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TWICE A WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
Omcial Paper of tbfcGily of Milan
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VOLUME aa v 111. otMt
ALLIANCE, I50X IJUTTE COUNTY, NEI'.UASKA, FRIDAY, PECEMl'.Ell 21, 1920.
NO. 8
ST. NICHOLAS
AT CHURCHES
THISEVENING
CHRISTMAS PROGRAMS TO BE
PRESENTED IN ALLIANCE
Sanation Army to Distribute Dinners
and Other Comforts to the
City's Unfortunates.
Practically every Alliance church
has arranged for some kind of a
Christmas program this evening, and
in most of them the entertainment
will take the traditional form of a
Christmas tree, with a regulation
vhite-whiskered St Nicholas who will
distribute the presents and delight
very youngster in the audience.
There will be a series of recitations
by the Sunday school students, songs
and carols and other festivities ap
propriate to the occasion.
The local Salvation army corps will
have charge of the distribution of
Christmas dinners and other material
comforts. The Elks minstrel re
ceipts were turned over to them for
this purpose, and other donations have
heen made. Incidentally, others will
be welcome and there is still time to
remember the work of this leading
agency for the relief of the dis
tressed and unfortunate.
The Herald has made an attempt
to secure complete programs for
Christmas eve from the churches of
the city. Those we have been able
to secure follow:
First Presbyterian Church.
Song, "Merry Christmas," primary
department,
Recitation, Marion Sturgeon.
Song, "Jingle Bells," primary de
partment. Drill, Pauline Jaqua, Glenn Merle,
Marion Sturgeon, Francis Mckenzie,
Keith Nelson.
Quartet, "A Christmas Hymn,"
Maile Sturgeon, Viola Merk, Nellie
Sturgeon, Hazel Young.
Drill, Elizabeth Lang, Mildred Kin
necut, William Lang.
Song, "Holy Night," intermediate
department boys.
-w!fl"4n- Christmas," with the
following cast: Steward, Mark An
derson; herald, Sherman Harris;
courtiers, Frank Mounts and Wayne
Threlkeld; King Christmas, Sterling
Harris; Queen Christmas, Dorothy
Reynolds; Bells, Gladys Sturgeon;
Light, Rowland Threlkeld; Decora
tions, Mariellen Beagle; Snow, Mar
garet Schill Giits, Margaret Dow and
Edward Knight; Feast, Oliver Over
man; Christinas Tree, Jay Cantlin;
Santa Claus; Spirit of Love, Miriam
Harris.
Chorus, Ruth Stanton, Flora Spen
cer, Ruth Ale, Phyllis Thompson.
Pianist, Mary Woolis.
The program will be put on under
the direction of Mr. and Mrs. F. C.
Prince, who have had charge of train
ing the children for the entertain
ment. Mr. Prince is superintendent
of the Sunday school.
The Salvation army Christmas tree
for the children will be held on next
Tuesday evening. This late date was
made necessary in order to secure a
Christmas tree from one of the other
churches, and in order not to conflict
with other festivities.
First Christian Church.
Song by congregation, No. 112.
Invocation, Rev. S. J. Epler.
Girls' dialog, "Joy to the World,"
class.
Recitation, Mary Ellen Gentry.
Recitation, Howard West.
Class piece, "Holly Wreaths," pri
mary pupils.
Recitation, Dorothy Churchill.
Recitation, "Xmas Pie," Paul Boy
ard Jones.
Recitation, "Whispered in Dreams,"
Hazel Ward.
Song, "Waiting for Santy," class.
Recitation, "The Child and Her
Doll," Edna Tracy.
Recitation, Victor Holmes.
Boy3" drill, "Merry Christmas,"
Junior boys.
Recitation, "Molly's Stocking,"
Georgie Reed.
Recitation, Linville Lyle.
Song, Marguerite Vanderlass.
Song, "Links of Brotherhood," third
. primary boys.
Recitation, demand Routh.
Recitatioji, Leonard Hunsaker.
Piano duet, Irene Epler and Beatrice
Fosdick.
Recitation, Loren Ward.
Recitation, Lucille Young.
Recitation, "A Pair of Stockings,"
Johnny Holmes.
Dialog, "Old Santa," Bobby and
Buddy Hershman and Paul Boyard
Jones.
Class piece, "Christmas Candles,"
Recitation, Winston ChurchilL
Recitation, Myrtle Williams.
Class piece, "Crown Him," primary
department.
Recitation, Cleo Routh.
Chorus, "That Wondrous Nnight,"
class.
Recitation, Freddie Hunsaker.
Recitation, Adolph Young.
Recitation, Phillip Harris.
Drill, "Christmas Star," girls.
Recitatijin, "A Christmas Letter,"
Martha Hoppes.
Recitation, Stephen Epler.
Dialog, "Gifts for the King," four
boys.
Recitation, Mildred Dole.
Recitation, Mae Campell.
Song, "Glad Tidings."
Recitation, Marion Harris.
Reading, Frances Fletcher.
Recitation, "Looking for Santa,"
little girls with candles.
Pantomine, "Silent Night, Holy
Night"
Arrival of Santa, and distribution
of treat
First Methodist Church
Psalm, "Oh, Lititle Town of Beth
lehem." Invocation, pastor.
"Merry Christmas." Drimarv eirls.
"Christmas Spirit," Bernice Van
Kirk.
"The White Gift," Mrs. A. P. Brown.
"Christmas Carol," Ruth Hopkins.
"Crowning of the King," True Blues.
"A Christmas Wish," Chas. O Ban
non. Pantomine, "Lead, Kindly Light,"
Tina Herbert, Helen Fenning, Maggie
Marshall.
"A Good Mother," Dorothy Wells.
"There's a Song in the Air," pri
mary department.
"Danny's Christmas Gift," Josephine
Acheson.
"A Christmas Carol," Betty Harper.
Drill, "Boosters and Hustlers,"
rantomine, "The Three Wise Men,"
cast of characters: Wise Men: Messrs.
Walker, Lucas r.nd Spacht; madonna,
Mrs. M. C. Smith; soloist, Miss Verna
Dow; angels.
"Good Night," Elizabeth Barker.
CROOKS TRY
CONFIDENCE
GAME HERE
AND PICK ON A MINISTER AS
THEIR VICTIM
Two Smooth Gentlemen Attempt to
Borrow Money on Their Note,
But Are Out of Luck
A couple of smooth crooks, one of
them a distinguished looking gentle- ,
man with hair tinged with gray, some
where in the neighborhood of forty- ',
five years of age, the other a mere j
youth of twenty, attempted to work a
new style confidence game in Alliance I
last Saturday but didn't meet with j
any luck. They didn't even meet with
encouragement, and that same evenine- i
"blew" the city no wealthier than
when they arrived.
Last Saturday evening, when the
Rev. A. J. Kearns was in his stuity
putting the finishing touches on the
Sunday morning sermon, the two
gentlemen knocked at his door and
were admitted. They told a taif of
misfortune. Their pocketbooks had
been lost or mislaid and they wanted
to borrow a little money to get back
to their homes in Butte, Mont.' To
shfw that they were open 'and above
board, they offered to give their prom
issory note for whatver money the
preacher could spare.
Mr. Kearns, somehow, was suspi
cious, despite their familiarity with
Presbyterian names and landmarks in
the Montana town. He offered them
seventy-five cents wherewith to obtain
supper, but this offer was indignantly
scorned. "We're not beggars," the
older of the two gentlemen exclaimed
with some bitterness and a trifle
heatedly. "We will repay every cent
you advance us." And so, when they
saw the jig wa3 up, they took their
departure.
Mr. Kearns. later decided that the
two men would bear watching, and so
wandered down to the police station,
where Officer Stillwell, searching
through the police records, saw a de
scription of the men and a warning
that they were in the business of
handing out their promissory notes as
souvenirs. They were kept under sur
veillance during their stay in the city,
which was comparatively brief, and
the next train bore them afar, to
greener fields. '
When the pair came downtown,
they were joined by a third man, who
may have been the master mind, or a
sponge, or else he had been working
the game on his own hook. No further
attempts were reported to the police.
Messrs. Blain Grable, Polly Butler
and Golden Dorn, of Sidney, will be
in town visiting friends the first of
next week. They expect to play for
a aance Here on Monday, December 27.
Merry
For the second time, it is our privilege to extend to
friends of The Herald the merriest of greetings and the
sincerest of best wishes for Christmas and the New Year.
We're in a peculiar appropriate frame of mind for it, as we
are planning to spend Christmas at home for the first time
in three years. We wish for you as pleasant a time as we
will have on this happy Christmas day.
Christmas is a time for nothing but happiness, and each
of us will spend it in a way that most appeals to him. Some
will find their pleasure in feasting and making merry, and
on this day these things are part and parcel of the occasion.
Others will renew friendships with the living and recall tile
memory of the dead. It is a day of homecoming, of kindly
thoughts, of friendly sentiments.
Life has been very pleasant in Alliance, and to every
friend who has helped to make it so, The Herald wishes to
extend kind remembrances and all good wishes for a happy
Christmas and a bright, peaceful and prosperous New Year.
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HOLD AUTOPSY
OVER A FORMER
ALLIANCE MAN
DR. W. S. IIKLLWOOD DIES
ABINGDON, ILL.
AT
Analysis Made of Heart and Stomach
to Determine If Death Natural
or
Self-inflicted
Dr. W. S. Bellwood of Abingdon,
111., at one time in partnership with
his uncle, Dr. H. H. Bellwood, in this
city, and later one of tho mo it prom
inent physicians of the Illinois city,
was found dead in bed in his room
over the Abingdon theater at 11:30 a.
I m. December 14. Dr. Bellwood's
father, James Bellwood, was for many
years a prominent rancher hear An- !
gora. For nearly ten years, the de - l
ceased was a practitioner in this city,
and there are a number of residents
who were well acquainted with him.
The body was found when a woman,
who takes care of the doctor's living
quarters and offices, which are con
nected, went to clean the rooms and
found the door of the bedroom locked.
She called in help and the door was
forced. The doctor was found to be
lying in bed composed as in sleep.
He was undressed and well covered
up with the bed clothes.
In the opinion of Dr. Rowe, who
was called in at once upon the dis
covery of the body, the doctor had
been dead for some hours, when he
saw the body.
There is nothing, either in the cir
cumstances surrounding the death or
the doctor's affairs to indicate either
death by violence or from self inflicted
causes, the most like theory is that
death came from natural causes and
during sleep.
Dr. Bellwood, who had been living
alone yhile his wife and daughter
Irene were making their home in
Galesburg, where the daughter is
a student in Knox college, was born
on March 21, 1866, in Knox county
near Abingdon. In his youth he
taught school and later attended Hed
ding college. He graduated from
Rush Medical college in 1805 and
took up the practice of medicine in
Alliance, Neb. He returned to Abing
don and entered practice in 1904, and
has remained in this city since that
time.
On June 80, 1897, he was married
to Miss Edna Kelly Shaffer of Fair
field, la. To this union was born one
child, the daughter now a student in
Knox college.
Dr. Bellwood was a member of the
Knox county medical society, the Illi
nois medical society and the American
medical association. He was a mem
ber of the Episcopal church and the
Abingdon lodge No. 1S5, A. F. & A. M.
DEFECTIVE FLUE CAUSES
EARLY MORNING FIRE
A fire at 1024 Box Butte about 9:00
o'clock this morning caused about
JoOO.OO damage to the Hagcrty estate,
a residence occupied by Jim Staley.
Defective flue is given as the cause.
The house Is badly gutted. Furniture
was all gotten out of the rooms. The
loss is partly covered by insurance.
Miss Bessie Harsh left yesterday
for her home in Beatrice to spend the
holidays.
Christmas
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OUTLOOK FOR
POTATOES IS
LOOKING UP
BETTER rniCES ARE EXPECTED
AFTER FIRST OF YEAR
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Main Trouble With Nebraska Sales
Still the Grading Question
State Grades Don't Stand Up
Tlie- potato market, wtiich has been
slowing down the nast two weeks, is
on its usual holiday vacation. Prices
have been at a standstill for several
days, and with the Christmas season
at hand, very few cars are moving.
Once in a while some jobber feels tho
need for spuds sufficiently to make a
b;d lhat interests the potato exchange,
- . a a rule. Jobbery have a six
I
weeks' supply on hand and It ' will be
alonir toward the middle of January i
or first of February before sales get
back to normal.
Sales during the entire season have
been more or less slow. The Nebraska
exchange completed its organization
jurt a few weeks bei'ore the shipping
season begnn, and there has been some
little difficulty in securing a resident
manager who is able to give his en
tire time to developing the shipping.
Altogether there have been less than
two hundred cars shipped through the
exchange so far, and this is far below
what might have been handled. Dur-
ing the month of November alone,
i t,;a t.i i. 1
been sold
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However, on the potatoes that have
been sold, the exchange has been ab e
io realize me growers a consiuerame
profit, in most instances above the
prices paid by buyers at the track ?ide.
Most of the members of the exchange
are enthusiastic over the possibilities
in the plan, and when the market gets
back to normal at the beginning of
the new year, shipments are exepected
to increase rapidly. There are hun-"
dreds of cars of potatoes in this sec
tion that will be sold before spring.
The growers, as a rule, are enthusi
astic over the sales organization that
is handling the selling of their crops.
This part of the work is under the
control of the North American Fruit
exchange, which has branches in all
parts of the country, and by advance
wire reports it is possible to fairly ac
curately forecast the market In any
given section on any day. Thus, when
cars are rolling, when the information
comes in that the market at any par
ticular point is shot to pieces tempor
arily, the cars are diverted to other
markets where the supplies are lighter
and where prices have been main
tained.
There has been a sufficient amount
of demonstration of the old filing
methods throughout the coun'ty to
convince the growers that they have
not been getting anything like the
percentage of the consumers' dollar
that they should get, and up to the
present the service of the North
American Fruit exchange, according
to G. E. Prater, sales manager of the
Minnesota potato exchange, the first
organization of this kind in the field
and the leader, prosperous to date, has
been the most successful in solving
this condition. In fact, Mr. Prater
says, it is the only organization oper
ating today to any great extent which
does not take advantage of its market
i information and buy previous to the
I market advance and then let the grow.
era stand the market decline.
One potato grower, who has had an
opportunity to watch the Nebraska ex
change during th few months of its
existence, has the following to say:
"In the potato exchange work this
year the market reports show that
we hnve been getting more than Colo
rado and Minnesota on an average
and have been close to the top of the
market all the time. This is the first
time that this has been true and the
result of the potatoes shipped directly
through the exchange has been 20 to
40 cents per hundredweight more than
track side buyers were offering on an
average. Yet the track buyer was
forced higher than he wanted to go,
as many of them who sold to the
buyer quoted the exchange prices, and
the buyer had to pay. The result in
dollars and cents will reflect on at
least seventy-five cars In my county
alone, at least an average of 30 cents
per hundredweight, or $8,100, and
what Is more, results will continue
for the future. What Is still better,
prices over the entire state are af
fected." To date, the chief difficulty that ha9
been experienced by the, exchange and
the sales force Is In the improper grad
ing of jars. The state inspectors have
interpreted the rules differently than
the national inspectors, and while
their grades are accepted in Nebraska
without question, when the cars are
sent to markets outside the state,
there is all Forts of trouble experi
enced in regard to the grading. In
the case of dozens of cars, the grad
ing done by the state has not been
sufficiently close. Such defects as
second growth, growth cracks, scab
and worm-eaten stock in excessive
amounts has caused federal inspectors
to reduce the grading. The exchange
has been laboring with tho state bu
reau ever since it began operations in
order to secure a stiffening up of the
grading requirements and while con
ditions now are better than at the be
ginning of the sales season, there is
still room for improvement.
ALLIANCE HELD
IN THE GRIP OF
A COLD WAVE
TEMPERATURE RANGING NEAR
THE ZERO MARK.
Train Service from the West Slowed,
Down, But No Trouble Encoun
tered with Drift.
Western Nebraska has ben in the
grip of a snowstorm and co'd wave for
the past five days, the storm extend
ing over most of Wyoming, Montana, !
South Dakota and Nebraska. For the
first two days of the storm, the snow
was accompanied by a high wind, with
a blizzard threatening, but the third
day the wind died down and the
'T,W '' 1 , -
,n Alliance have been as low as lo or
1 18 Mow zcro at mKhL I
The trains have been running, al-!
thoURh most of them from the west ;
have Deen from two to five houra ,ate
Dunne the heaw Knnw n,l
passenger trains were run double
headers out of this city, in order to t
avoid the possibility of a repetition of (
last year's experience, when one pas
senger train was stuck in the drifts
near this city for over forty-eight i
hours. 1
Ranchers had plenty of warning of
ine approaching storm, and the live
stock losses are expected to be light.
Most of the ranchers are feeding
stock. There is an abundance of hay,
and but little trouble is expected.
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
WILLIAM CARL IIARGARTEN
Funeral services for William Carl
Hargarten, nine-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Hargarten, were held
from the Catholic church Thursday
morning at 9:30 o'clock, Rev. Father
Manning officiating. The little lad was
taken ill a week ago with appendicitis,
an operation was performed last Sat
urday, and the shock proved too great,
lie died Tuesday afternoon.
Among those from out of the city
who attended the funeral were Mrs.
William Hartman of Lincoln; Mrs.
Jerry Hoffman of Havelock, William
Kranz and J. J. Kranz of Merna.
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Mintzer are
leaving today for Casper, Wyo., to
visit over Christmas with the family
of R. V. Copsey. Mrs. Mintzer will
remain for a week during the holidays
but George will return Immediately
after Christmas.
Mr. Glass, who has been homestead-
ing near Douglas, Wyo., was an Alli
ance visitor yesterday at the home of
his brother, W. M. Glass. He left for
Hyannis this morning.
FUNERAL FOR
DR. HERSHMAN
HELD THURSDAY
FORMER PHYSICIAN BURIED lit
' ALLIANCE CEMETERY
Impressive Services Held at the)
Masonic Temple in Charie
of Lodge Brothers.
Impressive funeral services for Dr.
Charles E. Hershman, prominent Alli
ance physician who passed away sud
denly Monday afternoon from aa
apoplectic stroke, were held Thursday
afternoon from the Masonic Temple
that order having charge of the cere
monies. Members of the order met at the
temple at 1:30 p. m. and marched to
the late residence, forming an escort
of honor for the casket Three fellow
physicians and three friends of th
deceased were pall bearers: Dr. Minor
Morris, Dr. C. E. Slagle, Dr. H. A,
Copsey, Jack Hawes, S. W. Thompson
and S. W. Wright.
The, Masonic temple was filled with
friends of Dr. Hershman who had
come to pay tribute to his memory.
Tho floral offerings were profuse and
beautiful. The Impressive Masonic
ceremonials were in charge of Wor
shipful Master P. I. Beuch. and the
responses were made by Senior War
den O. t. I racy and Junior Warden
Clifford Sward. Earl Meyer acted as
marshal.
Rev. Stephen J. Epler delivered the
funeral address which brought com
fort to the sorrowing relatives. A
special choir, composed of Mrs. Sam
l mot, and Mrs. Bert Duncan and Mr.
Jim Irwin and Mr. Welsh sang, "Safe
in the Arms of Jesus," "Goodnight",
and tho Ma.-onic Funeral Ode. Miss
Spacht accompanied on the piano
Dr. Hershman was born January
12, 18S5, at Tefft, Ind. He leaves a
w'dow and two small sons, Robert
and Taul aged five and three years,
respectively, his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
F. M. Hershman, living at Tefl't, Ind.,
two brothers, Paul, living nt Tefft,
Ind. and Fred O. Hershman, of Alli
ance., two sisters, Mrs. B. M. Scotted
of this city and Mrs. G. P. Tipsword,
of Bridgeport, 111.
Dr. Herslian has practiced medi
cine in Alliance since. 1910, first com
ing here as medical examiner for the
Burlington. He was a graduate of the
Rush Medical College, Chicago, In
190S, and was president of thGuar
dian State Bank. He was a Scottish
K:tc Mason uml a Shrlner of Tangier
Temple, Omaha. Burie.l was ma.le in
Greenwood cemetery.
"F0.1S1GDEN TRAILS" AT '
, THc IMPERIAL TDS5HT
Buck Jones in "Forbidden Trail" is
the feature at the Imperial ton ght.
Buck takes the part of "Squ.nt" 'luy
lor, owner of a ramh, rece.td a,
unique Itquest from h's o'd friend
Larry Harlan, when ho is a i.e i to
marry Larry's daughter. lie finds,
when he goes to get the jflrl, that
others have the same .dea. It's s
smashing western itoryf fu l of thrills
and exc.'tement, and just the sort of
a play to take the kid minds off of
Christmas.
The Christmas day program is Na
zimova in "The Heart of a Child."
The story is the lite romance of a
Cockney girl from the tenements of
Limehouse, portrayed as only Nazi
mova can do it. Sally was dancing in
the street to the music of a hand or
gan when someone shouted to hert
"Wot a lark, Sal! Ter father's bashed
yer mother's 'ead in."
Dorothy Dalton in "The Market of
Souls" is the Sunday bill. It's a char
acteristic Dorothy Dalton play, and
that's sufficient' recommendation.
HOME TALENT MOVIE DRAWS
DIG CROWDS TO IMPERIAL
"She Wouldn't Change Her Sweet
heart," a motion picture with horn
talent actors and acresses, was the at
traction at the Imperial yesterday, and
drew three capacity houses. The audi
ence apparently appreciated, seeing
the home boys and girls in action,
judging from the applause and th
comments.
Miss Betty Harsh took the part of
the heroine, Wade Grassman as th
hero and Joe Williams aa the villian
in the plot. Some of the scenes wero
particularly realistic The plot of th
production was a trifle sketchy, and
the thread of it was lost In visits to
various stores in the city, but ther
was considerable action at times and
the audience was not disappointed.
IIarry Marsh of Scottsbluff Is com
ing to Alliance for the holidays.