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VOLUME XXIV
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1916
NUMBER 2
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LIANCE
PENNY POST NOW SEEMS ASSURED;
LETTER RATE CUT HALF IN CITIES
Appropriation Bill Completed by House Committee Makes Drastic
Changes in Postal Regulations Magazines to
Get Increased Charge
CONSTRUCTION WILL START ON
ADDITIONS TO ALLIANCE HOTEL
Plans Nearly Completed foi Making Hotel Alliance the Largest and
Most Modern in Vetera Nebraska, With 150 roomj and
Larger Dining and Sample Rooms
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One cent postage for local first
class mall deliveries and a tone a ys
tem ot rates for second-class matter
which la expected greatly to Increase
the charges for magazines and other
periodicals having a nation-wide cir
culation, are provided for in the an
nual postofflce appropriation bill, ac
cording to news dispatches. The
measure,' carrying appropriations to
taling about $327,000,000 probably
will be reported to the house next
week. v
Under the 1-cent postage provis
ion the rate on letters and other mail
matter of te first class, when depos-
Ited In any postofflce or branch post
office or letter box or postofflce In the
delivery district, for delivery within
the limits of the postofflce city or
rural delivery district, would be cut
In half.
The tone proposals for handling
newspapers and magazines, which
now pay a flat rate ot 1 cent a pound,
is regarded as one of the most radi
cal changes in postage rates In years.
It divides the country Into eight
zones, with rates chargeable ranging
from 1 cent for 300 miles to 6 cents
for 1,800 miles or more.
Paiers Not Affected
The bulk of daily papers, the com
mittee oelleves, will not be affected,
because they do not circulate beyond
a 300-mile radius.
The bill provides:
"That all newspapers, magazines,
and other publications, regularly ad
mitted to the malls as matter of the
second class, when mailed by the
publisher, shall hereafter be subject
to the following rates of postage, the
zone system now applying to parcels
post matter to be adapted also to sec
ond class matter.
NEW LAUNDRY MANAGER
Carter Calder, Who. Has Ilwn Em-
ployed by taundry Eleven Years
Succeed George Smith
Following the resignation of
George Smith as manager of the Al
liance Steam Laundry last Saturday
night, Carter E. Calder, who Is the
present city clerk and who has been
employed by the laundry for eleven
years, was appointed to succeed Mr,
Smith.
Mr. Calder is one of the most wide
ly acquainted and best posted men In
Alliance. He has lived here four
teen years. He Is a veteran of the
Spanish-American war and is active
In fraternal circles. His long exper
ience in the alundry business ably
fits him for the new posllton.
MONEY PLENTIFUL
THIS CHRISTMAS
General Prosperity of Farmers aiwi
Hatchers Itellected in Ixtcal
Business Houses
The Christmas season Is here. The
very air Is filled w'th the Christmas
spirit. The business houses of Alli
ance are decorated in true Christmas
style, while the show windows are
decorated In many attractive ways
with Christmas merchandise.
Western Nebraska- folks have
"Local first' second and third1 more money to spend this year than
ne (under 300 miles), 1 cent per , has been the case In many years. The
V.n 1 bumper potato crop of this year, cou-
zone
pound
vnnrth on fSOO to 600 miles). Pled with we otner succeBsiuicropa
2 cents per pound.
has turned better than three millions
fr.vV.:" itft' . 1 aaa ' of dollars Into the pockets of Box
'""".,VW "v "i Butte county farmers and ranchers
"Sixth zone (1.000 to 1,400 miles) They have the money to , spend I this
4 cents a pound year 'or luxuries and for Christmas
"Seventh zone (1.400 to 1.800 Rifts of a more expensive nature Lo-
mll:.V rt. u r,n,.nd. cal merchants are feeling the effect
Eighth zone (over 1.800 miles). 6 of this stimulant already and are do
.' " ,7 lng a big Christmas business. Auto
"Provided that free-ln-county cir- U'1 j"
culatlon provided by law shall con-" romln. year wi see . an even larger
have a number of
tlnila aa o nroaont.
..x. - .ncrui o Via n many of them
have authority to require publishers projects "P As soon as the
their mail into zoneB '" , w ,
t uarv. r eoruary vim mn u ii.v .i
to separate
when offered for mailing.
Catalogs Up
' dealers look for a brisk business in
.... 1 ,.l.,w.Q t n a Kill IIieiT lllie.
increases rates for mail order cata- Dealers in p anos and Ponographs
ogs from 2 to 8 cents a pound, mak- and other -articles that might be
ng them fh rd class maUer. i !4 u rtl!i Tat
of parcel post; raises the limitations with affairs. The part .month has
on promotions of clerks and carriers seen many sales in these
In first and second class postofflces; many more are anticipated. Cloth
'B --...T ine merchants, ladles ready-to-weor
authority to deal w th lotteries" and dry goods dealers ro all coming
Srugs and poison! and Increases the In for their share of the general pros-,
'uLdliv7 I??latl?J:l '4;:;PeTnere Is every indication that old j
o-anu-nded by Atauit P. ; Santa Claus is going to have to have
.:in. P Isome assistance this year in deliver-
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Magazine Section
Again This Week.
Again this week tlie IleraM's magazine
comes to you. It'coines ns one of the five
sections of the forty pntfes of this week's
Herald the annual Christmas number.
The magazine is aptly illustrated all the
way through and is full of interesting
stories from the pens of well-known and
fumnnu fliitlinrn Yon flon't. 111V bolter
reading in any magazine anywhere than
you find between the covers of the Herald
magazine. Authors of national and in
ternational reputation arc writing for the
magazine their works are appearing in
many of the high priced magazines. You
get the Herald magazine without one cent
of extra cost to you.
- Particular attention is called to "The
Mystery of the Causeway," by D. Fletch
er Robinson, co-author with Sir A. Conan
Joyle of "The Hound of the Basker
ville8." As our readers know, Sir A. Co
nan Doyle is the creator and author of
that famous character of fiction, Sherlock
Holmes. "The Air Pilot," by Randall
Parrish, author of "Keith of the Border,"
"When "Wilderness Was King," etc., is
continued in this issue. If you have not
been reading this, read the synopsis and
continue from now on. Wilbur D. Nesbit
contributes a four-stanza poem, "The
Book of the Wars." "The Lucky Like
ness," from the pen of Horace Barns, also
is contained in this issue of the Herald
magazine.
The aim is to make ach issue of the
magazine a better one. This magazine is
but another one of the great values you
get when you take the Herald. The Her
ald averages 16 pages an issue there are
52 issues a year then there is the Her
ald's magazine and it all comes to you
for $1.50 a year. These are a few of the
reasons why The Alliance Herald is THK
LEADING! NEWSPAPER OF WEST
ERN NEBRASKA. .
NEW LINE OF SHOES
Famous Clothing store will handle
highest grade of mens shoe
manufactured
The Famous Clothing store, of
which Marcus Frankle is proprietor,
has received Its first large shipment
of the well known line of Edwin
Clapp men's high grade shoes. This
line of shoes is the highest grade
manufactured in the United States
and the factories In Massachusetts
turn out nothing but f e expensive
and high grade lines. It is well
worth a man's time to visit the store
and examine these shoes, the finest
ever brought to the city.
This men's clothing store pur
chases Ha lines of men's clothing
through the United National Cloth
iers, the biggest buying organiza
tion In the country. The store Is
full of up-to-date Christmas clothing
for men and boys.
EAGLES ELECT OFFICERS
Alliance liodge No. 186, F. O. II,
Meet Officers at Meeting Held
Thursday Night
Officers for the ensuing Tear were
elected Thursday evening, December
7, at the regular meeting of Alliance
Aerie No. 136, Fraternal Order of
Ha glen. Those elected were:
J union Past President. Carter Cal
der; Worthy President, Lloyd C.
Thomas; Worthy Vice President, Al
Renswold; Secretary, F. W. Hicks;
Treasurer, Geo. O. Oadsby; Chap
lain, J. N. Nation; Physician, H. II.
Dell wood; Inside Guard, Carl Bruck
ner; Outside Guard, Geo., A. Hills;
Trustee for term of three years, Wm.
Blgnell; Trustee for a term of two
years, Carter Calder.
The Eagles lodge of Alliance la
one of the best equipped fraternal
orders In the city, from a financial
viewpoint. The lodge, through Its
newly organized building association,
owns over 112,000 worth of proper
ty, over and above Its indebtedness.
The Herald la advised today, thru
reliable sources, that the recent visit
of the Colorado millionaire capitalist
Adolph Coora, to Alliance was for th
purpose of going over the recently re
constructed Alliance Hotel building,
which he owns, with the view of
making the building Into a hotel with
one hundred and fifty modern rooms,
at a total expenditure of approxi
mately $80,000.
Since returning to Denver Mr.
Coors haa employed a firm of archi
tects who have nearly completed
plans for the rc-constructlon of the
hotel building here. The plans will
call for the re-construction of the
present building, which is a three
story, modern structure, and the add
ing thereto of additions both on the
north and west.
The new heating plant which has
Just been Installled In the hotel was
made large enough to enre for the
new building and has ample capacity
to care for ISO rooms In the coldest
weather.
It Is expected that the contrnct for
the re-construction will be awarded
so that the work will start soon after
January 1st. Mr. Coors has ample
capital to finance any size building he
might desire to erect. That he has
faith in the future of Alliance was
demonstrated when he was Interview
ed by a Herald reporter while recent
ly In the city, at which time he ex
pressed himself as being well pleased
with his Investments here.
J. M. Miller, lessee of the Alliance
Hotel building, came to Alliance
about two years ago. His success la
the hotel and restaurant business
since coming here has, been almost
phenomenal and. he will continue to
operate the business with Its en
larged facilities. Both his hotel and
restaurant business are taxed to ca
pactty and be could easily use dou
ble the number of rooms which he
now has, In spite of the fact that the
rapacity of the hotel has beep doubled
witmn tn epast year. The new plana
.call for a dining room of doubled ca
pacity as well as larger Xltchen facil
ities, etc.
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REBFKAHS BANQUETED
IRRIGATORS MET
AT BRIDGEPORT
.....1 Til a V ttl OA 1 OKtlH oonmmiivv J - " " "
Erman Moon of the postofflce Ing his gifts, for the poor old man al-
aaA tl. hill ..till wa. nub- lVa'Jy lOUQI U UOWJl aim mo uoua.
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Ject to change before being reported
and that the question of hearings on
the proposed pneumatic tube service
appropriation was in obeyance.
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED
11. of L. V. & K. Finish ltullotit:g and
I-.Iin tiou of OMrer for Two
year Term Announced
The balloting on officers by B. of
L. F. & E. number 632 has been
sleigh may have to be discarded for
a train of automobile trucks.
M i'iy resllents of Allinaec and
vicinity are anxiously waiting for
Decemebr 20 to come for on that date
the First State, Bank will mail out
checks to members of the Christina:)
savings club. Those checks will be
CHhd fu iresi iitiion at the bank
or will be accepted by the savings de
partment of the institution or cer
tificates of deposit will be issued up
on them at the option of the mem
ber. The turning lose of this large
h mount of money is expected to
completed and the following are an- ran),e business doubly brisk about
no u rued as the successful candidates, 1 (nat time and merchants' are waiting
elected for a term of two years:
President, J,
President, O.
Secretary, K.
Secretary, F
A. Witowack; Vice
O. Kuth; Recording
W. Hicks; Financial
W. Hicks; Trustees, terlally this year
in keen anticipation of that time
The First State Bank starts its
1917 club on December 20 and ex
pects to increase the membership ma-
Joe bogan, Wm. Kberly. N. T. Shaw
ver; Legislative Representative, Joe
Bogan; Local Organizer; J. A. Wito
wack; Medical Examiner, Dr. H. A.
Copsey; Local Grievance Committee,
J. A. Witowack. Joe Bogan. Wm. Eb-erly.
Clyde Pigman and family, former
ly of Alliance, are now located at
Wheat ridge, Colo.
DATKS OF UOMIXU
EVENTS IN NirilHASKA
December 19. 20 and 21 State Vet
erinarians' Association meeting at
Lincoln.
December 20 and 21 Convention of
National Farmers' Equity Union at
Omaha.
January 1K 2, S, 4, 5 and 6State
Poultry Show at Kearney.
January 15, 16. 17, 18. 19 and 20
State Improved Live Stock Associ
ation meeting at Lincoln. -
January 16, 17 and 18 Annual con
vention of Nebraska Volunteer
Firemen at Auburn.
January 16, 17. 18 and 19 Winter
-' Apple, Floral and Potato show at
Lincoln.
Taken all in all the 1916 Christ
mas season la a bannor one good
for the merchants because people are
spending their money and good for
the spenders because they have the
money tn spend.
JM)IK IIOKSKIIAC'K AtlAI.N
The following item is taken from
the liyannis Tribune of last week:
John W. Thomas, editor of the Al
llanc e Herald, attended to business
matters in Hyannis last Friday and
Saturday and visited Sunday and
Monday at the Tribune ranch with
his eon. P. M. Thomas, and wife, for
tlm first in a great many years doing
a horseback stunt and imagined hls-
xelf a boy again.
S'l'OKY TKLLIXti AT LIBRARY
F'einiiirg on Saturday, December
ICth, at three o'clock in the after
noon, story telling will egln at the
Alliance Public Library. There will
be story telling each Saturday at .this
hour until further notice. On this
date Miss DoraCoker wllltell Christ
mas Stories.
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3 ALLIAflbt VYUMtno ULUD WAUUUnAIC
1916 SALE OF RED CROSS SEALS
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the magnitude of the Red Cross
Christmas Seal campaign. Here are
a few figures -that will show what a
gigantic movement this is. Already
325,000,000 seals have been printed
and practically that entire number
distributed to agents in every state
end territory of the Union from Alas
ka to the Canal Zone, from Porto;
Rico to Hawaii, and even in the far-:
off Philippines. Advertising circul
ars, posters, cards, etc., to the num
ber of sewral million, have also been
distributed. Not-less than 1.000,000
personal letters asking people to buy
seals have been sent out. It is esti
mated that the army of workers,
nearly all of whom are volunteers,
engaged In selling the seals, numbers
well over 500,000. The advertising
Rnd publicity devoted to the cam
paign amounts to several hundred
thousand dollars. Every effort is
; being put forth to sell 100.000.000
I seals, or only one for every man,
I woman and child in the United
'States. Over 1,500 anti-tuberculoa-ls
associations of the country derive
I their support from Red Cross seals.
' If the pood work is to go on, you
must help.
How Idea Originated
Over $3,250,000 has been ralsod
by Red Cross Christmas seals in the
last eight years, and yet many people
who will buy these holiday stickers
at this ninth annual sale do not
know how this idea originated.
While Red Cross seals really date
back to the Civil war when "Charity
Stamps" were first used, the first
j campaign to sell holiday stickers for
the tuberculosis ngni was oniy nine
I years axo In Delaware. Miss Emily
Johnrcn and Mrs. Lee Basye. Thei, Rissell of Wilmington read an ar
plan of the selling campaign is to j tide by Jacob Rita describing stamps
have seals on sale in every business f used for tuberculosis work In Nor
pluce possible and to conduct street way, and she conceived the Idea of a
sales on Saturdays from now until I niniilar plan here. Single handed.
.iormr.l7itrt. Keith Neville Made
t Talk and t'oiiilrnu-d AMint-
ineiita, Many In Attendance
Clean cotton rags wanted at The
Herald office. We pay three cents
per pound. Woolen rags not wanted
1916 SEAL DEMON
The 1916 sale of Red Cross Christ
mas Seals is now on in Alliance.
Practically every business house In
the city has seals for sale. The sale
of seals is being conducted in Alli
ance this year by the Alliance Wo
man's Club, the club receiving fifty
per cent of the money collected lo
cally. This revenue will be used by
the ladies to apply on the purchase
price ot a sanitary drinking fountain
winch they plan to have Installed
here within the coming year. Pub
lic drinking cups are dangerous from
the fact that vile and contagious dis
eases are carried by them. The san
itary drinking fountain will do Its
pait in this great work.
The committee of the Woman's
Club who is in charge of the sale of
sealb here is composed of Mrs. Lloyd
C. Thomas, chairman, Mrs. Llo;J
Christmas. A corps of small girls Is
also engaged in the work, the girls
receiving a small remuneration for
their labor.
Iteil t'rofcft Seal Figures
Few people have any conception of
she launched a sale whici resulted In
$3,000 clear money. When Miss
Bissell tried to convince the. Ameri
can Red Cross that this idea should
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The seventh annual convention of
the Nebraska State Irrigation Con
gress was held at Bridgeport three
days last week. The convention was
a decided success from every stand
point. . .
President Wilburn Barbour called
the meet'ng to order after which
Rev. W. F. McDougal of Bridgeport
Invoked the divine blessing and eu
tended the, welcome to the city. Mr.
Barbour also spoke of somo of the
needed legislation for. the benefit of
Irrigation as viewed from tho stand
point of one who has passed through
thirty years of practical solutions of
irrigation.
State Engineer George E. Johnson
gave a comprehensive address on the
"Duty of Water." One of tho idea
brought out was that the average
user wastes water thus. preventing
the acco.iipllsaing of Its full duty.
Andrew Weiss, head of the reclani
athh service for the North PJatte
project, presented diagrams showing
the volume of the water in the river
taken in ten days periods, and cover
ing the river between the Pathfinder
dam and Elm Creek during the irriga
tion season. The diagrams were ac
companied by a thorough explanation
by Mr. Weiss, showing how various
conditions effect tho volume, such as
amount In uses, return Hows, losses
from evaporation, etc.
On th eevening of the first day of
the convention George E. Coudra.
head of the conservation commission,
gave an instructive talk on the re
sources and possibilities of western
Nebraska.
Thursday morning the subject of
drainage occupied the attention of
the delegates and the discussion was
preceeded by a well written article
by J. T. Whitehead of Mitchell.
Governor-elect Neville made a
splendid address to the assembled
delegates on the subject of irrigation
in general. He spoke of the attitude
of the state board of Irrigation to
ward the interests of wesotern Ne
braska and pledged himself to do ev
erything in his power to forward Irri
gation in this end of the state and
to project the rights of water users
as far as possible. He confirmed the
appointment of George E. Johnson as
state engineer and also the appoint
ment of Mr. Cochran as assistant
state engineer. This action on the
part of Mr. Neville met with unquali
fied approval from the convention.
Nearly TWo Hundred were neatnd
-nroiuid the festive loard at Han- ,
quct glveu Frlady night ,
Friday, Decobor 8th, was an oc
casion that will be long reraem bored
by the many members of Alliance
Rebekah Lodge. Mrs. Walter V.
lloagland of North Platte, Grand
Worthy President of the Nebraska
grand lodge, was present and part!--.
ipated at the Initiation of a large
class of new members.
Following the regular lodge session
and the initiation of a largo dusti of
new members at the I. O. O. F." hall
the members adjourned to tho Ham
ilton hall where a fine banquet waa
served by the ladles of the lodge. A
membership contest had been held
and the losing side served the ban
quet which they did in delicious and
excellent Style.
Tho toastmaster at the banquet
waa Lloyd Thomas. Among those
who spoke were Mrs. Walter V. lloag-lui-d
of Nort!t Platte, Mrs. John R.
fci.yder, M-s. F. W. Hicks, Mrn V. O.
Waddell, Miss Opal Russell.. Mrs.
Moses Wright, A. D. Ro.ikh.s, Fred
Hoover, John R. Snyder, E. M. Mar
tin and other prominent members of
the lodge.
The Alliance Rebekah lodge haa
been rapidly growing in membership"
during the last few months and now
has a place twon l tl none in this sec
tion of the r'ntf. The ladies .who
served the banquet were compliment-'
ed on their Eccd work.
Art Groves, progressive Box Butte
county farmer living north of Alli
ance, haa recently closed a deal for
three quarter-sections of land ad
Joining his already large holdings.
Mr. Groves has one of the finest
farms in the county.
Prof. O. VV. SJorgren of the uul
verslty of Nebraska closed the morn
ing meeting with a highly entertain
ing and Instructive talk on pump irri
gation, and held the attention of the
audience closely.
In the afternoon the oemmittee on
resolutions made a report and the re
solutions as reported were -adopted.
Then came a good address on the sub
ject, "Good Roads." by State Engin
eer Johnson. This was followed Im
mediately by Prof. O. V. P. Stout, of
the state university, who talked in a
reminiscent manner of the early work
of trrlgatiomsts iu Nebraska.
11. II. Andrewsof Callaway, Nebr..
then spoke on the subject of, "Feder
al Farm LoanvBanks," and showed a
wide understanding of the subject.
On Thursday night the Bridgeport
Boosters' club took the delegates in
charge for a social time at the opera .
house. The business session of the
convention was held on Friday morn
ing at which time the unfinished bus
iness was cleaned up.
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