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JOHN V. THOMAS Editor
J. B. KNIEST Associates Editor
Entered at the postoflice at Alliance,
Nebraska, for transmission through the
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THURSDAY, JUNE 2, igto
Announcement
I hereby announce mysolf as a
candidate for State Representa
tive of the 53rd representative
district of Nebraska, subject, td
the Primaries of the Democratic
and People's Independent Parties
to be held Aug. 10, 1010.
J. A. KOHEHTSON.
At last the good
time is hero again.
old summer
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ii . The Herald has another very; notlco t0 bo ' lven the county
as mt.ornnt.tn I? Arznnn, mttnr ironr ..,.. j. . .. .. 1.
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interesting Arizona letter from'
lished later.
"Wo find it necessary to again
publish an extra four-page sec
tion of The Herald this week.
Last week we thought twelve
pages would give us plenty of
space, but still a number of in
teresting articles were crowded
out.
Ono of the excellent features
of the school laws of Nebraska
is that which provides for a high
school education for all boys and
girls in the state, free of tuition
charges. This high school
course embraces four years'
study, known as ninth,, terith,
eleventh, and twelfth grades in
the State course of study. Brief
ly stated, the provisions are that
any pupil having finished the
eighth, ninth, tenth, or eleventh
grade may bo admitted free to
any high school in state in the
next higlier grade, providing
fthat grade is not taught in the
pupil's home district. The expense-
of tuition is met by a levy
on the school district in which
the pupil resides.
However, in order for any
tjupII to be admitted free into a
high school outsldo of his or her
"own district, it is necessary lor
superintendent on or before
Lloyd Thomas, which is crowded th second Monday in June, as
ouc 01 tins issue out win oe puu- linwn hv thn folinwinir H0Ction.
of tho law, to which we wish to
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Nwc ttnanlm4 Mlss Mary nnrrlmnn, daughter of Into B. H. Harrluinn, wns married to 0. 0. Rumsey, Buffalo sculptor. Muthlld
ncw ailJHUI Washington's wealthiest heiress, was married to Teter Q. Gerry. Queen VIctorin of Spnlu gavo birth to son, vl
Of the Week fow noure' Clnra Morris, tho noted actress, is thought to bo dying In her home at Yonkcrs, N. Y. Julia Ward
writer, celebrated nincty-flrst blrthdny May 27. John Ennls, sixty-eight yen rs of ago and with a record of dofcntli
tOD and O'Lenry, left New York's city hall on a walk to San Francisco In effort to lower the time mnde by Weston. Glenn H. Curtiss has invent
ship which will start or light on water. Oliver Spltzer, former superintendent of sugar trust, made startling confessions to frauds against the ;
Information About Pianos
Base bail fever has reached an
acute stage on the Guernsey lino.
Tho editor of the Minatare Free
Press accuses tho Morrill boys
of failure to play an engagement
on account of being afraid of do
feat, and tho editor of the Morrill
Mail comes back at the Minatare
editor by calling him "bughouse".
By publishing the premium
list in this issue of The Herald,
witnout cost to the Pair associa
tion, we are giving the Box Butte
county fair the best early adver
tising over given to a county
fair in western Nebraska. Read
ers interested in tho matter
will do. well to keep this copy
for reference.
Theeffortsbqing made by cer
tain Omaha parties to create
sentiment in favor of locating
the state capital in a "Union Pa
cific town" will not meet with a
very generous response from the
voters of tho state as a whole.
Tho most of us are not yet ready
to turn the capital over to a rail
road company as an asset to bo
used in increasing that railroad's
business.
call the immediate attontion of
all interested parties:
Sec. 7. (11G19) Application of
parent or guardian Estimate of coun
ty superintendent Levy. The parent
or guardian of any pupil desiring to
take advantage of tho provisions of
this act for free high school education
shall make application, in writing, to
tho county superintendent of the prop
er county on or boforc the second Mon
day in June of each year. Such ap
plication must show the number of the
public school district in which such
parent or guardian maintains his legal
residence, the number of pupils for
whom free high school education is de
sired, and the high school grade which
each pupil is to enter.
Sketch of My Life
The premium list of the Box
Butte county fair as published
on pages nine and ten of this
issue of The Herald is practical
ly the same as it will be when
printed in pamphlet form next
week. Some revision will bo
made in tho make-up and a few
mistakes corrected. In the first
paragraph under "School Work
Class M", "Madison county"
will be changed to "Box Butte
county". This mistake occured
in the copy furnished the printer,
hence escaped the notice of the
proof reader.
This week we make our last
call for new contestants to enter
the race in The Herald's great
voting contest. Of course, can
didates can enter the contest at
any time before it closes, but
those who have thought of be
coming contestants and have not
done so yet should begin the
coming week. Several more
contestants can enter and still
each be sure of a prize; and, as
will be seen by thn explanation
elsewhere in this issue, they
may have their choice between
the prizes which they win and a
percentage of the cash paid on
new subscriptions and voted for
them.
I was born in Illinois. My parents
died and left me an orphan quite
young. I came to Nebraska in 1872.
I worked on a farm for three years for
one man, then I went to the Normal
school at I?eru,.this state, and obtained
a state certificate at the age of nine
teen. I began teaching when I was
twenty, and continued most of the
time until I was thirty. After that I
farmed, followed carpentering aud was
in the mercantile business,
Seven years ago I accepted a posi
tion as traveling salesman and contin
ued that for three years, then, four
years ago, I returned to my adopted
state (Nebraska), and this time I lo
cated in Sioux county on a ranch,
where I uow reside, near the station of
Glen. ,
I have always been identified with
the democratio party, and today I
stand "pat" for initiative and referen
dum. I also favor county option. I
have held minor offices for years, such
as coustable, justice of the peace, etc.
1 never asked for any legislative honors
before.
If I am successful in running the
gauntlet past tho primary aud through
the general election, I intend to vote'
for William Jennings Bryan for United
States senator.
Thus, you voters, can see something
of who I dm, what 1 have done and
what I intend to do, if elected. I take
this opportunity of thanking in advance
all who will give their support, and
should I be successful in reaching the
legislative hulls,'''! assure you that I
shall do what I cau to repeal some ob
jioxius laws which we have on our
statutes, and to remodel dur school
laws that are conflicting, and to es
pecially support the initiative aud re
let endum principle.
I thus submit myself respectlully,
yours for representative of this Fifty-
third Representative district.
J. A. Robertson-
Persons who arc thinking of pur
chasing a piano, or who may be inter
ested tn the piano ottered as a prize in
The Herald'B voting contest should
read the following:
In pianos, as in many other things,
the name of the manufacturer signifies
a great deal. Reliable manufacturers
who are trying to build up a big trade
do not place their names on goods that
they know to bo inferior. This rule
holds good whether applied to a cigar,
a sewing machine, a piano, or a thresh
ing machine, or any other article in
common ubc Tho smoker who wishes
an extra fine cigar would not thing of
paying ten or hftecn cents tor a cigar
without knowing the make, no matter
how pretty the box in which it is pack
ed; and the farmer who would iuvest in
a threshing machine without knowing
the name of the manufacturer would be
considered crazv. Although there are
a few people, otherwise considered in
telligent, who send to mail order houses
for pot-metal sewing machines, because
they can get them cheap, that nobody
but the seller has any idea where or by
whom they were made.
There are two kinds of pianos. The
kind to bo seen in the retail stores with
no name of maker or manufacturer cast
in the plate, and the other kind, -the
one you want, sent out with the maker's
name cast in the plate, as a guarantee
of the title and parentage of the in
strument The maker with his name in the
plate can never get away from any re
flection cast upon the piano with his
name, part of its construction.
Don't you think that he will use every
precaution, every bit of skill and in
genuity he posses to make that piano
an honor and a credit to the name he
hands down to posterity?
That's the kind The lieunet Com
pany handles; and that is the kind that
is being ofiered as1 a prize in The Her
ald voting contest-
The first kind, the one without the
name of its maker or the manufacturer
cast in the plate, whom you may hold
responsible for the instrument, is com
monly called in the piano trade a
"stencil."
That's the piano you want to steer
clear of. You don't know where that
piano was made. There may be the
name of your local dealer stenciled on
the front in large illuminated showy
letters or the name of some fictitious
manufacturer, but look inside and see
who is back of all this talk, lor it's ouly
a Dealer aud not a Manufacturer.
He can change the name on the front
of the piano every other day and try
to sell it under another name, but can't
that is known on the market as an in
strument that has some one who is
deeply interested in its giving years of
satisfaction as you would be in feeling
assured that you had value received.
If you want the best piano get tho
kind with the name cast in the plate
a name that stands for integrity, re
liability, and art in piano construction.
That's the kind The Bennett Com
pany handles.
And that is the kind that is being
offered as a prize by The Herald. It
is now on exhibition in the window of
the Bennett Company's Alliance store,
opposite the postoflice. By calling
there, interested parties may not only
test its musical qualtitics, but examine
for themselves and see that the name
of the manufacturers is cast in the
I plate. IT IS NOT A STENCIL
PIANO. Kohler & Campbell, the
manufacturers, are among the largest
manufacturers of high class instruments
the world. Their name cast in the
in
plate is a guarantee
workmanship.
of high-class
Conservation of
Human Resources
Much Is being said and printed
about the conservation of the
pnation's natural'resources. I Sen
ator Robert L. Owen of Okla
homa, in a speech before the
joint convention of the Fanners'
Educational and Co-operative
Union of America, and the Amer
ican Society of Equity and sub
sidiary organizations, at St.
Louis, May 5, on The Conserva
tion of Human Life and Health
as a National Asset, gave ex
pression to the following, which
is worthy of the careful reading
of every patriotic citizen:
"The conservation of our
natural resources is of great im
portance; the conservation of our
coal fields, forests, water powers,
mineral wealth; the development
of good roads; the improvement
of our national waterways; the
conservation of the fertility of
our soil; the conservation of our
live stock, our horses, our cattle,
our sneep, our swine: out iar
more important is the conserva
tion of human life and the physi
cal efficiency of the American
people. Why conserve coal
mines and not conserve the life
of the coal miner? Why con
serve the cotton plant and ex
pend Five Hundred thousand to
fight the boll weevil and not con
serve the people, who are to be
clothed with the cotton?
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wny conserve tno orange
Readers of The Herald could
not fail to notice Alliance city
ordinance No. 143, establishing
street grades, which was pub
lished last week. Tins is a mat
ter that should be attended to
early in the life of every city,
but which t so far as we know, is
universally neglected' until the
establishment of a uniform grade
causes more or less inconveni
ence. It Is fortunate for Alli
ance tnat it was not cteiayeu
longer. We cannot say that any
one in particular is to blamo for
tho general neglect in this
matter; unless it be the town
site company, as the need of it is
not noticed much until tho town
begins to assume the proportions
of a city.
World's Panama Exposition
tree and fight the San Jose scale,
get away from the fact that there is no and not conserve the people who
name cast in the plate showing who the
In the contest between San Frauds
co and -New Orleans for the location of
the World's Panama Exposition, circu
lar letters were seut out by the govern
or 'of Lquisiana, giviug some of the
prinqipal reasons why New Orleans
should be selected us the location.
We acknowledge receipt of one of
these letters which was sent to S. K.
Warrick. We regret that we could
not publish the letter in time to give
our readerfr'tfn opportunity to express
their preference to Congressman Hitch
cock, a member of the committee on
Foreign Affairs, that decided the loca
tion on May 2(th.
manufacturer is and where it was
made.
There is not a reputable manufact
urer of pianos today in the country
who would cart- t rut his name on the
average Stencil p mik; hut to satisfy
the dealers, he mil ijivc them a cheap
piano under any Uaifiu the dealer may
designate; which of course relieves the
manufacturer of any responsibilities as
a manufacturer. Then it often happens
that he, the dealer, will through his
local reputation be able to sell such a
piano far beyond its real value.
There isn't a responsible piano
maker in the country who will put his
name on such a noise box as the Sten
cil Piano invariably is. The responsi
ble manufacturer can't afford to com
promise his reputation.
There is just this much about it.
Why take any chance with a cheap
Stencil Piano, no matter how smooth
the agents talk, when you buy a piano
eat oranges?
Why conserve the life of the
forest and forget the life of the
forester and of his children?
"Why protect tree life and
plant life and neglect human
life?
"Why protect cattle from Tex
as fever and not protect people
from typhoid and malarial fever?
"Why protect pigs and forget
the children?
"Everybody agrees as to the
wisdom of this proposition, The
real question is how shall we
accomplish this? I believe in a
Department of Public Health,
because, in lighting disease, and
in fighting death due to prevent
able disease, it is a contest be
tween intelligence and ignorance,
and all the authority, dignity
and power of the genei'al Gov
ernment must be put behind the
truth and behind the best meth
ods of dealing with disease in
order to make the people realize
its value and its truth."
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