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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1916)
The Allianc The Leading Paper of Western Nebraska HERALD 3,000 Copies 16 Pages 2 Sections READ BY EVERT MEMBER NEBRASKA STOCK GROWERS ASSOCIATION. ALL THE NEWS OF ALLIANCE AND WESTERN NEBRASKA OFFICIAL ORGAN NEBRASKA VOLUNTEER FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION. IT REACHES HEADQUARTERS FOR 15,000 FIREMEN VOLUMH XXIII ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1916 NUMBER 43 GREAT CROWD EXPECTED TO HEAR BRYAN FRIDAY Ortml Commoner to Deliver Address Friday Morning at 11 O'clock Ht lironjiaa Corner 3 IS COUNTY AGENT WORK TO BE CONTINUED? Slate and Perioral Aid to Do fllven only When Goiintle Irovlde f 1,200 per Year Hear e. Hear ye. Hear ye. the Honorable William Jennings Bryan, the peerless orator, and groat dem ocratic leader, will speak In Alliance at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning, Fri day, November 3, on the political la mes of the day and on the dry km n Hm Ant. Alliance's distlngulsh- di riiMt la scheduled to arrive on! the train from Denver and will re main in the city until No. 43 departs It Is expected that the visit of the great commoner to Alliance will be enough to attract a great crowd to UBten to his speech and to again meet and shake hands with him. Mr. Bryan will deliver his talk at the Brennan corner, or, In the event of rtelement weather, at the Imperial theatre. From Alliance Mr. Bryan will go U Crawford where he will speak in the afternoon, going from Crawford east on the Northwestern. FRIDAY IS FIRE PREVENTION DAY v "V""" " v. of the county or at least 2(H wnoois. coj"" ""''""-' bor8. which will have local charge of MUDS anil Uiuei uiBamM iiiuo ', ., wr.rU Me elate have been called upon to Ziniti o II In VUOT31 v luio vi t . - i' - - day Is a day when all should think and prepare against the "red plague CUT HIS OWN THROAT Harness Maker Employed at New berry's Cut Ills Throat Wcdnes day Eveiilug Is llecoveriiig - Albert Rejcha. a harness maker employed at Newberry's, attempted to kill hi"" "' dnesday night by He went Into the On election day there will be twen-iv-flvA or more men out seci?" signers to a petition to have anV- county commissioners give cov . ue made attracted other work- aid to the county agriculture .imen. City Thyslclan Dr. C. H. In order to con I Hershman and Officer Wheeler were ' oor of the bulld- ,ue slashing there. The nrovement work. tinue to receive state ana reaerai aia In this work It has become necessary to receive county aid. Few Il&Te Provided Funds Progressive farmers, business and professional men and banks have dug down deep In their pockets and brought up the funds necessary to conduct this work. It has cost mon ey and the whole county has bene fited. If this work Is continued do nations must still be made. This year outside of recent legislative appro priations approximately 16,000 was spent In agricultural Improvement work In Box Butte county. Federal and State Aid The Agricultural Extension Serv ice and the United States Depart ment of Agriculture will contribute $1,200 per year toward maintaining this work In counties as fur as these funds are available. Each county must raise from $1200 to $2000 ad ditional each year and also have a farmers' association, representative at least 200 liiem- called. The cut was sewed up and Rejcha placed in the women's cell In the city hall to recover. Rejcha has been here about a year coming from Lincoln. He has been off for the past two weeks, the sa loons refusing to tell him liquor as long as two weeks ago. He had been hltUDU 11 Up pretty hard. It seems that he had had trouble at some time with a woman he had been living with, but who beat It, leaving him in the lurch. He imagined everyone was talking about her and would wedge his way into a conversation and ask the speakers how they knew about it. An Insanity complaint Is to be filed against Rejcha. mt the lire fiend." to use tno woros at State Fire Commissioner W. S. Ririeell, who endorses it in a bulletin calling attention to the importance f fire prevention day, November 3. Flo backs it up with a proclamation signed by Governor Morehead. This la tho state lire commissioner's amiu- annuai The local funds required can be raised by nn appropriation of the county commissioners in accordance with section 70, revised statutes or Nebraska, 1913, which permits the county commissioners, to make an op- iiroMialion upon petition or ten per cent of tve farm land owners'in the county. It is to secure the required ten per cent that the twenty-live workers will to out on a petition 400 TICKETS SOLD FORM'S GME Oim Thousand Strong KxiM-cted to Witness Allliince-tlwidmn llat tle on Gridiron Friday FMEMEN CELEBRATED Fifty Wild Ducks with Trtmmln' rc- inmed Peacefully Inside of 70 Firemen and VIM tors SIX FREIGHT CARS OVERTURNEDAND DUMPED " c, no1 'he1;;: u; - of property by fire. Mr. Ridgell says the annual lops Work Stands on Its Merit The county agent work is standing its merits alone. there is no . .. . I.. i c i futn . u lira Uke an Merest In way. and means extension department, "it is a public laxe an wieixBi ni . , , oorvt for all the neonle and should ." Of vm preveui w -"'7 h Bunnorted by all the people, I.irL"'" 16.000 spent on apiculture im- S. comerclalbs and won, Provement worln Bo county c,UD8.cttn . .:M ; few In the county, while the remain- tais wora. leiitui-iD , -- Mhools are required by law to give instructions a certain number or. heurs In fire protection. ARRESTED CLAIMS IT IS ALL A MISTAKE J. Carr, alias Arthur Carr. arrest ed by Officer Wheeler the last of the week and wanted by the authorities t Miles City. Mont., was returned to Miles City Saturday. A deputy sher iff arrived in Alliance Saturday from Miles City and returnod with carr. Carr," who is a rallroaa man, was der was obtained from the state and national government. The state and federal department will continue to pay $1,200 per year toward the sup port of the county agent work in Box Butte county ana me naiauce will have to be provided by the county ana by subscription. To Present I'ctition If you believe that county agent work should be coutlnued in Box Butte county and supported by an rather than a few, you are asked to Sinn the petition which will be pre sented to you In a short time. Some UeiioUtj lerivel The following are some of the ben efits to the people of Box Butte direct result or county It Is expected that fully 1,000 per sons will see tho AUlance-Chadron football game at the fair grounds here Friday afternoon. The busl ness and professional men have co operated with the schools in nn ef fort to get the crowd out. with tin result that 4 00 tickets at 25 cents each have been sold to the business men of Alliance for this game. Of ficer Wheeler pulcld tho stunt, and to him great credit is due for en thusiasm shown In co-operating. At Hot Springs last Friday they had some crowd out, the Alliance hunch who went up claiming the whole town was there. And such cheering and yelling and encourage ment! It Is a safe hot that the local team can't work and play the game against odds, winning most of them, all for the pleasure of digging down and paying their own expenses. So the bunch who accompanied the boys to the Springs decided that Alliance should wake up, and the old town has answered. The school children will all be out. A parade of school children will form at the school house about 2:30 in the afternoon and will follow the band down Box Butte avenue to Second street, returning up Box Butte to Fifth, then down Fifth to the fair grounds. The game on Friday should be a regular battle. With a thousand voices to cheer the team on to vic tory. Alliance should not only win nother game but put added vim and enthusiasm In high school athletics. The long expected volunteer flro- men's "duck smoker" was given at the department club rooms at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening, when near ly seventy of the Alliance volunteer firemen and their guests devoured fifty roast wild ducks, with cranber ry sauce, hot sweet potatoes, steam ing hot coffee and other rtlmmin's that made this feast one of the most delicious and unique ever held In the city. Following the hour spent in eat ing, a program of unusual Interest was given. Lloyd Thomas filled the position of toastmaster to say "fill ed the place" is correct now, as Lloyd Is getting fatter every day and after devouring a big roast duck he filled the place, without trouble. Mu sic was beautifully and soulfully rendered from time to time by the double quartet, composed of firemen. Outside of the desire of a few mem bers of tho quartet to quack once In a while they did even better than some famous singers have done. It is Impossible here to give the speeches that were delivered or the stories that were told, but when you read tho following list of speakers those of you who know the men can Imagine the How of oratory that was poured out. Those who spoke were: W. S. Rid- gell of Lincoln, state flro commission' er; Mayor 1. E. Uoniig, fire Chief Leonard Pilklngton, President F. D McCormlck of the fire department, County Attorney Leo Bnsye, Sheriff C. M. Cox, former chief of the de partment, W. O. Barms; Irn E Tash, County Judge L. A. Berry, Councilman E. T. Kibble and others The members of the quartet whose voices lasted until the end of the smoker were: George KM is. (ail Hockey, Wm. Maunler, Call Ainsber ry. liill Edwards and others. Cicars wire plentiful. 1 lie an nouncement that a baby girl had been born to Fireman Elver Bullock and wife, and a baby boy to Fireman Frank Merritt within two hours lime Tuesday afternoon, with the boxes of clears as evidence, brourht forth rousing cherwe. Secretary Percy Rolfson of the de partment read a special ballot which had been prepared and which will In- reproduced In a later Issue. Several straw votes were taken in a spirit of fun, resulting In some surprising re turns. Broken Brake Benin Cause of De railment ou Hurling um hatur um Irauiv 'lied up Six freight cars were overturned Saturday morning at Uirdsell siding, east of Alliance, when a brake beam came down, causing the derailment ot a portion of No. 4s, west bound, on the C. 11. & U. Several lengths of rails were torn up and a number of the cars so smashed that U was necessary to destroy them. Conduc tor J. W. Coleman was In charge oi the train, with Engineer C. B. Ulb son In the cab. About half the tram had passed when thetroubleoccurred. The ursl the engiuomen kuew that anything ha4 occurred was when the air went ou". A banana train, east bound, was lauding on the siding waiting for No. 48 to pasB. Tho first of the cars to leave the track bumped Into tue engine and proceeded to suae up wards. The crew, with the exception of tue engineer. Jumped. The ban ana traiu was lu charge of Conductor U T. WallUers, wilU uginour A. A. UoboiuB lu the cab. Four curs of lumber and two curs ot coal were unved up together on he truck and along the embankment. as the result ot the derailment of iNo. 48. The main line was blockuu about nine hours. The scene of the wreck wuu visited by many duriug the duy. l'usenugers on trains tied up on either sido of the wreck were transferred. FINFI AND COSTS KOII ATTKMITKD ASSAULT 1 1 t r u a a in the act of applying for work at the I A t work during the past one and Burlington omces wnen ue waa n.haif years: rested by Officer Wheeler. Ihe or- . UroUKllt aDOut a better spirit Iglnal message came irom cukcuiuui nrt rhareed felony. It seems thai Carr bad been at Edgemont nut len there for this city in company with DRYS PREPARE AGAINST ILLEGAL VOTING l Lie: i CJ tui i. mi. -a fl pro!) ttU his wife. The Edgemont authorities ' . between improvement organizations of the county. 2. Demonstration and udoptiou oi and live stock improvement on learning of his destination imme- Hlatplv communicated with the loca: authorities and the arrest was made nromntlv. Mr. and Mrs. Carr arrived in the city Wednesday of last week ana pu: uo at a local hotel, ue claims 10 u a brakeman and disclaims any knowledce of the reason he wa; wanted in Miles City, asserting thai it must be a mistake. Admitting thai he has not held any one Job for an .Trout leneth of time, he explains in- use of the name Arthur Carr here in- otpud of J. Carr as an enort to maK it harder to trace his railroad record Carr was perfectly willing to return m Montana without the necessity of securing a requisition for him and aeMimnanled the olluer out or Alli ance Saturday without any trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Green of Ha Springs were in the city Tuesday with their children, visiting Mrs Green's brother. Dr. George J. Hand. and mother, who is making her home with the doctor. Cark J. Mowry, a farmer livlnc nar Minatare. and Addie M. Kaash and Girls' home and 3 Conducted "get together tours for the study of better farming meth- nitjl i M-.intiilned a Farmers .x chaiitte. r, Movable Farmers institutes. 6. Secured and assisted with soil oirv.w. ( Will stand for all time.) 7. Farm management surves. ror tuiiv of farm business and resulted in showlne that the security of In vestment and loaning was as good as any. 8. Established uoys Club Work bringing Hrhool toeether. Movement for better homes, better schools and hotter social con ditions. 10. Assistance in marketing A leading part in securing the co-oper-.tinn nf the Office of Markets and rfnral Oreanlzation and dally assist an rendered in the issue of the po ., hiiietin or tne warpi .-cwo c!rir. it was estimated at the MM,her 27 meeting of the Box Butte County Farmers' Association that as result of this service tne gruwrro this county had receivea .u cem i-a k. rvnr.iv in.ii I. A I kmhci more with an average WVIV umi .icu . 1 1" ' -- . n r. i v.l. Berry Saturday. The happy couple yield this year or aooui ou uubuc. ,,. were acompanied to Alliance by potatoes per acre it would amount to Mary Siminany and Kay Mowry, ineiover xioo.uou, a sum uuic.cl latter a brother of the groom. I support the local expense or county l agent worn in uox uuiw cuum Walter Jones, district iramc man- aeer of the Nebraska Telephone Co. of Grand Island, and George Hughes, cable foreman of the Grand Island fifty years. KUMMFJUS MAKING TRIP a .Annul man whn In making good district, are in the city today on . who frleina. wist, him contln- company business. I a .ni-rMa u J. E. Summers of ()maha. who Is with the well-known Mr Al lance n...u anawntant hinu SVimman I .'"Df". The Nebraska Telephone Company 'T' "u,ur ttrm of M ,. doing .considerable cable work In SvSVZl city All a nee mis wee-.. L.um i - Ko. K -nVBrnB wontern from the office to the new Mc- - " "territory Donald apartment nouse 0"J w th G J Appleberg. the well-known Sam Williams of Grand Island will I r0B'K a r Mr have charge of this work. toi maSe many friend. r k. A gharM.n iintf I durlnr the Dast months while In this j .i- ...hih.i. for MimtTl iiMHlon of the state. He was In the commissioner, was in the city the city today, going east to Ellsworth. vigorous campaign for election and Conductor Hageman and family of the fact that he Is well fitted for the Sterling and formerly of Alliance office, as well as being an "old timer" I stoned off between trains on their wlU undoubtedly count in ni ravor. return .rou. . There will be no illegal voting at the election next week if the Box Butte County Dry Federation can prevent it. The federation has ap propriated funds to carry out plans whereby the polls are to be watched and a thorough supervision kept to see that no questionable practices are indulged In. It Is proposed to se cure the arrest and push the prose cution of any and all who attempt il legal voting. J Posters, offering a reward of Z5 for the arrest and conviction, or in formation leuding to the arrest and onvlction of an Illegal voter, have been ordered and will be posted, It is stated. Each polling place In the Alliance precincts and Iike precinct will be provided with challengers and an effort is expected to be made to have a police officer at each vot lng place. SIM'OXD OF SKKIKS OF COXCFltTS ON SUNDAY The second of the series of month ly concerts will occur next Sunday af ternoon at the Christian church at 4 o'clock. This concert consists of the music of France, preluded by a short talk on the rise of the French school. One of the important fea tures of the concert is a song writ ten during the twelfth century, sung by Miss Eunice Burnett. This song well illustrates the early French school. Program Orlando: Hear My Prayer Miss Burnett. Massenet: Mechiatlon (Thais) Mr, Unlacke. D'Albert: Gavotte ( Suite In D) Mrs. Zedlker. Old French: My Marguerite Massenet: Elegie Miss Burnett Franck: Movement de Sonate Mr Unlacke. Venetian Barcarolle Mrs. Zedlker. Thomas: Titanla (Opera Mignon) Miss Burnett. Chas. F. Kroll. living In Hills ad ditlon, was found guilty Tuesday of atempted assault upon Mrs. Chris tina Deyson and fined 25 and coats a total of about $39. The trial was held before Judge L. A. Berry In the county court. The trouble occurred on August 26. The Deysons nt that time were living In a house belong lng to Kroll and locuted next to the one In which Kroll lived. The little three-year-old daughter of the Dey sons had been pumping water in a playful way from a well used by both families in common. I his so anger ed Kroll that he frightened the child with a chicken he bad been cleaning holding it to the child's face. Then rouble started. Mrs. Deyson was in a delicate condition at tho time an the shock caused by the threatened assault caused her to collapse after reaching the house. SIXTY RIDE WAGON ON HALLOWE'EN Lloyd Thomas and Dr. George Hand made a trip to Hay Springs on Wednesday of this week la Dr Hand's big King "eight" auto. Lloyd was campaigning and the doctor had business requiring his attention. Dr. W. J. Mahaffy returned from Omaha Sunday where he atended a dentist meeting and also attended to some personal potlneM. , SIKAWS SHOW WHICH WAi THW WIND 11LOWS GREAT DRY PARADE AND RALLY SATURDAY Hand Will llay Children Orownupe to March lU Drxn onetmUvn ami Progi.uo J. A. Luttrell, well-known Alliance traveling man, and Dr. Joseph Jeu rey, ia company with other men, took a straw vote ou train number 1J. the westbound through train, this noon. Ihe vote was made oy ballots, which The Herald has in the oiiiee. resulted as loiows: For president Wilson, i; lluuhes. 17. For U. S. senator iiiuiiioik. 18: Kennedy. &. lor governor Nevilel, 12; button, 8; bievcns, i. The larger number of votes ror president wus because of the rati ihat many oi the passengers are res idents outside of Nebrasaa. Anoth er Bigniticaiit fact is thut all of the Hughes votes were in the i'uuman cars, except two. hi I Fill l AN MAN 11FJII0 George S. Peters, of Hay Springs, Sheridan county candidate for coun ty assessor, is in the city today, stop ping over on his way to campaign in southern Sheridan county. Mr. Pet ers wus formerly editor and publish er of the Hay Springs NewB and huB a wide acquaintance over his county. lie is making an energetic campaign and is confident that he will bo suc cessful in next Tuesday's election. His experience In ihe pust In assess ment work In Sheridan county cer tainly Ills him well for the place which he Is seeking. The Box Btte County Diy Feder ation Is planning a great dry demon stration and parade for Ruurday of this week. The band will play. Children and grownups will marc. There will be banners gulo: Fol lowing the street parade, which In scheduled to start at 2 o'clock Satur day afternoon, there wll bio dry rally at the opera house wliu mu sical program that, Judging from tho program, will be well worth listen -lng to. A namber of speeches art scbedulod to be given by prominent people of the city. All organisations planning In march In tbe parade are requested to meet at tbe court nouBe at 1:80 Sat urday to receive banners and be as signed their places In the line of march. Folowtng is the program for the parado and rally: lilmvnp of Dry Federation Parade Marshal T. II. Barnes. Band. v Ministers. Teachers, Primary Department Mrs. C. C Smith. Intermediate Department F. A. Cross. Young men and young women -Dr. T. W. Sponcer. W. C. T. U. Fraternal Organisations. Dry Federation J. J. Vnnce. Parade will enter the opera hou at 3 and be treated to tho following program: 1 Male Quartet--America. (Everyone stand and Join In singing.) Invocation Hev. Layton. Address Mayor Horn I g. Music. Address W. C. T. II. Heading Mrs. Hay Stansbury. Campaign Chorus, Dry Clean Nebr aska, Everybody. Heading Mm. M. M. Tleynolda. C orun, Tlpperary Everybody. Add roes Dean Shaw. Address Woman's Club. Quartet. Benediction Hev. Mclntyre. Song, Nebraska's Going Dry Even -body. Tuesday night was Hallowe'en Bunches of boys and girls were seen here and there, running, snickering, yelling and all making a concerted effort to do something. The local police had provided against any emergency and besides having Chief Jeffers aud Officer Wheeler on the Job, rive extra men were detailed to .watch proceedings. A motor truck was put into play and some sixty of the younger generation of the city given a Joy ride to the station, at various times during the evening. Taken all in all. hallowe'en was quiet. No damage was done save to the usual Innumerable outhouses No comnlalnts were received. The auto truck brought in several differ ent tribes of hallowe'enites. They were detained In tbe front room at the notice station for a couple of hours and then allowed to go home Mayor Romlg gave the youngsters a talking to, telling them to have all tbe fun they could but to be careful and not destroy property. Tbe football team was out full force Intent on pulling a scorcher. but the big hand of tbe law came down on them and they rode In the wason. At the station they were turned Into the cooler and left there to meditate for some two hours, when they all promised to be good and go home. They were turned out and went home to the tune, "We didn't get home until morning." No trouble was experienced after 11 o'clock and but very little all ev ening, owing to the fact that the of ficers kept after them so persistent ently that the boys and girls were afraid to go even a little beyond the limit. Considerable soap was used on windows both down town and In the resident section. Tick-tacks and other apparatus were used to a great extent. HAISF.D F.At Flit. ENT lOTATOEN J. J. Keenen, a former Alliance business man, now living with bis family on their ranch near the city, has brought to The lieruld office forty-live potatoes which weigh fifty-six pounds. Mr. Keenen und sons have raised a good uiany hundreds of bushels of excellent potatees this year and wished to show us what real cood snuds look like. Mr. Keenen was offered $1.30 per bushel for the 700 bushels which he has left from this year's crop but has refused this price. A hi. I A NCE KirnitN iAM K TAKI.N AWAY WET SPEAKER FRIDAY The folowlng notice has been handed to The Herald for publica tion: V. H. Newbert Here Friday Hear tbe Stale Official of Main tell bow tbe Statuary Prohibition has failed of Its intended purpose In the- Plne Tree State; how It has not abol ished the liquor traffic; how. It ban not shut out tbe saloon; how It baa not kept men sober; how it has not safeguarded solcety; how it has not removed the temptation from the boys and young men nor Irsened tho drink habit. The speaking will b'i at the Opera House Friday nigh. November 3. at 8.15 P. M. Sharp. iU'ltlJNGTON HAH AM, THAT IT t'AX IIANDLIC After putting up a stiff battle, the Alliance high school football eleven lost the game played at Hot Springs Friday to the Hot Springs team by a score of 6 to 0. 'Ihe local boys seemed unable to get to work light at the start and It was during tbe hrst three minutes of play that the name was lost. On the toss the Hot springs team was fortunate and chose the Bouth uoal where they had the advantage of a down-hill run. Before the home boys knew what had hapened the enemy had made a touch down. How ever, they did not make good at the goal. Then realizmg what had trans pired the Alliance bunch iignteneo un and nut up a pretty scrap. Suc cessful forward passes were worked by both elevens. Sensational end runs by Lotspeich were tne oruer oi the day, as In the game played here the preceding Friday, uutier anu Fenning found It an easy matter to Ket away. While the Alliance boys played great ball after the Brst three minutes of the game tney couiu not get near enough to the goal through out the balance of tne game. Owing to the failure of Captain Davenport to return from Omaha In time. Fenning acted as captain. This broke up the back formation in tne field and considerably weakened the defense. Edwards, who was Injured the week previous, was compelled to go In and play end while Butler took Ralls' olace as full. These ana oin er changes together with the bard trio there, were bound to make a an ference. Donovan was taken out near the end of tbe game, injured, which made another change in tbe line. Hot Springs made a grand to tal of 161 yards during the game while Alliance made ISC. Tbe C. B. Q. is enjoying tb t greatest volume of business In It history right at this time, according to a statement made by A. V. Gavin, chief dispatcher, today. From all Indications there will be no let ui for some time to come. It Is report ed that the Northern Pacific and (treat Northern are choked up with loads to be delivered to the Burling ton, while the coal mines are doing x. rush business. The regular freight. business is also exceptionally strong lO a K STUDENTS' KECITAL ON Tlll'ltSDAY EVENING The Alliance School of Music will have a students' recital Thursday ev ening at Reddish hall: an He Water: Apart Mrs. A. I Bundy. Koeper: Biackie Cecil Weldenham- er. Gypsies Thelina Iarson. Andrews: Tbe Call May (i-iham. Kroeger: The Goblin Vera Lowry. (a) Vogel: Thru Field and Forest; (b) Behr: Ueverln Flora Spencer Duucla: Walt Leon Alter. Becker: Dialogue Helen Woods. Eva Del Arqna: The Swift Swallow Mrs. A. F. Bundy. Feysinger: Woodland Sprites Etb- elwyn Ellis. Weber: Tyroliemie Weiss: Folk Song Elizabeth Wilson. Cecelia Phfliis Thompson. The new road between Alliance and Antloch is now In good shape. Mrs. Lloyd Thomas on Tuesday purchased tbe residence property it 915 Box Butte avenue from W. 8 Ilidgell of Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs Thomas expect to move into their new home within a few days. O. O. Buck, who recently sold tb Newman Grove Reporter, was her Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday, looking after land which he own near town. He called at tbe Heral I office and inspected the Herald plant After looking over the plant he com plimented the office highly, says thut. here could be found everything that is needed to operate a first clan- plant. Mr. Buck was so impress t with tbe condition of tbe country, tbe crops, etc.. that be Is figurine en buying more land near here. R. A. Cooksey, of Centervllle, Ia . visited with Mr. Mahaffy at the Br lington storehouse Tuesday. II wan on his way to Scottsbluff.