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THE ALLIANCE, HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1921
Bl)t AUtattrr Hrralb
Bunn ruiNTiNci co., owmm
r.mtfrfd t the pnxlorfire it Alliance
MbNb.. for trun-inlmitc.n thr-MiRh thij
tw&lls iironl mutter. I'ubiianea
rvUjr nd Friday.
pwonr.K u nmn, jr.. Kiitor
iMUWIN M. IH'ltH UuBlliewi MKT.
Official tirwopuprr of Hi City .f
Walt County.
community nt heart, to keep an eye on . Ilridgeport, which are well authenti
ItcminRfonl, and especially the activl- cated, say otherwise. It is to be hoped
that the other Hemingford men will
disavow his efforts in their behalf. In
any event, it will he well to keep an
eye on the situation tintil a road from
Angora to the Pox I'utte county line
wind and PuI!If- I Th
JNrlatiaK Company. lric U Ha". Jr
?viidot; Kdwin M. Uuir. Vice Irea
wt Ji VICTORY roil COMMON SKNSK.
The victory of the North Star high
way association, in the decision of the
Norrill county commissioners to ap
prove the Sidnoy-Bridgeport-Alliance
route os the first to receive state and
federal aid, is a victory for common
sense It will be received in Alliance
'with a sense of relief that is practi
cally unanimous, for with the lineup
f the commissioners of the neighbor
ing county as it seemed to be a week
. so ago, there seemed little posibil
y that a road would be secured that
ould be available for use as a part
f a gTeat north and south transcon
tinental highway.
With the agreement of the Alliance
Tad boosters to maintain strict neu
trality as regarded the Morrill county
deadlock, the past month has been one
f the hardest in history for men who
Juul honest convictions, who wanted to
press them and yet bowed o the will
of the majority, which said that Alli
ance should not butt in, and should
leave the Morrill commissioners to find
their own salvation after their own
fashion and according to their own de
sires. The solution that has been arrived
at will bring relief to a number of
partisans of the Bridgeport road, some
of whom were like to bust with the
strain of maintaining silence and neu
trality, especially after an enthusias
tic booster or two for the Hi oad water
route had kicked over the traces.
The action of the Morrill commis
sioners was the one that common sense
would dictate. Mr. Gurvey of Broad
Trater and Mr. Osborn of Bayard, both
01 nom wanted the road to pass
through their towns before any other
roads were built, deserve a tremendous
amount of credit for giving way to
the Bridgeport man. They will have a
hard time, we fear, to explain their
commendable stand to thoir constitu
ents, and yet there is no question that
the action taken was the proper course
to pursue.
For the road through Morrill county
is a part of a transcontinental route.
Common sense will dictate that such n
. route should he built the shortest and
most direct way, and the way that it
Will serve the most people of the
county which it traverses. In this
case, the Broadwater route was the
shortest and most direct, but it would
have served a comparatively small
number of Morrill county residents and
would have leen expensive to con
struct. The Bridgeport road will serve
a much greater number of people, and
will have the added advantage of con
necting up county seats. The Bayard
route, favored by the third commis
sioner, would have served as many
people, perhaps more, but it is too far
to the west to be on the logical route
for the transcontinental highway.
Under the terms of the resolution
adopted, the Broadwater road will be
the next to be built. Thoe Broad
water road booster are consistent ad
vocates of pood roads and consistent
"boosters for their town and county.
They deserve a ro:td, and the compro
mise adopted indicates that they will
have it. Considering the shortage of
funds, the:r commissioner deserves
congratulation for hi willingness to
forego a road for his district in older
to serve the people of his county and
.-.!: t ' t:e co-.-rties n either
side, who wanted a thoroughfare
through Morrill.
1 Altogether, it's the happiest solution
of the road squalhle that could have
been arrived at. AMiance will be tre-
niendously pleased that the I'road
, water load will be built sometime soon,
and th;it the Biidgepoit road i to go
through atnce. It means a whole lot
. to this city. From a .-elfi.-h p nt of
view, the Bridtrcport road will un
doubtedly bring more business to this
City than any of the others, but Alli
ance men who remember the good
fight that Broadwater has put up for
good roads for the pa.-t few years will
be glad that there is a reward in sight
for their efforts.
' Some of these days there will be
sufficient funds available fo build all
. the good roads that are needed. Now,
when funds are scarce and roads are
slow in coming, all honor to the town
that can step aside and forgo its own
ambitions fur the nivatcr public go. id.
was perhaps Mr. Carrell's privilege to
work for Hemingford's interests,' had
not that city made its position clear.
In the face of the announced attitude
of his home city, there can be but one
interpretation of this reported efforts
at Bridgeport this week, ami that is
that they are actuated by a desire to
get even. If Alliance will watch her
step, the plan, if there is one, will die
a-borning.
ties of County Commissioner George
Carroll of that city. If reports that
have come from Bridgeport are to be
relied upon.
About the time of the big road meet
ing nt Alliance, the Hemingford is approved which shall not be so far
Iedger published an article that was J west of this city that it is not, rightly
four or five columns in length, in which .'peaking, on Alliance road nt all.
it presumed to speak for the city of .There lies the d inger, and Alliance's
Hemingford, and for delegations of . road boosters will do well not to feel
road boosters from that city which had too confident until it is finally settled,
attended several meetings. Among The game isn't yet played out, and
other things, it declared that Ileming- there mav be some valuable cards left
ford didn't want a place on the North in the deck which have been over
Star highway, but simply wanted it to looked.
come through Box Butte county. Hem- Flon, an nthical point of view, it
ingiord was satisfied, the newspaper
sm'd, to be within eight miles of a
transcontinental highway. The boost
ers of that city wanted only Alliance's J
support, in a year or two, for a con- j
tinuation of the Yellowstone highway j
through Hemingford ami Marsland to
Crawford.
This was all good talk, and Alliance
was reassured, although there has been
a feeling that the Hemingford com
missioner was none too friendly to
ward Alliance and that if possible, he
would divert the North Star road from
Alliance to hia home city. v
The word comes from Bridgeport
that at the meeting of the commis
sioners at which the decision was
made to recommend the Bridgeport-Alliance
road for state and federal aid,
Mr. Carroll was among those present.
Information comes that the big Hem
ingford commissioner was doing his
level best to reach an understanding
with Bridgeport men and the neighbor
ing commissioners to run the route
through Hemingford, and leave Alli
ance in the cold.
If this report should prove to be
correct, and Mr. Carroll is really doing
his best to double-cross Alliance, it
doesn't complicate the situation so
very much. The state engineer is to
decide on the route to be followed
from Angora to this city. The other
two Box Butte county commissioners
have signed an agreement to meet the
Bridgeport road at Letan, and bring it
to Alliance. Even if Mr. Carroll were
so disposed, it isn't likely that he could
succeed in depriving Alliance of the
road, and road boosters of this city
should not get needlessly alarmed.
It is a draw poker axiom that a
game is never out until it is played
out, and in our pleasure over the ap
proval of a route that will connect this
city with the Lincoln highway, Alli
ance should not overlook Mr. Carrell
and the plans he is reported to be
working on. It pays always to keep a
weather eye open. Mr. Carrell does
not consider that he has been fairly
treated by Alliance, and has a number
of times expressed his opinion of his
detractors in this city. It is to be pre-
A COUNTRY EDITORS CREED
(South Dakota Rural Tress)
I believe in my job.
1 believe that running a good
country newspaper which serves and
represents its community is a bigger
mb than running the biggest metropo
litan daily. Because of my belief
I shall at all times be fair to every
one in my community, expecting fre
quently to be charged with being un
fair. I shall not discriminate apairst the
person who does not advertise in my
paper or who does not buy printing
of me.
I shall not be afraid to champion
the poor man's cause for fear of the
wrath of the rich man.
Nor shall I be afraid to stand by the
rich man when he is right for fear
of being charged with having sold out
to him.
I shall temper justice with mercy.
My columns shall not shout aloud to
my community the shame of an idi
vidual or of a family when that shout
ing can render my community no good.
On the other hand, I shall not con
done evil doing in high places lest in
publishing the evil deed to my com
munity my pocketbook shall suffer.
I shall scan what goes into my adJ
vertising columns as closely as that
which goes into my news columns real
ising that every column of my paper
speaks of me,
I shall always remember that poli
tics is not a game but a responsibility,
and when I write 1 shall make sure
what motive is behind the utterances.
I shall not hate my competitor, but
remember he is human ami likely to
err the same as I.
I shall belong to, pay my dues to
and attend regularly my local, state
and national editorial associations.
I shall charge what my work i$
worth, realizing that by so doing I can
serve my community best.
i shall respect and nonor my pro-
fa'cinn V,.kl t di i .1 fV 4 Y O t if n llifi')'!
siuni'ii, .Mi ruridi M iiivijM. ., .new ii.- , jfjgr
will at least not go out of his way to
do this city a favor. And while we
are presuming, it may be guessed that
he would not 'oe averse to doing some
thing that will not exactly please us.
It ma) be, of course, that Mr. Car-, por ,ouirh. dry skin, use Hud
rell has been grossly misjudged, and i nufs Original Toilet Cerate.
that he has no intention or furthering
Hemingford's interests at the expense
of Alliance. But the reports from
In brief, I shall conduct my news
paper like a gentleman and a Chris
tain, realizing that no ministry is more
sacred that that to which 1 have been
called.
Scotten & Hershman, 214 Uox
Kutte. "Try This Drug Store
FIRST." S2
Under New
Management
THE DOFBI.E-CROSS.
From row on, until the North P'.ar
road from Bridgeport to Alliance is
Actually built, it will beehnve the good
reads !iootrrs of rhis city, and all
ether- who hae the welfare if the
The Alliance Billiard Parlor has been
reopened under the special license grant
ed by the city council, and the new man
agement will endeavor to comply with all
the required regulations.
We will conduct a thoroughly sanitary
lunch counter and respectable billiard
and pool business.
You will be able to pass a pleasant
afternoon in unobjectionable surround
ings. Come in and make yourself at
home.
CIGAUS, CANDIES and SOFT DRINKS
Alliance Billiard Parlor
JOHN VELOUS, Proprietor,
BLACKROOT
lAst Monday mornintr Xfrc l4ontnr.
son, of Curly, Neb., was taken quite
ill. I)r. McEuen of ITfmin rf ni'.l oo
called And nronnuncfvl fho ram nnnon.
dicitis and said the appendix had rup-
lurc'l. J hey took nr to Alliance Tues
day where she will be operated on Sat-
nriliiv. Mr. I Ifmlerwin nml n
j - ...... u i . . . ' K I L KV-
Comonniod her to AllinnrA nml pntt.m.
t I home Mimiay. Everyone is hoping
.--lie will recover soon.
Mary Roland of Curlv was t;iln tn
he hospital nt Fcnttsbluf Sunday.
She was taken suddenly ill Saturday.
Mr. anil Mrs. Pefi. KV'n-t-i.l ui
to Scottsbluff Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bete Farre I and
daughter and Mrs. Paul Powell were;
visitors at Marshall Sheldons Sunday.
I- E. Hood anil Jnv Mill
cattle Saturday. Jay Hall accompanied i
mem to uniana.
Airnos Kennpdv nml 1f? nm.L
helped Mrs. Mitchell cook for threshers i
i nursuay.
Mrs. Henry Poes was on the sick
list Monday.
Mrs. Jay Hall spent Sunday at the
Ivor Meeker home.
O. E. Dvef anil V'ilmn i-nrn Ifumlni,.
ford visitors with Hookham's.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Romer and Mr. and
Mrs. Geortre Elahcrtv nHnnrlnH tv.
ball game at Marsland Sunday.
Edmund Flaherty left Monday for
the eastern part of the state where
he win attend school this winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ifomei- tnnlc then
daughter, Mable, to Alliance Monday.
She will attend St. Agnes Academy
this winter.
School sterted in this d;strict last
Monday with Miss Fai'-y Murry as
teacher. All wish her a very succcsful I House," for sale at Thiele's. Si
year. j
Head Harold Hell Wright's lat-Jooo in luxury taxes indicates that not
est book, "Helen of the Old ' malcy has entered some deal? V lives
toasted
TO seal
in the
delicious
Burley
flavor
Once you've
enjoyed the
toasted flavor
you will al
ways want it
Bo
.Mow!
Go through your winter wardrobe at once
and see which of your garments need cleaning,
repairing, alterations or relining.
Now is the time to get your work in this line
done,
Before the Fall Rush
'Bring them early and do not wait till every
one wants their garments on short notice.
Our solicitor will call on you in due time and
can furnish you with any information along
these lines you may desire.
Prompt Service and Reasonable Prices
Fielding Cleaners
Phone 682
We call for and Deliver
SEND IT TO FIELDING
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