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Official Taper of lJo Dutte County
TWICK A WEK K TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
Official l'apr of the City of Allium
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No. 73
VOLUME XXVIII.
(Eight Pages)
ALLIANCE. T-OX UUTTE COUNTY, NEl'.U ASK A. TUESDAY. AUGUST SO. 102 1.
MM
ROAD MEETING
LAST FRIDAY
SET NEW MARK
IMORE INTEREST WAS SHOWN
THAN EVER BEFORE
Bridgeport and Sidney - Delegations
Seek to Stop Talk of Nutrality
in North Star AsMH'iation.
The meetintr held s,t Alliance last'01
Fridav bv the North Star highway
association established a new record in
western Nebraska. Never before has
so large a crowd gathered to boost
for good roads, and never before has
there been such enthusiasm shown.
There was but one little rift within
the lute, and as soon as it hail beenj
definitely attended to, the delegates'
turned their attention to boosting, and
.-accomplished a whole lot.
The delegates arrived about noon.
Bridgeport sent down seventy-five
men, the largest number from any
town represented, and delegates were
present from Lodge-pole, Chappell, Sid--ney,
Gurley, Dalton, Northport, An-
gora, Chadron and Alliance. The Fern
Garden was filled with tables, and was
not large enough to accommodate the
delegates, the main dining room be
ing used by the late coiners. Fol
lowing the dinner, the Bridgeport band
led the way to the district court room,
where the meeting was called to order
by President J. S. Rhein at 1:30.
' Mayor R. M. Hampton made the ad
dress of welcome, and his remarks
were supplemented by President Glen
Miller of the Alliance chamber of
eommerce. Mr. Miller told of a recent
automobile trip to the Black Hills,
where road construction is more diffi--rult
than in this country. There they
.spend more on one mile than we do on
several miles, and are rewarded by a
lieavy stream of tourists which bring
-money to the country. This part of
the country will never be on the map,
"he said, until good roads are estab
lished, not only locally, but connecting
with the big highways.
North Star Route
Delegates Fordyce of Chappell ex
plained the North Star route. This
route, he explained, was organized on
July 12, and will appear on the Claa
on maps for Colorado. Nebraska has
been organized only recently, and will
,'not be shown on the maps until next
,4vear. The North Star, he explained,
laps the G-P-C at Bristol, Colo., and
runs parallel with it to Alliance, and
then follows the line of the other
Toute to Portal, Canada. He declared
that the North Star route, as outlined
through Colorado and Nebraska, is in
voaiitv short-cut. is laid out through
country where road building is less
xoensive. and will undoubtedly be
wm tile ted first.
President Rhein then called for an
from the various towns rep
resented.- Delegate Barlow of Lodge
nAa described the condition of the
through thet Channel 1 terri
tory. His county, heaid, had one of
the best forty-mile roads in the state
and the contract had recently been let
far hitrhwav connecting with faidney
akinir a federal aid road clear
hrouo-h between the two towns.
Delegate J. L. Mcintosh of Sidney
told of his first trip from that city to
Alliance, twenty-six years ago, when
it innlc two davs and a half to make
the trip. He argued that a r.orth and
south highway should go through the
principal towns, even though east and
uresi hitrhwnvs did not follow this
, vlan. The reasons he irave were that
thorn were fewer roads running north
I ..tV. V,ot tl.oi-P uhmild be
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plenty of places where car owners
could get services and parts for their
, cars, as well as secure hotel accom
modations should they find it neves
, sary to delav. He admitted that Sid
ney had not spread herself for the
f North Star route, but declared that
town had waked up.
A Nut to Be Cracked
Mr. Jewett of Gurley, Mr. Dyerman
of Dalton and others made brief talks,
and then Mark Spanogle of Bridgeport
took the floor. He said that Morrill
county was the nut that had to be
-rnrkml before any road could go
through, but said that the three com
missioners from that county were in
telligent and broad-minded, and were,
like every c.her citizen in these dry
days, interested in a good ro;:d all the
way to Canada. He declared that he
believed the North Star loute the mo.-t
feasible, and thought with the assist
ance of Alliance and the other mem
J.ors of the association, it could be
designated. ...... .l
Northport was aiinuueu ui m
North Star association, and the ap
pointment of James Yockey as yice
mesident for tint town announced.
' ' Gcor"e Venell of Angora arose to
reniar
rk that if the comnns.vuTiers i
m.-.ii roiintv were
as broau -minue i
' e,.in.rli thought they
we 1
the Bridgeport route wouM be selected.
He thought a route from- Al Uance to
Angora could easily be determined
upon, without friction. .
Senator J. W. Good of Chadron took
the tloor. He said that a a member
of the legislature, he had heard all
rorts of complaints about appropria
tions, but that he had never heard a
single howl from taxpayers on money
ppent for good road. A north and
..f...i v. kmhuuv would, he said, pay for
itself in iacretued travel ui.u increa-ieu4
land value.-;. He devoted several min
utes to boosting Chadron and the first
Ncbra.-ka Mate paik, which was laige
ly ostiihl iliel thiough his efforts.
Cotnnvssioncrs do not always see
alike, he declared, and when they can
not o- will not not together, there i
a way to end deadlocks. "Nebraska
has a mighty big little man for nov
el nor, and a state engineer who loes
not fear anything." he said, "and if
they can't Ret together, these two men
can decide it." He instanced several
cases where this had been done.
Organization Completed
After an interlude of ten or fifteen
minutes, during which George Bostder
of Chadron entertained the delegates
with a droll address, the organization
... 11 I I 1 i 1
ine nignway was conipieieii ny iuk
ing in Chadron, and handing it on to
the Hot Springs men to organize
South Dakota. A meeting was an
nounced for Deadwood on Friday of
this week. Commissioner Glattly of
Hot Springs gave an interesting talk
on road-building.
The meeting approved the selection
of 11. O. Canaday of Bridgeport as
legal advi.-er for Uie highway, and he
was directed to "ake the necessary
steps to incorporate within Nebraska.
I here was alr-o brought up the ijiies-
tion of marking the route. The Colo
rado North Star association planned
for a red, white and blue road sign,
and this, it was declared, was infring
ing on the Lincoln highway marking.
The attorney was instructed to invest
igate.
(Continued on rage 4)
MAN IS INJURED
WHEN FREIGHT
TRAIN WRECKS
SEVERAL OTHERS ARE BRUISED
IN CRASH MONDAY
Seventeen Cars Are Derailed hen
Engine of Freight No. 109
Strikes Broken Rail
A man. identified as' Reed Misemer
of Gentryville, Mo., was seriously in
jured and several others were nun
when Burlington treigni ro. nw was
wrecked by a broken rail at 5:30 a. m.
Monday near Mansheiii, twenty mue
ve.t of Crawford. Seventeen , cars
were derailed, five of which were hueU
with merchandise, the balance oeing
loaded with corn and empties, Mise
mer was taken to the Edgemont
nital.
According to me reports mat tne wugeri mat uiy uues nuv iiu ivi
reached Alliance, all of the iniured ia place on either of the proposed high
men were hoboes w ho- were helping I ways. Its citizens are intf rested pri
themselves to transportation
Eight car lengths of tracK were
torn up and it was necessary to re
build the track for the wrecker to
reach the mass of wreckage. . Morn
ing passenger train No. 44, eastbound,
and No. 41, westbound, transferred
passenger?. Afternoon passenger
trains No. 43 and 44 were held up un
til 5 o'clock Monday afternoon, when
the track was made passable.
Enginer Joe Bogan and Conductor
M. E. Lander were in charge of the
wrecked train which left Alliance
early Monday morning.
Urban Zediker Back
In the County Jail
Awaiting New Trial
I'rKun Tf Zediker. awards! a new-
ments can be made to procure bail for
him. The amount of bail lias Deen
reduced from $2i'0 to $1,500, and
Zediker is confident that it can be
procured.
Warden Fenton spoke in quite a
complimentary way of Zediker's con
duct at the tenitentiary. "He hasn t
a single wark against him, oi anj
kind, for the six months he has been!
there," the warden said, adding that
this was as good a record as any
prisoner had ever made.
r ... .... : n.l 4 lli n ndiilKlll.
,edi.;er was assiuncu i" iith...
tiarv kitchen and has been one of the
night cooks. He told Deputy Sheriff
MNkimen that he didn't like the nicht
work vey well, and that he had Un
unable to sleep well. Ha is glad to gt
back to Alliance, where hu fnends
may see him now and thn, and has
stroiv- hn;5 of putting u;i bail so that
he mav be released until the tnie of
his nevt trial, set for the December C
term of district court.
War.len Fenton alo gave news or
Evelvn McElhaney. serving a th.rty
year sentence from this county for
mur.'r r. She h is not heen ojen!y re
bellions, he aid, but has at various
times .ioUKht to CV'ie inn rn.-i'ii
and has been re:-i imarvie.l once or
tw ice.
THE YYF.ATHEU
ALLIANCE, Neb., Auit 10.
Forecast for Alliance- and vinic.ty:
Generally fair tonight and Wednes
day. Warm Wednesday west anJ
north portion.
Mrs. C .L. Finch and daughter, Fhi-
lena, expect to leave Wednetlay for
Deadwood, S. D., for a few davb' ruat.
trial by a recent decision of the tatesomv of these days, for a Yellowstone
supreme court, was brought buck to j h'uhway extension to go from Al m.-ice
A i we this morning bv Warden W. . to Hemingford, Maryland. Belmont
T Fenton and is being held in the and Crawford, and this route is some
J.intv i-iil yntil such time as arrange- thing that Alliance good roads boost -
HEMINGFORD IS
INTERESTED IN
RGAD PROBLEM
FAVORS BRIDGEPORT. ANGORA
ALLIANCE ROITE.
Alliance Advised to Drop Attitude of
Benevolent Neutrality and
Begin to Puh.
The Alliance good roads delegations
which have been attending meetings
with great regularity the past month
or so, mostly in connection with the
proposed north and south highways,
the G-P-C and North Star routes, have
reported that at a number of these
meetings there w as present a Heming
ford delegation. Now, Hemingford is
not down for a' place on cither of these
routes. Opinion has beeivdivided a. to
what the presence of the Hemingford .
delegation could mean. One view has
had it that the Hemingford men were
out simply as good roads boosters.
Another view, engendered possibly by
the Hemingford I-edgtr, which re-J
ccntly warned citizens of that place to
wake and be up and doing, lest some
thing be put over on them by Alli
ance, have wondered if the delegation
fiom the neighboring town weren't on
the gumshoe order, with an aim to
capture one of these routes for the city
to the northwest
The alarmists had s-ome reason to
fear the Hemingford delegation, simp-
Iv from the lineup in Box Butte coun-!
tv. The commissioner have not been
so very friendly to Alliance, or the
Alliance chamber of commerce,
for
se veral months, ever since that organ-.
iration got in bad with them by going
ocr their heads and having the ap-'
proval of the Alliance-Hemingford
road held up by the state engineer's j
office. One of the Box Butte commU-1
pinners lives in the Hemingford terri-
tory, and another one ia believed to be j
willing to turn down Alliance, if an
opportunity should anse.
Not Out for Piece.
Howe", er. .the last issue of the Hem
ingford Ledger contains one of the
best summaries of the road situation
that has yet been made. The article
is pparently made up from interview
with the Hemingford men who have
attended these various road meetings
and have been interested spectators, as
hos-jwell as being suspected of being
skeletons at the feast. Accomm o
marily in getwiV? uucooeu a norm ami
south route, and are satisfied to be
within six or seven miles of v the
through transcontinental road
The Hemingford. delegation has an
alyzed the situation, and had made a
prettv thorough jobof it. They find
that 'the Bridgeport-yVngora-Alliance
road, on the west sideof the track, is
the one that can be btylt and main
tained for the. least money, and will
serve the most people. They say that
the Alliance delegation, in maintaining
n attitude of strict neutrality, has
hin.lered rather than helped the situa
tion, and indicate their belief, that if
Alliance would present a united front
to the Morrill county commissioners,
and get out and boost for the one
road, they would get it.
Heminu-ford. instead of being a con
tf-..W for the transcontinental road, is
i,i realitv willing to work ami boost
and help Alliance get it. They do hope,
ers thould bear in mind.
Broadwater Route Expenie.
The Ledger ays:
The problem for years has been, how
to connect the Platte river with the
Box Butte county tuble by a good
road. In all the panhandle there is
net a decent roud between these
points at this time Broadwater claims
that there is a good road through the
Ssnd Hills to Alliance and has suc
ceeded in getting such a route maiked
up on the maps. Tliis road is certain
ly a misnomer. It seems to be the
road that our friends at Alliance favor,
but they admit themselves that it will
cost $1.0,000 DuilJ il an' at that
they do not guarantee that it Wi.l te a
good road. There are approximately
twenty-rive miles of sand hills of th-'
v.or-t kind intersper.-ed with low wet
valleys, and whether the valleys in the
wet time or the hiils in tl e dry tine
are the wor.-t, it would be an-excellent
iu!iect for a colored debuting society
to i.p '.i lcr.
The Morrill county comniL-.-.io'ie's,
each repro.-entinnr the sovereign city
of Broadwater, Bridgeport or Bayartl,
are in a deadlock, eu.c.h city dcin:ir.Iim
that the roud jo through tueretrom.
Each coi!)iiu.siorii.-r is loyal to his b.iili
w.rk. It has beon a mighty d.l irate
proposition and the Hcmintclord dele
gations to the.-e nH.'etins have taken
the portion what we want is a north
i-.nd from the Lincoln highway. an,li:lur ; ''7' ' '7 ;
that Box Butte county should be a unit
and that oupr coinmissioaers should
meet the road designated from Morrill
county at any point that the MornJl
county commissioners would name.
(Continued on Page 7)
MICH INTEREST
IN THE OIL WELL
NEAR LAKESIDE
BIG CROWDS LOOKING AT DER
RICK AND MACHINERY
K. . . n j . ... . , .
.xpect to Be Ready to Mart Drilling
Some Time This Week
if
All Ge Well
Lakeside is the cVnter of attraction
for sight-seers this week. Every day
several-automobile loads of interested
spectator are looking over the oil der
rick and machinery erected by the
Lakeside Development company a
short di.-tance west of the town of
Lakeside, on the Burlington railroad
and Potash highway, at a point ubout
twenty-five miies east of Alliance.
Several Alliance men visited the out-
fit last Sundav, and came awav much
implead with the magnitude of the
undertaking.
The Lakeside outfit has the finest oil
.drilling rio: ever brought into Nebras-
ka, in the opinion of those acquainted
with the oil game. The huge derrick
shoot up in the air a distance of 120
feet, and has a base 22 feet square.
Two or three acres are covered with
the derrick, pump house, three boilers,
and a perfect network of trenches for
steam pipes.
The rig is the best that money can
buy a combination California rig,
both rotary and standard. It
charge of experienced men.
is in
Fred
Blumer, suiierintendcnt of the Hord
potash plant, is in charge of the work.
B. H. McKinley, of Fullerton, Cal., a
well known California oil man. is to
superintend the drilling. He ha
brought with him from California, as
his assistant, two drillers, C. A.
Myers of Anaheim, and Jack Brauu;
two derrick men, Messrs. Taylor, and
Schwartz, and a rig builder, Harry
Landreth. There are two Casper oil
men in the crew, and hair a ttozen
others.
The work has proceeded with sur
piising swiftness. The derrick is
erected, the huge cables threaded, the
engines and pumps are in place, the
.steam pipe lined are laid, and as coon
as the,hree steam boilers are ready to
go, tbi well will be spudded in. The
boilers will use oil for fuel, and Sun
day workmen were bricking them up.
The men in charge hoped to have
everything in readiness by Wednesday
or lhursday of this week.
A Non-Stop Tak.
The actual drilling will not begin
until everything is ready to go aheail.
This is duo to the fact that once the
drilling begins, it must keep up con
stantly, with as little delay as possible.
There will be ten men employed on the
job. and m two nhifta of twelve hours
each will keep the big drills going all
the time. v
1 The chief difficulty, according to
Mr. Myers, one of the drillers, will be
to keen the hole from caving in. This
is done by proceeling slowly. "They
tell us," he said, "that there is from
six to nine hundred feet of sand here.
We could go through thia in two days,
but we won't. Our problem is to mud
up the sides of the hole, so that it
will not give way." The dirt is re
moved from the hole by making mud
of it and using pumps to draw this
mud out. There is a constant circulat
ing of mud in the hole during the drill
ing. The sand that is to be found near
Lakeside won t make mud, and the
company has had to import several
carloads of black dift from near Hem
ingford. The big drill will pack this
a!nn2 the side of the hole, where it will
dry. The casing will not be used un
less it i.i found to be absolutely neces
surv.
There is all kinds of casing on the
ground, beginning with the twenty
inch and tapering down to six inches
With the rotary drill, the small casing
i.4 ued as the drill stem, and there l
nothing to hinder the work unless once
in a while the casing should break or
the walls qave in. Unless real hard
rock is encountered, one of the huge
drill will last for a thousand feet or
more of drilling.
Mr. Myers was pleased with the out
look. He hadn't expected to find Lake
sid - looking so well. The word sand
hilts conjured up a vision of a barren
soot, and when he sw the gnu cov
eiv l hills he felt considerably relieved.
Will Co at Least 3.000 Fevt
Th. intention i to give the field
mo t thorough test. It i ai.l that
$!2"i,n0i has been suWribod to put
down this te.-t well, the first in Ne
br: -.kj's potash district, and it will be
dr.! dto a dept.h of 5,00') f.-el,
nee' .viry. The men b;i''k of the pro
iecu are confident that they w.!l tnk
oil i.i paying quantities, and they .!-'0
have the chance of -trik,!sr gis or bed ,'
of ;"tath, which are snjnosvd by
se;rv to underlie t;e fjotash tlistrief,
v ill tht recently discovert bedj in
'IV.i.4.
." me of Nebraska's wealthiest men
i- . i i t i..ir-..ll.
ir! nacKinir me protect, including inf
fl l 1? IlUli li'll (l)t.l.1!i Jllfinv,
Hi -f anlson and John G. Woodward,
wi.h other well known men. .The men
pr niarily interested are potash men,
who realize that a find of oil or gas
would provide cheap fuel for the pot
ash plants at Lakeside, IiouTai.J and
1 Antioch. Cheap fuel is believed to "be
the salvation oi the indutry.
Alliance is watihing the tet with
considerable interest, for if it is suc
cessful, it will mean that this city will
experience an unprecedented growth.
According to one Alliance man, thin
city will not pass up the opportunity,
as it did when the potash business wa
in its infancy und there was an oppor
tunity to have the plants located in
this city.
Last week there was a report cur
rent that the wiggle-stick man hud lo
cated a well on one of the main streets
..c a ;..!, v... it,;., u..,i
'.'I J-l lit IMIb llll.'. I Ullllll llilll III!
1 1 foumlatlon. All the citizens in the
three potash towns are intensely in
terested in developments.
Purse Containing $30
Taken From the Home
of John Hcnnebcrry
The city and county police authori
ties were notified Monday of the theft
of a purse, containing $".0, from the
home of John Henneberry, 1VJ0 Chey
enne, Saturday morning. Mrs. Henne
berry and a friend came in on the late
train. Mrs. Henneberry tossed her
purse into a corner of the room, and
the next morning it wa.i found to have
disappeared. Another purse, belong
ing to her guest, which was on the
bureau in the same room, was not
touched. The police have been able
to find no clue to the robbery.
POTATO CROP
PROSPECTS ARE
FAIRLY GOOD
EXPECT YIELD TO EQUAL THAT
OF LAST YEAR.
Big Increase in Acreage Reported
from Bok Butte and Sheridan
Counties.
The commercial potato crop in west
ern Nebraska promises to be as large
or larger than the crop of l'JH), ac
cording to O. D. Miller, representative
of the Federal and State marketing
bureaus at Alliance, who recently
made a tour of the western potato
counties. Assessors' reports show in
creased potato acreage in nearly every
county, especially in the central. and
northern districts, which will be only
partly offset by the poor sUud found
in a large number of fields in the dry
land districts. The dry-land fields in
Kimball county have suffered most
from drouth. A slightly increased
acreage in the Scottsbluff-Morrill irri
gated district is expected to produce
about the same carlot movement as in
liKIO. The increase is likely to come
from Box Butte and Sheridan counties,
where the acreage is reported as i"J,
174 as compared with 16,207 last year.
The sub-normal stand In tnese two
counties is accounted for in various
ways. It occurs mostly in the earlier
fields. Dlantext during May. in rome
localities there was too much dry
upnther following planting: some
growers say that too large a part ot
the irood seed was sold and shipped
out; and others say that a good many
growers spoiiea tneir seen y cunm
it and allowing it to stand too long lie
fore nlantme. But a poor stand will
r.ot mean a correspondingly poor yield
because the isolated plants, having the
ml vantage of more moisture, will
grow more potatoes than those closer
togethjr.
The ear v average oi me nry-ian
territorv is m the Kushvuie-wordon
district, where the principal variety is
Kailv Oh os. olanted before the muiuie
of May. The crop in many of these
fields is fully matured and there was
earlv as August 15.
The fields seem to have had plenty of
moisture after the plants were up, a
th. amount of secon.l growtn
nmnurativelv small and a large num
! tr ----- - f , ...
har nf th tubers snow erowin cmc
which usually result from hot weather
8nd moist soil. Scab is common in
the farlv fiel.ls. In the Alliance
" " - . . . . ' A,
iiomino-foni district there win oe ic
tie digging until the third week in
September. The few early field i show-
considerable second growth as tne re
ut nf r-iin late in their crowing sea
son following a dry period, but little
from irrowth cracks. Hot
u,.,Hi..r has caused growth cracks i
much of the early stock being shippe
from the Scut: bluT-Morrill irrigate,
di-tict. Early Ohio, Bliss Triumph
nr..! Downing liave leen snipped, an
most of the cars from that district
thjs far hve been loaded at Mitchell
ami Hmi-v. Prices to growers in
western Nebraska per 100 lbs. sacked
rjur;.-d from Jl.O to $l) during the'
week Aut!i.-t 15 to 20, r.d fl.;' to
!.7r iluring the ueek" August, -2 to
7.
Sh'":i. nts reportetl from we.-tern
N.li-a s this ea.on to August 27, in
clii've, totaled 72 cars. A iding tSOS
curA, lii:ipl from central Nebraska,
the totnl'for the state was C'SO. Ship
ments tor the slate all last season
to J.;d 2,!i:W cars. Much of this early
mo v anient from the western counties
was immature stock, bought or
ehipped for the high market which
preva.iod during the.liivt three weeks
of August. The marked weakening in
the Chicago market August 22, when
potato prices dropped 25 to 40 cents
(Continued on Pag )
M, E, CHURCH
CORNERSTONE '
LAID SUNDAYi
Ol'NTY Jl'DGE TASH MAKES
PRINCIPAL ADDRESS
Several Hundred People Prenent t
Witnes the Ceremonies and
Hear the lrogram
A crowd estimated at between threi
undred fifty and four hundred as
sembled at the site of the new Metho
list church at Seventh and Box Butt
avepue at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon
for the ceremonies of laying the cor
nerstone. The afternoon was exceed
ngly hot and the services were brief.
he majority of the audience was wat
ered about in cars, the street being
retty well filled up.
Mayor j;. M. Hampton presided.
Rev. M. C. Smith, pastor of th
church, made a few opening remarks.
Other Alliance ministers had a plac
on the program, mere were also a
few musical numbers. A copper box
containing the usual church history,
membership roll of church and Sunday
chool, copies of various church and
city publications ami other matters of
interest were enclosed in the corner
stone. Rev. M. C. Smith officiated
during the laying of the stone," which
was done according to the ritual or
the Methodist Episcopal church.
The principal address of the day was
made by County Judge Ira E. Tash,
who was called upon when it was
learned that Bishop Homer C. Stunts
of Omaha would le unable to be pre-
nt, uue 10 me ucain oi an oia menu.
Judge Ta.-h said, in part: .
"This day, and the laying of. this
cornerstone, marks an epoch not alone
n Ike life and history of the Method
st church of Alliance, but it is a
monument and marker along the trail
nd onward sweep, of christian civil
ization, and evidence of moral de
elonment and the highest type ot
citizenship in the community.
"Less than two score years ago
where you now stand, surrounded by
II the symbols oi education culture.
commerce and convenience, the untaint
ed and painted savage roamed the sua
baked plains, in pursuit oi me uiu
less wilder elk, antelope and buffalo.
Where Vonder raises the classic wau -
f your, beautiful temple- of Justice.
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files. Where stands . yonder stoma
school his medicine men carried on
their incantations. Instead of your-
solid city pavement, and smooth roadJ
stretching like velvety moons iron
Platte river to Pine Ridge, over whkn
float the sedan and the limousine, th
stolid simaw trailed her travois, loaded
with her papoose lares ana penaiea.
nstead of your green graved ana mar
ble-marked cemeteries, the aborigine
deposited and departed in the bed C
sand coulee, and wept o er nis
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It is Droud proof of the betterment
of our moral ind religious environ
ments, when we can state tnat u
gilded palace of sin has been banished;
from our midst, to never reiura a
never and that the places of worship
are increasing in number all the time.
Oh. what a day this wouiu oe to
that saintly founder of Methodisism,
John Wesley, to see this rplendid edU
fice, consecrated to the service oi ma
ever living God, whom he so faithfully
st-rved, .md we can in vision penetrata
the misty veil that so tnmiy mier
enes lietween the material and spirit
ual worlds, and see the angelic iacea
of John Wesley, and Bishop McCabe,
smiling approval of our work. And n
doubt that the bishop who was a fear .
less soldier in his country deiansa,
as well as a soldier of the cross white
on earth, would rejoice to see another
citadel of the church raised again
the assaults of sin and infidelity, an
other fortress along a far flung battla
line, resisting the encroachments C
atheism and inhjuity.
" We can well imagine, that if ther
is radio, telegraphic or telepathia
communication from his heavenly
home, to the lower regions, he would
as he did once while on earth send
message to that not d infidel. Bob In
gersoll, telling him "Glory to God.
Bob. they are building two churches
a day n-w instead of one as they
were doing when I last communicated
with you.'' .
Tho.se saints would rejoice and giva i
thanki, could they but see the splen
did Christian Fpirit shown here today.
by the pastors and people ot our sisier
churches, who have come to bid U
God-speed, to assist in these ceremo
hies, and I here ana now pieuge ie
pood people, on the part of the Meth
o.hVts and near-Mcthouists, that whet
the increase of population and city ex
pansion, demands that their rnt
church homes give way to larger and
more modern edifices, that the Meth
odist church will reciprocate thia
kindly liberal spirit, and show that tha
spirit of jealousy or rivalry that may
have once prevailed, no longer exists,
and that the orthodox churches an
really Christianized.
(Continued on Tage 5)
Joe Morlson, son of William Mori
son, lumber dealer of Crawford. r-j
rived in Alliance Thursday and will
spend the next week at the home oft
Mr. and Mra. J. P. Mann and family, ,