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
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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
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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
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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
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