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the Filing and Locating Campaign of the United
States Land Office, March 19th to 24th
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Do You Realize the Importance of this
to Box Butte County Land ?
Not all of those people will be able to Rccure the land they desire. They will be in the
market for land; that's what they are coming for; if they don't get government land they
will want to buy Box Butte County lands.
LIST YOUR LANDS WITH US AND GET A SHARE OF THE SALES PROFITS
The Nebraska Land Company has recently been reorganized on a profit-sharing plan,
and specific partnership. We have good farm lands for sale cheap and on easy terms. We
make farm loans at a low rate of interest, inspect the land and furnish money without delay.
If You Intend to File for Government
Land Let Us Locate You Now!
This is the last chance for government land in Nebraska. We will furnish plats of
the land to be filed on March 19 to 24. We will be glad to explain the details to you and as
sist you in the location of your cla'm. We have expert land attorneys at your service and
will prepare your filing papers m tell you how to get these government lands. Garage fa
cilities in connection so that you can see the lands before you file know how and what
you are getting All of this service is yours for the asking at a very small fee for the services
rendered.
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BOX BUTTE COUNTY PEOPLE: Be sure to list your farm lands with us on the new profit-sharing basis. We have over 4,000 inquiries for raw, cheap western lands and regarding this last
homestead act. Don't delay, but see us today NOW AT ONCE. We have some REAL SNAPS for home investors. See us at once. They will make you money.
Full Information Gladly Furnished On Request. Write or See Us in Room 11,
Land Office Building, Alliance, Nebraska
Meiraska
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pany
J. C. McCORKLE, Manager
A. MEEKER, Solicitor
OSCAR O'BANNON, Salesman
N. A. McCORKLE, See'y and Treas.
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Sheldon, la., Jan. 31 Benjamin
Jones is a newspaper 'subscriber tbat
any publisher would be glad to wel
come on bis list. For forty-three
years Mr. Jones has subscribed to
the Sheldon Mail and has paid in ad-
ranee every year.
It was a country store in Arkansas.
very humorous, snortiy before nis
death he wrote an essay on the Platte
rirer. George had evidently never
seen the Immense irrigated country
which Is fed by the Platte and the
thousands of prosperous farms which
depend on it for their moisture, or
he might not have slandered it as
follows:
The careful student of American
wonders should not overlook the
Platte river.
It is verr easy to do this, especial
A one-gallus customer drifted In. I f ' """ "".r" l"r
"Gimme a nickel's worth of asafoe- n a naD" OI piayinKinae ana see
... ; with a spectator, which is embarrass-
The clerk poured some anufoetlda
Into a paper bag and pushed it across
the counter. -
"Charge it." drawled the custom
er. . "What's your name?" nuked the
clerk.
"Honeyfunkel."
. "Take it." said the clerk. "I
wouldn't write asafoetlda and Hon
eyfunkel for five cents."
ing in the extreme
The Platte Is an elongated strip of
dampness extending from the Missou
ri river to the Yellowstone Park. It
is 1,600 miles long, a mile wide, and
as deep us one of the new dances.
This is what makes the Platte fam
ous. Many anotner river is a mue
wide, but no other river on earth
spreads so little water over so wide a i
territory. A heavy dew in Nebraska
A father lost his head and began
beating his boy for' being out late
Bights. When the whipping was ov
er, the old man said: "There, I guess
that will hold you for a while. When
I was a boy of your age, my father
would not let me hang around late
Bights."
At this rebuke the boy replied:
'He must have been a devil of a
father."
This got the old man's goat, and
he yelled at the lad, with an empha
sis on one adjective: "He was a dam
sight better father than you have!"
Every time a man loses his head he
spills his brains. The Silent Part
ner, in the Cornell widow.
A Typical Kdltor
The North Dakota editor who
gives the following acocunt of him
self for the year 1915 is but a typ
ical editor. We know, oecause we
have always considered ourselves
typical and he gives a good descrip
tion when he gives the following
statement of his business for the
past twelve months:
-v "Been broke, 381 times; had mon
ey, 4 times: praised the public, 999
times; told lies, 1.728 times; told
the truth. 1 time (and nearly got
whipped then); missed prayer meet
ing, 52 times; got roasted, 481
times; roasted others. 77 times; of
'.' Ace towel washed. 3 time; missed
meals, never; mistaken for a preach
er, 11 times; mistaken for a capital
ist, never; bathed. 6 times; delin
quent subscribers who paid, 29; de
linquent subscribers who gave excuse
for not paying, 936; delinquents who
had read the paper for a year and
then told us to go to and col
lect our pay. 81; got whipped, never;
whipped others. 23 times; cash on
band. January 1. 1915. $1.14; cash
0B hand, January 1. 1916. 16 cenfc."
George Pitch oa The Platte
George Fitch, the humorist, wrote
many "vest pocket essays" that were
Interesting and some of them were
. i i . i . t T,t .ti-
ma KeH nign whiit in iuw i iuuo. iih
squats on 5,000 square miles or i
prairie land enough to support tne i
population of Ireland and produces
only an Imposing waste of sandbars
and snags with about as much water
running between the sandbars as a
chuser for a thirsty man in New ,
York. 1
It is a shocking waste as shock-;
lug as the devoting of the vast re-;
sources of a great university to the .
education of a downy-brained young
man who has not yet succeeded in j
learning 30 per cent of the ten coi :-
mandments. !
The Platte Is a great river in the ,
spring .and awes the spectator by Its,
breadth and majesty. Hut it Is not
highly valued in Nebraska, because
when it Is most needed, it Isn't there. :
It is like the young recruit from the '
bush league, who bats .400 in the
spring practice and then strike out 1
four times hand-running witn men
Have You Tried
KIRBY COAL?
The blue flamed, klinkerles coal. It is THE coal of Alli
ance. It's economical is clean and is lasting. Holds steady
fire over night.
KIRBY LUMP, for furnace and heaters, $7.50 1
V Delivered
KIRBY NUT, for cookstoves and ranges, $6.50 J
Hundreds have changed to Kirby after a trial.
Ask some of your neighbors. It is used in almost every
residence block in Alliance.
Best Coal for the Price
Brought to Alliance
Sold by
Alliance Creamery Comp'y
Telephone 545
J. W. Fogg, of Boulder, Colo.
on bases, after the season opens, as i
u river it is the poorest pinch hitter I
In the world. The Platte goes dy j HAlesman for the Koyal Typewriter
on the tirst hot day. and has to de-
pend on wells for its moisture the1 Company, was in Alliance yesterday
rest of the summer. land today on business.
Many movements for the abolish-:
ing of the Platte have been started.
but have failed because of the oppo-
tltlon of the bridge companies. It ,
is the thinnest excuse for a bridge in (
existence but one of the most effect-j
Ive.
Mr. and Mrs. C. II. Boyer, of Bay
ard, were shopping in Alliance the
first of the week.
KOTICK FOK BIDS
Rids win be received until 8 p. m..
February 8. 1916. for the feeding of
city prisoners. Two bids to be given i
one for feeding at city hall, one
for feeding at place of business. Par
ty receiving contract to furnish bond
of $100. Term of contract one year.
Council reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
CARTER CALDER.
8-21-63CS City Clerk.;
' Old papers for sate at The Herald
office. Five cents a bunch; six
bunches for a quarter.
DRAKE & DRAKE
OPTOMETRISTS
In this age of the world the Public
demands the service of people that
specialize.
We make a specialty of fitting glass
es, and are prepared to Kupply each in
dividual need.
THE FITS-U OPTICAL OFFICE
Optometrists
t t Alliance, Nebraska
Lindsey Wrote Von Bergen
Emil Von Bergen, traveling repre
sentative for the Carpenter Paper
Company of Omaha, was in Alliance
one day last week. While here he
told of recently receiving a letter
from the Denver boys' Judge, Ben B.
Lindsey, who is a personal friend and
who accompanied Henry Ford of
auto fame on the peace trip to Eur
ope. The letter was written from
Christina.
Mr. Lindsey writes most Interest
ing of the trip across the water of
the holding up of the Ford peace
party by the British on the high seas
and its retention on the north coast
of Scotland, of the reception at
Christina and of the people, press
and officials there. It has been
known by newspaper circles in this
country generally that tne corre
spondents sent on the ship at the
courtesy of Mr. Ford have had in
structions to ridicule the cruise and
trip throughout, despite the discour
tesy and inconsistency this embodies,
and the readers will have observed
that the ridicule between the lines of
the dispatches has been pointed out.
Mr. Lindsey writes especially to the
point in this saying:
"If you hear of friction in the
neace party, don't believe it. There
were some differences over non-essentials
but nothing serious the
kind of differences in any such par
ty. But In the bigger mission we
were all united. The New York pa
pers insisted in instructing their men
to ridicule the whole thing. So
something had to be sent out. But a
finer body of people for intelligence.
and earnestness, I never Baw together
before. Not many are prominent-
hut all devoted to big ideals. Some
good must come of it all."
NOTICE TO CRKDITORS
In tl.e County Court of Box llutle
County, Nebraska
In the Matter of the Estate of Mich-
iiel Huver. deceased.
Vntlre to nil nersonB Interested in
said estate Is hereby given that Mary
Bayer. Administratrix of said estate,
will meet the creditors of said estate
at the county courtroom in the city
of Alliance, said county, on the 13th
Hav nr Mrrh 1916. and the 18th day
of September. 1916. at the hour of
10 a. m. for the purpose of the hear
itr arflnafmnt and allowance of
J .
oioim ncutnHt mild estate. All per
ssina hnvine claims or demands
against said estate must file the same
in said court on or before the 18th
M of Sontember. 1916. or sain
oiiima will he forever barred.
Dated this 31st day or January.
1916.
L. A. BERRY,
(SEAL) County Judge
Burton & Reddish. Attorneys.
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Metaodlst Episcopal Chart
10 a. m. Sunday SchooL
11 a. n. Preaching service.
o:V P. m. Yonnc Beonla'a
ing.
7:39 p. m. Preaching servloe.
irayer meeting on wednmidav
emng ai f :su.
Rev. J. B. Coras. pt
004 Box Butte. Phana Mt
W. C. T. U. Meeting
The Alliance W. C. T. U. will meet
at th Citv Mission, at 2:30 p. m
Thursday. February 10. 1916. Mrs
J. A. Keegan will have charge of the
program.
EL-JE3arTT- - Mill I
P At the Churches jj
Presbyterian Church
10 a. m. Sunday School.
11 a. m. Preaching service.
2:30 p. m. Jnnior Endeavor.
6:30 p. m. Senior Endeavor.
7:30 p. m. Preaeblng service.
Prayer meeting on Wednesday rw
ening at 7:30.
I lev. Lewis Mclntvr. pt
7uo unerson Phom
Baptist Church
10:00 a. ni. Sunday school.
11:00 a. m. Preaching servloe.
6:30 p. m. Young people's serv
ice.
7:30 p. m. Preaching service.
Mr. Layton will begin a series m
sermons to young people, Sunday ev
ening, February 13, to which all, ei
and young, are invited. Try to at
tend these services, aB they will e
interesting and helpful.
A. A. Ijnyton. Minister
Immanuel's Lutheran Church
Cor. Yellowstone and 7th St.
10 a. m. English Sunday School
and Bible class.
Services every Sunday at 10:30 a
m.
English services every first ana
third Sunday of the month at t
o'clock p. m.
German school at 9 a. m. even
Saturday.
Religions Instruction In English
every Saturday at 1:30 p. m.
Everyone Is welcome and cordially
Invited to attend all of the service
of the chnrch.
Rev. Titus Lane. Pastor
722 Missouri Phone Black Q
St. Matthews Church
7:30 a. m. Holy Communion.
10 a. m. Sunday school. -
11 a. m. Morning prayer and
men.
7:19 p. m. Evening prayer aa
sermon.
Rev. William Carson Shaw. Recto
Cttrtstlan Church
it a. ax Sunday School.
11 a. m. Preaching service,
p. u. Toang people's
lea.
7:39 p. ra. Preaching service.
Prayer meeting on every Wed
day evening at ft St.
Rev. H. 4. Towng,
9Q9 Box