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VOLUME XXV
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTK COUNTY, NEBRASKA, JAM. . 17, 1918
MORRILL POTATO
GROWERS PRO
TEST SYSTEM
JOBBERS OFFER DOLLAR A HUN
DRED POUNDS SELL THEM
IN LINCOLN FOR S2.2S
500 CARLOADS AT MORRILL
Will Apioal To Government Officials
To Help Them Move Their
Potatoes
The Lincoln State Journal contain
ed the following Interesting article
in a recent issue, wtaicti snows how
the consumer is held up for potatoes
In the cities. The article Is as fol
lows: While wholesale dealers are charg
ing grocers in Lincoln $2.25 a hun
dred pounds for potatoes, and con
sumers are being held up to the tune
of $3 a hundred pounds, there are
2,000 car loads of the finest quality
stored in farmers cellars in the North
Platte valley, and the raisers are un
able to find a market for them, ac
cording to Frank Thomas, E. R.
Kirk Patrick and James Elliott, farm
era who live near Morrill, Nebr. Six
hundred car loads of spuds are stored
In cellars near Morrill. E. R. Kirk
Patrick raised 11,00 bushels of the
best grade, he said and now has them
for sale. They want government
The price quoted to him, when a
price is quoted, is $1 a hundred
pounds. He sold two car loads Just
before coming to Lincoln at that
price. But the great difficulty is that
there is no market for them now.
These men were astonished to find
that the wholesalers were quoting
spuds to the retailers here at $225
a hundred pounds. "We cannot un
derstand why there should be so
great a difference between tbe prices
paid us at Morrill and the price
charged the retailer in Lincoln," said
Mr. Kirkpatrick
Hundreds of Cars Stored
"We men at Morrill want to say
taat we have 600 car loads stored in
the cellars and that we have a Farm
era Union there and that this union
is ready to deliver them, put them in
the cars at Morrill, sacked, at $1.25
per hundred pounds.
The men offered Friday night to
dispose of their spuds at that price
f. o. b. Morrill and said they would
deliver them in Lincoln for twenty
two cents more per hundred pound3,
or the cost of the freight which they
computed at that figure. They de
clared that they wanted to protest
against the conditions that exist in
the food market as far as potatoes
are concerned.
They declared that it has been
computed that potatoes cannot be
sold by the raiser for less than $1.25
a hundred pounds and make money
on them. The men who have come
to buy. on.' of them a buyer for a
Lincoln firm, have offered from $1 to
$1.10 a hundred pounds but only
want a car or two at a time.
Mr. Elliott declared that when the
farmer sells his potrtoe3 at one dol
lar a hundred pounds, he loses $14
an acre on them. The men, however
are not holding for higher prices.
They said they were net hoarding
them. Somo of the men are dispos
ing of them at $1 a hundred and all
that have potatoes realise that they
must dispose of them by the first of
May. There arc 2,000 carloads to
be moved by that time and the mark
et must open up soon to take care of
them.
"We are going to make an appeal
to the government officials," declared
Mr. Elliott. "Government agents
came to the farmers in the North
Piatte valley the spring of 1917 and
urged us to plant potatoes, and we
did it thru patriotism. Now we want
the government to help us move
them."
These men pointed out things that
are responsible for the conditions in
tbe potato market. They called at
tention to the fact that the exorbitant
price charged the people in the cities
cut down the demand for potatoes
because people stop using them so
freely when they get so high. This
cuts down demand. The wholesaler
gets his big prices. Tnu retailer has
to sell them at a big figure and the
wholesaler comes back at the planter
with the statement that there is not
a big demand and that he cannot
handle his potatoes.
Mr. Kirkpatrick and his compan
ions pointed out that when the mark
et was open they could not get cars
to move them. Now that they have
cars to move them they cannot get a
market for them. The men were in
dignant over conditions. They felt
that there was a Mg Injustice being
done somewhere along the line and
expressed a desire to see the wrong
conditions
MAJ. GEN. GEORGE BELL, JR.
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SSSP . w jSrL 'B BB
MsJ. Gen. Cccro Sail, Jr., in com
mand of Camp Logan, Houston, was
born In Maryland, January 23, 1859,
and consequently Is fifty-eight years of
age. He Is recognised as one of the
ablest commanding officers in the
army.
WEEK OE VIOLENCE
OVER AT BAYARD
Four Violent Deaths Constitute the
Record at Bayard Laat
Week
A murder and suicide ocevrred at
Bayard Tuesday. Wm. Linn, who
lived on a farm ne-r tlm city, was
taken sick s';me Mm ag and was
taken to a local hospital, whe ho
was treatc ' for a nervoouB break
down, and was apparently getting
better. On Tuesday he was ieleased
from the hospital and went home.
During his illness he and' his family
had mndc arrangements to leave the
co n try as scon as he vrat able, and a
sale of his property had been arrang
ed. Aco Cadwell, a neighbor, who
had been attending to Linn's chores
while ho latter was in the hospital,
was assisting him in his preparations
to leave. Cadwell was sitting at a
table writing out a sc!e bill to adver
tise a sale, when I. in came to the
door and without saying a word shot
him with a shotgun, killing him in
stantly. Linn then went' to the barn,
where he hung himself. Both men
were of middle age and apparently
the best of friends. No cause for the
act can be given, but it is supposed
that Linn was deranged at the time
tho tragedy occurred . Cadwell
leaves a wife and nin children.
Last Saturday afternoon Ole Han
sen took on a load of booze and went
to a restaurant conducted by Bob
Morgan, near the depot, and it is
stated that Hansen st-irted a rough
house. During the scuffle in which
Morgan waa trying tc gei. him out of
the house, Hansen made it pretty
warm for Morgan, who seeing a knife
lying on a table grabbed It and
stabbed Hansen in the back. The
injured men was taken to the hos
pital, where he remained until Wed
nesday night, dying about 6:30. He
was a man about 30 years old and
came to Bayard from Fremont last
summer.
The other case was the death of
A. Lord, 'a laborer at the Bayard fac
tory. In some mannar Lord gained
admission to the ma'n office of the
company, and in making a search of
the premises found some wood alco
hol, which, it is supposed, he mis
took for the real thing. At any rate,
he drank it. and died shortly after
taking tbe fatal dose.
NEW OFFICERS ARE ELECTED
i
A 11 Lance Association Pays Hansome
Dividends for Past Year on Rim
ing Stock
The annual meeting of stockhold
ers of the Alliance Building & Loan
Association was held oa January 8th.
Officers' re-elected were R. M. Hamp
ton, president; Jerry Rowan, vice
president; F. W. Harris, treasurer;
M. S. Hargraves, secretary. The
board of directors consists of the
above and John McDonald, George E.
Davis. W. C. Mount a, F. W. Irish,
Elisha D. Henry.
An unusually good showing was
made for the year 1917 oa the inter
est paid on the running stock. The
dividend for June first amounted to
nine nine-tenths per cent. The semi
annual dividend for January 1st
amounted to eight per cent, making
a total dividend for the year of seven
teen and nine-tenths per cent 'on the
running stock. Tho paid up stock
draws the regular dividend of six per
cent.
The stockholders of the company
were delighted with the excellent
showing made for the past year.
NUMBER 7
FATAL ACCIDENT IN
BURLINGTON YARDS
Young Switchman Was Caught Be
tween Two Feign t Cars and In
stantly Killed, l .h -t. Friday
An accident occured at the Bur
lington yards at ton o'clock last Frl
day morning when J. J. Dean, a
switchman was caught between 'two
coal cars and was killed Instantly.
The morning was bitterly cold and
a heavy fog of smoke and steam en
veloped the yards making it impos
sible for the engineer to see the stop
signal and the train moved back and
caught the unfortunate man, he dy
ing without uttering a sound.
Clifford Sward was the only eye
witness to the tragedy. Mr. Sward
was helping Mr. Dean set out a bad
order car on the switching track. Mr.
Sward gave the stop signal to the en
gineer, but owing to the heavy fog
the engineer did not sec the signal,
and the train moved back and Dean
was caught between two cars, one
that had lost a draw bar coupling, the
others having the coupling mashed
down so that when the two carB
came together there was no space
between them. Mr. Dean came from
Denver about a week before the
tradgedy and had been working for
the Burlington since his arrival. His
wife and little baby had arrived two
days before and were making their
home with their brother, D. W.
Mains. '
Mr. Dean's parents and two sisters
reside at Halifax, Nova Scotia and he
has two brothers residing in Boston.
Corner Basye at once visited the
scene of the accident. He decided to
hold an inquest A jury was im
panelled, consisting of Roy Beckwith,
James Rice, Bert McCool, O. E. More,
Everett Cook, John Snyder.
The jury brought in a verdict as
follows: That J. J. Dean came to his
death by being crushed between two
bad order cars while working as a
Bwitcbman on the Burlington, that
because of steam escaping from tbe
engine, together with atmospheric
conditions prevented the engineer
from receiving the last signal. The
railroad was at fault for using an
engine in bad order.
The remains were taken to Denver
for burial on Saturday.
FARMERS TO GIVE NEXT SALE
Red Cross Sale on Sturday, January
26 to be Conducted by our
Farmers
The farmers will have charge of
the next iRed Cross sale to be held
In Alliance January 26th at 3 p. m.
at the corner of 3rd and Box Butte.
The first sale was held by the town
people and a largo num'oc- or farm
ers expressed themselves as wanting
to make the next one strictly for the
farmers, so tbe committo in charge
has appointed Brown Griffith as
chairman with the following to as
sist: J. A. Keegan, M. D. He: ley A.
Groves, L J. Schill, Herb NaBon,
Wm. Rust, Jr. Elmer Englshorn, Cal
Geo. Newswanger and W. D. Fisher.
Those who come in before the 26th
can leave their articles at the Com
munity headquarters, Harry Coursey
has again donated his services free
for this ocasBion. You can also
bring in your horses, cows, pigs, etc.
Mr. Courscy will donate bis commis
sion to the Red Cross and the farmer
can donatd any additional amount as
ho wishes. Let every farmer get be
hind this and show the other count
ies what we can do.
18pt HEAD
Mrs. J. M. Miller returned lut
night from a short visit at Crawford
A BOX BUTTE PIONEER
A traveling salesman of en Omaha
Paper Co. was in tbe Horald office
Wednesday. He spoke quite enthus
istically of Judge Tash who had been
telling him of early days in Box Butte
County. He said it was very rare to
find a man who had lived in one com
munity for thirty years. Judge Tash
has been here that long and has a
g-eat deal to do with the growth of
the county. The Judge has served in
all three court! houses that he county
,B had- "1
TAKES SECOND PLACE
Box Butte County was awarded
second place in the county exhibits
at the fruit and vegetable show be
ing held in Lincoln this week. First
place waa awarded to Kimball Coun
ty, but both irrigated and dry land
potatoes were included in the Kim
ball County exhibit.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank neighbors and
friends for assistance and, floral offer
ings during thetslckness and death of
our baby.
Elmer Lawrence and Family, Mr. and
Mrs. I. J. Lawrence, Henry Lawrence
and Mother.
As Chaplain Lousher did not mnke
his connections as was expected, the
lecture advertlsod for last (Saturday
lgnt was held Sunday nlaht at the
First Baptist Church. All the ot her
churches showed their spirit of co
operation and calledoff their services
for Sunday night so that everybody
could take advantage of tho lecture.
Previous to the lecluro prayer was
held and Beveral sonpe suna bv the
womens chorus. A splendid phono
graph had been provided, several ap
propriate records bolng played.
Chaplain Loughor diverged from
the lecture advertised and took un
crime problems in the United States.
No one regretted tho change, as the
octure was live and Intcrc-ilna from
the time Mr. Loughcr Btarted until
he closed.
Facta presented were Btartllna. It
was shown that crime has been on
the increase in the United States.
that there is a great deal of unheard
of crookedness in our men chosen to
fill officos for the administer of
tho law and that the average age of
men being sent to the penententlarv
has dropped from thirty seven years
to twenty two years. Chaplain
Lo uglier brought home to us forcibly
the need of prison reform, different
methods for the young offenders be
ing corrected than the reform school.
He stated that the moving picture
show should be strictly censored, pre-
entiug all pictures featuring "hero"
crooks, as such pictures put wrong
ideas into the youne. It is Just as
easy to show constructive pictures as
to show the other kind.
On the whole, the lecture by Chan-
lain Lougher was excellent. There
was a large attendance, the church
being too small to accomodate the
crowd.
Messrs Fred J. Vogel of The Al
liance Times and Dan R. Conway of
The Alliance Herald spent Sunday
last in Scottsbluff, there to attend
the regular monthly meeting of
Bridgeport Local No. 755 Interna
tional Typographical Union.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Herlan of An
ttorh were in Alliance on business
Tuesday sad Wednesday of this week.
EXCELLENT TALK BY GEN Robert l bulurd
CHAPLAIN LOUGHER
Tiurches Hold Union Meeting last
Sunday Night at the First Bap
tist Church
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PRINTERS' UNION BUYS STAMPS
Local Printers Show Th Mr Patri.Vtc
Spirit In a Financial
Way
At the regular monthly meeting
held in ScottBbluff on last Sunday
afternoon, January 12tb, the mem
bers of Local No. 755, International
Typographical Union voted unanimo
usly to purchase $100 worth of the
new thrift stamps in the nnme of the
organization.
Bridgeport local No. 755, includes
he members of the printing craft In
the offices of tbe newspapers at
Scottsbluffs, Alliance, Gerlng and
Bridgeport. The members of tbe
Union wlll subscribe the fund and the
stamps will be purchased from time
to time as the fund allows. In view
of the fact that membership of the
Union is comparatively small, being
cbmposed of printers actively engag
ed in their profession, it can be
realized that the patriotism thus
manifested means nd small, sacrifice.
MARRIED
Mr. Gerald Laurence Beck and
Miss Mary Thomasine Sample were
married at Ellensburg Washington
on Dec, 31st. The marriage was a
home affair, at the home of the
brides parents. Laurence formerly
lived in Alliance and was a member
of the class of 1915 at the high
school. However he did not graduate
here but completed bis course at the
North Yokima, Washington high
school. After leaving high school he
attended the Washington State Nor
mal, it was here that he met Miss
Sample. While in Alliance Mr. Beck
was a member of the Alliance band,
being quite active in all affairs and
well liked by the younger aet of the
eity.
Mr. and Mrs. Beck took a short
honeymoon and are now at home in
Cle Elum, Washington.
FARMERS UNION MEETS
Members and their family of the
Farmers Educational and Co-operative
State Union of Nebraska. Meet
at district No. 2 school house 3 miles
east of Alliance Monday evening Jan.
After the initiation of new
officers. Herman Trabert was elect
ed as delegate to the state convention
ar Lit coin Miss Norma Trabert
sang several well selected songs and
O. W. Nation gave a recitation.
Messrs Stoll and Munts rcnored oev-
eral good musical pieces on the violin
guitar and mandolin, after which fol
lowed a bountiful lunch, everyone re
turned home after a dollghtfnl evening
Robert L. Bullard. one of the new
major generals, was born In Alabama
In 1881 and graduated from West Point
in 1881. He became a colonel of In
fantry In 1911.
PLAYED BASKETBALL
EOR RED CROSS
Exciting Game Goes To Sophomore
Boys... Girls Battle Won By
The Juniors
The high school gymnasium was
filled to the limit Tuesday night with
a crowd of enthusiasts. They were
not disappointed as the two games
played by the classes were full of
thrillB. - The excitement was Intense
through tho games, the referees hav
ing a hard time to stop the players
when infractions of the rules were
called, as the noise was terrific.
Tbe girls game between the Fresh
man and the Juniors, was a battle
royal all the way through. First one
team would lead, then the other, at
the ond of the first ' air the score
stood, Juniors 11, Freshman 9.
When tbe next half started the
Freshman took the lead but held it
for only a short -time. The Juniors
taking the lead and holding it until
the end of the game. Final score
being Juniors 15, Freshman 14. The
Freshman girls had the better team
as far as Basket Ball playing goes
but the Junior girls were too tall.
In the boys game some good basket
ball was -shown. The first half the
sophomores played rings around the
seniors, their team work and goal
shooting being perfect. The game
was clean, good sportsmanship being
shown by both classes. Score first
half, Sophomores 12 Senlorsl4. Tbe
next half the Seniors came back
st rout:, their play so far excelled the
Sophomores that they made up the
points lost and if time had been a
few mlnuteB more would have defeat
ed the Sophomores. The final score
stood Sophomores 14, Seniors IS.
Jordan Robinson, business man
ager of the games stated that tbey
would have In the neighborhood of
sixty dollars to turn into the Red
Cross fund as a result of the games.
HIGH SCHOOL PliAYS AT BAY
ARD NEXT SATURDAY NIGHT
The high school team under coach
Crawford has been rounded into
shape, playing its first game at Bay
ard next Saturday night. The team
is composed of eight men who will
all take the trip. We anticipate the
boys showing some good basket ball
as tbey have a good fast team and put
up a clean scrappy game.
COMMENDS OUR ORGANIZATION
State Rural School Inspector, Alice
Florer, Write to Secretary
FiUher
January 11, 1918
Sec'y. Fisher,
Community Club,
Alliance, Nebraska.
Dear S'r:
It was with a great deal of pleas
ure that I looked over the Alliance
Herald which came to my desk this
week and especially the work uf your
Community Club and the Defense
day which the women are earring out.
If evtry community could establH'.
a i ocd community club In which sub
jects relating to their immediate
woik and interests were discussed
and whae people get together aad
get Information and up-to-dat u op'n
ionc, (.in schools would be better an1
there would be a happier relation
ship cniong the people of such otn
n unitif s.
I am writing to congratulate you
upon 'bis splendid club which you
have organised and wish you in
bounded success in this great wot a.
Very sincerely,
Alice Florer
Aesistaat State Superintendent.
Rural School Inspector
COUNTY BOARD
HEARS ROAD
COMPLAINTS
ALLIANCE MEN MEET WITH THO
Molt It 1 1 , oi BOARD
AT BRIDGEPORT
ROADS THE WORST IN STATE
Every Effort Is Being Made to
Improve Road Con
ditions Here
The boord of county commissioners
of Morrill county devoted a good
share of Tuesday forenoon to hearing
complaints of parties from the north
end of the county on the deplorable
condition of the roads, sr.ys tho
Bridgeport News Blade.
A delegation fro I Alliance, Con
sisting of Secretary Fisher, of the
Alliance commercial club, and Robert
Oraham, postmaster at that ploco,
with T. B. Estill representing Bridge
port, appeared before the hnard tr
ask for an appropriation for work oa
tbe road from Bridgeport north to
me box Butte county line. Mr. Es
till opened the proceedings bv show.
ing tbe necessity for work on this
road and by calling tho attention of
the board to the fact that a eomiri.
erable sum of money Is now in the
treasury that should be snent lnntAnrl
of lying idle. Mr. Fisher followed by
onering co-operation on behalf of
Alliance in making the road 'and la
haullag material to improvo the road
in this county and to build gates
through which cars can be driven
without stopping.
The proposition was made t t
the work of building gates If the com
missioners would pay for tbe lumber
which will cost from 112 to IIS
for each gate. The community clubs
of Alliance and Bridgeport will also
do a large amount of work on the
road If the commissioners will use
tbe funds In the various precincts for
road work. Mr. Fisher Dhowed that
a sand road can be successfully eon-
air ucteo by using spotld hay as a
base and covering this with the mag
nesia that Is so plentiful in the sand
hill country. The road will have to
be what is call ed a "gate road." that
Is , It cannot be an onen road for th
present since It crosoes private lands
in a meandering line; but there Is no
doubt It will In time develono In to an
open road as it is worked and trav
eled and the necosoity for an open
road becomes apparent.
Several men from tho northeastern
part of the county were also present
to urge the claims of the residents of
that section for a north and south
road from Alliance to Broadwater.
Robert Oraham. who owns larae raf
estate Interests in that section, made
a strong and eloquent plea for justice
to those who live in that locality. He
called attention to the fact tbat he
and others have been paying taxes
there for about twenty-seven years,
but have had absolutely nothing:
done for them In tho way of roads
He staled that this fund had been In
creasing from year to year, end that
it should in justice bo spen: on roads.
The road was Burveycd some time
ago, but it has not as yet been opened
for the reason that some land own
ers have made what Is deemed ex
orbitant claims for damages. Mr.
Graham argued that a few men
should not be permitted to hold back
a public improvement in this man
ner, and that It is the duty of the
commissioners to go ahead and open
tbe road. The post off ice at Cleman.
on thin road, was established in 1897,
and a rmall route to Alliance was es
tablished at the same time. Most of
the land at t hat time waa vacant gov
eminent land; and as the land came
into private ownership, the owners
recognised the road as a postal route
and paid the mail carrier wages for
shutting the gates along tho route,
since they know tbey had no right to
place any obstruction. In the way of
a gate or otherwise, cn an established
postal route. Mr. Graham ' questions
tbe right of the present owners to
collect damages now upon tbe formal
oneniag of the road by the commis
sioners) since the postal route was es
tablished long before they became
owners of the land. He argues that
the road can be opened legally at this
time without liability on tho part of
the county so far at the Dart used as
a postal route is concerned, and came
oeiore tne Doaru well armea wit a
postal law to support his contention.
Sam Hickman, from the same lo
cality, seconded Mr. Graham's de
mand for a road, and said that be
had come to the county seat by
train because of the impassable con
dition of the roads. Mr. Hickman
said thetonly way he could get to
Bridgeport was by train or aeroplane.
Mr. Scott, who Uvea on the Rice
ranch in the northeastern part of the
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