ue limited for awhile to allow mar ket to strengthen up. HOGS Market decidedly unset tled. Yesterday opened five to 10c higher, closed with advance lost. To day opened steady closed 10 lower, bulk $7.35 to $7 50, top $7.66. Pack ers are poor buyers on any upturn on account of expected heavy sup plies soon anil with them lower pric es. SHEEP Last week's market clos ed lower on account of heavy sup piles and unfavorable eastern con ditions. Yesterday with 3000 and today 8000, market sharply advanced 26 to 40c, top lambs bringing $6.15; yearlings $4.76; wethers $4.10 and ewes $4.15 and a few feeder lambs (warmed up) $5.60. Believe with continued light supplies, the market will "firm" up but receipts will govern. WE8TERN NEBRASKA Interesting Items Taken From This End of the State for Herald Readers. Jg vice president; Dr. Sheldon, of Scotts bluff, secretary. Once In a while an Individual or a town attempts more than can be don successfully. Sometimes the attemut actually succeeds but more often re sults In failure. Our defunct electric light plnnt Is a glorious example of misplaced confidence, or something else. It would have been better for Scottsbluff if we had struggled on for a year longer than we did before we had electric lights, for Just as we wni'e beginning to hope that we had emerged from the darkness of coal oil lamps to real electric lights our firefly factory went punk. Since then we have had to resurrect our old coal oil lamps and stumble a- round in the dark. But we have hopes that some of these days. In the sweet bye and bye, an earthquake or something else will get that plant or a better one In action.- Scotts bluff Herald. BOX BUTTE COUNTY REAL E8TATE TRAN8FER8 By F. E. Reddish, Bonded Abstractor Dr. Wllden P. Snare to Charles H. Bell, part of lot 1, blk "V", Sheridan Add. to Alliance, $2,500. o The Truax Land company to John Nooner, n'fe and sw of nw, section 25 bw of section 24-25-60, $4,000. Scott C. Fuller to fit. A. Peters, s , nw and n sw, section 1-28-47, $1.00. o A. S. Reed, administrator, to H. A. PeterB, s1 of nw, n6 of sw, section 1-28-47, $700. o J. H. Garrels to Mamie Garrels, se of so, section 1-26-50, $1,000. o Lincoln Land company to Edgar C. Hamblin, lots 4, 6 and 6, block "P", Sheridan Add., $560. 4 LAND OFFICE NOTE8 "IT'S A GOOD THING" That is what our trade said of the last deal we had on assorted cases of GAIETY Canned Fruits and Veg etable; so here is another bunch of moneysayers. Re member that tne GAIETY line of goods is PRE PARED FOR PARTICULAR PEOPLE. 6 Cans Gaiety Pears fP 35c each 2. 10 6 Cans Gaiety Black Cherries 35c each 2.10 6 Cans Gaiety Sliced Peaches 35c each 2. 10 6 Cans Gaiety Apricots 30c each 1.80 Total 8.10 At $7.40 for this case of California Fruit assort ed, shows a saving of 70c. 6 Cans Gaiety Strawberries 35c each 2.10 6 Cans Gaiety Shreaded Pineapple. . .($250 each 1.50 6 Cans Red Raspberries &35C each 2.10 6 Cans Gaiety Black Blackberries. . . "30c each 1.80 Total 17.50 5a ve $1.10 by ordering a case of this assorted fruit for $6.40. 4 CansGaiety Golden Wax Beans . . 1 7 xc each . 70 4 Cans Gaiety Lima Beans " 1 7 Jc each . 70 4 Cans Gaiety Red Kidney Beans. . " 15 each .60 4 Cans Gaiety Strawberry Beets. . . ''170 each .70 4 Cans Gaiety Green AsparagusTips" 35c each 1.40 4 Cans Gaiety Backed Beans "i7ceach .70 Total I 4.80 This case of assorted vegetables for $4.05 is a money saver. Remember the Phone No. 56 ALLIANCE GROCERY CO. t The official estimate of the coun ty expenses for Hooker county for the year 1911 Is $5,250. Frank Barrett of Broken Bow at tempted to kill himself by drinking carbolic last week. Family troubles. Grand Island is to have a new Bur lington depot. The building will be nearly as large as the one at Lin coln and will cost about $100,000. Sergt. Von Den Deale, of the 8th Cavalry, at Fort Robinson, commit ted suicide last Tuesday by shooting himself. Family troubles were the cause. The Scott s Bluff county editorial association held a meeting at the Herald office in Scottsbluff Tuesday evening of last week. Officers were elected for the ensuing year. Will Moore, of CuBter county, has been arrested charged with burning the Custer county court house some time ago, states the CuBter County Republican. The Minatare Commercial club has stopped and picked him up. He was I been re-organlsed. Fred W. Taylor badly bruised and scratched up but no bones were broken. At Ardmore engineer Allen Qorden took the train and brought It to Alliance. has been elected preslednt; Ross Taylor, vice president; L L. Lyman, ueeretary-treasurer. Broken Bow has a daily paper. It is called "The Broken Bow Dally Republican" and is a six column quarto. Wo trust that the venture Some of our readers may he inter-, ' Prove a success. A M 1 - ... ... . .. ... -,t t.it,,.'! that has been opened und Which will i ....... . 111 Tl IT U require uner iiirn " " ,.-, , t!io. h,.u Iw.on l..t to Ktl Uurvl,.ii rnmrnlulnn hnw on. i ,v. v " - NEW CIVIL SERVICE POSITION The fontract for the grading of tbe Union Pacific road from Nortb- (Mvil Service I onnnission has an nounced an examination, to be held the 23d and 24th of this month, to Patrick Brothers and It is probabie that work will begin at once. find three grazing examiners for the,f The Crawford mills and irrigation Forest Service. The positions n-lll pay a salary of $1,200 a year at en trance. The announcement specifies that the applicants must be men, at least twenty years old, and possess ed of at least one season's experi ence in handling range stock, toget her with at least one year of tech nical training on specified botanical st udies. BRING TWO SUPPERS At the Epworth League Valentine box social next Tuesday evening each lady is requested to bring a box with lunch enough for two contained W. T. Callagy. formerly employed therein and a comic valentine. The here as brakeman, but lately of the boxes will be auctioned off to the Sheridan division, passed through highest bidders, the successful bid ber Saturday on his way to Denver. der having the right of course to Miss Donna Wagner, daughter of ; eat with the lady whose name is in chief clerk Wagner, had a narrow the box. escape from pneumonia. She was i A good time is promised to all. ditch, belonging to Leroy Hall, have been sold by him for $16,000. The purchasers were S. Swinbank, Fred Macomber, Peter Rabn and Kmil Ra ben. Wood Milltgan and family came over from Alliance Tuesday. Mrs. MUligan will resume homestead life while Wood will enjoy a few days' lay off as mull clerk. Bayard Transcript. Interesting News of ths Government Land Office at Alliance. Homestead Applications No. 013001, Andrew 1). Biers, Walt hall, Nebraska. All of 19-18-49 636.61 acres, Jan. II, allowed and recorded. o . 013002, Fred W. Oliver. Bayard, ne of se, 24-20-62, 40 acres. Jan. 31, allowed and recorded. o 013004, Roy O. Hendren, Orleans. e II and v nw, wtysw, 24-19-42. Jan, 31 allowed and recorded. 613005, Arthur J Colegrove, Whitney.. 160 A. e4 of se 22, e of ne, 27-32-51 . Jan. 31, allowed and recorded. 013006, Walter Langford, Heming ford, Nebraska. 320 A. ne of 32, nw of 33-26-49. Jan .31, allowed and recorded. o 013O07, William a. Hosek. 640 A. ne of elfc, nw, sw, ne of se 27, se and sw 27-26-42. Jan. 81, allowed and recorded. o 013000, Anna Olsen, Broadwater. 400.24 A. wVa of e2, sw, e of nw, 2-18-47. Feb. 4. Rejected for conflict with H. E. 21984. 013010, Andrew Blanton, Harrisburg. 161.19 A. nw of 7-19-66. Feb. 4, allowed and recorded. o 013011, .lames J. Irby, Alliance. Lots 2-3-4, 19-27-54. eVfe of ne 23, nw, w. of ne, se ne of 24-27-65. 489. 54 A Feb. 6, rejected because the land is not In compact form. o 013012, Frank A. Kortsan, Scottsbluff. ne of 4 22-54. 167.54 A. o 013013, Fred A. Dooley, Gering, bV and sw of 2, eVa and se of 3, se and ne of 10,nw, w1 ne, nw and sw of 11-20-55. 480 acres. Feb. 6, rejected because applicant is not entitled to make an entry un der the third section of the Kin kaid act. It is proposed to erect nn alfalfa mill at Minatare. Outside parties are figuring on putting up the capi tal. The alfalfa mill at Mitchell Is a propounced success and there is need for one at Minatare. 013015, Julia A. Peek. Racket. Lots 2, 3 sw bw of 17. 8 se of 18, ne, ni se 19-20-44, 474.70 acres. Feb. 2, allowed and recorded. HARNESS SALE! I am closing out my harness stock. You can save $4 to $8 on every set you buy. They are made of number one Oak Tanned Leather and are the best of work manship. Manufactured them myself. Some good collars will go at a low price. Bring your old harness in and have them oiled before it's too late. GEO. A. HILLS i LIFE SAVED AT DEATH'S DOOR At the annual meeting of the Scotts Bluff county medical society last week, held in Mitchell, the following i "I never felt so near my grave," officers were elected for the ensu-1 writeB W. R. Patterson, of Welling ing year: Dr. Plehn, of Scottsbluff, ton, Tex., as when a frightful cough president; Dr. Craig, of Mitchell, and lung trouble pulled me down to 100 pounds, In spite of doctor's treat ment for two years. My father, mother and two sisters died of con- , sumption, and that I am alive today j is due solely to Dr. King's New Dis I covery, which completely cured me. Now I weigh 1S7 pounds and have been weli and strong for years." Quick, safe, sure, it's the best rem edy on earth for coughs, colds, la grippe, asthma, croup and all throat and lung troubles. 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by F. J. Brennan. 8-4t IHIIIMIMIIMMIMIIIH tlllllltliltllllllllltlll4)ltl44t414lltllll'll4)s.4lllllllliliailllfi.l .. ! IIIHI4H44HHf4)lllimiHt Three varieties of the finest Oregon Apples: Red Cheek Pippin, Rome Beauty, and lilaek Twig. Not one of kheM varieties can be bought in Denver at wholesale for less than $2. 50 per box, We offer them, while the last at $2.00 aad $2.25 Sap of the Rock Maple tree drawn through spouts into covered pails and reduced to syrup in evap orators, produces the best flavored and cleanest Maple Syrup. Ferndell brand Maple Syrup is that kind. Ferndell brand Maple Syrup has that true, delicious z maple flavor, which is so universally enjoyed and appreciated. To eat Ferndell brand products is to insure good i health. MALLERY GROCERY CO. MALLERY GROCERY CO. ' III! Hi I Mil 1 1 Ml I II I Mill l4HtlitHmmHfHH M