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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1920)
T1IK ALLIANCE HERALD, ALLTAXC K, NEBRASKA, JANUARY 6, 1920. FIVE v. j Random Shots There is one young lady In Alli ance who has passed the twenty year mark without knowing what it means to stand under a mistletoe. Some folks lead uneventful lives. This is a world of misunderstand ings. We are all too much Inclined to add up two a-, two and make it six or eight, when it couies to the little personal things. Scot.sblutf Star-Herald. If it weren't for the last clause of that sentence, one Alliance editor might be inclined to take offense. The old-fashioned serving girl is coming back, they assure us, and soon it will be possible to hire a mald-of-all-work for $7 a week. There are boatloads of Scandinavian, Irish and Italian girls now on the way. Won't it be fine when, for the measly sum of a dollar a day, a girl can be secured who will cook, sweep, mind the baby, wash dishes and darn socks In her spare time? Of course, we 11 have to put up with hair in the custard pie, bum cooking and other evils, but think of the money that will be saved. The prospect ought to encourage any bachelor who gets hooked dur ing leap year. We never did like-hair in custard pie unless it wa a blond hair. You're more likely to notice the brunette kind. Another example of the way In which capital grinds down labor is seen in the new regulations adopted bv the Pennsylvania railroad con cerning te language of brakemen. Ousswords are forbidden from now on. Further than that, the railroad lists the words that may be employed to relieve the feelings. And this is the list: Gosh, darn, fudge, shucks. And yet they say railroad have no provocation to Btrike. men The Omaha Bee has just discov ered that Alliance is to have a pack ing plant. Which is somewhat of a slap at the nower-of the press. jJoth Alliance newspaners have been shouting the news, for several months. Oh, well! It may be an indication tha( the Bee is sleepier than usual. ,. Anyhow, America was here a long time before Columbus discovered It. Let's have some poetry. Here is a gem that was translated by Au rora Mardiganlan from the original Armenian; It's a romantic love tale, of a sort somewhat different than some you may have read lately. The Tree Toads A tree toad loved a she toad That lived up in a tree v She was a three-toad tree toad ! lut a two-toed toad was he. The two-toed tree toad tried to win The she toad's friendly nod: For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground That the three-toad tree toad trod But vainly the two-toed tree toad tried He couldn't please her whim; In her tree toad bower With her V-toe power The she' toad vetoed him. Gleaned. More heart-throb stuff: A Louis ville, Ky., dispatch states that 120,- 000 gallons of whisky, valued at over six million dollars, is on its way to the seaboard. Even if it were to come through Alliance, there would be no use hop ing. Each car is protected by an armed guard of secret service men The secret service will soon be flooded with new applications. The Germans get it. And yet many folks risked their lives tho kill the Hun! Why didn't the W. C. T. U. and the prohibition party tell us to wait and let our distillers win the war 7 You may tell everything but your troubles to the census-taker. He has troubles of his own. Whisky, like sympathy, may soon be found only in the dictionary. Here's one you can get off on your worst enemy: A man was lynched down in one ot the southern states (Rufe Jones didn't tell this story) and pinned on the lapel of his coat was a card on which the mourners read: "The deceased was a very bad cltlien in some respects, and a d d sight worse in others." This story reminds us, somehow, of a dinner we once ate in a restau rant tn Phillips, Nebraska. What forget. a blessing is the ability to Phillips has no restaurant now. There's a reason. Once we sniffed at statistics. We still sniff occasionally. But it cheers us up to know that there are now seventy thousand centenarians in the United States. Two days. months, three weeks, three Eighty-four days time for a rev- olutlon in Mexico. Do you wonder that we feel Chile? There's a lot of Joy in mathe matics, if you are looselike enough to enjoy that science. Frlnstance, in eighty-four days there are 2,016 hours. Again, In 2,016 hours there are 120,960 minutes. And In 120, 960 minutes there are 7,257,600 seconds. And every second, somewhere, a man dies. We should fret. But the doctor said he couldn't live. The Rocky Mountain News of December 30 carried the story of the purchase of a large farm near Colo rado Springs by William Milllken and two sons. Mr. Milliken at one time was a resident of Alliance, and is well known here. He invested his savings in land near McGrew, and the profits from this investment en abled htm to handle the Colorado Springs proposition. The reported consideration was $125,000. We pay cash for second-hand suits and overcoats. The 164 Clean ers and Tailors, our phone is our name. 213 Box Butte ave. 2 I lough t Dry, 8c per pound. Al liance Steam Laundry. tf Art Bald was down frpm Alli ance to visit the home folks and went on to central city on Monday to visit there. He says that the Home Guilders' organization there have sold $60,000 worth of stock and plan to build about three hundred houses the coming season. The new pack ing industry at an early, date will add that many families and they think they have a population of 12,000 in sight within the next Ave years, the railroad shops budget having been approved for an investment of f 300,- 000 the coming year. This plum was desired by other western towns, who made a good scrap for it, but it ap pears that Alliance has won out. Last year the Burlington bought back a right of way to Casper that they had once before owned and allowed to lapse, and it appears that the. pros pects of the oil industry will make expansion west and north a necessity, The Thomas-Bald company have two surface oil wells that are yielding about ten barrels each per day, and they think they have got Into a good field on the ground floo. Art is not now engaged in the law business more than to take care of the bust ness of his own and a few other com panies, but considers It a good field for general practice, and may devote himself thereto somewhat later. Aurora Register. Vitality borrowed from the eyes in early age will bankrupt the vision in later life. See Bauman and See Better. 12 Black double-breasted ulster, ex tra heavy, for sale, size 42. Call 164 Cleaners & Tailors. 213 Box Butte Ave. 8 The thermameters, a part of the equipment to be used in connection with the wire weather . service that Secretary Jones of the Commercial club has had restored, arrived Tues day morning and are installed at the city's power plant. There Isn't much work to taking the tempera ture for the government records, but It has to be done every day. The in struments Include one maximum and one minimum thermometer, and one of the city's employes will keep the records. . City Manager Smith sug gests that Rufe Jones take a little walk out to the power house at mid night each day and in the interest of science and Box Butte county keep an additional record, we 11 pass it on to Rufe the next time we see him, . Rough Dry, 8c per pound. Al liance Steam Loundry. 2 H. Hirst on December 81 opened the Fourth Street Market in the old Eagle block. He had adver tised extensively under the name of the "Kash-Karry" and a short time before the date set for the opening discovered that this name was reg lstered in the patent office by a chain of stores in the east and that he could not legally use it. Mr. Hirst has had a number of years' experi ence In the business in Missouri, and Is opening his store here with an en tirely new stock. His advertisement. which appears in a former issue, says that he guarantees to meet any mall-order competition, and this means that be will have to make some attractive prices. ' The grocery will be conducted on the "self-serve plan," the customer waiting on him' self. Do sot measure eye comforts by dollars. - Say, "I want my eyes prop erly fitted"; then Bee Bauman and See Better. It RECRUITING OFFICE BREAKS ALU RECORDS Men in Carge at Alliance Kiiroll Total of 161 Men Since Of. 11c o Opened in April - The Alliance recruiting office has been doing some real, honest-to- rosh recruitln' In Its nine months of existence. The military authorities had considered doing away with the Alliance station, but the men in charge, Sergeants Farrell and Henry T. Ryan, convinced them that It was worth continuing, and the figures Justify them. These two. men have been making hay at a rapid rate, and we hear that a prospect Is lost if he stops to listen. One indication that these two men are genuine spell binders may be seen in the fact that both of them have been married since they arrived In the city. The year 1919 has been one of the most successful in the history of the Alliance recruiting office. Since the opening of the office in April there have been 161 examinations made in the Alliance office. Of these 104 men were accepted. Two-thirds of the enlistments were for a period of three years. Enlistments at the Alliance office when compared with the other offices in the district of Iowa and Nebraska have been exceptionally high. The record of the local office exceeds the sum total of the offices at Creston, la., . Hastings, Neb., and Norfolk, Neb. For the past three months the Al liance office has doubled the number of men enlisted in Lincoln. Of the 104 men enlisted here thirty-seven were sent to attend the government schools, some of them taking courses In the electrical line, gas engines or the clerical course. Of the remain ing number twenty-five were sent overseas with the American forces in France and Germany. There were six men who decided to winter in Bunny Panama, two who desired service in the Philippine Islands and one man is doing the hula-hula in Hawaii. This record is correct and may be 8een upon application at the office at 101 Box Butte avenue. These fig ures, together with the splendid manner In which the office Is con ducted by the local recruiting officers Is quite sufficient to substantiate the fact that the office here is "doing business." Mrs. Thomas Kelley enterta'ned at an 8 o'clock dinner New Year's evening, there being present Mr. and Mrs. Lape, Clifford Sward, Miss Meta Koester,. Glen Wilt and Miss Chloe Richards. An elaborate dinner was served after which they bad a musi cal program. John Gill, who has been held In the county Jail for some weeks on a charge of forging checks on M. Nolan & Co., will be taken to Rushvllle some time this week, where he will be sentenced by Judge Westover.' The name of the new night watch, who will fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Calvin Cox, is Albert Roland, who has been on the Job since the first of the month. Wiley Taylor, a brother of Chief of Police Nova E. Taylor, is in the city visiting his brother. He comes from the chief's home town, Milan, Mo., and expects to remain her for several weeks. The chief's brother served in France almost long enough to get three gold service stripes', but was discharged last March, a few weeks before completing eighteen months of foreign service. SECRETARY DANIELS URGES V. S. HELP NAVAL MILITIA Federal aid for the rehabilitation and maintenance of state naval militia organizations, which lost their identity during the war, has been recommended by Secretary of the Navy Daniels. He urges that congress act Immediately. The naval militia was superseded by the national naval volunteers which, in turn, were transferred to the naval reserve force. The act pro viding for this transfer had the effect ot repealing the permanent charac ter of the appropriation provided in 1914 for supplying arms and equip ment to the militia organizations. Some of the states are reviving the naval militia, but there is no money with which the navy depart ment can assist them. The secre tary's recommendation is expected to give encouragement to these states and result In a bill providing the funds. She (refused a new hat) : "I cook and cook for you and what do I get? Nothing!" He: "You're lucky. I always get indigestion." London Opinion. A summer girl has many engage ments, but the telephone girl gets the most rings. When a bachelor meets the right girl he is apt to discover that he is the wrong man. Some people are always complain ing about their poverty who are rich without knowing it. When a man says he "means busi ness" it will depend on whether be has any business In him. Never eat pie with a knife. It's all right to eat pie with cheese, but knives should be eaten alone. A good man never dies. Call!' machus. WORLD'S BIGGEST NITRATE PLANT ' Cy GARRET SMITH. Lifting the bnn of was secrecy hn Just now brought to llirht for the flint time one of the mont stupendous fentu of construction In history the plan ning find building tn less tlinn one yenr of the InrccKt nnimmiium nitrate plant In the world nnd of a city around It for the housing of Its 23,000 workmen and their families. At the same time Is revealed one of the chief reasons why Germany suddenly surrendered a year ago. The German high command knew that the United States was ready at Muscle Ononis, Alabama, to manufacture 13 per cent of all the high explosives needed by all the Al lied armies on all fronts In the expect ed drive of the following spring. The . first person on construction work renched Muscle Shoals on No vember 20, 1017, On February 10, 1918, ground was first broken 'for a permanent plant building. On Octo ber 20, 1918, eight months and eight days later, the manufacturing plant had . begun the production of ammo nium nitrate. When America entered the world war In April, 1017, she had no means of producing the enormous quantities of high explosives necessary to pro vide the huge army she planned to raise. The very fact that our Indus tries were already worked to capacity providing ammunition to the allies seemed to make further production for our own use Impossible. ' Fertilizer Process Turned to War Use. At this Juncture the Ordnance De partment turned to cyanamld, a com mcrclnl fertilizer, 'which hnd for some years been produced successfully at Niagara Falls, by a process the Ameri can rights of which were obtained in 1907 from Germany by Frank Sher man Washburn, head of the American Cyannmid Company. ' By this process cyanamld was pro duced by extracting nitrogen from the air and combining it with calcium ob tained from limestone rock and carbon from coke. By putting cyanamld through three more processes both am monla and nitric acid can be extracted from It and combined Into the explo sive, ammonium nitrate.. Mr. Wash burn wns Invited to present plnns and estimates for the construction In the shortest possible time of an ammonium nitrate plnnt at Muscle Shoals, Ala bama, nnd a contract between his com pany and the United States wns enter ed Into under dnte of November 10, 1917. ; To hove general supervision of plan nlng and carrying out the work an or ganization known as the Air Nitrates Coroorution wns formed to act as agent of the Ordnance Department This corporation provided the general designs, supervised all the work and operated the enmp. the town and the plant It also Installed all equipment In the chemical plant. The various other sections of the work were sub-, let to organizations that were special Ists In the directions In which they were asked to help. New City Built From the Ground, It was necessary to build a new town to house the laborers. For this Job Westlnghouse Church Kerr Com pany was called In as contractor. This company aiso uum um uuimu(, "" chemical plant Within four months - L.. II. . 1 knlMlnM A , A 12,000 workmen had been assembled and a city capable of accommodating 25,000 Inhabitants had been completed. with lodging, restaurants, stores, of fices,-police headquarters, schools, fire departments, hospitals, motion picture theaters, electric light and sewerage systems. The construction of the plant proper was b?un on February 10, 1918. Just eight months and eight days later the big plant began a sttdy output of am monium nitrate. The plant contains 113 permanent buildings, with a roof area of over 20 acres. To provide the electric current It was necessary to build a steam power electric plant, for It would have taken three years or more to complete the dam and hydro-electric station now un der way. This plant, built by the J. O. White Corporation, Is one of the larg est steam plants for developing elec trical energy In the world. Tli output of the plant Is 300 tons of ammonium nitrate a day, and this can be produced at Muscle Shoals at a cost less than one-half the rtandard fixed price paid by the Government for am monium nitrate produced by other methods and one-fourth to one-fifth the cost of other high explosives of equal strength. Compared with the older process of making ammonium nitrate, the Havings made by this plant would have paid the $60,000,000 cost of the entire plant In about one and one-half years of operation. As a military weapon It is one of the wisest am- most economical expendi tures that the Ordnance Department has undertaken. As an agent in stop ping the war and as a future protec tion te the country its value U lacalcu- ... FOUR BULLION WOMEN TO BE IN THRIFT FIGHT It is expected , that 4.000,000 women will take part In the big cam paign which the treasury department ! Intends to inaugurate on January 1, to reduce the cost of living. The pur pose of this movement will be to in duce women to keep careful accounts of their dally expenditures so that they may discover what items may be eliminated. The campaign will continue until April 1. The discharged soldjcr hastened gladly home to see his wife. He found her polishing the kitchen stove nd slipped quietly up and put his mis around her. "Two quarts of milk and a pint of cream tomorrow," she said without looking up. American Legion Weekly. The cook's assistant was stirring the big pot of stew for the company when he discovered a rat in It. "Hey! .There's a big rat in the soup," he yelled. The cook stopped whistling long enough to reply: "Take the dumn thing out; he don't belong there." American Legion Weekly. A Swede came down from the woods and, entering a saloon, called for a drink of good old squirrel whisky. Said the bartender: , We're all out of squirrel whisky, but we've got some good Old Crow." "Yudas Priest!" exclaimed the Swede, "I no want to fly, I Just want to hop around a little." Two Irishmen prepared for a duel. "Ol'm twict as large as he is, an' Oi should stand twlct as far away," protested one. Alsy, now," admonished his sec ond, and stepping up with a piece of chalk, he drew two lines down the opponent's coat about as far apart as his own man was wide. . "There, now, fire away, and re member any hits outside these lotnea don't count." American Legion Weekly. To have friends, one must be friendly. Every Housewife Dreams of Having Her Kitchen Fully Equipped with Aluminum Ware Aluminum Kitchen Utensils are the last word in convenience, cleanliness and personal satisfaction. , Alladin Aluminum Ware satisfies every wish of the careful housewife. Every piece is strongly made of heavy material. Handles are full rounded, easy grip. They are constructed to give Service and Long Life. . v We have a good assortment of this beautifully finished ware. mm HARDWARE CO. PROMPT AND COURTEOUS SERVICE It Is Worth It ' ' ' You can get 5c a, pound more butterfat for your Cream by selling it while it is sweet. A Little Extra Care Brings Added Returns We are now paying for Sweet Cream, lb. butterfat 70o ! : Churning Cream, lb. butterfat 65o You may deliver ! At the Uptown Station, 118 West 3d St. . , Or at the Creamery : v ; Or you may ship as baggage - r " "- Alliance Creamery Co. The Importance of Good Silver Just as good cooking adds rel ish to the meat, good silver adds beauty to the table. It is Indlspenslble when entertain ing, and should be equally so when the family dines alone. ' Thlele's is noted for good sil ver. Interesting variety shown In patterns ot famous silver smiths. In beauty and in qual ity It is silver that proclaims good taste and good purchasing judgment Purchasing silver at Thlele's, for the home or for gifts, is purchasing permanent satisfac tion. Cherts of flatware $20.00 to $50.00 Thiele's Jewelry Watches Drug Brunswick Phonographs Watch Inspector C, B. Q.