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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1899)
-•*bnuk». Hiitorical so >lv THE t RONTIER. PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO. SUCnORIPTION, *1.60 PER ANNUM D. H. CRONIN EDITOR AND MANAGER. VOLUME XIX. O’NEILL. HOLT COUNTY. NEBRASKA, APRIL 13 1899. NUMBER 41. Corbett’s best $1.00 per dozen. 22tf. Charles Cole was at Atkinson Sunday. Pat McCoy Is clerking at McCafferty’s. Mrs. J. Ii. Mack was ill the past week. JiJtmer Merrinjan wag in the city Fri day. _ John Carr was up from Stafford Mon day. S. J. Weekes was in Omaha last week. Lewis Storms of Spencer was in town Sunday. _ S A. Hiatt was up from Amelia last Monday. E Opp of Stuart had business in town Tuesday. _ J.'J. Hallorap of {nipan wjrs in the city Tuesday. Bail ties and wire always on hand at Neil Brennan’s. lG-tf Quv Saberson visited with his parents pt Allen last week. John McNichols departed on Mon day for Butte, Mont. Don’t iniss the lady minstrels at the opera house the 15th. George Raymer of Atkinson whs an O'Neill visitor Monday.• FOIt SALE—Young ash trees Patrick Fahy. Lady jpinsijels at the opera house Saiurday evening. April lb Ne’.l Brennan is building another ad dition to his hardware store. Mike Flannigan is in the city this week visiting old-time friends. A. Mcrril and Charles Cole were in l}ie vicinity of Amelia yesterday. Janitor Kline has furnished needed repairs to the court house sidewalk. WANTED—Choice, well sorted po ■ atoo s at O’Neibr Grocery Co. John Sklrving riturned from a busi ness trip to Omaha last Friday night. Ducan Claik’s lady minstrels at the Copeia houseSatuiday evening, April 15. The Odd Fellows will put a new roof pn |heir hall building in tne near future. Deputy Revenue Collector Carl T, Seely of Madison was iu the city Tues day. _ FOR RENT—The Cavanaugh house and 12 acres of ground, Enquire of R. R. Dickson. Mrs. C. L. Brownlee of near Page yisited in O’Neill Tuesday, the guest of Mrs. Dunbar. WANTED—A girl for general house work. Small family. Apply to Mrs. 11. II. Jenness. John McLIugh was up from Sioux City last Sunday looking after business interests here. FOR SALE—Thirty head of white faced Hereford youngjbulis. Jacob Kraft, Stuart, Neb. We hear that Qeorge Sanders pnd Miss Nellie Stanton of Agee arc to be united iu marriage today. The Frontier learns that Mr. Wade has bought tin G;.u,>henbaugh ranch southwest of O’Neill A1 William*, a real estate dealer from Meadow Grove, was locating parties northeast of Inman this week W. D Bowman, who came to O’Neill last week to work at Price’s barber shop, returned to Wisner Friday. The Frontier subscription list is growing steadily. Now is the time to become enrolled. Only $1.50 a year. For teeth and photos, go to Dr. Cor bett’s parlors 23rd >o 30th, of each month. Photographs $1 a dozen. 80tf When you go east take the “Mil waukee” frofn Sioux City. Try it once and you will be sa’isfied with the re sult 12tf. Allen News: Oscar Sayre and family contemplate moving to Uolt county in the near future, Mr. Sayre will try farming. If you are going to paper your house this spring don’t fail to 6ee Gilligan and Stout’s line of beautiful patterns now on display. 37tf. The ditch company has recently got in a One string of cows and heifers which they intend selling to cattle men of Ilolt county. If you want anything of that kind see them. For good service and quick t.me. route your freight from Chicago and the east via the C. M. & St. P. Ry., in connection with the 8. C. O’N, & W Ry. 12tf. W. A. Shafer, representing the E. W. Backus Lumber Co , of Minneopolis, was in the city yesterday and called. Col. Neil Brennan has had a well put down at his park for irrigation pur poses and will put in miniature water works. _ The Working soceity of the Presby terian church will meet with Mrs. Meri- j thew Weduesday afternoon, April 19, at j % o’clock. Vacant buildings are becoming very rare in this city. There is not a vacant building suitable for business purposes in the city. lienry Zimmerman next week will commence gathering cream for the Venus creamery through the territory northwest of town. Bishop Graves of Omaha will preach in the Episcopal church in this city Sunday morning at 11 o’clock Several j children will confirmed. Tl}e casqalilies pi the Philllplnca from February 4, 1SG9, inclusive, as reported to the adjutant general, are killed, 181, wounded, 98G. Total 1,160. The remnants of the Sun plant went to sale Saturday last, John McHugh of Sioux City Ridding it in through his agent, M F. Harrington. Walter O’Malley still bolds the trophy as the best shot in Shields township, by shooting two geese last Thursday, one of which weighed eighteen pounds. The Twenty-first annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held at York, May 10 and 11, public installation and camp fire the llth The Frontier force has been on the I Jump Ill's week getting located in our old home, hence has not had the usual lime to deyote to getting up the paper Judge Allen of Madison was in the city yesterday to try the case between Bovier and Nehr, which was continued when the judge was here a few weeks ago. _ _ Oh, no; advertising doesn't bring returns. Last Thursday The Frontier advertised a bag of seeds to be given away. By Saturday, seeds and sack were gone. The Lady Royal Highlanders enter tained after lodge session at their hall Tuesday evening. Supper was served and a general good time had by all members present. An item last week in these columns relative to some trouble between Mike Fallon and George Gaughenbaugh wrb slightly Incorrect. George was not in it; but a brother of bis. The blooming of vernal spring is about the most welcome article of weather handed out for several months It was a little slow coining, but is all right now that it’s here. It costs the people of the United States $255,000 000 annually for getting born, $300,000,000 for getiing married $75,000,000 for getting buried and $1, 425,000,000 for getting druuk. Miss Flora Lowrte of O’Neill, with Miss Ethel Morley of Arlington, took second place in the dramatic class at the oratorical contest at Norfolk last week. The two were considered equally goofi. E- Johnson of Marinelta, Wis., a brother-in-law of D. J. Sparks, arrived in O'Neill recently and will spend the summer in the county. Mr. Johnson is interested with Mr. Sparks in some cattle. Rev. Father Harrington of Kearney, Neb , arrived in the city Monday even ing and is spending this week visiting his uncle, F. Harrington, northeast of this city and other o'd acquaintances in this senior. II. W. Woodward, of Ainsworth, Neb, lets rented the Doyle building now occupied by the postoffiee and will put in a stock of general merchandise. Bam Barnard has accepted a position ns clerk with the new firm. E. L Brownlee of near Page called at Frontier headquarters Tuesday after noon. Mr. Brownlee says that farmers in his section are busy putting in wheat. Thp groqqd, he says, was never in letter condition for planting cops. M. A. McCaithy of O'Neill has a quarter section of land adjoining the new townsite of Angora, on the Atkin son and Northern. All Mike needs to do now is to make an addition to the town of his farm and he’ll have a Klon dike. Marriage license issued this week by the county judge were; April 10 — Simon Veskena of Basin, and Fanny Damphnl of Atkinson. April 11— J. A. Ludluin of Wausa, this state, and Stella M. Gilson, of Boyd county. This couple were married at Hotel Evans at 5 o'clock in the evening, Julge Selah officiating. Mr. Ludluin is a hardware merchant at Wausa. More farm implements liave been shipped into O’Neill this spring than at any time for the past ten or twelve years And still oecassionly you will find a pop who is so partisan-blind or hide-bound as to deny the presence of prosperity._ You will And a complete stock of mixed paints, white lead, liosecd oil and all dry colors at Q n,i,iaan & Stout, 871f The Druggists. John McKinney says The Frontier did him an injustice last week in mentioning the trouble between he and Bachus. The trouble he says grew out of what he intended as a joke and the other party came within a long ways of giv ing him the worst of it. Go to Rrennan’s where you get the best garden seeds found anywhere. I carry the Sioux City seeds which are known everywhere as the best. Also the D. M F^ry seeds, Rice's seeds, and Rush Pack and Co. Independence seeds which are very fine. 31 tf. Neil Brennan. Will NcBride and sister K ittie have been packing the latter’s worldy e ffects this week preparatory tor Miss McBride’s journey to Park City, Utah, where she and two little sisters go to join their father. They start Monday and will visit for a time in Iowa. The Knights of Pythias will give a May ball at the opera house the evening of May 1. The O’Neill Knighls have .the reputation of giving the nicest and jnost enjoyable dancing parlies of any jq the cjty aud lovers of that amusement will he pleased to learn of the coming event. _ * W. J. Dobbs was down from Atkinson Friday last shaking hands with his friends and looking after business mat ters. Mr Dobbs is connected with thje Atkinson railroad enterprise, which? ii seems, will be carried to completion, though grades have been made before but no trains operated. Prairie fireg are raging over south. From a point twenty miles south of O’Neill westward to the west line of the county and southward over into Wheeler couuty the country is ailame. The Frontier knows of no serious damage being done, though it is reported that some parties have been burnt out near Wood lake. _ Wayne Republican: The arduous duties of the postmastership at Q'Neill have obliged U 4- Cronin to employ extra help in the issuance of the Fron tier and he has secured Romaine Saunders to fill the position. Ilere's hoping Dennis and his partner will get to the very front. We have not started out to outshine the universe, but hope to hack along at as swift a gait as those around us. Last Friday Tom Ifopkins got mixed up in a runaway and bruised a hand slightly. He bought some hogs of a farmer and while driving to the .pens to unload, the team started to run. Tom scrambled out of the wagon, sustaining the above bruises, while team, driver and hogs rushed onward. The horses were brought under control without any serious damage occurring. Friday postmaster Cronin received permission from the department at Washington to remove the O’Neill office. The new office fixtures arrived this week and it is expected will be put in place to open up the office in the new location Monday morning Tt is one of the finest outfits ever brought west amt the O'Neill office will be a credit to our Cl tv. The Stuart Ledger takes up a good thought when it calls attention to the fact that Holt county’s soldiers. Com pany M, will soon be home and some public demonstration should lie made. The ledger says Stuart will nether home coming boys with a brass hand, torchlights and a procession of pretty girls to administer the “Hobson degree.” The O'Neill girls’ modesty will not ad mit of the latter, but our citizens were never known to do ought but the right thing on au occassion like this. Let the matter be agitated. North Loup Loyalist: Within the past two weeks two Holt county papers, the Atkinson Plain Dealer and the O’Neill Independent, have changed hands. A third, the Stuart Ledger, has resumed publication after a lapse of a few months, while the fourth, the Frontier at ONiell, has added a new editor to its force. The newspaper business must be booming in Holt county. Everything is booming in Holt county, merchants are run to death and the Real estate grabbers are taking every thing'in sight. Farmers are planting, printers are the busiest men in town. Now is the time to subscribe for a quarter section of land. Bean the Signature OASTOnXA. the /f Tha Kind You Hate Always Bought of Samuel Kennedy of Lewis, la., arriv ed in the city Friday last and remained till Monday. Mr. Kennedy is an old neighbor of It. II. Mills, with whom he visited while here. He bought a piece of Holt county real estate, the Robert Twigg place in the Mtncola country and will commence at once to make im provements on the same. He will re move here within a few months aud engage in cattle raising. Mrs. Knight, mother of Mrs. Andy Baldwin, formerly a resident of O’Neill, died at Council Bluffs last Friday and the remains were brought to O'Neill Saturday and Suuday were buried in the Mineola cemetery, where those of her husband and daughter, Mrs. Baldwin, are interred. Two grandchildren, Leo Baldwin and Mrs. Kennigham (nee Maud Baldwin), accompanied the re mains from Council Bluffs. Mrs. Ken nigham's husband is a lieutenant in tbe regular army and is now at Manilla, where she will go in a few months to join him. Uucati Clark s lady minstrels ap peared at Whitley opora house last evening. The end men were ns funny as could be desired and had a supply of new jokes. The young women all sus tained their parts well from the first, where an imaginary trip around the world was given illustrated by a num I ber of line tableaux. The performance j closed with a grand march, participated in by all the members of the company. The entertainment is made up of spec ialities and the interest of the audience increases until the drop on the closing soene. Uucan Clarka, his gentleiuany manager and the company, we commend to the press and the public wherever they may appear—Daily Republican, Emporia, Kas. A young man swaggered up the street. His face, ornamented with a cirgarette, flushed with wine. lie was scarcely more than twenty, but had already ventured upon the pathway that leads to the desert of dispair- A desert strewn with the bones of thousands who have gone before. Of those who had rudely brushed away the hand that tried to stay them aud heeded not the tears that had fallen wearily from mother's eyes. Where the record is only a tale of Dead sea iruits, of bitterness and ashes. Now the pathway is velvety aud glitters with the glory of the summer. Sweet music lures him on. Presently the music changes to discordant dirges and he is surrounded by damned and midnight hags. But why continue? The inebri ated youth rushes on regardless of ad monitions and prefers to pile up bis worthless carcass at the end of the journey among the wreck and drift wood of wasted lives. And this will be the speedy destination of the boy we saw yesterday if a reformation is not soon begun. Occassiouiy in this hum-drum world of ours, a world filled with hypocricy, dishonesty and ingratitude, things occur that causes a smile to light the face of even those who have given up faith in the integrity of mankind and impels them to again enlist under the hanner of brotherly love and pledge their alleg iance anow. Such a case occurred last week Tuesday and they are of such a rare occurence—much more dimmen itive than they ought to be—that we be- i lieve it is worth a place in these columns hoping that others may profit by the example set. Abom 15 years ago Pat rick Hagcrty, now cashier of the Elk horn Valley bank. was engag'd in the merchandise business in this city. At that time William F. Tu) lor 1 iveil on a | farm about s'x miles southwest of O'Neill, where lie endeavored to carve out a living for liims"tf and family. Mr. Tax lor endured matiN of the vicissi tudes of pioneer life and being of limited means ran behind. He left O'Neill about 15 years ago owing Mr Hagerty a book account of $02 01. The latter never heard from him until Tuesday when lie walked into the hank and said that he came from Michigan to settle his account, principal and interest. He had never been able to do so before, be said, but was able to do so now and wanted to do it. Mr. Hagerty said he would charge him no interest and Mr. Taylor paid the bill of $02.04, even though the statute of limitations can celed the debt long ago. It is such acts as this that casts rays of sunshine upon the pathways of struggling mankind and creates fellowship. Would that there were more men who would pay an honest debt when able to do so, even though not collectable legally. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Tha Kind You Have Always Bought Boars the Signature of TO THE PUBLIC. The p'lstotti.'e will be moved from its present location to the old postoffice building across the street uext Sunday. As there will be considerable work in Qtting the new fixtures the office will close at 10:45 Sunday morning and will not op\ until Monday morning »t 7 o’clock. Parties desiring to mail letters Sunday afternoon or evening can drop them in the letter box front the out side. D. II. Cronin, P. M. "A word to the wise is sufficient” and a word from the wise shouM bo sufficient, but you ask, who are the wise? Those who know. The oft repeated experience of trustworthy persons may be taken for knowledge. Mr. W. M. Terry says Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy gives better satisfaction than any other in the market. Hu has been in the drug business at Elkton, Ivy., for twelve years: has sold hundreds of bottles of this remedy and nearly all other cough medicines manufactured, which shows conclusively that Chamberlain’s is the most satisfactory to the people and is the best. For sale by P. C. Corrigan, druggist. Sterling Illinois Standard: There Is a certain young lady in this city who had an experience Wednesday evening which she would not care to repeat. Being of an investigating turn of mind she determined to see how it felt to be a man, and with this view, climbed into a suit of her brother’s clothes. Every thing went all right until she came to ihe necktie, which was of the slip up style, built on the plan of a hangman’s noose with a pin stuck in it to keep it from slipping down. She pulled it up too far and in trying to loosen it made it still tighter. In her frantic efforts to get the thing loose she still tightened it until finally she keeled over. When the family got into the room the young ludy was lying on the floor, black in the face, and the necktie had to be cut to get it off. _ Spain’s Greatest Need. Mr. 11. I\ Olivia of Barcelonia, Spain, spends bis winters at Aiken, ». C, Weak nerves bad caused severe pains in the bead. On using Electric Bittters, America’s greatest blood and nerve remedy, all pain soon left him- Be says this grand medicine is what his country needs. All America knows that it cures liver and kidney trouble, purifies the blood, tones up the stomach, strengthens the nerves, puts vim, vigor and new life into every muscle, nerve and organ of the body. If weak, tired or ailing you need it. Every bottle guaranteed, only 50 cents. Sold by P. C. Corrigan, druggist. SPRING I ...UAS COME! I Buy your seeds in bulk, best, and cheapest, money saved to the buyer. We have a complete line of gar ; den and grass seeds. COFFEE Try one of our ** brands,. " 8c, 10c, 12*c. 15c, 18c, 20c, 25c, 80c and 35c per pound. Most complete line of teas and coffee in the city. O'Neill Grocery Co. K. M. RAYMOND, Manager. Fremont Tribune: Some time ngo an item in an eastern paper spoke of the vinegar bible now on file in the Boston library as the oldest one in the United.States, whereupon an O’Neill man wrote to say that he had one in his possession antedating the One in question a few generations. Now comes in an Did man, Frank Stars, and says he has one older than any spoken of. Ufs edition was printed in 1528, or about ninety years after Johannes Gut tenberg had invented movable types One noticeable feature about this old bible business is that the good books in Nebraska are in a significant state of excellent preservation. VENUS ITEMS. Venus, April 8—Miss Dollie Cruick shanks closed a successful term of school recently in district No. 39. Ap propriate exercises were carried out. A. G. Anson is doing a rushing busi ness this season. Real estate is on the boom around Venus and vicinity. Westward as many as fifteen quarters haye changed hands. Miss Eva Steavens of Middle Branch returned from her work at Page on ac oount of being ill. W. Carey is putting up a windmill. Mrs. Ilardistry, who went to Omaha several weeks ago to be treated for a cancer, died in that city April 5. She leaves a husband and two children, the eldest being ten years of age. Reese Baker was over from Page Thursday. W. W. Carey went to O’Neill yester lay. Boyer. For the Springtime Shirt Waists We have a very nice line in ladie8’ and misses’ in all the latest patterns. LADIES—40c 50c, 65c, 75c, 81, 81.25, 81.50 up to 83. Our 50-cent line haa many waists as good as the average store sells for 75 cents. MISSES SHIRT WAISTS—50c and 75c. Also have a new line of misses white collars. Jackets Jackets for spring and summer wear from the best New York firms. Good 6tyles and good values, 85.50 to 810. Our 80 50 silk lined is a daisy. MISSES JACKETS $3.75 to 86. CHILDRENS JACKETS, 3 to 12 years, very nobby and very cheap, 81.95 to $3.50. Silk Capes A good line, new styles, not an old C'ipe in the store; prices to suit your pocketbook. $1.50, $2 50, $2.75, $3, $3.50, and tip to $8.50. Dress Skirts A large assortment from $1.50 to $13 50 in blacks, blues and plaids. Crash skirts for summer wear $1 to $2.50. Big line of saline underskirts, plain and fancy, $1.50 to $3. Bilk underskirts, $4 to $5. , Muslin Underwear By far the best line ever shown in O'Neill, and at prices as cheap as you can buv for in Chicago. Corset covers, 25c to 85c each. Drawers, 25c to $1.50 per pair. Skirts, 50c to $2.50 each. Night gowns, 50c to $2 each. Yon will be surprised and pleased at the values we offer in this line. Jewelry New buckles, new pins, new shirt waist sets, new hat pins, new links, new belts, etc. _ Bicycles Columbias, the best made, $50. Ilartfords. as good as any except Co lumbia, $35. Vidette, an excellent cheap wheel, $25. We can recommend aod guarantee these wheels and prefer to let others sell the unreliable wheels sold at lower prices. T. IP. UC^.2PT2£T