The Frontier
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MORE LOCAL MATTERS.
Ryan Powers of Central City, Neb.,
was in the city the first of the week,
having been visiting his brother, who
lives on the Dishner farm northeast
of this city. This was Mr. Powers’
first visit to this county and he said
that he was very agreeably surprised
at the appearance of this section of
the state. He said he expected to find
a desert country up here and instead
he finds one of the finest looking and
most prosperous appearing sections of
the state that he has ever visited.
Crops in this country are just as far
advanced and look as good as they do
in his section.
C. W. Morgan, who lives two miles
north of the old Mineola posttoffice,
was in the city Tuesday and had some
sale bills printed in this office for a
public sale which he will hold at his
place on August 19th. Mr. Morgan
said that a very disastrous hail storm
visited that section of the county last
Saturday morning, cleaning everything
in its path. The storm covered a
strip of country three miles wide and
extended from Scottville to Middle
Branch, about twenty miles. He said
that he knew of twenty farmers in
north and northeastern Holt that lost
practically all their crops.
Herman Rash, a young man twenty
four years old, of Osceola, Neb., was
arrested by Sheriff Grady last Monday
at Dustin and brought to this city.
The young man was demented and
people in that section notified the
sheriff as they were afraid he might
harm some one. The young man
wandered from his home at Osceola,
Neb., leaving there fourteen days ago
and it is supposed that he walked the
entire distance, as he was without
money and with very little clothing
when found. This is the second time
the young man wandered from home
and he will now probably be placed in
an asylum. Sheriff Potter of Osceola
arrived in the city last night and took
him back to Osceola with him this
morning.
E. C. Henkle, township clerk, Otto
Neilson, township treasurer, Charles
Mitchel, justice of the peace and John
Damero, one of the prosperous farm
ers of Saratoga township, were in the
city last Wednesday seeking advice
regarding the disposition of the funds
of Saratoga township, part of which
are claimed by the new township of
Coleman, which was cut off from Sara
toga township last winter. The taxes
were levied for Saratoga township and
paid to the treasurer of Saratoga
ALUMINUM WARE
One and one-half quart Kettle.$' .15
Two quart Kettle.25
Three quart Kettle.40
One and one-half quart Sauce Pan.20
Two quart Sauce Pan.25
Three quart Sauce Pan. 40
| One and one-half quart Pudding Pan.15
Two quart Pudding Pan.25
Three quart Pudding Pan.40
Jelly Cake Pan or Pie Pan.15
Large Dipper.25
Two quart Percolator.$1.75 and 1.50
Three quart Pecrolator. 2.00
Six quart Berlin Kettle with Cover.1.50
Eight quart Berlin Kettle with Cover. 1.75
The Racket Store
F. Bowen.
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township. The officers of Coleman
township have asked the officers of
Saratoga for the portion of the taxes
that were collected in the township of
Coleman, but the officers are of the
opinion that they have no legal
authority to turn the money over, as
they might be held liable on their
official bonds for the money so turned
over. Saratoga township has the
money while Coleman township has
none and the officers of the former
township will probably wait for an
order of court before turning any of
the funds over to the officers of Cole
man township.
Queer Quirks of News.
Harlan, Kas.—Mable Hammond, 26,
who weighed 800 pounds, is dead of
stomach trouble. When she attended
school, it was necessarry to enlarge
the school house door. Her younger
sister weighs 500 pounds and is grow
ing. Their parents are normal.
Milwaukee, Wis.—“Snooky’,’ a can
ary belonging to Mrs. Whitbeck, flew
out of his cage and disappeared. Two
months later, he chirped and pecked
at the window pane until the window
was opened, and he flew back into his
prison. His head was scarred from
attacks by other birds.
Farrell, Pa.— The world famous
“Damm" family bids fair to lose its
prestiage to the “Hell” family of this
place. Conrad Hell, father, is an ice
cream manufacturer. His signs read
“Go to Hell for Ice Cream.” Over
his place of business he has a painting
showing a man and girl eating ice
cream. The girl is saying: “Hell
for mine, always.” In German the
word means “clear” and has no con
nection with brimstone and everlast
ing fire.
Belfield, N. D.—As the minister in
a local church said solemnly: “For
verily the wrath of God shall descend
upon the nation for this war,” the
church was startled by a terriffic
“Bang! Crash! Bang!” Some boys
had tied an assortment of tin cans to
a dog’s tail and the dog made straight
for the pulpit down the church aisle.
The congregation was panic stricken.
Chicago, 111.— Henry Toberg, the
world’s richest street ear conductor,
recently took his first vacation since
1887. He is worth $250,00.00 and still
works on a car. He owns stock in the
Chicago Railway company which pays
him four times his annual wage. He
also owns other valuable stock, a hotel
and a number of apartment buildings.
He has been a conductor 40 years.
Philadelphia, Pa.—Albert Hill, 69,
known as the “laughing grave digger,”
after digging a grave and smoothing
it ready to receive a coffin, suddenly
raised his shovel overhead, muttered
a hurried good-by to his assistant and
fell dead in the grave he had dug.
The Real Thing.
It appears that at the rehersal of a
play a wonderful climax had been
reached, which was to be heightened
by the effective use of the usual
thunder and lightning. The stage
carpenter was given the order. The
words were spoken, and instantly a
noise which resembled a succession of
pistol shots was heard off the wings.
“What on earth are you doing,
man?” shouted the manager, rushing
behind the scenes. “Do you call that
thunder ? It’s not a bit like it.”
“Awful sorry, sir,” responded the
carpenter; “but the fact is, sir, I
couldn’t hear you because of the storm
That was real thunder, sir.”—Pitts
burgh Chronicle Telegraph.
She Was Wanted.
A few days ago a “business per
sonal” appeared in a newspaper, in
serted by a sweet, little woman, made
helpless by rheumatism, who asked
simply “if anyone wanted a grand
mother.” Then she spent a troubled,
sleepless night, wondering if anyone
would see her ad, or, seeing, give it
heed. The world was due to jeer and
sneer—but it didn’t. The next day,
from all over the state, came offers
to the little grandmother. Several
hurried to the address given, to find
themselves too late, for at sunrise a
widow with a little daughter had
“adopted” a mother for herself and a
grandmother for her little one. And
more: Offers of financial assistance
poured in, and physicians offered free
medical service for her rheumatism.
So, at eventide, the sun which had
risen on a sad and hopeless woman,
shed its rays upon, a countenance
wreathed in smiles and eyes that shone
again with hope.
Weekly Weather Forecast.
For week beginning Wednesday.
July 21: Moderate temperatures and
generally fair weather the first half
of the week; the latter half will be
warmer and generally fair, except that
widely scattered thunder showers are
probable.
Old Settlers Picnic.
The Old Settlers Picnic will be held
at Stein’s Grove, sixteen miles north
of O’Neill, on Thursday, August 19th.
All concessions will be let to the
highest bidder and bids to be in the
hands of the committee on or before
July 24th.
R. D. Spindler, Meek,
D. Harrison, Black Bird,
J. C. Stein, Meek,
Committee.
The North East.
Miss Jeannette Derickson will teach
the Knoxville school the coming term.
A. R. Wertz has been at' Stuart
lately visiting his brother, John, who
is sick.
Simeon Cole has been having the
JORDAN’S STORE NEWS.
We have made another big cut on an article that you
are all interested in and that is Automobile tires. We are
going to sell first grade Standard tiers for the following
prices: Ford front tires, $7.75; Ford rear tires, $10.10.
Every tire strictly guaranteed. You won’t have to send
away to buy tires right from now on. McCaffery, Philips
and Cavanaugh bought Sampson wind mills this week.
Do you suppose they would have bought them of a Guy
like me if these mills and prices are not right. Don’t buy
your Aluminum ware of these fellows that are here today
and there tomorrow. We can meet their prices and your
money is left here at home where you can get another
crack at it. This also holds good when it comes to ranges
You can buy just as good a range right hear at home for
$20.00 less money than you can buy them of these wagon
men.
Have you an idea what it costs to sell ranges from
wagons?
Harry G. Jordan.
Be a Booster.
Omaha Trade Exhibit: A live news
paper and a live town almost always
go together. You seldom see a really
live town without at least one live
newspaper there, and you still more
rarely see a live newspaper in a dead
town. The newspaper reflects the
town more surely than almost any
other institution. It takes live mer
chants to support a live newspaper.
It takes a live newspaper to help a
live merchant and make his patronage
profitable. Many merchants would
like to advertise, so they say, if they
had the right kind of medium, and
many of them are right in that they
do not have. Many newspaper men
say they cannot afford to improve
their papers because they do not get
enough patronage from the business
men of the town. A good, live news
paper is one of the town’s best ad
vertisements. It will inevitably draw
trade to the town. When the people
living in the vicinity of the town gets
a live newspaper once or twice a week,
filled with news and ads, of the stores,
it is bound to create a desire to visit
that town and when the visit is made
sales result. Help your local papers
all you can, all good business judg
ment will allow, and go a little further
if business possibilities are there.
Encourage your paper to help the
town. Frown on the pessimism and
applaud the booster spirit, the intelli
gent boosting, not the effervescent
kind that is all hot air and bluff. Talk
about good roads, booster days, fall
festivals, fairs, chautauquas, and
what not, nothing equals a good, live
newspaper supported by good, live
merchants for a steady, every-day-in
the-week, genuine, permanent help to
a town and its merchants.
Our Own Little Town.
If you meet a man who is down in
the mouth, who thinks that his town is
all wrong; just take him aside or
give him a ride, and hand him this
little song. “There are fancier towns
than our own little town, there are
towns that are bigger than this; and
the people who live in the tinier towns
all the city excitement will miss.
There are things you can see in the
wealthier town that you can’t in the
town that is small; and yet up and
down there is no other town like our
little town after all. It may be that
the street through the heart of our
town isn’t long, isn’t wide, isn’t
straight; but the neighbors you know
in our little town with a welcome your
coming will wait. In the glittering
streets of the glittering town with its
palaces and pavement and thrall; in
the midst of the throng you’ll
frequently long for our own little
town after all. If you live and work
and trade in our town in spite of the
fact that it’s small, you’ll find that the
town—our own little town—is the best
kind of a town after all.—Auxvasse,
Mo., Review.
ALL TIRED OUT.
Hundreds More in O’Neill in the Same
Plight.
Tired all the time;
Weary and worn out night and day;
Back aches; head aches,
Your kidneys are probably weak
ened.
You should help them at their work.
Let one who knows tell you how.
E. Bartling, Creighton, Neb., says:
‘I was so bad with my back that I
souldn’t get up without catching hold
if something for support. At night I
;ould hardly rest on account of a dull,
lagging backache. I also had trouble
with the kidney secretions, which at
imes were too frequent, then again
scanty. I had headaches and dizzy
spells and I was tired nearly all the
;ime. Doan’s Kidney Pills finally
:ured me. I have been free from
sidney complaint since.”
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
:ured Mr. Bartling. Foster-Milburn
2o., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.
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Announcement!
The National Piano Co. of Boston, have opened a Piano store in Warner’s
furniture department, which will be called The National Piano Co., of O’Neill,
Nebraska. The people of Holt county are invited to come in and see the in
struments which are now on display. You will get factory prices on these
Pianos, so come in and buy now. Benches, Music Cabinets, Stools, Scarfs and |
I second hand Pianos and Organs for sale also.
Archie Bowen, Me^ne^ger
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ill luck of having a very severe felon
on one of his fingers.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hunter were out
from O’Neill visiting at their son’s,
F. P. Hunter, lately.
The Mills young folks from Meadow
Grove have been visiting their sister,
Mrs. Ona Theiroff lately.
Some hail fell during the storm of
the 17th and ’Some damage done to
crops around Star, several being dam
aged quite severely.
George Hudson’s orchard is loaded
to the limit this year, as are also all
the orchards near here, in fact all
that were well cared for.
The new school house at Dorsey is
showing up fine and will no doubt be
ready for occupancy by September 1.
It will be about the best country school
in the county, costing near $1,500.00.
Ross Emerson is finishing about as
nice a little farm house as one need
look for, on his farm east of here.
Such improvements certainly make a
very great difference in the appearance
of the country.
The Star base ball team has been
doing business lately, winning the long
end of the money at Verdigris the
4th against Monowi, then losing on
the 11th by a 3 to 7 score and winning
against Minneola the 18th by 7 to 8.
We hear that Lee Brady has bought
the John Binkerd 320 acre farm. Lee
has certainly used good judgment in
picking out a farm, as this is one of
the best ones in Holt county and is
also well improved, with good new
buildings, lots of trees and a nice
orchard.
Small grain and hay is certainly a
fine crop this season, but we are very
much afraid that unless the fall season
is very favorable that corn will be a
light crop, as it is too small now to
make a good crop. The late spring
and so much rain not only made it
small and late but very many acres
washed out and washed under.
The funeral of the late W. J.
Sprague was very largely attended,
all his old friends and neighbors thus
paying their last respect to him. Mr.
Sprague was one of the very oldest
settlers in the Dorsey neighborhood,
having lived on his farm near Dorsey
almost forty years. An old soldier
and a man of the utmost integrity he
had held the liking and respect of all
who knew him. He was laid to rest
in the Dorsey cemetary where many
of his old comrades and neighbors are
now buried.
Mrs. L. H. Grady of Calgary,
Alberta, has been here visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Philips,
the past month and started for Cal
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O’Neill Clothing Co.
K. A. Pound L. E. Soukup
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A BARN WITHOUT BOARDS.
A carpenter would not think of building a barn
without boards—would he? And he doesn’t simply
order boards and leave it go at that. He selects the
kinds of wood he needs, the proper lenghts and thick
nesses. Yet isn’t it a fact that you are attempting to
erect the Building which is to hold your Fortunes |
without a bank account ? You can no more do it than
a carpenter can build a barn without boards. And in
the selection of a Bank that is to be YOUR Bank it i9
essential to your success that you choose one that
will give you personal attention. If such a Bank ap
peals to you, may we have your business?
This bank carries no indebtedness of officers or stock holders and we
are a member of THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK.
Capital, surplus and undivided profits $95,000.00.
THE O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA.
gary a few days ago. Mrs. Grady is
a native of Holt county and was mar
ried at O’Neill three years ago to L.
H. Grady, who is connected with the
Canadian Credit Men’s Asociation of
Winnipeg. Mrs. Grady says that
there seems to be fully as much talk
and excitement over the European war
here in Nebraska as in Alberta, ex
cept that enlistment is going on there
and much movement of troops and
war supplies.
Inman Items.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lord of Page
were visiting J. E. Candee and family
Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Helen Robertson of Meek was .
visiting Miss Elsie Krenger from last J
Thursday until Saturday.
Mrs. Geo. Klinetobe and children of
Norfolk are here visiting relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Davis and
children of Stanton were Inman
visitors last week.
Mick Coleman, Leo Mossman and
Hank Fowler went back to Meadow .
Grove Sunday to resume work with '
the bridge gang.
J. E. Candee and Laurence Malone
returned from Alton, Kansas,last Wed
nesday. They report lots of water in
Kansas, whole fields of wheat are
beginning to fall and in many places
there were whole fields with not a
thing on them but water. They prefer
old Holt yet a while.