PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO. VOLUME XXI. SUBSCRIPTION. SI.SO PER ANNUM. • O. H. CRONIN EDITOR AND MANAGER. O’NEILL. HOLT COUNTY. NEBRASKA, DECEMBER 27, 1900. NUMBER 26 £ocal.... Bowden shipped hogs Monday. Judge Selah went to Ewing yesterday. John Brady was down from Atkinson yesterday. Ryan Bros, shipped hogs to Bioux Citv Tuesday night. The city schools are taking a vacation until next Wednesday Mute Mullendore came up from Nor folk the first of the week. Willie Lavioilette came up from Omaha for the Christmas season. The county board met in sjourned session yesterday to settle up unfinished justness. E. U. Benedict has first-class Building and Loan stock for sale or can make you a loan. 46-tf Frank Updike of Ewing, captain of the cavalry company, was in town yesterday. I keep all kinds of huskers’ supplies. Now is the time to get your pick. Neil Brennan. _ 16-tf Mr. and Mrs. John Lorge, of Ran dolph. spent Christina,s at the home of the editor. Two hundred head of yearling steers wanted.* Write Anton Tunberg, Hoop er, Neb. 25 3 departed yesterday Mrs. C. E. Hall for Newman Grove, a visit to relatives. Madison county, on Judge Kinkaid was in Wheeler and Antelope counties last week on profes sional business. Mrs. Edna Duke was granted a divorce by the district court Saturday and her maiden name, Edna Smith, restored. Mrs. R. A. Cleveland of Dustin was in O’Neill last week settling the estate of Gilbert Cleveland in county court. Tim and Jack Dwyer and Pat Mc Carthy are ud from the Creighton 'medical college at Omaha for the holi raays. Magic Green Salve, cures chronic, sore legs, cuts, piles, burns, and etc. Made by Mrs. Mary Golden, O’Neill Neb. 23-3m Lew Blinco is up from Norfolk, where be has been employed in the capacity of fireman at the sugar factory, which has closed down until March. A bright girl baby came to the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Hrrrington Christmas day after Santa Claus had departed for the north pole. Senator Campbell went down to Lin coln this morning to get on to the ropes a little previous to the opening of hostilitesin the senate next week. George Blinco returned to Missouri Valley yesterday after (pending Christ mas with relatives in the city. George is employed by the F. E. railroad. District court was in session a part of yesterday, adjourning till today- when the case of Nebraska Loan and Trust company against John Hoffman comes up. The celebrated D. H. Baldwin & Co.’s pianos and organs, winners of first prize at the Paris exposition, for sale by F. B. Cole & Son. O’Neill. The best musical instruments on earth. 15-lf ],NOTE OF THANKS—I thank the /good people of O’Neill who assisted in the hour of bereavement and affliction whioh came upoD me in the death of my husband.—Mrs. Mncauly. Mr. and Mrs Bartlett of Omaha spent Christmas with Mrs. Bartlett’s brother, Judge Selah, and family of this city. Judge Selah’s brother-in-law, Frank Harmon of Alliance, was also in the city. ._ Drs. P. J. McCarthy and T. J. Dwyer of Omaha, Phillip J. Sullivan of Ana conda, Mont., and M. R. Sullivan of the county treasuer’s office, were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Sullivan for dinner Sunday. Sam Seaman, of Ashton, S. D., arrived in the city last Monday evening to spend Christmas with his children at the home of his father in-law W. Lakey. He is accompanied by his brother Charles Lakey, of Bridgewater. They expect to return home next week. * DON’T NEGLECT IT ; If you settle your account be fore New Years you may be ; come the owner of the hand ; some piano we are going to '. give away on that day, and I i will be much obliged for the : money. J. P. MANN. P * Attorney Harvey of Lynch was in the city Friday last soliciting letters of in troduction to Nebraska republicans in Washington, just what Mr. Harvey is looking for not being divulged. FOR SALE—160 acre farm, well im proved, 7 miles northwest of O'Neill. Will sell at a bargain if taken at once. For particulars address or see the owner, J. G. Wendall O'Neill. Neb. 26 tf When you want lo get a sack of flour try our celebrated Uneeda and for the best patent our Peerless, which can not be beaten. Also a full line of bran, shorts and ground feed. Get our prices | and see the qualitv before buying. J. P. Gallagher. 24 3 O’Neill, Dec. 18, 1900.—Advertised letters: Rachel Uttlv, Frank Oantleld, Nowton Carson, George Byers, J. 8. Booth, W. L Butterfield, R J. Alden. In calling for the above please say "advertised,” if not called for in two weeks will be sent to the Dead Letter office. D. H. Cronin, postmaster. I Last Wednesday evening the Degree of Honor gave an entertainment at their hall for the benefit of its members and families. A pleasent evening was spent in the rendition of a musical and literary program. The McGreevy orchestra furnished the music and resitations and singing was provided by a number of children. An overflow of the standpipe Monday covered the court-house hill with ice and did some damage to the trees in the court-house yard. Water flowed from the pipe at the top and was carried bv the wind in a spray settling on the trees and freezing. The weight of the ice broke off many branches and snapped the trunks of trees close to the ground. The Christmas season was observed at the Methodist and Presbyterian churches on Monday evening when Santa Claus appeared to make his annual distribution of presents to eager, expectant children. Music appropriate to the occasion also was a feature of the exercises and it was made a very pleasant time especially for the younger folks. J. H. Peeler has painted the old Ward hardware store inside and out and it now presents a very nice appearance. He has also added to bis stock and has more goods on the way and when they arrive he will have a complete lins of shelf and heavy ha-dware with which to supply the demands of his customers. The Frontier wishes him success in the business. Although having very bad weather to contend with the entertainment given by the Philomatbeon Debating society last Saturday evening was quite well attended and the sooiety realized enough proceeds to defray the expenses attached. The program was of interest and those who took part carried their parts well. The c'ty nog buyers, Messrs. Camp bell, Fallon and Ryan Bros., each have $10 that they don’t know from whence it came. Three $10 bills were enclosed in three separate envelopes and dropped in the O'Neill post office addressed to each of these gentlemen. As no letters of explanation accompained the money the receivers of the gifts can’t tell who the generous individual is. The holiday trade was something enormous with the merchants and shop* keepers of O’Neill- While buying was heavy for ten days previous to Christmas the ugreatest rush came on Monday* when the stores were crowded with people all day and the clerks had all the trade they could handle. In fact, the rush in the afternoon was so great that the stores had to adopted the barber plan and wait upon customers in turn It is estimated that $3,000 in cash .sales of Christmas goods was made Monday. J. C. Addison was in from the Mineola country Monday with hogs. Mr. Addison reports the spread of the hog disease in his country and says it recently broke out in his herds by a sick hog wander ing onto his place from a neighbors. It would seem that men who have diseased hogs would take care of them so that the disease would not be carried by sick bogs roaming about over the praire. Another way. Mr Addison thinks, the disease is perpetuated is by hauling the dead hugs out and letting them lie on the ground. Animals dying of disease should be burned, or at least buried. Private Sale. I will sell at private sale, over Frank Campbell’s Implement house, all of my goods consisting of, carpets, matting, dresser, hedated, live good rocking chairs, dining chairs, easel, pictures, screen, two center tables,hamper, stools German heater N >. 15, couch, and other useful articles. Everything new. Suit able for useful Christmas presents. Dr. Kinslow. st. nun comm A FINE BUIUn Through the courtesy of Brother Slander, The Frontier editorial staff re cently was shown through the new Catholic school building, St. -Mary’s convent, by Mr. Theodore Piektnbrook, who recently came here from the Rose bud country to assume the care of the building. We were started in at the furnace room in the basement and piloted through the myriads of chambers and apartments, "some in the crude state of brick and mortar, others in the hands of the carpenters, dome turned over to the painter aud still others shedding a ray of resplendent glory fresh from the hand of the makers. The architectural editor feels that he Is undertaking a task smaller only than the construction of such a structure when he takes bis pen in hand to de scribe it. In the further corner of the basement to the left of the center arch is the furauce, a double concern of iron and pipes and thermometers and regist ers; here pipes extend to every room and hall in the building and conduct the hot water. The convent pays $5,000 for the privilige of heating itself, saying noth ing about the cost of fuel. Adjoining the furance room on the right is apart ments for laundiy not yet completed. On the south from the corner from which we start is a large room for boys to play in. Following a spachms ball to the right various rooms and apart ments are seen—kitchen, pantries, storerooms and the girls’ playroom to the farther side, similar to the one fo> the boys on the left. Leaving the basement aud on the floor above is found the school rooms, music rooms, reception room and other apartments. The tiuishiug work here is of the finest. The floors—as in the basement— are of hard maple. The stairways, balustrades, doors and entire woodwork is of the best material and the work of the highest grade of carving and con structing. The school rooms are well designed to make comfortable and pleasant surroundings for both pupil and teacher. They are large, well lighted from nature’s own illuminary and de signed for warmpth in winter and cool ness in summer. The reception room is to the left of the main entrance. On the third floor, after passing varied apartments we were ushered into the chapel. This department is the most richly finished of any in the building, the walls and ceiling being beautifully trimmed in fresco designs. There are three figures beautifully designed in harmoniously blended colors on the ceiling aud an arch at the alter painted iu rich and delicate colors. The fresco iug is the work of an Omaha artist and is very fine. The fourth floor is oc ci pied by two large dormalories at eitli.rendof the building aud smaller storage apartments between. There is much work to be done yet before the convent will be rounded out a complete building, but the end is near enough that it is easy to see that St. Mary’s con vent is a magniflcient structure and justly tire pride of those who have been instrumental in having it built. There is an expense of about $50,000 attached to the erection of the convent. The Frontier wishes to call the atten tion of those who may be going to have a public sale soon or later to the faet that The Frontier has the best equippe