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ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1914
NUMBER 24
THE
ERALD
CONVOCATION
INTERESTING
vocation Sermon Preached Wed
nesday Evening Banquet
. Lat Night
Tie convocation sermon ai
preached by the Very Rev. J. A. Tan-
D. D. of Trinity Cathedral of
iha Wednesday evening. This
m a most impressive service, es
peelary the procession ' of choir,
erteets and bishop. The order of
kite procession was as follows: Acy
ite, bearing processional cross;
fsMowed by standard bearer, carry
lag the star spangled banner, a vest
ed choir of forty-five roices; Acyol
yte with priests' cross, lay missionar
ies, deacons, priests, deans and last
at all the bishop. The service was
fatty choral and was heartily joined
na by the very large congregation
present.
Thursday at 7:30 a. ra. the, Cor
porate Comumnion of the Woman's
Auxiliary was celebrated, the offlci
Mtt being the Bishop who was rested
a the beautiful Eucharistic vest
ments of the church. The priest
wo assited the bishop was Rev. J.
M. Bates. A full Tested choir led
the singing at this service.
At 9:39 a. m. the Convocation was
raJled to order by the Bishop, snd
at the same hour the House of
hsrchwomen met in the Farish
ease under the leadership of Mrs.
. O. Ware. An adress was given by
lie Bishop followed by splendid pa
pers by the following, Mrs. Estill,
hsse E. Willis, Mrs. Mahaffy, Miss
U, Willis, Mrs. C. Barkalow and
Mrs. Voss. These papers were all
f the highest type and most inter
wMng, and were greatly appreciated
by all present, it was a great privi
lege to have both Mrs. Voss and Mrs.
Barkalow from Omaha address the
.Meeting, MrB. Mahaffy also gave- a
asdendtd paper " on ""Impressions
Made on China by Contact with
Western Nations."
In the Convocation, very important
matters were taken up and discussed.
In the evening an Informal re
caption was held in the parlors of
be church when a roost enjoyable
fesae was spent, stirring speeches
were made as follows.
Thursday evening an informal
bsaquet and reception was held at
the church. Many Alliance people
avai'ed themselves of the opoprtun
Mr of meeting the visiting clergy
and delegates. Dean Ware presided.
Mrs. Zedlker played a piano solo, the
'Hungarian Raphsody" which was
sanch enjoyed. Mayor A. D. Rodg
ert made an address of welcome
mdch was followed by vocal solo by
Bernard Holsten which was encored.
SeV. Rolllt made a short address.
Mm. S. Hardman of Bridgeport
BWjred a violin solo which was en
eared. Bishop Beecher made the
pstoclpal address of the evening. Fol
lairing the bishop's address the audi-BM-e
was favored with a solo by Har
as- Zickert. He responded with an
(score. Rev. . Arthur of Grand Is
MaQ made the closing address of
he evening. As a concluding feat-
ard of the program. Dean Ware in
traduced Miss Burnett whom be call-
the "Nightingale of the Sand
kftSa". Miss Burnett sang "Wei
eaaae Pretty Primrose," and respond
to an encore by singing "The
LaM Rose of Bummer."
. Following the program refresh
mejnt were served.
This morning Friday there was
KaVy Comumnion at 7-89 A. M.
Rev. George L. Freeborn B. D. of
ataCook being celebrant assisted by
JWr. Wm. Baaka
A number of the visiting clergy
aA delegates left on the noon trains
ail voting that Dean Ware and his
Jrthful congregation and the people
C the City of Alliance are excellent
met and hope to come again to this
fair city, the convocation baa been
Most successful one, and has shown
a great growth In the Church of late
a Western Nebr. and Alliance In
particular.
Invitations were received from
rawford and Grand Island for 1915
Convocation and Grand Island waa
decided upon as the next meeting
aiace, and a letter of thanks was
ant to Crawford-chamber-of-co in-
mere of their liberal and kind In
njbatlsn, with the bote of meeting
there In 191C.
A GALA DAT IN ALLIANCE
A couple or months ago Pioneer
Lodge No. 761 of the Modern Broth
erhood of America put on a "mem
bership campaign" In the form of a
contest. The president and secre
tary, F. H Sanders and B. L. Law
rence, "stood the crowd". In other
words, they constituted one team,
while all the other members of the
lodge formed the other. If the mem
bers of the big team thought they
bad a walk-away on account of the
small number In the opposing team,
they found out their mistake by the
time the contest closed. '
Both sides did well, but Messrs.
Sanders and Lawrence won out, so
that it was up to the other side to
furnish the refreshments, which they
did at the regular semi-monthly
meeting last night. After the meet
ing of the lodge, delicious ice cream,
several kinds of cake and coffee were
served to the members and their fam
ilies, and State Deputy S. S. Hayman
of Grand Island and the editor of
The Herald, who was present by
special Invitation.
There is probably no other order
that is as steadily gaining ground In
Alliance. Following the Increase In
rates some time ago, which the M. B.
A. in common with other fraternal
Insurance orders found necessary to
substantial bas's that would guar
antee the perpetuity of the institu
tion, there was no division as in the
M. W. A., no forming of two hostile
factions, "administration" and "In
surgent." There was simply a slump
in the membership, those who were
dissatisfied dropping out. It was a
tremendous slump, too, in Pioneer
Lodge No. 758. Previous to that
there were upwards of two hundred
members. When they got thru drop
ping out there were less than half
that many.
Deliberate consideration of the
mattre led many former members to
re-instate, which they are continuing
to do. At every regular meeting of
the lodge since the installation of the
present officials last January, tro.
two to eight members have been ini
tiated. At the meeting last night
four were initiated and five more
candidates voted upon and accepted.
The Alliance lodge is making an
effort to secure the next district con
vention which will be held in July,
1915, and hopes to secure it. The
district embraces the Sixth congres
sional district of Nebraska, and holds
a convention once every four years.
State Deputy Hayman arrived on
41 yesterday morning from Grand
Island. He always receives a cordi
al welcome in Alliance upon the oc
casion of his visits to this city. He
made an address before the lodge
last evening and called upon mem
bers and prospective members today.
DRAMATIC AND , ,
MUSICAL RECITAL
The following program will be
given ' by , the advanced pupils in
music ' and expression at 8L Agnes
academy, this evening at 8 o'clock.
This Is the third and last of a ser
ies of recitals given this year, and
thoe who have been privileged to
attend the former ones will look for
ward to tonight's entertainment with
great pleasure.
Program
Piano Solo Miss Ruth Phillips
The Legend of the Lilies
Orleane Smith
Piano Solo ....... . Mlaa Nell Dunn
Dr. Carter and His Mother
. . Miss Mabel Bye
"Spring's Return" Semi-Chorus
Through Fire and Water .......
Miss Nell Dunn
Piano Solo Miss Evelyn Kerr
Soul of the Violin.. Miss Mary Egan
Vocal Solo Miss Belle Mallins
One Legged Goose ............
Miss Josephine Kerns
Piano Solo ...... Miss Mary Egan
The Lion and the Mouse
Miss Helen Hughes
Preparing for a Dinner Party....
Miss Evelyn Kerr
"Night" Semi-Chorus
Governor's Decision
............ Miss Olive Armuth
Piano Solo.. Miss Margaret Kuester
Halted la afaraland
Ed. Olrog of Maraland came down
to Alliance the first of the week In
his auto. On Monday he took Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Wltowack and little
child to Maraland for a short visit
at the home of Mr. Wltowack's moth
er. Mr. Olrog brought the visiting
party back to Alliance Tuesday.
CLASS PLAY
WELL ATTENDED
"The Varsity Coach" Presented
, Senior Class of the Alliance
IUgh School
Phelan opera house was well filled
last night by an audience eager to
hear the play given by the graduat
ing class of the Alliance High school.
The success of the class plays of for
mer years had raised the expecta
tions of those who attended for some
thing quite entertaining, and In this
they were not disappointed.
This play was probably learned In
the shortest time ever devoted to the
preparation of a class play by the
Alliance High school, and the able
manner In which It was presented re
flects credit upon the training ability
of Miss Gabus, the class sponsor, and
the aptness of the students. The
Herald understands that it was only
a little more than two weeks ago
that the play was decided upon and
considers it quite a remarkable feat
that It could be put on In so short a
time with all the other work on band
incident to the closing days of the
school year.
In the fourth and last scene of the
play a little hitch occurred that did
not amount to much, altho it caused
a good deal of amusement for the
audience and some embarrassment
for the students and their sponsor.
One of the players missing a cue
came in at the wrong place, blocking
the play. The curtain waa dropped
and the ccene commenced again, and
finished very nicely with a round of
applause from the audience.
COUNCIL MEETS
WEDNESDAY
K. Hughes Appointed Hupvrin
tendent of the Water and
Light Department
At an adjourned meeting of the
council Wednesday evening. J. E.
Hughes was apopinted as superin
tendent of the water and light de
partment to succeed C. A. Dow who
has been superintendent for , the
part year. H. P. Large was reap
pointed night marshal. The
only
the
three
other business considered by
council was the reduction of
dollars a week in the license for
shooting gallery.
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ALLIANCE HOY SUCCESSFUL
Supt. W, R. Pate has received
word that Michael Nolan of the Alli
ance High school who represented
the Western district at the state de
bate at Lincoln last night, was a
warded second place. ; There were
twelve contestants representing the
larger high schools In the state. It is.
therefore, no small honor to be a
warded second place and It redounds
favorably to the ability of Michael
as a debater as well as to the All!
ENCAMP5IENT ELECTIONS
The Alliance I. O. O. F. Encamp
ment elected officers at the regular
meeting held Friday evening In the
O. O. F. hall. Those elected were
Parry Brandt, C. P.; W. S. Kewer,
8. W.; Wm. Buchman. J. W.; B. C
Reeves, II. P.; John Snyder, Treas.;
Trustees, C. W. Jeffers, Cal Cox, and
T. M. Lawler.
New candidates were initiated and
a general good time enjoyed, oy au.
Rev. D. W. Montgomery, "sky pi
lot." returned Monday from a two
weeks' trip through the Spade ranch
country, east of Alliance.
Mrs. zetta eager received a mes
sage last night anonunclng the death
of her sister, Mrs. O. D. Bingham.
She died In Coren, Canada. The body
Is being shipped to Chariton, Iowa,
for Interment. Mrs. Bager left last
night for that place to attend the
funeral which will be held Sunday.
The Burwell Tribune contains an
account of the marriage of Gustavo
Pederson to Miss Eleanor Mae Bryan
at BurwelL Mr. Pederson was for
werly employed In Mounts' barber
hop In Alllanee. He also appeared
in several wrestling bouts in this
city.
GIVES BIRTH
TO TWO COLTS
Mare Belonging to Prosperous llox
Butte County Farmer Relieve
In Roosevelt Doctrine
Peter Klcken, a prosperous Box
Butte county farmer, has a mere
which is strictly against race suicide.
The first of the week she gave birth
to two healthy colts, both of which
are doing fine and give promise of
making an exceptional team. The
mare weighs 1300 pounds.
Montana Stockman
Uuss Thompson, a prominent
stockman of Hardin, Mont, came
to Alliance yesterday to look at a
bunch of cattle with a view to pur
chasing them. He returned on 43
today.
Woman's Club Holds Meeting Friday
At the meeting of the literary de
partment of the Woman's Club to be
held at the home of Mrs. Fred Moll
ring Friday afternoon, the following
program will be rendered;
Instrumental Solo ..Mrs. B. Ponath
Address ....... .Prof. W. R, Pate
Returns to Alliance
F. II. Clendenln has returned to
Alliance from Denver to resume his
position in the telegraph office. He
was transferred from Alliance to
Denver last January. Mrs. Clenden
ln is visiting friends in Chicago. She
will arrive in Alliance within the
next few weeks. Mr. and Mrs.
Clendenln will receive a cordial wel
come upon resuming their residence
in this city.
ADOPTING THE
BUDGEUYSTEM
Secretary Fisher of Commercial Club
Meeting with Sucre In
Club Work
That Alliance has a progressive,
live bunch of men in the proprietors
of the six saloons Is shown by the
fact that they have each subscribed
$125 for the support of the commer
cial club, under the budget system.
This makes a total of $700 subscrib
ed from the six places of business
Others are coming in liberally. Sec
retary Fisher feels much gratified at
the progress being made.
Friday, May 29, has been chosen
as a "Seeing Alliance" day. On that
day automobiles will take Alliance
people through all manufacturing
concerns, the plant of the telephone
company, the manual training de
partment of the high school, and St.
Agnes academy. A special lnvlta
tion is extended to ladies to make
the trip.
Secretary Fisher will furnish
framed membership card for hanging
up on the wall to each member of
the club, the member to pay only for
the cost of the frame. Pocket mem
bership cards will also be furnished
members for use in traveling to oth
er towns where there are commercial
clubs.
Moving to Edgetnout
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Rogers, 410
Swetwater avenue, will make their
home In Edgemont, Mr. Rogers bav
Ing a position as fireman on an oil
burning locomotive between that
town and Englewood. They are pack
ins their household goods todsy pre
paratory to moving. Mrs. Rogers
Petitions Are Out
County Judge L. A. Berry will run
for re-election at the fall election.
The petitions are now being clrculat-
ed. Judge Berry has made a good
record In this office and has strong
support.
Initiation on Sunday
The Knight of Columbus will in
itiate a large number of candidates
n Sanday. a special team from Om
aha coming to put on the work.
banquet will be given and a large
number of visitors are expected from
eat ef town.
Bishop Lueeush, of the Methodist
church, whose headquarters are at
Helena, Montana, stopped over with
AfTOMOMLEH TO FLY PENNANT
Secretary W. D. Fisher of the Com-
aserclal Club has Issued a circular
letter to 170 automobile owners In
Alliance, asking them to display Al
liance pennants on fbelr cars. This
will give he town good advertising.
Chairman Kibble of the advertising
committee Is co-operating with Mr.
Fisher In this.
The club is tsklng active steps to
get the town clean of trash aid rub
bish. The burning of trash on the
streets Is being stopped. The change
will soon be noticed.
PHONE MEN IN CONFERENCE
Alliance today Is host to a large
gathering of prominent Nebraska
Telephone Company officials, attend-
ng a meeting held for the purpose
of discussing the government owner-
hip of the telephone systems.
Among those who are here are L.
Wilson, division superintendent;
Frank C. Builta, advertising manag
er; E. I. Hannah, division plant sup
erintendent, of Omaha; F. A. May,
district manager; II. II. Gay, district
plant chief, of Grand Island; F. C.
Hartsell, district manager, of Dead
wood. . In attendance also are the
managers of the different' exchanges
at Sidney, Kimball, Bridgeport and
other western towns.
HOUSE SALES THIS SUMMER.
Arrangements have been made to
hold regular horse sales at Alliance
this coming season. The opening
sale will be held on Thursday or
Friday, June 25 or 26. The auction
eers will be the well known firm of
Wright & Lewis of Scottsbluff. F. J.
Was is clerk and R. M. Hampton,
treasurer.
MRS. ROGUE ENTERTAINS
Mrs. Horace Bogus was the churni
ng hostess at an elaborate five-
course tea at 6:30 Thursday evening,
The color scheme was yellow" and
white, daisies being used with very
pleasing effect. Prof. Aniello De
Vino, a harpist from Denver, furn
ished the music. Cards and a game
of Supolio furnished the entertain
ment for the guests. Miss Vance
was given the prize for winning at
Sapolio, MIbs Ina Bell wood, the card
prize, and Miss Ruth Moore, the
free-for-all prize.
The folowlng were the invited
guests:
Mesdauies D. W. Butler". William
Blgnell, Peter Rubendall, F. E. Hol
sten, A. W. Walmer, F. W. Lester,
T. H. Threlkeld, a E. Bennett, Nellie
Wilson, W. G. Eubanks, Rose Rear
don, W. Frankle, A. V. Gavin, B
Wilcox, Q. , W, NaUon, ; F. T. Help-
bringer. Chas. Tully, C. C. Smith
William Mitchell. Harry Ganz, F. W.
Harris, W. W. Norton, H. E. Marvin
F. M. Broome, W. M. Weidenhamer
John McDonald, Geo. Darling, B. F.
Oilman, J. A. Mallery, W. O. Barnes
E. H. Boyd, Petty CogswelL M. E.
Coleman. Harvey, Ellis, B. C.'MeClo-
er, William Cotant, E. A. Hall; Earl
Mallery, T. H. Barnes, J. W. An
drews, W. T. Schlupp, W. D. Rumer
F. A. Hlvely, John Brennan, D. W.
Montgomery, A. J. (Welch, J. Kridel-
baugh. 8. Tillet. W. W. 'Wood, C. E
Slagle, R. E. Knight. C. E. Marks
H. A. Copsey. T. J. Beal, Pitts, JL H
Bellwood, Fred Mollring, Cora Lew
is, J. J. Vance, M. 8. Margraves, H
F. Thlele, Thomas Regan, J. W. Gad
dis, 11. J. Kuhn, Chase Feagins. Jas
Feaglns, J. L. Westover, C. A. Currle
C. E. Wills, F. E. Eakln, Jerry Row
an, Geo. Hand, W. E. Romlg, Rlek
man of Chadron; and the Misses Erb,
Grace Fickle, Ina Bellwood, Mary
Regan, Ruth Moore and Virginia
Broome.
May Move to ARLance
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Emery, par
ents of G. W. Emery, recently sold
their ranch near Glen In Sioux coun
ty. They are visiting this week at
the home of their son in Alliance,
expecting to return to Crawford Sat
urday. Mr. and Mrs. Emery are
looking for a location. The Herald
1 pleased to learn that they think
of making this city their home.
Trip to Hesnlngford
Misses Delia Reed. Edith Jones,
Keats, Laura and Glenn Mounts, and
W. C. Mounts, made a trip in the
Mounts auto Sanday to the
Pries farm, northwest of Bemlnf
ford, where they took dinner.
PARKER IN SHOW
ME STATE
Former Alliance Man Writes Re
Folitlc aa Seen in .
Cyitssjfleld. Missouri
Wm. B. Parker, well known la Al
liance at the founder of the Bet
Hive tore, writes Ttas Herald from
Springfteld, Mo., under date of Mar
9th, runouHng a change In his street
number adMresa, and Incidentally
gives mm Interesting dope on pol
itics as. she la played in the Missouri
capital Following is an extract
from ins letter:
"Friend Thomas: We are all well.
Hope yon are all well. Give saw
respects to Lloyd.
''The poMtlclans in Missouri have?
great snap. We have had four
election this year, besides primary
elections, and I suppose will hava
several msr yet. Yon can hardly
get in the) foiling booths on election)
day on aeeount of so many judge
and clerk of election, only six of
each, generally In a tent on " the)
street. II the people vote on a eer
taln proposition and it is defeated
they call another election in a few
weeks, and so on until the people be
come disgusted and stay away from
the polls, when of course the propo
sltlon carl res.
"The fjtnelness men here are licens
ed. If they run two kinds of busi-
neHB in the same building, they are
licensed again. One man assesses
your real estate, another your per
sonal property, and the next day
ere comes another and assesses
your merchandise. You file a bond
to secure your taxes. One man had
ten rent tax to pay on a little stand.
He had to get bond and pay a dollar
for recording It to secure the county
on the ten rent tax. Then we hav
the fee system here, and of course;
you know bow the fee systm works.'
PLANNING FOR CONVENTION
The directors of the Alliance Com
mercial Club held a special meeting;
at the Drake Hotel yesterday at
noon. . The president appointed the
following chairmen of standing com
mitters, with the understanding that
thoy shonld appoint the other rnenv
bors of their committee:
Membership, Earl D. Mallery,
Entertainment, Ben. Sallows. ; .1
Industrial, W. E. Spencer.
Conventions, A. D. Rodger.
Advertising, E. T. Kibble. ,
Good Roads, J. C. McCorkle.
Civic, F. W. Harris. ,
Form demonstrator, C. A. New
berry. ,
The mater of the Commercial
Club taking charge of the entertain
ment feature of the coming stock
men's convention was taken up. , It
was decided to make a proposition
to the Box Butte County Fair Asso
ciation for the use of the grounds.
June 19, 19 and 20.
It was decided to have two gen
eral riean-up days, June 15 and IS,
inviting the city council, board of
education and Alliance Woman's
Club to participate in maplng snt
the work for the two days, and the
business men and citizens generally
to co-operate.
ALLIANCE WINS IN BALL GAJfK
1
The SI. Agnes academy and the
Hemingfocd teams got together yes
terday to se who were champions.
Of eosrse the St. A. A. team was
the vtctortuns one. The score was
19 to 1.' Ino Hemlngford team left
for home Immediately after the
game feeatng pretty badly beaten.
But the Hemlngford boys showed a
good gam at that. They made
two good double plays and the sup
port was good, but it seemed that
when thvy were away from horns
that they were completely lost. Bnt
they Ittsaad to show the AlUanes
team a better game with a different
core Use next game they play. The
follow!; m the squad on both sides;
Allianss .
O'Brjtta
Whits
Vaugha
Burns fS.)
O'Keefn
Carer
Nelson
Prltchasd
Larvey
Hemlngford
9
lb
as -2b
3b
rf
f
If
Miller (C)
Carts"
Burton
, Walks
TJhrtjt
Heoekew
DanboOs
Johns
Piers
The Itumlngford team was nndsv
the charge of Mr. Houstan.
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