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.
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| 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. |
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