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JBDWIN M. HI HK IluKinom Mar.
Official newnpapi-r of th City of
AllUnrr; iilllnal npairr of Vox
Jatt County.
Ownrd and puhllnhed by Th Htirr
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AN OPPORTUNITY
Opportunity is knocking at the door
f Ma or Kodgers. It's the lest chance
to make n hit with the profile who
levied him to office or at least a
majority of them than will be found
in another fifty years.
The jeople of Alliance want the city
manager plan to go into effect. They
do not want it two years from now,
but as soon as they can pet it. The
recent special election brought out a
Tery fair proportion of the voters, and
they spoke their mind unmistakably.
They want a change not that they
are dissatisfied with Mayor Ilodgcrs'
Administration but they believe that
better results can be secured through
A new system.
Through a technicality, it is possible
that the will of the majority may have
been thwarted. Opinions differ as to
the legality 0f the city manager elec
tion. There are Rood grounds for lo
itering that the courts will hold the
ftotice was sufficient. Obviously, the
matter should be settled at once, and
fftot be permitted to go by default or
4ng along until friends of the plan
are forced to put up the money to
make a fight.
Mayor Lodgers has a remedy in his
own hands. He can request the city
attorney to take the matter into dis
trict court and get an immediate de
cision. This wurfc is also open to
the advocates of the plan, but in view
of the" fact that the voters have regis
tered their preference, this would seem
to be up to the city administration, of
which Mayor Hodgers is the head.
The mayor his intimated that he
will do nothing. He is reported to
have said that the men who signed the
prt:tion may now prove it legal. But
this is the wrong attitude. Not only
the men who signed the petition, but
a majority of the voters of Alliance
want the new system. They will re
sent being deprived of it by a mere
technicality. They will not look kindly
upon the man who stands in their way.
Frankly, it would seem to be up to
Mayor Kodgers to take the initiative,
lie is the logical person to do it, not
alone because he is the servant of the
people who elected him, but because it
is the right thing to do the fair
cour?e to take, as well as the most
politic move. The Herald does not be
lieve that the mayor will be satisfied
with a victory gained in this way. The
Herald believes that he wants the will
of the majority to govern. And The
Herald is of the opinion that the
mayor will take the initiative and do
it without delay.
Tin: SF.PTIC TANK
A number of people in Alliance are
undoubtedly interested in the proposal
to so amend the septic tank that the
air in the eastern half of tne city can
be used without calling upon gas
masks. There are plenty of arguments
whv something should be done, and
there is general rejoicing that the
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council has taken the initial steps to
ward finding a remedy for the city's
chief nuisance.
Unfortunately, in years past the
septic tank has been rebuilt and re
vamped, with unsatisfactory results.
This leads some estimable citizens to
conclude that because thre have been
two failures, the septic tank idea is
worthless. The fact is, however, that
larger cities than Alliance are using
septic tanks with perfect satisfaction,
and there is no question that it is the
only Folution of the problem, provided
the equipment is adequate.
It is to be hoped that the city coun
cil will not proceed to jump at the
thought that all our troubles will be
over by the construction of a pipe line.
The proper procedure, before bonds
are voted or any steps are taken, is
to have a survey made by a competent
sanitary engineer, and follow his rec
ommendations. Dr. Minor Morris has
pointed out that the state board of
health probably will lie not only will
ing, but anxious, to give every assist
ance to the city in solving the problem.
After two or three bad mistakos, it
would tie most unwise to jump at the
first remedy that offers. This is a
time to go slowly. The septic tank
has afflicted the city for several years,
and it is better to stand it a few
months longer rather than to make
another mistake. The citizens are
probably in the mood to vote any sort
of a bond issue desired. It remains
only, then, to get the best advice avail
able competent advice and then act
upon it.
ALLIANCE TEAMS
MAKE A KILLING
Three Rakethall Victories Won
the Roys' and Girls' Team
Last Friday
By
LOOT OF FREIGHT THIEVES
FOUND NEAR RUSSELL FARM
From now on, there'll be more speed
in the shcriir s office. If one may
judge from appearances, Sheriff Miller
is outfitting himself and deputies with
roller skates. There's a case of them
reposing in his private office near the
trunk with two padlocks, popularly
supposed to contain hooch taken in
raids or donated out of pure admira
tion.
Sunday evenig, Sheriff Miller got a
telephone call from Frank Russel,
who informed him that his small son,
while hunting rabbits, had come upon
a cache of some kind in a culvert near
that place. Russell brought it to Alli
ance yesterday morning, and the loot
was found to consist of a box of roller
skates and a fifty-pound bundle of sole
leather. The skates were addressed to
McCormick Bros., at Tacoma, Wash.,
and the leather was on its way to
the Indian Day school at Box Elder,
Mont. Those poor Indians will have
to make their old moccasins do for
a while longer.
The stuff had evidently been stolen
from an interstate shipment of goods,
and the proper authorities will be
notified . The box of roller skates had
been broken into, but the thieves were
apparently disappointed, for the con
tents seemed intact. They were all
kid sizes, anyway. The leather was
apparently being saved to make a set
of harness, and while the Indians may
have to wait for a time, they'll event
ually come out all right.
If you have been waiting for
beauty work, make an appoint
ment soon. The parlor opens
Thursday of this week. 15
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With Camels you can go the limit
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To get a line on why Camels win
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The outcome of the second round of
the games ties Alliance and Scotts
blufT, both boys and girls, for cham
pionship honors. Both Alliance teams
are winners after playing nine games
on foreign floors. - The high school
quintet hit a fast stride, defeating Sid
ney at Sidney GO 32. The following
day they went down to defeat befoie
the Kimball five fil 20.
Sidney Game.
The first half was an exhibition of
a last basketball game. The lead
swaying back and forth four times
during the half. Clark of Sidney
started the scoring(VCross of Alliance
followed uit and tied the score. The
score at the end of the first half was
25 21, for Alliance. During the sec
ond half the "fast clip" of the Alli
ance basket shooters began to tell on
the heavy Sidney aggregation, at
times they were unable to keep track
of the ball. As a result Alliance piliVl
a score of 3f to their 7, making the
total 00 .'52.
Summary.
Alliance Sidney
Cross (C) r Clark L.
Uailey V. Terry
Tate C Chambers
Joder (J Iverson
Fowler G. Thilson
Brown .Sub Clark
l'urdy Sub. Zimmer
Irwin Sub. Campbell
Baskets: Cross, 17: Dailey ,10: Jo-; ini? a visit.
jlcr, 1; Fowler, 1; Clark, o; Terry, 4;
Chamber, 1; Thilson, 4.
Free throws: Cross, 2; Thilson, 2
Kcferee: Bussey, Chappell.
Kimball Game.
Kimball county high school has veTH
erans playing the cage game. This
NO "BOSS" TO BE AP
POINTED FOR MRS. HIGGINS
(Continued from Page 1)
liance, where she has room, board
and care at a cost of $30 a month.
The examination of Mrs. Higgins
was most interesting. Attorney
Mitchell asked questions concerning
her place of birth, and she gave the
county and parish in Ireland. She
came through several memory tests
with flying colors, her natural Irish
wit coming to her rescue on the few
occasions when her memory failed
her. One man's name she "disre
membered," she said, but declared
that she had always "called him
Henry the Eighth, and didn't like
him he was worse than Satan." She
said her Bed Oak son-in-law was a
"toe doctor." She gave minute de
tails concerning several of her busi
ness transactions, and when Judge
Tash asked her some questions per
taining to her business affairs, showed
that she knew exactly where she
stood financially, and that she was
well acquainted with ordinary busi
ness practices.
In dismissing the petition, Judge
Tash remarked that if he were satis
fied there were any need for a guar
dian he would have no hesitancy in
appointing one, but that such action
was not warranted at this time. He
complimented the defendant on her
extraordinary shrewdness and ability,
as shown by the way in which she
had protected her own interests in
dividing up the property, and the way
in which she rented the land. He told
her that he money was her own, to
do with as she pleased. It was plain
that Mrs. Wilson had been the fa
vorite daughter, the defendant ex
plaining that another daughter had
charged her ?5 a week for board dur-
Mrs. Wilson had refused
shoot their wad in one last jag. Mayb
all these tales of bootleggers are ex
aggerated maybe the illicit dealers
hooch wanted too much money be
that as it may, Joseph and his com
panions invested heavily in hair tonic.
History does not say what become
of the companions, but Night Watch
Stilwell found Joseph in the passen
ger station, loaded to the guards. In
his possession were four bottles of
hair tonic. One of these had been
drained almost to the dregs. The oth
ers had the seals intact It was a
beautiful reddish color, this liquid, and
had a nice smell. It also had a real
kick, for Mr. Mahoney was laid out
cold. The prisoner had one dari;nretl
eye and a peeled nose, and a beautiful
skate on.
All day Sunday Joseph languished
in the city bastile, with nothing to
help him sober up, and early Monday
morning he was taken before Police
Judge Roberts, who gave him another
wallop in the shape of a fine of $25
and costs, a total of thirty smacks,
lie was unable to pay, and will re
main in the employ of the city for
fifteen days and work out his fine. The
police chief wouldn't even allow him
to turn in the three full bottles of
tonic, marked at $2.25 each, for credit.
According to the label on the bottle,
the tonic contained C,H per cent alcohol.
Chief JefTers may be induced to give
out the name of the brand to the
thirsty.
money.
Mrs. Higgins was emphatic in de
claring that she did not want a "boss"
and declared she could handle her
own affairs. "Sometimes I get folks
to figure for me, or write letters,- but
I know who to get," she said The
is their fourth year together. They . court said that not a single valid
are playing Class A ball. The local i reason existed for the appointment of
five could not find themselves the first
10 minutes and Kimball rolled up a
score ot 22 points the latter part, of
the the first half, it was more even,
Alliance 7, Kimball 10. The Alliance
forwards, Dailey and Cross could not
locate the hoop. The last half was a
fast game. Final score: 61 20.
Kimball Game.
Alliance Kimball
Cross (C) F Eichcnberger
Dailey F Paulson
Pate C Tebrinke
JoderJ G Lim
Fowler G Lockwood
Brown Sub Hapg
Purdy Sub. Brown
Irwin Sub
Baskets: Cross 4, Dailey 2, Fowler
3, Eichenberger 13, Paulson 6, Teb
rinke S, Lfm 1.
Free Throws: Cross 3, Eichenberger
a guardian. It was possible that a
few dollars might be saved, but the
saving would be more than offset by
sparing the aged defendant the hu
miliation. The case was dismissed
and the costs taxed to the petitioners.
Mrs. Helen Beckwith entertained in
honor of her mother's birthday Fri
day afternoon. Those present were:
Mrs. Stephen Epler, Mrs. Reed, Mrs.
Tipple, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. A. J. Cole,
and Mrs. LaMon. A two-course lunch
eon was served and every one reports
a very pleasant afternoon.
The locals are determined to return
the compliment when Kimball plays on
the local floor. That will be a real
game, repetition of a year ago.
Girls Bayard Game.
The local girls played very credit
ably for their first game of the year,
trouncing Bayard 38-10. With a little
more work they should cop the coveted
Championship pennant. Their team
work and basket tossing was superior
to that . of Bayard. Bayard never
threatened to take the lead from the
locals during the gme. The local
girls are working hard to clear the
slate this year. Saturday they play
the Crawford cage team. Last year
Crawford split with the locals. This
year Alliance will take both. "
Bayard Game.
Alliance Girls Bayard Girls
Elsie Simpson F Katherine Gross
Ethel Trabert FHclen Wallison
Cyara Garett C Kath. Franklin
Lillie Simpson C)SMarie Franklin
Thelma ZobeLG Thelma McKelvey
Frances Schott G Jessie Lyons
Blanche Peterson Sub. ..Freda Peters
Baskets: Trabert 2, Simpson 13,
Wallison 3.
Free Throws: Trabert 7, Simpson 2,
Wallison 4.
Referee: Messrsmith.
Alliance Second Team vs. Antioch.
The curtain raiser before the girls
Bayard game proved very exciting as
expected. The locals trounced Mr.
Messrsmith's basket shooters 28-13.
The Antioch boys played very credit
ably for their first year of basketball.
They are determined to give the sec
ond team a trouncing when they plajy
the potash town.
Big Game Tonight.
Alliance vs. Mitchell, in third league
game for the locals, is to be played
tonight. This is the first performance
of the locals on the home floor after
playing ten games on foreign floors.
Preliminary, Central School vs. Emer
Bon school.
Leonard Pate as center is showing
unusual ability in tipping off the ball
from hi3 opponent. Lester Cross,
captain and forward has an eagle eye
for the basket and also strong on floor
work. Frank Dailey, the captain's
running mate handles the ball. James
Fowler, the diminuitive guard, keeps
all of his forwards guessing. Seth
Joder the other guard in advancing
the ball out of hostile territory. This
quintet will play the Mitchell quintet
tonight. Come out and boost for
winning team. Friday the big game.
Bayard is going to invade Alliance
again. Remember the football game,
revenge will be sweet. Saturday th
the local girls will clash with the team
from Crawford. Last year Crawford
succeeded in breaking even with Alli
ance. This year watch Alliance cop
both games.
THE PATH OF HAIR TONIC
LEADS BUT TO THE JAIL
Who'd have thunk it back in the
dead, glad days of long ago that
some day strong men would pay more j
money for hair- tonic, than good j
whisky then brought over the bar?
Back in those days, when lemon ex- '
tract was used only for culinary pur
poses, and any man who essayed to
make home brew couldn't have hired a ,
friend to sample his product, only a
doggoned dude would use hair tonic.
Now they are drinking it, and the
wallop is according to the alcoholic
content, which is, by law stamped on
every bottle. There's no need for the
thirsty to buy the wrong brand.
This week's victim of a hair tonic
jag is one Joseph Mahoney, of Hoff
land. Mr. Mahoney has been employed
there for many moons, but last Satur
day he found the blue slip in his en
velope. There was also a pay check
there. Other boon companions were
also laid off, ami they came to Alli
ance, lured by t..les of bootleggers, fo
$2.00
less.. 1.25
$775
YOUR
SAVING
THIS
WEEK
ON
A
TWO QUART
TWO YEAR
TWO DOLLAR
i
HOT WATER
BOTTLE
THIELES
PRICES
Are Going Down
and that is good news for us
all. But just as prices go down,
the value of money GOES UP
That is the big reason why wise
men are saving all the money
they can right now.
They know that it will be worth
much more later on.
SAVE NOW and you will BE
GLAD later. If you haven't a
Savings Account open one in
this bank today.
The
First National Bank
ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA
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