V. O. Nieman of Alliance, well
known traveling representative for
the Dempster Mill Manufacturing
company of Beatrice, Neb., holds the
record forthe sale of oil drilling rigs
In northeastern Wyoming this fall.
Since the discovery of the Osage
oil field near Newcastle Mr. Nieman
has sold eight completely equipped
drilling rigs to operators in this one
field. The rigs manufactured by the
Dempster company are light, easy to
handle and fast drillers. Many of
the wells being brought In In the
Osage fMd are with Dempster rigs
sold by Mr Nieman, who is getting
to be somewhat of an oil expert him
self. Roy Strong, George Reed and
Lloyd Thomas inude it whirlwind
campaign for the sale of tickets to
the Saturday evening charity ball on
Friday afternoon, selling $130 worth
of tickets In two hours to the kind
hearted citizens of Alliance. Roy
was dubbed "Bill Carlisle" by one
of the victims of the trio, who said
that the only difference between him
and the-noted U. P. train bandit was
the fact that Roy didn't need a gun
he took the money wlthouf.
Judge James H. H. Hewett, rep
resentative at the Nebraska constitu
tional convention from the district
comprising Box Butte and Sheridan
counties, returned Sunday evening
from Lincoln, where he has been
since the convention first convened
the first of December. Judge Hewttt
is well satisfied with the progress of
the convention to date and feels that
its work will go rapidly when It con
venes again a'ter January 1. He is
on the committee on education and
the committee on irrigation, drain
age, water power and natural re
sources. That the small potash plants In
the Alliance district are capable of
making good money at present prices
is proven by the experience of one
small plant near Antioch which Is re
ported to have turned out $38,000
worth of potash In a run of forty
one days. Other small plants are
preparing to re-open as soon as fuel
can be secured.
Dan Napell, who has been la
charge of the Napell, Carlson & Wil
liams potash plant, near Antioch, has
been appointed general manager of
the National at Antioch, recently
purchased by W. E. Sharp and as
sociates. The National is to open
up for potash reduction as soon as
it can be gotten in shape.
A considerable part of the Im
provement that may be noticed In
The Herald's appearance and make
up the past week or so Is due to our
stereotyping outfit, the only one 1
Alliance. We do longer buy out cut
two or three months in advance, a
basketful at a time, and hang onto
them until we have a chance to vn
them, which may not occur until
they are out of date. Instead, we re
ceive the first of every month an as
sortment of a hundred or so new
matrixes from the Bonnet-Brown
company, of Chicago, and cast them
up ourselves as needed. There is no
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The right kind of printed forms will help your business
prosper by saving your time and keeping your records
in proper shape.
Our service as printers is not limited to taking your
order and putting some ink on paper according to
your directions.
We are able to make suggestions for business printing
that may save considerable money for you. Our plant
is completely equipped and we carry a stock of
v SMS
Tht Utility Buinf PaotT
in order to give you the quickest service possible.
expense at all for tue advertiser
and ho has the benefit of the work
of high-priced artists, and real com
mercial artists draw pretty high pay.
The Bonnet-Brown service Includes
ad-writing as well as Illustrations,
and there are attractive layouts,
with up-to-the-minute lllubtratlons,
available for practically every line
of business. If you find yourself un
able to find time some issue to write
your own advertisement, aall on
Eddie, and he'll be more than
pleased to show "you how compre
hensive Herald advertising service is.
We. have made and printed some
sixty or seventy cuts for the past
three Issues of Tho Herald, as well
as the comic strips which are ap
pearing on our want-ad page, with
this stereo outfit, and find that our
advertisers appreciate It. We want
all of them to feel free to call on us
for Illustrations when they want
something especially nifty.
The past two or three weeks has
not been the most pleasant time for
the Joys of motoring, and a lot of
pretty good cars have gone to the
bad after tangling up with some of
the sandhill roads. This means that
the record of the John Wallace bus
line between Alliance and Antioch is
all the more remarkable, for despite
some of the worst spells of mean
weather, with drifting snow one day
and knee-deep mud a xlay or so later,
this Reo bus has made its scheduled
two trips a day, carrying heavy loads
of passengers In addition to its own
weight. The driver, Mr. Weldman,
is evidently possessed of considerable
engineering skill, for he has proved
an admirable pilot, knowing just
when it is better to leave the roads
and hit the cornfields. It makes a
noteworthy endurance record," and
three weeks of the kind of weather
we have been having lately is cer
tainly sufficient to find out Just what
kind of staying qualities both the car
and the driver possess.
E. K. Miller of Berea made The
Herald a pleasant visit last week on
his return from a trip to Bayard,
where he had been arranging for a
supply of hay, but discovered that
the freight rates were so blooming
high that it would be a whole lot
cheaper to take stock over there and
feed rather than have the hay baled
and brought here. Mr. Miller esti
mates that it will cost $9.20 per ton
to get the hay out of the stack and
delivered here, the freight rate be
ing $3.20 per ton and the baling
price $6. Hay there Is selling for
from $17 to $20 per ton, depending
on the quality and the location, and
which this is somewhat lower than
the ruling rate here, there Is no
profit In bringing it here. Ire at
tended a public sale while there and
was surprised to find that a team of
horses, common stuff at that,
brought $187.50 apiece. The valley
has had considerably milder weather
than we have had here. Mr. Miller
met Charles P. Craft, an Aurora law
yer, down in Scottsbluff, and says
that the latter has Just completed the
purchase of an eighty-acre farm at
something over $300 an acre. There
are a number of Aurora people down
there, and all of them are doing ex
ceptionally well.
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Greetings
The Horace Bogue Store
desires to express its most sincere
wish that you enjoy a Merry
Christmas and a Happy and Pros
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one not bought with money is your
good will so in these troublous times
times of War Reconstruction Jsocial
upheaval and unrest we feel more
than ever the value of that Human
Touch brought more forcibly to
nlind this Holiday Season.
Will you accept from us not as a
customer but as a friend our hearti
est wishes for Christmas, with all
that it implies and a Happy and
Prosperous New Year.
George A. Mollring
The Store of Quality
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