I
E. G.'s Column
"Modern Clothes For Men"
' 308 Box Butte Ave.
ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA
Hi Somers was the Durndest cuss
Ker ketchin' fi-h he sure was great;
lie never used to make no fuss
About the kind of pole or bait
Vr weather, neither, he'd just say
"I got to ketch a nies today".
-And towards the creek you'd see him
hike,
A whistlin' Foft and chucklin like.
I says to Hi one day, says I
'How do you always ketch 'em Hi?"
He jjiv his bait another" skishin'
And chucklin, savs, "I just keep
fishinV
Now that's us. For ten years we
liave just "kept fishin'."
Starting in a small way by "keep
in' fishin'," conservative methods and
management, striving always for and
always toward excellence of our mer
chandise, fair play dealing and keeping
our promises, we have be believe at
tained the- enviable position of the
store with the most "FRIENDS."
And we again issue this special no
tice that you verify our belief on
.-your satisfaction with the purchases
you've made at our stoje.
We have repeatedly ' said "Our
guarantee has no strings attached"
that is our policy to please every per
son that buys anything from us
whether it be a shirt, collar, necktie,
pair of sox or and all-wool suit of the
.highest type.
We are not satisfied unless you are.
If by chance you have made a selec
tion that has not served you in a sat
isfactory manner, bring it back and
get your money if you wish
We don't want our pleaasure over
our business spoiled by any dissatis
faction among our customers.
Therefore
This Is Our Policy.
The HEN is the only animal in nat
ure that can lay around and make
money the rest of us have to hustle
for it.
Geo Matlsen says he is the greatest
taxi-driver in the world, and that if
the doctors want business just call
liim, and business is at once picking
up.
He was taking an M. D. to a home
In the country and stopped at another
Tiouse to ask if he"was near the house
"he was trying to find, and when Mr.
Madsen knocked on the door, he notic
ed that the man who answered the
knock, was excited, and grabbing the
laxi man by the collar, started drag
ging him in, and saying he wanted the
.doctor worse than the other family
could. Mr. Madsen broke away, trying
to explain that he wa not the M. D.
'tout that the medical man was in the
car and running out there, brought
!him in, and after a short time they
were able to resume their journey to
the other home, leaving a happy fam
ily rejoicing over the safe arrival of
a young HEIR. Mr. Madsen says that
as a taxi-driver he is always in the
right spot at the right time.
"We are somewhat like Mr. Madsen,
and we try to' be right up to the mo
ment in seasonable merchandise, and
Tight now is the time to get yourself
a nice new spring hat, and we have
them, in all the new shades, of both
-cloth and felts, and one look at our
window trim of new hats will convince
you that we are in the right position
to take care of your needs at the time
you discover your need. .
A man has made a parody on the
wonderful poem, "I'd live in a house
by the side of the road," which ends
with:
"I'd biuld me a 'Still' on the side of a
hill,
And let the rest of the world- go
DRY.' "
Well the whole world is not dry yet,
in fact it "LEAKS" quite considerably
at times if one can believe wh?t he
sees upon the street, but it is like the
old-fashioned exhiliarating feeling to
put on one of our new "EASTER
NECKTIES," only 75 cents, and they
are going fast, too, and a nice line
again at one dollar. They must be
seen to be appreciated.
Today, as yesterday, is history, and
tomorrow may never come, therefore,
I have decided' that today I will do
all the business I can honestly do,
have all the fun I can reasonably, do
all the good I can willingly, ard save
my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
Yours Very Truly,
"Modern Clothes For Men."
HEARTS OF
GOLD
By T. B. ALDERSON
tt ti: r"it iriV . i i'.t-
i ine oiue kkv dim is now oui an
ready for consideration.
(Copyright, l20. W.at.rn N.w.p.prr L muol
In half a century Kloxton luid
scarcely climiKod. Fnrins. more and
residents passed from t'neiMtkn to
generation, few moveil uwiiy, few
6t i lingers ciune to remain It vn an
oM-fiiKliloneil, steutly K'lng town, re
vering Its ancient luinlmarks, uinl In
terest centered In community welfare
Solely.
There win nu Ideal limncllUenoss
nnd coinfori to Its one lioiel Unit
elm lined lialjili I ti.sston, nnd u certain
geniality In tlie greetings of people
lie laid never met before. At the end
of a week the tall, handsome young
Man, with the pallor of frail health
in his face, disclosed the object of his
visit and whs welcomed with open
hands and hearts.
Iiisston had liven employed In liter-
cnntile Ije In the city, and his labors
inn i restmru in a orctikiiown. rnvsi
ciaus hud advised life In the open,
ami It Keemed possible when he was
apprized that his half uncle, Iteuben
Page, at llloxton, had left him the
f a nil that had been In the family for
over seventy years. What ready mon
ey the latter possessed had been dis
tributed among his sisters.
IHsston found the old farm neglect
ed and run down. Put that could
readily be attended to, John Paxton,
his nearest neighbor, told him. Per
haps, too, an acquaintance with
Gladys, his daughter, had a good deal
to do lu Influencing Dlsston. She was
a sun-browned, wholesome young
woman of twenty-two, brisk. Indus
trious mid hnppy spirited, and she act
ed as guide and adviser In taking Diss-
ton over his newly acquired domain.
People warmed up to him after he
made It known that he was the heir to
the 'Page farm. Then Dlsston made
the community more friendly than
ever when two men, Ezra nnd Pen
Cooper, brothers, called upon him.
"Your uncle has let us each occupy
fifty acres where the farm touches the
creek since we were boys, free gratis,"
Ezra Cooper told Disston. "I suppose
we've got to pack up nnd leave now?"
, "Not at my request," replied Disston
promptly. "I would miss having you
people around to help me out when
1 make blunders. You can stay right
where you are on the old arrange
ment."
Disston made nn arrangement with
the Cooper brothers to work the crops
on shares until he secured a better
grasp of the situation. The hue of
health came Into his face with pure
ulr and plenty of It, substantial food
and companionable evenings spent
among his neighbors. It was Gladys
who Inducted him htfo driving the old
heavy team that went with the place,
and with her mother did much In
making the interior of the boue pre- j
sentable.
One night the stables of the place ;
cn tight fire. Neighbors saved some :
farm machinery, but the horses and
the two wagons were consumed. The
loss was greatly felt by Disston, for
he had not the money to replace these
necessary adjuncts to successful
funning. Everybody sympathized
with him, and there were tears In the
eyes of Gladys as she stood by his
side viewing the ruins of the old
barn. Disston had to arrange with a
neighbor to do what carting was re
quired and the setback seriously Im
peded his plans-.
Dlsston detected a symptom of sun
pressed excitement In Gladys as she
came over early one morning and
asked him to go with her to secure
some flowers Just beginning to bloom.
He was somewhat surprised at this In
fringement n working hours on the
part of this practical little girl farm
er, the more so when she dallied after
gathering the flowers and two hours
sped away.
"Now, let us get back to the house
through the little grove," sKo spoke
as they regained the vicinity of the
house and then, Just as they cleared
this, she exclaimed In a Joyful tones:
"Now look I What do you seeV
, What Ralph Dlsston saw held him
spellbound. In the yard was a brand
new barn wagon of the latest type.
Attached to It were two superb black
horses, young, ttrong, shapely. Ani
mals and vehicle, were decorated with
ribbons, and as they approached them
they saw a card attached to the wagon
which rend:
"From true friends to the new
farmer."
'Dear Mr. Dlsston," spoke Gladys,
"there Is not a person In P.loxton who
has not Joined In this gift. They al
ways help when anybody Is In trou
ble just as you did with the Cooper
.boys."
It took all the morning for Ralph
Disston to get over the vast surprise
of the day. He had certainly come
among people kindly aifU loyal as own
brothers and sisters, and be felt sin
cerely In bis heart that his lines bad
Indeed fallen In pleasant places.
"Well, what do you think of It.
friends?" submitted John Paxton com
ing over from his home. "I tell you
when these, whole-hearted Ploxtonltes
take a fancy to a man, he's fixed for
life. Next thing they'll be finding a
wife for you, hey?"
"I hope they do," rejoined Dlsston
promptly, with a glance at his pretty
companion. ,
"And I hope," he .added, audacious
ly, '"they wen't go fur to find her,"
pnd Glinly flushed red as the flow err
In her Land-;.
Two soldier bonus bills have been
reported out nnd thite movie bills will
be considered.
Sarpy county won out in their at
tempt to keep from being annexed to
Douglas county.
or less of them will have to dip in com
mittee. The sifting committee is made
up of two members from each con
gressional district with the speaker as
chairman, thirteen members in nil.
Each district will select its members.
; The Christian Science bill, which
passed the senate, has been placed on
general file in the house.
The bill increasing the power of co
operative societies has been reported
out. Tlr's i. m-nli.ihlv nnn nf thn in-t
,caiefu!ly considered bills that has been
introduced. It piovules that a co-operative
society must have at least twenty-five
members and that no one of
them may own more than 4 per cent
of the stock.
The senate considered the bread bill
on Tuesday of this week. At the time
this was written the stage was set for
some big do'ngs.
A mrmlier of the house unkindly re
marks that legislation in the senate is
by courtesy anil not according to the
merit of the bills.
Salary bills for the board of con
trol, deputies in state olTices ami some
others passed the house. Increases
were allowed m most cases but
none of them were as large as was
asked in the original bill.
Another big fight in the house will
probably be over the language bill
which has passed the senate. It is
predicted that there will be strong op
posite to it and it is also true that
it will have strong support.
Serious objection was made before
the child welfare committee to the bill
which forbids women wording after
10 p. m. Representatives of the tele
phone companies and other contend
that such a law will be a serious dis
crimination against women in some
lines of employment.
Representative Nievvedde thought
the house nuo-ht tn ilpvne thi rnlii-o
,day to rcting on bills and do commit
ite work in the evening but his propo
sition was nrnifintlv voted ilnvin Thn
hou o is now in se.-sion from ! to 12
and from 1:30 to 3, after which the
rest of the day is devoted to committee
work.
spent in scrapping ov er this one feat
ure of the bill before it was finally
adopted. Jimmy Rodman of Kimbafl
was the ch:ef ojiponent of this bill.
Some say he dug hi political grave by
opposing it, others say he made a lot
of political hay. One thing is Mire, he
is Mme scrapper.
The senate enjoyed n long debate
over the iiucst'on of exempt'tig build
ing and loan stock from taxation. Sen
ator Anderson was the leader in favor
of taxation. His taxation b II pro
vides a four mill tax on building and
'onn f-tock and he thinks this should
be allowed to stand. The plea in favor
of exempting the stock was that it is
double taxation but many other in
stances were cited where double taxa
tion exists.
ing in disposing of bills. The greater
part of the first half of the session is
necessarily used in the introduction of
bills and passing upon the merits by
committees. Most of this work is now
done and the iviemliers enn now rt
down to business in disposing of the-
bills that have been reported out by
the committees.
The house finally refused to appro
priate $5,000 for the relief of Mrs.
H'vkel of Omaha, whose husband was
kiFTed in the riot. The state had no
Wal liability. The stand was taken
that Omaha and Douglas county should
help her.
The house commhtee on education
decided that it itsn't necessary to
have a special law to prevent drivers
' of conveyances containing school chil
dren from swearing, using tobacco,
etc. There are already laws to handle
such cases.
A big fieht developed over doing
away with the non-partisan ballot law.
The bill proposes to place candidates
for judge, school superintendents, etc.,
on the regu'ar partisan ballot. Edgar
Howard says he used to favor the non
partisan law but he is now convinced
that it is wrong and that this bill
should pass. '
The anti-cigaret bill doesn't say so
in so many words but it seems that in
stead of cigarets being kept in the
showcases and on the shelves and sold
under strict regulation . that dealers
will til.irp Ihpm nrwlpr the rmintpr nnd
) Fell them illegally to all comers. All
dealers won t do this but enough will
to make the law a dead letter if it is
passed.
The senate killed the bill requiring
fifteen days' notice before a marriage
license can be issued. Bachelors unions
over the state were responsible for
this. They said all the girls would be
sure to change their minds inside of
fifteen days.
The beginning of the end of this ses
sion is in sight. On Monday the sift
ing committee took charge of the gen
eral file and select bills of most im
portance for act;on. This committee
has to authority to kill bills. It merely
selects those of most importance and
holds back others. All the bills will
be acted upon if there is time but more
Senator Reed's universal registra
tion bill was passed to third rend ng
by the senate with the emergency
clause. It requires the precinct asses
sor to make the registration along
with his other duties. Registration
requires no removal except if a voter
moves. Primary voters may not
change their affiliation without filing
notice with the county clerk thirty
days before the primary. The object
of the bill is to prevent switching
around in primaries.
Senator Nerval's name was kept on
his language bill in spite of his pro
tests that the bill had been changed so
much that he could not father it.
An attempt will be made to increase
the appropriation of $25,000 that is
provided to establish a trade school for
disabled men to $200,000.
Favorable action by the federal su
preme court on the farm loan act
cause the house committee on revenue
and taxation to kill the Lynn bill pro
viding for a rural loan system. The
committee believes such a law is not
now necessary. Two other bills with a
similar abject in view are still to be
acted upon. One of them provides for
the loaning of half of the permanent
school fund on farm mortages.
The child welfare committee seems
to be having more or less grief with
the bills that are in its charge. Defi
nite action is expected soon. It Is said
that the committee is divided and may
have hard work reaching an agreement.
House roll (517, the last bill intro
duced in the house, promises to create
a lot of interct-t. It is designed to do
, away with picketing or otherwise in
terfere with working men who take the
places of strikers. Labor unions are
said to be strongly against the bill.
At the time this whs written only
about n dozen bills had passed both
i houses nnd been s'gncd by the gover
nor. The house had killed 170 bills,
(including six from the senate, and
passed fS. The penute had passed 13
i nousp measures and M or its own. It
has hNo killed two house measures and
killed 83 of its own. House standing
committees still had 255 bills under
consideration. A large portion of them
were in the judiciary and miscellane
ous subjects committees. With the ses
sion more than half gone It is apparent
that the sifting committee is going to
handle a large port'on of the grist.
Burlington Hopes to
Reduce the Number
of Lost Packages
The month of March has been desig
nated by the Rurlington railroad as
"no lost package month."
Lost packages arc the source of
great inconvenience on the part of
the shipper and heavy claim pavments
ion the part of the railroad. During
(the year 1020, 21,2!)3 claims were filed
'covering packages which disappeared
(between the time when they were re
ceived for shipment and should have
been received by the consignees.
Losses are due to many causes, of
course. Thousands of packages go
astray because of improper marking,
no marking at all or other errors, but
by far the greater number disappear
owing to the operation of thieves.
The purpose of the campaign is to
materially reduce the number of lost
packages. Employes have been in
structed, and great results are expect
ed. Shippers advised asked to cooperate.
According to Representative Byrum
the revolving fund in the hail insur
ance bill will not revolve very rapidly
because no way has been provided for
securing it. About a day's time was
Taxation and revenue committees
are having quite a time working out
the provisions of the new taxing law.
The question of how to tax intangible
property is what seems to be causing
the trouble. After the senate commit
tee completes its labors the committee
will be called in for a joint session.
London ladies are finding quick
cures by falling in love with their
doctors. It's all right with cooing, but
how ubout the billing?
That man who hid his whisky still
in a cornfield certainly had the manu
facturer's instinct for getting close to
!his raw material.
The legislature is now getting to the
point where it can make a real show-
The growth of American shipping
is said to excite British anger. But
that is no real reason for stopping: it.
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ONLY EXCLUSIVE MEAT MARKET IN ALLIANCE THEREFORE GIVING ALL OUR TDIE TO
SELECTING CHOICE MEATS FOR ALLIANCE PEOPLE.
These Prices Will Meet Out-of-Work People. Note the Prices are Lower than Packing House in
100 pound lots. Compare these Prices With Any in the World.
Special Prices that are -Specials
Pure Home Rendered Lard,
3 lbs., 5 lbs., 10 lbs. ; per pound
Home Made Pure Pork Sausage,
per pound
Links 25
Home Made Hamburger, Strictly Fresh,
per pound
Fresh Shoulder Pork Roast,
per pund
Sliced 22
Fresh Ham Roast,
per pound
Sliced 25
Fresh Pork Loin Roast,
per pound
Sliced 25
Fresh Side Pork,
per pound
Sliced 20
16c
20c
15c
20c
22c
22c
18c
Fresh Liver,
per pound
Fresh Brains,
per pound
Round Steak,
per pound
Sirloin Steak,
per pound
T-Bone Steak,
per pound
Beef Roasts,
per pound
"Tiound W, 12, 14
LUNCH MEATS, BOLOGNA, WEENIES.
MINCED LUNCHEONS OF ALL KINDS
15c
20c
25c
25c
25c
20c
Morris' Lean Breakfast Bacon by Side 32c; Sliced 40c .
CHEESE Cream, 38c; Brick, 35c; Limburgur, 45c; Swiss, 50c. Sauer Kraut, 10c per lb.
Fat Bacon Backs 20c per pound
Fresh Channel Cat Fish, Crappies, Chickens, Oysters. Have you tried our Home Made
Mince Meat. Special Prtes on Hams For Easter.
Here is a Saving, too: COUPON BOOKS $5.00 CASH, for $4.80; $3.00 CASH, for $2.90.
Special Cuts for Sunday or Party
Dinners.
-:- Makers of Fine Sausage. -:-Creamery
Butter 50c per lb.
HONEST WEIGHT GOOD TREATMENT ALWAYS WELCOME
OUU MOTTO: We are in the Meat Business Only. We Want Your Meat Business Only.
All Meats Are Trimmed Before Weighing.
SANIT VRY MARKET
Phone 40
F. E. MELVIN, Proprietor
118 West Fourth
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