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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1917)
Leading Newspaper of Western Nebraska The Alliance Kcicald READ BY EVERY MEMBER NEBRASKA STOCK GROWERS ASSOCIATION. ALL THE NEWS OP ALLIANCE AND WESTERN NEBRASKA OFFICIAL OROAN NEBRASKA VOLUNTEER FIREMEN'S ASSO CIATION. IT REACHES HEADQUARTERS FOB TlMIREMBN 12 Pages 1 Section VOLUME XXIV mi l HIGHLANDERS MET HERE TUES. reinvention of District No. 7 Held in Grand Secretary Sftarj"' in Attendance ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA.MAY 17. 1917 NUMBER 24 OKDKR IMS I N I 1 1 1 I MM ltl Itolegali to Grniid Iodg;e ApMintcd lianquet Seized at Alliance Hotel Tuewlay I vening Delegates from over district No. 7 ol the Highlanders mot in Alliance Tuesday In convention. District No. 7 is made np of the western portion of Nebraska, the eastern part of Wy oming and the southern part of South Dakota. Hon. V. E. Sharpe of Aurora, Neb., grand secretary of the Highlanders, was present with the delegation. The grand lodge now has jurisdiction in SOW TtCCD states. One of the fea tures of the convention was the ad dress made by Grand Secretary Sharp, who for a period of an hour held the closest interest of all, while he told the story of how. in the last twenty-two years, the Highlanders had made one of the most enviable records of any insurance order. Mr. Sharpe explained that the order has thirty thousand members and a re serve fund of $2,000,000. Entire satisfaction and hearty appreciation was expressed to the worthy supreme protector and secretary of the order for their good management of the order's business. The business session was called to order promptly at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon by Grand Secretary F. K. v Sharpe. The regular routine order! of business was gone through. Clans- j men A. D. Rodger of Alliance and j K. L. Tierce of Hemingford were ap pninted a cominiiiee to draft resolu tions. They prepared resolutions which were submitted to t-ho conven tion. Altflf the resolutions were dis posed of delegates to the grand lodge , were at act ad, terminating in thai election of Mrs Abbey Lcithoff of Crudwnrd. Nebr . as di legate, and Joseph Giles. If. i Newport. Ncbr.,j ns alternate, A period of lit -us;,uM! was ii:duig-! e.i ttl , Wli'ldl wwMw helpfulj- jo : 11 present. Kv . ry'oitc wt, highly en-1 thusisstic over the record of the or-' der and all predicted great advance ment for the Highlanders during the coming year. When the business session of the convention was completed the del) cation was escorted to the Alliance hotel where enjoyed ;i bounteous dinner, such as Landlord Miller knows how to prepare for occasions of this character. The only trouble reported during the entire conven tion occurred at this time. II. F. Davis, organizer for tlx Highland ers, was so enthusiastic over the ex cellent condition of the organization at the present time that it was found hard to keep him down until the din ner was finished. Following the dinner Grand Secretary Sharpe led the delegation to the imperial thea tre, Where the balance of the everting was enjoyed. Charles V. J Offer of Alliance was secretary of this session of the grand lodge, district No. 7. Senior Class of Alliance High School r, . , . - i i i i .' . J . jtHfr PLANS COMPLETED FOR NEW HIGHWAYS (Jood Hoads Ihtoeters of Panhandle MM In Crawford Wednesday and Decided on Connecting Points (Photo by Van Graven Studio.) Reading Left to Rigfat : Martha Shaw, Donna LaHoda, Neva Howe, Rose Cartoon, Wat. Pullman, Oral Harvey, Dolly Haaman. Eleanor Harris, Matilda Prankle, Teresa Morrow, bora Coker, Nina Whaloy, sfabli Oraataian. Hugh Davenport, Thelma Pitspairick, Otto Snyder. Florence Atg, John WrightBdith Vanderwark, Dewey Donovan, Davi.l Purinton, Grace Carhto'n, Niiui Whaley. CONVENTION HERE IN 1918 Atnte Convention of Commercial Clubs to tc Held at Omaha Nci Week Instead of Here sniE kcuuimv COMMENCEMENT tnat tow: S ft m Contestants 1'uilcd to Arrive Venter day Postponed I " til Thurs day evening THK CHAXGi: WAS i: I.SSAH Convenlion Date luid Cousci ill ion Meeting Called by Governor at 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 i Are I lie Same SHUMWAY AND POOL VISIT ALLIANCE Hecrctar.v ot Stale and Stall- Com mlsslnner of I'nhlic Irftuds and Uuildings Here H I -. state Land Commissioner !. L. Bhunrwsy Charles W yest entay connected lices. Tin pan with Uraban n Hid Secretary ot Slate Pool wore In Alliance (Wednesday) on business with their respective of- t I. si a ' e uiiii urs in ooni- .lohn o'Keefe and Robert ade an uutn'unbile trip In to the country to view certain state lands. Roqussts have been uiHde to purchase certain school lands The county commissioners first appraise the land, not under $7 an acre, ac GOrdiDI 10 lav The state land com missioner then views it and if, in his estimation i the price s a fair one the sale s made, otherwise the t retina' Hob is blocked. Hot h Mr Sh urn way and Mr. Pool are Western Nebraska men Mr ghumwsj Is from Bcottsbluff and Mr. 'ted from tlyspuls. Secretary of Slate Pool is being i st.d by bis friends for COB KT COS man from this district to replace Moses Kinkaid. Mr. Pool is one of the most popular men in the district and was RiVeg the largest individual vote in the slate at the last election Hntii gentlemen are efleienl ottn- ials and western Nebraska may well be proud of having such men at the bead oi i mms department of state government Captain Jack Miller received a tel. gram this afternoon stating Ihul i apt. i in Wallace Mould l- in Alli ance Smulay to muster lu PORJ i. ln- is ibe liital step. ComMiuy G b lo fx- muercd into Ihe federal service. Misses Mam- and EliXSbeth Mulch lett Wednesday for Minutare to vlsi' with their mother The annual stale convention of As sociated Commercial Clubs of Nebr aska which was to have been held in Alliance on May 24 and 25 will be held in Omaha on those days. The Change is made because of the con servation congress to be held at Om aha on May 22. 23, 24 and 2.V Many of the delegates W MM convention here are also deleaates to the meet ings in Omaha. It was thought best in view of the fact to hold the meet ings at the same time. ' Governor Pleased Secretary liushuell is in receipt of a letter from QovertMf Neville in which the governor says: 'Permit me to assure you at mi deep appre ciatoin of the line spirt! which prompted the Alliance Commercial Club to aid in the conservation meet ing at Omaha. Kindly convey' to your association my personal grati fication ut the attitude tbejr have ai sinned in this matter." Here In MUM John W. Steinhart. president f the Nebraska Slate Association ol Commercial Clubs, ha a letter to Sec retary BtlShneU, sa la part' "We wil) siari our meetings Thursday morning adjourn for the afternoon and evening (treeter meeting and then again on Friday hold our full lay's meeting, taking such action and adopt in;' tueh measures as deemed nacriaaiin In order tt ilo our part in currying on the work decided upon at the conservation meeting. Please ax press to your members my sincere regret at our being una Die to meet ai Alliance and that th meeting will go on record tor its 191.1 meeting at Alliance Let us trust that the war cloud will have disappeared by that time." The following haVe been appoint ed to represent the Alliance Com mercial Chtb and the city of Alliance ut the convention ol Nebraska Coni ineicial Clubs and the i onset at ion mn" nt- called by the uovernor H. II bUShOeil, Jr.; C. A. Ncwberiy. I en. ii Orahatn, pred Seidell. and Lloyd C Thomas The slate declamatory contest which was to have been held in Alli ance last evening will be held to night (Thursday) instead, owing to the fact that the contestants could not get here. Two. bridges were out on the Burlington and all trains were delayed. Oral Harvey of Alli ance who won nrat place In the dis trict contest will be u contestant. The contest Will be held ut the P he tan opera house tonight. Tick ets that were purchased for the con test Wednesday night are good for the contest to be held this evening, as it is the postponed contest The following will take part: Thou Shalt Not Steal" William Mcllrlde, Red Cloud. "The New South" George K Clark. Ieigh. "Touissaint L'Ouveiture" Oral Harvey, Alliance. "A Call to Arms" Hugh Arnold. Aurora. . "Baptised la Blood Grace Station, Weeping Water. "The New South" .lames Patterson, Itushville. Seigor Of lligli School I... ide ates PrMoj Night P.ighth tirade BkOffvlsea Thursday A Hern. Al.l.MNI HANotIT SAI1HIA RfCfUfjjiition )a for Seniors Monday Ncincstei i;inliiHltons in lie Held Coming Week Tin- close of schools for the al hand The starts Saturday the Alliance public school year is neat Unishing-up week evening with the al held ;:l Ihe high BURLINGTON GRANTS TEN PEH CENT RAISE All Kmployc of System Keeotvlag under o Monthly, l.v.cpuiie ICecently liaised, Hem-titled Barllngton employes, of whom there are sex.ial hundred at Alli snce, w.-re hi uc li gratified to learn this morning that they had been granted a voluntary flan of ten per rent on their wages by the railroad. This raise a fleets all employes with the exception of those receiving 2G0 or more per month, railroad teeK raphert, who are now negotlatlni for an increase which will undoubt edly be granted in part at least, tin men who were raised by the taking effect of the Adamson eight-hour law and those who have been raised in salary since March 31. ' The taice-a month pay day, under the new state law. will take cffsel on July 25. si Mt m class PLAY HAW. i. hi: at HI I HAiiv ;ikl no -s I l I i I . II.L.M ss Mary lane, six-mont hs-old daughter of Mr und Mrs. Charles Hill, die dTues.lay afteriuxin about 6 o'clock, following a three weeks' ill ness. Funeral services were held at he home thin morning at 10 o'clock C. A. Jones left for Chicago Sa- uruay . "The Committers" presented ut tin Imperial Thursday evening, May 10. by the senior class of Ihe Alliance high school, was a success from ev ery standpoint The play was pre seated in a manner that rel ! great credit on the cast themselves, on the school, and on the able roeeb, Prof T It. Crawford It might tru ly be said that The Commiiiers" us S reseated by the senior class was one of the best home talent productions e.-r witnessed Is Alliance Thomas Kelly arrived Saturday morning for .. two weeks' visit with Norman McCrkle umni banquet to h school gymnasium. The Baccalaureate exercises foi the Senior class will be held Bundaj evening. May Jft, a the PUelafl op era house. II J. Young, pastor of th Christian church, will preach tlie sermon. The iirogram is ns follows Piano solo Mrs. Ponath: vocal solo Mr. Guthrie; Invocation Ret. Layton; trombone quartet; Bible leading Itev. Cams; male quartet; sermon- Itev Young, vocal solo Mrs. Ithein, benedi.ti.n Desta Shaw. Uecognition day will b. h.ld Mm, day morning in the assembly loom at the high school. These are cxer. is es at which the Seniors w-Hr their caps and gowns and are recognized as Seniors SOsdf lor -ladualion. The exercises nr.- formal iii nature, lass I h) Program Tsiewdst Tu.sday Stsntug the class day jiro grsai will be given in the high school issembly room Admission, while free, will be by ticket only Tickets are secured from members of the Senior cas. Tuesday und Wednesday the sev enth and eighth grade examinations will be held Wednesday and Thurs day semester examinations will b" heJd The eighth grade examlns iions are held .early because the eighth grade graduation sserrlses are hi-H Thursday Kiglttb Grade Kv.nis.. The eighth grade graduation sger eiSSS Will be held al the I'helan op era house Thursday afteriioon at 2 :!ti o'clock This is a combined eighth grade graduation for city and country schools. The follow inc pro gram will be given Choi us, Spring Time -F.ighth grade students; invo cation Rear, Cams; piano solo La- Rhsa Laos; Address County .ttor ney C. g Itadcliffe of Sidney ; piano solo VenUS Kllis; pres. illation of diplomas; violin" solo Rtlsahetb Wilson; chorus.- Summer Ktgblh grade students; benediction senior Graduation I'ridav The Senior graduation will be held Friday evening. May J."., stun ing at :1S, at the Pri. Ian opsn house The following is the iiro gram Vocal quartet; invo.ut on It.-v Black, piano sob) Miss Bowman address Dean Charle Fordycc of the Cniverslty of Nebraska; preseni ation of diplomas; vocal solo Mi Burnett; benediction Doas Shaw Oood-ronds boosters, representing Box Butte. Dawes und Sioux counties met In Crawford Wednesday and definitely decided on the plans for the new federal aid highways which are to be constructed In this psrt of Nebraska, beginning this summer. The main points decided were on the points of connection between the counties on the lnter-county high ways. The Northwestern highway, through Dawes and Sioux counties, will connect neat the railroad west of Crawford; the Burlington high way, running through Box Butte and Dawea counties, will connect near the railroad west of Ma island, the Black Hills highway, through Box Butte and Dawes counties, will con nect north of Alliance near Pun lap Present st the meeting were Wm. Fosket, S. A. Grimes, w: L. Clark. C. H. Burleigh, K. L. Pierce and Charles Shlndler of Hemingford: John Blundell, Pnrl Hyde. H. B. Cof fey, Ray Tlcrnoy and J. F. Lawrence of Chadron; Ssm Swlnbank, Geo. B. Oordon. C. E. Lelthoff, J. W. Bur leigh and C. A. Minn irk of Crgwford; Cyrua O. Werta, Robert Harrison and G. B. Will of Sioux county; 8. W. Thompson, EL M. Bushnell, Jr., George Darling, 0. M. Looney and Lloyd Thomas of Alliance. Cyrus O. Werts of Harrison wns appointed road chairman for Sioux county by President Bushnell. The following resolution was adopted by the meeting nnd copies ordered sent to the commissioners of the counties and published in the newspapers : Itesolutlon Whereas, the roads of the pan handle of Nebraska, on which the counties have expended money to properly grade, are this spring In bad condition, Inrg'dy been use suf ficienl attention has not been paid to their drainage and upkeep; be it Itesolved, that this meeting. r p resenting the counties in said dis trict, earnestly recommend to the Commissioners and road representa tives that ih. y plan lo properly drain such roads so that mudhotes will not be found ; and be it Resolved, that we recommend to aid county boards that graded roada which are now in such condition be dragged at the earliest possible op poriiiuiiy. ami that a confer. -p. plan pf run i dragging be evolved in each county for future guidance. We believe that land values are affected by Rood roads, ami we con gratulate the state upon (he splendid new road law. whereby the manage ment of roads can be central 1 ted in a county superintendent of roads. We recommend Lbs! tip- provision of in, law be taken advantage of. We I, Iteve thai federal sid la building state and county roads win bs of mutual beneSt. K. L PIERCE, LLOYD THOMAS. i 'ouimi! tee, itox Butte county commissioners are bosaa severely criticized for their apparent failure to give any atten tion to graded roads in the county, Many miles of graded roads ure al most impassible through lack ol SI lentlon sod vehicles find it oecessar to travel along the fences rather than on the traded road A delega tion of Box Butte citizens planned I visit to ih.- commissioners udsj sod ask that tome attention be given to these roads. It is reported that Commissioner Uhria ol Hemingford started work on the roads in the north end Pi the QOttnt) bui that he wns stopped by the other commis sioners. 1'nless the commissioners of this counts do something more than merely "inspect" the roads and get down lo real road ork ii is probable thai tin y may be called on the carpet ' by indignant auto own ers and farmers who wish to ge some use oul of the county graded roads T. P. A'S TO ORGANIZE TRAINING COMPANY Meeting Calleil for Saturday Men of aii Ages episi, PawtsrsdU arlv 'nnM' Over :lO I fairs Post M T. P A . is planning to or ganize a Volunteer Citizens Training Company, the purpose of which Is obvious. They expect to enlist in this iiuotficial organization all the T. P A s of whatever age. but es pecially those above the age of coll scrlptbsn, or in other words, those over V,.. years of age. They are al so Interesting in membership other men of the city. Boy C, Strong, secretary of the local post, has notified all members of Post M. by letter, stating the in tentions ot the organization und ask ing their presence at the organiza tion meeting to be held si the city hall Saturday evening of this week, at 8 o'clock Miss ai Kuhll. of Heinlligford . was in toe n Tuesday. John O'Keefe wns al Hemingford the last of the week oil business ALLIANCE AT THEJOTTOM Seven Recruits Accepted Here First Ten Days of Month Total for Ihe District Was 1167 WILL hoi 1 1 PATRIOTIC PARADH 1'oetma.ster GraJuun Also Recruiting Officer Will Give Recruit the 9ti Ho Will Receive According to an announcement tnsde by Captain James F. McKlnley, recruiting officer In charge of the re cruiting stations in the Omaha dis trict comprising all of Nebraska and the western half of Iowa, out of a totsl of 1167 enlistments accepted in the district during the first ten days of the present month, Alliance supplied a total of seven. Officials take note of the fact that Alliance raised a company of the national guard which In a short time will be on duty the same as a com pany of the regular army and also that over a hundred recruits have been received from the Alliance sta tion since the first of the year, yet nevertheless, officials feel thst Alli ance Is not doing her best. The re port shows the accepted recruits from the stations In the district from Muy 1 to May 10, Inclusive, as fol lows: Omaha. 268; Des Molnos. 247; Lincoln, 1916; Sioux City, 110; Ft. Dodge, la., 70; Marshalltown, la.. 60; Grand Island, Nebr., 59; Hast ings. Nebr., 23; Norfolk, Nebr.. 21: Beatrice, Nebr.. 13; Alliance, 7. A total of 1164. Alliance at Disadvantage Alliance is at a disadvantage ow ing lo the fact that, this stntion hae not the territory to draw from that, the other Htutions have. It is prob able that more recruits could be ae 00 red If recruiting officers visited many of the other western Nebras ka loWUB, Postmasters are recruit ing officers, but as a rule they aro not as elllcient as a regular officer. Postmasters afa paid $.r for every re cruit received. Postmaster Robert fjrghsm states i hat to every recruit thin applies t( him for enlistment, and srho is ac cepted, he will give the $r he re ceives for enlisting hlui. l'o:t nun tor Graham says thai be does not waul the money for himself nnd is glad be aide 10 give the recruit tin 6 to help him slot Captain Writes Mayor . Centals McKlnle) wrots td Minor W. K Knusey this week stlggCHtin" that the sei v ices of the local band or a life and drum corps bfl secured to aid In the recruiting work in Alli ance. S. rueant Charles II. Month. In charge of Ihe legal office, had S mil i.i.ic with the mayor yesterday with the result that it is planned to have patriotic parades in Allium. from time to time. The parade will consist in the main of the local bund, regular army officers stationed her.-, and the recruits accepted at the lo cal station. Tin- recruits will carry banners reading. ' A' an doing our bit. Are you?" and "I have enlisted. What are you going to do," etc. The letter addressed to Mayor RoUSey and written b) Captain Mc Killley is as follows: His Honor, the Mayor, AH UUS e. Nebraska. Ii.ar Sir: The immediate duty im posed upon all patriotic citizens is to assist in the iceruiting of the army 10 IhS full war strength The War Hcpartiutnl believes that this should be done within thirty days after th passage of the army bill now befot" congress. Indications are that this bill will pass within the next two or ilir... days. Ths gUOtg for the Omaha recruit ing district, which comprises all of Nebraska and western half of Iowa, with a population d J.tU'..Ml0. is 1110, I'p to and including May 1". lift men have boon enlisted from this district. To accomplish tola task set forth by the War Depart ment the number of enlistments ob tfcined in this district uiust averag" Ml per day for each working day of the coming mouth. The army is a democratic institu tion depending upon a volunteer sys tem and those R'efl vHtteteering for IhS army should be proportionate in the population just as other conting ents later will be raised on the prin ciple of universal military service; thst is. men mill be selected in each county in proportion to its popula t ion. Will you not take it upon your s. if to personally see that Alliance makes the pre per resonse to this patriotic rail for young men to en list. Men should prepare themselves now to help train the great army to be raised for the prosecution of the war Kverv young man has an Op portunity now to show his patriotism, in go to West Point, or obtain a com mission if he so desires, and a chance to be a RKAL MAN Lsl it be known hat the services of the young men enlisting In the United states army now will be required to serve during the period of the present emergency only. I am going lo a.-k the newspaper in the large cities throughout Iowa and Nebraska to publish each ten (Continued on page 12)