VOLUME XVIII. O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, JULY 29. 1897.
NUMBER 4.
NEWS SANS WHISKERS
Items of Interest Told As They Are
Told to Us.
WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED
Loesl Happenings Portrayed Por General
X dill cation and Amassment.
A. Hahn was down from Stuart last
Friday. '_._
J. C. Tocum was over from Butte
Monday. _
Sanford Parker is over from Spencer
this week.
Joe Mann was over from Spencer
yesterday. __
W. D. McCord, of Ainsworth, was in
the city Monday.
John Brady, of AtkinBon, was in
O’Neill Monday.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. S. Barnard, on
July 25, a girl.
A. 'C. Crossman was down from
Atkinson Monday.
Editor Eves, of the Plain Dealer, was
in O’Neill Monday.
J. H. Engles, of Ida Grove, la., was
in the city Tuesday.
C. S. Anderson, a merchant of Lynch,
was in the city Monday.
Grant Hatfield spent several days in
Boyd county last week.
E
Ham Eautzman went down to Sioux
City yesterday morning.
Miss Martha Smith is visiting rela
tives in the country this week.
Br-Berry was looking after business
matters in Boyd county last week.
Stock sheep for sale. Address,
3-3 Fbbd Hott, Gordon, Neb.
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Price visited rel
atives near Chambers the first of the
week. _
This week is your last chance to buy
colored shoes at discount prices et J. P.
Mann’s. _
Use H. & G. remedy for black leg, as
preventative. For sale by Hershiser &
Gilligan. _ 50 tf
Mrs. E. H. Cress returned Monday
from a two weeks visit with friends at
Fremont.
Mrs. Tom Campbell is visiting friends
in the southeastern part of the county
this week. _
Will Lowrie returned last night from
Lincoln, where he is attending the
university. _
A large delegation of O’Neillites took
in the Barnum & Bailey circus at Sioux
City Monday.
A. W. McClure was up from Sioux
City Fridav looking after his business
interests here.
Dan Murphy, the genial proprietor of
the Atkinson roller mills, was in the
city Saturday.
The land office officials and clerks are
very busy this week, hearing Boyd
county contest cases.
These hot days nothing so refreshing
as Hershiser & Gilligan’s soda water.
Try it. Always cool. 50-tf
“Oh, but that is good!” is what the
ladies say when they drink soda water
at Hershiser & Gilligan’s.
The free silver democrats have issued
a call for a county convention to be held
in this city on August 23.
Mrs. B. F. Roberts returned Monday
evening from Page, where she had been
visiting relatives for a week.
Father Cassidy entertained the Sun
day school teachers with a picnic at
Haynes’ grove last Tuesday.
Chas. C. Primus, of Ewing, and Miss
Minnie Myers, of Deloit, were granted a
marriage license Tuesday.
We sell good flour, corn meal, graham,
bran, shorts, corn, oats, etc., at gold
standard prices. 33-tf L. Keyes.
The only shoulder brace that is not
uncomfortable when you "brace up.”
For sale by Hershiser & Gilligan, O’Neill,
Neb- __ 50-tf
For teeth or photos, go to Dr. Cor
bett’s parlors, 23rd to 30th of each
month. Photographs $1 per dozen.
John Belter, one of our most prosper
ous farmers, called at this ofllce Friday
and paid his subscription to January 1
1898. __ ’
Fred Anderson returned Monday
evening from a two weeks visit among
relatives in the eastern part of the
county. _
“What is a printer?" asks a New
York paper, and a Texas youth, who
had worked in a printing ofllce and lost
three fingers while running a job press,
replied, “a printer is a goll durned fool.”
Mies Maud Walker, of Atkinson, was
in O’Neill Monday, ordering the fall
stock for her millinery establishment in
Atkinson. _
Do not let the black leg get into your
herd. Prevent it by using the H. & G.
remedy for black leg, sold by Hershiser
& Gilligan. 50-tf
Miss Grace Pratt left this morning for
David City where she will visit for a
few weeks before proceeding to her
home at Osceola.
The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Carr, of Stafford, died last Sunday
afternoon and was buried in the Catholic
cemetery, in this city, Monday.
Ed Roraback was in from Slocum
Saturday and had his name enrolled
upon The Frontier subscription list.
Ed says he wants to get the news.
When figuring out a bill of goods for
harvest see us. We can fit you out at
gold standard prices.
3-2 O’Neill Grocery Co.
me l'ieugn nau team ran up against a
snag at Norfolk and West Point last
week. Judging from the score, 4 to 3,
the Norfolk game was worth going to
see. _
The Epworth League social which
was held last Friday evening on E. S.
Kinch’s beautiful lawn, was well attend
ed, and was a success both socially and
financially. _
Mr. and Mrs. Clevish, of Turner,
desire to extend their heartfelt thanks
to the many friends and neighbors who
so kindly assisted them during the sick
ness and death of their mother.
John Marsh, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Marsh, of this city, was married
to Miss Mars Earley at New Whatcomb,
Wash., last Saturday. John’s many
friends in this city wish them long life
and prosperity.
E. J. Stillwell and son returned from
England Monday night, where they had
been the past three months visiting
relatives. Tuesday morning E. J. called
at this office and paid his subscription
to January 1, 1898.
You may hunt the world over and you
will not find another medicine equal to
Chamberlan’e Colic, Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy for bowel complaints. It
is pleasant, safe and reliable. For sale
by P. C. Corrigan.
R. C. Wry and Lafe Flucky were up
from Chambers Saturday. Mr. Wry
came up to meet a niece who arrived on
the evening passenger from Canada.
She will spend the summer visiting her
relatives at Chambers.
E. E. Springer, of Sioux City, is in
the city this week. Mr. Springer is a
representative of the Farmers’ Loan and
Trust company, one of the largest bank
ing institutions in Iowa, and he is look
ing after their holdings in this county.
Sardines, potted ham, canned beef,
chipped beef, sweet and sour pickles,
cakes and wafers, and in fact a full line
of picnic or camping out goods. See us
before fitting out.
3-2 O’Neili, Grocery Co.
The board of supervisors awarded the
county fair appropriation, about $325,
to the Ewing agricultural society. The
officers of the Holt county agricultural
association, of this city, will probably
take the matter to the courts for settle
ment. _
Chicago Journal: “Now Willie,” said
the teacher to the second boy in the
geography class, “can you tell me why
it is that ‘the sun never sets on the
queen’s domains’ ?” “Well, pa says
there ain’t no tellin' what them fellers
would do after dark."
The members of the North Nebraska
Game Protective association, at Neligh.
are making it rather warm, for some of
the boyB along the line who are shipping
game. That’s right, enforce the law.
There’s no fun shooting chickens when
they are not able to fly.
"Last summer one of our grand-child
ren was sick with a severe bowel
trouble," says Mrs. E. G. Gregory, of
Frederickstown, Mo. “Our doctor’s
remedy had failed, then we tried Cham
berlan’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, which gave very speedy relief.”
For sale by P. C. Corrigan.
The kid nine from Shields crossed
bats with the O’Neill kids last Sunday,
ind won the game by a score of 23 to 18.
The game was quite interesting at times
ind was witnessed by a good sized
crowd. The boys are goiDg to tackle
them again as they believe they are able
to “do ’em.”_
Frank Phillips, of Star, was a caller
it this office Monday. While discussing
the political situation, Mr. Phillips made
i statement which, were it not for his
well known veracity, we would be
tempted to doubt. He said that there
was not a populist in his neighborhood
teeking office.
Ool. O. C. Bates, formerly of the
Atkinson Graphic but now of the Nor
folk Times, was in the city Saturday
and made this office a fraternal call.
The colonel is one of the best posted
and ablest newspaper men in the states
and The Frontier is pleased to lean*
that he is prospering.
Lynch Journal: On July 7 Rev. John
and Mrs. Judith Binkard, of Dorsey,
celebrated their diamond wedding. At
the gathering in honor of the event of
sixty years ago, the aged couple looked
upon their children's children even to
the fourth generation. The venerable
pair are enjoying robust health. >
Martin Wintermote had a scrap with
a “boar black pig” last Thursday and
came out second best in the encounter.
While loading the hog into a wagon it
1 attacked him and bit his leg quite badly.
Martin came to town and placed him
self under the care of Dr. Trueblood,
and in a few days was able to return
home.
j.1 o ou luuiuuuucui)' uut iiieso uttyH
that the water in the stand pipe boils,
and the city dads are seriously consider*
ing the scheme of laying a line of pipe
to conduct the steam back to the pump
house, and there utilize it to run the
pump. The saving in coal would more
than pay for the necessary pipe and the
| labor of laying it.
Mrs. Ellen Hawkins, of Sioux City,
died at her home in that city last Sun
day and was buried in the Catholic
cemetery here Tuesday morning. De
ceased was a sister of James and John
Riley, Short Line employees, of which
road Mr. Hawkins is also an employee.
The Frontier extends its sympathy to
the bereaved ones.
Ord Times: Eli H. Hoshawe, of
Page, Holt county, and Sallie Betsey
Maxson, of North Loup, were married
at the home of the bride Saturday nigbt
last and started out on life’s voyage
together with the best wishes of all
their friends. The groom has seen
69 summers and about the same number
of winters, while the bride is only 65
years old. _'
A couple of the members ef the school
board informed us that the reason the
board did not follow the instructions
given them by the electors at the annual
school meeting—that is to elect no
teachers but those having first-grade
certificates—was because there was not
enough applicants having certificates of
the required grade.
An exchange remarks that the young
man who sits around on the shady side
of the building and complains because
the "folks won’t buy him a bicycle’’
might profit by the experience of his
brother in ambition, who made one for
himself, using therefor the frame of his
mind, the wheels of his head, the seat
of bis pants, the rubber of his neck and
part of that tired feeling.
Mrs. Louisa Schuckai died at the resi
dence of her son, W. F. Clevish, at
Turner, last Thursday morning. De
ceased was born in Germany, July 1,
1821, and has made her home in this
country with her son for the last two
years.The interment took place in the
Pleasant V alley cemetery Friday after
noon, and the funeral was one of the
largest ever seen in that section.
An aggregation of second niners went
up.to Atkinson last Saturday to mop
the earth with the Atkinson ball team,
but they didn’t do it. When the boys
got back their tail feathers were all I
plucked and they looked as if the Atkin-1
son team had literally wiped the earth
with them. They used the lid of a dry
goods box for a score card, and when
the totals were footed they stood as j
follows: Atkinson 25, O’Neill 18.
judge maxwell presented a measure
to congress Monday authorizing the
Nebraska and Dakota bridge company
to construct and operate a bridge across
the Missouri river at or near Ponca,
Neb., to lay car tracks upon the same
and to charge railroads a reasonable
compensation for the use of the same
and to collect fees from wagons and
vehicles crossing. This is in further
ance of Donald McLean's latest Short
Line scheme.
About the nicest and coolest grocery
in the city is that of P. J. McManus' in
the basement of his store. He has fitted
up the room in a neat and artistic man
ner that reflects credit on his ability as
a successful merchant, and gives him an
opportunity to show his goods and the
room to accommodate his' numerous
customers. There are three entrances
to the store, one from Fourth street,
one from the inside of his dry goods and
shoe department and another in the rear
of the store, all of which are handy and
gives the public easy access to that
department. The success of Mr. Mc
Manus in business demonstrates what
frugality, good goods and ability in
handling them will accomplish even in
hard times.
The Holt count/ prohibition conven
tion will meet in the M. K. church in
O’Neill Tuesday, August 10, at 10 a. m„
to nominate a county ticket and to
transact any other business which may
properly come before us. All enemies
of the liquor traffic are invited to take
part with us. N. 8. Lowrib,
E. T. George, Chairman.
Secretary.
One ot our exchanges says a Nebraska
farmer wrote to a friend in the east try
ing to give him some idea of the soil
out here. He said they have to mow
the grass off the sod floor to find the
baby. One family near him had twin
babies with only one cradle, and the kid
who bad to sleep on the floor grew
twice as fast as the other. Where the
soil is richest a man dare not stand on
one foot any length of time lest one leg
becomes longer than the other and
bothers him in walking.
me iaaie* or the Presbyterian church
served a chicken pie supper in Dobbs’
park last evening, which was well pat
ronized, and a neat sum rewarded the
ladies (or their efforts. After supper
the guests amused themselves playing
tennis and croquet. Tkose who did not
care to indulge in games enjoyed* them
selves sitting in the swings and ham
mocks and lying on the grass and listen
ing to the sweet strains of music
rendered by Smith's orchestra. The
park is getting to be recognized as the
best place in town to hold a social or
spend an idle hour, and Mr. Dobbs
cannot receive too much praise for his
efforts in making it such.
Only two short weeks until the school
ma’ams, bless ’em, will be here—and
yet, when you come to think about it,
two weeks is a deuce of a long time to
wait. However, we can put in the time
getting ready and catching up sleep in
advance. It is reported as a fact that a
couple of our grass widowers were over
I heard the' other day laying plans and
Inquiring solicitously of each other
which smile was the most becoming,
while it is a notorious fact that Tom
Morris does his mustascbe up in curl
papers every night and John Weekes
takes a beauty nap every afternoon and
has two bits worth of musk laid safely
’4*ray-4urtil the dear oreature* arrive. -
Dodge Criterion, Guy Green editor:
We acknowledge a very pleasant visit
from Editor Saunders, of the Leigh
World, Monday and Tuesday. Brother
Saunders and the editor of this great
family journnl began to learn the craft
in the O’Neill Frontier office at about
the same time, washing the same rollers
and using venturesome paste out of the
same pot. And now that dame fortune
has seen fit to plant our feet in places
not far separate, we are thankful.
Editor Saunders is a thorough, practical
printer, well versed in current events,
and gives to the public the benefit of his
knowledge and experience through the
columns of one of the best weekly
papers in this part of the state.
Our bachelor foreman, Bays the Falls
City News, makes this observation: A
woman can come to a conclusion with
out the slightest trouble of reasoning,
and no one sane man can do that. Six
of them can talk at once and get along
first rate, and no two men can do that.
She can safely stick fifty pins in her
dress while he is getting one under his
thumb nail. She is as cool as a cucum
ber in half a dozen tight dresses and
skirts, while a man will growl and fume
in one loose shirt. She .can talk as
sweet as a peach to the woman she
hates, while two men would be punch
ing each other’s heads before they had
exchanged ten words. She can sharpen
a lead pencil if you give her time—and
plenty of pencils.
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Yesterday afternoon we received a
call from two of O’Neill's many beauti
ful and accomplished maidens, viz:
Miss Lettie Gillespie and Miss Kittie
McBride. It was partly a fraternal call,
as the young ladies have both “held
cases," and although it has been several
years since either of them touched a
“stick” yet neither had entirely for
gotten the “case,” and each gave a
practical demonstration of her ability
by “grabbing a stick and pulling out for
a few lines.” Now setting type makes
the hands dirty, and naturally they
wished to remove the dirt before going
out on the street, but when they saw
our towels—of which we have three
that we have been using, turn and turn
about thus saving the trouble of wash
ing them, for the last four years—they
concluded that their hands were dirty
enough already, and bade us “good
day," but soon returned bringing with
them a bran new towel with fringe on
each end, which they presented us with
their compliments, and the recommen
dation that we keep it clean, whjch we
intend to do, and have made arrange
ments to have it laundried once every
six months even if it breaks us up in
business. The young ladies will please
accept our thanks, and a pressing invi
tation to call again.
Saunders Bros., of Badger, have sev
eral car loads of mill machinery on the
tracks here, and they propose to erect a
first-class flour mill at this place, pro
vided they can secure the use of the mill
race. _‘ a
Typographical Journal: “What's the
matter?” inquired the foreman, as he
entered the sanctum for copy and noted
the editor’s bleeding nose, swollen fore
head, puffed red eye and tattered dusty
coat. "Pall down stairsr “No, only
that,” replied the editor, pointing with
his finger to a paragraph in the paper
before him. “It’s our account of the
Crapley—Smith wedding. It ought to
read: ‘Misa Smith’s dimpled, shinning
face formed a pleasing contrast with Mr.
Crapley’a strong, bold physiognomy.’
But see how It was printed." And the
foreman read, “Miss Smith’s pimpled
skinny face formed a pleasing contact
with Mr. Crapley’s stony bald physiog
nomy.” “Crapley was just in here,"
continued the editor, throwing one
blood streaked handkerchief into the
waste basket and feeling in his pockets
for a clean one, ‘ and he—but just send
that fool of a proof reader in here,
there’s fight left in me yet.”
Last Sunday W. J. Dobbs drove out
to the experimental (arm and brought
back samples of grain that grew side by
side in the same field, one being grown
under the old system and the other
under the new. And what a difference.
Wheat grown under the old pystem had
heads about two inches long, with straw
no larger than a knitting needle and an
average height of about fifteen inches,
and is nearly ready to cut; while the
other has heads that will average four
inches long, a large kernel that is hot
nearly filled yet, with a large strong
stalk and is of a dark green color and
will not be ripe for two or three weeks
yet. Under the old way one and one*
half bushels of seed was sown to the
acre, the result being that when it came
up it did not stool at all but sent up one
spindly stalk from each grain of seed,
while the other was drilled in rows
twenty inches apart, one peck of seed
being sown to the acre, and it has
stooled out sufficiently to nearly cover
the intervening space between the rows,
jutd from seventeen .to .twenty staUut
spring up from one grain of seed. Mr.
Campbell estimates that the yield under
his method will be 250 per cent, greater
than the yield under the old.
Ord times: The O’Neill board of
education elected Miss Thompson assist
ant principal last Friday evening at a
salary of ISO per month. This is a nice
adxance in salary over what she received
the past year, and the high school being
less than half as large as the Ord the
work will not be so trying to the nerves.
Miss Thompson has given six years of
faithful service to the Ord schools, and
has earned a reputation that will insure
her a lucrative position wherever she
may go. Her host of friends here, While
regretting to Iobc her from the schools,
admire her spirit in refusing to accept a
reelection in Ord—this year. Her suc
cessful management of the Ord high
school in its crowded condition the past
two years, 112 being enrolled this year,
stamps her as an excellent diciplinarian,
and she is a natural teacher. The Ord
high school had non-resident pupils
from Valley, Custer, Garfield, Blaine
and Loup counties the past year attract
ed by our excellent schools. No small
amount of the praise for the good repu
tation of the schools is due to Miss
Thompson’s excellence as a teacher.
Miss Thompson’s Christian character is
a most potent influence for good not
only in the school room but out of it.
Ord loses the best assistant principal
she ever had and O’Neill is the gainer
thereby.
Occasionally some one bobs up to tell
us that alfalfa is too uncertain a crop
for the farmer to attempt to do any
thing with, says the Nebraska Farmer.
We admit that there are conditions not
favorable to the growth of the plant,
but such conditions are not apt to be
found on one side the road while on tbe
other are as fine fields of growing alfalfa
as the eye ever beheld. Some of those
who are up in arms against alfalfa are
met by just such a contradiction. Many
others say their alfalfa did notably well
the first year, then it died out. The
thing to do then is to sow it over, or
perhaps put it on different ground. It
is perhaps worth all it costs to clean up
a piece of ground and put in shape for a
seed bed for a piece of alfalfa. Where
the crop therefore shows a disposition
to grow, as it does in most parts of
Nebraska, there is no good excuse for
not keeping it growing every year on
some part of the farm. There are some
new things to be learned about the plant
and the way to learn them is to get on
terms of familiarity with its way of
doing. There is any quantity of fine
alfalfa growing in Nebraska this year,
and it is only a question of a few years
when farmers will grow it for pasture as
commonly as they do corn for feeding
purposes. Tou can not very long ignore
a crop that grows as luxurantly as does
alfalfa.
STATS MAT OOSTSST FOB AMBTS. “ '
Bee: There U a prospect of a lively
legal controversy between the state
authorities and the depositors of the
Exchange bank, of Atkinson, over the -
possession of what available assets are
left from the collapse of the institution.
Attorney-General Smyth paid a visit to
Atkinson last week and made a personal f
examination of the books, which has
convinced him that the state will have
no difficulty in appropriating the assets
on aocount of the Bartley shortage/
Mr. Smyth says that Mr. Bartley holds *
certificates of deposit from the bank ;H
amounting to 108,000, and there will be
no difficulty in proving that at least •
•45,000 pf this amount was state money,
The state filed a claim to the funds some
time ago and the issue will probably be
tried at the September term of court,
The.stockholders have organized and.,
employed an attorney to contest the
claim of the state. The assets are sup
posed to amount to about $30,000, or
leas than half the amount which Mr.
Smyth expects to show the state had on
deposit. That being,the case the assets
will not be sufficient to satisfy the
of the state, and if the attorney-general
succeeds in establishing the correctness
of his position the depositore will not
get a dollar.
Tb» Discovery laved HU ift.
Mr. G. Gaillouette, druggist, Beavers
▼ill*. HI-. *ays: “To Or. King’s Now
Discovery I owe my life. Was taken '
with lagrippe and tried all the physio*
Ians for miles abont, bnt was of no
avail and was given up and told 1 could -
not live. Having Dr. King’s New DIs- '
covery in my store I sent for a bottle
and began its use and from the first dose
began to get better, and after using ....
three bottlee was up and about again. It
is worth iu weight in gold. We won’t *
keep store or house without it.” Get a "
free trial at Corrigan’s drug store. .,1
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ntmun,
The Holt county teachers' institute >•
will commence in O'Neill on Monday,
August 10, and continue for two weeks.
The annual examination will be held on
Friday, and Saturday, Auguat 18 and 14,
in the high school building. All those -
intending to teach thin yeg*.are earnest *.
ly requeeted to attend.
J. C. Mobbow,
County Superintendent.
Xiddle Braaeh.
It is very dry at this writing.
Arthur Bolder visited at P. T. Bleyena
last Saturday and Sunday.
Last Sunday while a number of Mid
dle Branch boys were running horses*
the horse that Ed Bright was riding
stumbled, throwing Ed off and breaking
his collar bone. Dr. Skelton was called,
and under his care Ed is getting along
nicely.
Hay making is the order of the day.
Mrs. M. L. Bright is on the sick list.
llsotris Bitters.
Electric Bitters is a medicine suited
for any season, but perhaps more gener
ally needed, when the languid ex
hausted feelings prevails, when the liver
ia torpid and sluggish and the need of. a
tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt .
use of this medicine has often averted
long and perhapa fatal bilious fevers.
No medicine will act more surely in
counteracting and freeing the aystem
from the malarial poison. Headache,
indigestion, constipation, dizziness,
yield to Electric Bitters. 60 cents and
01.00 per botttle at P. C. Corrigan’ -
Drug Store.
Ballard's now iniment.
This InnluAle remedy > io one that
ought to be in every household. It will
cure your rheumatism, neural Iga,
sprains, cuts, bruises, burns, frosted
feet and ears, sore throat and sore cheat.
If you have lame back it will cure it.
It penetrates to the seat of the disease.
It will cure stiff Joints and contracted
muscles after all other remedies have
failed. Those who haye been cripples
for years have used Ballard’s Snow
Liniment and thrown away their
crutches and been able to walk as well
as ever. It will cure you. Price 50 -
cents. Pree trial bottles at P. C.
Corrigan’s.
A MIDSUMMER
PICNIC.
For the next two weeks we will cut
prices on all Summer Dress Goods, Shirt
Waists, Parasols, Ladies’ Suits and
Wraps, Hen’s Straw Hats and Summer
Coats and Vests and all Ladies’ and
Children’s Low Shoes. Our discounts ’*
will range from 20 to 50 per cent,
and as the summer is but half spent you
can make some very profitable invest*
ments. We want to close out every
dollars worth of summer goods we can
to make room for our new fall stock
which will be bigger and better than'
ever. Yours truly,.
Jv P. MANN. 1
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