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VOLUME XXIII
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1916
NUMBER H
BANQUET AT LEXINGTON
OF DEPARTMENT BOYS
Chief Tillery Acts as Host ami TosM
master at Ilanquet That Shows
"Pep" in Lexington Dept.
On Tuesday night, February 29,
1916, the Lexington Volunteer Fire
department gave their annual ban
quet nt their hall. While the crowd
Was not as large as had been antici
pated on account of several conflict
ing dates, a fine crowd of representa
tive firemen and their wives or lady
friends and guests were present to
enjoy the evening. After several
games of cards and checkers every
body marched to the tables under the
beautiful strains of music furnished
by Maher's orchestra. After a short
talk by Toastmaster Chief Tillery, In
which he bade everyone welcome,
and extended the invitation to "eat,
drink and be merry" to one and all,
he asked his guests to be seated.
"His gueBts" they certainly were In
o luu mit, vs. v rviuj V V
through the liberality of our esteem
ed chief that we were able to enjoy
this banquet. Judging by the
amount of extra "helpingB" brought
out to the diners they undoubtedly
enjoyed what was set before them.
The menu consisted of sandwiches,
coffee, ice cream and cake.
When the appetites of one and all
had been appeased they repaired to
the club room where Chief Tillery
announced that invitations had been
extended to State Fire Commissioner
Ridgell, and Lloyd C. Thomas of Al
liance, N. S. V. F. A. publicity secre
tary, as speakers of the evening, but
regretted that neither of these dis
tinguished gentlemen were able to
be present, not having been able to
hear from Mr. Ridgell, and reading a
telegram from Mr. Thomas express
ing his regrets at not being able to
be present.
We highly appreciate the consid
eration shown us by Mr. Thomas in
sending us this telegram of three
hundred words, which was a small
speech in itself, but one and all of
us would most certainly have been
overjoyed to shake the hand that has
been such an outstanding factor
writing out "Publicity Stuff" for our
great association.
Mr. Tillery then announced that he
would call on some of the guests for
specehes, calling first on Assistant
Chief Roudebaugh for a report of the
proceeding of the convention of N.
S. V. F. A. at Crawford, which re
port was given in detail.
George C. Glllan then addressed
his audience on the value of a com
petent flre department and compe
tent fire fighting apparatus, making
an appeal for a new city hall with ad
equate quarters for firemen and lire
apparatus, and pledging his personal
support for a move to build a new
fire hall, and complimenting the vol
unteer firemen of the entire state for
acts of bravery displayed and tht
willingness shown by them to turn
out to fires day or night, regardless
of extreme weather conditions, with
out pay or recompense of any kind.
Prof. Strceter of the Lexinp'.m
high school brought down the house
with applause by his humoroiu talk
on firemen and their way.;, which
space unhappily forbids u- to report.
Mayor James A. Byrne impressed
upon his audience th" dirt- necessity
of a new city hall for the city of Lex
ington, and pledged his support of
the movement started by the depart
ment for a n' hall.
Isaac Nisley, departmc nt counsel
lor, cot plimentcd the department on
the past and present record of the
Lexington Fire Department, and the
standing in regard to other lire de
partments throughout the state of
Nebraska, its ability to light tires and
honors won at state tournaments, al
so the good effort of the boys to
maintain such a good body of men
when compelled to rent their own
hall, and rely to a great extent on
their own lesources for what has
been accomplished.
Chief Tillery then read an article
from the Firemen's Herald on tire
prevention, and made some timely
and interesting personal remarks on
flre prevention. The reading of in
surance companies and fire commis
sioner's report on standing of this
department and equipment, and an
earnest appeal for the assistance of
all present for a new city hall by the
chief, closed the evening's program.
Respectfully.
FRED W. KOCH.
Publicity sec. pro tem.
BRYAN IS FOR WILSON
SAYS JUDGE THOMPSON
IHtiKN-ratir State, Chairman firings
Mensage from Ilryan at
Miami, Florida
Judge W. H. Thompson, of Grand
Island, democratic state chairman of
Nebraska, who has Just returned
from a trip to Miami, Fla., has given
ont the- following as a result of his
interview and visit with Col. W. J.
Bryan:
"People misunderstood Mr. Bry
an's position regarding his relations
with the president.
"They differ only on a few princi
ples resulting from the war. These
do Bftl affect their principal relations.
Mr. Bryan will most likely be one of
the Nebraska delegates-at-large to
the St. Louis convention. The entire
delegation will be for the president's
rcnominatlon. Whether pledged or
instructed, Mr. Bryan will probably
be among the Nebraska delegation,
which will be for the president, to a
man.
"Nebraska Is for President Wil
son." One-Term Plank Disposed of
Regarding the one-term presiden
tial plank, Mr. Thompson said he be
lieved Bryan would not raise it
against the president. Bryan be
lieves the plank should be again
enunciated in the St. Louis platform,
but made applicable only to a presi
dent elected after laws are enacted
putting it into effect.
That bo resolution will be urged
by Bryan in the St. Louis platform
which would embarrass the president
or repudiate any of his policies was
the substance of the sentiment ex
pressed by Mr. Thompson. It is
Mr. Bryan's belief the Wilson renom
ination is assured.
920OO BAJTKK1) IN CATAIAXJ
BURKED IN HOUHK CLEANING
Decatur, 111., March 3 Noah Lun
dy, a farmer living near Areola, to
day is mourning the loss of 12,650 in
crisp United States currency.
Lundy had secreted the bills in a
mail order company's satalog and
while away from home his wife,
while cleaning house, burned the
book along with other waste papers.
NOUGHT SECTION OF LAND
John Kranse. of Krause Brothers,
the big ranchmen northeast of Alli
ance, was in the city Friday closing
a deal with James Potmesil for the
latter's section of land which ad
joins the Krause ranch. Krause
Brothers have added desirable lands
to their ranch year by year until
they now have one of the finest cattle
ranches in the country.
MANY INQI'IIUKS FOIt LANDS
Over three thourrtud Inquiries have
been received by the 1'nited States
land office in Alliance regarding the
big land opening to be held here the
latter part of March. Register
O'Keefe and Receiver Morrow have
had th'ir hand.-, full attending to the
correspondence created by these in
quiries, which come from all parts of
t'-.e country, as far e;;st as New York
and as far wr-st as California.
III'GK KNGIMIS NOW IX
SKKVICK ON IIUKUNGTON
The Chicago, Omaha and Denver
passenger run on the Burlington has
been equipped with the enormous
new engines recently put into serv
ice. Fifteen of the gigantic machines
have been purchased.
The new passenger engines put on
to the Burlington are each seventy
five fee long and weigh t. 250, 000
pounds. The cylinders are so large
that an ordinary sized barrel could
be slipped into any one of them, and
a man. six feet tall and wearing a
plug hat. could stand erect inside the
small end of any one of the boilers.
TEDDV WITHDRAWS NAME
CKOM ILLINOIS lULMlT
New York, March 2 Theodore
Roosevelt's determination not to al
low the use of his name as a candi
date for I be presidential nomination
in the spring primary elections was
emphasised today by the announce
ment that his secretary. John W. Mc
Grath. has directed the withdrawal
of Mr. Roosevelt's name from the Il
linois primaries.
This is the fourth state in which
Mr. Roosevelt has refused to allow
the use of his name. The others are
Nebraska. Minnesota and Michigan.
Mr. Roosevelt is now on a trip to
the West Indies.
If you will have the Alliance Her
ald sent regularly you can keep post
ed on many opportunities that this
fine western country affords. $1.50
GOVERNMENT EXPERIMENT PLANT
MAY ELIMINATE BIG SPUD WASTE
An experiment plant, for the pur
pose of Investigating the possibility
of saving a part of the potato crop
which often goes to waste, has Just
been completed at Arlington, Va.
Inasmuch as Box Butte county and
western Nebraska is one of the lead
ing potato growing sections in the
vorld, our readers will no doubt be
interested in the following.
In years of over production, Wal
lace's Farmer says, thousands of
farmers have had to haul their en
tire crop out for manure. The aggre
gate waste of this, year in and year
out, amounts to millions of dollars,
and the government hopes to work
out a practical system for saving it.
The present plant has machinery
for drying the potatoes, and already
a satisfactory product has been turn
ed out. The process is said to be
much simpler than that practiced in
Germany and other European coun
tries. The original bulky, highly
perishable product is manufactured
into a product which is concentrated,
non-perishable, and which can be
shipped long distances. The present
plant is simply a starting point, and
efforts of those in charge will be to
develop something which can be op
erated without a burdensome invest
ment. If it works out as planned, it
is predicted the potato plants will be
as common in potato districts as corn
canneries are in sweet corn districts.
Both would have about the same ob
ject. When Eugene Grubb was in Eur
ope, making an investigation of the
potato Industry there, he made quite
a study of Germany's potato facto
ries. To one of these which was as
extensive as a million dollar beet
plant in this country, the potatoes
come in car lots at digging time. Ev
ery by-product is saved. First, the
potatoes are sliced or pulped for
jjtarch extraction. The waste pulp is
dried, and may be kept In good con
dition for a year or more for stock
feeding. At this plant, the economy
went so far as to include a pipe line
to carry water, which had been used
for starch extraction, to a field two
miles distant. Here is was building
up the fertility in a 200-acre field,
which furnished gracing for 300
head of stock. oBth the high-class
products and by-products are thus
saved with machinery that German
Box Butte the Banner County
(Statistics from Nebraska State Bulletin)
Another Nebraska county bears the name of Banner, but in sever
al respects Box Butte is the banner county of thin great state. Bul
letin No. 1G6 of the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture, issued Jan
uary 15, 1916, contains information regarding the crop yield of Ne
braska counties for last year that is, no doubt, approximately correct.
According to the above mentioned bulletin, only one county in the
state exceeded Box Butte in the average yield per acre of oats in 1915.
I hat was Dawes county, with an av erage of 59.5 bushels, to Box
Butte's average of 56.2. Saunders county came in third with S5..5.
The average for the state was 34.7 bushels per acre.
Forty-six of Nebraska's ninety-two counties ate credited with a
larger yield per acre on corn; forty-one are reported lower, and four
others reported the same as Box Butte, U0 bushels per acre, which is
'J. 6 bushels below the average for the state. Not so bad on corn, for a
! county that is not in the "corn belt."
With an average of 26.2 bushels per acre, Box Butte stands above
eighty-six other counties on winter wheat, and well above the average
for the state, which is 19.7 bushels.
Western Nebraska has eastern Nebraska "skinned forty ways"
in yield of spring wheat, and Box Butte is the banner county of the
whole state, with an average of 25.5 bushels. Cheyenne county is
second with 24.2, and Dawes third with 23.8 The average for the
state is 18.2.
On rye Box Butte's average of "JiYS bushel was more than fifty
per cent above the average for the state, 16.3 bushels, and was exceed
ed by only three other comities, Washington with 31.5. Colfax 27. b,
and Seward 26. S.
Box Butte's average yield of bailey is 40 bushels, which is 10.9
above? the average for the state of 29.1 bushels. Three other counties,
Dawes, Deuel and l'awnee, had the same average, and only one,
Scot Is Bluff, exceeded it, having an average of 51.4 bushels.
On alfalfa Box Butte falls a littl e under the average yield tor the
state, but at the state fair took first prize on quality for the western
section, the state being divided into three sections for the exhibition
of agricultural products, eastern, middle and western. The past year
was a good one for alfalfa tonnage in eastern Nebraska, which beat
western Nebraska a little on amount, but could not equal in quality.
But it's in potatoes where Box Butte shines brightest of all the
ninety-two Nebraska counties not only in the 1915 crop, but every
year. And we want to say u little something about spuds that read
Ms of this paper should remember. One other county reports more
bushels, but for all that this is the banner potato county, as we will
quickly show you. Last year 737,550 bushels were grown in this
county; pretty good, don't you think, for a sparsely settled county in
which less than sixteen per cent of the land is under cultivation? One
other county, ('lurry, had a larger number of bushels, 1,015,393; but
Cherry county is nearly six times as large as Box Butte, so that in
proportion to size Box Butte grew more than four times as many as
Cherry. In proportion to size, Box Butte had from two to forty times
as many potatoes as the other counties of the state. The average
yield per acre for Box Butte county was 137.5 bushels; for the state,
107.6 bushels.
scientists Invented for the purpose.
If a farmer Uvcb a long distance
from one of these German factories
he makes a crude product on the
farm, saving the pulp for his stock,
and shipping the unrefined starch to
the plant. Potato flour finds many
uses in Germany, and now it is being
used largely as a substitute for wheat
flour. At the recent Iowa potato
show, samples of bread made mostly
from potato flour were exhibited. The
flour, when mixed with wheat or rye
flour, Is said to make excellent pud
dings and cakes. The usual price is
about $2.60 per hundred pounds. An
other product which Is made at the
starch factories is glucose, this being
superior to that made from cereals,
and commanding a higher price In
London, Paris, Berlin and other
large cities, where war does not con
flict with commerce.
Germany has startled the world by
its ability to endure upon Its own re
sources, and its efficiency is praised
even by its enemies. Economists es
timated that about five million bush
els of potatoes went to waste from
decay, freezing, etc. They saw where
the country paid out annually about
$72,000,000 to foreign countries for
cattle fodder. They estimated that
at least 40 per cent of this could be
saved by utilising the entire potato
crop, instead of letting the odds and
ends go to waste. Prites were offer
ed for methods of treatment and as
a result the industry has been devel
oped to a high state of efficiency.
In dried or desiccated potatoes,
motit of the water is extracted by a
pressure and vacuum machine. The
potatoes are then further dried by
artificial heat, and finally transfer
red into storage rooms. Potato meal
weighs less than a fourth of Its orig
inal weight in raw potatoes, and it
occupies about one-eighth the space.
Sometimes it Is pressed into cakes
which can be broken up easily by
hand for stock feeding. The water
extracted from the potatoes Is kept
in vats until all the starch settles.
Then the clean liquid is boiled, and a
clear precipitate of crude protein is
obtained. The protein is made into
albumen, which has a big sale in
German markets. After the protein
precipitate is obtained, the liquids
contain small amounts of sugar, nit-
EFFICIENCY AS IT
APPLIESTO FIREMEN
Interesting Article on Kllicicncj, .
MomiVrs of Sidney Flro
IcDrtniciit
(Hy K. J. llrennnn of Sidney)
Kflkiency Is a quality producing
results. Not all persons have it.
This is the reason that there are ef
ficiency wages as distinguished from
day wages. Some are capable of
earning only day wages nnd others
nre in possession of that quality
which enables them to earn efficiency
wages. Some are born with that
quality and have developed It to Its
highest possibilities. Some are born
with natural tendencies toward ef
ticiency yet do not advance through
life much farther than their natural
endowments.
Again there nre others with very
little natural direction toward effici
ency yet they nre so placed and so
trained that a considerable degree of
this desirable quality 1b developed.
There are people who accomplish
very little with the best possible
equipment and every golden oppor
tunity. Such persons are out of their
class and should be reduced to the
most routine mechanical tasks, sup
ervised by those persons of greater
efficiency.
On the other hand, oftentimes the
man possessed of efficiency and hav
ing opportunity nnd equipment avail
able, will bring forth the most satis
factory results. And this man will
even make his opportunity nnd with
the most meager tools ran be count
ed upon to produce a something very
much worth while.
Many who are properly endowed
with mental capacity and have by
education and training reached a
very desirable standard of efficiency
dissipate their energies In following
unnecessary lines which get no
where. This is Been in men who talk
too much; men who procrastinate;
men who dissipate slightly or occas
ionally, depending on their talents to
get them back on a solid working
basis. All of these things impair the
natural abilities and weaken the
man's worth to the community. You
will often hear it said that a certain
man 1b a dandy good worker when
he Is at It. -No doubt he is, but what
is his efficiency worth to the fellows
whom be keeps waiting? Keeping
everlastingly at a thing is what often
sets a plain plodding man above a
brilliant worker who workB only by
spurts, while under Inspiration. In
spiration is such a fleeting and rare
emotion that it is a poor dependence
for those who must do the world's
work.
The flre department has some few
little irritations concerning the mat
ter of not having the proper appara
tus with which to tight tiro or per
haps they have men or officers wjio
are disappointing. Some times the
property burning belongs to the
worst kind of a knocker and tight
wad, who directs operations of the
boya as though he belonged to royal
ty and the Bremen were his serfs.
These things are hard to bear, es
pecially if the department is a volun
teer one whose sole reward is a suit
of ruined clothes and the thanks of
a few grateful people. But these
unpleasant things should not be con
sidered nor should work be any the
less energetic because of impedi
ments. The more obstacles in the
way the harder the department
should work to get to the scene ear
ly and the greater should be the de
termination to quench the flames.
Any one can check a conflagration
under favorable conditions, with
plenty of water and the wind the
right way, but it takes efficiency to
work with poor apparatus and excit
ed officers and the criticism of those
who wouldn't do the unpleasant work
which the hoys encounter. And,
thank Cod. the latter are the kind of
boys who make up the fire depart
ments all over the state of Nebraska.
Those who do not meet the test of
accompany Inv hardships are soon
weedfd out and only th survival of
the fittest is possible. You cannot if
you remain a fireman, waste any
breath kicking about the manage
ment or the equipment. You have
to be ready on a second's notice to
put on every ounce of your individ
ual steam and work furiously till the
enemy is conquered and the property
and lives are saved.
"To do the hard thing in the face of
danger.
To forget self, your fellow man to
serve,
To work with will for dearest friend
or stranger.
This is the task of men with iron
nerve."
rogenous matter and salts. This is
used for irrigation. The cost of han
dling the potatoes in this way is said
to be about !0 cents a ton for pota
toes. It takes nearly four tons of
raw potatoes to make a ton of the
desiccated product.
The government plant at Arling
ton, Va., will work along lines sim
ilar to the German method, except
that an attempt will be made to de
velop a simpler process, and less
cumbersome machinery. The direct
ors hope to work out a practical plan
of saving the culls as well as the tub
ers of good quality, when, for lark of
a market, they can not be saved.
75,000 ACRES TO GO
AT PUBLIC AUCTION
a.OOO to 4,000 Ylxltors J.'kiMx-ted La
Allium e. Wwk of North Piatt
Project. IdMid Dpt'iilng
In this section of The Herald will
be round a double paKe advertise
ment of the big pvblk auction of Box
Ilutto county land ihlch takes place
in this city beginning March 22.
This Bale la being put ou through
the co-operation ef the Burlington
Railroad Company, tho Alliance Com
mercial Club, the AUlaace real eaUU
dealers and Allianeo merchants, with
tho assistance of Box Butte county
land owners, who are tatting up their
large ranches and tratta of land Into
quarters and halves for the benefit of
eastern people who are aeeklng land
worth the money, the original price
of which la now almost prohibitive.
There are hundred of land owners
in this section who will testify that in
actual experience they have produced
more revenue per are than many of
tho eastern farmers bave been able
to produce on land worth 9100 to
$400 per aero, wkUe this land ta
priced at a mero fraction of . those
figures.
Seventy-five tho una ad acres of
western Nebraska land will be offer
ed for sale and is being listed at
prices and terms that will undoubt
edly permit of its rondy Bale over the
block. The sale has been and la be
ing widely advertlaod all over the
United States. Nearly ten thousand
Inquiries bave boon received locally
concerning the auction sale and
North Platte project opening, and
many hundreds of beute seekers com
ing to Alliance for the land opening
will take advantage of this sale to
buy some of the best laid at the price
to be found in the United States.
Local officials of the Burlington
Railroad Company bave, following an
investigation of the conditions, been
Instructed to make preparations to
handle a crowd of at least 3, COO peo
ple during the land opening nnd auc
tion, which shows what people who
are in a position to Judge of such
events, are anticipating.
Ill KKKTT F1LKN MLS
NAMi: AT IKK MOIINKri
Des Moiues, la., March 2 E. J.
Durkett of Lincoln, Nebr., former
senator, today lile.d with the Iowa
secretary of state his affidavit of con
didacy for the republican nomination
for vice president of the United
States.
IMSASTItOl'H fihi: 111 HXH
wiiuvr AMI) FLOUJC
Fulerton. Neb., Feb. 28 The Ful
lerton mills, its elevator and u Ful
lerton electric light plant were de
stroyed here by fire Saturday night.
Fourteen thousand bushclks of wheat
and three carloads of Hour burned
with the mill. The sharp north wind
fanned the tire and carried it to the
power plant adjoining. This was al
so destroyed. Another plant of the
electric company is furnishing lights
for the city.
The mill was valued at 920,000.
and the power plant at J 5,000. The
larger structure was owned by the
Farmers' Stock compauy and the city
owned the power house. Both build
ings were fully insured. Rebuilding
operations will be started ul once.
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