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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1911)
UlNBjfeMID Published every Thursday by Tbt Herald Publishinf Company. Incorporated JOHN W. THOMAS. Editor and Mgr. Entered at the postoffloe at Alll ance, Nebraska, for transmission through the mails aa second class matter. Subscription. $1 50 per year In ad vance. i . The circulation of this newspaper Is guaranteed to be the largest in western Nebraska Advertising rates will be furnished on application. Sample copiea free for the asking. THIC PAPC3 REPRCSCNTED EOf FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE qcniral offices .EW YORK ANO CHICAOC BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER M. 1911 ANNOUNCEMKNTS sessH they do to the general election, most of the fault that can be reasonably found with the primary will have been removed. T.t us all resolve now to attend the next primary and ante others to do the H. It Merriman. writing for the Scottshluff 8tar. exonerates the ed Itor of that paper. Mr Barron, from the blame of writing the Items re ferred to In The Herald two weeks ago In regard to taking a slam at union labor, giving Mr. Bryan a standpat thrust and exclaiming. "Hur rah for Taft for vetoing the Arizona and New Mexico statehood bill. ' Mr. Merriman wrote the Item and others under MM caption. "Starretorl ala", the same being printed on the editorial page of the Star but not read by the editor before publication the predatory Interests coerce voters into supporting their presidential candidate be can even bring him self to threaten a panic if not elect ed. but his nerves are unstrung at the thought of the people using the rcall to rid themselves of a Judge who prostitutes hut office to the ser vice of some corporate boss. It Is hard to understand how as intelligent n man as the president can aay so much about a Judge being Intlmidat ed by the fear of the recall and nothing about a Judge being warped by years of employment by a trust or life-term Judges being weaned away from the people by constant social associations with the beneficiaries of privilege At a banquet given In Han Fran cisco on the 4th Inst , by the Direct legislation league. Senator Clapp of Minnesota, who by the way Is a re publican, denounced the action of President Taft on the Arizona state hood bill eliminating Judiciary re call. He said: "What shall e sny of a policy to force an electorate to foreswear its convict tons at the price of udmiKslon to the Union? It savors of the dark ages; It is an at tempt at bribery of the people. The fight against the recall Is the last stand of the special Interests." r j. KNIE8T Democratic and People's Independ ent candidate for Comity Clerk, Box Untie county, Nebr. Investigation of my qualifications solicited, and your vote will be ap preciated. J. P. JENSEN Democratic and People's Independ ent nominee for County Commission er Invites investigation of his record aa a citizen and public official, and on that record solicits the support of Box Butte county voters. Walt for the Box Butte county fair. 1912. It's going ro be a hummer. A few fellows bet on Hacken chmldt in the world's recent chump lonahlp wrestling bout, hut the other fellows Ootch the money (N. B. We don't claim the foregoing to be original.) The Dawes county fulr Is In full blast this week at Chadron; like wise the Cuater county fuir at Brok n Bow; ditto the Thomas county fair at Thedford. The Harden coun ty fair comes off Tuesday. Wednes day and Thursday of next week at Lewellen. A republican exchange expresses surprise that Governor Harmon of Ohio should take exception to some of the acts of President Taft, and sarcastically asks, "Is he trying to get on The Commoner's 'available' list?" The Herald has not hereto fore epresscd an opinion Inx regard to Governor Harmon's candidacy for the democratic nomination for presi dent of the United States, but frank ly If there Ih ho little difference be tween him and standpat republicans that one is expected to not criticise the other we think progressive dom or -rata- and the rank and file as well as many leaders may be classed ai "progressive"- will do well to nomi nate some one else for president. The progressive newspapers of Ne braska hall with delight Governor Aldiich's declaration In favor of La Kollette, but some of them are be ginning to ask whether he will stick The Herald believes he will. The Custer County Beacon voices the sentiment of a good many demo crats and progressive republicans In the following: "WoBdejf If Governor Aldrlch la a real LaFollette insur gent republican, and, If he Is, wheth er or not he will stay that way up to the next primary election. If he Is In earnest about It he will have tough sledding within his own party but his hands will be upheld by thousands of the good democrats of Nebraska who voted for him last fall." NOT FOR JUDGE HAMER The Gerlng Courier, of which A. B. Wood Is the well known and pop ular editor, Is one of the "Dyed in the Wool" republican (tapers of the state, and one of the last that we would expeci to bolt a G. O. P. nom ination, but In the nomination of Judge Hatner at the primaries last month, he got one that was too strong even for the Courier. We take the following from an editorial in last Friday's Issue of the Courier: "For the first time In the history of the Courier, covering more than a score of years in Nebraska politics. Its editor Is opposed to the election of a nominee of the party on the state ticket. Prior to the primaries this paper stated It was not for Judge Francis G. Hanier now, with that gentleman upon the party ticket. It retains the same position. Of the democratic list at least one or two are preferable to Judge Hauler." WILL RUN ANYHOW Harry W. Klrby of Thomas county, Nebraska, was a candidate for the re publican nomination for county Judge, but lacked a few votes in the pri maries of getting enough to give him that nomination. However, he re ceived the populist nomination, and announces through the Thomas Coun ty Herald that he will be a candidate on that ticket. He says: " 'Truth crushed to earth, will rise again.' and the false reports circulated be fore the primaries will be refuted." Go to It, Mr. Klrby, and let the best man win BIG I C. S. FEAST international Schools Select Alliace for Big Anniversary Banquet, October Itth ABLE SPEAK ER8 PROCURED ANOTHER USEFUL INVENTION Geo. A. Hills Applies for Patent on Second Invention BRYAN ON TAFTISM We believe In commencing to ad vertise in time. That's the reason we are already boosting for the Box Butte county fulr for 1 9 1 1 it Is bound to bo the biggest and best ev ei in western Nebraska. Get ready for It. wait for It, and don't forget, to boost. It's all in the boost or at least mostly. In speaking of republican candi dates for United States senator from Nebraska next year the average cit izen will need to he a little caret'il about names or he will gt them mixed. Kach bears the name of Norris. With one it Is the given name, the surname of the other. Con gressman George W. Nonis Is the progressive republican candidate, and Senator Norrla Brown lit standpat candidate for re-election Talk with almost any niter In re gard to voting for the best men, re- gardless of pari) name, and you will find a splendid spirit of Independ ence from party domination This augurs well for the welfare of the common people As long as machine politicians can whip the mass of tlx voter- Into line with a party lash, so long U the few who profit by fav ors shown to special interests hold sway: but when voters geuerally rise above imrty dictation and vo'e acionling to their own judgment there will be hope of securing the enactment and enforcement of laws that will give the commonwealth their rights. Not mui h hope of It till then. H. .uise so inuny voters neglect to attend the primary election, tho Col uinbu- Telegram says: "In theory the state wide primary is right, lu practice It is a farce.' Bui Judge How H nl should lint be too busty iu passing Judgment on the primary or expect the best results too soon When voters go to the primary as For a good many years the special Interests of the country and their representatives and lackeys have made flings at the reforms that W. J. Bryan has stood for, and been foremost In advocating, by calling them "Bryanlsm", until they have been forced to back down by the pop ular demand for those reforms, and some times even pretending to ac cept them. Recently President Taft has, by an aggressiveness unusual for him, brought some things before the public that might be labeled "Taftlsm". It Is Interesting to read what Mr. Bryan has to say about some ot those tilings, following is ft din a recent number of The Com mon. -r The trouble with Pf .slilent Taft Is tliat he Is constitutionally distrustful of the people. He has no fear of tic Tyranny of a minority but he becomes hysterical at the thought of the majority making a mistake. He willing to retire to the secrecy of tbc W hite House anil, without giving the public any Information as to re commendations relied upon, appoint Judges to nullify acts of congress, but he cannot think of allowing the voters to sit in Judgement upon t lie acts of a Judge. President Taft has made grave mistakes in appointments, and other grave mistakes in vetoing the bills reducing the tariff, but these may be attributed to errors of judgment. When, however, he refuses to allow Arizona to frame h?r constitution to suit herself subject to the restric tions of the federal constitution--he show leauings toward u centralized gjvet milt lit, and when he becomes frightened at the recall he discloses it link of faith In the capacity of the people for self-government a lack of faith in their intelligence and patriot i i.i The pretudeui'a error lb an honest one his environment has biased htm against the people. Ho la as susplc ious of them as a king's courtier is of democracy, it does uot alarm him to have a president tone a iiomiua t'on upon a party by the unscrupu Iocs u - of ii.itrouag it does no! aioute lears for Ills country to see A few weeks ago The Herald men tioned an invention for which Geo. A. Hills had made application for pat ent, namely Hills' Breeehlng-Tug Buckle. Since then Mr. Hills tins applied for a patent on another In vention that cannot fall to be a suc cess, and Without doubt will he a money-maker for him. It Is a buggy and wagon tongue cap, so-called, the object of which being to prevent the tongue of the buggy or wagon com ing down In case the tugs become un hitched or other accidents happen. It prevents the neck yoke from slip ping off the end of the tongue. Who has not heard of serious accidents occurlng on account of a buggy or wagon tongue coming down while the team was hitched to the vehicle? This will prevent acidents of this kind, and we congratulate Mr. Hills on his success in perfecting tills In vention as well as the other. Wm A. Bsrtlett. a Wyoming and Nebraska representative of the In ternational Correspondence Schools, of Scranton. Pa . was In this city this week making preliminary prepara tions for a big banquet, which this well know n company w ill give in A I I'ance on the evening of October 1. The banquet, which promises to be a very elaborate and sumptuous af fair, will be given to commcmroate the Twentieth Anniversary of the International Correspondence Schools, which have for twenty years been do ing a most valuable service In In sttucting thousands of men and wo men along practical lines and giving tl.cm a college, commercial, architec tural, mechanical, or general educa tion by correspondence a4 their own hon es; and at a cost which the av erage workman can afford. Mr. Bartlett has a large number of busy towns in his district, but he has selected Alliance as the most feasible place for holding thla cele bration on account of this city's growth, prosperity and convenient location. There are over a hundred people In Alliance who have at some time or another been interested in I. C. 8. courses of instruction, and many of these will come under the company's requirements for attend ance at the big L C S feast Then there will be other students from points along tho Platte Valley and up as far as Sheridan, Wyoming, who will come to Alliance to attend this celebration. "While final arrangements for this banquet have not yet been made," said Mr. Bartlett, "we are already assured of a good attendance; and I believe it will be a big success both from a social and Intellectual stand point. We expect to have a feast of wit and wisdom, as well as a mighty good feed. We hope to have some of the head officials of the big Scran ton school out here to deliver speech es, in ere win be taiKs along the line of practical education and train ing from men who have become prom inent in these lines, which will be valuable to those who wish to im prove themselves, and some who have risen to high positions under ad verse circumstances will tell how it was acompllshed through L C. S. courses. We also hope to have speeches from prominent Alliance men. "We will try to make It interest ing for all who attend, and may spring some surprises before the ev ening is over. I would be glad to ex plain more about this celebration or the work the I. C. S. is carrying on to anyone who is interested. A let ter addressed to me at Alliance will be given prompt attention." THE BOY SCOUTS The Scouts met us usual last Fri day night. Nearly every scout was present. After roll call and address by the Scoutmaster, a committee was appointed to arrange for a Scout social in the near future. One of the features of this meeting was the emergency drill. Several kinds of accidents were acted out and the Stouts Instructed in the proper measures to take in each. Next Fri day night we expect to organize a Scout basket ball team. TRADE EXCURSION The business men of North Platte will run a trade excursion September 2ith and 2Kth from that city over the Union Pacific railroad up the South Platte an.l Ninth Platte riv ers. This remit. ' lib that Alliance ought to have a tri'ie excursion cov ering the BurUugt n lines of north western Nebraska and eastern Wy oming, ami alt lion-1, it may be a lit tie late to get up son. thing of this kind this year, we hope thai aiiaii;.' ments will be made for it next year. LOCAL PARAGRAPHS CARD OF THANKS The oftiers and sl u-kliol Icrs of the Cooperative S.ore wish to thank their many customers for the pat ronage given them in the past quar ter V. e mi. .ii endeavor to DMrH a continuance and iu rease of the same THE CO-OPERATIVE STORE, J. C. BKRKY. Manager. Dr. Boland, phone 65 Miss Frances Nolan will leave Sat urday for Lincoln to resume her studies at the State University. Louis Allen, formerly of Alliance, is visiting with friends in this city for a few days. His parents now re side in Lincoln. Bruce Mallery and Howard Red dish expect to leave In a few days for Lincoln where they will attend school the coming year. R. E. Murray, having disposed of his Interest In the Barnes Jewelry Co. to W. O. Barnes, expects to leave In a few days for the east, where he will open up business for himself. Miss Josephine Hampton departed on No. 44 Tuesday for Lincoln where she will enter the State University. She expected to go from here direct to Omaha for a few days, and then return to Lincoln. Misses Annie Kennedy and Ethe' Johnston, both of whom gradual i from the Alliance High school when Prof D. W. Hayes was superintend ent, left on 44 Monday for Peru Nebr . where they will attend the State Normal school, of which Mi Hayes is president. J C. Uidgell of Anadarko. Okla. arrived In Alliance last Sunday morn lug for a visit until Friday with his brother, W S Kidgcll. which lie bad very pleasantly a part of the time but the visit was Interfered with by the judge being called to Chadron as a juror In the federal court in sea ston there this week Poitow Wig is the standing of con t. stains for the Alliance roller rink's diamond ring contest, up to and In eluding Wednesday night: Emilia Coleman 1"1M) Nellie Keeler 1660 Emma Fraker 570 Thelma Carey 440 Katie O'Donnell 120 Marie Dlsmer 10 In her memorable debate with Mayor Dahlman at Bellevue, near O maha. Mrs. Mary Harris Armor had the distinction of addressing more saloon keepers, bartenders and oth ers opposed to prohibition than were ever addressed at one time by a temperance speaker in Nebraska. Amd we never heard of one that re gretted hearing her. She will Inter est you whether you agree with her arguments or not Mrs. Cotton Mather, representing the Woman's Home Missionary So ciety of the M. E. church, attended the annual conference at Crawford, and came to Alliance to remain over Sunday. She spoke at the M. E. church morning and evening. As there had been no arrangements made for these Bervices until Friday after noon, the attendance was much smaller than it would have been had It been announced the preceding Sun day. However, Mrs Mather delight ed her audience with her Interesting talk on the subject of home mission ary work, and at the close of the ev ening service she organized a local W. H. M. S., with the following offi cers: Mrs. J. J. Vance, president; Mrs. J. W. Thomas, rec. secretary; Mrs. W. H. Lunn, cor. secretary; Mrs. Charles Bracken, treasurer. Among the Sheridan county people visiting Alliance last Saturday were S. D. Blair and W. A. Spain of Reno, otherwise known as Antioch. as that Is the name of the post office. Mr. Blair is an old timer in this count 17, and has many friends in his end of the county who wished him to be a candidate on the republican ticket for sheriff, but as he did not file for the nomination and his name was not printed on the primary ballot, he did not receive the nomination. Had he filed as a candidate, there Is no doubt but that he would have given our friend. Sheriff New, a merry chase at the election. As It Is, Mr. New has no opposition, having re ceived nomination from ail parties. Mr. Spain has not been in this coun try so long. He came from South Da kota to western Nebraska last spring, having gone from Iowa to South Dakota a year before. He seems to be well pleased with this country already. J. P. Barger, the nurseryman, has returned from his Iowa trip. as W. O. Barnes has quit the road and is back at his former occupation as manager of the Barnes Jewelry Co. The Nat Keiss Carnival Company, that showed in Alliance last month. has been having hurd luck In Denver the past week. The high dive man bad his neck broken by making a dive while a strong wind was blow ing, being blown onto the side of the water tank. Tlie man who loop ed the loop on a bicycle was In jured, although pr bubly not fatally. The last we heard Mamie was still alive and hearty. More School Room Needed Steps Must Be Taken S-on to Give the Alliance City Schools More Room INCREASE IN SCHOOL CENSUS The crowded condition at the Em erson school has necessitated the transfer of the sixth grade from that building to the Central school At the opening of school the fourth grade was transferred to Central and it was thought this would relieve the congestion, but the very large en rollment In the first grade and the fifth and sixth grade departments, where forty-nine and forty-six, re spectively, were enrolled, necessitat ed further transfers to relieve the situation. A portion of the first grade was transferred to the second grade department at Emerson, and the sixth grade, sixteen In number, w-as transferred to the Central school and combined with the sixth grade divisions of that building. This leaves at the Emerson building the first, second, third and fifth grades, with a total enrollment at the pres ent time of 111. A few more pupils in the grades now there can be taken care of at Emerson but no other grade can be placed there without overcrowding some department. It Is becoming a serious problem to take care of the school children in the school room we now have. Cen- ral school, with Its thirteen teach ers, excluding music and manual raining supervisors, resembles a D6 hive at dismissal time and wit b the number of children to be cared for. rooms are being used for school purposes that, from a sanitary stand point, should not be used. The Em erson building can accommodate no more rooms than are now there five, of which four are used for or dinary purposes, and the fifth, a basement room, as the shop for the manual training department. Every available foot of space in the High School building is now in use, and n order to obtain room for the Do mestic Science department, a por tion of what was originally the gar ret was utilized. Notwithstanding the fact that the government census does not seem to indicate it. Alli ance Is growing. The school census report for 1911 shows a school cen sus of 1110, one hundred more than the census of any previous year. The Board of Education desired to install indoor toilets in the Central and Emerson schools this year, but the fact that every available foot of floor space must be used to house the school children made such a needed improvement as this impossi ble. Alliance is very much in need of more school rooms. J. W. Guthrie had the misfortune to lose a gold watch on the road be tween Alliance and Reno. Meeting a man on the road after having dis covered his loss he told him about It and soon the watch was returned to him at his office in Alliance, but somewhat the worse for having been run over by a buggy wheel. The Herald learns that Mr. and Mrs. Waif rid Johnson and family. who left Alliance recently for Lin coln, where Mr. Johnson lias work In the Burlington shops, are now comfortably located at 622 South 21st street. G. L. Taylor and Charley Hucke of llenilngford came In from Omahu on 41 today and remained in Alli ance until 4:! arrived. They hud been shipping cattle to the South Omaha market, which they happened to strike while It was a little off. W. S. Parks has fold his 160 acre, farm one and one-halt miles east ot Berea to Dr. Churchill; considera tion $.:,-' i. Mr Bltd Mrs. Parks and family will remain in Alliance till next spring, on account of the schools here, when ihey may locate elsewhere. Rev. J. L. B. Jones, who was ap pointed conference evangelist al the M. K. conference a' Crawford, rent ed a house of Hanker Keith Pierce at Hcmingford end he and famll moved there tills week Muny wil Join The Herald in regretting to s?t them leave Alliance, but we ar. sure they will receive a cordial wel come from the good peojile or oui sister town. Dr. Jones has alread been engaged for lour revival meet Ings. The first will be at 1-akeside I omtnent ing October 1st. Charles W. Nation sold his inter est in the barber shop to W. C. Mounts, who is now sole proprietor. and on Saturday left to find another location. Charley, like a good many other people, has his faults, but be has a host of friends in Alliance who wish him well wherever he locates. He has also had his ups-and-downs, like a good many of the rest of us. but before leaving made satisfactory settlement with those with whom he had business relations. Mrs. Na tion and the four children are visit ing at Waterloo, Iowa. As soon as Charley decides upon a location he will send for them and they will go to the place he decides upon. see Mabel P. Allen, h magazine writer of I .os Angeles, is visiting her cous in, Mrs. Lillian D. Hobbs. at the Hobbs ranch. see lots of doings In police court this week. The Herald has been request ed to not mention some things until particulars are brought out in the fi nal trial. We respect the wishes of persons interested in the case re ferred to, hence defer giving further particulars until later. Mrs. P. P. Harbor! and two child ren returned vest :-Jay morning from their Denver rtaat. Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Frankle will return the last of ibe week from a very pleasant two weeks' outing In Colorado. see Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Rowan have as their guest Mrs. Uooenbec, of Craig. Nebraska, who will visit some time In tbis city. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION Civil servhe examination will be held in the court bouse at Alliance, Thursday. Sept 2S J. M. Shoe maker, secretary of the 8th Civil Service distriit, will be present and conduct the examination Further in formation may be obtained by apply ing to J. N. Johnston, local secre tary, at the post office.