130 Years Ago
June 21, 1895
The Times has been the recipient of many compliments, due to the large posters, in two colors, printed at this office, advertising the races.
125 Years Ago
June 22, 1900
A variety of petrified bones, fragments of wood, etc., that appear as if they might have belonged to some prehistoric period have been taken out at the city well. Harry Raymond has quite a collection of these.
120 Years Ago
June 23, 1905
Some thoughtless idiot has been committing depredations at the central school building lately, destroying flowers and shrubbery. The authorities have been notified to keep a close watch for the perpetrator, and if caught an example will be made that will neither be pleasant nor honorable. Such wanton vandalism deserves summary and severe punishment.
115 Years Ago
June 21, 1910
Mrs. Robert Green is reported as having been taken to the hospital, suffering from an attack of typhoid fever.
110 Years Ago
June 25, 1915
After wrangling over terms, referee and a place for the past six months, Ross Robinson, lightweight champion of Nebraska and George McLeod, the local mat artist, have finally agrred to meet in Alliance for a finish match on the night of July 9.
105 Years Ago
June 22, 1920
Ed. Mitchell, Hemingford’s alleged gunman, who is said to have driven the proprietor and all of the patrons out of a pool hall in Hemingford last Thursday night, at the point of a shot gun, pleaded guilty to a charge of intoxication in county court yesterday and was fined $5 and costs. The costs amounted to $65.60.
100 Years Ago
June 19, 1925
In the kids bicycle race held Thursday morning on Box Butte avenue 1st prize was won by Laurel Overstreet. There were 11 entries but only 8 started while 7 finished. From the speed exhbited the observer might expect to find a high geared motor or a specially arranged carburetor attached to a few of the machines.
95 Years Ago
June 20, 1930
The world’s largest tire, a 12-footer built by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company, is on display at Schafer Auto Supply, local Goodyear dealers. It is attached to a special truck and is moved over the country in this fashion. It has been in many sections of the United States, Canada and Mexico.
90 Years Ago
June 21, 1935
An ordinance to govern the sale of hard liquor and beer in Alliance under the terms of the new Nebraska liquor act was passed at a special performance of the city council, playing to a packed house in the council chamber Tuesday night.
85 Years Ago
June 21, 1940
Registration is now under way for the first Cow Day to be held in Alliance June 28, officers of the Dairy Improvement association said. A high grade, young milking shorthorn cow will be awarded on that day and on each of the seven succeeding Fridays. Any farmer, rancher or his wife in this area is eligible to receive on of the awards.
80 Years Ago
June 22, 1945
With all details completed and the stage set, Howard Graham, president of the Alliance Rodeo association, today predicted that, with favorable weather, attendance at the two-day rodeo starting Saturday will equal if not surpass that of other years despite wartime conditions.
75 Years Ago
June 23, 1950
Stella Marie Woodley of Alliance, president of the All-State Chorus in Lincoln, is a member of the all-girl quartet that will appear with the 180-member chorus at the concert program in the University Student Union tonight.
70 Years Ago
June 24, 1955
T. Texas Tyler and his famous western swing band will come to Alliance Monday. The Alliance Volunteer Fire Department is sponsoring the popular cowboy’s band appearance at the City Auditorium. Tyler is one of the top personalities of radio, screen and television.
65 Years Ago
June 20, 1960
The remainder of Sandhillo’s summer race meet was abandoned Sunday night by action of the directors of the sponsoring Alliance Agricultural and Breeding Association. Pres. Gordon Keeley said today that the decision resulted from a “lack of attendance and inadequate mutual handle” in the first three days of the season last week.
60 Years Ago
June 23, 1965
A plan designed to cut noon-hour traffic in the Alliance High School area from jam proportions to a trickle has been unveiled by the Board of Education. “The driving of automobiles during the noon recess by junior high and senior high school students is not permitted with one exception. The one exception shall be to and from home during the noon recess because of distance. In this case, the parents shall sign a request to be presented to the principal, for such purpose.”
55 Years Ago
June 23, 1970
Firecrackers can be sold and fired in Alliance from June 24 to July 5, according to Police Chief Verlin Hutton. However, Hutton says it is unlawful for any person to throw “any firecracker, or any object which explodes upon contact with another object: 1) from or into a motor vehicle, 2) onto any street, highway, or sidewalk, or 3) into or at any group of persons,” according to a state statute.
50 Years Ago
June 20, 1975
Officials in Hemingford were notified by Congressman Virginia Smith Friday morning that the Village had been awarded a federal grant of $138,600 for the new sewage disposal plant. Actual construction of the project is underway as the contracting firm was excavating the three-lagoon system for the past week.
45 Years Ago
June 24, 1980
Alliance has grown by about 3,000 people over the past decade according to the preliminary report from the 1980 Census. County Clerk Grace Mote said the report revealed an increase from 6,862 in 1970 to 9,753 people in 1980. In Box Butte County, the population has increased from 10,094 people in 1970 to 13,423 for 1980.
40 Years Ago
June 21, 1985
Members of the Alliance City Council fired questions toward Charles Hale Thursday night as he made an interim report on the study he is concluding of the Alliance Police Department. The department budget has come under fire since last December when councilman Dick Zellaha first joined the council. Zellaha maintains that the $750,000 police budget is “too costly” and cuts need to be made.
35 Years Ago
June 21, 1990
On Saturday, about 100 veterans who are members of “The Last Patrol” will walk through Alliance on a 700-mile journey which started May 28 at the DAV Vietnam Veterans Memorial Chapel in Angel Fire, New Mexico. The walk will end June 27 at the Oglala Vietnam Veterans Association in Pine Ridge, S.D. It is a group of individuals who have committed themselves to a course of action: marching.
30 Years Ago
June 20, 1995
During a regular meeting Monday morning the Box Butte County Commissioners approved $4,500 in funds for the Panhandle Youth Shelter in a 3-0 vote. This is an annual charge for Box Butte County’s use of the shelter. The shelter is set up for short term crisis intervention. IT has room for six males and six females. Most juveniles stay between 15 and 30 days but some stay longer.
25 Years Ago
June 20, 2000
The Alliance School Board approved financing 60 percent, $21,289.99, of the School Resource Officer’s salary for the 2000-2001 school year. The City of Alliance will fund 40 percent, $14,193.33 of the salary. The school district will utilize the officer for nine months and the Alliance Police Department will utilize the officer during the three months of the summer break.
20 Years Ago
June 22, 2005
With the advent of warm weather and the recent arrival of fortuitous summer rains, mosquitoes are on the advance into your backyards and summer picnics. Not every mosquito carries deadly disease, but they are dirty little insects and can spread illnesses sch as the West Nile Virus.
15 Years Ago
June 26, 2010
Box Butte General Hospital (BBGH) has a new consulting pharmacist on staff – Dr. John Argyle, PharmD. Dr. Argyle is a man of many talents, degrees and work experience, who has seen his career span from Australia as a microbiologist to the state of California as a biochemist and finally as a pharmacist at BBGH.
10 Years Ago
June 15, 2015
There’s a very tight bond between the staff and their patients in the Box Butte General Hospital (BBGH) Dialysis Unit; a bond forged by the hours of treatment required each week for patients using hemodialysis due to chronic end stage renal failure. “Hemodialysis is the only type of dialysis we perform in the Unit,” said Dialysis Nurse Manager Kailee Leisy, RN.
5 Years Ago
June 17, 2020
An Alliance man is in custody after allegedly stabbing a man in the chest on Friday evening. According to Alliance Police Department Chief John Kiss, officers responded to a call that a man had received a stab wound to the chest on June 19 at 7:25 p.m. in the 1000 block of Toluca Avenue. Upon arrival, officers found a man later identified as Stephen Oliver with a stab wound to the chest.
*Compiled from The Alliance Times-Herald Archives by Christine Melcher