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I But we are satisfied—satisfied to give you one hundred cents’
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0. O. SNYDER, O’Neill
11 !1
Inman Items.
Mr. Lemuel Hoxsie had bus
iness in Page last Friday.
Wm. Goree is spending a few
days in Neligh this week.
Mr. Clifford Smith is here from
Chadron visiting with his parents.
Ira Watson went to Long Pine
last Wednesday on a pleasure
trip.
Master Richard Colman is
here from Norfolk visiting with
relatives.
Mrs. R. J. Clark is quite ill
this week. It is believed that she
has typhoid fever.
C. C. Leidy returned home
from Iowa last Thursday to make
a short visit with his family.
Neville Clotfelter of Neiigh
is visiting with his uncle and aunt,
Mr. and Mrs. Matthews here this
week.
Mrs. D. A. Goree went down
to Stafford last Thursday to visit
with her grand-daughter, Mrs.
Ed. Bentz.
Miss Mary Smith returned to
her home in Pender last Thurs
day after a two weeks visit at
this place. I
Miss Ruth Hatfield is down
from O’Neill visiting with her
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Ril
ey this week.
Mrs. Dewitt Derby went up to
O’Neill last Friday to be initiated
into the Rebecca Lodge, return
ing Saturday.
Mrs.J.J. Halloran who has been
visiting with her daughter in
Petze, Colo, and her daughters in
Burwell returned last Monday
evening.
The Misses Mary and Loretta
Phalin who visited with the Miss
es Florence anh Mildred Malone
returned to their home at O’Neill
last Friday.
Mrs. Levi Garnet and grand
son, Gerald Roberts went down
to Neligh last Thursday to visit
with her daughter, returning the
same day.
Ed. Clark and famiyl,who have
been spending the past two
weeks on an automobile trip to
Minnesot i, returned home last
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Goree left
I
for Norfolk last Sunday morning
to visit with their daughter Mrs.
Frank Parry and family and to
take in the firemen’s tournament.
Mrs. C. J. Malone and daugh
ter, Mildred, went up to O’Neill
last Friday to visit with her
brother, C. P. Hancock and fam
ily and also to attend the Rebecca
lodge.
Mrs. Wm. Goree and family,
Mrs. Charles Goree and family
and Mrs. Dewitt Derby and fam
ily went down to Stafford last
Thursday to visit with their neice,
Mrs. Ed. Bentz.
Miss June Hancock, teacher of
class No. 4 of the M. E. Sunday
school, gave a party to her class
last Thursday at her home. A
bountiful luncheon was served at
six o’clock, and later ice cream
and cake were served. At eight
o’clock they departed for their
respective homes all feeling that
they had spent a most enjoyable
afternoon.
Opportunity Items.
Rain, rain, rain.
J. R. Getty and Ezra Thomas
were seen at the ball game Satur
day.
Mr. and Mrs D. Weidfelt and
Carl and Henry Weidtfelt attend
ed the ball game here Saturday.
Ben Powell and Antone Sivers
sind took in the ball game here
Saturday. They looked very
happy, and judging from their
comments on the crop prospects,
they are certainly 'pleased with
the rains we got last Thursday
and Friday night.
The Opportunity ball team is
now imbued with the’propriety of
effecting a permanent organiza
tion, if the talk among them on
the subject last Saturday is a
criterion, and we hope they will
effect the same in time to be re
ported in our next items.
Getty Thomas is going to start
for Wyoming soon, to take up a
homestead there I understand.
Judging from all reports we have
heard from that state, all young
men that have not used their
homestead rights as yet, would
do well to emulate his example.
The Star team crossed bats
with the Opportunity team on the
latters grounds in a nine inning
game which resulted in a score of
13 to 7 in favor of Opportunity.
The game was a one sided affair
frotji the beginning unitl near the
end, when the Star team rallied
and run in a few scores, but the
Opportunity team had too great a
lead for them to overtake. Neith
er team seemed to be playing in
their best form, and at times they
failed to inspire the fans on the
bleachers with a proper amount
of enthusiasm when a good play
was made. At times there
was some excellent plays made,
and others so very grotesque that
inspired much noise and laughter
from the spectators.
Last Thursday night this lo
cality was the recipient of a
heavy down-pour of rain which
lasted two or three hours. The
ground is now thoroughly soaked
and the prospects for a bumper
corn and hay crop look very
bright at this writing. Potatoes
will now make a good crop, but
without this rain, no one situated
on the upland would have been
able to raise enough to do them.
Some of the farmers in this local
ity have nearly finished harvest
ing their small grain, while oth
ers have not commenced. While
the yield will be naturally light
in most places, it is the concen
sus of opinion that the quality
will be good. Pastures have
been revived and prairie meadows
will improve greatly. The sec
ond crop of alfalfa is practically
worthless, but those who mowed
it in season, will stand good to
raise a fine third crop. On the
whole the crop conditions are so
much better than they were, that
the farmers are going around
to their neighbors with a broad
smile mantling their otherwise
placid features, a sure indication
that we are about to enter upon a
new era of prosperity.
AS SEEN BY A DELEGATE.
An Atkinson Delegate Gives His
Impressions of the Convention.
Atkinson,Nebr., Aug. 22, 191#.
Editor Frontier: As a delegate
to the late republican convention
I desire to occupy a little of your
space to tell how the proceedings
of* that convention appeared to
me. a was amazed to witness the
tactics employed by those who
manipulated things to procure an
apparent endorsement of the Chi
cago convention and its nominee
in a county where I am positive
the sentiment of the republicans,
or at least 80 per cent of them,
are opposed to it.
Will it help the standing of the
delegates to the state convention,
who really represent but a hand
ful of the republican voters of the
county, or add to their influence
with republican voters here in the
county, when the facts are known
as to the methods used to secure
the majority of the convention.
There was a time when politi
cal methods, farcial in nature, and
devoid of everything pertaining
to fair play, was suffered by the
rank and file of all parties. Do
the parties who manipulated at
Chicago to overthrow the will of
the great majority of the rank and
tile of the party, and who will
st:ll by unfair methods endorse
the action of the Chicago conven
tion by resolving and etc., know
of the present widespread awak
ened public conscience, as evid
enced by the states that are not
entirely boss ridden enacting
primary laws in the interest of
pure politics? It seems that they
do not. It used to be said that
“everything was fair in politics.”
Who says that now'1 You can
put a finger upon them whenever
you see a crooked trick turned.
Of course they do not say so in
words, but “actions speak louder
than words.”
You can tell them also by the
j loud holler they put up when they
pull of the deal against the man
that raises an objection. They
also yell that anyone that objects
is killing the party. If they' do
not know who is killing the party
it is because their whole system
is so full of the idea that politics
is simply a skin game and is not
a business at all. The cobwebs
will be lifted too late to save these
fellows and they will see that
government which they call poli
tics is a business, not a skin
game, and that it is the business
of the people and will be run and
operated upon as high a plane as
any line of business.
It is amusing, if not astonish
ing,to hear these fellows who are,
they think, helping the party
every time they pull off some
thing questionable, lay down the
rule for those who have due re
gard for the party and party pro
ceedure. They say that any man
who does not vote for a man who
occupies a high place upon the
ticket, should get out of the par
ty. It is alright, though, if he
scratched a candidate for a small
office.
I heard some of those fellows
fresh from the tactics employed
to count votes from Francis, In
man, Ewing and Grattan, in
which no caucuses were held,
nor tha semblance of a caucus,
that they were proud of the part
they took in the matter. Of
course such men would not hesi
tate to vote the other two thirds
of the townships of the county
that were not represented at all
if they needed them to select del
egates to go to the state conven
tion and holler that “Holt county
is for Taft.” The majority of the
delegates that helped to send del
egates to the state convention to
misrepresent the republican sen
timent of this county were honest,
I t ke it, but were led to believe
that the matter was all right.
In our opinion the only pleasing
feature of the convention was the
manly stand taken by the editor
of The Frontier and Judge Carlon
when they objected to what was
on its face the unfair tac
tics employed in making the tem
porary organization. It is the
kind of action the voters will
hereafter demand.
Yours Truly,
A Delegate.
Supervisors Proceedings.
(Continued from page four)
also the expense of constructing the
proposed road he does not favor the
change asked for
M F Norton, Commissioner.
Mr. Chairman: In relation to tbe
petition of iThomas Simonson, John
A Robertson and 49 others praying foi
the opening of a public road from the
southeast corner of section 34>3i-ii tc
16O rods north and further praying foi
tbe vacation of the "Ridge" road run
ning about 8 rods west thereof. It
appears that on July 6, i9i2, a remon
strance signed by Charles Wrede Sr,
J P Langsworth and 48 others was til
ed in opposition thereto and it furth
erlappears that on July 6th, 1912, Mr,
M F Norton county surveyor who was
duly appointed and commissioned tc
view and report on said proposed es
tablishment and vacation respectful
ly filed his report as follows:
And whereas in view of the fore
going report the law forbids tbe board
to proceed further in the matter, ]
move that the matter be declared clos
ed and the county clerk instructed tc
complete the record of this proceeding
J O Hubble
Geo T Davis
Motion carried
Office of County Suveyor,
Holt county, Nebraska.
At requestor County Attorney anc
the board of supervisors of Holi
county
I surveyed the road known as tbi
Thomas Simonson road, same beint
on and along the east side of sel o
section 34.twp 31 range 11 west. Tbi:
being the line in dispute and recentl]
decided in the district court in Holl
county, (according to said decisiot
shown in case of P. J Lansworth vs
Thomas Simoneon shown in district
court Journal No. 28 page 397 case No
8306. Dated Jan. 3rd 1912) I proceed
ed to survey and properly mark tbe
same by following the high ground it
certain low lands on the section lini
whieb are not now practical for a pub
1
luouna ...
section 34 twp 3i ..
north on the section line
to a pine culvert. 4.10-11.40 ch. to
the second culvert. 1.78 chains-13 18
chains to the first angle. Thence
north 54 d. 55 m. west, 3.39 chains,
thence north 24 degrees 35 m. east
4.17 chains thence north 2 degrees
west 1163 chains, thence north 47 d.
east 1.94 c. thence north on the sec
tion line 8.11 c. to the quarter section
corner on the east side of said section
34 and there terminate. Survey made
June 20th 1912 by M F Norton county
surveyor.
Mr. Chairman: I move you that we
approve of the above and order them
entered on the proper road books as
the true record of said road.
J O Ilubbeil
Geo T Davis
Motion carried
Whereas, read No 8 of county road
record and shown in supervisors rec
ord book A. page 287 is a perfect non
descript, and
Whereas by request of the county
board of this county our county sur
veyor has surveyed and staked the
supposed line of road as near the line
Intended at the time of location and
by actual occupation at the present
time as can be ascertained. I move
you Mr. Chairman that we approve of
his survey of said road made June 19,
1912, and declare said notes cf his sur
vey to be the legal description of said
road and that he be ordered to enter
the same on the road records of the
county as a more definite description
of said road No 8
The following is a copy of the above
named notes which described the cen
ter line of said road which will be 40
feet wide the same being filed this day
in the office of county clerk of this
Holt county, Neuraska, July 8th, 1912
H W Tomlinson
J O Hubbell
Motion carried
Survey of road No 8 In section 11
twp. 31 n. 9 known as tbe J E Bader
road. Notes as follows, to wit:
Commencing 38 rods or 9.50 chains
south of the northeast coruer of sect
ion 11 twp 31 range 9 west: mag. bear
ing 11 degrees 35 m. east. Thence 8.
43 degrees 30 m. east 8.30 chains.
Thence south 24 degrees 3 m. east 4.62
chains. Thence south 32 degrees 3 m.
east 2.89 chains. Thence south 65 d.
8 m east 5.14 chains. Thence south
74 degrees 27 east 4.69 chains. Thence
south 79 degrees 28 m east 259 chains.
Thence south 72 degrees 2 m east 3.76
chains Thence south 67 degrees 20 m
east 4.62 chains Thence north 35 d
east 5.47 chains Tbence north 39 d.
3o m east 1.38 chains Thence no:th
7 d 5 m west 3.07 chains to the 1-1 line
at a point some two rods west of the
location of “Emerson bridge” men
tioned in road record. Thence south
83 degrees 19 m east 8.54 chains
Thence south 60 degrees east 2.65 ch.
Tbence south 23 d 43 m east 2.91 chs.
Thence south 33 d 35 m east 3.77 chs.
Thence south 4 d 45 m east 5.29 chs
Thence south 72 d 22 east 529 chs to
tbe 1-1 line tbence erst on said 1-1 line
5.40 to 1*1 corner thence east on 1-1
line 20.10 ch to tbe 1 corner on the
eastlof section 11-31-9 and there ter
minate
Dated June 19, 1912
M F Norton, CoSur.
June 10,1912
To the honorable board of supervis
ors, Holt county, Nebr.
Your petitioner respectfully asks
that you refund to her $32 78 amount
erroneously assessed to her on lots 17
and i8 block 21 In the city of O’Neill
for year 19n, same property having
been assessed at 252.00, and In trans
ferring same from the tax list was
copied 552.00, total tax 54.64
Two fifths of same amounting to
21.86 or a difference of 32.78 which pet
itioner has paid erroneously and now
asks that same be refunded to her.
Emma O'Connor,
By M Skidmore
On motion prayer of petition was
granted
Petition
The state of Nebraska, r >unty of
Holt, ss.
To the honorable board of supervis
ors of Holt county, INebraska
Gentlemen: Fern D Smith your pet
itioner herein, respectfully showeth
to your honored body that he was the
owner of the south part of lots one,
i two and three in block D in the vil
liage of Chambers in Holt county
Nebraska
And through clerical error said
property has been assessed and taxed
twice for the years 1909 and 1910 this
makes a double taxation on said prop
I erty for each of said years.
■ Your petitioner further showeth
that he has paid one of the assess
. ments and taxes for each of said years.
Wherefore your petitioner respectful
■ ly prayeth that your honorable body
, will cancel said erroneous assessment
and taxation for said years 19o9 and
, 191o and instruct the county treasur
er to cancel said erroneous unpaid tax
es on the tax books for said years 1909
, and 1910 against the above described
property.
Fern D Smith, petitioner
By A J Hammond, Agt
[ On motion prayer of petition was
, granted
On motion board adjrurned until 3
< -
Simar, chairman
- McNIchols. county clerk
, ^eill, Nebr.,July9, i9i2i o’clock
p m
Board met as a board of equaliza
tion, no business and no report Ifrom
the state board of equalization, board
adjourned (Until Aug. 2o, 1912, lo
o’clock a m
W P Simar chairman
S F McNIchols, county clerk
O’Neill. Nebr., July 9, 1912 3 o’clock
p m
Board met in regular session all
members present
""Sir. Ohairman: I move you that the
chairman appoint a committee of
three members of their board to view
some bridges in the supervisors dis
trict No 1 that are in need of repairs
The chairman to be one of this com
mittee
J O Hubbell
Geo T Davis
Motion carried
Chairman appoined J O Hubbell and
F O Hammerberg
Mr Ohairman: I move that the
chairman appoint a committee of tnls
board to view the washout on grade
due to an overflow from dry creek for
the purpose of determining whether
or not a bridge should be erected over
said washout
M P Sullivan
Geo T Davis
Motion carried
Chairman appointed Sullivan, Davis
and Tomlinson
Atkinson, Nebr. May 11th 1912
To the honorable board of supervis
ors of Holt county, Neb
Gentlemen: Your petitioner re
spectfully represents to you that he
owns the southeast quarter of section
li -30-i3 and for the year i9n paid 26.
27, and I think that this is excessive
tax Please look shis up and grant me
a refund
William Evans
On motion prayer of petition was
denied
To the honorobable board of super
visors of Holt county Neb.
Gentlemen: Your petitioner repre
sents to your honorable body that he
owns part of the northeast quarter of
the northwest quarter of section 32
30-i4 containing 26 acres amount of
taxes 1911, 21.00 also there is contain
ed In this tract lots of Mr' Murphy,
1-2 in block 2 1.25 W I Chapman lots
1 in block 3 l.oo Mr Eoy 1-2-3-13 and
14 block 3 2.25 and I have been pay
ing tax on the whole tract 1 ask for
a refund of 4.50 amount of tax I
should not have paid
J S Ballon
On motion prayer of {petition was
granted
To the honorable board of supervls.
ors of Holt county, Nebr.
We the undersigned legal voters re
siding within five miles of said bridge
petition your honorable body toao
cept and make a county bridge of the
bridge erected by Ewing township
across the Elkhorn river and tne sect
ion line running east and west be
tween section two in township twen
ty six north and section thirty-five In
township twenty-seven north of range
nine west in Holt Co. Nebr. The
same being on a regular organized
public road.
F R BlgDold and 70 others
Mr. Chairman: 1 move that we ac
cept the bridge as prayed for by the
petitioners of Ewing townshib
Th D Sievers
H W Tomlinson
Report of South Fork Fair Assoc
iation for 1911
On hand Jan. 1st, 1911. 31 20
Red from county Appr. 632 20
“ “ membership
tickets. 136 00
Red from day tickets. 190 5o
" “ adv. in prem. lis. 59 00
" "grandstand. 29 00
" " privileges.* 35 00
Total 1,012 90
Paid in premiums. 411 00
“ for racing and sports. 112 50
Labor. 67 60
Printing prem list. 39 00
Paid on indebtness. 239 60
“ for eetertainlng Ewing
Ewing bank. 15 00
For Chambers boosters. 14 30
Total 898 80
Balance on hand. 114 lo
1 the undersigned, treasurer of the
South Fork Fair association, hereby
certify that the above is a statement
of the condition of the South Fork
Fair association for the year ending
Jan. 1,1912
W S Grimes, treasurer of South
Fork Fair Ass’n
In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and fixed the seal
of my office this 12 day of June, 1912
(Seal) J. Doherty, Notary Public.
On motion report was accepted and
approved
O’Neill, Nebr. July 9,1912
Hon board of supervisors, Holt coun
ty Nebraska
Gentlemen: I respectfully apply for
the position of janitor for the present
time and including April 1st 1913, at
such salary as in your judgment you
may deem proper.
Ed McBride
Mr Chairman: 1 move that county
board employ Ed McBride as janitor
for court house, jail and grounds until
April 1st 1913 at a salary of 60.00 per.
month
H W Tomlinson
Th D Sievers
Motion carried
On motion board adjourned until 9
o’clock tomorrow morning
W P Simar, chairman
S F McNichols, county clerk