VOLUME XXXIV.
O'NEILL. NEBRASKA,^THURSDAY JULY 17,1913
NUMBER 5
LOCAL MATTERS
•>.ohn L. Shmeler went down to
Wayne last Sunday and spent the day
visillng relatives.
Do not forget the Thompson land,
residence, and lot sale in front of the
court house Monday morning at 10
o’clock. 5 1-ad v.
Sheriff Grady returned from Geneva
last Sunday evening, where he had
taken Miss Benson to the Girls’ In
industrial School. ®“
Frank Phalin was passing around
the cigars last Wednesday, celebrating
t bo birth of a son at his home the
nigl t beroie.
Dr and Mrs. P. J. Flynn are ref-ic
ing over the arrival of a little
daughter at their hotpe, who arrived
last Monday afternooD.
Miss Guide Martin left for Dallas,
South Dakota, Saturday morning,
where she will visit relatives and
friends for a short time.
Mr. and Mrs. John Biglin came up
from Hastings last Saturday afternoon
in a car and will spend several days
visiting relatives and friends here.
Kev. M. L. Cottrell andjyife and
two daughters of Sbawull, Ohio, are
visiting Mrs.' Cottrell’s sister,-Mrs. H.
W. Ritts and other relatives in the
city.
The taking of testimony in the At
kinson divorce case was finished last
Thursday afternoon and the case
taken under advisement by Jufge
, Dickson.
Donald Gallagher went up to Wyom
ing with O. G. Lowell last Friday
night and will spend a couple of
months roughing it,upon their ranch
in that state.
Work on the new school building is
progressing rapidly. The foundation
is pra'btically completed and the build
ing will soon begin to assume business
like proportions.
Lynch Journal: John Davidson, of
Hot Springs, So. Dak., a brother of
Mrs. Thomas Cro-we, of Dorsey, came
in last week and visited hissistefand
a number of acquaintances and
friends.
John Rush of .Omaha, one of the
national bank examiners was in the
city last week checking up the affairs
of the O’Neill banks. It is needless
to say that he found these Institutions
in first class shape.
Rev. Harold J. Armitage and Mrs.
Arraitage left Monday morning for
Winnetoon. Neb., woere they will
spend a week or two visiting friends.
Therefore no services in the Methodist
church Sunday but Sabbath school at
twelve o’clock sharp.
Do you want au improved one
hundred sixty acre farm, ohe hundred
twenty acres of hay land that will cut
a ton to the acre or a good six room
residence all of them bargains, on easy
[terms? Be at the court house next
Monday morning at 10 o’cloe^ If ?ou
d"* . 6-1 adv.
During the past week farmers have
been complaining of their inability to
sleep, too much noise thay say. One
tiller of the so1! on being asked what
made all the noise replied: “Why the
corn has been growing so fast the
week tnat you can hear the stalks
crack.”
O, 6. Lawell came down from his
Wyoming home last Thursday and
returned home Friday with four car
loads of cattle they had purchased
here. O. G. says he likes that country
first rate and believes there is a for
tune to be made on his irrigated land
an-* In raising cattle. /
It is understood that Walt Mason is
vigorously denying the authorship of
this jingle that is going the arounds
of the press: “A funny old bird is the
pelican, his biil can hold more than
his pelican; he can take in his beak
enough food for a week, but we don’t
understand how the hellecan.”
Andrew Schmidt and Mrs. John R.
Bellar were united in marriage by
Rev. Longstaff of the Presbyterian
church last Thuisday evening. They
are both pioneer residents of this
connty and have many friends here
who will wish them many, many
years of happiness and prosperity.
An exchange pertinently remarks:
“A good newspaper cannot be made
these days without good advertising.”
"but what Is of more general concern
is the broad fact that a good town
cannot be made these days without a
newspaper. It cosjs money to make a
good town. It costs money to make a
good newspaper.
This section of the state was visited
with another glorious rain last even
ing. The precipitation amounting to
three-quarters of an inch. The wind
blew very hard for a time and a
number of trees in various sections of
the city were blown down. We have
not heard of any.damage to buildings
in the country, however.
The Old Settlers picnic will be held
in Adam Martin’s grove 11 miles
north and two east of O’Neill on
August 21,1913. Persona wapting to
bid on stands or other concessions a
requested to submit bids to committee
before 8 p. m. July 23rd. Committee:
Ed. Hardlpg, O’Neill, E. F. D., Harry
Fox, Meek, and O H. Hatch, Agee.
A chance to get a fine farm, a first
class piece of hay land or a city resi
dence right at home, at Thompson
sale in front of the court house Mon
day morning at 10 o’clock. Terms
half cash, balance time at six per
cent. 5-1 adv.
Lynch Journal: James Binkerd is
very sick this week, having been kick
ed by a colt last Saturday it crushed
in the short ribs and the trouble has
aggravated his old trouble and he is
quite low at present. Mrs Pickering
came up Monday to assist in caring
for him. He was taken to the Spen
cer hospital yesterday morulng.
A delegation of ball players from
this oity went down to Ewing last
Saturday and were trimmed by the
aggregation representing that hus
tling little village by a score of 7 to 1. j
The Ewing boys have a very good
team and are capable of putting up a
game that will make any of the teams
in this section look to their laprels.
James Harty of Shulisburg, Wls.,
arrived in the city last Tuesday after
noon and will spend a couple of
months visiting his sons, W. d. and
Pat of this city. Mr. Harty was a
former resident of this city, removing
from here some three years ago, and
says he notices many Improvements
for the better in the oity since he left
here.
A splendid rain visited this section
of the country last Thursday after
noon and evening. The precipitation,
according to the government water
gauge, was one and one hundretb of
an inch. This put th$ corn in splen
did condition and farmers tell us that
it will make a fairly good crop of late
oats. Early oats Is a little light, but
winter wheat is said to better than it
was last year or the year befofe.
0. G. Seder, one of the pioneer
residents of Deloit township, died at
bis home in that township Saturday
evening, at the age of 69 years nine
months and fifteen days. Mr. Seger
was a prominent resident of the
southeastern part of the county and
had an extensive acquaintance
throughout the county. His many
friends will regret tobearof his death.
Dixon Journal: T. 8. Armstrong,
senior member of Armstrong & Tingle
publishers of the Journal, severed bis
connections with this paper last week,
and left Saturday for Sioux City. A.
A. Tingle will continue with the
publication. It 13 our desire to keep
the Journal up to the standard
previously established and how well
we succeed in our efforts remains to
be seen.
Frank DIshner returned last Tues
day evening from a two weeks trip in
northern Canada. Be says that the
weather was ideal In that section of
the country, just cool enough to be
comfortable. Crops in parts of
Illinois and Iowa are suffering from a
lack of moisture, he sayB that
corn looks better in the Elkhorn
valley than in any section of the
country that be visited.
Mrs. M. J. Holland, wife of M. J.
Holland county clerk of Butler county,
died at her home in David City last
Wednesday and the remains will be
brought to this city for interment.
They will arrive here with the body
Friday evening and the funeral will
be held from the Catholic church in
this city Saturday morning. Mr.
Holland is a son of Michael Hol
land of this city and was a resident 6f
this community for many years.
Gleason H. Grimes and Miss Edith
B. Adams were granted a marriage
license by County Judge Carlon last
Monday. Mr. Grimes Is a son of the
the late J. D. Grimes for many years
one of the supervisors of this county,
and the bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer Adams, pioneer resi
dents of southern Holt. Both young
people have many friends thoroughout
the southern part of the county who
will wish them many years of happi
ness and prosperity.
Last Friday J. F. Shoemaker, one of
tne heaviest and most successful
stockmen of this county, sold 88,200
worth of cattle to Cowpertbwaite &
Son of this city. Part of the cattle
were sold to Townsend & Lowell and
shipped Friday night to Wyoming
where they will put them upon their
ranch. Mr. Shoemaker still has a
couple of hundred head left. Cattle
raising has been very profitable to
those men who have been situated so
as to handle them In large quantises
and Mr Shoemaker has one of the
Ideal cattle ranches in the county,
and unly a short distance from this
city. There is good money in the
cattle business, but it takes lots of
good hard work to make It a success.
The officers of the Race Meet
Association met with the directors of
the Commercial Club last Monday
evening and it was decided to have a
base ball tournament for Holt county
base ball teams during the three days
offthe race meet, Aug. 12-1L Liberal
purses will be hung up for the winning
teams and any ball team in the county
will be eligible to enter the county
for the Championship of Holt county.
The several teams are being communi
cated with and we will probably be
able to announce next week the teams
that will enter the contest for the
base ball supremacy of the county.
We have several goo<$ teams in the
county and they are so evenly match
ed that the contest for supremacy will
be one well worth witnessing. .
A newly married couple and a friend
were traveling by train, when they
were suddenly plunged into the dark
ness of a tunnell. There was no light
In the car, and when they abruptly
returned to daylight the bride and
the bridegroom were caught kissing
furtively. The rriend was emharass
ed, and be said the first thing that
come into his head: "That—ah—that
tunnel costs two million dollars."
The bridegroom nodded bis head
wisely. “Well, he said judicially, "It
Is worth it.”—Elgin Review. That
must have been the same tunnel, in
which anothor honeymoon couple
figured. When they emerged from
the tunnel the bride asked the groom.
"Did you kiss me dearie?”, where
upon the groom replied, "No lovey.”
“Well somebody did," exoiaimed the
bride.
Up in front of the drug stores the
other evening snakes and snake
remedies were being discussed with a
.great deal of interest. The discussion
came up while talking about a trip -'m
the lakes in South Dakota, whieb was
taken by some of the men present,
some time ago. "I am deathly afraid
of a rattlesnake,” said one gentleman,
whom we will call Jim, because that
is not bis name, "and^ not long ago
when I accompanied a few other
gentlemen to South Dakota on a fish
ing trip made up my m^d that It
would not be safe to go on a trip like
that without some whisky. Well, I
filled a bottle and took it along, and it
skved my life. I was sitting on a bank
trying to get a nibble, when all of a
sudden there came a great big rattle
snake, swimming right across the
creek toward me, with his mouth wide
open. I jumped and grabbed the
bottle and drank every drop of the
whiskey before I realized that the
snake hadn’t bit me at all. After
that I felt a great aeal safer—sort of
Immune, as It were—and I killed that
snake with the empty bottle. He had
seven rattles.”
There will be a Matrons Gold Medal
Contest given at O’Neill at the time
of the W • C. T. U. county convention,
which will be held at O’Neill some
time the last week in August, prob
ably Wednesday, August, 27. 'the
Matron’s Gold Medal class of Atkin
son will furnish the program. Each
contestant gives a good strong number
and each one has proven her ability as
an expressionist in winning her silver
medal. This class from a series of
matron’s contests held over the
western part of Holt county., two of
which have been held in Atkinson.
They have always been very well de
ceived and have helped greatly to stir
up enthuaiasm along the lines present
ed, as each matron has been deeply
interested in the cause for which she
was speaking, as has been proven by
the long cold trips which were; some
times necessary that the points might
be made. This will be a doable con
test, a silver vocal musical being held
in connection, The vocal numbers
being interspersed between each
declamatory number, which serves
to break the monotomy, and gives the
judges ample time (or their decisions,
there being two sets of judges.
A Qood Investment
W. D. Magli, a well known merch
ant of Whltemound, Wis., bought a
stock of Chamberlain’s medicine so as
to be able to supply them to his
customers. After receiving them he
was himself taken slok and says that
one small bottle of Chamberlain’s
Oollo, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
was worth more to him than the oost
of bis entire stock of these medicines.
For sale by all dealers. Adv
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[NEBRASKA STATE BANK
JAMES F. O’DONNELL, Cashikk
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: S. Welpton. President. O. F. Biglln, Vice President
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O’Neill Chautauqua
July 25-29,1913
Season Tickets: Adults’, $1.50; Childs’, $1.00.
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Quaker Girls Orchestra
With
Ralph E. Boilean, Baritone, and
Henry DuBolf, Russian Violinist
Ben M. Wood
Good Roads Specialist
Alvah and Adelaide
Lyman „Green
Sketches and Costume Impersonators
Village Singers & Players
Vocalists and Instrumentalists
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W right-Hall-Mar quette
PLAYERS
Original Comedy
Dr. H. 0. Pritchard ■
LECTURER
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Southland Jubilee
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Singers
NEGRO MELODIES
Chautauqua Program
FRI-, JULY 25
AFTERNOON
Opening Exercises.
Village Singers and Players
with Adelaide Lyman Green,
Accompanist.
EVENING—
Village Singers and Players.
Alvah Green with Adelaide
Lyman Green in sketches and
original playets.
SAT., JULY 26
AFTERNOON- f
Quaker Girls Orchestra with
Ralph E. Boileau, Baritone;
Harry DuBoff, Russian Violin
ist.
Cong. All. Taylor of Tenn.
EVENING—
Quaker Girls Orchestra.
Father Thomas* L. Kelley,
Lecturer.
SUN., JULY 27
AFTERNOON
Ben. M. Wood, Good Roads
Expert.
Southland Jubilee Singers,
Sacred Concert.
EVENING
Southland Jubilee Singers,
Sacred Concert.
Dr. Herbert Yeuell in
Travelogtle.
MON., JULY 28
AFTERNOON
Wright-Hall-Marquette Play
ers.
EVENING- - v
Maude Hare Ayery, reader
Totten Company, Magicians.
TUES., JULY 29
AFTERNOON
Dr. H. 0. Pritchard, Lecturer
Ciricillo’s Concert Band and
Italian Singers.
EVENING- /
Ciricillo's Concert Band and
Italian Singers.
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Ciricillo’s Concert Band
and Italian Singers
All Union Musicians
The Only Union Band Tour
ing Chautauquas this seas
on.
Rev. Father Kelley
LECTURER
Maude Hare Avery
READER
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Totten Company
MAGICIANS
Hon. Alf. Taylor
Former Congressman From
Tennessee.
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Dr. Herbert Yeuell
Of London, England.
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