AIJ.1ANCK IIKIIAM), JANUAIt 11, 1017
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the ALLIANCE herald
LLOYD O. TIIOMAs liunlness Manager
GKOIMJK KPICK, Ulty Kdltor
fubliidied every Thursday by
THE HERALD PUttUSHINQ COMPANY
Incorporated
Uoyd O. Thomas. President CarlThoma, Vice Pre.
John VV. Thomas, Secretary
Entered at the post office at Alliance,
tia nails as second-class natter.
subscription PRICE. $1.60
If your copy of The Herald does
tortly, you should phone S40 or drop a
lee Is what are anroua to give, ao
lay when t wise your paper.
SOUR GRAPES FROM
The honorable 1J. S. Sallows,
IJuttc" county, nncl from whoso pen
& NF.RRVSKA PHESS ASSOCIATION)
of buncombe, and who frequently endeavors to delude the business
men of Alliance and the readers ot his paper, the Semi-Weekly
Time-', h rev.' evidently suffering from an attack of brain fever
caused by sour grain's or perhaps the nanny has been making at'
tempts fo break away and run off to the News office.
The Times of Friday, January 5th, conlained the following:
"P. T. Barnum once said thnt folks like to bo buncoed. The
Herald must have accepted the showman's theory of life for they
have recently Issued a letter to their advertisers stating that the
Herald has a larger circulation In Alliance and Its territory than
any two papers In the county. Not so fast, Uncle The Tlmea call
ed your bluff on this scorn once and It can do it again. Your 3,000
and 5,000 circulation Is a myth and you know it. Your press count
' er says 2,000 and half of these go to South. Omaha, Kansas City,
' Denver, Sioux City, St. Joe and Volunteer Firemen of the state.
That's not circulation; that's what Undo Sam culled the Herald
for, sending out In excess of 2,400 pounds of samples more than
ten per cent you are allowed to send on the basis of your circula
tion. Charge 25c an Inch for advertising, if you are so inclined,
but don't try to make It possible at the expense of the other pa
pers when you can't Bliow ono-half as many pald-ln-advance sub
scribers as tli Times and paid-in-advance are the only ones ac
cepted by Judicious advertisers.
The following circulation affidavit may be of interest
gentleman :
Affidavit of Circulation
State of Nebraska, 1
68.
liox liutte County.
Lloyd U. Thomas of Alliance, Nebraska, being first duly sworn
upon his oath deposes and says that he is President of The Herald
Publishing Company of Alliance,
of I lie Alliance Herald; that during
and circulated a total of not less
Herald, an average of 3,()(i5 and 5
regular issues published during said
Subscribed in my presence and
or January, 1916.
1SKAL .
During the year 1910' there were printed nud circulated a total
of 159,400 copies of The Alliance Herald, an average of 3.0G5 and
5-13ths copies per issue. This does not include a special edition of
5,000 copies m March or an extra
tolling about a fake wrestling match engineered by a prominent Al
liance man.
The issues for 1916 contained a total of SbS pages, an average
of 16 and 9-13 pages per issue. The Herald does not have to run its
page of legal notices twice a week (and get paid only for one time)
but it is packed full every issue of good, well written local and gen
eral news. The fact that its circulation is constantly on the increase
is testimony to us that we please our readers.
Each issue of The Herald goes to every volunteer fire department
in the state which belongs to the state association that taken 131
copies, paid in advance bv Ihe state association. If this circulation
and the prestige given The Herald
the state association is not good for.
the gentleman at The Times oftiee
get the Herald knocked out as official state paper at the annual con
ventio.i in Crawford last .lanuarvV And in which he failed by a
vote of over four hundred to three.
Once each month The Herald is mailed to live stock commission
firms of Denver, St. Joseph, Kansas City, Sioux City and South Oma
ha This takes ITS copies once per
On October 21, 1915, the subscription list of the Journal at llem
ingford, in Box Butte county, was taken over by The Herald Pub
lishing Company and added to the list of The Alliance Herald, giv
tr cr Tlw ller.'llcl 500 additional subscribers in Box Butte county,
practically all of whom still continue to take this paper During
1P,1f; when The Times refused the railroad men of
Miioonr fj.it. deal bv not publishing their side of the eight hour
jinn noni cnviu tv Kll I.Kcrihcrs came
UJ VVIHIWVlt.Y
ilii'd for
men 'a side of the uuestion. Since
during the recently closed political
l lUtit- i3 " WW 11 V v '-- - - - -
tw i.uvo ooinn to The Herald
ui ihvo vv...v r l
n ow in,ll a relmke to the irentleman when the voters of the
county elected by large majorities
mud.
The Alliance Herald is known
country newspaper of Nebraska." It has won and will hold this
reputation by the same straightforward, honest, unsensational
fnnrsn nursued during the past eight years. It indeed feels grateful
to the advertisers who support it by their business and who refuse
to be intimidated or bluffed by the methods used by the belligerent
n1 witwlv. mud-slintrintr eentleman up the street. Undoubtedly a
feeling of nervousness has seized him when he realizes that one of
his chief sources of income whisky and saloon advertising, which
The' Herald has alwavs refused under its present management, will
cease on May 1st and he will be compelled to fill his yawning columns
with something else.
The Herald never invites a
allow itself to be intimated by the gentleman who now endeavors
to do so. We would suggest that he devote more of his time to
joining in the campaign which The Herald has started for greater
publicity for western Nebraska not sensational, undesirable pub
licity, but the publicity which we need to bring in more citizens for
our towns and more farmers for our lands. And then, perhaps, Mr.
. S., your circulation will grow so that you will not have to wonder
Nebraska, for transmission through
per YEAR in ADVANCE
not reach you regularly or aatisrac
card to the dfflce. The best of serv
don't hesitate to notify us without
OUR FRIEND, "B. S."
wonM-bo political ruler of Iiox
at times ilows the rankest kind
to the
Nebraska, and Business Manager
the year 191 G there were printed
tluui 150,400 copies of The Alliance
- 13th copies per issue for the 52
year.
LLOYD C. THOMAS
sworn to before me this 8th day
HOBK1JT (). HHDD1SH,
Notary Public
edition gotten out the .Inly beiore
by being the official organ for
the paper and the town why did
make such a strenuous effort to
month.
in bunches and droves to The
, . i . 1
tins iaier in order to learn the
the gentleman at The Times office
cken the renutation of irood. reputable citizens
campaign he has been rebuked by
,
without solicitation on our part.
the men whom he plastered with
over the stale as "the leading
newspaper tight but it never w ill
TELL THE WORLD ABOUT IT.
A summary of estimates of crop production and prices for the
State of Nebraska and for the United States, compiled by the Bureau
of Crop Estimates (and transmitted through the Weather Bureau)
United States Department of Agriculture) shows that in the year
just passed, the year of 1916, a total of 105,000 acres were planted to
potatoes in Nebraska ns compared to 110,000 acres planted in 1915.
The production in 1916 was 7,065,000 bushels a s compared with
11,550,000 bushels in 1915. Potatoes were worth on December 1,
1916, according to the (lovernmcnt Crop Keport from which the
figures in this article ate taken, $1 50 a bushel. At these figures the
1916 Nebraska potato crop was worth a grand total of $11,497,500.
Considering that liox Butte county this year produced in the
neighborhood of M)0,000 buslfels of potatoes and figuring their value
it the valuation placed on them on December 1, 1916, by the United
states Bureau of Crop Estimates, Box Butte County the banner
potato county of Nebraska produced potatoes iu 1916 to the value
of one million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000.00) or al
most one and a half million dollars worth of tubers. When the fact
is comprehended thnt growers are more than joying for their land
in Box Butte county with one year's crop of potatoes, the fact that
Box Butte county produced almost u million and a half dollars worth
of potatoes this year is more ca.sily comprehended.
The government estimates the
States for 1916 to have been 25,437,000 bushels as compared to
350,721,000 bushels in 1915.
The best potato land in the. United States can be purchased here
iu Box Butte county for from $20 to $35 an acre and on easy pay
ments. Recently an Alliance man made the statement that he had
lived lu re thirty years and has never yet seen the time that an acre
of -potatoes would not buy an acre of the best corn raised on '-the
highest priced land in eastern Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana or
any otter limit priced land states.
which is ati accepted fact, that potatoes can be raised here with less
labor and less expense than corn
It requires foiu or five alid
tatoes to seed an acre. According
braska State Board of Agriculture issued on November, 25, 1916,
potatoes in Box Butte county averaged 123.7 bushels to the acre. At.
a price of $1.50 a bushel, an acre of potatoes is worth $185.55. But
let's be conservative, let's get the price way down low, say at 80c a
bushel you know growers sold potatoes here, and an abundance of
them, at $1.25 and $1.35 a bushel and potatoes are worth$98-96
an acre. We have figured tie selling price at 80c a bushel and you
have your seed already, but just for argument let's say your seed
costs you $1.50 a bushel, the top price, and say it takes six bushels
to seed an acre, that is $9.00 an acre which subtracted from $98-96
eaves you $89.. Let s be liberal
acre, the digging and picking $o.00 an acre, and the other labor $11
an acre, a total of $25.00 cost to raise and dig an acre of potatoes.
Subtract this total cost from your $9.96 and you still have $73 96
left, for yourself from an acre of potatoes raised on land thnt cost
von irom $15 to $J. dollars. Consider also that these estimates are
onservntive practically every
iced was cheaper and the price
wsnel.
How can any farmer honestly
iutte county when the opportunities are here in such abundance.
Potatoes are but one crop. If
lold us that we couldn't raise beans out here, onfy knew the oppor
tunity that awaits them here. Why, we can raise 35 bushels of beans
to an acre and sell them for ten cents a pound- Sixty pounds to the
bushel means 2,100 to the acre and
vou $Z10 an acre from beans. Box
lain!, returning big yields and best quality seed. The Herald has
no land to sell, but it has the interest of Box Butte county and the
great panhandle of Nebraska at heart. Our suggestion to vou, dear
reader, is just that you "tell" the
braska is to be settled rapidly it must fee through the work of the
people already here. We can't depend on the railroads to do this
for us they are busy selling land further west, where the car fare
is greater and they have more in it
You don't have to be a hot air
Western Nebraska has the goods and
Jie world about it.
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total potato crop in the tinted
Me also made the statement.
can be raised in the "corn belt."
never more than six loishels of no
to Bulletin No. 210 of the Ne
and say the seed costs $9.00 an
grower made much more because
was easily an average of $1.25 per
afford to stav away from Box
your friends hack east, who have
this at ten cents a pound makes
Butte has the nest alfalfa seed
folks back home. Tf western Ne
for themselves.
merchant just "tell" the truth
all that is necessary is to "tell"
iii:kkfoiu m ix
of Serviceable Age
WoimI Individuals and Privt to
Sell
Ranch adjoins town.
ri.MO HIDC.K CATTLE KANC1I
J. M. Tollman, Prop.
Maryland, Nebraska.
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GUIDED BY BEACONS
LIVES OF TRAVELERS 8AVED BY
"LAND LIGHTHOUSES."
Safety Signals on Desolate English
Waters Were a Necessity in Times
Gone By -Many of Them Still
In Existence.
Of all the remarkable llphthouses In
existence, and there ure many of them,
what Is described as "the only land
lighthouse" Is the most extraordinary.
This Is the lofty towvr. 100 feet high,
on the lonely levels of Lincoln Heath.
Jive miles from Lincoln, In the parish
of Dunston. It Is known ns "Dunstou
Pillar," says a writer la London Au
swers.
When the Strange building first came
Into being in 1751 Lincoln heath wh.
easily the most dangerous waste place
In England. About twenty miles
sipiure, it h.id then no made roads, no
signposts aud no Inclosing hedges.
Travelers found It n risky place to
venture in, especially in the shott day.;
of winter.
The registers of Lensingliam church,
Mi the" outskirts of the vast solitude,
contain accounts of the burials of
inany unfortunate travelers who lost
their way hero mid perished iu snow
h tonus and tempests.
So notorious were those dangers
Hint nt Potter Ilanwarth nud nt IHunk-'
iicy, in this region, there are pieces of
laud bequeathed ns thtutA-oflferings by
strayed wayfarer whose lives had
been nvcd by hearing tli church
bell's chines, so that their step were
guided to shelter. The revenues from
these lands were Intended to secure
the continuance of those nightly ring
ings, so that no others should run
uch riks.
It was TrancU Pnshwood, I-oid le
!e.--penscr, who bulti I'unton Pillar.
It nerved as a signr"t by day and
as n beacon by nighr, being at that
time surmounted by a ton tern, which
whi brilliantly llluinlnafcd.
Pot, after some lifty-nlMt years., n
good road was at last nwd ncrors
tlieso wildn and the lartterw was no
longer considered necosary. So In
p1ac of it a colossal stone statue
(leorge HI. was placed there In ISlo.
the yea of his Jubilee. And there' it
sin nds- f)!ny.
Ik-sides Dnnstnn Pillar, there nr.-
many more beacons that were intend' j
"J to keep the old-time travelers ic
the right path. We have one in ttie
neluhlx.ihoiid of London. This Is th '
old Iron (irepot, or ercsset, on the
angle turret of Morikeri lladley church,
ner.r Pnrnct, plueed there originally
hundreds of years ago for the cypres
purpose of gniding travelers who
might be coming after nightfall
through the lonely and deeply wooded
districts of Enneld Clia.se. The Iron
iot lias, of court, tecn often re
newed. A similar flrepot stands on the tow
er of Gilliaghain church, near Chat
hum, overlooking the Liver Medwny.
A much more el:ilrate affair, which
was ns much u "kind Tighthousc" r.v
InmsTon Pillar, is the luntem which
still stands on the tower of f J rent W el
don church, in the IttH-klnghntu Forest
district of Northamptonshire. It was
lighted every night for the express
purpose of guldiug benighted travelers
to safety through the entangled forest
brakes.
Of course, many of onr lighthouse
Kervlng our mariners along onr coasts
ure actually built ou land, notably the
famous North Foreland und the Lizard
lights.
Among the most curious of these Is
Dungeness lighthouse, standing on the
desolate wastes of shingle on the
Kentish const.
It was uhout 1U5 wheu the first
lighthouse was built there by a pri
vate speculator, who disposed of his
I interest to one William Laiuplough,
clerk to the king's kitchen.
To Stimulate Reading.
Five books, Action or noutiction, may
j henceforth be drawn on one card is-
' ......I ......! ......I.,. l,i.
IMi U l" 4111 UUUli It'UUU 11UIU V III' '
j en go public library. This is to Include
! nil sorts of books, except the uewest I
: lictlon. which is Issued as before, only
for a seven-day period, nonrenewable.
"We do not expect, however, that
' there will be a noticeable Increase In
the number of books taken out accord
ing to this privilege," 6aid Carl 1$. Ilo-
; ilcn, assistant librarian. "We are do
ing this merely as an Incentive to the
public to read more. The power of
j suggestion Is more effective than any
' thing else In making the public read. ,
j For Instance, one of the popular col- j
umu conductors of a city newspaper '
will merely mention a certain book.
. and our librarians are swamped with
. requests for that book, no matter how ,
! abstruse or lengthy it 18. No other j
' book on the same subject will do."
1 Chicago News.
I Start of Phrenology.
I The first annouucenient made by
Frauz Joseph Gait regarding his sys
tem or phrenology was in an address
delivered before Us medical colleagues
in Vienna Just a century and a quar
ter ago. Gall was a native of Baden, j
but settled In Vienna In 1781 and began
the practice of medicine In the Aus- 1
trlan capital. From his boyhood he
had been Interested In studying tjie
err Jitums of bis companions, and many
observations and much study convinced
him that the talents and dispositions of
men may be Inferred with perfect ex
actitude and precision from the exter
nal appearance of the skull. This
theory he elaborated Iu many lectures.
want conductive
LEGISLATION PASSED
8tate Ass'n of Commercial Clubs
In
Active Campaign -Guthrie on
lloai-d of Directors
The Nebraska State Association of
Commercial Clubs with which asso-
I ciation the Alliance Commercial Club
j is affiliated, is now actively engaged
In advancing the constructive legis
lative platform developed by the
commercial and community associa
tions of the state. John W. Guth
rie of Alliance represents the Sixth
, district of Nebraska on the board of
directors of the state association and
has been active in the work beiiev
! ing, with other officers, directors and
I members, that the, t tme is ripe now
for constructive legislation, that the
j time is now opportune and propitious
I for the inauguration of broad and
constructive policies Tor the upbuild
ing of the state.
The Nebraska State Association of
Commercial Clubs, which Is the state
organization of all Nebraska com
mercial bodie8t has addressed letters
to all members of the Nebraska sen
ate and house of representatives ad
vising them of the memorial adopted
at the fourteenth annual meeting of
the association which was lield at
Omaha on May 24 and 25, 1916. BU
resolutions Were adopted and these
are contained in the. letter stating
that the association Approves activity
in the matter of securing favorable
legislation along the lines named,
which are:
- First We favor amending the
present Highway Law, making the
present board of Irrigation, highways
and drainage the controlling bod
for highway improvement, with the
advisory board as now organized un
der ihe constitution and such other
amendments to this present law as
will enable our state to construct or
assist in the constr action of state
highways and to co-operate with the
United States government in the
construction of national highways.
We favor revenue by taxation
the state to make necessary levies in
addition to license taxes thus provid
ing fuftds to carry on the work as
above outlined.
Second An appropriation of $G0
000 to the- Nebraska Conservation
and Public Welfare Commission to
enable this commission to carry o
its work of research In the develop- '
tnent of the resources of the state
and in the compiling and dissemin
ating of the dita nnd information se
curetd. Third Sufficient funds appropri
ated to enable us to properly defend
Nebraska's water rights and for pur
pose of protecting the irrigation sec
tion of our state.
Fourth The enactment of a state
forestratlon law, permitting the
state, county or town t acquire
waste lands for forestration purpos
es. No appropriation required.
Fifth The repeal of the state oc
cupation tax as applied to corpora
t'onw engaged in manufacture.
M.1 n II f at Ill-A Is niimlnH t.i X" . . Vi . . c.
ka. This line or industry should be
encouraged nnd the tax as above is
discrimination and as such Is a reflection-
on oor staif and should be
repealed.
Sixth Legislation Is urged along
such Hneg as will hasten the develop
ment of the water pow-r resources
of our state.
TO K9LD 813 MATCH
Alliance (itiu Club Plans Tourimmrut'
to- tfar Held Here June 10
Korett Made (Sunday
The Alliance Gun Club, affiliated'
with the A. A. T. A., will hold a reg
istered meet here on June 10. Ap
plication has already been made to
the Interstate association for permis
sion to hold the meeting which will
be open to the world. It is expect
ed there will be a half dozen or more
expert shooters here for the occasion.
A new rifle and revolver club has
also been organized here, the organ
ization having been completed Sun
I day. This organization Is independ
ent of the Alliance Gun Club and is
! affiliated with the United States Ile
j volver Club. The officers of the new
Jclub are: president, V. IS. W. Jones;
! Becretary-treasurer and governor of
matches, D. H. Stansbury.
The following scores were made
Sunday afternoon at the club
grounds: 10 Otargets Jones, 89;
Stansbury, 89; Mendenhall. 89;
Capt. Hardy, 98; Reddish. 88. 50
targets Shane. 4 8; Laing, 46; Wec
delboe. 44; U. Fobs, 41.
Frenzied Finance.
Two American citizens of African,
descent were discussing the other day
the state of their flounces. One of
them proudly proclaimed himself to
be the itossessor of nearly $-10 in hard
cnh. "lat ain't nothtn' at ail, nig
ger." retorted ibe other. "Ueckon I
bad nigh ou to to' hundred dollars to
the bank one time, but the doggoued
interest done eut It ull up." -The
J.umb.
Credit Given to Galileo.
iVrluips the firtst real step In the de
velopment of clock regulation Is du
to Uallleo. who discovered th
; iehr.mM 0t uuiformltv of th un
' ,i,aiulu. QHiu! It. however, i.niv fi.r ,..
Invention of a little Instrument for eu
abllng doctors to count their atieiits'
pulse beats the precursor of the
stethoscope. To his son wus left th
work of applying the pendulum to tb
clock.
Wanted a "Foot"
My nephew, George, aged four, .
a (Sunday evening meal, wanted a sand
wich. Not being able to say It, lie
said: "Mother give me two pieces t
i,r,.,l I m rv.i f incnntnr chicken