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Official Paper of Doi Butt County
TWICE A WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
Official Taper of the City of Alllanc -
volume xxvm.
(Ten Pages)
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY AUGUST 2, 1921.
No. 71
FISHER OF MEN
HAD NO LICENSE
TO CATCH FISH
GAME WARDEN ARRESTS SKY
PILOT AT KILPATRICK'S
Judge Tash Satisfies a Lifetime Ambi
tion When Preacher is Brought '
Into His Court
John 21:3:
unto them, I
Simon Peter saith
go a fishing. They
say unto
thee:
him, We also go with
County Judge Tash was enabled to
-jrratify the ambition of a lifetime last
Saturday evening. He was privileged'
to preach to a preacher. For years
-and years, the judge says, he has been
ompelled in sit in front of pulpits and
listen to ministers read his pedigree
and catalogue his sins, without having
a. single opportunity to answer back,
'After vears of waiting. Judre Tash ;
finally had a minister up before him to
"receive a sentence, and he was unable
to let the opportunity slip by without
adding a moral lecture. It was a long
Avait, the judge admits, but it was
"worth it, just to be able to smile sadly
at the reverend gentleman, and say,
with infinite compassion in his voice:
"Go, and sin no more!"
It all happened this way. Saturday
afternoon the Rev. Stephen J. Epler of
this city, his wife, Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Dillon and son went to the Elmore
dam on a fishing trip. It was really
fco much of a fishing trip for the min
ister as it was the opportunity to re
cline in a shady spot and go over the
notes for the Sunday sermon. The
others were fishing in earnest. They
had a large cream can for a creel and
a complete assortment of fishing rods
and hooks and bait.
The sun dipped low and lower to
ward the horizon, and the fishing con
tinued. The Rev. Mr. Epler had not
made a single cast. The head of the
house finally startled him from his rev
erie by shoving a fishing pole intfi his
hands. "You havenT fished any this
- - - -
afternoon, Steve, she said, or words
to that effect, and Mr. Epler stuffed
his notes into his pocket and grasped a
rod. He went at the business of fish
ing seriously and whole-heartedly, as
Ike does with everything. So -engrossed
was he in the operation that for
twenty minutes he did not stir. The
others were equally busy. They did not
hear an automobile stop at the rear of
i.lwJV?u"" "V"!"1."" V:i . ' -'".rrJlChadron. some of them on the road to
them;
mem: uiey uiu nut near ine eiainiy i
footsteps that came up behind them. 1
. .. r .. . . .. . . . .
But they did hear the stentorian voice
of Otto Winner, deputy state game
warden, who asked: I
"May I see your fishing license,
please?" .
Obliging as these people were, they '
lidn't comply
They had no fishing li-.
cense to exhibit There wasn't one in
the crowd. Consternation seized them
first, and then the officers seized them.
The party broke up right there. When
the game warden found who he had
captured, he was most pleasant about
it, and had the man of the cloth given
him any encouragement, might have
fnro-ottpn nil nhnut it. hut th nrcnrhpr
"was willing, almost anxious, to pay
the penalty for any violation of the
law. The cream can, nearly half filled
with fish the party had taken, was
loaded into the automobile, and as the
setting sun threw long shadows into
the road, the procession wended its
way back to the city. '
Judge Tash had long since adjourn
ed court and was installed in the
Ieace and quiet of his home. The tele
phone rang, and the judge let it ring.
It rang again, more insistently, and he
unwound himself from his easy chair
and arose. The game warden wanted
him to come back and open a short
session of court to deal with the of
fenders. The judge is good natured,
hut it had been a trying week (no pun
intended) and he demurred, the game
warden insisted, but did not
the identity of his catch. Judsre Tash
finally agreed to come down after sup
per, which probably didn't consist of
firied fish.
It was 7:30 before the jul;je bor
rowed a cigar olF Lou Corbin and
started for court. He visited a'onf
the way, and it was somewhat later,
tefore he got within sight of the cul-
prits and the captors. The judge did
not even hasten his step. He failed
to recognize the preaclier and his wife
in their nshing ciotnes. ine great
recognition scene, which occurred in
the court room, was said to have been
worth coming miles to see.
Despite the fact that Judge Tash
had been waiting year3 to get a
preacher before him, he was remark-
ably lenient He cast about in his
mind for some way in which he could
1 ;.rktnn 4ha KIaw Vita OPi'inti(iurii"il
lighten the blow for his ecclesiastical
iriAnn a 1 1 iinr urn k m in unnn mm.
4,The Kil patrick dam is on private
property," he said, "and if these peo
ple had permission " But a light in
Ihe eyes of the Rev. Mr. Epler showed
that this sort of thing wouldn't go.
The judge consulted the statutes in
Fuch cases made and provided.. The
line for fishing without a license may
hesitated, -but'the preacher" Was firm.
io pretty high the minimum is $15.
The fih.mabe passed lit $r apiece,
f The can was.huW full. It looked like
liankmntcv. nothlnz. less. The judge
"""Tie insiated.obeiftK-fined, thd same
as other men." ' Didn't even desire the
half-fare concession. Drawing a long
THE WEATHER
Forecast Vor Alliance and vicinity:
Fair tonight and probably Wednesday.
Rising temperature Wednesday and
northwest portion, tonight.
breath, Judge Tash did the fining.
. Later he got even with the preacher
I by remitting it, but the costs in the
state man sends in a bill. All five of
the fishermen and fisherwomen drew
fines, and all five were remitted.
But the judge, who often tells cul
prits things that are for the good of
their soul 3, couldn't resist the tempta
tion to preach to a preacher. It was
thorough, just as the judge's talks al
ways are, but there is some question
as to whether it was enjoyed as much
by those in the prisoners' box as those
on the side line.. At any rate, when
he concluded with the injunction to
"Go and sin no more" they hesitated
not, but went home to a belated sup-
per, which was probably a cold one,
Deputy Warden Winner and a cou-
pie of companions were on their way
to Alliance, after a successful ten days
at Scottsbluff, where they made fully
a hundred arrests of people who had
neglected to take out fishing licenses.
They were in a hurry to get to Alli-
ance, but decided, on tne spur or we
moment, to stop at the dam and have
a look. They call it a successful trip.
The preacher is not saying anything
for publication.
SEESNEEDFOF
ORGANIZATION
IN GIVING HELP
SOME SYSTEM NEEDED IN CITY'S
RELIEF WORK
Rev. B. J. Minort Thinks There Should
Be Someone to Investigate
Before Giving Aid
Rev. B. J. Minort, pastor of the First
Baptist church of this city, who has
occupied himself and several interested
m . . , .. )
members of his congregation in relief
wurs uuiioB u mum ni..u.3, .uk , rain that wag pwatting the others got uiuir wouia nenenc nis neaun. ine
gested Monday that .Alliance should ;hig t aIo with lheir nnd he wall seer left, and this, so Mr. Basye sup
have some sort of an organization to , c0 Ued to sp,na the niRht at Way-1 posed, closed the incident
take cure of JfamiliesJn the city which
are in need of assistance. There has
been a considerable, amount of indis
criminate giving on the part of various
citizens, he says, but aside from the
fact that there is duplication in some
i-ascji nnu ivn ui onnoMiin.c m "mci ,
there is a definite need for some re-
!n. ; i
sponsible person to investigate before
aid is tendered.
Mr. Minort finds; in his investiga-
tions, that there is a surprisingly large
I UUlilLrl VL HCCTII A a 1 1 1 1 1 ICS til UIC Vll i
number of needy families in the city,
His conclusion is that the unemploy-
ment problem is responsible for this, to
a large extent. Assistance of some
sort will be needed for many during
the fall and winter months especially,
and he thinks it time that sonVsteps
steps
be taken to perfect an
Mr. Minoit says:
organization.
"The writer has now been a resident
of Alliance six months, and he finds
! thnt thr has hfn n siirnrifilntr lot nt
needy families for the size of the town.
Ferhaps this is so because of the fact
that so many men were laid off last
fall and have thus far been unable to
secure work.
"As a missionary in Kansas City, I ,
have had occasion to minister to the
needy the alms and gifts of several
churches, and I find that Alliance '
needs some channel through which its
donations to the needy can be passed
on to the most deserving. Some have '
gone hungry in our town not because
we have as a city been unsympathetic,
but because we have lacked system in
our giving. j
"In at least two instances gifts have
been made in families where the nat- j
ure of the gifts were such as to make
. them useless to the needy family. Can
we not have some person or institu
tion who.?e dut' it wi! be to inves-ti-prate
the need of each case and make
the gift accordingly?
"Last spring a man told the writer
that he had piven a certain man ten
dollars for groceries and coal. Now to
my knowledge tnat man spent at Iea:.t
j1af Gf that money to attend a wrest-
iing match and play pool. Had that
ten dollars been turned over to some
man who understood the needs of the
family, it would have been given to
that family in the shape of groceries camp grounds overlooking the city und
and coal, and not in currency. Our ex- ' wji spend two weeks here and break
perierce has been that it is not wise to camt) Sunday, August 14, when Alli
give money, but to give that which anceautos will come to Hot Springs
money can secure. j ami take their diamonds back home.
"Now, why can we not have some "These girls and their chaperonea
nprson or net-sons who will take it iv.,..,,,v,t irf c;nj h.. v, a
, upon themselves to look into the need
0f the poor or such as have been up,
' i . 1 js I I , a .
; against the financial buzz saw, and to
against ine nnanciai uuu saw, nu io
whom all benevolent funds of lodges or
churches or other organizations te eacn member is given the same days
given, and expect this person or per- eff and the hours of duty. They are
eons report at periods where the a fine looking set of girls and Alliance
money Roes, or where the gifts cf should be very much delighted that
whatever nature ha3 been placed? they can send out such an attractive
"I believe that our gifts would do. looking armv to enjoy a couple of
much more pood if we u.-ed mora sys- weeks in the best little city on earth."
tern about dispensing them. If the
writer could be of any use to the com- Mrs. Homer X. White left for her
nuiruty either alone ,or ia conjunct- home- in Broken Bow aatuiy -night,
v.jth ohenr to. dispense the alms, .of atr fiispostni? of Umet of her h6use
repreentative bodies of Alliance Jv ij.huld goods and hi jiing the re.sV.idr,
at their service. Aad while we are at white is connected with a paving con
it; houWhe reader have any food tr tractor there fit flre3entr.r; Mrs-Wil-clothing
to give now, please call me up Hams, mother of Mrs. White, left Sat
and I will place them for you." ' uxday morning.
Idaim iMTrnrrnro.
imin im enroled'
WITH CAMPFIRE
TRIPTOSPRINGS
SOME CARS MAROONED OVER
NIGHT IN CHADRON. I
Caravan of Automobiles Hit by Down
pour and Schedule Is Some
what Disarranged.
Seventy-six Campfire Girls and their
guardians are in Hot Springs and have
already entered upon the first stretch
of their two weeks camping trip in
that city. Sixteen of these made the
trip by railway, and they missed the
time of their lives, according to the
sixty girls who made the trip in auto
mobiles contributed by a number of
Alliance business men. The schedule
was all drawn up, and arrangements
apparently completed whereby the
business men who desired could
back in Alliance Sunday evening,
the weather man was left out of
be
but
the
calculation.
The start was made all the way be
tween 3:30 and 4:15 a. m. Sunday, the
last carload of girls being loaded in
Just as the clock struck the quarter
hour. - The committee who hrd been
assigning them to the cars for the trip
had hardly got home and in bed again
to catch up with their lost sleep when
the heavens opened up and a lot of
water came pouring down. The rain
at Alliance was not so very heavy, but
to the north and northwest, judging
from the travelers who have returned,
it must have been next.door to a cloud
burst. But one automobile, that driven by
M. S. Hargraves, reached Hot Springs
Sunday morning. Monte was one of
the first to get out of town, and he
didn't let the grass accumulate under
his tires at all. Monte had an en
gagement in Alliance Monday moi n-!
ing, and ne nat a new car to try ouu
He was in Hot Springs by 9:30 Sunday
morning, having completed the 120
miles in about five hours and a half.
1 A M I
1 1 c xeit pretty Kt'ui u n i c uian i
too the homeward trail. Then the
He felt pretty good over it until he
side, which is the sort of a town its I Thejnunty attorney, however, reck
name would Indicate: He arrived in oned Without the Hindu. He simply
Alliance late Monday afternoon. couldn't pass up an opportunity of this
' The rain struck the rest of the cars kind. Saturday he returned to Alli
rii thv mm in th virinitv of ance, accompanied by various trunks
. i . i j .i ,l. t,;u... .,
that place and others on the high way
' httuL'fon Chadron and Hot borincrs.
Harrv Highland, who drove in a mud-
covered car about 4:30 Monday, says the fact that there is a certain young
that his car had just left Chadron . lady in Alliance who thinks consider
v tu .lnurnnmir inrrenswl to such ably of the Hindu. This young lady
I , , . . . . i . 1 I
M nAVi3ntr V.v
. l? y" fc fY I" i ' ;rinr
I ''" . , ' . I jh. T
! he" th.e KT' Vmplet AVr.
I Hot Springs by tram, as did the Camp-
6r &rl ,n 5.ars dnlen by J,m Hunter
and two or three others
The trio was eventful, to say the
least, and the Campfire Girls had some
1 experiences that should be valuable to
them on auto Camping tours, at least
ine twenty cars tnai carneu mem i
the spnng3 were sireicneu biohr me
road between Chadron and Hot
Snrings. and very now and then a load
of them made the camping grounds.
Only a few of the travelers have re
turned, and details of the establish
ment of the camp are not at hand, but
it mu.st have been thrilling.
Every automobile driver who has re
turned is filled with the pep and en
thusiasm that the girls gave him. They
had the time of their lives. While the
drivers were probably swearing under
their breaths, the girls took it all a3 a
huge joke and their light hearts and
good spirits were contagious. Not a
man who has returned from the trip
. j i.u: i n .i .
" i u,: ,n fl.l l rs;j the
girls back home,
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The Hot Springs Times-Herald has
the following to, say concerning the
Alliance girls:
"fc'i.nday morning at f jut o'ciook 16
autos left Alliance with more than a
hundred Campfire Girls and their
chaperones. They begin to arrive in
Hot Springs about 10 o'clock and
were all safely housed in the spacious
Auditorium for the night, a3 the entire
day was a downpour of rain. '1 he
campers moved on Monday to the
local car owners of Alliance,
"There is one mess table handled by
. ' . .
nea(i quartermaster and every three
day-3 the cooks are changed so that
SEER IS
WINNER IN THE
SECOND ROUND
BUT
THE GAME ISN'T NEARLY
PLAYED OUT
Gets a $.10 Remittance to
Alliance and Still Has
Eye on the Coin
Come
His
to
uocior it, bennein, Hindu sage,
soothsayer, philosopher and master of
occult ecrcts, appears to be slightly
ahead the second round of his struggle
with County Attorney Basye. The
doctor, who claims to be a graduate
of half a dozen Hindu universities, is
sojourning in the United States for a
few years, during which time he is
educating the populace to various oc
cult doctrines. He lectures occasion
ally or even more often than that, he
' gazes into the crystal sphere now Mid
L. .1 1 . ; i i
uicii, ami wnen tunes are naru ana
money scarce, ia not unwilling to do a
little palmistry on the side. He was
in Alliance recently with the McMa
hon carnival. .
It was during hii Alliance engage
ment that he recognized in Mrs. Jen
nie Watkins, widow, a meal ticket. She
attended the carnival and stopped in
his tent He, gave her an earful, read
ing her a pleasant future one of
which to be proud. She told him that
she had a little money, and he took
her name and address. The carnival
moved on to Scottsbluff, and the Hin
du seer went with it. A telegram
came shortly thereafter, requesting the
loan of $600 with which to purchase
an automobile. She agreed to let him
have it and the varnished cars brought
him to Alliance immediately. She had
gone so far as to write a check for
$000, and was going to the bank to
: pass it, when she decided to consult
County Attorney Basye, her legal ad-
x'isor, who told her that it would be
better business to get security for any
loan she might make. The Hindu
couldn't give any security or answer
nuestinns satisfactorilv. anil Mr. Hasve
' - ,
' intimated to him that a trip to Scotts-
and bags, with the intention of taking
im I
, P
i ir,
up his residence here in the home of
Watkins. it seems that the situ-
anon is sun iunner compucaieu Dy
nas, irom time to ume, uorroweu
money or Mrs. watmns, and it was
she who persuaded the widow to ad-
vance Sot) to Dring .the seer oack to
this city. Mrs. Watkins is apparently
delighted with having the master of
all these occult secrets at her beck
and call, as it were.-and tells her ist
torney that, so far as. she is concerned,
she "doesn't care if the girl does marry
him, even if he ia dark-complected."
That, however, was yesterday. The
Hindu today ia away from the city on
an automobile tour maybe he has re
HINDU
joined the carnival to get a little .-wuue it was appiauueu oy many oan
more ready cash but so far as can be at the time it was put on as a
learned, his trunk is in Aliiance and he ; necessary means of stopping specula
intenda to return. Mrs. Watkins isifion, many of them believe it was
said to have lost a little of her en- kept on too long, onf after specula-
thu-iasm concerning him, and maybe
the seer will be given the gate when
he returns. Her last comment waB
that she didn't fully trust him.
The light of battle is in the county
attorney's eye, and he does not propose
to have the remainder of Mrs. Wat
kins' money lost. Somehow or other,
he doesn't like the looks of the Hindu,
and he has intimated as much to that
' oriental Kenueman. in aunnrai.uM
bn made for the. appointment
i m
of a guardian for Mrs. Watkins, :ind
the county attorney will take up the
matter of the Hindu with the immi
gmt on authorities. There will be
more than two rounds to this engage
ment. Mrs. Watkins had nearly two thou
sand dollars In cash a year ago, but
jut what shape her finances are in
at the present time is not known. Ac
cording to Mr. Basye, she had been
imposed upon before her acquaintance
with the Hindu. Her home is on Mis
souri avenue.
Loaded Auto Truck
Collides With Ford
Driven by a Woman
A Reo Speedwagon, loaded with
3,500 pounds of wheat, collided with a
Ford automobile driven by Mrs. Tom
Lawrence, on' Laramie avemre early
Saturday morning. Mrs. Lawrence
was driving south on Laramie and Guy
Dentler, at the hehtr of the Ken, was
going west on Second street. The
force, of the impact threw the Lord a
distance of thirty or forty feet, smash
ing the front fender, bending' the
flterj rod nd demolishing $ tefts
front vheef , 'There was but one'necu-t
paut 4 -each car, and no one was in -
jare.-" KMJktrers were roio;? cat
fullvand both of them, it li under
stood, were on the proper bide of the:
THROWING AWAY PROFITS.
If a customer came into your
store for a suit and furnishings
would you say, "No, thanks, we are
not selling goods today" or would
you do your level best to make the
Of course you would do all you
could to sell the goods. "Any man,"
you would say, "that opens a store
and refuses to sell goods is a legiti
mate relative of the fellow who
thinks he is Napoleon."
But, hold on just a moment.
Are you one of the retailers who
reduced his advertising appropria
tions when the "depression" came
along? If you are if you do busi
ness now on a smaller publicity
scale if you count advertising an
expense instead of a profit maker
look again at the title of this edi
torial and think again about the
merchant who would refuse to make
a sale.
The retailer who cancels his ad
vertising cancels his profits. He
does not cut down to the bone, but
into it He reduces expenses until
he also reduces his business.
Advertising must be continued
it must be developed in times like
these. The National Retail Cloth
ier, July 21, 1921.
EVIDENCE OF
IMPROVEMENT
IN CONDITIONS
PROGRESSIVE DISCOUNT
IS ABANDONED.
RATE
Action of Federal Reserve Bank Re
garded as Indication of Better
Business Conditions.
The abandonment of the progressive
discount rate by the federal rescive
bank for the district in which Ne
braska is located is looked upon by
Lincoln bankers as the best possible
evidence of the improved condition of
general business and of the banka in
the territory, says the State Journal.
Theythmk.it the most hopsJul sign
that has yet appeared when' the big
financiers take off the brakes that they
summarily placed an credit in April of
last year. Beginning Monday the
bank went back to a flat 6 per cent
rate.
The progressive discount rate was
taken oh" in most of the other dis
tricts some weeks ago, and great pres
sure has been Drought to bear on Gov
ernor Miller for the Tenth reserve
muow buiw train u.wuiv
toffs the more money a bank borrowed.
il. it ud . - urv.
necessity lorceu an iuki. ax rci
4 - . M 1 k k . "Jfl mam
cent has been paid by bankers who
went above the line, the mark placed
on the loaning abilities under the
rules and the law.
The result was to penalize the banks
and pile up a lot of money represent
ing these penalties. It u an axiom
1 of finance that the higher the interest
rate the less money borrowed, and
1 lion naa enueu nnu uenai:un was c-
ing forced.
Fressure upon Governor Harding, in
charge of the whole system, failed to
move him. He was present the other
week at the Kansas state bankers'
association, when this course was
ur;red, but he did nothing but sit and
look at the floor. M. L. McClure,
. who is
handling the big live stock
iwui,
one of the Kansas tity di
rectors who has been steadfastly op-
wosed for weeks to the rate remaining
in eirect.
With a C per cent rate in effect for
rediscounts, banks will be able to ob
tain nees.ory loans at a reasonable
rate. This does not mean that the
do rs will be oiened airain to free
borrowing. The general business sit
uation does not warrant any such
policy, as readjustment has not yet
been complete.
The resumption of the old rate will
be helpful to those stockmen and
farmers who must borrow in big sums
to finance their operations . Western
bankers generally say that this low
ering of the rate to normal will mean
better times, when it is coupled with
the wheat money that is pouring in,
along with cattle sales, good crops, a
general revival in business, .and a ten
dency on the part of the railways to
get down to lower fright rates en
farm products and like stock, will re
sult in much better times out this
way, bankers predicted.
The workings of the progressive re
discount rate tied up thojsands of dol
lars in penalties exacted from bankers
who went above their line, and only
sDiritcd action on the part of mrny
bunkers caused the release of the.-o
penalties in the last few weeks. Ihe
credit Tv tuRtlon
tensed tond tighte
was i. unuouoieoiy
tensed tond tightened very much by
i the-progressive re-discount rata
I or
tfet jfet.nunAgoLher reasons. It was
arbitrary in the extreme, bankers con-
tended, and worked mischievouuly cc
DISCUSSION OF
BILL PASSED BY
COMMISSIONERS
COUNTY PAID FOR WALL PAPER.
AND HOUSE VARNISH.
Personal Bill of Commissioner Carrell
of' Hemingford Audited
and Allowed.
County Clerk Avis Jodcr several
days ago, before her departure for Hot
Springs with the Campfire Girls, earn,
upon a claim, audited and allowed hyt
the Box Butte county commissioners at
their last session, which covered some,
goods purchased by County Coramis
sioned Carrell of Hemingford. Th
claim, which amounted to $67.30, cov
ered a quantity of wall paper, paint,
and Mure sco, a sort of kalsominins
' material. The matter was brought to
the attention of various-county officers,
and the board of county commissioner
have made an explanation of the way
in wnicn the claim came to be palL
Various rumors are afloat over th
county concerning the claim. Commis
sioner Carrell, who came to Alliance
immediately when the matter was
called to his attention, declares that it
was a very natural sort of an error.
He had -ordered for the county torn
lumber from the Farmers' Co-opera-tine
Association of Hemingford, of
which Alex Muirhead is manager. Ac
cording to hid statement, shortly be
fore the board met at the July session,
he called at the store and asked for
the county's bill. He was given instead
he declares, his pefsonal account. H
looked only at the total for the bill,
and it seemed to him that $67.30 was
a good price for the material he had
secured for the county. He then placed
it in his coat pocket and proceeded to
Alliance. When the board was audit
ing claims and allowing bills, he took
it from his pocket, walked into the
clerk's office adjoining, and got a file
number for it and then took it back to
the session withtiim. He says that he
thought he understood pretty well
what the claim covered, and did not
look it over carefully, but endorsed it
and handed It on. The other members
of the board were satisfied with his O,
v. nd their names along with
The bill was allowed and th
county clerk instructed to draw a war
rant for it ,
Miss Joder's attention was directed
to the claim after she had drawn a,
check in payment for the items listed
thereon and mailed it to Aiex iviuir-
h(;!itli m3nager of the Farmers' Co-op
erative Association at Hemingford. Mr.
Muirhead, it is declared, found that h
had no claim against the county in
that amount, and came down to Alli
ance to see about it.
The claim, which was made out
HKUIK'li v i
regular form.
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'Jan
16, 1 roll paper 5 1.75
Jan. 26, 4 rolls rosin paper 7.0
Jan. 26, 2 rolls paper 3.50
Jan. 26, 1 roll paper 1.75
Jan. 27, 1 piece 2x4, 3 pieces
2k8, 5 rolls rosin paper 10.05
Feb. 8, 2 rolls paper 3.01
Feb. 10, 1 roll paper 1.50
Feb. 11,3 rolls paper 4.50-
April 25, 75 pounds Muresco,
a-gal. enamel, 1 quart S. W. .15.75
ADril 26. 70 pounds Muresco, 1
(mart S. W.
11.50
April 27, 10 pound Muresco, 1
quart S. W
April 2!, 15 pounds Muresco,
'4-gal. enamel
April 30, V-gal. varnish
2.50
6.2S
2.75
. . $71.80
Returned 30 pounds 4.60
$67.30
The commissioners are all positive
in
their statement that the whol
thing is a mixup which is easily ex-'
plained and just as easily straightened
out. There are some who are attempt
ing to cast aspersions in the direction
of the big Hemingford commissioner,
but the other two members of the
boird are inclined to look at the whole
thin,? as a big joke. They admit that
it was careless handling of the bills,
but say that each commission. places
orders for material to be used in his
own district and that ordinarily, when
bills are audited, they accept any mem
ber's word as to the reliability of any
claim and approve without question
when the member is satisfied.
Walker Divorce Suit
May Be Dismissed
The divorce proceedings instituted
by Mrs. Leona Walker against Jay O.
Walker of this city will be dismissed,
according to close friends of the par
ties concerned. Last week Mrs.
Walker's attorneys were in the city
taking depositions to be used in the
trial of the case, filed, at Broken Bow.
It- Is understood that Mr, and Mrs.
Walker through their attorneys have
reached an agreement concerning the
disposition of property,, ami some other -matter
in controversy ' V i 1
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... Haying been, fed up ori JRimsfaa ru
mors, the world refuses to accept any.
firominent dead Russian as dead ua
ess there ia an affidavit.
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