TIIK ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1920.
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Comment - - and
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and some mystery.be had unraveled.
It basnet been so very many years
wince we Joined our first reading
club. It was composed of seven
average boys, and It met dally (after
school) In the commodious Johnson
barn. This was a peculiar boys or
ganliatlon. It had no president or
eecretary, and Its meetings were
llent and on the quiet. The only
officer was custodian, and he was the
on of the man who owned the barn.
His duty It was to keep the treasure
chest, or, to bo more exact, care for
the library.
The dues to this club were to buy
and contribute to tae library one
vol urns each week. Nate Spafford
sold just seven kinds of nirkle novels
the kind with the gaudy paper
batks and that Is the reason the
club was limited to seven. Each boy
bought his favorite every week. Ours
was "Diamond Dick" series, as we
remember It. Under the club's plan
of operation, we pot to read all of
them for the price of one. It was an
exceedingly nice arrangement and
the club flourished for montns and
months, until, one unlucky day, the
man who owned the barn ran across
the treasure chest. Ilia son received
a stiff walloping and the library was
confiscated.
Trobably the reason the averaee
boy these days Isn't interested in the
pspcr-packed novel is because It Is
too tame, why run any risk reading
forbidden literature WJten he can go
to a matln? and see all of these ter
rible things with his own eyes, as
d a
meas
ureT
.Of course, one outgrows dime
novels, and it doesn't take long.
Father had a mighty jrood library,
and It was a source of annoyance to
him that any off.pr nj of W. M u a a CU8tard pie comedy an
sit and read that infernal tra.h thpown ,n for gooJ m,
wuen mere were guuu ouum
had. It seemed to be a sort of a re
flection on him or at least he looked
on It In that light, hnd he was tire
less In his efforts to Improve our lit
erary taste to the point where we
would voluntarily lay them aside. He
was willing to stand for Jack Harka
away, but that was the limit.
convinced by
mony.
Mrs. Ce!la
this
twice-told testl- Irregularities. It only took a short On June 9, 1920, Mrs. Wearer
use ef this remedy to rid me ofBiiid: "In 1910 I publicly recom
Weaver, j22 Yellow-1 severe burning pains In the small of mended Doan's Kidney rills bellev-.
Our parents were much set against
the paper-backs, which may have
been one reason why we wanted to
read them. We were always having
trouble keeping them concealed. If
we tried to prop one up behind the
geography In school the teacher was
pretty sure to come up back of us
unexpectedly. If we took It to the
barn, father was sure to get worried
about whether Old Nell had enough
hay. If we read In bed, the aired
girl would report It to hedquarttrs.
Taere was only one time when we
Sot ahead of them.
It was Christmas day. Two print
ers were Invited up for dinner. When
they arrived, they brought presents
for the kids. That was proper. But
one of these printers was a man
whose literary judgment, to say It
kindly, had never developed. To both
Eddie and me, this man presented
three- choice nlckle ' novels. We
thanked 'aim effusively, and the
minute dinner was over, we propped
feet on the base burner and began to
read them, while the reading was
Rood. ' The parents were powerless.
They couldn't forbid It without mor
tally offending the guest. We got
two of the three finished before he
had taken his departure. Then the
blow fell the otaer one was chuck
ed In the kitchen stove. They were
thrillers all about Old King Drady
Some da', when brother Dert's
back is turned, we are going to pre
sent little John with a complete set
of the exploits of Jack Harkaway,
largely because we think they will do
him good. If our Judgment doesn't
coincide with taat of brother Bert,
so much the worse for little John.
The only difference between Jack
Harkaway and the average nickel
novel Is that the latter has some
thirty-two pages and the former run
Into hundreds of pages,' and keep
practically the same leading char
acters all through the fifteen vol
umes. Tiere Is one of them, the
tutor to young Harkaway, a miser
able creature with an idiotic name,
who continually gets into trouble
throughout the series. The author
knows that there is nothing a school
boy would rather see than a teacher
In gri'f. These touches alone are
worth the price of tae volumes.
Maybe the book shops and news
stands still sell the penny dreadfuls.
We have lost Interest In them long
since. But they no longer display
them on the counters. The boys
who are "In the know" can probably
get them, just as can boys below the
legal age get tobacco, If their nearts
are set on It. Something has finally
damned them, and we're not going
to wail over the downfall, although
there is much to be said for them
as a stimulant to youthful imagina
tion. Maybe youth has Imagination
enough.
tone. Alliance, says: "I have been my bacK ana acmng limps ana en- lng taem to De a mosi renaoio iu-
troubled with kldnov rnmnUint tnt 1 able me to stoop and straighten my.ney medicine.- I have the same raun
some time and learning of Doan's barn without a painful effort. Two
Kidney Pills I began taelr Use pur-lotner members of my household have
chasing them at Fred E. Holsten's also usel loan's to a great advant-
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Drug Store. I can say in all earn
estness that Dnnn'a rnnnnt ha dtpMU
ed tor curing backache and all kid nev
In any event, there is no need go
ing to the paper-backs for thrills
these days. Tae movie serials are
wilder and more Impossible than any
of the penny dreadfuls ever thought
of being. And, in essence, they are
exactly the same thing, save that
they are an improvement on the old
Idea. Where the writer of the nickel
thriller had to depend on word pic
tures, the movies can show tae
death-defying scenes to the best ad
vantage. Talk of the suspense of
the small boy who read In secret be
hind the barn, fearful lest his mother
discover him it la nothing contrast
.1 t . i. - ...
ru vuu ine suspense or waiting a
lull week to see whether tae hero
was smashed under the pile driver or
met his death in the burning house,
where the villlan left him Btranped
to a feather bed.
A sister of Mrs. D. Purington from
the southern part of the state was
visiting at the home of D. Purington
and family last week.
Dan Itieman and family viHited at
E. Bryant's Sunday.
Ernest Iossl and S. J. loss! and
family motored to Melbeta Saturday
morning to visit Chris Baumon and
family. They report the crops to be
fine on the Platte ottom. Even
crops on dry land farming are good
The beets and alfalfa are especially
fine but waere they raise the potatoel
we do not know, they Bald. They
drove from Bayard along the bot
torn to Gerlng, then to Scottsbluff on
the north side of the river about 18
miles east and then we got on the
Alliance and Bayard road and in that
drive we did not see over 15 acres
and mostly was only small patches
S. Powell cut his rye for hay
which was hailed out on the Fourth
of July.
Ernest Iossl left for Sidney Tues
day to work In tae harvest fields.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Itobelion left
last week for Denver to live In the
hone that a change of climate will
Improve the latter's health.
Mr. and Mrs. Bliss and Mr. and
Mrs. Lee and family motored to
Mitchell. Neb. Sunday morning to
visit friends and fish and go boating
Mr. Lee and family came home Tues
day evening while Mr. and Mrs. Bli
motored to Denver before returnln
home.
The mid week farmers dance w
well attended at Happy Hollow farm
Rye harvesting has commenced
this week. Wheat harvest will start
next week. Corn and potatoes look
lng fine but a little rain would not
hurt them.
Mrs. D. Purington of Alliance, Is
at tae L. Bliss home doing the house
work while Mr. and Mrs. are away
Iss
.as
In the matter of daylight saving
self-determination seems to be work
lng well.
Now it is Intimated that the carv
lng of Turkey would cause interna
tlonal indigestion.
Even a rough neck is to be pre
ferred to a stiff one.
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MULE CREEK
is Producing Almost Twice as
Much Oil as Lance Creek
Region in Wyoming
District seems to be only on verge of its full productive
capacity 3,000 barrels a day being shipped out from field
(By Robert G. Dill in the Denver Post on Friday. July 16, 1920.)
"The Slide Creek field, which lies almost on the boundary between Wyomnig and
South Dakota and whose discovery two years ago was largely overshadowed by the sensa
tional development of the Lance Creek district, is now producing nearly twice as much oil as
the latter and appears to be only on the verge of its full productive capacity. Oil from this
district is marketed through a pipeline which h s its terminals at Dakoming, S. D., a...
shipped in tank cars to the imperial Oil, Ltd., at Regina, Sask.
"Fifteen hundred barrels a day are being sent from the field to the railroad and an
equal amount is being shipped to Canada. Of this production the Western States Oil f
Land company has about half and the Ohio company has the remainder. The former has
seven wells and the Ohio company has nine, and other concerns own two.
"For a long time after the completion of the pipeline shipment of oil to market was'
held up by a lack of tank cars. A sufficient number of these tanks have been provided,
however, and the diminutive field is daily earning $3,750 for its producing companies. Both
the Western States and' the Ohio oil companies keep several strings of tools at work con
stantly, so that production is certain to be increased at a faster rate than the natural shrink
age.'
Several other concerns are operating in ihe Mule Creek field, including the Wyoming
Northeastern Oil Company, organized by well known Nebraska men. This company is sell
ing a limited amount of stock for the purpose of developing its holdings.- It has already
drilled its first well to a depth of over 1400 feet on its Mule Creek holdings. You are in
vited to thoroughly investigate the company and its holdings. The company's operations at
the present time are confined to 1040 acres in the Mule Creek and Hidden Dome fields and
the money received from the sale of stock un l r the permit granted by the state of Ne
braska will be used for the development of these holdings. This is a speculative security and
returns on the money invested in the stock of this corporation depend upon the discovery
of oil in paying quantities by drilling upon th? company's properties.
Wyoming-Northestern
Oil Company
Alliance,
Authorized Capital Stock, 1,000,000.
Box Butta County
Nebraska
Authorized by and issued by virtue of Pe mit No. 915, granted by the Nebraska Bureau
of Securities under date of June 24, 1920. Thr Bureau of Securities does not recommend or
di.sparue investment iu any securities license 1 by it.
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