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VOLUME XXIII
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1916
NUMBER 31
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CALL FOR DEMOCRATIC
COUNTY CONVENTION
William Mitchell, County Chairman,
Issues Call for Meeting to be
11 eld on July 22nd.
Notice la hereby given that there
will be a convention of the demo
cratic voters of Bok Butte county, Ne
braska, la the assembly room at the
court house in Alliance, on Saturday
July 22nd. 1916, at 1 p. in., for the
purpose of electing a democratic
cert) central committee a :bi 'men
and secretary of same and electing
six delegates to the democratic state
convention to held at Hastings, on
July 26th, 1916, and for the trans
action of such other business as may
tome before the convention.
Precinct committeemen are re
quested to hold their precinct conven
tions on Thursday, July 20th, 1916,
to elect delegates to said county con
vention. The several precincts are entitled
to representation as follows, to-wit:
Alliance, west of Box Butte Ave
nue 8
Alliance, east of Box Butte Ave
nue 6
Boyd 3
Box Butte 4
Dorsey j 6
Lake 3
Lawn 3
Liberty 3
Nonpariel 4
Runningwater 2
Snake Creek 2
Wright 4
WILLIAM MITCHELL,
Chairman Democratic County Central
Committee.
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LOST TO HEMINGFORD
ALLIANCE WON ROTH
RASE RAIL GAMES
liocal Boys Trim Sidney Athletes in
in Games Played Both Tuesday
Morning and Afternoon
Sidney's crack baseball team went
down to defeat two times on Tuesday,
July Fourth, before Alliance's bunch
of hardhltters, who surprised the lo
cal fans by a spurt of playing that al
so took away big wads of money from
Sidney sports and a tew of Alliance
who thought they had a chance to
annex some coin of the realm from
their fellow townsmen.
Only a small crowd attended the
morning game. In the afternoon the
largest crowd of the season witnessed
the game. The linup at the after
noon game, which was practically the
same as in the morning, with the ex
ception of a change in pitchers, was
as follows:
Afternoon Game Lineup
Sidney Aliance
Doran left field McNulty
Hill second base Racey
Mann, first base Morgan
Symo shortstop Abbegg
Dewey center field Nation
Closman pitcher Maupln
Ferrle rightf leld Dolan
Daniels catcher Hubbard
Schroder third base Garrett
At the morning game Ournett
Alliance Baseball Klne Failed to Find
the Ball in the High Alti
tude on Banday
The Alliance baseball team went
down -to defeat Sunday afternoon at
Hemlngford to the tune of eight to
aothing. The high altitude and the
wltt ride in Wallace's auto truck ev
idently went to tbe heads of the team
for they made eleven errors while
Hemlngford played practically an er
rorless game.
Bud Darnell- pitched for Alliance,
The score was as follows:
Inning ....12 3 45678
Hemingford. 0(011010 0 8
Alliance ...OHO 0 0 0 0 0
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110 CHANGE WANTED
Alliance Bnsiiiew Men are AgainM
IfcUblitttintet of Vptowu Teh.
grstrti 'Offfc'e
Alliance business men are against
the establishment of an uptown tel
egraph office for the Western Uuion
It appeared on first thought, that the
proposition woald be a good thing
but after being advised that the eer
ioe gien then would not be a twen
ty-feur hour service, thane who were
in favor of the Droposition have
changed their pinions.
If an aptown telejrrai office com Id
be secured with twenty-four boor ser
vice It would be desirable, but this
would be Ininosnible. A tune or
twelve-hoar service would mean tha
messages received outside of those
hours would undoubtedly be delayed
in transmission or delivery.
In the cities the collection of mes
sages I facilitated by h Installa
tion of a call box system. With this
system a call box Is Installed. In each
place of business or office. When tbe
messenger boy Is wanted a turn of
the crank on the call box brings tbe
boy in three shakes.
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ROB CITY LIBRARY
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THE STANDARD GROCERY COMPANY
P. A. BEIYON, Prop.
Alliance, Nebraska
July 3rd, 1916.
Herald PublishingCompany,
Alliance, Nebraska.
Gentlemen :
Early in the month of June we commenced an extensive
advertising campaign in the Alliance Herald, your newspaper,
with the intention of giving it a thorough tryout. We want to
say, frankly, that the results received from this advertising
have been more than satisfactory and better than we had hoped
for, in such a short time.
We realize that successful merchandising depends among
other things, on purchasing high grade goods at prices which
will enable them to be sold at prices that the purchasing
public can afford. We realize that it is also necessary to let
the public know these facts through an advertising medium
which reaches the people.
We have not only added the accounts and business of
a large number of new customers who live in Alliance, but we
have received a large amount of new business from customers
who came from the surrounding territory to do business with
us. We have in a large number of instances traced these cus
tomers directly to the advertising done by us in The Alliance
Herald. Our advertising was done both in your regular edi
tions and in the special stockmen's editions of your paper.
We are pleased to enclose herwith our click in payment
of our advertising bill for the month of June and wish to thank
you for the several hundred dollars worth of new business
which reached us through this advertising during this month.
Very truly yours,
STANDARD GROCERY COMPANY,
By F. W. Beiyon, Proprietor.
REV. FR. DONNELLY
GOES TO GURWELL
Priest of Alliance at hollo Church
Will be Boroecilod Here by
Father Manion
Father Peter Donnelly, Catholic
priest in charge of the Aliance
church, will leave soon for Burwell,
Nebraska, where be will make his
home. He will be succeeded hero by
Father Manion of Burwell. Father
Manion was In Alliance at the Re
treat conducted last week.
Wednesday night the people of the
aCthollc church met in the basement
of the churcha nd presented Father
Donnelly with a fine leather travel-
ng bag, as a token of their high re
gard for htm and the work he has
done while being In Alliance.
Ice cream and cake were served
during the evening and short talks
were made by prominent members rf
the church. Father Donnelly has
many friends here who regret to see
him leave the city.
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NATIONAL PREACHERS HOME
pitched for Alliance.
The afternoon game ended with a
run from third base to home by Mor
gan, who struck the home plate with
thud that could be heard In the
grandstands, with the Sidney catcher
less than twelve Inches from the
plate with the ball In his mitt. hTe
Alliance crowd, which had been
downhearted, rushed the field in a
burst of enthusiasm and carried the
player off on their shoulders.
Score for Morning Game
Inning 12 2 4 6 6s
Alliance 130330 9
Sidney 2 112 0 0
Score for Afternoon Game
Inning 12345678
Aliance 1 3001000 27
Sidney 02001030 0 6
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NELLE THOMPSON HELD
WHITE SLAVE CHAR6E
Alliance Woman Bound Over to Fed
eral oart at Chadron Under
Cat Bond of f 2,000
EXPERIMENTING PLANT
ING POTATOES LATE
ORGANIZED SCHOOL CLUBS
Following a hearing last Thursday
afternoon before U. S. Commission
er I A. Berry in Alliance, Nelle
Thompson of this city was bound
over to the federal court at Chadron
for trial on a charge or "white slav
ery. She gave cash bond of $2,000
for her appearance at the fall term of
federal court, oarly in September.
Tbe filing of the charge against
Miss Thompson followed tho visit of
a federal Inspector to the city for a
week. The arrest was made by dep
uty U. S. Marshal Wright of Chad
ron Thursday morning.
The witness for the government
was Mrs. William Middleton. (Ollie
Prominent Fanner and Stockman
Gives Herald Information Regard
ing Important Experimentations
It's all. in the knowing how. This
applies with much force to upland or
"dry"farmlng In Western Nebraska,
We sometimes hear It said that farm
ing without irrigation can be made a
success In this country. That ex
pression should be changed to "Farm
ing without irrigation is being made
a success in this country."
A. R. Wilson has been doing some
experimenting In potato growing on
his farm west of Alliance and gives
Tbe Herald some interesting infor
Thieves Broke Into Building Some
time Tneaday Night and Hot Away
With Money and Watch
The city library was broken into
Tuesday night by burglars, wbo got
away with fourteen dollars In cash
and a gold watch. The work appears
to be that of boys or amateurs. There
is no clue to them at this time, al
though tbe police are working on tbe
case.
The money and watch were taken
from a cash drawer In tbe main
reading room.
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Montana Guard to the. Border
Three tralnloads of Montana sol
dlers. members of the National
Guard, passed through Alliance Mon
day night on their way to the border
via Denver. They were met at the
denot by a large crowd of Alliance
people.
Three fliibn nave ll'en trganlxd
in tiie School (anlt'idng Proj
ect 16 to Ffcrh Cimh
Throe clubs have bwii organized in
the Alliance school gardening; proj
ect. Each of these clubs Is composed
of sixteen grade school studejits, who
live In one of the three unctions of
the city, divided hs follows: East of
Box Butte avenue; wst of Box Butte
avenue and north of Fixth street;
wBt of Box Butte avenue and south
of Sixth street.
These divisions or sections have
been orna nixed into separate clubs
and officers elected for each club.
Meetings are held every other week
att he home of one of the members
and the work of the two previous
weeks discussed, and plans for future
work made.
The officers of the thee clubs are
as follows:
I. G. C. Gardening Club
This club comprises the territory
east of Box Butte avenue. President,
Eddie Eaton; vice-president, John
Of man; secretary, Ruth Ragan; lead
er, Arthur Wright.
It. O. li. Gardening Club
This club comprises the territory
west of Box Butte avenue and north
of Sixth street. President, Paul Mc
Coy; vice-president, John Moxon;
secretary, Dorothy Hampton; leader,
Leoon Alter.
T. V. lu Gardening Club
This club comprises the territory
west of Box Butte and south of Sixth
street. President, James Dacey;
vice-president, Carl Buechsenstein;
secretary. James Cusick; leader,
Dewey Donovan.
Prof. E. Q. Perry has charge of
this work and has it well organised
and working well.
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More than two hundred people vis
ited the swimming pool at the city
hall on Tuesday. There is plenty of
good, clean water, fresh from the
mains, heated In the new boiler. En
Joy yourself for an hour any time of
the day, from 10:00 a. ra. to 10:00
p. m.
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"he best time I ever had," ex
claimed an Alliance business man
he other morning, after he had visit
ed the fire department's public
swimming pool at the city hall for
the first time. Try It yourself.
Richards), who testified that she was matlon regarding the same. Today he
sent money to come to Alliance from ; brought to this office a bag of pota
Sheridan, In March. 1914. and that ! toeB tnat werG grown iaBt year and
nf4ns MAmlwiv nna ia tfTYi o iran In
the hou,e of prVstitmlon u7tH uJneie still in a spl-ndid state of preser
of that year. She had gone from A1-. vatlon, having been kept in an ordi
Uanrp to Sheridan In tbe fall or 1913
and entered a house of prostitution
at that place, afterwards going to a
hospital there. She testified that
Miss Thompson sent her $59 in a
Matchbox by express to pay the hos
pital bill and that she was sent a
check for $20 wih which to pay her
railroad fare to Alliance.
A number of lettem written by the
defendant to the government witness
iwere introduced as evidence in the
lease. The maximum penalty for the
offense, if conviction follows, is a fine
of f K.OOO or five years in the federal
penitentiary, or both. The defend
ant was represented by Attorney H.
K. Oantz and the government by the
special agent.
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"ROLLED" MR. DRAUCKER
Hev. Mrs. Maxfield, Formerly of This
City Visits Alliance First
of This Week
In 1911, General William J. Pal
mer, well known educator, donated a
building In Colorado Springs, Color
ado, for a national preachers' home
of the A. M. E. church. The dona'
tlon was made sortly before the death
of General Palmer, which was coused
by being thrown from his horse. The
building contains thirty or more
rooms, and Is being used now as
sanitarium and home for worn out
preachers.
Rev. Mrs. P. M. Maxfield, formerly
pastor of the Alliance A. M. E.
church, has been appointed to travel
In the Interest of the National
Preachers' Home, her home and
headquarters being In Colorado
Springs. She Is in Alliance this
week soliciting funds. The cause is
a worthy one, and It Is apleasure to
note that she is meeting with en
couraging success in her work.
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MRS. FAIRMAH BURIED
3,000 VISITORS HERE
FOR DIG CELEBRATION
Aliance Was I'acked With Visitors
From all Directions for the Rest
Time Ever Had
nary cave cellar.
Mr. Wilson Is strongly in favor o
late planting. He gives it as his opln
ion that late planting tends to eradi
cate potato diseases, and that the
late planted potatoes have bette
keeping qualities than the early
planted, the same varieties being us
ed for both. Last yesr be finished
planting on July 3rd. The samples
brought to The Herald office were
grown fromthls planting
This year Mr. Wilson will go a lit
tie farther with his experimenting In
late planting. While he has his prln
clpal acreage of potatoes for this
year planted, he has four acres of
ground which he Is reserving for thi
later planting. This ground has been
. kept under a state of cultivation t
vr..ntr n.i an., tit.... lii. an., conserve the moisture and have it
inim W- V AS 4S1Hv tbbmsbm m m m. '
m u ,. . .,, . . In good condition for planting when
Mr. Hatetowork, U Blamed for , . . ... ,
the time arrives. This he will plant
tbe IMvty Deed. to ootatoea on or about July 15th.
H. . Drauckeri a cltlien of Alii- Whether that will be too lat to grow
ance. who had been celebrating the a no b . ad tD
glee-rokus Fourth a wee bit too round ,eft c"'d e
much, was taken by some of his 1or Part fthe e"on and the Ino,8-
"frlends" to the alley across from tbe ture Permitted to escape through the
depot at four o'clock Tuesday after-. baK,n of the Kround and tbe Rrowth
noon and quietly but effectively re- of wd"' U 18 u,t certa,n that the
lleved of about twenty dollars In the "d Potatoes might as wll be
coin of the realm. Draucker was thrown W " Pl-nted; but with the
slightly too much under the Influence methods of scientific farming which
of red eye to distinguish who the kind ar blnK UBed ,n ,h Prlment.
gentlemen were, but the evidence ,h6r P"MI"7 ' wop being
leads the police to believe that The result will be watched
wun great interest ny many people
who are Interested In farming In this
country.
Mr. Wilson returned this week
from a trip to eastern and southeast
ern Nebraska. He reports crops good
in that part of the state, but believes
that with right methods of farming
in northwestern Nebraska and crops
adapted to this country, that farm
ing In this parto f the state will pay
better than In the eastern part.
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Mrs. Wm. Del sing came down from
Hemlngford on uJIy Fourth.
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alias
Frank Reed, alias Shanklin,
Mr. Hatetowork, is the culprit.
Reed, a few minutes after the oc
currence, journeyed to a clothing
store, purchased a brand new pair of
white sox. an imitation Panama hat
and a suit of B. V. D.'s. He bad
plenty of money at the time. And In
further confirmation of the suspi
cions of the police, he quietly slipped
from under their surveillance Wed
nesday morning and took to the
country.
Reed was n ixed up several months
a tro In the famous Atlas robbery case
out was rreea arter cnarges were fll- Miss Beatrice Pate went to Angora
ed against him. on account of lack of on Wednesday. She drove from there
evidence. He subsequently worked
out a fifteen days' sentence on the
streets on a vagrancy charge.
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to the home of relatives near Bayard
for a visit.
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W. C. Beaumont and son. Elliott.
l eter Becker returned from Ashby visited In Alliance with Mr. Beau
on Wednesday. He spent the Fourth mont's daughter, Mrs. D. W. Kenner,
at that place. on tn8 fourth.
Twin Sister of Mrs. John J. Rlortlan,
Former Alliance Girl, Buried
Here on Monday
Mrs. Clyde Falrraan, twin sister of
Mrs. John J. Hiordun of Alliance,
formerly Miss Norine llaggei ty of Al
liance, died Friday at the hospital in
Grand Island. She was taken seri
ously ill on Monday of last week.
Mrs. Riordan as called to her bed
side and assisted in the endeavor to
save her slater's life by a transfusion
of blood, but without result.
Mrs. Futriiian was thirty-one years
of age. She was burled in the Cath
olic cemetey at Alliance on Monday.
July 3rd. The funeral services were
conducted by Father Burns of
Scottsbluff, wbo performed the mar
riage ceremony for Mr. and Mrs.
Fairman.
(Among tbe relatives from out of
town for funeral were Mrs. Mulver
hill with her daughter and son, from
Omaha; J. D. Haggerty of Bridge
port; Mr. and Mr. Rolan and family
of Broadwater: Mrs. Wade of Bridge
port; Mrs. King, Sidney, and Charles
Riordan and wife of Lincoln.
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Two Section This Week
Headers of The Herald are requeu
ed to remember that the paer Is
published lu two sections this week.
KmcIi section consists of eight pages,
making a total of sixteen page. Iook
for each section for you will miss in
terefctlng news and valuable adver
tisements if you miss either one.
Alliance Herald
July 4th wasa Hot Day
It is impossible for us to give the
Herald readers tbe exact temperature
these days. The big thermometer,
presented to us by the Froest Lum
ber ompany, withstood the beat until
July 4th. On that day the sun shone
on it and after it reached 120 de
grees it burst the bulb and gave up
tbe ghost. It will suffice to say that
the hot weather continues.
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Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Laiuberaoii
of Lincoln are in Alliance today and
will take train No. 42 for home to
night. They have been visiting rela
tives and friends In the Strasburger
neighborhood in Sheridan county, tbe
past three weeks.
A conservative estimate on the
number of visitors In Alliance from
outside points on Tuesday. Julr
Fourth, for the big free celebration
placed the visitors at three thousand
people. Five thousand Alliance peo
ple Joined them In making merry.
From the sunrise salute at five
o'clock In the morning until the fire
works at the city park at nine o'clock
In the evening the crowd was kept
bsuy and there was not a single word
of dissatisfaction heard during the
entire day.
The program for the day was han
dled by the special committee, con-
listing of oJhn W. Guthrie. Dr. Geo.
Hand, Mayor P. E. Romig, E. O.
Lalng, Walter O. Barnes, Leonard
Pllklngton, and Carter E. Calder,
with the assistance of other patriotic
cltiiens.
The Mitchell band and the Alliance
band furnished the music for the day.
There was music in the air at all
times.
The sunrise salute of twenty guns
was fired under the guidance of
"Dutch" Maunler, a veteran of the
French Revolution. Dutch was
roundly cussed by latesleepers but he
did his duty well and awoke the town
to a fine, warm day with not a
cloud In the sky.
The Alliance volunteer fire depart
ment deserves special credit for their
exhibitions during the day. They
started out with a relay race In which
twelve men took part. The boys
swear that Lloyd Thomas lost twenty
pounds In running the two blocks
but he says that it was only ten
pounds. The winners of the races
are given elsewhere In The Herald
this wek. Immediately after dinner
the fire departmnt gave a demonstra
tion of night alarms fololwed by a
water fight in which six valiant fire
men took part. These boys deserve
much credit for the way they took
punishment. For fifteen minutes
they stood the blows of water thrown
from fire hose with a pressure of
ninety pounds to the square Inch.
Their bodies are black and blue to
day from head to foot, but they pro
vided a crowd of several thousand
with entertainment that many had
never seen before and that caused',
staid farmers to become raving mani
acs for the time being, as they urg
ed their favorites on. The fight waa
declared a draw.
In the afternoon at the city park
the program opened with an Inspiring
address by Hon. V. E. IWlson of
Stromsburg, Nebraska. Mr. Wilson
Is an aole talker and a well posted
man. He held the attention of both
young and old with a speech that the
people of western Nebraska seldom
get to hear.
The fire fighting exhibition at the
city park in the evening and tbe ex
cellent display of fireworks were
both watched by thousands, o The
auto truck made the run from the
city hall to the north end of the park
Ino ne minute and twenty seconds.
Under the direction of Walter O.
Barnes the display of fireworks was
Inspiring.
Winners of prizes during the day
were as follows:
100 yard foot race, open to all, 1st
James Washington, $6.00: 2nd,
James Reynolds, $4.00; 3rd, Ray
Cole. $2.00.
Cow pony race, men and boys, 1st
Harvey Curry, $5.00; 2nd, Bruce
Mallery, $3.00; 3rd, Fred Knapp,
$2.00.
Cow pony race, for girls, 1st,
Pearl Johnson, $3.00; 2nd, Alice Mc
Laughlin. $1.00.
Cow pony race, boys. 1st. Bud
McLaughlin. $5.00; 2nd. M. L. An
derson, $3.00; 3rd, James Under
wood, and John Moscrlpt tied, $2.00.
Pie eating contest, 1st, John Prlch-
ard. $2.00; 2nd, Kenneth Mattox,
$1.00.
Sack race, boys under twelve, 1st,
John Prlchard. $2.00; 2nd. Frank
Hodgklnson. $1.00.
Sack race, boys under fifteen. 1st,
nomer sBrnes, $2.00; 2nd. Lambert
Knlest, $1.00.
Fifty yard foot race, boys under
twelve. 1st, Eddie Dunbar $1.00:
2nd. Walter Myers, ?1.00.
Fifty yard foot race, boys under
fifteen. 1st. Homer Barns, $2.00;
2nd. Victor Martin. 11.00.
Fifty yard foot race, girls under
twelve. 1st, Josephine Wilson, $2.00;
(Continued on page 6.)