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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1920)
Random Shots J In these days, when the suckers If re Jumping out of the water to grab the hook, It Isn't necessary to take the trouble to gild goldbrlcks. However, when you get stung, the.re's lesB excuse to howl. ,v : .Ve still retain a receipt. The Japanese women are orpanlz lng to do away with the kimono. Waat fools those mortals be! In Uganda a wife costs four bulls, a oox or cartridges and six sewing I needles. If you pay any less, you 1 don't get the genuine article. There 7 ere no substitutes. , . Ar.ong other things, it may be motioned that the conductor of this colyum doesn't dislike fried chicken. .' O for a seat at some good board ing house. ? It may Interest you these hot days to know that the plural of "sum- f mons" Is "summonses." 1 A new stunt these days Is to pre sent your photograph to a friend and then collect the price after Me has expressed himself as delighted with It. 5 """ Maybe the photographer doesn't care to aesume all the risk. Our education must have been ne glected. We heard today for the first time that Doraldina was a prom inent movie star. tf she Isn't, she will be. That kid has the looks. SJe's one of those Hawaiian beauties. She possesses what Is described as a 'loquacious and persuasive back Folks who Bay. there la nothing to the shimmy dance don't know. Take It from us it's an art. Joke by movie star: 'Babies are about the only thing left at pre-war prices. No war tax on them. ' No war tax on marrying, either and goodness knows It woul t be appro priate." Three men In The Herald shop have decided not to homestead tats year. It's a rought life at best. Today's lient Story They were discussing the war. "I suppose this is the most fearful Struggle the world has ever seen," said the traveling salesman. ' "Oh, I don't know,'!, replied the postmaster. "I once saw two Jew highwaymen trying to take money from a Scotchman." No more signs daubed all over the sidewalks. Hooray for the council. It wouldn't have been so bad aad the words been spelled somewhere near correctly. That year of thirteen months, each month of equal length, Is hopeless. When such a row is stirred up over a single hour from April to October, what kind of a social earthquake would result from seeking to alter the month? AMKUICAV MXitOX NOTTS The Bridgeport, Conn., post has been given an old family mansion, the gift of the citizens of Bridgeport, for a clubhouse. It cost; Including furnishings, about $23,000. The rooms consist of a lounging room, library, reception room, card room, secretary's ofllce, women's auxillfrv room, conference room, dormitory with sleeping accommodations for six visitors, and a basement with poolroom, kitchen and storeroom. The post expects to erect an adrtl to contain a billiard room, meeting lall and swimming pool. If you leave Alliance and ask for a transfer, you will be given one by the adjutant, but you are still a mem ber of Alliance Post until you give your certificate of transfer to an other post and the adjutant of Al liance post receives notification from the adjutant of your new post tha he has received your transfer. Sev eral certificates of transfer have been given to members of Alliance post but none of them have as yet been used. Consequently, we have lost no members by transfer as yet. Did you read "The Grammes of a Corporal" In the Legion Weekly of July 23? If not, you missed some thing. If you did, didn't It make you a little homesick for Just one more day as a recruit? The Weekly is sure an Interesting magazine these days and full of spice and pep. The circulation is well over tae 700,000 mark. That means that several times that number of people are en Joying It. In the showing of a pictorial news weeklv in a movie hoiisn In Ran Diego, the operator flashed on the screen a picture of two distinguished French generals riding In an auto mobile. Crowds lined the pavements, their umbrella up and water drip ping from their hata. Suddenly from the audience came the awed cry: "My Oawd, Iff still rainln' over there." Speaking of hot weather, how's this: "And won't you drop Into tea " she asked sweetly. "O, no!" meditatively. "It's too warm." HA M M I HCICIJjAN IM'S FOR SALE 1'otato sacks, lie each a No. 1 condition; Inspect befor you buy. Joe Weldman at Alliance Auto ft Truck Co., 114 Box Butte. 70tf The Telephone You Want Is Only One of Millions Perlinps you are anxiously waiting to have your telephone moved or to have a telephone installed. You have been told that the delay is because we can't get enough telephone supplies. IF YOU COULD GET 300 On Your Money WOULD IT INTEREST YOU? We have no oil stock for sale, but we have an investment to offer over 100 per cent on your money in fifteen years and which we honestly believe will do twice that good. Read the following carefully : First, what is a dollar? It is the yardstick by which the value of all com modities is measured. The dollar that would buy certain goods fifteen years ago will now buy less than half that many goods now. In other words, we now have what we call a 50-cent dollar. If you believe, as we do, that prices of goods are going to decline during the next few years, then you must believe that dollars are going to increase in value. "We believe they will double. Therefore every dollar that you have at this time is going to have considerably greater buying power than it now has. Figure It Out For Yourself Every dollar that you deposit now in this bank at 5 per cent interest, will, if compounded, amount to $2.07 in fifteen years. If, in that time, prices have declined one-half, your $2.07 will buy as much as $4.14 would now. You have your original dollar with 314 per cent interest on top of it. This is assuming that prices will decline 50 per cent in the next fifteen i, years. If they go down more than that, your profit is correspondingly more. If they go down less than that, your profit is less. If you believe prices are going to advance over the next fifteen years- then this advertisement is not for you. "When prices are going up you should invest your savings in goods, as your dollars are declining in value if you hold them. When prices are going down, your savings should be invested in dollars because they are advancing in value. k'tfJEV m Dad Never Had This Chance This advertisement is more particularly addressed to young people, for they are the ones who will benefit if they take advantage of it. Every thou sand dollars that your old dad tucked away fifteen years or twenty years ago is now worth about $500 less in buying power. You have an opportunity that the old man never had. Every thousand dollars that you are able to put aside now will some day be worth $2,000 in buying power. THINK IT O VER THEN SEE US FIRST NATIONAL BANK ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA A world-wide shortage of metals and other raw materials; as well as insufficient transportation facilities, is making it impossible for the fac tories to produce enough supplies for the telephone companies. As a result there is delay in furnishing many people telephone service. It requires very little equipment to furnish your service; that is true. But you are one of the millions of people throughout the country who use Bell service. Here arc a few figures which bIiow the annual requirements of the Bell System for metals used in the building and upkeep of the plant: 100,000,000 pound of lead used principally for the cov ers of telephone cables. 75,000,000 pounds of copper used mostly for wire. . 24,000,000 pounds of iron for cross-arm bolts, cross arm braces, guy clamps, etc. 20,000,000 pounds of galvanised Iron and steel wire, 18,000,000 pounds of steel. 10,000,000 pounds of brass. 700,000 pounds of tin. 100,000 pounds of antimony. NEBRASKA TELEPHONE COMPANY MULE CREEK. w BOX BUTTE COUNTY FARMS On account of the more or less stringent financial conditions we now have the opportun ity to offer some exceptional bargains in improved and unimproved Box Butte county farms, as well as in some choice western Nebraska stock ranches. It will pay you to write or call on us for detailed information regarding some of the bargains which we hare at this time. Easy terms can be secured for you. If you have western property for sale and want it handled quickly, list it with us. We look after properties for non-residents. THE THOMAS COMPANY LLOYD 0. THOMAS HAROLD S. THOMAS Phone 20 Eeddish Block Alliance, Neb. is Producing Almost Twice as Much Oil as Lance Creek Region in Wyoming District seems to be only on verge of its full productive capacity 3,000 barrels a day being shipped out from field (By Robert G. Dill in the Denver Post on Friday. July 16, 1920.) "The Mule Creek field, which lies almost on the boundary between Wyomnig and South Dakota and whose discovery two years ago was largely overshadowed by the sensa tional development of the Lance Creek district, is now producing nearly twice as much oil as the latter and appears to be only on the verge of its full productive capacity. Oil from this district is marketed through a pipeline which h s its terminals at Dakoming, 8. D., a... shipped in tank cars to the Imperial Oil, Ltd., at Kegina, Sask. "Fifteen hundred barrels a day are being sent from the field to the railroad and an equal amount is being shipped to Canada. Of this production the Western States Oil Land company has about half and the Ohio company has the remainder. The former has seven wells and the Ohio company has nine, a id other concerns own two. "For a long time after the completion of the pipeline shipment of oil to market was held up by a lack of tank cars. A sufficient number of these tanks have been provided, however, and the diminutive field is daily earning $3,750 for its producing companies. Both the Western States and the Ohio oil companies keep several strings of tools at work con stantly, so that production is certain to be increased at a faster rate than the natural shrink age." ti&t&& Several other concerns are operating in -he Mule Creek field, including the Wyoming Northeastern Oil Company, organized by well known Nebraska men. This company is sell ing a limited amount of stock for the purpose of developing its holdings. It has already drilled its first well to a depth of over 1400 f ;et on its Mule Creek holdings. You are in vited to thoroughly investigate the company and its holdings. The company's operations at the present time are confined to 1040 acres in the Mule Creek and Hidden Dome fields and the money received from the sale of stock un lor the permit granted by the state of Ne braska will be used for the development of these holdings. This is a speculative security and returns on the money invested in the stock of this corporation depend upon the discovery of oil in paying quantities by drilling upon the company's properties. Wyoming-Northestern Oil Company Alliance, Authorized Capital Stock, $1,000,000. Box Butte County Nebraska Authorized by and issued by virtue of Permit No. 915, granted by the Nebraska Bureau of Securities under date of June 24, 1920. The Bureau of Securities does not recommend or disparage investment in any securities licensed by it. 3E 7r