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Official Taper of Hot Butte County itte County , "- LV, TWICE A WEZK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Official Paper of the City of AUianet VOLUME XXVIII. ALLIANCE, L.OX llUTTE COUNTY, NEUUASKA, FIIIDAY, FEIHIUAHY IS, 11)21 NO. 2t business men confer with the commissioners EXPLAINS ROAD ACTIVITIES OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE i -Stormy Session Indicated, But Some How Oil Wan Poured on the Troubled Waters You never can tell how a meeting Is going to turn out until it has ad .journed. What promised to be an ex- ceedingly stormy session between sev eral business men of Alliance and the county commissioners Thursday morn ing ended up by being a sort of a get-together affair. It may not have been a veritable love feast, but no bricks were thrown, and at the windup Ihe prospects were that there would be no more frictiun between the cham ber of commerce and the county board. The trouble started some days ago, when at a luncheon of the chamber of commerce, the question of federal aid roads was brought up. The cham- - - - ber of commerce has been exceedingly cured, they had not been presented to interested in the subject, for good rea-, the state board, and that the only on, and has been working among thing that had been done was to re other things for a state and federal quest that the matter be held up until aid highway to connect up with the the business men could have time to Lincoln highway and go on to the confer with the county board. TJlack' Hills. This is the chamber's ! Then the commissioners explained pet scheme, and every now and then that the route they had approved had someone is able to report progress, , been approved only tentatively, and although one or two of the commis- that contrary to the general belief, sioners in the county to the south it could be changed, and undoubtedly aren't falling over themselves to see changes would be made when the state that a road is built to the county line, and federal engineers came to make The chamber of commerce has been the preliminary survey. They ex looking at all roads with an eye to plained that they intended to build a the Lincoln Highway-Black Hills road to Hemingford along the rail route, and some of the members are road right-of-way out of county funds, slightly suspicious of everything that and that they had not the slightest o! seems to be likely to interfere with Section to having the road go straight that route. Therefore, when it was mentioned at the luncheon that the commissioners had by resolution ap proved a rord to Hemingford that, in stead of going straight west of Alli ance, struck out for two miles north of the city, and then west, a howl apart, and that the commissioners vent up. were perfectly willing to come all or An attempt wasiiade to get hold any part of that two miles, provided of CommissionersAfashman and Car- jt could be done without any great roll, but without success. The cham- waste of the st'tte funds. The com ber of commerce thereupon selected miss.ioners discovered that the cham two of its members to go down and ber" of commerce had not succeeded in interview the state highway board, losing the $00,000 state and federal These two men were armed with scv- finds for the county.- The next thing eral yards of signatures that had been was the general exchange of apologies, secured to petitions asking that the and a general decision to try the road to Hemingford follow the Burl- widely advertised benefits of co-opera-ington track through Berea, and the tion jn the future. - :r..n.. .. : 1 UtU pennons weie inniiii uny mxik-m, uum in Alliance, Berea and Hemingford. The latter city came across beauti fully, and there was a regular whale of a petition from the residents there objecting to the proposed route. The rules under which state and fed eral aid highways are established provide that three routes shall be con sidered, and there was an impression that but one had been considered. A nmv.l ni4-V tVtnc?A not i fri a tinl O strong sense of right, the committee j secured from the state board tne as-("'" . . , . Kurance that the project would not be! Under the rules acceptances may be approved until March 15, or until the '. filed by the candidate until February business men had the opportunity to 22, but if any have not accepted after confer with the commissioners and .that date their names will not go upon present arguments to prove that a ; the ballot. Hemingford road should go straight west of the city, for several miles at least. A number of citizens in the south part of the county were in fa vor of that route, declaring that they wouldn't use a highway if they had to go two miles out of their way to reach it The state board agreed to delay action on the matter until the date requested. Then the trouble really started. J. C. McLean of ScottsblufT, state divi sion road engineer, proceeded to get peeved. He had understood that the route selected was approved by not only the commissioners, but the peo ple affected. The story is that he sent in a wire to his superiors indicating that so far as he was concerned, the stuff was off. There has been some friction between McLean and the chamber of commerce heretofore, and ! while each time the difficulties have been ironed out, each one of these lit tle incidents has served to shorten his patience. , . The commissioners, upon receiving word from Mr. McLean, gathered the idea that the $00,000 of state and fed eral aid funds to which Box Butte county is still entitled would be likely to revert back, and that the county wouldn't get any of it. Added to this was the feeling that the chamber of commerce had gone over their heads and was attempting to do their work for them. Taking all these things into consideration, there was a fine setting for a good row. There were a number of harsh things said on both sides, and a num ber of worse things were thought, but after an hour's session together, in which explanations and apologies were made, the outlook again became serene. The chamber of commerce delegates Ftarted the harmony ball rolling by apologizing for having sent men to Lincoln when the proper procedure un doubtedly was to thresh the matter out with the commissioners. It was explained that they had understood the resolution was to be acted upon at once, and that if the route were once approved it could not be changed. The commissioners were assured that while a number of petitions had been te- OIT1MISM IS WANTED L. V. Nicliols, president of the L. V. Nichols Oil company, le cently told more than a thousand business men in Omaha, that busi ness will always be pood for the man who keeps cheerful and sail ing and who lakes pride and pleas ure in doing the best he can. "There is n- i"gument to the fact that bills are not being paid ns promptly as customary; ist the banks are not lending money as freely as we would like; tli.it the farmer is not getting ,s much money for his crop as either he or we think he should. It is true automobiles are not selling a. readily as they were, and it is tiue prices in many l:nes are tumbling, but that is what we all had to ex pect anyhow, and there is no reason why any of us should go into mourning and act as if business hud gone to the dogs and the countiy into the hands of a receiver. "What we need is friendly, cour ageous optimism, and once we de velop it, believe me when 1 sy, we will discover very much to our sur prise that all 'business is good, thank you.' " west for several miles, at least, or un til bad sand was struck. When the discussion simmered down, it was discovered that the commis sioners and 'the chamber of commerce; , , , . , had never been more tnan two mues CANDIDATES BEGINNING TO FILE ACCEPTANCES To date, five of the men for whom nominating petitions were filed during the ten day period ending February 12, have filed their acceptances. These men are v. V. uratiDury, a. v. viavin, Eed Hayes, I. W. Harris and G w. F. J. Coyle, Jr., of Hemingford was in Alliance Wednesday. Confidential Guide The Herald submits herewith a short sketch of the various candidates together with their qualifications. It is as complete as we can ntuke it, and while no attempt has been made, this early in the game, to say anything to the disadvantage of the candidates, it contains material that will be of use to the voter in the difficult task of making up his mind. GEORGE W. NATION George W. Nation, the first candi date to file his petition, has been a resident of Box Butte county for some twenty-seven or eight years. His ear ly activities were concerned with con ducting a sheep ranch down on Snake creek, and after he gave up that inter esting occupation, he tried horticul ture. He is of an inventive turn or mind, and has worked out several in ventions, on paper, at least He has ideas on the rebuilding of the septic tank which appeal to some people in the neighborhood of that particular pest, but they haven t as yet made a hit with the council. Mr. Nation has not been actively identified with pol itics heretofore, but has stood on the right side of some important public questions. W. L. O'KEEFE. Bill O'Keefe is one of the candidates who was drafted by the meeting of some seventy-five ex-soldiers. He de murred, but was ordered to make the race, and accepted when he saw there was no way out of it Mr. O Keefe s a Box Butte county product, born raised and educated here, and under stands the needs of the city because he understands the conditions. He las had the opportunity that usually falls to older me nto see his community develop and grow. The ex-soldiers WOMEN DISCOSS ORGANIZATION OF AUXILIARY APPOINT COMMITTEE TO INTER VIEW PROSPECTS Second Luncheon Held at the Cham ber of Commerre Rooms Thursday Noon The second of the weekly luncheons of business and club women was held at the chamcr of commerce rooms Thursday noon. On this occasion Sec retary George Carey was present to present his ideas on the formation of a ladies' auxiliary to the chamber of commerce, which will hold week ly luncheons and assist in the work of the club. Among the things that Mr. Carey mentioned in his talk to the women was a school of salesmanship, to heiteacner last year held in connection with the proposed night school, which will appeal par ticularly to the business women. The chamber of commerce secretary is now attempting to get the clerks of the city lined up for the course, and this will be open to the women if they desire to take it. The belief is that it will make them more valuable to their employe) s, as well as giving them a fund of knowledge that will be of value to them. Mr. Carey explained that members of the proposed auxiliary were vital ly interested in various civic affairs, such as public improvements, the proposed night school, the American ization program and other matters, and that the weekly luncheons would serve to keep them in touch with progress in vrous lines, as well as to promote acquaintance and general sociability among the business girls. A committee to le composed of three members of the Woman's club, and three business women is to be appointed, and this committee of six !,;!! mnnt nuvf frk,f!ii n .ilk iimf .'."(I'll, y V- V in. .7 V , thp .;,.,; unA rnnsi.W the swk-ie. ability of undertaking the orgmiza-! tion. Arolher luncheon and meeting will be held next Thursday at the same place, at which time the com-1 miUees will make their report. Mrs. S. W. Thompson is chairman of the committee from the Woman's club and Miss Maude Spacht of the business girls. . THREE DAVIS CHILDREN SENT TO STATE HOKE Marie Davis, fifteen; Irene, aged nine, and Leroy, five years of age, were conimitteed to the state home for dependent and neglected children by Judge Tash in juvenile court Thursday morning. Complaint had been made against the first two, and the mother, now Mrs. William Morris, asked that the boy be sent with them. Mrs. Morris told her story to the court Her husband deserted her in Antioch some months ago and she has been engaged as night dishwasher at the Harvey cafe. Holding that place, she is unable to look out for the children, who have been running the streets, and she has had to ask the police to help her find them several times. have confidence in his ability, and so io other people who know him. Con- fidentially, he'll get a whale of a vote. D. C. BRADBURY Bradbury is the second one of the soldier candidates, and was selected not alone because he is popular, hut because of his business experience. He is a young fellow with ideals as well as ideas. He hasn't lived in Alliance as long as some of the candidates, but he has traveled around enough to know people and places, lhose who Know him have confidence in his ability and his judgment He'll draw strength from the progressive element of the voters, who occasionally like to see young and promising material given a tryout. GEORGEe! DAVIS George E. Davis is a Burlington machinist who has been an Alliance resident for twenty years. He owns his own home and is a large stock holder and a director in the Alliance Building & Loan association. He is around fifty years of age and has a reputation for being a steady and re liable sort of a citizen. This is his first venture into city politics, as a candidate, at least S.W.THOMPSON Si Thompson is a typical good citi zen, and is one of the best boosters Alliance ever nau. lie nas been a pusher ever since he first hit town, some eighteen years ago. He has worked for good roads good schools, public improvements of every sort, and aside from selling customers, one of his chief interests has been to make Alliance a good town to live and do business in. Once he left Alliance for a short time to live in Holdrege, but SCHOOL KIDS GET LETTERS FROMMWAI! JAPANESE CHILDREN ANXIOUS TO GET ACQUAINTED Pupils of Miss Leone Mallery Write to Students in the Alliance Public Schools Talk about "stretching hands across the seas" it is being done. Pupils in the sixth grade of the Central and Emerson schools are, this week an swering letters received from school children of similar age in Eleele, Hawaii, and nearby towns with un pronounceable names. The Hawaiian are the pupils of Miss Leone Mallery of this city, who has encouraged them to write to both Alliance and Scotts- bluff, where she was employed as a A large number of the students are Japanese, and while their nams are somewhat difficult to decipher, the rest of the letters are written in beautiful handwriting. Each one is decorated with pome picture of an Hawaiian scene clipped from a magazine, ami there are a few snapshots of the brown children mixed in with the views of overhanging cliffs or palm trees. Following are some of the letters: From a Japanese Girl 12 Yearn Old. Dear Friend: I am a Japanese girl, in the sixth grade in Eleele school. I am twelve years old. Our school is on n hill, and from our schol we can see the valley river and the ocean. On January lfi, Sunday, we had a flood. . The river was full of water. It rained very hard and the wind blew, too. I saw a man's rice patch covered with water. I wont to see the flood, and saw many logs and trees floating on the river. Around our school yard we have h.mnna lY'PM fft'ntt'intr htwi in f rnnt nf , . . - fm, w - - . , .... ... ....... ... lour school, too. Some of the banana trees are now having fru'ts. Behind our school there is a cane field. Inside the cane is delicious juice which is made into sugar. Some of the boys and girls chew it. On this island there are pineapples growing too. Sometimes when it rains there is a rainbow on the mountain. It has beiTutfl!Ul colors In it, blue, purple; Ted, yellow and other colors too. We hnve-fi lighthouse on this island near the ocean. The wind is blowing yet, and our flag pole fell to the ground because the wind blew. Please let me know about your big city. Cordially yours, HAWAYO KANAKA. From a Japanese Boy 11 Years Old. Dear Friend: I am a Japanese 1 1 years and eleven months. This is the first time for me to send a letter to the boys of the United States so I think I have lots 'of news (to) for you. The place where I live is very rainy. Since the New Year we nearly did not have any clear day. We just had only four or five. Some days we cannot see any sun. As you know if it rains hard enough there will be a flood. We to the Candidates I aside from that his boosting record is without a blemish. He is simply chuck full of energy. The only objection that has been made to him is that his traveling may keep him away from Alliance too much, but he has man aged to do all his boosting between trips heretofore, and his friends aren't fretting. harveyd7hacker Mr. Hacker, who is now a m mber of the council, undoubtedly has a con siderable following. This is in part due to his labor union affiliations. He stands high with the union men, and is one of the few men who can do this and yet not get a black eye with others. He is the secretary of the af filiated shop crafts, and their spokes man in a number of matters. He has never laid claim to being a statesman, but is a hard worker and every now and then gets what he goes after. F. W. HAYES In the dayg when it began to appear that the city manager plan of gov ernment might fail because of the dearth of candidates, the firemen, among others, cast about for suitable material and their eyes fell upon Fred Hayes. He isn't an old timer in Alli ance, but he's made good with the First State bank and with various or ganizations in the city. He's able and conscientious and has had previous ex perience. He came to Alliance from Broken Bow, where he was the only democratic supervisor out of a board of eight men, and there must have been some reason for his election un der those circumstances. A. S. MOTE A. S. Mote is a contractor and build er, and is known as an honest one, if had about six floods this year. Sunday which was January lfi, l';21, we had a very big flood and this was the biggest flood I ever saw in my live. I live here for 11 years and this is the biggest flood during my life. The road is about forty feet away from the river and yet the water came as high as a man's (fio) chest on the road so it must bo some going. I want to tell to you n little thing about the flood. We had to run away from home be cause the water same too high. I slept at a Japanese house. I had so fun thnt I forgot all about the flood. Have you ever seen sugar cane? There cane are very delicious to chew. I was trying to find some cane leaves but sorry they have cut down the canes. Hanapepe is covered with rice fields. I think one patch can fill one and half bags. '1 live in Hanapepe but this letter I am writing is in school so I wrote the heading Eleele because the school is Eleele. This school have a fine view. It have a (sape) shape like a (A) capital H. 1 remain Your friend, KlYOGK IIETSUI. P. S. Please write me about the place where you live. Address, Mas. K. Betsui, Hanapepe, Kawai T. H., P.O. Box 11. . (Continued in Next Issue) PETITION FOR STATE AID HIGHWAY TO HAY SPRINGS The Box Butte county commission ers, in session this week, are in re ceipt of a copy of a petition forward ed to the state highway department from Hay Springs, which urges upon the department the establishment of a federal highway starting at Hay Springs extending south and west and connecting with the federal highway sixteen miles north of Alliance. The petition, which is signed by two hundred and twenty-five residents of Hay Springs and the owners of land adjacent to the proposed route, set forth that such a highway, if estab lished, would be utilised by all travel travel lying east and south of Hay Springs and would be the connecting link for such travel between the two east and west highways in this sec tion of the state. , The Box Butte county board Is In favor of the proposition, and will make arrangements for having a con- , II. I necting road built to the county line. HERALD'S SERIAL STORY, ..V . "TASU I&lTvOWDEIlOyT VrUup-iUe lh;it Mother and more , , I serious charge will be filed against -We regret thnt we are compelle dto Wojf t i(J known to the police that announce that this issue of The Herald j,e na(j two gjHs, one of them only rome out with no installment of seventeen years of age, in a friend's "Taxi." ,..,, ! rooms Wednesday evening, and that he The publishers of The Herald regret ;P;ther paVe them liquor or drugged that the readers of our serial story, tnem One of the girls later went to "Taxi." will be compelled to wait until tn0 pi,sson(rer station and raised con next Tuesday to read the next install-1 ulrrub1o of a scene. S!ie was still ment of that interesting tale. An un- j ,nWt Ht the time, and was under the expected rusii or advertisements wnirn came too late to increase the number of paces makes this omission neces sary. Miss Alta Young held the second of her weekly piano rec'tals at her home Thursday evening. Those on the pro gram were Misses Katharine Harris, F.sther Nason, Mildred Ryckman, Gertrude Carpenter, Dorothy Armour. Katharine Hargarten and Donald Newberg, Oliver Overman and Chas. O'Bannon. there are such things. He came to Al liance from Chadron in the railroad service, resigned to go into business for himself and has built up a good patronage. The Newberry building and the Imperial theater are among his contracts. He has lived here twen ty years and there are no blots on his escutcheon. Never before guilty of running for office. II. P. COURSEY. Harry Coursey is another old-timer. He's been in Alliance for eighteen years, and is a combination of auc tioneer and business man. He's been a counciman a time or two, and is strongly in favor of the city manager plan, consenting to run only when the repeated urging of his friends had broken down his resistance. His ac tivity in behalf of other candidates may damage his own chances, but he isn't fretting about it JOHN R. SNYDER Mr. Snyder was drafted as a candi date in order to make sure there would he candidates enough to Iraw 'he vot ers to the polls. He has extensive business interests here, is known to be independent, able, honest and substan tial ha had previous experience on the council, and bhould draw consider able support M. S. nARti RAVES. Monte was raised in Hay Springs) that's in this state) and has been a ranch hand, a railroaders, cour.'ly cle) for five years and a plutocratic real acioia lealer and secretary of the building and loan association during his twentv-odd years in ox duiwj county. He has a working knowledge that will be of value of the city, and is energetic. GEO. M. CAREY LEFT THURSDAY FOR WASHINGTON WILL STOP AT LINCOLN TO SE CUR K MORE FIGURES Interstate Commerce Commission to Be Asked to Equalize Alliance Freight and Express Rate Secretary George M. Carey of the Alliance chamber of commerce left Thursday night for Washington, D. C, where he has been requested by the interstate commerce commission to ap pear before it and present figures showing that Alliance is being dis criminated against, as compared with other cities in this section, in the mat ter of freight and express rates. After two weeks of rather strenuous work, Mr. Carey got a petition to the commission prepared, showing various inequalities in freight rates to Alli ance as compared to nearby cities. A. T. Lunn of the Newberry Hardware company, who has assisted in collect ing the data, lent his assistance in tabulating it. Just as the case was prepared, the situation was complicated by the an nouncement that the commission hail issued an order that every steam road in the state increase passenger and freight rates to correspond with thos in other states in this section of the country. The order to increase rates, coming when it did, made Mr. Carey's careful tabulation worth even less than the paper it was written on. It was neces sary to go over the entire care ami change the figures to correspond with the increased rates. PETE WOLF HELD IN JAIL FOR VIOLATION OF PAROLE Pete Wolf, gentleman of leisure and man about town, hus again taken quarters at the city jail, where he will serve out the remainder of a sen tence imposed some months ago. Wolf; . I.. U- 1 1.1--. paroiwi hnoru niier v " out Ttirt-t i.. VJZ rV fine, and if Chief Jeflers figures cor- rectly, will be his guest for twenty jmpresion that Wolr was seatet on ne 0j tne lynches. The father of one of the girls does not care to prosecute, because of the undesirable publicity. 'but it is possible that the county au thorities may push tne case. PATRIOTIC WEEK IS OBSERVED IN SCHOOLS Two patriotic speeches were given, at Central schol Thursday, as part of the program for patriotic week, one te the seventh and eighth grades by Judge Ta-h, in which, he defined patri otism, and urged them to prepare for c;tizenhip. He gave reasons for pre- 2-irinnr mil- mvPIHmfnt .IS Stalled b Wushina-ton. and told why we 'ihu'd appreciate the value of freedom. He said that the custom of foreigners when they came over was to become clannish and he urged that they to become 100 per cent American hy iving for one nag, and one nelion. rte compared Washington ana im -r i , iu one an aristocrat and tne oner a Kr man, illustrating that neither weilth nor poverty need hinder one froTt be ing a true patriot. Mrs. S. W. Thompson wave a menu and patriotic talk to the cliil icn CI the sixth grade, explaining the vann ing of a true American and gi'intf reasons why we should be pr ud ot America. She also reviewed ail the wars in which our country has been engaged, showing that always Arner ica had stood for the right, ina not entered a war for the purpose of over powering a weaker nation, one se lected the great men who figured i each war, and explained why we should be proud of America for what these men had done. Then, in the same manner, she reviewed the settle ment of the thirteen colonies, singling out the big men, and pointing oat t moral foundation of our country, shown by the I'jlgnms ana runiaa. nml urcred that nothing be negloetdL which will help build up good charac ter. Mrs. Celia Rodgers of Chicago re turned Sunday to take charge of the millinery department of Harper's store. Miss liodgers was manager t this department during the fall sea son. ; THE WEATHER Forecast for Nebraska: Fair in the north, probably colder in south portion tonight and Saturday; much colder winds, becoming enow northerly. Jt