rl rT -o Official Paper of Box Butte County TWICE A WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Official Paper of the City of Alllancf VOLUME XXVIII. (Ten Pages) ALLIANCE, DOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1021 NO. 5i if m SCHOOL HEAD THINKS MORE ' ROOM NEEDED iSAYS. BOTH PROPOSED BUILD INGS SHOULD BE BUILT Superintendent Pnte Thinks That a Longer Delay Would Be' Detri mental to Schools City Manager Kemmish's tabulation of the bonded indebtedness of the city of Alliance, published Tuesday, has .aroused considerable comment. The tabulation showed the effect in in creased taxes of the issuance of $2o0, 000 school bonds, voted over a year ago, which have been held up by the .school board until conditions became sufficiently normal to warrant going1 ahead with the building program. The suggestion that possibly the schools -could manage to get along with one new building this year, and delay the erection of a new high school for a year or so, until the city has had a chance to get upon its financial feet, -does not make much of a hit in school circles. According to Superintendent W. R. Pate, the schools are in as crowded a condition as ever, and while the board, in order to avoid wasting money, de layed a much needed building pro gram, conditions are such that the board is warranted in going ahead Avith its program, provided the busi ness judgment approves the bids that -will be submitted. According to Mr. Pate, there isn't a city in Nebraska that can show as good a school equip ment as Alliance for the amount of money invested, and he believes that the judgment of the board can be trusted. The board purchased no high priced equipment and simply held off building during the peak prices. The schools have had to get along under crowded conditions, and indications are .nai tins year tne situation will De Avorse than ever. Mr. Pate has furnished the follow ing summary of the situation: 1919-20 x 1920-21 Enrollment 1157 - 12,02 Average Attendance 69 . 999 "Some people may think the atten dance has fallen away this year due to the fact that there was less work in the. city than heretofore but the fol lowing figures show that such was not the case. Enrollment last month, 1920-211021 Enrollment last month, 1919-20. 898 Average Attendance, last month 1919- 20 816 Average Attendance last month 1920- 21 967 "If the students in school the Ias of "May this year .return next fall, and vt have the normal number entering the kindergarten it will be necessary to employ two teachers more than em ployed this year at Central school, and one more at Emerson; and every room was Ailed this year in both buildings. "The enrollment at the high school this year was 254 with a maximum. fseatmg capacity of 200. In order to take care of the students it was nec essary to use both the commercial loom and the assembly as study rooms and pass students in shifts back and forth when the commercitf room was needed for a recitation room. The ninth grade this year number 108, The number of eighth grade graduates in both the city and county was larger than ever before so the ninth grade next year will probably be larger than this year and to take care of them in the room we now have, will be a real problem, "If the enrollment is much larger than last year, a3 it inow promises to be, it will be necessary to use the high school building only for recitation pur poses and. have all studying done at home a course not at all for the wel fare of the students and usually .re sorted to in high schools only where fire or some other calamity has sud denly decreased the amount of school room. To rent rooms outside the regular school buildings, as may be necessary for the overflow at Central and Emerson schools next year, is a temporary expedient and detrimental to the students so segregated as well as expensive to the school district in (he long run. . . .. "The suireestion that Central school te used as a junior high school can-1 not be followed, as Central school is built as a grade building and the size and the plan of the rooms preventa its use as a junior high. Departmental work Is now being done in the seventh and eighth grades of both Emerson and Central, and if such were not the case the students already in these buildings could not be housed there." Denver grains were delayed from eisrht to ten hours Thursday, due to a . . t- - i l ) . : uryinursaay, ciue to a washout near r ugepur.., . TI.'J A un..f. from the heavy ram luesnay evening. - -v- . rt 0 -""Vli- .MiT !, coi ,ltn hav been in would much rather take my part oi a a flooded conaition ana innumerauio bridges were washed out. One Alli ance traveling man found it necessary to make a detour of twenty miles in order to reach a road leading Into Alli ance Thursday. The rain Thursday evening was 1.16 inches, but no further damages were reported. A work train from Alliance assisted in making re- - r . , .... t I VI. naira at the scene of the washout Wednesday. . ... THE WEATHER Tartly cloudy tonfght and Saturday. Somewhat unsettled west portion. No change In temperature. Barn on Dillon Farm Burns to Ground When Struck by Lightning The large barn on the old P. H. Dil lon farm, now owned by James Under wood, was struck by lightning Tuesday night and burned to th ground with its contents, which included twenty tons of bailed alfalfa, two hundred and sixty bushels of flax seed a buggy, a fanning mill,' .about forty bushels of spuds and twenty-five bushels of bar ley. The fire occurred between twelve and two o'clock Wednesday morning, the farm is operated by O. L. Harris, but his horses were all in the pasture at the time and he had no stock-in the barn.' He got the harness out, but that was "all he could do, as the blaze was under great headway when discovered. The main barn was 34x34 with a shed on three sides. The insurance was fifteen hundred on the barn and five hundred on the contents. LLOYD THOMAS TALKS TO MEN OF LIONS CLUB TELLS OF WHAT HE SAW SOUTHERN TRIP ON Urges Good Roads to Build Up Tourist Travel and to Attract New Farmers to County Lloyd C. Thomas, former editor of The Herald, addre -;sed the members of the Alliance Lions club at their noon luncheon Thursday at the Alliance hotel Fern Garden. Mr. Thomas told of business condition; in the south as he found them during his recent auto mobile tour through that section of the country. Ihe speaker pointed out that Alli ance is faced with a wonderful oppor tunity to grow by completing the Black Hills highway north from id ney and by completing the Potash highway westward through the sand hills from Broken Bow. He told of the advantages of tourist travel, not alone from the money spent by the sight seers, Dut dv giving tnem an oppor tunity to look over the country. Alli ance is at present somewhat isolated, and the completions of these highways should be the mam objective of all or ganizations that have the interests of the city at heart. Mr. Thomas said, in part: For a number of years it had been my desire to explore the sunny south in the winter time. You know that we all get that desire along in the middle of winter, especially when the ther mometer gets down to about 20 de grees, below and when we get tired of shoveling coal into the hungry maw of the furnace. So when the oppor tunity came to me early this year to make' a trip through the southern states in the interest of the Kansas City Tourists' Information Bureau, I gladly accepted. It will be my pur pose in this brief talk to endeavor to give to you an idea of what I learned on this trip, telling you a little, per haps, regarding the physical charac teristics of the country, business con ditions and the Deople themselves. Kansas City is known as the gate- wav of the southwest. It is tne rail road center and although its climate is hardly enjoyable at any time of the year it is an excellent business town. After spending a coupie oi uu mcic, we started for the south, driving along excellent highways towards Paola, in a southwesterly direction. Just north p-inia saw our first oil wells, in the northern and eastern edge of the fummia Kansas shallow fields. In that territory the traveler is impressed by the rolling and sometimes -timbered country, the well-graded, weii-aepi highways, sometimes oiled, and the neat and prosperous appearing farms. Hedges are more common than wire fences and frequently you will see an entire farm surrounded by high, Chanute, Kas., ia noted for its im mense oil refineries. Coffeyville will be remembered by U3 because of its southern appearance. And we found there much of usual southern hotel menu biscuits with every meal and cockroaches in every room. We arrived in Oklahoma with the wind at our backs one of the famous "northers" that the natives down there AmaA an niurh4 nd I dont much blame them, for those bitter, stinging "T."" u lveral of them moisture-laden winas go ngai I Vflll. n CAUl IV livvv ,...-, f"u,C-; fia northern Texas. I .. vh,-a.;V blizzard. We saw our first cotton north of Wagoner, Oklahoma. After that we oom, a int. nt it much of it in the imnirVoH: thousands and thou sands' of bales in the compresses and n round the eins: and almost every farmhouse had from one to ten or twelve bales sitting on end in the front yard or stored in the shed or (Continued on Page 4) BROADWATER GOOD ROADS DELEGATION FIVE AUTOLOADS VISIT ANCE THURSDAY ALL!- Plan to Secure Volunteer Labor Outline Road to County , Line to A delegation of fourteen Broad water boosters arrived in. Alliance Thursday r.oon, and a meeting was held with Alliance business men at the chamber of commerce rooms. No banquet was prepared, as the Broad water men failed to announce their coming, but the word was passed and a fairly representative crowd gathered together in a few minutes. The' Broadwater men came m five automobiles, following the route Ihty favor for a state road which will run through Morrill county and assist in establishing connections between this city and the Lincoln highway. Two routes are favored by various ele ments in Morrill county, one of them by way of Bridgeport and the other by way of Broadwater. One of the.e roads goes south and the other nest of the Burlington Tracks, and the sen timent is fairly well divided in Mor rill county over the two routes. Both Bridgeport and Broadwater have a commissioner, and the third commis sioner lives in a distant part of the county and so far has not been won over by the advocates of either route. The Box Butte county commission ers have expressed themselves as will ing to recommend a state aid road to connect up with either one of the routes that may be approved by the Morrill board. The Broadwater men favor a route which passes by the Vic Covalt ranch, leading south one mile from the Murphy ranch, on around the so-called wet meadows, through the Covalt pasture and striking the old road one mile west of the Covau ranch. ' - The Broadwater men were all mem bers of the chambers of commerce of that city, and formed a lively crowd. They explained that the route they fa vored would cost $10,000 less to build (han the other suggested route. Their plan is to get ranchers along the route interested. They will ask for volun teer workers to put the road in shape and get a large part of it done, and with this showing they feel that their chances to secure the rbad through Broadwater will be considerably bet ter. ' . The Broadwater chamber of com merce met Tuesday evening, and the trip to Alliance was planned. The men who came were: Ray Harriet Charles Merritt, County Commissioner D. VV. Draper, Dr. Anderson, Robert Williams. Joe Covalt, Haver Bruner, John Adams, W. D. Fisher, Sam Mur phy, A. M. Hensley, James P. Murphy and V. H. Hirst. It is understood that James P. Mur phy, having faith in the favored route, offered to purchase the treats for the crowd if any automobile got stuck on tne trip to Alliance, nay names made a wide turn and had to be res cued, and the Broadwater gang charged him with doing it iniention ally. . St. Joseph's Hospital Staff Physicians Met Thursday Evening A combined meeting of the St Joseph hospital staff and Box Butte county medical society was held last night at St. Joseph' hospital, follow ing a supper given to the doctors by the sisters of the hospital. Excepting Dr. W. L. Bowman, who had been called to HAningford in the afternoon, all the physicians and surgeons of Alliance and Dr. Cowles of Lakeside were nresenL Mrs. Lee Farmer favored the doc tors with several good vocal and piano selections. Dr. A. Clarence Schoch. former in structor at the Chicago poly-clinic and late attending surgeon at the Henrotin Memorial hospital of Chicago, read a well-prepared and interesting medical naner. which was heartily applauded by the other doctors and interestingly debated. Dr. George Hand, himself an accomplished athlete, spoke on the im Dortance of physical culture as a fac tor in preventing diseases, dwelling especially on its necessity for girU and women. The climax to the business of the meeting was reached when the hospital announced , its purchase or an A-ray machine. All the doctors were en thused to learn that St. Joseph hos nital is cettinz the largest and most modern X-ray equipment made. The machine' is to be installed in about thre weeks. Many. other things concerning the u-oifara of the medical profession as well as of the hospital were discussed in efforts to make Alliance the great medical and hosDital center of west ern Nebraska.- Good fellowship and jovial spirit characterized the meet ing. Mrs. J. A. Luttrell left Friday eve ning for a month's visit with friends and relatives in umana ana Meirose, Iowa. . . ... . BENEFIT DANCE FOR GAMPFIRE GIRLS TONIGHT ELKS C LUB TO ENTERTAIN PUB LIC IN THEIR BEHALF Extensive Program Arranged for the Entertainment of Hundreds Who Purchased Tickets It's going to be one large evening at the Elks club. The docks have been cleared for action, and the en tire building will be turned over to the committee in charge of the Camp fire Girls' benefit dance, which is ex pected to practically raise the amount needed to take the girls to Jot Springs for a camping trip this summer. The chief amusement w ill be danc ing, of course. But the girls and the committee will dispose of around five hundred tickets, and while some of the purchasers won't show up, there'll be more people than can conveniently danco in the building .at one time. Everyone will have an opportunity to dance often and late, for the lid is off for this party. But, between dances, there will be something stirring. A more or less formal program has been planned. Mayor R. M. Hampton has consented to make a brief opening address, and later in the evening Al Gafin will make the speech of his life. He's been reading up and practicing and carrying a textbook on oratory in his inside coat pocket for weeks in prepa ration for this event, and he modestly admits that it will be good. There will be some toe dancing by the ' small daughter of Tony Nel.-on, and possibly a song or two and some musicul selec tions when the dancers stop to rest their feet. There will also be some singing led by a band of practiced Campfire girls, and the crowd will be expected to join in. Last, but not least, it is ru mored that some of the old-time Elks, who remember events in the dark ages, will have charge of the card room, and they will bo ready and will ing to assist any of the ladies in learn ing the mysteries of that great Ameri can game, draw poker. The men are tirerumed to know all about this game, but most men refuse to teach their wive anything about it, on the theory thatwomen can spend enough money anyway. The ticket sales have been proceed ing splendidly, according to the com mittee. A band of Campfire girls, in costume, went throuirh the railroad ards piloted by A. V. Gavin Thurs day morning, and handed out tickets as fast as they could rake in the money. Another band left Id he af ternoon for some of the neighboring towns, and this morning and after noon they were busy "mopping up the business section. Everything is all set for the nartv. and those who fail to show up will miss one of the live liest Elk entertainments in years Alliance Rotary Club ' Plans Farewell Dinner for President Griggs The Alliance Rotary club Is planning a farewell dinner for President George L. Griggs, announcement or whose promotion to the superintendency of the Beardstowrr, III., division of the Burlington was recently announced. Mr. Griggs plans to assume hi new duties about June 15, and the club, of which he is president, will entertain in hi3 honor on the evening of June 8. An Invitation has been sent to the Broken Bow Rotary club, which Mr. firiggs was instrumental in organiz- nar. to be present on me occasion, ni a larre delegation from that city 'I pxnected to be present. It is probable that a dance will follow the dinner, and that the Rotarian ladies win oe present for the occasion. Manhattan Youth Who Ran Away With Circus Arrested at Alliance Sheriff J. W. Miller, on receipt of a telegram from Sheriff Drowl at Man hattan, Kas hustled Gown to me sta tion and on the arrival of the Palmer n.n, ;-jiii cnnsMnl nlarpd under ar- rect Ear r Brown, twenty-four years of age, a feeble-minded youth who ran away with the big top when it struck th Kansas town. The youth is being held pending word from relatives, who, according to the telegram received by the sheriff, will send railway fare for his return. Willard and Wilma, the four-year old twins of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Pat trun relohrated their birthday on Thnrtulav. June 2. with a dinner party, Beside the immediate family, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Patterson. Miss Mary Pat terson. Mr. John Bayne, the Herald traveler, and some of the close, neigh bora were Dresent The large birth day cake with its eight lighted candles formed the centerpiece oi me wen loaded table. Mrs. W. L. Broad wai called to Lincoln on account of the serious ill ness of a relative. Twelfth District C. E. Convention Here This Week The tenth nnniml convention of the Twelfth district of Nebraska Chi istinn Endeavor meets in Alliance Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this week. A program of things of interest to young peoples societies has been planned and ull the young people of the community ate urged to attend. Some forty dele gates from over the western purt of the state are expected. All the serv ices will be held nt the Christian church. Among the speakers nre Rev. C. C. Dolbs of Aurora, state president; M. Dwight lligbee, state field secretary: Rev. Mr. Tully, of ScottsbluflT will lead the singing, and Rev. A. Wimberly of Bayard aid Rev. Welker of Morrill w ill lead different conferences. The convention' begins Friday eve ning at 8 o'clock at the Christian church. The last session of the con vention Is Sunday'evening at 8 o'clock at which time the Prerbyterian church, will unite in the service. Theme: "Dedication for Life Service." The puplic has been cordially invited to the the services. LABOR BOARD ANNOUNCES CUT IN RAIL WAGES ESTIMATED YEARLY SAVING IS f 100,000,000 Reductions Average 12 Per Cent and Vary From 5 to 13 Cents an Hour An estimated $400,000,000 will JeVM". !v " " IZlt'Z slashed from the nations railway wage bill when an order cutt r ftn average of 12 per cent waa handed down Wednesday by the United States railroad lniTZTt July 1. Ihe order affects members of mil ly-une U lk- n.noni.nt. nna Jim. labor organizations, em- pioyeu on iv raurouu. Whi a th i ni'rease is snecincauv an. ... . .. u .,' hed only to the roads whose cases have been hard by the board, the tie clsion says it may later be applied to any other road asking a rearing unuer provisions of the transportation act. Percentages of reductions computad by members of the board gave the av erage of 12 per cent and the same source estimated the annual reduction in wages at approximately $400,000, 000. The decision brought reductions varying from o to 13 cents an nour or ( from 5 to 18 per cent, and as in the case of section laborers wiped out the increase granted them by the $600,- ( 000,000 wage awifird of July 20, 19i20. For section men the reduction was ap-1 proximately 18 per cent or from $3.70 to $3.02 per day. i Switchmen and shopcrafts were given a 9 per cent reduction while train service men were cut approxi-. mately 7 per cent Car repairers were cut about 10 per cent. Common Labor Cut 8 Cents. Common labor pay, over which the railroads made their hardest fight, is to be reduced 6 to 8 la cents an hour, cutting freight truckers' average monthly wages to $y.10 ana tracK ia- borers to $77.11. This new schedule still gives section men an averago daily wage of $3.38 for an eight hour day, although considerable testimony offered by the roads snowed common labor wages as low as $1.50 for ten hours. Shoncrafts employes and train and'au,... Retire Porter, a Pullman em engine service men, except those in passenger service, are reduced 8 cents an hour, uoniruciion anu section foremen are reduced 10 cents an hour. Passenger and freight engineers, who were given increases of 10 cents and 13 cents an hour by the li20 award, are to be cut 6 and 8 cents an hour respectively. Passenger ; and freight conductors, who received in creases of 12M and 13 cents in 1920, are cut 7'a and 8 cents respectively. Train dispatchers and yardmasters, whose monthly earnings average $260 to $270, are cut 8 cents an hour. I he smallest reauciion win t" office boys and other employeaunder eighteen year ot age, wno win re ceive 5 cents an hour less. Clerks art reclassified so that en tering clerks, usually young men and women of eighteen to twenty years wi cm will rrivii a monthly salary of $67.00 for the first six months and t77.50 for the second six monms. Clerks with less than one year's ex perience now receive $120. (Continued from Page 3) Rev. B. L. Kline, while butchering Wednesday fell on a knife in suth a manner that it cut the ligaments in his wrist and severed an artery. He was brought to Alliance as soon as possible for medical treatment and is getting along as well as could be ex pected. Rev. Kline is farming about ten miles north of town, T. J. O'Keefe will leave Tuesday tn i nnsr Beach. Cal.. to loin his family. . Miss Theresa Morrow returned this morning from Lincoln. JUNE TERM OF DISTRICT COURT TO OPEN JUNE 6 NINETY-SIX CASES ARE LISTED OX THE DOCKET Four Criminal Canes and Fifteen Ac lions for Divorce to be Heard By Judge W. II. Westorer ',' The June term of district court in and for Box Butte count v wjll con vene on Monday, June G, Judge W. H. Westover presiding. A petit Jury ot twenty-four men has been drawn and will report for duty on the second day of the term. The names of these men, according to the order of the district Judge, will not be made public until they report lor duty. The docket for the coming term lists ninety-six cases, of which four tr criminal. These are: State of Ncbras ka,vs. Hermit Wolfe, State of Nebras ka vs. John Walker, State of Nebraska; vs. Burton Brown and State of Ne braska vs. Edward Balfe. All four I . these cases are on appeal from county court, where conviction was secured, and all four of them are booze cases, the defendants In each case having been charged with the giving away or Illegal possession of hooch in various forms. The Kermit Wolfe case is expected to be among the most interesting oC these linuor .cases, although the next , two. with which two Hemine-ford men are connected, will probably draw a largo gpiiery or spectators from tha city, l lie last case on the criminal docket, the state vs. Balfe, resulted because a friend left a bottle of hooch, in BalfeV room, according to his testi mony, lie was found guilty of illegal possession by Judge Tash. r it.. :: : l .. i - thJ potit!onB for (livorce contain pentional allegations, although th f KmmaV. ph ilips vs7 Luk in ,u .v,;rT- fendant will contest the caso. is likely tn hr.in nilt arinyA iritarnJn ttkCtr imony. Elizabeth Kitt'enann is suing ........ ... ow... vo.- from an absolute seraration from Osi . , , ...... ... j .. wain jvmiemann, now in ino swim penitentiary. , - . , Colored Crapshooters Contribute Money to " Support of Schoola Three colored crapshooters Wednes day mornini; contributed $15 apiece to the support of the schools, l he dona- tion was made in police court after their amount of the fine had been sett, by Judge Roberts, and it was paid un willingly. The trio were arrested by Qhief Jeffers Tuesday afternoon, on the rear of the lot on Second street which, hou?es a dwelling and a blacksmith phop. The galloping domino experts were secure from the public gaze be- cause thay were surrounded entirely by a high board fence that stretched up into the air at least seven feet. At one time there was a gate to this en. closure, but Chief Jeffers noticed, a few javs ago, that it had been nailed UhuL About 3 o'clock in the afternoon, jie hoisted himself to the top of tha fence,. and found a-crap game going at fun t;t There were rive players, an,i the moment the chief was per- cejVed, there was a scramble of arm and legs, and the colored brethren made an effort to shin over the top of the fence. Three of thera made tha grade, and two of these thiee got pi0ye, got to the top of the fence and shinned on the other side, concealing himself among rome old farm machin ery near the blacksmith shop, from which hiding place he was dragged forth to the cooler. Joe Cayler and i the dwelling house on the lot, were tha two wn0 were captured. Chief Jeffers could have shot the fleeing gamblers, but decided to pick them Up later instead. Arraigned in court, the trio denied gambling, although five ivory bonea were taken from Porter'a pockets. Peta Schroeder, government road man, w was present at the raid, testified as t u..hat- ho saw and Judge Roberta deemed the evidence conclusive against all of them. Gooden told Judge Roberts mat in reasoa that he nailed up the gate wa because Chief Jeffers and Officer atiu well were alwaya prowling around, and he proposed to stop it. Chief Jeffera informed him that the chances of atop ping were poorer now than tney eva were berore. j Alliance folks will be interested td learn that the lady who too tne pari of Dardenella, Rose oi tne orient, the Palmer Bros, circus, which showed; here Wednesday, was Miss Katharin Murray, a former student at St. Agnej academy. A number of her old school matea called on her. Miss Murray' home is now at San Antonio, Texas, where she lives with her mother, whora she supports. , Mrs. Feagins of Belmont addition! was taken to the St. Joseph hospital last night, suffering from a relaps of the measlea. . 4