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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1917)
Leading Newspaper of Western Nebraska The Alliance Hek d 16 Pages 2 Sections READ BT EVERY MEMBER NEBRASKA STOCK GROWERS ASSOCIATION. ALL THE NEWS OF ALLIANCE AND WESTERN NEBRASKA OFFICIAL ORGAN NEBRASKA VOLUNTEER FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION. IT REACHES HEADQUARTERS FOR 16,000 FIREMEN VOLUME XXIV ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, . IV K 28, 1917 NUMBER 30 RAISE $9,000 FOR RED CROSS Vuotn for Alliance ami Box Butte OMMUj Reached and Passed in Red Qmm Campaign l T Vim KtACKEM REPORTER Frank Was ami Metnoers of Five ( Hnmllltis Put over Big Drive Great Success Of the more than one hundred five million dollars contributed to the war fund of the American Red Cross during the week which closed Mon day night, Alliance and Box Butte county can well feel proud of the t-hare contributed, over $9,000 The exact figures show $9,028.10. or somewhat over $1,000 more than the quota nlloted to this county. The Alliance chapter of the Amer ican Red Cross has reason to con gratulate itself on conducting bo successful a campaign. While there are a few who absolutely refused to piye, the most people gave and ,ave cheerfully. The members of the five commit tees did their work well. They spent much of their valuable time during the week, which rightfully belonged to their respective businesses, in fur thering the work of raising subscrip tions to the Red Cross. They did it unselfishly and gladly. TRAITOR, BIGAMIST, AND I. W, W, MEMBER Wife So. 2 Writes Him that Police Are on to Him. mid to Change His Name Immediately Charles Curtis, who until he was arrested had been firing the heaters at the round house, Is locked in the county jail awaiting a hearing before Judge Berry. United States commis sioner. He was arrested after he had refused to give to the Red Cross and when it was found that he did not have a registration card. He is alleged to have made the statement that it would be useless to draft him, because he would grab a gun and fight for thu. kaiser. Letters were 'found on him which seem to show that he has two wives. A letter from wife No. 2 who lives on the coast told him that he had better not use the name "Curtis" any more as the police were on to him, and knew he had not secured a divorce from his first wife. Wife No. 2 said that in the future she would address him as "John Bradley." The letter said the police were on to the name "Curtis." It is assumed that Curtis is not his right uanie. Curtis had an L W. W. card show ing he was paid up in the I. W. W. until December 31, 1917. He had a bundle of clippings telling of the I. W. W. riots at Eugene, Ore., and other points, supposingly in which he participated. He was arrested Saturday. FRANK J. WAS Under whose abl direction the cam paign for contribution to the Bed CrosK war fund was ably carried out. To Frank J. Was, along with ev ery member of the five committees, belongs the credit for the successful finishing of the work undertaken. Mr. Was was in absolute charge of the work. He was on the Job every minute. While he could not have succeeded without the hourly co-operation of all concerned, yet it was he who superintended the work, planned it in detail, brought to a successful conclusion an undertak ing which, at the start, loomed huge in front of hiin. At the start it was thought that if $5,000 was raised ituring the week, that goal could hurdly be surpassed. Yet the close of the week's campaign saw almost $9,000 raised for the war fund. Team No. 4, headed by Chas. Brit tan. chairman, led the five commit tees as to the amount collected. Team No. 5, headed by H. P. Cour sey. while last in the list of commit tees as to amount collected, was first as to the number of individual con tributions securod. The standing of the teams la as follows: 'I'nun Chairman A Mount 1. W. M. Weidenhamer . 119. 30 2. J. W. Guthrie 1&07.00 3. W. R. Metz 1304.r0 4. Chas. Brittan 2116.00 f. H. P. Coursey 951.16 Checks by mail 173.75 Hemingford 1631.07 Picture show 25.33 Total $9,028.10 The membership of the five teams was as follows: Team No. 1 W. M. Weidenham er. chairman: J G. Dole. A. V. Gavin. V. G. Gurley. S K. Cilmore. A. V Arnold. Team No. I J W Guthrie, chair man; J. C. Morrow. Jack Tynan, John O'Keefe, Walter Buechsen- H. II Team No 3 - W. R. Metz. chair man; Geo. Fleming. P. T. Polfson, Howard Reddish, 8. W. Thompson. Team No. 4 Chas. Brittan. chair man; Ed Reardon. Fred A King. Martin- Kiug. J O. Walker Team No. 5- H P. Coursey, chair man; John J. Rtordau, Lloyd Thom as. A. G. Isaacson, Geo. Heilman. Robert Graham. Dr. Jos. Jeffrey. C A UalB and W. R Harper on Sat ui day tendered their services as a committee of I In whole and did cf ficient work in collecting donations. Mrs. Lloyd C. Thomas acted as treasurer during the campaign and in this work was ably assisted by Mrs. A. V. Arnold. Miss Nellie Wright. Miss Charlotte Mollring and Miss Cynthia Davenport. Office were maintained in the council cbam br at the city hall during the week. The chairmen of the five committees MRS. BAUMGARBNER BIEB ON TUESOAY I -toy Who Settled in Box Butte Coun ty Thirty-one Years Ago IHed in Grand Island This Week Mrs. M. J. Baumgardner, mother of Mrs. W. E. .Spencer, died at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at Grand Island, Where she had gone to visit friends at the soldiers' home. She had intended going on to Norfolk to visit. Ier daughter. Mrs. tJeorge Wil liams, after a short visit at Grand Island. Mrs. Spencer left for Grand Island on 4 2 Tuesday night, returning with the remains this morning. The fun eral will be held from the Spencer home at 2 p. m., Saturday. Mrs. Baumgardner was one of Box Butte county's oldest settlers. She settled on a homestead in Box Hutte county near Marple thirty-one years ago, coming here from Illinois with her children. If she had lived lout months and two days longer sh" would have been eighty-five years of age. She was very active for a lady of her age and was a frequent and welcome visitor at the homes of many friends in Alliance. Mrs. Baumgardner is survived by two daughters: Mrs. W. K. Spencer of Alliance, and Mrs. George Wil liams of Norfolk; and by a son. John Baumgardner of Phoenix. Ariz., who is expected for the funeral.- also a brother. J. W. Wible of Ottawa. Kans.. who will be here. Rev. A. A. Layton of the Baptist church is expected to conduct the funeral services. Mrs. Baumgard ner was a member of this church. FRIDAY IS THE BIG DAY I vi r.i Sms inl Added Attractions for Friday at Stockmen's Celebrn lion al Fair Grounds WILL U1YH AWAY KORH I Alt Irwin, Noted tlieyenne Showman, Here with Big Outfit HlpM dninie Events Friday F.XTH A WORK ON THE FEDERAL BULBING D. E. W. Jones, superintendent of construction on the Alliance federal building, has received notice to re model the entire basement of the building. This will necessitate the digging of a large amount of dirt and the placing of windows in the base ment. The remodeling is done fot the purpose of providing room for the mail clerks who are now station ed in Alliance in which to do their work. The remodeling will delay the completion of the building. reported at noon of each day, turn ing in each noon the amount collect ed during the previous twenty-four hours. The electric Red Cross indi cator sign under the "Welcome" sign at the intersection of unpaved Box Butte avenue and Third street kept the public informed as to how the campaign progressed. The Alliance band gave four short concerts under tlx- sign during the week. A banquet was held at the Alli ance cafe grill Monday evening for those who participated in the rasa- Ipaign for funds, about thirty-five be ing present. Mrs. Lloyd Thomas. usurer, made a report showing the total amount pledged and collected and the standing of the different teams, following which the boxes of cigars were awarded to the winning team headed by Charley Brittan This tea mmagnuuiinnusly distribut ed cigars to the other participants. Following a short talk by Chairman Was a short speech was made by Dean Shaw. Mho complimented the I men and women on their energy and result -gelling nicnioiis rresiiieiii Highland made a short talk and fol lowed it by passing around an agree ment, which wa. signed by members of the teams, making them a per manent finance committee for future work when needed. Those who took part in the local campaign, including the members of the commit tecs, the office force, and Other all performed their work without pay or remuneration. The Free Ford Automobile will be awarded Friday after- ii. Mm of this week at the fair 4 grounds. 'I lie one to whom the car is (riven absolutely free Mil ST be on tit. grounds al the time. The fact that you left your tickets at home will not help you. Vou must be ou the grounds with all our tickets so that you can "produce" in the event on net the car. Today is Hemingford day at the Stockmen's Reunion. The Heming ford band is ou the job and is mak ing teal music. A great throng is iu attendance, larger even than the attendance of Wednesday. It is ex pected that Friday will see a record breaking Crowd, as all the finals are staged on Friday in addition to the giving away of the free Ford auto mobile. The Friday program has been en larged until it is now much bigger and better than at first planned. There is not a dull moment. The intervals between races are filled with roping contests for the champ ionship, daring feats of exhibition riding, etc. A special extra added attraction in the form of hippodrome events will be pulled off by men from the Irwin ranch near Cheyenne. Irwin's horses will be used. Charley Irwin' the Cheyenne show man, has a car of horses and riders here and they are sure making things warm at the old west celebration. Irwin's Mexican rope spumcr is out to get Oklahoma lilackie's goat, but Oklahoma Blackie says no Mexican can put it over him. Both men claim the championship and the roping contest is for blood. Irwin has a mule that beats them all. No man to date has ever been able to ride him. Many tried to, yesterday and today, but the mule is a wonder at bucking. Ten dollars is offered to any man who can stick. Think you can ride'.' A big lot of bucking horses and wild mules are here and are sure bucking and kicking. Wild is a tame name for the exhibition put up by these animals. Friday will see the closing running races, the finish of the three-day re lay race, the cow-girl, cow-boy. cow horse and cow-pony races, in addi tion to thu other exhibitions. There were seven entries in the half mile dash Wednesday anil it was a race conceded to be the best ever run on the Alliance track. Frog Eye owned by Philpol of Mitchell won first; Ava, owned by D. W. Lee of Bridgeport, won second; and Joe Glenn, owned by Orin of Ft. Morgan, won third. Running races will be run Friday. Dwigbt Zedtker, undefeated world's champion relay rider of the world, won first in the relay race Wednesday. Harry Walters and his string finished second, and Dave Campbell and his outfit, third. The lasi of the relay races will be run Friday. In the cow-pony race for ponies under 14 hands, Clyde Curry took first, Stanley Zediker, second, and A. C. Mclaughlin won third. Ed Herion won the burden race, with McLaughlin second and Walt Vogel third. The cow-girl race was one of the feature of lb day. Miss Betty Her ian won first. Miss Sarah Herian took second, and Miss Buckle, third. I u the cow-horse race Clyde Curry wn first honors, lister took second and McLaughlin third. Without question this year's cele bration beats anything yet attempt ed Better be there Friday HAD YOt NO SALOON IN HIS SI I IV ASK Night Police officer John Line early Saturday morning arrested Emit Rudy, who claims residence at Denver, for having liquor in his pos session. The officer received a tip that he was dispensing the liquid re freshment ut one corner of the de pot and SO proceeded to the scene, where he suggested that Rudy show him the contents of the suitcase. Rudy at Hist refused. The suit case was opened and found to contain a gallon Jug of whikey. three quart hollies of whiskey, a half pint hot tie of whiskey, a pint bottle about halt full, and two Quarts of beer. l!ud whs slightly under the influence of liquor. lie came in on the h t si .sec tion of 41 from lieadwood. The train arrived about o'clock in the morning Rudy claimed that he had a pait Mf and that the partner had money A -t.ir.h was made but no partner could be found. Rudy was about broke It is supposed that the part net took the money and steered the pa trnna to the place where Rudy Vol dispensing the booze COMPANY G IS NOW IN TRAINING Alliance Hoy Are Getting Down to Business In Their New Quar ters at Fort Crook FAREW ELL ll EPTION SUNDAY Over Two Thousand People uGthered at City Hull to Hid Farewell to Hoys on Way to War Over two thousand people citi zens of Box Hutte county, gathered at the city hall in Alliance Sunday evening to pay their r spects to and bid farewell to our boys" the mem bers of Company G. Fourth Regi ment, Nebraska National Guard, who left on train number 42 at 2 o'clock Monday morning for Fort Crook, near Omaha Music was furnished for the oc casion by the life and drum corps, composed of Hemingford and Alli ance veterans, who rendered martial airs in a way that kept the feeling of patriotism .it fever heat during the program. They were announced at different times as "the boys of '76, '63, '98 and '17. " Representative Lloyd Thomas act ed as chairman for the evening. The Invocation was delivered by Rev. W. S. York, tut st or of the First Method ist church of Hemingford. Those who spoke were Robert Graham, chair man of the Box Butte County Coun cil of Defense; ("apt. J. B. Miller of Company G; R. C. Strong, secretary, and C. M. Ixonev, president, of Post M, T. P. A.: L E. Pllktngton. chief, and P. K. Romlg, former mayor, of the Alliance Volunteer Fire Depart ment, which sent six of Its members i with the company; F. J. Was. chalr iiiiiin of the committee which ron- ducted the successful campaign last i week for the Red Cross fund; Mrs. Jerry Rowan, who presented the boys with a check for $100, and Mrs. E. jO. Laing of the Alliance Red Cross hapter. the latter presenting the cnpfatn with an "emergency kit" foe l each member of the company, the kits being prepared by the ladies of tne iten i ross. ir. J. 11. i urns, pas tor of the First Methodist church of Alliance, and Dean Wm. Carson Shaw of St. Matthews Episcopal church were speakers. Their words of encouragement and advice to the boys were much appreciated. The last speaker on the program was i "Uncle" Phil Zobel. born In Ger ! many, who urged that "if you gel the kaiser, dond't shoot him; bring I him to me. I vill fix him." Uncle i Phil brought the crowd through ; laughter to tears by his humorous tMt serious talk. j The program closed with a short J talk by the chairman to the hoys. He urged them to write home folks of j ten and to let the people of western j Nebraska know how they were get Itlng along through letters to the newspapers. Those .who wished to I shake hands with the boys were in vited to go to the depot. The boys were also pleased to receive a check for $80 from Hemingford. The pathetic scenes of parting were witnessed at the depot where between six and eight hundred peo ple went to bid the boys Godspeed. Strong, stalwart young men cried as they bid farewell to parents, broth ers and sisters. Sweethearts held to each other until the final call of "all aboard" came from the lips of the conductor. Family groups in the background stood - together softly sobbing. One father and mother bid farewell to four stalwart sons. And as the long train finally pulled from the station the boys leaned from the car windows and waved hats and handkerchiefs in answer to the cheers from hundreds of throats, led by the strong voice of Jack Rlor dan. a veteran of the Spanish-American war. The Casper train brought in over a score of members of the company from Seottsbluff. who were welcom ed with open arms and made to feel at home. Word received from the members of the company this morning advises us that the boys are busy putting their quarters at Fort Crook into good shape and thai iiie are not the only 'green" company there. The Herald will keep its readers advised of their "doings" each week WIH TIED TO I till i LEi. IN SR HI .TON CAFE Joe Brown, coloied. employed at tin- restaurant operated by Sam Shelton, claims he was robbed Tues d.i night and lied to the leg of a 1a hlc in the cafe He was found by Shelton The officers doubt his BtO rj -t iicl are nan.- inclined to believe he tied himself to the table after he lost 10 X belonging to another, iu a trap gaafo Of some other came IlrtiMii had been using either liquoi hi .iupe it is said, and was in a sor ry condition when picked up. He had l ut ned over a table and tied an ipion and a rope around his neck and the table leg. His hands wcie not tied. Mrs. Grace Miller and daughter. Irene, of Lincoln, who were called to Hemingford by the death of Mrs. A M Miller, returned to their home Friday OLBS DISMISSED PERMIT REQUEST Penult Could Not Be Orauted under lain No DruggiM Can "Sell" Intoxicating Liquors The II R, Olds Drug Co.. of Hem ingford, H. R. Olds, manager, on Monday dismissed the hearing of the application for a permit to sell Intox icating liquors of medicinal, mechan ical, scientific or sacramental pur poses. The petition was filed with the county Judge on June 8. A re monstrance was filed by Hemingford panics, and the date for hearing had been set for Monday afternoon. Twenty-nine interested persons from Hemingford were In Alliance Mon day to be in attendance at the hear ing, some being prepared to testify either for or against the granting of the prayer. Mr. Olds wanted to withdraw the ipplication, hut was told that the ap plication was now matter of record tnd could not be withdrawn, but that he could dismiss it with the record ing showing that the effect would be the same. Mr. Olds stated to The Herald that It was necessary for him to use alco hol in making tinctures, such ns camphor, etc. These tinctures may bo purchased from wholesale drug gists and no permit is needed, but they can be made by the druggist himself somewhat cheaper. Drug gists may use alcohol on hand, pur chased before the 1st of May, with out a permit, so long as it 1b used in drugs or in the making of tinctures, etc No intoxicating liquors may be purchased by druggists without a permit. So it is but u question of time until druggists who desire to make their own tinctures, etc., and in order to keep or sell intoxicating liquors will have to have a permit. Or course if they are content to pay a little more and buy their supplies made up from the wholesale drug houses, they will have no need for a permit. Had the hearing of the application come up. Judge Tash would have been compelled to refuse to grant the permit under the law, for no permit can legally he granted to a retail druggist to sell intoxicating li quors of any kind whatsoever. This may be news to many, and even to some druggists, but a reading of sec tion 17 of House Roll 793. headed "Retail druggists pharmacist", will make that point clear. In section 17 we find the following: "Any reg istered pharmacist, as herein describ ed, may KEEP pure ethyl alcohol to be I'SED BY HIM for scientific, me chanical and medicinal purposes ON LY, and may Bell and keep for Bale alcohol so treated according to some formula permitted by the United Slates Commissioner of Internal Rev enue so as to render it unfit to be used as a beverage." Thus It will be seen that'drugglsts can buy pun ethyl alcohol only for their own use and not to sell to you and me. Also note that no permission is given to buy any other kind of intoxicating li quor and NO permission is given to SF.LL intoxicating liquor to churches for sacramental purposes. Churches may buy from wholesale drug houses or church supply houses only And it should oe understood that the only wav a druggist can legally BUY ETHYL ALCOHOL is to have a PER MIT TO KEEP ETHYL ALCOHOL. ThuB it will be seen that the II. K. Olds Drug Company made a serious error in asking for a permit to "Bell intoxicating liquors" for medicinal, mechanical, scientific or sacramental purposes, and that firm or no other firm can hope to be given a permit in Nebraska on those grounds. House Roll No. 77 3. passed by the recent legislature, which hill is now a law and in effect, contains many clauses. Anyone desiring to handle intoxicating liquors of any kind will do well to understand the law thor oughly. For instance: Section 12 of the law pertaining to carriers and transporting of liquor says: "It shall be unlawful for any railroad com pany, express company, common car rier, or any other carrier or person, or any officer, agent, servant or em ploye thereof, to deliver or permit, aid. or abet in delivering, or carry for the purpose of delivery, any In toxicating liquor, to any person, ex cept pore ethyl alcohol to wholesale druggists, retail druggists, scientific Institutions and hospitals and wine for sacramental purposes to whole sale druggists, church goods houses and to authorized representatives of churches and religious societies as provided in this act " Sei t ion IB of the law providea that IwbM I.. l rn v Kim h under certain conditions, may. 'upon compliance with the terms of this act. sell wine for sacramental purposes to bone fide religious organizations or churches qualified to purchase the same, and pure ethyl alcohol to registered phar macists and for scieutiflr purpose as herein provided only. Auy whole sale druggie may sell to any regis tered pharmacist owning or conduct ling a retail drug store, or actually i employed la a retail drug store, pure ..II..I . I....V...I ....I .1. ,.l,..l I,. I Ml- ;din gto some formula permitted by the United Statea Commissioner of Internal Rocnue bo as to rendei ii unfit to beg used as a beverage." Mr and Mrs R I' Shepherd and Mrs P. CueiiM ii of Hemingford were Alliance yisitors Wednesday be tween trains SERVICE FIRST POPULAR SLOGAN Fli-st-Clas Service of Prime Import ance to Ranchmen and Fanners, as Well as BuNlnesn Men THE 1 1 EST IS NONE TOO GOOD Shlpers More Concerned about Vitality of Service than Slight Differences in Prices Thereof Kven in ordinary times, the suc cessful man of affairs, whether man ufacturer, merchant or rancher, de mands fit st -class service of those whom he employs to work for him. either In buying, selling, transporta tion or ordinary labor; and In times like these when pricea on almost ev erything have gone sky-high, the difference between the good and the Inferior is greatly increased. Poor service ia costly at any price, and more so now than ever before. Good service la cheap enough at a fair price. It ia a noticeable fact that live stock shippers seldom object to a fair price for the transporting, hand ling and selling of their stuff If the service Is what It ought to be. In the above may be found briefly stated the reason one of the rea sons for the remarkable growth of Nebraska's great live stock market, South Omaha first class service. Everybody there, from the president of the Stock Yards Company down, tries to please the patrons of the market and work for their interests. "Service First" la a populur slogan and growing more popular all the time. It Is "Just natural" for The Her ald to boost for the South Omaha live stock market. First of all, be cause it is a Nebrsska institution and it comes natural. All persons connected with the Herald Publish ing Company were either born in Nebraska or spent most of their lives here most of them native born and It is as easy to boost for a Ne braska enterprise as it is to breathe the splendid Nebraska atmosphere. In addition to giving other news of special interest to its many read era who are Interested In the live stock industry, The Herald will dur ing the coming shipping season of ranch cattle give special attention to news from the South Omaha market, including matters pertaining to shippers as well as the men connect ed with the market. In this we cor dially Invite the co-operation of all 'fca a.iit.,i . t iVl o mi tlllf I lie i I'tturi n i ino I'auui, MAY JOIN It FJil MENTAL HAND Paul W. Thomas, one of "the Thomas boys," who Is now teacher of music at the Chadron Normal, has bean offered the post of assistant dir ector of the regimental band. Fourth Regiment. Nebraska National Guard. Paul wishes to serve his country but lie hates to leave his work at Chad ron. in which he Is succeeding ad mirably. He is seriously consider ing the offer which was made lues- day of this week. 4 ALL STORES 4 "LOSE FBIDAY AFTPJtN4MN All Alliance stores will be dosed Friday afternoon on account of the Stockmen's celebration at the fair grounds to afford employees an op portunity to witness the spectacular closing of the celebration and get in on the giving away of the free Ford automobile. I'. S. MAItSHAL TOOK SLACKERS to CHADRON Deputy United States Marshal A. A. Wright was in Alliance Wednes day and took Bessy Hardon (rolor ed). Jess Ross and Klorentene Jae sen, alleged slackers, to Chadron to await trial before the United States district court there. MM ALS MAINTAIN RECORD AT THE SUNDAY GAME The Alliauce baseball team claims the distinction of having lost each and every game played so far this season The record was upheld Sun day at the fair grounds when the Crawford team shut out the locals by a score of 10 to 4. Two of the three games lost were to Seottsbluff. and the thud and last game was lost Sun day to Crawford. Alliance will play at Seottsbluff July 4 for a purse of .''" The locals are keeping a stiff upper lip and hope to make a show ing at the Bluffs ou the Fourth JUDGES TO MAKE FREE AUTO AWARD I'ost M. T P. A.'s will be in charge of the giving away of the Ford auto mobile at the Stockmen s celebration at the fair grounds Friday of this week The Judges will be supplied by the local T. P A. post. lilt KNHLL-HALL WHtOINO Vivian E Hal', employed at the A. D Rodgers grocery store, and Miss Dorothy F Hnkn.il who for some time was employed at the Har per store, were married Wednesday evening The wedding took place st 8:39 o'clock at the Episcopal church Dean Shaw pronounced the words that made them man and wiD