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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1919)
- v,. irp . Toboer The All LOCAL EDITION PAGES VOLUME XXVI. ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBKASKA.Tllt'KsnAY, .1ANUAHY 23, 1'JlO. NtJMBEH 8 SENTIMENT FAVORS PAVING OF TEN BLOCKS IN TKINESS SECTION DCOMMITTEE MEETS WITH GREATEST ENCOURAGEMENT ON PART OF PROPERTY OWNERS IN DISTRICT SCOTTSBLUFF CHOSEN CONVENTION I, CITY FOR 1920 BY STATE FIREMEN - .t V ALLIANCE BAND CENTER OP ENTERTAINMENT ATTRAC TIONS SCORES A REAL HIT AT LINCOLN A fter-thc-War Patriotism' V V ,V"'A YWWV. I. ' ( '.A .V IK .JtOf gan Slide Better Greased Than the One Reserved for Non-Advertisers iaMcb Herald K V.V, WW SPECIAL MEETING Of COUNCIL EARLY NEXT WEEK Lumber Companies Active in Effort to Get Paving on Laramie Be tween First and Third Streets 1 Several Side Streets Will Be Included It is Believed Alliance is going to pave in the near future and from the outlook now this much needed improvement will bo extended over at least ten of the business Bection blocks. The committee appointed at the meeting of the City Council last week met with much greater encouragement than was antici pated and while It was the original intention to attempt only Box Butte avenue from the depot to the Drake Hotel on Fifth street, it now septus that several blocks on the side streets will be included. The committee com posed of Secretary W. D. Fisher of. the Community Club and Counrilmen Moore and Davldsotj have thus far found but seven property holders who oppose the proposition to pave In favor of the paving they have se cured the signatures of mote than sixty. The paving will in all probability be laid front the depot to Fifth on Box Butte; one block west and one half block east on Second; one and possibly two west and one half east on Third and on Laramie from First to Third. The lumber companies are strongly in favor of the Laramie evenue porject find the indications point to its success. Early the coming week a special meeting of the City Council will be held to create the paving districts and to start the necessary preliminar ies. At this meeting the matter of a special election to vote bonds for the paving of the intersections will also be taken up. After the paving has been ordered the property owners will then decide themselves, as to the kind of paving to be installd and negotiations will be opened with contractors for the work. It cannot be commenced of course for some little time yet and not until the frost has left th ground. It is a step in the right di rection for Alliance and should bo encouraged by every citizen with the interest of the community at heart. It is a step in complete harmony with the agitation of permanent oads and not until Alliance can boast of paved 6treets will she be in position to urge the people of adjacent territory to build oncrete roads.. The expense Is well Justified in that it will mean but the getting something for the money expended whereas it has heretofore been virtually waster. There is no other way to overcome the disadvant ages of mud and neither is there a more proper time than right now to put an end to the disadvantages. , GOOD ATTENDANCE AT GOOD ROADS MEETING Mxth Congressional Good Roads Men Had IYolitable Convention at Sidney Ijat Week . The following report of the Good Roads Convention at Sidney last week by Secretary W. D. Fisher of the Community club who was in at tendance, denotes great interest in the work by the people of western Nebraska and eognlfies a very profit able meeting: Sidiney covered herself with glory when she entertained one hundred and twenty-five delegates who attend ed the second meeting of the .Sixth Congressional District at Sidney ast week. Lincoln and Omaha represen tatives stated at tile meeting that without any doubt it was the most successful and enthusiastic Good Roads meeting ever held in Nebraska which speaks well for the Western part of the State. The meeting was presided over by C. J. Osborn. President of the Farm ers Union of Cheyenne and he gave the most enthusiastic talk in favor of 365 day roads ever heard. C. 11. Roper, Secretary of the Nebraska Good Roads Association was present and after he explained the purpose of the Association, ninty of the hundred and twenty-five delegates each took a membership of J 5.00 per member which showed that they wanted to see this organization a success. While Alliance did hold the record for individual members in the Ne braska Good Hoads Association, Bridgeport took it away from her at Sidney, when they reported forty members. The entire afternoon was filled with good speeches and in the even ing the Business Mens Club enter tained the delegates with a fine Ban quet at tho, Union Pacific Hotel. The sentiment is growing each day for permanent roads and it was the opin ion that Westen Nebraska would un doubtedly pet her share, i the spirit shown at the meeting continued to grow as it has been growing, Over forty towns were represented and re solutions were passed asking our Senators, Representatives and Gover nor to back the Good Roads move ment. The next Convention will be IwH Wednesday February 19 at Chadron and they nro planning an other good rrogram and it is hoped that every town in the Sixth Congres sional District will make plans at once to attend this convention. "The way to wealth, If you dlts're It. la as plain as the way to icarket." m ALLIANCE SOLDIERS GET HOME FROM "0VER THERE" FO MIT KEN YOlNG MEN RETVRN FKOM SERVICE Oh Til Kill OU NTHY IN WAK iirnc Mtujincno rAMnitiv r TT LiiL I'lLI'IDLiio lUIUrtlll U Greeted nt the lept by I .dirge (iii- IllitteC Of CltiellS HoYS Ix)k Well A large "Welcome Home Commit tee' of Alliance citizens greeted tho returning soldier boys this afternoon as they stepped from passenger train number forty-three. There were fourteen of them, members of the original Company G, of which All i aasnce was so justly proud and which was oreanized and headed by Captain "Jack" Miller. The boys, Just returned from overseas, were sent to Camp Dodge, Dos Moines, and must ered out. Ka'ch and every one of them expressed greatest pleasure in again being with home folks and all are looking mighty well. Those who re turned today are: W. H. Kdwards Lloyd Napier. . James Seaton. .v'. . .. Brick Klemke R. L. Edwards. G. C. Horner Geo. Heath. Ralph Harris. W. Hanes E. E. Hites C. L. Ca forth. E. II. Hanson. H. Miller. A. Klemke Up to thetlme The Herald went to press it was impossible to get an In terview with any of the boys, but in later issues we hope to be able to relate some interesting tales of their experiences. On the nme train were eleven Scottsbluff b&jk enroute to their homes. ST. AG NFS ACADEMY On Tuesday evening the students of St. Agnes Academy celebrated the feast of their patroness, St. Agnes. Benediction of the Blessed Sacra ment was given in the beautiful decorated chapel at six o'clock, after which the following program was presented in the Assembly hall: Duet: "Stars and Stripes Forever" Miss Johnson and Naomi Casteel Chorus: "Away to the Woods" Rita Rouke. Cella Hughes, Mary Herman, Carla Werner, Jennie O'Neill, Gertrude Tobias. "Catechism of the Clock;" Little Girls. Piano Solo: "Morning Prayer" Mary Herman. Reading: "St. Agnes" Naomi Casteel. S ong: "O Holy Martyr" Little Girls. Reading: "An Innocent Victim" Gertrude Tobias. Song: "Your Flag and My Flag" Eighth Grade. Piano Solo: "Ave Sanctissima" Naomi Casteel. Hint: 'Sweet Agnes, Holy Child" Academic Department. At seven an elaborate supper was served and later all enjoyed a danc ing party in the gym. The decora tions in the dinning hall and gym were American flags and red roses. The place cards were minature flags and patriotic emblems. The Rev. P. J. Manning and the Class of 1919 were the guests of hon or. The expected drop in the butter fat market has come. This week th creamery is paying but 6t cents and the price of butter on the local re tail market has taken a tumble- of live cents. The butteifat market ia Kti!l good, however, for 64 cents is a ficure at which tho farmer or dairy man can realize big profits. Hauling rriis are lowered by cood roads because tho size of the load is limited by the worst spot in the : road. i The live Mock business has been j fondly fostered, and faithfully, all these many years; a labor of love and profit, in a country blessed with I soil and water favorable to meat and jmilk productlc". ALLIANCE LAUNDRY IS', SOLD TO SMITH BROS. New Proprietors Will Take Complete Charge Next Monday Morning,. January '27 iU. The Alliance Steam Laundry was this week sold by Mrs. C. MacCray to Smith Brothers of McCook, who will take active control on Monday morning. In the deal the good will of the business and the laundry mach inery becomes the property of the new proprietors, while the building remains tit the possession of Mrs. MacCray.- The new owners are highly recom mended as laundry men and hate had n greut deal of experience in the line. They plan to trivo the local In sti'.ution their personal attention and to keep tho work up to a high stand ard. They alro opt rate a laundry at McCook. A. M. Blackwood, wlm has been In charge of. the business for his mother Mrs. MacCray is yet undicldod as to work for the coining few months, but will no doubt return to his studies off law at Yale In September. HARD STRUGGLE TO GIVE HALL WEDNESDAY NIGHT Hard Struggle lodge, No. 642, B. of R. T., will give the first of pro posed annual dances in this city next Wednesday evening. The boys are making elaborate preparations for a big time for all those who attend J and promise a ball that will be long remembered. A special supper will be served by Joe C. Harvey at The Sil ver Grill at Midnight. Further an nouncements will be made in adver tising matter now In the hands of the printer. RUMER MOTOR COMPANY NOW CADILLAC AGENCY Secure Large Territory for Sale of Well-Kjtown IJne of AuioiuoDiie i The Rumer Motor Company of Al liance this week announces having secured the agency for the splendid Cadillac cars for Northwestern Ne braska. The territory included in the contract is a large one and embraces Box Butte, Dawes, Sheridan and a portion of Garden counties. The Cadillac was officially desig nated as the car for the use of the United Sattes army and is well known to Nebraska people. Several are already owned in and around this and everyone has made good. Mr. Rumer now has a splendid line of automobiles to offer the pros pective buyer and is going to push hard for the business. He has impli cit faith in the self-adjustment of conditions as is evidenced by his recent addition of his line of areo planes for commercial purposes. He now has the agency for the Cadillac, Jackson Eight and Elcar automobiles Case tractors and the flying mach ines, a line sufficient to keep busy a healthy corp of salesmen and the building of a still greater business enterprise for the city. Farmers ' Will Stage County Fair This Year At the meeting of the members of the Box Butte County Farm Burpau at the court house last Friday after noon the matter of a county fair was thoroughly discussed anil the opinon seemed to be general that such u pro ject t-hould be given and supported by the farmers. The fair association had proffered the use of the grounds free of charge and urged that plans be -nade for an organization that wo tld get behind the Jroposltion. Another meeting will be held Feb ruary 14 to which all farmers Inter ested in a county fair are invited. At IMPERIAL THEATRE BUILDING IS SOLD New Owner Will KoiihmIcI and He furuMi llcture llouso at Cost of $2T,H0. The Imperial Theatre building was this week sold by W. D. Rumer to H. A. DuBuque, proprietor of the Imper ial, who will now go ahead with plans made months ago for the con struction of a theatre that will con form with modern Ideas and which will seat nearly twice the number now possible. The building will bo extended the full length of the lot and a front of marble installed that will tit tin ply set the house c ff. The Interior of the house will alsc be re finished and refurnished with con venience that goe to make for com fort for the patrons. Mr. DuBuque contemplates getting started early in the summer on the work and during its completion will close the house for a period of about three months. He figures the changes plain ed will cost about $2.1,000, but when finished Alliance can boast of a picture house second to none In this section. j ANDERSON HOME I-'ltOM FRANCE Horace Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. II. A. Anderson, a member of th original Company ' G, arrived home Wednesday evening after hav ing been discharged from the service at Camp Dodge. Horace was fortu nate enough to get overseas but did not get to see actual service in tho trenches. He is looking mighty well and says the experience was well worth the sacrifice made. Other Alli ance boys are expected home within the next few days front Camp Dodge, to which place they are, being sent before being mustered 'out. MOTHER OF MAYOR ROUSEY MSSED AWAY ' W Pioneer f nay Vtunty Cine to Nebraska In 1879 Burled on Sunday Mayor - W. E. Rousey returned Tuesday morning from Kearney, where he had been called by the ill ness and later the death of his moth er Mrs. Catherine Rousey, who pass ed to her reward in the Great Beyond to her reward in the Great Beyond Saturday, January 18, following a seige of pneumonia. Mrs. Rousey, a pioneer of Clay county to which place the family moved In 1879 and resided until two years ago when she went to Kear ney to make her home, was nearly eighty years of age at the time of her death and the mother of six children The husband and father preceded her several years ago. Her passing was the cause of much sorrow among her many friends, whom she number ed by her acquaintances. ( The funeral services were held Sunday and the remains laid to their last resting place at Edgar, the old home. The large circle of friends of Mayor Roney will learn with deep regret his loss of an always kind and loving nether and will extend sin cere sympathy to him and his In this sad hour. that ti'ne it Is hcjed that a perman ent ot jauizaf ion may be effected and preli.-tiinary plans made for the larg est fair ever hMd In the county. It is 'one of the most important things the farmers have to decide and should mi t wilt: the approval of and get their support to the man. No thing perhaps, does more to put the county ou the map, in the way of en couraging the raising of better live stock and larg r crops of (utter grain and .vegetables tha the competition thus afforded. Formers, get behind this movement and push it through to the success that it merits. DELEGATION TO VISIT OMAHA FRIDAY AFTERNOON : . Convention Opened at Fremont Tuesday with Nearly Four Hundred Delegates in Attendance Report of Mutual Aid Shows Healthy Condition of Insurance Department " ; I ' I - -ft Fremont. January 23Tho annual State Volunteer Firemen's conven tion opened In this city Tuesday evening with over three hundred delegates and with the additional delegations arrlvng on Wednesday the total was brought up to about four hundred. State Presdent John W. Guthrie, of Alli ance Is presiding. The Alliance band of twenty-one pieces is the center of attraction In the entertainment line and is meeting with the greatest appro val. LATE REPORT The 1920 con POTATO PRICES DECLINING ON ALL MARKETS POTATO PLANTING WILL lWXilN HH). IN SOUTHERN DISTRICTS SEED TRADE IS OPENING Ul WET IN SOUTHERN STATES Texas Growers Say Potato Acreage Will Show Decrease for the Coining Scuson Tho potato outlook Is Improving. Western Nebraska potatoes are mov ing more fie ly at fair prices, al though not as good aa those paid last fall when diggiug started. Prices at the big' markets, as given below, are reported by Tho Packer, show slight advances. (Iiiettgo Tom I'Mny Chicago The potato market for ithla city started to sag the latter part of tho previous week and hist week cont'nued its downward i.- '.ency JllOJ JH.IU 21 U 1-1 ll H.HSO ifHp days. "j . . 1 o .. into mm .... o ,.a, luc ' ' uv, i nure tx i iciiij iruinr ii!ltmvuje. i iiq ' fzrnwer hfiva htvn trw Rllra nn iht I has resulted In greatly Increased sltip nients and a consequent drop In the market as soon at the heavier arrival legan coming In a week or so of light shipments because of the de cline, a cleaning up of the surplus on the different markets, a strengthen- ing of price, liberal selling again and so on around the same old cycle. As a result the losses and profits have j about balanced except for those who j were idle half the time and played 1 the high spots only. From the reports being received from country points It woultl seem that there was a large stock of po tatoes yet held back by the growers and It Is the growers who control the stock this year as the dealers have but light holdings in their ware houses, having largely confined their efforts to a buy and sell proposition. On the other hand, there are some dealers who feel that the stocks yet back are overestimated and the old potato deal will finish strong. Tuesday Wisconsin, Minnesota and .Michigan sacked No. 1 white stock sold at $1.801.90 per cwt: bulk white stock moved at $1.80$$ 1.8S; Minnesota kings at $1.70, and Idaho and Colorado No. 1 whites jobbed at $2.15 0 2.25. Receipts were 71. cars Total shipments for Monday from all sections were reported as 4 80 cars. The iriaiket whs pimv mwl Insw Wednesday with both bulk and sack- de No. 1 white stock from nearby states selling at $1.75 ?i 1.85, mostly $1.75frl.80. Receipts here were 58 cars and Tuesday's shipments, from all points, was given as 611 cars. This compares with average daily shipments of ten days ago of about 300 cars. The market Thursday was a bit firmer under a better demand with sacked No. 1 white stock from near by states selling at $1.80 1.90, and bulk at $1.804i 1.85. Early Rose brought $1.6 5. New receipts were but 29 cars. The market was firm Friday with prices held at $1.80f 1.90 on sacked No. 1 white stock. Receipts were about 4 0 cars. Kaunas TUy Market Advance Kansas City Potato prices last week were .r.!?il0c higher than the previous week and good strength has been evident in the buyinir. With eight new cars arriving and 11 un broken on the tracks Monday, the supply early in the week was moder ate, but easily worked off. Prices at shipping points are firm to 11-: high er. A light supply of Minnesota stoc is being received here, but the bulk of the shipments are front the West. Prevailing quotations ror sacked stock, which are about '.'Or above those for bulk stock, :re as follows Northern Red River Ohio, carlo's. II. S. No 1, $2 2.1 5 per cwt; We?r ern Red McCIures, carlota, IJ. S. No. 1. 11.90'i 2; Nebraska whites, carlot P S. No. 1. $1.85fff 1.95: Western whites, cat lots. U. S. No. 1, $1.90 ft 2; Nebraska Early Ohios, carlots, U. S. No. 1. $1.85 1.90; Minnesota round whites, carlots, $190f2; Minnesota Burbanks, carlots. $1.90 ? 2; Western Russet-Burbanks, car- vention goes to Soottsbluff and will be held in January. '.The election 'of officers for tho ensuing year resulted as follows: President William Mc Cune, Norfolk; First Vice-president, Robert" Lewis, Humphrey; Second Vice-president, C. R. Frazier, Ooth'en burg; Secretary, E." A. Miller, Kear ney, making the twenty-first year In the office; Treasurer, F. B. Tobin, Sidney, third year; Chaplain, W. C. Rundln, Mitchell, third term; State Publicity Chairman, Lloyd .C. Thomas, Alliance. The Alliance Her ald was chosen as the official organ of tho association. The Alliance band will meet boys of Company O, return ing front France in Omaha on Friday and will return to this city with them on passenger train number ' forty three Saturday afternoon. Tho report of tho mutual aid In surance department showed ' over eight hundred memlters. Following a brief but enthusiastic address by Chaplain Rundin at the metnorial service held Just before noon on Wed tiesday, this .number was Increased one hundred and ton by thejoinlng of new members and swelling the total to nearly one thousand strong. Nine deaths occurred in tlf state associa tion during tin; last year. The attempt to change the time for holding the annual convention to the summer months was defeated after much ditscutslon pro and con. Delegates! Itidgell, Saunders, Cleve- uin,iirriuuf,H, . d jj Galley, Craff, Tobbln, und other prominent ... mem bers took an active pail in titer debate ' Scot tublnff. 'and. AU'.v.ma arv both f.i ."J slt'i Ith Al fl' y hold n a the odda. " wrr of tho association winTjOsen on Thursday, followed by a banquet Thursday evening with Harry Hauser as toastmaster. Governor 8. R. Mc Kelvie will be the main Fpeaker at the bung not and evening session. The Alliance delegation was met at Lincoln by a delegation front Lin coln Commercial club end took lunch at the club at noon. Secretary Whit ten of the Commercial club, John W. Thomas, Doctor Condra and Rep resentative Briggs were members of the committee of welcome and marched through business section of Lincoln with the Alliance band and delegates. E. G. Laing and Jesse M. Miller joined the party at this place. Omaha will be visited Friday by the Alliance delegation where they will be dined by'the commercial club Former Mayor of Alliance, Penrose Itomlg is on tne committee which Is preparing for an elaborate entertain ment of the delegation at the club. EIRE DeBiENT OFFJOR FREMONT Ijirge Crowd Attended the Ittxeip tion iieti Department Firemen On Monday Evening Over five hundred people attended the reception given the departing firemen Monday evening when the band of twenty-three pieces and ten delegates and officers left for the an nual convention at Fremont which began Tuesday afternoon. Early Monday evening the band gave a concert on the street, followed by a musical program at tho armory. Iong tables, loaded with sandwiches and their accompaniments, were the center or intercut for an hour. After wards the "-b were retnoTed and dancing"' enjoyed for a couple of hou .elegation left in a Pullman forty-two nt midnight bound for Fremont via Lincoln. A large cloth nign with the word "Alliance" in plain letter was taken along to announce to the general publio the location of the delegation. A "twelve Inch" cannon and a large auto motor horn accompained the delegation, for the purpose of filling in otherwise quiet periods with something different. Greeley. Colorado With clear and f,norab wea'her itt this d:strlct potato hauling last week was heavy Demand and t.io.'.tet an god in the face of hivur prices. There 8 c moderate in: .i try by wite. Ti finali ty of the jio' i'oto i.jv m Flug is generally go-d Waonlond falts of No. 1 round whit?s at trackslde ard at country loadine poll & a re t' rg made at 1. 1 0 .i ) r."?r ;rwt., while No. 1 saVa ;:r.- yi. iht leril 110 j1.25. Ca-ioad si;lcs ; f No. 1 Btok are made at $1 t f U 1.7f. ;..r tt., while '!. 2 B'jcfc soils n, ca-b t3 at $1.30 per cwt. it"' ' i a'; 4 J- .'.v. .: