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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1921)
fl ft fl 17 it s i Official Taper of Box Butte County TWICE A WEEKTUESDAY AND FRIDAY Official Taper of the City of Allianc . 't i: ; : -: i ' ' '"' .'A 4 VOLUME XXVIII ARMISTICE bKff IS OBSERVED IN ALLIANCE AMERICAN LEGION IN CHARGE OF THE FESTIVITIES Dance and Special Moving Picture Show for Evening Memorial Service This Morning. Armistice day is being generally ob served in Alliance as a holiday. A number of the business establishments have closed their doors for the entire lay, and the ex-soldiers are taking the day oir. The American legion has fceen in charge of the day's activities. No special public observance of the occasion has been arranged. Memorial services for the dead of the world war were held at St. Matthew's Episcopal church at 10 o'clock thi3 morning, in charge of the Rev. Andrew Dodge, rec tor. The members of the legion and other ex-soldiers, many of them in uni form, attended these services in a JbodyK meeting at the city hall at 9:30 4nd parading to the church. The Legion also has a special en tertainment program lor this- evening. There will be a special program of moving pictures at the Imperial thea ter sponsored by the members of Al Jiance post, followed by a big dance at the roof garden. There wdl be but one .-how at the Imperial tonight, be ginning at 7:30 and the program will be completed by 9:30, thus allowing .everyone to attend the dance. The feature photoplay tonight is "The Great Redeemer," with House Peters in the leading role of a gentle maniv stage and train robber. He is ailso an artist with the brush. When, .after a series of exciting scenes, he is captured and sent to prison, the story of his reformation proves one of the most interesting ever presented in Al Jiance. The picture was screened a week or two ago for the legion's com mittee, and everyone of them express ed himself as satisfied with it in every particular. The reformation is not the .usual sob-story sort, but something along entirely new lines, with thrills of an unexpected sort. In addition there will be the funniest soldier com dy that has ever been made. I The dance this evening after the show will be featured by the soldier Jbovs in uniform, together with some .special entertainment. The public will be admitted, and it is expected to be one of the biggest aifairs of the sea- At 12 o'clock two short blasts of the city light plant's whistle sounded the time lor the two-minute period of sil ent meditation and prayer, requested by a proclamation by President Hard ing. In Alliance this was not very veil observed, although here and there a citizen understood what it was all about. The business and residence dis tricts were fairly well decorated. Local Legion men say that next year an at tempt will be made to have the holiday observed in a fitting manner by the en tire community, and that an elaborate program of exercises will be provided. Funeral Services for S. A. Miller Were Held This Afternoon Funeral services for S. A. Miller, pioneer resident of Box Butte county and a merchant m. finance ior u nast eleven vears. were held at 2:30 this afternoon from the Christian thurch. with Rev. Stephen J. Epler int charge. interment was umuo flrppnwood cemeterv. rl Mmata.v I Syrus Andrew Miller was born in Knoxville, 111., May 27, 1865 and died at his home in Alliance, November 9, 1921, aged 56 years, 5 months and 12 days. He came to Dawson county, Ne braska in 1880 and to Box Butte coun ty in 18S7. He was married to Miss Alary Simpson, September 9, 1889. The past eleven years he has been engaged in the shoe business in Alliance. For the past year and a half, Mr. Miller has been compelled to give up the active work in his store. Last winter was spent in Texas with the hope of regaining his health. He seemed to improve, but the benefits to Ids health were not lasting for early Wednesday morning he breathed his last- , . v He is survived by hu wife; his father, D. C. Miller of Knoxville, 111., jther relatives and many friends. jUother Rosalie of Alliance Hospital Is Reported Dying Mother Rosalie of St. Joseph's hos vital is reported this noon to be in a . i . mm I . : . iying condition, me pnybiviniw m av tendance says that no hope3 are en tertained for her recovery. She was taken suddenly ill late Wednesday night, nad had been gradually sinking, Her lrath is hourly expected. This noon the mother superior of the world for the Francescan sisters -jvrivtxl in Alliance, on a tour of in spection. She was at the Pine Ridge agency, and hurried to Alliance when word of Mother Rosalie's condition reached her. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Barnett motored to Bayard today to visit -nth friends. (Ten Tages) ALLIANCE, KEEP AT IT. I o vv it bi i j 1 1 an an eU Rising campaign either you . ertise or you don't advertise. Campaigns means advertising by . ins ana starts, ihey lo not nro ciuce a finished or a final effect. You might as well speak ot a breathing campaign. Stait a breathing campaign now and then, and then let your lungs rest. There would soon be more of you at rest than your lungs. Begin an eating campaign, and then stop eating. Business men generally are do ing more advertising than they have ever done before, and they are trying to give the public more for its money than it ever before received. They are also making a serious bid for public interest and public good will. We have.all been scraping our chins every morning for years. Would the effect last otherwise ? Publicity is like that. It is a matter of keeping it up once you have started it. It ia a matter of converting a man once and convinc ing him again. Say it in your home paper. Then repeat it Then re peat it again. The human mind wabbles. Keep it wabbling your way. Advertising will do that when nothing else can. Bingham Gold Star Mother to Attend Burial of Unknown Mrs. Dora Quakenbush, postmaster at Bingham, Neb., and a gold star mother of the world war arrived in Washington, D. C, Wednesday to at tend the burial of the unknown soldier at Arlington Friday. Her son was killed in France and his body never recovered. The unknown, so greatly honored, may be her own son. POTASH TARIFF IS FAVORED BY THE GOVERNOR WOULD HELP TO RE-ESTABLISH INDUSTRY IN NEBRASKA. Chance for the Revival of rot ash Pro duction if Proper Encourage- . , " ment Is Given. Governor McKelvie of Nebraska, they ought to put Alliance on the wit whose farm aper recently advised the ness stand. They ought also to bring uuiiuiiK vi vueup corn as auei m piace of high-priced coal, now comes for-, ward to advocate a tariff on potash, used for fertilizer to increase produc tion of farm crops. He thinks a tariff on that article would help to re-establish the potash industry in Nebraska, which flourished in war time but has since been suspended, says the Lin coln Star. A Philadelphia banker, C. S. Calwell, received one of Mr. McKelvie's recent circular letters suggesting means of helping agriculture. He replied to it and called the governor's attention to cities once in a while in a game of the proposed tariff of 24 cents per friendly baseball, has no desire to pound on foreign potash, which he said sponsor an Alliance team in any lea would meaif a heavy tax on farmers jjue. This sentiment, which was uu amounting to $34,000,000 a year in in- animous, resulted Thursday noon, at creased cost for fertilizing material. the club's weekly luncheon, in the "May I suggest your active interest tabling of a proposition from Sterl in preventing the placing of the duty ine. Col., which has been doing its best on potash, one of the most important for the past month to organize a lea raw products that the farmer uses?" pue of eight towns in Colorado and inquired tne r niiaaeipma nnancier. - To this communication Governor mcneivie responaea in part as iomows: "VnhfiLlu .a o tuirodh nrnHnpinff state; in. fact, during the war there . grew into prontabie existence nere some of the largest potash reducing plants in the entire country. Then when the war ended, the whole thing went up in smoKe potn ngurativciy ana merauy, lor our inuusiry nere, unucr the conditions of manufacture, could nnf fnmnatA with fniwiirn nattnna .w ."t ...v.. . -fc it appears now mat mere may De a chance for a revival of this industry if the proper encouragement is given to it. Temporarily this may mean a slightly higher price for potash to Am erican farmers, but ultimately it will mean a very much lower price." "It seems to me that out or the les sons of the war, we should at least have learned that America should be case of an industry that is so vital to the national existence, 1 cannot but feel that there should be some protec tion for it. It appears now that there may be a chance for a revival of this industry in this state and in several other states if the proper encourage ment is given to it Jemporanly this may mean a slightly higher price for, potash to American farmers, but uiti- mately it will mean a very much lower price, for there is no doubt in my mind that, until the production of pot ash begun in this country, the fertil izer industry was controlled in a mo nopolistic way by foreign interests. "It is only a matter of wise conser vation and national business prudence to proceed upon the theory that the United States should be absolutely in dependent of any other nation in the production of an article that is so vital to the national existence, and I, there fore, feel that it would be most unwise to permit the destruction of the potash industry, through the unlimited compe tition ot any zoreign nation or inter- est." BOX DUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ALLIANCE IS ONCE MORE IN THE LIMELIGHT OTHER CITIES INTERESTED CITY MANAGER PLAN. IN League of Nebraska Municipalities Will Make This Chier Topic at Coining Session. The Wednesday issue of the Omaha Bee contains a most complimentary editorial on the city manager plan of government, with especial reference to Alliance, which is the only city in Ne-;ance last Friday. Alliance is an ad braska to date that has tried it. The vocate of the rough methods that mere Bee suggests that when the league of j in vogue years ago, presumably before ieorasKa municipalities noma us an- rual session in Omaha within a month or two, Alliance tic put on the witness stand. i j it is altogether probable that City Manager Kemmish will be asked to at tend the league convention and tell of the workings of the plan in Alliance. Friends of the city manager plan say, however, that there is no great liku hood mat tne league ot rseorasica seen hoj-e this season. J here is no municipalities will endorse the plan, disposition to alibi; there is no neces "That outfit is made up largely of Fjty to alibi. Scottsbluff knew from politicians," this man says, "and the former years just what manner of city manager plan is for business men, dirty playing was to be expected, not politicians. You can't hope to t0 F(ly that Alliance possesses a make a business man out of a politi- J better football team than Scotttbluff cian any more than you can make to Ftate something that is not true, politician out of a business man. The To fin: that Alliance persists in using league of municipalities is dominated by politicians, and its influence is pretty likely to be thrown against any plan of government that will eliminate politicians from control of affairB. However, Alliance, ought to go on the witness stand, if the opportunity offers and spread the good news." The Bee's editorial follows: It is announced that the city man. ager plan is to be foremost in the f discusson ot tne iNeorasKa league oi muniicpalities here this winter. Oma ha has been interested in this im proved method of municipal govern ment for a long time. No leader, however, has como forward to crystal ize this passive interest into action. The numerous civic and business, or ganizations, which might do so mucn to bring this about, nave remaineu gaged in other matters, most of them of more or less personal nature. "Out at "the other side of the state Alliance has a city manager, and is more than satisfied with the innorft.-. tion. Dozens of larger cities through out the nation arc also governed in this way. When these Nebraska may ors and city officials meet in Omaha, nere a Cjty manager trom some sucn piace as Dayton, to tell of the actual working of the plan in larger com munities. League Baseball Doesn't Appeal to the lions Club The Alliance Lions club, while per- fectly willing to meet cubs from other western Nebraska. in refusing to consider any propo- gition hereby Alliance is to nave a 1 : . b. .' 1 n m n . k a I l. a .Inh la following illustrations precedent, the game action having been taken by the Alliance chamber of commerce. The ritv's commercial organization read the Iptter throuirh. and when it came t0 the paragraph estimating the ex. nense at SZ.OOU or more a montn. tie. cided promptly that the contract was l 1 t - 1 . vn,llA 1 a. wine iuu taiKC iux n iu uauuit;. One or two Alliance men, when the suggestion was first made that AW ance have a place in the proposed lea gue, thought there was some way by which the money could be raised, but apparently they later experienced a change of heart, for nothing more has been heard of it until the Lions were asked to assume the lead. A Matrimonial Bureau Romance Hits the Rocks Mr?. Lavinia Myers, fifty-seven vears old. testified in district court at Lincoln Tuesday before Judge W. M. Morning in the trial of her suit for di- ' vorce from James V. Myers that she . had been married four times and her marriage to Mr. Myers in Lincoln, September 21, 1920, was the culmina tion of a matrimonial asrency romance, Her first husband died, she obtained divorces from the next two and now reeks similar action against the fourth, it was testified. Mr. Myers has also been married once before and divorced. Judge Morning was reluctant to grant Mrs. Myers a divorce and took her case under advisement. Mrs. Myers said all the clothing her husband ever gave her was a dust can and a pair of over shoes. He left her five months after they were married and is now at Alli ance, 3 aid Mrs. Myers. MORE CRABBING BY NEWSPAPER IN SCO 1TSBLUFF EXPECTED ALIBI FOR LAS DAY'S DEFEAT. FRI Says Box Butte Boys Can't Get Away From the Old Old Method of Committing Mayhem. The Scottsbluff Star-Herald has come out with the expected explana tion of the defeat of the Scottsbluff darlings in a football game with Alii tne iscoushiuit team began carrying powder puffs up their sleeves. The dope is interesting however, and is re printed for the perusal of a team which can be sportsmanlike in defeat a well as in victory: "Alliance defeated the Bearcats on the local Gridiron last Friday by a score of 23 to 14, after one of the most bitterly contested football games the tactics in vogue among univer sity teams yer.rs ago, in which at tention was first given to putting the opponent's best piaycrs "out of busi ness," is to state a fact. The col leges long ago gave up t'tm method of playing as it was casting odium upon a sport, which sport was supposedly a test or skill ami generaisnip, and under the old system was merely drifting into an excuse to commit mayhem. Therefore such style play has been abandoned and is not taught by coaches in the better schools, "As said aboxe, this is in no sense an alibi,, for Scottsbluff knew what it waH going up against, and there fore Alliance should be entitled to the' full credit for the victory which was won true to Alliance form. But it is maintained that SmottsblutT possesses the better football team, m football is played among numans. Alliance is plaving Bayard at Bay ard today, and it is expected they will win a victory unless something out of the ordinary happens. Bayard was the team wluch started the howl last year bout rough-stuff, and if they are again defeated, we may expect to hear a lot more of it. Scottsbluff Has An Illustration of High Freight Rates One hears of high freight rates and the injustice thereof, but recently the finance committee of. the city council received a very concrete and illuminat ing example of "whither we have drifted" in railroad matters. This was discovered through the efforts to learn the cost of freight on a motorcycle and sidecar for the use ot the city to be shipped to Scottsbluff from Milwaukee, wis., says the Jscottsblun fctar-lieraid. The equipment weighs approximate ly 600 pounds and the first interesting point learned was that despite the fact that the machine was knocked down and crated, the side car would be list ed as double first class and the motor cycle proper first class and a half at a I ate of $10.64 per hundred, or a total charge of between $63.00 and $64.00. Wild-eyed and trembling the com mittee hied to the express office and learned that the express on the same car from Milwaukee would be $35.40. In other words, under the present be fuddled and unjust railroad scheme an express company, operating on a fast passenger train could lay the motor cycle down in Scottsbluff $30 cheaper than could the slower, but supposedly cheaper freight. lhe motorcycle was ordered by ex press. Mr. and Mrs. G. I Beck of Ross, Wyo.. were visiting Mrs. Beck over Sunday. A. M. Gaddiff of Scottsbluff, division engineer of the state highways, ar rived in Alliance Thursday for a few days business. , Look for Shakedown If Gray's Friends Do Not Come to Rescue As yet no friends of Tom Gray who ia now serving a thirty-day sen tence in the county jail as a part of punishment for making illicit moon shine, have come to his assistance in paying the $1,000 fine, which was second part of the punishment for vio lation of the prohibitory laws. Gray has been in jail only a few days, but already it is beginning to wear some what on his nerves. If the big fine isn't paid, then Gray will have to serve it out in jail at the rate of $3 a day. This will mean at least a year in jail, as the costs in the case, which must be paid at the same rate, amount to over $100. The authorities are of the opinion that if Gray's friends do aot lack is 11, 1921. with the money to set him free at the end of thirty days, there is likely to be a shakedown, in which Gray will tell all ho knows about the illicit traf fic in hooch in the county. Gray has fo far taken all the blame ujwn him .elf and has refused to implicate any accomplices, but the officers think that he dislikes incarceration fo much that if he friends do not come to the recue before the thirty days are up, there'll be material enough- spilled to keep the courts busy for a solid month. The county jail isn't a cheerful place at" any time, but especially in this wintry weather, with the cold winds howling about all night, a prisoner is likely to crave company. Gray is the lole occupant of the county bastile at present. Alliance Man Is Given Place on the Federal Grand Jury A federal grand jury was impanelled Derore Judge J. . Woodrough at Om aha Monday afternoon. James A Hunter of Alliance is one of the mem bers. In his examination of the jurors united htates Attorney Kmsler inquir ed if anyone was included who had taken part in the sale of watered stork during the "blue-sky" promot on craze. One juror said that a stock snlesmnr once stayed in his house, but that he had had no part in this man s sales. He was permitted to remain. The jury immediately went into pri vate session, with poi toffice inspectors, agents of the department of justice, auditors of the state banking board ami nat'onal bank examiners. It is understood there are several hundred booze cases to be considered, more thun 100 narcotic cases, several white slave affairs, some bank frauds nnd nt least two important "wildcat" fraud cases. SAY BURLINGTON . IS EVADING THE FULL GREW LAW RAILWAY BROTHERHOODS FILE A COMPLAINT. Ask Railway Commission-to. iake an Order Fixing the Number of Men in a "Crew. When's a division not a division? This was one of the points argued be fore the state railway commission in a complaint filed by representatives of the railway brotherhoods against the various railroads in Nebraska, says the State Journal. The brotherhoods secured the enactment by the legisla ture of a law requiring that an en gineer, fireman and a pilot compose the crew of a light engine running over two or more divisions. They now charge that the railroads are not ob serving the law. The railroads say that if this be true the remedy is not the one sought, an order of the commission that they obey it, but to apply the penalty pro- ided bv the law wnich r.ny3 how many men shall nstitute a full crew. They insist they are not disobeying ;t. The men complain that the Burling ton has scught to evade the law by juggling the definit'on of a division. when a light engine is sent from Lin coln to Alliance, for instance, two men run it to the end of the Lincoln division at Ravenna. The Alliance divisions begins at Ravennt. The prac tice of the road has been to have two men take the engine from Ravenna to Alliance, claiming that just as the first two ran only on the Lincoln division so the second two ran on the Alliance division only. Mr. Sorenson. for the brotherhoods, argued that a statute was manifestly enacted to provide a remedy for an existing condition of which the legis lature took notice and desired to change. It should be interpreted in the light of what the legislature in tended to have done. If the interpre tation contended for by the roads was correct then a lot of men were in fed eral prison for violating the Mann act and the federal law relating to run ning off stolen automobiles from one state to another.. If the roads were right then if a man stole an auto and took it to the state line or induced woman to ride with him to the middle of the Missouri river, and the auto or the woman was turned over to a pal the federal laws had not been violated The brotherhoods ask for two sorts of relief. One is that the statute be interpreted to mean as they say it does mean, that three men shall con stitute a crew when a division line la crossed, and the other, that if the law does not mean this then that the three men be put on, through the exercise of the general powers of the commission as a matter of public safety, tne com missioner s Questions, however, hav nut the men in a legal hole. The com missioners say that if they should hold the statute' permits the railroads to use but two men only and then or der three hired because safety de mands - it they are superseding statute of the state which the men, in their other demand for relief, insist should govern. No. 100 DISCOSS THE : ROUTING OF NORTH STAR ALLIANCE ROAD BOOSTERS NOT PLEASED AT PROSPECT. May Decide Id Bring Road North From Bonner to County Line Instead of Letan. The road boosters of Allinni mr beginning to think thnt life i tuat m darned thing after another. After two or three months of hard work, during which the road situation was not pretty well in hand, the whole schema snows signs or getting all balled up. It's been the hardest kind of a nVht all along to line up the commissioners f.f fliorriii and uox Uutte counties, and. it's getting so its even more rliiricult a keep them lined up. i wo or three months ago, when th North Star route was pioiected. Alli ance men made a big booster trin t Bridgeport, and were instrumental in arou-ing sentiment which persuaded the Morrill county commissioner ta designate she Bridgeport-Alliance road as the nrsl to receive state aid, anil the Broadwater-Alliance roud as th' second in line for Ftate maintenance. This ended a deadlock of two or three years' standing. . lhe plan had been for the road to follow the u-ual route to Antrora. and to call in the Ftate road official. to. lesiimate the road from Ano-nrn Al liance. The Blidirenort road hnnatrm hnvo apparently favored Alliance hoice, that is. to follow the Burli ton tracks to Letan. which is nnu-ti. cally on the county line. Mark Span ogle, the chief Bridgeport booster, even went so far as to secure a right of-way for this road, and with the as sistance of Alliance men, got the Box Butte county commissioners to aitm an agreement that they would meet the road as outlined at the county line and' follow the railroad tracks into Alli ance. Something Goes Wrong. But somethinir h the plans. So near an it mn K as certained, the sentiment in Bridgeport has veered around, and the Morrill county commisaloners are said to favor wwii)' umerem route. The present plan is to follow the railroad track from Angora to Bonner, and then m straight north to the county line, in stead of angling down the track. Not only would this make the road a mile longer, but it would force Box Butte county to pay the cost, or at least half: u. tui, oi a six or seven mile stria of road along the county line. Tha road as planned in the minds of th Alliance men would strike the county line at a point three miles west ot Alliance , Under the Morrill pan, it would strike the countv I in m a point nine or ten miles west of Al uunce, ana would m reality connect vp with the Hashman road leading into Hemingford. County Commissioner George Car rell id blamed for a change of heart oa the part of the Morrill county men, if there has been one. He has since oh. Jections were made to the kind of serv-' ice he was giving the countv, publicly declared that he would do Alliance ail the damage possible, despite the fact mat mm my Turnisned the votes that elected him. The road as now planned would come to Alliance, of course, but rum un u ui-oi-ine-way route thai many tourists would go straight oa to Hemingford, especially if a good coun ty road were provided and a connec tion with the Chadron road afforded. No Definite Decision Yet Of course, there is no definite deci sion yet to take the route preferred by the Morrill commissioners. The un derstanding was that the state road officials would be called in to decide. The understanding was also that tha Alliance road boosters would be .noti fied and given an opportunity to pres their claims. Division Engineer JL M. Gaddis of Scottsbluff went over the roads yesterday with the Box Butta commissioners, and the Alliance man were given no chance to present argu ments. The final decision will not ha made until next Tuesday, when Mr. Gaddis will meet with the Morrill commissioners at Bridgeport. The Box Butte commissioners will meet in Al liance the same dav. It ia understood that the Box Butte commissioners, two of whom signed the agreement to tollow the track, George Duncan and Cal Hashman, take the stand that this agreement is not binding, inasmuch as the agreement was not signed in a remilar metin . of the. beard. The Alliance men are not firnuV wedded to the track road, although. r they believe it would make the best through route. They do object, how ever, to bringing it north from Bon ner, nine miles west of Alliance. If, the Morrill county men keep to their' original agreement and bring the road along the track to the countv lin. kstriking it at Letan, the Alliance men ao not particularly care what route U followed. Letan is even with the west end of Broncho lake, and a road could be built following the present route that would be satisfactory, although the track road is the shorter and the cheapest to construct. Dr. Minor Morris went to Antiocb. this morning to deliver an address to there, , ;1 1