THE SUPERVISORS
(Continued from last week.)
On separate motions the following
claims were allowed against the
County General Fund, and County
Clerk is instructed to issue warrants
in payment thereof.:
Michael Hull.$ 6.00
A. M. Wyant. 4.00
Mrs. F. C. Gate. 6.50
Thos. Griffin. 6.35
I Efa S. Ziemer. 12.75
\ W. G. Betha. 13.00
\ H. D. Grady.275.00
T. F. Grady. 1.00
John Maring. 4.00
C. J. Taylor. 4.00
Trus.sel & Linder. 4.50
Ernest Cracker'.. 4.00
A. G. Abert. 4.00
R. F. Scott. 4.00
Milo Beebe (apply on tax)-15.00
Geo. Davis. 4.00
G. H. Jenkinson & Co.56
Chambers Band & Hall Co. 10.00
Frank Allen. 4.00
Bessie Harrison. 3.00
W. T. Haynes. 16.00
Boroughs Adding Machine Co.. 2.25
C. E. Burg. 1.00
L. E. Stone. 4.00
William Wheeler. 4.00
Dan Tendal. 4.00
W. I. Chapman. 4.00
William Dickerson. 4.00
Henry Stansberry. 4.00
II. D. Grady.202.01
On motion the following claims
were allowed against the county
bridge fund, and county clerk was in
structed to issue warrants against
the county bridge fund of 1914 in
peyment thereof.
Joe Marring.$ 3.50
D. P. O’Sullivan. 4.00
Pat Barrett. 6.00
, John Warner. 1.25
* John Cleveland. 6.00
S. D. Nicholl.,. 4.00
F. O. Canaday. 2.00
Tom F. McCarty. 7.00
John J. Cook. 1160
J. M. Banks. 7.00
Patrick Barrett. 6.00
Frank Howard.15.25
Ira Napier. 2.00
Guy Browning. . 30.00
A. Beebe, (apply on tax $5.40). 12.40
Mr. Chairman: I move that the
three members of this board to ap
praise the follwoing described school
” land: the northwest quarter of sec
tion sixteen, township twenty-six,
and the north half of southeast quar
ter of section sixteen, township
twenty-six, and the northwest quarter
of section sixteen, township twenty
six, range twelve, all in Holt county,
Nebraska.
J. O. HUBBELL.
TH, D. SIEVERS.
Motion carried.
Chairman appointed as such com
mittee: J. O. Hubbell, Th. D. Sievers
and H. U. Hubbard.
/ Moved by Hubbell and seconded by
1 Sievers that a committee of two mem
bers of this board the chairman pro
tern to be a member of that com
mittee, to go to Atkinson to settle
with C. Boehme member of soldiers
relief committee for the years 1913,
and 1914, on account of his illness per
venting him coming to O’Neill.
Mition carried.
Chairman appointed J. 0. Hubbell
a member of the committee.
Mr. Chairman: Whereas, the con
dition in severadl offices of the county
being crowded and not adequate to the
records of said offices and there being
no proper protection for said decords
from fire and there being an actual
need for the building of a fire proof
vault for said purpose. I move that
a fire proof vault not to exceed the
cost of $500 be built on the east end
of the court house for the purpose of
storing said records.
TH. D. SIEVERS.
W. T. Hayes.
Motion earned. j
At 5 o’clock, p. m., on motion board
adjourned until March 6, 1915, at 9
o’clock, a. m.
H. W. TOMLINSON, Chm. Pro. Tem.
P. C. KELLEY, County Clerk.
O’Neill, Nebraska, March 6, 1915, 9
o’clock, a. m. Board met pursuant to
adjournment all members present ex
cept Bausch and Sullivan. In the ab
sence of M. P. Sullivan, Chairman, on
motion H. W. Tomlinson was elected
chairman pro tem. Board took up
the matter of auditing county claims
and auditing settlement with John A.
Harmon, clerk of the district court.
Mr. Chairman: I move that Claim
No. 10 of Harry Hiscock for the sum
of $6 be and hereby is allowed in the
sum of $4.20, same being 30 cents per
hour as allowed by law for 14 hours
work as clerk of primary election.
J. O. HUBBELL.
TH. D. SIEVERS.
Motion carried.
Mr. Chairman: I move that the
claim of C. E. Farrier No. 8 for $3 foi
balance due him as judge of election
in Chambers precinct be allowed in
the sum of $2 for the reason that $4
has already been paid and $6 is the
limit allowed by law.
J. O. HUBBELL.
TH. D. SIEVERS.
Motion carried.
Mr. Chairman: Your committee on
settlement with John A. Harmon,
Clerk of the District Court, respect
fully reports, that they have carefully
examined the report submitted by
him, covering the yare beginning Jan
uary 1, 1913, and ending December
31, 1914, and have carefully compared,
noted and checked the various items
of fees, reported as earned, on the
proper fee books and other records of
the said clerk’s office. The summary
forming a part of said report, and
which we find to be correct shows:
Fees earned during the year
by the clerk’s office.$3,510.27
Salary account, salary of
clerk, deputy and assistants 2,931.88
Excess fees earned (surplus
due county). 578.39
County debits:
Fees due clerk (from county)
as per report.$1,107.75
County credits:
Fees du clerk (from
county) as per
report.$1,107.75
Excess fees earned
by clerk. 578.39
Jury fees collected
for county. 35.00
Costs collected for
county. 16.25
By warrant No. 86
dated Sept. 25,
1914, on general
fund clerk’s salary
for first half of
1913. 200.00
By balance, dueclerk 278.11
$1,107.75$1,107.75
After a careful examination of said
report and a comparison of same with
the records and vouchers of said office,
in connection therewith, we find said
report to be correct and herewith ap
prove same, and move the acceptance
and adoption of the same,
Very respectfully,
J. O. HUBBELL,
TH. D. SIEVERS,
H. U. HUBBARD,
, Committee.
Motion carried.
At 12 o’clock, m., gn motion board
adjourned until 1 o’clock, p. m.
H. W. TOMLINSON, Chm. Pro. Tern.
P. C. KELLEY, County Clerk.
O’Neill, Nebraska, March 6, 1916, 1
o’clock, p. m. Board met pursuant to
adjournment all members present ex
cept Bausch and Sullivan, in the ab
sence of Chairman Sullivan, on mo
tion H. W. Tomlinson was elected
chairman pro tern.
Board continued auditing claims
against the county.
Mr. Chairman: I move that Claim
No. 677 of Remington Typewriter
Company for $110 filed March 17,
1913, be and the same is hereby re
jected for the reason that this claim
is a duplicate for claim No'. 656 filed
March 12, 1914.
W. T. HAYES.
TH. D. SIEVERS.
Motion carried.
Mr. Chairman: I move that claim
No. 214 filed Nov. 24, 1913, for the
sum of $4.22, claim No. 240 for $65.25
filed May 29, 1914, and Claim No. 828
for $68 filed May 13, 1914, by the
Omaha Printing Co., of Omaha, Neb.,
be and hereby are rejected for the
reason that the items contained there
in are all contained in claim No. 976
filed Aug. 13, 1914.
J. O. HUBBELL*.
TH. D. SIEVERS.
Motion carried.
Mr. Chairman: I move that the
committee of three members of this
board be appointed to audit claims
the chairman pro tern of this meeting
to be one of the committee .
TH. D. SIEVERS.
W. T. HAYES.
Motion carried.
Chairman appointed as the other
members of the committee Hubbell
and Hubbard. At 5 o’clock, p. m., oi.
motion board adjourned to April 6,
1915, at 10 o’clock, a. m.
H. W. TOMLINSON, Chm. Pro. Tern.
P. C. KELLEY, County Clerk.
The Stock Market.
South Omaha, March 22.—From the
Standard Live Stock Commission Co
—Although cattle receipts are lighter
this week the beef steers have not
shown much recovery and in fact, the
common kinds were again lower.
Good cows and butcher stock seem to
be in a little better demand at stronger
prices, but the merdium kinds were
dull and weak. Stockers and feeders
are in fair demand and a shade higher.
We still expect with the coming of
the sunshine to see a better demand
all around.
We quote: Good to choice cornfed
beeves $7,450 to $8.25, common kinds
down to $6. Good to choice cows and
heifers $6 to $7, fair to godd $5 to
$5.90, canners and cutters $3.75 to
$4.90. Veal calves $7 to $9.50. Bulls,
stags, etc., $4.75 to $6. Good to choice
feeders $6.85 to $7.50, common grades
down to $5.75. Stock cows and heifers
$4.75 to $6.25. Stock calves $6 to
$7.50.
Hog prices are holding steady to
strong while the provision market is
slumping. Bulk $6.55 to $6.65, top
$6.75.
Sheep and lambs are holding fairly
steady at the high level.
Seeding Sweet Clover.
Twenty to twenty-five pounds of
the hulled sweet clover seed should be
sown to an acre, while at lea tsfive
pounds more of the nuhulled seed
should be used. Frequentl y50 per
cent or more of the seed is hard, which
will not germinate readily. For this
reason more seed is necessary than
iVould otherwise be the case. Al
though this rate makes seeding expen
sive, the general experience has been
tha it is not too much under average
conditions. The seed may be sown
broadcast and covered with a smooth
ing harrow set rather slanting or else
with a grain drill with grass seed at
tachment. In either case the seed
about three-fourths of an inch deep.
Extension Bulletin 22, Nebraska Ag
ricultural Experiment Station.
Inman Items.
Mrs. Jesse Gore was an O’Neill
visitor one day last week.
Mrs. John Smith of Norfolk is
visiting friends in Inman this week.
The memorial services which was
held in the M. E. church last Sunday
evening in honor of Mrs. Fannie Cros
by, the well known and much esteemed
blind hymn writer and singer who
passed to her reward some months
ago, was well attended. Everyone took
an active part and made the evening
a very profitable one to all.
The Misses Alice Killinger and Syl
via Wilcox were in O’Neill last Fri
day and Saturday taking teachers ’ex
ams.
The young peoples’ class of the M
E. Sunday school were entertained at
the home of Mrs. Mary M. Hancock
last Tuesday evening. About twenty
seven young people were present.
After having a social time a business
meeting was called with Rev. Watson
as chairman. The class adopted
“Young Peoples Union” as class name.
Lee Walker was elected president;
Gladys Hancock, vice president;
Blanch Baker, secretary and Karl
Keyes, treasurer. A two, course lunch
i con was served, after which they de
parted to their homes. Everyone had
a good time.
Bill Colman went to • O’Neill Mon
day, returning Tuesday.
A Word For the Local Merchant.
Under an O’Neill date line of March
9 the following appeared signed by
“A Farmer” in the Omaha World
Herald: I heartily endorse the senti
ment of my brother farmers from
Bancroft, Neb., and Little Sioux, la.,
as expressed in Sunday’s Herald.
I don’t worry much about the pack
ers’ business or any other people that
can make their own prices on both
ends, but in forty years on a farm I
do know a lot about our local mer
chants and I do know that during the
years of cheap farm products a good
many good-natured merchants went
oroke carrying the farmers through
those times. Some farmers were car
ried from one to three years and a
great many were carried longer and
at the same time the local merchant
was foremost in everything that went
co build up the town and community
in general and he would give his last
dollar like a millionaire in the hopes
chat some day the farmers would get
oetter fixed and he could eventually
recover his loss.
Well, conditions finally did change
and for the past fifteen years or more,
with high prices and generally good
crops, we have prospered wonderfully.
We have no further use for the local
merchant. We don’t have to have ac
commodations and never ask for it—
unless we want to beat him or use his
money for a long time without in
cerest, or give him our eggs and but
cer, first making sure that he will
mse money on them. Yes, I send
away for everything I need. I am not
sure that is always profitable, but I
am determined that our local mer
chant’s family (who I am well ac
quainted with and friendly with) won’t
put on any style out of the profits of
our hogs. Most of my neighbors send
to Chicago for their supplies, even
when they owe the local merchant a
good-sized bill. If it wasn’t for this
class of people we would not need any
country towns or stores and when the
.ocal merchant learns to insist on spot
cash for his goods, country towns will
get down to where they belong, name
ly, a postoffice, a skinflint bank, one
‘fine” elevator and one no-class hotel.
The sooner that day comes the better
it will be for everybody, even the
.ocal merchants.
As it is, I sometimes get ashamed
to go in one of the old stores or meet
old friends that stuck in by-gone days
and on such occasions I can’t bear to
even use one of their hitching posts
and sneak in the back way to the
depot for my goods. Of course I feel
different when we come to town in our
auto, only I don’t like to be classed
with the Montgomery-Ward aristo
crats, as we are called up here. Yet,
I can’t see it in any other way but
that we farmers got into our present
condition by stepping on our local
merchants and towns and connecting
with catalog houses. With fine banks
and elevators, for present we ought
to be happy. However, I don’t like to
“blow” about it.
Francis Frisks.
Mrs. Earl Freezer returned from
Chambers to her home last Saturday.
George Saunders was in Francis
last Thursday.
C. M. Beebe was in Francis one day
last week.
Rolland and Peter Franzman and
sisters Eva and Edith were callers at
the Johnson home last Sunday.
Miss Bertha Johnson called on Mrs.
Freezer last Sunday.
Clarence Johnson and Earl Freezer
were up to W. W. Abbott’s last Sun
day.
Clarence Jordan helped C. H. John
son bail hay last week.
W. W. Abbott has been very sick
the last week.
Charles Jordan and son Lloyd and
Salem Magnusson were in Francis
Monday.
G. L. Hoppe went to Chambers last
Saturday.
R. H. Franzman was over to C. H.
Johnson’s last Monday.
John Abbott was down to C. H.
Johnson’s last Sunday.
Mrs. Romaine Saunders and son
George were in Francis last Tuesday.
R. H. Franzman was over to G. L.
Hoppe’s Monday afternoon
G. L. Hoppe was in Francis last
Thursday.
C. H. Johnson was in Francis
Thursday.
First in Horses.
According- to the figures of the
United States department of agri
culture, Nebraska leads in the number
of horses per capita. The states with
more than a million horses and the
number per capita of rural population
are as follows:
Rural Pop.
State Number Per
Capita
Nebraska.1,038,000 $1.19
Iowa. 1,600,000 1.03
Kansas. 1,132,000 .94
Illinois. 1,462,000 .67
Missouri. 1,095,000 .57
Texas. 1,192,000 .40
The Conscience Fund
Judge Ira Rothgerber of the Denver
county court has ordered the execut
ors of the estate of Rufus Clark to
poy the United States government
$3,500 for its “conscience” fund. H.
B. Tedrow, United States district at
torney, will receive the money for the
government.
Clark, who died in 1909, leaving an
estate estimated at $500,000, be
queathed $3,500 to the government
explaining that in 1863 he had re
ceived knowledge that a man de
frauded the govenment to that ex
tent, and regarded it his duty, inas
much as he had kept it secret, to re
imburse the United States.
The Seige of Prsemysl.
Vienna, March 24.—The Neue Frie
I Presse describes the shocking priva
i tion to which the garrison at Prsem
ysl were reduced prior to the capit
ulation of the fortress. Five airmen
who made their escape relate that
during the last few weeks the hos
pitals were crowded with person ex
hausted by hunger. Almost every
second man was in hospital.
Before the last sortie on Friday
each man received two tins of pre
serves;, which were ravenously de
voured. In many cases the sorely
tried digestive organs could not sup
port the unaccostomed quantity of
food, with the result that the men
fell ill, and some of them died.
All of the horses had already been
killed and eaten, including the gen
of oats were ground into meal, which
with the horse flesh,was distributed
to the starving.
The fall of Prsemysl has exercised
a drepressing effect throughout Aus
tria-Hungary, hccording to advices
received here. Especially is this the
case in Hungary, where the dangei
of a Russian invasion has greatly in
creased.
In Vienna the news of the capitu
lation of Prsemysl was received some
what apathetically, but it was notice
able that the people sought theii
homes from the cafes and restaurants
earlier than usual. The newspapers
print interviews with military ant,
politicel personages, who, for the most
part, confine themselves to praising
the heroism of the garrison.
Jobless Told to Go Naked
The unemployed of Boston should
walk the streets unclothed in order
to call public attention to their needs,
Rev. Short told 1,000 persons at a
meeting for the unemployed on the
Common ;cecently. The demonstra
tion was organized by Caleb Howard
of the governor’s commission on un
employment.
Mr. Short was removed this week
by Bishop Lawrence from the rector
ship of the Episcopal churches in
Mansfield and North Dighton after
he had preached a series of sermons
on the “Social Revolution.” Both
his father and grandfather were Ep
iscopal clergymen.
“I have seen nearly 1,000 men
sleeping on the floors and benches in
Boston’s municipal lodging houses,”
he said . “The mayor and governor
do not realize the situation. The
public is doing nothing to remedy it
_
I EVERYBODY WILL LIKE THE FAT MAN’S LOOKS ft
M WHEN HE WEARS OUR CLOTHES. THEY WILL FIT {§
*5 HIM AND MAKE HIM FEEL GOOD. §
WE CARRY BOTH “SLIMS” AND “STOUTS” (N If
| MANY BRIGHT NEW PATTERNS. LONG. THIN MEN *
A AS WELL AS SHORT. FAT MEM AND “REGULAR” M
| MEN CAN GET A FIT IN OUR STORE. H
§ TRY THE STORE THAT TRIES TO PLEASE YOU ft
| AND HAS THE GOODS TO DO IT. Jj|
j HARTY BROS. & MULLEN |
—some drastic measure is necessary.
Some morning when you come out
of one of these unventilated wayfar
ers’ lodges, take those dirty, filthy
clothes from your back and walk
down the street. Your suffering jus
tifies the action. Many people will
be shocked. Some will think it will
be better for you to die in some lone
ly alley. But if there are any Christ
ians they will remember the words,
‘I was naked and ye clothed me not,”
Ladies’ Home Journal: “I want you
to understand,” said young Spender,
“that I got my money by hard work.’
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“Why, I thought it was left to you by
your rich uncle.” “So it was but I
had hard work to get it from the
lawyers.”
Chicago Herald :Harold Bell Wright ,
the popular novelist, was talking in
Chicago about genius. “There are
one hundred different opinions as to
what genius is,” said Mr. Wright;
“but all authorities are agreed that
it’s absolutely unsafe to lend him
money.”
Everybody is ready for spring,
but winter refuses to sit down.
| ILB NNAN |
Are You Ready for
Spring?
Two car loads of New J. I. Case and Rock Island
Farm Machinery just in. All the latest
improvements. Bright new colors.
Have also a half car of Buggios and Spring Wagons,
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all the latest styles, Electric Lights, Auto Seats, etc.
s
Our Faint stock is all com
plete, the largest we ever had.
Come in and see the new
goods and get our prices. If
can’t come to O’Neill, write
for circulars and prices.
We are always selling the
best we can get at prices that
can’t be beat,
Neil Brennan