The Frontier
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Official Paper O’Neill and Holt County
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Judge Kinkaid paid his filing fee to
the county treasurer of this county
last week and will file for re-election
to congress from this district.
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. With the daily press carrying
notices of large business concerns go
ing bankrupt nearly every day, we are
reminded that the democratic party is
in power in the nation.
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John Maher still continues firing
broadsides into King William and
Prince Charley, to the extreme de
light of thousands of democrats who
say amen to John’s pointed articles,!
under their breath
The failure of the largest dry goods
firm in the world, in New York last
Week, with liabilities of thirty million
dollars, does not speak very highly for
the prosperity that President Wilson
says we are having.
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It is said that President Wilson will
cut the pie and pass the pieces
around to the hungry Nebraska demo
crats sometime this nlonth. Well, the
Loys have waited long, if not patiently,
but the pie will probably lose none of
its flavor on account of its delayed
arrival.
There are eight candidates in the
field* for the republican nomination
for congress in the First district. Re
publican success looks very bright in
that district, the post office fight in
Lincoln being one of the things that is
looked upon to materially assist the
republicans in regaining control of the
district.
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M. L. Corey, of Clay Center, has
been selected as temporary chairman
of the democratic state convention,
which will be held in Columbus on
July 28th. The Frontier can assure
our democratic friends that they will
be delighted with Mr. Corey’s address
r.s he is one of the ablest orators in
the state.
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Pat Stanton, of O’Neill cast his
panama into the political ring last
Wednesday and filed for the demo
cratic nomination for sheriff. It was
reported some time ago that Hank
Tomlinson was to enter the race for
the democratic nomination for sherifT
hut it is reported that Hank did not
want to go up against the Grady bus
saw in the campaign and decided to
wait for a more opportune time to
miter the race for that office.
Prof. A. 0. Thomas, for many years
head of the Kearney State Normal
school, has filed for the republican
nomination for state superintendent,
Prof. Thomas was ousted from his
position a* few months ago and it was
Stated at that time that the ousting
was accomplished by political trickery,
as there was no doubt or question
raised as to the ability of the Pro
cessor in his chosen line of work. One
of the men who assisted in ousting
him was State Superintendent Dazell
(oid he refused to be a candidate for
re-election, but filed for the republi
can nomination for congress in the
First district. Mr. Elliott, the present
deputy state.superintendent, is also a
candidate, for the republican nomina
tion, but at this distance it looks to
us as if Thomas had the inside track
in the race, as he will receive the en
thusiastic support of many who be
lieve that he was unfairly treated by
the State Normal board.
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The past week has been a busy one
for candidates. During the week the
following persons have filed for office
in the county. Miss Minnie Miller for
county superintendent, on the demo
cratic ticket; H. J. Boyle has filed for
the democratic nomination for county
attorney; J. Q. Howard, of
O’Neill, has filed ■ for the demo
cratic nomination for supervisor
; from this district and Judge Carlon
; has filed as a non-partisan for the
nomination for re-election as county
judge. Under the new law judges are
to be elected upon a non-partisan bal
lot and in order to be placed in nom
ination ih is necessary to file a petition
-containing ten per cent of the voters
of the county. Judge Carlon filed
petitions '. containing nearly 1,000
nsmes in submitting his candidacy.
Numerous other candidates are ex
pected to file within the next two
weeks and the primary campaign
promises to be a lively one.
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Notice to Fireman.
AH Fireman are requested to turn
in Badges and Signal Whistles. The
companies having been re-formed the
badges and whistles are to be re
distributed.
M. F. Kirwin,
3-lpd. Fire Chief.
Severe Attack of Colic Cured.
E. E. Cross, who travels in Virginia
and other Southern States, was taken
suddenly and severely ill with colic.
At the first store he came to the mer
chant recommended Chamberlain’s
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
Two doses of it cured him. No one
should leave home on a journey with
out a bottle of this preparation. For
sale by all dealers. 3-4
Cooling Milk Without Ice.
When it is impossible to secure ice
or a supply of ice-cold water, milk,
cream, and butter as well as other
foods may" be kept cold by the use of
a pit or shallow well. The dairy de
partment of the Nebraska College of
Agriculture advises that pits may
have a temperature of less than 70
degrees When the actual temperature
in the shade is 104 degrees F. When
these special pits are used for no
other purpose, the milk and cream are
usually of a much better quality than
would be the case if they were stored
in the ordinary cave or root cellar con
taining vegetables of all sorts. It is
a Well-known fact that milk and cream
readily absorb odors from anything
that may stand near them. A well or
pit suitable for the cooling of cream
should be about ten or fifteen feet
deep and can be cemented, bricked, or
boarded up as seems best under local
conditions. A simple hoisting ap
paratus with counterweight may be
used.
More Hog Cholera Instruction.
Another hog cholera day at the Ne
braska University Farm has been set
for July 8th to which every person in
terested is. invited to attend. No
charge will be made. At the first
meeting, held recently, a repre
sentative number of hog raisers were
present from different parts of the
state. It proved to be so popular that
the program of offering instruction on
vaccination and other phases of hog
cholera preventation on the second
Wednesday of each month will be car
ried out as long as the demand war
rants. The visitors on July 8 will
inspect the serum plant, see the dif
ferent processes of making serum
and virus, and witness the vaccina
tion of hogs. They will also examine
cholera infected hogs and the car
casses after the post-mortem ex
amination is mude. From the post
mortem examination the stockmen are
expected to become familiar with hog
cholera dianosis. Lectures on cholera
preventation, as well as on other top
ics of interest to hog raisers, will be
given. Instruction will begin at 9
o’clock and last throughout the day.
Writing Insurance Attracts Mullen
Brothers.
Omaha Bee: The three Mullen
brothers, W. H., G. M., and P. D., all
with the Commonwealth Life of
Omaha, a Nebraska company that
wrote some $2,250,000 business last
year and is going to exceed that
amount by several hundred thousand
dollars during 1914, comprises about
as strong a team of soliciters as ever
went into the field. With the Com
monwealth they are among its most
successful agents and an acceptable
risk that they cannot land is not worth
going after.
All three of the Mullen brothers left
good paying professions and business
to engage in insurance work. W. H.
Mullen, a dentist at Bloomfield, this
state, was the first to cast his lot with
the Commonwealth. He had a good
business, but liked to get out among
people and huBtle. Prom the start he
(lid well—so well that it was not long
until his brother, G. M. Mullen, a den
tist at Creighton, got into the insur
ance game with the Commonwealth.
He also did well right from the start,
so well that another brother, P. D.
Mullen, in business at O’Neill, applied
for a position with the Commonwealth
and was taken onto the staff. Now
the three men are in the business to
stay and by President Nelson, they
are looked upon as a trio of workers,
Who can deliver the goods under about
all conditions of circumstances.
Supervisors’ Proseedings.
O’Neill, Neb., June 9, 1914, 10 a. m.
Board of supervisors met in session
as a Board of Equalization, all mem
bers present including County Clerk
and County Assessor.
Mr. Chairman: I move you that
the county clerk is hereby instructed
to correct assessment on the south
east quarter of section 4, township 30,
range 16, in Stuart precinct, from a
valuation of $5,600.00 on said des
cribed land to $4,800.00.
M. P. Sullivan.
D. M. Stuart.
Motion carried.
O’Neill, Nebraska.
Mr. Chairman: I move you that
assessment on northwest quarter of
section 6, 29, 15, for improvements
valued at $600.00 be corrected from
the fact that there is not nor has
been any one living on said land for
several years buildings are de
preciated and gone to rack and are not
actually worth $200.00.
Therefore, I move that the county
clerk correct tax list for improvements
from $600.00 to $200.00.
D. M. Stuart.
F. O. Hammerberg.
Motion carried.
O’Neill, Neb., June 9, 1914.
Mr. Chairman: I move you that the
county clerk be and is hereby ordered
to correct tax list on the southeast
quarter section 32, 30, 15, assessment
for improvements amounting to
$400.00 should be stricken from tax
list for the reason that there are no
improvements on said land.
M. P. Sullivan.
D. M. Stuart.
Motion carried.
Mr. Chairman: Whereas it appears
to the satisfaction of the board that
there has been an erroneous assess
ment on the following described land
the northeast quarter of section 1,25,
15, $6,200.00, therefore I move that the
county clerk be instructed to correct
the tax list to read as follows: North
east quarter of section 1, 26, 15,
$1,500.00, the southeast quarter of
sectional 26, 16, as follows: The im
proved land from $2,200.00 to
$1,350.00, the unimproved land from
$3,000.00 to $760.00, making a total
of $2,100.00.
C. A. Fauquier.
J. O. Hubbell,
Motion carried.
O’Neill, Neb., June 9, 1914.
Mr. Chairman: I move you that the
county clerk be and is hereby in
structed to correct tax list on lot 4
and 5, block 13, Hallock’s Second Ad
dition to the Town of Stuart, Holt
county, said lot being assessed with
improvement and it appears that there
were no assessable improvements on
said lot for the year 1913, but during
the year 1913 improvements were
made which should be assessed at
$1,000.00 for the year 1914.
D. M. Stuart.
F. M. Hammerburg.
Motion carried.
Mr. Chairman: I move that the
county clerk be and hereby is in
structed to correct tax list on the
southeast quarter section 11, town 30,
range 11, by striking $200.00 for im
provements for said described land for
the reason said land is unimproved.
M. P. Sullivan.
D. M. Stuart,
Motion carried.
Mr. Chairman: Whereas it ap
pears to the satisfaction of the board
that the valuation on the southwest
quarter of section 28, 32, 12, in Sara
toga township is higher than the prop
erty of the same nature and adjoining
it, therefore I move you that the
county clerk is hereby instructed to
change the total valuation on said
described land from $2,850.00 to
$2,300.00.
M. P. Sullivan.
F. O. Hammerberg.
Motion carried.
On motion board adjourned until 9
o’clock tomorrow morning.
Th. D. Sievers, Chairman.
S. F. McNichols, County Clerk.
O’Neill, Neb., June 10, 1914, 9 a. m.
Board of equalization met pursuant
to adjournment all members present.
The State of Nebraska, County of
Holt, ss.
Joseph Matousek of the Village of
Atkinson, County of Holt, and State of
Nebraska, being duly sworn deposes
and says that he was the assessor of
Sheridan township for thb year 1912,
while acting in that capacity he as
sessed the northeast quarter of 9, 29,
14, and that it was his intention to
value the same land at $15.00 per acre,
the same as the northwest quarter of
the same section, but that through
some error same was valued at $30.00
per acre and which valuation the tax
was levied and that in his opinion to
SI 5.00 per acre, as there is no dif
ference in the two quarters, with the
exception, of jthere being 30 acres
broken and under cultivation in the
northwest quarter, while the north
east quarter is used only for pasture',
and further this affiant sayeth not.
Joseph Matousek.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 6th day of January, 1914.
I. R. Dickerson,
(Seal) Notary Public.
To the Honorable Board of Supervi
sors, of Holt County.
Gentlemen: Your petitioner,
Nicholas O’Connell, represents to your
honorable body that he is the owner
of the northeast quarter of section 9,
29, 14, in Holt county, and that said
described real estate was erroneously
assessed in the year of 1912. And I
further request that I paid said er
toneous assessment as shown by tax
receipt No. 7862 hereto attached,
therefore, I request your honorable
body to instruct the county clerk to
correct tax list and issue a refund
warrant for $16.40, the amount er
roneously paid.
Nicholas O’Connell,
Petitioner.
Moved and seconded that the prayer
of the petition be granted.
Motion carried.
Inez, Nebraska, February 9, 1914.
Honorable Board of Supervisors, Holt
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“EVERYBODY’S STORE.”
ANNOUNCING OUR ANNUAL
July Clearing Sales
Which Begin Monday, July 6th, and
Will Continue Throughout the Entire Month,
SUMMER stock reducing effort which will clear our shelves
and storerooms of every piece of warm weather merchandise.
Everyone can readily understand that a store of this size n
avoids “carrying over” merchandise of one season to another.
We go one better than that and rid ourselves of these desir
able ends of lines, odd pieces, short lengths and odds and ends, etc., while the
season is still at its height, giving patrons the benefit of the sharply reduced prices at a
time when the goods are still seasonable.
Every department of the store catering to your warm weather
needs, has entered such goods for leave-taking in this “July Clearing Sale” that
begins Monday.
See Particulars in Omaha Dailies
If you cannot conveniently come to the store, mail us your orders, and they
will receive the prompt and careful attention of shoppers trained to look after your needs.
16th and Harney Streets Omaha, Neb.
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County, Nebraska.
Gentlemen: In the year of 1913 I
was assessed for labor tax in Swan
township, I was in Washington state.
I went to Washington in December,
1912, came back in the year 1913 and
was assessed for labor tax there and
am not liable fot a labor tax in Holt
county.
I request your Honorable Body to
grant me a refund as this was er
roneous tax, find enclosed tax receipt
No. 1648 which I have paid.
Respectfully,
Robert G. Benjamin.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 9th day of February, 1914.
J. O. Hubbell,
Notary Public.
On motion prayer of petition was
granted.
Mr. Chairman: Whereas, it appears
to the satisfaction of the board that
there has been an erroneous assess
ment on the valuation of the north
west quarter of section 24, 26, 12, and
the northeast quarter Section 24, 26,
12, the former being assessed at
$800.00 and the latter at $1,600.00 and
it appearing that there is no differ
ence in the value of said land, there
fore, I move you that the County
Clerk be and is hereby instructed to
correct the tax list to read as follows:
The northwest quarter of section 24,
26, 12, at $1,200.00, and the northeast
quarter of section 24, 26, 12, at $1,200,
and the owner of the northwest quar- .
ter of 24, 26, 12, to be notified of the
change in said tax list.
C. A. Fauquier. I
io tne Honorable Board or super
visors of Holt county, Nebraska.
Gentlemen: Your petitioner res
pectfully states that for the year of
1912 he paid in the village of Page,
Holt county, Nebraska, personal tax
to the amount of $12.96 of which
amount $5.40 was assessed on a mort
gage of $500.00 held by him on the
southwest quarter of 10, 28, 10, he
having erroneously listed said mort
gage for assessment as same mort
gage was also assessed against the
land and the tax on the same was
also paid by the owner of the land,
therefore, the tax having been paid
twice on the same property, your
petitioner respectfully asks for a re
tund of $5.40, which was erroneously
assessed to and paid by him.
H. C. Howard.
R. E. Gallagher being first duly
sworn deposes and says that the fore
going claim is just and true as he
verily believes.
R. E. Gallagher.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 10th day of June, 1914.
(Seal) S. F. McNICHOLS,
County Clerk. ^
Moved and seconded that the prayer 0
of the petition be granted.
Motion carried.
State of Nebraska, Holt county, ss. t
George Crawford, of the township
of Sheridan, county of Holt, and state
of Nebraska, being duly sworn doth
depose and say', that he owns fifty- (
eight head of cattle and that said
cattle were assessed to him in Sheri- g
dan township and also in Francis
township, that he has paid his tax in *
Sheridan township and requests the
board of supervisors of Holt county
to cancel his tax in Francis as the s
same is a double assessment, and the o
fifty-eight head of cattle assessed to ii
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Wedding Gifts j
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Sterling and Plated Silverware,
new patterns. Our order for June |
weddings has several new odd t
pieces in Sterling silver. Let us J
quote you prices on that wedding \
gift.
John W. Hiber I
Jeweler Optician
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im in Sheridan are all the cattle
wned by him, and further deponent
ayeth not.
George Crawford.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
lis 13th day of February, A. D., 1914.
(Seal) I. R. Dickerson,
Notary Public.
Moved by Stuart and seconded by
arquier that prayer of petition be
ranted.
Motion carried.
o the Honorable Board of Supervis
ors of Holt county, Nebraska.
Gentlemen: Your petitioner repre
;nts that he is the owner and holder
f tax sale certificate No. 5407 cover
ig the east half of the east half 14,
32, 14, in Holt county, Nebraska,
same having been sold to him on No
vember 10, 1900, for taxes of 1908,
and upon which petitioner has paid
all subsequent taxes to date.
Petitioner upon investigation now
finds this land to be government land
and that it was erroneously sold to
him and he now asks that he be re
funded for the amount of tax paid by
him with interest to date, which
amounts to $47.75 as evidenced by
certificate and tax receipts hereto at
tached.
Respectfully,
J. W. Whiffin, Petitioner.
On motion prayer of petition was
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