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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1909)
The Frontier Published oy D. H. CRONIN, ROMAINE SAUNDKKS. Assistant Editor and Manager. (1 50 the Year 75 Oente 8li Month* Official paper of O’Neill and Holt county. ADVERTISING KATES: Dispiay advertlsments on page* 4, 5 and! re charged for on a basis of M) cents an inch ono column width) per month; on page 1 the oharge Is II an Inch per month. Looal ad vertisements, 5 oents per line each Insertion. Address the office or the publisher. REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES JUDGES SUl’REME COURT John B. liarnes.Norfolk Jacob L. Fawcett.Omaha Samuel II. Sedgwick.York UNIVERSITY REGENTS. CharlesS. Allen (long term)..Lincoln W. G. Whitmore (long term)... Valley Frank L. Haller (short term) Omaha COUNTY TICKET Treasurer—J C. Harnlsh.O’Neill Clerk — W. P. Simar.Atkinson Sheriff—H. D. Grady.O’Neill Judge — C. J. Malone.Inman Supt.—Florence E. /Ink.Stuart Coroner—Dr. E. T. Wilson — O’Neill Surveyor—M. F. Norton.Bliss 8UPRKVI8GR8 2ddist—J. M. Hunter..Middle Branch 4thdist—Th D. Severs.Ewing (ithdist—F. Dobrovoloney.Tonawanda Another million dollar rain arrived In time to make the ears of corn round and plump. This is a republican year. But there are a few democrats who need a good tannin’ and they’re going to get it. Our friend Hickman was not in It very strong at the home of the demo cratic tosses. The machine has a way of getting objectionable candidates out of the way. The local bunch of fuslonlsts were pretty solidly against the Atkinson man for clerk. The O’Neill democrats have a notable propensity for wanting It all and they would have had It this time If there was one among them competent for county superintendent. They are making a pretty spectacle of It at Pittsburg. The striking steel workers and state troops have already shed enough blood to write It down a civil war. People In farming com munities have their troubles over the hired help problem, but they do not go to war about It. Mayor Dahlman of Omaha is Betting his stakes to run for governor next year as a whiskey democrat. He Is doing a little advance work In the way of Chautauqua debating of the prohibition question, being avowedly and Insistently opposed to furthei restrictions of the liquor trade. He Is not without a substantial following and his nomination next year would be no surprise. One thing about the Omaha mayor that is admirable is hie absolute candor. People are not left In the dark as to "where he is at.” The primary method of nominating candidates has never been very warm ly commended since It was first tried in this state. This year open condem nation of the system has developed. In this oounty about one-sixth of the voters showed an Interest in the nom inations by attending the primaries. The election will cost the oounty about 11,400. The objection to the primary system Is the cost. It is argued that the little Interest In the nominations is not worth the price. However, this is not the fault of the system but of the voters. It has some commendable features. There were eight republican candidates this year for the three supreme Judge nomin ations. The primary was a good way to settle It. Frank Harrison, having driven sa loons out of Lincoln, is turning his attention now to hunting up a “lead er” for Nebraska republicans. Har rison has to be doing something sen sational or lie’s not happy. Nebraska republicans are getting along pretty well and there is no indications that the party is going over to “the inter ests that have combined to choke the life out of the country,” whatever friend Harrison means by that. Ne braska republicans gave the state a reduction in railroad and express rates, gives protection against food adulteration, compelled monopoly tax shirkers to come in with taxes and their last state convention ap proved the stand taken by the pres ident that tariff revision meant a reduction. There are a lot of fellows posing as republicans who ought to join the democratic ranks and be done with it.__ l ■ »■ Ready (or Another Campaign. Holt county republicans have the singular good fortune to have a ticket made up for the fall election that has no weak spots. All of the candidates are popular with the voters. With the exception of Henry Grady, the nominee for sheriff, the ticket is made up of those now serving as county officials and their renomination is the result of the request of the party that they again become candidates. Their services to the county have been in everyway satisfactory to the people, who want a continuance of the pres ent business-like and economical ad ministration. Mr. Grady Is a new man on the tick et and new in politics in the sense of running for office. He Is a young man of good ability and exempliary char acter, a credit to any party and has many friends in all parties who will support him. He was born and reared in Holt county and his interests are here. It will be a surprising thing when a republican can run for office in this county and not encounter the bitter infective and slander of the op position, but nobody has ever heard anything against Henry Grady and it will be difficult for the fusion organ to trump up stories to his discredit. Messrs. Harnish, Slmar and Malone and Miss Zink are well known throughout the county for efficient work In their respective offices and will be re-elected by Increased major ities. J. M. Hunter, one of the old settlers in the northeast part of tire county and a substantial and highly esteemed citizen of wide acquaintence, is a candidate for supervisor in the Se cond district, Th D. Severs, nomin ated by both republicans and demo coats, Is a candidate in the Fourth district, and F. Dobrovolney, one ol the progressive citizens of Swan pre cinct, goes before the voters as a can dldate for supervisor in the Sixth district. uepuuiiuauH ntanu on uieir record o the past four years in this county, anc are ready to meet tbe issue. It hai been a dean administration of all th< otllces and a square deal for th< people. A Good Layout. One of The Frontier’s Iowa readeri who visits this county occasional!] thinks that we ought to devote more space to telling of crop and weathei conditions and the development of tin country. Doc Mathews acquired a reputatlor as a boomer In the plODeer days thal noone since has undertaken to dupll oate. Yet Doc’s vivid and alluring pictures of "God’s country” would b< much more applicable to the country now than they were in those uncertair times. Holt county is certainly on the map, There is perhaps no country but what has Its drawbacks, but as few of them will be found here as any place. The land boomer will paint pictures that a newspaper man dare not venture. It is the province of the newspaper to give a conservative estimate ol actual conditions. The season just closing is one of the best In the his tory of the county. There has been rain every time it was needed. A heavy small grain crop was harvested and If frost comes no earlier than common the corn crop will be the biggest in the country’s history. Cat tle are fat and plump. There is an ocean of hay and pasture. High prices are the rule and agriculturalists and stockgrowers are becoming wealthy. Even in the incidentals like eggs, butter and cream there are large profits. Any butter maker could get 25 cents a pound for all they could produce all summer; eggs have sold from 18 cents to a quarter, and cream brings from 20 oents to 23 cents. Considering the price of lands, there is probably no greater profits to be made in agriculture anywhere than in this seotion of Nebraska. We are producing as much per acre this year as they are in tire older settled counties east of us and getting prac tically the same price for it. They are farming $100-an-acre land and we 830 to 840 land. Land values, while still low, are advancing. The country offers a cheap place to the home build er and a safe investment to the capi talist. With an ever increasing de mand for land throughout the country, soil that will produce a crop or grow If you wish a hig!.- less airy dressing, we arc su c ./ r' ;tj Hair Vigor, new imr .o' c or-^ muia, will greedy .!e; e ou.jt It keeps the ha'/ i .ft jr.JJ smooth, makes it look lie., and! luxuriant, prev* ms splitting ut the tads. And it he:;’", die. | scalp free from dandroif. ■ Dvts nnt change t’c color ' f 1 ■ l v.r. ■ m.. -- - .. .. — ■ -i-r . ■—n Formula w. a ... h ol if * m a. b~uw 11 • ■ yarn 1 jf ‘ J A?k l! * **■ -» 1 t ■ '>1.1. ».y» At the s -ms tine the new Ayer's i i; Vigor i - strong hair tonic, promot1 the gro'J i of the hair, keeping all tin tisoue .. :lte hair and scalp in a health' condition. The hair stops falling, dan 'r-. r disappears. A splendid dressing. -he J. U. Ayer Co.. Lowoll. L-a»e.— grass for a steer that can be had at a range of prices of from #7 to $40 per acre will not go lower. -- Cannonism Still an Issue. Speaker Cannon has encountered some pretty severe opposition during his political career, but for half a century he has kept up a victorious fight, rewarding his friends and pun ishing his enimies The last speaker ship fight increased the bitterness. Cannon took occasion to punish those who opposed him by not reappointing them when it came to naming the house committees. Among these was Congressman Fowler of New Jersey, formerly chairman of the banking and finance committee. Fowler re sents his removal from the committee and fires some pretty hot shot at “Uncle Joe” in a letter addressed to the speaker. He says: “Do you suppose that I was not aware of your ignorance, prejudice, inordinate conceit, favoritism, putrid preferences and aU like characters possessing absolute powers, the malice which is the mainspring of your every action under such circumstances?” It is evident that the insurgents who fared similar to Fowler will con tinue their opposition to Cannon. The next congress may see many changes in the house that will have a bearing on Cannon’s standing. The victory of Cannon in being re-elected speaker of the present congress doesn’t appear , to have Increased his popularity and Cannonism will no doubt be an issue again in the next congressional cam paign. -- Publio officials who recognize duty and perform it have their troubles also. Clifford Plnchot has for several years been a target for the plunderers of the public domain. Dr. Wiley of Washington, the government food ex pert, has encountered the fieice oppo sition of the powerful manufacturing combines in his warfare against adul terated foods and these interests are now conspiring for his removal. Both l’mchot and Wiley have the courage of their convictions and have stood firmly for the peoples’ rights as against tile greed of monopoly. It is such men as these that the country needs in the high places. Kola Items. A. J. Mohr, Mrs. Monroe and Mrs. K. Kline visited at Kola Sunday. Olin Baker and family of O’Neill visited with J. Pfund and family last week. Jason Barnum is back on his home stead making hay and otherwise im proving his home. During a severe thunder storm last Saturday evening lightning killed one of P. J. Kennedy’s big mules. F. II. Bruner and P. J. Kennedy took the stage for O’Neill this week to be witness for C. E Dillon as he makes final proof on his land. Miss Grace Pfund went to O’Neill last Tuesday to take teachers’ ex amination and while there took in the old settlers’ picnic north of O'Neili. _____ Disney Items. The prevailing winds last Saturday was something fierce. Everybody arouad here is going to the old settlers picnic in Spindler’s grove. Marion Whaley, so it is said is going to move his swing down to Lincoln to rake in the nickels and dimes down there. The game that was played last Saturday between the Mineolas and Corn Huskers was rather exciting. If you want to know the score, ask Clarence Simonson. Berger and Hatch brothers have just finished haying. They averaged about five stacks a day while they were at work. They will finish stack ing small grain the 23rd of August. The Irish Peelers and the Mineolas will cross bats on Frosts diamond. Those two ball teams are good players and we bespeak a good time for every one who is fortunate enough to be there and see the game. I will proceed to correct an error that crept into last weeks items. I made the announcement that Mineola and Dorsey would cross bats on the latters grounds, it should have read the Knoxville boys on the Dorsey grounds. Ironsides. R. R. Dickson went to Omaha Sun day. _ F. E. CLARK, MANAGER R. W. MCGINNIS, PROP. McGinnis Creamery Go. For the convenience of all Cream Patrons we have opened a Cream Station in the building known as the Yantzi Butter and Egg Store. Mr. Yantzi will be in charge and will weigh and lest your cream and pay you the cash for it; also pay cash for Poultry. You will get as much for your cream at the Station as we pay at the Creamery. Will keep a supply of fresh butter milk on hand all the time so anyone wanting butter milk can get $ame at 5 cents per gallon, 01 all you can drink for 5 cents. Now that we have a station down town and will pay you the same price there as at the Creamery, we want every cream patron to give us a trial, for we are doing this for your own good. Thanking you very truly, McGinnis Creamery Co. | rYNUfl Directors of I vy 1 N CUUL this Ba.nk i * y * direct the affairs of the bank. In ffl ® IV I ^ -L_y —, . — _ 1 other words, they fulfill the duties a I VI PI II imposed and expected from them ® 1 * " VXV-FX XCXX in their official capacity. I 1 One of the by-laws of this bank is b g | J 1 (and it is rigidly enforced) that no S a f Lp" loan shall be made to any officer or S [=3 JL/CU 1£V stockholder of the bank. b 1 You and your business will be wel- S ___ come here, and we shall serve you S t§ OHO HO tothebestolourabllityatalltimes. 1 Ij Ifyouarenotyetapatronofourswe @ a want you tocome in, get acquainted g a I «&«£«& and allow us to be of service to you. j§ V^apiLo.1 We welcome the small depositor. S 5 per cent interest paid on time g |j deposits. E. I OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS | a M. DOWUNO, PRES. O. O. SNYDER. VICE-PRES. S. J. WEEKES, CASHIER g OR. J. P. GILUOAN. H. P. DOWUNO BILL! TBE BORE, He Was Very Different From the Poet and the Halfback. By TEMPLE BAILEY. [Copyrighted, 1909, by Associated Literary Press.] There was no denying that Billy was not deeply Intellectual. He was tall and blond, with broad shoulders and a smile that wTas like sunshine on a gloomy day. But among the girls of the college these qualities counted for little, for they worshiped at the shrine of the poet and of the halfback. The poet had long hair, and so had the half back. but otherwise they had nothing in common except that they both loved Dulcie Drayton. Billy loved Dulcie too. But he hadn't half a chance, for the poet wrote sou nets to Duleie's eyebrows, and tile half back let her shine in his reflected foot ball glory. Now and then she consented to make Billy happy. "Yes, X will walk with you." she told him graciously one Oc tober day. "only we mustn’t go very far. for 1 have an engagement with the halfback." "All right” said Billy and promptly forgot his watch. The halfback was raging when they finally reached Duleie’s home. “We have missed the game,” he said. “Of course if 1 had been playtug I couldn’t have waited; but, as It is. 1 have hung around”— "Billy forgot his watch,” Dulcie apol ogized. “and we didn't realize how late It was.” “1 should think he would bore you to death," the halfback said when Billy had left them. “How can you stand that fellow?” "lie’s not bad," Dulcie defended. “Of course he hasn’t such an awful lot of brains, and he hasn’t done such won derful things as you have, but he’s got an awfully good disposition.” And the halfback, remembering his own grumbling and growling, said “Oh. well,” uncomfortably and won dered if Dulcie was hitting at him. A few days later the poet took Dulcie to task about Billy. “You danced with him four times last night." he said, “and 1 wanted you to sit out those last two In the conserva tory with me. I had a new poem to read to you. It was about young Oc tober’s golden eyes, and It Is dedicated to you.” "Bead it to me now,” said Dulcie. “I’d love to hear it.” “The atmosphere isn’t right,” the poet fretted, “not here on the campus, but last night there was a little moon, and there were red roses on the lat tice.” “Billy is an awfully good dancer,” Dulcie reflected, which, as the poet generally got tangled up even in a twostep, was not tactful. For several days after that, how ever, the rivalry between the poet and the halfback was so Intense that Billy was left completely in the back ground. The poet sat up half the night writ ing verses, and the theme was “love, love, love.” and he claimed every spure moment of Dulcio's time to read them to her. “He writes about my hair,” she told Billy, “and calls it ‘soft spun silk shimmering in the sunshine.’ ” “I don’t see the use of stringing out a lot of shimmering sunshine sen tences when your hair is too beautiful to be described,” said Billy bluntly. Dulcie smiled up at him. “After all. I like the way you put it. Billy,” she said, "and I’m glad you like the color of my hair.” “I love it.” Billy stated, “and 1 love you. Dulcie.” "Oh. oh. you mustn't!” Dulcie pro tested. "Well, not now, if you don’t want me to. but I shall tell you again, Dulcie,” Billy answered. "And he will.” Dulcie told her most intimate friend that night. “He will "sk me over and over again." “Well, of course you couldn't marry ntm,” said the intimate friend calmly, "not such a bore.” "I am not sure that Billy deserves that nickname,” said Dulcie. “He doesn't talk moonshine like the poet or brag of himself like the halfback, but he does say some nice, sensible, good hearted things, and he has a lovely smile.” The intimate friend sat up and look ed at her. “Well, of all things,” she said; "I believe you are half In love with him. How you can think of him when you have the choice of two such men as the poet and the halfbuck is more than I cau understand.” “But are they really in love with me?” Dulcie demanded. “They have asked you to marry them, haven’t they?” Marion asked. “Yes. But somehow it seems to me that they are always thinking of them selves. But Billy thinks of me.” “Oh,” Marion said softly, “I know' what you mean. If you married the poet or the halfback you would have to worship at their shrines, while Billy would worship at yours.” “Yes,” said Dulcie. "that’s it, aud n man who loves you that way can’t exactly bore you, can he?” , “No, he can’t,” said Marlon, “but of course you can never tell how long ft will last.” “Sometimes I have thought I should like to put them to a test, as ladies did with the knights of old,” Dulcie medi tated. “But what test,” Marion demanded, “could you have In modern days?” “In the old times it was a test of strength and skill,” Dulcie stated, “but today there is one god, Marlon—money. You know I have a lot In my own right And the boys know It nil them, the poet and the halfback and Billy. Perhaps that is what makes me the most popular girl in school—my money, not just me myself." “You are a darling,” Marion encour aged her, “but you know how men are.” “Yes, I do,” Dulcie agreed. And they then and there constructed a plot. The next night the poet, lingering In the shadow of the elms, was met by Marion. When they had talked for a moment she said, “Isn’t it sad about Dulcie Drayton.” “Sad?” the poet echoed. “Oh, didn’t she tell you?” Marlon hesitated. “Then I ought not to.” But tlie poet urged her. “Well, she has lost all of her money.” Marion said. “I am her roommate, and I saw the letter. But please don't speak of it.” “Of course not,” said the poet. But that night he wrote many verses, and in all of them was a note of re nunciation. and the next day he gave them to Dulcie. “They are very sad.” he explaiued, “but I have come to be lieve that a genius should not marry. Only in the sadness of solitude can talent be developed. I must give you up, my Dulcie." “ “1 am not your Dulcie.” the girt started, with a little flame in her cheeks. .ISA .. „1. I. t_ Sue did not reproach him. \\ hat was the use of reproaching such a fee ble thing as the poet? But when Mar ion had told the halfback the same tale and he had without compunction broken an engagement with Dulcie. giving as an excuse "I am going to cut out dances for awhile—and girls." she allowed herself the luxury of a retort. “Then you won't miss me when 1 go away." she said pointedly. “Go away?” he questioned. "Yes. You see. I am eighteen tomor row, and my money will be my own to use as I please, and I have so many /Ians”— "But.” the halfback gasped. "I thought you had lost your money!" He stopped, red to the ears. “So did the poet,” said Dulcie. “Mar ion told both of you some kind of tale, and both of you believed it.” “That wasn’t the reason.” the half back excused. Dulcie stopped him sternly. "Yes. it was. That was why you gave up girls—that was why you gave up me!" And she left him abruptly. "1 am half afraid to have you tell Billy." she told Marion that night. "If he should fail me”— But Billy when he heard the news came straight to her. “Marion has told me,” he said sim ply. “I haven’t much, Dulcie, but I love you. and I want yoti to marry me at once if you will." Dulcie laid her hand on his arm. “Billy,” she said, “I am uot poor. I put you and the poet and the half back to a test, and only you stood it. You are the knight of the true heart, and I love you.” After Billy had kissed her rapturous ly he asked, “Are you sure I won’t bore you. Dulcie?" “If you knew how I hated the poet's poems and the halfback’s boasting you wouldn’t ask such a silly question. Billy,” she replied. Hospital "Boarders." “There is a class which gives every hospital iu the city a whole lot of trouble, especially in the winter time,” said a member of the faculty of the Pennsylvania hospital. “It is made up * of what we call ‘steady boarders.’ meaning men who have no homes, who are too lazy to work and who feign illness in order to secure a comfortable bed and good food for a week or so at a time. However, we have devised a scheme which is quite effective in driving them away. When one of these boarders arrives on the scene we can usually spot him. We know the ear marks of the species. He is taken into the receiving ward, solemnly un dressed and laid upon the operating table, where a fake examination takes place. The trouble is finally located in the spine, and an immediate operation is advlssd. The patient writhes, pro testing that he feels much better, but is -t permitted to leave. Meanwhile a piece of ice has been sharpened to a point and suddenly, without warning, the ice is drawn down the boarder’s back. With a yell he is off the table, out of the room and out of the build ing. We throw his clothes out after him, and he never comes back.”—Phil adelphia ltecord. For Boots or Bedding? His car had broken down. It was 10 o'clock at night. The rain was be ginning to drizzle. Dash it, bust it and likewise blow it! There was an inn near by. It was only just an inn, but it was an inn. The landlord growled when he asked for a room, but at last conceded It. They put his motor in the garage among the ifinngel wurzels. He didn’t have any supper. He just looked at it. Then he went up to bed. A minute later he was leaning over the balustrade. “Landlord!” he yelled. “Landlord! Do you think I’m going to clean mv ewn boots?” “Mot’s up?” called back mine surly host. "M’hat’s up? M’hy, what’s that boot polishing pad on my bed for’” "Pollshln’ pad!” roared back the landlord. “That’s not a pollshln’ pad. young feller. That’s the pillow!”— London Scraps. Reason Enough. Teacher-Tommy, you should comb your hair nefore you come to school. Tommy—Ain’t got no comb. Teacher Then borrow your father’s. Tommy ather ain't got no comb neither. Teacher-Absurd! Doesn’t he comb his hair? Tommy-He ain't got no hair!—Lipplncott’s.