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Now you have the govern ment furnishing you 80 and 160 acre tracts of land irrigated by the ntellmence and financial security of Uncle Sam wdio has suddenlvi o become the greatest irrigator the world lias ever known, who offers you abundant and perpetual with the choicest land at $35 to $45 per acre in ten annual payments without interest—land that will yield more in one per acre than the price of the farm. Do you realize what a “good thing” this is in this day and age? If you do not let me tell you something about it. Peisonally conducted homeseekers’ excursions first and third Tuesdays of Shooting, jj ] | Ask Your Dealer For Them. | | ©©o©e®©ds©©©©©©©©o©©©©©o©©©e©©©©©©©S ■ agd I urer K —. * ffiij3iaaiBfEieiaMaiaiiaa®ia!H3ia®iMBJ3iajsjsisE!aitQM&!isiaiBEHaiaEiai@E)BiEEisiaE]siBi5iag Bj farm loans interest paid on time deposits Insurance ^ FIDELITY BANK | Inis Bank alma to oonoerva the intereata of Its customers In every i honorable way. ft «--OFFICERS-• E. e. Halstead, president. O. F. biglin. Vice-President | JAS. F. O’DONNELL, CASHIER Direotora: K. E. Halstead, E. H. Halstead, O. F. Blglln, F. J. Dlsliner g tejaaiaiBiaiaiaiaiaaiai®iM^jaaaaEiDMaaE»fflswa!iijm®s5waiaic!ffliaiM5!iH;a[aii ,, YOU GAN GET CHATTEL MORTGAGE BLANKS OF THE FRONTIER SALE BILLS j S™ [First publication Jan. 14.] Sheriff’s Sals. By virtue of an order of sale, direct ed to me from the Clerk of the Dis trict court of Holt county, Nebraska, on a judgment obtained before the Judge of the District Court of Hoit county, Nebraska, on the 4th day of March, 1907, in favor of Alfred A. Nixon and Cassius W. Spargur, part ners doing business as the Iowa Com mission company, as plaintiffs, and against Daniel J. Cronin, as defend ant, for the sum of Nine hundred thirty-eight and no one hundreth dollars ($938.00), and the costs taxed at $30.95 and accruing costs, I have levied upon the following real estate taken as the property of said defend ant, to satisfy said order of sale, to wit: The south half of section seven (7), and the. south half of the northwest quarter of section seven (7), and the northwest quarter of section eighteen (18), township thirty (30), rangeeleven (11), west of the fith P. M. in Holt county, Nebraska. Also the south one-half of section twelve (12), and the southeast quarter of section thir teen (13), township thirty (30), range twelve (12), west of the 0th P. M. in Holt county, Nebraska. And will offer the same for sale to the highest bidder for cash, in hand, on the 15th day of February, A. D. 1909, in front of the court house in O’Neill, Hoit county, Nebraska, at the hour of 10 o’clock a. m. of said day when and where due attendance will be given by the undersigned. Dated at O’Neill, Hoit county, Ne braska, this 13th day of January, 1909. 30-5 C E. HALL, Sheriff of Holt County. [First publication Jan. 14.] Sheriff’s Sale. By virtue of an order of sale, direct ed to me from the clerk of the district court of Holt county, Nebraska, on a judgment obtained before the Judge of the district court of Holt county, Nebraska, on the 24th day of March, 1908, in favor of Susan Mahoney as plaintiff, and against John Chamber lain, Harriett L. Chamberlain, John Wright sr., and Mrs John Wright sr., first real name unknown, as defend ants, for the sum of $1,856.75, amount due on mortgage, and $il.25 tax lien, and the costs taxed at $22.10 and ac cruing costs, 1 have levied upon the following real estate taken as the property of said defendants, to satisfy said order of sale to-wit: i'he northeast quarter (nel) of sec tion twenty-three (23), township twenty-nine (29), range ten (10), west of the 6th P. M., in Holt county, Ne braska. And will offer the same for sale to the highest bidder for cash, in hand, on the 15th day of February, A. 1). 1909, in rront, of the conrt house, in O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, at : lie hour of 10 o’clock a. m. of said day, when and where due attendance will be given by the undersigned. Dated at O’Neill, Holt county, Ne braska, this 14th day of January. 1909. 30-5 C. E. HALL, Sheriff of Holt County. [First publication Jan. 14.] Sheriff's Sale. By virtue of an order of sale, direct ed to me from the Clerk of the Dis trict Court of Holt county, Nepraska, on a judgment obtained before the J udge of the District Court of Holt county, Nebraska, on the 4th day of March, 1907, in lavor of Alfred A. Nixon and Cassius W. Spargur, part ners doing business as the Iowa Com mission company as plaintiffs, and against Daniel J. Cronin as defend ant, for the sum of Five hundred twelve and no one-hundreth dollars ($512.00) and the costs taxed at $29.45 and accruing costs, I have levied up on the following real estate taken as the property of said defendant, to sat isfy said order of sale, to-wit: The south one-half of section seven (7), and the south half of the north west quarter of section seven (7), and the inorthwest quarter of section eighteen (18), township thirty (30), range eleven (11), west of the 6th P. M. in Holt county, Nebraska. Also the south one-half of section twelve (12), and the southeast quarter of sec tion thirteen (13), township thirty [30] range twelve [12], west of the 6th P. M, in Holt county, Nebraska. And will offer the same for sale to the highest bidder for cash, in hand, on the 15th day of February, A. D. 1909, in front of the court house in O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, at the hour of 10 o’clock a. m of said day, when and where due attendance will be given by the undersigned. Dated at O’Neill, Holt county, this 13th day of January, 1909. 30-5 C. E. HALL, Sheriff of Holt County. Executor's Sale of Real Estate. I am offering for sale to the highest bidder the following real estate to wit: NEi of section 24, township 31, range 11. This land was owned by the late Patrick Sullivan and must be sold in order to close the estate. Bids will be received up to March 1st, 1909. No one will be informed as to the amount bid by any other person, and the property will be sold to the high est bidder. Address, A. M. Morrissey, 32-5 Valentine, Neb. Notice. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will not allow any hunt ting or fishing on the grounds or in the streams running through lands owned or controlled by this company. All persons who violate this notice and caught upon said land will be prosecuted for trespassing. Elkhorn Valley Irrigation Co. 31-4 A. U. Roundy, Manager. Dr. Corbett, Dentist, will be in O’Neill, Feb., I to 4 , 8 to 11, 15 to 18, 22, to 25 inclusive. Don’t let your horses shiver in the cold; get some blankets at Davidson’s harness shop. _ 29-tf OLD TIME TURKEY EAT A Once Popular Feast In the Pennsylvania Mountains. GONE WITH THE WOODSMEN. The People, Traditions and Associa tions That Made It Possible Are No More, and It Joins In Oblivion the Apple Cut and Quilting Bee. “It isn't because there Is no more material in the Blue mountain region of Pennsylvania to provide a turkey eat that we have had the last of those famous festivities,” said a former dweller of the district described, “for there are still wild turkeys a-plenty. "The turkey eat has gone out with the passing of the people whose homes, traditions and manner of life made it possible and with the occupation that was once theirs. “In the days when the turkey eat was the great winter festivity in the mountain districts between the Schuyl kill and the Juniata watersheds the sparse population was chiefly of rude and rugged woodmen and their fami lies, many of them descendants of pure Pennsylvania Dutch stock. Scores of them depended almost entirely on their skill with gun and trap for their food supply. “The cabins of these mountaineers were built of logs, the chinks between which were filled in with clay. A huge stone chimney rose at one end of the cabin outside, covering that en tire end, while on the inside it opened on a broad fireplace across that end of the room. “The cabin -was banked all around with earth, against which hemlock and pine boughs were heaped. Sometimes rows of cord wood were piled up al most to the eaves, the better to keep out the cold, which is always intense during winter on those wind swept hills. “There was rarely a cabin with more than one room. The walls were dark and smoky, and from rafter or beam hung plentifully strips of jerked veni son and chunks of smoked bear meat, along with hams and bacon from the family pigs fattened in the woods and almost as wild as the bear and the deer. But the choicest and best bc loved thing of the cabin’s larder was the fat and well frozen wild turkey. “While the woodsman's cabin was al ways prepared for a turkey eat, it never knew when it was coming. A turkey eat began with the making up of a party in a neighboring village or settlement. Taking along a fiddler, they would appear at this, that or the other woodsman’s cabin of a winter evening, and the woodsman and his family did the rest. “Instantly the birch wood pail of ci der came forth. While the cabin’s guests drank cider the host prepared and spitted the turkey over the hick ory coals in the fireplace to roast for the feast. When it was ready for the table it was placed before the guests on a big tin platter. Each one carved for himself, the plates being squares of birch bark. “The turkey eat was not complete, though, without a liberal supply of ‘paan haas’ and head cheese, and with it went the sweetest of rye bread an< butter. Paan haas is a strictly Penn sylvania Dutch creation. “It is made from the rich juices left after boiling the ingredients for head cheese, these being thickened to a stiff paste with buckwheat flour. This paste is pressed in forms until cold and is served in slices. It is a dull blue in color, very rich and very good. “After the feast the turkey eat was rounded out by a night of jollity super induced by the fiddle and maintained by it in its music for the old fashioned cotillon figures and reels, which were danced until the gray of morning. “But most of those old time woods men have passed away, and on those who are still dwellers in the mountains the game laws have forced a situation that leaves them with their ancient oc cupation gone, and the hunt being no longer a source of maintenance its tra ditions have departed with it. The newer generation of these people is of other tastes and associations, so while the wild turkey is yet in proximity In that Blue mountain region to supply the material for the festive turkey eat the traditions and associations that made it possible are no more, and it is gone, like the apple cut, the quilting bee, the pig killing frolic and others of the old time rural pastimes that are now but a memory.”—New York Sun. Hot Stuff. The great editor looked up impa tiently. “Boy,” he said, “what is that rus tling in the wastebasket—a mouse?” The boy after examining the basket answered: “No, sir: it’s one o’ them poems o' passion throbbin’.” “Well, pour some water on it and then drop it out of the window,” said the editor. “The building isn’t in sured.”—Kansas Independent. Cheap Riding. Uncle Zeke (back from the city)—You talk about cheap ridin’l I rode twenty miles on a street k’yar, an’ all it cost me was a nickel. Uncle Jed—GoshI That ain’t nothin’. When I was thar last year I rode to the top of the tallest buildin’ in town, an’ it didn't cost me a blamed cent!— Chicago Tribune. He who has once done you a kind ness will be more ready to do you an other than he whom you yourself hare obliged.—Holmes. ANNUAL STATEMENT * OF J.C. HARNISH,COUNTY TREASURER Showing Receipts, Disbursements and Balances for the Year Beginning January 9, 1908, and Ending January 6, 1909. T°“ , , RECEIPTS Amount of cash on hand January 9,1908. $ 79 510 25 Total tax collected. 175 590 13 School land principal collected. . 9 510 50 School land interest collected.. . . . . . . 2 216 34 School land lease collected. lo’:i2i 70 University land principal collected. ' ]’o29 60 University land interest collected...’757. 35 University land lease collected. 1,217 18 State apportionment... .". 7 995 50 State aid for schools.L] ’711 00 Miscellaneous Collections—County general ............ 3',768 50 County bridge. ’ 6 20 T . , Fines and licenses. 824 50 Interest on deposit. ‘>034 37 Redemption.;;;;;;;;;;; 16,30112 Fees. R459 75 Total.$314,265 29 BY— DISBURSEMENTS State treasurer’s receipts, consolidated state.. $ 21 450 83 Soldiers’relief warrants paid. ’(HT no Labor receipts .!!.'‘!!!! .V.:i!'.!!::: 78 50 Water bond. 4 509 37 School district orders paid. 73’585 49 School bonds and coupons paid. ’790 56 School judgments paid .992 28 Township treasurers’ warrants paid. 22,834 65 Village treasurers’warrants paid . ’ 4 869 70 O’Neill railroad bonds paid.. . 2 775 00 Grattan railroad bonds paid. s’l37 29 Special sidewalk ... .i..! i‘. *." * * *'' 581 16 County road. 079 29 Redemption. 16,065 29 Orders of the county board . 766 56 State Treasurer's Receipts—University land2,984 30 Common school land..’. 2L 829 06 salaries . 4,200 08 General fund warrants paid. 33 462 13 Bridge fund warrants paid............ 15’994 36 High school warrants paid .. . . . . ’310 86 Special road warrants paid..1 142 41 Warrants held in trust. 4’498 53 Cash on hand.’_ 70 746 59 Total .$314,265 29 BALANCES Consolidated state.$ 44 49 Soldiers’ relief. 569 29 County judgment . 2,432 22 County school. 16 43 County funding .142 89 Water bond . 1,157 24 School bund. 12’369 80 Special school. 1,318 47 Township. 9,484 89 O’Neill judgment. 97 34 Village . 1,739 63 O’Neill railroad. 170 30 Irrigation. 135 72 Grattan railroad. 2,534 79 Grattan judgment. 71 77 Sidewalk.... 80 96 Advertising. 471 86 County road. 804 31 Redemption . 2,005 58 Atkinson judgment. 50 57 Railrcad sinking.. 599 09 County general. 2,641 59 County bridge. 485 64 Center precinct— .'. 215 23 High school. 857 59 Special road. 747 50 District school .-. 35,457 26 Orders of the c unty board. 24 47 Excess fees and docket fees. 868 85 Total.,....$ 77,595 77 AMOUNT ON HAND First National bank, O’Neill.$13,000 00 O’Neill National bank. 697 95 Inman State bank. 2.600 00 Citizens’ Bank of Stuart. 13,000 00 First National bank of Stuart. 6,500 00 First National bank of Atkinson . 6,500 00 Chambers State bank. 4,160 00 Ewing State bank.>. 2,600 00 Pioneer bank of Ewing. 2,600 00 Fidelity bank, O’Neill. 6,500 00 Emmet State bank. 1,300 00 Atkinson National bank. 6,500 00 Page State bank. 2,500 00 Cash in office. 2,288 64 Total.$70,746 59 Amount due from Elkborn Valley bank.$2,309 80 Warrants in trust. 4,498 53 Warrants not turned over by Mr. Chittick. 40 85 $6,849 18 Total.$77,595 77 County general fund warrants registered and not paid.$2,835 .32 County bridge fund warrants registered and not paid. 1,879 86 Cpunty general fund warrants registered and called but not presented for payment. $524 98 STATE OF NEBRASKA, County of Holt, ss. I, .1. C. Harnish, treasurer of Holt county, Nebraska, do solemnly swear that the foregoing statement of rec-ipts, disbursements and balances is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. J. C. HARNISH, County Treasurer. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 20th day of Jan uary, A. D. 1909. w. P. SIMAR, County Clerk. ROY SMITH, Deputy. A. 9. diamond Abstract Canuputt Title Abstractors Office in First National Bank Bldg ALDERSQN’S GOT EM! GOOD AND PLENTY Not the Measles, nor the jim jams, but pure bred young bulls of the best families. Mostly Red. sired by Scottish Sharon of Grey tower, 153330, one of the Pan American prize winners, and Golden King 152918. Two of the best bulls on the uppor Elkhorn valley today. Time will be given on bankable note to responsible parties. Delivered to nearest R. R. station free. JOHN M. ALDEKSON Chambers, • * - Nebraskt C. C. FOUTS, of O’Neill, - Nebraska. —SAY WE DO— Veterinary Work and don’t you forget it. A prac tical man with 20 years in the business and always up-to-date. Performs all the principal Operations of Veterinary Surgery, Castration of Ridgelings, Spaying, Dentistry, etc. Successfully treats the so-called (but wrongly named) swamp fever. Will go in any OUT BREAK and treat it. No Cure No Pay What more do you WANT. Write me, call and see me, or phone me. Thelephone No. 132. O’Neill, - Nebraska. D. W. CAMERON Practical Cement Worker Manufactures Cement Walks, build Foundations, Caves, etc. In fact all cement work neatly and promptly done. Address, Atkinson or O’Neill