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THI! ALLIANCE HERALD. FRIDAY, AfRIL 16, 1920.
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be sold by the "pool." Frederick la
to mant ge it and he in certain that
he ran sell it, and when It la sold,
all that we'll hare to do la to cash
the bank draft that Fred will Bend
us.
Our hat la off, thla pfrasant spring
nornlng, lo Mr. F. W. Dyer, whose
first name we presume to be Fred
tick. . That's a nice name, and It
' fit htm. Frederick hails from Den
. r, Colorado, where he has, with
at a doubt, a nifty suite of offices,
several polchrltndlnous stenogra
phers and a fat bank roll. At any
rate, If he Is shy on the latter, he
lias ambitions and we should ever
rejoice when We perceive ambition.
As Emeraon once said: Let a man
feat eat a record number of eggs,
drink a larger amount of booze or
tell a bigger lie than his neighbor,
and the world will fairly beat a path
to his door. Those may . not have
been the master philosopher's exact
words, but they carry the thought ne
. had In mind.
Frederick, for all we know, may
be the best sort of a business man,
and may be fully as important In
the Denver financial district as his
mimeographed letterhead would lead
ua to believe. Dut we are not tak
ing our hat off to him because of
what he may be, but becauRe of his
x sublime nerve his unmitigated gall.
'We got a letter from Frederick this
morning, and it was as good an ini
- Itatlon of typewriting as we have
een. And we read It through
breathlessly, stopping only, now and
then, to breathe.
And this is the scheme that Fred
crick unfolded: All we have to do
la to mall him our check he doesn't
ask for a certified check, either, he
trusts us. The check Is to be In the
mount of $50. For this small sum,
my brothers, we are to be let into
financial circles. We are to be a
member of a little pool that Is to op
crate In a certain oil stock. Fred
crick usually confines his pools to
bis friends and clients, but in our
ease he will make an exception. We
Are to be especially favored. The
tock (not named) was selling "last
year" at sixty cents a share, but he
baa been able to buy quite a block
at a much lower figure.
Of course, there are a number of
oil stocks which sold fairly high last
year and can be purchased lower
fight now. But this stock Is good
toff, and the lowered price can be
explained, If we are Interested
enough to inquire. The fact is that
wc will get exactly four hundred
hares for this fifty plunks, a trifle of
12tt cents a shore. This stock will
Dut can this stock be sold at
profltf Listen to Frederick. He
knows the Ins and outs of this game.
"We anticipate a natural market, .so
there will be no advertising expense.
The stock should sell Itself, Just on
natural demand." It's good stock;
Frederick will see to that. One well
past the 2,000-foot mark la now dril
ling, and if it cornea In, everything
will be hunkydory. Already there
are some gaa wells and "where
there Is gas there Is oil." Frederick
probably means natural gas.
And, finally, this letter appeals to
our sporting Instinct. Take a chance,
Frederick urges. "This is a little
gamble a flyer and will cost only
ISO. If the entire amount Is loss
it won't hurt." And we might win
quite a sizeable sum. As Fred
erick says, "We believe it will make
us all two or three hundred dollars."
lie knows that he, at least, will make
that amount.
Now, we may be doing Frederick
a big injustice by even hinting that
there is something wrong with his
proposition. It may be as open and
aboveboard as he says it is. There's
a bank's name for reference, and it
sounds like a good bank. Frederick
may account for every cent he gets
probably will and he may even
tell who owns this lease the pool
is to buy. Tne name of the stock
we buy sight unseen will be dis
closed when he receipts for the cash
we send him. And if we can't spare
fifty cold plunks, he'll let us in on
the installment plan $10 down and
much more later on.
About ninety-nine out of a hun
dred such letters .finally wind up in
the furnace, but the hundredth one
will find a live and healthy sucker
whoyearns to be a good sport and
take a chance. Maybe he can afford
to take a chance, and maybe some in
nocent persons will suffer if he loses.
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What gets our goat Is this that
there Isn't any way to put a stop to
the open operation of such schemes
as Frederick's. If Fred lived in Ne
braska, he couldn't offer this stock
for sale or any other unless he had a
blue sky permit. Dut he can sell it
through mail and no one can touch
him. The state law can't touch In
terstate business. He can't be
grabbed under the law forbidding
the use of the mail to defraud, be
cause he's open and aboveboard he
tells everyone that it's a gamble.
He's not defrauding anyone; at least
it would be difficult to prove.
Some day the: United States gov
ernment, which Is howling loudly
now about hanging on to war sav
ings stamps and liberty bonds, and
warning Investors to look before they
buy, will get busy and put a stop to
this selling of unknown stocks by
mall. It's a rather peculiar sltua
Hon when a company can't send rep
resentatives into the state to sell
stocks openly, but when mail sales
men can come and go at will, and
where even newspapers can print ad
vertisements for outside companies
which have no permit to dispose of
their shares. Some day there'll be
, teeth in other laws beside the proht
bltlon enforcement statutes.
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NEVADA THOMAS
Nevada Thomas was born at
Grcenupsburg, Ky., November 18,
1877, and died April 4, 1920, at Bay
ard, Neb., aged forty-three years,
four months and sixteen days. When
yet a small girl her parents moved
to Missouri and later to Kansas City,
Kas., where they lived for several
years. While in her 'teens they
moved to Oklahoma, where she met
Henry S. Sutton, whom she married
October 18, 186, at New Kirk, Okla.
In May, 1909 she with her hus
band and family came to Nebraska
from Iola, Kas., and lived on a farm
near Alliance. The next year they
filed on a homestead near there.
where they lived for five years. la
1916 Mr. Sutton purchased .he Clar
ence Yoey homestead six miles north
Of Bayard and the family have been
residents of the Wild Horse commun
ity since that time.
Mrs. Sutton was the mother of
thirteen children, ten of whom are
living. One little girl, Anna, died
in 1908 and is resting in the cem
eteryat Iola, Kas., and two infanta
are Bleeping in the Evergreen cem
etery near Alliance, where, the
mother waa laid to rest April 7,
1920. The surviving children are
Mrs. Emallne Baker, Mrs. Inia Coker,
Jason. Jessie, George, Ethel, ClaN
ence, Neal, Edna and Louise Bay
ard. Besides her sorrowing husband,
children and six grandchildren, she
is survived by her aged father and
two brothers and sisters.
Mrs. Suiton had not been well for
ten years, but she waa always kind
and loving to her family and ever
ready to Join them in their joya and
sorrows. As a friend and neighbor
she waa alwaya ready to lend a help
ing hand and she will be greatly
missed by those of the 'community.
She waa a member of the Wild Horse
Woman's club and held In high es
teem by all.
Her death came very suddenly,
due to heart failure and was a great
hock to the whole neighborhood.
On March 25 she underwent a seri
ous operation and was seemingly Im
proving rapidly when the change
came and she passed away within an
hour.
She was not a member of any
church, but had often expressed her
desire to become a Christian and we
hope to meet her at the resurrection
of the righteous.
Words of comfort were spoken to
the bereaved one sby Elder C. H.
Miller of the Seventh Day Adventlst
church of Oerlng, from the eleventh
chapter of St. John, showing the
wonderful power of God to raise the
dead and the sympathy Jesua has for
those in sorrow.
The neartrelt sympathy of the en
tire community goes out to Mr. Sut
ton and family In thla hour of bereavement.
Austria wants a loan from wealthy
Americans and will pledge as secur
ity palaces, museums, fortresses, any
government property and even the
city of Vienna itself. Here Is a chance
for some of our multi-millionaires to
lord it for a consideration over the
most exclusive and haughty aristoc
racy known to Europe "before the
war."
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and all kinds of Metals. Top prices
for Hides and Furs.
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Well be glad to show you how
easily it can be done.
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