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VOLUME XXXV. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1915. NUMBER 42.
CAMPBELL FILES
HIS ANSWER
Two Mismated Couples Want Court
to Separate Them
Dr. R. M. Campbell, by his atorney,
J. A. Donohoe, on Monday filed an an
swer to the $20,000 alienation suit of
Oscar Hagensick. The answer is
brief, merely denying “each and every
allegation” of Hagensick’s somewhat
sensational petition and charges of
purloined love, and “prays that the
petition of the plaintiff may be dis
missed; that he may go hence without
day and recover his costs herein most
unjustly expended.”
Lydia M. Sears filed suit for di
vorce from Leonard B. Sears, alleging
cruelty. They were married at
Gregory, S. D., in 1910, and now re
side at Page. The defendant files a
voluntary appearance and waiver of
right to answer or demur and con
sents to a hearing of the case in court
upon its merits.
Charles E. Ferdig, formerly of
Iowa and later a homesteader for a
short time in Brown county and now
a resident of Holt county, brings suit
for divorce from Agnes Ferdig,
cruelty being alleged. They were
married in 1887 and the cruelty com
plained of is alleged to have extended
over a period of eight years. There
are two minor children, the plaintiff
asking custody of one of these. The
defendant is now at Great Falls,
Montana.
LOCAL MATTERS.
E. D. Henry was at Page Monday.
C. E. Hall went to Lincoln Monday.
Sheriff Grady had business at Ewing
Monday.
James Ryan was up to Emmet
Tuesday.
C. D. Keyes was up from Inman
yesterday.
John Miskimmins went to Omaha
Wednesday.
Mrs. C. P. Hancock visited at In
man Saturday.
Wm. Robertson was down from At
kinson Friday.
James Leahy of Ewing was in the
city Wednesday.
Lincoln where she had been taking
medical treatment.
Joe McDonald of Atkinson was in
the city yesterday.
H. C. Henning of Atkinson was a
Frontier caller Monday.
Sherman Ennis of Atkinson was an
O’Neill visitor Wednesday.
P. C. Donohoe left Monday for a
trip to Frement and Omaha.
The weather is about as stale a sub
ject of discussion as the war.
J. F. O’Donnell returned yesterday
from a business trip to Omaha.
R. E. Duvall, a real estate dealer of
Neligh, was in the city yesterday.
William Dickerson and C. W. Moss
of Atkinson were in the city Monday.
Miss Emma Snyder attended a
teachers’ meeting at Norfolk Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Peters of Em
met had business in O’Neill Monday.
Arthur Ryan arrived home Tuesday
from Texas, where he had spent the
winter.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Campbell went to
Atkinson Monday for a brief visit with
relatives.
Patrick Brown, son of Mrs. Viola
Brown, is over from Spaulding, where
he is attending school, on a visit.
W. R. Butler was over from
Gregory, S. D., yesterday looking
after business affairs in district court
Mrs. G. L. Davies and children came
up from Ewing yesterday for a visit
at the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Peeler.
Nine rooms on California, close in,
full of good paying rooms, cheap rent,
must sell at once on account sickness.
Write to or inquire of Mrs. S. C. Can
field, 1602 California St., Omaha. 42
Mesdames George Gaughenbaugh,
John Walmer and H. J. Zimmerman
went to Atkinson Saturday evening to
participate in Royal Neighbor festi
vities and initation there that evening.
The Easter program at the M. E.
church will not be given on Easter
Sunday this year, but will be given
at a later date as will be announced
from the pulpit next Sunday morning.
Henry Riley and Frieda M. Erb,
both of Atkinson, obtained license to
wed last Thursday. On Monday John
Vandersnick of south of Ewing and
Gertrude Thiele of Wheeler county
were granted a license.
Holt county has a new precinct for
assessment this year, a portion of
Saratoga being set off and is knowi
as Coleman precinct. County As
esssor Coyne appointed Ray Coburn
to make the assessment in the new
precinct.
Miss Dora Alberts arrived home
Monday after a pleasant winter spent
with friends in Omaha, Chicago and
Fon du Lac, Wis. Miss Alberts says
she had a delightful time on the visit
and particularly likes it up around
Fon du Lac.
All candidates for city offices have
a pretty sure thing of it except for
police judge, for which office there are
two candidates, others all having no
opposition. F. M. Ward and F. C.
Gatz, the present incumbent, are can
didates for police judge honors.
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C. E. Elkins, the O’Neill-Francis
mail contractor, was up from Cham
bers Monday.
Mrs. L. C. and Ida Chapman re
turned Saturday from three days’
visit at Sioux City.
Mrs. Hawkes of La Crosse, Wis., is
visiting her brother, Mr. Potter, and
other relatives at the Golden hotel.
J. J. Walter of Chambers was in the
city Sunday, coming up for Mrs. Wal
ter who arrived here that day from
There will be a special meeting of
the stockholders of the Mineola Tele
phone Company at Mineala on March
11.
Miss Abbie Murphy of this city left
Sunday evening for Philip, South Da
kota, to acept a position in one of the
banks at that point.
J. U. Yantzi of this city left a short
time ago for Redfield, South Dakota,
where he will be manager of David
Cole Creamery Company of that place.
Leo McCaffrey was up from the
ranch south of Emmet Tuesday and
left an order with The Frontier for
bills and other advertising for a big
stock sale at the ranch April 8.
M. L. Wintermote departed last oat
urday for his homestead near Lost
Springs, Wyoming, to make the im
orovements, develope the land and be
:ome a resident of that community.
Fred Oetter of Bliss was in town
over night Monday, coming up from
Ewing on the train that evening and
returning to Ewing Tuesday morning,
having driven to Ewing from his place.
J. A. Rice and William Gill were
down from Stuart Tuesday.
John T. Calks, living southwest of
Chambers, is hauling out lumber from
O’Neill for the erection of a new barn
on his ranch.
P. C. Donohoe of the opera-house
is making ready for a big Easter ball
next Monday evening. The local
orchestra will furnish some inticing
music and the midnight meal will be
served at the Golden.
Chas. Rebar of Basset and Mrs.
Margueret Purnell of Atkinson were
married at the county judges’ office
last Saturday. They will live at Em
met where Mr. Rebar expects to en
gage in the restaurant and bakery
business,
Della May Grenier, age twenty
'hree, died Sunday of pneumonia, at
the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
E. J. Grenier living near Opportunity
postoffice. The remains were brought
to O’Neill Monday and shipped to
Bancroft for burial.
Frank Ellis came up from Norfolk
yesterday.
Mrs. E. H. Clark and son Roy Fisher
of Inman were in town yesterday and
today .
Many an old coger makes himself
look like a last season’s suit by adorn
ing his lips with a dye work’s mous
tache.
A clogged sewer main on Fremont
street yesterday caused a good deal a
offensive inconvenience in dwellings
connected therewith. The main will
be flushed today .
A new steel ceiling and the re
placing of the large wooden posts in
the center of the room by small steel
posts is a recent change and improve
ment at the opera-house.
C. F. Abart and J. L. Crawford,
j both of Emmet, were business visitors
at The Frontier Wednesday. Mr.
Crawford will have a stock sale at his
place three miles south of Emmet on
Friday, April 9, and this office
furnished him the bills for advertis
ing the same.
It was frozen up tight this morning,
! April 1, but with a clear sky and
bright sunshine hope does not die that
summer’s rosy bloom and verdure’s
i brilliant green will come again. It
has been a “long and cruel winter,” as
Longfellow would say, but like every
thing else in human experience it
must have an end.
Charley Martin disputes The Fron
tier’s varacity in saying that he and
his nimble hounds had swooped in
seven coyotes this winter. We know
of nobody better qualified to dispute
it and set up a reclaimer than Charley.
The fact that the figure is thirteen in
stead of seven is not The Frontier’s
fault and we hereby rejoice to give due
and fulsome credit for the other six
that bit the snow.
Omaha whiskey interests have “bill
ed the town” with pamphlets pur
porting to give statistics comparing
wet Nebraska with dry Kansas in a
general campaign over the state pre
vious to the municipal elections. These
circulars have been scattered freely in
O’Neill in view of the question to be
voted on next Tuesday. The drys are
getting busy also throughout various
parts of the s£ate and have imported
lecturers from Kansas, among whom
is Henry J. Allen of the Witchita
Eagle, who is making a special at
j tack on the circulars coming from
Omaha. Mr. Allen says the statistics
quoted are not only misquoted and
distorted but are antidated, being
taken from old records.
G. C. Hazelet of Cordovia, Alaska,
arrived in the city Monday from
Washington, D. C., where he has been
the past few months submitting data
and statistics for the government in
connection with the railroad project in
that territory. Mr. Hazelet, who had
not been in O’Neill in eleven years,
made a brief visit with relatives and
departed Wednesday for home.
Ray Leinhart was up from the me
tropolis of the South Fork Monday.
Mr. Leinhart tells us that on last Sat
urday he acquired ownership of the
Chambers Bugle, which has been
somewhat the worse for mechanical
misuse of late, and as soon as he gets
the right sort of a printer to take
charge of it expects to revive the in
dustry down there Chambers is too
good a town to be without a live wire
paper and there is no place where the}
are more discriminating on quality of
printing.
Umaha Nebraskan: Dennis Cronin
of Holt, who has been mentioned lately
as the ideal man to take Kinkaid’s
place as congressman from the Big
Sixth, is a general of men. When
“Denny” Cronin steps into the chair as
chairman of the committee of the
whole, the members sit up and take
notice and the work is cracked through
rapidly as Cronin’s deep powerful
voice bellows out the procedure or
makes a decision, without a moment’s
hesitancy: “I have learned,” explain
ed Mr. Cronin, “when umpiring base
ball games or boxing matches never t<
hesitate in rendering a decision.”
The championship of the North Ne
braska Debating District is to be de
cided on Saturday, April 17, at Valen
tine. The O’Neill High School de
bating team composed of John Long
staff, Raymond McBride and Frank
Harrington having won from the
Atkinson High School team by de
fault, will debate against Valentine
High at Valentine for the champion
ship of the Northern District. This
promises to be one of the best and
warmest debates ever held in this
district, as O’Neill is represented by
an excellent team as is also Valentine
judging from the reports in the Valen
tine papers. The question for de
bate this year is: “Resolved, That the
Gevernment should own and control
the Railroads.” The people of
O’Neill should be much interested in
this debate as many political party
leaders maintain that the above ques
tion will be dealt with in the next
presidential election.
Boyd Dignitaries Coming.
Butte Gazette: The board of sup
ervisors at their last session appoint
ed a committee to meet with Holt
county’s board to look after the mat
ter of that bridge south of Butte. Su
pervisors Long and Saunderb, and
County Attorney Tingle, form the
committee.
The committee will go to O’Neill
April 6 to meet that board. It is
hoped to arrive at some agreement
then. The State Engineer has held tht
appropriation so far, and by prompt
action we may be able to get the
bridge started without delay.
And it will be none too soon. It will
be a mercy if some one does not
eventually lose their life on the swing
ing bridge, and it may be more than
one. If it comes to that, there will
be many vain regrets for the bridge
that should have been built long ago.
Easter at the Presbyterian.
There is a welcome waiting for you
at the Presbyterian church Easter
Sifnday. Special music and Easter
program in the morning. “Family
Day”-.-bring your children to church
and take a pew. Order of services is
as follows:
Processional; Doxology; invocation;
Gloria Patri; Easter hymn;responsive
reading; anthem, “I know that my
Redeemer Lives”—Job; Scripture les
son; pastorial prayer; Lord’s prayer;
response; announcement and offering;
anthem, “Lift up your heads, ye
gates”—David; Easter sermon by the
pastor; Easter hymn; sacrament of
the Lord’s supper; benediction.
Saves Bridge Appropriation.
Omaha News: Representative Den
nis Cronin saved his state aid for
bridges law from repeal and the bi
ennial appropriation from being cut
lower than $150,000 by telling the
finance committee he would fight to
the last ditch on the floor of the house
for the measure. Rather than go to
the mat with the “fighting Irishman”
the committee yielded. Even the
powerful finance committee ducked
when it came to mixing with Dennis,
who though a republican in a demo
cratic house, generally gets what he
I wants.
ASSAULTS POLICE
AND IS JAILED
Restaurant Man Given Sixty Days
for Striking Officer.
R. Hunt, proprietor of the Star Cafe,
was committed to the county jail for
sixty days Tuesday by Judge Carl on
on a complaint sworn to by Police
Officer John P. McManus charging
Hunt with assaulting the officer. Hunt,
who was in his cups and had been
ejected from a saloon, was being es
corted home by Mrs. Hunt and the
officer when he suddenly shot out a
right hander and struck McManus a
vicious blow that knocked him to the
sidewalk. A number of spectators
rushed to the scene, some taking
charge of the assailant and others
aiding McManus, who was not
seriously hurt.
Hunt was lodged in the county jail
and taken into court the next morning
and pled guilty to the charge of as
sault. He is now serving the sixty
day sentence.
Paper From Cornstalk.
National Printer-Journalists: A
merican newspapers may soon be
printed upon paper made from corn
stalks. Following a series of experi
ments made by paper mills at the in
stance of the Government, it has been
announced that the product of corn
stalks is an excellent substitute for
wood pulp, while it can be brought to
the mills at infinitely less cost.
So successful have been the experi
ments that the Bureau of Plant In
dustry at Washington has sent a
representative, George A. Stuart, to
Interview farmers concerning the price
to be asked for stalks, and also to get
data regarding the expense of hauling
to the paper mills.
The supply of cornstalks is prac
ticacally unlimited. Millions of tons
are burned every year by farmers, ai.
economic waste which has long been
the concern of thoughtful men, but fo\
which, apparently, there was no help.
Mr. Stuart is exhibiting samples of
paper made from cornstalks, some of
it of a quality suitable for books and
magazines, and he would be willing to
pay $5 per ton for stalks.
Mortgage Indebtedness.
Coupty Clerk Kelley furnished The
Frontier the following figures show
ing the mortgage records of the
county for the year 1914:
Farm mortgages filed.$1,619,642
Farm mortgages released.. 848,111
Town and city mortgages
filed. 49,145
Town and city mortgages re
leased . 21,162
Chattel mortgages filed_ 2,596,142
Chattel mortgages released 487,127
Mr. Kelley explains that these fig
ures are for the year up to January 1,
and that the great difference in the
total sum of chattel mortgages filed
and those released is explained jn that
a large amount of last year’s mort
gages have been released since Jan
uary 1. For instance, one day re
cently $80,000 of last year’s indebted
ness was cancelled in one mortgage
release.
The Methodist Episcopal.
The revival meetings are still in
progress at the Methodist church.
The Rev. Owen W. Rummell of Neligh
is preaching every night this week to
the delight of the good congregations.
A good interest is manifest in these
meetings, and much good is being ac
accomplished.
Next Sunday forenoon at the hour
of 10:30 Rev. G. W. Bruce will de
liver an illustrated sermon to the
children of the church and community.
Special music will be rendered by the
children, and special seats will be
provided for all children) who are
under 16 years of age. Parents and
all are invited to this service. Let
every parent who is interested in
their children come and bring the
children to this service.
On the Open Market.
Woman’s Journal: Four girls—not
one out of their teens—have been
bought outright by New York de
tectives in the last crusade against
white slavers, Police Commissioner
Woods announced last week. The
price in each case was $25.
Louis Abrams, a pale-faced youth,
is charged with selling 19-year-old
Lilly Levine to a detective. Abe Le
venson, fat muscular dive keeper, who
pleaded guilty to a similar charge,
was sentenced last week.
Levenson first offered to sell a little
Italian girl into a life of shame, ac
cording to detectives. WJhen they
said they wanted a “bigger girl,” they
alleged, Levenson calmly reappeared
with another white slave and closed
the bargain.
He’s Coming Back.
Farm Journal: After having lost
$60,000 in the saloon business in eight
months in Chicago, a young fellow,
thirty-three years old, appealed to the
police for lodging. He was formerly
a farmer in Nebraska and sold his
property and came to Chicago to enter
the saloon business. “I am going back
to Nebraska to begin life over again,”
he said; “I should never have left my
farm.”
Home grown, recleaned, medium red
clover seed, $10 per bushel.—Watson
Hay Co., Inman, Neb. 40*3