VOLUME XXVIII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY..APRIL 30.1908
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Spring Offering
By P. J. McMANUS
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This nobby top coat for ladies,
made by the Palmer Garment House,
produces a special stylish effect,
very comfortable, and gives the
wearer that complete appearance.
Very large selection. Prices $5.00,
$5.50, $6.50, $7.00, $7.50, $8.50,
$9.00, $12.50 to $15.00.
I am prepared to show the trade 1
the best line of voile skirts ever
shown in this market. Leading
shades, black and navy brown, at
$8.00, $9.50, $10, $12, $14, $15.
Panama skirts, all shades, $5,
$5.50, $6.00, $6.50, $7.00, $7.50,
$8.00, $9.50, $10. This selection is
very large, all sizes, from waist 23
to 36, length 34 to 44. Fit every
. body.
[The popular white shirt waist is now in stock. Three
quarter length sleeves, very lacey and cool. Prices 1.25,
L50,1.75, 2.00, 2.50, 3.00, 3.50 and 4.00.
The Merry Widow Belts, a very swell selection of the
up-to-date belts, at 35c, 50c to 150.
Kid Gloves—Short, 1.50; 16-button, 3.50. Silk gloves
—Short 40c and 65c; 16-button, 1.50.
Mew veltlng^per yard 35c. Hat pins, 25c, 35c, 65c,—
7$c, 1.00,1.50, 2.50.
Neckwear—Turnover collars 25c, 35c; tabe collars, 25c
1 35c, 50c. W. B. corsets 100-1.50, correct shapes and the
best values. Ladies' back combs—this line is larger than
ever before, comprising all the new ideas. Prices, 25c,
35c, 50c, 65c, 75c, LOO, 150, 2.50, with side combs to
match.
The largest and best line of oxfords—tan, black kid and
patent, 2.00, 2.50, 3.00, 3.50.
OUR MEN’S AND BOYS
CLOTHING
This cut shows you one of my new spring suits, made
especially for me by Hart Schaffner & Marx, the well
known tailors. Every man who wears one of these snappy
suits calls the attention of his neighbors to how well he
looks, and he is proud of himself; and I am also proud of
my customers and believe that I have done my part for
the small sum of 18.50 to 25.00.
You ought to see the little gents suits that have just
arrived. They will turn the little fellow out Sunday
morning and make the family so proud of him that even
the old man wishes that he was a boy again.
Complete line
of Iron Clad
Hosiery, the
kind that wear \
longer than
any others.
After ten years
experience I
am satisfied
that they call
foriflron Clads
and take no
other. All colors
and sizes.
Madison Chronicle: At the recent
election O’Neill elected one Gallagher
mayor, defeated another Gallagher for
the same office, and elected a third
Gallagher city treasurer. Let ’ergo
Gallagher!
O. O. Snyder made a business trip
to Oltiaha the first of the week.
John S. Sullivan, who has been em-'
ployed in a drug store at Stergis, H. D.,
the past month, returned home Mon
day morning. John resigned his posi
tion at Sturgis and has accepted the
the management of a drug store at
Ainsworth and will leave for his new
home this evening.
The high school ball team went
down to Ewing last Saturday and
trimmed up the the Ewing high school
team by a score of 14 to '0. The game
ended in the seventh inning, the
Ewing boys quitting because the
O’Neill boys were hitting the ball too
hard.
ELOPERS "WORK" JUDGE
Turn Clever Trick to Deceive Parents
and Get Marriage License.
AN ANTELOPE COUNTY PAIR
Judge Malone Will Be Suspicious of
Applicants for License From That
Direction Hereafter.
Clearwater came Into the lime-light
last Satuaday with an elopement.
Taking advantage of the absence of
the father of the girl, Raymond Smith
and Hazel Bressler went to O’Neill
and were married. The youngsters
were missed, but frantic use of tele
phone and telegraph failed to locate
them until they were on their way to
Omaha. The bride is sixteen years of
age and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
M. C. Bressler. Young Smith has
employed in Bressler & Harper’s drug
store for some time and is reported to
be a very worthy young man. It is
now up to papa and mama to forgive
the children and take them home.
The young man who starred in the
above performance, appeared before
Judge Malone on Saturday morning,
April 18, to procure a marriage license
to marry Miss Bressler, saying they
were to be married at Clearwater.
Judge Malone informed him that a
Holt county license would be no good
in Antelope county and that he would
have to go to Neligh to procure a
license to be married in that county.
Mr.Smith then said they oould be mar
ried at Ewing or even come to O’Neill.
He procured the license, giving the
age of the bride as 18 years, and de
parted. About 11 o’clock that night
as the Judge was preparing to retire,
Smith and his bride to be called at
the Judge’s home and after answering
a few questions satisfactorily he per
formed the marriage ceremony. It
was not until the next day that the
genial judge discovered he had united
a pair of elopers. He is now a genuine
Missourian and the next Antelope
county couple who appear before his
court for a permit will have to prove
to his satisfaction that they have
reached the required age when the
consent of their parents or guardians
are not required, before they become
the possessors of the document that
will make them one.
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Plain view News: Miss Anna L.
Mathews of O’Neil) met with a very
painful accident on the Burlington
passenger Monday morning while en
route to this city. At Orchard she
was standing on the platform of the
coach, talking to a friend, and just as
the train started she returned to the
car. Just as she was entering, a gen
tlemen ahead of her gave the door a
slam and two of her fingers were
caught and the ends badly smashed.
She was enroute to Bonesteel, but up
on her arrival here the pain become so
intense that the conductor held the
passenger long enough for him to
bring her up town for medical assist
ance. Drs. Kile and Nre attended to
to the wound and the unfortunate
lady returned to her home at O’Neill,
via Norfolk, on the noon passenger.
She will lose the two flingers at the
first joint.
Methodist Church Items.
The Methodist church is about to
receive a much noeded coat of paint.
The work was begun last week, but
was stopped on the account of the
severe wind. Mr. Samuel Burge is do
ing the work.
The services on Sunday will be as
follows: Class meeting at 10 a. m.,
led by Mrs. O. O. Snyder; sermons by
the pastor at 10 30 a. m. and 8 p. m.
The subject of our morning discourse
will be, “The Christian’s Welfare.”
This will be the first of a series of ser
mons on the “Chrlstirns’s Armour.”
In the evening our subject will be,
“Our Meditations and words.” Sun
day school at the close of the morning
service. Brother A. E. McKeen is
our very efficient superintendent.
Junior League service at 3 p. m. and
Epworth League service at 7 o’clock.
To these and all other services of our
church we cordially invite everybody,
especially, strangers who may be in
our city over the Sabbath.
Prayer meeting and Bible study
class every Thursday evening at 8 o’
clock. We are always glad to greet
our friends at this service.
' We are lacking a few dozen eggs yet
in the filling of the second crate for
the Methodist Hospital in Omaha.
Will our friends please send in their
eggs as soon as possible.
T. S. Watson, Pastor.
Bids for carrying mail to and from
the post office and Northwestern de
pot will be open until May 1st, 1908.
—R. Marsh, P. M.
Dr. Carbett, Dentist, in O’Neill
May 11,12, 13,14, 25, 26, 17, 28.
Mrs. Thomas Kane of Cbadron is
visiting in the city.
J. H. Riggs Made Commissioner.
Omaha Bee: The appointment of
James H. Riggs of Waterloo as county
commissioner to succeed Emmett G.
Solomn, now county comptroller,which
closed a strenous political tight be
tween James Walsh of Benson and F.
S. Tucker of Florence, will make ne
cessary a rearrangement of the com
mittees of the county board. This,
however, will not be done until the
members of the board return from a
trip to Gary, Ind., and other cities to
inspect paving bridges and county in
stitutions.
The appointment of Mr. Riggs came
as something of a surprise. It had
been rumored the appointmert would
go either to Tucker or Walsh, who
were the leading candidates. At 6
o’clock Tuesday afternoon County
Judge Leslie, County Clerk Havery
and County Treasurer Furay agreed
on Riggs as a way out of the difficulty
and he was appointed.
Mr. Riggs is the editor of the Wat
erloo Gazette and an active member
of the republican county committee.
He is well known over the county and
his appointment was commended gen
erly at the court house. He served in
the lower branch of legislature in 1903.
He will not begin the active duties of
the office until the commissioners re
turn from the trip, in about a week.
Mr. Riggs is well known uu this
way, having been a citizen of O’Neill
and editor of this paper tor many
years.
A Prairie Fire Victim.
P. J. Davenport, who was so serious
ly burned in the prairie fire northeast
of O’Neill on April 14, died at his
home, on the old Sullivan farm, north
east of town last Sunday morning at
eight o’clock. Deceased was born in
Illinois, October 10,1844, and was a
little over 53 years of age at the time
of his death. He was a new settler
in this county, having moved here
with his family the fore part of March.
He leaves a wife and twelve children,
six sons and six daughters all grown
except one son, to mourn his dlmise.
The remains accompanied by his wife,
live sons and one daughter, and two
brothers—N. J. Davenport of Lenox,
Iowa, and G. Davenport, Diagnal,
Iowa, who were at his bedside at the
time of his death—were taken to the
old fajnily home at Crestou, Iowa, for
interment. The family have the sym
pathy of the entire community in
their bereavement.
“John and Richard Doe."
■ Ilppa pqaiplalnt of Riley Howard
warrants were issued from Justice
Golden’s court last week for the ar
rest of John Doe and Richard Doe,
real names unknown, who were charg
ed with driving away itfty head of
cattle, the property of said Howard,
on about April 15,1908. The cattle
were value at $1000. On last Satur
day Sherriff Hall found two of the
missing cattle in the possession of
Harry Howard and Steve Howard,
sons of Riley Howard, and they were
arrested and brought to this oity.
Their preliminary hearing was set for
May 11, before Justice Golden, and
they were released upon their own
recognizanoe to appear upon that
date. ______
Anna 0. Hughes has filed a petition
in district oourt praying for a divorce
from James Edward Hughes. They
were married in this city December
24,1903. Plainti ff alleges non-support,
extreme cruelty and drunkeness.
Plaintiff further alleges that defen
dant has threatened to “beat, wound
and even kill the plaintiff which has
caused her to live in fear that he
would execute his threat. ’ ’ They have
two children which the mother
asks the custody of. She also asks for
such alimony as the court mar deem
proper, taking into consideration the
earning capacity of the defendant,
which plaintiff alleges to be from 940
to 950 per month.
John Welsh, a Northwestern eng in'
eer, and E. B. Taylor, a Northwestern
conductor, were in town Tuesday cir
culating a petition among the busi
nessmen protesting against a reduc
tion of the freight rates by the rail
road commission that would decrease
the net earnings of the company.
The petition was liberally signed,
some of the leading democratic politi
cians of the county, who are always
howling anti-railroad being among the
first t»> sign the petition. Why peo
ple who are always kicking on high
freight rates should sign such a peti
tion is a mystery to us, but neverthe
less many of them signed.
In a letter received from Mr. A. J.
Meals of Valdez, Alaska, renewing his
subscription to The Frontier, he says
they could not get along in that far
away land witnout the weekly visits
of The Frontier from home. He says
all O’Neill people there are prospering
and they send their best regards to all
O’Neill friends. Mr. Meals is deputy
United States land and mineral sur
veyor for the territory in which Val
dez is located.
L. G. Gillespie went up to White
Clay, Nebr., last Saturday, to spend a
week visiting his parents.
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ARRESTED FOR BIGAMY
Young Man's Matrimonial Ventures
Get Him In Trouble.
COUNTY ATTORNEY INTERFERS
Raleigh Scott Comes From Iowa and
Marries Second Time, Thinking
He Had Been Divorced.
For the first time in its history
Holt county has a case of bigamy. On
April 8th, last, took place what was
supposed to be the happy wedding of
Roily Scott of Inman and Martha
Ames of Ewing. Roily was twenty
three and Martha was seventeen al
though In appearance she might be a
year or so older. For three weeks the
course of true love run smoothly; but
on Wednesday last County Attorney
Whelan rudely Intruded Into Love’s
Paradise by filing Information against
Roily Scott for bigamy. It was In
fact too true, for Roily has another
wife who lives near Albia In Monroe
county, Iowa, and when he learned
that hts martial career was being In
vestigated he immediately took his
new wife home to her father, a 0.
Ames, who Immediately brought her
to O’Neill, where she arrived a couple
of hours before Sheriff Hall brought
her lover back in custody and placed
him in the county jail. Jg
She declares she will be true to her
Lothario, and as soon as he gets out of
his trouble, she told the county attor
ney she would marry him again.
This morning he waived preliminary
before Justice Golden and was bound
over to the district court for trial.
In extenuation Scott claims, In re
lating his story to Sheriff Hall, which
the sheriff is disposed to believe, that
he had reasons to believe his first wife
had obtained a divorce in Monroe
county, Iowa.
Costly Bushel of Corn.
Charles Falk, the Page youth, who
was found guilty of petit larceny by a
jury in district court on April 7, was
before Judge Harrington in district
court for sentence last Saturday. The
court sentenced him to pay a fine of
$25 and costs of the case and that he ■
costs amoont to $198 70. The value of
the corn for which he was convicted
of stealing was found by the jury in
the district court to have been 50
cents. Falk will have.to pay $223.70
for it. Bather an expensive bushel of
corn. _
Hon. Paul S. B ack of division “H,”
of the general land office at Washing
ton, D. C., detailed for special work
in United States land offices, is assist
ing the local officers at this place in
disposing of some of the congested
contest work. Mr. Black has bad
many years experience in the land ser
vice,the knowledge of which will be of
valuable assistance to the local officers
in the territory assigned him. From
here be goes to Lander and other
points in Wyoming, looking after the
mineral, reclamation and other
blanches of the land service. This
office acknowledges a pleasant call
from Mr. Black, accompanied by Re
ceiver Parker, Tuesday afternoon.
S. J. Weekes arrived in O’Neill
Tuesday night from Seattle, Wash.,
where be has resided the past nine
months and says he is glad to see
O’Neill again. Mr. Weekes does not
expect to again return to Seattle to
make his home there as the climate
does not suit him—too much rain.
John has not yet decided as to where
he will locate but his mhny O’Neill
and Holt county friends hope that he
may decide to again become a resi
dent of the city. Mrs. Weekes is vis
iting at the home other parents in
Omaha.
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The following were elected officers
of the O’Neill Fire Department for
the ensuing year, at their regular
meeting last Tuesday night: Sheridan
Simmons, president; T. J. Enright,
vice president; M. J. Enright, secre
tary and treasurer; James Davidson,
chief; L. E. Carscallen,assistant chief;
F. Kirwln, foreman company No. 1;
Sheridian Simmons, forman company
No. 2; James Trigg, foreman hook and
ladder company; Frank Howard, fore
man chemical engine.
J. H. Wilson of Little was a pleas
ant caller at these headquarters yes
terday, renewing his subscription.
Mr. Wilson has rented his farm and
leaves tomorrow for Blogett, Oregon,
where he expects to spend the sum
mer visiting his son. The Frontier
will visit him weekly and keep him
posted upon the political and local
affairs in old Holt.
Parnell Golden left Monday for Ne
vada where he expects to locate,should
he lind a desirable location.