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a moderate expense you
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"Dorothy Dodd" Oxfords.
They are up-to-the-minute
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W. C. T. U.
Tho W. C. T. U. will meet Tuesday
afternoon, April 27, at tho home of
Mis. Dr. Bowman nt 3 o'clock. Tho
subject will be "Scientific Temperance
Instruction," in charge oflf Mrs. M. L.
Phares, Following; is the program:
SonE By tho Union
Devotionals, conducted by the prcsi-
dent, Mrs. Tash.
Music, Instrumental.. ..Mrs. B. Lang
Paper, "S. T. I. in the Schoola"...
Mrs. Harriet Vauce
Discussion, led by Mrs. W. S. Achcson
Soug. . .Mrs, Luun and Mrs Dr. Allen
Short selections read by Mrs. Birney,
Miss Young and Mrs. Parker.
Duct Mrs. M. O. joder and
..Miss Nellie Acheson
Members, please bring your friends
with you. Mrs. Vance is state secrc
tary of tho L. T. L. and the ladies are
specially invited to meet her.
Official Proceedings of
County Commissioners
Alliance, Neb., April 13, 1909.
Box Butte county commissioners met
pursuant to adjournment, all members
present: J. M. Wanek, chairman; J
P. Jensen and Snng C. Reck. The
following proceedings were had and
done, to wit:
On petition of Gregory Zurn to bo
appointed Justice of the Peace in and
Jor Second Ward Precinct, Alliance,
Nebr., it is moved and seconded that
the petition be allowed, carried and so
ordered) and he is hereby appointed as
such Justice of the Peace.
The following official bonds were
duly examined and approved: Gregory
Zurn for Justice of the Peace iu Second
Ward, Alliance, Neb.
It is the order of the Board that the
Treasurer be instructed to transfer all
money remaining in the Bridge Fund
to the Road Fund.
On account of eighty-five per cent,
of the levy for 1908 of the General
Fund being drawn, the claims against
the Geueral Fund at this meeting are
hereby laid over.
It is moved, seconded and carried
that Alex Hill, Jr., be appointed Road
Overseer for District No, n, and it is
so ordered.
The report of Special Commissioner
Jensen on road petitioned for by C. A.
Burlew and others, is this day returned
and filed, and it is moved, seconded
and carried that the report be received
and Mr. Jensen discharged, (See Road
record.)
Whereupon the Board adjourns until
tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. '
W. C, Mounts, clerk.
Alliance, Neb., April 14, 1909.
Board of County Commissioners met
pursuant to adjournment, same mem
bers present as yesterday. The fol
lowing proceedings were had and done,
to-wit:
On complaint of J. C, Osborn as to
obstruction on Road No. 32 between
sections 4 and 5-27-49, it is hereby
ordered that Road Overseer Kinsley be
instructed to see that said obstructions
be removed forthwith.
On complaint of Clayton Worley ns
to obstruction? on Road No. 28, it is
hereby ordered that Road Overseer
$rie$i('3vrf7
Benjamin be instructed to eco that tho
said obstructions bo removed forth
with.
The following claims were audited
and allowed, and the Clerk ordered to
draw warrants on the Road Fund for
same:
Walter I Rust ".. .....? 300
Ed Owen n 60
Chas Ferguson 100 00
Goo Gadsby 100
Joseph Manion 29 00
Fred Kauffold 400
John Vogcl 5 00
D W Hughes.. 1000
LM Kennedy..... 5000
Chas Ferguson, 116.60, allowed 108 60
Herbert Tompkins .'... 3000
OL Harris 5120
F McCoy 4300
Joo Zijic 8 00
F W Hucke ..'. ;.. . . 900
J E Andrce ..... 2100
Ed Owens 63 60
Sam Heater Gg 60
C J Benjamin 1700
James Kennedy 2475
Jos V Kennedy 10 50
There being nothing further to come
before tho Board, they now adjourned
to tho next regular meeting in June.
W. C. Mounts, clerk.
Harness Shop Enlarged
Geo. A. Hills has completed the im
provements which he has been making
to his harness shop on the east side of
Laramie avenue, opposite the Palace
livery barn, and thus has greatly im
proved his facilities for taking care of
his large and increasing business. He
has been making and selling harness
and harness accessories for a good
many years. He knows good goods
and his goods give customers excellent
satisfaction, hence his increasing trade
and the necessity for enlarging his fa
cilities for handling it.
Death of Former Nebraskan
Wo havo a copy of the Telephone
Register of April 2, published at Mc
Minnvillc, Oregon, from which we clip
the following obituary notice:
Died, at his home in this city, Mon
day, March 29, 1000, of chronic appen
dicitis, Charley A. Mcflogy, aged 38
years and 0 days. Deceased came with
his family to McMinuvillc last Septem
ber from Nebraska and for some tlinc
past had suffered very much from a
reeurronee of tho disease with which
ho was nflltcied three yours ago. A
post mortem examination disclosed his
system to be in such a state that the
contemplated surgical operation would
have been iihuless lit this time. He
leaves u wire, two ttuugnters mm one
son. His mother uiul brother-in-law
arrived Tuesday evening from Iowa iu
lime to attend the funeral, whieh took
pluee'from the First Christian church
on Wednesday at 3 p.m., conducted by
tho pastor, Iter. Mr. Keudall. Inter
ment was made lu Musontc cemetery.
The Need of
Fireproof Safes
The recent fire in Alliance empha
sizes the need of fireproot safes. Fire
insurance may cover, or partly cover,
the. loss of building and merchandise,
but it docs not cover the loss of ac
count books, documents and other
valuable papers.
In this connection we wish to suggest
to those who are in need of a safe that
they see the Western Office Supply
company. The two young men who
compose this company, F. A. Pierson
and Lloyd C.Thomas, caniumish you
a first-class safe as cheap, or cheaper,
than you will get the same grade by
sending away for it. They have done
a good thing for Alliance by establish
ing tueir omce supply business here
and have incidentally given this city
Borne valuable advertising- They are
entitled to your patronage.
Special Sale of
Potted Plants
I have decided to bring from our
greenhouses a fine assortment of potted
plants, consisting of Hydrangea, Fern
Ball, Roses of all kinds and colors,
Coral Begonias, Palms, Borbonica and
Sago, assorted Geraniums, Calla Lil
lies, Primrose, Cannas, Honeysuckle,
Balsam, Ferns, Rubber Plants, and
Norfolk Island Pine, assorted Colens
and For-get-me-nots.
These plants will be displayed and
for sale in front of The Herald office
on Friday and Saturday of this week.
They are in the best condition and will
be sold at prices that will please you.
D. M. Gorman, with the Plumfield
Nurseries of Fremont, Nebr.
Somebody Benefitted
"It's an ill wind that blows nobody
good." The firn that burned the Ru
mor block caused the Alliance Shoe
Store next door quite a good deal of
inconvenience, but since the insurance
has been adjusted it is discovered that
the public will benefit by the loss of
others that 13, that portion of the
public needing shoes. The wearing
qualities of the shoes have not been
injured at all, and but few of them even
soiled, but they will be closed out at
sacrifice prices iu order that nothing
may remain in stock that was touched
with water. In fact there arc goods iu
stock that were not even wet that will
be sold at closing out prices.
Appreciation Appreciated
To us the word appreciate is one of
the most expressive in the English
language. The appreciation of honest
endeavor is better than cither censure
or flattery. We have been making
strenuous efforts to get out The Her
ald in such a manner as to bo a credit
to the city and the country which it
represents. We have added depart
ments that have increased our labor
to an extent that would surprise per
sons not conversant with newspaper
work. The paper could be published
the same size with much less than half
the work and cxpeusc; but we prefer to
incur this additional expense and work
in order to issue a publication that will
be a credit and benefit to its constitu
ency, rather than to grind out the or
dinary insipid sheet with less than half
the work and expense.
If our efforts were not appreciated
we should become discouraged, but we
have no cause for discouragement.
The increase iu the number of sub
scribers to The Herald, the advertising
patronage, and the crowding of our job
printing department with orders for
work, are all eloquent and practical
testimonials of appreciation which we
greatly appreciate.
Bridgeport Changes
(From the Bridgeport News-Blade)
The voting out of the saloons at the
recent municipal election will cause
some changes on the business street of
Bridgeport, beginning next month,
Dave Lee, who has conducted the
saloon on the west side of the street,
has decided to leave Bridgeport, and
we learn that he has already purchased
the furniture and fixtures of the Spry
saloon at Alliance. If he is granted a
license in our neighboring town, Dave
may he depended upon to conduct an
orderly place. He cannot tolerate a
drunkard and will not permit anything
that savors of vice or disorder about
his place of business. If Alliance must
have saloons the people of that town
will be fortunate if all those to whom
license is granted are as careful and
painstaking in the conduct of their
business as Dave Lee.
M. H. Hagcrty will convert his sa
loou into a soft drink emporium and
will probably put in a couple of pool
and billiard tables, leaving the manage,
ment to someone else while he devotes
his time to raising spuds and other
products on his homestead.
C. C. Nelson is so busy raising high
grade jacks that he has not given the
matter a thought. What he will do
with his place of business has not yet
been decided.
Railroad Extension
(From the North Platte Tribune)
Anent the proposed building of the
Burlington line up the valley to North
Platte and the construction of the
Union Pacific through to Medicine Bow,
comes the information that the two
companies are already negotiating for
trackage arrangements. This proposi
tion is: That the Burlington use the
North River branch from O'Fallons
junction to Northport and the U. P.
the Burlington track from Northport to
Scottsblufi. That such a proposition
is being considered is vouched for by
those who claim to know the inside
working of the two companies.
A Growing Business
Along with other Hues of progress
and development, Alliance has an in
surance firm whose business is keeping
pace with the times in growth and ex
pansion. Gray & Guthrie, who have
their office over the Alliance National
Bank, have a business that has grown
until it is now probably the largest of
any in this part of the west, including
all departments of life, health, acci
dent, employers' liability, bonding and
fire insurauce.
For the Equitable Life of New York
they have a general agency covering
sixteen Nebraska counties and half of
Wyoming, tho Wyoming territory hav
ing been added during the last month
when Mr. Guthrie made a business trip
to Chicago. They have practically the
same territory for the Travelers' In
surance Co., of Haftford. Conn., cov
ering accident, health and employers'
liability. They also have the general
agency for the American Bonding Co.,
of Baltimore.
Iu fire insurance they represent
eleven strong companies for local work
in Alliance, Box Butte and adjoining
counties. They have been requested
to take the geueral agency for fire in
surance as well as life insurance, but
have their hands full with their present
business without branching out further.
Although they do not hold 'a general
agency for fire insurance they write
policies for parties as far east as Hy
annis Hyannis Happenings
(From the Grant County Tribune)
Mr. and Mrs Dean Ashley went to
Alliance on the noon train Tuesday to
consult a physician in regard to their
invalid daughter, whom they took there
for examination, and they now feel
more hopeful for her improvement.
It will be glad news to many who
have been waiting for the announce,
ment to learn that Dr. Kracmer will be
in his Hyannis office and practice den
tistry from April 19 to 26, inclusive.
Better Wood Utilization
Denver, Colo., April 21 Forest conser
vation means the striving for a better
utilization of forest products and the con
sequent checking of useless waste as much
as it does the protection of forests from
fires and the reforestation of lands which
should grow timber, according to foresters
and progressive lumbermen of the new
school.
Few people have a clear idea of the im
portance of the study of proper wood utili
zation, and one of the effects of the
establishment of the Forest Service Dis
trict offices most beneficial to the people
of the west is the possibility of a close,
helpful relation with a branch of the ser
vice whose workings have heretofore been
little understood in this region. This is
the Branch of Products.
The work of this part of the Forest Ser
vice has to do with the best and most
economical utilization of the products of
the forest, not only lumber and its pro
ducts but also the bark, resin, sap, and
even leaves of these trees of which these
parts are of value to man.
It is not enough that care 'should be
given to tho growing of a new forest and
to tho careful and economical cutting of
the present crop of trees, but it is of '
equal importance that care be taken to
bring about as complete a utilization of j
the tree as possible and to make the util-1
ized timber serve its purpose as long as
possible. To bring about the utilization I
of what is now wasted in manufacture or
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to increase tne usable lite ot timber is
considered as much forest conservation as
to grow a forest where the origtcal has
been cut off.
The Branch of Products has made a
special effort to make possible the utiliza
tion of the waste incident to manufacture
after the log has reached the mill. For
some time experiments have been carried
on studying the possibilities of utilizing
slabs and sawdust. In .regions where
there is a sufficient demand a considerable
income is derived from the secondary
manufacture by private parties of slabs
and edgings into box shooks, barrel staves
and lath. As yet private aud federal ef
forts to utilize sawdust have not been as
successful as may be desired. The lines
of most promise, however, have been its
use in paper making and in the distillation
of pine sawdust for the production of tur
pentine. Much remains to be accom
plished, however, to make this work an
unqualified success.
The Forest Service with district head
quarters in Denver is ready to give what
information it may have at its command
concerning tne value and properties of
any wood or to co-operate with private in
dividuals to make tests on woods concern
ing which no information is at hand.
One of the chief lines of activities in the
Denver office of products undoubtedly
will be the preservative treatment of tim
ber, since the conditions of the timber
supply in relation to demand in all parts
of the country are such as to make the
increase of the durability of timber of
greatest import to those industries de
pendent upon its use. Considerable study
in the preservation of timber used for
cross-ties has already been carried on by
I the railroads which traverse this region.
The Office of Products of this district is
desirous of coming in touch with all who
use timber where preservation would
lengthen its use and stands ready to render
practical assistance both by furnishing in
formation concerning the treatment of
limber and by co-operating in the installa
tion and operation of timber treating
plants. ,wwwwwwww
Fat Cattle aad Hsgs Wanted
Will pay the highest market price.
'Cash upon delivery. Only good quali
ty will be accepted.
l'ALACb Meat Market, Alliance.
TO ALL TO WHOM IT MAY CONCI3RN.
ROAD 40.
County ClCrk's Office, Box Butte Coun
ty, Nebraska.
To .Tunics A. Hunter, Barney Pitts.
Nathan A. Hockey, George Carroll,
Carl V, Roberts, Isaac Kockey. .lueob
C. Oshorn, Julius Kaiser, Marguret
A. Stevens, John M Kuhn, John
Armstrong and V. H. Armstrong.
Tho Commissioner appointed to lo
cate a road commencing at the quarter
corner between Sections 0 and 10 of
Township 28, Range 40 and running
south and terminating at the South
west corner of Section 10, Township 27,
Range 40, except that it vary from the
Section line as follows, to-wit: Com
mencing at u point 1800 feet North of
southwest corner of Section 23, leuve
tho Section line and run Southeasterly
to an extreme of about 700 feet from
Section line and running on a curve
around hill and draw on best natural
road bed, to intersection of Section line
at Southwest corner of Section 22; has
reported in favor of the establishment
thereof, and all objections thereto or
claims for damages must be filed in the
County Clerk's office on or before noon
of tho 10th day of June, 1000, or such
road will be established without refer
ence thereto,
April 13th, 1009.
fp. Apr. 22-5v W. C. Mou.vrs, Clerk.
Notice to Teamsters and Others
All persons are notified that they
are liable to prosecution for taking
earth from any of the public highway's
and roads of Box Butte county. The
ordinances prohibit the dumping of
manure or other refuse within one and
one-fourth miles of Alliance. Neither
shall the county highways be used as a
public dumping ground. These laws
will be strictly enforced henceforth.
By Order Board of County Commis
sioners. Done by Mail Order Firm
Another sample of catalog house so
called "bargains" is displayed at P. H.
Donovan's implement store this week.
It is a cream separator, which was
"guaranteed for twenty years" in one
of those handsomely illustrated and
generously worded catalogs. The
owner used it one year and a half and
then it gave out and the catalog house
was called upon to make good its guar
antee and furnish repairs. Do you
think it did? Heavens to Betsy no!
at Opera House
the Crystal presents
PROP, RAND g & ned
in new and wonderful canine feats
See the High Dive Saturday afternoon at 2
p. m., In front of the opera house
next week
EARL BROS.
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dlanst In new dances, songs and Jokes
New Pictures, at the old Price of
admission, lOcts.
SHEET MUSIC
On Monday, April 26, '09,
Mrs. J. T. Wlker will receive a new
stock of Sheet Music which will be for sale at
The Bennett Piano Co.
404 Box Butte Ave.
It replied that it no longer handled
the machine and that the purchaser
could buy his own repairs at tho fac
tory of the manufacturer. A second
time the "cat" houso was asked to
make good Its ilowcry promises, but
the reply was tho same. So the owner ,
came to llartland, traded the "fake"
to Mr. Donovan 011 account of another
separator and is forever done with
catalog goods, No need to point tho
moral of the talc, but once more we
repeat the good old cry, "Trade at
Uome." Hartland (Minn.) Herald.
Twelve Pages Again
The heavy demands upon our adver
tising space make it necessary to again
issue The Herald as a twelve-page
paper. This makes us "heaps of
work," but we'll try to stand it for the
good of the cause.
Wanted to Buy
I wish to buy of owners, several good
quarter sections of land in .Box Butte
county. Does not have to be located
adjoining. Must be good, desirable
land. Send legal description in first
letter. E. K. Mayhugh,
194 1 113 H. St., Lincoln, Nebr.
HAVE YOUPAmYOUR
PERSONAL TAX?
Taxes are due Nov. 1. Personal
taxes delinquent Dec. 1. Land tax
delinquent May 1. Interest 10 per
cent from date of delinquency. Real
estate advertised for sale the first week
in October and sold for taxes the first
Monday in November. In all com
munications relative to taxes, please
give description of property.
Fred Mollring, Co. Treasurer.
I have just received a
new line of Drawn
Work and fancy Linen
and will be pleased to
show them. Remember
me when purchasing- a
suit, skirt or hat. I have
a line bound to please.
Please call. Mrs. Simmons.
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