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ADDITIONAL NORMAL ,
SCHOOL MOTES
The following Interesting news
Items from the Chadron State Nor
mal School were received after the
first Installment had been received
and placed In the form on .another
page:
The library methods clans are
Btudying the encyclopedia this week.
Mrs. Hargis gave an excellent talk
to the Y. W. C. A. girls last Thurs
day on "What It Means to De a
Christian". The talk was very much
appreciated by those present, and
the members are very grateful to
Mrs. Hargis. She always has some
thing worth wjiile to offer.
P J?.' untry.
Pine Ridge, and Mrs. McCown,
Waysido.
' Miss Wanda Richards, of Craw
ford, was detained at home this
week, on account of the illness of
her parents.
Mies Elsie Hash visited at her
home In Gordon last week.
Miss Ethel Hembry, who has been
doing observation and practlco teach
ing In our Rural Demonstration
school at Whitney, related her ex
perience before the Ilural Training
class Monday morning. Miss Hem
bry told of the sixth grade In geog
raphy of which she had charge,
writing letters to schools In southern
states, making inquiries concerning
cotton raising, and of the interesting
replies from children living in the
South. Another very Interesting
part of the work is the community
center feature and the debating so
ciety which includes Whitney and
had a cake and cookie sale last week.
Mr. Philpot, Miss Peterson and
Miss Delzell went to Harrison Sat
urday morning to Judge the declam
atory contest of the Sioux county
high school, which took place Satur
day night. Seventeen students took
part on the program, and the judges
were practically unanimous in their
decision. The Harrison people were
royal entertainers. They took the
Judges for a drive Saturday after
oon, through Monroe Canyon, and
a delightful time Is reported.
The Junior class had a party Fri
day night, at which time the games
and the ellghtful refreshments were
suggestive of St. Patrick. The guests
f honor were Mrs. Elliott, Jack El
liott, and Miss Peterson. A two
eourse luncheon was served by four
of the freshmen girls, Wllnia Jeffers,
Carmon Edaburn, Jean Blish and
Josephine Marcy. Toasts were re
sponded to by Ellen Macmillan, Joel
Burkltt, Helen Hush, William Coop
er and Anna Hoffland, Glen Emiek
acting as toastmaster. Toward the
close of the evening, the class pre
sented Mrs. Elliott with three cut
glass vases, and Miss Peterson with
a six-volume set of Hiley's poems in
a brass book rack, as an appreciation
f their valuable services in coaching
the class play.
On Tuesday evening of last week,
Miss Boyer and Mr. Clements enter
tained the two Normal basketball
teams. The crowd met at Mr. John
son's residence and then went in a
body to the Rex theatre and enjoy
ed the picture, "To Have and to
Hold". After the play, all did am
ple justice to a three-course lunch at
Maika's. The party was composed
f the following people: Regina
Fisher. Mary Rhyan, Jane Babcock,
Margaret Girmann, Edna Edaburn,
. Margaret English. Gladys Braddock,
Neal Danley. Maxon Wright, Harold
White, Joel Burkitt. Roland Gillett,
Jonas Johnson. Lisle Woo' Vincent
Larsen, Miss Delzell, Miss Boyer,
Miss Swedberg and Mr. Clements.
Recent visitors at the dor itory
were Mrs. Dclsing, Hemingford, Mrs.
Conn, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart. Mr." and
Mrs. Blish and daughter Margaret,
Mr. McCowan, of Wayside, visited
his sons Richard and Robert, at the
Normal Monday. '
An exceptional opportunity was
afforded the classes in Agriculture
Monday to study beef type and breed
characteristics as shown by three ex
cellent Hereford bulls recently pur
chased by Braddock and DelTen
baugh for their ranch northwest of
Chadron.
Lake; F. W. Johnson, Hay Springs.
District No. 17. composed of Scott
Bluff, Morrill, Garden, Deuel, Chey
enne, Kimball and Banner counties,
has headquarters at Scottsbluff. Tot
al given by htls district in 1916 was
$428.00; goal for 1917, $750.00. Dis
trict committee:
S. K. Warrick, leader, Scottsbluff, R.
G. Simmons, lieutenant, Gerlng; J.
C. McCreary: C. M. Matheny, Scotts
bluff; Rev. Geo. McDoughal. Bridge
THE MISSING LETTER
By LOIS PIKE.
3
SECOND ANNUAL
EFFICIENCY CAMPAIGN
United State-Wide Effort in the In
terest of the State Work of tlie
Y. M. C. A. of Nebraska
Annual Efficiency Week" was the
Things happened very rapidly In the
slow old village of Columbus. The
first thing that happened to rouse the
port; L. F. Flower, Bayard; W. J. people was the fact that Miss Ruth
Braham, Sidney; B. H. Bracken, White's nunt died in her far-off state
Potter: Win. Ritchie, Jr., Bridgeport nuj i0f t her u legacy of $5,(K0. Miss
Ben F.Robinson, Oshkosh; F. H. Kuth was the belle of the village, not
Wolf. Big Springs; Robert Harlow. wh8tMIUllg Umt ht.r Mh WBB
Sidney; Geo. L. Vogler. K'mball: 11. ..,.,,.,,,
I. Babcock. Chappel; G. F. Haas. Min- "'n '"'
atare; M. B. Quivey, Mitchell; Prof . ; Then It became widely known that
R. E. Traux, Kimball; R. O. Cham- Dave Johnson, son of Squire Johnson,
hers, Mlnatare, Prof. C. L. Marriott, had made new proposals of marriage
Big Springs. to Misx Ruth making three In all iu
Alliance Is headquarters for dls- outf jt,ur
,V,ct.N?; 18u' rom,PT(1 "LBm?"H.Vi h'! Then Abner Taylor's widow, who
Grant. Hooker, Thomas and the south I . ... , '
half of Sioux and Sheridan counties. . ' Ptinlstrcs for several
Amount given last year was $78.00; years, went suddenly blind. She hud
goal for 1917. $100.00. District com-j the legal right to name an assistant
mittee: I and she named Miss Ruth White. The
E. G. Idling, leader. Alliance; W. ! two had been good friends for a long
K. rale, lieutenant. Alliance; vims. tllne .....i . ... lr t(M)k . ,., . ,.,,. ,lf us.
Fuller, Alliance; H. J. Young, Alli
ance; P. E. Romig, Alliance; A. G.
Gavin, Alliance; T. H. Crawofrd. Al
liance; N. R. McAdams. Thedford;
J. A. Mann, Seneca; Elliott Lowe,
Mullen.
TUBERCULIN TESTED
HDLSTEINS FOR SALE
SKleilerK-lleliiian Sale Friday, Mar.
2:1 An OpiMirtunity No Oil
Should Vans up
Here's a chance that farmers and
name adopted last year for a special. ranrhinen have been looking for. It
united effort thruout the state to oe-
curo the budget for the state Young
Men's Christian Association work of
Nebraska. The first effort of that
kind was a success.
The second Annual Efficiency Cam
paign is now on, March 12th to 21st.
The state has been divided into eigh
teen districts, each district having a
headquarters city anil a district com
mittee. Four of these districts, Nos.
15, lfi, 17 and 18. are In northwes
tern Nebraska, west of tho oast line
of Cherry county and north of the
north line of Colorado.
District No. 15, composed of Cher
ry and Dawes, and the north half of
Sheridan and Sioux counties, has its
headquarters at Chadron. Total
given by this district in 1916 was
$437.00 goal for 1917. $500.00. Fol
lowing are the members of the dis
trict committee: J. W. Skeen, leader,
Chadron; J. W. Good lieutenant; L.
N. Mills, Gordon: Dwight Griswold.
Gordon; W. H. Davis, Harrison; C.
A. Minnlck, Crawford: L. J. F. Jaeg
er, Chadron; W. T. Stockdale. Chad
ron; J. H. Jones, Hushville; E. P.
Wilson, Chadron; Chas. E. Swanson,
Valentine; Benjamin Mickey, Wood
is the Peter Soderberg and Joe A
Reiman sale to be held Friday,
March 23, on the Soderberg place 12
miles north of Alliance, 9 miles east
and 3 miles sotth of Hemingford.
The frceTunch is scheduled for 11
o'clock. Col. Coursey will start the
selling as soon after 11 as possible.
Mr. Soderberg has sold his farm
and Is moving on to a new place. Ho
will cut down his stock. There are
4 0 head of cattle listed by Mr. Sod
erberg, and 25 head by Mr. Reiman.
Horses, chickens, farm machinery,
etc., are listed.
Joe Reiman has a fine bunch of 25
young tuberculin-tested llolsteins.
They are some cattle. He hasn't
enough help and Is going to sell his
entire herd. These are extra fine.
He has kept his herd cleaned out, re
taining the tops. If you are in the
market for tuberculin-tested llol
steins you can well afford to go
miles and miles to attend this sell
ing. Elsew here In this Issue of tho Her
ald there is a display advertisement
listing everything. Read It and then
read it again and make up your
mind to attend this sale.
H. H. BRANDT'S
CLOSING OUT SALE
On Tuesday, March 20, 1917
Beginning Immediately after Free Lunch at 11 0 'Clock
I will sell at Public Auction at the old George Gaddis Ranch 6 miles south of Alliance
156 Head of Live Stock
CONSISTING OF
40 Heat! of Milk I'ows, "JO now giving" milk,
number fresh before the sale.
14 Two-year-old Heifers from milk cows.
13' Head of 1 wo-year-old Steers.
2 Three-year-old Steers.
1 Shorthorn Bull.
1 Hertford Hull. '
L'O Yearlings, mixed.
25 Coining Yearlings.
!) Head Bucket Calves.
4 Dozen Chickens.
1 Ifegisteied Shire Stallion, 7 years old,
one of the best in Box Butte county
Prize winner.
1 Mare, Ui(K) lbs., 7 years old.
1 Mare, i:M) lbs., 7 years old.
1 Mare, 1400 lbs., 5 years old.
1 Mare, 1200 lbs., 4 years old, in foal.
1 Mare, 1250 lbs., 4 years old.
2 Mares, 1150 lbs., S years old.
2 Mares, 1100 lbs., smooth mouth.
1 Mare, 1250 lbs., smooth mouth, in foal.
1 (folding, 1400 lbs., 5 years old.
1 (IcldiiiK, 1200 lbs., 8 years old.
(Well broke stuff)
1 Mare, 4 years old.
2 (JcldinR-s, 4 years old.
4 Mares, .' years old.
1 Mafe, 5 years old.
I Saddle Mare, 4 years old.
4 (Jeldiiigs, 1 year old.
5 Colts, coniirfr yearling.
2 Warm Wagons.
1 Spring Wagon.
1 Dairy Wagon.
1 Top Buggy.
2 Old Buggies.
1 Breaking Cart.
1 Hay Hack
1 Klat Hack.
1 Dump Cart.
2 Walking Hows.
MACHINERY
1 Slip.
1 Riding Lister, Jolin Deere.
2 Discs.
1 '-Section Steel Harrow.
1 2-Uow Cultivator.
1 Sing'.e-row Cultivator.
1 Corn Binder.
1 Hay Hake.
3 McCormick Mowers.
1 Stacker.
2 Sweeps.
.' .Sets heavy Work Harness.
1 Set Chain Harness.
1 Set Driving Harness.
2 Sets Single Ifamesv
2 ('ream Separators.
1. Water Tank.
1 (iasoline Kngine a n d
Bump .lack, Household
floods and other articles
too numerous to mention.
TERMS : Under $25, cash ; over that amount a credit of any time up to 12 months will
be given on bankable paper drawing 8 per cent interest.
H. H. BRANDT, Owner.
The above cattle are my former dairy herd and as I have moved to Fort Morgan and
disposed of my lease this will be a final clean-sweep sale.
H. P. OOTJRSEY, Auctioneer, Alliance.
F. J. WAS, Clerk, First National Bank.
slstant that the widow might hold her
place and not come to poverty.
These Incidents were gossip for a
week or two, and then sleepy old Col
umbus went to sleep again. The fact
that Miss Ruth was at the general de'
livery window gave Have Johnson vv
portunities to see her and speak with
her which he had not had before, and
there was scarcely a day In the week
that he was not a caller at the post
office. Ills father, a Justice of the
peace, received more mall than any
five other persons tn the village put
together, and his son's excuse every
time he mine in was to get his fntber'a
mull or mall letters for him.
As for Ruth, the girl had little to
say to lit in, for she had refused him
absolutely, but as a public official she
had to treat him with courtesy. One
day when there was no one In the of
fice but the two he said to her:
"Miss Ruth, I love you and am go
ing to have yon for u wife. If you
keep on refusing me I shall play you
some trick to make you wish you had
accepted me."
His speech angered the girl, and
she gave him back suoh hot' words
that he slunk away while she was still
talking. He went direct to his fa
titer's office and told his parent that
the assistant postmistress had vilified
the whole family. He told He after lie
to get the old man excited and re
vengeful, und the squire was ready to
enter Into any plan.
"The Idea that you are not good
enough for her and her family!' he
shouted. "Dave, you have not the best
of reputations; hut we must go to
work to take some of the conceit out
of that slip of a girl. She seems to
think she runs this whole town, but
she won't even run the post office when
we get through With her."
There was scheming and planning
for the next month. The first thing
to he done, as father and son looked
nt It. was to cause the girl to lose her
position and under u cloud of su
pieion nt that. But no opening pre
vented Itself for n month or two. Duv
kept away from ' the post ofllce mid
the squire got his mall himself.
One day he entered the office In his
pompous way anil wild to Ruth:
' "I wish to enter a complaint to the
postal authorities, and it limy turn out
to be very serious for you."
"Very well," was the reply. "I will
take your complaint and forward it.
Has there been anything wrong about
your mull?"
"Yes, mu'um, there hau. A letter
containing money addressed to me, and
which I believe reached this post of
fice all right, has not come to me, und
I want to know where the trouble
lies."
In about a week the inspector on
lliat route arrived. He was a young
and good-lookiug man, and his impres
sion of the assistant iHisimistress wus
very favoruble. She had probably
made some mistake iu boxing the mail.
The squire was sent for, and the story
told wus that u iimu named Uarkuess,
over at the village of Miiford. had
bought a horse of him and hud paid
all but $10 of the price. He was to
pay that on a certain date. He said
he would send a $10 bill over in a let
ter, and he was a mun whose word
was ns good as his bond. He surely
hud mailed the letter and it ought to
have reuehed the squire next duy, but
weeks hud elapsed and the letter hud
not yei arrived. He was asked by the
inspector If he hud telephoned Huik
uess, and he replied that he hud not.
Ruth quietly und eulinly protested,
and she could do no more. The in
spector was about to go across die
treet and telephone to 1 In rk liens him
self w hen old L'nele Dorcmus cuine in
with a letter in his bund and ex
claimed :
"I urn getting to be a darned old
fool. 1 got a letter in my box some
days ago aud put it in my ixx-ket to
take home. Dog my cuts if I didu't
forget all about that letter till just
this morning! It wasn't for me uny
uow. U wus for Squire Johnson here,
and It was put in the wrong box."
The squire received und opened the
letter. There was no $10 bill in t.
Instead of sending him the money, Mr.
Ifiirkness culled him a cheat, a liar
aud a swindler, and said he might sue
ami lie hanged to him. The squire
walked out of the post otliee without u
word. The inspector said such mis
takes often happened, but could be
overlooked. Dave Johnson did not up-
lear to renew his propoxHl. hut six
months later Miss Ruth received one
that she accepted and the inspector-
husband still iM-rmits her to act as us
slstant postmistress.
(Copyright, 116. by !! MSMur Ntw.
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ALL DAY INSTITUTE
Meeting to He Held At Home of Mrs.
W. R IjotspHch Mrs. J. J.
Vance l Charge
The Alliance W. C. T. U. will hold
an all-day Institute at the home of
Mrs. V. K. Lotspelch, Thursday,
March 22. Mrs. J. J. Vance will
have charge of the program, which is
planned as follows:
Morning
10 Devotlonals, Mrs. E. S. Martin.
Department round table and
discussion, by superintend
ents. Exercise, "Where our dollar
dues goes."
"Lillian Stephens Memorial
Hour," Mrs. J. A. Keegan.
"God's Financial Plan," Mrs. J.
L. Overman. !
Patent Medicine Quiz.
12 Noontide prayer.
Cafeteria lunch.
Afternoon
30 Praise service.
"Women Famous In W. C. T. U.
History," Mrs. A. Gregory.
"A Great Mother," Mrs. J. W.
Reed.
"Temperance and Missions,"
Mrs. J. U. Cams.
Symposium on Sabbath observ
ance: (1) "The Moral and Physical
Needs of One Day's Rest In
Seven", Mrs. Geo. Gaddis.
(2) "Value of tho Sabbath to
the Working Man", Mrs. A.
T. Lunn.
(3) "Iliblo Authority for Sab
bath Observance", Mrs. S. C.
LaMon.
"Attitude of Newspapers and
Magaxlnos toward Prohibi
tion," Mrs. J. W. Thomas.
"Are 'Housekeeping' and 'Horn
keeping' Synonymous TcrmaT
Mrs. J. Rowan.
"Woman's Ballot. Its, Effect on
Herself; on tho Community;
on tho World," Mrs. A. A.
Layton.
"Roll rnll of prohibition states".
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Nebraska State Volunteer Fire
men's Association
President Harry J. Hauser, Fremont.
First Vice President John W. Guthrie, Alliance.
Second Vice President Wm. P. McCune, Norfolk.
Secretary E. A. Miller, Kearney.
Treasurer F. D..Tobin, Sidney.
Chaplin Rev. W. C. Rundln, Crawford.
Board of Control Jacob Goehring. Seward, chairman; C. II. Mas
ters, Auburn; C. R. Frazier, Gothenburg; II. II. Bartling, Ne
braska City; Clyde Beckwlth, Crawford.
A Department Devoted to the Interest of the Volunteer Firemen of
the Htate of Nebraska
Edited by Lloyd C. Thomas, State Publicity Chairman.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS DEPARTMENT ARE ALWAYS
WELCOMED
Address envelope to: State Publicity Chairman Firemen's Ass'n,
The Alliance Herald, Alliance, Nebraska
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HAItllY IIAtKEK WIU, NOT HKUVM AGAIN
Harry J. Hauser, chief of the Fremont Volunteer Fire Department
and president of the Nebraska State Volunteer Firemen's Association, will
not serve again and declines to run for re-election. The following article
from the Fremont Tribune tells the tale:
Harry J. Hauser, well known Fremont fire chief, Is through with the
llre-tighting game and will not bo a candidate for re-election to the head
of the Fremont department this spring. Chief Hauser gave notice of his
intention to quit the service at the monthly meeting of the board of direc
tors lust evening.
Mr. Hauser has held the distinction of being the youngest tire chief
in the state, having been elected to the position when only 23 years of age
in the spring of 1908. Since that time his re-election annually has been
almost unanimous. He served continuously of mine years. Memebrs of
the board of directors last evening endeavored to persuade him to serve an
other term which would give him ten years of continuous service. Mr.
Hauser declined, giving as his reason that he was now engaged in business
for himself and desired to be free so that he could devote his entire time
to it.
"It is with much regret that I make the announcement of my retire
merit from tin service in which I have grown up," Chief Hauser said, "but
my business demands that I take this step. I enjoy the work and the as
sociations of the firemen with whom 1 have always had the most uureeabl
relations."
Mr. Hauser was elected president of the Nebraska Volunteer Firemen's
association at the annual meeting ut Auburn last month, having served as
vice president the year before. He is a member of the Dorsey Hose com
pany and has taken an active part in the affairs of the company since be
coming a fireman.
The election of lire chief will take place the hrst Thursday in April
following the meeting of the newly organised council.
We regret greatly to see Harry take this step for he has loi.g held the
place? of "Nebraska's foremost lire c hief."
DEPARTMENT HOLDS lUNOt KT
It was the pleasure of your publicity chairman to recently attend ban
quets at the nourishing towns of Seward and Heat rice, given by the volun
teer lire departments of thos two cities. The tirst one was at Seward where
we, in company with state lire commissioner Hidgell, were entertained roy
ally in the up-to-date home of that live toastmaster, none other thun our
bachelor friend Harry Graff, was kind enough to put me ahead of Judge
HiducH so that the latter could not follow his usual custom of telling uiy
jokes and leaving me out in the cold, so far as a speech was concerned.
This time ihe Judge pulled off a new one, for he said. " .Veil. Lloyd gave you
my speech so I'll Just tell you a few Jokes." Other friends among the fire
men who attended the banquet and with whom we hud the pleasure of vis
iting were Jacob Goehring, Gcesen and other old timers. We appreciated
the tine chicken banquet and regretted very much that we had to run for a
train. The Seward boys should be complimented on their fine organiza
tion und on the nicely furnished and homelike club rooms which they have
fitted out themselves. We hope to visit them again sometime.
A few days later we weie pleased to receive a phone call from Joha.
Ellis of the Heat rice volunteer department, Inviting us to run down to
Beatrice for u firemen's banquet. Knowing that the city of Beatrice is one
of the leading towns of the state and that the boys down there are "go
getters" we went down. Judge Hidgell accompanied us and we both had
a fine time. The banquet was given in the departmeut quarters and it
was a success from start to finish. The Beatrice boys have made up their
minds to show tfte other departments over the state that they are in the
swln. They promise to come down with a big delegation to York next
January. Our friend Beach, president of the Beatrice department presided
at the banquet. All of the speeches were t;ood, excepting ours. We did
our best but of course couldn't coiniiete with some of the old time orators
who were to partake f the delicacies and to entertain and Interest us with
their oratory. Music was furnished by an orchestra. We were much
pleased to see the ladies present. The boys had brought along the women
folks and they certainly did enjoy the program. Following the program
the tables were taken away and dancing indulged in. We were indeed
sorry that we don't know how to dance for we would have bad an excuse
to compel Judge Hidgell to "trip the light, fantastic toe." We thank you,
Beatrice tiremm, for the entertainment which you showed us and we will
look for you in full force at York in January, 1918.