The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, September 11, 1913, Image 1

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    The Frontier.
VOLUME XXXIV. O'NEILL. NEBRASKA. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER II 1913. NUMBER 13 |
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LADIES CLOAKS, SUITS,
Our first shipment of Fall and Winter Cloaks, Suits and Dresses has arrived and will be follow- 1 I
ed by other shipments. Look for our advertisement next week.
The Home of Good Mdse. :f». t.
LOCAL MATTERS
C. W. Moss was down from Atkin
sou last Tuesday'.
C A. Townsend of Page was an
O’Neill visitor last Tuesday.
Parnell Golden took in the state
fair at Lincoln a couple of days last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Mulligan of King,
Cherry county, arrived in the city
last week for a visit with relatives
and friends.
D. J. Harrington came down from
his South Dakota farm last Sunday
morning for a few days visit with re
latives and friends.
Miss Dora Alberts, who has been
home on a three weeks visit, left Sun
day mornirg ror Omaha to finish her
course at Boyles College.
The seven months old son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Carney died last Wed
nesday and was buried this morning,
internment in tne Catholic cemetary.
M. F. London of Tripp county, S.
D, and Miss Mary Rhode of this
county weae granted a marriage
license by County Judge Carlon last
Tuesday.
Mrs. A. P. Brooks and daughter,
Miss Kittie, left Wednesday morning
for a visit with relatives and friends
at Mrs. Brooks’ old home at Hancock,
Michigan.
Lt. O. E. Meredith left last Satur
day for Ft. Sheridan, 111., after a three
weeks at the home of his parents
here. Mrs. Meredith will remain for
a few weeks longer.
Fred O. Linniger and Miss Eunice
McCpy, both of Stuart, was united in
marriage by County Judge Carlon at
the county court room in this city
last Thursday afternoon.
Jesse T. Briles, aged 47, and Miss
Mary S Brooks, aged 31, both of Phoe
nix, were united in marriage by Coun
ty Ju !ge Carlon at the county court
room last Tuesday afternoon.
L. G Gillespie and J. B. Ryan ol
this city have been drawn as jurors
for the September term of federal
court, which will be held in Norfolk
commencing September 15th.
Plow lire guards around your farm.
Don't take any chances of a prairie
fire coming a'ong and burning you out.
Remember the old adage: “An ounce
of prevention is worth a pound of
cure.”
The Gibbons barber shop had three
different owners last week. Thurs
day afternoon George GlbbODS sold
the shop to C. E. Hall and on Friday
Mr. Hall sold it to Sam Arnold, prop
rietor of the laundry, who is still the
owner
The village board of Atkinson the
first of the week over-ruled the re
monstrance filed against the issuing
of saloon licenses and issued the
licenses. The remonstrators then
filed notice of an appeal to the dis
trict court and the matter will have
to be threshed out there.
Dr. and Mrs. G. M. Mullen came
over from Creighton last Saturday
and will spend a few weeks visiting
relatives in this city. The Doctor
has given up the practice of dentistry
and is now engaged in writing life
insurance and is meeting splendid
success in that line of work.
The annual meeting of the North
east Nebraska Dental Society was
held at Norfolk last Tuesday and was
well attended. Dr. M. E. Pettibone
of this city was elected secretary of
the society for the ensuing year ana
Norfolk was selected as the place for
holding the annual meeting again
next year.
Mayor Gaynor of New York City
died at 1 o’clock Wednesday morning
on the steamer Baltic in mid ocean.
He left New York on September 4th
for a twenty day vacation in Europe.
He failed to receive the democratic
nomination for re-election as mayor
and was an independent candidate for
re-election.
Judge Carlon is doing a rushing
business In the matrimonial line
these days and those for whom the
genial Judge is tying the nuptial knot
are not all residents of this county.
Tuesday morning he performed the
ceremony that united for life Roy
Emery 8yfert and Miss Alke P. Jen
kins, both of Ainsworth, Nebr.
Jr P. Gallagher was up in Cherry
county last week on a hunting trip
and says that he had the best time
hooking the elusive bass that he has
had for several years. Conditions
were just right for angling and Jim
says that for the first time in his
career as a weilder of the rod and line
he secured all the fish he wanted.
A prairie fire in the country north
east of this city last Friday afternoon
destroyed about fifty stacks of hay and
we understand burned through one
forty acre corn field. From the in
formation we have been able to secure
the fire was started by the back fire
of an automoble and burned firecely
for several hours before it was extin
guished. We have been unable to
learn the names of those who lost hay
in the fire.
William Dickerson of Atkinson was
in the city visiting old time friends
last Tuesday. Mr. Dickerson is one
of the pioneers of the county and says
he always enjoys a visit to this city
where he can meet many of the old
time settlers and swap yarns about
pioneer days in the county wnen the
grasshoppers and horse thieves levied
semi-annual tribute upon the resi
dents of this section. ’
Do not meddle with a business you
know nothing of unless you commence
at the bottom of the ladder and round
after round, work towards the top.
For if you are successful enough to
reach the top round you will find
plenty to applaud and assist. But he
who commences at the top of the
ladder finds it an easy matter to de
scend, and oftimes with great rapid
ity. And when he has reached the
bottom he will find hundreds there
waiting to kick him.
Ilarrv M. Culbertson of Long Pine
was arrested on complaint of County
Attorney Hodgkin charged with per
jury. The complaint, which was filed
In the county court on August 20,
charged that Culbertson gave false
evidence in the trial of a case in the
district court in this city on August
2, 1913. The case in which the alleg
ed false evidence was given was that
Df L. W. Arnold vs. Harry M. Cul
bertson, Ed. C. Engle and Nathan
Arnold. Culbertson appeared in coun
ty court on September 2 and waived
preliminary examination and was
bound over to the district court and
bond fixed at *500, which was fur
nished.
Mr. and Mrs. John Lorgeof Durant,
Oklohoma, arrived in the city last
Saturday night lor a few days visit
with relatives and to look after busi
ness matters. Mr. Lorge says that
Ills section of Oklohoma has been very
fortunate this season as they have
bad rain when it was needed and
have splendid crops in that section of
the state. Crops in the state as a
whole though, he says are a failure
and most of Texas and Kansas is in
the same condition. In Kansas he
jays the wells are all drying up and
people are having a hard time to se
cure water and much suffering is
being caused in that state on account
af a lack of water.
Anybody can soil the reputation of
my individual, however pure and
chaste, by uttering a suspicion that
his enemies will believe and his friends
never hear of. A puff of the idle wind
can take a million of the seeds of the
thistle and do the work of mischief
which the husbandman must labor
long to undue, the floating particles
being too fine to be seen and too light
to be stopped. Such are the seeds of
jlander, so easily sown, so difficult to
be gathered up, and yet so pernicious
In their fruits. The slanderer knows
that many a mind will catch up the
plague and become poisoned by his
Insinuation, without seeking the anti
dote. No reputation can refute a
jneer, nor any human; skill prevent
mischief.
'Thorn ia a nrrnwlnar Imnrpflsinn t.hJLt,
SCHOOL OPENED MONDAY.
Started With an Enrollment of 290
in the Several Grades.
The public schools of the city open
ed last Monday with an enrollment of
290, divided among the several grades
as follows: Primary 36; second and
third grades 62; third and fourth 41:
fifth and sixth 38; seventh 18; eighth
25; high school 80.
Following are the teachers in the
several grades and studies: Primary,
Mary G. Timlin; Second and Third
Grades, Kathryn Devlin; Third and
Fourth, Marv Stannard; Fifth and
Sixth, Lovena Adams; Seventh, Mar
garet Donohoe; Eighth, Mary Horls
key. High School: Normal Training
and Domestic Science, Lottie Robert
son; Mathematics and History, Direct
or of Athletics, F. E. Marren; Agri
cultural Training and Science, C. O.
Lake; Latin, English and Music
Supervisor, Emma Snyder, principal;
Senior English and German, 0. A.
Gorbv, superintendent.
In a week or two typewriting and
stenography will be offered to a limit
ed number of students. If any out
side parties desire lessons in these
suDjects, Miss Robertson will organise
evening classes.
Two courses of study are offered this
year. The regular course is well bal
anced in language, science, mathe
matics and history, the completition
of whlchwill give admittance to col
lege flwithout further examination.
The Industrial course is a practical
course for students not contemplating
a college course and will give admit
tance to agricultural college.
Two rural schools of the county will
be made associate schools of the
O’Neill High, and will get an annual
appropriation of $50.00 from the state
and will have the benefit of the asso
ciate supervision of county and city
superintendent and agricultural in
structor.
Mr. Lake, instructor in agriculture,
desires to come In close touch with
the farmers of the county both to
learn from them and to help them
develop the possibilities of the county.
One or two demonstrations a month
will be given Saturday to which the
the farmers will be invited.
A short agricultural course will be
given to farmers sons who are not
able to attend the whole school year.
the Holt County Agricultural Society
claim that the South Fork Fair As
sociation had never been properly or
ganized, as provided by law, and that
they were therefore not eligible to
receive the county appropriation. The
matter was discussed on all sides and
from all angles and the board finally
decided to put the matter up to the
attorney general of the state and ap
pointed a committee of four members
of the county board to go to Lincoln
to interview the attorney general re
garding the matter, and the members
left for Lincoln this morning accom
panied by Deputy County Attorney
Powers. The members of the board
who went to Lincoln are: Hubbell,
Farquier, Sullivan and Stewart.
Katie Gerben Here Sept. 16.
No, she is not a militant suffragette
nor a foot-light star; she is only one
of the famous performers of the dairy
world and she will be exhibited at
O’Neill with the Dairy Special, at 5
o’clock, Septemuer 16. Katie Gerben,
the famous Holstein from the herd of
the State Agrucultural school, holds
a record of nearly 900 pounds of butter
fat per year. Contrast this with the
125 pounds annual output of the aver- \
age Nebraska cowl j
It is hard to realize that some far
mers are still plugging away on the
old, worn-out, disproven idea of a
‘‘dual purpose cow,’’ of producing j
beef and milk from the same animal.
Year after year some farmers abuse
themselves and their boys milking
cows which yield 80 to 100 pounds of
butter fat, while their neighbors and
progressive farmers further east, by
the Importation of good, dairy strains,
careful feeding and testing have been
able to produce four or five times that
much. “There is no question,” says
Proffessor J. H. Frandsen, of the Ne
braska State Agrucultural school, in
the last report of the Dairymen’s As
sociation, “but that at least 200,000
cows in Nebraska today are not pay
ing for their keep.” Do you milk
some of the 200,000?
Whether you think so or not, come
out to the Dairy Special and hear
"men who know” tell you what they
are doing in other states and coun
tries? Would you like to know how
Denmark makes9500 land, no better
than Holt county soil, pay good in
terest? Come out then, its free. It’s
worth a twenty-live mile drive to see
“Katie” alone.
a rarmers wire living near Liincoin
brought some butter and eggs to town
one day during the recent hot spell
and accidently let the butter fall on
the cement walk and before she
could pick it up it had melted, and in
her haste to recover it, two or three
eggs dropped out of her basket and
smashed in to the melted butter and
were fried to a beautiful brown in a
few seconds, and then the authorities
immediately fined this poor woman
for running a restaurant on the street
without a license.
The schoolma’ara is the guiding star
of the republic. She takes the little
bantling fresh from the home nest,
full of his pouts, his pets and his
passions, ungovernable in many cases,
a rampant, riotous little wretch
whose own mother often admits she
sends him to school purposely to get
rid of him. The schoolma’am takes a
whole carload of these little anarchists,
half of whom singly and alone cannot
be handled by their own mothers, and
she puts them in the way of becom
ing useful citizens.
The first allowance under the new
mothers pension act, passed at the
last session of the legislature, was
allowed to Mrs. Farley of Atkinson by
.1 udge Dickson last Tuesday. From
the evidence producea before the
court Mrs. Farley is the mother of
seven children, five of whom are living
at home and she was unable to proper
ly clothe and feed them. Judge
Dickson ordered an allowance for her
for three months, $30 per month for
ths months of September and October
and $40 for the month of November.
Rain to the amount of 1.11 inches
fell here last Tuesday night. From
advices received from different parts
of the county the rain was general,
: being much heavier in the southern
| part of the county where the precipi
• tation amounted to three Inches.
• While the rain is too late to benefit
: corn it will be of great help to pas
i tures and will put the ground in ex
■ cellent condition for planting fall
: wheat. From present indications the
; acreage of fall wheat will be greater
; in the county this fall than ever be
■ fore.
the public school may take a wider
range than the mere elucidation of
mathematical problems or the unfold
ing of natural and scientific laws. It
is now held that a boy cannot too early
regard himself as a citizen of the re
public, and be taught along with a
clear idea of such responsibility, a
loyal reverance for the flag and the
names that have perpetuated it
Should the first day of every school
year be given ovel to a semi social re
view of public affairs, to the carrying
of banners, and the singing of patri
otic songs, it would be a day well
spent. The Republic has had already
very serious problems before it of
race and of the amalgamation of na
tionalities. The children In the
schools today must be equipped not
only with education, but the loyalty
to solve these problems.
Many persons feel offended because
their comings and goings are not men
tioned while those of others are, and
wonder what the matter can be. The
explanation of the matter Is that the
editor means to be impartial, but
some escape mention. The likes and
dislikes of the editor have nothing to
do with It, and while it is not pre
tended that the editor is more than
human he knows that the success of
his journal depends upon his fairness
and impartiality to all. It is the best
way always when a notice is desired
to mention it to the editor, or com
municate through the postofflce, or
furnish the necessary information by
using the telephone. No one feels
worse about any seeming neglect or
partial performance of duty than the
editor himself and with the assist
ance of our readers a newsier and bet
ter paper could be issued.
Piano Sale Next Week.
One car load of excellent pianos
will be on display next week in the
old post office building at O’Neill,
Nebr. Special introductory sale.
Prescott Music Co.
13-1-Adv. (O Lincoln, Nebr.
Caught a Bad Cold.
“Last winter my son caught a very
bad cold and the way he coughed was
something dreadful," writes Mrs.
Sarah E. Dunkan, of Tipton, Iowa.
We thought sure he was going Into
consumption. We bought just one
bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy and that one bottle stopped
his cough and cured his cold
completely.” For sale by all dealers.
Adv. __
Dont overlook the exhibit of dairy
cows and lectures on the dairying in
dustry that will be given in this city
next Tuesday evening.
LADIES
When you i
Are Ready for
A CLOAK
Come and Examine
My Line
A. TOY.
Fair Appropriation Unsettled.
The question of the county appro
priation of $875.00 for an agricultural
society was before the county board
last Wednesday. For the past few
years the county board have been vot
ing the county appropriation to Cham
bers, as it was the only agricultural
society in the county. Under the old
law the voting of the county aid to
agricultural societies was optional
with the couuty board. The last legis
latural amended the old law and made
the voting of county aid to agricultur
al societies mandatory upon the coun
ty board, and slightly Increased the
appropriation. This was done for the
purpose of promoting agricultural
societies in the different counties of
the state with a view to increasing
the product of the farms.
Acting under the new law thirty
citizens of this city organized the
Holt County Agricultural Society last
July and tiled an application with the
county board for the county appro
priation provided by law. The South
Fork Agricultural Society of Cham
bers also tiled an application with the
county board for the appropriation.
At the last meeting of the county
board the latter part of last month
the matter was discussed with repre
sentatives of both organizations and
it was thought that a satisfactory
agreement could be reached between
tlie officers of both societies and the
settlement of tne matter was left tc
this meeting of the board.
When the board met this week the
matter was taken up and when it was
found that the representatives of bott
organizations could not agree on a set
tlement of the matter it was put uj
to tbe board. Attorneys represents
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I could have accepted this offer and spent my i
remaining days in comfort. It is too late!
too late!!
£ This man did not save his money, thinking a
£ chance to use it would never come. When a
splendid opportunity came he had no
money and doomed himself to live in pover
E ty for the rest of his life—blaming himself
every remaining moment for his folly and
j drawn out misery.
You will one day have such an oppor
£ tuuity. Take heed. Start saving now.
Come in and talk it over—today.
!NEBRASKA STATE BANK
«•
E JAMES F. O’DONNELL, Cashier
5 PER CENT INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
E !5f"The depositors of this bank are protected by the deposi
E tors’ guarantee fund of the state of Nebraska.
£ S. S. Welpton. President. O. F. Biglin. Vice President