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ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1011
NUMBER 11
ENTERTAINED
MANY GUESTS
Alliance HostesseM Entertain OiieM
Tuesday firming at Home
of Mr, ('lough
Mrs. Chas. E. Clough and Mlssj
Elsie Clough entertained Tuesday
evening at the home of Mrs. dough. ,
Mrs. Fred Sedwlek and Mrs. Jutt-s
were guests of honor. A delicious
eix course lunch waa served. At
each plate was placed a polnsetta
bucket filled with nuts, also contain
ing place cards.
Progressive five hundred waa
played. The score cards were hand
painted, with red and white poinset
taa. Miss Virginia Broome won a
beautiful fan. Mrs. II. E. Marvin
won a silver lemon fork. The or
chestra played while the guests din
ed. The -guests were: Mesdumes Ar
mour, Helpbringer, Druce Wilcox, F.
I). Campbell, F. V. Lester, Currie,
F. M. Broome, M. Hargraves, II. J.
Ellis, Wm. Mitchell. Raycroft. Jas.
Feaglns, Bragens, Watkins, Kenne
dy, Rowan, Butler, Maude Johnson,
Marvin, Rumer, Hively, Westover,
Vaughn, Patterson, Grebe, Rath
burn. Darling, Gaddis, W. W. Wort,
Hershman, Worley, 'and Misses Ga
bus, Jones, Canfield, Broome, and
Sherdeman.
PFJIU NORMAL NEWS ITEMS
Chronicle of latest Happenings at
the Big State Normal School
at Peru, Nebraska
Peru, Nebraska, Feb. 16 A good
game of basket ball was played here
Friday evening between the Peru
girls and the Falrbury girls. The
score was 35 to 8 in favor of Peru.
A new $340 multigraph has been
Installed In the registrar's office.
President Hayes, Registrar Over
holt and Professors Rouse and Del
sell attended the School Maulers'
club In Omaha February 5.
The number of new students en
rolled for the second semester has
reached sixty-five.
Two new Smith-Premier typewrit
ers have been purchased to replace
o'd ones In the registrar's oillce.
Professor Herd announces that
the class in horticulture will do
practical work in the pruning and
tree surgery.
At a recent meeting of the Y. M.
C. A. the following officers were el
ected: president, Lavern Mathews;
vice president, Harry Harvey; secre
tary, Rufus Iiulburt; treasurer, Or
ley Clements.
The faculty in the training school
entertained the seniors in the admin
istration building Saturday evening.
The seniors report a splendid time.
Miss Cora Brunsdon gave a dra
matic recital Monday evening in the
high school assembly rooms. Music
was furnished by the girls' chorus
under the direction of Miss Carpen
ter. The piano depart nient gave a re
cital Thursday afternoon In the cha
pel. A special feature was a double
piano number with Mi as Covinne
Whitfield playiug first piano.
The second semester officers elect
ed by the Philomathean Literary So
ciety were: pres., J. A. Jimerson;
ice pres., Gertrude Moore; treas.,
Karl Smith; rec. sec., Nettie MeMlcb
ael; cor. sec, Esther Larson; ser-geant-at-arniB,
F. E. Bowers.
WILL PHKPAKK INFORMATION
Meeting f Business Men Held in
McCorkle Hall Monday Even
ing to Boost Alliance
The real estate men and a num
ber of the business men of Alliance
met in the McCorkle ball Monday
evening to discuss plans for helping
Alliance and Box Butte county se
cure their share of publicity in the
advertising which is planned by the
Burlington railroad lor western Ne
braska, Wyoming and Montana.
Committees were appointed for
the purpose of securing data and in
formation to be furnished the rail
road company to use In their adver
tising and circulars. The commit
tees met this morning and planned
to start their work without delay.
C. A. Dow was assigned the work of
securing statistics on electric light
plant and sen-ice, sewer and water
service, automobiles, railroad, ex
press and postofllce statistics. E. T.
Kibble was assigned the work of se
curing statistics on stores and banks.
cement walks, etc. Ed Marks will
secure information on rainfall, hos
pital, creamery, churches, property
values, etc. J. C. McCorkle is to se
cure Information from the farmers.
crops raised, etc. Lloyd C. Thomas
is to put the Information received in
proper shape for submitting to th
Burlington.
National Director Here
M'bs Mint of Philadelphia, a direc
tor of the National Art League, is
visiting with Mrs. Dr. Bellwood and
daughter this week. Miss Mint
travels through the west organizing
art classes In the different towns.
Her headquarters are at Taeoimi,
Washington.
Miss Mint Btated to a Herald re
porter that she would be glad to or
ganize an art club In Alliance and
give a lecture explaining the proposi
tion In case there was enough Inter
est manifested.
EASTERN STAR
INITIATIONS
Meeting Tuesday Evening Attended
by l.wrge Number Who Thor
oughly Enjoy Selves-
74 members and 11 visitors were
present at the meeting of the East
ern Star Tuesday evening. The vis
itors were from Washington, Wis
consin, South Dakota and other
states. Mrs. Nellie Wilson and Nell
Shrewsbury were initiated. Fol'ow
ing the regular order of business the
floral addenda was given.
Refreshments were served. Chick
en patties, potato salad, doughnuts,
pickles, sandwiches and coffee were
the menu. The meeting lasted until
late. Music and recitations were
part of the program.
WILL HI "HUE FROM FARMING
Combination Public Sale Announced
hy T. II. Barnes, A. W. Wll
son'nnd A. K. Wilson
T. II. Barnes and A. R. Wilson
have decided to retire from farming,
and A. Wayne Wilson will make
some changes in his farming ar
rangements: accordingly they have
had bills printed and ordered an ad
in the paper announcing a combina
tion sale to be held Tuesday, Feb.
24th, at Mr. Barnes' place, two
miles northwest of Alliance.
These gentlemen have some good
stuff to sell, botb in live stock and
farm machinery, and wish it to be
understood that everything advertis
ed goes. There will be no by-bidding.
The highest bidder will get
the thing offered for sale, whether
the price Is satisfactory or not.
WILL BUILD
NEW TUNNEL
Voter if Denver Turn lHmn Water
Company Proposition and
Decide to Build Tunnel
Denver, Colo., Feb. 18 By a vote
of 13.122 to 6.918 the voters of Den
ver turned down the proposition of
the Denver Union Water Company
to sell their plant to the city at a
high figure. The water company
occupied the streets without a fran
chise. The Moffat tunnel propos ition, in
which the city voted bond of $3,
000.000 for building a tunnel thru
the great divide, carried by a vut.
of 12.533 to 6.614. This will mean
that the shortest route between the
coast will lead through Denver and
a great empire in western Colorado
and eastern Utah will be opened to
Denver and that a direct line be
tween Denver and Salt Iake City
will be built. The tunnel commis
sion announced that conxt ruction
work will start at once.
The fight over the water question
has been hot and bettvy for the last
month. The Denver News and
Times u ported the attempt of the
water company to sell to the city and
the Denver Post opposed the plan.
DEATH OF
MRS. WILLIS
Mother of Mr. Karl Mallery Died
Tuesday Night at Da It on Fun
eral Thursday Afternoon
Mrs. George Willis, of Dalton.
mother of Mrs. Earl Mallery of Alli
ance, died at her homo in Dalton at
seven o'clock Tuesday evening. Th'i
funeral will be held at Dalton, at
one o'clock Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Willis had beeii suffer';
from painless cancer for some time
and death waf not enthely unexpect
ed. Mrs Earl Malloiy had been itt
tho home in Dalton "for the i.ist
month. She came to Alliance on
Saturday of last week, returning to
her mother's bedside on Monday.
Earl loft Tuesday night for Dalton.
MrB. Willis is survived by her hus
band, a son and a daughter. The
son, John, is engaged in the banking
business with his father in Dalton.
The daughter la Mr. Earl Mallery.
Mr. and MrB. Wilis moved from
Chadron, where they were old resi
dents, to Dalton about six years ago,
where Mr. Willis and hlB son engag
ed in the banking business.
ALLIANCE HAS GOOD RECORD
(ireat Showing Made by Our City
During the Year 1013 Figures
of Shipment Out of Town
Alliance can well be proud of her
record for the year 1913. During this
year the shipments through the lo
cal freight office to outside polms
were as follows:
Cattle. 5739 head.
Hogs, 1603 head.
Horses, 1319 bead.
Potatoes. 110,167 bushels.
Wheat, 2807 bushels.
Flax, 184.204 pounds. "
Ice, (artificial) 171 tons.
Butter, 43r,109 pounds.
Hides. 134,779 pounds.
Ground feed, etc., 60,753 pounds.
Eggs, 11,4 90 dozen.
Inasmuch ' as shipments 'of the
above commodities were made from
Box Butte rounty through the sta
tions of Berea and Girard and the
towns of Hemingford and Marsland,
in addition to Alliance, the record of
the county for the year is an envia
ble one and one that any county in
the state could be proud of.
WILL CISE AT SIX O'CLOCK
Clothing Merchants Adopt Metrool
Itan Idea of Having Earlier
CbtoJjig Hour
The Fatuous. The Right, Harper's,
Modern Clothes for Men, Irish &
Company, and the AllLanoe Shoe
store, will close at 6 o'clock begin
ning with Monday, February 23rd.
The stores mentioned above have
adopted the idea for the purpose of
allowing the elerks to go to their
suppers at 6 o'clock and not being
compelled to return after supper to
their work. The idea met with in
stant approval. It Is understood
that merchants in other lines of bus
iness are considering, the same clos
ing hour.
New Wagon Scale
The Alliance Creamery has re
ceived a five ton Bteel beam Fair
banks wagon scale for the purpose
of using in their coal business. The
scale is of the type registering beam
and Is the same style that the rail
road companies use for weighing
cars. When the correct weight Is
found a lever is pressed which
punches the correct weight on a
slip which is delivered to the cus
tomer. Reception at Ware Home
A reception was given at the home
of Deau and Mrs. Ware Monday ev
ening with Dean Cross of Sheridan
as the guest of the evening. Toe
object of the reception was for the
young people to meet Dean Cross.
A pleasant evening was enjoyed by
all.
Horse Fell on Him
Claude McClellan, who lives south
west of Alliance, was Injured the last
of the week by a horse which he was
riding falling with him, severely
wrenching one leg. He is now about
the house with crutches.
fMONEY IS
PROMOTED
Assistant to Pastor Catholic Church
Here Promoted to PaMor
ship at Valentine
Father Maloney, assistant to Fa
ther Donnelly of Alliance', has been
called to Valentine to take charge of
the Catholic church at that place.
This is a promotion for Fr. Maloney
and la iu recognition of his good
work and popularity here. The con
gregation at Alliance is porry to Bee
him leave.
The KniRhts of Columbus will
present him with a purse of money
amounting to $200 and a K. C.
charm. The Daughters of Inabella
wilt present him with a traveling
set. The presentations will take
place at the Daughters of Isabella
hall Thursday evening.
NOKTH1OKT NEWS
HnT.tl Howard and Monte l arrls,
Employed at Bridgeport, Mar
rlcd Wednesday Evening
i (Hy Herald Correspondent)
Northport, Nebr., Feb. 16 Hazel
Howard and Monte Farris, both who
were employed at the Bridgeport
Mercantile Co. for some time, were
united in wedlock Wednesday even
ing by Rev. McDoughall, pastor of
the Presbyterian church. Both are
well known and have many friends
who wish them happiness thru life.
Alvln O. Cheeney died here Feb.
10, at 8 p. m., after a week's sick
ness of pneumonia. He was born in
Persia, Harrison couoty, Iowa. At
the time of his death he waa 17
yearB, 7 months, 7 days old.
Funeral services were held in
Northport by Rev. Mi Dougliall of the
i-resbyterlan rhurch. The remain
were taken to his home in Persia
T. J. Johnson has been selling
corn in Northport.
Frank Lamm from near Lynn has
been marketing wheat here this
week.
Mrs. Dixon's little son Is quite sick
with measles.-
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Carney will
leave today for Scot tn bluff where
they will visit with friends. Mr
Carney was general foreman over
the bridge work here.
Mrs. George Elaas who resides
several miles east of here is very
alck at this 'writing.
STORK'S VISIT IN FKBIU AltY
Several Births In Alliance Within
the last Few Day and Every
body Well and Happy
On Thursday, February 12, 1914
a baby girl was added to the family
of Mr. and Mrs. Lou Shave of Lake
side. She has been given the
names of her two grandmothers, Ev
elyn Mary.
On Friday, February 13, a boy
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Bliss
Sturgeon of Alliance. Mr. Sturgeon
represents the Standard Oil Co. In
Alliance.
On Saturday, February 14, at the
residence of Mrs. Zebrung in Alli
ance, a boy was born to Mr. and Mrs
U E. Hubbard of Ellsworth. Mr
Hubbard came up yesterday to see
the new son, returning today.
TO MAKE THE CITY BEAI TIITL
Alliance Nurseryman Is Pushing to
Have Pretty Shade Trees on
Street and I .a wits
When a man believes In his own
proKsition he can push it enthus
iastically. J. P. Barger, the nurs
eryman, has made a study of the
use of dynamite In preparing ground
jfor tree planting and intensified
farming. Within the last few years
be has experimented some In putting
out trees by this method. As a re
sult of his study of the subject and
the success of experiments already
made, he Is enthusiastic over the
proposition. So confident is he that
trees will thrive in this country, if
set out by this method and properly
cultivated, that he guarantees suc
cess, as will be seeu by his ad iu
this paper.
The Herald hat a greater Interest
in this matter than merely the busi
ness success of an advertiser, tltho
we wish every one who does busl-
ness with us to receive full.ynlne fori,
the money exj State Historical Society
.lull li..t t i
ance lined with beautiful shade trees
and shade and fruit trees on the
awns, and a flourishing grove at
every farm house In the country. We
are fully convinced that the trees
ran be grown without great expense
of time and money, If set out right
and afterwards given proper atten
tion, and we hope to see Mr. Barger
given all the orders from 'Alliance
and the surrounding country that he
an handle during the planting sea
son.
Readers of The Herald are invited
o read Mr. Barker's advertisement
and If they wish further Information
on this Bubject call on him. He
will gladly tell you what kind of
and needs dynamiting and the bene
fit to be derived from it: when the
dynamiting should be done; and the
kind of trees and shrubs best adapt
ed to this country. It will be bet
ter for you to see him as soon as
possible tbau to wait till later, as
he will be very busy as soon ns the
frost Is out of the ground sullicient
ly to begin planting.
FOUR ARE FINED
$10 AND COSTS
White Man Who Tried to Enter Ne
gro Residence Got Severely Pun
ished hy Colored Men
150 spectators crowded police
court 10 o'clock Wednesday morning
when Jess Selby, J. A. J. Brown and
Frank Curtis, colored, and Charles
Wilcox, white, were arraigned on a
charge of disturbing the peaeo by en
paging In disorderly conduct and
flKhtlng.
Chas. Wilcox, the white man, ap
peared in court With his head band
aged up. minus an overcoat and with j
the left shoulder of his coat torn. At
10:45 Tuesday night he came within
an inch of death when u gun-in the
hands of one of the colored men
went off accidentally and tore off the
left shoulder of his overcoat, the shot
missing his head by the fraction of
an Inch. The Btory as told by those
who participated in the a flair, is that
Wilcox, with two other white men,
were walking along Larntule avenue
In front of the two story frame
building in which the colored men
and their families live, at number
,112. Wilcox went to the door and
knocked. A colored man came to
the door and Wilcox asked him if
he (Wilcox) could get some "break
fast food" there.
It was stated that the colored man
told Wilcox to go to h . Wilcox
stepped off the porch and called the
colored man a vile name, inviting
him to come out and get whipped.
He came out but was followed by
several other colored men who were
armed in various ways, and who
were fully prepared to fight in de
fense of their home. They first dis
posed of Wilcox, giving him a thor
ough beating up and then followed
his two companions up the street,
beating them up thoroughly. Black
eyes and bruised heads were much
In evidence this morning.
Jess Selby, Frank Curtis and J. A.
J. Brown were the colored men who
were arraigned in court. They all
plead guilty and were each fined 110
and costs, the same as Wilcox. The
fines were all paid.
PHOiilGKAPIIEK FAMOIS LENSE
Alliance Business Man Makes Iin
Mrtnt Addition to His Pro
fessional ljulpnient
W. J. Darcy, the progressive pho
tographer whose ad appears In this
issue of The Herald, has secured a
very fine portrait lense thro the ef
forts of a friend in Minneapolis, who
was aware that he was in the mar
ket for a lense of superior quality.
The one secured by Mr. Darcy baa
some fame attached to it, having
been used by the late Mr. Howard
of the famous Rembrandt Studio in
Minneapolis, publisher of a photo
magazine known as "The Mecca".
All the beautiful illustrations of
posing, drapery effects, lighting, etc.,
la this magazine, the originals of
which won prizes at the big conven
tions, are said to have been taken by
the lense now In Mr. Darcy'a possession.
a Rnr If Rll
ef I I l N 1 1 H MAN
WINS HONORS
lice IUyo Made Ivy Day Orator fop
Class of 191 1 by Student Body
of University
Lee Basye, son of Mrs. Cora Bas-
ye, of this city, won the highest hon
or that the student body of the Uni
versity can give to one of their fel
low classmen when they made him
Ivy Day Orator for the class of 1914.
The opponent of Mr. Basye for thU
honor was Ralph Dickinson, a grad
uate of tho Lincoln High school, a
member of the University debating
team, an Innocent, and last year
president of his class. He Is also a
member of the Alpha Theta Chi fra
ternity.
Lee Basye is well known here.
having lived In Alliance for many
years. He Is a graduate of the Alli
ance bigb school, was popular as a
high school orator and debater. Ho
graduated from the Artn and Science
college of the University in June,
1912, and Is now completing the
law course. He Is a member of the
Acacia fraternity.
ctrrroNwooD valley notes
lulerestlutf Items from the West by,
"Cotton Wood Valley Steve's"
Prolific Pen
(By Cottonwood Valley Steve) .
Mrs. Ralph Worley la Improving
at this writing.
II. E. Fisher Is hauling bay front
P. S. Malley's to Glen Gentle. We
are sorry to bear that Glea is not
doing as well as we thought he was.
Bert Adams of Alliance Is at G. H.
Uagaman's for a few days, to study
the habits of a ranchman in winter.
Herb Roblaon was In town one day
last week for "supplies for bis ranch.
From the way the little blrds'are
singing around here the wedding
bells will soon be ringing In the val
ley. Taht is right, boys, spring In
coming and U Is time fr birds of a
feather to flock together. 4
Miss Shirley Hagaman was lii
town visiting with her sister Dollle ,
Saturday night and Sunday.
T. R. Gilshannon and Mrs. Fisher
were visiting with Auntie Malley
Saturday. '
George McCoy and Jay Donovan
were in the valley Friday looking for
hay. We understaond that they
were unsuccessful.
Lea Marsh and wife drove In to
town Saturday to make the acquain
tance of Miss llanley. We suppose
she is not old enough to have a given
name yet.
We understand that H. E. Fisher
bas leased the Gilshannon ranch for
this year. As the ranch is in a good
location he will no doubt do well for
he la quite a pusher.
W. 8. Coker bas moved back on
his old place. He has been living on
the It row era place for three years.
Welcome back among us, Si.
BASKETBALL
SCOTTSBLUFF
Alliance Tvauut Will Go to North
Platte Valley Friday to I 'lay Mit
chell and ScotUbluff
The basket ball boys, first and
second teams, go to Scottsbluff Fri
day noon to play that night. The
first team will go on to Mitchell on
Saturday to play.
The girls' team will go to Sidney
Friday, and to Kimball Saturday.
Mr. Clements will accompany the
boys, and Miss Canfield will accom
pany the girls.
School Will Entertain
The Kmersou and Central school
will give entertainments to secure
funds to place a piano in each build
ing. The Emerson will give their
entertainment Friday, the 27th. The
Central will give theirs March 20th.
Kitchen bhower
A kitchen shower will be given la
the basement of tho Christian church
Friday evening by tho Bonn Table
Circle. There will bo a program
and lunch. Everyone la invited.
