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TK3 Alliance Herald Thanksgiving Edition Edition At" f .vV .i HY KVKItY MEMIIKU NEBRASKA STIK'K OltOWKKS ASSOCIATION A OFFICIAL OHUAN NEHKASKA VOLUNTEER FIKEMKV8 ASSOCIATION am. Tin: news ok am i anch and western Nebraska IT REACHES HKADOl AKTI IIS FOR Ift.OOO FIREMEN VOLUME XXII ALLIANCK, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1915 NO. 51 Thanksgiving CRAWFORD WAS HOST rtafHnoK.s Sessions of Associated (Vmi tnerrlal Cluhs Followed by Ilia Ilanquet Hold In Evening NEXT MEKTINO AT RRHMJEPORT BOX BUTTE RAISES SPUDS County Simula Hcvoml In Production of IVtiii4Mn TIiIm Year 'berry County Com en in First ommiai.f 'niiisizT; of cherry The Crawford Chamber of Com merce was the host last Thursday to he delegates who attended the bus iness session of the Associated Com mercial Clubs of Western Nebraska. The Crawfordltes proved themselves worthy hosts and there waB no flaw t the fine entertainment provided. Delegates who attended the ses sion were: Alliance, 1'. K. Romig, Lloyd Thomas, Mrs. Jerry Rowan. Mrs. W. D. Fisher and Mrs. J. V. nolllday. Bridgeport. O. J. Hunt, P. B. Estill and Wm. Ritchie. Jr Chad ron. J. F. Lawrence. Crawford, W. O. Hundoin. W. F. Weft r. W. H. Mor rison. Harrison, C. O. Weetn. Min atarc. R. O. Chambers, J. H. Uunyan, 0. K. Clough, M. (5. Wilson. O. K. Lamb. F. W. Smith. Sidney, Gus Welner, F. G. Grilnth, Clayton Itad eliffe. At the morning session a number f questions of importance were dis tressed, among them being the need f clubs in additional towns. There are nineteen towns in the eleven counties covered by the association which should have clubs. The ob ject of the association was outlined as being for the purpose of promot kg the' best Interests of western Ne braska, with special reference to markets, freight rates, honest pub licity, legislation, good roads and cheap money on long time for the farmer. The question of a location in this ed of the state for the convention of the state editorial association was taken up and it was voted that the city contributing $500 be made the bjective point, the balance of the accessary $1000 to be contributed by the other towns In amounts of from $50 to $100. It waa voted to hold the annual meeting of the association In March, the exact date to be set later. Bridge port was selected as the location. Other questions discussed were the holding 'in restraint the land shark who sells land of doubtful value at high prices, the good work done by Ike three farm demonstrators in Box Butte, Dawes and Kimball counties. It was voted to afk the next state legislature to appropriate $50,000 far the use of the state veterinarian for two years, in order that he can Hive proper attention to the Import ant question of inspection of tubercu lar cattle. It was voted to aFk the resident to appoint a committee of three who will outline plans and pre pare matter for a booklet describing this section of the state, the different counties to pay their share of the ex pense of the booklet. It was decided that the different commercial clubs will furnish infor mation to prospective buyers of western lands, giving inquirers in formation as to the merits and rela- rve values of the lands. Reports were received from the different clubs covering the work done, results accomplished, money raised for club purposes, work to be pushed most, Al 4 o'clock the delegates were leaded into automobiles and taken to Fort Robinson, where they were en tertained by Col. Sickel and hown through the various buildings. On the return a ride waa taken through the city park. At 6:30 o'clock a banquet was held in the opera house, served by caterer. Homer Sherrill. The ban quet was served In courses and was delicious. W. M. Shuniway, presi dent of the CrtvkforJ ";. .vber of Commerce, acted as toasi master. The. first speaker was Arah L. Hunger fard. mayor of Crawford, who wel comed the delegates. Mayor Hunger ford urged that the commercial clubs tit this end of the state give more at tention and devote a portion of their funds to advertising the opportuni ties for new settlers. He urged that all Join together in a big advertising campaign, urging that twenty or twenty-five per cent of their incomes he e'evoted to that purpose. He told how that California advertises on Its reive, where ninety per cent of the farming ventures are failures, and l o-nted out how western Nebras ka might profit by advertising oppor tunities which are real and where success can be made In farming. Music was furnished by the Craw ford Male Quartette, who were com pelled to respond to several encores. Their song, "Greeting. Friends, to You," was composed by the quar tette and touched particularly on western Nebraska. The next speaker was Walter C. Rnndln, president of the associated clubs. He told of the fact that the organization was less than a year old, f the many problems which came up and how much could be accomplished by all working together while only one club would find it hard to do things alone. He told of the fact lhat the association had made east ern Nebraska realize that we are really on the map, and how the asso ciation, although only a "kid" in age, it is growing fast and would accomp lish more. He mentioned future plans of the club, referring particul arly to the publicity feature. Mrs. W. D. Fisher rendered a vo cal solo, which waa encored and , much enjoyed. Mr. Fisher was un able to be present either at the ban quet or meeting, having been sudden- Turkey Soars Above the' Eagle Today J For Thanksgiving is the day and the turkey is She viand that are peculiarly American. jI The eagle may appeal to our he ms, but who would swap the Thanksgiving turkey wrum it is a Question of the rest ot liis bodvr ly called to Topeka, Kansas. He had wired expressing regrets. Mrs. Jerry Rowan of Alliance spoke on "In What Ways Women Might Be of Help." She stated that the women are glad to be made use of. She laid particular stress on the necessity of keeping the streetB, al leys and vacant lots of the cities clean, and urged that curb lines be made compulsory. She spoke of dif ferent methods In use in disposing of the city garbage and mentioned dif ferent towns which do so successful ly. She stated that the Boy Scout movement Is doing much good in pre venting vandalism among hoys and that the boys' garden clubs put their energy into constructive work. Judge O. .1. Hunt of Bridgeport spoke on the subject of "Irrigation", lie stated that he had been interest ed in Irrigation for twenty-five years and that It was too big a subject to say much on in a few minutes. He told of the big work being done in the North Platte valley and of the new canal which will Irrigate 60,000 acres. He approved of the plan for greater publicity. J. F. Lawrence, of Chadron, vice president of the association, made an interesting talk on the work being accomplished and urged greater in terest. He told of the business meetings held during the day and urged that the delegates ask the home people to stand by the associa tion in its work. His talk waa cut .short by the Tact that the delegates from the south were compelled to leave to catch train number forty two. R. O. Chambers, of Minatare, read the following resolution, which had been adopted at the business ses sion: IteMilution We, the Associated Commercial Clubs of Western Nebraska, in ses sion this 18th day of November, 1915, do hereby tender our sincere thanks to the citizens of Crawford, the Chamber of Commerce, and Col. Slckela and the other officers of Fort Robinson, for the sincere western hospitality which they have extended to us todav. It. O CH AMBERS. LLOYD C. THOMAS. WM RITCHIE. JR.. Committee. FOOTBALL TODAY Hcottsbluff High School and Alliiuice Will Clash on the Local iril Tills Afternoon Mrs F. M. Broome went to Ells worth Sunday for a shore visit with the Cbaa. C. Jameson family. The Scottsbluff foot ball eleven, accompanied by a live bunch of sup porters, will be over today and this afternoon they will clash at the fair grounds with the local boys. This is the return game for the one played at Scottsbluff two weeks ago, in which game the Alliance eleven was beaten by a good margin. Since that game Alliance has been putting in some strenuous practice work, and they feel nt to tackle Scottsbluff today and show the visit ors a few tricks. Scottsbluff is coming with the de termination of administering even a worse beating than they ;ave our boys at the Ural game, so there will be some Interesting developments when the two teams get together. Both teams play good, clean foot ball, and spectators are promised more than their money's worth. Coach Crawford la making no rash promises, but during the past few days he has been putting some added "p p" into the boys, and some new plays have come Into use. It is ex pected that an extra large crowd will turn out for the game, and thai all the rooters in town will take an extra pair of lungs with them. VISIT BUSINESS DISTRICT MerchjMMliM Advertising, When Prlc e Are Oiveri, Will AcoernplKli Mitch Encourage llnltit Willis iow WeM J. R. Willis, formerly one of the owners of the Empress theatre, who id now traveling, came in from Cor don Saturday, stopping over between trains on his way to San Francisco with Mrs. Willis and the baby. Mr. Willis decorated the new theatre at Gordon. They expect to stay on the coast during the winter, returning to Nebraska next spring. Moravek VUited Here Wm. Moravek, formerly employed by the Alliance National Bank, who is now employed by a large stock raising company at Pony. Montana, west of Billings, visited friends in Alliance Friday of last week. He had been on a trip to St. Paul with cattle and stopped over on his way back. His firm ships an average of ten carloads of cattle per week to the eastern markets. He also stopped over at Hemingford to visit his parents. (Contributed) A strong factor in favor of the home town merchant in securing the trade of the surrounding district is this: Every farmer and each individual member of his family, including the hired man, are glad of an opportun ity to pay a weekly, semi-weekly or even daily visit to the nearest town, providing there is any good excuse for them to do so. The storekeeper bargain sales with priceB attached in plain figures displayed conspicuously In a full pape or even t qnurter page adver ti5i ment in the weekly paper will fur nish that excuse. Remember thai nine out of ten country merchants are now giving better value for less money than the catalog house is able to do. It Is on ly a question of describing the goods, and quoting prices In plain figures. After Retting the farmer and bis young folks to town, the next move is to give them entertainment, which can best be done by games and amusements which are not obtaina ble by them at home. A great many people who are sen sible in everything else will not per mit themselves to believe that time devoted to amusements of any kind is not absolute waste and loss of op portunity. The boy whom the old settlers of our borne town remember as the leader In all athletic games and pas times, the beet skater in winter, the best swimmer and baseball player in summer, a dead shot with a rifle and portunlty. That phrase "lost oppor tunity" is worked overtime on every poor unfortunate boy or girl who happens to have a taste for recrea tion or whose mental or physical structure cries for a change from the beaten path of daily routine. The whole idea Is wrong. The youthful mind needs direction, to be sure, but it also needs ever-changing variety. It requires the impetus of competi tion, of conquest. This element in the nature of every child is manifest to school teachers, mot! of whom take advantage of it. As a result, competition in class studies is con stantly used. Every educator is n ow awake to the necessity of encouraging in the young the ambition to be a leader. The spirit of conquest In work or play should be fostered at every op the champion billiard player of the county, worked his way through the university with but little help from his pafents, became principal of a lo cal graded school, compiled a text book on chemistry which is now us ed in the high schools of some of the largest cities of the United States, and is at present the president of a state university of the West. Among men of learning, he Is looked upon as a leader. That's what I call the ideal life. Not a moment wasted, as boy or man. Once a leader, always a leader. Getting a taste for the conquest of difficulties, upon discov ering that he excelled all others when he first took the leadership in some certain pastime, he never rest ed content until he had acquired the habit of mastering one problem after another. There being no more worlds to conquer In the youthful pastimes, he was encouraged to reach out for the more serious things of life. Vexing complications and the nerve-racking problems of his colleg iate courses melted away before his persistent, determined efforts. Just as the mysterious something had always done In his boyhood games. Today this boy, now a man of ad vanced age, is at the height of his an bition, but it is safe to say that he will stop only when Mother Nature has no more secrets to disclose. That Is an example of cause and effect. It is a perfect life, originating in the Bimple remedy of keeping the child busy. It's the policy which will get the best results from sturdy manhood built from home town life. This year Nebraska produced 10, IB0.610 bushels of potatoes, an:, .fl ing to the olficlal estimate Just in. le public by the state board of ng.viul ture from reports from all ove, ho state. The acreage Is given m . 1 , 284, and the average yield per .. re la 107 bushels. Cherry county leads the list in 1 ro ductlon, and Box Butte county Is n. clone second. Mcpherson Is nt the bottom of the list with 100 bushels. McPherson Is the only county that did not produce as much as 2 5,000 bushels. Following are the flgnroa for each county: COUNTY BUSHELS Adams 106,112 Antelope 105,180 Arthur 2fi,818 Banner 21,750 Blaine 94,819 Boone 68,179 Box Butte 737,560 Boyd Brown 4 57,548 Buffalo 157,300 Burt 75.343 Butler 85,782 Cass 49,405 Cedar 85,510 Chase 24,537 Cherry 1.015.393 Cheyenne 142,745 Clay 131.355 Colfax 43.775 Cuming 239.132 Custer 508.899 Dakota 139.216 Hawes 165.580 Deuel 4 2.450 Dixon 124.026 Dodge 109.382 Douglas 180.629 Dundy 221.672 Fillmore 62.030 Franklin 59,334 Frontier 4 5.597 Furnas 35,174 Cage 97.614 Carden 49,648 Oarfield 212.450 Co'-.per 36,126 Orant 32.500 'Jrccley 39,788 Hall 111.254 laniilton 61.097 Harlan 35,181 Hay -a 39.875 llit hcrxk 12.r.90 HoM 179,760 Hooker 26.875 .Ioward 86,884 Jefferson 44.202 Johnson 43,890 Kearney 46.129 Keith 26.819 Keya Paha 34.026 Kimball 107.312 Knox 142,374 Lancaster 147,447 Lincoln 175.491 Logan 26.530 Ixup 34,500 Madison 81,4 39 McPherson 100 Merrick 123.470 Morrill 123.470 Nance 31,925 Nemaha 23.150 i Nuckolls 54,600 Otoe 150.111 Pawnee 50.99T Perkins 37.92T Phelps 70,662 Pierce 42,636 Platte 154.472 Polk 59,133 Red Willow 66.033 Richardson 37,944 Rock 94.089 Saline 85.387 ! Sarpy 93,288 1 Saunders 103,012 IStotts Bluff 193.987 Seward 69,724 Sheridan 693,100 Sherman 74,290 Sioux 86.880 iS'ariton 82.060 Thayer 60,625 Thomas 47,475 Thurston 28,734 Valley 73,486 Washington 121,104 Wayne 106.163 Webster 53.025 Wheeler 29.515 York 49,776 MOKE M EX THAN' WOMEN HAVE APPENDICITIS Surgeons state men are slightly more subject to appendicitis than women. Alliance people should know that a few doses of simple buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., us mixed in Adler-i-ka. often relieve or prevent appendicitis. This mixture removes such surprising foul matter that ONE SPOONFUL relieves almost ANY CASE constipation, sour stom ach or gas. The INSTANT, easy ac tion of Adler-i-ka is surprising. II THIELE. druggist. Total .10.460.610 A DwstiteNH Affair Stockmen all over the West are looking forward to the annual stock show in Denver during the week of January 16. This annual event has become one of the most important business affairs for the live stock in terests of the West, and the indica tions are that the amount of trading at the next show will be enormous. Western stockmen have discovered that they can always secure good breeding stock at the show, and eastern rattle feeders look forward now to this event as providing an op portunity to secure the choicest feed ing cattle. While shipments to mar ket have been heavy this fall from the western ranges, quite a number of shippers are holding back a load or two of tbeir best cattle for the January show, and there is no ques tion but that this department of the annual show will be larger and bet ter than ever. The supply of bulls for sale here during the show will In clude choice animals from the best herds of the country, and buyers will be here from all parts of the West.