GREETINGS TO STOCKMEN
FROM
TAGG BROS.
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SMITH BROS. COM. CO
NOW CONSOLIDATED
UNION STOCK YARDS
SOUTH OMAHA, NEBR.
"a combination of ABILITY - EXPERIENCE - FINANCIAL STRENGTH"
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
TAGG BROS, and SMITH BROS. COM. CO. have consolidated their business at .he South Omaha Market under the management of W. B. TAGG, and In the future will
have the same salesmen. SMITH BROS, location in the cattle yards has long been considered one of the best in the Yards, and will now be used for all our cattle. ART
TAGG will be the head cattle salesman, assisted by BILLY ORCHARD and FRED W. LIGHTFOOT. J. D. STORRIE will be our brandman. The feeder buying department
will be in the hands of G. P. MOORHEAD and ELLIS J. WRIGHT.
In the sheep barn SMITH BROS, location will be used and M. C. WILKERSON and A. E. COMPTON will look after the selling and buying.
OFFICE at ROOM 101, EXCHANGE BLDG.. where a hearty WELCOME will always be awaiting you.
In the consolidation each firm retains its name, so that stock billed to TAGG BROS, or to SMITH BROS, will be handled by us to the very best possible advantage
and remittances promptly made. Your patronage is respectfully solicited.
OFFICES OF SMITH BROS. COMMISSION CO. AT
UNION STOCK YARDS, CHICAGO, ILLS.
STOCK YARDS, KANSAS CITY, MO.
REPRESENTED AT THE ALLIANCE STOCK MEETING BY
W. B. TAGG
W. J. ORCHARD
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JUNIOR NORMAL NOTES
On Wednesday at the chapel hour
M -s Pauline Montgomery favored us
With the dramatic reading "The Con-fe.-isional".
Thl is the same piece
which she spoke at the State High
School Declamatory contest. Miss
Mjntgomery possesses talent of a
hitrh tirder. and the readiiug was re
ceived with great enthusiasm. The
potentially educational forces or the
present day are many and varied.
The coniparat'vf !y nt w motion pic
ture and phongiaph. for example,
may have an incalculable influence
for G,4 or evil. Yet, Just as the
phoncgraph has not yet taken the
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Save $1.00 to $1.50
on each ton of
Colorado Lump
COAL
Coal prices begin going
up June 1st and increase
25c per ton each month
until winter. I have sev
eral carloads now on the
road, ordered for the ben
efit of my customers, that
1 can sell during June at
May prices.
Lay in your next winter's supply now
place of the brush and color picture, ' propos of fellowship; a teacher's so
so the human voice, face and figure , clal qualities and activities ire a
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E. 1. Gregg & Son
iin dramatic interpretation hold a
position of power and significance
not to be underrated.
At the risk, or rather in the full
assurance, of being accused
preaching, the writer confesses
being never a believer In "art for
ait's sake" any more than in "the
Church for the sake of the Church",
or any other sentiments of tills
class, whether expressed in words
or merely In terms cf human life,
action or poHCT, The pity and pov
erty of the present t'it nation is that
hile we liave plays ' which try to
solve problems, and books that deal
in vaiiouB ways with some of the
rklillcs and mysteries of human life;
there are but few songs, and but
few "pieces" suitable for public
reading, that do, or tjven attempt,
much more than present a more or
less lifelike picture -In the case of
songs, at leant, usually less- of hu
man emotion, largely selfish emo
tion, and of active life in its cruder
aspects. Tell us, some of you auth
ors and interpreters, in glowing
speech. In pulsing tone and rythm.
and with compelling gestures, how
to overcome, how to read th r.ard
sayings of the Sphinx, atiid the
thoughts and Impulses within our
selves, whose meaning we but half
guess at or dimly apprehend. Mock
us no longer with mere eehoe. of
the vagaries of our own w'ik na
tures, but bend your powers to a
nobler tusk, and lend a lia.n l1
Thursday was Prof. Marr's siii
ficlal date, and he ruse nobly to the
occasion. Same teachers it -tppears.
perchance even many, regard the
very necessary Knowledge of a
subject to be taught as the main
thing, and knowledge of the pupil's
nature as merely secondary. Kvfiy
one who is alive on educational mat
tt is today seems to realize and i ui
phatlze thi; and "more power to
ri"" Kei p on pegging away, bo-,,
until we begin to practice principles
ci it this that not merelv sctnd
bvt bring results. Prof, M.-. rrs
red the kind of teacher n lu
!'i . to one who, after the iim
net erf fashion of Waekford
'..pliers. Esq., doles out ii lii i.ie
jin prescribed dr.ses iind at ituted
intervals. Fhk- reminds one of a
famous do-'or's deliniti.-n cf meuit.il
practice as 'the putting cf drua
erf which we know little into bodied
! i,f wliih w know less!" Chii will
doctors and tochers and pp-eat-.
and authors and legislate rs- - thr
WOt 14 over le'irn that salvation does
not lie in th ejppWel km to tiie sub
ject, of MMM approved ere . iii n
as a text of the patient and not
of the mecVclne ov, in finding out
what will produi e a desire .1 effe t,
in a far sighted way, and then suit
ing the remedy to the individuals
needs and capacity. What was (sup
MW4 to be) good nough for ihe
father Is not necessarily good eiuugh
for the son and won't get eitlUB
shouting distance of being g9d
enough f-r the gruiidpon! The
"teacher" (skit who could Mt'-I a
compelling fear was the univ-rsa'ly
sought "cf old time"; but the cue
who can Umpire a constraining u :te
of fellowship is the real "chlid of
destiny" in this day and age. A
big faitor of success especially in
rural districts. The enlightened
community of the future (Just like
the enlightened ttommunity of to-
of jday) is ru t going to demand a teaou
to r capable of "going through" the
:uons, ,r or putt.ng pupiis
tin .:gh" a prescribed area cf ttt
bo in a given brine; but one who
can btilM character, who cam rafted
the ' y ing idea" to comprehend Its
own net s and to se about getting
them supplied; one who being retllv
"rooted and grounded im truth" will
teach "as one having authority, and
not as the scribes!"
Yours truly,
"NOMAD."
PERU NEWS
By Henrietta Myers
Newsy notes of Alliance people
and others at Peru State Normal
At the end of the second week of
Hie I'eru summer school, there were
805 students enrolled.
An Interesting base ball game was
played here last week between Peru
and Hroek, the score being 2 to 0
in fayor of Peru.
The Domestic. Science depaitiiienl
has been greatly enlarged this sum
mer and special courses are being
offered for rural teachers.
Mrs. Crawford's flats in the new
course in Observation and Methods
ior rural learners ims an em uiiuiein
Of 170.
An Art Kxhibit is being held this
wick, the pictures cn exhibition be-
ins the work of modern American
aitis's. One of the artists. Mr.
Wattoa of ChUngo, is here and has
givi n several illustrated le.-tures,
Thick were greatly enjoyed. Mr.
Watson is a number of the faculty
i f tin- Art Institute at ChlcHgn.
The tennis tournament which was
hid here Thursc'aN and Kliday, be
iwn Peru and Hi llevue, was well
attended. John llauna wm.s one of
the p layers from Hells ue.
(n Mi.ndav a base ball g.une was
playi d bit ween repri ci.tat . -s from
tb Muhrdltt and the Baptist
char lies of Peru The M. hcili.-t.i
v. on by a score of 7-0.
Five tenti are Kunding back of the
Trainers' Building and are occupied
by 10 young men. students of the
gllLI,l.
i'n sidmit Hayes had barge of
the Y W. C, A. Sunday Sclwi 1 class
at in, M K church last Suitda) Iin
ir.g taught the Y V class of nhe
Christian church the Sunday previ
ous St vm persons were chosen at
the beginning of the summer school
whii teach In each chun h In succes
sion, thus' giving each claw a differ
t nt teacher every Sunday.
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