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VOLUME XV,
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA: THURSDAY, JULY 23, tU08
NUMBER 32
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The First National Bank,
CIIAKTKU NO. 42-M,
At Alliance, In the Btntu of Nebraska, lit the
close of business. July 15, ISMS
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lo:ms nntl discounts $310,03-1 TO
Uvcrtlrnftd.BWurcd and iiiinpeurcil.. Co 50
U. S.)ondsto cure circulation.... 50,000 00
Otlierllonils to secure U. H. Deposit 53.H00 00
Hanking house, furniture and fix
tures 11,00000
Duo from national hanks (not re
serve agents) J 0.804 55
Due from approved reservo
agent 09,407 (CI
Check and othercash Items 39 68
Notes of other national
bunks ,. 1,110 00
Fractional paper currency,
nickels and cents 107 10
Lawfui, Monet Heseuvi: in Hank,
viz:
Specie $14.7-0 25
Legal tender notes 1. IKK) 00 C3.1M 51
KhI eruption fund with U.S. treasur
er (5 per cent of circulation) 2,500 00
Due from U. S. treasurer, otherthan
5 percent redemption fund 2 50
Total $552,5U1 27
X.1ATULIT1E8.
Capital stock paid In $ 50,000 00
Surplus fund 40.000 00
Undivided profits, less expenses and
taxes paid . 738 20
National bank iiotcsoutMundlng.... 50,000 00
Due to Stale- Hanks and
Hankers $ 222 00
Individual deposits sub
ject to cheek , 204,782 ft)
Demand certificates of de
posit.... 10,870 50
Time eertlflcatesof deposit 13!,S71 49
United States Deposits... 50,000 W 411,653 01
Total S552.591 27
State of Nelir.iHkn, county of Ho.v Hutte, ss.
I, S. K. Warrick, cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that the
ahovo statement Is true to the best of my
knowledge and liollef.
S. K. Wakiuck, Cashier.
Counter Attest:
K. M. IIaxiiton,
A. 8. Heed, V Directors.
Ohas. n. Fouu, )
Subscribed and sworn to before mo this
21st day of July, A. D. 1HK
KUGENK HUUTON.
Ihka!, Notary Public.
My comm sslon expires July 7th, 1912.
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LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
Frank Dunning is back from. Iiis trip
to Montana.
THE FIRST NATIONAL
BANK OF ALLIANCE
GOVERNMENT, SMTE,' C0UVTY, CITY AND SCHOOL DEPOSITORY
FIRST STATE BANK
HEMINGFORD, NEBR.
Capital and Surplus, $15,000.00
Keith L. Pierce, Cashier
Notary Public in Bank Insurance Written
& Highest Interest Paid on Time Deposits &
Real Estate Loans, any size, made or negotiated
H OLSTEN
HAS JUST RECEIVED
A CAR LOAD OF
Lincoln
WE ARE READY!
to fill your prescriptions at any time.
We always have at least one registered
druggist in our store. Yon can depend
on it your prescriptions will be filled
right. Yon take no chances.
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Paint
Every Gallon Guaranteed
IT STANDS THIS CLIMATE BEST
HOLSTEN'S
Miss Etha Dewey
Teacher of Piano
Residence, 419 Cheyenne Ave.
Phone, 103
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Wc aUvays give
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the Best for the
Least
W. C. Hibbs, Mgr.
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Painless HxtMUtign
Bale.
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! 'Phoue 3gi. $
Everett Eldred of Orlando was in the
city Tuesday and Wednesday.
Miss "Jack" Bohn left Monday
morning for her home at York.
Campbell Bros, circus is advertised
to show in Alliance Monday, August j.
Miss Ida Posvar left Friday after
noon for a few weeks visit at Ottumwa,
Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Win. O'Mara arc
down from their ranch near Moomaw
today.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Comstock of
Ellsworth were Sunday visitors in Al
liance. Jas. Gray is at the South Dakota
hot springs enjoying the pleasures of
the plunge baths.
Mrs. Dan O'Keefe returned Monday
afternoon from a three weeks visit with
relatives in Kansas City.
''Grandma" Sweeney and Mrs. Dun
ton left last Fridav morning for Kan
sas City to visit relatives.
Capt. Willard M. Evans, the repub
lican wheel horse of Marsland, is in
the city today on business.
District No. 130 has about completed
its new school house, a frame building
with cement foundation, a neat struc
ture. .
H. E. Jones autoeddown from Hem
iugford Tuesday, accompanied by Mr.
and Mrs. Orville Kidwell and Mts.
Sherwood.
Mrs. Belle Brenuan returned home
from Orlando Tuesday where she had
been visiting her parents for the past
two weeks.
Miss Anna Snyder is at Mitchell en
joying a visit with her brother, Gaorge,
who is in the employ of the Mitchell
Mercantile Co.
Misses Estella and "lack" Bohn en
tertained a number of their friends at a
musical last Friday evening at the
home of Mrs. Keardon.
M. A. Brown, the genial stockman,
came in from his Sheridan county
ranch Satutday and spent a couple of
days enjoying city life.
Matthew Cowliti of Moomaw submit
ted final proof on his homestead at the
land office today. Will Manion and
Don Koss were his witnesses.
Frank Connors, who has served his
apptenticeship in the railway shops at
this place, has been given a good posi
tion with the company at Sterling.
Mcsdames Ella Edmonds. Ella Hentz
and Mae Watson arrived this morning
from Edwardsville, III., for a two
weeks' visit with Jos. Manion and fam
ily. Mrs. W. W. Norton entertained
fourteen lady friends yesterday after
noon in honor of Mrs. Morris Clark of
Baltimore and Mrs. Ellen Ford of Osh
kosh. Miss Ruth Johnson, who has been
visiting with her brother, Harry S.,
and family the past few weeks, return
ed to her home at Fairfield, Iowa Mon
day morning.
New potatoes are being brought to
market and the quality is fine. Box
Butte spuds are always reliable and
we're going to feed the world with
them as usual.
The dance at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Ed. Young last Saturday night
was largely attended. A fine luncheon
wis served and the guests present had
an enjoyable time'.
John Weinel is one of our thrifty
farmers who believes in keeping pace
with improvements atid is now building
a large frame barn on his place five
miles northwest of Alliance.
Miss Effiie Kibble left Sunday morn
ing for York, where she will visit a
short time. From there she will be
accompanied by some friends and will
visit different parts in Iowa.
Mrs. H. J. Ellis and children left
Tuesday for Lincoln where they will
visit relatives for several weeks. In
the meantime, Bro, Ellis will become a
member of the grass-widowers club.
Misses Mae Shewsbury and Anna
Snyder gave a party Monday evening
at the home of the latter complimen
tary to Miss Mayme Christman who
expects to leave in a few days for her
homo Ht Burlington, Iowa. There wore
about ten couples in attendance and n
very, "Merry Jane" time is reported.
Mrs. J. F. Cunningham will entertain
for Miss Christman next Wednesday
evening.
Moses is such n popular office holder
that theic is not a man in the state of
Nebraska who can defeat him for con
gress this fall. Well, our enthusiast!:
contemporary always delights in slop
ping over.
Andrew Dwyer and family returned
last . Sunday morning from Council
Bluffs, and wc arc pleased to statcthat
Mr. Dwyer is greatly improved in
health and of course glad to get back
back to Box Butte.
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Snider brought
their young daughter from Hcmingford
today for an operation which was per
formed bv Dr. Hand. They came
down in an auto accompanied by Mrs.
Muirhead and H. E. Jones.
Miss Grace Herman, of Fremont,
was the guest of her aunt, Mrs. J. A.
Hunter, a couple of days the latter
part of last week. Miss Herman was
enroute to Sheridan with a party of
friends who were out on a pleasure
trip.
C. R. Clapp returned this morning
from a visit of six weeks with relatives
and friends at St. Louis, Burlington
and Des Moines. Incidentally, Mr.
Clapp did some boosting for Box Butte
among prospective land buyers in the
Hawkeye state.
Mrs. F. R. Gosncy returned to her
home at Qmaha the latter part of the
week after a pleasant visit with her sis
ter, Mrs. J. B. Kennedy. Before re
turning she made a trip to Hot Springs
and Spearfish, accompanied by Mr.
and Mrs. Kennedy.
Alliance and vicinity was visited by
a most refreshing and heavy rain Tues
day evening that was a great benefit to
the crops. The rain was accompanied
by a fierce electrical display. Several
houses in the city were- struck but no
material damage done.
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M. J. Keane and wife were the guests
of his brother, M. T., and family from
Friday till Tuesday morning. Mr. and
Mrs. Keane reside at Vail. Iowa, and
were on their return from a sojourn in
Colorado, having been at Denver dur
ing the democratic convention.
From far away Augusta, Georgia,
came the sad intelligence last Sunday
to F. M. Broome that his dear old
mother had passed to her eternal re
ward. Owing to the long distance to
the vine-covered home in old Dixie,
Mr. Broome was unable to be present
at the funeral.
The Elks and Eagles plaved a game
of ball at the paik Sunday morning.
The score ot 7 to 3 indicated that the
antlers were too much for the feathery
tribe on this occasion. But wait till
Garland Wehn don't do the pitching
for the Elks, then's "when" the Eagles
are liable to fare better.
The
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RJ.BETZOLD
GENERAL AGT. FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA
looks fine and no doubt the refreshing
air of the sea-swept golden state proves
healthful to him. He will remain here
till some time next week. Mr. Olsen
is on his return from a business trip
to Kansas City, St. Joe and Omaha.
The Great Sale
At Lockwood's
Does advertising pay? Those who
saw the hundreds of people who crowd
ed the Lockwood store today would
certainly answer in the affirniative.The
great sale advertised by circulars and
in the newspapers is proving a great
success and hundreds of buyers ate se
curing genuine bargains and find every
thing as advertised. The immense
stock is 'in the hands of the Buffalo
Factory Mill Syndicate with Mr. W. E.
Grove in charge. It will pay you to
visit ibis store at once as these real
bargaiusicannot last long, much of the
stock' being sold at less than cost of
production. ,
Standard Oil Wins Out.
Pioneer Passes Away
Just as The Herald goes to press
this afternoon a message from Hcm
ingford states that E. Mabin had died
at his ranch home four miles south
west of that place. Mr. Mabin was it
pioneer in the county, an old soldier
and well known. During the past cou
ple of ycarB he has had many afflic
tion?, losing an arm and leg with blood
poisoning, and has gotie through moro
than a dozen ordinary men could have
stood. Mr. Mabin possessed many
excellent traits of character, was a
good neighbor and always willing to
lend a helping hand to those in need.
"Uncle Zeke," as ho was familiarly
known, will be missed by many warm
friends whoso sympathy goes out to
the bereaved wife and family.
Returns from Elks Convention.
The United States Court of Appeals
handed down its decision yesterday in
the famous case against the Stan
dard Oil company in which tho lat
ter was fined $29, 240,000, and the
case must be retried on alleged error.
Hurrah for Taft!
O. Burton and M. B. Murry and
wives of Friend, Nebr., were in the
city the first of the week looking the
land over and acquainting themselves
with our resources. They were more
than pleased with Box Butte's pros
pects. From here they went west to
the Yellowstone park for an outing.
The quarterly report of the First
National bank of Alliance appears in
this issue and shows the condition of
this institution to be in excellent shape.
This bank, which is one of the very
stiongest in the western half of the
state, has recently increased its sur
plus from $25,000.00 to $40,000.00.
Nellie May, the fourteen-inonths-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Co
valt, died of cholera infantum yester
day morning after a short illness. The
funeral will be held this afternoon from
the home, conducted by Rev. G. C.
Jefters. Interment at Greenwood ceme
tery. Thomas Olsen arrived in the city
from the east last Saturday to the sur
prise of his many friends who did not
know he was coming. Since his de
parture last October, Mr. Olsen has
traveled over a great deal of the west
from the north sound country to south
ern California, finally locating iu Visalia,
Cal., where in company with a Mr,
Thomas he is extensively engaged in
the real estate business handling
orange, alfalfa, grape, farming and
stock lands, also city property. Tom
Daughters of Isabella.
Arrangements are being made to in
stitute a court of Daughters of Isabella
in this city sometime in the latter part
of August. The allotted number of ap
plications have been made to warrant
the organization. It is a society com
posed of ladies who are members of the
Catholic faith. The purposes are of a
social and religious nature.
Rosenkranz-Fox.
Tuesday, July 22nd, at Minatarie,
occurred the marriage of Mr. W. F.
Roseukranz to Miss Elsie Fox, Kev.
Khillips, of the Presbyterian church,
officiating.
Mr. and Mrs. Roseukrauz arrived in
Alliance Wednesday morning, where
they went to housekeeping (n the pretty
home which the groom had prepared
for his bride iu the western part of the
city.
Both of these young people are well
known here and have hosts of friends
who join in extending to them congrat
ulations and Dost wishes.
Wednesday evening u reception was
given the bride and groom in their new
home to which a number of their
friends participated.
"Bud" Mistaken for Taft.
The following item, taken from the
Western Implement Dealer, is a great
joke on our townsman, F. J. Betzold,
and shows how close he came to get.
ting the Republican nomination for
president:
"F. J. Betzold is a prosperous imple
ment dealer at Alliance, but that isn't
all. He is the living image of William
H. Taft. Everywhere that he goes
nowadays, people strain their necks
turning around to rubber at him, and
on a recent visit to Ohio, he narrowly
missed having to make several speech
es. He was in here one day last week,
and loaded out a carload of automobiles."
Percy Cogswcjl returned Tuesday
from Dallas, Texas, whcro ho ucntas61
a delegate to the Elks convention. He
reports a great time and brought home ,
a splendid collection of badges from
lodges in all parts of tho country. They
are now on exhibition in tho show win
dows of the Famous clothing store.
Mr, Cogswell received several flowery
notices from the Dallas papers, one of
which is the following which we repub
lish from the Dallas Daily News:
"P. H. Cogswell of Alliance, Neb.,
is attending the convention as a dele
gate. He says confidently that he is
the only delegate from the home state '
of William Jennings Bryan, and hu
sajs also that Mr. Bryan will be the
next president of the United States.
He ran across J. C. McNealus last
night as Mr. McNealus was about to
to take a car for his home after his re
turn from the national Democratic
convention. He tried to trade Mr.
McNealus an Elk badge for the lattcr's
delegate badge to Denver, but Mr, Mc
Nealus could not be cajoled into mak
ing the trade.
"You are from Nebraska," said the
secretary of delegation, "and that is
enough honor for one man."
Then Mr. Cogswell tried to persuade
Mr. McNealus to turn over to the Elks
the Texas standard, about fifteen feet
in length, made of brass and surmount
ed with a big board labeled "Toxas."
Mr. McNealus said the Elks could
have anything he possessed, but that Jfi
he would take the standard home and
fix it up a little, as some of the screws
were loose after the storm through
which it passed."
Telephone Lineman
Has Narrow Escape
Everett Johnson, an employe of the
telephone company as lineman, had a
narrow escape from electrocution by
coming in contact with a "live" wire
on the pole on which he was working
last Monday evening in the west part
of the city. (ohnson's foot slipped
and in his attempt to save himself he
caught hold of the wire charged with
electricity. The shock was so great
that he was rendered unconscious for a
short time. Vem Dutidas, who was
helping Johnson, attempted to rescue
him but was thrown to the ground. He
made a second attempt to lower John
son and succeeded after quite anef
fort. With the help of assistance the
unconscious man was removed to a
house near by and soon recovered suffi
cient enough to be taket. to his home.
His hands were quite badly burned
and he was otherwise injured. How
ever his injuries were not of a serious
nature and will soon recover.