Nebraska Newspapers

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LOCAL MATTERS
Farm Loans—See R. EL Parker.
Onion sets, 5 cents per quart at
Iloriskey’s.
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Attorney Johnson of Stuart was an
O’Neill visitor Monday.
Cash paid for hides at Davison’s
harness shop. 2t»-tf
Levi YanValkenburg was up from
Inman Tuesday.
'Go to Horiskey’s for onion sets at 5
cents per quart.
August Shroeder of Page was an
O’Neill visitor Tuesday.
All kinds of the best type-writer
paper at The Frontier.
County Surveyor M. F Norton was
in the city the first of the week.
C. II. Stowell, postmaster at
Francis, was in the city yesterday
Mrs. John Carton went to Norfolk
'J uesday for a visit with her daughter.
Episcopal services will be held at
the Odd Fellow hall next Sunday at
11 a. m.
Andy Gallagher came up from
Laurel Tuesday for a visit with his
mother.
Go to Davison’s harness shop for
whips, blankets and all kind of horse
furnishings. 43-tf
Rev. M. Dolan of Chadron was visit
ing his many old friends in this city
Wednesday.
.■standard makes of pianos sold at
1 he lowest possible price by W. B.
Graves, the je'weler 43-tf
J. MuVey and P. Burns of Spauld
ing, Nebr., were transacting business
In the city Monday.
Watch, clock and jewelry repairing
promptly and satisfactorily done at
Gra'es’ jewelry store. 43-tf
W. P. Mohr, the hustling real
estate dealer of Spencer, was an
O’Neill visitor Monday.
Dr. Corbett, Dentist, will be in
O’Neill, May 3, 4, 5, 6,10, 11, 12, 13,
June 7, 8, 9 10, inclusive.
R. W. McGinnis was up from Lin
coln the first of the week looking
after his creamery interests.
J. A. Cowperthwaite arrived home
Saturday from Excelsior Springs, Mo.,
where he had been for a month.
Complete line watches, clocks,jewel
ry and kodaks to select from always
found at Graves’ jeweiery store. 43-tf
Rev. T. D. Flannery of Alpena,
Mich., is in th$ city visiting at the
home of his sister, Mrs. D. A. Doyle.
William Luben of Emmett was a
business caller at these headquarters
last Friday, renewing his subscrip
tion.
Carl Lorenz and Miss Anna Miller,
both of Tonic, Neb., were granted
license to wed on Monday by Judge
Malone.
I have eastern money to loan on
farms in Holt county. My otlice is
next to Dewey hotel.—R. H. Parker,
O’Neill, Nebr 45-4
Lost, between my home and St
Patrick’s church, a gold broach.
Bears figure of a serpents head.
Finder notify John Carton.
Miss Bea Ryan, who has been visit
ing her sister, Mrs T. Duggan, at
Roanoke, 111 , the past eight months,
returned home Tuesday afternoon.
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OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
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There was uo use denying that Sid
ney Gerald was a dawdler. He had
wealth, good looks, youth, and was a
society favorite. Now and then he
went hunting or yachting, but most
of the time he simply dawdled. That
meant his club, the races and society.
He was accounted a catch, but no
one caught him. He didn't really try
to dawdle, but pursued his lymphatic
way simply because there seemed
nothing else to do.
“See here, you good-for-nothing,”
said the widow of the late Hon.
Charles Spofford one evening at a re
ception as she drew him down to a
seat beside her. “I have a duty to
perform.”
“I wish I had,” he replied.
“People aro saying you have no
energy, no ambition, no aim In life.
You linve too much money—too much
time on your hands. You are throw
ing your years away.” •
“Tell me what to do,” replied Syd
ney, yawning.
“Get married.”
“Too much trouble—too many emo
tions.”
“Take a trip around the world."
“Too much change of scenery.”
“Ah, I have It!” exclaimed Mrs. Spof
ford after a moment’s thought. “You
are rich. Why not turn philanthro
pist? Not In the way of hospitals or
asylums, but go among the poor and
give a few of your dollars to alleviate
distress and misfortune. You don’t
know the real people as I do. There
Is no day that I am not feeding the
hungry and giving out alms. Only
this afternoon I gave a one legged man
half a dollar, and you ought to have
heard hls words of gratitude.”
".Tust so,” replied Sydney Gerald,
with a bit of a smile as he thought of
tho many one legged men he had
tossed quarters to.
“Try It for a few weeks—for three
months. It may lead to your becom
ing a reformer. At any rate. It will
rouse you up and give you something
new to think of. It is positively sin
ful for you to be dawdling along this
way.”
“Yes, I think so.”
“If you should turn out to be a re
former I shall take most of the credit
to myself. Three months, Mr. Gerald
—try it for three months, and at the
end of that time I -will arrange for a
little gathering to hear your report.
It cannot fall to be Interesting. You
will have a hundred different Incidents
to relate. Don’t you feel a new and
strange ambition already?' ■ •". -
“Yes, I think I do. Yes, I think I
will turn reformer. I may not make a
success of it, but I’ll make a try.”
The relict of the Hon. Charles spread
the news. As Sydney Gerald did not
entirely drop society while fitting him
self for a reformer, he was lauded
and quizzed on numerous occasions by
numerous people.
Only a scanty few credited him with
the necessary energy to pursue the
object, and the most that was predict
ed of his efforts was the depletion of
his purse without corresponding gain.
There was a great deal said about the
unthankfulness and ingratitude of the
world in general, but it didn’t seem to
affect him much.
“You know you must not look for
too much gratitude,” cautioned Mrs.
Spofford.
".No, I shan’t.”
“You will feel that you have done
your duty, and your conscience will
reward you.”
“Just so.”
“Many and many a time I have given
pennies and got never a word of
thanks. In fact, I have got black
looks as the wheels of my carriage
happened to throw a little mud, but I
drove on feeling that I had made the
world a trifle better. That feeling
must be your reward.”
“Yes, I shall look for it.”
When the three months had expired
Sydney Gerald announced his readi
ness to report. A score of ladies gath
ered In the drawing room of the Hon.
Charles’ widow. There were no men
among them. Charity and reform did
not touch that sex.
When he was ushered in it was re
marked that he seemed to have ac
quired energy and gained ambition,
and there was great curiosity as to
what he would report.
“Ladies, I bog to say,” began Sydney,
“that in my ignorance of how to go to
work I began my investigations in the
house of a wealthy lady. It came
about almost by accident. I found
that she was in arrears to all her serv
ants and that tradesmen were clamor
ing for their bills. I relieved the dis
tress. I gave each servant two months’
back pay and paid each tradesman
something on account. I have a mem
orandum of her name.”
Here Sydney Gerald paused. Mrs.
Spofford turned pale, but her nerve
was with her, and she managed to
force a smile.
“By accident again,” resumed Syd
ney. “I turned a corner one evening
and bumped against a young woman
in tears. I was a stranger, but when
she understood that I had taken up
the business of reformer she told me
the cause of her distress. She was a
seamstress.
“She had worked a week on a gown
for a well known lady and on carry
ing it to the house had been told that
she must wait a couple of weeks for
her pay. She was going home penni
less, hungry and the rent unpaid. The
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lady In the case bought a diamond
tiara next day that was mentioned In
all the papers. She could have paid
the bill a thousand times over, but
she needed the diamonds first. I paid
the seamstress.”
There was an uneasy movement np
and down the room, and for some rea
son all eyes were directed on Mrs.
Somerville. She was conscious of the
fact, hut with a sang froid that did her
credit she put up her lorgnette and
stared at a picture on the wall.
"I happened in at a milliner’s,” said
Sydney, with a smile, 'tjueer place
for a man to be, hut I happened.
Can’t say that I was looking for a hat,
but In searching out subjects for re
form you have to drop Into various
places. Milliner a nice little widow.
All her capital In the business. Just
received a letter from a wholesale
house threatening suit on bills over
due. Her customers all rich, but they
didn’t pay cash down. Don’t pay in
three or six months. In fact, they
didn’t pay for a year or so and only
when forced to. I have seen many of
the hats that were bought there that
way. Believed the distress and passed
on.”
Every lady In the room except the
Hon. Mrs. Spoflferd had on an expen
sive hat. Each lady started to look at
the other, hut gave It up and cast
down her eyes with proper modesty.
They might not all have known the
milliner referred to, hut they had
thoughts. After a painful silence Mr.
Gerald continued:
“Happened to meet the butler of a
house where I frequently call. Just
happened, you know. Down In the
mouth; looked bilious. As a would
be reformer X spoke to him and got his
Btory. I.ady of the mansion hadn’t
paid his wages for five months and
had borrowed his savings besides. He
dared to speak to her about it, and she
had sent him packing. Saw the same
lady buying a $600 ruby ring the other
day."
Every lady In the room helplessly
glanced at the hands of every other
lady. A poodle dog belonging to one
of them seemed to be the only thing In
the room at ease.
“Happened to call on a florist,” said
the obliging reformer when the silence
had endured to the painful point; “Just
happened so. One of his statements of
accounts sent out to a lady had been
returned with a very sharp note. The
account was two years old, and be
cause he sought to collect It the debtor
Informed him that she should take her
patronage elsewhere. It was only one
case out of a score. Sympathized with
the florist and passed on. Happened
across a discharged coachman, dis
charged for hinting that he wanted his
wages. Helped hliu out with a five
dollar bill. Happened to run across a
governess in the same fix. That's all.
Good evening, ladles.”
For two minutes after the reformer
disappeared no one spoke. Tlieu one
lady after another rose up to go aud,
turning to the honorable widow, work
ed up a smile and said:
“Isn’t Sydney Gerald just too charm
ing for anything! And how awful of
people not to pay their bills!”
MINOR MENTION
On Saturday, April 24th, someone
lost some money in my store. Owner
stating amount may have same by
calling at store.—P. J. McManus.
Mrs. A. Baker and children of Chey
enne, Wyoming, arrived in the city
Tuesday for a visit at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Galla
gher.
Spencer Advocate: Phil Anderson
has traded his automobile to the
Townsend Bros, of O’Neill. They
came over after the machine the lat
ter part of last week.
Miss Kemp of Stuart has taken a
position as stenographer in tne law
office of R. R. Dickson, Miss O’Don
nell, who has filled the position the
past year, having resigned.
The Frontier extends its con
gratulations to Harry Dowling, now
of Grand Island, upon his appoint
ment as state bank examiner, to
which position he was named by Gov
ernor Shallenberger last week.
Little Zella Zeimer presented her
mother with a very substantial birth
day gift yesterday, $23, money she had
earned herself. Mrs. Zeimers’ birth
day anniversary doesn’t occur for
some three weeks yet, but that
doesn’t make the present any the less
acceptable.
B. E. Short of Sioux City, who built
the K. C. hall hele, was last week
awarded the contract to build the
new parochial school to be erected by
the members of the Catholic church
at Randolph. The building will be
three stories and basement, 58x81
feet. The contract pride is $17,200.
Farmers are taking advantage of
the high hog prices, in consequence
Of which many are being marketed
every day. The first of the week they
were upas high as $(>.90 per hundred
but have dropped down to $6.60 and
$6.70. One string of ten loads were
brought in from one ueighboorhood
northwest Tuesday.
Last Monday Rev. M. F. Cassidy
received a letter from ex-Senator
Thomas Kearns of Salt Lake, Utah,
instructing him to draw upon him for
$5000 when he commenced the erec
tion of the new church. This is the
largest donation received for the
church and Father Cassidy is greatly
pleased over the Senators liberality,
and it shows he has not forgotten his
old-time friends at O’Neill.
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Yesterday Franz Klaner of Lake
townihlp was examined by the board
of Insanity. Klaner was brought to
O’Neill Tuesday by Deputy Sheriff
Harding. He acts strangely and has
taken no nourishment or drink since
taken into custody. His mental con
dition is said to be due to illness.
Last Saturday the board adjudged
Anton Noziska, a tailor who had
been at Atkinson several years, in
sane and he has been committed to
the asylum.
The Holt County Telephone com
pany have put in a new switch board,
the business of the company having
outgrown the capacity of the old
board. The new one is mucli larger,
being known as a 330 line board. The
company is also making other im
provements on its lines in the way of
new cables. D. F. Rosenborough of
the Western Electric company of
Omaha was here the first of the week
and fitted the local company up with
its new supplies.
Two inches of ice the morning of
May 1. Winter gave us a final pinch
and a hard one. Coal dealers did as
big a business last Saturday as any
day the past winter. But weather
conditions since makes it easy for us
to "forget it.’’ One thing about
what appears to be the final freeze up,
it did no damage as vegatation had
not aroused from winter hibernation
sufficient to be injured by the freeze
The cold wave seemed to have been
general throughout northern states,
while the south was swept by de
structive storms.
Patrick Vaughan, an old-time resi
dent of this county, passed away at
his home in the eastern part of this
city last Friday, at the age of 86
years. Mr. Vaughan was born in
Ireland on March 17,1823, and at an
early age emigrated to New York
state. After spending a few years
there he moved to Iowa where he
resided until 1872 when he moved to
Lancaster county, Nebraska, where
he remained until the spring of 1881
when lie came to Holt county and
settled on a farm about three miles
west of O'Neill where he remained
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Brennan’s
until a few years ago, when general
disability caused by his advanced age,
compelled him to give up farming and
moved to this city where he has since
resided. Deceased leaves a widow,
two daughters, Mrs. P. S. Hughes of
this city and Mrs. Mary Campbell of
McCook, Nebr., and one son, M. J.
Vaughan of this city. The funeral
was held from the Catholic church
last Sunday, the pall bearers being
old settlers who have lived in this
community for over twenty-five years,
the remains being interred in the
Catholic cemetery.
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