The Frontier
Published by D. H. CRONIN
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A PERSONAL WORD.
For the third consecutive time the
writer has been elected by the voters
of this county to represent the county
in the lower branch of the state legis
lature, and, this time, without
opposition. I desire to express
my thanks to the voters of
the county, of all parties, who so kindly
supported me and gave me this en
dorsement of my official record and to
assure the people that it will be my
ambition in the future, as well as in
the past, to labor for the best interests
of the people of Holt county and of Ne
braska, regardless of politics. There
should be no politics in the state
legislature; every member should
labor for the best interest of the state
and its people and it will be my en
deavor to do so. Hoping that my
record in the coming session will con
tinue to merit your approbation and
good will I beg to remain
Your obedient servant,
DENNIS H. CRONIN.
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Joe Cannon has been returned to
congress from Illinois.
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Henry Grady is some race horse,
when it comes to gathering votes.
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Atkinson has ceased to be the ban
ner republican township in the county.
Howell only beat Morehead four votes
in the township.
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Colorado joined the prohibitionists
at the election last Tuesday, the drys
winning by a majority of 16,000.
Oregon went dry by 25,000 and
Washington followed suit by 16,000.
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The prohibitionists have more cause
for rejoicing over the results of the
last election than any of the political
parties. Four states joined the list of
prohibition states as a result of the
election.
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From reports so far received it
seems that Nebraska will again be
burdened with a democratic legisla
ture and that the majority in the
house will be largely in excess of
what it was two years ago.
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Now that the smoke of battle has
cleared away it becomes evident that
to the European war the democrats
owe much of their success in the last
flection. The “Don’t Rock the Boat”
slogan held the voters in line.
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That the present national ad
ministration is not satisfactory to the
people of this country is evidenced by
the fact that the democratic party
lost sixty-six members of the national
congress in the election last Tuesday
and retained control of the lower
house by only a slender majority
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Last Wednesday President Wilson
appointed F. W. Brown, Bryan’s can
didate, postmaster at Lincoln. Now
that the ice has been broken in the
patronage fight in the state the wise
$bnes look to see all the contested ap
poinments made before congress con
venes in December.
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All candidates on the democratic
state ticket have carried this county
by majorities ranging from three to
four hundred. This was made possible
by the progressive party which drew
enough from the republican candi
dates to give the democrats the
county. From late reports received
from the state it appears that most
of the democratic state ticket, if not all
of it will be elected. Thomas, for state
superintendent, seems to be leading
the republican state ticket.
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What Started the War.
New York Sun: In the first place
a Servian socialist got drunk and
killed an Austrian nobleman and his
escort (or, maybe, it was his consort).
Anyhow, it was some sort Austria
then got hot under the collar over
the incident and said to Servia: “See
here, now, we don’t want any of that
rough stuff. I want to be a father to
you. Come in the weedshed.” Russia
Was peeping through the fence when
she heard the conversation, and seeing
what was going on, said to Austria
“Do not touch that child; he’s my kid
and, anyhow, you’d make a hell of i
looking daddy.” “You’ve got anothei
think coming,” answered Austria
“I don’t like the color of your hair
anyhow, and your feet don’t tracl
besides, and I can lick you with on<
hand tied.” “Bully boy,” says Wil
helm of Germany. “If you can’t lie!
him I can, and by gosh I’ll do it. J
can lick anybody; I can lick every
body. We’ll take him on together.’
So Germany slips up on France
when she ain’t looking and lands witl
both feet in the middle of Belgium
“Get off’n my belly,” says Belgium
“or I’ll bite your leg off.” “Ouch,’
says Germany. “I’ll get off when ]
get ready.” “That’s not fair,” says
France. “So take that, you slob.’
handing Germany a hot one on the
snoot. “I hate a scrap,” says Eng
land, “but I can smash the jaw of the
guy that slaps my friend.” “You don’t
hate it worse than I do,” says Japan,
as she squares off for a hand in the
game. “Well, I guess you started it,
anyhow,” says Wilhelm to Nick,
Just then everybody began to yell,
“You started it yourself!” and each
one sticks out his toungue at the
other fellow and they all clinch and the
little fellows begin to dance around,
watching for a chance to get in a
punch and run. And there you are.
HOW WAR TAX WILL BE RAISED.
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by Taxes on Many Different
Kinds of Property.
The $100,000,000.00 war tax bill was
passed by Congress a few days ago
by quite a large majority, and the fol
lowing is a list of goods which will be
taxed and the amounts levied on them.
The cotton relief amendment pro
posed by the senators from the cotton
sates was defeated by a vote of 21
to 40.
The amendment provided for an is
sue of $250,000,000 of three year 4
per cent bonds in denominations of
$10, 20 50, 100 to be used to purchase
from producers, 5„000,000 bales of
cotton at not more than ten cents a
pound.
A tax of half cent a pound on all
cotton grown and sold in 1916, and if
necessary a tax of one cent a pound
on the 1917 crop would be levied to
repay the government the bonds and
all expenses incident to the handling
of the cotton.
Those who voted for the cotton re
lief amendment were:
Republicans—Borah, Clapp and
Jones.
uemocrais—uiarxe, ArKs, v.umer
son, Fletcher, Lane, Lea, Tennessee,
Martin, Myers, Overman, Sheppard,
Shields, Simmons, Smith, Georga;
Smith, South Carolina; Thornton,
Vardaman, White and Williams.
Progressive—Poindexter.
Twenty-one democrats voted against
it. They were: Ashurt, Camden,
Hitchcock, James, Johnson, Kern,
Lewis, Lee, Maryland; Martin, O’Gor
man, Pomerene, Saulsbury, Shaffroth,
Shively, Stefe, Swanson, Thomas,
Thompson, Walsh and West.
The main provisions for war re
venue included in the senate bill are:
Tax on beer, $1.76 a barrel; rec
tified whisky, 6 cents a gallon; all
domestic still wine, 8 cents a gal
lon, and 65 cents a gallon on all grape
brandies used in fortification thereof;
champagnes, 25 cents a quart; car
bonated wines, 10 cents a quart,
liquors and cordials, 24 cents a gallon;
bankers, $1 per thousand of capital,
surplus and undivided profits; pawn
brokers, $60 a year; commercial bro
kers, $20; commission merchants, $20;
custom house brokers, $10; pro
prietors of theaters, musiums and con
cert halls, with seating capacity not
more than 300, $25 a year; not exceed
ing 600 chairs, $60; not exceeding
1.000, $75; more than 1,000, $100;
circuses, $100; other amusement prcA
prietors and agents, except of chau
tauquas, lecture lyceums, agricul
tural or industrial fairs or exhibitions
under religious or charitable auspices,
$10; bowling alleys and billiard rooms,
$5 for each alley or table.
Special annual taxes on tobacco
dealers and manufacturers:
Dealers in leaf tobacco, from $6 to
$24; dealers in tobacco, $4.80 for east
ern manufacturers of tobacco with an
nual sales not exceding 100,000 pounds
$6; not exceeding 200 ,000, $12; not ex
ceeding 400,000 pounds, $24; not ex
ceeding 1,000,000 pounds, $60;
5.000. 000,pounds, $300; 10,000,000
pounds, $600 ; 20,000,000 pounds,
$1,200; exceeding 20,000,000 pounds
$2,496.
Manufacturers of cigars, whose an
nual sales do not exceed 100,000 cigars
$3; 200,000 cigars, $6; 400,000 cigars
$12; 1,000,000, $30; 5,000,000, $160;
20.000. 000, $600; 40,000,000, $1,200;
exceeding 40,000,000, $2,496.
Manufacturers of cigarets with an
nual sales not exceeding 1,000,000, $12;
2.000. 000, $24; 5,000,000, $60; 10,
000.00, $120; 50,000,000, $600; 100,
000,000, $1,200; exceeding 100,000,
000, $2,496.
Stamp taxes as follows:
Perfumery, Cosmetics and similar
articles from one-eighth of a cent for
, each 5 cent package to 5-8 of a cent
. on each 25 cent package and 5-8 of a
• cent for every additional 25 cent in
. value; chewing gum 4 cent for each
, $1 of value; sparkling wines not
otherwise taxed 1 cent for pints and 2
i cents for all larger containers.
Bonds, certificates of indebtedness
and certificates of stock, 5 cents on
each $100 of value; sales agreements
to sell, etc., 2 cents on each $100 of
1 value; promissory notes 2 cents per
on stock certificates as collateral for
loans; board of trade sales or agree
ments to sell, 1 cent for each $100 of
value; exempting agreements of de
posits $100; express and freight bills
of lading, 1 cent each; newspaper ship
ments taxed on monthly sworn state
ments of publishers (shipments within
the county of publication exempted) 1
tent per shipment; telegraph and tele
phone messages 1 cent each; indem
nifying bonds, 50 cents; certificates of
profit, 2 cents for each $100; cer
tificates of damage, etc., 25 cents;
all other certificates required by law,
10 cents each;brokers notes,memoran
dums of sale, etc., 10 cents, convey
ances, 50 cents on values between $100
and $500 and 50 cents for each ad
ditional $500 of value; custom house
receipts, 25 cents to $1 on values rang
ing from $100 to more than $500;
custom house withdrawal entries, 50
cents each.
Marine and fire insurance policies,
1 cent on each dollar or premium; co
operative and mutual fire insurance
exempted; causalty insurance, 1 cent
on each dollar of premium.
Passage tickets sold in the United
States to foreign ports not exceeding
$30 in cost, $1; not exceeding $50 in
cost, $3; costing more than $60, $5;
tickets less than $10 exempted.
Power of attorney, 10 cents; pro
tests of notes, etc., 25 cents; par
lor car seats and births, 1 cent.
Maximum estimate of annual re
venue, $107,000,000; mininum estimate,
based on possible slump in beer pro
duction, $92,000,000.
Remarkable Cure of Croup.
“Last winter when my little boy had
croup I got him a bottle of Chamber
lain’s Cough Remedy. I honestly be
lieve it saved his life,” writes Mrs. J.
B. Cook, Indiana, Pa. “It cut the
phlegm and relieved his coughing
spells. I am most grateful for what
this remedy has done for him. For
sale by all dealers. 21-4
Wattles-Harrington.
Married, at the Catholic church last
Tuesday morning, November 3, 1914,
Bert Wattles, of Neligh, to> Miss Con
stance Harrington, of this city, Rev.
M. F. Cassidy officiating.
After the wedding breakfast the
bridal party repaired to the home of
the brides’ parents where a splendid
breakfast was served, after which
they left on the Northwestern for an
extended honeymoon trip through the
east.
The groom is one of Neligh’s most
prominent young men, having resided
in that city for several years and is
engaged in the banking business. He
is a young man of sterling integrity
and is rapidly making a name for
himself in the financial circles of
northeastern Nebraska.
The bride is the eldest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Harrington and
was born and grew to womanhood in
this city. She is a very charming and
winsome young lady and has a large
acquaintance, not only in O’Neill, but
throughout the state and numbers her
friends by the score.
Upon the return from their honey
moon trip they will make their home
in Neligh where the groom has a
beautiful home prepared for his bride.
The Frontier joins the many
friends of Mr. and Mrs. Wattles in
wishing them long life and prosperity.
Care of Criminals.
When the mechanics sits down
after supper, with a sense of relief
that the labor of another day is over,
he picks up his county paper, and his
eyes fall upon article headed “Claims
Allowed” by the board of supervisors.
He reads of bills paid for poor of city
and county, for medical attendance,
etc., and he raises no objections, but
as he comes to the items for “board
ing prisioners” the thought will come
up as to the difference there is in the
way mankind manages to get a liv
ing. He realizes that in order for
himself and family to have a com
fortable living, he and they must work
about three hundred days in the year,
and their bill of fare is but little, if
any, better than that supplied to the in
mates of county jails. The prisoner
lives in idleness, reads, plays cards, or
sleeps as he chooses, and three times
a day he is called up to eat bread
earned by the sweat of other men’s
faces. The man incarcerated in jail
has good food and nothing to do. In
fact, many of them have more to eat
and better times than they had be
fore their arrest. All the punishment
it is to them, is being deprived of
personal liberty. The work house was
a grand good invention to get rid of a
lot of county boarders, and although
the plan was opposed bitterly, when
first adopted, it has now become
popular with all except those liable to
go there. There ought to be some plan
devised whereby persons confined in
jail might be made to labor, to part
pay the cost of their keeping. They
might be put at some labor that
would make imprisonment in jail a
punishment rather than a free board
ing house. Although their labor
might come in competition with that
of honest men, the probability is the
number of working force would grow
beautifully less about the jail, and
likewise the bills for boarding
them.
Wedding Anniversary at Page.
On October 29th Mr. and Mrs. W.
D. Hunt celebrated their second wed
ding aniversary by a six o'clock din
ner given to a few immediate rela
tives. The dining room was tastefully
decorated with .red carnations and
evergreens and the living room with
ferns, evergreens and white carnations.
The dinner served proved that bride’s
education had not been neglected.
Those present were Mr. and Mrs. D.
Hunt, Miss Nyra Hunt and Mr. Her
schel Hunt, of Page, Misses Lovena
and Jennie Adams with Mrs. E. Roy
Townsend and son, of O’Neill.
A very pleasant time was enjoyed
and some nice presents received.
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Inman Boy Shot.
As a result of Halloween pranks
amogn the young men of Inman, Har
den Anspach was shot in the right leg
just below the thigh with a 38-caliber
revolver Saturday evening. The
shooting was done by I. N. Brown,
Inman liveryman, who was watching
his barn to keep the boys from doing
any damage to property. Anspach
was taken to O’Neill yesterday in
company with Dr. Noyes where the
bullet will be probed for. According
to Mr. Brown’s story he had warned
the boys about molesting his property
and after several threats were made
and a bunch of miscellaneous articles
placed against his barn door, Brown
appeared in the doorway and fired one
shot at the crowd as it was leaving.
Young Anspach was in the rear of
the crowd and the bullet struck him.
Young Anspach says that he was
(upon the streets the greater part of
the evening and took no part in the
pranks until he heard the noise at the
Brown barn and that he went down in
company with another boy who had a
horse in the barn and who wanted to
get the horse out and go home. He
says he went along to help get the
horse out and arrived just in time to
meet Brown at the door with a re
volver. Turning he says he started to
run when the bullet struck him in the
leg. He was about ten feet from Brown
when the shot was fired.
The police arrived and immediately
disbursed the crowd and Anspach was
taken to his home where the wound
was dressed.
Dinner Time.
Walt Mason: When dinner is ready,
my worries depart, all gone are the
sorrows that burden my heart; the
scent of the victuals brings calmness
and peace, the scent of the cabbage,
the onions, the grease; my thoughts are
of turnips and early June peas, of pie
and of pudding, spaghetti and cheese.
I kick up my heels and I stand on my
head, for I am an optimist when I am
fed. The woes of my life are a pesti
lent lot; they keep me excited and
worried and hot; the bills I must pay
with no money in sight, the fear that
my health isn’t perfectly right, the
dread of results if I chance to fall sick,
the coal I must buy—and they won’t
sell on tick, the high cost of living
that’s keeping me broke, the shrive
ling income that goes up in smoke—
puch worries are making me much like
a wreck, but all are forgoten when din
ner’s on deck. The dinner gong calls
to the succulent roast, the scalloped
potatoes, thfe tea and the toast. The
dinner gong sounds and I’ve no time
to waste, I leap over tables and chairs
in my haste. Gone, gone the forebod
ing, the brooding, the dread, for I am
an optimist when I am fed!
The Editor’s Prayer.
I would fee from the city’s rule and
law—from its fashions and forms cut
loose—and go where the strawberry
grows on its straw and the gooseberry
grows on its goose; where the catnip
tree is climbed by the cat as she
clutches for her prey the guileless
and unsuspecting rat, on the rattan
bush at play I will watch at ease the
saffron cow and the cowlet in their
glee, as they peal in joy from bough
to bough on top of a cowslip tree; and
list while the partridge drums his
drum, and the woodcock chucks his
wood, and the dog devours the dog
wood plum in the primitive solitude.
O, let me drink from the moss grown
pump that was hewn from a pumpkin
tree! Eat mush milk from a rural
stump, from form and fashion free—
new-garnered mush from the mush
roon vine and milk from the milk
weed sweet—with lucjous pineapples
from the wine! Such food as the gods
might eat! And then to the white
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MR. DEPOSITOR:
We invite you to Deposit your funds
in this bank for the reason that all depositors
are protected by the Depositors’ Guarrantee
Fund of the State of Nebraska.
That the Deposits are amply protected
in State Banks was exemplified in the failure
of the State Savings Bank of Superior, Ne
braska, a few months ago. Shortly after the
bank closed the depositors were paid in full,
together with interest up to the time the bank
suspended payment.
At the same time the First National
Bank of Superior failed and up to this time
the depositors have not received a cent, and
prospects of ever receiving a substantial por
tion of their deposits are not very bright.
The harvest of the farmers and stock
men is now at hand and they will soon be dis
posing of their products and will want to de
posit their surplus funds.
Kindly keep this bank in mind, as this
is the only bank in O’Neill operating under the
Guarrantee Law of the State of Nebraska.
Nebraska State Bank
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washed dairy I’ll turn, where the dairy
maid hastening hies her ruddy and
goldred butter to churn from the
milk of her butterflie; and I’ll rise at
morn with the earliest bird, to the
fragrant farm-yard pass, and watch
while the farmer turns his heard of
grasshoppers out to grass.
The Great Chicago Stock Show.
It should be understood that the
purpose of the International Live
Stock Exposition, which will this year
be held from Nov. 28 to Dec. 5, is the
improvement of the live stock of the
nation. It is educational in its nature,
aims, methods and results. It brings
together annually from 6,000 to 10,000
of the world’s choicest animals, to be
judged in upwards of 600 classes, in
competition for over 2,600 cash pre
miums aggregating more than $75,000,
besides other numerous valuable pri
zes, trophies, medals of honor, etc.,
and holds constant business sessions
during the week composed of the fore
most live stock representatives of the
world, also a series of brilliant evening
horse fairs and displays of premium
live stock in the arena, with music and
special features, all for the purpose
of instructing the eye and the mind
of the producer of live stock to the im
portance and necessity of better meth
ods and the greater profits to be de
rived from raisign the better kinds of
farm animals, thus expanding and im
proving the industry throughout the
nation, and increasing greatly its agri
cultural prosperity. In short, it is a
vast object lesson intended for the im
provement of the live stock of the
United States, the upbuilding of pub
lic confidence in the health and ex
cellence of American animals and
meats, and the creation of a better de
mand for them at home and abroad
An Editor’s Love Letter.
An Editor’s Love Letter—“Dear
darling delinquent! Our precious
subscriber in arrears! You are so
shy! Do you think we have sold out
and gone? No, little sugar-plum, we
could not get away if we wanted to.
We are still at the same old stand
dishing out the advertisers on sweet
promises and bright expectations.
They make an excellent diet, darling,
with a little pudding flavored with a
word of encouragement to serve as a
dessert. We are waiting and watch
ing for thee, our turtle dove. We
long to hear thy gentle footstep on
the stairway below and to hear the
ring of the happy dollars within our
office. Dear one, we feel unusually sad
and lonely without you, dear. Now
little pie-crust, will you come? Do we
hear you answer in a voice so sweet
and beguiling, “I’m coming,” or is it
only the winds that around our office
roar?” We pause for further de
velopment.”
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can get from a man while looking him straight in the eyes
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