The Frontier
Published by D. H. CRONIN.
KOMAINE SAUNDERS. Assistant Editor
and Manager.
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Official paper of O'Neill and Holt county.
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Address the office or the publisher.
The Lincoln printers tender finan
cial aid to the United Mine Workers,
in the forthcoming struggle for better
pay. If there is any class of American
laboring men underpaid it is the coal
miners. ___
The Spencer Advocate and Repor
ter have consolidated, the former
taking over the latter. It is the part
of wisdom to reduce the number of
newspapers. There is hardly a county
in the state in which it would not be
well to consolidate from four to six
papers.
The Lincoln Star is authority for
the statement that a boom has been
launched by friends of the governor,
Mr. Mickey, for United States senator
to succeed Senator Millard. Norris
Brown, then, Is not the unanimous
choice of the senator makers?
Nebraska editors are demanding a
senatorial candidate whose para
mount characteristics are anti-rail
road. Nebraska’s and the nation’s
greatest need is legislators who put
the welfare of the taxpayers of their
respective states above personal am
bition.
In selecting a successor to Senator
Millard it would be well for the party
to pick the man who is equipped with
a large fund of information rather
than dollars, who has legislative fight
ing qualties and who has an interest
in the state in general. One who
will simply vote right is not what is
wanted. _
With all due respect to the fair
daughter of the distinguished presi
dent, the business of providing wed
ding presents is greatly overdone. Miss
Alice is about to become the bride of
a millionaire and the gifts showered
upon her are about as much m order
as a subscription for Rockefeller would
be. The liberality of the public
might better be bestowed upon the
needy.
In the party’s zeal to know just
where prospective candidates stand
on important questions the thing may
bs overdone by Insisting on caucus
rules and convention edicts that
would tie a candidate “up in a sack”
so as to preclude the able men from
accepting a nomination. A man with
the ability to properly represent Ne
braska in the senate would not enter
into the contest had he to cast aside
his own sense of right and justice and
lay aside his principles to be bound by
the rules of a party machine. A man
whose heart is right, whose interests
are with the people and who is guided
by moral principle needs no set of
machine made rules to go by.
The Norfolk News complains that
about #2,700 in cash went out of that
town during the month of January to
catalogue houses. That is nothing to
be suprised at, as the same thing is
going ion at every town in the state
while local merchants stand around
with their hands in {their
pockets not knowing how to pre
vent it. To begin with, the sending
away habit can never be entirely done
away with as there will always be a
class of people who retain the notion
that they can do better by sending
away. But there is a remedy within
the reach of the local merchant that
has been demonstrated right here in
O’Neill this winter, ‘and has been
before. Two local merchants adver
tised sales in December so thoroughly,
so completely and so forceably that
people were brought to their stores
even from adjoining towns and one
store the first or second day of the
sale had to lock its doors until the
crowd within could be disposed of
before others could be admitted. It
demonstrated that the home mer
chant could sell the goods if he went
at It In the right way. The secret of
the catalogue house success is that,
they know how to call attention to a
person’s needs, know how to set be
fore them the good qualities of just
the thing they need and know how
to appeal to the pocketbook. These
arc business characteristics that a
great majority of country merchants
need to acquire or if they all ready
have them to put them in practice.
A business concern which regularly
and systematically advertises its
business and treats its customers
right never yet had a force of idle
clerks. _ _
The O’Neill school district and city
treasuries and Grattan township are
in need of the money due them from
the county to pay oil warrant indebt
edness and stop interest, but this ap
parently makes no difference to the
retired county treasurer, his deputy,
cleiks and supernumeraries who are
drawing good salaries and have a
warm office in which to pass the win
ter days. Work that should have been
closed up the first week in January
and the various treasuries given their
money is being continued as a winter’s
job regardless of the accumulated costs
to tax payers. But this is a real pop
ulist charateristic.
CONTEMPORARY COMMENT.
The Fremont Tribune has discover
ed that "the democratic editors of
Hastings have commenced to quarrel
about the postoffice in 1908, as if there
was going to be a democratic melon to
cut in that year.”
The announcement that President
Roosevelt has in mind the formation
of a new party—a Roosevelt party
out of which the New York Herald
makes a sensation, is quite ultra,
thinks the Sioux City Journal. There
already is such a party, the most po
pular and the most potent in the his
tory of this country.
The Norfolk Press says the republi
can state convention should pledge its
candidate for senator to favor a con
stitutional amendment requiring
United States senators to be elected
by direct vote of the people. If such
were the requirement now, there
wouldn’t be any doubt about a rate
regulation measure being passed by the
present congress.
The Madison Chronicle speaks up in
behalf of the law and the boys: The
selling of tobacco to young boys of
school age is a serious offense against
the laws of the state, and should not
be tolerated in any community. There
are plenty of temptations in a boy’s
pathway which can not be overcome
but the practice of selling tobacco in
any form to school children is most
pernicious and an inexcusable and di
rect violation of the law.
It is the confirmed opinion of the
Howells Journal that some of the
newspapers of the state would be
more highly regarded if they would
cease their senseless fight on the chan
cellor of our state university. We
cannot always agree with some of the
views expressed by Chancellor An
drews but we can at all times give
him credit for doing his utmost to
advance the interests of our univer
sity, which ranks high with the
educational institutions of the land.
“Among those present” at a Bryan
reception in Manila the other day ap
peared a strangely familiar name—
Aguinaldo, says the St. Paul Republi
can. It is only five short years since
Don Emilio posed as a second George
Washington and monopolized the at
tentian of campaign text book authors
but now there are none so poor as to
do hir» honor. A meeting between
Aguinaldo and Bryan half a decade
ago would have been recognized every
where as an incident of world-wide
significance. Now it scarcely attracts
passing mention, and the name of the
Filipino agitator is almost forgotten.
Time is an infallible test of fame, and
the spuriousness of Aguinaldo’s pre
tensions has been speedily established.
The Hastings Tribune calls atten
tion to the fact that whatever benefits
the farmers of Nebraska is a benefit
to the state at large. Nebraska is
primarily an agricultural state, it says,
and upon the success of the husband
man depends the success of the mer
chants and the business men in gener
al, hence it is essential that the farm
er should be benefited and favored
whenever the opportunity presents it
self. There are various ways to help
the farmer besides buying his products,
and one of them is to keep him posted
upon the success and progress of other
farmers, and kwherein lies the secret.
A farmer may stock his place with
many head of cattle and have success
almost assured, and then lose all
through some disease which he
might easily have prevented had he
been in touch with the cause of the
success of some other farmer. For il
lustration: Down in Red Willow coun
ty a farmer close to Box Elder lost a
! number of cattle from permitting them
! to run in cornstocks early in the sea
ison. Then he experimented by going
over iiis cornli-ld with a stock cutter,
and again turning on the cattle. The
result was that lie has not lost a single
head since. Another farmer in that
part of the counto was losing his cat
tle by the cornstock disease, and upon
hearing of the successful experiment
by the other farmer he cut down his
corn stalks, turned the cattle in the
field and did not lose another animal.
This clearly demonstrates the neces
sity of farmers, as well as business
men, keeping in touch with the pro
gress of their neighbors. If cutting
down the corn stalks will prevent an
epidemic of the corn stalk disease
exery farmer should know it.
EWING
Great preparations are being made
for the grand opening of Fraternal
Ilall on Feburary 22. Everything will
be done to make this occasion one of
the greatest ever in Ewing.
J. W. Snyder, son of John K. Snyder,
returned last Saturday from Ft. Wor
den, Wash., where he has been one of
Uncle Sam’s coast guards for several
years. From his appearances we must
conclude that he has fared well.
Those obtaining the highest scores
at Haneman’s bowling alleys for the
month of January are as follows: Ten
pins, James Napier, score 196; J. L.
Fisher, score 192; four back, Eugene
Gilmour, score 79; duck pins, Ray Ben
son, score 110.—Tlie Advocate.
STUART
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Corliss of Ne
ligh are visiting Mr. and Mrs. S. II.
Corliss before going to the state of
Washington.
J. D. Poindexter, who lives near At
kinson, has leased the McGrew ranch
a mile south of Stuart. He will take
possession the first of March. Mr. Mc
Grew will move his family to Stuart
to live.
The town marshal got a move on
himself and arrested a man Monday
for being drunk and disorderly. The
fellow.refused to go to the bastile and
gave the officer a lively tilt on Main
street. He was picked up by a half
dozen men and thrown into an im
provised patrol wagon. His punish
ment was an hour in jail and a fine of
91.
The Standard Bearers’ society is the
name of a new missionary society. The
officers are: FlorenceSndyer, presidend;
Ethyl Cowle, vice president; Pearl
Jones, secretary; Dot Galleher, libra
rian. The object of the meetings is
to raise money enough co educate one
heathern girl at Miss Livermoor’s
school in Meerut, India. The society
meets every Tuesday evening at the
different homes.—The Ledger.
ATKINSON
Charley Gonderinger while working
on a hay bailer last Monday, fell and
ran a pitchfork tine into his stomach.
Dr. Douglas was called and under his
skilled treatment no serious result is
anticipated.
Dr. McDonald and wife went to
Thermopolis, Wyoming, last Friday
night. They expect to return in about
three weeks, that is if they do not get
snowed in while making the overland
trip to and from railroad.
Mike O’Donnell who lives 7 miles
northeast of Atkinson met with a se
vere accident Wednesday morning by
having a horse, which he was riding
after cattle, fall on him, crushing his
leg and breaking it in two different
places. Dr. Douglas was called and at
this writing he is reported as getting
along nicely.
Tom Morrow, one of the early set
tlers of western Holt, has disposed of
his old homestead where he has resid
ed for over a quarter of a century for
$8,000.00. He will dispose of his per
sonal property and go from here to
Denver in the spring and from there
he will make a trip to Seattle. He
has boys in business in both these
cities and he is not fully determined
at this time where he will finally lo
cate.
At the telephone meeting held at
the rink last Thursday night, after
hearing the report of the committee
appointed to investigate the cost and
feasibility of establishing an Inde
pendent Telephone Exchange in At
kinson, it was decided to organize a
stock company to be known as the
Citizen’s Telephone Company of At
kinson, Nebraska, with a capital stock
of $5,000 divided In 500 shares at $10
each. The following committee was
appointed to draft articles of incorpo
ration and open up a stock subscrip
tion book: M Campbell, J. J. Stilson,
J. E. Brook, W. E. Scott and Dell
Akin.
C. H. Williams, one of Atkinson's
hustling real estate men, sold last week
to Clay county parties the Kobinson
ranch located south of town on Holt
comprising 320 acres of deeded and 640
acres of school land, the price of which
we are unable to give. He also sold
the Tom Morrow farm of 320 acres a
few miles west of town to Ira B. Iliff
of Fairfield, Nebraska, for $8,000. The
parties will move here in the spring
and will then take possession. Mr.
Williams informs us than he has sev
eral prospective buyers who will un
of the
American
Housewife
in
Bread
Making
is due to
Yeast
Foam.
It makes
gci3
Bread
from any
flour.
Yeast Foam Is the yeast
that took the First Grand
Prize at the St. Louis Ex
position, and Is sold by all
grocers at 6c. a package—
:> enough for 40 loaves. Our ;
book “Good Bread'1 free.
NORTHWESTERN YEAST CO. f
CHICAGO, ILL.
doubtedly make a purchace before
spring of some Holt county land in the
vicinity of Atkinson.—The Graphic.
Cattle Market at Norfolk.
A Norfolk special says: A packing
plant to catch a quantity of the cattle
now being shipped to the Sioux City
and South Omaha markets is to be
built immediately in Norfolk by a
syndicate of 100 Iowa and Nebraska
men. The project has been in the
process of crystal ization for several
weeks, and it was known here that the
city might soon get a packing house.
The dispatch from Sioux City today
confirmed the report and Norfolk is
already excited over the prospect.
With all the cattle from the great
cattle country in northwestern Ne
braska and the South Dakota territory
around Belle Fourche, and with all of
the cattle from the north, along the
Niobrara and Missouri rivers and the
Rosebud reservation passing through
Norfolk now enroute to the Sioux City
and South Omaha points, and with a
new freight rate that has recently
been made for Norfolk, the project has
long suggested itself to the people of
this territory. From seventy-five
miles (to Sioux City) to 120 miles (to
South Omaha) can be saved in ship
ment and practically a Bight’s time.
The syndicate of 100 men have
pledged themselves to pay $100 each
month for five months, after which it
is thought the plant will be self-sup
porting. Experts from Kansas City and
South Omaha are known to have been
secured, a South Omaha expert having
been here to look over the field. It is
planned to make use of the empty
sugar factory here.
Homeseeker’s Excursion to the North
west, West and Southwest.
Via the North-Western Line. Ex
cursion tickets at greatly reduced
rates are on sale to the territory indi
cated above. Standard and Tourist
Sleeping Cars, Free Reclining Chairs
and “The Best of Everything.” For
dates of sale and full particulars apply
to agents Chicago & North-Western
R’y.
THE
Has 100,000
Strawberry & Raspberry Plants
The largest and most complete stock
of all kinds of fruit trees that we have
ever had to offer; Crimson Rambler
roses and oranmental flowering shrubs
of all hardiest kinds; elms, ash, box
elder, maple and basswood, 8 to 12 feet
tall. Small forest tree seedlings of all
kinds for planting groves.
We have two varities of raspberries
—one red and one black—that are very
hardy and prolific and are annual
bearers They have bourne a good
crop of berries every year for the last
15 years. Order 100 or 200 of these
plants and you will have plants that
will bear fruit. $5 per lOOdelivered at
your town. Order at once and pay
when you get stock at depot. Call at
Nursery and select your trees or send
in your order by mail and have it
booked for next April delivery. Ad
dress, E. D. HAMMOND, Norfolk,
Nebraska.
POEM OF FACTS.
If you want any tool, want it quick.
Any tool from a penknife to a pick;
Ahodfor the morter,.a pail for the water,
Or a trowel for laying the brick;
A hammer to drive in the tacks,
A saw, a hatchet or axe;
A shovel, brace, spade— i
Any tool that is made
I’m giving you only the facts,
When I say that this tool you wil find,
In a store that is never behind
That is second to none:
That is A Number One;
Just fix this idea in your mind.
Would you deal with a house that is
square,
That handles hardware that will
wear:
That holds all the trade it ever has
made:
That "house holds the record so rare.
NEIL BRENNAN.
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