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. VOLUME XXVII.
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, DECEMBER 10, 1919.
NUMBER
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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.
