THE ALLIANCE HERALD, FIHDAY, JANUARY 20, 1922.
Through
a Glass
Darkly
FANNIE HURST
4r"ihi. m t Tb w ! irMiitM, 1m.
(Concluded in this Issue.)
The quicksilver of madness run
through the veins of a moonlit night,
ttets chew their pen-ends and grope
Tor meter. The Blessed Diimosel leant
wt. Harlequin luugha In his tight
leftve and kicks up bis heels In kin
ahtp with the world. As many muldena
a there are In the yrorld "CeijJ the
"fieriuined garments of Romance as she
rustles through the corridors of the
tight and sigh for or with their lovers.
Esther Lefkovltch sighed, ton, but
faintly, as If she would not break a
cpell. Before the approach of the
lioumnnlo the moon unrolled a strip
t light, Just as a pathway of carpet
It unrolled before the feet of a bride.
A hump of blnck, like the great sll
bouette of a kneeling camel, roue
gainst the sky. Here and there at
Its knuckles lights twinkled. Along
the silent deck couples crept out from
corners, whimpering, pointing In
pantomime. A star shot down nnd
died In Its flight. Esther LefkovlU-h
followed It with eyes that were mel
low to niolstiicsN.
"Esther, that you, child?"
"Muiun, how you scared me, sneak
ing up behind me so soft I"
"Always In a lonesome id nee. like
this on top-deck I find you, Esther.
Twice over this boat I've been, bring
ing you your heavy coat for the damp
ness. Here, put It on."
She slid Into the garment, fastening
It across the smooth V of her bured
threat.
"For why, Esther, you should stay
up here In the dark all alone, when
downstairs the young folks got
dancing and everybody la out on the
ilt-up decks, I don't know."
"I I've Just been alone a minute,
mama."
"Ja, because now the game begins.
I guess, Esther, you think It's bo nice
1M a big boat like this, the way you
let that nix from Chicago come up
bere with yea to auch a loneawne
pot."
We cm ma up to watch the OtbraJ
tai mama. See, hew njatn. it's gel
ting out titer alreatd-Uja black
tMng. Bear " v
! tall yoa between tnj husband,
wfco leave dm alooe, every Ught Xm
gJay cards, and"
"ilt promised tenlgtt ba wouldn't,
loama."
"Ja, but when I aeon hta long face,
Mjrht away I said rather by myself I
would sit than look at It Between
trim and my daughter, what runs up
mountains and then gives me heart
failure when she nearly misses the
hip, and then on top always finds out
the lonesome places like .this be
tween the two of them I got a lone
some enough time of It myself, Just
Vt me tell you."
"But mama. dear, you've got th'
lc ladles you've met on the boat,
lira, Kron and Mrs. Llpp and aU of
the bi.m
"With the right kind of a youn.T
tnan not one word would I say to all
the 'good time you want. But with
uch a nix who leaves you alone by
yourself every night by nine o'clock
nd who has got In his head eyes what
I wouldn't trust so fur aa from here
to"
"Eyes! That Just shows, mama,
bow little you know about things. If
there's one thing he has got, it's eyes,
grand blnck eyes anybody would no
tice." "Always. Esther, a person's eyes are
like looking-glasses what tell the
truth about hlin. Itlght through the
yes of a nix I can see Just like In a
mirror, grand eyes or eyes not bo
grand."
"Tou've Just got to quit calling him
nix like that. mama. Who is It I'd
like to know but papa drogs hliu
downstairs every night I'd like to
know? Who Is it? WhoT"
"Tonight, Esther, jour papa
didn't"
"Tonight maybe not. but every other
night It Just shows Dunztger's got
honor, though. He's not going to get
off this boat without giving them all
very chance to win back. He'a got
honor, that's why he went down."
"I tell you, Esther, how much I
think of hlra. So much, that I even
didn't want to hear bis name. Gott
sel dank, tomorrow we land, and
that'a the last we see of him with
your pupa's good money, what I
helped to save, In his pocket."
"Well, then, you you quit running
him down, ma. He'a a prince, If you
'ant to know It. You well I I could
tell you something If I wanted to, but
1 I won't right now I I won't. But
you got to quit picking on hliu, ma.
Tou've Just got to. It'a papa"
"Always like I used to say to your
brother Mlchle, when he was yet in
short pants: 'Can I a Is spades that
dig the gauibjers' graves!"
"Such silly sayings! Honest, mama,
you mustn't suy them In front of peo
ple. Anyway, he don't gamble, he
"How excited right away she gets,
Ilka It makes any difference. For my
lPlii
mmmm
"How Excltad Right Away 8he Gets,
Like It Makes Any Differanca."
part he gambles or don't. Tomorrow
we don't see hlin any more Is all I
ask. Him with your pnpu'a hard
earned four hundred and "
"Mama, If you keep rubbing that
In, If I've got to listen to It another
time, I I'll Just die."
"I don't want to hear about him,
Esther, no more as you do."
"Well, then, let'B talk about some
thing else. I Just enn't stand the way
you nog and nag, mama, when you
once get started."
"Come, sit down quiet by mama.
Esther."
"Yes, momnl"
"But for why, Ethor, Just to please
me, don't you first go down and bring
up that grand new leather portfoJin
that Abe brought you down to the
pier."
"Now, inn ma "
"Ach, go on, Esther, bring It up and
write to him a letter on a sheet of
that pretty pink writing-paper that's
In It. See, right up here by the moon
shine you can see to write and I add a
line, eh?"
"Mama, please don't nag."'
"Here, right In my handbag, Esther,
Is the little silver key on the little
silver ring to the case tt came In. Not
once have you osked for It. So
thoughtful a boy, Esther; he knows
such n cnrcless girl you are and on a
silver ring with youf name on, he haa
yet the silver key put on."
"The way you keep talking about
that portfolio, mama, like It Was mad
of gold."
"I only aay. Esther, what a mind
thine It would be If Ab would met
ua when w grt to Parts. UYD h
mo wora mm jm that, he shout 4
come. Bight to ma ma the pier, swyhg
fo4-fejr,J) sat t words."
No wonder, tfee my yuu stock next
to him, mama."
Think. Esther, a smart hoy Ilka
Abe what Is always no thoughtful of
evrybody to help us around in Tarts,
where yoa got to be so careful, they
say, you don't got cheated, eh? Next
to Mlchle himself, nothing could give
papa so much pleasure either as Abe
should be there with us. Here, baby,
right here Is the silver flng. Run
down once and underneath your berth
ut of the cuse get the portfolio and
write to htm on the pfifc; writing paper,
eh?"
"Oh, mama, you you get me so
mad. Honest, I h, I could Just cry
the way you keep at me. Please,
mama, let let my affairs alone."
"All right, Esther. I let them alone.
Your old mother only wishes you the
worst. She wlshei you to forget a
grand honest boy like Abe for a
dressed-up nix what you meet on the
boat. I'll let you nlone. I ll let you
alone. Right back In my bag goes the
silver key-ring. I ll let you alone."
"That's whut I want you to do."
"I 'tell you, Esther, this pain what
I got over my beurt yesterday and to
day ain't for nothing. I tell you the
excitement when you nearly missed
the boat this afternoon, und for a
mother to see all of a sudden her baby
begin nonsense with a nix from Chi
cago what nobody don't know nothing
about, except what be brags himself.
Is enough to give heart failure. Bet
ter we hud stuyed right at home In "
"Oh, mama, I Just got to bite my
tongue to hold In. That's how mad
you nnd your old fogy Ideas make me.
What do you know about about
things that go on In the the real
world; about an up-to-date fellow like
him that's been around the world three
times and knows things? You and
your old fogy ideas dou't couut,
mama." " k
"Esther !"
"They dou't. They they Just don't.
I I'm sick of you always picking on
him when you don't know. I Oh
oh oh !"
She was off into the rearward gloom
of the deck, crumming her handker
chief against her lips. Inarticulate sobs
escaping from Its lacy edge ; down two
flights. In and out, skirting the edge
of deckspread groups skirting their
laughter and the froth of conversation,
end In a deserted corner of the oak
balcony, a generous ledge elaborated
to a writing-room and overlooking the
luxurious, bright-lighted lounge-room,
she found refuge, Dance music floated
up to her light and remotely, and the
foam of lighter laughter.
A galaxy of iucundescents burned
through crystal prisms upon the In
formal leather-ihuilS. fit- the. gret
room, upnti fun -length mirrors Irf gilt
f i- hips; inion im tntlons of a famous
pair of (irtj-tlirpe-liich Mandarin Jnrs
and Imlf a dozen miiiiII walnut txflt
with mrvccl tiissi'N nt their four cor
ners, el essl'onrils here and there, a
king or 1'iiun left stnnding. The
t n rn i ! i'i'tt ti ! In of idleness was every
where alioiit: a periodical, face down
ward; a woman's work-hug. Finally
and beneath the left balcony, a group
of eight sitting silent about a round
table. The quiet rnttle of bone chips;
an occasional spoken word, but low
and staccato.
From her balcony, sitting there a
small huddle of squandered emotions
and" bankrupt vitality, her hair fallen
awry and the red rims fresh about
her eyes, Esther Lefkovltch caught
sight of that table, though directly
beneath her balcony, through one of
the long mirrors opposite. She leaned
forward; then farther, her lips open
ing. A tear dried nnd left a vitrified
glistening on her cheeg.
Through the mirror and the gray
air of cigar smoke, shirt-sleeved and
Through the Mirrcr anrl the Gray Air
of Cigar Smoke.
hunched over 11 tlnre of five cards
lifted close before his eyes, she beheld
her father. And around the table,
above oicn collars and vari colored,
varl-slzed stacks of chips, a circle of
men's faces, unrelnxed and as If
carved from cherry stones.
First In the foreground the cool,
collared vision of Mr. Danelger, draw
ing until himself from the center of
the tabU a great mass of the vari
colored chip. In shheuette she cooJtf
ae br parent -ahuflllng fretb deck
t ei?l, CaMn tncni five ttiaaa
atoomt with YioJtltk BKlon, acrossj
the table-rep, The r gaze fwtarn!
and Unbred upon the figure tttnlde
htm. In podlllM calm ope&log the fan
of his cards ever so slightly, discard
ing, tosHtng his offering of chips
lightly to the center of the table, and
every so often and with great fre
quency scooping In the center loot of
them.
Watching that vandevllle of sight
without sownd, the Imperturbable
breadth of his hack, the Imperturbable
line of his profile, the muscles which
rose on the backs of his hands with
each scooping In. lights flickered for
a moment In Miss Lefkovltch' e.vc
theu burned quietly in their depth
like altar cundles.
Suddenly, as she watched, chin
cupped in palm, bead dropped Into- the
hunch of her shoulders, she leaned
forward, gripping the edge of the
divan ; leaned closer, her quick breath,
too light to flutter a leaf, coming
through her open lips. Passed a quarter-hour,
a half, an hour, and still she
at there immobile her hypnotized
eyes on the mirror. Two spots of
color cunie out round and burning on
either check and one heat wave raced
another through her btnly.
With the greut effort of pulling her
strength together, she rose finally, but
trembled and grasped at the bulcony
rail for support. Then, after a last
Interval, she tiptoed down a brief cor
peted stalrcuse to the near door of the
Lounge, lifted a fold of heavy brown
portiere, and slipped into it; stood
there an uddltlouul quarter-hour, her
hand at her throat.
Beaching out from that fold, she
might have brushed her futher'a sleeve.
A waiter pussy-footed through the
doorway, almost touching her. At that
moment, aud with a deerlike bound
that landed her even farther than her
gauge, Miss Lefkovltch lit beside the
card table, her small tight fingers
closing over Mr. Danzlger's relaxed
wrist. The white face of a playing
card flashed upward for a second and,
wrenching It from his surprised fin
gers, she danced backward from him,
waving it.
"I got you! Got you! I saw him,
pa. Saw him work it five times. Saw
him, pa! Saw hliu every time." She
leaped toward her father, waving the
card higher above her head, the
tremolo of hysteria in her voice.
"Always under his cuff he worked
it the fur side. Look for yourselves
and see what else he's got there.
Here's the ace, pa. I don't want It.
Tuke It I Tuke it! Take itl"
In the sudden upheaval of chairs
scraping backward and a greut tangle
of arms flung across the table for the
wrist she hud released, Mr. Danzlger
tugged free for the moment, made a
side lunge from the table, his under
Jaw shot forward and his cuff
wren cbed OEn
"STie-Oevif!" he cried. "She-devil
a lie!" Lunged again, but a sudden
group closed nlioiit hlin, niullling out
his speech, and with the soft thud of
grappling bodies in her ears, breathy
out I. a, feet scraping against soft car
pets, chubs overturning, gurglings, she
lied trembling up the two decks, sobs
tumbling one over the other from her
dry lips.
In the Identical quiet of the top
deck, moon-washed. Gibraltar rising
closer and blacker and hunch-backed
In the poJe night, Mrs. U-fkovltch lay
muffled In sleep and a steamer-rug,
her mouth ien to the taste of salt
and her band across her heurt, as If a
hurt lay there.
Beside the steamer-chair In a hud-
die Miss Lefkovltch burled her head nine, (29), nnd Thirty, (30), in First
deep Into the sag of her mother's Addition to Duncan's North Side Res
skirt, lidence Tracts, nn addition to the City
Mrs. Lefkovltch woke with a stnrt.
Lerkovitch woke with a start.
Sleepy, b?r perceptions rose and fell.
"Who who's that! Aaron?"
"N-no. mama."
"Esther that
come back?"
"Yes, mama."
"What's the
you! la that
you
matter baby : why
child, you look"
"No, no, muma, nothing! Don't cet
exciteo.
"But Esther whnt "
"NotMnp. mama,' nothing! I forgot
and came buck-"
"Forgot?"
"The key-ring, mama
key-ring. Give me!"
the silver
ORDINANCE NO. 324.
AN ORDINANCE CHANGING
THE NAMES OF CERTAIN
STREETS IN THE CITY OF ALLI
ANCE. NEBRASKA. AND NAMING
CERTAIN STREETS IN THE CITY
I OF ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA.
BE IT ORDAINED BY
"U,
I MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF
I THE CITY OF ALLIANCE, NE-
jBRASKA.
Section 1. Ths?' the name of the
'street heretofore named B'gTtell Ave
nue in Firt Addition to South Alli
ance, an addition to the City of Alli-
. mice, rsehraska, be and hereby
I I . , T . 1 .
1S
, cnangcu 10 iiunson Avenue. 1
Section 2. That the name of the
'street heretofore named Fowler Ave
nue in South Alliance, an addition to
the City of Alliance, Nebraska, and
First Addition to South Alliance, an
addition to the City of Alliance, No-
braska, be and hereby is changed to f Alliance, Nebraska, and Duncan's
Potash Avenue. North Side Residence Tracts, an addi-
Section 3. That the name of the tion to the City of Alliance, Nebraska,
street heretofore namexl Sigafoos Ave- be and hereby is changed to Duncan
nue in South Alliance, an addition to Avenue.
the City of Allianec, Nebraska, and Section 24. That the name of the
First Addition to South Alliance., and street heretofore named Second Street
addition to the City of Alliance, be in Amended Forest Subaddition to
and hereby is changed to Grand Ave- Duncan's North Side Residence Tracts,
nue. I an addition to the City of Alliance, Ne-
Sect'on 4. That the name of the braska, Duncan's North Side Residence
street heretofore named West Boule- Tracts, an addition to Ihe City of Al
vard, in South Alliance, an addition to liance, Nebraska, Duncan's Subdivision
the City of Alliance, Nebraska, be of Lots Twenty-one, (21 J, Twenty-two,
and hereby is changed to Mississippi (22), and Twenty-tjiree, (23), in First
Avenue. I Addition to Duncan's North Side Res-
Section 5. That the name of the idence Tracts, an addition to .the City
street heretofore named Painter Ave-, of Alliance, Nebraska, and Second Ad
hue in First Addition to South A1H-'. dltion to Duncan's North Side Reli
ance, an addition to the City of Alii-
ance, Nebraska, be and hereby is
changed to Flack Avenue,
Section 6. That he name of the
street heretofore named North Boule-
vard, in South Alliance, an addition to in Amended Forest Subaddition to
the City of Alliance, Nebraska, and Duncan's North Side Residence Tracts,
First Addition to South Alliance, an an additon to the City of Alliance, Ne
addition to the City of Alliance, Ne- braska, Duncan's North Side Residence
braska, he and hereby is changed to Tracts, an addition to the City of Alli
Hills Street 'ence, Nebraska, Duncan's Subdivision
Section 7. That the name of the of Lots Twenty-one, (21), Twenty-two,
street heretofore named Pine Ridge (22). and Twenty-three, (23), of First
Avenue in Hills Addition to the City , addition to the City of Alliance, Ne
of Alliance, Nebraska, and Hitchcock, braska, Second Addition to Duncan's
Hill and Snedeker's Addition to the North Side Residence Tracts an Addi
City of Alliance, Nebraska, be and . tion to the City of Alliance, Nebraska,
hereby is changed to Platte Avenue. and Box Butte Addition to the City of
Section 8. That the name of the Alliance, Nebraska, be and hereby is
street herefore named Countv Road in changed to Sweetwater Avenue,
bhenclan Addition to the City of Ala- Section 26. 1 hat the name or tne . council, as well as other details of the.
ance, Nebraska, be and hereby is street heretofore named Washington organizations. Several members of thet
changed to Emerson Avenue. I Street in Simonson's Addition to the ; original council have removed from.
C . J ft HI . 1 . j 1 ' 1 ' . e 4 11: V.U..I.. nn,l . I A -. 1 1. -11 l 1 1 I
oevuun jr. iiiai wie name 01 vne
street heretofore named Potash Hisrh-.
way in Home Builders' Addition to the
City of Alliance, Nebraska, and
Brown's addition to the City of Alli
ance, Nebraska, be and hereby is
changed to Potash Avenue.
Section 10. lhat the name of the
6treet heretofore named Grande Ave-
nue in Drake's Addition to the City of
Alliance, Nebraska, Home Builders'
Addition to the City of Alliance, Ne
braska, Fairview Addition to the City
of Alliance, Nebraska, and Nebraska
Addition to the City of Alliance, Ne
braska, be and hereby is changed to
Grand Avenue.
Section 11. That the name of the
street heretofore named Arizona
Street in Belmont Addition to the City
of Alliance, Nebraska, be and hereby
is changed to Seventh Street.
Section 12. That the name of the
street heretofore named Colorado (26), of First Addition to Duncans
(8th) Street, in Belmont Addition, to North Side Residence Tracts, an ad
the City of Alliance, Nebraska, be and dition to the City of Alliance, Ne
hereby is changed to Eighth Street I braska, and Estes's Subilivision of lots
Section 13. That the name of the 1 Twenty-nine, (29), and Thirty, (30),
street heretofore named Nebraska! in First Addition to Duncan's North
(9th) Street, in Belmont Addition to Side Residence Tracts, an addition to
the City of Alliance, Nebraska, be and
hereby is changed to Ninth Street
Section 14. That the name of the
street heretofore named Dodge (9th)
Street, in Belmont Addition to the City
of Alliance, Nebraska, be and hereby
is changed to Belmont Street.
Section 15. That the name of the
street heretofore named Reddish
(10th) Street in Belmont Addition to
the City of Alliance, Nebraska, be and
hereby is changed to Tenth Street
Section 16. That the name of the
street heretofore named Nevada
Street in Simonson's Addition to the
City of Alliance, Nebraska, be and
hereby is changed to Tenth Street.
Section 17. That the name of the
street heretofore named Potomac Ave
nue in Simonson's Addition to the
City of Alliance, Nebraska, be and
hereby is changed to Flack Avenue.
Section 18. That the name of the
street heretofore named Roosevelt
Avenue in Belmont Addition to the
iiiiM VoliraVa. be and '
hereby is changed to Potash Avenue,
m rv.o fh TinmA nt the '
street heretofore named Grand Avenue
'n Simon-Jon's AMition to the City 0
Alliance, Nebraska, be and hereby i.-
ehanred to Potash Av-pnue.
Section 20. That the name of the
ftrcct heretofore named Sixth Street
in Simonson's A'M:tion to thp City of
Alliance, Nebraska, nnd in Duncan's
North Sle Kesidenre Tract", an addi
tion to the City of Alliance, Nebraska.
Ie nnd hereby is changed to Grand
Avenue.
Section 21. That the name of the
ptrect heretofore named Fifth Street
in Duncan's North Side Residence
Tracts, an addition to the City of Alli
ance, Nebraska, Walnut Hill Addition,
be ng- a FUixlivision ot L.ots inirxeen,
M?l. and Fourteen, (14), of Duncan's
North Side Residence Tracts, an addi
tion to the City of Alliance, Nebraska,
Ftes's Subdivision of Iots Twenty-
of Alliance. .Nebraska. First Add-t'on
1o Duncan's North S-de Residence
Tracts, nn addition to the City of Al
liance, Nebraska, and Second Addition
to Duncan's North Side Residence
Tracts, an addition to the City of Alli-
Jnnce, Nebraska, be and hereby is
changed to Mississippi Avenue,
1 Section 22. That the name of the
street heretofore named Fourth Street
5n Duncan's North Side Residence
I iracis, an aciouion 10 wie v-uy 01 nm-
ance, Nebraska, Walnut Hill Addition,
g "uMivWon of Lots Thiileen,
l132v8, FSLrt.'n' :8
tion to the City of Alliance, Nebraska,
First Addition to Duncan's North Side
Residence Tracts, an addition to the
City of Alliance, Nebraska, Summit
Place, nn addition to the City of Alli
ance, Nebraska, being a subdivision
of Lots Twentv-four, (24), Twenty
five, (25), and Twenty-six, (26), of
First Addition to Duncan's North Side
Residence Tracts, an addition to the
Citv of Alliance, Nebraska, and Second
Addition to Duncan's North Side Res-
of Alliance, Nebrr.ska, be and hereby
is phantriid to Missouri Avenue.
Section 2.1. That the name of the
street heretofore named Th'rd Street
in Amended Forest Subaddition to
Duncan's North Side Rs.ide'ice Tracts,
rn nddit'on to the City of Alliance,
Nebraska. Summit Place. Addition to
Alliance, Nebraska, beint? a subdivision
f Lots Twenty-four, (2 1 ), Twenty-five,
(25). and Twenty-six, (2fi), of First
Addition to Duncan's North S'dc Res
idence Tracts, an addition to the City
of Alliance. Nebraska, and Second Ad
dition to Duncan's North Side Resi
.Wee Tracts, an addition to the Citv
dence Tracts, an Addition to the City
of Alliance, Nebraska, be and hereby
is changed to Yellowstone Avenue,
Section 25. That the name of the
street heretofore named First Street
uiy 01 runtime, icoiasiva, uc mm:
hereby is changed to tieventn Mreet.
Section 27. That the name of the
street heretofore named Washington
Avenue in Duncan s North Side Res
idence Tracts, an addition to the City
of Alliance. Nebraska, Walnut Hill Ad
dition, being a subdivision of Low
Thirteen, (13). and Fdurteen, (14), of
Duncan's North Side Residence Tracts,
nn addition to the C'ty of Alliance.
Nebraska, First Addition to Duncan's
North Side Residence Tracts an Ad
dition to the Citv of Alliance, Nebras
ka, Duncan's Subdivision of Lots
Twenty-one, (21), Twenty-two, (22),
and Twenty-three, (23), in First Addi
tion to Duncan's North Side Residence
Tracts, an addition to the City of Alli
ance, Nebraska, Summit Place Addi
tion to Alliance, Nebraska, being a
subdivision of Lots Twenty-Four, (24),
Twenty-five, (25), and Twenty-six,
the City of Alliance, Nebraska, be and
hereby is changed to Twelfth Street
Section 28. That the name of the
street heretofore named Garfield Ave
nue, lying to the north of Second Adtli
tion to Duncan's North Side Residence
Tracts, an addition to the City of Alli
ance, Nebraska, be and hereby is
changed to Fourteenth street
Section 29. That the name of the
street heretofore named County Road
in Johnston's Addition to the City of
Alliance. Nebraska, and Johnston's
Subdivision, an addition to the City of
Alliance, Nebraska, be and hereby is
changed to Emerson Avenue.
Section 30. That the name of the
street heretofore named Harrison
Avenue, in Johnston's Addition to the
City of Alliance, Nebraska, and John
ston's Subdivision, an addition to the
City of Alliance, Nebraska, be and
hereby is changed to Toluca Avenue.
Sort Inn 21. That the street lying to
the east of Johnston's Addition to the
Pitv of Alliance. Nebraska, and John-
ston's SuUmsion, an Addition to the
Pit v nt Alliance. Nebraska, heretofore
'unnamed, be and hereby is named
Cheyenne Avenue.
Section 32. That the name of the
street heretofore named Delaware
, Street in Johnston's Addition to tlio
City of Alliance, Nebraska, and John
ston's Subdivision, an addit'on to the
City of Alliance, Nebraska, be an!
hereby is chanped to Fourteenth
Street.
Section 33. That the name of the
ftrect heretofore named Vermont
Slreet in Johnston's Addition to the
City of Alliance, Nebraska, and John
ston's Subdivision, an ndd'ton to the
City of Alliance, Nebraska, bo ard
hereby is changed to Fifteenth Street.
Section 34. That the street lyinar to
the north of Johnston's Subdivision,
an addition to the City of Alliance, Ne
braska, heretofore unnamed, be ancf
hereby is namert Sixteenth Street,
Section 35. That the name of the
street heretofore named Harrison-
Street in Wyoming Avenue Addition to
the City of Alliance, Nebraska, be anJ
hereby is changed to First Street
Section 36". That the name of the"
street heretofore named Harrison
Street In Reddish Addition to the City
of Alliance, Nebraska, be and hereby
is changed to First Street.
Section 37. That the name of the
street heretofore named Harrison?
Street in Snedeker's Addition to the
City of Alliance, Nebraska, be and
hereby is changed to First Street
This ordinance shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage,
and publication according to law.
By R. M. HAMPTON",
(SEAL) Mayor-
Attest: GRACE 1W KENNEDY,
16 City Clerk. '
TO ORGANIZE LOCAL
COUNCIL FOR BOY SCOUTS
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stopped holding meetings a short time
after the drive. The scout commis
sioner handed in his resignation. The
scoutmaster in charge of the first troop
removed from the city. In the past
several months the second troop has
been practically disbanded, and all ef
forts to organize new troops were'
temporarily disbanded.
Ben W. Keach. the present and sole
scout master in the city, who has been
in charge of scout activities, and has
been doing gcod work in arousing in
terest in the organization, made a.
bi icf talk, in which he told of the needs
of the Scouts. The chief need at.
the pre-cnt time, he said, is a perma
nent cjuatrers. The boys in troop 1
meet once a week for drill and prac
tice, and they have been using the city
armory. A good share of the time, he
said, they find, when they appear for
drill, that the armory has been given
to other organizations for other pur
poses. The last meeting night, he
said, the boys were compelled to as
semble in the city jail.
The returns from the present survey
of boys in the city, being made by the
Rotary club, are just beginning to
come in. One object of this survey
which will include every boy in the city
between the agC3 of ten and eighteen,,
is to show how many of them woul iF.
like to belong to a scout troop. Mr
Keach stated that is was probable,,
when the returns are all in, that they
will show that at least 400 boys in
Alliance are eligible to be scouts or
junior associate scouts. Several men
are in line for scoutmasters, and some
of the older boys in troop 1 will have
reached eighteen years within a few
months, and will be available for as
sistant scoutmasters.
The Rotary committee plana to take
up with the city manager the matter
of securing the use of the armory by
the boys on definite nights each week,,
when dances and other entertainments,
will not be allowed to play hob with
the schedule. If more than two troops:
are organized, it will probably be
necessary to set apart two nights a.
week for the scouts.
There is also needed some money inn
order to meet necessary expenses in:
connection with extending the activ
ities of the organization, but the deci
sion was to leave this up to the scout.
uie -iiy uui a nieeiing wui ue can en
and the council will elect new ones to
take their places. -The council will
then select a scout commissioner,,
similar in duties to an army major,,
and then scoutmasters and assistants:
will be appointed for the new troops as
fast as they are formed.
Several other suggestions for boys
work were made at a recent meeting
of the Rotary club, but the organiza
tion will not attempt to cover too much;
territory at one time. When the scout.
council is again functioning, it is prob
able that other plans will be taken up
and pushed. The club's belief was;
that the Boy Scout organization was.
the most important influence in boys'"
work, and that until it is going andl
growing, other plans should be tem
porarily abandoned.
County Court Is
Busy for a Day
Over Small Sunn
County Judge Tash spent several,
weary hours Thursday in listen
ing to the evidence in the ca.se of the
A. H. Jones Co. vs. F. A. Bald. The
Jones company sued to recover $59,.
of which $22 covered interest on a.
note which had been made a book ac
count, and the balance covered re
pairs to a Reo car, owned by Bald and.
sold to Henry Rust. The court allowed
the first sum as a book account, with
interest at 7 per cent instead of 10
per cent, the legal interest rate for
promissory notes. The damage to the
car covered a broken axle, for which
the Jones company, Mr. Bald and Mr.
Rust all three sought to avoid cost of
repairs. The court held that Mr. Bald,
was not responsible, and left Rust and
the Jones company to make their owa
agreement. Mr. Bald introduced a
counterclaim of $105 which he claimed
due him for commission on a Reo car
sold to C. R. Wiese. There was
considerable testimony covering thi3,.
the court finally deciding that inas
much as the purchaser was in the city
and had not been called as a witness,,
the claim could not be considered eer
piously.