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Official Organ Nebraska Stock Growers Association and Nebraska State Volunteer Firemen's Association 16 Pages 2 Sections Leading Newspaper of Western NEBRASKA The Alliance Herald Tell Saw The 'Em You , w it in i Herald VOLUME XXIV ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 4, 1917 NUMBER 44 5-YEAR PROGRAM FOR GOOD ROADS STATE ENGINEER DIVIDES NE BRASKA INTO NINETEEN PROJECT DISTRICTS START WORK NEXT SPRING Roads To Re Improved Under Fed eral, State and County Appropria tion! Will Re Continuous LLOYD THOMAS APPOINTED DIRECTOR Editor of Alliance Herald Accepts Appointment as Director of Food ConcervaUon for Senatorial Dint. Box Butte, Morrill, Garden, Arthur and Grant counties go to make up one of the nineteen project districts In the making of Nebraska's perma nent highway system, which will be composed of a complete chain of roads traversing every county in the state and stretching for several thou sand miles. The nineteen projects combining to make the one big high way system have been laid out by State Engineer George F. Johnson. Sheridan county is placed in the same project with Cherry, Dawes and Sioux counties. These highways will be developed with the federal good roadB appro priation of SI ,600,000 and a like amount from the state. According to the plans announced, work to wards a permanent system of high ways in Nebraska is to be started this coming spring. When completed the highway system will furnish a connected net of roads which, it is stated, will place Nebraska in the front rank of good roads states. Under the plan adopted by State Hngineer Johnson, the state has been divided into nineteen "project dis tricts," each Including from four to five counties. Work will be started in each district at one end of the continuous route through it, and will be carried on progressively for Ave years, until the entire selected high ways have been improved through out their whole extent. The 1917 legislature appropriated a sufficient sum to match the money from the federal allotment, which will be available during the biennium, so that work can proceed without any delay. Under the proposed plan, counties are expected to use their own funds la connection with those provided by the federal and state governments, and are given authority to vote spe cial tax levies not exceeding 5 mills for the pavraent of bonds which may be issued to secure money with which to carry on the work. Ordinary county road funds may also be de voted to permanent highway con struction. The state engineer is now working, it is stated, upon the apportionment of state and federal funds for each county .and is expected to announce it shortly. "Every county will be given its exact Bhare under the law," says State Engineer Johnson in a state ment just issued. "Some countieB may not receive any funds the first or second year, but all will receive the amount which they are entitled to before the end of the five-year period, allowed for construction, elapses." If Box Butte county is going to "get In" at the start of the road building program it Is possible a lit tle pressure brought at the right place in the immediate future might be the means of securing the good roads for this section within the next year. On the other hand, if the pro gram, not yet announced, places Box Unite county ut the end of the list, then it might be four or five years before the road building operations start here. However, in view of the fact that the name of Box Butte county appears as the first county in the list of counties making up the specific project it is possible work will start in Box Butte county next year. On the other hand, if work is atarted at the other end, it doesn't take a Philadelphia lawyer long to sea that some other county in the project would have the benefit of good roads several years before this county. Tins proposition should be one of the first to be looked into by the "new" Alliance Community Club and when the new secretary, W. D. Fisher, gets into harness in a little over a week's time it is very probuble tLat he will immediately start the ball rolling. He will need help, though, and of course he will get it. The nineteen project districts as designated by the state engineer are: Richardson, Pawnee, Nemaha, Johnson and Otoe. Cass, Sarpy, Douglas, Saunders and Butler. Washington, Dodge, Colfax, Burt and Cuming. Thurston, Dakota, Dixon, Wayne and Cedar. Stanton, Madison, Pierce, Ante lope and Know. Platte, Boone, Nance, Merrick and Polk. Lancaster, Seward, Saline, Gage and Jctterson. Thayer, Nuckolls, Clay, Fillmore and York. Adams, Kearney, Webster and Franklin. Hamilton, Hall, Howard, Sherman and Greeley. Custer, aVUey, Wheeler, Garfield and Loup. Holt, Boyd, Rock, Brown and Keya Paha. Lloyd Thomas, editor of The Al liance Herald and Btate representa tive for the 73rd district, on Friday of last week was offered, the appoint ment of District Director for the ewtny-eighth senatorial district of the Federal Food Administration for Nebraska. The offer as mwade by S. R. McKelvie, state campaign di rector. LJoyd accepted the appoint ment by wire Friday night. The dis trict comprises the counties of Cher ry, Sheridan, Dawes. Box Butte, Rock, Brown and Sioux. In asking Lloyd to accept thlB ap pointment, Mr. McKelvie made the following statement: "The Federal Food Administration for Nebraska, Mr. Gordon W. Wattles, Administra tor, has undertaken the registration of all housewives in Nebraska in a campaign for the conservation of food. "Just now the principal feature of this campaign consists in the enroll ment of all Nebraska housewives through the Blgning of pledge cards. To each one who Blgns one of these cards will be given a membership card in the United States Food Ad ministration, and a home card indi cating the manner in which food conservation may moBt successfully be effected. I "In order that 'his work may he 'prosecuted most vigorously the state is being thoroughly organised. You are asked to serve as Director for the Twenty-eighth Senatorial Dis trict, which consists of the counties of Cherry, Sheridan. Dawes, Box Butte, Rock, Brown and Sioux. "It will be your duty to supervise the work and co-operate with the county chairmen of each county in your district. The County Chairman will in turn perfect smaller units, and still smaller units will be organ ized until a complete working force will have been perfected for the big week of general enrollment, October 21 to 28." A meeting of district directors for the state will be held in Omataa soon. Doesn't Sound Good to Him NEW LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE QN ORE AT CAMPAIGN FOR FINANC ING WAR AGAINST GERMANY OPENED ON MONDAY BIG HERALD FLAGS ARE GOING FAST The Beautiful Hag, S Ft by 5 R, and The Alliaace Herald For a Year For Oaly fa.OO YOUa SuriVioES AniNEEDEb BECOME A Ml Mill i; OF THE BOX BUTTE COUNTY COUNCIL OF DEFENSE LIDERTY DAY OCTOBER 24 BIG MEETING OCTHBER 11 It. M. Hampton of Alliance Member of General Committee In Charge of Tank In Nebraska Your opportunity to get one of tbe handsome, big Alliance Herald flags, 3 feet by 5 feet, is fast slipping away. If you haven't already secured a flag, you want one. Everybody wants one. The Herald's solicitor is busy putting them into the homes. If she hasn't yet called at your home it might be advisable for you to call at the Her ald office with your $2.00 right soon, to make sure you'll get your big flag with a year'B subscription to the Herald. The big flags are going fast. The indications are the present supply will shortly be exhausted. It is prob able your Herald can secure another Bupply, but if the price advances or the demand upon the manufacturers becomes too great, it is possible the present supply will be all the flags distributed by your Herald under this plan. The flags are dandies. They are 3 feet, or 36 inches, oy 5 feet, or 60 inches. Made of specially woven cotton bunting, bright colors, with heavy canvas band at the top and lnrge brass gotumets at each end, the flag is one you can't help but be proud of. See that you get your flag with a year's subscription to the leading newspaper of western Nebraska. Two dollars pays the bill and it's big value for the money that's sure. The same to old and new subscribers. APItHNTED TO ASSIST FOOD ADMINISTRATOR Clark Perkins, acting upon the re quest of G. W. Wattles, Federal Food Administrator for Nebraska, has ap pointed The Alliance Herald as the newspaper in Box Butte county to co operate with the County Council of Defense in the work it will do under Mr. Wattles' direction. All leading commercial and industrial state-wide organizations are being asked to co operate in this manner. F. A. Bald, an attorney or Central City, Nebraska, was in the city on business Friday. Mr. Bald is a friend of Theo. Osterman, state representa tive from the district in which Cen tral City is located, and called on Representative Lloyd Thomas to bring the good wishes of Mr. Oster-man. Cherry, Sheridan, Dawes and Sioux. Scottsbluff, Banner. Kimball, Chey enne and Duel. Box Butte, Morrill, Garden, Arthur and Grant. Blaine, Thomas, Hooker and Mc Pberson. Lincoln, Keith, Perkins, Dawson and Buffalo. Chase. Dandy, Hayes, Hitchcock and Red Willow. Phelps, Gosper, Frontier, Harlan and Furnas. The second Liberty loan campaign open ed on Monday of this week. For four weeks the entire na tion will be a recruit ing ground for nwimtv u-1 1 K wkUh "'Ull' j Willi 1 1 i . II w to carrY on Um war. will be open from October 1 to Novem ber 1, the big drive in Nebraska will be conducted next week and the week follow ing. October 24 has been designated as Liberty day all over the nation. R. M. Hampton, president of the First National Bank of Alliance has been appointed a member of the general state commit tee for Nebraska representing dis trict No. 7. This general committee has general supervision of the cam paign in this state and the various directors have supervision of the campaign in their respective districts. To obtain 13.000.000.000. the min imum set by the treasury officials for the issue, a gigantic machine of many parts was put in motion at the start of the campaign on Monday. Fifty per cent greater than the first Lib erty loan, the present offering is the largest the American people have been called upon to absorb. Five billion dollars and ten million subscribers that is the goal which officials hope to reach during tbe next four weeks. The services of virtually every industry of the nation have been enlisted. Hundreds of thou sands of individuals, firms and cor porations have united in giving a part of their time to carry the work forward. More than 26,000 banks, working under the guidance of the twelve fed eral reserve banks, regional head quarters for the loan, are the treas ury's first lieutenants. The three Alliance banks, as well as every other bank in Nebraska, are receiving sub scriptions to the loan. R. M. Hamp ton of thia city is the director in charge of the work of receiving sub scriptions in this section. Mr. Hamp ton's duties require him to keep in touch with the project of securing subscriptions in the district, desig nated as the 7th district. The new loan will pay 4 per cent interest. Those who subscribed for the first Liberty loan have the priv ilege of turning in their bonds of the first loan for bonds of the new loau if they bo desire. County To Re Organized at Housing Patriotic ally at Phelan Opera House You Attend ALLIANCE SCHOOLS GET FUNDS UNDER SH I'M WAY ACT Apportionment of $350 each to eighteen high schools under the Shumway Act of 1915, meeting re quirements In manuaf training, nor mal training, agriculture and domes tic science, was made today by A. li. Dixon, rural school Inspector for Nebraska. The towns benefiting are: Alnsworth, Alliance, Alma, Aurora, Blair, Fairfield, Geneva, Gothenburg. Hastings. Holdrege, Kimball, Pawnee City, Red Cloud, Scottsbluff, Stroms burg, Tecuraseh, Wahoo and York. Funds remain to be apportioned to other consolidated and affiliated schools under this act. Every man, woman and child in Box Butte county is going to be ' given an opportunity to become mem bers in the Box Butte County Council of Defense, according to an an nouncement issued tins week by tbe local council through its secretary, George Edidt. For the first time since tbe Box Butte council was or ganized a supreme effort is to be made to interest every person in the county in the work. To this end a great patriotic rally and organization meeting will be held at tbe Phelan Opera House on Thursday night, Oc tober 11th. This meeting is going to be a gen uine patriotic rally. A big choir will sing patriotic Bongs the way you like to hear them. Dr. J. Walter Morris, the new pastor of the M. E. church, has been engaged to deliver a talk along patriotic lines. The purpose and plans of tbe Box Butte County Council of Defense will be gone into. Officers of the county council will tell what has been done and explain what is to be done. Then when everything has been explained everyone will be given a chance to become members In the county council. A supply of the booklets, "How the War Came to America," issued by the Committee on Public Informa tion will be issued to those attending this meeting. The booklet is one that should be read by every person in America. It tells the "why" and i "how" and is issued by the govern ment itself. It is a booklet all will want to preserve. It Is well printed, the cover is in patriotic colors. More literature is being issued that is of vital interest to every American citi zen. All who become members of the county council, by their act will sig nify that they are interested and ready to do their bit toward helping to win the war and will be provided with the new literature from time to time as it becomes available. You have no excuse for not attend ing this meeting In the first place it is your duty. In the second place it is your privilege, and in the third place you will spend an evening that will be one long to be remembered. Right now you should reserve Thurs day evening, October 11th. for your country and attend this meeting. The County Council plans to or ganize Box Butte county to the last unit. Precinct Councils of Defense will be organized as a link in the chain from National, State and Coun ty Councils. ; You ask what the business of tbe Council of Defense is? The primal object 1b blind, unwavering loyalty to our country and our flag. Everything else must be subservient to that. The County Council of Defense is the CLEARING HOUSE FOR THE COUNTY. The council provides the means for united action of all the people, it affords an organisation to do things where, if left to individuals, little or nothing could be accom plished. Come to the meeting everything will be made clear to you and you will have a better under- ( standing of what is being done and of what Is to be done. Attend this patriotic rally and organization meet ing. ACTING 60VERN0R HEREON THDRSDAY Lieutenant Governor Howard Finish ed His Hunting Trip Thursday and Ieft for Lincoln. Edgar Howard, editor of the Columbus Telegram and lieutenant governor of the state of Nebraska, who arrived two weeks ago for a hunting trip near Alliance In the hills, left Thursday evening for Lin coln. From seven o'clock until after midnight Thursday night, when he left, ho was acting governor of the state of Nebraska. Governor Keith Neville left Lincoln on a trip to Washington at that time and Lieu tenant Governor Howard thereby be came nctlng governor. Ho is now presiding at the state house In the governor's office and will do so until the latter returns from hlB eastern trip. While in the city Mr. Howard was the guest of Robert Graham on the latter's ranch south of Alliance. The hunting pnrty consisted of Mr. How ard, Charley Bryan of Lincoln, Harry Rex of CreBton, Iowa, and Dr. Green of Columbus. Alliance people who spent much time at the ranch with them In the "big drive" for ducks were Robert Graham, T. J. O'Keefe, Lloyd Thomas, "Bill" umer, who Is an old friend of Mr. Howard's, and others. The Columbus Telegram's editorial page, which Is a feature looked for by all Nebraska newspapermen and politicians, was a blank last week, as far as editorials were concerned, and In explanation thereof the following article appeared under the heading "Hunting Chickens": One week ago yeBterday Editor Howard, In company with his son-ln-Iny, Harry Rex, of Creston, Iowa, and Hon. C. W. Bryan, of Lincoln, left for a hunting trip to the sandhill re gion near Alliance. Not a scratch of the pen has been received from him, but yesterday morning one of his friends at Alliance sent a wire advis ing that Mr. Howard and party were still chasing chickens of some kind, and apparently finding plenty of them. Mr. Howard expected to be home Tuesday, but the wire states that he was marooned in the sand hills, and could not be home this week. This information is given for the benefit of Platte Center people who expected Mr. Howard to address them at their Harvest festival this week; for the benefit of numerous callers at the office and Inquiries by ! phone for Mr. Howard, and for others . who have addressed him by mall, and I still await a reply. It also explains ;the lack of an adttorial page in The Telegram this week. ASSOCIATE EDITORS. KAISEii ADMITS HE WANTS PEACE i GERMANY WILL OFFER MORS CONCESSIONS IS RELIEF IN DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES COTTRiLL GETS MINE OF GOLD AND SILVER Former Alliance Man Pay $53MK For Mill For HI Mine at lUacfc Hawk, in Colorado DiNtrict REAOY TO GIVE DP BELGIUM Rather Than Face American Arrow Next Year, Teutons Hope to Ob tain Pence Thin Winter London. Thai uuiuiuny Is sin cerely trying to negotiate peace this winter, beiore iuu tun strength of the militaiy arm or me United States can oe exicin.i ii, ai spnng, is ihB candid belief in diplomatic circles in Lonuon. Germany, In its tentative verbal reply to the papal nuie, indicated a Will. n, i iu nmuuil) ItetKjUUl un- dar "certain coiiauu.ua." XhsM coudiiioua, u ia believed, will not uu ... . . i',..ii,. iu tue entente allies But the great point gained, it la pumped oui, i. ....... n h will ingness to even so much as concede) the t-iViUK uy ui .. . u ... li u i any circuuiaiuui ea. Germany's offer to withdraw her a I iu. ....... i. ,H..i... I., UQuilrituoll to be accompanied by an tj . i.m of willingness to pay "per share" off the coat ui ItUuu o - This again. Is vague. No one !r Lonauu mtu J jui "share" Germany thinas she ought to pay m the way of Indemnity to Bel gium, or who suoutu pa me umiir "shiti e." But the diplomats do not coin. urn themselves wuu iuu detail. Tne one nmln fact stands out. uermany, tor the llrst lime smce peace talk, began, months ago, evinces a wiiiuigueab u withdraw her urinieB nom tfeigiuni and to pay Belgium an inuemnity. It is aigueu uuu. tuis that uer many Is willing to make stiti lurtuer concessions, as to Belgium. It is be lieved that Germany's next offer will, be to evacuate Belgium without con dition and to pay Belgium an indem nity. It Is believed, further, that Ger many will be willing to make con cessions to France, either in tne shape of Indemnity, or of some modi- fled government of Alsace and Lor raine. Germany, so, far has been silent as to the ultimate fate of Poland. There are reasons for the bellefe that the entente allies (and the phrase, oC course, does not Include the United States) will be satisfied with nothing lesB than the complete independence of German domination of German, Austrian and Russian Poland. But the outlook for speedy peace Is brighter than it was a short time ago. Germany, for the first time, is showing concrete evidence of a will ingness to come to terms. T. ....... -I Jkkn. n LUJ. Argentina devotes 4,000,016 seres l Th. th i.r.( .tir MU sTowlag. j,n Ajlianc( at aU Ume). pDOne 340. Frank Cottrlll. formerly employed at tbe Burlington shops in Alliance, Who more recently has been employ ed at the Hord Alkali Products Com pany at Lakeside, recently Inherited a valuable gold and silver mine at Black Hawk, Colorado. Cottrlll has JubI completed the or ganization of the Cottrlll Milling A Mining Company which will operate the mine. He has just purchased a $52,000 mill which he will install at the mine as soon as he completes his work of installing boilers St the Lakeside plant. The mine has at tunnel 800 feet In length and has an excellent showing of both gold and silver In big paying quantities. Mr. Cottrill has samples with him, taken i'r'?m the mine, which are mighty Interesting to people who recognize valuable oreB. He will re tourn soon to Black Hawk and get the mine In active production. ENLISTING OF DRAFT MEN MAY RE ALLOWED Orders explaining u recent order sent out by the war department con cerning enlisting of drafted appli cants in the regular army, have been received at the regular army station here. The previous order provided that persons may not be exempted to permit the mto enlist, nor. under the president's regulations may a person who has once been called by the local board thereafter enlist even after he hRs been exempted or discharged from the draft. This regulation may be modified by the president after all quotas are filled, the order reads, but for the present exempted or dis charged registrants may not enlist voluntarily. It Is further explained that an application of an exempted or discharged man to enlist would be ground upon which a local board might inquire whether his certificate of exemption or discharge ought not to he revoked. Regular army stations have been authorized to enlist colored men In tevedore regiments of the quarter master corns of the National army. Men accepted for enlistment are to he sent to the recruiting depot, depot nost nr nenreat military post enroute to Newport News. Vs. Special uni forms are to be furnished the men. Hwef4 rrAi men who declare they will support their wives while In service are to be enlisted. ALUANCE SULUItR A otUhY WRITER Milton Kcegan, Son or County Asses Nor, Breaks Into Ranks of Short Story Writers in iiiue Rooa Milton J. Keegan, aged twenty-two. son of County Assessor J. a. Keegan of Alliance, who is a member ot uie new .National Army and who leaves this week for the training camp to lake his part iu the world war, has joiued the ranks of nationally known Bhort story writers. Milton's first story published in a magazine of national reputation ap peared in the Blue Book Magaz.ne for November and Is entitled "Kroes ing Backs Down." It was written while Milton was studying journal ism at the Nebraska University and would indeed be a credit to a man ot ludny more years ot training. It was only after the continued urging ot n is ISM bar and fellow students that he would consent to offer the story tor publication. The story is one of the weBt and Is full of thrills and true western color througuout. Seldom do The Herald's editors have time to glance inside the covers of a fiction mags- zine, but they took time to read this story from start to finish. The scene is the Star ranch in Sheridan county. The Btory is too long for publica tion in this issue of The Herald but we quote the first two paragraphs and hope later to find room to pub lish it complete: " Along, mournful wail of a coyote from the top of the hill yonder was the only sound that broke the still ness in the bunk-house at that early hour in the morning. Iu fact ouiy one inmate of that large sod strue tvre heard the plaintive cry. And as he listened, somehow his sympathy went out to the lonely creature of the night. " 'I guesa the old boy feels about the same way toward the world as I do,' thought the man as he lay gas ing out toward the sparkling heavens on that clear October night. Herald readers will find a literary treat if they will get a copy of the Blue Book for November and read the story-