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'Official Taper of Box Butte County
TWICE A WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
Official Taper of the City of Alllanct
VOLUME XXVIII.
(Eight rages)
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1021
NO. 43
CITY MANAGER
, AND COUNCIL
i MET SATURDAY
DISCUSS VARIOUS MATTERS. OF
SOCIAL WELFARE
-Sam Shelton Retained as City Scav.
enger and a New Trice Scale
Put Into Effect
City Manager N. A. Kemmish.met
A-ith the council Saturday and it was
decided to retain Sam Shelton as city
scavenger. A new scale of prices will
e put into effect immediately. The
city manager suggests that if enough
residence owners in Alliance are will
ing to enter into a contract with the
scavenger to keep' their premises
cleaned, it can be done at a price
: around 75 cents Per month.
As vet. no appointments for the
public safety and the light and water
departments have been announces
3Tor the present, the old employes are
continuing in these positions, and it
is possible that no changes will be
--made. '
The city manager has issued the
following statement relative to re
cent activites of the city administra
tion:
"Saturday aTl members of the city
council met at luncheon and inform
ally discussed matters of our social
-welfare. These meetings save con
siderable time and give each member
:an opportunity to express his views,
"We also get better acquainted and
form a better working organization
:so that when the council meetings are
"held matters can be carried on with
dispatch.
"We have repaired the water sys
tem at the cemetery so that those de
sirmg water ean obtain it . We also
made inspection of the septic farm
and there will be some changes made
which will improve conditions, there
"The matter of disposing of our
ashes and garbage is always a per
plexing problem. Every household has
a different method. During the past
'week we have received a number of
applications for city scavenger. After
taking all things into consideration,
(however, it seems best for the present
to retain Samuel Shelton as our city
scavanger. He has ' sufficient equip
:znent to do the work and he knows
-what the work consists, of. We have
-not heard many complaints regarling
Ihis work. We are in hopes later to
arrange it so that twice each week
every home will have the ashes and
.garbage removed at a very nominal
cost. "In the meantime we are inter
ested in seeing our city kept clean
and Mr. Skelton has revised his prices
as follows:
Old Trice New
"Burying a horse or cow $5.00 4.00
JJurviner a young horse or
ow 2.50 2.00
"BuTy'ing a hoar or dog 1.00 1.00
"Burying a cat or fowl .10 .10
One load, two cubic yards 1.50 1.25
One 30-gal. bbl. garbage. .25 .20
. u a. OA IK
Cleaning vauus, cu. n.-.&v
'Cleaning cesspools, cu. ft. .05 .02
"In case you have ashes located
where they can be shoveled into the
wagon and not containing any gar
bage or decay able matter, these will
be hauled at 50 cents per cubic vara
An extra charge will be made if the
scavanger has to carry ashes out of
the basement. In case you do not
have a complete load the above prices
-will be pro-rated in accordance witn
lhe amount you have to haul away
"There are about twenty residences
now paying $1.00 per month to keep
-their premises cleaned up. If we
could get in the neighborhood of 50'
residences to do this it could be done
for about 75c a piece per month. If we
could get some where in the neighDor
liood of 1000 in the homes or nearly
all of the homes in Alliance it could
le done for about 50 cents per month
apiece to be paid in advance.
"We should like to 'see the time
when all of the homes would arrange
to have the garbage removed at
nominal sum per month. By doing it
in this way the scavenger can start,
at the end of an alley and clean it up '
as he goes. As it is now he has to
kip back and forth around town and
naturally makes the cost of moving
considerably higher than it should be.
Mrs. A. Gregory had her tonsils re
moved by Dr. Hand at the St. Joseph
hospital this morning.
Home Service Bureau
Will Close Alliance
, V Office on Saturday
' II I
The home service bureau of the
American Red Cross, which has main
tained headquarters in the court
houier will close Saturday of this
week. All ex-service men and others
who desire assistance in making com
pensation claims or other matters in
which the bureau has been assisting
are urged to see the secretary before
the week ends. Miss Josephine Gan
son. executive secretary, has tendered
her resignation, and the office will not
be reopened.
Mrs. Queele, 712 West Second street
Jas been ill with the measles.
THE WEATHER
Forecast for Alliance and vicinity:
Fair tonight and Wednesday. Some
what warmer west portion tonight.
SALATION ARMY WORKERS
LEAVE ALLIANCE TONIGHT
Ensign Talks and Lieutenant Kol-
inski. who have been in charge of the
Alliance Salvation Army post since its
installation here, will leave this
evening for Hastings, where they have
been assigned to duty temporarily.
Their departure from Alliance was
delayed two or three weeks after it
was decided to close the post here,
while the workers were soliciting
funds to meet the deficit.
BIRTHS
To Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Essex, two
mile west of Alliance, a boy, April 19.
To Mr., and Mrs. Henry bnuth,
fourteen miles south of Alliance, a
gjrl, April 21.
Bernadine Thompson has been quite
ill with the measles, but ia now con
valescing.
THIEVES FAIL TO
GAIN ENTRANCE
TO GOLDEN RULE
GET . NO FURTHER THAN
COAL BIN
THE
Small Man or Kids Discovered That
a Steel Door Was in
Their Way
The last attempt to rob the Golden
Rule store, in this city, which took
place some time during Sunday night
or early Monday morning was not
only a flat failure, so far as loot was
concerned, but the thieves apparently
received a pretty good scare. Entrance
was gained to the coal bin in the base
ment through a chute, the inside fast
ening of which had not been locked.
Once inside the coal bin they found
further progress barred by a heavy
steel door,' and gave up the attempt.
The scare came in the matter of get
ting out again. 1 v,"
When clerks reported for work
Monday morning, they found the coal
chute open, the light burning and a
number of boxes piled high leading
up to the chute. The height at which
the boxes were piled led the police
authorities to the conclusion that the
attempted robbery was the work of a
man small of stature, or else l:ad
been done by children. Only a small
person could have gone through the
chute.
In the past year, the Golden Rule
has suffered considerable loss by
thieves, at one time a large quantity
of silks and silk articles having been
stolen. As a result of such depreda
tions, steps have been taken to make
the new building as nearly burglar
proof a? possible. No clue to the
identity of the marauders has been
discovered.
.Hooch Found Buried
in Box Stall at the
Wilson Livery Barn
After keeping their eyes open for a
matter of five or six weeks, Chief of
Police Jeffers and Sheriff James W.
Miller raided the Wilson livery barn
shortly after 1 o'clock this morning,
and after a diligent search uncovered
a number of gallon containers, emp
ties all, and half a dozen pint pop
bottles filled with home made hooch.
The police had some difficulty in
gaining entrance to the barn, and
when they entered ewrything was
peaceful and serene. Three men were
asleep in beds or on cots, and the
fourth was curled on the floor en-
devoi-ing to surround a wood stove.
The men 'arrested were W, J. Seelah,
Lee McLaughlin and son, J. E. Mc
Laughlin, and the proprietor of the
livery stable, Virgil Shrautmeier. All
four were taken to the police stotion
and later to the county jail, where
they were interrogated by County At
torney Basye. The first three men
were released on their own recogniz
ance, but the fourth was held and a
charge of illegal possession of in
toxicating liquor filed against him.
Trial was in progress at 2 p. m. today.
The police had to do their own dis
covering, lhe actual Dooze was round
buried in a box stall in the barn, but
an empty keg, the large containers
and a funnel, believed by the police
to be equipment for a wholesale busi
ness were scattered about the build
ing.
This is the fifth or sijth time that
Seelah has been mixed up with the
cops in the past month, and he is be
ginning to be wearied of city life.
"You can tell the world for me," he
said, with a tinge of bitterness in his
tone, "that I have rented a little place
outside of town and I am going to
move my cows out there just as soon
as I can." Mr. Seelah has been twice
fined for unsanitary conditions in con
nectien with his cow barn, and he's
somewhat vexed at the jops.
SUPPORT THE CHURCHES
The Methodists of Alliance have decided to carry forward the
building of their church on the corner of Seventh and Box Butte.
The enterprise is worthy not only of the support of members
of the church, but of the townspeople generally.
The urge of community life toward better standards of living
is manifested in many ways. But in no clearer way is a true spirit
of progressiveness reflected than In a community attitude towards
its churches. The institutions stand now as always as the very
bulwark of civilitation. Civic pride demands good modern public
buildings of every kind city hall, library, public schools, and the
right kind of community pride and spirit sees to it that its churches
are of a kind for which no apologies need be made.
A church building program of whatever denomination is a
thing which should command the respect, interest, and support of
every loyal citizen, regardless of creed, for the very reason which
solicits the support for better schools, better libraries, better jails
even, namely, public welfare. Our town, any town is judged by its
buildings and especially by the up-to-dateness of its public build
ings. The churches are in this class, and we should see that our
community spirit isn't questioned for the lack of adequate, modem
church buildings, , .
One big community church is a subject often advanced to
excuse the lack of proper support of the existing denominational
churches, and is about as possible and just as feasible as to propose
a community fraternal order to take the place of the Masons, Odd
Fellows, .Elks, Eagles, Knights of Columbus and the others. Or
any other scheme to do away with the privilege and instinctive
action of people to group themselves for mutual interests. The
time may come when the community church may be successful,
but that time is not yet, and in the meantime the denominational
churches are the power for making the highest and best type of a
community." I-et us support them in such manner that we may be
proud of them as a prominent part of our city and a striking
measure of our progressiveness. '
FANS ORGANIZE
BASEBALL CLUB
FOR ALLIANCE
OFFICERS ELECTED AT FRIDAY
EVENING MEETING
F. D. McCormicK Wil Manage Team
Benefit Wrestling Match to
Be Held May 2
Twenty-five or thirty baseball fans
and players, members ofthe Alliance
baseball association by virtue of hav
ing signed the subscription blank, met
at the chamber of commerce rooms at
7:30 p. m. Friday and completed the
organization of the association by the
election of the following officers:
PrPKiilont. H. D 'Shallenberger: vice
president, A. G. Isaacson; treasurer,
Fred Hayes; secretary and business
moniMir flpnrtr M. Carev. F. D.
McCormick, former big league player,
was selected as manager oi me ieum.
Th officers, together with Dr. H. A.
rnnscv. ur. u. J. nana ana Vj. a.
Griffiths, will serve as members of the
This is the third meeting held in
the interests of the baseball associa
tion At lha firt mfptimr. it was de-
,1UII. J . W V..V - -
cided to make the membership fee $15,
with yearly dues oi a monin, anu a
committee or canvassers was appoint-
. . . i . .
e in nr. iirtv mev secureu neariy
half the one hundred members of the
necnHntinn which was the number de
cided upon as necessary to finance the
club. The canvass will be completed
in the near future.
A number of players were present
at the Friday evening meeting and
fKoro u-Htt rnnsiderable' interest and
enthusiasm on the part of the men
who wish to play, as well as on the
part of the fans who want to see oase
kill in Alliance this summer. Practice
X;n hcirin nt nnre. and a schedule of
games will be announced before the
season opens. It will be some task to
arrange a schedule for the team.
Th honofit wrestling match be
tween Anto Wroblovske of Casper and
Pete Sauer or this city, a snare or
the proceeds of which is to go to the
konafit nf th hnisphall association, has
been announced for May 2. Last week
the date was tentatively set ior April
29, DM It was iouna necessary wj
mat tha rVinncre. Tickets for the
event went on sale Saturday night
. . i
and may be secured at several places.
Prospects for baseDau in Alliance
this year are better than they have
been for several seasons. If suffi
cient backing can be secured to build
a downtown baseball park, there is no
question that the national game will
be well patronized, and if it is found
necessary to use ine iair grounas, n
is probable that a team good enough
to draw the fans that distance will be
got together.
Mrs. L. L. Meyers of Omaha is vis
iting at the home of her mothers, Mrs.
Bernice Myers. Mrs. Meyers was a
former resident of Alliance and has
many friends here.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles LaMon of
Casper, Wyo., arrived yesterday for a
visit with the latter a parents, Mr,
and Mrs. T. H. Barnes of this city.
LLOYD THOMAS
WRITES OF LIFE
V DOWN IN TEXAS
COTTON GROWERS ARE IN HARD
! CIRCUMSTANCES
Price. Have Dropped to Ie-W.r
Levels and Grim Fight
Is in Prospect
Lloyd C. Thomas and wife, who
have been touring in the southern oil
fields for the past two months, are
now on the home stretch of their
journey, according to word received
by friends here yesterday. Mr. Thomas
writes The Herald from Houston,
Texas:
HOUSTON, Tex., April 18, 1921.
Houston( the "metropolis of South
Texas," gave us some surprises, for
although ithas a sky line that shows
up for many miles and although it is
a busy, bustling city, it is rather more
sedate than we expected to find it, and
there is hardly as much of the famous
southern hospitality present as we
have found in some of the cities far
ther north. We arrived Saturday
night after a hard and long days drive
from Waco, 199 miles away, t'he last
thirty miles were the easiest to drive,
though, for the city is the hub of a
series of hard-surfaced shell roads
which invite y:ur auto to speed up
and speed up just a little more, until
the traffic cop behind you on his
motorcycle or in his Overland (they
use both or either anyway to catch
Vm) runs around a head, holds up his
hand and invites you to accompany
him to the city bastile. Ignorance of
the rules is no excuse down here and
you take your car in hand with fear
and trembling and, as the speed limit
on the suburban roads is twenty-five
miles, you keep your eve glued to the
speedometer as the car urger to be al
lowed to go just a little faster.
Here in Houston they have what
are called "one-way" streets, to per
mit the parking of more cars: thev
are also very strict regarding parking
in some locations and in some places
allow parking for limited periods
only. - I watched a traffic officer "tag"
four cars in a row this afternoon.
lhe busiest little city visited on our
trip so far has been Duncan, Okla.,
tne Dullness town ror the new Par
sons oil field in southern Oklahoma.
This town, which was smaller than
Alliance six months ago, is increasing
its population at the rate of two
hundred people per day, with the re
sult that they are sleeping in tents,
on the ground, or anywhere they can
'flop". The secretary of the newly
organized Chamber of Commerce
there, Col. W. E. Hawley, was one of
the original boomers in the Salt Creek
oil field near Casper, Wyo., and was
apparently very glad to meet us when
he found-that we were from western
Nebraska.
Duncan is spending a million dol
lara on municipal improvements and
new buildings of every description are
going up overnight. I was told that a
four-room ordinary house sells there
for $5,000 in cold cash. Over 400 rigs
are actively drilling in that county
and the roads in both directions are
lined with incoming automobiles,
jumping from "bump'to bump" over
the rough road.
Speaking of roads, we encounter all
kinds in a days driving. On both
sides of a progressive town, or clear
through a progressive county, we will
find excellent, well-graded, surfaced
roads. Then we ' will spend a few
hours dodging bumps and, mudholcs.
One bad stretch of road will spoil a
whole days' driving for me . Between
Waco and Houston we found a
stretch of road through a river bot
tom, only one-half mile long, which
had kept tourist travel off the entire
road for weeks at a time, and that one
stretch of mud could have been put
in good traveling shape at an expen
diture of only a few Hundred dollars.
Houston is surrounded on all sides
by a fiat country which reminds us
very much at this time of Box Butte
county. They tell us that late in the
summer season the country loks dif
ferent, however, and that the beau
tiful looking land, which is only part
ly farmed, dries up and cracks open.
Right now much of it is under water
and if it was not for the beautiful
graded hard-surfaced road, travel
through it would be impossible.
(Continued on Fage 4)
OFFERPRiZES
TO CHILDREN
.FOR GARDENS
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WILL
SPONSOR CONTEST
All School Children Eligible to Com
pete Entry Must Be Made '
by May IS
The Alliance chamber of commerce,
in conjunction with the Woman's club
is sponsoring a garden contest for the
school children of the city, all of
whom are eligible to compete, as there
is no age limit. A prize of $10 for
the best garden by any pupil, with
prizes of $2 for the best sample of
each vegetable to be planted and $1
as a second prize have been hung up
as inducements to the children to do
their best.
The following rules have been de
cided upon to govern the competition.
All gardens must 10x20 feet in size,
or 10x30 feet if .potatoes are planted.
Each contestant must plant two
thirds of the vegetables listed below:
Onions, lettuce, radishes, beets, toma-
toes beang peas carrotg utoef
The gardens must be planted and
the contestant must have registered
at the office of the chamber of com-1
merce by May 15. Members of the
in the season, and will award the
?, iMiiuii a iiuu win uc liic juuKCSf later i
prizes.
An especial effort will be made to
interest students in the sixth, seventh
and eighth grades, and a number of
special talks will be made to them to
induce them to cuter the contest.
Mrs. Bert Duncan is enjoying a visit
from her mother, Mrs. Clara Williams
and sister, Miss Alice Williams, both
of Hot Springs, S. D.
Farmers Held Meeting
to Plan Arrangements
For the County Fair
Some twenty-five farmers interest
ed in a Box Butte county fair this
year met at the county court room in
Alliance at 2 -o'clock Saturday after
noon and completed the temporary or
ganization of the Box Butte county
agricultural society. Dave Turinton
was elected temporay chairman and
Lester Beat, secretary.
There was considerable interest in a
fair on the part of those present. The
county commissioners met with the
men, and promised the financial as
sistance needed, with the understand
ing that the management of the fair
should be in the hands of actual farm
ers, although they were willing that
outside assistance should be ieceived
from any source.
Ernest Punnton, Louis Powell and
Art Groves were selected as a com
mittee to draw up a constitution and
by-laws, and County Attorney lee
Basye will assist in this work. It is
planned to have the by-laws ready for
adoption at the next meeting, which
has been called for Saturday, May 7,
at the court house, at which time the
organization will be made permanent.
Secretary Carey Will
Address the Colorado
Chamber of Commerce
Secretary George M. Carey of the
Alliance chamber of commerce left
Monday evening for Limon, Colo.,
where he is scheduled to address the
eastern Colorado chamber of com
merce Tuesday night on "The Func
tions of a Chamber of Commerce."
He will stop over in Denver on his
return to attend to some matters of
business for the local organization.
Miss Carrie Briggs, of Kansas City,
is visiting- at the home of Mrs. N. J.
Fletther. She arrived Saturday and
expects to remain for several weeks.
HIGH SCHOOL
INTERCLASS
TRACK MEET
SOPHOMORES WIN HONORS BY A
NARROW MARGIN
Result Undecided Until Last EtcqI
on the Trogram Some Good
Records Made
Some good records were made at
the interclass track and field meet
held on the grounds north of the high,
school building Friday afternoon.
Classes in the high school and soma
of the grades were dismissed for the
occasion, and there was a large crowds
of students in attendance and consid
erable interest shown. Interest in
athletics at the high school is stead
ily growing. Friday's meet was hel4
for the purpose of selecting likely ma
terial to represent Alliance high,
school in the western Nebraska track;
meet, to be held some time before the.
school year. , .-V
The sophomore class wen the meet
by the narrow margin of three points,
lhe result was in doubt until the
very last event en the program, the
relay race. Before this race, th
seniors had a lead of two points. The
sophomores jumpevl to first place by
winning first in the relay, when th
second members of the senior class
teant dropped the baton. The number
of points won by the various classes
was: Sophomore's 45, seniors 42,
freshmen 29 and juniors S.
Although no remarkable records'
were made in any of the' events.
Coach Prince considers the showing
an excellent one, considering the short
season of training. Individual hon
ors were won by Ralph Garvin, with.
Frank Daily second and Lester Deal
third. Daily covered the ground in
the hundred-yard dash in 10 8-5
seconds with Ralph Garvin only
three inches behind him nt the finish.
The second good record was made ia
the broad jump, Ralph Garvin making
a leap of twenty feet. Frank Daily
made a record of 10 feet 2 inches in
the pole vault which was considered ;
an excellent mark, especially ia .view
of the short time for training. -
The results in the various event) ,
of the meet f6llowr ' '
110.-yard dash Frank Daily, soph
omore. first; Ralph Garvin, freshman, ,
second; Lee Strong, sophomore
third; time: 10 3-5 seconds.
220-yard dash .Frank Daily, soph
omore, first; Lee Strong, sophomore,
second; ICalph, uarvm, freshman.
wiiiu, viuic. .u octvuih.i.',.
440-yard dash Lee Strong, sopho-
more, first; . Cecil Beal, sophomore,
second; Ivan Wong, senior, third;
time: CO 2-5 seconds,
880-yard run Robert Lawrence,
senior, first; Cecil Beal, sophomore,
second; Ivin Wong, senior, third;
time: 2 minutes 25 seconds.
Mile run Robert Lawrence, senior,
first; Philip Killian, freshman, sec
ond; Clarence Kibble, senior, third;
time: ft minutes 31 seconds.
120- high hurdles Lester Beal,
senior, first; Ralph Garvin, freshman,
second; Lester Beal, sophomore,
third; time: 20 2-5 seconds.
220-yard low hurdles Frank Daily,
sophomore, first; Lester Beal, senior,
second; Leonard Pate, senior, third;
time: 32 seconds.
Half-mile relay Won by sopho
mores, by Frank Daily Lee Strong,
Cecil Beal and Lester Cross; time:
minute 49 seconds.
Shot-put Lester Beal, senior,
first; Fred Puidy, sophomore, second;
I,eoruii(l Pate, senior, third; distance:
HQ feet 2 inches.
Broad jump Ralph Garvin, fresh
man, first; Leonard Pate, senior, sec
ond; Lester Beal, senior, third; dis
tance: 20 feet.
High iumn Ralph Garvin, fresh
man, first; Leonard Pate, senior, sec
ond; Frank Daily, sophomore, third:
height, 5 feet 3 inches.
Pole vault Frank Daily, sopho
more, first; Ralph Garvin, freshman,
second; Leonard Pate, senior, third;
height 10 feet 2 inches.
Javelin throw James Fowler, iun
ior, first; Martin Morris, freshman
seeond; Ivan Wong, senior, third; dia
tance: 110 feet
Discus throw Lester Beal. Benior.
first: Ralph Garvin, freshman, see.
ond; Leonard Pate, senior, third; dii
tance: 90 feet a inches.
Warrant Issued for
Arrest of Man Who
Uttered Bum Check
A warrant was issued in county
court Monday for the arrest of Earl
C. Piersoll, alias E. C. Carr, who it
charged with cashing, some weeks
ago, a check at the First National
Bank of Alliance for $25, drawn en
the First State Bank of Clinton, Neb.,
which was returned as no account.
Carr'a present location is not known,
although it was reported that he had
been seen recently at Springview,
Since he passed the check on the Alii
ance bank, a check signed by bit
name, drawn on the First National,
has been presented for payment by &
bank in Dennison, Ia.