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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1917)
ALUAWCg tUTitAi.n, thi'Iihuay. dec. 27. 1917. '8. i 1 I ft I C lipped From Our Exchanges MAYS S I NTH Wil l. RKK SKKVK K Morrill Mull: While II WU about decided th1 tbeH'v.ntti Nenraeki would not be derail led, from the reports received lMt wik from Lincoln ami other ourrcs. tills WMll brings a different feeling to t ii ofllcera of the company M Well its to others who have been keeping track of the vnrioua phases of the tOBipany sinee its organiza tion Upon receipt of the news that the Seventh would not he railed. Captain H. Leslie Smith wired to Congress man Kinkaid asking him to investi gate tin- matter and report the Otadtni: ;is it is viewed In Washing ton by the federal department. In reply, Mr. Kinkaid informs the rap tain that from what he can learn he la reasonably sure that the Seventh Will see service. This is taken by all who know the congressman to meal that the Lucky Seventh will be called, as he has the reputation of knowing pretty well What hp Is talking rbout Wh n he says he thinks they will be called. If there were no hopes, ho would say so at once, anil the matter would be ended. , ington ami to threaten lawsuits. It s eeiiauily some raiher left-handed advertising for Nebraska. The notice Is to the effect that no more CUO sugar will be sent Into the beet sugar country and no beet siitar will be sent into the cane sup;-1 districts. And since Nebraska is the ery head and front of the bee' sugar interest:! a cane supar droin h which will last as Ion a: as the war is now upon the state. The order stopping the shipment of ,.n i rs Int othe western districts is made in the Interest of railroad conservation. The order requires that all sugars must be purchased from the nearest sources of supply. Will. WOUK OCT HQ FIYK Morrill Mail: Tuesday nlpht two Mexicans were arrested for bootlepping and thrown In the city look-up. Blnto Navar rlrke and Joe Qulrs. They had been np to Wyoming and brought back two suit cases full of whisky and ex pected to sell it, but when they rot off the train they were grabbed and relieved of their load. They were taken before Judge Lathrop and a fine of $190 was placed on each of them and a $10 extra line was planed OB Joe Qulrs for earying concealed weapons. They were unable to pay the fine ao the city feels that a little work on the street would do, so It was de elded to let them work out the fine Of $390 on the streets of our city. The "Oh-Ue-.Toyful" was used to prinkle the streets and the amount "wasted" in that manner would have made the faces of some of the spec tators brighten considerable. III MIN4.I l(l A VISION THE HKI'.T Sl'dAlt OR NONE Scott sht uft Star-Herald: Those housewives of this city and county should there be any who have been sufliciently lacking in lo cal pride as to insist on the use of cane sugar in preference to beet eugar are in for some long 'hinks, according to a government ukase re ceived by Food Administrator Wat tles ant! distributed to the variom County administrators of the state. No more cane sugar for Nebraska. If the citizens of this state are so high-toned that they will refuse to nee the product of their own humble beet, then they can go without so far aa Dnde Sam has anything to do With the matter. One of the rather surprising facts brought to light by the order is that onto of the farmer's organizations in the eastern part of this state are so "patriotic" that they have turned their backs on Nebraska sugar, from which is derived considerable por tion of the wealth of their western brethren, and have been endeavoring to flirt with the Louisiana sugar planters t r n-e supplies, while the merchants of the state have cheer fully submitted to the t'ovi rnmeiit requirements as to limiting the amount of sugar they could receive, have on band and sell, some of the farmer's co-operative unions were much pot Ved at the order. Bo deter mined were they thai tiny should re ceive t!i amount of sugar which they thought they needed that they sent Attorney Chariot I). Dudley, of Omaha, to Washington to protest to the natwmai food administration against the action of that body in controlling the amount of sugars pro rated to the union. - This fact leaked out in the noti fication sent to Food Din. tor Wat tles, the nation. tl food administra tion stating It "regretted" that an body of Americans had found it necessary to tend attorneys' to Wash- Hemingford Ledger: The vents at last an dealing kind ly with Hemingford, The develop ment in every line is marked- -electric lights, cement sidewalks, tire proof business blocks, now resi dences of finest design, city water works, lawns and trees. The town is achieving somewhat the dream of its early residents and founders. There is extent some of the booklets gotten out by the founders, and one notable cut shows "Hemingford as It is," a wood cut from a photograph, followed by an other, "Hemingford as it will be five years hence," showing brick build ings, parks, paved streets and a large residence district. The accom panying reading matter tells the facts of the crops raised (1884-1889) and taints in the rosiest of colors, the future of the country. Folowing this early vision came the dark days of 1893 and the lean years and low prices. The optimism of the dream was succeeded by a pes simism as unwarranted as the florid language of the booklet. And to cap all, after the most valiant fight ever waged to retain the county capitol. Alliance, by the force of superior numbers, and aid of Burlington rail road officials, won the county seat. Then indeed the future seemed dark for Hemingford. Lots went down In price, owners refused to keep up the taxes, residences were moved to Alliance and to the coun try; and all seemed lost. The State Hank building and two lots sold for $19.r, with no (competition and the Bhindler corner changed hands at less than 300. People quit farming, on account of low prlcee, and months went by with scarcely a car ever on the single side track, which the rail road utilized mostly for passing trains. Wood was hauled from Pine Ridge and rarely a car of coal came to the town, and no lumber was to be had and none was demanded. The skimming station wr.a estab lished and Hemingford in a year be came the largest receiver of milk in the World, averaging in June, 1898. about 30,000 pounds'of milk per day. This enabled our people to survive these times and got them ready money as the merchants of those days would pay only in trade and some of the merchants violently op posed the creamery as it took a Way their domination of the farmers through their control of the produce market. This led, as the merchants foresaw, to the excellent business Unit Montgomery Ward & Company, and Sears Roebuck company enjoyed then and still enjoy today. The cream separators came and put the skimming station out of business. Prices picked up and the stockmen having acquired most of the land be tan to compete with each other for what remained, ami land began to advance. A bank was started, a lumber yard was put in by A. M. Mil N I K L Pierce bought the town lots from the towns! te company 'and sold pan of them cheap to the residents, building started ami Hemingford be gan the uward climb, whose end no one can foresee. That the future is bright no one can deny and is limited only by tho enterprise of its citizens and their ability to work together. A narrowness known as the "Commancha and Black Foot" fac tions of the early days helped kill tirst V talon. These factions were on destroying each oth the upbuilding of the it. more intent r t han oa I ? "" : -.c'. K & r Q&f&al C6 What you want is quick relief. Here s a fiftv v .ir old remedythat has proven beneficial for millions. Try it yourself. rf lSo'd by all druggists. "ft "discovery for Coughs e Colds Dizzy? Bilious Constipated? Dr.King'sNrwLife Piilscausea healthy flow of Bile and rid your Stomacn and Bowels of waste and fermenting body poisons. They are a Tonic to your Stomach and Liver and tone the ce nrr.il system. First dose relieves. Get a bottle today. 25c. all druggists. town and their narrowness hurt the town. In place of building water works necessary to beautify tho town th;iy jealousy killed the proposition and it was fifteen yearn thereafter be fore the water works was put in. How much the Commanches and Blackfeet retarded the town's pro gress no man can say. but it is likely that it was a groat deal. And now Hemingford faces the greatest opportunity of its his tory. Prosperity aboundr. and her citizens are men of exceptional abil ity. Her Community Club has done wonders in the last six months both locally and from a publicity point of view and Btrangers remark at all times on the favorable advertising the town is steadily enjoying over the state by reason of its local ac tivities. Like most good things, however, more could be accom plished and frankly some citizens do not do their full share. All must work together to accomplish the most. Shall things similar to what has been in the past be continued or bo abandoned? Road conferences have attended, good roads demanded and in many instances improved, the passenger service has been made satisfactory. Cemetery improvements have been demanded and the material pur chased but is not yet erected in the cemetery, public days have been ob served (Memorial Day and July 4th), telephone service investigated, Soldiers "Funds solicited and trans mitted, patriotic work encouraged and fostered and a hoct of them done and others planned too numerous to mention. The future is bright for a united aspiring town, but dark for an un organized aimless one. Tho business men and preachers and priest should lead in the work of community up building, finding the common basis of community good not inconsistent with their fields of endeavor in busi ness and in church. Any co-operation will make all our dreams past and present come true. If the Com munity Club is not the proper instru ment for all to work through, will some reader please propose a better method of co-operation. 1,000 NEBRASKA FOURJWINUTE MEN 2."l Theatres in the State Covered in 1 W Nebraska Cities and Towns Officially On the work of the Nebraska Branch of the Division of Four-Minute Men of tho U. S. Committee on Public Information (composed of the secretary of state, secretary of war, secretary of the navy, and Oeorge Creel.) Director William MeCormick Blair, of the divison, has issued to tho Four-Minute Men of all the states as a special bulletin a re cent report made by Prof. M. M. Fogg, of the University of Nebraska, state head of the division. "We reprint below an excellent report received from State Chair man Fogg, of Nebraska," says Di rector Blair. "By painstaking and conscientious work he has built up one of the strongest Four-Minute Men organizations in the country." Over 1,000 Nebraska Four-Minute Men the government's ottirial speakers in moving-picture theaters on war subjects are now enlisted in 146 Nebraska cities and towns, cov ering :.'.'1 theaters. A month ago Nebraska, the last state organized, ranked fourth with 104 branches, excelled by only New York, Ohio, and Kansas. There are in the Cnited States nearly 16,000 Four Minute speakers, to whom President Wilson in a recent letter referred as "part of the reserve officer corps." Th Alliance branch of tho Four Minute Men is composed of Earl D. Mallery, W. R. Pate and Lloyd C. Thomas. These men have spoken fre quently on subjects which the gov ernment desires presented through this organisation. As important sub jects come up from time to time they will be presented by them in the short, four-minute speeches at the picture shows in Alliance, Heming ford, Hofflund and Antioch. SHUMWAY WRITES ON NEBRASKA HISTORY Draws (iraphic Picture of the Time Who n Nebraska Was Covered by the Inland Sea ChaJiiberlaiiCs Cough Itemed y This is not only one of the best and most efficient medicine for coughs, coldB and croup, but is aho pleasant and safe to take, which is important when medicine must be given to chil dren Many mothers have given it their unqualified endorsement. Grant L. Shumway, state land commissioner, is a student of the his tory of Nebraska. In submitting his theory of the formation of the state for publication he ninth1 the follow ing statement: "Perhaps in this day of rushing events and war excite ment and war atrocities, your read ers may at times look fc relaxa tion; may look for something to take the mind away from the sordid thing at hand, and give it restful exercise. The one who can make a story so attractive that it does this thing, is fortunate. .1 find much pleasure and diversion in the study of pre-historic Nebraska, and sub mit this to you with the hope that you, too, may enjoy this imperfect translation of theisilent language of tho ages." This is the story, as written by Mr. Shumway: The floor of the world is granite. Nebraska was in the midst of the first landed ana when th vaves of the Combrlan sea boat upon shores in Wyoming, Ohio and Oklahoma. When tho first live creature crawled from primal slime upon the shore of a primeval sea. But later Nebraska was in the bottom of tho Silurian ocean, along with the entire Mississippi valley. Then again nearly all of the North American continent emerged in the lower Devonian and was connected with Asia by way of Behring strains. At that time the Omaha, Lincoln and Wichita mountain range was a par ticular scenic feature or Nebraska and Kasas. Its axis was a little east of Lincoln, and could you sweep away the coverings, you would still iintl its rugged peaks and canyon beauty. During the Carboniferous period this granite rang w.-.s here, and around it was spread the sedimenta ries of the Mississippian and over it the Pennsylvanian, for Nebraska and Kansas were again largely in the sea. Kastern Nebraska came up from the ocean with almost all of the North American continent at a little later date. An estuary from the Pa cific covered that part of the state west of the 100th meridian, together with western Kansas, Oklahoma and nearly all of Colorado and Wyoming. The rise and fall of Nebraska thus through the varying ages came down to a time comparatively and geologi cally modern. The massive buff and gray coarse Dakota sands, some places five hun dred feet thick were spread over Ne braska, indicating a moving body of water and sufficient current to carry away the silts, and also indicating that part of Nebraska lying east of the 100th meridian, wnn again un der water, along with the country to the west. At the close of the Carboniferous age, internal forces again disturbed tho Omaha, Lincoln and Wichita mountains. This disturbance never reached its full proportions owing to the weight of covering depositions. Buried under the sedimentaries of eastern Nebraska and central Kan sas it still exists; a twin of the Ozgrka, lower in alitude but covering more territory. When the more violent disturb ances shook the fractured area, great stabs of granite 100 feet thick and miles in area, were m places thrust out through the comparative ly newer rocks and shales, and these granite intrusions have puzzled ge ologists, and turned aside the tides of oil prospectors from 'time to time. Granite and red beds are to the geologists discouraging features. Yet a daring prospector haF passed the granite barrier into the shales below, and others have found best qualities of petroleum in red bed anticlines. West and east of these sunken mountains are faults and folds, synclines and anticlines. In Kansas and Oklahoma are bat tery after battery of wells, through upper sediments and covering caps, and from these perforatons pours steady streams of golden oil, and gareous "guineas" roar for the service of mankind. And so some early day will Nebraska yield from her interior stores, rich contribu tions for the people. West of this mountain range rolled the waves of the last cretacious sea -the vast marine waters which di vided the American continent. Per haps a low coast range separated it from the Gulf, and it probably ex tended, widening, northward to the Arctic circle. Between the Kansas and Nebraska range and the Ozark mountains was an estuary which might be called "Topeka bay," and there were oth ers on the western shore. And into these, the ebb and flow of tide and current carried sponge-like woods where, waterlogged and alinie bur dened, they settled down in beds, for the latter uso of the generation of men. Out in the expanse of the Central ocean, there was an island, a hun dred miles or more in length, along about the eastern border of the Laramie plains. This Hartville island, as we shall call it, was of igeous rocks, thrust edgewise up above the sea. Ita west ern cliffs and its eastern border crumbling Benton shales and green- B with the srn-,on's offerings HILwKrSJnllHK K of sea food. Preferred every- fiHMfeSA 1 ttMMrlBpt where with lobster, oysters, fl W' jfrl' -flHyi clams or fish dishes for its K fjh jfl WfUttB appetizing, zestful, healthful ,fl Bjf'iffiufl properties. Manufactured Eg ' 1; ; J jfljBfflE from the finest cereals end HH QfflawGBf genuine Saazer Hops. jB Rfiai KING'S CORNER Alliance Distributors for Bevo horn lime. The Benton series was fractured by this island, and the Pierre was laid after trie faulting. These are the great oil labratories of western Nebraska and Wyoming, and have four distinct oil horizons. The famous Wall creek sand is in the lowest, or the Benton. These shales and sands and greenhorn lime reach way underneath Nebraska, in all probability. In the shallowing sea that covered most of Nebraska's central plains, the Niobrara and the Pierre and eth er shales were laid. Much of this partof the ocean range 1n a prob able depth of one to two hundred fathoms. There little grains of glau conite occurred from decomposition of organic matter contained in tiny feraminiferal shells. This hydrous silicate of potassium and iron of 17 per cent potash. No wonder the soil Oi Nebraska is rich. There came a time when the ocean floor was bared except for pools, lagoons and marshes, long lakes of slowly moving blackish waters. The antecedent of the Platte ran west ward from the mountains to the In land sea. It was at this time, after the Pierre shale was laid that the Hart ville island sank and Nebraska's sea was shallowed. Islands and banks of mud, sand and rock aros- dripping from the dismal swamp and miles and miles of marsh, and at the same time the Omaha-Lincoln-Wichita range was wallowing in the ocean oose. The Laramie's massive sands and shales and thin silicious lime were laid about the base of the slowly sinking Hartville island. Cross cur rents made mixed bedding and slightly moving waters marked sand stones with ripples. Paleozoologists say that the Lara mie period was the last of the creta cious, and Paleobotanists say that it was the first of the tertiary. Animal life lingered over into the new and marsh conditions while plants changed quickly and old growths passed away. The most tenable theory as to the period is that the cretacious was before, the tertiary after, and the Laramie during the last Rocky mountain revolution. It was the pe riod of transition, Benton oysters found new lease of lige. then changed to largo fresh water clams ten inches long, soft woods of prodigious growth that made lignitious coal, passed away, and hard woods took possession of the lands. The Hart ville island sank still more, and over the west the great Plestocene lake spread. Bones of the Eocene were caught and swept along by the rushing wa ters and are to be found in rifts and drifts at Agate and in the Goshen holes. The country east and west of the sinking island warped and cracked. Great fissures paralleling the island opened up to be quickly filled 'with the ooze and slime called Brule clay. At the bast of the Scottsbluff moun tain (there was no mountain then), and elsewhere, the clay was warped, and twisted and tilted, and caught the mammoth turtles and winged bats in their toils, to hold them there forever. , j The original horse, a dozen varie ties of the hippos family, from five toed ponies down to the almost mod ern horse, left skeletons and bones in the Agate fields. There are bones of giant hogs that once roamed about the marshes of White river. And duck-like heads and kangaro bodies, and mammoth alligator tails. Croaking and am phibious monsters that sprawled in the mud and sand, or coiled under dripping trees, or splashed in the shallow waters searching for food, and wrote dumb tales of the Riocede on rocks. But through the misty rifts of the cloud enveloped earth, the sun was breaking; the brain cases of the higher forms of life were growing, yet there is lacking evidence of the existence of a primitive man. His bones are not found in White river stones with his contemporaries. However, the day of the brain was dawning in the younger world. Over the marshes swept the un tramelled wind. Over stretches of water and sand islands, aeolian agi tation, bore volcanic ash and dust and sand, which found lodgment in deep lagoons and moist places. When igneous activity stirred tho western mountain, air currents car ried ashes high, and then for days and days they sifted down into the wastes of water on Nebraska. Thou sands of acres in the Holdredge-Or-leans district, and in the Scottsbluff Wildeat mountains, contain exten- (Continued on Next Page). Order Your Coal Supply Early It is the wise thing to do You'll say so this winter, too. If we could make plain to you the situation, we know that you would put in your winter's coal supply now. We are not trying to scare you, but we are trying to tell you. The car shortage exists. It may look to you like everything Is moving, but you'll appreciate what w tell you when winter comes and It may be next to impossible to get coal. We've got coal to sell you today. We've got coal today to put into your bin. We can't promise more. It's good coal and it's a fair price. We urge you to get busy thing act. It will prove to your advantage. i Dierks Lumber & Coal Co. F. W. HAROARTEN, Mgr. PHONE 22 111 Laramie Ave.