Dodse Brothers
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The Dodge has many features that are unuHiiat in a car of so moderate a
price, and represents a combination of efficiency, refinement and equipment
tnat is of more than ordinary interest to the intending purchaser. There has
been no effort to produce a car that would sell at a low price, but there has
been a genuine interest in building a car in which the material, the design and
the manufacturing practice would represent the highest quality at a moderate
' tost to the purchaser.
The 30-35 horsepower motor, the electric lighting and starting system, the
Xissmann waterproof magneto, the full-floating rear axle with complete equip
ment of Timkcn bearings, the self-lubricating springs, the one-man top and
Jiffy curtains, stand out as unusual items, and as the specifications are consid
ered, item by item, it is hard to conceive how the material or design could be
hnprored. There is no choking at low speed in high gear, and there is an un
miual freedom from gear-shifting.
The Price of the Touring Car
is $850 Delivered
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The Saturday matinees at the Em
press theatre will be discontinued on
account of the length of the feature
pictures which are booked at this
theatre for Saturdays.
Hank Reiser' has recently added
some new cues to his billiard parlor
equipment, and the tables have been
re-covered. Hank now has one of
the finest parlors In town. In addi
tion he has added a complete line of
cigars and tobaccos.
The Alliance orchestra furnished
the music at the Empress theatre
Tuesday night, the occasion being
the showing of the feature picture,
"Scandal". Both the picture and the
music were excellent.
Craiiberrie, ii quarts for 23 rents,
(tofch Grocery.
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Miss Virginia Broome went to
Ellsworth Monday for a few days'
visit with the Cbas. C. Jameson fam
ily. Frank Cleveland was here from
Hot Springs Monday visiting with
friends and looking after business
natters.
Another car of fine Valley Cabling
at 75c ier 0). Cosh Grocery.
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August Hornburg left Mnoday
night for Staplehurst, Nebr., where
he will make his home with his par
ents. John W. Thomas, editor of The
Herald, returned this morning from
a business trip to eastern points.
Another car of flue Valley Cabbage
at 75c per lOO. Cah Grocery.
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Edgar Martin,, county treasurer
was called to Paige, Nebr., Wednes
day noon by a telegram stating that
his oldest sister, Mrs. Stevens, was
eipected to live.
W. T. Schlupp went to Scottsbluff
Wednesday noon on a short business
trip.
Another car of fine ('alley Cabbage
at 75c per lOO. Cah Grocery.
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W. C. Schenck, Burlington engin
eer, went to McCook Sunday, where
he will handle a passenger run. He
will handle trains on the Denver
line. His transfer was caused by
trains number one and ten between
Denver and Chicago being discontinued.
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otor Car
Lowry & Henry
Alliance, Nebraska
Mrs. Addie Jones, who had been
here for the past several days vifilt
Ing with her daugbtnr, Miss Agues
Jones, returned to her home at Ella
worth Tuesday.
A. O. Prey and W. D Prey, of
Denver, were callers at The Herald
office this week. They are Denver
commission men, and were on their
way home from their ranch near Mul
len. O. D. Hobbs and brother-in-law,
W. P. Meyers, left Tuesday night for
Kansas, where they will visit for
two weeks before they go to New
Jersey, where they have accepted
positions with the government.
Miss Frieda Sellers, of Bingham,
has been visiting with Mrs. O. D.
Hobbs.
Norman McCorkle, of the Burling
ton headquarters clerical force, will
leave tonight for Minenapolis, Chica
go and other points cast for a vaca
tion trip of two weeks.
Attorney Smith P. Tuttle left this
noon for Scottsbluff on business. He
expects to return Friday.
W. C. McKelvy, associated press
telegrapher, was a caller at The Her
ald office this week on his way to
Lewistown, Montana.
The Alliance volunteer fire depart
ment has adopted colors white and
red.
The fire department has engaged
the Opera House for its Twelfth An
nual Ball, to be held there on New
Year's Eve. The ball will be an
elaborate affair and admittance will
be by ticket.
Alexander Scott, of Chicago, rep
resenting Walter Scott & Company,
of Plainfield, N. J., manufacturers of
printing machinery, was a caller at
The Herald office this week.
H. W. Hull is building a new bun
galow at 806 Toluca avenue. The
home will be completely modern aid
is being constructed by Contractor
Geo. Miller.
Yanberrioi, it quart for 25 cent.
Cash Grocery.
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Bruce McDowell and J. C. McCor
kle made a hunting trip Tuesday
with the hope of bringing in a goose
or two, but were unsuccessful, hav
ing to be contented with a brace of
fat wild ducks.
Ben Johnson and Mr. Lewis of
Hemingford were visitors here Wed
nesday. The county commissioners are in
session this week. The meeting
started Tuesday and will probably
continue the balance of the week.
They are attending to routine mat
ters and looking over roads.
W. C. Mounts was host at a deli
clous wild duck supper at which some
of the members of The Herald force
were guests Wednesday evening, at
the Silver Grill cafe.
W. B. Barnett of the Golden Rule
store is confined to his home today
with an attack of illness.
EdH enry returned Wednesday
morning from Denver with a new
Cadillac eight auto for Roy A. Met
calfe, a prominent Hay Springs
ranchman, who drove over with the
car.
James Whalen and wife, of Hem
ingford, who have been visiting at
Monmouth, Illinois, for four weeks,
stopped - over in Alliance today on
their way home from their visit. They
had not been back to see old home
places for twenty-eight years and
found many changes.
C. E. North returned this morning
from a trip to the San Francisco ex
position. He enjoyed a fine trip and
has many Interesting things to tell
home folks.
PENITENTIARY CROPS
Xew Itecortl Established by Prison
en at IiancaKter This Year
Will Ship Surplus
The crops at the state penitentiary
this year are the largest ever rained
in the history of the institution, ac
cording to Warden Fenton. As an
evidence of the greatness of the pro
duce out at Lancaster, the head of
the Institution has just shipped a
carload of potatoes and a carload of
cabbage to the state industrial school
at Geneva.
And still, the warden says, there
is more produce on hand at the pris
on than the institution can use itself.
Four thousand bushels of spuds were
raised on the prison ground and a
bountiful crop of onions, carrots and
beets. One of the best crops of
wheat and oats has Just been thresh
ed. The wheat averaged thirty
three bushels to the acre.
Corn was the king of the field pro
ducts, close to seventy bushels com
ing from every acre.
While much of the success in the
gardens was due to good weather, the
warden attributes much of the suc
cess to the work and special atten
tion of the prisoners who worked the
gardens. Heretofore, according to
the warden, not enough produce has
been raised at Lancaster to feed the
prisoners, it having been necessary
to ship in carloads of goods.
A number of the prize cooks at the
prison are at work now preparing
sauer kraut to run during the winter.
About fifty barrels of this Will be
made.
If there Is ever a time when silence
1b aolden. It la when a man Is mad.
Don't go Becurity for the man who
lets his gate awing on one hinge.
LIGHTS FOR ALLEYS
Kleitrie Light Department to Install
Light In dark Alleys In Down
town Section
On application of the Commercial
Club, the mayor Instructed the sup
erintendent of the electric light de
partment at the council meeting
Tuesday evening to Install electric
iigms in tne alleys in toe downtown
district.
The report of the city treasurer
showed 110,117.92 worth of out
standing unpaid registered city war
rants. The council voted that the
electric light department buy $6,000
worth of these warants and that the
water department buy $1,000 worth
from funds now in their hands, sav
ing five per cent interest.
C. L. Drake stated that If given
the grade stakes on the alley back of
the Drake hotel and the Elks build
ing, he would bring the alley to
grade. His request was ordered
granted. Ho also asked that a
street crossing bo Installed from the
Drake hotel across Box Butte avenue
to the Ellis building, occupied by the
Alliance Times and the Nebraska
Telephone Company. The crossing
was ordered installed.
The city council will sit as a board
of equalisation at the next regular
meeting. Tuesday, December 14.
The proposition of allowing own
ers or tenants of buildings with more
than one electric meter to have the
total current consumed made out on
one statement, allowing the rate for
higher consumption, was brought up.
Superintendent Hughes stated that
two consumers had had this privilege
for several years. The council voted
that these consumers be required to
put all lights on one meter or pay the
regular rate for each.
, Dr. Hershman, city physician, re
ported that the health of the city was
good, that there were a few cases of
whooping cough, but no other con
tagious diseases.
The request of the fire department
for two. new water nozzles, one play
pipe and two pairs of rubber boots
was granted.
Leonard Pllklngton, assistant
chief of. the fire department, report
ed that all Btreet hydrants west of
Box Butte avenue had been tested
and all found In good condition with
the exception of the hydrant at 800
West Second street, which was out of
commission; at Second and Chey
enne, which was faulty; at Sixth and
Box Butte, where the grading Inter
fered; and at Sixth and Big Horn,
where the hydrant did not work sat
isfactorily. The hydrants were or
dered attended to.
The report of the city clerk show
ed that expenditures had been made
from the different city funds during
May, June, July August and Septem
ber as follows:
Street and alley fund ....$6,977.41
Fire and water 392.95
Salaries 1,869.61
Sewer maintenance 790.86
Stationery and printing . . . 486.43
Street and city hall lighting l,443.fiG
The report of the police magistrate
showed collections during October
from fines of $26, from Judge's fees,
$14. CO, from marshal fees of $10.50,
a total of $51.
The report of the electric light de
partment showed gross earnings of
$2622.27 with operating expenses of
$1297.34 and construction expense
of $77.88, leaving net earnings of
$1073.38. There are now 605 con
sumers. The report of the water depart
ment showed receipts from Septem
ber 15 to October 15 of $321.05 with
687 consumers.
The report of the city treasurer
showed receipts In the general fund
of $1282.97, with disbursements of
$1746.08, leaving a balance on hand
of $774, with registered warrants un
paid of $10,117.92. Receipts In the
water fund were $1848.98. with dis
bursements of $607.59, leaving a bal
ance on hand of $1769.56. Receipts
in the light fund were $2249.87 and
disbursements were $1676.38, leav
ing a balance on hand of $7416.52.
There is a balance In the cemetery
fund of $220.89.
COMMERCIAL CLUB GUESTS
Men Who Are Interested in Potash
Works Near Alliance Were the
Guet of Con)inreclal Club
W. H. Ostenberg and Dr. H. Rel-
bold of Omaha and John 11. Show
and Carl Modisett of Alliance were
the guests of the board of directors
of the Alliance Commercial Club at
a dinner at the Alliance Cafe Monday
evening. The gentlemen are active
ly interested in the Potash Products
Company, which has erected a refin
ery at lloflland, seventeen miles east
of Alliance on the Burlington.
Mr. Ostenberg is a prominent Om
aha capitalist who is Interested in a
number of banks in the state. Dr.
Reinbold is president of the Reinbold
Metallurgical Company, mine operat
ors and manufacturing chemists of
Lithium preparations with mines at
Keystone, S. P., and main office at
Omaha.
. Mr. Show and Mr. Modisett handle
the affairs of the company at the re
finery at lloflland. They reside at
Alliance and are well acquainted
here.
While the proposition at Hoffland
Is still more or less In the experi
mental stage, it gives promise of a
good future. A trip to the plant at
Hofilandjs an Interesting one.
Pupils to Give Comic Operetta
On Friday evening, November 19,
at the Phelan opera house, the pupils
of the Emerson school will present
"Prince Charming", a comic operetta,
which is sure to please all who at
tend. The admission wil be 25 cents
and reserved seatls can be secured at
Holsten'a drug store during the day
of date of the play, and there will be
no extra charge for this convenience.
The young folks anticipate a large
crowd, and encourage them in thin
Work. This entertainment should
prove to be well worth the small price
of admission, so let everyone boqst
for the success of the affair.
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THE RED CHIMNEY I
By KEITH KENYON.
In the full flush of summertime
foliage you could not see It from
Burton's camp, but when the Septem
ber winds began to send the leaves
dancing It stood out plainly, one red
chimney far up the valley of Little
Creek.
The house of the red chimney had
been untenanted for tfiany yttars, he
had been told at the local country
store.
It was the only other house in the
valley besides his own rough lodge,
and he had not resented sharing the
solitude until the morning when
smoke rose leisurely Into the ilr
from the red chimney.
Burton watched it with unbe1lev(pg
eyes. He waited until afternoon and
then whistled his horse up from the
lower meadow where It grazed and
saddled It grimly. It any tramps or
loiterers had taken up their abode
there he made up hla mind to oust
them with shert shift
It was a gallop of three miles around
tbe bend of the river road. As be
drew near, he caught a flutter of
white from a clothesline In the yard.
So tbe occupant was evidently femi
nine, which deprived him of some of
the joy of retaliation, still he looked
decidedly stern and aggressive at he
mounted the wide stone steps and
knocked on the front door.
There was no answer, and after the
second knock the very prettiest face
he had ever looked upon appeared at
the window beside him.
"I'm awfully sorry, but we haven't
found the key to the front door yet.
Won't yon come around the side
way?"
He strode through the grass doubt
fully. On tho side porch, in an old
split-bottom rocker, he found another
tenant, a little older than the first,
but very nearly as dlstractlngly
pretty, and this one was paring po
tatoes. "How do yon do?" she said cheer
fully. "Are you one of our neigh
bors T"
"I rather think I am your only
neighbor In the valley," answered Bur
ton gravely. "I have lived here three
years In the summertime. Burton la
my name."
"Ours Is Colby. I am Beatrice Col
by. This is my sister Nan."
Nan smiled at htm and handed out
another .chair. Before he knew It,
Burton was thawing and telling them
all about the valley and of hia coming
to it when his own health had broken
down back in New York. He had ob
tained tenting rights first from the
trustee of tho land. Probably they
had rented from the same person.
"Mn " Man tnM him milt fro,i1,1v
"we Just drove over and stayed here."
Squatter rljhts evidently, thought
Burton, and ho made up his mind to
speak to old Newton about It. Yet
the days passed and he permitted the
Interlopers to remain undisturbed.
It was rather pleasant to see suioke
coming from the red chimney. Every
other day he rode over to be euro his
neighbors were getting along well.
Nan, he found out. was tho housekeep
er. Beatrice was the provider for
the family. They confided to him
that she collected antiques for a New
York dealer, and that they Jaunted
around to all kinds of out-of-the-way
places.
It was at the end of the fourth
week that Burton, looking at himself
In the glass hung on his tent pole,
told himself that he was In love. He
looked over at the red chimney and
accused It In his mind. Then he looked
again and saw something that made
him hold his breath. Up from the red
chimney came masses of sulphurous
smoke that stained tbe deep blue of
the morning sky.
When he dropped -from his saddle
later, the white froth clung to his
horse's flanks and breast, but he ran
on up to the old house and found the
two girls fighting a chimney fire.
Nan had taken a ladder and leaned
it against the house and tried to
reach the chimney with salt bags,
but had missed her footing.
"It's only a sprain," she called to
htm from the grass. "Go and help
Beatrice. Mr. Newton came over,
too."
"I don't care If the whole thing
goes up In smoke," be said huskily,
kneeling beside her. "Aro you badly
hurt. Tell me the truth, Nan."
"I'm all right, truly, truly." She
tried to draw away from him, but
Burton possessed her bands.
"I've loved you ever since I saw you
at the window, Nan. You know It,
too. Don't laugh at me."
"Shall I cry?" she aBked whimsi
cally. "You can't, you know. You've
Just hated us for spoiling your val
ley." "It's our valley now," he said, when
Beatrice and Mr. Newton came around
tho corner or the house bearing mopa
and palls.
"Well, it's out," Bald the old man.
"How do you like your two landlords,
Mr. Burton?"
Burton looked nonplused.
"You know this whole valley is the
old Colby estate. I'm mighty glad
two of them cared enough about It
to come home."
And he igarded them as invaders.
He turned to Nan appeallngly.
"Shall I evr ne forgiven?"
She lauphed and held out hor hand.
"Do you think we would have put
t- i io l-n. Jark, if we
hadn't Intruded taking you into the
family?
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I III THE DARK
;: ANONYMOUS.
It was a biasing day glorious sum,
mer, but It seemed to be robbing Ethel
of everything of hope, of energy ana
of the life of her child just as last
summer had robbed 'her of Jack.
Nothing bad been heard of him. No
news had come to her, and bad luck;
had doggod ber all the time. She hud,
had to move lodgings again and agaiaj
every time a little poorer, every time
taking rooms a little cheaper; and the
only work she seemed to have even a
chance of getting was in the office of;
a private detective agency.
She had applied there on an Impulse
and had boon told that work was some
times given to outsiders, and that 1
she cared to call every' morning at
nine o'clock there might some day ba
a chance for her.
So she had called day after day,
woek after week, and no chance had
ever come; and day after day her
money dwindled, and she went from,
bad to worse until now Dickie was 111
and she had reached her last penny.
She would make one more effort i
she would try once again before she
gave up. She hurried through the
streets to the office that had become
so familiar to her now. She pushed
open the swing doors.
"la there anything for me this mora
Ing?" she asked.
On the answer depended the life o
her little chlM.
A clerk, busy over some letters
looked up and began to shake ,hl
head. At that moment someone came
out from an Inner office. He wasj
talking to another man.
"A woman.?" he said. "It's a woman
we want for this Job. Who's that yon
der?"
"She's a Mrs. Mayce," the other ani
swered, "but she's never had any
work from vm yet"
"Send her In to me. Ill sen what
he is made of." He stepped back.'
and Btbel turn jd with a beating heart
Work at last! I
The man who had spoken, whom
she knew aa tbe manager, looked at
ner sharply.
"You're Mrs. Mayce?" he said.
"Well, elt down. We've a little thing
here that you may able to undertake
for us. Anyhow, you can try. Here
are the facts: A client of ours, Geof
frey Horner, a merchant In the cttv.
has lost a diamond ring valued at
$125. He left It lying on his desk,
and while ft was there It was stolen.
The only person Who had access to
his room was a young man, son of a:
friend of bis, whoso name he will not !
give and whom he refuses to beliove
guilty. The young man leaves the
house nightly at about six o'clock.
j we want you to get his name and
address and any information you can
about him. Here Is his description,
furnished by our detective. You will
j have to follow him, of course. You
I can get your day's expenses from the
I cashier; hero's a memo for $5, for
; which you wlU account to us later
and, of course,, any reliable inforraa
. tlon you bring well pay for."
I She went out treading on air. Five
dollars In her pocket meant food and
medicine for her little Dickie.
i At five o'clock she put on a black
' skirt and blouse, which had been too,
I shabby to pawn, and over an old black.
hat she put a thick .'veil. ;
j Ten mtnutes later she was on her
way to Geoffrey Horner's bouse,
j Just as she rounded the corn&r
. the door of the house opened and
! someone came down the steps. She
j followed him breathlessly, waiting
' an instant as he stood at the bot
tom of the steps to take out bis latch
key and then followed boldly.
In a moment she was standing level
with htm upon the, top step, and eag
erly she looked at' his face
I It was thin and white: it looked
, drawn and sad if. good heavens! lie
. turned, and the key dropped from his
fingers and rang sharply, springing
-from step to atop to the pavement be
i ne8th thr m. ,
; He utt.red one word brokenly:
"Ethel!"
, She put out her hand wildly and
1 then refli'd into bis arms.
I It was Tack Jack returned from the
sea alive and a thief! ,
i In Lis room they faced each other.
! "Jack, they say you are a thief. I've
: been set to watch you. I followed you
I tonight and that is why I am here
to watch you."
I He looked startled for an instant.
, Then he gave a laugh. 1
j "Darling, the thief confessed and re-
turned It tonight Just before I came
away. It was one of his servants."
He took her in his arms, and looked
down into her face.
"I've had a ghastly time," be said,
"and you. too. Darling, you look thin
and ill. I tried to find you when I got'
back but it was months after the
, wreck. We had drifted for weeks
j we were half mad and half dead when
! we were , picked up, and then I was
j helpless.
"It was weeks after that before I
I came to my anuses and remembered.
"I went straight to my father's old
friend, Geoffrey Horner, and he has
, been helping me. First I tried to find
you and failed. Then my mother's
I old housekeeper she was a fraud. She
got all the goods by false pretences
' and had humbugged my poor old
i mother, and tbe lawyer thinks we
shan't get much of It; but 1 shant
care iur mm, now mai i nave got you.
Ethel! Ethel! Is it really you?- It
Is like a dream!" CasaeU's Saturday
Jeur