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The other ninht, when 11 Ixv.an to
rain, panic waa pprcadlna: nt tho tent
how. People bo-an to leave in
buiichcn. The tall trnpedian stepped
out In front of tho curtain: "Don't
be alarmed, pood people," .i bogan
ftrandlloquently, "There Is nothing to
be alarmed over. This 1b a food,
utrong tent. I solemnly assure you
that you won't get one bit wetter In
side here than you would If you wero
In the middle of the pavement."
And. thus ien3ured. they fell back
upon the hard seats and remained
through the show.
Alliance had one piece of good
luck last week, Uough few people
know of It. An "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
company had Intended to play here
Monday, but the manager changed
bis mind.
Some people can't take a hint.
We are referring to our fondnons
lor fried chicken.
Clerk In War l:Nk H.irenu Have
Stolon Over fSJ.UMMK) Front '
Kx-Servlce Men
(Walter J. Wood in American Legion
Weekly)
Whoever holds the title of the
meanest mail alive had better look
to hla laurels. The writer rises to
nominate for that spectacular but
unenviable position not one but as
many of t ae employes of tho Bureau
of War Risk Insurance at Washing
ton aa have been robbing disabled
ex-; erviue men under the pretense of
helping them get their compensations
Sven employes have recently been!
arrested following the unearthing of
what the authorities nsisert Is a r.-lde-sprcad
plot to defraud battle-scarred
veterans of their blood money. The
Sorrel a ry of the T rcara t y h' !icn :
ed the thlim ns a "'''..:
spiracy," and 'aardened secret ser
vice men working on the a o h iv
described It as "the most despicable
crime they h.'.vo cvr bwu called
upon to track down.
It U difficult to find words to nail
The only way you can impress alhe fraud f0r -wlint It Is. To rcb men
h-jeked into a iitrvcui wreck, l:r)K
li.i'i l.ifi.ill chaos and wept rs he
ir.td to it li his htory to the secret
y( s 'v ' i). In one care cuoked
Klerks got $1,400 out of a teal of
f. l.SCO o u '.- a veteran, In another
I cn:e $1,400 out of a claim for $3,500
and In yet another case they took a
fee of $700 on a v,400 claim.
Prosecution against those Involved
will be made under section oi and
113 of the penal cod!, ivrr.onn
found guilty under these sections are
liable to flnea cf not more than $10,
000 each, imprisonment for not more
than tiree years, or both fine and
Imprisonment.
All things considered, that doesn't
seem to bo such a terribly Btifi' pun
ishr.it nt.
thing like ,hi9 on tne mlnd8 ' sonio
people is to use a crowbar.
PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Mitchell and
Janet Grassman left Monday mornnlg
for Mr. Mitchell's cabin near Spear
fl&h, S. D., for a two weeks' camping
trip.
Norman McCorkle and Fred Vogle
arrived home Sunday night. They
have been spending their vacation in
Denver.
Joe Williams left Saturday nient
on his vacation. He expectB to be
gone for about two weeks.
Dr. Knkht loft Monday nlpht for
Boulder, Colo., and vicinity. He will
be gone two months.
Mies Leila Cornforth motored to
who have been through the hell of , Chadron Sunday.
trench and No Man's Land, suffered Mr. and Mrs . Harper and lit 1 1
nil Dm wnv from first nld station dauehter. Rettv. and Mr. nnil Mrs.
In one of the Swiss cantons the bftck through uan a,,or 10n 0f pain i McCorkle were picnicking at Tine
tanno has been banned as immoral
These good people won't be able to
find words to describe the shimmy.
and who are still wearing the badges Ridge Sunday.
In Paris, people are beginning to
wear wooden hats. Tae only trouble
with that Is that it would be hard, in
some Instances, to tell where the hat
begins.
i. f sacrifice, broken bodies and crip
pled lives, is as nasty a piece of busl
nenn a the records of meanness hold.
Miss Tyree and Mr. Kenneti Mor
man motored to Chadron Sundry.
S. B. Edwards of Scottsbluff came
the nefarious traffic for a niche In
the world's hull of infamy.'
Not sinro th petition scandals
after the Civil War has there been
Better lock your bottle of lemon , brought to light such a diabolical at
i,. is,, m.r, Hiiriitirkpra tempt to exploit disabled ex-soldiers.
have finally started operations in Al-Tae Investigation now under way
llance.
It amply qualifier anyone enwd in i to Alliance Sunday to meet his wife
An interested observer, who has
been trying to mooch a drink for the
past three months, tells us that ae
thinks the highjackers will have
poor pickings.
YAI.W HIDING .
Mr. and Mrs. William Newman and has not led up to the office door or
family got home last Thursday night' any Important bureau othciul, but.
after being gone three weeks. They I Secretary Houston, of the Treasury
visited at Sidney, Grand Island,
Clarks, Columbus and Chreston.
They report that from Grand Island
east there is muca black rust in the
wheat but this side of Grand Island
the crops looked fairly goo 1. They
spent several days nt Denver and
other places In Colorado.
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Bliss returned
from their motoring trip to Colorado
Friday.
Roy Slsley bought a new binder
last week.
Guy Rust has cut wheat now tor
several days.
Yale Siding will have a new scales
Boon. A few farmers went together
and bought a good scales and will
have it Installed soon. The pit is
already dug. Yale has been consid
ered a shipping point for several
months already by the. B. & Q.
railroad company. This scales will
save much hauling to tho people liv
ing near lero.
Louis Powell started to cut wha
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Win. Newman and
family and Ali:ti loss! Sundayed at
J. J. Schefrhk home.
Alex Lee took in the farmers union
lie cream social at the Pair View
church last week.
Mr. an I Mrs. S. J. Iossl and family
spent Sunday evening at the E. B.
i;rant home.
Charles Myers of Al' lance, was
looking after his farm tho first of
the week.
S. J. load bought four shoats of
Fred Trenklo In Morroll county, last
weel .
Wii. Newman and Allied Iossl
Rauljd sand to Yale Siding for the
new bcalea '.he fanners are putting
in.
Alex Leo vvas in Alliance on busi-nr-sa
Wednesday.
Crop report: Seme con nud oats
iieiu rain; viout ripening fast; po;a
tots doing t-'.od but a few bugs arc
reported.
:ho has been spendnlg her vacation
in Rochester, Minn.
Ed McNulty left Monday nsornlnr
o Join the Newberry's tui ping
party.
I Mrs. C. 11. Brown of'Antloch, spent
Sunday in Alliance.
F. B. Douglass and Arthur Regar,
boys employed on the Chadron high
way, were here Sunday looking over
the work.
Lois Dilllman and daughter, Elate
Iti It liU nviv i iwnii kja iui a a.
reau and to involve a sum of $250,-, ,. , , . , .,
... . , . , , , C. H. an Alstlne and family spent
000 or more stolen from the claim- . , , .... ' '
.. ... . . I !he week-end in Alliance. Mr. Van
ants. So far the trial of dishonor ,,,,. , ,
n.iniiuv nus luuiviiig uiicx uuaiiitHM in
terests 'aere.
A. S. Reed of Phoenix, Ariz., wns
visiting in the city Thursday and
Friday.
although at. this writing it has not.
proceeded deep nor wlde, already
promises to Implicate between fifty
and a hundred clerks handling the
claims of disabled ex-soldiers for
compensation In the War
Department, has given hl,s word that
all concerned in the outrage, .llgn
and low, will be prosecuted to lh-i
limit of tho law.
There seems to have been a regu
lar code of procedure among the rob
bers, according to Chief W. H. Moran
of tho United States Secret Service,
who is directing the government
drive against them. The typical
case was somewhat like this: A dis
abled soldier going to present in per
son his claim for compensation at
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance
would be Informed by one of the
conspirators that .ie was entitled t.
let un say, $200. At the same time
he would have it whisper d in Lr.s
, unsuspecting ear that the award was
much too small and that under cer
tain conditions It might be "pu
through" for a larger amount, per
haps $300.
Tl "se "conditions" wero In most
, I cases ih.it on all th clerk could get
over and above the $200 taere was
to be a fifty-fifty divide. The sol
dier, anxious to ret all, or na nearly
nil as possible, of what ho thought
was coming to lam, would agree, tho
clerk would be hired, th claim fo:
the larger amount would go through,
nnd all over and above tho original
amount named by the clerk would
be split half and half. '"
would bo, of course, that the soldier
vas entitled to the full a,uott:u all
the time.
Thin fleecing of helpless men had
been going on for n bmiy Vu'.wt- rc v
HPHKAD THE GOOD
WORD" HUE SAYS
Wants Others To Know How Tanlac
Huh Overcome Troubles Of
Many Years Standing
"Little did I think I would ever
give a public statement for a medi
I'lne, but Tanlac has proved so won
derful in my case that I want to
"plead the good news," said Mrs. A.
M. Hughes of 956 Thirty-fifth street,
Milwaukee, Wis., recently.
"My stoniaci has given me trouble
for years," she added, "and I had
been treated to much and bpent bo
much money for medicines without
benefit I was all out of heart. For
eight years I had been unable to eat
any meats, and vegetables caused me
trouble. Even cereals, milk-toast,
the lightest kind of diets, oftentimes
caused gas to form on my stomach
keeping me in pain anu misery for
hours. I often buffered with heart
burn Mel liia gas prepslns around my
if. art caused it to beat so hard and
i a r it was all 1 could do to get my
breath. I and raging headache?
l. early every d?y and got so dizzy
v r'li I looped over or was going
ip or down staiis I felt like I was
r-ing to plich forward and had to
ca eh hold of something to keep from
'falling. I had awful pains in the
".i.'i'l of my back and under mj
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for which Ford cars are noted. We'd be pleased to have
your order for one or more. We have about everything in
motor car accessories, and always have a full line of
genuine Ford Parts. We'd like to have you for our customer.
Remember if you want your Ford to give continuous
service you must keep it in good condition. We
J j-iw" will do it for you.
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Cliinerc women aro demandius
repr sentatloa in tho government. It
in long stride from crippled feet to
6uch a progressive Ktcp as this.
Liberty bond prices may con'i; uc
to drop, but it is wll enough lo re
member thai If the government mt
vives they will be redeemed at jar.
I) )Ctor Kapp escaped from Gtr
iuary to Sweden by airidaue, wMch
is an article that all revolutionist'
should make piirt of their kits.
Paris slreets have been named
after Clemenoea". Petain, Foch, Jof
fre and Poncare, giving the Gennau
an opportunity to trample those
uames In the dust.
Pretty scon the sale of potatoes
will rass from the grocer to the Jew
eler. i
luiriuu of War Risk Insurance, lie
wns told t.iat his claim hud been al
lowed for $1500, but that they would
undertake to get it raised to $2400
if lie would share the cxtia ?1'0'
with them.
This he refused to do. Instead he
made l.is way straight to his United
States Senator, Mr. Ashurst, of Ar
izona, who happened to bo ill in bed
but who talked wit a Delavlgue and
pent his secretary with htm to the
Chief of the United Ki uk Secret
Service, requesting that every effort
he made to apprehend tli1 guilty.
Thi result was that a little later,
during the first week in July, th
hand of tie law fell heavy upon the
young men accused of devising the
rcbeme to get rich quick at the c
pt rise of the wounded veteran. The
three alleged trh-ht young financiers
got, instead of the $900, a free ride
to the local police station.
As heartless as they v. ere hourly,
the War Risk robbers twisted what
money they oould get out of one-legged,
slu-ll-saocked, blind and diseas
ed indl.-H'rimlnatrly. O".? b!?, h'.r
lookiug overseas veteran, shell-
buuuiuer uiaues iiiai uurt me sol
long when recently an ex-soldler by t when, I leaned, over I could hardly
the name cf ,lr.s p: ". l.-.t . .. . straighten up. At times I had rheti
Preseott, Arizona, who had a large .at ism in my shoulders and arms so
claim for compensation, wu - bud it was all I could do to use taeni.
proached by several employes of the I slept but little, for I'was constant-
..' in pain and very restless a-..l when
i got up in the mornings I oi'ten felt
worse than when I went t.j bed. 1
Just kept getting worse In pUe of all
I could do.
"So many people with troubles like
mine wero praising Tanlac In the
papers, 1 .'em lor a bottle and the
?'ist three or four days I took It con
vinced me that what I had read about
it was the truth. ltefore 1 I'm'shcl
the first bottle gas stopped forming
oi: iiy btouach. he:;e nwt'ui pains
' it me and I began to feel hunery.
I can now eat most anything in rea
:'ou and r.'y stoiuisch trouhK-:; mes o
little afterwards I hardly r.otice it.
My head aches no more, l am en
tirely free from pain and have no
more dizzy spells and am able to get
plenty of sound restful sleep every
night. Tanlac has done me u world
f good, ko much in fact I want my
statement published for the benefit
it may be to others."
Tanlac is sold in Alliance by F.
'S. Holsten, in Hemlngford by Heni-
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THE COMMUNITY NEEDS SAVERS
With the coming of the harvest and the increase of ready money in circu-'
lation business is certain to increase. For the good of the community every
one should exercise judgment in the disposition of his money. The safest
plan is to deposit it in a strong conservative bank, let it accumulate interest
money for you while you decide the wisest disposition of it. ,
The prosperity of progressivoness of any community is measured by the
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LLOYD C. THOMAS HAROLD S. THOMAS
Reddish Block . Alliance, Neb.
