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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1921)
Tliti ALLlANCK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5th,' 1921. ! t J i - I s i , : if it ii i On the Road With j!V TheHerald' 1 i Traveler v (JOHN 0. BAYNE) ViV I ' "'t ' I James Krejci came here from South Dakota thirty-fix years ajro ami home tteadeil the place uhere he now lives. He has just completed a new house of nine rooms and a full basement. He JWUVV.VAV.ASVJAVJAVrtVAV.VJ,AV.WJ, , owns eight hundred acres of land fif- tten acres of outs, five of millet, forty never out of the city until he came to this country and knew nothing about the farm, but has made pood. The first land he boucht he paid $12." down, money he had wived by working out at very small wapes, and now he has all the land clear with the exception of one quarter. C. G. Turner came here from Grand Island five years apo and is working at his trade, which is that of a car penter, bu lder and painter. He lives on Knt Seventh street in Belmont ad dition. . POINT OF ROCK CREEK Miss Bessie Underwood returned horn Sunday from a stay with Mrs. De France. Lr. Bowman was called to Pe France's, as one of their hired help is quite sick. .Mr. Bird, Jr., is improving fast, we are very much pleaded to learn. Miss Simpson. Howard Lore, Arthur Denton attended the ball pame at Nichols' .Sunday. Fred Wills motored Miss Iva Wil kins and Howard Essex home from the bail trame to Alliance. Foyd Trines' father and two sisters are visitine him from the east. Mr. and Mrs. Bowler were callers at Lore's Friday evening:. Legrpett's harvesting outfit left for home Saturday south of Alliance. Frank Yaughan attended the dance at Craft's Saturday evening. Mr. md Mrs. Hawkins and Mr. and Mrs. Epler took dinner with J. Dillon Sunday. Then they all attended Sun day hchool at the Johnson school hou-e. Bowlen and Ssnp went to hunt horses up at Fowling postoffice Sun-tlay. Miss Alma Schwaderer and Lester Hashman visited with friends near Ilemingford Sunday. Miss Rebecca Schwaderer is houe maid for Leo Hashman. ?.Ir .and Mrs. Dillon went fishing at Kilpntrick Dam Friday. Ernie Wienell, Edgar Hashman anil the Misses Marguerite Lore attended the dance at Craft's Saturday evening. They reported a fine time. We are about to lose our mail route if more don't get a hurry up on them and put their mail boxes out. This is the report of our mail man. m Torn Kocm,',,'l ram here fro'i How Vrd county eight years ago and is op erating miee hundred and twenty ere that belong to John O'Mara. He has ninety acres of wheat, fifteen of . oats, twenty of spuds and thirty-five of corn. Tom says that hogs and corn re the best crops to produce in this country and thinks they should be cultivated on a larger scale. He likes Uua country better than Howard coun ty and thinks the land here is worth tnore money than land in either How ard or Sherman counties. Ed Zochol came here from Howard county eight years ago and owns four hundred and eighty acres of good soil and has just completed a fine new bungalow that is modern. Ed says that spuds is the best crop for quick returns but thinks that hogs and corn are the best in the long run and the easiest as the hogs will do so much of the work and never complain about the wages or the long hours. When asked how he liked this country this in what he said: "Why, I prefer this countrv two to one over Howard," as he could make money easier and faster Here. J. M. McClain, one of the old timers here, having come from Iowa thirty fire years ago, owns thirty-one hun dred and forty acres of Box Butte county soil. He has one hundred and fifty acres of wheat, forty of oats, six ty of rye, two hundred of corn, eighty of alfalfa, one hundred cattle and two trandred and fifty hogs. J. M. says he has been successful in raising all kinds of small grain and corn but thinks there is more money in corn and hogs than anything else, and thinks this country all right, for a poor man as they can produce as much sere as they do in the east on land kat needs much higher. Ed feeder came here from Iowa twelve years ngro and owns four hun dred and eighty acres that he operates atone. He has twenty-flVe acres of am, seventy-five of corn, twenty-five of alfalfa, twenty-five cattle, sixty hogs and eleven horses, Ed says that corn and hog sare the best where a Is as far out as he, because the hors will do a great share of the Isbor of husking the corn.- He tells us that he never saw a year here that he did ttot raise a good crop. Jefferson II. Rathburn came here wree years ago from Nance county d bought three hundred and twenty acre of fine soil. He has sixty acres of wheat, ten of oats, twenty of bar ley, twenty-five of corn and ten of ud. J. H. says that he likes this ountry to well that he has no inten tion of going back, and as soon as he an, is going to raise hogs and corn aad alfalfa. Che.-ter Ross came here from Wis consin thirty-five years ago and owns rtten hundred acres of good - soil. Ckester owns the old half-way house here the stage station use to be from Alliance to Hay Springs. He is farm ing quite extensively and has reduced th cM'e herd. He has one hundred and eighty acres of wheat, sixty of oats, one hundred and twenty of corn, htaety of alfalfa, and two hundred of fiax, aeventy-fivc cattle, forty horses and one hundred and twenty hogs. Chester says that in his opinion that nors and corn is the best combination as both as a sure crop because thr ia no cholera and if one will farm right corn will always make a crop. ! If. W. Olsen came here from Mon tana three years ago and is operating three hundred and twenty acres, has thirty-five acres of wheat, fifteen of oats, fifty of com and five of spuds. They like the country fine and would ! not go back. R. H. Lochnnn cume here from Ger many thirty-five years ago and owns eleven hundred and twentv acre of good soil and has the best of improve- ! ments, having just completed a fine large house that is modern. It is all finished in quarter-sawed oak. He : also has a very fine larce barn. He has one hundred acres of corn, ten of alfalfa, one hundred and two cattle, I thirteen horses and one hundred nl 1 thirteen hogs. Mr. Lochman says that , this country has a great future before i it, and thinks that things are just . starting on an up turn. He says that corn and hogs are best for this coun try but not to forget the cattle. John O'Mara came to this county i April 11, 1885, and as far as he knows there was only one man in tnis part of the country when he came and that one beat him only two or three days. Mr. O'Mara had an experience that he will never forget. When he first came he knew nothing of the Nebraska bliz zards and the first week he was here it commenced to rain and rained for two days, then turned to snow and snowed for two davs. Thev had no 'protection for man or beast, except I the wagon; no hay for the stock, and no fuel except boxes that were in the wagon. He tells us that the horses ate the wagon box about all up. Now Mr. O'Mara owna 1,120 acres of good land and has it nicely improved with a modern house, with all the improve I ments that make for convenience, and has the best orchard that we have seen in this county that is just coming into bearing. The trees look as thrif ty as trees do in the fruit country of the east. We were curious to know how he grew such nice trees when the neighbors could not get trees to grow, so asVid John how he did it He told us that 16 w H in tk way they were : cultivated. In the first place he 'plowed the irround by plowing lands jjust the width of the tree rows and . planted the trees in th efurrow. In cul ; tivating, he worked the soil back to tne tree, the next year plowed the Roil away from the trees again and re peated the same operation. He culti vates the trees about every ten days and tells us that hi trees never want 'for moisture. At three years old the plums bore more fruit than the family I Could -use, but the present season the late frost got all the bloom on both j plum and apple trees. He has about 1 600 trees of all kinds apple, cherry I and plum and they are all healthy trees. John has one hundred acres of wheat, thirty of oats, eighty of corn, twenty of spuds, sixty of alfalfa, twen ty cattle, sixteen horses and fifty hogs. John says that hogs and corn make the easiest and best money, if you let the hogs do the husking of the corn. I He thnks this the cheapest and best I land for whnt it will produce of any place he knows. cattle find ten hogs. James says that the beat and easiest motipy j. ih cattle and hops. We were? invited to dinner here and we enjoyed a good friend chicken dinner with lemonade and lemon pie and everything. The Krejci brothers were born here. There are three of the boys ami all work to gether, and they have surely made good. They own forty-seven hundred acres of land. They have one hundred acres of wheat, one hundred and sev enteen of oats, twenty of barley, one hundred and seventy of rye, fifteen of alfalfa, eight of spuds, and three hun dred and sixty of com, three hundred rattle, eighteen horses ami six hun dred and twenty-eight hog3. The boy say that corn and hogs are the best things to raise but try and produce a little of everything. These boys started with very little money and have ione the le.-t of anyone we have seen so far. While not entirely out oi debt, they could pay out at any time they choose. John S. Gerdes came here from Illi nois thirty-one years ago and owns nine hundred and sixty acres of good level land. They have twenty acres of j wheat, twenty of oats, forty of com, 'and ten of rye, and seven of ppuds, ; sixty-two head of cattle, and thirteen j head of hogs. John says that out as I far from town as he is fifteen miles mixed farming and stock-raising is the thing to do. He says that a man can get a home here easier than any place he ever saw, but he advised not to buy too big a place, as that is the trouble here. Land is cheap and so many buy so much more than they' should. (Continued on Page 6 ) C. F. Sulzbach came here from New York city nineteen years ago and owns fifteen hundred and twenty acres of land. Ha has thirty acres of wheat, fifteen of spelts, sixty of com and thirty-five acres of the best of alfalfa. He told us it made two and one-half tons per acre the first cutting this year. 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