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The Frontier. VOLUME XXXIV. O'NEILL. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY MARCH 12 1914. NUMBER 39 I This season’s men’s and young men’s clothes are made Ion “natural” lines; not much if any padding; narrow shoulders; very soft draping of all the garments', and coats with soft front. Hart Schaffner & Marx have perfected this style of garment, I they know how to make a soft front that “staysput”; doesn’t get“flabby,f in a few weeks wear. You’ll see the difference as the sea son advances; better see it on the other fellow; not on yourself. Suits and overcoats at $25 and up are most economy. We have others as low as $18 | P. J. McManus This store is the O’Neill home for Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes. LOCAL MATTERS. Alox Searl was down from Atkin son the first of the week. Former County Assessor Skidmore was up from Ewing the first of the week. Clinton Metz is building an addition to his house in the western part of town. Miss Nellie Long of Ewing visited with Mrs. C. E. Burch Monday 'and Tuesday. Walter Hodgkin returned Monday night from a short business trip to Boone, Iowa. Gordon O’Keefe carried off the honors at the Seven-Up tournament last Monday night. Harry Madison is entertaining the mumps this week. Joe Young is driv ing the mail for him. It is Judge Chapman again this week, Lewis acting as county judge in the absense of Judge Carlon. Mr. and Mrs. Wash Simpkins of Neligh are in the city visiting at the home of Mrs. Simpkins’ sister, Mrs. Charles Goodspeed. John Carton, who has been quite sick the past two months, was able to \be down town last Monday, for the first time in over two months. Otto Fred Malschullat of Venus and Miss Elizabeth Porter of Auburn, Neb., were granted a marriage license in county court last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Snyder were called to Sioux City this morning by a message announcing the serious illness of Mr. Snyder’s mother. Dr. and Mrs. J. P. Gilligan and daughter, Mariam, went down to Omaha Wednesday morning, where they will spend the weed end with friends. Clark Lewis, contractor for the Chambers mail route, was in town the first of the week and engaged Clinton Metz to drive for him, beginning last Monday. J. T. Weidman and son, John, were in from Swan last Friday and Satui day after a load of supplies for their ranch, at the same time paying a visit at the C. E. Burch home. Col. Barney Stewart, the hustling Page auctioneer, was an O’Neill visitor last Tuesday. Barney says he has had a very busy season in the auction business and all sales held were very successful. We understand that Thomas Simon son, one of the pioneer residents of the county, is quite ill at his home near Agee. Mr. Simonson is suffering from heart trouble. His many friends hope for a speedy recovery. Jerry Cronin and George Devlin returned last Monday from a ten days’ trip through Missouri and Lousiana. M. Cronin is looking up a location, but as yet has not decided just where he will locate, but will probably move south and join the O’Neill colony in Lousiana. J. C. Harnsh, deputy grand master of the Odd Fellows of Nebraska, was in Randolph Tuesday attending a meeting of the northeast Nebraska Odd Fellows’ association. All the state officers of the Odd Fellows were in attendance at the meeting. J. B. McGinley, for many years a resident of this county but now living in York, was in the city last Saturday and favored this office with a short call. Mr. McGinley is a candidate for appointment as postmaster of York and The Frontier hopes that he will be successfull in his efforts to secure the appointment. Harty Bros. & Mullen are receiving their stock of gents’ furnishings and will open their store in the building, now used by Harty Bros, as a tailor shop. They are adding an addition to the rear of the building and will use the entire present building for a store room. Store rooms are rather scarce in the city and the boys will use their present quarters until a more suitable location can be found. > L. W. Arnold was down town to-day for the first time in nearly three weeks. Mr. Arnold suffered an attack of the grippe about ten days ago and about the time he had recovered from that he had an attack of heart trouble and his condition was quite serious for several days. He has entirely re covered from the attack and says that he now feels like a young colt that has just been turned into a blue grass pasture, after living on dried hay all winter. The local lodge of Odd Fellows were treated to a visit from some of the head officers of the order last Wed nesday night. Those present were: Grand Master Frank Johns of Grand Island; Grand Secretary I. P. Gage of Fremont, and two representatives of the Encampment, John Pittman of York, Grand Patriarch and C. E. Doughty, of Norfolk, Past Grand Rep resentative. After the lodge meeting the Rebekah’s were admitted and a very pleasant evening was spent socially. Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Mullen returned from Omaha last Monday night where Mrs. Mullen had spent a couple of weeks visiting relatives and friends and where P. D. had spent a week with the officers of the Commonwealth Insurance company with which he is connected. Pat attended the annual banquet given by the officers of the company to their agents and says he had one of the most enjoyable times of his life upon that occasion. Pat has been working for the company for about five months and already ranks close to the top as one of the best insurance solicitors in the employ of the company. Last Friday night Eden Rebekah Lodge No. 41, I. O. O. F. had their usual annual “good time” session. They were specially honored by the presence of the president of the state assembly who gave them an interest ing address. The work of the Re bekah degree was. exemplified and after the evening session was over the lodge went in a body to the West ern hotel where a fine banquet had been prepared and which all enjoyed. Eden Rebekah Lodge No. 41 is one of the strong lodges in the state and every president of the state assembly for years have made this lodge an official visit, which speaks well for the Rebekah lodge of this city. Judge Carlon went down to Lincoln last Sunday morning taking his daughter, Miss Grace, down there for medical treatment. Grace is thirteen years of age and has been a cripple all her life but of late had been suffer ing pain in the crippled hip. She was examined by surgeons in Lincoln and they found that she was suffering from an abscess in the hip joint and an immediate operation was deemed necessary and she was operated up on Tuesday morning, according to word received Wednesday morning by Miss Josie Carlon from her father. The operation was very severe upon the little girl but it is hoped that with good care she will soon recover. Last week O. O. Snyder sold the cottage that he has been living in for the past year to Mrs. James Ryan who took possession the lirst of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have taken rooms in the annex, where they will reside until Mr. Snyder erects a new home, jit is his intention to build two new residences this spring, on the corner of First and Douglas streets, formerly occupied by the resi dence of W. D. Mathews, which was destroyed by fire several years ago. Mr. Snyder will build a cottage similar to the one he just sold and will live therein until his home, which he will build on the corner, is ready for oc cupancy. He will build a modern bungalow residence, two stories and expects to have it ready for occupancy before fall. Work upon the smaller of the residences will commence within a couple of weeks. Mr. Snyder be lieves in building up the tow'n and if he should sell his residence as soon as completed would at once commence the erection of another residence. There is room in this city for several new homes as it is impossible to rent a desirable residence in the city at the present time. Commonwealth Life Insurance Com pany Banquets Its Agents. Omaha Bee, March 9: The Com monwealth Life Insurance company banqueted fifty agents from South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska at the Paxton hotel at (1:30 Saturday even ing. After the feast various topics of interest to both the company and the agents were discussed. Frans Nelson, president, and a number of other officers and stock holders of the company were present and gave interesting addresses. The Commonwealth Life Insurance Company Underwriters’ association was organized and the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: L. L. Turley, president; R. J. Johnson, vice president; Ray Branson, secretary-traesurer. The Commonwealth One Hundred Thousand Club was also organized and the following officers were elected for the coming year: Dr. W. H. Mullen, president; Ray Branson, vice presi dent; J. A. Way, secretary-treasurer. At the conclusion of the addresses the entire party attended the Orpheum. The Commonwealth company did a big business last year and its outlook is unusually bright.—Adv. Promoting a Railroad. We Understand that Hugh O’Neill, the Sage of Chelsea, and who has always been looked upon as the friend and champion of the down-trodden and opressed has ambitions to be come a bloated bondholder and is now promoting a railroad to be built from Atkinson through the northern part of this county, running in a northeast erly direction to Spencerr, Neb., where it will connect with the Northwestern. We understand that he has secured the right of way, formerly owned by A. O. Perry when the latter undertook to build a railroad from Atkinson to Butte several years ago, and that this right-of-way will be used by O’Neill. It is proposed that the several town ships, through which the road passes, will vote bonds to assist in building the road, or at least in starting it, as they say they will be able to bond the line as soon as twenty-five miles is built and ready for operation, and thus secure funds with which to com plete the line. Mr. O’Neill has been working^ in Saratoga township the past two weeks and we understand that he has induced a majority of the voters of that township to sign a petition to vote bonds to assis in building the road. Other townships through which the road will run will also be asked to vote bonds to assist it. Contributers to Home Rule Fund. The following named persons con tributed the amount set opposite their names to the cause of Irish Home Rule, the collection being made by John Carton and was forwarded to the Irish World. William Joyce.$1.00 James Earley.1.00 J. J. McCafferty.1.00 Peter McMonigle.1.00 E. H. Whelan.1.00 Thomas J. Gallagher. ... :.1.00 James O’Connor.1.00 L. C. Chapman.1.00 C. E. Stout.1.00 D. Abdousch.1.00 C. F. McKenna.50 T. J. Murphy.1.00 John Carton.1.00 Patrick Hughes.1.00 John P. McManus.1.00 O. F. Biglin.1.00 P. J. McManus.1.00 Frank Phalin.50 Arthur Ryan.50 J. J. Kelly.2.00 J. F. Powers.50 Ferd Ward. 1.00 John Robertson.1.00 T. V. Golden.1.00 Rev. M. F. Cassidy.5.00 John A. Harmon.1.00 Bazelman Bros.1.00 Frank Howard.50 C. P. Hancock.50 Henry Grady.50 S. J. Weekes.60 Ed. Quinn.50 P. J. O’Donnell.50 J. C. Harnish.50 E. F. Gallhgher.50 J. F. Gallagher.50 Dennis Hanley.1.00 Andrew Clark.1.00 Thomas Donlin.1.00 M. F. Harrington.5.00 Hugh J. Boyle.50 O. O. Snyder.1.00 James Dolan. 1.00 J. P. Gallagher.1.00 Tom Enright.50 Pat Minton..50 R. Jennings.1.00 J. W. Sullivan.1.00 J. J. Noonan. 1.00 B. J. Jones.50 James Moore.1.00 J. D. Kelly.1.00 D. H. Cronin.1.00 Charles Daley.1.00 Dr. J. P. Gilligan.1.00 John Mann. 1.00 J. J. Harrington.1.00 John Kane.1.00 M. R. Sullivan.1.00 Henry Stanton.1.00 John Howard.50 Notice The monthly meeting of the Grat tan Township Board was postponed until March 14th. C. F. NAUGHTON, Clerk. Uttley On Taxation. O’Neill, Neb., March 8, 1914. Editor Frontier: There seems to be quite considerable of complaint throughout the country relative to taxation; this is also true in Holt county. I wonder how many of the citizens realize that many hundreds of dol lars are being wrongfully and illegally paid out by officers who they have elected to office and whose duty it is to see that the money of the tax payers is legally and properly ex pended. For instance we will take the offices of superintendent of public instruc tion and attorney general as a sample. The constitution of Nebraska, as published in the session laws of 1913, being part of section 24, Article 6, provides as follows: * * * There shall be no allowance for clerk hire in the offices of the superintendent of public instruction and attorney general.” We see that the legislature assembled January 1, 1913, see page 719 session laws of 1913, appropriated the following sums: For superintendent public in struction, salary per year.$2,000.00 For biennium (meaning two years). 4,000.00 Salary deputy. 1,800.00 For biennium (meaning two years. 3,600.00 Salary stenographer. . . .-.. 840.00 For biennium (meaning two years). 1,680.00 For attorney general for salary.$2,000.00 For biennium (meaning two years). 4,000.00 Salary deputy. 2,000.00 For biennium. 4,000.00 Salary first assistant. 2,000.00 For biennium. 4,000.00 Salary second assistant. . . . 1,800.00 For biennium. 3,600.00 Salary legal stenographer. . 1,200.00 For biennium. 2,400.00 Salary of stenographer. 800.00 For biennium. 1,600.00 It thus appears that there is ap propriated by the legislature in excess of the limit allowed by the constitution to the superintendent of public instruction in the sum of $2,640.00 each year and to the office of attorney general the sum of $6,800.00 each year and this con diton of affairs applies to many counties and to several offices in such county. The various laws of the state pro vide what officers may have deputies and assistants and how they may secure their salaries. The laws also provide what officers shall have the control of the granting of such depu ties and assstants and the flxng of ther salary. What do you think of some officers being allowed a clerk at $45.00 to $50.00 per month, when none is provided by law, or to go farther, where there may be three or four clerks in an office, where none is provided by law, and the person elected to the office and paid the salary for performing the work scarcely seen in the office? Don’t you think this might bear investigation? H. M. Uttley. [The Frontier will admit that the taxes continue getting higher each year, but the cause of the great in crease is not due to the paltry sum paid to assistants in the offices which Mr. Uttley points out. When the constitution of Nebraska was adopted no help was needed in the two offices mentioned, but now it would be im possible to transact the business of these two departments, two of the most important in the state, without assistance. One of the reasons for the great increase in taxes is due to the (Continued on page four.) r The Greatest CLEARANCE SALE! 1 in the history of O'Neil/ is now on. The prices are cut to the quick, as we wish to make room befoie the I building is remodeled. You can not afford to miss this opportunity to lay in a seasons supplies at a fraction of I their cost. Remember the date and place of sale March 4, to March 211 No reserve, every ting in the house on sale at a reduction of 20 to 50 per ; cent below regular price. LINDQUIST & PALMER 1914 Pattern Hats -and MILLINERY NOVELTIES Will be on Display at The Grady Millinery Store Friday and Saturday March 13 & 14 I All are Cordially Invited to Call and Inspect Them. i*. i ■■' ' — w | Let this Bank help You j /\PEN an account here and prove your I>^ capacity to handle yourself and your affairs. We will help you. It is our business to do all we can for the benefit of the commercial community—consistent with good banking. Come in today and talk it over. THIS BANK CARRIES NO INDEBTEDNESS OF OFFICERS OR STOCKHOLDERS. 1 O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK 1 LONEILL, NEBRASKA Capital and Surplus, $80,000.00 | M. Dowling, Pres. S. J. Weekes, Cashier O. O. Snyder, Vice-Pres. C. P. Hancock, Asst. Cash. | ||HllB8BBISBMilllBBMW8BIBIiWHIIIIBBIHIBBBBBB8l3IBIISBIISIBIBIIHMHBIIHBHMHBBIIWHBB