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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1898)
x«brask» Hiitoricfcl so ciety ' ■»v >■* jf • v '** '•- \i X: * yfi PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO. 8Ua80RIPTION. <1.80 PER ANNUM. D. H. CRONIN, EDITOR AND MANAGER. VOLUME XIX. O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, AUGUST 4. 1898. NUMBER 5. Items of Interest Told As They Are Told to Us. WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED Loca Happening* Portrayed For General Edification and Amusement. Q. W. Smith was in Sioux City Sat urday. _ James O’Donnell came down from At Sunday. _ Bail ties and wire always on hand a Neil Brennan’s. 16-tf Tom Birmingham was in Atkinson Sunday night. John A. Harmon went down to Lin coln Monday. Choice candies, fruits and nuts at Mrs. Laura Cress’. 5-3 Mrs. Little is visiting friends in Boyd county this week. Jake Hershiser was up from Norfolk the last of the week. Mrs. A. U. Morris is over at Spencer this week visiting friends. Rev. M. F. Cassidy was in Boyd county the first of the week. Miss Kate Mann was over from Spencer the first of the week. Miss Alice Stewart is in Omaha this week attending the exposition. Dr. O’Neill was in Spencer last week looking after his business interests. Miss Lizzie Grady, of Waterloo, Iowa, is in the city visiting her brother, Ed. MisB Anna Murphy was over from Spencer Tuesday. She returned Wednes day. _ Tess O’Sullivan was in Spencer visit ing her sister, Helen, for a few days last week. Jack Davidson came up the road Tuesday night for a visit friends with relatives. Miss Anna Cross apd Miss Lavina Morrow, of Atkinson, were in the city yesterday. _ _ H. E. Seaman, representing the Car penter Paper Co., of Omaha, was in the ^pitv yesterday. Mike Welsh, who is in business at Ssotia, Greeley county, is in the city visiting friends. S. C. Cox, of Sioux City, was in O’Neill Tuesday in the interests of the Tribune of that place. Mrs. Sanders, of Chicago, arrived in the city Sunday evening and is visiting Mrs. O. M. Collins. Dennis Reader, a representative of the Chamberlain Medicine Co., was in O’Neilll last Friday. George Blinco arrived in this city Monday night from Oldan Mo., and will visit friends for a week. Ernest Adams started for South Dakota last week, where he will work during the harvest season. Mrs. T. F. Birmingham returned from Atkinson Wednesday morning where she had been visiting friends, For teeth or photos go to Dr. Cor bett’s parlors, 23rd to 30th of each month. Photographs $1 per dozen. C. Jay Leonard, of Sioux City was in O’Neill last Friday. Mr. Leonard repre sents the Chicago Newspaper Union. Yesterday the editorial desk was dec orated with a beautiful bouquet of flow ers the gift of Miss Bessie Deyarnam. FOR SALE—Span of four-year pld V mules. Call at my place two miles east of O'Neill. Peter Toohill. On Wednesday, August 3, Judge Selah united in marriage Harley D. Tracy and Miss Blanche Culp, both of Page. Full blooded,registered Hereford bulls cows and heifers for sale by W. C. Fawkes, 4 miles north of O’Neill. 44-tf Con Keyes has purchased the old Gwin property on Fourth street and ex pects to use it for his flour and feed store. Bentley’s is the place to go for freBh fruits and fresh groceries and for crockery and glassware. They cannot be beat. J. W. Galleher, one of Atkinson’s prominent business men, was in the city Tuesday and made a pleasent call at this office. Any one wanting a good, heavy work horse for a month, for his keeping, can be accomodated by calling on R. H. Jenness, at the land office. On our bargain counter we have all kinds of useful household articles, which we are selling at prices that can’t be beat. Mrs. Laura Cress. 5-3 Fred Hills, of Sioux City, Iowa, came up tbe road Saturday evening and spent Sunday fishing with the boys at the lakes east of town. Lafe Fluckey, of Chambers, was in town Monday. He is disposing of his property in the south country and ex pects to seek anew location. Miss Kittie Dwyer lett for Kellerton Iowa, last Monday morning to be present at the wedding of Prof. E. H. Whelan and Miaa Susie Quilty. Col. A. L- Towle, of Valentine, passed through O’Neill Friday ’morning on his way to Niobrara. The Colonel looks hale and hearty and is well pleased with his new home. A torpid liver robs you of ambition and ruins your health. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers cleanse the liver, cure con - stipation and all stomach and liver troubles.—J. P. Cilligan Co. Thousands of persons have been cured of piles by using DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It heals promptly and cures ec zema and all skin diseases. It gives mmediate relief.—J. P. Gilligan. C. J. Schubert returned from Chicago last week where he had been visiting relatives for a couple of weeks. His mother accompanied him and will spend a tew weeks visiting in this city. ^ Do not forget that 1 am headquarters for gasoline and kerosene, and the best machine oil on the market. The only Blossburg blacksmith coal in the city. Call at the coal yard. P. J. Biglin. Bob Moore, of La Fayette, Indiana, says that for constipation he has found DeWitt’s Little Early Risers to be per fect. They never gripe. Try them for stomach and liver troubles.—J. P. Gil ligan. M. F. Harrington, J. C. Morrow, John Donahue and M. H. McCarty went down to Lincoln Monday to attend the popu list state convention. E. S. Eves of Atkinson, was also on the train bound for Lincoln on the same mission. A Kansas editor claims to own a Per sian lilac bush over twenty-five feet in diameter. The Denver Post says that j an editor who can lilac that must be invaluable to his party in a local cam paign, and the Post is authority on such matters. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Gilligan are rejoic- J ing over the arrival of a 7-pound boy at| their home this morning. The Doctor feels so good over the arrival of John Phillip, jr.. that he has been giving away choice Havanas by the dozen and says he is the cutest little boy in town. We have a seperate company group of each company in the 3rd Nebraska Reg iment. A splendid group of Col. Bryan and staff. Also regimental groups. All are fine. Sell at 60 cents each, post-paid, or $6.00 per dozen, post-paid. H. Lan caster, 1518 Dodge st., Omaha, Neb. J. C. Gromer and wife passed through O’Neill Friday morning on their way home to McFall, Mo., after a ten day s visit with friends in the southern jwirt of the county, John says old Holt looks like it did in the good old days and that when populists cease to reign it will be a paraton. Dr. C. V. Crooks, the well-known specialist of Fremont, Nebr., will be in O’Neill on the morning of August 5 until Monday morning August 8, three days only. Dr. Crooks successfully treats all diseases of the nerves, diseases of women and chronic ailments. Piles positively cured without the knife. Consultation free. A. Peterson, one of Holt county’s most prosperous furmers living near Agee was a caller at this office yesterday morning. Mr. Peterson said that crops in his sectiou were better than he had ever seen them in this county and as good as they ever were in the most proli fic in Iowa. You can not keep a good county down and old Holt is bound to get to the front. A Washington special to the World Herald of Tuesday says that Adelbert Baker, of Nebraska, has been appointed clerk in the O’Neill land office at a salary of $900. Mr. Baker is an old Holt county boy, having settled and lived with bis parents near Atkinson from 1885 to 1895, when they moved to Fre mont. His uncle, Dave Baker, still re sides two or three miles northeast of Atkinson. Ewing Advocate: A very severe thunder storm visited the Cache creek people last night. At Albert Rotelun tuer’s lightning diminished a few shingles from the roof of his barn after which it run down a post and killed a team belonging to J. J, Harrington of O’Neill. Several other teams were in the barn at the time but all escaped un injured. Mr. Harrington and Mr. McCathy who was with him at the time were compelled to drive to Ewing today and took the noon freight for O’Neill. Some time ago, a little bottle of Cham berlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy fell into my hands, just at a time when my two-year old boy was terribly aflllcted. His bowels were be yond ; control. We had tried many remedies, to no purpose, but the little bottle of Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy cured him.—William F. Jones, Oglesby, Qa. For sale by P. C. Corri gan, druggist._ The residence of M. M. Sullivan, In the western part of the city was gutted by fire last Tuesday morning about 3 o’clock. There was no one at home at the time Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan and family being over at Spencer looking after their business interests there. Most of the furniture was destroyed by either fire or water. The orign of the fire is unknown. We have not learned whether there was any insurance or not. The United States land office in this city received 810,000.00 more during the fiscal year ending July 1, 1898, than dur ing the previous year. During the fiscal year ending July 1, 1897, the office received 836,200.57, while the amount received during the past year is 846,105. 88. This showing is quite pleasing to the offices uf the local office and it will probably place the O’Neill office at the head of the offices in the United States. The republican caucuses were held in the several wards of this city last Sat urday and the delegations to the con vention were all elected unaminously and without any friction. The follow ing delegates were elected from the several wards: First ward—B. A. De yarnam, D. H. Cronin and S. J. Weekes. Second ward—E. M. Merriman, Clyde King and E. S. Kinch. Third ward— C. C. Milliard, John Bkirving, Charles Davis and R. R. Dickson. Grand Island Democrat: We were told a pretty good story yesterday about a justice of the peace up near Boelus who hadn’t married many people and who felt called upon to he somewhat solemn on a recent occasion. “Do you realize the full extent of the obligations that you are assuming?" he asked flic groom. “S-s-s-h!" cautioned the bribe. “Course he don’t, Jedge, or he’d cut an*" run, but what’s that to you? 'Taint your business to scare him off, is it? Ain’t you goiu’ to give a poor woman no show at all?” Leigh World: The other day a repre sentative of a cheap printing house went into one of our stores, walked up to the desk and remarked: “I can print you them for half what you pay here,” pointing to a tablet of note heads. The proprietor told him he didn’t care a rap what he could print them for, as he wouldn’t get any work out of him as long as there was anybody in town to do his printing. These "tourists” put up a great talk about selling things cheap, but it will be noted that in all cases they put up a cheap line of goods. Moreover, what money they take out of the town is unlike the cat, "it never comes back.”_ Mr. A. C. Wolfe, of Dundee, Mo., who travels for Mansur & Tibbetts, Im plement Co., of St. Louis, gives travel ing men and travelers in general some good advice. "Being a Knight of the Grip,” he says, "I have for the past three years, made it a rule to keep my self supplied with Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and have found numerous occasions to test its merits, not only on myself, but on others as well. I can truly say that I never, in a single instance, have known it to fail. I consider it one of the best remedies travelers can carry and could relate many instances where I have used the remedy on skeptics, much to their surprise and relief. I hope every traveling man in the C. S. will carry a bottle of this remedy in his grip.” For sale by P. C. Corrigan druggist. E. H. Whelan and Miss Susie Quilty, both of this city, were married at Kel lerton, Iowa, at 12 o’clock, Wednesday, August 3, 1898, at which place the bride’s parents reside. Prof. Whelan is principal of the O'Neill public schools and during his residence of one year in this city has made many warm friends. His bride has resided in O'Neill for the past five years, the greater part of which time she has been a teacher in the O’Neill high schools, and by her lady-like manner and sweet disposition has made friends of all with whom she became acquainted. The young couple enter upon the journey of life together under the most favorable auspices and with the well wishes of their numerous friends in this city, among whom The Frontier desires to be classed. They will visit the exposition at Ornah^ for a couple of weeks and expect to arrive in O’Neill the latter part of the month. Bears the Signature O The Kind You Hate Always Bought FROM COMPANY M. The following letter was written by J. Farnsworth, a private in company M, Third Nebraska, to bis father D. S Farnsworth, of Page. As anything re garding company M will be of Interest to Holt county people, Mr. Farnsworth has kindly allowed us to publish it. Camp Cuba Lirrb, Jacksonville, Fa. July 24, 1808, Dear Friends: I said I would write more when I had more time, so now I ! will try to tell you of my 2,000 mile ride. After we left Omaha, the first stop of any importance was at Avoca, Iowa, where we got coffee. I went to bed just after we left Avoca and didn’t waken until we were nearing Grinnell, the next morning. We stopped at West Liberty and Davenport for coffee. I thought of our visit at the latter place in '93, as we were returning from the World’s Fair when war was farthest from our thoughts. We rode on the Rock Island railroad to La Salle Illnois, where our train was switched over on the Illnois Central railroad and we began the long, long trip to the sunny sooth land. The scenery was nothing very fine, and the crops in Illnois are not nearly so good as in Nebraska. We crossed the Illnois river on Wednesday morning. It is a very nice stream, the bridge is about three-quarters of a mile long, be sides a trestle on each side of the bridge about one-hnlf a mile long. Leaving Illnois, we rode through the edge of Kentucky, then I began to realize we were really going south. Small cabins with (the old-fashioned "chiinbly" corners, such tts we read in old plan tation stories and which E. P. Roe, has so graphically described in his works,) began to take the place of the thrifty northern farm houses. We stopped at a small town in Kentucky. I gave a little piccaninny a penny to jig for me, you would have laughed to have seen him “hoe it down.” Leaving Kentucky, we continued our southern course through Tennesee ar riving at Nashville in the evening. At this place we all left the trnin, and we parched to a large stone hall where the ladies served us a very nice lunch, nnd also gave each man a box of lunch to takeulong. Just after we left Nashville we passed the battlefield of Murfrees boro and saw the burying ground of the soldiers killed in that battle. Thursday morning we passed through Chattanooga, Tennesee and got a glimpse of Lookout mountain but missed seeing Missionary Ridge, the boys said we had just passed it. Here at Chatta nooga Spanish sympathizers tried to de rail our train. They made two attempts and succeeded in smashing a freight train pretty badly. The next sight worth seeing was the Tennesee river, the bridge is not very grand, but the stream is the nicest I ever saw, there was scarcely any current and the surface looked like a mirror at the place we crossed, we could see straight down the river for 0 or 8 miles. Next we went into Georgia. The soil in this state is the queerest I ever saw, it is as red as brick and looks just like brick dust. We got to Macon Georgia about 6 o’clock and were back ing on the switch, when a switch engine going at the rate ot 30 miles per hour, smashed into the rear of our train, and broke the caboose into one mass of splinters, twisted and smashed the end out of the rear coach, too, no one was hurt, but all were badly shaken up, and I nearly cracked my head. The next morning we were still i speeding southward through Georgia j and soon passed into Florida, arriving j in Jacksonville about 9 a. m. Friday. We go bathing in the St. Johns river, salt water. It is the finest kind of a bath. | It is not any hotter here than in Nebraska Sampson’s dispatch boat. Dauntless, came over from Cuba yester day and anchored in the Jacksonville harbor. Also the torpedo boat, Miami, was sailing around in this vicinity. I heard she wns examining the mouth of the St. Johns river. When we came through Atlanta, we passed the barracks where four hun dred wounded Santiago soldiers are stationed. I tell you we did cheer them. Torrey’s rough ridert are camped just across the railroad from the 3rd Nebraska. There are about 16,000 of Lee’s army here. We are in the 3rd division of the 7th army corps. The 40th and 50th Iowa are here. Company G, from Vin ton are in the 49th. I am going to visit them as soon as I can get a pass. It is rumored about camp that we are going to start for San Francisco tomor* row, but I don’t think its o true report. 1 got some relics along the way and will send them home now, for you to take care of. The folks down here are crazy over Col. Bryan. My! how we were cheered all along the line. The niggars were especially demonstrative and en thusiastic. You can address me here and I will fret it all right. If I never come back I hope to meet you all where war and suffering is no more. Jay B. Farnsworth LAN8W0RTH—WREDE. At tho home of the bride’s father, Mr. P. J. Lanswortb, on July 28, 1808, at four o'clock p. m., occurred the marriage of his eldest daughter. Miss Addie Lans worth to Mr. Charles Wrede Jr. The beautilul and impressive cere mony was performed by Rov. A. W. DeWitt, in the presence of the relatives of the bride and groom. The wedding supper, consisting of all delicies of the season, was served im* mediately after the ceremony, and seveial invited friends were 1 present to do honor to the occasion, Shortly after the wedding ceremony 'the bride and groom arrived and were warmly greeted by the assembled friends. The feast was a rich one and those present agree that everthing was the best and greatly appreciated. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wrede; Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Thomp son; Mr. and Mrs. O. F Biglin; Mr. and Mrs. J. Pfund; Mr. and Mrs. L. Simon son; Mr. aud Mrs. Lanswortb; Mr. and Mrs. P. lleckle; Mrs. Weekes; Messrs, Blinco, Simonson, Bowden, Spangler, Fleener, and the Misses Lanswortb, Weekes and Bowden. The newly wed ded couple received many useful and costly presents. The bride looked beautiful in g, dress of cream cassimcre, tiimmed in lace ribbon and orange • blossoms. The groom wore the customary suit of black. The best wishes of the whole com munity are theirs. *** Review of Reviews: Another radical cause of the inefficiency of the Spanish navy is the enlisted men, whose condi tion seems worse than in any other ser vice. He is kidnapped by unscrupulous agents, as was the custom in the time of Frederick the Great and George ill, be sotted and stolen from his home in the provinces or from the taverns along the" seaport towns, and carried aboard ship to lose his freedom forever. He is beaten without mercy for the slightest offense and sometimes killed. Naturally j these soldiers desert at every oppor tunity, and numbers of them are said to have gotten away from the ships Spain sent to our naval review at New York. Men who have been any time in such drudgery can have no self-respect nor esprit de corps, and it is not surprising thev had to be filled with wine at San tiago and threatened with revolvers before they would go out to meet the Americans. Again Spain's naval officers are appointed as a rule from the ranks of the nobility, just as were the colonial officers in Cuba and the Philippines, not because of their fitness to command a ship, but because the particular family of influence to which they belong wished it. And, lastly, the lack of mechanical genius in the national character had compelled the government to employ on their warships English and Scotch engineers, all of whom, as a matter of course, gave up their places when it came to fighting their own race. Con sequently the greater part of the engines and boilers were piomptly ruined.—From "The Battle With Cer vera’s fleet Off Santiago," by Winston Churchill, in the American Monthly Review of Reviews for August. A GOOD TIME To buy summer goods. It is just the time to wear them and you get the benefit of our anxiety to close them out, many of them below cost. Summer Dress Goods. Fine Ginghams for waists that we sold at 50 cents now 38 cents. Thirty cent organdies and all other cotton goods reduced to 19 cents. Twenty-five cent lawns and demi ties now 17 cents. All 20'cent summes dress goods only 17 cents. All 15-cent summer dress goods 11 cents. All 12cent summer dress goods 9 cents. All 10-cent summer dress goods 7 cents. Organdie lining worth 9c now 6c. All ous soft front shirt waists 25 per cent discount All parasols and fine umbrellas 20 per cent, discount. All our late styles sapes and jack ets 33 per cent, discount. We have 25 old style jackets worth from $5.00 to $10.00 that you can buy for $1.50 each. Assorted lot ladies’ vests worth JO to 05 cents each to be closed at 25 cents each. Ladies Oxford ties latest styles: Worth $3.75 now $2.48. Worth $3.00 now $2.25.' Worth $2.50 now $1.05. Worth $1.50 now $1.18. Big line of old style Oxfords worth from $1.50 to $3.00 to close at 98 cents. Good line of childs’ and misses tan bntton shoes to close at 50 per cent, discount, best value in the house at the price. We are closing a line of misses heavy button shoes, best quality, at 33£ per cent discount. For the Men. Twenty-five per cent discount. The remainder of our stock of light weight summer clothing. Thirty-three and one-third per cent cisoount on all our men’s and and boy’s straw-hats. J. P MANN. Sunday School Convention On September 27 30, will meet in Omaha, the moat important gathering of Sunday School workers ever bold in the west. The Trans-Mississippi Sunday School Congress, the first of its kind, will be composed of Sunday School workers from all the states of the great middle west. A rich program is being prepared. Up-to-date topics and methods wilt be presented by such men as B. F. Jacobs, chairman of the World's Snnday school convention; Dr. Jesse T. Hurlbut, editor of the Sunday school perodicals of the M. E. church; Prof. H. M. Hamill and and Hugh Cork, international field workers; W. J. Semelroth, editor of Sunday School Evangel, St. Louis; Marion Lawrence, general secretary Ohio State Sunday school Association, and a number of other equally promi nent leaders. The morning hours will be devoted to convention work, two aftcrnoous will be given up to recreation and sight seeing, and three great evening inass meetings will be addressed by some of the brightest men of the day. Friday, September 30, will be Ne braska Day when the business of the state convention will be transacted. To transact the business pertaining to the Btate work, every Sunday school in the state is requested to send three delegates. Any pne may attend and get the benefit of the instruction given by these leaders in the work, as well as the fellowship of the multitude of workers from all parte of the west, who will be present, and all be welcome. Owing to the circumstances, it will be impossible to (nrniah free entertainment to delegatee, but an efficient committee will be appointed to secure suitable and convenient rooms at reasonable rates for those who desire. Low railroad rates will prevail. Blank credentials and copy of pro gram, when printed, will be sent upon application. E. J. Wiohtman, Secretary. York, Nebraska. Win your battles against disease by .acting promptly. One Minute Cough Cure produces immediate results. When taken early it prevents consumption. And in later stages it furnishes prompt relief.—J. P. Gilligan. E. C. Blanks, of Lewisville, Texas, writes that one box of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve was worth $50 to him. It cured his piles of ten years standing. He advises others to try it. It also cures eczema, skin diseases and obstinate sores.—J. P. Gilligan. The Chief Burgess of Milesburg, Pa., says DeWitt’s Little Early Risers are the best pills he ever used in his family du'r log forty years of housekeeping. They cure constipation, sick headache and stomach and liver troubles. Small in size but great in results.—J. P. Gilligan. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of