'/OLUWt XXXI, O'NEILL. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9.1911 NUMBER 34
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LOCAL MATTERS.
FARM LOANS. Sec R II. Parker.
Dr. Devine resident dt ntlst. Phone
175. ,18-t f
Some bargiris i. real estate, clns >. in
— Hah & O. 50 tf
Subscril > for Tin: Frnnlier, onlv
$1 .70 per .year.
Large list of town property for sale.
Mall&iCo. 50-tf
The Frontier prints the attractive
kind of Sale Hills.
I. !. Meredith can make good rates
on fire insurance. 31-4.
1 have 4 good Farms for Rent.
See R. II. Parker, O’ Neill. 33 2
Fire insurance written in the best
c •...panics at lowest rates.—.1. 11. Mer
edith 31-4.
Mrs. James Coyle left Saturday last
for Berkley. 1 t.‘, icing called thereby
the illness of her father.
For Sale—Some tine bronze turkey
toms, at res satiable prices — .! D.
Grimes) Chambers, Neb 30-4pd
Dr Corbett is in O'Neill every Mon
day, Tuesday. Wednesday aim Thur
dav, except 2 i week of each 16 ft
Money to loan on improved farms.
No Waiting, money paid when you
sign the papers—Hall & Co. 50-tf
Half section farm in Kansas for sale
or t rade for Holt county land. Apply
to Wm. G. Reha. Inman, Neb. 33 tf
For Sale—Du roc-Jersey boars at $10
to $15 each. Good ones and thorough
breds.—J. II McAlhster, Agree. 32-tf
Mills & Son sell National Light oil
at 18 cents. We ship our oil direct and
dont sell all kinds out of the same
tank. 34-3.
Why pay rent when you can get
money to build on small payments.
Call at the office of C. E. Hall for full
particulars. 52-tf
l’ai. Morrison came up from Omaha
Sunday njght tube at the bedside of
his father, sister-in-law arid nephew
who are all seriously ill.
A. I). Pond made this office a pleas
ant call last Saturday, and renewed
his subscription to this household
necessity for another year.
Coal—I hav%30ton of good coal in
C.m Keys shed, 1 want to sell her out,
weigh on city scales and load her out
at $fi.50.—George Bowden.
Think of me when yon get ready to
borrow some money on your farm,
ranch or city property. 21-6mo
B. G. Parker, Land Agent, ONeill
W E Keenan will have a sale six
miles north of town on February 21,
offering for sale sixteen horses, six
cows, si me hogs and his farm machin
ery and other personal property.
P X Larso i of Page was in the
city Monday. Mr Larson just return
ed from a business trip in Iowa He
says th re was the same heavy fall of
s to n throughout that state that we
hud iu Nebraska.
There are an unusual large number
of public sales being held ibis winter.
Some are retiritg from farming and
ottiers are selling out to move to dif
ferent localities. Good prices prevail
at the sales and things sell readily.
One auctioneer. Col. Oowperthwaite,
tells us lie lias sales set for all but two
days this month.
The Odd Fellows made the visit of
tlie Grand Master Paul Story and
Grand Seer, t try P. 1. Gage to their
lodge last night an occasion for one of
their old time feasts and social funct
ions. The ii 0:ii a rship was out in
large numbers los e and hear the dig
nities of the order and to join in ex
tending hospitality.
Services will be held in the Episcopal
Church next Sunday evening at 7:30,
conducted by Rev. VV. W. Wells
When you want an up-to-date
Twentieth Cent ury Auctioneer call on
John MisUimiris, Atkinson, Neb. For
dates call him at Atkinson or the Fi
delity Bank, O’Neill. 271 f.
W. Graves, one of O’Neill’s popular
jewelers, has moved his stock of jewel
ery, kodaks, and musical goods from
4th si reel to the building formerly oc
copied by John Skirving, near (he
post-otlice. Bill is nicely fixed in his
new locality and is now ready to sup
pi, the public with tlie best in bis
line.
My new stock of 1911 vehicles are
now on my floors. 1 have a variety of
styles and prices and the beauty of
19U buggies and carriages must be
seen to-bo appreoiated M.vsiew fare
machinery is also in, wind mills,
pumps, fannin,. mills, corn graders,
sewing machines and pianos—Frank
Campbell 34-2.
The heavy snow of Sunday did not
materially affect the train service on
the t\vo lines running into O’Neill
The Burlington sent out a snow plow
end crew ahead tof the passenger to
open the track Monday morning.
There being no wind there were no
drifts to encount r and the trains
moved just about on the usual time.
E. R. Adams returned the first of
the week from Dixon, 111 , where he
had been called the week previous by
the deaf h of his father, who died after
a brief illness at the age of eighty-six,
years. He had received word that his
father was ill and a request that Mrs.
Adams come to assist in caring for
him and then a day or two after the
departure of Mrs. Adams for Dixon
Mr Adams received a telegram that
his fai her was dead.
The McGinnis electric light system
expects to be in working order within
a few weeks. The poling and wiring
is progressing rapidly and the machin
ery is being set in place Tiie cream
ery building, in which the system will
be operated, is riot completed yet but
most the work to be done on the build
ing yet does not have any connection
with the starting of the lighting
which can be. done when tiie machin
ery is ail in and wires and poles up.
In a debate last Friday, in the
O’Neill high school,-between the sen
iors and juniors, the juniors were vie
torious, winning from their superiors
by quite a margin. Tiie question dis
cussed was: “Resolved, that tiie pres
ent policy of maintaining tiie navy is
preferable to the policy of substantially
increasing it.” Tiie debaters done ex
ceptionally well, all making good clear
talks, the seniors having the affirma
tive. and the juniors the negative side
of the question. Tiie three seniors
chosen to represent the O’Neill big!
school, ia a debate to be held here
with Valentine in the near future
were: Misses Maud Nelson and Mabe
Meredith and Mr Ambrose Biglin
The three juniors, who are to defend
the debating reputation acquired hj
O’Neill high school at Atkinson are
Messrs. Rhody Ryan, Walter Camp
bell and Lawrence Chapman. The
judges were: J. 0. Malone, J. A. Don
ahoe and R. R. Dickson.
Buy that Furniture Now.
A special price on furniture will be
made at our steiro during February
We have too large a stock'. You neee
a table, some chairs or a new bed
Why not buy it now? Do not say yot
cannot afford it. come in and see on
! sti ck, and get prices and be convince!
I that you cannot afford to do without
j—Golden’s Furniture and Hardware
Dies on Train in Texas
John A Wilson ot U nmet precinct,
who with his wife was on a visit to
tiie r son Harry in Texas died sudden
ly on the a t rain last week while eu
route from San Antonia to Eagle
Lake. The body was taken to Orion,
Illinois, file old family home of the
Wilsons for burial. The deceased was
born near Coal Valley,Illinois, in 1854.
He married Jennie Scott in 1875 and
to the union were born six children,
Arthur M. of this county, Alma E.
now a teacher of music in Chicago,
Sara E Bailey of Orion, Illinois,
Maude E., a student at the Univer
sity of Chicago, Harry S. of Eagle Lake
Texas, and Mrs. Mabel A. Gaddis of
Lincoln.
All of the children were present at
the fuueral, including a grandchild,
little John Wilson Gaddis, the name
sake of his grandfather.
Mr. Wilson was for several years a
supervisor in Rock Island county> Illi
nois and stood high in the Woodmen
circles in that section where the lodge
was lirst instituted. He moved to
[ I t i n 1 hfll! n nrl • i 1 I Vw > 11 ■ r 1 1 liio
health up to that time has been bad,
lie seemed to benefit by the change.
Early last fall, however, his condition
began to fail and on this trip which he
and his devoted wife were taking
for the purpose of visiting their child
ren lie expressed himself as confident
hat it might be the last time that lie
would see t hem
The Commoner: There is no new ad
vice to give to boys, and there arc no
new boys to advise The boy is the
same that he has been and lie is not
likely to change much in the years to
come. Ilis impulses are the same that
they were centuries ago; the dangers
that confront him confronted his fath
er and his grandfather in ttieir boy
hood days I I were suggesting a
warning to boys, I could not suggest a
better one than that embodied in the
text: “The wages of sin is death.”
that is tlie law, and it can not be re
pealed The honest, truthful, indus
trious boy will succeed in proportion
to bis intelligence, but no intellig
ence can make up for the lack of hon
esty, truthfulness or industry; espec
ially is it impossible to siibstitute^any^
tiling for honesty and truthfullness.
Laziness will limit ones acoomplish
nents, whatever his other good qual
ities may be but iie can outgrow laz
iness jo it as he can outgrow lack of
education or intellegence, but it is
much more difficult to outgrow a lack
of truthfulness. Possibly 1 ought to
suggest that patience is a virtue
which should be added to the one al
ready mentioned. Impatience has led
many young men to ruin, they have
not been willing to wait for a fortune
to come through legitimate accumu
lation, and through their haste to get
rich they have fallen. The boy should
‘learn to labor and to wait.’ Charact
er is built slow fi; but it can be lost in
a day. The fanner must wait from
seed time until the harvest however
long it may seem, before he gathers
his crop, and sc, the boy must be will
ing to plan in tiie springtime for the
harvest that he will gather when lie
is grown.
There is a 12 year old lad in town
who is making a start penitentiary
ward. Notwithstanding his years are
but few, lie is schooled in the meth
ods of the experienced crooks, and lias
taken up the bad check plan of secur
ing funds. Monday he called on one
of the merchants and made a 5-cent
purchase and handed the merchant a
check for $3. The check was made
payable to himself. The merciiant
did not believe the boy had money in
tlie bank and so told him, but the boy
insisted that lie had $25 deposited to
his credit and made the lie so plaus.
able that the merciiant gave him the
change, only to find out a little later
by inquiry at the bank that the boy
had no money there. The merchant
got part of t lie money back from ttie
boy and threatened prosecution unless
the balance was returned.
Representative Cronin was home
over Sunday and Monday, coming
up Saturday from Omaha, where the
election investigation committee, of
which lie is a member, was in session
ill last week. Mr. Cronin returned to
Lincoln Monday as the committee ad
journed to meet again in Omaha c.n
Monday, Fet. 13. Speaking of the
charges of election frauds, Mr. Cronin
says that while the indications point
strongly to irregularit ies, it is going
to be dillicult for the committee to tix
the blame for such on any one or even
get conclusive proof of the irregular,
ities because of local feeling at Oma
ha. He thinks the county option bill,
now attracting attention, cannot pass
because the opposition has too
many votes.
We sincerely thank the kind friends
and neighbors, who so gererously as
! | sisted us during the illness and death
j of our beloved husband and father.—
| Mrs. M. .1.Sullivan and children.
County Option Defeated.
The county opt Ion bill, senate flit
No. 118 by Ollts of Valley county, was
defeated in tile senate Wednesday bj
a bare margin of two votes. Thii
measure created considerable interest
in this locality, Holt county having
a majority of voters in favor of it. It
was made a party issue In the senate
the democrats mustering enough
votes to defeat the bill.
J. J . King, a member of the board ol
governors of the commercial club ol
Kelso, Wash, and formerly a citizen ol
O’Neill, sends The Frontier a hand
some volume of something over IOC
pages, which sets oil with distinct en
cravings and concise descriptive ar
tides the natural, industrial and com
mercial resources of that state. The
volume is published by authority ol
the state and would indicate that
there it a “live bunch” of fellows oul
that way. Nebraska has recently tak
en up tills idea of bringing their re
sources and the opportunities offered
for investment, money-making and
home building, iuasortof official waj
and tiie proposition should be pushed
alone.
The wrestling exhibition at the op
era house last Friday evening was at
tended by a large crowd, men corning
from nearly all nearby towns as wel
as many coming in from the country
and tire town itself also being wel
represented in the crowd. The mair
event was the match betweeu Dr.
Roller, a wrestler of national repute
and James Davis of Fremont Davis
was clearly outclassed as the big phy
sician had the best of the match in al
respects and impressed the audience
with the fact without so stating that
he could put Davis to the mat at any
time. The exhibition lasted forty-tive
minutes, Davis being put down twice
in that time.
“How to raise Cain,” is the subject
of a popular lecture to be given In the
MeGioeist church, on Friday evening
of this week, by the Rev. C. N. Daw
son D. D. of Omaha. Dr. Dawson Is
an educated and cultured Christian
gentleman and his lectures are over
flowing with helpful thoughts and the
richest of humor. If you -hear him
once you will surely want him to come
again. Remember the date, Friday
evening Feb. 10, at the M. E. Church.
Methodist Chinch Items
The snow storm of last Sunday ma
terially interfered with the attend
ance at the services of the church, but
the few that did come out felt that
they were well repaid for their effort.
The Rev. Dr. George gave us a very
interesting and helpful sermon.
The usual services will be held next
Sunday, and we will hope for bettei
weather and shall expect a much larg
er attendance. So far as it is possible
everybody ought to get out to the
class meeting at 10 a. m. and thus be
gin the day right.
The pastor will preach both morn
ing and evening next Sunday, taking
for the subject of bis morning dis
course, “Lincoln, the Emancipator,’
and for the evening, “Jehovah caring
for IDs Ovfrn.” To these and to al
services of our church we most cor
dially invite everybody, especially the
stranger who may be in our city ovei
lijc oduuaiu.
Sunday school every Sunday at tht
close of our morning service. The les
sons we are now studying are intense
ly interesting and everybody ought t(
be studying them with us. If you art
not a member of some Bible Class, w<
would be pleased to have you come ir
in with us We have just the plac<
fur you in our school.
Epworth league service Sunday at'
o'clock. Our young people are especi
ally urged to come out to this servlci
and help to make it a success. Every
body is cordially invited.
Prayer meeting every Thursday eve
ning at 7.30. All of our neighbors ant
friends are invited to ccme in ant
worship with us.
The Ladies Aid Society will meet ii
the class room Tuesday afternoon at:
o’clock There is plenty of work ant
a goodly attendance is desired. A1
ladies are invited to meet with them
T. S. Watson, Pastor.
Public Sale.
Six miles north and two miles eas
of O’Neill on Monday, Feb. 13, at l:
o’clock m., I will olfer at public sail
six good horses, six good milch cows
thirty head of hogs, chickens, geesi
and ducks, and a lot of farm machin
ery. Usual terms.
34-lpd L. L. Larkin.
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Card of Thanks.
We hereby thank our many friend
and acquaintances for their man;
actsof kindness and sympathy extend
us in our recent bereavement and but
ial of our son and brother, Chester
—Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Norton am
family.
I COMING I
Opera-House
Sat. Feb. II
McDERMID BROS.
Present
BILL
The Greatest Western Military
Drama, with Mr. D. McDermid
playing the title role
Seats now on Sale at Pixley Drug Store
PRICES 25-35-50
State Aid for Bridges
Holt county people are Interested
•In the bridge bill now before the
state legislature, not merely
because of its introduction in Me
house by Itepresentaaive Cronin of
ttiis county, but because it will turn
over to the state our biggest bridge
question, that of bridging the Nia
brara river. The provisions of the
bill are as follows:
Section 1. The State Board of Ir
rigation is hereby constituted and de
clared to be the State Board of Super
vision for bridges to be located and
constructed under this act, and the
State Engineer acting under the said
board is empowered to carry out the
orders thereof.
Section 2. The county board or
boards of any county or counties may
make application, in writing, to the
State Board of Irrigation for state aid
in tiie construction of any bridge hav
ing a span of one hundred and seven
ty live feet or more, under the juris
diction of said county board or boards.
Said application shall contain a de
scription of the proposed bridge, with
a preliminary estimate of cost of con
struction thereof and a certified copy
of the resolutions of said board or
boards, pledging said county or coun
ties to furnish one-half of the cost of
construction of said bridge.
Section 3. The State Board of Ir
rigation shall, on the iirst Monday of
January, April, July and October of
each year, considering such applica
tions and recommendation of the
State Engineer imake an order fora
grant of one half of the cost of con
, struction of any such bridge or bridg
es as shall be designated.
Section 4. That before any contract
. shall be let as aforesaid, the county
I board or boards having jurisdiction,
I together with the state board of
irrigation by their joint action shall
i cause to be published for four con
> secutive weeks, in a newspaper print
I ed in one of the counties having jur
I isdiction, or, in their discretion in
any newspaper printed within the
state having general circulation in
said county or counties, an advertise
ment inviting contractors to compete
for such work; which notice shall
I state the general character of the
[ work, the number and kind of bridge
es required to be built and their pro
[ posed location as nearly as can be es
timated and determined, the time
within which and the place where all
bids must be presented, and the time
and place of having such bids; and no
bid shall be considered unless accom
panied by a certitied check or cash,
i the amount of which shall be deter
r mined by the joint action of the coun
- ty board or boards having jurisdiction
- and the State Board of Irrigation and
. made payable to the county clerk
1 of the county with whom the bids are
deposited, to be forfeited to the state
and counties having jurisdiction in
proportion to the interest of each in
case the bidder refuses to enter into
contract with said county or counties
and state if same is awarded to him.
Provided, however, that in all cases
in this section where the State Board
of Irrigation has power to act jointly
with county boards such power may
be given by it to the State Engineer.
Section 6. All contracts for the
erection and 'constructron of such
bridge or bridges, and for furnishing
the materials in connection with the
same, shall be let jointly by ithe coun
ty board of boards of the county or
counties making application for such
aid and the State Board of Irrigation
to the lowest and best bidder. All
bids must be deposited with the coun
ty clerk of the county making such
application, or. if more than one
county make joint application for
such aid, then such bids shall be de
posited with the county clerk of the
county first named in said application.
Such bids shall be opened by the coun
ty clerk with whom deposited in the
joint presence of the county boards
having jurisdiction and the State
Board of Irrigation. Provided, how
ever, that the State Board of Irriga
tion may be represented at any of the
transactions named in this section by
the State Engineer upon bis being
duly authorized to act in such capac
ity by such state board.
Section 6. The plans and specific
ations of the proposed bridge or bridg
es are to be furnished by the State
Engineer, and construction of tha
same shall be under the joint super
vision of the State Board of Irriga
tion and the county board or boards
having jurisdiction, when completed,
shall first be accepted by the State
Board of Irrigation and the county
board or boards having jurisdiction of
the proposed bridge or bridges before
completion of payment therefor.
Section 7. After the completion of
said bridge or bridges and the accept
ance thereof by the state Board of
Irrigation, the county or counties
having jurisdiction thereof shall bear
the cost of maintainance of the bridge
where it is not over one hundred dol
lars per year, and in case it exceeds
one hundred dollars per year then the
cost of maintenance shall be borne
equally by the state and the county or
counties.
Section. 8. There shall be a levy
on each dollar of assessed valuation, of
the grand assessment roll of the State
of one-fifth of one mill per annum
which shall be made by the State
Board of Equalization in the year
1911 and each year thereafter. The
proceeds of such levy shall constitute
what shall be known as the state aid
bridge fund, and such funds shall be
used exclusively for the purposes here
in provided.