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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1914)
FAItMKIlM MKT AT III.MIMJFOKD watts and who was on freaking - terms with them. So when we J. It. Inmotr Talk to Iloyn and ! found the following article in the tilrU and II. V. rMriilell Ad dreaxei Men anil Women for h community that keeps pace with the times on improved farming methods, the people of Hemingford and the surrounding country are there with the goods. That town Is surrounded by an excellent agricul tural country, as The Herald's Box Butte county readers well know. Coupled with its fine natural advan tages, are the thrift and enterprise of the farmers as a class. It is not practicable in this article to try to describe the progress that has been made in agricultural devel opment. Such a statement must be left to a longer article to be written in the future. The interest that was manifested at the meetings held in Hemingford Friday afternoon was an Indication of the progressive spirit that prevails. The first meeting was In the opera house. Prof. J. B. Lamson. agricul turalist of th eChlcago, Burlington & Qulncy Railroad Co., gave an ad dress in which he explained the or ganization of boys' and girls' clubs in Nebraska under direction of the state department of agriculture and thruout the nation according to rules prescribed by the V. S. department of agriculture. The crowd of Intelli gent boys and girls who listened in tently to the address would be a credit to any community. Besides explaining how corn clubs, potato clubs and other clubs for farmer boys and girls are formed, Mr. Lamson devotedl a part of his talk to dairying. He told afoot; the Holstein cow at the Nebraska Agri cultural College that now holds the one-year milk production record for Nebraska and is ninth In the wot Id's record. During the one your test recently closed, this cow uroduceo 26,660 pounds of milk, whioi if it had been churned wiuld have duced 966 pounds of butter. milk was sold in Lincoln at ten i nts per quart and brought considerably more than one thousand djll-irs. The feed which the cow ate d-iring the year coxt f 1 4 2. Many other inter esting things were related which we cannot enumerate now. Later in the afternoon Prof. JI. W. Campbell gave a lecture in id' hall, illustrated with Btereoptuan views. In beginning his talk be remarked that that would probably ? the last time he would address a Hemingford audience as be had plans made to make a change in his worn. Ho did not explain what his plana were, but The Herald understands that he in tends to remove to California and make his residence there. Many Ne braska ns who have been watching with interest bis experimental work In this state will regret to see : him leave for another state. Altho leav ing Nebraska, Prof. Campbell will not give up scientific agriculture. He believes that the "Sunset" state has wonderful possibilities in the way of intensified agriculture and horticul ture in which he expects to engage there. SOPHOMOKKH ENTERTAIN Young People Have Happy : Time Saturday Evening at Hone of Ruth Nation, Member The High school sophmores had a Joyous party Saturday evening at the home of Ruth Nation, a member of the class. Games were played and all enjoyed a pleaaant time. Refresh ments were served during the even ing. Among those who were guests were Mildred Campbell, Paul Camp Dell, Donald Spencer, Johnny Phil lips, Orrllle Stevens, Edward Hus ton. Guy Smith. Jim Williams, Rests White, Marlon Grebe. Helen Schott, Florence Whaley, Freda Corbet, Mar ion Mote, Hannah Cotant, Ruth Na tion, Janet Grassman, Mary Powers. Mm. S. C. McCorkle Entertain Mrs. J. C. McCorkle held a kens ington at ber borne at 318 West 7th street Saturday afternoon. A delic ious two course luncheon was serv ed. The color scheme was yellow and white. The center piece was a yellow crotcbed basket filled with beautiful yellow cut flowers. The dishes were also yellow crotched baskets. The place cards were beau tifully hand painted In daisy design The gueBts were: Mesdames Will Johnson, Lunn, I. E. Tash, Will Ach eson. Blgoell. Wetherall. MUliken, Mounts, Geo. Stanton. The gueBts enjoyed a very pleasant afternoon. WHAT IS WATT WATT IS WHAT Kl.xtric Ught Men Endeavor lo K plain a Kilowatt in Common . . Tern) a for Header Britt, Iowa, Tribune, we took it to C. A. Dow, manager of the electric light department, and he gave us an other version. "Bailey of Britt," who is supposed to be "there with the goods" said In the Tribune: "A few weeks ago we tried to de scribe what a kilowatt is. Since that we have struck an authority who knows all about kilowatts and a lot more about electiicity than some men know about building barns. Robert Dressier attends the machine that makes the proprietor of a movie a millionaire, and he 1b willing to Im part his knowledge to anyone who wants it. He confided to us the oth er day that a kilowatt Is nothing but a thousand watts glued together in one solid mass. This helps out as far as it goes, and he is going to tell us some day what a watt Is. It would be an awful job to keep add ing up watts to get the meter to give down enough at one time to bring enough money to buy enough coal, to make enough fire, to generate enough energy to make some more watts with it if it was not for the Bchenie to put the watts In bundles of a thousand. He also Informed us that' an ampere Is nothing whatever like a w att, but Is also a measure that Is made use of in figuring out how many kilowatts it takes to make a certain amount of cash to pay an ! electric light bill at the end of the month. The watt has no Blfape, weight, size or dimension, neither has the ampere, but as a sign of dis tress the ampere can outdistance the watt at any time of the day or night. Amperes are figured out on a disc that looks somewhat like a clock, but doesn't tick. Watts are figured up by the electric light man. He does business on tick when he has to. The ampere has about the same relation to a watt that a recollection has to a pro- reminiscence, and perhaps more. An The I electric light could be run without either a watt or an ampere if you would only believe the meter and that would generally go Just as well without anything to guide it if the electric light man would guess first before he lookeil at It. We are al- I ways deligutea to explain tnese mat ters that are not generally under-' stood, and as we don't understand it ourselves, this luakes it especially easy. What would the poor electric light man do if there were no kilo watts or amperes or meters? He would have nothing to lay it to when a man went away from home for a month aqd did not turn a light on, and then get charged up with a month's light. Of course, he can't lay that to the meter wither, but he can claim that the insulation has gone bug-bouse and the wire leaks, and he can prove it by the meter. The meter covers a multitude of sins and is a very handy thing to have In an argument. "The Watt was named after the great philosopher Watt not the man who wrote "Watts on the Mind," or the roan who made the symn book, but the other Watt, that Investigated steam. As far as we are able to report at present writ lng. these are nothings of small di mensions brought toget?r in such numbers that it eventually becomes a watt and when enough are collect ed it is a kilowatt and a whole lot of kilowatts become a multlwatt and when a multlwatt appears on your electric light bill it has the same ef fect that a large over-draft does when sent to you through the mall under a one cent stamp with a re turn card on the : envelope of the bank where your deposit has evapor ated." After reading the above article Mr. Dow at our request gave the follow ing interview: I notice that my friend Bailey of the Britt (Iowa) Tribune has been able to elucidate what a Kilowatt is but gets right up against the inca descent when he tries to tell what a Watt is. I will attempt to give him a Light on the subject as we have a friend whose sole duty it is to accumulate these little Imps and put them up in packages of a thousand each, about once a month, so the Light Company can have an excuse to separate you from your mazuma. He says that a frenzied financier by the name of Watt, who was afraid to put any more water in his stock for fear Tom . Lawson would bawl him out, accident))' discovered that when a husky volltl married buxom ampere, a perfectly Eugenic Affair, the family would be Watts and if one little Watt monkeyed with your meter for sixty minutes that made a Watt Hour and if a thousand of 'em got in the name that cost you fifteen cents, uuless the boy who an your bill he could prove It by ths meter. The meter's right, you know. Wil lie Westinghouse made it and you don't know anything about Its anat omy anyway. The Light man does. He dotes on Meters, especially the ones the most Watts monkey with. And you wouldn't know a Watt If yoU met it In your bath room so Watts the use. But not so with your friend the Light Man, to him they are law and the gospel. "A thing of beauty and a joy forever". "The little foxes that bring home the grapes." BROOME HACK FltOM CANADA Former Well Known Alliance Man Return from Kit Month Stay In Went and Northwest F. M. Broome, former Alliance at torney and agent for the Lincoln Land Company, who left about six months ago for Canada, returned this morning. Mrs. Broome met bim In Denver and accompanied him back to Alliance. Mr. Broome has been through not only a large part, of western Canada but also spent some time in northern California. He is greatly pleased with the northern California country and will probably locate there after a stay of three or four weeks In Alliance. MOVES INTO NEW STUDIO North Side of Second Floor of Hunt er Itfock Transformed Into Photograph (inllcry WILL Ill N FOIt TIU'.ASUHF.H 4. I. Kiuerkk, City Clerk, Will Not Hun for Re-election On Peti tion for Treasurer The latest development In the pol It'cal situation Is the announcement that J. D. Emerlck will not run for re-election as city clerk but will run for treasurer to succeed Percy Cogs well who has decided not to enter the race again. This puts Mr. Em erlck and Mr. Gregory in the race for treasurer. George Snyder Is entered In the race to succeed Mr. Emerlck as city clerk. George Is well known in Alli ance and Is very popular. There are no other candidates for city clerk In the field at this time. A. S. Mote, C. A. Newberry and W. H. Swan are candidates for re-election oi the school board. Bart Young Is mentioned as a pos sible candidate for election as coun cilman in the First wsrd. This puts F. E. Reddish, Geo. Fleming and Mr. Young In the race for this place. 1914 MODEL Hackney Auto Plow (f " --HIIIHIIII IIUMIMHI .11. IN INTEREST OF DAIRYING Jack Robert, of Waukesha, Wiscon sin, Here for Short Time In In terests of Dairying Skylights and partitions have changed the north side of the second floor of the Burner block, Third street and Box Butte avenue, into an entirely different looking place from what it was a week or two ago. The long room has been divided by partitions Into a photograph gallery In front, with reception room, dress ing room, etc., and living rooms in he rear. Near the head of the stairway eading up from Box Butte avenue, a glass door taking the place of the all I reads the meter tboueht It was too We have often wondered what a! far out to your house that month suowati 1st we anew tnat tt was in wntcn case it probably cost you someining you pay ror eacn month i more, ana so concluded that it was to the electric light department, but easier to connect with the "Kale" by we were anxious 4o see a man who was personally acquainted with selling Watts than by selling water Jack Roberts, of Waukesha, Wis consin, specjlal representative of the Dr. David Roberts Veterinary Com pany, is In Alliance today, looking after the dairy interests of this sec tion. There have been quite a num ber of good dairy cattle shipped into I this locality lately. Waukesha county, Wisconsin, is noted as being the largest Guernsey cattle center in'the world. Cattle are shipped from there to various parts of the country. Dr. David Roberts, of the firm that Jack Roberts represents, has travel ed for years with various state agri culture college professors on special dairy trains and lectured to farmers in regard to breeding more and bet ter live stock. SUCCESSFUL ENTERTAINMENT wood door that formerly did service, admits to the large reception room. Opera House Was Crowded to Over- A new roof skylight admits a Hood Mowing with People to See IVn- of light into this room and also fur- trnl School Entertainment nishes light for the dressing room leading off from the reception room. A slanting skylight of ground glass, reaching from the floor to the roof, furnishes a beautiful soft light for the photo gallery, on the north side in the rear of the reception room. Back of the gallery is the photog rapher's work room, having window shutters by means of which all light may be conveniently excluded, ex cept what Is desired to be admitted thru the small colored glass win dows, glass in which can be changed at will from clear transparent to either red or yellow. The carpenter work necessary to make the transformation was done by Contractors Burns & Yount. On Thursday Photographer W. J. Darcy moved into the new studio, of which he is very proud. The facili ties for doing work are so much su perior to those of his former loca tion that he is delighted with the prospect of beginning business in the new place. He and Mrs. Darcy are busy as can be putting on the fin ishing touches and getting every thing In shape for taking pictures. which they will be ready to begin within a day or two, announcement of which wil be made thru an ap propriate ad In The Herald. JOIXJ TO HEMINGFORD Originator of Dry Fanning Idea KM)ke at Hemingford Iat Friday Kveuing H. W. Campbell, of Lincoln, editor of Campbell's Dry Farmer, and orig inator of the Campbell method of dry farming, stopped over in Alliance for a short time Friday while on his way to Hemingford to speak at the meet ings held Friday afternoon and even ing. John W. Thomas, editor of The Herald, accompanied Mr. Campbell to Hemingford to attend the meetings. Wo are now filling ortlerH for the 1914 model of the Hack ney Auto Plow Tractor and attachments the ONE-MAN OUT FIT that loads the world rh a GENERAL PURPOSE FARM POWER MACHINE. Increased output and heller manufacturing facilities have enabled us to improve, this model nnd at the same time reduce me KciiiHg; price M Specifications: Specially designed keroaeno ami gasoline heavy duty motor. Heavy duty transmission. Two speeds 2V4 and 3 miles an hour, forward and revenue. Kach plow independent. Power lift. Plows in plain view of operator. Light in weight. Durable in construction, ICeonoiiMcal iti furl. A tftrictly One Man Outfit. Uses other than plowing: Seeding, discing, harrowing, road grading, harvesting, threshing, hauling, grinding feed, sawing wood, etc. If you contemplate purchaNing a power outfit, write for our literature and testimonials. Lininger Implement Co. DISTRIBUTORS OMAHA, CMHbVBB NEBR. 3&ECS People, people, people, crowded the doors and jammed the hall and stairs leading to the Opera House wtneBH the Central school entertan Friday evening, trying to get Beats to witness the Central school enter tainment, given by the pupils. The program was well rendered, the numbers by the little tots being es pecially Interesting. Principal Durns and his corps of efficient teachers de serve great credit for their work. The program was as follows: Selection by High school orches tra. Girls' Chorus, Seventh and Eighth g ade girls. The Land of Dolls musical play), by First, Second and Third grades. Reading. "The Desert of Waiting", Carrie Bye. The 8weeping llrtgade.Fourth and Fifth grade girls. Select'on by 'orchestra. Runaway Bear (musical play), by First and Second grades. Sailor Boy Drill, by Fourth, Fifth and Sixth grade boys. The House that Jack Built (mus ical comedy), by Fourth and Fifth grades. Violin solo, by Roy Miller. Historical Panorama, by Sixth and Seventh grades. Embroideries. aid Laces Now is the Time to Buy Them EDGINGS and INSERTIONS FROM 5c YARD The BEE HIVE Leading Variety Store Let Us Do Your Job Work U. I. A. PARTY FOR MRS. REID Tweiity-Kix l,MdieN Entertained Home of Mr. II. A. Hamilton ThurMlay Evening at and safer and besides if jrou hollered Carter and Miller. The U. I. A. gave a party Thurs day evening at the home of Mrs. H. A. Hamiltou in honor of Mrs. Mary Reld who leaves for Lincoln Saturr Jay evening to make her home In that city. Mrs. Ketd was presented with a G. I. A. pin r.nd a silver thim ble. Lunch was served and .in en joyable time was had. The ladles present were Mesdan-ea Mary K. Reld, Davenport, Bennett, Nlcolal, White. 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