. The Frontier.
VOLUME XXXV. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1915. NUMBER 31.
The Big Discount Sale
is still going on and I am going to run it for all the balance of the month of January. Before the stock is all broken up
come in and avail yourself of the real bargains I am offering. The prices made to you last week are prices in ef
fect in my store for the next two weeks. Do not overlook the prices at which I am selling Rugs, large and small sizes.
I This Sale is for I D C A I I A rilFD
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LOCAL MATTERS.
L. C. Chapman went to Atkinson las
evening.
Miss Nellie O’Donnell went t
Omaha today.
O’Neill has some very good cros
walks—under the mud.
k Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Miles wer
* Omaha visitors the first of the week.
J. P. Gallagher went to Valentin
Saturday evening, returning Tuesdaj
Miss Zella Ziemer returned Monda
from a four week’s visit at the horn
of her sister near Allen.
P. K. Franzman came up Monda
from Francis, departing Tuesday fo
a trip to Missouri and Kansas.
Louis Hartland came down las
week from Wheatland, Wyo., and i
^ visiting relatives on the Redbird.
L* Rev. Thomas of Foster, Nebraska
Fv was the guest of Rev. and Mrs .Gee
Longstaff for a few days the forepar
of the week.
William Nollkamper, an old time:
on the Eagle creek in this county, bu
now residing in Omaha, was in thi
city last Week.
Ben Doyle, a brother of D. A., ii
visiting in the city. Mr. Doyle spen
several years in Canada, but recentlj
has been in Texas.
Mrs. Ziemer departed this mornini
for York, accompanied byherdaughtei
Zella, who will take a course in teleg
raphy in a college there.
Mr. and Mrs. Barney Mullen oi
Deadwood stopped in town over Tues
day on their way to Florida to spenc
the balance of the winter.
James Gluson of Oakland, Neb., ar
rived in the city yesterday, coming te
look at land in the vicinity of Page
which he contemplates purchasing.
H. P. Dowling was out from Harlan
Iowa, the first of the week attending
the annual meeting of the officers anc
directors of the O’Neill National bank
Miss Lenora Daily departed this
morning for Lincoln, where she wil
assume the duties of stenographer ir
connection with the legislative session
The high school basket ball tearr
went to Stuart Saturday evening anc
. matched the Stuart team in a game
r The local boys lost on a score of 27 tc
17.
G. M. Henry and C. E- Downey have
leased the McCafferty building or
Douglas street and will use the same
jointly as an office for their respective
business.
We are reliably informed that the
boss will come up from Lincoln to
morrow. If you have a grouch againsl
this institution better come in aboul
tthat time.
Dick Porter was up from the me
tropolis of the South Fork Friday last
Mr. Porter formerly resided some ter
miles east of Chambers but is now
living in that town.
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Elgin last Friday and that evening
played a game with the high schoo
team at the gymnasium.- Elgin wor
on a score of 33 to 20.
Ray Leinhart, accompanied by his
father, came in Saturday morning
from Chambers in time for Mr. Lin
hart, sr., to catch the east bound ter
o’clock Northwestern.
Mrs. A. L. Henry and daughtei
Myrtle of Omaha are visiting at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Henry o:
this city, having arrive on the five
o’clock train last night.
0. O. Snyder and G. R. Morrisoi
went to Omaha yesterday on a busi
ness visit to the metropolis and also te
participate in the convention of the
State Lumber Dealers association.
Frank E. Foreman of Emmet
was transacting business in this
city Saturday, and called at this
office while in town and subscribed foi
this family dispensator of curren'
events.
The First National bank held the an
nual stock holders meeting Tuesday
re-electing all the old officers. Busi
ness for the year showed a satisfactory
and prosperous condition to all con
cerned.
The new pipe organ for St. Patrick’:
church arrived yesterday over th<
^ Burlington and will be installed in th<
Z handsome edifice upon the arrival o:
the representative of the manufact
urers.
The Northwestern Monday made i
change in the passenger service, dis
continuing two trains. The east bourn
afternoon train has been taken off an<
also the first section of the night trail
going west.
At their annual meeting Tuesday
\ the officers and directors of the O’Neil
£ National bank were all retained a:
formerly. Cashier Weekes reportee
|H the most prosperous year in the his
tory of the bank.
Arthur Ryan departed Monday foi
San Antonio, Tex., to spend the re
t mainder of the winter in a warmer cli
mate, the rigors of Nebraska’s wintei
0 climate being too severe for his pres
ent delicate state of health.
s The following item was handed ir
after The Frontier was printed Iasi
e week: “A ten pound baby girl was
born to Mr. and Mrs. Joe McNichols
Monday morning—both mother anc
babe are doing nicely—and Joe wears
a glad smile.”
1 Fred Tesch and son, living ten miles
north of Emmet, were callers yester
day. Mr. Tesch has just leased his
f farm for a period of three years and
r says he has to look up another abiding
place by March 1, and doesn’t know
t just which way to jump.
3 Tom and Harry Westrope of Har
lan, Iowa, grandsons of the noted
, Short Horn breeder of that state, T.
. R. Westrope, were in the city recently
t for the purpose of looking over the
community with a view of locating a
. Short Horn breeding station in this
; vicintiy.
■ The McGinnis Creamery Company
erected their new 75-foot smoke stack
. Tuesday . The higher stack is put up
for the purpose of increasing the
- draught and the scattering of the
gasses over an increased area before
r they fall low enough to cause anyone
’ inconvenience.
Frank Mayne and Dr. Brazie of
Harlan, Iowa, were in the city the past
week. Mr. Mayne owns a ranch in the
southwest part of the county. His
visit here was to arrange for a pure
bred Hereford sale to take place some
time next month. Dr. Brazie was
looking up some hay land with the
' view of purchasing.
Albert Hall of Atkinson was in the
city yesterday. While in town he
made a tour of our institutions of
learning and pronounced them great,
besides expressing profuse apprecia
tion of the courtesies shown by those
in charge. In the evening Mr. Hall
attended an installation of officers at
the Odd Fellows lodge.
Bernard B. Thomas and Mrs. Addie
Friend, both of Dorsey, were united in
mariage by Judge Carlon last Satur
day. Other recent weddings were
Herbert J. Stevens and Ida Cunning
ham of Page, at which place they
were married, and Alvin Thompson
and Bertha Bacon of Atkinson who
were married by Rev. Longstaff of this
city.
Parnell Golden has his new maps of
Holt county, and favored The Frontier
with one. It is clear and distinct and
one can readily locate the various
postoffices, towns, etc., in any portion
of the county as well as any par^cualr
section of land they desire. The map
is well compiled and well printed and
should prove a great benefit to any
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Janies Weekes, a brother of S. J,
was in the city last week visiting anc
renewing some old acquaintances of t
quarter of a century ago. Mr. Weekei
is now a resident of Lincoln, being ir
the transfer business there. Twenty
five years have rolled away since h«
left O’Neill.
Holt county members of the legisla
ture fare pretty well on committees
Senator Robertson get on accounts and
expenditures, agriculture, enrolled and
engrossed bills, highways, bridges and
ferries, school lands and funds, and
Represenattive Cronin, with the mi
nority bunch, goes on insurance,
revenue and taxation, rules and reso
lutions.
one having occasion to refer thereto.
That the government tax on deeds is
going to raise large sums of money
may be seen by the fact that the tax
on two deeds filed one morning for
record with Clerk Kelly amounted to
$11. The tax is 50 cents on a valua
tion of $100 to $500, with 50 cents for
each additional $ 500 or fraction
thereof.
W. W. Guidinger, representing the
Belden-Evans Shirt company of Min
neapolis, was in the city today. He
takes the place of Mr. Evans, who died
of typhoid fever last November. The
shirt makers have many customers in
O’Neill who regret to learn of the
death of Mr. Evans. He had been
coming to this city for many years and
was held in high esteem here.
Freighters from the south, and hay
haulers from all directions, say the
roads are now the best they have been
this winter. Vast quantities of hay
are being brought to the O’Neill mar
ket fro-m the great hay belt stretching
from the Elkhorn i nto adjioning
counties on the south. Much hay,
many loads of grain and swine, also is
brought in every day from the north.
Local society is in preplexity over
the announcement of a dancing party
at the K. C. tomorrow evening under
the auspices of the mystic fraternity,
“the Midnight Sons.” The Frontier
has not been included in the last of
guests, neither can it throw advance
light upon the general query as to the
identity of this latest innovation.
About all they can do that are per
sonally concerned is to go and find out.
Alliance Times: Judge Westover,
who has lived in Rushville in the
sixteenth judicial district of Nebraska,
is planning to move his family to Al
liance in the near future. So pleased
was he with the accomodations afford
ed the judge in the new court house
that he decided to make Alliance his
home. Judge Westover has lived in
Rushville for a number of years and
has proved up on a homestead in that
vicinity, but the progressive spirit of
the metropolis has sounded the call
and he feels as though he must obey.
People throughout the county ac
cept the convenience of having the
mail brought to them every day or
tri-weekly with no thought of the dis
tance necessarily travelwi from the rail
road distributing point. The six mail
carriers, rural and star routes, going
out of O’Neill drive a distance, count
ing the miles each travels, of 316%
miles in furnisheing the daily or tri
weekly delivery of mails. The mail
carriers all use horses except the
Chambers carrier, who makes his 44
mile daily trip by auto. The longest
route is to Ancar and return, 70 miles,
which is made tri-weekly.
‘‘What I have written I have writ
ten” was the text of a sermon last
night at the Presbyterian church by
Dr. B. M. Long of Lincoln, state super
intendent of evangelistic work for that
denomination. The speaker held the
silent interest of the audience as with
vivid word painting the immortal
words of Pilate were used to illustrate
the personal influence from day to day
in the lives of all. A short after ser
vice was held for special instruction to
church officers and Sunday school
workers. Dr. Long is touring the
state and expects to visit one congre
gation a day for the next eight weeks.
The sinking of the steamship, Em
press of Ireland in the St. Lawrence
river when it collided with the Storst
adt last May and in which J. C. Vi
quist of this city lost his life, is the
basis of a law suit filed in the district
court of Holt county. Elsie Randel of
Crawford county, Io., as administratrix
of the Viquist estate, through Attorney
M. F. Harrington, brings suit against
the Canadian Pacific railroad company
'for damages in the sum of $40,000,
$225 paid by the deceased for passage
from Montreal, Can., to Sweden and
return, and $200 deposited by him with
the company to draw and be used as
needed by him upon the trip. The
railroad company was the owner of the
lost ship. The petition asks for judg
ment for $40,425 in behalf of the heirs
of the estate, who are Betty Viquist,
widow of the deceased, and five
children.
In district court yesterday Judge
Dickson heard the arguments in the
cases of H. M. Uttley and M. R. Hiatt
against the county board and assess
ors. J. A. Donohoe appeared in be
half of the members of the board,
while Mr. Uttley conducted his own
case lake a veteran at the bar and at
times had his opponent guessing on
what was coming next. The first case,
argued in the forenoon, was originally
started before Justice McCafferty and
is for the collection of a penalty of
$50 from members of the board for
failure to verify their claims for sal
aries according to Section 2461 of the
Nebraska statute. Mr. Donohoe put
up an able defense on the grounds of
custom, which is said to be general
throughout the state, of supervisors
using the general claim blanks in fil
ing their bills. This is admitted to
not be in accordance with the statute.
The statute also Axes a penalty of
$50 if this section is not complied with
The second suit, argued yesterday
afternoon, is for the recovery of
$3,000 paid the assessors of the county
in 1914, bills for which do not comply
with the statutory form and also in
clude milage for which no provision is
made-in the statute. A motion to dis
miss was entered in the latter case by
the county attorney on the allegation
that the plaintiff had no authority for
bringing the action. Some time was
consumed in arguing this proposition.
Mr. Uttley stated in both cases that
they were brought in behalf of the
county and what ever sum might be
recovered would revert to the county.
Judge Dickson made it clear that the
court should interest itself in anything
that might pertain to unlawful use of
the public funds, and has taken both
cases under advisement.
Board Organizes.
The new board of supervisors con
vened Tuesday . M. P. Sullivan was
placed in command by being unani
mously elected to the chair. He named
the following committees:
Court-house, jail and legal expenses
—Tomlinson, Hubbard and Hubbell.
Printing and supplies—Seivers,
Hayes and Bausch.
Settlement—Hubbell and the board.
Finance and bonds—Hayes, Seivers
and Tomlinson.
Taxes and tax titles—Bausch, Hub
bell and Hubbard.
Claims—Hubbell and the board.
O’Neill Future Meeting Place.
Ewing Advocate: The Antelope and
Holt county division of rural carriers
held their semi-annual meeting at Ew
ing last Friday, transacting their
regular business and electing officers
for the ensuing year. J. A. Butler
wes elected president; Bert Brodie of
Orchard, vice president; Nate Sodders
sf Neligh, secretary and treasurer.
By vote it was decided to hold all
future New Year meetings at O’Neill,
train connections being better to that
town.
FOR SALE—8 mares from 4 to 6
years old weighoing from 1,200 to
1,500; 2 four-year-old mules and 4
;hree-year-old mules, good size; also 1
Mammoth jack coming 8 years old.
inquire of George Bradt, O’Neill, Neb.,
for prices and terms. 30-3
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Sweeping Sale Still Raging
\ The goods are going at the cut prices, better come now and
I get your share,9 you’ll never have a better chance. Ij
Ladies’ misses and children’s Coats cut to half price, men’s Suits
reduced about one-third,foot wear greatly reduced in price, blank
ets from 95c to $1,95 pair, outings at 6c yd., underwear at
I about one-third off, and other things in proportion.
“Our Own Make” Flour, one sack at.98c
For a period of one week, commencing Saturday, January 16, I will sell
this excellent brand of flour at 98c a sack to any person who trades $10
worth during the week. If at the end of the week your purchases amount
to $10 you get a sack of flour for 98c.
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O’NEILL MENTION.
Ewing Advocate: Acting Post
master Frank Schmidt of O’Neill, at
tended the rural carriers’ meeting here
last Friday.
Humphrey Democrat: MissLaurette
Higgins returned to O’Neill Monday to
resume her school work at the
Academy.
Stuart Advocate: The Misses Mary
and Kathelyn Stannard of O’Neill,
were in Stuart the past week, the
guests of Mrs. T. S. Mains.
Chambers Bugle: Mrs. Dick Porter
was very ill Saturday and Dr. Gilligan
was called down from O’Neill to
perform an operation. At present she
is somewhat better.
Atkinson Graphic: Margaret and
Anna Joyce of Des Moines, Iowa, and
Miss Mary Joyce of O’Neill spent New
Years day with their aunt Mrs. W. T.
Hayes and family.
Inman Leader: 1 Miss Bertha Kill
inger was taken to O’Neill Tuesday
where she was operated on by Dr.
Wilson for adenoids and removal of
tonsils. She was accompanied by her
mother.
Creighton Liberal: Grand Master
Harnish of O'Neill and Grand Secretary
Gage of the I. O. 0. F. lodge at Fre
mont were in Creighton the first of the
week. They left Monday afternoon
for Niobrara where they held installa
tion of officers.
STAR MAN WINNER
Leland Wertz Makes Perfect Record
In Cashier Contest.
Kansas City, Missouri.—Editor
Frontier, O’Neill, Neb.—-Dear Sir:
During the past chautauqua season
the Redpath Horner Chautauqua con
ducted a cashiers contest which was
won by Mr. Leland Wertz of Star, and
I thought that perhaps the readers of
your paper might be interested in
knowing it.
In all there were twenty-three con
testants, all college men, some with
degrees, and early in the race it be
came apparent that the winner would
have to have a record with very few
mistakes. It is a great credit to Mr.
Wertz that he finished the contest
with a perfect record, thereby winning
first honors. The purpose of the con
test was to get definite information as
to who was the best cashier on the
system and to grade the others as to
their efficiency, but Mr. Wertz is not
only a good cashier, but one of the
best crew men employed by our com
pany, and he and his friends may well
feel proud of his splendid record.
Sincerely,
Redpath-Horner Chautauquas.
By H. G. Hotchkiss, Auditor.
County School Census.
Holt county has 5,257 children
between the ages of 6 and 20 years
and 3,760 or 71.5 per cent of them at
tend school, according to a recent cen
sus bulletin. The data contained in
the report relates to the year 1910 and
has only recently been made public.
The distribution, age groups, and the
number attending school is as follows:
Age. Total No. No. At. Sch.
6 to 9.1,443 1,076
10 to 14.1,785 1,660
15 to 17.1,056 728
18 to 20. 973 296
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
Sunday next, Jan. 17, second Sunday
after Epiphany, there will be vesper
service and sermon at 7:30 p. m. In
the future there will be service every
Sunday evening at 7:30 p. m. and the
public are invited to attend the ser
vice of St. Paul’s church. The Rt.
Rev. Geo. A. Beecher, D. D., bishop of
western Nebraska, will hold his an
nual visitation in O’Neill on Sunday,
January 31, and will also administer
the sacrament of confirmation.
Claue R. Parkerson.
Temperance Sunday.
To the Sunday schools of Holt
county: The first temperance Sunday
of the new year will be January 31.
Get busy and make this Sunday coant
for temperance. Appoint a temperance
superintendent. Give him charge of
the program. Let this year be an
educational one against the liquor
traffic.
Mrs. Jennie Beck, County Supt.