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Official Organ Nebraska Stock Growers Association and Nebraska State Volunteer Firemen's Association 16 Paces 2 Sections Leading Newspaper of Western NEBRASKA VOLUME XXIV The Alliance Herald ALL1ANCK, BOX BUTTj muXTV. NKBRA8KA, SKPTEMBKR 6. 1917 ' Tell 'Em You Saw it in The Herald NT. MB Kit 40 GROWERS ARE ORGANIZED Rousing Meeting Held at Hecnlngford on Saturday Afternoon OrgmnJ zatton is Perfected C.WTTINU 1KWN TO MKUMHM Leader in the llndnctry Rccog niied Association in an all unt) Organization Fifty of the leading potato grow ers of Box Butte county, with the government expert and others who were interested, met at Hemingfo'rd Saturday afternoon and completed the organization of the Box Butte 'aunty Potato Growers Association. The meeting was held In response to the call of assistant county agent Rex Truman, a live wire and one of the best posted men in this line in the west. The first speaker of the afternoon was L J. Case, of the Bureau of Mar kets, United States Department of Ag riculture, who has charge thin fall of the Market News Potuto Bulletin, and who for many years was in the commission business, handling pota toes and other lines of produce. Mr. Care emphasized the fact that it was a mistake not to grade potatoes, tell ing of the success achieved by the potato growers in Virginia by grad ing. Mr. Case also told of the methods used in Chicago in grading potatoes which arrive there, showing how they cull out the poor spuds .nd how that S00 bushels frequent ly pay ihe shipper only for T00 on account of 100 bushels of culls being taken out. Mr. Case stated that potatoes in Tex as are shipped in 90 and 100 pound sacks; in Florida they are shipped in hampers; in Virginia potatoes are liacked In barrels; Minnesota uaeB"T bushcl Seeks and Maine 3-bushel sacks. The bureau of Markets is en deavoring to establish a standard of grading for use aver the entire coun try. Minnesota and Colorado are Ne braska's competitive markets, said Mr. Case, and our prices are based on their prices, to a large extent. Mr. Truman explained the system of grading jiroposod by the govern ment and stated that bulletins ex plaining the plan could be procured from his office. He gave a talk of good points for the growers. The proposed constitution and by laws or the association were read by temporary secretary T H. Bacon. A standing vote was taken on the pro position of adoption of the articles and all present voted in favor. The fallowing officers were then elected they to hold oflice until the first Mon day in July, 1918. when the annual Hunting is to be held. Officers elec ted, to hold office until July, 1918, were as follows: President. George Carroll, Hemiu? ford. Vice President, Harry Pierce. Hem iugford. Secretary. T. 11 . Macon. Heming ford. Director. John Jelinek. Hcraing ford. Director. F. D. Hcaly. Alliance. The next speaker was Prof. F. C. Filley. Weld agent In marketing, of Uuroli. He emphasized the good points and the benefit to be derived by the growers from the organiza tion, showing how one man the as sociation's manager, will sell the po tatoes to the buyers and thereby eliminate the disastrous competition :uionp tbe mowers for a market for their potatoes. Prof. Filley also took up the question of the tiering of the potatoes and suggested 'hat the growers be provided with individual bins In the warehouses or cellars. In order that the grower who had the better quality of potatoes should re ceive the better price. He spoke of the work which his department is doing to assist the grower and the consumer in getting together. The laat speaker on the program was Representative Lloyd Thomas, editor or The Alliance Herald. Lloyd closed the gifting with a short, rapid-tire talk in which he emphaszed the points brought out hy the other speakers and urged that every man present do hi pint In getting other mess bars among ihe potato grows1 rs so that the organization could he ex tended until it included every grow er of potatoes in the county. He Hinted that he had realized the need of an organization of this kind dur ing bis residence of 'en years in the county and that he believed the ac ttOB taken In completing the oi an i.ation was the one point of the iiiohi importance to every potato producer in the county. t'oiihiituiioii .Hi.i HgaLaaw The constitution and b-laws of the association, adopted at the meet ing, are us follows krttefj I Name The name of this organization shall be the Box Butte Potato Growers Association Article . Object.- This associa tion shall be organized to promote the interests of the potato growers of Box Butte county It shall be the object of this association: Sec. 1. To co-operate with the Nebraska Petato Improvement Asso- fContlnued on page t) HAD LARGE BOOZE SUPPLY-FINED $100 Officers Raid WIN..,, Ham Homer Wilson Fined Will Appeal Cae to District Com Homer Wilson was pund guilty in county court Wednesday morning of having in his possession a quanti ty of liquor. Judge Tash assessed a fine of $100 and costs. Mr. Wilson will appeal the case to th" district court. The case Is the outgrowth of a raid conducted Saturday night following the Issuance of a search warrant by County Judge Tash. A quantity of intoxicating liquor consisting of some whiskey, gin, wine, a couple of demijohns of wine a case of bitters and remnants said To be the leftovers from the Alliance Bar conducted by Mr. Wilson up to the time the state went dry this spring. The liquor was stored in tbe Wilson sale barn at the corner of Second Btreet and Cheyenne avenue. Mr. Wilson has two rooms lltted up on the second floor of the barn and claims residence there. He admitted that he owned the liquor and had brought the li quor to the barn and that it was in toxicating liquor, but claimed. through htB attorneys, that it was his residence and as such he was en titled to havo it there. The complaint as made out by the county attorney UMBOS' throe defend ants, Tou Berry, Homer Wilson and J. E. Wilson. It was shown at the hearing that J. E. Wilson had no in terest in the case, that he did not own the building, knew nothing of the liquor being in the barn and was in no way connected with the case. He was dismissed. Judge Tash stat ed that J. B. Wilso's reputation was so good that he was satislled he was In no way responsiole. Tod Berry was dismissed, no evidence having been introduced to conenct him with the case. Berry was lying on the bed reading when the raid was made. It was thought J. i: Wilson might have an Interest in the building, when the complaint was drawn up, which accounted for his name being j included with the othera ! The raid was made by Sheriff Cal , Cox. Deputies Miller, Joues and Cur Ids, and Night Marshal George Stafford. MARLEY HOPPES BURIED TODAY Soldior Who V Drowned Monday Evening st. i ..ilii'iilniT u Hurled This Afternoon at Alliance ' Marley l Hoppes. brother of Dan Hoppes of Alliance, was buried in .Greenwood cemetery this afternoon, funeral services being conducted hy , B v. s. J. Epler hi the Christian church. Marley Hoppes was nineteen years I Of age and a member oi Company L. Fifth Nebraska National Guard, sta tioned at oGthcuburg. He in com pany with other members of the COM ; pany were in swimming Monday ev ning, when he was suddenly seized with cramps and .drow nod before he could be rescued. , The mother. Airs. M- C. Hoppes. of Arcadia, Kans.. was visiting her son Dan. in Alliance, at 'he time of the ; accident. The body was brought in on the noon train from the south to- jday. t'HAXGKN KXTOUTKI) IX TMK HI KLINGTOX OFFICE MUCK There is a well-deined rumor out 'to the effect that the announcement jis shortly to be made, from the Bur lington offices, of a number of iin 'portant changes in certain local of fices which, it is said, will affect the j general superintendent's office, the .local freight office, and extending to the Sterling division. I'FKLFY BEACH AND j.iv i n i i.i i i I FOB PORT HILLY Perley Beach and .lay Vance left Alliance last night for Ft. Kiley. i Rans., being the first two drafted men From Box Butte county to be , sent into service The tirst call was j for hve per cent of the county' q'io ta. Box Butte's quota is Ml men, and five per cent of this number is one and a half men. Beach and V-.,. wem Del lb first on the draff list but both had been dratted Tiny volunteered to go One of the Interr-stinB things in connection witb the draft and the leal Ifor live per cent of the quota is thai after the local board has worked almost night and day sine- June I rogtsi lyRon day. registering the men and attending to the examinations. passing on exemption claims, ate., the tirst two men sen) volunteered te go. Mr. Beach has been employed in tbe trainmaster's office at the Bur linglon. Mr. Vance has been a mail carrier at the Alliance post office, i lloth men passed the physical exam inations and were ready and willn i to ni as was evidenced by the gel in.ii ine voiuniecrea io go atlea.l .if KITCHEN POLICE OF COMPANY G ' jjH ji ' ' ' mmk i I jAfek SbbVHbBB hBa JbHb iBBlG JI Br .Vbh Bh sHbBtgflBi. Bbf Wmsm iKal H 1 B f B Mm W ' Sal NL II ffiBjffjtiywWBB 1 I B iHa - (glMft v B ffi eg 9 1 uB Bl aBkiB ISK.. .. mngEg9B MawJBBBBBpjBt jBBBIHBIWgTMfc 181 B59KC Bfl m dB B K'B Standing, from left to right: Hollenbeck, Hood, Jones, Coleman and Horner. Kneeling, from left to right: Cook Sanderson, Cook Leeper and Mess Sergeant Connie O'Brien. rUDOM WKMTOVKIt CMT1KH THItKK K BOTH .Indue V. H. Westover was in the city Saturday aim held u special ses sion of the district court. Three equity cases were decided and three divorces granted. Margaret D. Prout was granted an ibeolnte dhroree from Bert T. Prout mil was allowed $1,000 alimony to be paid at the rate of $2" a month. The CUatod) of th.- two small yirU was given to Mra. Prout. together with an allowance of $10 a mouth for the care of each of the children until the children arrive at the age f 18 years. A divorce was granted to Kettle Itobb. The defendant in the caM id not appear. Anna HaBelton was given a divorce from Kugene Hazelton. Tbe ase of the Alliance Building Loan Association vs. Conrad Koch in which the association asked for the confirmation of the foreclosure of a mortgage amounting to l,3f 0 was called and went by default, th defendant failing to appear. The foreclosure was confirmed. The case of Neeland vs. Karwood was heard and the foreclosure con llrmed. The property was sold to C. J. Wlldy lor $3,775. The land comprised a quarter section located north of Hemlngford. The county clerk received a choc for redemp tion from Karwood and so title will revert to him. In the ease of Jonathan L Miller vs. Thomas C. Bradley, the foreclos ure was confirmed. W. E. HADAN DIED AT AURORA, NEDR. Former Alliance T1iinT, WhoMC Fimil Live Here, Died Wed nesday in Katitcrn NehmskH "SP THE PE9PLE Mi WW their turn There are a muubf of topicit being discussed these days on the streets and in hc hoiBei of Alliance. The conversation is common and ih-re . -m.-.hs to be no just reason why they should not be discussed through the nublic ress. Perhaps honest discussion of these several propositions twill be tiie means of finding a remedy. Firs lot t consider the so-called Alliance Band. On several oc casions of late wuen it was supposed to have been arranged for the band to plat, t'ae time came and no band was at hand. The latest in rance was Moiuy afternoon. The County Council of Defense had planned for a band concert in connection with the patriotic Labor Day program. Tbe time came. There was no band. So a couple of the tire boys dug up a bass drum and a snare drum and piled into the ire truck auu Chief Puking ton drove them up and down unpaved Bjx Butte avenue and on some of the side streets in an effort to scare up a crowd for tbe program. The Alliance band at this time, from all appearances, is about as much as no band at all. This is said with all due respect to the mem Lcrs as individuals. It is the band as an organisation that is a fizzle. There seems to be two factions in the band, and two or more leaders. Each side is bucking the other, and as a result there is nothing doing most oi the time. 11 Alianlce is going to have a band, it ought to have a band, and not an excuse. Next, let us consider the attendance at the Labor Day program. There were possibly 125 or 150 people out, including the kids. The County Council of Defense brought a speaker of more than state-wide reputation to talk to an Alliance audience on Labor Day. He is the editor of one of the daily papers published at Lincoln, and a man oi wide influence. He came witb a message and a good one. Yet the people were not interested enough to attend, Truly, thre must be an answer to the question, "What's the Matter with Alliance?" Now comes the question of Why didn't Box Butte county have an exhibit at the state fair this year?" Who slipped up? It may have been a combination of circumstances that Box Butte failed to take advantage of the advertising opportunity afforded At first the county agent and the secretary of the Commercial Club were going to do it. Then Mr. Seidell resigned and the assistant had all he could do to handle the regular affairs of the oflice. Some of the real estate men bucked out and nothing was done. There may be just excuses, but the fact remains that there is no Box Butte exhibit at the fair. Then there is the proposition of the road from Alliance to Hoff land and Antioch. It must be admitted the road is not in good shape. Who is to blame? The secretary of the Commercial Club says the jommissioners of Sheridan county have failed to provide funds as promised. Someone else says the road is in worse shape now than when it was being worked. Still another party says the Commercial Club was inactive. The writer do s not pretend to know, but the fact remains that the road is in bad shape. Box Butte county sent two men away Wednesday night to join the draft army. Four men tendered the two members a grand fare well reception at a hotel yesterday noon, the banauot Heine aiven hv the Commercial Club. Not so much in the SDIllt of criticism hut jurt to incidentally mention it isn't it true that perhaps many oth ers would have been glad of the opportunity to have said "Ooodby " to them and to take part in a banquet or dinner or luncheon. Isn 't it a fact that there are many who feel these two men go in their place and wouldn't these persons be glad of a chance to show them some special tribute? W. F. Ffcagom, former Alliance tin ker, who was employed by the New berry Hardware Company. Ilhclii Housey Company, and who whs In hustness for himself here for a short lime, leuvinR for eastern Nebraska about a year egg, died at 9 o'clock Wednesday evening at Aurora, Nebr. Mrs. Hags 0 left on No. 4 2 Wed nesday night for Aurora to take eh li ke of the remains, which will be taken Friday to Atchison. Kans.. Ihe home of his parents, for burial. The three children left this noon for Aur ora to join their mother and accom pany her to Atchison. Mr. Hagan was a lminibcr of Alli ance Lodge No. 13. F. O. E., which assisted in attending to the funeral arrangements. He was forty-four yenrs of age, and Is survived by his wife, two sons ami a daughter INFANT SON OPMfc AWD MRS, HFNitv vnm k mi:s Bitter Archibald Cusick. llve-monihs-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hen ry Cusick of Alliance, died Wednes day Bornlni following an illness of about six weeks. The body was tak en to Mullen this morning for bur ial Mr. Cusick Is Burlington sec tion foreman here. WKMKI.V WRATH KR RJOFORfl1 F. Sept. 1 t. Hicks. Official weather ob for Alliance, reports the fol w ather for the paju week: Mai Mill. Wind Dav 73 4 0 BK Clear hi r.t s Clear so :. s Pi cidy !:: 4K W Clear 90 49 K PI Cldy . IM. IM'TTK WOMHN TO RH6WTHB A T RHU CHOHSHF.AIHH AKTF.KK Wednesday of next week. KepU'Ui ber It, is registration day for the Soman of Nebraska. In order to provide ever woman in Alliance and Box Butte county with the opportun ity of ragtatertps and offer! ni to help in the national crisis, the Box Butte County Council of Defense CO Operating with the Alliance Chapter of the American Ked Cross and go ing to have the Bed Cross headquar ters In the Masonic Tempi., bulldinc open on registration day from 9 o'clock in the morning until 5 o'clock in the afternoon All woatcii ,ir- urged ' appear at headquarters and register All wo men now a.'ive in the work of the Red Cross as well as all who up to the present time hae taken no set ire part, are urged to register. Those living in the country who cannoi register In pereoa on flrndnesdnj should mail their names to H M Bushnell, Jr., secretary of the Box Butts County council of Defense, and their names Mill be recorded. All Who register In. ally will t. ..ssiglie.i work for the Bed Cross or in soim other line of activity. The registra tion idea is explained in detail in a news story appearing ou the tirst Pago of soother section of this Isaus of The Herald. 0(i.i DEPENDABLE ADVERTISERS .. i Continuation of Htnry Mhowinff Mu tual item fK iciuig with Firm "Hiat Advertise la The Herald MI.3N WHOM WK RRCOMMKNI) A Bunch of "lave Ones" Who Are Always Awake to the It. v, n teivst of Their Customers (Continued from last week) Yes, we are going to keep It up. Maybe there will be a different head to the story each week, mavbe not: but you'll And It somewhere in The Herald under some head, until out- leading advertisers who contract space in the official organ of the Ne braska Stock Growers Association have been Kiveu at least onn anitBhi.. mention outside of their advertise ments, ir for any reason this story should be dropped out of an you may expect to see It in tbe next. it is a pleasure to thus give some interesting facts retarding th and firms who make use of the ad vertising columns of this paper to ieacn ino people or northwestern Ne braska a pleasure not onlv a matter of business, but because they are a class of business people who deul square and can be depended up on to look out for the lntereata nf their customers aa well as their owu. ox -lone. Van A 1st I ne Co. In business for more than twnntv years and giving special attention to xne nannitng or ranch cattle, and with a constantly growing business, they have a list of customer from the Nebraska ranch country of which any live stock commission firm might well be proud, their patrons includ ing such men aa E. P. Meyers. Hy annls; John Dlemer. Hyannls; L. E. Ballinger. Hi nulla in . John Bachelor. Valentine, and others. Some of the strong points of this firm that shippers will do well lo note ore the following: Each depart ment Is under tho manager of a mem ber of the ilrm; they have one oi the best locations in the South Omaha stock yards: strong financially and dolnR a large and growing hustness. the South Oiimlm and Denver houses of this firm handling a million dol lars' worth of live stock monthly. Farmers Live Stock Commission !o. The tlat a furnished for a news Item concerning the Farmers Live Stock Commission Company is short but it tells a whole lot: In business for twenty-seven years and has sl w:is done a very successful business. This firm is strong flnamially and leU I great many western Nohraska cattle, also oMutana and Wyoming cattle and Sheep, They employ eight men the year round and more dur ing the busy season. Their efforts to take cure of their Customers' interests to the best ad vantage possible regardless of the expense or work neoeeoary to do it, is rewarded by a large business from the ranchmen, inanv pf hum are personally acquainted with the ruom hers of this lit in. If yotl are not al- rendjf negnalnted you are invited to call and get acquainted. You will receive n cordial welcome and enjoy your visit with men who are them selve p metiQSj ranchmen. ( ro be continued next week) LAKKHIIIK MAN AKJtkMTBD HY WAKIH N AT ANTIOCH From A ui loch comes the reort that a JfOgng man by the name of Tyler, who lives at lakeside, was nabbed by the game warden who found one arouse in Tyler's posses sion. The young man is also said to have admitted to having shot two or three others. The case was heard before Justice of the Peace W. (i. Wilson at AntioeJti who ftsssd him $' and costs. Justice Wilson contended that he could not impose it line on the youngster for other than the game he had in his possession. DR. t 'A HNS MA I IF. KF.FOKT AT FAHKWKtL MKFTINt; Dr. J. B. Cams preached his fare well sermon at the First M. E. church Sunday evening. He is attending the Northwest Nebraska conference it Scottsbluff this week Dr. earns made the following report at his farewell meeting Sunday- Bantixcd "f. adults and 19 child ren: received 6t into church mem bership, .r0 of that number being adults: secured 26 subscriptions for Central Christian Advocate. Total . i mount for disciplinary benevolences 7U4 For evangelism d7 Payment debt for current exo. 500 Salaries, pastor 1600 District superintendent lbO Episcopal Conference claimants 20 llem-volen.es and salaries .. $36iU Membership 379 On probation S7 Non-resident 29 Ladies' Aid aiembers 60 Epwonh I.eaKtie. Senior and Jr. 7fi Sunday School average 325 There are two Epwonh League l...- pel teams Harmony and peace in all departments.