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VOLUME XVI.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY. NEBRASKA, DECEMBER 25,1895.
NEWS SANS WHISKERS
Items of Interest Told As They Are
Told to Us.
WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED
Uosl bjpidip Portrayed Par General
Xdiieation sad Amusement.
Judge Jackson, of Neligh, was in the
city Friday._.
6. C. Hazeiet went down the road last
Friday morning. - <
in
M. D. Long transacted business
,/ix City Monday.
f. Storm sash of all sizes at O. O.
'.Snyder A Co.’s. 16-tf
Judge Kinkaid .had business in Nor
folk last Friday ^
Cheyer Hazeiet had business down the
road last Saturday.
Clinton Lowrie spent Christmas with
his parents in this city.
■ Dick Jenness and wife were in O'Neill
between trains Saturday. ,
The O'Neill dancing club will give a
dance pt the rink New Tear’s evening.
Forty
Dr. Forty went down to Omaha
Tuesday morning to spend Christmas.
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Cronin spent
Christmas at Randolph, visiting relatives.
If you want men clean fresh coal go
to O. O. Snyder’s. 16-tf
Miss Quilty went to Iowa last Satur
day to spend the holidays with relatives.
The days are getting a trifle longer.
Now look out for cold weather.
c
Buy storm sash of O. O. Snyder A Co.
and reduce the cost of your winter’s
coal. 16-tf
and
Corbett’s dental office and photo
studio wi.'l be open January 6, 7, 8, 9
and 10.
- Miss Sadie Skirving left last 'Saturday
Njfeorning for Jefferson, Io., to spend the
holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. May Ion Price are enter
taining a bran new eleven pound Christ-.
mas girl.
Attorney Thornton, of Neleigh, was
attending to legal business in this city
on Monday. *
Bentley will give you value received
and a music box and' a watch be
sides. __, 80-tf.
Owing to the Christmas festivities,
Thb Frontier is issued one day late
this week _
Harry Dowling left Saturday morning
for North Bend to spend the holidays
with his parents.
Prof. Cross, of the Atkinson public
school, was visiting friends in this city
Saturday and Sunday.
Bev. Bates will hold services in the
Episcopal church of this place next
Sunday morning at 10:80.
• Stuart Ledger: Col. Brennan, boots
-< and saddles! Capt. Marlow, to horse!
Lieut. King, get your gun.
Elmer Merriman’s thirty-second birth
day was the occasion of a surprise party
at his house last Monday night.
Miss Jennie Brooks has returned from
a uine months’ stay in Omaha, and will
again take up her .residence in O’Neill.
Charlie Meals has returned to O’Neill
from Syracuse, where he went about six
months ago to work on the farm of
Prof/Hunt.
On New Year’s day at 11 a. m. J. P.
Mann’s bicycle yrlll be given away. Alj
those interested are invited to be present
at that time.
If you want to you can get bicycle
tickets on all goods charged since No
vember 1, by paying for them before
New Years. 24-2 . J. p. Mann.
County Clerk Bethea is rejoicing over
the arrival of a son at his home last
week.' Bill insists that the new arrival
is to be deputy county clerk.
Some one of our numerous lady callers
dropped a silk hankerchief in this office
Tuesday. The owner may hare same by
calling when the editor is in.
Andrew Wright and family left last
Sunday morning for Canada, where they
expect to reside in the future. A good
many people in O'Neill were sorry to
see them go._■
Harry Uttley, formerly of O’Neill, but
now of Omaha, and Miss Grace Marlly,
jf of Omaha, were married at that place
< Christmas morning. They strived in
ON’eill Thursday night for a few days’
▼isit with Mr. Uttley’s parents.
During the past week Thb Fbontieb
has sent a considerable number of state
ments to its delinquents, and is pleased
liberal, but not as general as we would
to say that the response has been quite
like.
The class recital given by Miss Law
rence at the rink last Saturday night
attracted a good audience, which was
Well pleased with the entertainment.
•Parties holding green cards on our
stove deal will bring them in by January
1 and get numbers in exchange for them.
O’Neili, Grocery Co.
Miss Kate and Joe Mann came over
from Spencer Tuesday evening to spend
Christmas. Joe returned Thursday
morning but Miss Mann wilt remain in
the city for a week.
The old O’Sullivan building is being
remodeled and will be i)sed as a lodge
room by several societies of this city.
The partitions up stairs have all been
torn out and the ceiling raised a couple
of feet. A stairway will lead up to it
from the outside, and when completed it
will make very nice quarters.
John McBride, although buried In the
wilds of darkest Arkansas, still has a
kindly feeling for his old friends in
O’Neill, and he remembered a number
of them Christmas by sending a bundle
of canea cut from the forests of that
state. Toe Frontier editors each
acknowledge the receipt of a stick. •
The Frontier and Cosmopolitan for
only $2.00. This offer is for those who
pay up arreaages and one year in advance
and to new subscribers paying one year
in advance. The Frontier alone will
cost you $1.50, but by this combination
you get one of the best magazines pub
lished for only 50 cents. This is a snap.
Ex-President Hatriron receives a
larger sum for bis articles on "This
Country of Ours,” which he Is writing
for the Ladies’ Home Journal, than has
been paid to any public man in America
for magazine work of a similar nature.
His first article in the Christmas number
of the Journal sold over 100.000 extra
copies of the magazine, of which 785,000
copies were printed as a first- edition.
Our winter, up to date,has been as per
fect as nature could make it, and the
fact is greatly appreciated by our peo
ple. While the east has been buried
under an avalanche of snow, and the
south Las been riding on the waves of
Hoods, the residents of this section have
been working out ot doors in their shirt
sleeves and watching their herds crop
the nutritious buffalo grass from a thou
sand hills. There is no place like
Nebraska, after all.
The contemplated abutting down of
the electric light plant the flrat of the
year is 'booming the lamp trade some
what. Electricity is used inalmost
every business house in the city, and it
is with regret that the/ prepare for
another siege of kerosene. There is
some talk of putting an electric light
plant in the First National bank block
to light the different business rooms,
including the drug stores of Messrs.
Morris and Corrigan.
The case in which L. P. Roy appealed
from the action of the county board in
allowing M. F. Harrington attorney fees
for work properly belonging to the
county attorney was tried to a jury
during the last term; that is the jury
>was given certain findings to make.after
which the decision rested with the
court as a matter of law on the findings.
Last week the claimant filed a motion to
dismiss the case for the reason that it
had not been shown that Mr. Roy
was a tax payer or voter in the county,
as the law provides that he-must be.
The court has the motion under
advisement.
Fremont Tribune: The Utica Herald
has joined the chorue of howlers against
Nebraska and makes some slightiug re
marks concerning Holt county. Here
at hoiqe we don't often boast of Holt
county but the'World-Herald compares
it to Oneida county, N. Y.—where
Utica is located—and shows how vastly
more it has grown in every way during
the past ten years, in population and
wealth and how much more per capita it
spends for education, how many more
churches it has in proportion to its
population, etc. The retort is a pat one
and the Utica Herald will probably drop
the matter right where it stands.
Otto Mills, who removed from O’Neill
to West Plains, Mo., a couple of years
ago, returned last Friday night to
O’Neill. He went over to Boyd county
last Monday and will probably locate at
Spencer. Otto was tickled half to death
to find himself once more among friends
in ‘‘God's country." He says the south
is no place for him or any other white
man. A Frontier reporter inquired of
him if he had read the communications
written by the State Journal’s corres
pondent “Jo.” He said that he had,
and that while the articles were in some
cases a little blacker than were strictly
necessary, taken as a whole they pictured
the south about as he himself had found
it. __
Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
World's Fair Highest Award.
January Ladies’ Home Journal: To
prepare salted almonds, blanch them by
pouring boiling water over them and
rubbing the brown akin off with a rough
cloth. When they are bjanched and
quite dry measure them, and over each
cupful pour a teaspoon ful of the best
olive oil. Let them stand for an hour,
and then sprinkle a tablespoonful of
salt over each cupful, mixing it
thoroughly. Spread them out on a flat
tin pan, and put them in a not too hot
oven until thqjr have become a delicate
brown. '_
A motion for a new trial ,in the case
of Thomas Hudson vs. the Oddfellows
lodge was argued last week and the ver
dict set aside and new trial granted.
This case involves the reward offered by
the lodge for the finding of Scott’s body.
In the trial of the cause the jury award
ed the entire reward to the plaintiff,
although some twenty or thirty members
of the same searching party claimed a
part of it. It appears that the verdict
of the jury was in contravention to the
evidence and instructions given by the
court, although we do not know that
these were the grounds upon which a
new trial was granted.
“Toiir baby is the most lovely that
was ever born,” writes Isabel A. Mellon
in Januaty Ladies’ Home Journal, “but
do not let strangers, in their desire to
express their admiration of it, kiss the
little lips that cannot object, or clasp
tightly in their arms the little body that
is, as yet, so tender. So many little
ones are injured by promiscuous kissing
that the wise mother tells the nurse that
once she knows that Outsiders are per
mitted to kiss the baby her discharge
without a reference will promptly fol
low. Hardhearted f No, indeed. Nurse
must consider, first of all. her charge,
even if, to the rest of the world, she is
unwilling to display the baby entrusted
oHBiMKAanr o’xxiu.
Chrlstmas was observed in O’Neill
religiously Cod otherwise. The Meth
odist and Presbyterian SuUday schools
celebrated Christmas eve with elaborate
trees and pleasing programs rendered by
the pupils. The Episcopal church did
not unveil its tree until Christmas night,
but Its regal splendor more than repaid,
the little ones tor their whole day of
Waiting. •
Six o’clock mast at the Catholic church
was attended by an exceptionally large
congregation.
All business bouses closed at noon and
the balance of the day was spent pur
suing the illusive phantom of pleasure.
A turkey shoot furnished 'diversion for
the mmrods, and the congealed surface
of the river recreation for the boys and
girls. The fickle pasteboards demanded
the attention of those who insist that
life is a lottery, while the care-diapers- '
ing Tom and Jerry elevated the spirits
of those who hold that geifume pleasure
is seen only in the bottont of the bowl.
Others, who eschew the frivolities of
life thrust their nether limbs beneath
the festal board that '‘groaned with the
delicacies of the season” and there
sowed the seed that later returned ten
fold in the shape of indigestion. It
was a "green Christmas,” but the day
was absolutely perfect; clear, calm and
crisp.
ONtYTOXTY.
This is the number of boy’s suits 5 to
11 years that we are closing out at half
price. If you want one don’t tarry,
they won’t last long at this figure.
25 2 J. P. Maxn.
LIXTELL’B 1IVIR0 AOS.
The publiahere of Littell’s Living Age
announce a reduction in the price of
that unique eclectic from eight dollar*
to six dollar* a year; the change to take
effect with the first of the new year.
New subscriber*, however, remitting
before the first of January, will receive
the intervening number* of 1893 free.
The Living Age now nearing the clqse
of its fifty-second year, has ever been
the faithful mirror of the times, reflect
ing only tbat which was the highest and
best and most desirable in the whole
field of literature. It has received the
commendations of the highest literary
authorities, the most distinguished
statesmen the brightest men and women
of the country, and has proven a source
of instruction and entertainment to
many thousands. It commends Itself
especially to busy people of moderate
means for they will find in it what they
cannot otherwise obtain except by a
large expenditure of time and money,
yet which is so essential to every one
who desires to be well informed con
cerning all the great questions of the
day.
Uecent issues well maintain its reputa
tion. To enumerate all the choice
articles in the October numbers, for
instance, would be to give their full
table of contents. We cau only add
what has so often been said, even at its
old subscription price, that no intelli
gent reader can afford to do without the
Living Age. Poblished by Littell & Co.,
Boston.
'■ DEATH or ISAAC SELAH.
DIED—Id O'Neill, Neb., on Monday,
December 28,1895, at the residence ot
his son Clarence, Isaac Selah, aged 81
years.
Deceased was born In New York city
September 80,1815. In an early day he
emigrated to Illinois, and was married to
Ends Price Dean at Tremont, Tazewell
county, October 8,1844. Twelve child
ren were born of this union, seven of
whom Me still living. They are: Mrs.
H. H. Freeze and Harry W. Selah,
Washington, D.' C.; Geo. W. Selah,
Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. M. S. Bartlett,
Omaha; James D. Selah, Ewing; Mrs.
Frank A. Hannon, Deadwood, 8. D.,
and Clarence Selah, of this city, all of
whom hre married. In 1870 deoeased
moved With his family to West Point,
this state.
Although deoeased had attained a ripe
old age, was as the ripened sheaf; his
demise)was hastened hy an attack of,
hemorrhage of the urethra, which mani
fested Itself about ten months ago, and
defied all medical skill. He was in no
pain during bis last sickness, and passed.
away peMefully, the going out of his
life was like the going out of a candle.
The sands of a long and uaeful life had
fully run out and death oame to him
with a kindly visage—like a. heralded
visitor.
Deceased was a member of the order
Of ancient Odd Fellows.
The funeral 'will occur at 9:30 this
afternoon, and the remains will be tem
porarily .interred in .the Protestant
cemetery in this city. ' . j
V-1 t:>.
■ -kaI' .1 HAM UHM.
The Bjalr Courier very aptly and ably
sizes up the situation as follows:
The political horizon looks very dark.
Corruption stalks abroad; railroad com
binators and other monopolies are
swaying their sceptors; money is king.
The laborer is dowirirodden, and injus
tice, fraud and rascality are supreme.
But there will be a day of retribution,
and then justice will be extended to all
alike, and honor and fair dealing will
break down the walls of opreseinn and
let the people go free.
This expresses our sentiments exactly.
We have always held that the laborer is
downtrodden, while the cormorants of
Qapital brandish their snickersnees and
place their webfeet on the poor man's
mack. It is aline for 'a inform. It is!
time for that retribution of which the
Courier speaks. Produce the retribu
tion. ’
The country his gone to the dogs and
the dogs won’t keep it; potatoes are
sftmll, and there «re mighty few in a
bill, and when we bark our shins there
is no arnica.
By all means, let us have retribution.
The fawning sycophants prosper
while tiie men, of integrity are jolting
along to the poor house in handmade
tumbrils; sugar beets are freezing in the
fields, and the men who raised them are
committing suicide. Eggs are IS cents
a dozen and our own bens won’t lay,
blast their eyes.
If there is retribution in the jar, and
more behind the bar, dish it up.
The iron grasp of capital is on the
throat of the toiler, the railways grind
the farmers into the dust, the Standard
Oil company charges us more for oil
than would buy balm of Oilead by the
gallon; the man who has a woodpile lets
his dogs loose at night and sits by the
fence with a shotgun, and there is no
encouragement for a man to live, not a
bit. It’s the blamedist old world In the
universe, and everything is going back*
ward, galley west and into the blind
staggers.
If any man cbmes along selling retri
bution by the yard, we’ll order a whole
bolt for family use.
The poor are growing poorer and the
coal dealers won’t give credit unless you
pay cash down; Judge Lansing has been
knocked off the Christmas tree, and
three regiments of howling dervishes
are devastating Omaha. Corn sells at
10 cents a bushel, and farmers raised a
peck to the acre. Schlatter has dis
appeared, and there is nobody to bless
our handkerchiefs, even supposing that
we have handkerchiefs.
What we need is retribution, and lots
of it.—Walt Mason.
THE SITUATIOH,
The vigilante* of Holt and Boyd
countie* are killing men theie time* Ju*t
for the fun of seeing them drop. It i*
impossible to convict one of them, for in
selecting a Jury of twelve men it i*
impossible to keep some of the outfit off
as they are not all known.—Creighton
Courier.
H0TIC1.
Those owing me will please pay up
on or before January 25, *96, a* on that
date I will turn my accounts over to an
attorney for collection. So par up and
avoid suit. 25-8 Dr. E. 8. Foray.
Short Lin* Time Card.
Passenger leaves 2:55 a. v., arrives
11:55 ■». it.; freight leaves 8:45 f. k„ ar
rive 6:85 p. m. Daily except Sunday.
SCHOOL BXFOBT,
The following ia a report of the
O’Neill public acboola for the month
ending December 90, 1895:
mil I
less! ;
i
i
335§g
* : 55
M tPMtoU
Grades.
ssssgsg
No. Duys naught
8888B8M
No. Enrolled. .■ ;
g*g8388
Avenge No. Belonging.
368S8BS
i83t
Average Dally Attendance.
Total Days of Attendenoe.
8688888
Per Cent, of Pnnotuallty.
SS55SSS
m».<buim«.<b
Per Cent of Attendance,
C. L. AnomaoN, Principal
"188 DBA00N.”
On Monday evening, December SO,
1895, the Academy Dramatic Oo„ will
present "The Deacon" an original
comedy drama In five acta. . The fol
lowing la the cast of characters:
Deacon Thornton—Mn. Thornton'* brother
in-law with a paaalon for lemonade with
. .Tim r
a stick In It—.Tim Dwyer
George Greet—Mrs. Thornton’s nephew
.-.Art Mullen
George Darrab—alias Matt Wheeler—
.D. H. Cronin
James Beed—a friend of Darrah's-J. Harmon
Pedro—an organ grinder—. .
Parson Brownlow..,.John A. Harmon
Pete—Mrs. Thornton's servant—...Bob Marsh
Btllte—the Deacon's bey— .J. Byan
Mrs. Thornton.Mias Mamie Cullen
Helen—her daughter—Mia* Mamie MoManus
Miss Amelia Fawoett Mrs.
■8 „_| _ Thornton’s
maiden sister,....,....—Miss Alice Cronin
Mrs. Darrah—Oeorge Darrah's wife—..
Mrs. T. D. Hanley
--'
Neliie^-her'chUd—.Bose Ann Fallon
Daisy—Mrs, Thornton's servant—.
.-Mias Maggie Barrington
* TO TKS PUBLIC:
We wish to cell your attention to the
feet that the Paoille Shoet Line is again
making through train eonneetlon at
O’Neill.
East bound train leave* O’Neill at
0:55 a. k., immediately alter arrival of
train from Black Hilla and roachea Sioux
City at 8:85 p. it. Thia ia affording a
through route to, all pointa in North*
eaatern Nebraaka, and aaving three
houra time to Sioux City. Depota at
O’Neill are only a block apart and you
need not be afraid of miaaing connection.
Buy local licketa to O’Neill and re-buy
there. ^ 21-tf
NOTICE TO IlUllk
The Elkborn Irrigation Company will
furnish land.ieed and water for one*
third of the crop, to fannera who will
put a aod crop ia under their Irrigation
canal during the cropping aeaaon of
1896. Partiea wiahlng to contract will
please call at the company’s office and
learn details. AH contracts must be
cloaed by January lat. 19-tf.
Elkhobh Ibbigatiok Compaxt.
tabides, attemkoe m so bats.
The Eikborn Irrigation Company, of
O'Neill, Neb., will pay $1.00 cash per
acre for breaking and furnish land, aeed
and water for a aod crop under its canal,
and give you one half the crop. Break*
ing paid for every Saturday night. For
furthur information call on or address,
88-4 Thb Elkhobb Ibbioation Co.
WAQOM, WAOOXK
Always bur the best, the Molina. I
hare a oar load on hand and will sail
cheap for cash, or on short time. If
you want a wagon, a boggy or a road
cart come in time and don’t get left.
Remember the name. Moline wagon
are the best made and sold by
A Nkil Bhbkhax.
PAT ur.
' All accounts owing to me and not
settled by January 15, 1896, will be
placed in the hands of an attorney and
costs made. I will make no exceptions.
Settlement must be made at once.
23-tf. Dn. J. P. Qilugax.
TO SUBSCRIBERS:
The Frontier needs money and
needs it badly and must have it.
It has several hundred subscribers
who owe from $1.50 to $6.00 and
if they will pay up. or at least a
part of what they owe. it would re
lieue the stringency of the money
market around these headquarters.
So we trust that all our subscribers,
who are owing us on subscription,
will call and pay at least a part of
what they owe us. .
O’Nktll, Nov. 14.
1 have to-day purchas
ed from the O’Neill Fur
niture Go. its entire stock
of furniture, which will
be combined with my
own. In order to make
room in my store for this
large addition,'on next
Monday will commence
a great
SACRIFICE SALE
And invite my friends
and my enemies to calh
and inspect the goods,
which will be offered at
prices never before heard
of in O’Neill.
O.F.BIQLIN.
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<£.£
Bxorout ran.
Ob January 1st ISM, we will give to >~;-i
our customers tret, a fine high grade
1100 ladlaa’ or gent’s bicycle. This offer | ';
appllaa to all department*. Inquire for ■
particular*. J. .P Mamr. 17*tf
r. ; -r--r- ■ * - Wl
Jolta Lamaaou Port 80S, 0.i,B«
Department of Nebraska, will bnib
public laataltation of officers to be id*
lowed by a camp Ore and bean aopper
at their headquarters In Page, Neb., '
1 o’clock p. January 4.
friend* of the old aoldier are ceedfeOy
Invited to attend. W. A. Buowir, Own, " V
D.C. Hamubow, Adjutant
Pure blood meaea good health ‘ 1
DeWittfs Baraaparilla puriflea the Meed,
cure* Eruption*, Kcteme, Scrofula, and *
•11 dlaeaae* arising from Impure blood. '
For sale by Morris and Co. Druggists. .
It ia a truth In medicine that tbe email*
e*t dose that perform* a cure is the beet. ^
DeWitt’i Little Early Risers are tbe
smallest pills, will peforui a cure, mmdl^
are tbe beat. For sale by Mortis and
Co. Druggist*.
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Acta at once never falls, One Minute
Cough Cure. A remedy for asthma, and
that feverish condition which no*’ *
companies a severe cold, Tbe only! ’
harmless remedy that produces hamt- '
diate results. For sale by Mortis aanl' ^
Co. Druggists.
The healing propertlee of DeWitfa
Witch Haael Salve are well known. It *
cures eczema, skin affections and la aim- /.
ply a perfect remedy for piles. For anle ., J
by Morris and Co. Druggists.
It’s Just as easy to try One Minute ,
Cough Cure as any thing else. It’,
easier to cure a severe cough or cold f&i
with it. Let your next purohese for a
cough be One Minute Cough Cure
Better medicine; better results; better
try it. For sale by Morris and Co.
Druggists. •__ > • ':.v;
Nothing so distressing u n backing
cough. Nothing no foolish an to aulfar
from It. Nothing so dangerous if al
lowed to continue. Ona Minute Cough
Cure gives immediate reilef. For sale
by Morris and Co. Druggists. v
Bay, why don't you try DeWitl’s *
Little Early Risers? These little pills
cure headache, indigestion and conatL :|
patlon. They're small, but do the work.
For sale by Morris and Co. Druggists. 'f
There are many good reasons why ;|
you should use One Minute Cough Curs.
There are no reasons why you should
not, if in need of help. The only ham- $
less remedy that produces immediate •«
results. For sale by Morris and Go.
Druggists. _
A. E. Kilpatrick, of Fillmore, Cal.,had *
the misfortune to have his leg caught be
tween a cart and a stone and badly ■£
bruised. Ordinarily he would have been M
laid up for two or three weeks, but says: |
“After using one bottle of Chamberlain's
Pain Balm I began to feel better, and in
three days 1 was entirely well. The -
peculiar soothing qualities which Chaps*
berlam's Pain Balm posseiiaes I have ^
never noticed in any other liniment I
take pleasure In recommending It** ‘
This liniment is also of great value for *
rheumatism and lame back. For sale
by P. C. Corrigan Druggist < ‘