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lltemn from the country arc solicited for
this department. Mail or send them In as
early in the week a« possible; items received
later than Wednesday can not b e used at all
and it Is preferred that they be in uot later
than Tuesday. Always send your name with
Items, that we may know who they are from.
Name of sender not for publl uatlon. See that
your writing is legible, especially names and
places, leaving plenty of space between the
fines for correction. Be careful that what
you tell about actually occurred.1
Ray Items.
Planting corn is the order of the
day.
J. S. Twyford had business in
O’Neill Tuesday.
A. W. Dodge has been very poorly
the past few days.
Mrs. Chas. Bigler, -Sr., is reported
better in health this week.
News is scarce this week, owing to
the busy time of the year.
Emma Thavenet visited Estella
Twyford Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Estella Twyford called on Mrs.
Electa Bigler one day last week.
Cyrus Campbel of Grand Island,
Neb., is here visiting old friends.
The frost did considerable damage
to the wild fruit on the Eagle creek.
Joe Bigler and Bollie Twyford drove
south to see Lawrence Murry last
Sunday.
Peter Duffy of Saratoga and Emery
Thavenet were O’Neill visitors
Saturday.
Mr. Joe Stein our assessor, has made
nearly every one a call, so will soon
have his work complete.
Several of the boys from this vicinity
start to Dakota this week to build
on and improve their claims.
Mr. and Mrs. Jens. Johnson and As
berry Clevenger and wife, of Joy, Neb.
were fishing on Eagle creek Sunday.
CHAMBERS
A farmers institute will be held in
Chambers on the 23rd of May, for the
purpose of giving and receiving infor
mation upon subjects of interest to
the farmer. There has been many in
quiries since the last one was held
here as to when the next one would
occur here, and many persons have
expressed a desire that we might have
another, and now this desire is to be
gratified.—The Bugle.
STUART
Mrs. Louisa McMullen and her
daughter Fanny returned last Friday
to their home in Lebanon, Indiana,
after visiting with the family of Mrs.
Donaldson and with friends in Sybrant
and Norwood.
Rev. Getty has been offered a pas
torate at Sturgis, South Dakota, at a
salary of $1,100 a year. He has resign
ed his position as pastor of the Stuart
Methodist church and will accept his
new call the first of June.
Mrs. O. Donaldson and daughter
have been keeping up their farm work
without the aid of men workers. Mrs.
Donaldson carries the mail to and from
Norwood, besides working in the fields
and making hay while the sun shines.
—The Ledger.
EWING
E. S. Gilmour came down from
O’Neill Sunday, on his return he was
accompanied by Keno.
The high water in the Elkhorn has
made a new channel east of town, and
the result will be a much improved
condition for the making and main
taining of a public road leading to
Frenchtown.
The same teachers have been hired
for the next term who taught in the
Ewing High School during the present
term, except the teacher in the pri
mary room, Miss Florence YanZandt.
A young lady from Stanton takes her
place.
The building of cement walks and
crossings goes merrily on, with D. C.
McKay and Joe Sullivan and their
helpers using their best endeavors to
get all the walks made as soon as pos
sible. A walk made to the park will
be next in order.—The Advocate.
INMAN
The death of Mrs. John Harmon’s
brother-in-law in Bloomfield, Io., is
the reason of the absence of herself
and husband this week.
The Methodist church fair and auc
tion realized a nice sum for helping
towards relieving the church’s indebt
edness. It is surprising the G. A. R.
and the name quilts an which so much
time and labor had been put should
only bring $5 and $6.75 respectively
while a gingham apron sold for 50 cents
But then an aporn is worn a hundred
times while a quilt is once.
The care given by Prank Conrad and
wife to Mr. Friend, a telegraph opera
tor, who with his wife came from Ra
pid City, S. D., but was compelled to
remain here until his pass arrived and
was taken ill, speaks volumes for their
kindsness of heart, for to “a friend in
need” they “were friends indeed.”
The invalid’s wife did all she could to
make him comfortable. Mr. Friend
is getting along nicely thanks also to
Dr. Johnson, of whom a young lady
said, “I’m almost of the opinion that
it would be a pleasure to be ill and
have Doctor Johnson in attendance.”
—The News.
ATKINSON
Mrs. Anton Tomsik has purchased
the Dibble property, just west of the
Atkinson Hardware Co. and will be
gin the improvement of the same at
once.
Lee W. Henry, formerly a resident
of this city and publisher of the At
kinson Plain-Dealer, is visiting Atkin
son friends this week, he went out
with A. W. Miller to the Eagle Wed
nesday.
Louis Miller returned from Dustin,
Sunday, where he has been assisting
in the store. Louis will stay at home
during the summer and attend a phar
maceutical school next winter.
H. W. Phillipsleft for Hand county,
South Dakota, Tuesday morning. He
was aocompanied by Chas. Steinbronn,
J. J. Stilson, Wm. Bokhof and F. H.
Swingley, who go to verify the glowing
reports given out by Mr. Phillips of
that country.
The $120,000 that McGreevy turned
over to Mike Harrington, before he
left the conntry, will pay oil all the
depositors of the defunct Elkhorn Val
ley bank, settle the Holt county claim
of about $1690, leave Mike a good fat
fee and take up some of notes held by
the Trust Co., against the short grass
country crowd and the great big heart
ed might possibly be induced to pay
the costs that have been taxed up
against Holt county in the McGreevy
case.
County Attorney Mullen informs the
county board, through the columns of
last week’s Independent, that their
action in voting to lay on the table the
resolution refusing to accept the two
per cent bids of the banks for county
money was a bar to any criminal pros
ecution under the law for illegal com
bination to secure said funds for use
at that rate. This may be true, but
what was Mr. Muilen doing all this
time? Was he on a vacation or was
he down in Missouri trying a large
damage suit for some wealthy client?
The records will show that he has
drawn his salary for the past year. For
what? To act as legal advisor to the
county board and give them his opin
ion which from his statement he says
they were badly in need of. This ques
tion has been talked about and pub
lished in the county papers since the
first of the year, and as the legal re
presenative of the board and county,
it was his plain duty to protect the
taxpayers’ interests, at least make
some attempt to do so and not come
in after the damage is done, with a
lengthy opinion saying how the other
fellows were guilty, they at least can
plead ignorance of the law, but what
excuse has our talented county at
torney?—The Graphic.
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
Cures Colds, Croup and Whooping Cough.
One Gold and UnQiner
The season’s first cold
may be slight—may yield
to early treatment, but the
next cold will hang on
longer; it will be more
troublesome, too. U n -
necessary to take chances
on that second one. Scott’s
Emulsion is a preventive
as well as a cure. Take
when colds abound and
you’ll have no cold. Take it
when the cold is contracted
and it checks inflamma
tion, heals the membranes
of the throat and lungs
and drives the cold out.
Send far free sample.
SCOTT & BOVV.VE, Chemists
409-413 Pear! Street, New York
80c. and $1.00 - . . All druggist*
My Hair /sj
Scraggiy
Do you like it? Then why
be contented with it? Have
to be ? Oh, no! Just put on
Ayer’s Hair Vigor and have
long, thick hair; soft, even
hair; beautiful hair, without a
single gray line in it. Have a
little pride. Keep young just
as long as you can.
" I am fifty-seven years old, and until re
cently my hair was very gray. But in a few
weeks Ayer’s Hair Vigor restored the natural
color to iny hair so now there is not a gray
hair to be 8eon." — J. W. Hanson, Boulder
t Creek, Cal.
Made by J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Maas.
Also manufacturers of
SARSAPARILLA.
PILLS,
CHERRY PECTORAL.
FOSSIL CORKSCREWS
QUEER FREAKS OF NATURE THAT
ABOUND IN NEBRASKA.
Gigantic Spirals of Mineral Fash
ioned So Mathematically as to De
Easily Mistaken at First Glance
For Works of Art.
Nobody knows with certainty whnt
the so called “devil’s corkscrews” real-,
. ly are. They are found by tens of thou-1
; sands In Nebraska, most particularly
In Sioux county, and some of them are
as much as forty feet In height, without
counting the gigantic “roots” presently
to be described. Quartz Is the sub
stance of which they are made, but
how they came to bo Imbedded, num
bers of them together, In the sandstone
cliffs of that region Is more than any
body can tell, unless, perhaps, one the
ory, to be mentioned later, Is to be ac
cepted as correct
You are traveling, let ua say, on
horseback through that part of the
country, and, as often happens, you
see, standing out from the face of a
sandstone cliff, a gigantic spiral. If, as
geologists have proved, the sandstone
rock be chipped away a corkscrew
shaped thing of quartz Is exposed to
view, fashioned so mathematically as
to be easily mistaken at first glance
for a work of art The white spiral
may be free, as a sculptor would say,
or. In other cases, may be twined about
a sort of axis, as a vine would run
around a vertical pole.
Somebody awhile ago gave to these
spirals the name “devil’s corkscrews”
for want of a better and as expressive
of the mystery of their origin. Scien
tists discussed them In vain, and many
theories were formed In regard to them.
There were authorities who declared
they were fossil burrows excavated In
tertiary times by gophers of a huge
and extinct species. And, to confirm
this notion, the bones of some burrow
ing animal were actually found Imbed
ded In the substance of one of the
"screws.” This seemed to settle the
■matter for awhile, until the controversy
,was started again by the discovery of
the osseous remains, under like condi
tions, of a small deer. Nobody could
assert that a deer was ever a burrow
ing animal, and so that notion had to
be abandoned.
Other theorists declared that the “fos
sil twisters,” as some folks called them,
represented the prehistoric borings of
gigantic worms that lived in the very
long ago. Yet others suggested that
they were petrified vines, though It was
difficult to explain bow or why the
“poles” on which the alleged vines
seemed in many cases to have been
trained had been so admirably pre
served, or, for that matter, originally
erected.
In the midst of so many contradictory
theories the problem seemed likely to
defy solution Indefinitely. The one that
held out longest and gained most ad
herents was that of the extinct gophers.
It accounted for the “root”—a shape
less appendage often nearly as big as
the “twister” itself and attached to the
lower end of the latter—which obvious
ly, as It seemed, had been the nest of
the rodent animal, the “corkscrew” rep
resenting the spiral hole by which It
made its way to the surface of the
ground. What could possibly be more
easy to comprehend?
Professor E. H. Barbour, however,
has declared—and his decision is ac
cepted provisionally until somebody
offers a better—that the corkscrews are
of vegetable origin. They are, he as
serts, the fossil remains of ancient
water weeds of gigantic size, which
grew millions of years ago on the bot
tom of a vast sheet of water that cov
ered all of Nebraska. These must have
been the biggest aquatic plants that
ever existed, and when the huge lake
that overflowed the region in question
dried up the remains of many of the
plants were left behind buried in the
accumulated detritus at the bottom.
In the course of time—ages after the
bottom of the ancient lake had been
converted Into solid rock—rivers plow
ed their way through the land, cutting
this way and that and exposing to the
view of the modern traveler on the
faces of the cliffs the fossil casts of the
prehistoric water weeds Just as they
stood when they grew hundreds of
thousands and probably millions of
years ago. Their tissues were replaced
as they decayed by silica from the wa
ter, particle by particle, and thus, as If
by magical means, their likenesses
have been preserved for the wonder
and admiration of the present surviv
ors on the earth.
Such Is the theory now pretty well
accepted by scientists In regard to the
origin of the “fossil corkscrews.” Pos
sibly It Is not correct, but If otherwise
there Is room for the exercise of any
body’s imagination In the consideration
of this veritable romance of the an
cient history of the world.—New York
'Herald.
Pergonal Beauty.
If either man or woman would realize
the full power of personal beauty It
must be by cherishing noble thoughts
and hopes and purposes, by having
something to do and something to live
for that is worthy of humanity and
j which by expending the capacities of
: the soul gives expansion and symmetry
to the body which contains it.—Upham.
„ A Mon of Action.
Hicks—There Isn’t a man in town
who can keep the conversational ball
rolling like our friend Gayrake. Wicks
—Nonsense! He never says anything
worth listening to. Hicks—No, but he
; does a lot of things worth talking
'about—Philadelphia Ledger.
| He who feels contempt for any liv
ing thing hath faculties that he hath
(never used, and thought with him Is In
•Its Infancy.—Wordsworth.
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Qneer tittle Blander*.
From an account of the Doncaster
(England) Art club’s annual exhibition
in the Doncaster Gazette: ‘‘Miss -
alqp goes in for portraiture. In hitting
off her father’s head her intentions are
good, but the execution lacks very much
in artistic finish."
In the London Mail’s description of a
parade in honor of the king of the Hel
lenes the reporter said: “The soldiers,
clad only in their scarlet tunics, pre
sented an unpleasant contrast with the
warmly clad members of the police
force.”
From the windows of a British tailor:
“We have cleared a Scotch merchant’s
remains of high class overcoatings at a
big reduction.” •
Not a Born Forarer.
The Indorsement of checks is a very
simple thing, but, as the following story
will show, It, too, has Its difficulties:
A woman went into a bank where
she had several times presented checks
drawn to Mrs. Lucy B. Smith. This
time the check was made to the order
of Mrs. M. J. Smith—M. J. were her
husband's initials. She explained this
to the paying teller and asked what she
should do.
“Oh, fiiat Is all right,” he said. “Just
Indorse it as it Is written there.”
She took the check and, after much
hesitation, said, “I .don’t think I can
make an M like that”
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Hair.
Animal hair differs In construction
from that grown on a human head. In
human hair the upper skin Is smooth
and thin. The circular section is com
paratively broad, forming the main
part of the hair draft It Is striped In
appearance and carries the color mat
ter. The tubular part Is thin, extend
ing to about one-flfth and certainly not
more than to one-quarter of the entire
width of the hair. Animal hair also
consists of three parts, but these are
differently constructed, the tube often
filling the entire hair.
8ciatica Cured After Twenty Years
Of Torture.
For more than twenty years Mr. J.
B. Massey, of 3322 Clinton St. Minnea
polis, Minn., was tortured by sciatica.
The pain and suffering which he en
dured during this time is beyond com
prehension. Nothing gave him any
permanent relief until he used Cham
berlain’s Pain Balm. One application
of the liniment releived the pain and
make sleep and rest possible, and less
than one bottle has effected a perman
ent cure. If troubled with sciatica or
rheumatism why not try a 25-cent
bottle of Pain Balm and see for your
selt how quickly It reieives the pain.
For sale by Pixley & Hanley.
Very Low Rates to DesMoines, Iowa,
Via the North-Western Line. Excur
sion tickets will be sold on six dates,
May 14,15,19,17, 21, 23, limited to re
turn until May 30, inclusive, on ac
count of general Assembly, Presbyter
ian Church. Apply to agents Chicago
& North-Western R’y.
Fortunate Missourians.
“When I was a duggist, at Livonia,
Mo.,” writes T. J. Dwyer, now of
Graysville, Mo., “three of my custom
ers were permanently cured of con
sumption by Dr. King’s New Discov
ery, and are well and strong today.
One was trying to sell his property
and move to Arizona, but after using
New Discovery a short time he found
it unnecessary to do so. I regard Dr.
King’s New Discovery as the most
wonderful medicine in existance.”
Surest Cough and Cold cure and
Throat and Lung healer. Guaranteed
by Pixley & Hanley, druggist 50c and
$1. Trial bottle free.
Very Low Rates to Annual Meeting
German Baptist Brethern Spring
field, 111,
Via the North-Western Line. Excur
sion tickets will be sold May 31 to
June 2, inclusive, with favorable re
turn, limits. Apply to agents Chicago
& North-Western R’y.
It Is Dangerous To Neglect a Cold.
How often do we hear it remarked:
“It’s only a cold,” and a few days lat
er learn that the man is on his back
with pneumonia. This is of such com
mon occurance that a cold, however
slight, should not be disregarded.
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy counter
acts any tendency of a cold to result in
pneumonia, and has gained its great
popularity and extensive sale by its
prompt cures of this most common ail
ment. It always cures and is pleasant
to take. For sale by Pixley & Hanley.
Excursion Tickets to May Musical
Festival, Sioux City, Iowa,
Yla the North-Western Line, will be
sold at reduced rates May 23 and 24,
limited to return until May 25, inclu
oive. Apply to agents Chicago &
North-Western R’y.
How to Ward off Old Age.
The most successful way of warding
off the approach of ole age is to main
tain a vigorous digestion. This can
be done by eating only food suited to
your age and occupation, and when
any disorder of the stomach appears
take a dose of Chamberlain’s Stomach
and Liver Tablets to correct it. If
you have a weak stomach or are
troubled with indigestion, you will
find these Tablets to be just what you
need. For sale by Pixley & Hanley.
Wanted: Gentleman or lady with
good reference, to travel by rail or rig,
for a firm of $250,000 capital. Salary
$1,072 per year and expenses; salary
paid weekly and expenses advanced
Address, with stamp, Jos. A. Alexan
der, O’Neill, Neb.
A Mountain of Gold
could not bring as much happiness to
Mrs. Lucia Wilke, of Caroline, Wis.*
as did one 25c box of Buklen’s Arnica
Salve, when it completely cured a run
ning sore on her leg, which had tor
tured her 23 years. Greatest antisep
tic healer of Piles. Wounds and Sores.
25cents at Pixley & Hanley’s Drug
Store.
j The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his per
sonal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and “Just-as-good” are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
THE CENTAUR COM RANT, TT MURRAY ttTNEET, NEW TOM CITY.
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TEMPLE OF MUSIC
Pianos and Organs
Stringed Instruments, Sheet Music, Music Book
and nusical Merchandise
Pianos and Organs sold on easy payments. Personal attention given 1
to tuning and care of instruments put out. Special attention given 1
to supplying country localities with piano and organ teachers. Get
my. prices and terms.
G. W. SMITH
LOCKARD BUILDING O’NEILL. NEB.
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The following animals are for serv
ice this season at my place just
north of O’Neill:
Black Percheron - Graden
Stallion, $12.50.
Bay Hamilton Stallion $10
Black Spanish Jack, $10
If mare is sold or removed from the
county service fee becomes due at once
Call and inspect them; they will
bear inspection. I will treat you right
A. MERRILL,
O'Neill, - - Nebraska
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Building
Materials,
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