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Buck Stoves and Ranges
Opposed to Prohibition-Wooster
Will Speak at Box Butte
County Fair Thursday.
September 28th 1916
There will be an address opposed to prohibition at the Box Butte County
Fair on the afternoon of Thursday, September 28. The Nebraska Prosperity
League, composed wholly of leading taxpayers and business men, is conducting
a campaign of education against prohibition, and is presenting arguments op
posed to the pending constitutional amendment. .-.The management of our
County Fair notified the League that arrangements had been made to hear
v speakers on both sides of the prohibition issue, and offered a place on the pro
gram for a speaker representing the League. The League took advantage of
this opportunity and engaged Hon. Charles Wooster of Silver Creek to repre
sent it on his occasion. Mr. Wooster is not a member of the League, but was
requested to fill this engagement because of his prominence as a publicist, and
because he is known far and wide as a man of strong convictions and personal
independence of all outside influences.
Mr. Wooster is a veteran of the Civil War; was a member of the legisla
ture of 1837, and has owned and operated a farm in Merrick County since
1872. He is opposed to prohibition for reasons which he is able to present
most forcibly, and the visitors to our Fair on Thursday afternoon, the 28th,
will be well repaid for listening to his address.
Nebraska Prosperity League
STATE SUPERINTENDENT
VISITS IN THE CITY
Head of lite Stale Schools Talks
the Students at Hie llitfli
School
to
State Superintendent A. O. Thom
as spent Friday forenoon in Alli
ance. Mr. Thomas pave a short address
at the high school, lie expressed
himself well pleased with the Alli
ance schools, the excellence, of the
schools of this city being well known
to him. Mr. Thomas devoted sever
al hours to meeting the leading cit
izens of Alliance. From this city he
went to Scottsbluff.
V.'hen at Chadron at the Dawes
county fair the state superintendent
gave an address on educational lines
especially of Interest to the schools
of the northwestern portion of the
state. A digest of this address will
be of iuterest to those who did not
have the pleasure of hearing him.
Following is a condensation of the
excellent address: '
Northwestern Nebraska has its
own educational problem. The larg
er allotment occupied by the dweller
of this region as co pared w,th the
smaller unit of the eastern section
forces a condition peculiar to itself.
A larger school district is necessary
in order to bring togethar suQiclent
groups of children to warrant a
school within reasonable cost to the
people. Then again the nature of
the basic activity of our northwest
accustoms us to larger range. The
combination of grain raising and live
stock industry makes a reasonably
easy and profitable life, but makes
difiW ult the building of schools com
mensurate with the neds of the peo
ple. The great northwest Is a valuable
portion of our commonwealth. The
whole eastern section Is enriched by
it and its welfare Industrially and
commercially adds largely to the
wealth and prosperity of the whole
state. The- one section of the state
Is not only interested in watching
the development of the schools of
the other but is willing to help in
that development, veil knowing that
the eountiy, or any part of It, cannot
hope to thrive until the school is de
veloped to reasonable efficiency. In
an age like this parents will not take
Ux-ir children into a territory where
bools are inaccessible and Ineffici
ent. Tile school therefore is of first
cont-idera'ion, following settlement.
If the proper syste mof schools can
be built up in this section it will
make u more permanent abode, in
crease the population and wealtii
and i. ake richer the life of the coun
try. Our schools talipot be said to be
ROOMS WANTED FOR THE FAIR
If Alliance is to continue to enjoy her excellent reputation
a a liosh'ss she must meet the abnormal conditions in respect
to visitors 1 hat will prevail on the occasion of the County Fair.
There will undoubtedly be a large number of visitors in Alli
a u-e on those days ami the present hotel accommodations are
it )t Kiiflu ient to house all the visitors. The County Fair board
is desirous of obtaining rooms for all visitors at the fair, who
arc tmable to obtain accommodations at the regular hotels and
rooming houses. The Commercial Club will on these three
iVivh serve as a clearing house for rooms and they are request
ii g now that those who have rooms fill out the following blank
a:xl send it to the secretary of the Commercial Club. It is a
duty we owe as hostess. Your co-operation in this matter will
bo deeply appreciated.
TAME
ADDRESS
TELEPHONE.
NO. OF ROOMS
NO. OF PEOPLE
PRICE PER PERSON PER NIOIIT
Signed -
NOTICE The secrctarys office at the Commercial Club
will be the clearing house for 11 roonis.Applications for rooms
will be made at the secretary's office and assignments given
there. Money for rooms will be paid in advance to the secre
tary, who will in turn remit the entire amount due immediate
ly after the fair.
In considering the stove question this fall, consider
the amount of coal necessary to give off the required
amount of heat consider the looks of the stove as an ad
dition to the appearance, of your home consider the
pleasure to be derived from an evening at home when the
rooms aro all well warmed without emptying the coal bin
every week consider the length of time a stove should
Nerve these purposes.
IN OTHER WORDS
Consider THE BUCK
Come in and let us show you. the features that make
these stoves and ranges the most desirabk at any price.
The arrangement of the air flues in such tfiat all the gas
is burned along with the coal. That's economy since the
gas gives off more heat than the coal itself. When the
gas goes up the chimney, unconsumed, you are losing the
greater part of your heat. You are clogging your chimneys and paying more money for less
than if you used the BUCK. .
COME IN AND SEE ALL THESE TIIINGS AND
WE ARE SURE THAT YOU WILL CONCLUDE
THAT THE BUCK IS THE STOVE TO BUY
ALL STYLES AND SIZES IN BOTH RANGES AND HEATERS
JMILIER BROTHERS 1H0U S EFU RM1SH1N G STORE
eOicirnt until we have brought equal
chances to all the youth of the state.
U'e must not be content with an ele
mentary education gained by intei
mitteut attendance. Efficiency and
preparedness come throueb educa
tion and they are the watchword of
the age. We Diust have an open
door and a chance for all who desire
from the humblest country school to
the bighcHt learning, and to do this
is a great problem. Hut the great
problems of business' and gown
uient are solved and why can we in..
solve our educational problem?
Our problem Is to bring education
al facilities within reasonable reach
and at reasonable cost. The difll. un
ties we encounter In doing this are
not Insurmountable. They are, how
ever, perplexing and will require pa
tient and persistent effort if we e.
pect to accomplish debired results.
In the sparsely settled section the
districts are so large that children
are compelled to travel 'long distanc
es, over temporary roads, through
pastures and over streams which
keep the parents in many localities
uneasy during the time the children
are absent rrom the Hom. This
condition seems at present unavoid
able because of the necessity for
large areas in order to get sufficient
revenue to maintain a school. The
smaller land valuation, the quantity
of land undeeded and the grenter
distances between settlers are ob
vious difficulties to be adjusted.
A concerted effort on the part of
the people backing up an intelligent
program will work wonders in u
;hort time. A district unit such as
will serve the ultimate and develop
ed country should be establixhed and
this should be determined by a care
ful analysis of conditions and by in
terested patrons who may be called
into convention for the purpose of
determining the most feasible and
practical unit. . ,
A tract four miles by four miles.
making a district containing sixteen
square miles, will place no more than
three miles from the school bouse
whirb should be located by law as
nearly in the center as the Uy of the
land will permit. A district broken
oh the half-section line, Ave miles by
five miles In area, and containing
twenty-five square miles, .would
place one child in twenty-five more
than four miles from school. In a
district six miles square one-half of
the children would be more than
inree miles rrom the renter. A rea
sonable allowance should be estab
lished by law for each family, not
for each child, who lives beyond the
three-mile limit, or a systematic
method of transportation employed.
Three miles is not a great distance.
As a boy It was ray privilege to walk
four and one-half miles for much of
the schooling I received and it Is lit
tle hardship to one who really wants
an education.
School should be maintained in
; every district in wmcn there is a
; reasonable number of children who
j will attend. This number should be
. determined largely by the dwellers
of this section who are the Interest
ed parties. Should any established
district not have a reasonable quota
of children, some provision should
be made to get them into an adjoin
ing district or to establish the mother-teacher,
in case the mother has
sufficient educational qualification,
and pay her the per capita cost for
education In the state.
The school house site should bo
located by law In the center of the
uistrlct, but provision should be
made for a temporary shirt In case
the distribution of children should
warrant, and in many localities the
portable school house should be em
ployed to cover temporary shifting
of the population of the district. The
change should be made by establish
ed and competent authority.
In case a school does not have suf
ficient valuation to maintain a prop
er school the state at large, which
will benefit by having all parts well
supplied, should aid in the support.
Adequate provision should ha
made for high schooj within all dis
tricts where there are sufficient
children to warrant the same and in
ombinations of these distrlctn, or by
ounty or district high schools as
h,e people of the various counties
nay choose..
Such a system of education will
liable dwellers of this "iinnl r
greater reach" to build up more rap-
uy ami more substantially. It is
I'tie all of the harduhi 1141 I'M II lint lit.
overcome, but they can be reduced
to the minimum, and the vast ma
jority of our childreu given reason-
:inie educational accommodations. As
state superintendent of nnhlir- i,i.
ttructlon I shall be glad to confer,
at any opportune tii.ie. with the peo
ple of this section relative to such
;aws as win bring the most beuetic
tent results to the people and the
greatest development to this nart of
our great Ftate. ,
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Don't send out of town for your!
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Albodon Tooth Paste
R R E E
Every visitor to these Dental Parlors will receive a sample tube of this famous
cream
'Albodon Dental Cream is a high grade product sold in leading drug- stores,
such as Beaton's, Merritt's, etc.
Dr. G. W. Todd
Dr. W. E. Ludwick, Associate
403 BRANDEIS BLDO.
10 Per Cent Discount to Out-of-Town Patrons for Transportation