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L Official Organ Nebraska Stock Growers Association and Nebraska State Volunteer Firemen's Association EIGHT PAGES Leading Newspaper of Western Nebraska The Alliance Herald 0 Avr x .1 Them You Saw I tin The Herald VOLUME XXV ALLIANCE. BOX BUTTE COUNTY. NKKRASK AJ'KHKl WHY 28, 1911 MWIHKR 13 POTASH FIELDS WEST NEBRASKA NOT KNOWN POPULAR SCIENCE 11 ARTICLE OF MARCH ISSUE DOES NOT MENTION NEBRASKA NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC USES OF POTASH ARE MANY An Article By The Commercial World Nebraska State Journal Anil Al ii lire Herald All About Potash In order that we may curb the spread of any contagious disease, it is necessary to have the co-operation of every one in the city. If you have sickness in your family, call your physician. However slight the ail ment may be in the beginning it may develop in to something serious. Ob serve also the quarantine rules. It will be necessary for us to prosecute to the full extent of the lnw anyone found violating quarantine rules. Con tagion in Alliance can be stamped out and will be if every one will help. W. E. Rousey, Mayor. In the March isse of the Popular Science magazine an article appeared on Potash. The article itBelf shows that the East is far from being a ware of the new industry that has sprung up in Nebraska. Here is what the magazine says on the avail able sources of potash; "The known sources of potash in this country are pitifully small in comparison with the needs. ' The to tal of the much heraled supply in Searles Lake, California, will not ex ceed the out put of the Germans for a single year. There are afew other sources of potash. Sea Kelp yields a small amount; the alunit deposits in Utah contain potash salts of Alu mina, but no soluble potash ; the re works are producing a little; some is contained in the refuse from sugar beet factories; but outside of Ger many the total annual output of pot ash is not over 50,000 tons as against 12.000,000 tons of the crude ore run ning from thirty to forty percent, of pure potash, produced In Germany in one year. Since the embargo of January 1915, the price of potash has risen from $30 to $450 per ton." The uses of potash given by the Popu'nr Science are very enlightening, they are; "The greatest chemical need of this country today is for potash. Be sides being indispensable in the rais ing of crops, it hr.s a multitude of i DIED BEFORE PHYKICAN COULD BE SECURED When George Homes, colored din ing car cook on the Kansas City to Edgemont line, got off the train at Alliance last Friday night, he knew that he was dying. He told one of his friends to run and get a doctor, before Doctor Bellwood arrived how ever. Homes was dead. Death was caused by a hemmorage. Homes was on his way home from Edgemont, where he first took sick, being relived and given transporta tion to Alliance. He had stopped at Alliance to obtain transportation through to Kansas City. WHAT IS SAID WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Interesting letters Received Ry Serg eant Scott Answering His Call To Enlists EXPERIENCE OF AMERICAN AVIATOR E. E. Young hr.s gone to Chicago on business Doris Dorothy Woolston was born August 30th, 1902 on u farm near Hushville, Missouri. Was taken by her maker at five o'clock Wednesday morning, February 27th. 1918, at the age of fifteen years, seven months and twenty four days. DoriB was taken sick tast Friday morning, with Scarlet Fever, during her illness many anxious rnends in quired as to her condition. Reports up to Tuesdny night were that she was not critically ill, complica tions setting in Tuesday night caused a loss of blood through a hemorrhage weakening her system to such an ex- Sergeant Scott, in charge of the lo cal recruiting office, has been waking up the men in this part of the coun try in regard to what it means to not enlist. He has been putting the question squarely up to the men in a position Ao go and none can deny the fact that he is one of the squarest men In the service of to United States today. The following letters are examples of those received In ans wer to the call to arms, they show more than anything else could that all the men necessary for the war will enlist when B realization cornea of the need of trained men. No names are mentioned in these lottery as It would not be fair to the writer to divulge their name. My Dear Mr. Scott; I don't feel MS tho I would like to enlist at present as I am a married man and have four children, but if it becomes necessary, 1 am sure ready to break the home ties and go and do my bit r.s our fore fathers have done. If you think it necessary for me to go all you have to do it to call me and I w.ill be com ing. Yours Very Truly Frank Scott Sergeant In Arms. Dear Sir: Regarding your letter attached, i wish to say mar loiter is just me siun If I can do more In the army than I am here am willing to go. Am hand ling a BtatioBfor , that would require three other men to handle, have a wffe and four babies, my wife is my assistant. I manage three farmu, one at two tit and nave surceded in raising maxi mum crops where others have failed on the same farms. There are too man;?armerB retiring and going to town, this should be stopped at once. Any thing that I can do to help you will be gladly done, my long BUlt is on farm work, and think that all re tired farmers should be made to Young Aviator Writes ff His Advent ures In Italy. American Popu Ittr In Italy The following letter was written by h member of the aviation corps in Italy, and will be interesting to all the readers of the Herald. Ietter From Aviator Herman Krcug- Italy, December 27, 1917. Dear Folks at Home: I have not written you for several dio't hut here goes to make tip for It. Well, Christmas baa come and KOSft and you may be uro 1 missed being home more than ever before. I tgiought of you nian Mines on flu ' Unas eve and Chr stnias day I ffttle dreamed last year when I left Oklahoma a little less than a year ago. that I WM due to travel to the Mexican border and back twice, all over Texas Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, and Kansas, to say nothing about New York, England and France and Italy. But Christmas morning found me sitting in the sun parlor of Rortollni's Palace In Naples, en Joying the wonderful warm sunshine of Naples, looking out across the bay at the Island of Capri and many ships far below sailing around, a wonderful ly beautiful city in tho distance, and over to the left twenty milcB (appar ently two miles) the Mt. of Vesuvius rose right out of the Mediterranean Sea. Around the top it was all snow covered, the very peak being gone but from the grert crater great vol umes of smoke and vapor still rolled up. I never expect to see anything so gfrand as long aB I live. For to me, aftef three months of hard, continual trailing and flying it was the great est pest I've ever had. 1 had seenred a puss because of good work and conduct and was given my choice of going to Rome or Naples for three days. It is impossible to YANKEE NURSES AT FRONT How fares it these days with A- merican lied Cross nurses serving with the French and British armies? Tho live In corrugated Iron huts heat ed with little pot-bellied stoves, and to be comfortably warm the women wear layers of woolen garments Ao that, as one girl wrote to her folks, "we look I ke Teddy bears." Busy days and nights they . are, with these American lassies In the British hospitals Just back of the lines In Flanders, ond vastly Inter esting too. "I am too tired this morning after twelve hours of night duty to write much," says a recent letter, "It has been ununually cold, and nearly the Whole night I went from patient to patient removing bandages and rub bing cold feet and b gs with hot oil. The job wears one out, hut the poor lads are so utterly grateful for the service that I feel well repaid." In another letter the same young woman wrote: "For at leaBt half my time on duty today I've sat beside the stove In a group of Tommies and Jocks (Eng lish and Scotch soldiers) able to sit up and tell stories. "I've been In spirit up In the trenches and over V e top. I've seen deserters shot. I've watched Frits coming across No Man's Land with hands up. crying 'Kamcrad! Kamerad I've been at the Dardanells, seeing good soldiers die of dysentery like flies, and their bodies heaped In piles and burned. "Then I've stood by observing the battalion doctor looking over the men; giving one man with a sprined ankle "medicine and duty'; telling another he's shirking, and then an ohour later finding his lifeless body In the bath house. I've even been across In bonnle Scotland and watched the mothers of lads who w'll never return flocking around the one who has come back, asking for Information about 'last words', the burial, etc., and have heard the braw Scotch lad lie manful- POTASN HIGH WAY NOW JN SIGHT DELMUATEN PROM ALL THB XUNT1ES MET AT MULLEN ON FEBRUARY 25. ROAD NOW TO BE BUILT Delegate Devide To Construct Road From Grand Island To Alliance VI Broken How Secretary Fisher of the Community Club returned from the good roads conference Monday evening. This was held at Mullen Monday the 25th. The news he brought back should make every booster of North West Nebraska rejoice, Inasmuch as the development to follow will materially Increase the growth of this territory. Answering Secretary Fishers call. 105 delegates from counties interest ed along the highway, gathered at Mullen last Monday to discuss the pro position outlined by Fisher. The turn out of delegates shows that the road Is of vital interest to all concer ned. From the point of attendance and interest shown by the delegates, this meeting was without question, the most successful good roads meet ing ever held in western Nebraska. The road will mean much to Alli ance, It will draw tourists through this section of the country, enroute to the National Purk, tourists will motor out to look over the potash fields. The more people that pass .through this section of the country, the more will the advantage be ap preciated in this way drawing more new blood Into the country and towns The delegates decided that the road should be built. Starting from uses in the arts and industries. It tsttPBt that sne not r"nV u,n In essential to the manufacture of muni-!6ecl away at five o'clock Wednesday , iiandlo at least 60 acres of corn as It j hotel that perhaps the greatest winter . . . t . ,1 urn 1 i ( r ,1 n nun I Inr floQth . . . - - tions, glass, maicn?s, nasing powaw( mmm I is toe j j . - i, . I .in t.i .1 00 i . I , , . I. 1 11 iii-urr i.ri. uu It I nniKB, nye-siurrs, soap antiseptics, ; " mmnm . ....j I MSCSfO and many other articles. Potash was thought she was on t ne road to salts are used in the purification of a recovery is too late to put in wheat, of course resort or the world has. and all tour- wheat would do well now being gone, due to the war. there sad any of these old time farmers jwas no noise Of disturbance. All I I could handle sixtv acres of this cron. i ha1 t0 (1 was to loll in the sunshine water in municipal and industrial When three years of age she moved j Am rtef,f jn one oar onp BnoudOT and think for three whole days, and uses, in the metallurgy of gold, elec- ' w ith her mother and sister Nellie to i jjuq,., ,jow Dui think I could lick i you mny DP R"rp m' thought", drifted troplating. processes of refrigeration and the commercial production of hy drogen for the inflation of ballons and Zepplins. Photographers use it Greeley, Kansas. When Doris was six any German In a gun fight rs we can all shoot in America. Very Truly Yours Heres another, shows that one town in this district is not doing its duty. Sergeant Bcott. U. S. R. Station. Dear Sir: In reply to your letter years of age the family moved to Gir Isrd, Kansas and from there to Coin, Iowa. At that time Doris was eleven so do bleachers, painters, weavers, years of age, becoming a member of dyers, paper- makers, chemists, and tbe church the next year while in the many other artisan?. Without cam- I seventh grade. She entered it tic potash, Edison's fattion storage btgb school at Coin in 1916. While a cell would be impossible. freshman she was the Secretary and In regard to the possibilities of Treasurer of her class and assistant Searles Lake. California. The Nebras- pianist to the high school, also being will sav. thai in this place you never ka State Journal furnishes the follow- ,, member of the High School Orches- hear any talk except aB to how they nK; tra. will get exempted you may think I California Deposit. Doris, with her mother and Bister jam extreme but really so many have Searles Lake. California, is one Nellie moved to Alliance in the sum- sot exempted that should have been source of supply that holds hope of j u)Pr of 1916. Where sh.' has since j in Class 1, that it makes me feel that meeting demands. But when the ' made her home. A father, mother, way. However a numb r have re German salts begin to come into the j brother Earl and sister Neiile survive mained In ClasBl with no objections. American market again, all of this - 1er death.. Funeral services were j But all are waiting for the draft as Searles lake production will have to hH)1 a( th(. Presbyterian church at jthey must do now. One of the boys pell for less than $40 a ton on the 1 two-o'clock Thursday afternoon. In- j in class one enlisted in the navy last Atlantic seaboard, where most of It terrment will be made in the family week. Don't think that we have goes, me low irsoe salt oi tne tro- pk)f . (;rHelev, Kansas. na corporation will then hare to meet , . j . In Hemortan n finur ill lifl lllclll PHI 1 H. v II 11 1 1 eig III rates at $12 a ton, this situation would force the company to turn to the manufacture of high grade salt. "It is the opinion of the Searles ly about the graves of his lost corn- describe how I felt; all worry was i rndes. gone, there was nothing to remind me "I've admired the photon of fat of the army. I WHS Paid the greatest 'babies, hucable vouneesters two or respect by all whom I met. being one , three Years old and sad-looking ! Grand Island a highway will be con- of Ae first American pllois to reach 1 wives and mothert. The wives are structed that will be suited to all lTTplace. I wss in the very beat , alwuva sad and. wowi lookins. Todav . sorts of travel, and passing through almost every story was tragic Tester- Mernn. nroRen How ana otner (owns day it w.is all comedy. along the line, finally ending at AUI- "Horrible, everything, of course; i ance. This highway Is expected to yet Intensely interesting. It is a ss pnssable the entire length by July great mystery to m how some men of 'his var and completed in a per can go through what they di without , manenl way by May 1st. 1920. Such a bump. Many of them hr-ve been in the w: r R'ncc tlm tippinnincr finil that you could be with me to spend bare gone over the top nnny times Christmas in such a beautiful placo. yet they've escaped even so much ai t (Continued on Page 2.) scratch from wire entailements. " Two days ago we root ived from state aid will be used Federal aid TM MJHMDP El CrTCn ',he American Rrd CrohS big. Iluffly. wftB discuBsed by the delegates it was . Mt nAlWL MM III) bright red comfort for each patient s decided to name the now highway. Ulfir nntP nnf.l;AII nA bo'l- You cannot imagine how much "The Potash Highway," a name des VILt iKtlS. KuCKOIL CO. lhs llrsly color helped to brighten the "iptive of the most Interesting part wards and make the men cheery on tnp road. .The gift was as effective as a whole ; M waB shown that a good dirt road T. If. Hampe, manager of the Had- ! week of sunshiny days and in this , run now from Grand Island to Mer dorff Music House, Alliance branch PSli of the world we don't know na which with a little hard work was elected vice-president of th what a sunny day looks 11Ke during ,D,H spring can be extended to the I to my home and I wished many time- Doris entered the Alliance High School last fall, since that time she lits made a host of friends among th students. Her sweet face and done nothing, as we hi.ve done ex ceptionally well in Red Cross work, but you Just don't need to say fight, one boy from here enlisted in the navy last fall. My own boy not 21 till last June, was the only volunteer we have had since the two mentioned. lairo nrmrntr. it,.. OD - : winsome ways won the hearts of both ash proposition, the brUies there csn- 'etchers and pupils. On hearing of He enlisted on April 14th and went not be worked for potash and meet 1 death the class of 1920. to which j with Pershing I first boat to France. German competition, even If a high DorlS belonged, sent her an immense h Is my only boy so you see I am tariff were imnosed on the r.ermn wreath of flowera with 1920 worked '"' ' " " imports. In other words nothine-! in. The other three classes sent her 'lo all I can less than an actual embargo on all pillows of flowers, her death spread imports of potash would create the gloom over the whole High School. necessity thru which there would be While at school Doris ranked among a demand for potash from Searles 'he foremost of her class, both In lake so imperalive that It would not grades and behavior, and was a moat hesitate to meet the price which the conscientious student. She was a new committees will be selected as are necessary, to raise men to work on the road, gather suplles, etc. Ten counties will supply funds toward the expense of constructing the road, no Hock Oil Company in the recent meet l,np winter season ing held by the directors at Douglas, I Wyo. The other officers elected were;, PrtiRi'''i Joseph Qsrat Vice-Pros t. If. Hampe Secretary R. G. Virtue Treasurer L. B. Potter R, G. Virtue was made temporary field manager. The Hock Oil Com pany is one of the most promising of the oil district. The company is an ticipating a campaign to raise funds for drilling purposes. 1b at present capitalized at $200,000. The par value of each share is fen cents HIGH SCHOOL PLAYS SIDNER FRIDAY NIGHT What will be one of the most fierce- I ly contested games of the season will ; be staged Friday evening at the high school gymnasium. Sidney with a long string of BSBMS to her ersdll and with pretensions for the valley cham pionship will try to take the locals in to i, i mi. WhclhiT a inn . ... ,1... . I - - - .... .aw, . ... ..HI r Twenty units, of 5000 shares, will be J so lies with the home boys. Alliance high cost of direct production would member of the H. H. girls club. But a woman can't tell i man to go when she can't go if she would. Yours To Help in any way possible to win this war, Yours sincerely Mrs. . P I. We haven't had a patriotic involve. While with us Dorris was as a ray of I meeting in this town yet. "All agree that the onty hope of ; sunshine to all, bright, happy, cheer- , developing the potash possibilities of t, whereever she went. She had Searles lake is to run the plants pri- j always a Bmile and a pleasant word marily as a borax and soda enterprise for her friends, her death comes as with potash as a by-product. A cor respondent of the Manufacturers' !- cord says that is this can' be accom- j plished from Searles lake alone, thru fhe working of its deposits of borax and soda, with potash as a by-product i it will be possible to meet the demand of the United States for potash, on the basis of the pre-war consumption, for the next fifty to one hundred years. Moreover, there will be brought Into effect a basis of control of the costs of German Imports of pot ash, which should serve greatly to in first OS the use of the article for fer tilizer purposes. a narK snanow wnere me ngni win never more rech. Doris lived a consecrated Christ ian life and died a triumphant death, (1 n rint.' her illness she quoted many pasaatTI from the bible. She was in her happy teens; the time when font ll stands before the half open door that leads Into a fairer and more promising land of dreams and flowers As she would have entered a mes senger came tip and snid "Come this way It is best." No. we will not forget we cannot forget Death Ib a hard master He would take from us our fairest and bert, hut he can- Recruiting Station; Alliance Nebr. Dear Sirs: In regard to the letters that you have sent me. I don't Just know what it was that you want me n isf hut will say that I am no slack er. I have donated to the Red Cross and Y M C. A and will do all tha' :i can to neip. But i nave a wire unn wo children to support as well. I am I farmer and have a farm rented for the next year and expect to help all that I am able. If the time comes thai formers and married men have to leave their homes I am willing to do my part, Yours. Before the war th united states not ever mar memory It will serve (Continued on Page 7.) as a balm to our wounded hearts. Lloyd C. Thomas left last Monday night for the east. sold for $250 and forty units of 2500 shares will be placed on the market at $125.00 The Holdings of the company com prise 1280 acres in the west Salt Creel field, 1820 acreB north of Lost Springs. 160 acres a mile and a half from the Ohio well recently brought in the Buck Creek dome and 325 acres lying between the holdings of the One Hundred Oil Ass'n and the Three Star Oil Co., south of Douglas Ouster County Line. In addition to this the more it rains in the sand hills the hotter the road becomes, which is assuredly not true of the Lincoln Highway The Following Officers were elect ed bv the delegates: Prewident Frank Kelly, Rrok rt Row; Vice-Pros. John Turner Thed- ford; Secretary VV. D. Fisher. Alli ance; Tre.-surer (). R. Rnrn by, Mul len; It was resolved by the d?l s gates to petition the assistance of Federal and stiit.' aid in laying out the highway, particularly that of the BtSh Knginter. The convention broke up with BRIDGEPORT ORGANIZES HOME GUARDS Last week the men of Hridgeport met and organized a Lome guard, about two dozen nu n signed the m lis ter roll. The members are very en thusiastic and entered into the spirit of the mooting with lots of "pep." The following officers were elected. Captain, W. H Willis. First Lieuten ant, Wesley Rogers. Second Lieuten ant, Frank Hedglln The officers commission arrived thin week J. H. Seauvllle was chosen president of the permonent organizaton and F. S Copeland as secretary. in her last t ame with Kimball de- ,v ry OSlSgsU determined to use tested them by more deeislvt seers ,' r "n'0", to mak' 'he ro-td success than did Bldaej TO all apperances f"' ap ,np completion of the highway the Sidney team will have a hard . m,'J,n" ' WU to the future of th time in putting over u victory, the!WPst- Iosb of Plato and O'Connor will be I Every business man ;.t the conven felt by the home boys. However the j Ho agreed to put on their stationery loss will make the balunce of thelthe following; "ON" THE POTASH team fight that much harde BRIDGEPORT NEWS BLADE LOSES VALUABLE MAN Max Wilcox, who for the past three rSSTt has been connected with the Rridgeport News-Rlade, has resigned and entered the Ralloon School at Fort Omaha. Max took the examin ation several weeks ago and received Ins notice to appear Monday, passing through Alliance Wednesday noon on his way to Omahu. Mro. Wilcox will make her home at Omaha during hor husbands training period. Max has been making good at the news paper game andtwill make a valuable man for Uncle Sam. HIGHWAY " Let every other busi ness man follow their example as it bsspa the proposition alive all the time TWO mm THIS WEEK The Alliance department was cal led out twice this week to put out fires The first call was at 120 Sweet water, here a family were prac- itically burned out he fire being caused by a defective chimney. The boys had a difficult time reaching the flames as the fire was worse between the rafters. Chief Pilklngton got on the roof, and by lusty use of the only fire ax, cut holes so that the hose could be used to the best advantage. After this the fire was soon gotten un der control. The second alarm 'at 518 Toluca, not being serious.