OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
STATIC.
Jolm M. Thayer
_T. J. Majors
t:o iint Governor.ink.
, .J.C. Allen
".on-r .J. B. Hill
-l it'' 1 ,' ;lvliunil’.George H. Hastings
v"" "' •' .Thomas U. Monton
StuH'.,n,i BuiHn«b..Soortro Humphrey
CONGRESSIONAL.
, .... nm-i. F. Manderson, of Omaha;
.Si,, s. I’ttddook. ot Beatrice.
A-1 talives—Wm. Bryan, Lincoln: O,
N!&IWkco Bow;Wm. McKelrh va. Rod
ci.iui1. COUNTY.
dork Of the District Court.... Johu
•'ii'1-1' .. . . .Barrett Scott.
..John S.Weekc,
iicimiy
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D.-piitv
Sin Hit.
.O. C. llazelet
.C. F. Butler
.H. C. McEvony
. F.. J. Mack
Sot Schools.... •••••• ...V.^V. Tl. W. Dudley
Assistant.
Coroner...
Surveyor.,
Attorney.
.Mrs. H. W. Dudley
.. Dr. C. E. Fort
_W. W. Page
E. W. Adams
SUPERVISORS.
Ogle E M—Chm
Bird. N
Bethea. W W
Crow. John
Conger SL
Cleveland B F
Crawford John
Cronin Dan
Duncan John
Cray Robert
Gilson S
Greig Janies
Hodgkin H
Hum beck M V
Howard S H
Hunter J M
Haigh W B
Hayes W T
Jillson L A
Kelley P
Kline E
Leatherman J
MullenJP
McKthaneyW V
Miller Howard
Moss C W
NolkamperWm
Perkins E E
ParkerS
Smith J R
Smith 0 M
Win.- H O
Green Valley
Fatrview
Delolt
Cleveland
Inman
Ewing
Sand Creek
Shields
Chambers
Verdigris
Francis
Rock Falls
Paddock
Dustin
Grattan
Willowdale
Emmet
Sheridan
Stuart
Scott
Lake
Turtle Creek'
Pleasantvlew
Steel Creek
Atkinson
Wyoming
Saratoga
McClure
O’Neill
Iowa
Conley
Atkinson
Inez
Ewing
Stuart
Inman
Ewing
Atkinson
O’Neill
Chambers
Page
Atldnson
Turner
Leon i a
Badger
O’NeiH
Minn la
Atkin "hiii
Atkinson
Stuart
Scottville
Bliss
Grand Rap i Is
Emmet
Star
Atkinson
Amelia
Turner
Little
O’Neill
Lambert
Harold
Swan
OR A TTAN TO WNSIIIP.
Supervisor. S. B. Howard; Treasurer, J. 0.
Hares; Cn'i'k, N. Martin; Assessor. S. F.
MeN'lchols; Justices, M. Slatterly and Chits,
inp'rsoll; Constables, Perkins Brooks and
Will Strnnskie; Hoad overseer, dlst. 20, Theo
dore otto; dlst. No. 4, P. Barrett, sr.
Cl'lY OF O’NEILL.
Supervisor, Sanford Parker; justices, J. .7.
Kintttmu .1. P. O’Donnell; Constables, John
Lupptin end W. Keelev.
COtTNC ILMEN—FIRST WARD.
For two years.—Ben DeYarman. For one
year—David Stannard.
SECOND WARD.
For two years—Fred Gatz. Forono year—
11. Mullen.
THIRD WARD.
For two years—Barrett Scott. For one year
C. Millard.
CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor, 0. F. Berlin; Clerk,Tlios. Campbe! ;
Treasurer, David Adams; City 12nstine< ,
Stunner Adams; Police Judge, N. Marti.,;
Ciiief of Police, John Lappan: Attorney,
Thus. Carton; Welghmaster, Ed. WBride:
Street Commissioner. O. E. Davidson.
• ,JUD10IAR Y.
Chief Justice..Amasa Cobb
Associates.. .Samuel Maxwell and T. L.Norval
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
.bulge.M. P. ICiitktiid. of O’Neill
'porter.A. L. Warrick, of Ainsworth
bilge.A. W. Crltes, of ChiKlron
llepurter... II. L. Laird, of Chadrou
fjAND OFFICES.
O’NEILL.
Register.B. S. Gillespie
Receiver.A. L. Towle.
NELIQH.
Re;rister.C. W. Robinson
Receiver.W. B.* Lambert
SOLDIERS’ RELIEF COMMISSION.
Regular meeting' first Monday In Febru
ary of each year, and at such other times as
is deemed necessary. Itobt. Gallagher, Page,
chairman; Win. Bowen, Atkinson, secretary;
A. K. Haskins, Cleveland. Vv
yT.l’ATKICK’S CATHOLIC CHUltCH.
V Services every Sabbath at 10:30 o’clock.
Very Rev. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbd-th school
immediately following services.
Methodist church. Preaching
every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.
Sunday school at 12 m. Class Meeting at 10:30
;i. ni. Tuesday—Young people’s meeting, 8
t>. in. Wednesday—Children’s meeting, 4 p
m. Prayer meeting, 8 p. m. Thuusday—La
dies’ aid society, 2 p.m. E. E. Wilson. Pas.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Services
every Sunday morning at 11 o’clock.
Sunday school at 10 a. m.
ItEV. N. S. Lowrie, Pastor.
G,
A. K. ROST, NO. 80. The Gen. "ohn
• O’Neill Post, No. 86, Department of Ne
i-rusk a G. A. K., will meet the first and third
‘ I'.turduy evening of each month In Masonic
lmll O’Neill. S. J. Smith, Com.
IM.KHORN VALLEY LODGE,I. O. O.
Meets every Wednesday evening in
dull ellows’hall. Visiting brothers cordially
invited to attend.
0. H. Miltz, Sec. A. II. Goubett, N. G.
C. II. Bentley, R. S. D. L. Dark. P. S.
E. H. Thompson, Trens.
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T\, HFIELli CHAPTER, R. A. "
.. 0,1 first and third Thursday of c;r
"ifinth In Masonic hall.
J. lJomis, Sec. J. C. Harnish H, I
If OF P-HELMET LODGE. U. J>.
*-x. Convention every Monday at 8 o clock p.
“ ■ 'hid Fellows’ nail. Visiting brethepn
cordially invited.
P v „ E. M. Grady, C. C.
h- E- Evans, K. of 11. aud S.
(RATTAN ALLIANCE NO. 437.
i£*!\r,"era’ Alliance moets every second and
'nvif a bufVrtiay llt" P- m- Visiting members
In., i "11 Food farmers urged to become
ipiuibers. Jno. Fall0n, Prost.
tHAs. Inoeusoll, See.
0
ENCAMPMENT NO. 30.1.
u’. ’ m0Gt'' every second and fourth
nthiys ol each munth in Odd Fellows’ Hall.
M. CLEVELAND, S. S. WilLP, C. P.
I^Vi^.I-ODGE NO. 41, DAUGHTEJ
Kri.1,. I'EBEKAH, meets every 1st and
1 uaj °r each month In Odd Fellows’ Hall,
p,, , Alice Adams, N. G
■JalaDahr. Secretary.
rf1, hUI LODGE, NO.»5,F.Ai A.:
0.. 'TL’ul«r communications Thursday nigl
u - ' for(; the full oi the moon. ■
’ hvA •». 3. A. L. Tow of., W. M
0K,V t;KEEK. ALLIANCE. NO. 0(
. .. ?'■’ 's every socond and fourth Suture
(S feh month ur Uriah Fellows',
r.Bowaiid Sec. U. Fellers. Pr
I'HKo-r.Ku.L REPUBLICAN CLI
'!n,s are located over Morris & C
iJJ on Douglas street. The rooms
, i , street. j no rooms
tovitlmes* Republicans are inv
t,le rooms at any and all tit
inVi.'",i,s W!'U° in the city are invited
&rik.r»i . .UIU «ity are invitee
UiKi.w110 c‘u*3 rooms tiieir head quart
"UNI H N* bmnlf..,. . * .1....v. Ai. . .
till vi ■ ■ • ' iwuuio tilUll IIUHIDJ lull ll
liiir i i?? meeting of the club the first i
1 ■ •ilnrday evening of each month.
GEO T) liTono „ A. L. TOWLE, Preside
-Efi_DJtIGas, Secretary
POSTOFFICE DIRCETORY
Arrival ol Mails
E’ * M- v- «■ It.—FROM THE EAST.
1 ully,Sunday Included at.5:15pm
Ever,. FROM THE WEST.
. day, Sunday included ut.9:35 a ir
A|Ti,.,„. PACIFIC SHOUT LINE,
bln , cy0T.y titty except Sunday at 9:00 p m
p 118 ’’ “ 6:00 am
Departs „ O’NEILL AND CHEI.SEA.
Arm^.nlond,aF. Wed. and Friday at 7:00 4 r
» Tuesday,Thurs. and Sat. at..i:00pi
brnoM. ° ,NKILI. AND PADDOCK.
Arovnf ^tonduy. Wed.and Friday at..7:00 ar
h luesday, Thurs. and Sat. at..4:30 p r
htnun. N,E*bO AND NIOHUARA.
Ar ”8"y. Wed. and Fri. at... .7:00 a ir
8 I'tes’luy, Thurs. and Sat. at...4:00 p a.
Arrive. NF1.,.L and ccmminsville.
Ht’parts it 'y,?d-und Fridays at... 11:30 p ra
tarts Men., vved. and Friday at.1:00 p m
PRE-EXISTENCE.
Sometimes a breath floats by me,
An odor from dreamland sent.
That makes the ghost scorn nigh me
Of a splendor that came and went.
Of a life lived somewhere, I know not
In what diviner sphere.
Of memories that stay not and go not,
Like music heard once by an ear
That cannot forget or reclaim it,
A something so shy it would shame it
To make it a show.
A something too vague, could I name it,
For others to know,
As if I had lived it or dreamed it,
As if I had acted or schemed it.
Long ago.
—James Russell Lowell.
THE OAK FOBEST.
. A string of ten wagons slowly strag
gled along a road in Texas one drowsy
day in spring. They had been going
for miles aud miles through a flat oak
forest of a gray, weather-boaten,
washed-out, sapless, soulless, desolate
hue, dreary and monotonous beyond
comprehension.
On the outfit of ten wagons, how
ever, although sun and storm had
bleached their signature, the taded
apparel and browned complexions of
the people had a warmer aspect, be
tokening a good hearty appreciation
of life and its desirabilities.
The general drowsiness overcame
the manager of this wagon show—for
it was a show company—and he lay
back on the seat, oblivious to every
thing in slumber. The managerial
eye having succumbed, the front
wagon-drivers relaxed upon which the
horses slacked up to the slowest possu
hie speed which would pass for mo
tion, compelling all behind to follow
suit, which they were glad of an ex
cuse to do. The negro drivers of the
heavier wagons wero proficient in the
accomplishment of sitting up and hold
ing the lines while enjoying a sound
sleep, and were already displaying
this feat in their best style. The
others succumbed, one by one, till only
one person was left sitting erect with
his eyes open.
This was the driver of the head
wagon, a young man of twenty-six or
thereabouts, the leader of the com
pany’s band.
The band leader looked around at
the people on the wagons. There
wasn’t an eye open but his own. Back
ward, past the wagons, was the same
as it was in front. He turned deject
edly back again and—ha! what’s that?
Some ono approaches on horseback.
The horse in front, whose ears had
been flapping limply back and forth as
their heads wagged at each step, now
wake up and actually evince fright.
“Whoa, you fools. Did you ever
see a man before?” sleepily growled
the hand leader, pulling up the lines.
But there was some extenuation duo
the horses, as the musician was can
didly forced to admit on approach of
the stranger. He wore no hat and
his apparel, his hair and heard—which
trailed the ground—the horse he rode
and everything about him was exactly
the color of the gnarled oak boughs.
His finger-nails wore as long as his
fingers, and he carried a crooked oak
switch.
“Halt!” he called, and the horses
all stopped stock still. “What have
you there?”
“A tent-show.”
“A tent-show, is it? and are you the
proprietor?”
■ ‘No, sir. The proprietor is in the
next wagon.”
"Well, rouse him up!” roared the
old man. “Don’t set there a-tellin’
me what wagon he is in!”
One look into the old fellow’s fiery
eyes decided the musician, and .he
called up the manager, who was also
the proprietor.
“What’s wanted?” asked the man
ager.
“If you are the proprietor of the
concern just tell me what you mean by
trespassing over my ground, without
saying a word to nobody, just like it
was your own.”
“I supposed this to he a public
road. ”
‘ ‘You might suppose a good many
things,” was the angry reply, “that
were a long way from being correct,
Now you either pay toll before you
proceed, or turn about and go back.”
“Old man, you are either drunk or
crazy, and I can’t waste any time on
you. Now you obtruct us and take the
consequences. Go ahead, Wilkins!”
The procession moved on. The old
man dismounted and sat down on a log
and smiled a weird smile as they left.
Once he was left out of sight, the mu
sician and the manager burst into a
hearty laugh, and all the rest, who had
been awakened joined in.
‘ ‘There was a case of craw-fishing, ”
said the manager, and he resumed his
siesta.
Presently the musician’s hair be gan
to raise, and he shouted in terrror:
“Why look at that!”
Hundreds of oaks were sprouting up
in the middle of the road ahead, and
along both sides of them, and shooting
immediately up to their normal size,
but so close together that a horse could
not go between. In a couple of min
utes they were blocked, and had but
one course to pursue; to retrace their
way. They did so. The old man wa3
sitting on the log as before.
“Oid man, I acknowledge that you
have got mo beaten, badly beaten.”
said the manager.
“Get down out of that wagon,” yelled
the old man.
The manager complied.
“Now put up your show and give
the best performance you ever eave in
yer life, or it will bo the worse for
you. ”
“There is not room enough here to
put up the tent ”
"How much do ye want?”
• -A smooth place, eighty feet square. ”
“Well, there il is,” said the old
man, pointing to one side, where the
('<:ks weit) stopping back Irom the de
ijiivd space.
"You )mve. got this tree business
down fhio,’’ said the manager, gassing
in high admiration.
'‘Well, put up yer show,” said the
wizard, a litt’.o molliflod by tho com
pliment.
‘•Hero, you canvas hands! Raise
the tent and get ready for a quick show;
tho door is to bo put here. Hoy, you
hostlers! Water your horses at the
oreok a quarter of a milo- back and let
’em graze awhile. Hey, you wind jam
mers! Get out your horns and play
the old man a tune. Cook! Want
dinner ready by tho time the show is
out. Whoop-er-up!”
Thus tho manager delivered himself
and went to work hero, there, and ev
erywhere, whllo tho wizard pullod out
a long pipe and comforted himself with
a smoke ob ho sat taking observations.
In a few minutes the “wind jammers”
ranged themselves in a line in front of
him and played their usual parade se
lections. He praised their skill, espe
cially that of tho slide-trombonist,who
excelled all the rest in volume of tone
and curao out considerably in advance
at the end as well.
In less than an hour the curtain rose
on the audience of ono, reinforced by
the doorkeeper, tho ticket seller and
the canvas hands, and the performance
was gone through. It was not as
pleasant to tho “performers as ordinari
ly, foe a fair audience would have
rustled at first, been drawn down to
quiet attention presently, applauded
strong points and roared with laughter
at the humor, and so given tho per
formers spirit to do their parts; where
as, the old man sat in quiet the whole
time. In fact, one or two of them gave
a side scowl at him for his lack of ex
pressed appreciation, but still he sat
quietly smoking.
“Now, then,old man,” said the man
ager at the close, 1 ‘we have given you
the whole show. ”
“Ah, yes. Well, take down yer
tricks again, if that’s the case, and I
will give you a little show myself in
return.”
‘•How’s dinner, cookP” inquired the
manager.
“Dinner’s ready, sah.”
“Dinner,” yelled the manager, and
he escorted tho old man to the table.
The old man did not eat much,
seeming quite unfamiliar with ordi
nary victuals, but that did not inter
fere with the appetites of the rest.
“Take down, pack up, and load!”
called the manager, and tho various
functionaries proceeded to undo what
they had done; in thirty minutes all
was ready to start again.
Being all on the wagons as before,
the old man observed that they might
as well go on, as he could give them
his performance quite as well while
they were getting over the road as
otherwise, so off they went, and left
him sitting on a log, his horse teth
ered to a bough close by. He was
putting away his pipe at the last
glimpse they had of him.
Suddenly they hoard a heavy roar
in the distance. A mile or so in the
rear was a huge, black, funnel-shaped
cloud. The lower point of it was
whirling rapidly; the two upper
corners seemed to reach the skies.
“It’s a cyclone!” shouted the man
ager. “We’re done for, boy si”
The roar increased, and it became
evident that the cyclone was coming
toward them. Great trees were to be
seen whirling around in the funnel.
Very shortly it was upon, or rather,
alongside them, and then one moment
of fury and it was gone, and they
were uninjured. There was a clean
cut path, seventy-five yards wide,
right parallel with the trail, every
tree in it felled.
A whish! was heard, and on the tail
of tho tempest, as it were, like an old
stump with a long wisp of moss for a
beard, went the old man.
“That’s the first act of my show,
boys,” he yelled, as he passed on. -
A little shower fell, the clouds van
ished, and everything was pretty much
as before.
borne two or three Hours alter din
ner the horses began to show a want
of water, and the people as well, but
mile after mile was passed through
that quiet, level oak forest without the
sign of a stream or even one of the
usual stagnant, red pools. Rests were
taken in the densest shade that was
encountered, which was thin enough
at best, and the “outfit” moved on
slower than ever.
At last camo the joyful sight of a
running branch, and as the horses
eagerly pulled the wagons into it, side
by side, and drank their fill, behold!
there sat the old man on a fallen tree,
as cool as usual.
They passed on.
All quieted down again and they
wore poking along through the forest
as usual when, without warning, they
came right out on the brink of a cliff
a thousand feet to the bottom, right
over which the road appeared to lead.
As they were pondering over this cir
cumstance in a great quandary, the
hand leader heard a voice calling from
over the cliff:
“Coine, now, get down off of that
if you want any dinner.”
The cliff faded, the forest changed
its aspect, houses and indications of
civilization appeared, and right in the
foreground was the second musician
in rank, who had just spoken to him.
“That was a great trip we had,
wasn’t it?” remarked the band leader,
as ho slowly descended from the wa
gon.
“What, to-day’s trip? Twenty
miles of oak forest and nothing more.
“Nothing more!”
“That was all I could see of it.”
A Sharp Sharper.
A Now York wholesale merchant
says that ho cheerfully puts up with
the sharp practico of his travelers,
who pad their own expense accounts,
because tho sharper the drummer is in
that respect, as a rule, tho more cus
tom he brings to the house.
Oeyarman Brothers,
PROPRIETORS OF THU
Checker Livery, Feed&Sale Stable
O'NEILL NEB
Finest turnouts In the city. Good.ourt
ml drivers when wanted. Also run the
O’Neill Omnibus Line
Commercial Trade a Specially
Hnvo oharueoof MeCafferty's Hearse. All
orders will reoolve careful and prompt atten'
on
R.R. DICKSON & CO..
8UOCES8QR8 Tft
T. V. GOLDEN A CO.,
Title Abstracters/Conveyancers,
TAXES PAID FOR NON-RESIDENTS.
FARM LANDS e
* *and TOWN LOTS
FOR SALE OR SXOHANOE.
Farm Loans Negotiated on the Most
Reasonable Terms.
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Offloe and salary on Fourth street
east of Holt County Bank.
iff
FRED C. GATZ
- 'DEALER IN—
Fresh, Dried and Salt Meats,
Sugar-cured fliim.^Iireakfatt Ilacon,
Sides, Sploe roll bacon, all kinds of sausages. '
O’NEILL, NEE,
Hotel Evans.
FORMERLY EUROPEAN,
Enlarged,
Refurnished
-AND
REFITTED.
Only first Class Hotel in City,
W. T. EVANS, Prop.
EMIL SNIGGS,
Genstal Blacksmith,
O’NEILL, NEB
Vagon and Carriage Repair
ing Done to Perfection.
Plow Work and Horse Shoe
ing a Specialty.
Hand Made Shoes Made to any Order
We stop Interfering and sueoesssully treat
quarter Cracks and Contracting Feet, and
‘•ure Corns, where our directions are strictly
followed.
Carry a Line of Carriage, Wagon andM ><»
ck. Work done on short notice. XI-P-13
A SALOON
Where the best
WINES,
LIQUORS
AND CIGARS
Can Always be Had
Is located opposite The Item
PAT GIBBONS\ Prop.
First National Bank;
O’NEILL - NEBRASKA. ,
Paid-Up Capital. $5o,ooo. Surplus, $2o,ooo. # ;
Authorised Capital, $100,000.
THAI). J BERMINGIIAM, Puns. J. p. MANN, Viob Pitas.
ED F. GALLAGHER. CAruiKit. FRED H. 8WINGLEY, Asst. Gasman. '
Money Loaned on Personal Security on the Moat Favorable
•Terms. Issue Time Certificates Bearing Interest. *
Buy and Sell Foreign tfc Domestic Exchange. Q •
DIRECTORS:
P. J. McManus M. Cayanauoii. T. F. Bxrhinoiiah. J. P. Mahm!
E. W. Montcombky. Ed. F. Gai.i.aoiibk. Tiiad. J. Bbuminoiiam.
Holt county bank,
o’neill, Nebraska.
DAVID ADAMS, President. D. L. DARR, Cashier.
Wm. Adams, Asst. Cashier.
A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. |
Agents for tbe Cunard, North Germnn Lloyd, American and Red Star lines of
American Steamships. Buy and bcII drafts drawn on principal cities of
Europo and America. Accounts of firms anil individuals solicited,
Collections Made and Remitetl on the Day of Payment.
JOHN J. McCAFFERTY/
——DEALER IN——
HARDWARE,
Tinware, Farm Implements,
Furniture, Woodenmre, Wagons, Corn-Shellers,
Coffins and Undertaking Supplies,;
O’NEILL, HOLT CO., NEB.
MOSES CAMPBELL’S
Sewing Machines and Organs.
I keep constantly on Land the WHITE sewing machines,
walnut, oak or mahogany. The new Rotary Shuttle is the •,
lightest running, most noiseless and fastest sewer of any ma
chine ever made. 1 have the ESFEY Organ always in stock.
All mucicians know this to be one of the" best Organs made
by any manufacturers. If you want a Sewing Machine or an
Organ don’t let some traveling sharper take you in. He will
be sure to charge you two prices for inferior goods. No mat- vi
ter what guarantees he will give you they are not as good as
you can get from a permanent dealer in your own locality. I
will take orders for Pianos and give the very lowest prices
and most liberal terms.
MOSES CAMPBELL, O'Neill, Neb,
Hardware!, Tinware
Copper & Graniteware,
In North ehraska, and make a specialty of ' vi :i
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Superior
Barbed Wire.
IN IMPLEMENTS I CARRY THE BEST MADE
BRADLEY & GO. AND PERU CITY PLOWS,
Harrows, Cuf *.lenge Planters, Flying Dutchman,
SULKY*PLOW$.*PERU * CITY*CULTI VATORS
^LISTERS AND DRILLS.*
Call and see me before you make your purchases as 1 can
save you some money. ;
NEIL BRENNAN, O’Neill Neb. vii
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