The Frontier.
VOLUME XXXV. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1915. NUMBER 41.
LOCAL MATTERS.
Albert Eppenbaugh was in the city
Monday.
William Daily came up from Lin
coln Monday.
The snow started to melt in nice
shape Monday.
Mrs. O. O. Snyder went to Sioux
City Thursday last.
Mose Campbell was down from At
kinson last Thursday.
O. F. Biglin was putting on a new
roof on one of his building Tuesday.
C. E Berger of Opportunity was in
the city Tuesday with a load of hogs.
M. F. Harrington arrived in the
city on the 5 o’clock train Sunday
evening.
Gene Grenier’s family, out near
Mineola, are reported all ill with the
, measles.
Mrs. Nels Tuller of Atkinson was
down to this city Monday, returning
home Tuesday.
George Bowen has purchased the
Baggage Transfer line in this city and
took charge of same Monday.
Albert Palmer was up from Omaha
visiting friends in the city for a few
days the forepart of the week.
Mrs. Walter Grimes of Chambers
was buried from the M. E. church of
that town on Sunday, March 21.
Mrs. Geo. Bowen returned yester
day from a week’s visit with her
sister, Mrs. Herman Guse of Emmet.
Miss Dorothy Miller of Atkinson
visited with her aunt, Miss Minnie
Miller, in town Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Longstaff has received the
sad intelligence of the death of the
husband of her niece living at Broken
Bow, Nebraska.
Charles Rebar of Bassett and Mrs.
Margaret Purnell of Atkinson took
out a marriage license Tuesday at the
county judge’s office.
The Shetland pony outfit given away
by local merchants, went to little
Roberta Brittel, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Brittel.
Councilman Joe Meredith was im
parting the infarmation, as he came
down the street Tuesday morning, that
there was a robin up in his yard sing
ing.
Sam A. Arnold, our energetic
lanndryman, returned Sunday even
ing from Omaha where he was at
tending the state laundrymens’
convention.
Senator John A. Robertson came up
from Lincoln last Friday, returning to
the state capitol Monday on the morn
ing passenger which proved to be
three hours late on account of snow.
Jake Beavers returned Monday
evening from his western trip to the
coast country. He says he took in
both expositions, but was one day
late to see the air man killed in San
Francisco bay.
Assessor Tom Coyne is lining up the
work in his office for the 1915 assess
ment. The precinct assessors will
meet in O’Neill Monday for their sup
plies and instructions and the work of
assessment of the county will start
the 1st of April.
Monday evning the Rebeca Lodge
gave a farewell party to Mrs. E. Roy
Townsend and family. She was pre
sented with a pin in remembrance of
the occasion. They left last night on
the 10 o’clock train for Upton,
Wyoming, where they will make their
future home on a ranch.
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 at the
German Lutheran church in this city
was solemized the marriage of Ed
ward Ullerich of Crawford county,
Iowa, and Miss Marie Knop of
O’Neill. The groom is a brother of
the pastor of the O’Neill church, Rev.
William Ullerich, who officiated at the
wedding.
Revival meetings have been held at
the M. E. church all this week and will
continue during next week. Rev. Bruce
will be assisted by Rev. 0. W. Rum
mell. Rev. B. H. Murton of Page, has
been assisting the forepart of this
week. Services commence at 7:30 in
the evening and a cordial invitation is
extended to all to attend these meet
ings.
Edward Meyers and Miss Lena
Guse both of Emmet, were married in
the Lutheren church in O’Neill on
March 17, at 1:30 in the afternoon by
Rev. Ulek. The wedding supper was
prepared at the home qf John Guse.
Quite a few nice presents were re
ceived by the bride. These young
folks will make their home with John
Guse for the present.
The rotary snow shovel arrived over
the Burlington about noon Monday
and a freight train left for Sioux City
shortly afterward. One locomotive
with a push plow and a gang of men
went out from this end of the line
Sunday but didn’t get as far as Page.
They received word that the rotary
was at Fremont so they ceased Work
and returned to this city. .
Jethero Warner, better known as
“Jack,” through his attorney J. A
Donohoe, filed a suit in district court
Tuesday against A. E. Virgin for
$1000 damages for injuries alleged to
have been sustained while working for
Virgin something like a year ago in
a ditch. The petition was prepared
and sworn to last August but has just
been filed in the office of the clerk of
the court.
In the 1915 Blue Book Dr. Geo.
E. Condra, secretary of the Nebraska
conservation and public welfare com
mission, says: “Nebraska’s leading
natural resource is her soil of which
there are more than fifty kinds. They
constitute a heritage of untold great
ness. These soils are in three
provinces known as the Loess, Sand
Hill and High Plains regions. The
loess soil area is estimated at more
than 37,000 square miles, the richest,
most productive soil in the world.”
Lynch Journal: A letter from Jack
Quig at O’Neill carries the informa
tion that he is trying to organize an
all Holt County baseball league to
consist of O’Neill, Atkinson, Dorsey
Emmet, Ewing, Stuart and no salaried
players allowed. An all home team
wanted. He is anxious to hear from
Dorsey people on the subject. It
would sure make a great league and
they would be able to put up some*
classy playing for Holt county sure
has some great players and Dorsey is
not the slowest bunch in the lot either
The provisions of the enlarged
homestead act of February 9, 1909,
commonly known as the 320-acre act,
have been extended to apply to public
lands in South Dakota. This law pro
vides that the secretary of the interior
may designate for 320 acre home
steads land that, in his opinion, is not
susceptible of irrigation from anj
know source of water supply. Those
who wish to avail themselves of the
benefits of this new law should re
member, however, that it is not yet
in operation. All new land laws, be
fore going into effect, are interpreted
by the department of the interior and
the secretary thereafter promulgates
rules and regulations governing the
operation of the new law.
Candidates to file for city offices
since our last issue are J. F. Gallagher
for reelection as treasurer, F. M.
Ward for police judge, Clyde King
for councilman in the First ward, M.
H. McCarthy in the Second ward and
J. H. Meredith, Third ward. Satur
day is the last day for filing of
petitions for candidates.
Justin Spindler of Norfolk was in
town Thursday attending to business
matters in county court.
Is best for Children and Grownups, too
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»
Our Own M ake Candy
At the Bakery Saturday
Although Flour is $8.00 per barrel we are still
selling bread at 5c and 10c. You can’t afford to do
the baking drugery at home,
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There remains only a short time for
you to have the opportunity of obtaining
a number on either of these articles.
Come in and take advantage of the
means offered. Every $5 purchase or
$5 paid on account entities you to a
number.
J. P. CALLACHER
MOTORIST AT R. R. CROSSING
An Address to the Chicago Automo
bile Club, March 3, 1915, by E. M.
Switzer, Supt. of Safety of
the Burlington Railroad.
Motor-car owners are doing much
to eliminate accidents. They are
using time and influence to promote
greater care on the part of drivers of
cars. They have circulated literature
and have spoken words of caution;
and that these efforts are achieving
results, there can be no question, for,
while the number of motor cars going
into use is increasing by leaps and
bounds, it does not appear that the
number of accidents is growing in
anything like equal ratio. Clearly, the
campaign for Safety is not in vain.
We hear a great deal about Safety.
We are urged to learn and observe
the rules of the road, to drive care
fully in crowded traffic, to go slow
when passing other vehicles on a nar
row pike, to be considerate of persons
on foot and passengers getting on and
off of street cars, to light our lamps at
dusk, to sound the horn, etc., etc. But
there is one warning, more important
than any of these, which has notlseerv
called sharply enough to our attention:
the warning placed by railroads at the
intersections of their tracks with pub
lic highways at grade: “Danger!
Look and Listen for the Cars.” To
look and listen at the railroad crossing
is so evidently what ought to be done
that further comment would be un
necessary, were it not that failure to
take this obvious precaution results
each year in death and injury to
hundreds of drivers on the highways.
Of all safety admonitions which should
ever be in the minds of drivers, this
one, the most neglected by automobile
associations and safety associations,
is the most important—Look and
Listen at the Railroad Crossing!
What we read in the papers about
accidents on grade crossings we
sometimes notice the idea is conveyed
that the cause of the accident was the
danger of the crossing. All railroad
crossings at grade are dangerous—to
the man who takes chances. But it
would have been impossible to build
our railroads and develop our country
without crossings at grade, and al
though the costly work of grade
separation is now being carried on
year by year at increasing numbers of
crossings, there still remain thousands
of places where it is necessary to run
trains at high speed across public
highways at grade. Danger to the
driver on the highway may be minim
ized, and indeed entirely eliminated by
the use of ordinary caution and com
mon sense and a realization that here
is the place where foolhardy acts
must not be committed.
IN either the railroad company nor
the highway nor the highway traveler
owns the crossing. In neither is
ownership vested, but each has an
equal right to it. The driver who ob
serves the swift approach* of a train
knows that the engineer, in the very
nature of things, will pass over the
crossing without stopping, while the
engineer takes it for granted that the
driver of the vehicle will look for a
safe opportunity to cross. It needs
no argument to convince any fair
minded person that it is the business
of the driver to watch out for the
engine.
The carelessness of drivers is the
cause of almost every automobile acci
dent on railroad crossings. Selecting
any number of these accidents at
random we find that twenty-five per
cent can be explained only by saying
that the drivers do not look or listen,
evidently paying no attention to where
they are going. About fifteen per
cent are„due to drivers showing such
faulty judgment that they fail to stop
before the road is clear and actually
run into the side of the train. Twenty
per cent happen because of throttling
down on “high” to such slow speed
that at the crucial moment the motor
stalls on the railroad track; these
accidents would not happen if gears
were shifted to “intermediate” before
venturing across. Ten to twelve per
cent are due to deliberately disregard
ing the warning of crossing flagmen.
In fifteen per cent of the cases the
drivers see the train coming and try
to beat it to the crossing, with dis
astrous results. Five per cent are the
result of trying to cross after the
crossing gates have been lowered, in
credible though such recklessness may
be. The remaining five to ten per
A Word of Appreciation.
To Editor of The Frontier: Perhaps
a word of praise ought to be given to
H. H. Shaw for his braving the
snow storm Saturday afternoon to
Chambers. It reminded one at times
of the big snow storms of past years.
In about twenty years driving this
was the worst of all my driving. We
at times could not see our team.
Many times we could not see the
horses heads. We plunged through
drifts as high as the heads of the
team. But with bravery and courage
did both the driver and his steady
team of black beauties tunnel through
only to see snow filling the bridle to
the top of the horses heads, reminding
us of the white caps on a billowy sea.
When you have to breast the snow
storms around O’Neill you will make
no mistake in securing this driver and
the black beauties. Safety first.
REV. AHRENDTS.
Loretta, Neb.
cent happen from various other causes
It will prove instructive to consider a
few examples.
Failing to Look and Listen: A
young man and his wife, with their
two children, started for town in their
motor. After going a mile, they came
to a railroad crossing. A witness
states that they were chatting to
gether, the man frequently looking
back to speak to his wife. They
failed to look and listen when they
reached the crossing, and were struck
by a swift moving passenger train.
All four were instantly killed. You
have heard of other cases just as bad
—quit as sad as this. But reflecting
upon this accident, what does it mean
but the wiping out of an entire fam
ily? This man was a good business
man—so far, fairly successful. And
mind you, his success was due to
shrewd handling of business chances.
Is it not sad to reflect that he threw
away his most valuable possessions—
his life and the lives of those most
dear to him?
Ran Into Train: A switch engine
was shoving a box car over crossing,
with switchman riding end of car. A
motor car containing two men drove
rapidly toward the crossing, regard
less of the shouts of the switchman,
and struck the end of the box car. The
auto, badly demolished, was thrown
against the freight house platform.
Both men were seriously hurt and had
to be removed to the hospital. The
men’s actions, coupled with the fact
that they had a quantity of liquor in
their possession, indicated they had
been drinking.
Stalled on Crossing: One of the
terrible accidents of this class was re
sponsible for the death of a retired
farmer and his wife. This couple had
reached the age when they felt that
prosperous circumstances justified
them in giving up, hard work and set
tling down to enjoyment of the fruits
of their labor. A home in town was
purchased, and also a good motor car.
While this ex-farmer was still an in
experienced driver, they went for a
ride one day, following a highway that
ran parallel with the railroad. A
freight train approached, running in
the same direction they were moving.
At a certain point, the highway makes
a turn and crosses the tracks at right
angles. At the turn, the motor was
throtled down and almost stopped.
The engineer thought the driver was
stopping to let the train go by. But
no, suddenly the machine lurched for
ward. The front wheels went over the
rails—and stopped. Evidently in try
ing to reverse, the driver “killed” the
engine, as so frequently happens—
probably he became confused and for
got to shift his gears. The train was
now only one hundred feet away and
rushing upon them. A moment more
and both man and wife were dead.
These people lived a life of self-denial
in preparation for a future which now
cannot be realized.
Disregarded Flagman’s Warning:
A doctor, his wife, and two other per
sons, their guests, approached a cross
ing located in one of our smaller cities
A passenger train was coming, and
they could hear the shrill sound of the
whistle at another crossing. The
crossing watchman, stationed near the
sidewalk, shouted a warning, and also
waved his flag, thus calling attention
in two different ways to the danger.
But all to no purpose, for the driver
(Continued on page four.)
August Schrier, living twenty miles
; south, was up the fore part of the
week, and took out to feed the bal
ance of the season a bunch of “hay
hook” brand steers. They worked
them across through the snow and
slush Wednesday.
The roads being in bad condition
products from the country ire not
moving to market rapidly Some
hogs, hay and wheat are brought in
right along but in no great quantities.
Hay Thursday was worth $10 per
ton, hogs $5.90 per hundred and wheat
$1.42 per bushel.
Arthur Barnes, living near Emmet,
was in town Thursday and called on
business. Mr. Barnes had a sale for
the settlement of an estate on March
11 which he says was well attended
and things sold readily at good prices.
Mr. Barnes and his brother will re
main on the farm.
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J. L. Quig went to Omaha Wednes
day.
F. J. Dishner went to Norfolk Wed
nesday.
C. P. Rhodes had business at At
kinson Wednesday.
Neil McEvony came down from
Newport Wednesday.
County Attorney W. K. Hodgkin
had busines at Atkinson Wednesday.
Dr. J. P. Gilligan was a Northwest
ern passenger for Omaha Wednesday.
Mayor T. V. Golden arrived in the
city Sunday from Lincoln, where he
has been spending the winter with his
family.
Miss Mayme Meyers, the efficient
bookkeeper at J. P. Gallagher’s store,
departed Wednesday for a short visit
at Clinton, Iowa, her former home.
Auto Races.
Automobile races will be special
features of the state fair September
10 and 11. There will be no horse
races on Friday, September 10, as the
track will be given over to the automo
bile speeders.
Notice to the Public.
On and after the First of April all
meat well be cash.
39-3pd. City Meat Market.
City Finances.
The following report of the city
finances, pepared by City Clerk Ham
mond, is . for the ten months from
May 1, 1914, to March 1, 1915:
Balance on hand May 1....$ 1,640.07
RESEIPTS
County treasurer.$ 2,609.00
Saloon licenses. 7,500.00
Water rents. 2,410.40
City scales. 201.05
Pool hall licenses. 180.00
Police judge. 28.00
Miscellaneous. 482.87
Total.$15,051.39
DISBURSEMENTS
Street Crossing.$ 230.77
Culverts. 32.60
Water meters. 213.50
New pump and motors. 2,201.80
School district No. 7. 2,500.00
Street grading. 955.00
Water main extension.2,607.25
Salaries.!. 1,374.10
Water pumping and street
lights. 2,604.83
Street work. 248.10
Miscellaneous. 675.85
Total.$13,643.80
Balance on hand.$ 1,407.59
Rev. Ahrendts came up from Lor
etta, Neb., last Friday, and Saturday
went out to Chambers through the
March blizzard to preach the funeral
sermon there Sunday over the remains
of Mrs. W. S. Grimes. Rev. Mr.
Ahrendts formerly resided at Cham
bers.
A runaway team broke down the
“look out for the cars” sign at the
Northwestern railroad crossing when
they struck the heavy cedar post
square with the wagon tongue. The
post snapped off squarely at the
ground and the team and wagon
passed on.
Dr. Carr of Atkinson was in the
city Thursday.
verybodys
Sale_
At P. D. Mullen’s Barn, 1 block west of the First |
National Bank, in O’Niell, Neb., commencing at 2 |
o’clock sharp, on I
Saturday, April 3, 1915
14 HEAD OF HORSES AND MULES
1 team of gray mares, 6 years old, weight 2900, well |
i matched
1 team black mares, 4 years old, weight 2800, well
broke
1 gray mare, 10 years old, weight 1100
1 black mare, 6 years old, weight 1350
1 span of mules, 4 years old, weight 2100, well broke
1 span of yearling mare mules, coming 2 years old
1 gray gelding, 12 years old, weight 1200
3 bay horses, weight 1100, from 4 to 8 years old
j 70 HEAD OF CATTLE
21 head of cows
12 head of 3-year-old steers ; j
10 head of 2-year-old steers i
1 2-year-old heifer
18 head of yearling steers
3 head of fall calves
1 2-year-old Shorthorn bull
1 2-year-old Hereford bull I
1 3-year-old Galloway bull
1 2-year-old Shorthorn bull
1 2-year-old Polled Angus bull
MACHINERY
1 spring wagon
1 riding cultivator, nearly new 1
3 sets double work harness, 2 light and 1 heavy
2 set heavy harness
| 1 wide tire wagon
2 disc
1 18-inch walking plow
TERMS—Made known on day of sale.
JAS. MOORE. Mgr.
|| Jas. Moore Auct. J. F. Gallagher, Clerk
If you have anything to sell and have not been able to ■
| list it with me bring same in sale day and it will be sold. 1