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A TASK vi:ll BONK.
John 0. Bayne of Aurora, Neb., who
for the past three month has been (
making a prsonal canvass of the fai ma
of Box Butte county, writing up the J
farms that he has visited for The Her- (
aid, last Thursday completed covering
the territory, and Sunday morning left
for Aurora, where he will rest for a
eek or two before beginning a sim
ilar trip for the Columbus Telegram.
Mr. Payne was mo.-t successful in
hi work for The Herald. He is him
pclf a practical farmer and wa.' one of
the first to enter the thoioughbred
stock game, Fpecializing in Duroc
Jersey hogs. Some of the animals he
raided were in the grand championship
class, find Fold for thousands of dol
lars. He has served as field man for
some of the leading Nebraska farm
papers, and got so that he drifted into
work of this nature in his spare time.
His writeups of the farms that he
visited and the crops that he Raw won
favorable attention, not only from the
farmers themselves, but from a num
ber of others, who were greatly pleas
ed and surprised at the showing made
by the county. A number of real estate
dealers were especially interested, and
made use of" the reports of his travels
in interesting outside people to come to
Box Butte county.
The Herald, of course, was largely
interested in increasing its family of
readers. New settlers have been com
fr,7 to the county so fast, that it has
been J''cu't to track of them.
Mr. BaynV discovered that only a very
small per ceflt of them, even in the
most sctt!4 0Wicta. were read
ing any Alliance Ptvfajxr, be
found they were, for' lt wost part,
simply awaiting an invitation.'
Mr. Payne's trip has been a cood
thing for the county, as well as for
The Herald. All over the state and
into many neighboring states have
gone these reports of the extensive
farming and stock-raising operations
here. The real estate dealers are
making good use of the facta presented
and this should be of benefit to every
man who owns land. More farms will
be operated in Box Butte county as the
word is noised abroad.
As for the effect of the trip on The
Herald, Mr. Bayne has greatly increas
ed our readers among the farmers, and
now that his work is finished, we have
the satisfaction of knowing that this
newspaper is in over 90 per cent of
the farm homes in the county. There
were a few scattered portions of the
county where he did not go, due to bad
roads, the scarcity of homes and the
lack of time. But wherever he did go,
be made friends for us, and it shall be
our task to keep them with us. Our
constant aim is to improve this news
paper and to make it as indispensable
to the farm homes as it is in the city
of Alliance. We have already secured
a number of new correspondents, and
it is our desire to increase the number
of writers on our staff, so that our aim
of giving all tie hews that's fit to
.rint shall be realized.
Buyers of advertising will find it to
their advantage to see what The Her
ald has to offer in the way of circula
tion. We don't claim to have all there
is, or that our readers sob themselves
to bleep if an occasional copy is
missed, but we have a circulation that
Cannot be overlooked if you desire to
reach the prospective purchasers in
this trade territory.
wive man will proceed to make peace.
sturdy men and women who faced the
cold winters in Box Butte county twenty-five
or thirty yoais ago counted
themselves lucky if they had enough
to last thiough the winter. Those
were the days of real hardship and
poverty that was sometimes grinding.
It's a terrible mifoitune to be forced
to give up a luxury or two, dm n
some of those who aie talking and
grieving over hard times were really
fared with want, they would know the
talk they aie passing out now is plain
piffle.
From Blair this week comes an in
stance in point. The state historical
society has received a cancelled note,
and in the indorsements in payment
thereof is written a true story of ac
tual hard times which should bring re
lief to those who imagine they are
sorely distressed by present condition".
This note was given to the Castetter
banking houe in Blair in 1S"8 by
Jeremiah Young. It covered a loan of
and called for interest at the rate
of 4 per cent.
A number of indorsements on the
back show the manner in which the
note was paid off. The issue date was
July 2:5, and on October 2,
Young paid to Castetter two chickens
.,..1,, 0.1 u r,n rpnt. On December 21)
two more chickens were credited with ;
r.0 cents. On February 3, IK."'.) one peck
of white beans were paid and credited
with .')7 cents, and on April in, four
dozen eggs were credited for oO cents.
The last payment noted is six small
chickens, credited with $1.2.", for the
whole lot, and a notation on the bot
tom showed that an extension of a part
of the loan was necessary until IMiO.
NO BUNK ABOUT IT.
Alliance people will do well to heed
the warnings in the advertisements of
the coal dealers, and begin buying
their Christmas coal now. Here's the
situation there's no place to store the
coal that will be used this winter, un
less the consumers do it. The local
dealers haven't a combined storage
capacity larger than for a month's
supply. The coal mines do no storing,
but ship out the coal as fast as cars
are provided for it. Aye, here's the
rub.
There are plenty of cars during the
summer months to furnish coal to the
consumers. When the winter demand
rets Jn, the railroads are confronted
with flower trains, with harder ship
ping" cendWns and with a greater de
mand for cars to m'OVfi grain and live
stock. Even if cars were available,
the mines could not supply the de
mand. The coal operators can hardly
be blamed for refusing to pay high
wages to mine coal that must go into
storage. They are digging it out of
the mines only as fast as they are fur
nished cars to ship it.
The ultimate consumer, remember
ing the coal shortage of last year, will
do well to read the handwriting on the
wall, and the ads of the dealers in the
newspapers. This isn't the ordinary
hue and cry to move coal during the
summer months there is serious dan
ger of a shortage. Secretary Hoover
has been shouting about it for some
weeks, and it's time for the average
man to stop to think about it. Pay
ing for coal before it is needed will be
an awful jolt on top of all the other
jolts of the last few months, but the
with his coal dealer.
THEN AND NOW.
(Gering Midwest.)
Something 1-ke four years Rgo we
lined up behind the bands an. the
waving flaps and marched to the de
pots to bid our soldier boys good-bye
and God-speed. Then they were going
away to join the colors and offer their
lives in defence of our property and
our lives. We patted them on their
backs and promised them pretty much
of everything when they got back.
Nothing was good good for them in
the way of promises and pledges.
But not all of them came back.
Nearly a hundred thousand of them
went to sleep on the bloody soil of
Prance, never to awaken again on this
earth. Moie than a hundred thousand
of them came home broken, maimed
and blind. Hundreds of these broken
and maimed men are now inmates of
poor ho;tse, charity hospitals or in
sane asylums.
The other day Jack Pempsey, cham
pion heavyweight pugilist of the world
and a shipyards hero, passed through
Omaha. Ten thou and peope were at
the union station to see him and choer
him. A few days later a special fu
neral train bearing the bodies of 111
American soldiers who had died in
France, fighting beneath our own flag
for our own principles and liberties,
slowly pulled into that same union
station. But there were no waiting
multitudes, no frantic crowding. Ju.-t
a pitiful little handful of special rep
resentatives of organizations whose
membership was too busy to pay any
attention to the arrival of a more
tiainlond of dead 'oldiers whose sac
rifices had made it possible for their
business to continue.
Four years ago we threw our hats
in the air when the flag went by, and
we stood with misty eyes when the
bands played "Star-Spangled Ban
ner." Now we never bat an eye when
the flag goes by, and the only thing
we notice about the playing of the
"Star-Spangled Banner-' is that it in
terrupts our conversation or bothers
us in the task we have on hand. Then
we cheered the soldier boys to the echo
and promised them everything under
the shining sun. Today we tell them
that they'll have to wait for a year or
two before we give them a tithe of
what we promised, because right now
we are awfully "hard up" and taxes
are mighty high. "We'll do something
after while," is still our promise.
We promised them then; we are
promising them now "in the sweet
bye-and-bye."
Cheers and adulation for Jack
Pempsey, the pugilist; a passing
glance and a muttered, "Isn't it too
bad," when the bodies of a hundred
dead heroes are carried by in their
flag-draped caskets. Cheers and praise
and promises when the boys marched
away; "taxes too high" to permit even
a partial keeping of those promises
now that the boys are home again,
crippled and maimed and blind.
Will God prosper a country so for
getful of its promises to those who
saved it ? .
GOLF AS A DISEASE.
(New' York World.)
Is golf to be recognized as a factor
in the alienation of marital affections?
The "golf widow" has been taken as a
more or less jocoe figure of speech,
but the suit of a Montclair wife for
divorce on the ground of her husband's
alleged addiction to the game gives an
other aspect to the matter. Accord
ing to her bill of complaint, golf has
become "a mania" with her husband,
obsessing him to such a pass that he
devote3 an undue part of his time to
play on the local links and makes fre
quent winter golfing trips to Pinehurst
and Atlantic City. His crowning of
fense was a voyage to England to
witness the international golf matches.
Golf has all along been regarded
werelv as a sport and its pathological
aspects have not as yet received atten
tion. Has the time now arrived in the
popular development of the game
when it should invite the scrutiny of
the alienist? Is a condition of de-
PLAIN PIFFLE.
This "hard times" talk that may be
heard these days on every street cor
ner must be a source of amusement to
the pioneers who are still with us.
Bless our dear hearts, nine out of ten
of us do not really know what those
two words mean. Any man or woman
who lived in Box Butte county twenty-
five or thiity years ago is qualified to
epeak on the subject, and willing to
do it. If you're worried, talk it over
with one of them.
To the most of us, hard times means
that business has fallen off slightly;
that prices cf corn and spuds or lie-
tock have fallen; that profits are le
than they were during the days of the
war and the ensuing era of high
prices. Hard times means that money
must be saved instead of squandered
or spent with a reckless flourish; that
the automobile must be used less for
pleasure; that the trip south must be
given up; that less clothing, or less
expensive clothing, sahll be purchased
in short, that economies mu.-t be
thought of seriously.
The pioneers will tell you that none
cf these things is a hardship. The
Save Time and Labor
Liberty Grain Blower Unloads Your Grain
in Less Time and Does It Better.
Bring us your small grain, and see how
simple, how quick, and how much better the
Liberty unloads your wagon or truck.
TAKES 3 to 8 MINUTES TO LOAD
The Liberty will put prain in the farthest corner of the
:ar or Lin, elevate 5 to 18 bushels per minute, is portable.
JUST NEWLY INSTALLED
COME AND SEE IT OPERATE.
It's principle is that of a fan in place of cups. This
breeze dries out damp grain. A special grader attachment
not only cleans out the chalF and weed seed, but knocks the
smut from the wheat.
This Convenience is Just Part of the
Service You Receive at the
FARMERS UNION
R. J. TKABERT, Manager.
Phone 501 212 Laramie
mentia indicated when bankers and
lawyers lay out putting greens in their
drawing-rooms? Are there Fymptoms
of obsess'on in the rush from the office
to the links, the subordination of all
week-end and most mid-week interests
to the practice and glorification of the
game? And as re.-prcts the conversa
tional phase of addiction, the abnormal
loquacity of the addict, are there no
evidences in this of the dangerous
"fixed idea"'?
With a large element of the popula
tion under the spell of golf and Jiv
ing, moving and having its being by
preference only on the links it is high
time these manifestation- were seri
ously regarded. If golf has degen
erated from a sport to a disease some
thing should be done without delay to
diagnose and treat the malady to re
store its victims to a state of sanity
and prevent the spread of the mental
contagion.
had to wait for some other machine.
Each member js interested to see
that the grain is threshed properly so
there is no, waste.
Bulletins on "Community Thresh
ing" can be gotten from the Extension
Department to show the plan of
working the community th.e-diors.
Why not pay yourself for the thresh
ing and have the satisfaction of know
ing the work is done right and ft an
earlier time or at a time that is suit
able to the farmer.
A KHADl.R.
THE PUBLIC FORUM
onmunity Threshing.
HEMIN'GFORD, Neb., August 3.
To the Editor of The Herald: I notice
in The Forum in one of your issues a
comment on the high prices for thresh
ing. Why not try the community plan
of owning and doing yojr own thresh
ing? In our rieighhoihood men took
shares to buy a new separator la.-t
year. Another one owns the tractor.
They did the threshing for the mem
bers and a few other neighbors it to'ik
to help make the crew. When the
grain was ready, they started to woik
and in a couple of weeks were done
and put the machine away, then were
ready to tend their fields or do any
other work. They charged the regu
lar rates for threshing as if they
were paying to an outside machine,
and paid for the separator the firrt
year.
Now, this year they have the ma
chine to go to work again now r.rd !o
not have to wait until someone comes
this way. They are ready to thresh
and when done can put in their full
crops at an earlier date than if they
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EX BEN S I V E BI S I X ESS.
A red-headed boy applied for a job
in a butcher shop. "How much Will
you give me?"
"Three dollars a week; but what can
you do to make yourself useful?"
"Anything."
"Well, be specific. Can you dress a
chicken?"
"Not on three dollars a week," said
the boy. O. E. K. Bulletin. '
Keep-U-Neat Cleaners
Is Now Official Agents
for Railway Uniforms
The Keep-U-Neat cleaners and tail
ors, at 207 Box Butte avenue, have re
cently received official notification that
they are the authorized agents of L. S.
Singer & Co., manufacturers of rail
way men's unifo.ms.
Hereafter railroad men may get
their uniforms through the Keep-U-Neat
cleaners at the same prices ax
were formerly paid when unifoimsjr
were purchased thiough the Burling
ton company. This change affords ther
patrons of L. S. Singer & Co. a con
venient place to come, w here- their
measurements will be taken accurate
and hlterat'ons, if any are needel
done with the least delay. 71-74
Clocks are wiser than men. They
stop to rest when they feel run down.
NOT PARTICULAR.
Farmer: "Will you dig some pota
toes for a good meal ?"
Hobo: "Oh, no matter. I can enjoy
one without them." Exchange.
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You
Preparing for Old Age?
Spending your last dollar each week is no way of preparing for
the future. There may come a time when you will not have a last
dollar to spend. Then where will you turn for aid and comfort?
Surely those with whom you spent your last dollar will not assist
you. .
Better that a man practice Thrift and lay aside part of his in
come, even though it be only two or three dollars each week. Then
he can rest assured that the road of the future will be easier to trav
el when adverse conditions come upon him. He will have the neces
sary wherewithal to tide him over the rough spots and smooth the
pathway of his later years.
Stop in today and let us show you how a Savings Account with
us will safeguard your future.
FIRST STATE BANK
Alliance, Nebraska