Official Organ Nebraska Stock Growers Association and Nebraska State Volunteer Firemen's association
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Western NEBRASKA
The Alliance Herald
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VOLUME XXIV
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, AUGUST 30, 1917
NUMBER 39
ALL TEACHERS
QUALIFIED
Instructors in Ixiral Schools Have
Kxeellcnt lVellniinary Training
Mini Kxperience
(SCHOOL OPENS NKXT MONDAY
Superintendent I'atc Makes Assign
MM of Teachers lo tirades
All b Now in Readiness
The Alliance city schools open
Monday morning, September 3, for
the fall term of school following the
'hree months" summer vacation.
Prof. T. C. Crawford, principal of the
high school, will be at his office in
the high school Friday and Saturday
of this week from 9 to 12 in the
morning, and from 1 to 4 in the af
ternoon, at which time all students
who desire to register, determine
iheir course of study or secure de
sired information, may do so. New
students to enter either of the (trad
ed schools may do so Monday morn
ing, September S.
The Alliance city schools were
never in better condition as pertains
to the teaching force than they will
be at the opening of school next Mon
day. Every instructor in the high
school is a graduate of a regulation
four-year college course and each
and every one of them has earned
and been granted degrees. All grade
'.i-achers in both the Central and
Kmerson schools are at least normal
school graduates or the equivalent,
and one is a university graduate. Kv
ery teacher in all three Alliance
schools is a teacher of experience.
There are no beginners in the teach
ing force of the Alliance schools this
year.
The new teachers for the coming
year are: Miss McIIugh, principal of
Kmerson school; Miss Peters, kind
ergarten teacher at Emerson school;
Miss Bruce, teacher of the fifth grade
at Central school; Miss Blass, third
.i itd fourth grades at Central school;
Miss Clayton, normal training in
structor for the high school; and
Miss Read, teacher of mathematics
for the high school.
Miss Mrllugh was an instructor in
the Emerson school two years ago
and last year was an instructor in
the Junior high school at North
Platte. She Is a graduate of Kear
ney Normal.
Miss Peters is a graduate of the
University of Nebraska and has
taught two years at Tildeit, Nebr.
Miss Bruce is a graduate of the
Fhadron State Normal and has hai
two years experience.
Miss Mass is a graduate of the
Kearney State Normal school and
ha had seven years' teaching exper
ience, The last two years she was
a teacher in the Lexington city
schools and was re-ele tel for anoth
er year.
Miss Clayton is a graduate of the
t'nlveislty of Nebraska aud has had
s"veral years' experience. Last year
she was an instructor in tin- COSSd
high school.
Miss Head is a graduate of the
University of Nebraska and for tin
past two years was instructor of
mathematics In the Adams high
school
Miss Chambers, the new principal
of the Central school, was last year
the sixth grade instructor in that
building.
The principals of both the Bmer
son and Central schoolsire new this
year.
following i the assignment of
teachers to grades and schools for
1917-18 as announced by Superin
tendent W. R. Pate in Hull, tin No.
8 :
Miss
I 'knerson School
Eighth grade and principal
McHugh.
Seventh grade Miss Walter.
Sixth grade Miss Engle.
Fifth grade Miss Cutkosky.
Fourth grade Miss Hledlk.
Third grade Miss So per.
First grade Miss Terry.
Kindergarten Miss Peters.
Central School
Eighth grade and principal
Chambers.
Seventh grade Miss Anderson
Sixth grade Miss Abbott.
Fifth grade Miss Bruce.
Fourth grade Hazel Johnson.
Third and Fourth grades
Blass.
Third grade Luna Johnston.
Second grade Miss Crocker.
First and Second grades Miss Wor
ley. First grade Miss Scott.
Kindergarten Miss Peters.
High School
Superintendent W. R. Pate
Principal T. R. Crawford.
Commercial department Bertha
Wilson.
Domestic Science Miss Canfield.
English Mr. 8tockdale.
Languages Mary Wilson.
Manual Training Mr. Holch.
Normal Training Miss Clayton
Mathematics Miss Read.
Miss
MiSP
TA66 IS CHOSEN
BY THE 60VERNMENT
Well-known Omaha t'ommiseion Mian
Made a Member of Committee to
Stimulate Meat Production
W. B. Tngg of South Omaha, man
ager of the firm of Tagg Brothers
Moorhead, and one of the most widely-known
commission men in the
country, has been chosen oy Hervert
i Hoover and Secretary of Agriculture
Houston as a member of the general
( committee to stimulate the increase
in the production of cattle, sheep.
: hogs and other live stock.
W. 3. 7ZAGG"
In addition to Mr. Tagg, who is
president of the South Omaha Live
Stock Exchange and president of the
National Live Stock exchange, other
men who were appointed were E. L.
Burke, secretary of the National Live
Stock Producers' Association, and E.
Z. Russell, editor of the Twentieth
Century Farmer.
The immediate supplying of'ineat
for the soldiers and civilian is a
SoriOUS one, and the problem of keep
ing this meal supply owning for
year is still more serious.
gee rotary Houston and Food Ad
ministrator Hoover signed a public
statement in which they said: "This
campaign should pot' be considered
to have terminated successfully until
the great majority of our farms have
their flocks of sheep and a sufficient
Beef Breed Cattle Will Find Many
Admirers at Nebraska State Fair
KlsftjA mSL HLanl J'' 'Hasa Vassal aaaaw aaaaV da. LbLm BaaaaaaL. JtaKkaisVAll
X 1 SutnS'Mrfl WW tvw
Market News Service
to be Offered Again This
Year From ALLIANCE
POTATO QUOTATIONS SUPPLIED TO 2,000 GROWERS LAST YEAR SAVED OVER A
QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS 750 GROWERS WROTE COMMEND
ING THE SERVICE TO BE ISSUED WEEKLY UNTIL MID
DLE OF SEPTEMBER, THEN I3SUED DAILY
Lincoln. Nebr.. Aug. 30. The
announcement was made here to
day by Prof. C. W. Pugsley, dir
ector of extension service of the
College of Agriculture, that the
potato market news service, pub
lished by the Office of Markets of
the United States Department of
Agriculture, is to be repeated
igai.i this year. The headquar
ters for the potato market news
ervice will be at All la net, (be
t.-. an last year, i . d the bullc
ins will be mailed frorc that cliy
uch day to grow-rs and others
nteres'ed. Aecordl:is to the es
Imate of the growers thcmselvs
he potato market news service
SVed western Nebraska growers
lore than $250,000.
This year the plan is to issue
he market news service long .
ore potatoes are normally put on
he market, so as to prevent grow-M-s
from making contracts that
ire umluly favorable to speculat
es. The news service will be
Billed weekly until the middle of
ioptombor, when it will be issued
laily the same as last year.
"The object of this service is to
toep mowers informed of the cur
rent price in the central markets
;o that speculators will not be able
o take advantage of the grower
o make excessivo profits," said
Professor Pugpley. "This service
contributes in no way to an in
reuse in price at central markets.
Wither does it decrease legitimate
uid necessary middlemen's profits,
it merely gives the producer a
.iiowlcdge of what the consumer
s paying for his product and en
ibles him to bargain Intelligently
vith the buyer. In other words
t la an information service."
lasf year on September 21,
vhen the market news service
raa started out of Alliance, potu
oes were bringing only tSOc on the
oe;il market at Heminirford, but
he jobbing price at Omaha was
$1.10. On October 12. pmatoes
were bringing $1.04 at Homing
ord, while Omaha was still quot
ng them at $1.10. This shows
hat BTise in prise in Wi Stem Ne
braska merely reduced the middle
Den unduly large profit and that
he consumer was paying no in
rease. About 7. "Mt growers in western
Si breaks wrote to the extension
Service commending the market
Western Nebraska Potato Growers
Saved $250,(300 Thru County Agents
Speculators' Profits Eliminated; Farmer Gets Just Share
EXPhCT RECORD
BREAKING FAIR
Management Hays Indication Point
to Unprecedented Attendance
at Mate Fair
M . I Mil k . WALLACK CIRCl
Five Afternoon, Pour Kvening Per
fonimiMew Neat Week Many
Prom This Hertlon odng
Much of Nebraska's wealth and prosperity is diss la the many
ureal het1s of pure bid beef catlle contained ar it hin its holders The
welcome awaits you next week at the Nebraska State Fair at Lincoln
to see these herds of Nebraska compete with those from Mister states,
attfl durinfr the show ring battle ncx'i week at the fair, Nebraska's
standing will be proclaimed.
1.00
.40
.80
Many from western Nebraska am
planning on attending the Nebraska
State Fair at Lincoln next week from
September 3 to 7. All indications
point to an unprecedented attend
ance at the atate fair thla year, while
It is expected the exhibits will be ev
en better than in yeara gone by.
Realising the necessity of good
clean amusements along with the
other educational feature of the
great state fair, the management of
the Nebraska State Fair searches
high and low for something new and
good in the world of amusement and
liberal education. It has taken the
boldest step ever undertaken by any
fair In aecurlng the Carl Hagenbeck
Wallace clrcua for all of atate fair
week. Thla clrcua la a consolidation
of the "Famous" Carl Hagenbeck
trained animal show and the Great
Wallace clrcua. The opportunity is
afforded all of seeing the wild per
forming animals In the sixty-foot
steel arena, along with three other
rings.
All of this in connection with the
regular horse racea for the same
money. J'reaented twice dally In
front of 'he amphitheatre without
canvas. It Is suggested that all who
can do so go early, Monday and Tues
day, that they may sue the wonderful
exhibits and new amusement fea
tures before the great crowds arrive,
later In the week.
SEPT.
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OCT.
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OCT.
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lOST t All!) "PASSFJ1 iV
t'KNHOIt" RFJTKIVFJD H MIL
E. FN Shields, 212 Sweetwater
avenue, is in receipt of a regulation
t U. S. army and navy correspondence
Thir, illustration shows how the Potato Market News Service Bulletins post card from H. Kidder, who is in
(supplied dally thru the cffortB of county agents co-opersting with the office ,ne navv Th tara wnB mailed in
of markets of the I'nited States Deuartment of Aarlculinre i nuskad thm ,rr the postolllce on board the U. S. S.
paid to wesiem Nebraska growers near the level of cltv lobbing orloaa. without Frederic on July
increasing the price to consumers.
The black psrt of each column indicates the price paid llemingrord.
Nebraska, grower in 117; the white space indicates the middlemen's share
for handling the potatoes The full length of the column Indicates the Omaha
fobbing price.
The Potato Market News Service Bulletins were firs) Issued Sept. 21,
when llemingford growers were receiving tfu cents a bushel and ihe Omaha
jobbing price for potatoes was $1.10. As shown in the above Illustration, the
growers' price approached the level of Omaha jobbing pries as soon as the
grower obtained information that ensbled him to bargain IntelUgSirtl) wiih I lie
buyer.
Middlemen's profit includes Speculators' Profits pins a legit iinaie mm gin
for transportation and handling of potato. Speculat ive profit oulv wa hit
y the Market News Service.
Tin- combined estimated savings totaled over a quarter of a mil-
news service and estimating the
saving it enabled them to make
lion dollars.
An effort was made to establish a hay market news service this year, but the Extension Service has
nee n una Die to tnaae necessary an a iineiuenis i ne potato market ntws service is suimlled en-opera
lively by county agents in western Nebraska.
States Department of Agriculture.
the Agricultural Kxtensinn Service, and the l'nitcd
stock of cattle to consume all rough
age now largely wrtsted."
It is arranged that the county
agents in various sections of the
country may take orders for lambs
ewes or cattle among the smaller
fanUTS. It has been arranged with
the live stock exchanges thut the
commissiou men will aid in the mo
bilization of this stock for the farm- I
rs free of charge.
U. TagS, member of this new I
KOOUnittee and president of the Na- I
lional Live Stock exchanges, is i are only
I thought 1 would write you a few
lines to let you know I a mwell. 1
Uop you are all the same.
Well, we sure are having line
WvatllSr up here. How is every
thing in Alliance since 1 left there?
I'll all ihe boys and girls I said
Htllo" and tell them I will be atad
jio have them write to me. If they
I want to write you can give them my
I address. If they write to me 1 will
I sure answer.
One sure uas line times here. We
a few miles from San Fran-
known to have definite views on the
matter f increasing live stock pio
lilction. He has just been in the
:.t: for a conference with Mr Hoov
er. Mr Tags holds that to draft
help for the farmers is just as prac
ticable as to draft men for the ur
mil He holds thut to furnish an
open and competitive market is nec
BHSary. He dastres an arrangement
for furnishing money at reasonable
rates to the fanners for the purchase
of live stork. And he urges a more
strenuous campaign to stamp out tuberculosis.
freshen in the fall than when they
freshen in the spring. This is be
cause tows ate not bothered by heat
and flies at the lime they are suffer
ing the hardI strain.
Furthermore, at the end of about
seven months, when production usu
ally falls, the milk flow Is bolstered
up by green grass in the spring.
Further information regarding of
ticial lestittK may be obtained upon
application to the dulry department.
University Farm, Lincoln.
2. Across the
iface of the card is stamped the words
"Passed by Censor." The card car
ries several printed lines, those not
applying to the particular writer be
ing aerate bed out. Th following ln
foimation is given by Mr. Kidder on
the curd:
"1 am quite well. better follows
a first opportunity. I have received
no lettei from you for a long time."
Across the top of the card the fol
lowing Is printed: "Nothing is to be
written on this card except the dates
and signature of the sender. Sen
tences not required may be crossed
out If anything else Is added the
pest card will be destroy d. The
printed form is as follows: (
"I ulit quite well.
"I have been admitted into
hospital uounded sii k am getting
on well Hope io return to duty
soon.
"J nave received your
lei n.r dated telegram
duet pa reel ant ad
"Litter follows at first opportune
ly "I lave received no letter from
'iu for a long lime lately."
Tae bottom provides for signature
oiity anu the date. No other infor
matlon Is contained on the card. The
locating or destination of the ship is
not tiuti.
LO S OF NICE GIRLS
IN SAN FRANCISCO
John prelsa, Artillery Sana, Write
from Station on Angle Island
Not I ar from Frisco
A leiier from one of "ihe bo
who went away" is always le-tcieM-IrS
and more than welcome to the
bll - l-ack home, and a letter from
-oie i the home folks (a just as in
iere.it lag to the soldier boy. The
Her ! publish. below a letter re
neived b .lohn Reokobar frosj John
Pre , a former Alilaaoa boy h
Preias is a saesakwr of ihe egsjsl ar
ttl rj sad is stationsd on tin PariaVs
utai not ,i great dtaiaace iroiu sen
j rtacti, The latins follows.
Kl i Howell, Angle Island
thilifornis Auaiial Jo 1 f 1 7
lle..r Friend:
1 I
leiapQ, We go over there whenever
' we want to It tukeu :ihmii lu-entv
! minutes to go across the bay from
I MS island.
There are about laid ar- ,
lillerymen os this the west side of
thi island. You see there is a place I
Cor the soldiers of each branch of
tin army There are others on the
eaal and south side. There are sure
sonic flue guns around this island.
Well. I am not going to write a
very long letter for it is almost sup
per time, but 1 will write you a good
lor-g letter when you answer this
one. so please excuse my writing, '
I am MndlnS you a picture in I
Show the boys when Ibey come into1
your shop Stiek it up where they
raa see il This is one some of Ihe
BOyi look and linished themselves I:
am getting SOme good OkSS taken and
I Will send yOU one laler
Coodby and SOOd luck to all yours.
I remain a a customer of yours i
arbeg I SSt back Say. there are j
sure Hma tine girls wver across the i
hay at aii Francisco.
Vours truly.
JOHN PRBiafl
care ita Com ph)
The picture Mr. Pfeiss mentioned
is one of Mi Preias standiss aeaid
one of the big coast defense guns
A large Fulled Stales fla is draped
over the .hi
Nebraska Home of the Big Type
Hogs On Exhibit at State Fair
pV - - f a'ssassnsnaeaisaLassdis TyHtmaslapsty
OFFH IAI. TrlTS
Farly fall is the best time to atari
cows oti official tests, says (he dairy
husbandry section of the Nebraska
Experiment Station. The Station
has found that cowa will give ten per
cent wore milk each year when they
111 the BWlaS bains and SrOUBd He iUdgiMI arena al llie Nehiaska Slate
Fair every fall one will find the crowds large at all times, as the Nebraska
bog s such a factor in the farmer's material prosper! t thai he is always an
attractive show object
Many western NebruskM ranchmen ami farmei who attend (he Ktate
Fan at Lincoln next week and many will attend will be interested iu the
hog exhibits, because every year sees a larger number of hogs raised in this
section. The hog classes will share In ihe honors and awards to be made
by competent and fair judges in recognition of their contribution towards
Nebraska wealth and prosperity.