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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1922)
THE ALLIANCE HERALD. .TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1922 EIGHT 95 H. S. Junior Class Play 3-Act Farce OO Imperial, Thursday, March 30 e TWO IIOUUS OF GENUINE FUN SEE THIS PLAY In which some of the twenty-three characters succeed in get ting themselves into complicated situations and the audience has the fun of watching them in their efforts to straighten out matters. YOU WILL CE ENTERTAINED EVERY MINUTE. Also Two Good Movies See FRED STONE, in "The Duke of Chimney Butte" A Stirring Western Play that Will Interest You. And Another Popular Christie Comedy "A PAIR OF SEXES" Full of Action and Laughs. Th Hood FEW MORE CANDIDATES GET INTO THE CAME (Continued from page 1) n customary topic for conversation, inasmuch as there will be no election of city officials thi year. The city mannRer plan, which went into effect a year apo, provides only for biennial elections, and there won't be a dingle chance for a political scrap until next ppi-in. However, there will be a school elec tion one week from txby, on April 4, to elect two members of the schol tioanL The rules provide that candi dates must be nominated by petition, tnd there are a lot of beautiful regula tions that should be carried out, but alas, not a single candidate has filed a nominating petition. This means that jis in other years the voters will have to write the names of their choice on the ballots. Mrs. J. A. Mai lory and A. T. Limn are the retiring members of the lard, and it is likely, inasmuch ns they are well acquainted with the board's plans, that they will be elected without much opposition, although the voters sometimes do not do the obvious thing. Last year, due to the apathy of the candidates for the school board, a couple of jokers passed the word around at the polls and came near electing a candidate in fun. Probably friends of the board will see to it that this sort of a thing doesn't happen again. COMMISSIONERS AND ROST BOOSTERS AGREE (Continued from page 1) present condition. Mr. Carroll nd Home of his friends have often declared that the Chadron road should have leen built up the track and thro igh Ilemingford, and some things Mr. Car rell said in his haste were construed to mean that all of the commissioners were in favor of letting the Jhadron Toad take care of itself. Of course, there was no great danger that the road would ever i evert Imck to the boundless prairie, for under the hiw Iermitting state aid on roads, one loint Is made quite clour, and that is that the road must be maintained. If the commissioners won't maintain a ytatc road, the state will, and the com missioners will have the bill to pay, whether they like it .or not. HUGE PROFITS FOR SEED SPUD GROWERS (Continued from Page 1.) Kood service coupled with the advan tage that Nebraska has in the big item of less transportation charges is an other encouraging consuleralion in the outlook of the industry. In the irrigated district near Brownsville and San Benito along the llio Grande, Professor Howard found the potato plants about a foot in be'ght and those from Nebraska cer tified seed remarkably free from dis eases while those from miscellaneous need stock were already affected to the extent of 15-25 per cent of the yield. Some fields also showed only two-thirds of a stand due to poor seed. In the dryland district around Warton and Eagle Lake the planting was just finished, this territory being about two months behind the irrigated sec tion. Last year on the75 cars of certi fied seed shipped to Texas and Louis ianathegrowers of Nebraska received tl more per cwt than the same po latc: j would have netted them as table wtocU. The cost of certifying the need 'und? the direction of the agricultural college is less than two emits per cwt., leaving a nice net profit to the grower. The demand now for seed from Texas lone reaches between aix and eight hundred carloads annually and prom ises to increase rapidly. Nebraska in her favorable geographic situation should draw, with careful and honest efforts, the majority of this trade. Even five hundred cars at $K00 extra profit per car would mean $15,000 to the dry land potato growers of the tate. Other markeU in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas could be found as the industry devel oped. These territories are dependent unon the cooler short-seasoned north ern states for their seed each year and furnish a regular yearly marKet. The southern growers are troubled with the mosaic disease which often cuts tlieir yields from 20 to 75 per ee-iA. The Dresence of the disease can Tiot be detected on the seed potatoes it has been found by the agricultural college investigators. The old practice of buying seed potatoes from bins for southern seed has been discarded by the large producers and many southern srowers now demand certified seed. this seed is carried on I,y the agricultural college with uni form and careful inspections of the srrowing potatoes at which times the disease can be readily recognized. Nothing short of this field inspection ...;u .Uort the disease in the pota toes. The growers of Nebraska must conform to the rules oi cw-vuiwuwjmi and have disease free f lelds. ltn the -new market in the soutn uie inuuMiy in Nebraska should increase in lm- jportance with pro! it to uie growers. ir,,ri fhrisman has been elected captain of the ScotUbluff track team Chrisraaa is a weight man. . U....U V IIIUMIU, mill J lieu i mroi " v is pastor of a church he feels h J , .,k twent B0W8 e must keep out of political . fc j h , b a U ilA" "S'Wfc Url LZr; plenty of good buikflngs. Rev. B. J. Minort Declines to Enter State Senate Race Rev. B. J. Minort, who has been one of the leading figures in the Box Butte county railmen-laimer political bloc, is the first man on the ticket selected at last Wednesday's meeting in Ilem ingford to decline the honor. Mr. Minort wa unanimously chosen as the candidate for state senator to repre sent the Thirty-second district, com prising the counties of Box Butte, Sioux, Dawes, Sheridan and Cherry. In a statement given to the news papers Monday, Mr. Minort makes it very clear that he has definitely de- clined to run for any office, although some leading republicans, as well as a number of independent voters, had urged him to make the race for the state senate. He wishes it known that he is a preacher first, last and all the time," ami that he will under no con sideration allow his name to be used for any office, as he tells that his work is in religion. While he believes the preacher ought to interest himself in folitical questions, Mr. Minort also be ives that the moment a preacher al lows himself to become a candidate for office, his usefulness is at an end as a preacher. Mr. Minort says that were he not in active ministry, he would not object to the honor which has been bestowed upon him by his friends, but bo long as he that he races further clean politics, and while he is grateful for the honor bestowed upon him at Hemingford, he says he could not be true to his church and mix ac tively in politics. However, he will and offew his help to all good, clean continue his interest in the civic forum movements among the people of this communtiy. HEMINGFORD Word comes from Mr. and Mrs. Harold Johnson, who formerly lived in Hemingford and who now reside in Vaccaville, Cal., that they are well and like the country fine. There have been twenty inches of rain since Octolx-r and the winter has been cold for Cali fornia. The flu has been very bad" there, with several deaths and the churches and schools closed. They ex press a possibility of visiting Heming ford again. K. L. Pierce has beenon the flu list and is still confined to his bed, but reported some better. Mrs. George Carrell is about re covered from the attack of the flu. The G. M. Jenkins family have all been sick but the baby and Mr. Jen kin's mother. They have been quite sick and have not all of them been able to leave their bed yet, but are re ported better. The missionary program at the Methodist church given Sunday night by . the ladies of the missionary soci ety was splendid and the house was crowded. The thank offering amounted to more than $30 and everyone enjoyed the whole of the program, which lasted about an hour and a half. The M. E. ladies' aid society will meet this week on Wednesday with Mrs. O. W. Andrews and Mrs, HoPDock as hostesses. The home missionary society -will meet with Mrs. Fred Hucke on Thurs day of this week. Mrs. Grimes, who has been sick for two weeks, is some better and able to be up a part of the time. Bert White, who lived near Ed Baldwin's, has moved to Berea tem porarily ami will later move to a ranch southwest of Alliance for the summer. A large number of Hemingford people attended the play and supper and dance given in a barn in the Ja3 person neighborhood. The members of the young people's married class, taught by Rev. Mr. May, will have a social on Wednesday night of this week, in the basement of the M. E. church. The H. L. Click family took dinner with the Mays on Saturday of last week. George Jones filed for sheriff of Box Butte county on Friday of last week. The father of Mrs. Henry Smith is very low and there is not much hope of his recovery', according to the physi cians. They live where Mr. Tracewell has been living for a year. Frank Telts, the father of Joe Pelts, died Sunday night. He has been sick for a long time and has suffered much. No definite arrangements have been made for the funeral as yet. N. L. Brown is sick with the flu and is threatened with pneumonia. t Robert Wright has been sorting po tatoes for several days with a large crew and is not through yet. Mrs. Earl Kockey was off duty in the Lock wood store Monday with the grippe. A. G. Danbom is visiting with Lis mother, who is sick in Colorado and at the last reports there was not much change. Mrs. George Carrell expects to leave for her sister's home in Iowa as toon as she is able as her sister i cry sick and not expected to live. The case in connection with the Hemingford Implement company, which was to come off in Chadron on Monday of this week is postponed until Wednesday March 29. Don t forget the special musical program at the Methodist church on next Sunday night. i J. Oliver has filed for sheriff of Box Butte county on the Democratic tickot. There seem to be many aspirants these HOW ONEFARM IN BOX BUTTE IS MADE TO PAY SEVERAL CROPS PROFITABLE FOR THE SEIDLERS. Nebraska Farmer Tells How Father and Three Sons Have Achieved a Farm Success. The Nebraska Farmer has been pub lishing a series of articles of "Making the Farm Pay in 1922." In the issue of March 18, the following story ap peared concerning the success of one Box Butte county farmer, who wit! three sons and a belief in crop diver sification have scored a signal suc cess. The article says: How would you feel if you owned 400 acres of land near Alliance, Ne braska; thirty Red Polled cows, ten of including, besides a good house and large barn, a 6,000 bushel potato eel lur, a milk house, hog house, and all the other buildings found on a large and well equipped farm? Further assume you have three stal wart sons working with you on this place they to get one-half of all the products sold from the farm. If you had come to this farm thirty years ago, paying $3 an acre for your first purchase, and land had risen in value so that the last quarter you bought cost $75 an acre, it wouldn't make you any sadder, perhaps. In fact you would be inclined to think you owned and were helping to oper ate a prettv good thing, wouldn't you ? Mr. F. F. Seidler of Box Butte county thinks just as you do. Sons In Partnership With Father. With his three sons, Fred, Fritz and William, Ferdinand Seidler is operat ing the farm already described. To gether they raise annually 100 acres of corn, thirty acres or more of potatoes, ninety-five acres of alfalfa, eighty acres of wheat, and twenty-five acres each of barley and oats. They'plan to raise for the market a carload of fat cattle each year, besides having enough good heifers left to furnish ten or a dozen flood milk cows. They have sold two carloads of hogs, representing two litters a year from twenty sows, every fall. It takes eight horses and a 10-32 horsepower tractor to perform the tractive labor on this farm. When you read all that rather fast, it sounds a little like a real estate ad vertisement. Ihe main difference is that this is not only based on fact, but it is fact. And you couldn't buy the Seidler farm with any reasonable amount of money, because it is the home of a shrewd, successful hard working farmer and his wife, with three equally hard-working sons. And when you understand that Mr. Seidler is of German descent, you will know that those adjectives, shrewd and hard-working mean something. When Mr. Seidler was visited h' was in the basement of the house, shoveling potatoes onto a potato sorter. A son stood on cither side, putting the "firsts" into sacks and the rest in a heap at the side. And while we talked another son came along with a wagon, filled it with the sacks of potatoes and hauled it to the big underground potato shed. Potatoes and wheat are the cash crops on this farm; pork, beef and milk furnish the rest of the income. Potatoes a Good Cash Crop. There were a good many potatoes with knobs and all these were cast aside from the first pile. "The knobs are due to our getting a rain just as the potatoes are ripening," informed Mr. Seidler. "Sometimes the early sown potatoes get it, sometimes the late sown ones are worst. But you can see that when a buyer offers us a price for potatoes unless he will take field run, we are liable to have a lot of seconds on our hands." This point is illustrated in a contract that is being offered potato growers. The buyers offer to pay 75 cents a bushel for potaioes which will grade first class. "I would rather take 00 cents for field run," said Mr. Seidler. The potatoes grown on this farm are listed in on stubble ground, the harrow is run over the ground, the same way as the lister, then cross wise. The field is harrowed again on several times when weeds appear, and the potatoes find a rather clean field when they push through the ground. One of the boys announced that he was in favor of raising sixty acres of potatoes, but admitted that it would mean the hiring of help, and that the cure of the potatoes would interfere with the corn cultivation, and the al falfa and hay cuttings. j There are stories of potato growers; which rival the tales told of flax kinj;s in the early days of the northern! prairies. It often happened that a man could buy a quarter section of level prairie, break it and seed flax the same spring, and that fall sell his flax for' enough to make his final payment on me iana ana nave pay for his labor left. It also happened with much greater frequency that a man trying the stunt would find himself in the fall with neither money, land nor flax. Growing Seed Potatoes Is Profitable. The voiinor men u-nvo hamii1w1 K.t r , , v. Vj . real estate men into buying eighty acres of land a short distance from ! Alliance. They hired it all put into' potatoes, using the best Bliss Triumph ' seed procurable. They harvested 150' bushels of fine seed potatoes on each acre, and sold them all for $2.25 a bushel. There are great opportuni-l ties in the raising of seed potatoes in' .he dry lands of western Nebraska, ror the irrigated section call for seed potatoes is yearly growing louder and more insistent. Mr. Seidler believes that with im proved marketing conditions, and er understanding of how and where lotatoes should be grown, there vr ome a time when reliable prices will i e established that will assure the careful grower a reasonable profit Plans for 1922 on the Seidler farm are based on the amount of work that four men can do. This gives a good deal of leeway, for things can be un dertaken on this farm that would cause one to hesitate were the labor to be all hired. For instance, 100 acres of corn take3 the time of one man. Thirty acres of potatoes will take a large part of thetime of anoth er man. Caring for 100 acres of alfalfa, eighty acres of wheat and sixty acres of oats and barley will not leave a man much extra time to loaf. That leaves but one man to care for thirty calves, and 150 pigs that will be far rowed this spring, the ten milk cows and the other chores that are always pressing on a large farm. If the po tato acreage is doubled, it will prob ably mean another man, and especially is this true since considerable hay is put up in the meadow for feed or for sale. When four men are working in part nership, "one for all and all for one", as the book says, and when they have the farm and livestock and experience it is no wonder that they should plan to make a profit each year. These men believe in the dual-purpose cow, and they have worked out their be lief into dollars. They believe in rais-j mg two utters or pigs a year from good sows bred to a big purebred boar. And they have proved that their idea will make them money. They believe in raising crops which dove tail each other, so as to allow time for every one without hiring much extra help, and their rotation show3 the result of experience. Mr. Seidler is known as being a shrewd marketer and a close buyer. He seldom makes a contract for potatoes or other crops until he feels reasonably sure he is safe, and then he delivers the goods. Thirty years is a long time to spend on one farm, but the Seidlers have de veloped their farm until it run9 as smoothly as any factory, and, as Mr. Seidler says, given an equitable and certain market, he is pretty certain he and the boys will do their part toward making the farm pay a profit in 1922. FOR SALE Kubanka spring wheat, took first premium for the last two years at State Corn Show. Also have certified Burt seed oats, highest yield er in state. S. J. IOSSI 33and35 Possibly they are called infant in dustries because they devote so much of their energy to howling for special privileges. Don't forget this week is your last chance to get one of those Gilette safety razors for 89c at Holsten's. 35 1 Learn to plav the piano. Phone 922. Mrs. S. J. Reid. 34-35 Platinum may drive gold out of the jewelry stores, but we haven't seen any evidence of its breaking into po etry yet. There is one consolation about being insignificant, lour private scandal have no value as news. IMPERIAL BARGAIN WEEK ingM TONIGHT Constance Binney in "THE CASE OF BECKY" USUAL COMEDY 10 and 20c and W. T. WED, MARCH 29 Alice Joyce in "THE PREY" SERIAL "Stanley in Africa" 10 and 20c and W. T. THUR., MARCH 30 Fred Stone in "DUKE OF CHIMNEY BUTTE" 10 and 20c and W. T. NIGHT "THE HOODOO" High School Play Adm. 50c Big 33c Sale Read these prices and see what 33c will buy during this mid week sale. These are all standaixi high-grade goods. Regular de livery service four times daily to all parts of the city. Phone 789. Mission Brand SELF SERVE OIL SARDINES mirPli'PP ACHES TABLES Buy them by the dozen in svrun can We have instaUed ? "self- 7 can3 for , m syrup, per can tab,eg f Qr the i cans lor a A venience of our customers 9 9 n QjJC who want this service. The 0 0 prices are marked on each . article. : No. 2 can No. 2 can m apkSfpSf P- & G. TALL PINK SALMON ULALKllbKlUfcia VAPTIIA SOAP o in syrup, per can 5 bars for 2 CmS f r 33c 33c 33c T No. 2 can Swift's White 8-oz. can ud Rutraonis LAU7T"YfoSrAP mK SALM0N in syrup, per can a a cans 33c 33c 33c 1 No-Vary brand Gallon No. 2 size Gallon LWS Ai CRUSHED PINEAPPLE 84c 33c 85c We accept discount checks on all purchases excepting sugar and flour. Prompt and Efficient Service Every Day in the Week. E, ESSAY Phone 789 Free Delivery