ALLIANCE HERALD, TMtWPAY, RETT t917 nr (MM 8. 8. Welpton, state agent for the Connecticut Fire Insurance Company. was an Alliance visitor last week. George Mollrlng's racing horses are entered In the races at Broken Bow this week. Dwlght Zcdlker iompeteB In the relay races at the name place this week. George Schweng of Norfolk, Ne braska bought a quarter section of land in this section recently and ex pects to Improve the place this com ing spring. B. Becker went toSldney on Tues day on a short business trip. Mrs. Henry Dilman returned to her home at Ellsworth Sunday fol lowing a several days visit in this dty. John McCoy. M. D. Office and Hospital Reddish Block Telephone 81 Elsa Dilman of Ellsworth is at tending school here this year. Itlas Eva Seidow has been enjoy ing a visit from Miss Elsie Stover, of Sidney, a part of the past week. Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Stearns and 9on returned Monday from a short Islt at Lincoln. They went to Lin coln on Friday. If yon don't see me before order ing that new fall suit we will both tone money. New woolens now on display. I toy II. Hums, KEKP-U-IV HAT Tailors and Cleaners. 4MMC0I Miss Laura Wadum, who for sever al weeks past has been confined to her home on account of illness, re sumed her duties in the office of the general superintendent, on Monday. Mrs. F. G. Hitchcock went to Om- tha Sunday for a short visit. From umana sne win go to neuron tor a visit at the home of her mother. Mrs. H. E. Reddish is enjoying a visit from her sister. Mrs, Ericson of Lead, South Dakota. Real Estate. Loans and Insur ance. F. E. REDDISH, Reddish Block. 15-tf-6727 The Monotony Breaker dance held At the Phelan opera house on Friday night was attended by some fifty cou ples. All had a good time and more affairs of a like nature are promised for the near future. t W. J. Brazell and E. K. Halde man, district plant chief and district mmerclal manager, of the Nebras-1 ka Telephone Co., were Alliance bus-1 mess visitors the first of the week. Deputy United States Marshal i wrtgnt. or unaaron, was in me cuy on Monday serving papers in the bankruptcy case of the Aliance Auto Supply Co., which failed here some time ago. A big dance is scheduled to be held at Ellsworth Saturday night of this week. The orchestra from Hy- onnis will furnish the music. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rowley and slaughters of Ashgrove were ni Alii- tace Saturday, shopping. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Mosher are en joying a visit from their son, Henry, of Butte, Mont. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hill re turned to Alliance Friday from a visit with relatives and friends at Portland. Mrs. Lloyd Johnson left Sunday tor a visit at the home of her brother at Manhattan, Kan. The new panneled cards are the latest thing in engraved stationary. Your Alliance Herald offers lou a iutt ushoi uueni ui uraigUM aiiu Biyiea from which to select. Your old plate, if in good condition, can be used on the new panneley designs. Engraved Christmas cards may al so be ordered here. Mrs. Ralph Waldo Beal Vocal Studio Pboee 587 Res. 501 Laramie Ave See Us, And See Best DRAKE& DRAKE OPTOMETRISTS WB CAM KIT TOO WITH G LABS BOB FOR EVERT PURPOBB We Can Duplicate any Broken Lena 311 Bos Butt Ay Phone 111 Everett O'Keefe left Sunday for Omaha to again take up his studies at Cretghton university. Mrs. Elliott Strand is visiting rela tives and rriends at Bayard this week. She went to Bayard on Sat urday. Joe Vaughan left Tuesday night for North Platte. He is the official starter at the race meet being held there this week. Mrs. Jack Ward and daughter re turned to their home at Edgemont, So. Dak., on Saturday following a visit with relatives here. The announcement is made that all money for the library fund to be used in placing libraries ni the camps und cantonments of our soldiers and sailors should be turned over to Mrs. Nellie Wilson, public librarian, as early as possible so that it can be forwarded to headquarters by the first of the month. Mibb Hattie Rensowld left Tuesday for a few days visit with Miss Nelle Shrewsberry nt the Shrewsberry home near Ellsworth. W. D. Minor of Lincoln, one of the well known spud buyers in this sec tion, was In Alliance and this part of the country looking over the sit uation. C. L. Lester returned from Grand Island on Monday. He raced his horse "Ebenexer" at the races in Grand Island last week and then shipped his horses home, closing the season. Mrs. F. M. Russell visited the last of the week at Hemingford with Mrs. R. H. Telford. The sixteen year old daughter of rrea mucks or Hemingrora was oper ated upon for appendicitis Friday at the local hospital. Miss Martha Goodwon, daughtter of Zeb Goodwin of Mitchell, submit ted to an operation at the local hos pital on Thursday. The C. C. Joy family of Lakeside were Alliance visitors on Friday and Saturday. The person who holds ticket "K 71" is awarded the Dort automobile given away at Antioch Saturday af ternoon by M. F. Nolan. If the hold er of the ticket does not claim the car within fifteen days, the holder next to the number in order will be declared the owner. i i Dean William Carson Shaw of St. Matthew's Episcopal church went to Mullen Tuesday to spend the bal ance of the week there in mission work. Mrs. Guy Lockwood and children went to Omaha Monday for a visit with relatives and friends. Tom Majors is here from Peru this week. The Colonel is looking after his "-".nch Interests, which com prise whai Is known as the old Mike Elmore ranch seven miles south and west of Hemingford. Thursday evening a baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hunsaker of Lakeside at the hospital here. Mrs. J. A. Armour nnd children are visiting at Denver this week. They expect to go to Casper, Wyo., from Denver and will make their home at that place in the future. L. J. Johnson of the Mallery Gro cery store is now located at Haff land as manager of the Hoffiand store of the Mallery Grocery Com pany. Former manager Spear has been called into the national service. John W. Guthrie returned home Thursday following a two yeek's vis it at Mackinac Island, Mich., and at South Bend, Ind. At Mackinac Is land he attended the annual conven tions of Equitable agents. He visit ed his family at South Bend. Andy Walmer, of Hoffiand, was in town Saturday. Andy has been at Hoffiand about two years. He helped build the first building to be erected at that place and is one of the real "old timers" of the new village. While here Andy called at the Her ald office and took away with him one of the big, beautiful flagB which the Herald is putting out in connec tion with Herald subscriptions. An dy said he loaned his old flag to the comptany and they put It at the top of the pole at Hoffiand. The com pany Is going to get another one, soon, as the old one is about "all In." Andy is going to hand the Her ald flag iln his home at Hoffiand. A. Hadley brought a freak squash to the Herald office Saturday. It was a fine squash but had adopted a piece of woven wire fence in his growth with the result that the fence grew through the squash or the squash grew through the fence. Mr. Hadley also took home with him one of the big Herald flags. Mrs. I. P. Pease of Colfax, Iowa, has ben the guest che past week at the Lincoln Lowry home. Mrs. Pease and Mrs. Lowry are sisters. Miss Mable Sward has been visit ing in Sioux City, the put week. Will II. i Maupin head of the Ne braska State Department of Publicity and also editor of the York Democrat was In Alliance Friday 1 He had been over la th ScotUbiuff neighbor hood and left Friday noon for a short vlU at inllAnli SVfvm A..II...K ... ' nUllWU. W I VM J III II II.' returned to Lincoln. Will Maupin is a busy man these days his newspa per the York Democrat his Magazine Midwest Magazine, and his Job as state publicity chairman. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith of Ill inois are guests at the L. H. Mosh er home this week. They have been on a 3,000 mile trip through the west (which Included visits to Denver, Bil lings and Aliance, besides several side trips. Mrs. Ray A. Douglas visited with relatives In Omaha the pase week. Mrs. R. V. Andress hns been vislt nlg relatives at Lincoln the past week. t The Herald's subscription solicit or is a busy woman these days. It keeps her more than busy distribut ing the new Herald (lags (3x5 feet) If she hasn't called on you yet, she will get to you soon. Be prepared to tell her you want the big, beautiful flag and the Herald. Have Your $2.00 ready for her when she calls, If poslble. Many are coming to the office themselves and getting their flag. Either way is a good way, but it's up to you to see that you get your flag. They're going fast. Merlin Guthrie, son of John W. Guthrie of this city and a former res ident of Aliance, is now attending the training camp at Louisville, Ky., with the soldier:) from Indiana. Merlin Guthrie is a resident of South Bend, Ind. John W. Guthrie ran across R. J. liwrence in Chicago last week. Mr. Lawrence is a former Alliance resi dent and was manager of the light plant here just previous to the time when the city purchased the plant. Mr. Iawrence Is now chairman of the Kansas coal operators association and is manager of the Kearney coal company. He was in Chicago on his way to Washington, D. C, to serve on a committee with six other coal men. tho committee being inter ested In the regulation of coal prices and supply. An Omaha man who was in All iance last wok told of seeing the "kissing" incident which happened when Company G left for the south. The boys were in the railroad car when a big man picked up a hund some girl and walked alongside the ... i V. I,...- t.,.. i, ,.f IOY1 ..Mil I ' ' I I.l II III. Ill lit- l ' I ' . O. leaned out and was soundly smacked by the girl. The Omaha man reportB, however, that Captain Jack Miller missed out on the kisses as he happened to be elsewhere at the time. However, he was looked out for by Johnny Williams who took two kises. Wm. McElfresh, a resident of Lin coln, visited Alliance last week and purchased a fine quarter section of land near Berea, tho Spud Center, through the agency of E. T. Kibble & Company. Mr. McElfresh expects to retunr in May and make arrange ments to farm the land the coming year. 7875 head of steers pased through the Alliance stock yards Saturday evening and night. 275 carloads, averaging 2 5 to the car, arrived by six o'clock Saturday evening and were watered and fed. They were then divided up into trains and sent on their way eastward to tho great markets at South Omaha and other points. J. A. Armour left Friday of last week for Casper, Wyo.. to take charge of the Groffith Oil Co., at that point. Mr. Armour has held the position of Vice President but has recently assumed the office of Fiscal Agent. His family left for Denver where they will sojourn until Mr. Armour can find a suitable location. Joe Bollard, Harry Harp and Ellis Klncaid of Bingham were Alliance visitors a part of last week. Mr3. Madden of Bingham, who had been spending several dayB here, re turned to her home on Sunday. Elmer Noe of Hemingford was a between trains visitor in town on Sat urday, ffi ffl s a S. J. Braun of Syracuse, New York, president of the National Chemical Company of that place, was in Al liance and Antioch this week on bus iness. Mr. Braun's company is in a position to use large quantities of When the cave man wanted help or a wife he strode forth, tapped one on the head, and dragged he or she to the tribal habitat. 1 Civilization has placed certain restrictions and limitations about us which prevent this beautifully simple method. QBut it has giv n us the want ad, which costs but a few cents, and no physical effort soda and It Is stated that he Is ready to purchase all the available soda from the Nebraska potach plants as soon as a refinery Is erected to sep arate the soda from the other Ingre dients. Mr. Braun's visit here this week is his second to this part of the country, his first visit having been made some three months ago. Elliott Beaumont, who for the past two weeks has been taking treat ments here, went to Hemingford on Sunday. Mrs. Mahel MrClung of Heming ford was In the city the last of the week. W. 8. Kldd has purchased Joe Smith's lunch room at 213 unpaved Box Butte avenue. Mr. Kldd will operate the place under the name of Kldd's Lunch Room, and states that he will condui t the place In the same high class and satisfactory manner as operated by Mr. Smith In the past Mr. Kldd took possession of the bus iness on Saturday. Joe Smith ex torts soon to re-enter business but as yet has no definite plans and does not know whether it will be In Al liance or some other town. Announcement is made of the clos ing of a deal for the sale of the True Miller ranch near Marsland to G. E. Sandoz, the consideration being given as $21,500. The ranch is located west of Marsland and is composed of 1,720 acres. Mr. Sondoz will take immediate possession of his new property. E. C. Drake was at Antioch on Tuesday. He went down at the re quest of F. M. Broome to do some work on the Antioch News this week, returning to Alliance Wednesday morning. Mr. Mayes, who for some time had been employed by Mr. Broome on the Alliance News and later on the Antioch News, when the paper was moved to Its present lo cation a few weeks ago, severed his association with the paper suddenly, according to reports, and it was to help Mr. Broome out of his difficulty that Mr. Drake spent the day at the News office in Antioch. It Is prob able that Mr. Drake will return to Antioch the last of the week to get out this week's edition of the News. Clarence Tompkins and family are moving this week to near Bonner. Mrs. J. G. Beck is having her house repaired prior to occupancy. The Misses Marie Howe and Lena J.amtBon were week-end visitors at Hoffiand. 0 R. Roberts of Lewellen, Neb., was an Alliance business visitor on Tuesday and Wednesday.. He is one of the members of the firm of Rob erts Bros. Co. Mrs. John Henderson of Mud Springs was an Alliance visitor Wednesday of this week. The fire department responded to a call from the W, R. Harper home Wednesday morning about 11 o'clock. An oil stove blazed up and looked dangerous, so the alarm was sent In. Mrs. Jerry Rowan, who lives next door, went into the kitchen and car ried out the oil stove. When the fire boys arrived they were told to turn around and go back and the stove had been carried out of the house. Lieutenant Governor Edgar How ard, who has been spending I part of the past week in the vicinity of Alliance hunting ducks, was sched died to deliver a talk to the mem bers of the Box Butte Home Guards at the armory on Tuesday evening, the regular meeting night of the or ganization. There was a large crowd in attendance, but tor some reason the Governor failed to put in an ap pearance. F. E. Brown, engine dispatcher, nnd Mrs. Brown returned this morn ing from near Seneca where they en joyed a ten days' vacation. Mr. Brown spent most of that time hunt ing. He reports that he had fine luck and a good time. William Oeschger of the Nebraska Christian Missionary Society, and Stephen J. Epler. minister of the Al liance Christian Church, went to An tioch on Wednesday morning and secured a location for a Christian Church building In that fast grow ing town. It Is stated that It will not be Ion? before an organization of the Church of Christ will be per fected in Antioch. This will give Antioch two church denominations. The Congregational Church already has a church in Antioch and Is con ducting its affairs as a community church. The eGorge A. Mollring Store, known as "The Store of Quality," is holding a big suit sale this week at which the new fall and winter suits are being offered at one-third off the regular selling price. Mollrlng's have some exceptionally fine looking suits and judging from the way the women have been buying them this week tho suits ought to move fast now that the public announcement is made that the suits are being sold at one-third off. Lieutenant Governor Edgar How ard, editor of the Columbus Tele gram; Charles Bryan, ex-mayor of Lincoln, and two other Lincoln men arrived in Alliance the last of the week and have been spending sev eral days hunting ducks in the vicin ity of the Graham ranch as guests of obert Graham. Mrs. J. W. Coleman was taken to the hospital Wednesday evening. Mrs. Jack and little daughter left Saturday for their home at Edge mont following a several weeks' visit here with relatives. Mrs. Elliott Strand returned home Monday from a visit with relatives at Bayard. Miss Mabel young left Sunday night for Hastings, Nebraska., for a visit with relatives. She expects to attend the W. C. T. U convention at Lincoln the first of the coming month. Round House Rumblings Doing n brief resume of the week's doings, Jotted down by the bog head while waiting: lo the Alliance round house for the O-S to fire up, for the run to Seneca. L A Smith has tnken his turn on the Seneca-Broken Bow local, after paying a visit to his brother, Otho. In llavelock. where he was calltd, on account of the serious ilnelss of the latter. o The movement of stock during the fore part of this week over this di vision was very heavy. We under stand that about 600 cars of cattle were handled on the division during the first two days of the week. Ship ments were especially heavy between Alliance and Seneca, as between these two points alone about three hundred cars of rattle were loaded. It Is remarkable Indeed that such an enormous amount of business. In ad dition to the regular business which Is In Itself unusually heavy, can be handled by the railroad company with comparative ease, and to all appear ances as far as the public Is con cerned, without any hardships. John Nolan, who relieved I. R. Pederson In the round house office a few weeks ago is now working days in that office. George F. Dill, a conductor on this division has been assigned to work out of Alllsnce, and Is moving hi family to this point, as a result. Mr. Kill hns for the past five years been a brakeman on this division. o Fireman McKinsnn has been work ing on the east end for the past week or ten days. Mr. McKlnson is hold ing down a Job with tho "Q" while wlfey "holds down" a homestead la Wyoming. Otto Carr, who was working on the extra board at Alliance, but who was assigned to Seneca switch engine by permanent hid, has gained posses sion of a motorcycle and can be seen, they say, meet any time flitting aboat the streets of that town to the con stant chug chug of a very much over worked machine. Engineer N. T. Shawver made a couple of trips on the east end during the past week. "Nervie Nat" says It makes no difference to him, Just so he's busy. IN GOOD OLD NEBRSAKA From The State Department of Publicity Nebraska is today producing more than 35 per cent of tho potash con sumed in the United States and rao Idly becoming the chief source of potrsh supply. Before the world war Germany supplied the bulk of the world's potash, and nt the be ginning of tho war that nation's man agers boasted that this control of potash would be a great factor in Germany's success. Now comes h story that reads like a Munchausen romance. Thousands of acres in tho "Han Hills" region of Nebraska ure .cover ed by alkitll lakes. Until three years ago these lakes were a nuisance. Their waters wore bitter and ranch men hated them because cattle drift ed into them during storms or were bogged down during the rainy sea sons. Besides, they occupied space that might better have been in grass. About three years ago, perhaps a Ui tie longer, two University of Ne braska students, Modisctt and Jeef investigated those lakes, and after much difficulty succeeded in interest ing capital. Then It was suddenly announced that the two young fel lows had discovered these lakes to be rich In potash, and immediately plants were erected to extract the valuable mineral salt During th lust twenty months more than $2, 000.000 have been Invested In pot ash reduction plants In this state, and the output to date' totals more than $2,500,000. The dally output ts not definitely known, but it is cer tainly more than 300 tons, and it has a value of $125 a ton. The ranchman who has au alkali lake on his ranch is today a potential millionaire. Capitalists are chasing him in un endeavor to secure a lease on the lake on a royalty basis. Kruusc Bros., in the Alliance district. used to bewail the fact that a square mile or two of their big property was rendered useless or worse by a bit ter water lake. Today they average a thousand dollars a day royalty from it. The whole "Sand Hills" region is in a ferment, and millions I of capital are ready for investment in the Nebraska potash industry. Governor Neville bus appointed a special uttorney to enforce the pro hibitory luw in Douglus county. It ' beginning to dawn upon certain ele ments In Omaha that Governor Ne ville meant what he said when he promised to enforce prohibition if elected and the amendment curried. Those who grinned and whispered that the promise was the usual "po litical bunk" are now convinced that the governor Was In deudly earnest The days of the big ranch in Ne braska are rapidly nearing an end. The famous "Grassland anch" of 2.237 acres near Foster, Pierce coun ty, has just been sold In small tracts by its owner, Robert Lucas. The ranch brought $238,785. or an aver age of $106.60 an ucre. It was sold in 20, 40 und 80 acre tracts to suit the purchasers. Most of the tracts were purchased by nearby farmers, the majority purchasing for their sons. And as an evidence of Ne braska prosperity, more than 75 per cent of the purchasers paid spot cush. Pump irrigation in the Platte val ley In Buffalo. Hall, Merrick, Daw son and other valley counties prom ises to become a great enterprise during the next few years. The Cen tral Power Co., with headquarters at Grand Island, and now owning the Kearney electric plant, Is figuring out a cheap method of operating Irri gation pumps by electric power. The Central Power Co. owns the Kearney power canal and is preparing to Im prove It and put it in shape to fur nish continuous hydro-electric power. A large number of gasoline irrigation pumps in.- already in operation, and in each instance have proved im mensely profitable. There is a pos sibility of making sure-crop territory of thousand aof acres in the Platte alley by pump Irrigation, and the only problem now Is that of cheaper power to operate the pumps. olate looking spot in Sheridan roun ty. Then came the discovery of pot ash and the erection of a reduction plant where Antioch now stands. And today Antioch Is a city of a thousand people, a majority of whom are drawing big wages. F. M. Broome hss moved the Alliance News to Antioch and put Reese Mays in charge. Nebraska now has a "pot ash city" as well as three or four "sugar cities" and other kinds of Industrial cities, The Publicity Department of Ne braska has written Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo that he will not need to worry about advertising the sale of Liberty Bonds In the country newspspers of the United States If he will see to It that the price of prist paper is fixed on about the same basis that the price of wheat was fixed. Two years ago newspaper was selling at $2.65 per hundred pounds In Nebraska; todsy it is selling at from $6.75 to $6 per hundred. Three dollars per hundred pounds would afford a fair profit to the paper mak ers, and If Mr. McAdoo can have that price fixed f. o. b. Omaha or Lincoln the Publicity Department la confident that the editors of Ne braska will reciprocate by boosting the sale of the next batch of Liberty Bonds and never'think about getting pay for the space devoted to that sort of boostlug. Speaking of "conservation," why does Nebraska send millions of hides to Wisconsin and Massachusetts to be tanned and made into shoes and har ness and other leather products, In stead of tanning the hides in Ne braska, and then employing Ne braska wage earners to make the shoes and harness and automobile tops and other leather goods In Nebraska factories? j Up to and including September 14 Secretary of State Pool has Issued i licenses to 140,700 automobile own era. He confidently expects to make It better than 150.000 before Decem ber 31. These figures do not include the licenses issued to owners of mo torcycles. The World Almanac esti mates Nebraska's population to be 1,258024 today. If these rtgure ure correct Nebraska has one motor ve I hide for each 8.9 of its population. This is better than an average of one to each two families. Henry J. Hoes rf western Box , Butts county, and Caroline K. Gassel ing of Hemingford were married by the Catholic priest at Hemingford jon Tuesday of this week. . . . Wiley C. Asher of Harden. Mon jti'.na. und Miss Annie E. Ackermann of Morrison, Illinois, were united In mnrriag" at the Presbyterian parson age here by Rev. Black on Saturday. "Mining towns" used to be the mir acle towns of the country. . They sprang up over night, and by sun down were cities. "Potash towns" are now the miracle towns of Ne braska. Two years ago Antioch. Neb., was an eventuality of 'future time, and the site waa a rathW, dee- TOO LATK TO C'LAKMIKY MONEY TO IXAN on Farms and Ranch land. HNODDY A MOLLRINC. 42-tf-8636 KTRAwTbIHjTeS -v WALNUTS AND 'li Kit! 24 full sitae quarts Fancy Straw berries, SS.OO; Black Walnut- SI. 90 per bushel; Sweet Cider, f9.00 per barrel or fifty gallons. Apples ay the barrel or car load, ask for deliv ered prices. Wit KHAM BERRY FARM, Salem, Nebraska TO TRADE! We have a tract of 225 acres of nice land to trade for horses. What have you? Barns Real Estate Agency, Alliance, Ne braska. mi mm 511 Niobrara. Phone 796. 43-2t-8657 FOR RENT 4 unfurnished rooms for light housekeeping. Phone CIS. FOUND Front portion of auto mobile headlight containing rim and "Legalite." Owner may have earn by calling at Herald office and pay tng for this advertisement. Herald Publishing Co. 43-tf-lffl