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The Alliance Herald.
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Largest Circulation
of any Newspaper in
Western Nebraska.
Official Publication
of Box Butte county.
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VOLUME XVII,
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA! THURSDAY, FEB, 10, HMO
NUMBER 9
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KEl'OUT OF THE CONDITION OF
The First National Bank,
CUAUTUK NO. 4226.
At Alliance, tn the Stnto or Xcbrtiska, at Vho
elo-,y of business, .luuuary 31, 1010.
RESOURCES:
Loans nml (itncomits $400.717 17
Overdrafts, secured null unsecured 31HW
U. & IxhkIn to secure clrculstlou.... 50.000 00
U. b. HondB to securo U. H. Deposit 1.000 00
Bunking house, furniture and na
tures . 10.00000
Cue from National lluiiku
(not reserve agents) 3,72125
Due from State and Pri
vate Hanks and Hunkers,
Trust Companies, and
Havings Hunk 4,120 28
Due from approved re
servo agents 00,427 73
Checks and other cash
items 16188
Notes of other National
Uanks 3,93000
Fractional paper currency ,
nickels and cents 393 30
Lawful money reserve In
bank, viz:
Specie...., 17,91465
Legal tender notes. S.545 00 20,459 65
Kedcinption fund with U. S.
Treasurer (3 per cent of
circulation) 2,500 00
Due from U. S. treasurer 2 50 101,721 81
Total $632,758 74
LIABILITIES:
Capital stock paid In.,, 50,000.00
Surplusfund 50,000 00
Undivided profits, less expenses and
taxespaid 19.S08 21
National bank notes outstanding.., 50,000 00
Due to other National
Banks . 17.93327
Due to State and 1'rlvnto
Hanks and Bankers 3,019 51
Individual deposits subject
to check 299,165 42
Demand certificates of de
posit 7,43400
Time certlllcates of deposit 134,:WH 73
United. States Deposits... 1,000 00402,950 53
Total , 5032,758 74
STATE OF NEBRASKA, Rs.
Cou.NTinorDoxIiCTTE. J
1, b. K. Warrick, cashier of tho above
named bank, do solemnly swear that tho
above statemeut is true to tho best of my
knowledge and belief.
S. K. Waiuhck, Cashier.
CoiutECT Attest:
K. M. Hamito.v, I
A. B. Kkkd, y Directors.
Cuas. E. I'obd. )
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2nd
day of Februury, 1010.
ISEAI1 EOOESE BCHTON.
Notary Public.
My Commission Expires July 7th, 1912.
A
Strong
Bank
The statement of THE
FIRST NATIONAL
BANK shows it to be a
remarkably STRONG
INSTITUTION.
Its strength lies not alone
in its large capital, sur
plus and resources, but
in the character and fi
nancial ' responsibility of
the men who conduct its
affairs.
FIRST
NATIONAL
BANK
UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY
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STALLION SALE J
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S THE CELEBRATED PERCHERON STALLION
ALEUTIAN 21,977 3? (
will be sold at public auction at Al- j
( liance, Neb., to the highest bidder, at
? 2 o'clock p. m., on
Saturday, Feb. 26, '10 J
Pedigree Shown on Day of Sale
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M. 3?. COXJ3ECS12Y, Auctioneer
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OUR DRUGS
are all of the highest quality we
can get and are all examined crit
ically after we receive them in
stock here before a single one is placed
on sale we do everything in our power
to be on the safe side. A good thing
for you to remember.
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More Scalps to Be Taken
GEO. T. HAND, M. D.
EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT
Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted.
Glaze Marble Works
Cftas. Glaze, Prop.
Hemingford, Nebr.
A FULL LINE OF MONUMENTS AND
HEADSTONES
Note the following: By buying of us you
have no extra freight to pay. We buy
our stock in car load lots and do the cut
ting in our yards at Hemingford.
You can examine your work before
accepting it.
We guarantee satisfaction
The Ardmore Athletic Club will meet
the Alliance High School five in basket ball
Friday night. Ardmore claims the champ
ionship of southern South Dakota. They
are a fast bunch, and will surely play a
hard game. Alliance has been working to
remedy the defects in team work and field
basket shooting which were so apparent in
the Gothenburg game.
The team will probably line up with
Mewhirter and Root or Betebener as for
wards, Burris at center, aud Carlson and
Parker at guards. Changes may be made
however in the line up.
Recent reports from Sidney indicate
that she is waiting to get Alliance's scalp
in basket ball. Two games remain to be
played in the league schedule. Both are
with Sidney. If Alliance wins one of
these games she wins the championship of
western Nebraska a title which she now
holds. If Alliance loses both games, she
loses the pennant and championship. It
is evident then, that the championship
struggle-centers with the first Sidney-Alliance
game which will be pulled off in the
near future.
On Saturday evening the Sterling girl's
team will play the Alliance girl's team.
This promises to be a most interesting
contest inasmuch as boy's rules will be
played. This will be the first inter-schol-tstic
girl's game ever played in Alliance.
Having once defeated Sidney, the girls
are hopeful of repeating the trick, A lack
of practice recently makes this altogether
problematical. Sterling is reported as
having the fastest girl's team in northern
Colorado. It will be a thrilling contest
from starttto finish,
The girl's game will be preceded by a
Freshman-Sophomore game.
Why the Oppostion
The Herald litis already sot forth, brielly, some of' the
reasons why the Initiative and Referendum should bo
adopted in this city, as. well as in every other city of tho
state. So far, we have seen no reason advanced why this
should not be done; but strange as it may seem to somb,
opposition has sprung up to this movement. We are of the
opinion that this opposition is limited to quite a small num
ber; in fact, so far as we personally know, it is confined to
the sacred precincts of the Times printing office.
It has been the policy of The Herald, under the present
management, to avoid any controversy with our local con
temporary, for two or three reasons, which wo think are
good and sufficient to justify us in pursuing such a course.
In the first place, we do not think it looks well for competi
tors in business to publicly criticiso each other, unless there
is extreme provocation for so doing. Again, wo believe it
is for the best interest of the town for competitors in busi
ness to pull together, rather than apart; and, further, wo
have no inclination to quarrel with anybody, whether a
competitor or not. We expect our competitor to get his
share of the business of the town, and have no desire to de
prive him of it. For these reasons, we have refrained from
criticising tho course of the Times, when its course has been
such that it merited the severest criticism. Some things
that have been said and done by our local contemporary,
and which we have ignored, if they had been said and done
by a publication in a neighboring town, would have received
the criticism from this paper that they merited; but when
our local contemporary assumes an attitude of open hostili
ty to a measure designed for the good of the town, and
which cannot but be conceded by all fair minded men to bo
fair and just and for the best interests of the city, and this
local contemporary assumes such an attitude merely for tho
sake of a little financial gain that may accrue to it, we think
' it is time to take our foot off the soft pedal and show up a
few facts that will give the public a little insight into the
reasons that prompt that paper to take the position it as
sumes. So far as we are able to discern, the principal reason, if
not the sole motive, the editor of the Times has in opposing
the Initiative and Referendum in Alliance is that it may
perpetuate a little city printing graft that it lias been en
joying the past year, on account of having a relative on the
city board, who was used as a tool in putting this printing
graft deal through. It is quite probable that the Times will
be deprived of this printing graft the coming year; and there
is but one show for the crafty editor to perpetuate this
graft, and that is by defeating the Initiative and
Referendum, and thus securing the re-election- of the
said relative on an issue that would be otherwise settled by
a direct vote of the people.
Some of our readers may think that we have been very
slow in making mention of this graft that the Times has
been indulging in for nearly a-year, and our excuse lor. not
mentioning it sooner has been stated above; but now that
the editor of that paper resorts to. intrigue, as usual, to ac
complish in politics what he is not able to accomplish on a
square deal proposition, we think it is time to call attention
to this fact. If necessary, we will give further information
in regard to this city printing graft before the coming city
election.
Temperance Rally .
The union temperance meeting at
the opera house last Sunday night was
attended by one of the largest crowds
ever assembled in a similar meeting in
this city. The interest in the meeting
was good; but, if we may suggest an
improvement in meetings of this kind,
it is that the time of beginning be more
definitely announced, and that the
meeting be commenced promptly at the
time stated. Entertainments at the
opera house do not usually commence
before 8 o'clock, but the Sunday
ing evening services at the churches
begin this time of year at 7:30, con
sequently, people generally did not
know whether to be at the opera house
at 7:30 or wait until 8 o'clock,- and,
from the time that the people began to
arrive uutil the exercises opened, was
nearly an hour. This had a very det
rimental effect upon the meeting. The
music was good; but, if it had com
menced nearly half an hour sooner,
would have been more highly ap
preciated. The speaker of the evening, Rev.
Poulson, superintendent of the state
anti-saloon league, showed himself to
be a master of the subject. While be
is not so fluent as some temperance
orators, yet he displayed the faculty of
saying things in such a way as to make
a lasting impression. People who heard
him, while perhaps not as well enter
tained at the time as they would have
been by some orators, remembered
afterwards the facts presented. Mr.
I'ouIsou'r address, we think, did not
appeal as strongly to the radical ele
ment as it did to those of a more con
servative turn of mind. By the way,
however, it is the conservative element
that both sides to the anti-saloon con
troversy wish to reach; and we cannot
help but think that his work in this
state will be productive of great results.
A Growing Business
On August 1st, 1907, Mr. and Mrs.
V. B. Parker arrived iu Alliance from
Laramie, Wyo., and opened a racket
store in one of the frame buildings on
the north side of Wyoming avenue, be
tween Box Butte and Laramie avenues.
They commenced on a small scale; but
probably in anticipation of what it
would be later, they named their store
the Bee Hive, which it afterwards
proved to be.
The business grew to such an ex
tent that it was found necessary to se
cure larger quarters; hence a year ago
they moved into the brick building on
the south side of the street, the second
store west of the postoffice, since which
time it has continued to increase, until
it now requires several persons to wait
upon the customers.
Besides Mr. and Mrs. Parker, Miss
Gladys Boon regularly assists in dis
posing of the thousand and one differ
ent articles that they have on sale.
Occasionally they find it necessary to
employ additional help. For the holi
day trade, it was found necessary to
have seven clerks.
Although the trade of the Bee Hive
has increased so much, the proprietors
are reaching out after a still larger
business; and, to help them along, we
insert in The Herald beginning with
this issue a nice display advertise
ment, to which we call the attention
of our readers. Hereafter, this store
will regularly use a part of our adver
tising space.
Mrs. Robert Birney Entertains
About twelve of Mrs. Birney 's lady
friends were entertained at her pleas,
ant home Tuesday afternoon. That
popular game, "500," was indulged in
until 5:30. Mrs. Roy Beckwith at d
Mrs. A. E. Nelson won the highest
scores. A dainty lunch was served on
the card tables, As hostess, Mrs. B.
is unexcelled.
A VtcBinflSHrPlajiw.
Mr. George Hoffman, a bright young
man 24 years of age who came to
this city last November, from Carroll
county, Iowa, suffering with tubercu
losis af the lungs, died at his rooms on
Cheyenne avenue, last Tuesday after
noon at 1:20. His father and brother
arrived here last Saturday on receipt of
news that be was rapidly failing.
Deceased met death with every forti
tude of a Christian, For weeks the
frail young nufa made a heroic struggle
for life and everything was done to dis
pel the insidious white plague without
avail. Last Sunday it was apparent
his life was for a day or two at most.
There was a perceptible change in the
sufferer's actions; he put off the things
of tlits world, preparing himself for
man's final destiny eternity, Father
McNamara and his assistant reinforced
the spiritual nature of the dying man
by administering Holy Eucharist and
the sacrament of Extreme Unction. Af
ter several hours battling with the
TVloOliLier's
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We are offering this week a new and full line of
India Linens,
Guaranteed Bayles Bleacheries, 31 inches, at
12c, I5c, 20c, 25c and 35c
Also a line of
TOOTAL'S FANCY BATISTE
in stripes and figured at ,3 5c and SOc. These goods
are in high favor now for Tailored Waists
disease for one more breath, mortality
gave up the fight, and at tho hour of
12:20 ho smiled affectionately to father,
brother and sister, and closed his eyes
peacefully, quietly in eternal repose.
George Hoffman was accompanied
here by his sister Mary who showed
tho deepest solicitude and devotion for
her brother's welfare.
The remains were shipped to the old
home at Willey, Iowa, Wednesday
morning, accompanied by the relatives.
The funeral will be held at that place
Saturday morning,
Geo. Carrell of Hemingford and
Frank Green, who has n ranch in the
south edge of Dawes county, cast of
Marsland, were in Alliance the first of
the week, and both favored The Her
ald with a call, Mr, Green has been
in this country about four years, and
although northwestern Nebraska is
very much different from his native
state of Vermont, lie would not think
of returning cast except it might be on
a visit. Mr. Carrell is a ranchman of
the north part of this county nnd as
our readers are aware has recently
launched out into the real estate busi
ness, with line prospects of success.
H'c.8tartedout by prderjng( a fine lot of,
advertising 'matter printed at The Her
ald office, i, t
The choir of the Baptist church, as
sisted by sonle of tho best musical
tiiliMiixjf the city, will give a musical in
the church at an early date. Mrs. E.
B, Burris will have charge of tho pro
gram, and a rare musical treat is in
store for the people of Alliance. Exact
date w ill be announced later.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Newberry came
home last Saturday morning. While
away they visited Pittsburg, Buffalo,
Niagara Falls and Chicago.
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BUSINESS LOCALS.
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If you need your cream separator
repaired bring it to the Alliance Cream
ery, where is kept a full line of repairs
for all makes of machines. g-3t
Wanted to trade for or buy, small house
and barn, to move. "Call 615 Bine. 8-tf
Money to loan on real estate. F. E.
Reddish. 3-tf-
For Rent Four furnished rooms
with board. Phone 394. 8-2t
Wanted Sewing by day or piece.
117 Sweetwater avenue- 8-tf
I have 300 tons of good hay for sale.
J. D. Hagerty, Bridgeport, Neb. 8-tf
Two bouses for sale. Enquire of
Mrs. S. J. Holdridge. 8 tf
Fir Sals
Lot 3, block 8, 612 Toluca Ave.
East front. All fenced. Cement
sidewalk and curbing, Inquire at
Herald office or phone 556. 4-tf
Still in the Coal Business
It has been rumored that I am no
Monger in the coal business. This is
incorrect. Your order solicited. Phone
506 Blue. W. F. KNIGHT, gtf
Notice
Parties knowing themselves indebted
to me will call at once and settle with
me personally or with V. S. Ridgell.
8-3t M. O. New'.
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you the Most of
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We have just received the
new spring stock in all of
the very latest -Models
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$1 to $2.50
These garments have the very
low bust aud extreme long hip so
well adapted to the present style
of dress.
BON TON
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A large variety of models to select
from- A corset for every form.
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