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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1919)
stlil" mutt . VOLUME XXVII. ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, DECEMBER 10, 1919. NUMBER r THE POTASH OUTLOOK IS BRIGHTER prospects were never, bet. TEIt than now. German Potash Will Never lie Sent to United States as Cheap as Before the War. A trip through the potash district near Alliance gladdens the heart of one who has been in touch with the Industry during the, past two years. A year ago the plants were closing down with but little prospect of ever reopening again. Thousands of tons of potash salts were stored in warehouses In the east and south with but little prospect of a market. Potash stock was selling for little or nothing when it could be sold at all. But now the outlook is different. The fertilizer manufacturers learned that Germany had only a small sup ply on hand and that it would be im possible to secure any for this coun try for many months and perhaps years. On September 1 of this year the total stock of refined salts muriate of potash at all the Ger man mines was approximately 35, O00 tons, which in comparison with the normal output, as well as the normal demand, must be regarded as quite small. German potash will never be sent to the United States as cheap as be fore the war. The old prices of 1 15 to $30 per ton will never be ap proached. It is very doubtful if the price beln paid the Nebraska plants of $2 and $2.50 per unit will even be reached. Two facts in connection with the German potash industry shed much light on its future. One is the enor mous advance in cost of production. Labor is from three to five times higher; coal, six to ten times more expensive; while steel and many other supplies and requirements ex ceed the pre-war prices fifteen to twenty times. On the other hand, .the prices at which refined potash Is being offered for export to America range from more than double on low grade crude to three times the 1913 price on high grade refined salts, ex clusive of freights. The other fact affecting the Industry- is perhaps best expressed in what might be called the democrati zation of the industry. Last April the constitutional German national assembly passed a bill socializing the business. Miners, office clerks and other employes now have representa tion on the board of directors and a roice in the management of the prop erties. This innovation ia more than a theory. One of the German potash kings, a leading director In the syn dicate, gave a dinner last August to which the heads of all the depart ments, Including the miners, were Invited. The Nebraska potash plants now have orders sufficient to keep them operating until next summer. They have passed up some offers of con tracts until they learn, from present operations, the profit which can be made at the present prices. Potash will never again pay the enormous profits of 1917, but It will be a per manent and profit-paying industry in Nebraska. At the present time all of the large plants In the Alliance district are operating with the ex ception of the National plant, which has been in the hands of a receiver, and the Hord plant at Lakeside, which burned this fall and which Is helne rebuilt as rapidly as the weather will permit. It is reported that the offer of W. E. Sharp and his associates of Lincoln for the Na tional plant at Antioch has been ac cented. If this Is true this plant win undoubtedly again start operations at an early date. There are now in operation the large plant of the Pot ash Reduction company at Hoffland, the Western, Nebraska, American and Alliance plants at Antioch and the ntandard plant at Lakeside Their output Is estimated now at 400 tons of salts per day. The addition of the Hord and National plants will fcrlne the output up to between 500 and 600 tons per day. Estimated from the standpoint of value at pres ent prices the plants in the vicinity if Alliance should produce on the average during the coming year of from $30,000 to $40,000 worth of salts every twenty-four hours. Quite an industry that. vr,., w rr Orubbs of 520 Missouri avenue has been on the sick Hat for the past twelve weeks. Christina Lux of the Alliance hotel is back on duty as night clerk .fta leee of the smallpox. Hugh Beal has been taking her place. BUDGET PLAN FOR THE CITYMISSION Ited Crow Oilicials fiend for Pence Program and Will Handle the Iiocal Charity Cases The wor kof the Alliance City Mis sion Is to be handled in the future on a business basis the finances are to be handled on the budget plan and the local organizations which desire to assist in carrying on the mission work will have the opportunity to do so by subscribing a regular monthly sum. This plan was out lined at a meeting of the city mis sion board held Tuesday evening. In accorcance with the request of the mission board at a recent meet ing. Rev. J. Orrln Gould, president of the board, wrote to the headquar ters of the Salvation army and re quested that a man be sent here to Investigate the proposition of taking over the mission and its work. ' In their reply, which follows, the Sal vation army expresses interest and promises to furnish a man as soon as one is available. The letter from Ashby B. Pebbles of Des Moines, chief divisional offi cer, reads as follows: "DES MOINES, la., Dec. 4, 1919. Rev. J. Orrln Gould, Alliance, Neb. Dear Sir: Your favor of November 25th has been forwarded to me from Omaha and I note with much inter est your desire for us to send one of our workers to your city. I would like very much to do this but just at the present moment every man and woman that we can put our hands on are fully engaged. There is a great deal of distress caused by the lack of coal and extra relief work In our cities has caused us to press into service anyone that has any ability whatever. "You will readily understand that we work among a class of people who are not the most talented in the world and we have many people at tached to our organization as mem bers who we could not send to you as a worker; they would not be suit able. Our competent workers are very precious and we often wish we could divide thjia in two and place one man in two places, t . "I shall keep your letter before me and if I can pull a good man loose I shall be very glad to send him to Alliance. Thank you for re membering us and for making the request." The members of the board have a deficit of $250 to make up by Jan uary 1 in order to clean up all out standing indebtedness. After this is cleaned up they estimate that the budget of the mission will require the sum of $100 per month. The local B. of R. T. lodge have been the first to subscribe and have offered to donate the sum of $15 per month. There are thirty-five organizations in the city which should take part. They are being asked to consider the mat ter in letters which are being mailed out this week. At the regular meeting of the Al liance Community club board of di rectors, held Tuesday evening, the matter was presented by J. S. Rheln The club has endorsed the city mis sion work and urges the city organ izations to give it their attention, The city of Alliance is expected to continue its financial support as it has in the past. Mrs. Sharpe, who is in charge of the mission, is also city police matron. The officers of the local chapter of the Red Cross held a meeting on Friday afternoon of last week. The city mission board has agreed to turn over the city charity work to the local Red Cross chapter if they will handle it. This the Red Cross has agreed to do and the officers have sent to headquarters for the peace program, which includes charitable work. Alliance citizens In general will be interested to know that the Com munity club's once highly prized uniphone is about to have a new owner. The uniphone 4s not, like the unicorn, a fabulous animal, but an exceedingly noisy electric piano, once used by a former secretary of the club for advertising purposes largely for personal publicity, by the way. The present secretary and board of directors have been doing their best to find a buyer for it, and finally located one In a far-off town who liked the kind of music that It made and wanted to add It to his collection. The uniphone wai prompt ly boxed and shipped, and news comes now that payment for it will b forthcoming the minute new bat tr'es are provided. This will be done without quibble, and the club's rmsury enriched at the same time its aesthetic equilibrium is restored. WAS ANANIAS A PIKER? IN a frantic effort to create an impression t lint It litis Just about all the circulation there is in existence, and that The Herald has none whatso ever, our dear friend, the semi-weakly Sallow, is about to get Itself Into ail embarrassing tangle: Thusly: Along about a fortnight ago, the semi-weakly Sallow issued and dis tributed a statement alleging to show its present circulation, divided up into several classifications. The total was given as 2,502, and the claim was made that this did not Include papers on the outside of an eighty-mile radius of Alliance. A few days ago, following this incident, the Sallow issued a rate card. As part of the card there was a statement of circulation. This time it was a sworn statement. And this sworn statement claims weakly Sallow. Also, in October, the Sallow said to the government of the United, States of America, through the postofhee at Alliance, Nebraska, and on oath, that its circulation was 1,800. All of which leads the subscribers advertisers, to wonder which statement is correct the one sworn to or the one not sworn to? Or is either of them correct? Not, mind you, that The Herald lie. We are firmly convinced that the half a dozen entirely different tales about a matter rather than tell a lie! And then, perhaps the discrepancy may be due entirely to the editor's forgetfulness the editor of the semi-weakly Sallow. It is a matter of more or less common knowledge in come to his semi-weakly and certain illuminating instance of this, occurring a number of months ago, is still fresh in the public memory. In a sworn statement. to the government re garding his newspaper, when he came to that particular query on the question blank which asked whether there was any Incumbrance on the periodical, he omitted mention of the largest incumbrance of them all. The Herald read that sworn statement with considerable amazement, for the Herald happened to know estimable gentleman residing in Alliance held a mortgage on the news paper in question at that time and, Whereupon, The Herald publicly the unique manner in which the memory of its competitor was playing tricks on itself. ' . And then the semi-weakly Sallow statement In question and certified to the fact that its property was mort gaged. Arid there was also an explanation that failed to explain. So we say that perhaps certain ment are due entirely to the rather peculiar memory o fits editor. The Herald has nothing to conceal you the truth about our circulation swearing to it. If the semi-weakly swears, then its circulation at this Herald. But ours is a bona-fide circulation was made so. At the time the Sallow swore to a circulation of 1,800, in October, this year, The Herald had an actual circulation of 2,275 con siderably more than that of its competitor. Since then, however, the sub scription list has been ruthlessly attached with a big blue pencil, and the approximately 1,650 subscribers remaining t heron are the genuine articles men and women who pay actual cash ical edited and published by two young upstarts from Aurora who have no better sense than to believe that they have as much right as anyone else to conduct a newspaper in Alliance. The fresh things! As for any ridiculous statment Times, hereinbefore referred to as the semi-weakly Sallow, that it has three times the circulation of the Alliance Semi-Weekly Hrald, there is, of course, no truth in it. The Herald know sit; the people of Alliance and Box Butte county know it; the at the moment when it made its preposterous claim. - - i., HOME BUILDERS ARE . I OW SELLING STOCK Over $33,000 Now Subscribed To ward the $100,000 Capital Stock of the New Corporation A few days ago The Herald print ed the list of stockholders who bad become interested in the new Home Builders' association, either through consolidation with the Community association or by purchase. Since that list was published, the follow ing Alliance citizens have signed the roll: J. J. Hutchison. Mrs. Martha Miller. Fannie A. MIsklmen. Thomas L. MIsklmen. H. A. Dubuque. W. C. Mounts. C. S. Mooney. 11. A. Copsey. Frank Abegg. George G. Smith. W. Wade Smith. C. L. Hill. C. J. Schafer. The total amount now subscribed is well over $35,0000. which makes a fine start for the $100,000 desired New officers will be elected at the ai.nual meeting, to take place the first Monday in January, and follow lng this meeting plans will probably be perfected to push the sale of stock. CLUB ENDORSES THE DAVEY SEDITION BILL The board of directors of the Al liance Community club, at their meeting Tuesday evening, by unan imous vote endorsed the Davey se dition bill and instructed their sec retary to forward to Congressman Klncald a message to that effect. The bill, introduced by Congress man Davey of Ohio, defines sedition, and the promotion thereof, and pro vides for punishment. It was pre pared by the department of Justice, and is intended to furnish proper authority to cope with the Red men ace A good provision of the proposed law is for the deportation of aliens who are guilty of sedition under the law, and their perpetual disbarment from again entering the country. Naturalised citizens who are con victed shall have their naturalization revoked and then be deported. James Armor was down from Cas per yesterday. only 1,800 circulation for the semi- cf the semi-weakly Sallow, and its would accuse the Sallow of telling a semi-weakly up the street would tell Alliance that he is forgetful when it features pertaining to it. One highly that a certain prominent and very in ell probability, still holds it. called attention, in its columns, to quite promptly reprinted the sworn inaccuracies as to its circulation state as to its circulation. We will tell as quickly when under oath as when Sallow has a circulation of 1,800, as It writing is about 150 greater than The one that has been pruned until it in advance In order to read a period made by the Alliance Semi-Weekly semi-weakly Sallow knows it and knew it . CHURCH APPOINTS A BUILDING COMMITTEE Seven Alliance Methodists Pledge a Total of $20,500 Toward the New IMifice A building committee of five mem bers, consisting of R. M. Hampton, president: W. W. Norton, J. A. Hun ter, E. T. Kibble and W. R. Pate have been selected to take charge of operations and assist in raising finances for the new Methodist church, which, when completed, will be the finest protestant church in western Nebraska. A total of $20,500 has been pledged from seven members of the congregation, which is enthusi astically in favor of the new build ing. No difficulty is anticipated in raising the required sum in fact, it is believed the building can be dedi cated free of debt. Building operations, are expected to begin as soon as possible, on the lots across the street diagonally from the Presbyterian church. The residence thereon will be moved, and it is possible that the parsonage, which adjoins the building lot, will also be moved. it MALE AND FEMALE" AT THE IMPERIAL "Male and Female," adapted from Sir James M. Barrie's "The Admir able Crichton," will be the attraction at the Imperial on Sunday and Mon day nights next week. Love, adven ture and whimsical humor are inter mingled in a delightful story dealing with Crichton, a butler, and the re versal of tbe social order which makes a Peer of the Jungle It's a rattling good story, pro duced as Cecil B. DeMille alone can produce such a tale. We have yet to meet the man or woman who isn't Interested in one of thosa desert is land stories, with the proper sort of a love story connected with it. Well, this is ne of tbe kind, but of another style than you have been UBed to see ing. J. M. Barile doesn't write ordi nary stuff, any more than DeMille produces ordinary pictures. There's a rreat lord, and a great lady, and a butler and a scullery maid; some rreat humorous scenes, some splen did love scenes and a bit of real tragedy not of the meller drammer rarlet CITY AND COUNTY COME TO TERMS (VinmiissloiKM-H Agree to Take Care of All Paiiiers Within the County Limits Mayor Rodgers, City Attorney Metz and Councilman Harris met with the county commissioners Tues day, and the matter of the care of the poor and destitute was discussed at some length. After a two-hour session, the commissioners, after talking the matter over with Attor ney Burton, who was called In, de cided that the care of the poor was distinctly within their duties, whether residing outside or inside the city of Alliance. The agreement marks the end of a little squabble that has been go ing on for a number of months. The city of Alliance has been doing some of this work, although it Is not au thorized by law to do so. Tbe com missioners, on the other hand, made no levy for the purpose and their ex penditures are limited by state law, which, however, expressly states that it Is their duty, under the county form of government, to act as over seers of the poor. In counties hav ing the township form of govern ment, each township Is responsible for the poor and destitute within Its borders. The city will continue to operate the pest house, of course, but there will be a marked change in the man ner of conducting it. All patients who are financially able to do so will be expected to pay their way, that is, dig up for the medicines and food purchased on their account. There will be no charge for the services of the city physician, but charges will be made for other things, the same as in any well conducted hospital. Where the patient is a pauper, or destitute, the county will foot the bill. Incidentally this rule will ap ply to patients not at tbe pest house. Simply because the city delivers the necessary food to those quarantined In houses, that need not be taken to mean that it is a donation. MR. BROWN WILL " STOP TOTING A KNIFE Charles Brown, colored, divorced husband of Mrs. Goldle Fullerbrown, had a little heart-to-heart talk with County Attorney Lee Basye Wednes day afternoon, at the close of which he not only promised evermore to be good, but surrendered the pride of his bcart and the apple of his eye, an immense Jackknlfe with a long pointed blade, so sharpened that it had a razor edge. Mr. Brown had been taken in tow by Sheriff Miller at the Instance of his ex-wlfe, who wanted to swear out a complaint on Monday charging him with divers things, such as threaten ing to kill. The county attorney, after talking a while with the former Mrs. Brown, persuaded her to amend it, and as Issued the complaint let Mr. Brown off with a charge of car rying concealed weapons. It de veloped that the ex-husband had re ported outside his wife's front door one night tbe first of the week de manding that she open it. It is said that at that time the former husband declared there was gambling going on inside, and he didn't want her to be a party to such truck. Mrs. B. suggested that be wander away somewhere, and it was then that Mr Brown remarked that he's shoot up the place if he but had a gun. Those were the words that maae uoiaie hunt the halls of Justice. It didn't take much of a conversa tlon with the county attorney to re form Mr. Brown. He surrendered his shiny knife on demand, and de clared that he was thenceforth go ing to be good he didn't like the thought of the penitentiary nohow YOUTHFUL BANDITS SWIPE A TRUNK A trunk belonging to Mrs. Earl Mallery was stolen from the dray late Wednesday night. So far as is known nothing was taken. The Job seems to have been pulled off by youngsters would-be-bandlts who considered the stealing of woman's apparel alto gether beneath their sphere. The trunk had been carried to a vacant lot between Missouri and Mississippi avenue on Third street, broken open and abandoned. It was found early the next morning by workmen and sent on its way. Mrs. Clarence Schafer and Mary Maxine leave today for ScottsblnA where they will spend the holidays. Mr. Schafer expects to join them In a few day. CITY FINALLY OUT OF THE COOUSINESS Local Dealers Assume I Entire Charge) of Fuel Distribution on Wednesday Morning The city of Alliance officially went out of the coal business on Wednes day morning. No more will the clt manager, the city clerk and their as sociates burn the midnight oil tak ing care of the work of the coal yards. There is some checking up to be cone, but when all the bills ar In and paid, the city hall force hope It will have had its last acquaint ance with coal cars. There is quite a sum of money left on band at the present, but it doesn't all represent profit. Regular rule were disregarded during the emer gency. When Alliance needed a car of coal, about all the railroad watched out for was to Bee that the freight bills were paid. A number of Invoices are still to come In, and these will have to be paid before the city knows how much of a money maker Its side-line has been. With the return of the business to the hands of the dealers, there will be, it Is said, some Increase In price. The city was handling the stuff at approximately cost, the price being set, however, with the idea of al ways keeping on the safe side. Fair ly high wages "were paid, to driven, and the main economy was in hav ing to handle the coal but once. WAR WORK MUST BE HNISHED FIRST Big Peace Time Program Must Walt Until Other Matters Are Out of the Way There are still a number of ex service men in Box Butte county who would find the home service bureau a great aid to them If they would ask its assistance. Such matters as old allotment. claims, failure. to receive' travel pay and other things of that nature, which tbe service men hare been putting off, coulu Just as well be taken care of by Miss Ganson, the home service secretary, whose offices in tbe court house are open almost every day in the week. If you are an ex-service man, and have some difficulty, make it a point to visit the bureau offices the next time you are in Alliance. You'll find that they'll do all the hard work tor you and be glad of the opportunity. The Red Cross doesn't intend to allow Itself to degenerate into a re lief organization. A big peace time program has been mapped out, with such matters as supervising of public parks, general Information service, close co-operation with the United States department of public health, providing city, county and school ' nurses; caring for special needs of immigrant groups and a dozen or two other important public matters, but the word has come rom head quarters that there will be nothing doing until the war work is finished. Every day that an ex-soldier delay taking his difficulties to the home service bureau, that much longer tbe peace-time work is delayed. The local home service bureau has also taken up the work of emergency relief. With both the county and city lacking funds to carry it on, sev eral cases requiring instantaneous action have been handled by the Red Cross, which also hasn't funds ap propriated for that specific purpose, but realizes that something ought to be done, and done without delay. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Andrews left last night for Los Angeles, Cal., as Mr. Andrew's health Is already improved and it Is hoped that a change of cli mate will put him completely on hi feet. WOULD LIKE TO MEET JOE STAKES OX MAT Pete Buzokos, a husky looking Greek who will meet Steve Cannon In a grappling match at the Imperial next Tuesday evenL.ng, has a hunch that he can pin Joe Stakes on the mat, two out of three, in straight falls. Further than that, he has about $250 that he is willing to risk that the decision will be in his favor. Joe Stakes Is a liberty, according to Buzokos, to consider himself chal lenged. The Scottsbluff favorite will probably be heard from before so many days, for he has shown a com mendable disposition to take oa all comers.