T1IK ALLIANCE HERALD, ALLTAXC K, NEBRASKA, JANUARY 6, 1920.
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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.
