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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1919)
rouu TIIK ALLIANCE HERALD, ALLIANCE, CK, NEIJRASKA, DECEMBER 9, 1919. li J BURR rRINTlNO CO., Owncn GEORGE I BURR, JR.... Editor EDWIN M. BURR Business Mgr. ftabtcrtptlon f 2.00 )rr, In advance Entered at the post ofllce at AIM Aace, Neb., for transmission through the malls as second class matter. Published Tuesday and Friday. , FUEL DISTIUBCTION , The experiences of nearby, cities aod towns provfde a distinct triumph for Mayor Rodgers and his system of fuel distribution. The mayor of Alliance, within ten minutes after he had the authority to do so, appointed filtj Manager C. C. Smith fuel ad ninlstrator and gave him full power to take over the entire work of see ing that the citizens were supplied with coal. la other towns, where those in charge feared to offend the coal deal ers, the supply was not distributed from one central office. Instead, the regular dealers were allotted cars now and then. Newspapers from JLtase towns show that It has worked out anything but satisfactorily. Such reports as: "Only' a few families are reported without coal," and "The distribution is as complete as can be expected" are common. In Alliance, there are no families without coal. Even In the days when there have been severe storms to con tend with, deliveries have been made promptly. In all the time since the trike began, there has been but one period and that of only 4 few hours' duration when coal was not available. The allotments have been mall a quarter of a ton at a time but by working under tremendous pressure, not only suffering, but in convenience has been averted. The dealers are not to be blamed. They have regular customers, and It Is good business to take care of your customers first. But in times like this, when there is a great emer gency, ordinary rules of business have to be suspended. In taking the action he did, the mayor .has made Alliance one of the few cities In Nebraska which has weathered the brunt of the strike without a vestige of disaster. Now, should restrictions prove necessary, Fuel Administrator Smith will find that the people of Alliance will be with htm to a man.. He will And that his fairness has been ap preciated. And If greater co-operation is necessary, he shall have it, ' MAIL oitbtill ADA Tim irntAU) hokrjtt want this m'sixixs Tliln week The Herald turn down nn advert Wmont from a mall-order hnue. It's mnou flflged ao that we could, If we deal red, art away with it and Mill maintain that we were ad tiering to the principles an nounced In The fiandbur, our houne organ: "From now on. The Herald will be a strictly Alliance news paper. We have already stopped advertlHlng from Omaha and Denver deimrtment storm, and will not Again feature anything hut home news and home store. It costs us something to turn down this, bunlnetm, which eomes without solicita tion and pays full rates as soon as the bill Is presented. But we believe that a newspaper can not build up a town by seeking to draw trade away from It, and we will frame our conduct of The Herald accordingly." The advertisement In ques tion came to us without solici tation and would pay us 83 cents per Inch -connlderably more than our regular rate. It Is ofttenslbly a stock-selling a1 vertl.Homeiit for one of the larg est (Itirago mall order houses. It does not, of course, ask for trade, but It contains such phrases aa "Kverybody knows the company. Probably YOU are one of its patrons know from personal experience the advantage of trading with it." and Its Intent Is not really to sell stock, Jrat to make friends for the house and In crease its business. One stock holder la worth a dozen ordi nary customers when It comes to boosting. Tho Herald may not last six months or six days, but If It must. In order to make a living, proceed to knife Its friends, then It prefers to go broke honorably. No newspaper can continually have Its eye to the main chance and "tote fair." The next 4ime you see a page spread of this kind In any newspaper that you patronize, accept the apologies In the same spirit In which they will be offered. As noted elsewhere in this issue of -rhe Herald, we do not accept adver tising from. Lincoln. Omaha or Den ver department stores. We do not desire any kind of mall order house advertising, no matter how cleverly it la camouflaged or how easy it is to salve our conscience. You will note by looking at vari ous newspapers that more and more' of the country publishers are willing lo aalve their consciences and take the business that pays them money. They will give all sorts of reasons for to doing. One will say: "I owe a dut to my subscribers. If the Oma ha or Lincoln house can sell them goods cheaper than local merchants, It's my duty to let them know It." Duty fiddlesticks! The big stores nave twenty expenses where the some town merchant has one. Rent, neat, light, clerk hire, overhead rerythlng costs more. And in these 47 when every manufacturers is working to capacity, there are not -fWb 1z discounts for big purchas ers a there used to be. The next 'tittle you are in the city, just com pare values. Don't compare prices compare values and you'll find, exclusive of the coBt of going after them or sending them home, that nine times out of ten the home mer chant will take care of your wants at a less cost. As for the mall order houses, enough has been said about them so that there's no excuse for any cit izen of Alliance, or any otner place, who can read and write, not know ing that saving money by ordering from mail order houses is a myth. Aside from this, bear in mind that the local merchant bears a portion of the taxes, which results in making your own lighter; that you don't have to buy sight unseen and that you have a real obligation to at least examine his goods before you buy elsewhere. There Isn't a city' in the state the ixe of Alliance that has as big a bunch of good stores. And If you nave any money to spend, spend it here, where a good share of It will remain in circulation. Above all, don't be misled into buying stock in any mall order house, no matter what profits you are promised. If you have any extra money left in the old family stocking, put it into the Alliance Home Builders' association and watch it grow with your city. A vacuum cleaner for use In the city hall has been ordered and will soon arrive, If the dealers are not mistaken. F. A. Bald will leave today for Newcastle, Wyo. - Mrs. Sharp states that oveteoats are badly needed at the city mission. See Drake's for Glasses. tf Jesse Brown, cook at the Man hattan hotel, left the city Sunday evening, and neglected to leave his address where his wife could find it. Mrs. Brown was left without any money in the house and with few provisions. An effort will be made to locate the recreant husband and bring him back. We pay cash for second-hand suits and overcoats. The 164 Clean ers and Tailors. Our phone la'our name. 213 Box Butte ave. 2 ' The National 6c, 10c and 25c store received a shipment of foreign Chrlstma stops and decorations the first of the week which had been ordered two years before the war and have been in Internment in Hol land for four years. Call 160. Hough Dry 8c per lb. Alliance Steam Laundry. 2 Edward D. Flvecoate, who has been general utility man at the city power plant for some time, resigned his position the first of the week and left Monday evening for his home in Mound City, Mo. Hough Dry, 8c per pound. Al liance Steam Laundry. 2 The remodeling in the city hall is now about completed, and instead oa suite of living rooms, there are now three rooms fitted up for use as offices. One of these is now occu pied by the city's coat distribution office. Another will be made Into a drafting room, and all the city's maps will be installed therein for roady reference. At present there is no place where these maps may be Inspected, and City Manager Smith hopes soon to have them available for reference at a moment's notice. There are dozens of maps and charts already made or to be made which will greatly facilitate the "work of the electricians. It takes a good man, the city manager says, to re member just where all the trans formers are located, but with proper charts it can be shown just what part of the city Is served by any big transformer, and whether It is over loaded. Hough Dry, 8c per pound. Al liance Steam Laundry. 2 It has been necessary to install locks on the electric light sockets in the city hall. Several times when nice expensive lights had been placed in them, some cunning rascal would unscrew them and substitute cheap carbon lamps. This went on for just about so long, and the city manager decided to have things fixed so that the next man who attempts to unscrew one of the lights will find that he's wasting his time, as well as running risk of detection the longer he sticks around trying. It will pay you to let the 164 Cleaners and Tailors clean and press This week two additional fire bells were Installed In the city hall, making it practically impossible for anyone but a totally deaf man in the building to avoid knowing when an alarm la turned in. , Glasses accurately fitted at rea sonable prices. Drake A Drake. Optometrists. tf .' . i f" '-1 - V ' The past week, several leaky doors at the city hall were fixed up with weather stripping. The city Is doing this not only to be consistent in the matter of fuel conservation but to aid in keeping warm. Hough Dry, 8c per pound. Al liance Steam laundry. 2 Cold weather has put a stop to the extension work that began with the arrival last week of the butt treated poles. There are a number of lines yet to be run, and as soon as the weather permits, the work will be resumed. The 164 Cleaners and Tailors sell the best tailor made suits and overcoats, and the price, come in and see, $32 and up. The 164 Cleaners and Tailors, 213 Box Butts Ave. 2 The city has been exceptionally fortunate In securing a big lot of waterworks supplies for use next year, when a big lot of extensions are expected. -City Manager Smith re gards himself as especially fortunate In being able to secure 150 curb cocks, as well as an equal number of corporation cocks. The city is still patiently Waiting for the arrival of a big order of curb boxes, which have been on the way a long tlmel The drinking fountains to - be in stalled in the cemetery have been shipped, as well as te balance of the Ludlow fire hydrants, which will be installed In the paving district. As soon as the winter weather is ovei and spring begins to ODen un. thfre will be a lot of activity In nearly every department of the city's business,. You need not' go to the trouble of sending your hides away from Al liance. O'liannon Bros, will buy all you have and pay the highest market price for them. In this way freight rates on small shipments will not consume all the profits. 52 Night Watch Taylor this week showed The Herald a couple of copies of the Leader-Record, published at Browning, Mo., which is within a few miles of his home. One item that startled us somewhat was the an nouncement of a price of 11,200 paid for a span of mules, but Missouri, like Kentucky, Is noted for its good looking women and fine mules. . Out there they are talking of using oil for fuel, although Mr. Taylor; says that the town is Bituated in the heart of the timber country and that any amount of wood is available - with only the laborof cutting it down and up. One of the issues, contained an interesting account of an attempt to lynch four negroes. All four of them were strung up on the same limb at the same time, but the limb broke and every one of the victims escaped in the darkness. Rough Dry, 8c ner nound. Al liance Steam Laundry. 2 The young fellow yclept Jones, picked up by Night Watch Taylor last Thursday evening, was wanted In Denver on a charge of passing off some forged checks. He had .. been in Alliance as a part of a crew work ing to secure subscriptions for a Denver newspaper. The man in charge of the crew, S. Garrison, rather resented the suggestion "con tained in an Alliance newspaper'that the Denver paper was intending to secure the release of Mr. Jones, who. he said, was not of any particular Importance to the company and of mightly little value as a solicitor. In fact, the company had wired a dis charge order the day before the ar rest. Taylor made the arrest the same night that he got the wire giv ing a description, locating Mr. Jones within fifteen minutes and routing him out of bed to take him to the The Style Watch a Young Man Wants When you select a watch to give to a young man for a Christmas present, remember that appearance counts large in his ideas of a satisfactory watch. He wants a handsome timepiece a stylish model dis tinctive in looks and in keeping with the up-to-dateness of youth. We've given unusual attention to watches for young men, and are showing the better grades of leading movements in a great variety of smart cases well made, of course, for we sell no other kind. Through ordering early we are able to give extra good, values. $15.00 to $50.00 The demand for Christmas merchandise will be unusually heavy this year. We advise early purchasing to make sure of getting what you want Any article will be laid aside on payment of a deposit You are sure of good quality at Thlele's. Thiele's Jewelry Wa tehee Drugs Brunswick Phonographs Watch Inspectors C, B. A Q. police nation. C. M. Looney went to Mule Creek the first of the week to take active charge of field operations for the Wyoming-Northeastern Oil com pany. The company is Just startlnr to drill in this field after about three months spent In getting the rig on the ground, building a camn and waiting for the weather conditions to become favorable. An exnerlencprf driller is In charge of the work and things are beginning to move. All the Inconvenience takn away. Firing your cow and horse hides to O'Hannon Dros. Yon ret the advantage of the eastern market without the bother of making ship, ment yourselves, 52 The George D. Darlln ambu lance was railed Out at 6:30 a. m. to day to meet one of the belated trains, which brought with it an employe or E. Rice of this city, who has been at work on the ranch near Rush vllle. The employe had suffered a stroke of paralysis, which affected his entire left side, with the excep tion of the heart. It was the end of long and disagreeable laurnev. th first lap of which had been made by sled from Rushville to Crawford. Rough Dry. 8c per nound. Al liance Steam Loundry. 2 Ranchers who have been cominK to Alliance the past few days report that the roads leading to Chadron and the south are in pretty fair shape for travel, but they feel con siderably like using nrofanltv when called upon to describe the condition of the roads to the east and north east. A number of them have been coming in for supplies, which they have to get, no matter what kind of shape the roads are in. Call 160. Hough Dry. 8c per lb. Alliance Steam Laundry. 52 The boys are hnvlnc q onnA laugh at the expense of some rancher up north who took a carload of colts to the Grand Island hnmu miri during the past week. The colts were in preuy rair condition, but bidders happened to be scarce that day, and they were knocked off at fifty cents a head. When tho hi . fts V UDUICU up, he found that ho nweri tta rail road for freight exactly $85 more man me enure shipment brought. Call 160. Hough Dry. 8c ner lb. Alliance Steam Laundry. 52 The Eagles moved their effects Thursday from the building that will be occupied by the Kagh and Karry grocery. O'llannon Bros, will buy air kinds of cow and horse hides, both green and salted. Bring them In. It's the simplest way, and much the best. Yon get the highest price for your hides without the inconvenience of making the freight shipment 62: Employes have now reached the point they have always wished for and that is that they can tell their employers to go to'el and make 'em like it. Buckshot. Wallace-Robbins Transfer and Storage Co. Service and Satisfaction Phone 1 ' 'House Phone 472 Special Thurs. Dec. 11 - ff 1 w f fi yl whf ' i msf Aw I i i 1 jL L f 1? 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