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TOE ALLIANCE HERALD, FRIDAY, MAT 7, 1920.
K13111ASKA tt-WS NOTES OP
TIIIIITY.TWO KAllS AGO
The North Bend Journal la dead, i
A flouring mill is being put up at
Mason.
Lincoln la overrun with sneaks and
tramps. i
Lake Kearney has opened up as a
xdeasure resort ' i
Senator Van Wyck Is making a
canvass of the state. i
Too much rain is the cry of farm
ers around Arapohoe. I
The Wymore police are shooting
mil unmuzzled dogs.
The work of enlarging Fort Robln
ron has been begun.
A new depot ts to bo built at Mead,
Saunders county.
Hastings claims to be the best
horse market in central Nebraska.
One hundred and eleven teachers
attended the Butler county institute.
Oakland is agitating a co-operative
lumber, grain and stock com
pany. A pair of Missouri capitalists are
negotiating to start a creamery in
rapllllon.
The crop of wild grapes is very
large in the vicinity of Plattsmouth
this season.
Seventy-six posts of the grand
army have been organized in the
state this year.
Deatrlce is experimenting with the
Blue river, with a view of supplying
the city.
A : Republican senatorial conven
tion will bo held at McCook on the
9th of next month.
Work has been discontinued on
the SouthiLoup branch of the Union
Pacific railroad. .
Over 1,000 Butler county people
have signed the total abstinence
pledge in the last few weeks.
Franklin will make a strong effort
to pull the county Beat away from
Bloomlngton this fall.
North Platte horsemen are train
ing a number of promising thorough
breds for the fall races.
An unknown Derson shot into a
crowd of people coming out of
church at Oakland SunJay night.
The Republican cnoventloa in the
First congressional dlBtrlct will meet
at Beatrice September 22.
Peter Linewlther and John Vase
are under arrest at Papllllon for
horse stealing In Madison county.
A farmer named Dunn was killed
by lightning a few days ago near Hay
8prlngs, Sheridan county.
John Stelnhart has received his ap
ponltment as United States store
keeper at Nebraska City. .
A horse thief named James Little
shot himself last week near Pierce
City, rather than submit to capture.
Notwithstanding the dry spell in
the middle of the season, corn will
as usual be king In Pierce county
tbia year.
The water In the Blue river is to
be used by the citizens of Beatrice.
Filters will be built first to test the
quality.
The directors of the Dodge County
Agricultural society have recently
decided not to thold the usual fair
this year.
Lightning at Plalnvlew struck In
one night two trees, a hog, three
grain stacks, two calves and a tele
graph pole.
S. S. Johnson, living near Syra
cuse, was badly gored by a mad bull
while loading the animal from pas
lure last Tuesday. '
Fells City Leader: The crop of ,
early apples In this section Is unus
ually larKC, and the price has been as
low as 25 cents.
The city council of Auburn has ad
vertised Inducements and a bonus in
bonds or money for the estcb'-Ish-ment
of manufactors.
Chinese cucumbers are benlg rais
ed near Schuyler. Mongolian doctors
will have to be admitted if the Indus
try Is encouraged.
Track laynlg has begun on the
Wayne extension of the St. Taul and
Omaha road. The brnach Is only
twonty-two miles long.
Frank P. Wlgton and George L.
Wightom of Norfork have Just been
admitted to practice In the Interior
department at Washington.
The Elkhorn Valley line Is put
ling In a system of water-works at
Long Pine that will furnish 100,000
gallons of pure spring water daily.
Blaine county boasts of sod corn
twelve feet high and ears twelve
Inches long. The stalks will bo pre
served for torch handles for the cam
paign In 1888.
A "shlveree" party In Woca belt
ed tin cans and blew horns until ex
hausted with drought and disgust
and the silence that prevaded the
cottage. It was untenanted.
The Hastings Trotting association
Is preparing for an Interesting fall
meeting September 21-2S. Three
thousand one hundred dollars will
be distributed In purses.
The murderer of Lon Adams, In
Nebraska City, has so far successful
ly eluded the officers. They are on a
warm trail, however, and expect to
nab him before many days.
A street car company has been or
ganized in Crank Island, backed by
O. H. Abbott, II. O. Koenig, C. W.
Scarff, I. R. Alters, O. B. Thompson,
A. H. Baker, all men of means.
Admirers of Buffalo Bill In Chey
enne county suggest that one of the
six new counties .into which Chey
enne county will be divided, be call
ed Cody, in honor of the Wild West
prince. v
The young town of Ravenna, on
the Burlington and Missouri exten
sion, thirty miles west of Grand Is
land, already boasts of a paper, the
News, published by Clayburg Broth
ers.
Sundya at Crawford, Neb., a half
dozen colored soldiers opened fire
upon a woman of the town and after
firing twenty shots hit her, one In
the shoulder and one in the ankle.
Noah was Right
When Noah started building the Ark, everybody
laughed at him. Said he'd Never Need It.
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Well, you remember what happened!
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And it's a little that way yet. Too many people think
there's no hurry about building homes of their own.
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Then come the rainy days of their old age and they
realize their mistake too latel
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' It's never too early to start building a home. Families
who haven't done so yet should begin this very year.
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Alliance and Box Butte County need work for their
skilled crafts and jobs for their returned soldiers.
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Start something! Build! You'll never regret it.
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If you don't know any good archi
tects, contractors and carpenters, we
can give you the names of plenty who
are reliable, good in their work,
square in their prices.
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Kindly give us the chance to assist you in any way we
can, We have had experience in building problems and
will gladly give you our best, conscientious advice about
I anything you wish to know in the building business. Let
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FLOYD LUCAS, MQR.
JOHN
By DOROTHY O. GRAVES.
I The entire force of a destroyer
lately put In commission consists of
, four, men three officers and one
enlisted man.The former will have to
i take turns In ordering the crew
about.
It takes all sorts of people to
make up a world, Including the
young fellow who tbniks giving a
canoe load of sofa pillows a ride la
havin g agood time. Detroit Free
Press.
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Perhaps the only real pleasure John
Devlne had, day lu, duy out, was th
too brief Interval of hall space between
tie third and fourth flights of hl
rooming house. Here In the room di
rectly beneath his own, the door often
stood open a few Inches, enough to
allow a glimpse to a passerby. There
was a Jolly little stove always gleam
ing red frequently crackling gnyly.
Beside It stood gaunt, a violin rack.
That was all.
John never passed the doorway
without a longing glance at the stove
and a prolonged gaze Into the narrow
opening.
For weeks this room had fascinated
him. Why, he could not say. Was It
the stove? .Was it "the roomer; he
never saw?
To-night he passed the dbor, slowly,
He Baw the same few Inches only, and
he heard the lightest possible rustle
and that was all, but his heart choked
him, and he stumbled up to his own
room.
There he snt on the edge of his
lumpy bed, and burled his face In his
hands. He wanted to cry. He did not
cry. Instead, he thought and thought
Was "the roomer" lonely, too? Was
she young or old? Dare he speak to
her?
He glanced about his grim four walls
which could never be a home to him.
nis memory of a little gray house In
the fields of golden corn, or among the
tender spring shoots, or the whitened
stubble of December, sent hot tears to
his eyes. The Christmas box from
home had been meager. "The girls,"
who took pies and cookies as a matter
of fact, and who never knew what it
was to be away from home, could not
understand.
But little Benny, "queer kid," bad
sent three ears of the prize corn from
the farm, and all the "popcorn he had
raised In his school garden. "Queer
kid, Benny," thought the big brother,
But the corn looked good to him. It
was the best present he had ever had.
Meanwhile something he had not ex
pected was happening In the room
below. The strains of the violin float
ed up to him j bravely, cheerily they
began. It was a tune he knew and
loved. A voice joined a young voice.
sweet and tender.
The voice trembled and ceased In a
sob. The chords of the Instrument
stumbled and ceased. The door banged
shut.
John leaped to his feet He hastily
selected the three lusty ears of yellow
corn from the others and bound them
together with their own dried silk, and
as hastily removed his heavy boots.
Then stealthily he crept down the
stairs. Outside the room under his
own, be noiselessly fastened the ears
of corn to the door knob and stealthily
returned to his room. Up there he hur
ried "tidying up," whisking bis toilet
articles Into a drawer, kicking his
shoes and rubbers under the bed, and
stuffing his clothing behind the soiled
curtain which served as a tloset
The he snatched up his banjo and
strummed the strings. Ills own voice,
untrained, but young and spontaneous,
swelled.
Singing lustily, John heard sounds
ftthep thnn tha ttnimmlnff ttnA hfa flint.
Ing. Was be sure he heard a stifled
cry of pleasure? . Was ' he sure he
heard a rustle on the stairs? He
sang on.
The unlatched door swung open and
standing there half afraid, half Joy.
ous, the ears of corn tightly clasped
In her arms stood a girl, black-haired.
red-lipped, black-eyed, ner cheeks
glistened with tears of homesickness
end surprise.
John was singing the tune.
Sobbing, the girl finished the stanza,
"and corn and somebody to talk to,
You will talk, won't you?" she pleaded.
"Tell me about It. I am so homesick."
John was shy, and he flushed, but he
saw the girl's distress was greater
than his, so he stalled bravely and
said:
"I come from Mineral. Where do
jou come from?"
The girl smiled brightly now. The
tears sparkled In her dimples. "Oh;
she said. "I'm most a neighbor. I'm
from Sheffield."
"Sheffield!" John laughed with de
light. "I'm John Devlne," he said.
simply.
"And Tm Lois rrentlss," volunteered
the girl. They both laughed for slyer
Joy
"John Devlne," the girl spoke de
cidedly, "I'm so homesick I don't know
what to do. And, if you're from 1111
nois you must be all right. And, If
you're one of the Devlnes from Mineral.
I've heard about you, so that's all
right too. Now," she entered the
room and placidly seated herself on
John's lumpy bed, "I've something to
say."
John grinned at her.
"Let's take that." the pointed to
Benny's popcorn, "and pop it You
come down and well pop It ou my
tove,"
"Have you a popper?" asked the
practical John
' "Of course not" answered Lois, "but
anybody can pop Illinois popcorn In a
tea strainer,. provided she wants to,
chuckled Lois as' she Jumped up from
the ' bed and ran to ' the door. "Of
course, If you don't want to'
But John was talking. ' too. "Pro
vided she and he want to," he was
aylng, emphatically,
Lois was tripping down the stairs
and laughing gai ly, so. naturally John
laughed,. too.jind hurrledf ter her.
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