The Frontier. I
VOLUME XXXV. O’NEILL. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY DECEMBER 24 1914. NUMBER 28 I
LOCAL MATTERS.
Prof. Taylor and wife left for Lin
coln last Wednesday morning to
spend Christmas visiting relatives.
Miss Kathryn Barrett left for Sioux
City Saturday morning where she will
spend a few days visiting friends and
relatives.
W. B. Cooper was up from Chambers
the latter part of last week, looking
after business matters and visiting old
time friends.
Erwin Gallagher, who is attending
medical college in .St. Louis, came
home Sunday night to spend the
Christmas vacation.
Editor Milo Taylor, of the Page Re
porter, was a business visitor to this
city last Tuesday and favored this of
fice with a short fraternal visit.
Miss Bea Murphy and Miss Irenia
Biglin, who are attending Wayne
Normal, came home yesterday after
noon to spend Christmas vacation.
Sam Ashton, for many years a resi
dent of this county, but now of Red
field, S. D., wes in the city last week
visiting old-time friends and acquain
tances.
James Harrington came up from
Lincoln the first of the week to spend
Christmas visiting at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Har
rington.
Samuel McCarthy and Miss Mildred
Clark, both of Stuart, were united in
marriage by County Judge Carlon at
the county court room last Tuesday
morning.
Edward E. Peterson and Miss Min
nie Rodgers, both of Neligh, were
united in marriage by County Judge
Carlon at the Merchants Hotel last
Saturday.
August Hoppe, of Atkinson, was a
caller at this office last Friday and
renewed his subscription to this dis
seminator of current events for an
other year.
This office received a letter from
P. C. McCarthy of Denver the latter
part of last week extending his sub
scription to The Frontier. Mr. Me
Carthy was a resident of this count}
for many years and desired to be re
membered to all the old timers of thii
city and vicinity.
Judge and Mrs. R. R. Dickson anc
children left Wednesday morning foi
the Judge’s old home at Osage, Iowa
to attend a family reunion, which wil
be held there this week.
J. W. Brentson, of Mineola, was ir
the city Tuesday doing some Christ
mas shopping. Mr. and Mrs. B. A
Powell returned home with him tc
spend the holidays at their old home
Sheriff Grady took John Hoff to the
penitentiary last Saturday morning
where he enters upon his indeterminate
term of from one to ten years foi
the killing of George Purnell in At
kinson last August.
Another nice fall of snow last Sun
day, but Monday it cleared up and the
weather has been very nice since.
Last Saturday was one of the nicest
days for two weeks and all the mer
chants in the city report a splendid
business on that day.
Mrs. Dennis Kane, of Atkinson, was
a pleasant caller at this office while in
the city last week and extended her
scription to The Frontier for another
year. Mrs. Kane says that she has
been reading The Frontier for so
many years that it would be im
possible to keep house now without its
weekly visits.
J. M. Alderson was up from Cham
bers last Wednesday and made this
office a short business call, renewing
his subscription. Mr. Alderson is
looking rugged and hearty after a
severe spell of illness, but still is a
little lame as the result of a severe
attack of rheumatism that he had
about a year ago.
In another column will be found a
paid advertisement for the railroads
in which they seek to convince the
public that their revenue is not
sufficient and that they should be en
titled to an increase in rates. As one
of the railroad companies, we presume
acting for all of them, are at presnt
trying to secure the cancellation of the
' two cent fare law in this state and a
return to the three cent rate, we pre
i sume they are taking this method to try
and convince the public that they are
right, in their contentions. The mat
ter in the articles does not agree with
our views and we are not responsible
in any manner for any of the matter
contained therein. It is accepted the
same as any other paid advertising.
The jury in the railroad damage
case of Mielke vs. the Great Northern
railroad company, after being out
forty hours was dismissed by the court
as they were unable to agree upon a
verdict. On the question of whether
or not the company was liable the jury
disagreed. We understood that the
jury stood eleven to one for the plain
tiff in the action.
County Attorney Hodgkin and John
F. Powers, who have been in partner
ship in the practice of law in this city
for the past two years, have dissolved1
partnership and Mr. Powers left the
forepart of the week for Ponca, Neb.,
where he will spend a few weeks visiting
rlatives and will then look for another
location to engage in the practice of
his profession. Mr. Powers made
many friends while a resident of this
city who will wish him success where
ever he may hang up his shingle.
District court adjourned last Satur
day until January 11, 1915, when all
the equity cases will come on for trial
in accordance with their order on the
trial docket. The jury was dismissed
until February 1st when they will re
turn and a couple of damage cases will
be tried. One of them is the damage
case of Ruth McHenry Morrison vs.
the Illinois Central Railroad company.
Plaintiff is suing the railroad company
for $15,100.00 for injuries alleged to
have been received while getting off a
car at Dennison, Iowa, on July 19,
1914, on account of a defective car
step. The other damage case that will
be tried is that of Lora Kirkland vs.
the Storz Brewing Company and a
couple of other Omaha breweries and
1 about sixteen saloonkeepers. She asks
! for $20,000.00 for the alleged debauch
I ing of her husband by the defendants.
Guarranteed $12.50 and
$13.50 Values
S $10.75
Guarranteed $15.00, 16.50
and $18.00 Values
S $13.75
Guarranteed $20.00,22.50
and $25.00 Values
S $18.75
Yours for a Happy Christmas and
a Prosperous New Year.
I O’Neill Clothing Co.
| W. W. Stockton, Manager. |
I Get this hunch—Come in and see us. |
This promises to be one of the hardest
fought legal battles ever waged in this
county as the defendants will have a
small army of the best legal talent ob
tainable to represent them in the trial.
M. F. Harrington appears for the
plaintiff.
James Mullen has brought suit
against the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad company for $1,200 for dam
ages alleged to have been sustained
by him in a shipment of cattle from
Omaha to this city on April 26, 1912.
He alleges that on the above date he
loaded 132 head of cattle in cars in
South Omaha for shipment to O’Neill.
That it was the duty of the railroad
company to transport the cattle from
that city to their destination in eleven
hours, but that the company occupied
twenty-five hours in doing so. For
this delay in transportation he alleges
he was damaged in the sum of $420.
On account of the rough and careless
manner in which the cars containing
the cattle were handled on the trip
several of them were injured; one be
ing dead when O’Neill was reached;
one died the next morning, one the
day after, another in two days and six
more within ten days. That he sus
tained damage in the death of these
cattle in the sum of $200 and interest.
That the remaining 122 head, by
reason of injuries sustained in the
shipment, were damaged to the ex
tent of $360. So he asks judgment for
$1,200 and costs of suit.
District Court Dates.
Following are the dates for the sit
tings of the district court in the
Fifteenth Judicial District for the year
1915:
Boyd.March 1, September 13
Brown.April 26, October 25
Holt.June 7, November 29
Keya Paha.May 17, October 4
Rock.April 5, November 8
Jury in Holt, Rock, Brown and Keya
Paha counties on the first day of each
term. Jury in Boyd county second day
of each term.
Everybody Celebrates It.
There is a charm in Christmas. We
have all read of the old miser Scrooge,
who was carried by three spirits on
Christmas Day, as on the wings of the
wind, and in the strange transit the
influence of the day was seen and
heard. Not only on the streets of
pomp and pride, but in the narrow
huts on bleak moors, up and down in
the mean, cold tenament houses, there
was a glow and a heart of song.
Among men digging and delving in the
pit, to force from old mother earth her
riches, men transformed into the ac
tive pick, axe and spade, was a new
breathing, a day as the days of other
men.
On shipboard, as the bark sped on
the black and heaving sea, a Christ
mas tune was hummed, and every man
on board, good or bad, had a kinder
word and a kinder look for his fellows.
And even in a solitary lighthouse,
“built upon a dismal reef of sunken
rocks, some leagues or so from shore,
on which the waters chafed and
dashed the wild year through,” the sol
itary watchers, joining their horny
hands over the rough table, wished
each other a merry Christmas.
Death of Mrs. Kilmurry.
Mrs. Richard Kilmurry died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. R. R.
Morrison, in this city last Tuesday
morning, after an illness of eight
weeks of parylsis.
Deceased was born in West Mead,
Ireland, in 1848, and came with her
parents to this country when a little
girl. In 1866 she was united in mar
riage to Richard Kilmurry in Brook
lyn, New York, and after her marriage
moved to Waterbury, Conn., where
they remained until the spring of 1878
when they came to this county and
located upon a quarter of Uncle Sam’s
domain one mile north of this city.
The family resided upon the farm until
after the death of Mr. Kilmurry twelve
years ago, when they moved to town
and have since been residents of this
city.
Deceased leaves to mourn her death
four sons and two daughters. They
are: Edward Kilmurry, of Atkinson;
Richard, of Spokane, Washington;
John, of Boise, Idaho; Mrs. R. R. Mor
rison; Patrick and Miss Anna Kil
murry, of this city.
With the death of Mrs. Kilmurry
another of the Holt county pioneers
has passed to her eternal reward.
When she came with her husband to
this county in the spring of 1878,
thirty-seven years ago next spring,
this section was nothing but a barren
wilderness. When they built theii
home upon the hill north of town there
was but a half dozen houses in sight
and deer and elk roamed the countrj
that is now dotted with comfortable
[homes, filled with happy and contented
people. She and her husband endurec
all the hardships and privations of th«
pioneer life and those hardships were
such that they can only be appreciated
by those who lived in this countj
nearly forty years ago.
She was a kind and affectionate wif«
and mother and a splendid neighboi
with a pleasant smile and a happj
greeting for all.
The funeral was held from the
Catholic church in this city this morn
ing at 9 o’clock and the body laid to
rest in the Catholic cemetary. The
Frontier joins the many friends of the
family in tendering sympathy to them
in their hour of bereavement.
Profit in Alfalfa at $37 a Ton.
A dairyman with a farm within 40
miles of Boston bought a carload of
alfalfa hay the other day in Nebraska
and told a University Farm professor
that he expects to feed it with profit
in Massachusetts at a total cost of $37
a ton. Allowing for perhaps a higher
price for milk in Boston than in the
average Nebraska town, the professor
thinks that the local dairymen ought
surely to make a liberal profit on it at
$12 a ton.
Native Seed Proved Best.
In Thurston county on the farm of
William Wingett living near Walthill,
it was proved that Mr. Wingett’s
home-grown seed corn yielded best.
Mr. Wingett’s seed yielded from 71 to
79 bushels, while the shipped-in seed
yielded from 43 to 76 bushels. An
other year the Thurston County Farm
Management Association, of which he
is a member, expects to test various
varieties of grains which are ac
climated to Thurston county.
A Little Girl’s Appeal.
O’Neill, Neb., December 16, 1914.
I am a little girl ten years old. I
live eight miles north and four miles
east of O’Neill. My name has been
entered in the pony contest. My papa
says if the merchants of O’Neill have
any thing to give away they ought to
give it to some one who really needs it.
I told papa if I won the pony I would
give to the poorest children of Holt
county all the money I have and all I
can get, which will be about twenty
five dollars. Papa says that is more
than a Shetland pony is worth. He
don’t know how my heart aches for
that pony. I am willing to sell my
pig and my interest in a cow us
children own, so I can get twenty-five
dollars to give the poor children of
Holt county if I win the pony. I don’t
like to part with my cow and pig, but
please give me your votes so I can
win the pony.
Yours truly,
PAULINE ROBERTS
O’Neill, Nebr.
How to Burn Cholera Carcasses.
The burial of hogs dying of cholera
is not advised by the department of
animal pathology at the Nebraska Ex
periment Station. The germs of the
disease will last a long time in the
earth under favorable conditions and
are liable to cause a new outbreak.
The safest way to dispose of a carcass
is to burn it. , |
Burning may be easily accomplished
in the following manner: Dig two
trenches a few inches deep intersect
ing each other at right angles. At the
intersection of these, cornstalks, cobs,
or other fuel may be laid. Over the
trenches may next be laid strips of
metal to support the carcass. Be
fore placing over the supporters, the
abdominal and thoracic cavities should
be opened and be liberally sprinkled
with kerosene. Then the hog should
be placed belly downward over the
fuel. As soon as the material in the
trenches is ignited, it will rapidly
spread to the kerosene and fat, and
the body will be quickly consumed.
If a large iron wheel is handy, it
may be substituted with good results
for the trench and iron bars.
Grain Sorghums Promising.
Some of the most talked of new
crops which promises to have great
value in western Nebraska are the
sorghums. Some of the most promis
ing varities of these are Kafir, feterita,
dworf milo, and kaoling. These crops
are well known for their ability to
withstand dry conditions. In (fact
they have been adopted as standard
grain crops in large portions of west
ern Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas,
where they yield better thun corn. One
reason they have not been introduced
more extensively in western Nebraska
is because of a lack of sufficiently j
early maturing varieties. The difficulty
has now been pratically overcome by
the selection and introduction of new
and earlier types by the United States is
Department of Agriculture and
different experiment stations. The
feeding value of the grain produced is jj
practically equal to that of corn. j
Farmers are advised by the Ne
braska Experiment Station to grow a j
small plant but not to be too ready to
grow large acreages of the new grain
sorghums until experience has been
had regarding their methods of culture
and local adaptability. The depart- j
ment of experimental agronomy at the
station would be glad to hear of the
results secured. \
Sick Headache.
Sick headache is nearly always
caused by disorders of the stomach.
Correct them and the periodic attacks
of sick headache will disappear. Mrs.
John Bishop, of Roseville, Okie,
writes: “About a year ago I was
troubled with indigestion and had sick
headache that lasted for two or three
days at a time. I doctored and tried a
number of remedies but nothing
helped me until during one of those
sick spells a friend advised me to take
Chamberlain’s Tablets. This medicine ,. *
relieved me in a short time.” For sale
by all dealers. 26*%
“Square up” before New Years.
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CUSTOMERS I
WE HAUE BUILT UP OUR BUSINESS BY UU- I
INC UP TO THESE PRINCIPLES: FIRST. WE BUY I
NONE BUT GOODS WE KNOW TO BE OF A HIGH |
QUALITY: SECOND. WE KEEP RIGHT UP TO THE
LAST TICK OF THE CLOCK IN “STYLE:” THIRD.
WE ASK ONLY A REASONABLE PRICE: AND
FOURTH. WE ALLOW NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
TO BE TOLD ABOUT OUR MERCHANDISE.
DON’T YOU WANT TO BUY YOUR GOODS
FROM THIS SORT OF A STORE?
Harty Bros. & Mullen
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