li 1.0 naF nmrrrrmv ll. OF It. T.-IInnlsmiRRlo Lodge. No. VX2 Mels every Sunday attcrnoou at a., Doll's ball, Visiting brothers welcome. J. -A. Dunnino, V. M. M. Harpravbd, Sec'y. L, O. T. M-Meots ovory first and third l'ri driy At UoRle Hull. VlsltlnR Msccabcos col dlally Invited. Mns. K. J. Itrneot.n, L. Mns. Annus Vobjct, It. IC. ltorAu Hiuiii,a.mkiis Alliance Ciuttlo No. 43 meets very second nrt fourth Thumlny evenlnn In W. O. W. llall. VUltlnn Olansmon cordtallv Invited. K. 1. NV otitis, u, W. LmiY, Pcc'r- h. V. attorneys. WILLI AH MITCHELL ATTORNEY AT HW. ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA. OrrjGK PlIOSR 180. UKSIDENOn I'llONBSOS. R. C. NOLEMAN, ATTOHNGY AT LAW. Rooms 1,2 and 3, l'lr.st National bank build Inc, Alliance, Nub. Notary luofflce. boyF&barker ,. Attorijoyw tit Law ,. A1.LIANCI2, NEBRASKA. Collections given Prompt Attention. L. A. BERRY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. ALLIANCE, - . . NEBRASKA. BMtlll l. TrfTTI.H. " IUA K. TA II. TUTTLE & TASH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. REAL ESTATE, Nortb Main St., ALLIANlJB. NKII. ; "OF?. KJflGAMIDK, DBITTIST S o In Alliance 10-30 of every month. J Office over The Famous . . . 9 c 'Phone 391. s FREY & BALFE, 08TKOPATH10 PHYSICIANS. MS 1I0X IIIJTTK AVKNUK. I'liono 25S, Calls iiiiDWt'ruil In town or country. ITrMOORETM Fi.irrcurit iii.ock, allianci:, Mill. ToleX.! frm "C lay r ",K,lt- "DRTLTrTiDWARDS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON fflcoOverl'ostoflli-o, ALLIANCK, NKII il. H. BeHwood, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. " Holstcn lluildliig. - ALLIANJE, NKII L. W. BOWMAN, PHY8IOIAN AND SURGEON. Office- In Plrst National Hunk bloek. AIM unco Nebraska. DRrsTwriiuTCHsn riivblclnn ano Surfieou Day and nlliU-nlIs. Oflli-o over Uokiio Htoro. I'liono 110. DrQEoTHANL 11 o.n i:oia riuc PHYSICIAN AM) SURGKOK I-'ormerly Intcrno llmcop.ithlc Hos pital University ot Iowa. Phono 251. Ofllco over Alliance Shoo Store. Nlsht calls answered from olllco. E. E. BARR, M. D. Specialist Eye, Ear, Nee, Throat, and all Chronic Diseases I'noNK Office lloons - oiiico soi nuns. sto5. Kosldeucc lit Sunday), S to 1. Guy Lockwood . . GKADCATK CHICAGO SCHOOL OF EMBALMING Funeral Director and Embalmer PhonesOffice 214. Res 205 Expert Lndy Attendant.. AUlanGG, NbI), Hila Grand Tonsorial Parlors. Orvillk Owen, Proprietor. Firstclass service. Patronage solicited. F. M. WALLACE DRAY LINE Moying Household Furniture and Trunks a specialty , . Phone No, 1 Young's grocery, Alliance SEE Jos. Carey & Co. For house moving, well boring making and cleaning cesspools moving box cars, ete . . . , ALLIANCE, NEBRARKA. Gbe Iberalb. PUBLISHED FRIDAYS. rTjTo'KEEFK Publisher J 13. KN1EST Associate Editor Entered at the postoflice at Alliance, Nebraska, for transmission through the mails, as necond-class matter. Sir Tub Herald is the Official Publica tion of Box Butte county and its circula tion is nearly twice that of any other Al liance paper. ADVERTISING RATES; Display, per single column inch per month Business locals, per line first insertion Each subsequent insertion, per line Legal notices at statute rates. .50 .10 .05 Subscription, Si. 50 per year in advnnce. School Report. To the Board of Education and patrons 01 mo Alliance city schools: Find herewith nppended a partial list for the month ending December 22, 1904. Total nnmliur of pupils enrolled this , month 731 Number of l,y 33;, Numberof iclrln y p,j Total onrcillor; tqdnto.. 'mo AVIiriMM fill II nllinwln .... ,.mt ,, ... . ... n.' moh; Hiiuiiiiitiiri1, ,,,, ,,,,, . .tM.- AviTJiKoiiumU.rlHonxlMk' 710 17 ,11 i hv.,.1 iiti.il Y mifllUHHCO I'l.iKI .NunilR'i'of tardii'H "7 I'vr cent, or punctuality ',,.,', Tfiiw Ncllliur iibMnt nor turdy for tlm month .VI. Noillior absent itortnnrjr to (lute km Number prcroni every (lay 4'' Number of vNllorH 53 Toucher absent from school without snlwtltiite (half days) u I cachers tanly at sehoul -.,1 2 loaeliers ulisi-nt with Hiibstltutc- halfdayH ' 10 Icaehers absent from teaelieis' meotliiK t 'ioachors' visits to patrons is The fourth primary in the Central building secured the flag for next month. The following rooms were perfect in punctuality: Central build ing, High school, fifth grade, third grade, second grade, lourth primary, second primary and first primary. Patrons can not be too strongly ur ged in the direction of regularity of at tendance of pupils. A business man who is frequently absent from his place of business should not expect large re turns from the business, nor can 11 pu pil be nbscnt from school without tin equal-loss to his businass, though not tho least consideration is the formation of habits of doing things in an' efficient manner. The habits formed in child hood, or the formation period of life, are an index of tho future life of the individual, hence it is very important that the strictest attention should be given to this phase of youthful life. Respectfully submitted, V. H. Bautz, Superintendent. Moloney's Wedding Day." The big musical comedy "Maloney's Wedding Day" is the most talked of attraction in the west this season. Embracing as it docs everything that is attractive in tho way of fine scenery, exquisite costumes, funny comedians, innumerable specialties, good music, and above all, pietty girls. Sheelcy and Youngs the veteran and well known managers of this particular class of en tertainment have spared neither time or expense in making this the acme of musical comedy. "Maloney's Wed ding Day" to which a cordial invita tion is cxteudsd to all will happen one llJL'ht onlv at the Phcl.in Dnoin Imncn Alliance, on Thursday, Jan. 12. Notice. Alliance, Neb., Jan. 5, 1005. Notice is hereby given that a special meeting of the Board of county com missioners of Box Butte county is here by called to meet at my office in the city of Alliance, Neb., on January 9, 1905, at 10 o'clock, a. m., to take action on official bonds on file in my office. S. M. Smyslk, County Clerk. Good For The Sand llilft. '"The day is coming when, instead of bleak and ban en sandhills, we will find hilltops clothed with grass and valleys full of farms, ranches, orchards and groves." Thus snoko R. H. Wol cott, of the department of entomology and ornithology of the state university last Saturday night before a meeting of the American ornithological union in tho city library at, Omaha. He spoke of the arid regions in western Nebraska, and in his talk he predicted its future in glowing terms. As reason for his belief that the sandhills regions has a bright future, he offered in evidence the fact that the vegetation in the last few years in that country has increased wonderfully. It is fast becoming a good grazing land for cattle, and by means of the vege tation will continue to improve. He called attention to the movement of the government to forest 235,000 acres of this unclaimed laud. The principal vegetation here at present is prickly pear, bunch grass, several varieties of flowering plants and cactus. Ducks, geese, prairie chickens, grouse and the wild fowl which arc increasing in num bers in that country are being protect ed by the gjune laA-s. Mr. Woicott devoted a large share of his time to a discussion of the birds oi that region, their growth and their habits and species. Lincoln Daily Star. ADDITIONAL LOCAL. X Formers' and Stockmen's Institute. Mr. D. P. Ashburn was brought up on a dairy iarm in northeastern Ohio. He moved with his fatnilv to Gibbon, Nebraska, in 1871, whore lie engaged in dairying and stock raising until 1880, whon ho started tho fine croamorv in tho slate, west of Fremont. Patronage from tho neighbors soon increased the business of tho creamery to such an oxtctit that a largor creamery was built. This was eqipped with all the latest improvements known at that time. The business was a success in every par ticular and continued for ten years. Tho home dairy increased till the hord numbered 105 Shorthorn milch cows. Mr. Ashburn gave Bpccial attention to raising the calves on skim-milk, with uniform success. He also raised pure urcu nogs. For several years Mr. Ashburn has given much study to tho improvement o corn and has taken a course in corn judging at the Iowa Agricultural college He is one of the best qualified corn judges in the west. His lectures on selection and care of seed corn are thoi result of years of study and careful observation. Wc have no hesitation iu recommending him as an expert coin judge and one of the leading lecturers on tho subject in the United States. Mr. Ashburn began Farmer's Insti tute work twenty years ago in Nebras ka. He has spent one winter on tho Btate institute force of New York- and some time in Vermont. For several years ho has given his entire time dur ing tho institute season to the institute work. His topics arc: Breeding and Selection of Seed Corn." "Plant ing and Cultivation of Corn," "Breed ing and Developing a Dairy Herd," "Raising Calvc3 on Skim-milk," "Pro ducing Pork at a Piofit," "Poultry Raising." Mr. T. C. Ferguson of Beaver Cross ing will speak on tho growing and marketing of potatoes. He has been on our force only one year, but in this short lime lie has proven himself to be one of our strongest institute speakers. Few farmers can sum up more practi cal experience to their credit. Mr. Ferguson is intimately acquainted with tho business from the growing of a few hills in the garden to the raising of a hundred acre field. He has traveled in the rotato field one-third the distance of the circumference of tho globe.- He has dug 5oooo bushel and sold pota toes to 1500 people. Ho has imported and distributed over 15,000 bushels of seed. The tests that Mr. Ferguson has conducted have been very extensive and exact, and has produced regularly in his fields over three times the aver age yield of the state. He has found that one proper cultivation given at the right time adds 30 bushels per acre to tho yield, and that one failure to culti vate at the right time often ruins the crop. Willi this practical knowledge gained in the field, Mr. Ferguson com bines the knowledge gained by visiting all the leading potato growing districts from Canada to the Gulf, studying the soils and methods of cultivation. He presents the result of the vast amount of experience iu a practical and enter taining manner. This season lie mark eted his crop at Co cents per bushel. Mr. G. D. Wood?, desires to an nounce tliat be is 7repared to furnish music at publir or private entertain muuls any eve :ing in the week except Sunday. With thedouhlo bora pho nograph and fine selection of records, both vocal and instrumental. Mr. Woods is prepared to furnish music suitable for any social occasion. Reas onable charges. Dates made at Tun Hkkald office. Co-Lon-Co. Dr. Allen, dentist, opera house. Forest Lumber Co. make a specialty of manufacturing dipping vats. Dr. Koons, dentist, Norton block. Office upstairs Good 4 room house for rent. P. J. Nolan. 2-3t. See Humphrey for picture framing-, up holstering and furniture repairing. Harold B. Miller, M. D., physician and surgeon, office and residence 321 south beventeenth street, Lincoln, Neb. Nearly all the ailments of the human race in these days are caused by the Blood. Stomach and Kidneys being out of order. There is not a case on record than Co-Lon- Co hasn't cured. Ask your druggist, Don't forget George Darling's house furnishing store when in need of goods in his line, Can you afford to do without the official publication of the county for 1905 when it can be had for the small sum of $1.50 in advance ? Geo. A. Hills pays 8c in trade for cured natives, 7c iu trade for heavy side brands, 6c in trade for light side brands,; ic less for cash; 7c in trade for green natives, Cc in trade for heavy side brands, 5c iu trade for light side brands; ic less for cash. 1 buy horse hides, sheep pelts and furs. Bring them in. Now is the time to save a hide for a robe. HEMINGFORD. iKcltb I Fierce Is fully authorized to so licit subscription and Job work nnd collect and receipt for same, and transact all othor business in connection with Ids position as an accredited representative of this paper.) Rev. Embree went to Reno Saturday. Emmett Johnson was in town Tuesday. Mrs. Mabel Pierce is sick with tho grip. C. A. Posvar went to Alliance Thurs day, s' E. L. Everett went to Marsland Tues day, Leslie Price has been on the siclc list recently. Several cars of potatbes are being load ed this week. C. W. Kcnner's son has been visiting him this week. Mathew Cowlin was the guest of II. II. Pierce Tuesday. Mrs. Hall has been ill this week with an attack of the grip. Clark Olds has been on the sick list with lumbago this week. B. U. Shepherd gave a danco at his homo Thursday,cvening. W. A. Bissctl is looking after Will Johnson's place this week. J. C. McCorkle was up from Alliance on business the first of the week. Miss Mabel Phillips closed her school in the Jensen district last week. W. D. Johnson and family are visiting with II. Allison in the sand hills. Nearly every one has a more or less severe case of the grip to care for. Erick Rasmussen's little child, Marion, has been very ill but is now improving. Insure yonr property against fire Can you afford to lose it? K. L. Pierce. Watch for the Formers' Institute pro gram, It will be published next week. There are iu the neighborhood of So phones in connection with the central now. Frank Olds and Miss Almeda Fosket spent the first of the week at the Fosket ranch. , Mis Myrtle Broshar begins a spring term of school iu. the Spracklen district Monday. Canton should wake up aud build a phono line to Hctningford. They need it in their biz. Please call and pay Telephone assess ment No- 2 if you have not yet paid it. K. L. Pierce, treas. M, R, Murphy slipped on the ice a few days ago and sprained his aukle. It seems to be a very bad case. Rev. Burleigh entertained Mr. and Mrs. Clark Olds and Mr and Mrs, Harold Olds at a turkey dinner Tuesday. T. J. O'Keefe will be in Hemingford Monday, Jan. 9 aud Monday, Jan. 16, pre pared to transact land office business. li. E. Johnson has bought a couple of bunches of cows recently. One bunch he purchased from O. F. Carlson and the other of Albert Hedgccock. The cost of dwelling house insurance is so low in Hemingford that it seems like no one could afford to be without it. Inquire about it. K. I.. Pierce, Agt. Mrs. Ciark Olds entertained Miss Blanche Fosket, Miss Almeda Fosket, Miss Delia Reed and Principal Baker at a waflle breakfast New Years morning. A. S. Enyeart was struck in the face by a log chain which slipped from a scaffold where hu was working. He is wearing a couple of gaily decorated black eyes in consequence. A dance at Duulap Fiiday evening cele brating the completion of the new line to Hemingford was well attended, there be in,, O5 couples present. Dunlap is getting to be a very lively town. On Friday evening last a very pleasant social gathering took place at the home of John Armstrong. It was a leap year party and needless to say under those conditions it was fun from the beginning to the end. A very pleasant party occurred at the Kuhn home Saturday evening. The even ing was spent in games, etc. At an early hour all repaired to town and before re tiring woke up everybody, which we pre sume is excusable one night in the year, only. The Iowa people were entertained at turkey dinner at the home of C. A. Row land New Years day. No comment is necessary for every one knows that when a number of people from the same state get together there is no end of fun and amusement. The time to insure your livestock is now when the number is low. They are put in at an average of a fixed amount and when the unmber is small the cost is corre spondingly small. Actual value of stuff killed by lightning or burned, prompt adjustment, cash as soon as adjusted, old line companies, and many other advant ages. Think it over. K. L. Pierce, Agt. Remember the all day farmers' institute to be held here the 18th inst. Noted speakers from abroad furnished by the State University besides local talent will furnish the program. If interested in any phase of stock raising or farming you can not fail to receive a great deal of ben efit from this meeting. It is hoped to make a permanent organization at this time and continue the work in the future. Mrs. Bliss received ai a Christmas present a load of coal. That evening or night some one stole about half oi it. It the person who is doing this theiving is caught he will probably be treated to some tar mixed with feathers and run out of the country. There is too much good work in the country fur any young able bodied fellow (a suspected party) to steal anything. An effort has been made to apprehend the guilty party but so far no conclusive evidence has been found. FARMERS' INSTITUTES. FORCE OP SPEAKERS. More interest is bding taken iu the Farmers' Institute this season than ever before. More institutes are being held and farmers arc being reached. The presentTorce of speakers has not been ex celled iu point of numbers or efficiency. Tho speakers are all practical, progressive men who are recognized as leaders in the lines that they discuss. The men on the force from our own state are chosen be cause of their practical and successful ex perience and their ability to present their subjects to the people. They are acquaint ed with the couditions prevailing in Ne braska and know tinder what difficulties our proplo labor. These men have passed through the trials and triumphs common to the Nebraska farmer. They speak from experience, and therefore, with authority. They are the best men that we are ablo to secUra and are giving excellent satisfaction. To last year's force have been added others of the same stamp. Hemingford all day Jan. 18, 1905. The Hemingford Telephone Co., will hold its annual meeting on February aud. Eycry stock holder is entitled to one vote. Tho constitution and by-laws adopted last year have been found to be defective iu some respects and to need many amend ments. There arc up to date, Jan. 5th, 57 members or stockholders in the company. The property held in common by the com pany is all within the corporate limits of Hemiogford. Each line from the country connecting with the central is to own and does absolutely own all the poles, wire, in sulators, etc., used in the construction of the line. It is personal property and it should be given the assessor next spring as such. Each should enter on the schedule his amount of investment. The only jur isdiction that the trustees of the company exercise over outside lines is in reference to obscene or abusive or profane language or when any member listens to talk not his affair. In those cases they may in struct central to not recognize the party until the fine assessed is paid. The prop erty in Hemingford belongs to all the members of the company and if same were to be sold the funds realized would be divided pro rata among the members ac cording to the by-laws as at present adopt ed. Every member should be present and assist in bringing every matter to the notice of the members that needs atten tion. MARSLAND. School opens next Monday. J. C. Wood is shipping hay. Ransom Byers is spending his vacation at home. No, 45 set two fires near town last Fri day which were soon extinguished. Burt Furman spent a few days in York buying some thorough blood cattle. Miss Mary Hickey closed a term of school in district 61 and has gone home. Mrs. Eugeue Kendrick spent a few days last week visiting at James Hollinrake's Beth and Ralph Thomas spent a week in Alliance during the holiday festivities. James Sullenberger returned to Wyom ing after a ten days' visit with his parents. E. T. Gregg & Sons opened up the ice works Monday and the ice is of fine quality. Mrs. John Shipley returned home from Iowa recently where she had heen to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. James Wilson have moved down from the ranch and occupy rooms in the Jarolemon house. Ed Mason and Carpenter Laravie were down after two loads of lumber for the latter on Wednesday last C. H. Richey was at Agate Jhe first of the week building a house and stable for his mail carrier and team. Mr. and Mrs. Hucke of South Table were in town Friday. t'hey brought down a load of Box Butte bones. Mr. Neff, the plasterer from Alliance who was doing work for L.'Snow is at Will Dewits plastering his house. Mr. Coil of Highland Center unloaded a car of corn last Saturday which he will use to fatten several hundred bead of sheep. George Coil, who was pardoned by Governor Mickey on the day before Christ mas, arrived home a happy and no doubt wiser boy. E. A. Kendrick, assisted by Earl Fosket and George Richey brought two hundred horses down from the Jandt ranch south of Harrison to winter. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Wilson were down from the ranch Sunday, the first time in many weeks. Mr, Wilson is, we are glad to say, much improved in health. Mrs. Kate Walbridge returned to Ard more Saturday after spending the holiday season with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Richey. Mrs. Walbridge says they subscribed for The Herald just to get the Marsland news. Persons to buy first-class mining stock, sure prof its. Par v.ilitf. e nr. sell in tr Si. 00 ner share. Wrifo branch office Lacota Gold Mining and Reduction Co., Crawford, Neb. Box S7. WANTED The North Plnttc Volley Proj'cct. The valley of the North Platte, in Nebraska, is about to enter upon an era of substantial devolopemcnt which will in time convert it into one of tho most populous and prosperous dis tricts in the west. Nearly S4.000.000 will be expended within the next two or three-years in western Nebraska and contiguous territory upon irrigation projects. This moans labor for thous ands of men in the state. Tho Nebraska project will reclaim 100,000 acres. Most of it has been surveyed by the geological survey, but it has not vot reached the point where specifications and blue pimtn ran be made. It is nu extension of a great Wyoming project contemplating the construction of a gigantic dnm between the high perpondiculnr walls of a rock bound canyon in the mountains, through which the North Platte river forces its way to the Nebraska prairie, down the eastern slope to the Missouri river. GREAT RESEKVOIIt PLANNED The dam will create an immense reservoir for storing water, which is plentiful in early spring, but which, under the natural conditions, disap pears during the growing season. It presents an eugineering problem of immense proportions. The cash is iu the United States treasury with which to do this work. On June 30, 1904, the available fund to Nebraska's credit was S477.937.42, of which sum S243. 766.44 must be ex pended in Nebraska: or, in other words cannot legally be diverted to apply to irrigation projects iu other states. Omaha Daily World-Herald. CHEYENNE. Wyo., Dec. 25. A telegram was received from Washing ton today stating that the contract re cently signed by tho slate land board, members of the reclamation service of the government, and Mr. Linglo of Denver, owner of the Lingle canal in eastern Wyoming; as stated exclusive ly iu these dispatches, and having for its object the transfer to the govern ment of the right to enlarge and extend the Lingle canal to permit of the pass age of water from the Pathfinder dam on the Sweetwater to the lands to be re claimed in Nebraska, had been approv ed by the secretary of the interior. This removes the last obstacle in the way of the Pathfinder project, and the success of the enterprise is now assur ed. Work will be hurried forward now and with all possible haste, and it is expected actual construction work will be commenced in the spring. Congressman Hinshaw has intro duced a bill asking that an extension of time of one year be allowed those who have filed on homesteads under the proposed ditch and a petition has also been sent Congressman Kinkaid by many of this section who have filed soliciting him to aid in the passage of the bill. Bank drafts are cheaper and more convenient than post office orders. When you want to send money away go to The First National Bank. 3-tf Home rendered leaf lard uc per pound. Gagranteed pure. Bushnell & Olday, proprietors Palace meat market. ., Go to thn Allintir-r. M-: 1 -. deposit your money. Oct. 7-tf Fridav is Fmci, r..?. r. Glcoson's Delicacy Store. Novn-t? Money to Loan. Saooo-to loan on approved security at 10 per cent interest -uru at Dec.2-3t G.L.MOFKATT. " , , .:--!..: w.:..;...... riissWilhemineBohn I $&. Instructress of "J Voice Culture Class und Individual Lesson- ' Fwtesrss.ii.-tte -,--W"WH-M-H-s4: RESOLUTION. -flAw- Resolve this year to buy your drurrs nf Thiele. That's a good resolu t,0n to make; a good resolution to keep -WKVWWw ! THIELE'S Prescription Dm,.- .J A GOOD S S NEW YEAR'S ! T" I ( v- I $' isjrar- -J- .