Frontier.
VOLUME XXXV.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 10,1915.
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NUMBER 52.
LOCAL MATTERS.
J. W. Brentson of Mineola was an
O’Neill visitor yesterday.
Calmer Simonson of Agee was in the
city yesterday transacting business.
James Beachamp of Meek was in
the city Friday and had his name ad
ded to our list.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Dean Selah
at the home of her father, W. E.
.Conklin, a girl, on last Friday.
Charles Kohler of Page was a caller
at this office last Friday and had his
name added to The Frontier’s list.
Thomas Nolan left for Lincoln last
Monday where he will take the state
examination for adminission to the
bar.
Harry Dowling of Harlan, Iowa, was
in the city the first of the week look
ing after his business interests this
vicinity.
Miss Ireneia Biglin and Miss Mar
garet Dorsey left the first of the week
for Wayne, where they will attend the
State Normal. .
Samuel Beaver left last Monday
morning for Sioux City, Iowa, to at
tend the annual encampment of the
Iowa G. A. R.
The second Monday in June is tne
time for holding the annual school
meeting, according to the new law
passed last winter.
Mr. and Mrs. George Phillips,
who live northeast of this city, are
rejoicing over the arrival of a son
at their home on June 1st.
Davis Brothers are just completing
a new six room residence for
Charles McKinney on his farm north
of the city, occupied by J. H. Shultz.
The next regular term of the dis
trict court will convene in this city
next Monday. Several cases of im
portance is on the docket for trial at
this term.
Miss Laura Beula, who has been
teaching elocution and physical culture
in St. Mary’s Academy the past year,
left last Monday morning for her
home in Waupon, Wis.
Mr, and Mrs. O. O. Snyder went
down to Allen last Saturday morning
to attend the funeral of Mr. Snyder’s
brother-in-law, C. E. Warner, who died
at that place last Friday afternoon.
Pauline Koskovich, who was en
gaged in the millinery business here
about a year ago, was married at
Randolph, Neb., last Monday to
August F. Singer, a druggist of
Greenville, Iowa.
The barn on the farm of William
Boedecker was struck by lightning
during the heavy rain storm last
Thursday night and the barn and two
cows were burned. Mr. Boedecker car
ried $600 insurance on the barn and
cattle.
From present indications Holt
county will harvest the largest small
grain crop in her history. Winter
PEO^LE|F;IRST
JUtJGE'YOU BY
THE CLOTHES
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YOU WEAR ,
THEN WEAR CLOTHES.
WHERE SHALL YOU GET THEM?
FROM US.
WHY?
BECAUSE WE HAUE NO POOR CLOTHES IN OUR
STORE AT ANY PRICE AND CHARGE YOU ONLY A
JUST PRICE FOR CLOTHES. MADE OF GOOD
STUFF. THAT LOOK. FIT AND FEEL FINE AND
WEAR A LONG TIME.
HARTY BROS. & MULLEN
wheat is especially fine. Some of our
readers tell us that they have winter
wheat they firmly believe will yield 40
bushels to the acre or better.
U. G. Conn, presidnet of the Wayne
State Normal, is in the city today to
address the Holt county teachers in
stitute now in session here.
Attorney D. L. Jouvenat of Atkin
son transacted legal business in this
city Tuesday. He also ordered this
disseminator of current events sent
to his address for the ensuing year.
Clyde Fitch, who was employed in
the Phelan barber shop here a couple
of years ago, met with an accident in
Missouri Valley, Iowa, a couple of
weeks ago which resulted in his death.
He fell under a train and had both
legs taken off, and lived only a few
hours afterwards.
A ball team representing this city
went up to Gordon last Saturday and
played the team Monday and Tuesday.
The first game was won by O’Neill
with a score of 9 to 4. We have failed
to learn what the score of Tuesday’s
game was. On Wednesday they play
ed at Long Pine and emerged with the
short end of a 14 to 2 score.
Sheriff Grady took R. L. Donnell, the
old gentleman who was picked up by
Mr. Metcalf on the old Trussell ranch
last week, to the insane asylum at
Norfolk Wednesday afternoon. The
local officials have been unable to And
out anything regarding the old gentle
man or where he came from.
O. F. Biglin received a telegram last
Monday announcing the death of his
mother, Mrs. Mary Biglin at Scranton,
Pa., at the advanced age of eighty
seven years. Mrs. Biglin was a for
mer resident of this county, living on a
farm about five miles southwest of
this city, but returned to Pennsylvania
about twenty-six years ago, where she
had since made her home.
The Holt County Teachers Insti
tute is in session in this city this
week and O’Neill is filled with Holt
county’s charming teachers. Accord
ing to an O’Neill young man, who is
supposed, from his varied experience
to be able to speak with authority, the
members of the present institute are
better looking than those who have
attended sesions of the institute in
recent years.
William Gumb, one of the pioneer
residents of Wyoming township and
one of the largest stockmen of the
southwestern portion of the county,
was an O’Neill visitor last Tuesday. Mr.
Gumb says that a'l the ponds and
lakes in that portion of the county are
now filled with water again, the first
time in several years and that this
year Holt county will harvest one of
the largest hay crops in her history.
William Laviolette came up from
North Bend last Sunday night to
spend a few days visiting old-time
friends and to look after business
matters. Bill says that farming
JORDAN’S STORE NEWS
The philosopher said, go west young man, go west. I
did go west, but didn’t see anything that looked as good to
me as O’Neill. So I have decided to put in a Hardware and
Furniture store here at O’Neill. Not the biggest store in
O’Neill, but I intend to make it the best, and will at all
times keep a complete stock of everything in my line.
I have cut my expenses down to a minimum and will
sell for cash, and by doing so can certainly sell you the
goods right. My motto will be not all that I can get, for
my goods, but all I can give you for your money.
Harry G. Jordan.
South side Douglas Street in Ogden Hotel Building.
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES ST: MARY’S ACADEMY
June 16, 1915.
PIANO SEXTETTE—“Tyrolienne”.Ravina
First Piano, Misses Loretta Higgins, Agnes Hughes.
Second Piano, Misses Ethel Kasper, Irma Fisher.
Third Piano, Misses Neoma O’Kief, Bridget Carr.
CHORUS—“Greeting to Spring”.Johan Strauss
St. Mary’s Choral Class.
SALUTATORY.Miss Helen Mullen
PIANO DUO—“Grand Caprice Hongrois”.Ketterer
Piano A., Miss Shirley Engle.
Piano B., Miss Marguerite Maneman.
VOCAL SOLO—“Voices of the Woods”.A. Rubenstein
miss Bridget uarr.
SEXTETTE.“Overture D’ Oberin”
First Piano, Misses Shirley Engle, Loretta Higgins.
Second Piano, Misses Marguerite Haneman, Helen Mullen.
Third Piano, Misses Ethel Kasper, Neoma O’Kief.
VALEDICTORY.Miss Mae D. Hammond
CONFERRING OF HONORS.by Very Rev. M. F. Cassidy
ADDRESS.by Rev. Wm. Quinlan, S. J. of Creighton University
Senior Class of 1915.
Bessie M. Armstrong, O’Neill, Neb., A. Lucile Berigan, O’Neill, Neb.,
Bridget E. Carr, Stafford, Neb., Shirley A. Engle, Norfolk, Neb., Irma A.
Fisher, Wahoo, Neb., Rose M. Gregor, O’Neill, Neb., Marguerite M. Haneman,
Ewing, Neb., Loretta M. Higgins, Platte Center, Neb., Agnes V. Hughes,
Battle Creek, Neb., Mae D. .Hammond, O’Neill, Neb., Hilda C. Hirsch, O’Neill,
Neb., Maude H. Jones, Lusk, Wyoming, Mae E. Keip, O’Neill, Neb., Ethel B.
Kasper, Wahoo, Neb., Helen E. Keber, Clearwater, Neb., Esther S. Kelleher,
Tilden, Neb., Anna A. Magirl, O’Neill, Neb., Ursula M. McHugh, O’Neill, Neb.,
Helen V. Mullen, O’Neill, Neb., Ruth M. O’Malley, Creighton, Neb., Neoma
M. O’Kief, Woodlake, Neb., Agnes U. Vtfquain, Springview, Neb.
Eighth Grade Graduates, Class of 1915.
Helen C. Biglin, O’Neill, Neb., Grace H. Campbell, O’Neill, Neb., Hester
R. Carmichael, Tulsa’, Oklahoma, Grace M. Cattier, Martin, S. D., Loretta B
Cronin, O’Neill, Neb., Gretna M. Dolan, O’Neill, Neb., Arthur J. Hammond,
O’Neill, Neb., Theresa C. Harrington, O’Neill, Neb., Ina E. Hirsch, O’Neill,
Neb., Veronica E. Kirscht, Calhan, Colorado, Clara A. Martin, Joy, Neb.,
Catherine P. Morrison, O’Neill, Neb., Bessie F. McLeod, O’Neill, Neb., Marie
M. Seidell, Chadron, Neb., Mary G. Smith, O’Neill, Neb,. Mayren N. Thomas,
O’Neill, Neb., Agnes C. Tierney, O’Neill, Neb., Leota M. Tomjack, Ewing,
Neb., Helen I. Townsend, Page, Neb., Anselm T. Whelan, O’Neill, Neb.
operations are considerebly backward
in that section of the state also on ac
count of the extreme wet weather, but
from appearances they did not have
near as much rain there last week as
there was in this section of the state.
At the meeting of the bankers as
sociation of group six at Ainsworth
last Thursday S. J. Weekes, cashier of
the O’Neill National of this city, was
elected president of the association for
the ensuing year. The next meeting
of the association will be held at Val
entine next June. The O’Neill delega
tion that attended the Ainsworth meet
ing returned Friday and report
having had a spledid meeting at
Ainsworth and a very agreeable time.
Prof. G. E. Gondra, of the State
University, was in the city Wednes
day and addressed the Holt county
teachers institute Wednesday morning.
In the afternoon Prof. Condra exhibit
ed the moving picture' films of Ne
braska resources to a crowded house
in the Royal Theatre. Before leaving
Prof. Condra said he would return to
this county some time during the sum
mer and take some pictures of Holt
county scenes which would be placed
in the film for display in eastern
states.
Frank A. Anderson of Holdredge,
Neb., Grand Master Workman of the
Ancient Order of United Workmen,
will be in O’Neill on Thursday even
ing, June 17, and will address the
members of the order of this county
and such others as care to attend. Mr.
Anderson is making a tour of the
state and the meeting here will be at
tended by members of the order from
the different towns of the county.
Whether you are a member of the
order or not you will be welcome to
attend the meeting.
Arthur McKay, Lew Reimers and
Brandt Anson were all out in a boat
on the Elkhorn Sunday looking for a
lost sow and pigs, when they met with
an accident says a Ewing corres
pondent of the Norfolk Daily News.
They were going down the river when
their boat ran into a wire stretched
across the stream and turned turtle
throwing them all into the water.
Fortunately they were near the shore
and made their escape to land with
with only a few minor bruises and
scratches. The boat was secured but
the oars, two caps, a pair of rubber
boots and a new pair of gloves were
lost in the raging waters.
Johannes Schwarz, aged fifty-nine
of Chambers, and Miss Charlotte
Stockman, aged sixty-five of Bloom
ington, 111., were united in marriage
by County Judge Carlon at the county
court room last Wednesday afternoon.
The lady was master of ceremonies
and was very careful to secure a
certificate of her marriage from the
court so that she could show that she
was really married. She was also
solicitious regarding the legality of
the marriage and asked if the mar
riage by the court was as legal as it
would have been had they been mar
ried by a minister. The court in
formed her that she was very much
married and that it was as legal as if
the ceremony had been performed by
a minister. When she left the court
room she said they might decide
to have a ceremony performed by a
minister also.
WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST
For week beginning Wednesday,
June 9, 1915. For Upper Mississippi
Valley and Plains States: Showers
are probable about the 11th and again
on the 15th. The cool spell at the
beginning of the period will quickly
give way to warmer weather, and a
short period of cool night tempera
tures will set in about the 11th, alter
nating with warm weather until the
end of the period.
The Cost of Bridges.
Nebraska Farmer: By planning to
build its own steel bridges, Seward
county has brought the bridge trust to
its knees. The county has been build
ing its own wooden bridges and doing
its own repair work, but it has not
erected any steel i bridges. Last
winter the county board decided to
build five new steel bridges and ad
vertised for bids. All the bids were
rejected, because they were considered
unreasonably high, and the board at
once planned to buy the materials and
construct the bridges itself, under the
supervision of a bridge superintendent.
Then the trust “came across.” The
branch of the trust to which this part
of the country has apparently been
assigned, offered to build the bridges
for about $10,000 less than its former
bid, or a little more than one third the
price previously named. By this offer
the county gets the bridges cheaper
than it could build them itself
Bridge men say the company will not
make anything on the contract, but
“we should worry” is the attitude of
the county board. This incident con
tains a broad hint to county boards in
other counties where the bridge trust
has fattened at the expense of the tax
payers.
Oiled Streets.
Blair Pilot: Whatever our views
may be in regard to Blair’s oiled
streets they are certainly performing
one funcition which was not on the
bill board at the time the oiled street
agitation was rife. Several months
after the application of the oil it was
noticed that the big trees which for
many years have been sources of shade
to the business district as well as a
menace to the upper windows and
roofs of the business houses, were dy
ing. Whether or not they had already
begun to die is not recorded but the
application of the oil did not tend to
preserve their health, be it good or
otherwise. Therefore the mandate has
gone fourth from the city dads that
all such trees shall be cut down, to the
end that human life and property shall
not be endangered by reason of their
fall during the next period of zephyrs.
And right here we want to commend
those city dads for the action taken in
felling the old trees most of which
have been in a process of slow death
for some time, and hasten to add that
their predecessors builded better than
they knew when they poured oil, not
on the troubled waters, but on Blair’s
dusty streets. They may not have set
tled the dust question any better than
the oil has settled the dust but they
have hastened the downfall of the
trees which after all were but of
doubtful value. Blair will now present
a more citified appearance rather
than resembling an ancient New
England village. Now if that pave
ment get’s put down and a sewer sys
tem installed we will not be so far
behind the other towns of our size
after all.
Gallaway Cattle.
Twenty-five head of full blood cows
and heifers for sale, or to let on shares
for three years to responsible party,
having good accommodations for keep
ing them. Best of references required.
Also two extra good young bulls for
sale, yearling and two-year-old. For
particulars Address James A. Mullen,
Horsefoot P. O., Rock County, Ne
braska. (20 miles southwest of Long
Pine.) 52-2
Palm Beach Suits
$7.50-4 $9.00—$10.00
They are light—
cool — comfortable,
and very stylish and
can be washed as
easily as your linen.
A variety of pat
terns to select from.
We also have Palm
Beach trousers.
Cool, light and
practical for tennis
and out door sports,
and very stylish
when worn with a
blue coat.
Straw hats in the
Popular Styles.
$1.00 to $6.00
O’Neill Clothing Co.
K. A. Pound ' L.E. Soukup
O’Neill .... Nebraska.
Sioux City-O’Neill Auto Route.
Wayne Herald: As an aftermath of
the meeting held in Allen a few weeks
ago to promote an automobile route
from Sioux City to O’Neill, and one
from Sioux City to Norfolk, delega
tions from northeast Nebraska towns
gathered in Wayne yesterday after
noon as previously arranged, to hear
and act upon reports of committees
chosen to select the most feasible lines.
Definite headway yv&s made. The
committees’ reports, fixing proposed
routes, were adopted, and suitable
markings determined.
The meeting, held in the city hall,
with towns of Wakefield, Hoskins, Em
erson, Wayne, Norfolk, Allen, Laurel,
Randolph and Belden represented,
was called to order by W. S. Hart of
Allen. E. Cunningham of Wayne was
elected chairman, and E. W. Huse of
Wayne secretary.
Following preliminary explana
tions, W. S. Hart, in behalf of the
committee chosen to select the route
from Sioux City to O’Neill, reported
in favor of a line touching Jackson,
Vista, Allen, Dixon, Laurel, Belden,
Randolph, Plainview, and from thence
to O’Neill. A motion to accept and
adopt the report excited some dis
cussion as to the permanency of the
decision. Mr. Parish, secretary of the
Norfolk commercial club, opposed the
proposed route, speaking in favor of
a route that would touch Norfolk.
Finally a vote was taken, each town
represented being entitled to one vote,
with the understanding that approval
meant definite location of the route.
The mation was carried with one
dessenting vote.
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posed Sioux City route, presented by
Fred S. Berry. The report proposed a
line touching Dakota City, Homer,
Emerson, Wakefield, Wayne, Winside,
Hoskins, and then on to Norfolk, and
was adopted by a vote of five to three.
These reports out of the way, the
question of properly marking the two
routes was considered and dicusssed.
A motion prevailed to mark the
Sioux City-Norfolk route with a six
inch circle around telephone polls, with
a ten-inch white mark underneath and
eight feet from the ground. A motion
carried to mark the Sioux City-O’Neill
route with a six-inch white circle
above eight inches of blue,
eight feet from the ground. Included
in the motion for marking each route
was provision for danger signals, in
dicating the direction of danger.
Danger signals are to be painted on
white boards, using four inch letters.
Towns touched by each route agree to
look after the markings according to
the understanding of the meeting.
The business for which the meeting
had been called having been trans
acted an adjournment was taken.
A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LOAN
company will be in this locality to
inspect loans within ten days. Money
ready when loan is accepted and
papers drawn. Have your application
ready. L. G. Gillespie, Agent. 51-tf