CLOSING OUT SALE !
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS
We A re Going to Quit That's Us
Within 15 days all merchandise must be sold including Fixtures and all, regardless the loss we are go
ing to take. Our loss is your gain. On account of poor health I am forced to close out my business
and must close out by June 1st. We invite you to come to this sale. REMEMBER, there are no old
goods in my store, everything new and up-to- date, and now is the chance of a lifetime to secure your new spring
wearing apparel. We carry a complete line of Millinery, Hosiery, Gloves, Suits, Coats, Dresses, Aprons, House Dresses, Underwear, Corsets, Skirts, Notions, Etc.
Don't forget we have everything for the babies. All articles guaarnteed satisfactory, Every dollar you spend has a string tied to it till you arc perfectly satisfied.
Owing to the time that this paper goes to press we are unable to quote you prices, but you will find them right.
Sale Starts SATURDAY, May 12 at 10 A. M. Come Early while picking is good
Store Closed All Day Friday to Rearrange Stock and Slaughther Prices
Entire Store Ablaze With Big Bargains. This sale, conducted by honest methods, will appeal to all
people, and owing to the fact that every known commodity is going up in COSt, this sale at this time gives an
Opportunity for saving that will not come again. We urge all our old customers to be here when the doors open for this grtat sale Saturday, May !2th
at io a. m. It will be the greatest outpouring of merchandise Alliance ever saw. This is not a sale of a few articles, but a monster price cutting event
in which this whole stock is included.
10 Extra Sales- I JHE REGAN STORE I 10 Extra Sa,es"
ladies Wanted Opera House Block ladie& Wanted
MARKET NEWS SERVICE
STARTS SEPT. 15
A. V.. n ugh Will Not Return to All!,
ance Is Serving Country hi
Naval Militia
The potuto market news service
which was conducted in Alliance last
fall by the Office of Markets and Rur
al Organization. United States De
partment of Agriculture, with so
much success is to be conducted here
again this year, according to infor
mation received this week by County
Agent Seidell. The men are now in
Florida reporting the crop movement
.mil prices there.
The office was maintained in con
nection with the county agent's of
fice in the court house and dally re
ports were sent out by A. E. Prugh,
who was in charge of the potato mar
ket news service, free to all growers,
brokers, and all who could put the
reports to good use. The daily mar
ket news service will start here about
September IF.. Plans are being made
to Bend to the Kansas City office a
list of names of those who desire to
receive a aemi-weekly potato market
report beginning August 1 and con
tinuing until about the lfth of Sep
tember, when the daily reports will
be started.
It is not likely that it will be pos
sible for A. E. Prugh to be in charge
of the work in Alliance this year, as
Mr. Prugh is a member of the Naval
Militia and has been called out for
active duty during the period of the
war. Mr. Prugh was a member of
the Naval Militia before he entered
the civil service and as a result the
militia has a prior claim to his serv
ices during the emergency.
More potatoes are being raised this
year than ever and the market news
service should be of double import
ance Potatoes are right now caus
ing considerable of a stir in govern
ment circles. While this section has
not seen much of the government in
vestigation or action looking to a
reduction of potato prices or In
crease of available supplies, other
sections have, and reports are com
mon in papers of reductions and seiz
ures. In (he District of Columbia it was
reported that potatoes were selling
at unreasonable prices, as high as $8
per bushel, before congress ordered
an investigation, und following that
the price dropped at least two dol
lars, which still left them high
enough.
From Wisconsin comes the report
that state officers had ordered the
seizure of all potatoes held in ware
houses in carload lots for higher
prices. The state is to take them
over for seed supplies.
PRACTICAL METHOD
INCREASING CROPS
A Method Airs jsI Tried and Proven
a Success In (trowing Good Sod
Crop in Western Nebraska
A lot of urging farmers to in
crease their acreage of crops this
year and engage in "intensified
farming" is being indulged in by
theorists, but how to do it, that's the
question that not many have been
able to answer satisfactorily.
If farm help and motive power
can be increased and tht! necessary
l implements secured, crops can be
I better cultivated and thus farming
intensified this year: but the prob
lem has not been satisfactorily snl
I ed how to increase the acreage of
. planted and cultivated crops.
I In the thickly settled country of
'eastern Nebraska and farther fit,
practically all of the land that has
not been put into cultivated crops
heretofore is needed for pasture.
In western Nebraska and the ad
jacent country In other states there
is plenty of virgin prairie that can be
spared from grazing for cropping
purposes, but it takes a year ordin
arily to put this land under cultiva
tion. Under such circumstances
j there are always some 'to suggest and
r advise experimental crops such as
'flax, sorghum cane. etc. Hut this is
not a year in which to fritter away
'time and effort in experimentation.
I The Herald is happy to tell its
western Nebraska readers that by
proper process a good crop of corn
can be raised on sod with a fair
amount of rainfall The method re
quires work not an excessive
amount. however--but is practicable
and easily followed.
During the winter of 1916, The
Herald editor visited over night with
a friend, Joe Pattison. south of Ger
ing in Scotts Bluff county, and
learned how he grew more than two
thousand bushels of corn on sod the
preceding summer, averaging thirty
five bushels per acre. This is how
he did it:
First, the sod was broken about
four inches deep. Then It was roll
ed down flat. It was then planted,
the sod planter cutting clear thru
the sod, after which it was rolled
again. Following the second roll
ing, it was harrowed with a slant -tooth
harrow until the ground was
covered with a fine dirt mulch. This
was all the work done until late in
tfat summer when men were hired to
go thru the held with hoes and cut
pui the weeds, at a cost not exceed
ing thirty cents per acre for this
woik. This corn was planted from
the 20th to the 27th of May, but it is
probable that in a year like this it
, could be planted later and still make
a good crop. There was no irriga
tion, this being what is called dry
land farming.
NEBRASKA OFFICIALS
List f State and County Officials
and Members of Congress and
.Senate from Nebraska
State Treasurer George E. Hall.
Sup't Public Instruction W. If.
Clemmons.
Attorney General Willis E. Reed.
Land Commissioner G. L. Shum
way. Railway Commissioner Victor E.
Wilsou, H. G. Taylor. T. L. Hall.
Judiciary State
Chief Justice -Andrew M. Morris
sey. Associate Justices J. B. Barnes,
C. B. Lotton. A. J. Cornish, Wm. B.
ICose, J. It. Dean, Francis G. Hamer,
Samuel H. Sedgwick.
District
District Judge, 16th district, com
prising Brown, Cherry. Sheridan,
Dawes, Box Butte and Sioux coun
ties Wm. H. Westover, Rushville.
legislature
State Senator, 28th district, Sioux,
I Dawes, Box Butte, Sheridan, Cherry,
j Hi own and Rock counties George
i M. Adams, Crawford-
Representative, 73rd district. Box
itte and Sheridan
C. Thomas. Alliance.
Hoi Butte County ..Officers
Clerk W. C. Mounts.
Treasurer- -F. W. Irish.
Sheriff C. M. Cox.
Attorney Lee Basye.
Superintendent Opal Russell.
Judge L E. Tash.
Assessor J. A. Keegan.
Surveyor R. E. Knight.
hidden mysteries of Freemasonry.
The Sunday evening lecture will be
for Chapter Masons. The lectures
are free.
I .en uce, home grown, nice big
clean leaves. The best on the mar
ket. Fresh picked, at Alliance
Greenhouse. Phone : Store, 118;
residence, 188. 23-2t-8306
We cannot honor our country
with too deep a reverence;
we oaanot love her with an
affection too pur and fervent;
we cannot serve her with an
enerfy oi purpose or a faith
fullueaa of zeal too steadied
and ardent. Grimke.
horses, $100; horses for light artil
lrey, $135; and horses for heavy
artillery. $150.
The horses purchased will be used
for the same purposes as though they
j were sold to the United Slates for
use in the present emergency. Both
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-iiit- aim i iiv- i ii i n mi maies nave
the same common enemy, and the
sale of horses to France is about the
same as u sale to the home government.
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HORSE INSPECTION
HERE ON MAY 22
IT. S. Senators
Qeorgw W. Norris. McCook.
Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Omaha
Congressmen
First district C. F. Iteavis, Falls
City.
Second district C. O Ixbeck.
Omaha.
Third district Dan V Stephens.
Fremont.
Fourth district- Charles H Sloan,
tleneva.
Fifth district- Ashton C Shallen
herger, Alma.
Sixth district -Moses P. Kinkaid,
O'Neill.
State ... eminent
Governor M Keith Neville.
Lieutenant Governor Kdu.u
Howard.
Secretary of State Charles W.
Pool.
Auditor Public Accounts Wm. H.
Smith.
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This nation, under God, shall
have a new birth of freedom,
and that government of the
people, by the people, for the
people, shall not perish from
the earth. Lincoln.
C. I I.m.i & Co, Will Conduct First
Inspection of Season Iluyinc
Horses for French Gov't
A series of Mason lectures will be
give nat the Masonic Temple in Al
liance Friday and Sunday of this
week. Robert Cm ha in. of Denver,
I will be the lecturer. The lectures
I Will be held Friday evening. Sunday
afternoon and Sunday evening. Mas
Iter Masons, their families and
friends may attend the lecture Fri
day evening. The lecture Sunday
afternoon will be for Master Masons
only aud the subject will include the
Tuesday, May 22. is the date of
the first horse inspection to be held
in Alliance this year. The inspec
tion will be conducted by C. L. Les
ter & Co. who were in charge of the
inspections here last year. The
horses are being purchased for the
French government, the same as last
season.
Elsewhere in this issue of The
Herald appears a display advertise
ment announcing the inspection,
which is to be held at the Alliance
stock yards. All horses must be hal
ter broke und must be from five to
eighi e;iis old Horse: that are in
fair shape will be accepted. The in
spection will be conducted the same
as the one held last year. The fol
lowing prices will be paid: Cavalry
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