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FREE STREET PARADE -I0-30 IN THE MORNING
BUFFALO BILL, hi Indians. Ranch Girls, Cowboys, want to sec
J' the boys and $irl. SELLS-FLOTO want you to se he new
-Wild Beasts in open dens. Its Splendid new tableau. 600
bedple of all Nation 450 horses 9 bands CO ME
fcOWN TOWN ! CIRCUS PARADE-2 MILES LONO!
Timely Horse Net
New oati and hay" had best be
omitted from the work horse's ra
tion until cool weather.
Fo&la at thia season need a little
oats dally, to keep them growing
rapidly and to prepare them for
weaning.
Ia hot weather alt hones should
have a good drink after eating their
renin feed. Turn them out nights
If possible.
.According to reports received at
Che University Farm, horses are ap
proximately $35 a head cheaper
than they were a year age, yet this
year's foals may mature at a time
when prices will welt repay for feed
Half a Million Matches
a Minute
It will take just
about a minute to
read this advertise
ment v
While you are
reading it, nearly
half a million
matches will have
been struck, burnt
and cast aside, in
(his country alone.
That gives you an
idea of the extent
to which matches
enter into the
everyday life of the
American people.
Of the hundreds of
different brands of
matches made and
sold in the United
States, there is but
one best
It is called the afe
Home Match. It
is made by the
Diamond - Match
5c. All grocers. Ask for them by name.
r WEDNESDAY
L AUGUST 12
ONLY. MATINEE 2 P.M.
120
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OF
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CHAMPION
RIDE.R5
OARING
FASCINATING'
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HYNtYS
and care.
If you have to use sweat pads try
one of the black, two-piece kind
made of oilcloth. They are cool,
dry and practical.
Flies are unusually bad this sea
son. Darken the stables where
practicable. Treat little sores care
fully and keep them protected from
mes.
This la the season to detect horses
which have been overheated. Wind
broken horses are easy to detect at
any season by their noisy breathing.
From a practical viewpoint, howev
er, they are generally more useful In
the fields on hot days than are the
summer panters.
Company. It is a safe
match for the home.
Safe Home Matches
light easily; but not too
easily. They are safe
.safe and sure.
The sticks are extra
long and extra strong.
Safety again!
They are non-poisonous.
Safety once more.
They cost no more
than other brands of
matches. As a matter
of fact, they cost less,
because every Safe
Home Match isa match.
CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMINATION
LUt of Examination to he Held
In
A II Inure Thin Fall for Civil
Service Positions
Competitive examinations,- under
the rules of the U. 8. Civil Service
commission, for the positions nam
ed, will be held in Alliance on the
dates given. Full Information can
be secureu from J. N. Johnston at
the Alliance postoffice.
The following named examina
tions will be held on various dates
between September 11 and Novem
ber 7, 1914:
Clerk, stenographic, departments
and offices at Washington, I). C.
Stenographer. Departmental Serv
ice.
Stenographer and typewriter, De
partmental and Panama Canal Serv
ices. Typewriter, Departmental and Pa
nama Canal Services.
The following named examinations
will be held on September 9, 1914:
Aid, Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Apprentice plate cleaner, trans
ferrer, and engraver, Dureau of En
graving and Printing.
Assistant inspector of boilers.
Assistant Inspector of hulls.
Clerk, Panama Canal Service
(men only).
Computer, Coast and Geodetic
Surevy (men only).
Computer and estlniater, Super
vising Architect's Office.
Draftsman: Architectural, Super
vising Architect's Office. Copyist
topographic, Departmental Service.
Junior Engineer, Engineer Depart
ment at large. Topographic, De
partmental Service.
Engineer and draftsman, heating
and ventilating, Supervising Archi
tect's Office.
Forest assistant, Philippine Serv
ice.
Junior chemist. Departmental ser
vice.
Kindergarten teacher, Indian ser
vice.
Laboratory apprentice, Dureau of
Standards.
Library cataloguer.
Local Inspector of boilers.
Local inspector of hulls.
Matron, Indian Service.
Pharmacist, Public Health Serv
ice (men only).
Physician, all services except Phil
ippine (men only).
Postal clerk, Panama Canal Serv
ice (men only).
Press feeder, Government print
ing office.
Printer, Government Printing- of
fice.
Telegraph operator. Departmental
Service.
Veterinarian.
The following named examina
tions will be held on October 14,
1914:
Agricultural Inspector. Philippine
service (men only).
Aid, Bureau of Standards.
Aid, Lighthouse Service.
Apprentice fish culturist.
Assistant observer (men only)
Bookkeeper, Departmental Serv
ice (men only).
Cadet engineer. Lighthouse Serv
ice.
Cadet officer, Lighthouse Service
Civil engineer and draftsman.
Computer, Nautical Almanac Of
fice and Naval Observatory (men
only).
Draftsman: Copyist ship, Navy
Department. Junior architectural,
Supervising Architect's office. Me
chanical, Panama Canal Service
(men only). Ship, Navy Depart
ment. Topgoraphlc, Panama Canal
Service (men only).
Engineer, Indian Service.
Engineer and draftsman, structur
al, Supervising Architect's office.
Farmer, Indian Service.
Fish culturist.
Junior engineer (civil), Engineer
Department at large.
Junior engineer (mechanical or
electrical), Engineer Department at
large.
Junior engineer (mining), Bureau
of Mines.
Laboratory assistant. Bureau of
Standards.
Scientific assistant, Department of
Agriculture.
Teacher, Indian Service.
Trained nurse. Indian and Pana
ma Canal services.
The Assistant. Teacher, and Indus
trial Teacher examinations for the
Philippine Service will be held on
August 27-28. 1914.
Each applicant for an examination
in the list above will be required to
submit to the examiner on the day
he Is examined a photograph of him
self, taken within two years, which
will be filed for purposes of Identifi
cation. RUNAWAY HORSE
BREAKS NECK
Valuable Animal Klips and Falls on
CroHttlng, Striking Head and
ltreakiug Its Neck
A team attached to one of the Al
liance Delivery System wagons ran
away Monday afternoon near the
court house. The horses were run
ning rapidly and when they were
the court house one of them, a gray
horse, slipped and fell, striking its
head on the stone crossing. Its neck
was broken .by the fall and it died
instantly.
The accident is a rare one and an
expensive one for Dwlght Zedlker,
owner of the delivery system.
We want you to get our club of
four magazines. We sell The Her
ald and four big magazines all one
year for only $1.68. Send your or
der today by phone or mail.
DRILL FOR OIL
IN HOLY LAND
Hrotlier-in-Iiw of Alliance Man on
Way to Itible IanN to Drill
for Standard Oil Co.
W. F. Brown, brother-in-law of
Bates Copeland of Alliance, and
brother of Mrs. Copeland. is on his
way from California to the historic
al Bible town of Joppa, in Asia
Minor, to drill for oil for the Stand
ard Oil Company.
The following article,. taken from
The Sawtelle Tribune, of Sawtelle,
California, dated July 17, tells of
the expedition:
"In order to start the develop
ment of an oil field near the histor
ical Bible town of Joppa in Asia
Minor, the Standard Oil Company
will send a number of California oil
men to that place at once. The men
who will go to take up the work
there are all experienced men from
the fields near here. W .F. Brown.
driller, of 329 South .Sixth street.
will be one of the party, which is
expected to start next week. Eight
others will go, seven from Los An
geles and one from Ocean Park. The
necessary tools and rig timbers for
the work were started some time
ago from Pittsburg, Pa.
"The party will go first to New
York and sail from there about July
30 for London. After reaching the
continent from London the party
will take train for Constantinople,
and from there to Joppa by boat.
"The men are given a year' con
tract with the company, with the op
tion of a two ears' extension, and
are to receive $195 a month, with
quarters and living expenses furn
ished. When operations are under
way in the new field, If desired, the
company will furnish quarters for
married men, so they can have their
families with them. Mr. Brown ex
pects to send for J) la family after he
has become established, and they
will be looked after by company rep
resentatives while en route.
TEN MILLIONS
GOOD ROADS
910.230.000 Will lie Available for
Nebraska Iload Improvement
If liill Hecomea Iw
Washington. D. C July 21 Ne
braska will be able to use the credit
or good roads to the extent of $10,
250,000 If the federal aid bill order
ed reported by the senate commit
tee on postofflces and post roads be
comes law. In order to avail itself
of this sum, spread over a period of
ten years beginning not earlier than
July 1, 1918. Nebraska must vote an
equal amount of 4 per cent bonds.
These would be deposited with the
federal treasury and the state would
then be given the receipts from an
equal amount of 3 per cent bonds to
De issued by the federal government
The 1 per cent "profit" would be di
verted to a sinking fund which, at
the end of fifty years, would provide
half of the necessary redemption
tuna.
" . .
vjii an apportionment Dasea on
area mileage of roads, population
and assessed valuation, Nerbaska is
credited with 2.05 per cent of the
whole sum to be made available in
the United States. South Dakota
would receive $7,900,000. Iowa $12.-
&uo,ooo, Wyoming $5,250,000, and
Kansas $16,400,000.
Vacation Auto Trin
Norman Newberry and Everett
O'Keefe started Monday morning for
the Black Hills In the Newberry car
for a ten days outing trip. They
win viBit ainerent points of interest
In that section of the country before
returning next week.
Get your Peacock coal from the
Forest Lumber Company.
Cooking With Pleasure I
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You can make, cooking a pleasure during the hot sum
mer months by using a QUICK MEAL GASOLINE or OIL
STOVE, and the saving on fuel is worth your consideration.
There is a size for every requirement. Prices from $3. 50 to 136.
NEWBERRY'S HARDWARE CO.
Western Nebraska Hard Wheat
makes the best
Hemingford
know how to make it.
you a sack of our flour.
. M. MILLER, Prop.
HEMINGFORD,
Finished Like New
Rough, shabby floors, or floors on which the
finish is marred or stained, can be made like new with
Lincoln Floor Paint
Made especially to be walked on. Is ready for
use, easy to put on you can do it yourself and dries
quickly. The cost is trifling only about 6 cents a
square yard.
Our "Home Painting Jobs" booklet, free gives
you dozens of hints on home decoration.
Will you ask for a copy-when you call at our store.
F. E. Holsten
Correction of Mistake
In the article In The Herald last
week, telling about the purchase of
a motor truck by the city council, a
mistake was made which gave the
wrong impression regarding the
Stock Yards Saddlery Co.
1. G. BLESSING, Proprietor
Wholesale and Retail
Harness and Saddles
Fly Nets and Lap Dusters
' Cheapest on Earth, Quality Considered
Everything Hand Made
Factory, 314 North 25 St. S. Omaha, Neb.
flour. The
Roller Mills
Ask your grocer to send
Every sack guaranteed.
NEBRASKA
Willys truck. The article stated
that the bid on this truck was for
$4,350, whereas it should have said
that the bid of the Keeler-Coursey
Company of Alliance, local agents,
was $3,150, f.o.b. Alliance.