The
Reward
In Cold Cash
Make your hens proud of their poultry house.
They can’t say “Thank you,” of course, but they'll
lay more eggs summer and winter. And that’s what
you are interested in most of all.
Face the poultry house towards the south and be liberal
with the windows. Then you’ll have a well-ventilated and
sunny building which is the first requirement.
Avoid a damp‘location—let the poultry house be “high and
dry.” If a sand or dirt floor is used, it should be changed fre
quently. Don’t overlook a single detail.
Make a wise selection of material for your new building. ■
S We will help you if you give us the word.
O. O. Srvyder, O’Neill
(First Publication November 11.)
SHERIFF’S SALE.
By Virtue of an Order of Sale, di
rected to me from the Clerk of the
District Court of Holt County, Ne
braska, on a judgment obtained before
R. R. Dickson, Judge of the District
Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Dis
trict in and for Holt County, Nebraska,
on the 21st day of October, 1915, in
favor of George L. Roberg, as Plain
„ tiff, and against Henry D. Grady, as
Sheriff of Holt County, Nebraska, De
Roy Austin, and William B. Brown, as
Defendants, for the sum of Twenty
One Hundred Dollars, and No Cents,
and costs taxed at $141.65 and accru
ing costs, I have levied upon the fol
lowing Goods and Chatties property of
De Roy Austin and William B. Brown,
to satisfy said Order of Sale, to-wit:
/ One Stock of General Merchandise
^ * owned by the Defendants De Roy
™ Austin and William B. Brown situated
in the Store Building known as the
Roberg Building in the Village of
Page, Holt County, Nebraska,
And will offer the same for sale to
the highest bidder for cash, in hand,
on the 23rd day of November, A. D.,
1915, at the Roberg Store Building in
the Village of Page, Holt County, Ne
braska, at the hour of 10 o’clock A. M.,
of said day, when and where due at
tendance will be given by the under
signed.
Dated at O’Neill, Holt County, Ne
braska, this 11th day of November,
1915.
H. D. GRADY,
21-2' Sheriff of Said County.
(First publication November 11.)
E. H. Whelan, Attorney, O’Neill, Neb.
MASTER COMMISSIONER’S SALE.
By Virtue of an Order of Sale, di
rected to me from the Clerk of the
District Court of Wayne County, Ne
braska, on a judgment obtained in the
District Court of Wayne County, Ne
braska, in the February, 1915, regular
term thereof, in favor of William B.
Brown, as Plaintiff, and against De
Roy Austin, as Defendant, for the sum
of Twenty-Six Hundred Dollars, and
costs taxed at $20.00 and accruing
costs, I have levied upon the following
personal property taken as the prop
erty of said Defendant, to satisfy said
Order of Sale, to-wit: All the fixtures
located in the general store building
known as the George L. Roberge Store
in the Village of Page, County of Holt
and State of Nebraska,
And will offer the same for sale to
the highest bidder for cash, in hand,
on the 23rd day of November, A. D.,
1915, in front of said George L. Ro
berge Store in the Village of Page,
Holt County, Nebraska, at the hour of
10 o’clock. A. M. of said day, when and
where due attendance will be given by
the undersigned.
Dated at O’Neill, Nebraska, Novem
ber 10, 1915.
H. M. UTTLEY,
21-2 Special Master Commissioner.
Government Crop Report.
Washington, D. C., November 8,
1915.—A summary of preliminary
estimates of crop production, and
prices, for the State of Nebraska and
for the United States, compiled by the
Bureau of Crop Estimates (and trans
mitted through the Weather Bureau),
U. S. Department of Agriculture, are
as follows:
CORN.
State—Estimate this year 212,0000,
000 bushels, final estimate last year
173,950, 0000; price November 1 to
producers 53 cents per bushel, year
ago 60 cents.
United States—Estimate this year
3,090,000,000 bushels, final estimate
ago 2,673,000,000; November 1 price
61.9 cents, year ago 70.6 cents.
WHEAT.
State—-Estimate this year 75,035,
000 bushels, final estimate last year
68,116,000; price November 1 to pro
ducers 84 cents per bushel, year ago
92 cents.
United States—Estimate this year
1.002.000. 000 bushels, final estimate
last year 891,000,000; November 1
price 93.1 cents, year ago 97.2 cents.
OATS.
Stae—Estimate this year 69,60,000
bushels, final estimate last year 69,
600,000; price November 1 to pro
ducers 29 cents per bushel, year ago
39 cents.
United States—Estimate this year
1.517.000. 000 bushels, final estimate
last year 1,141,000,000; November 1
price 34.9 cents, year ago 42.9 cents.
BARLEY.
State—Estimate this year 3,496,000
bushels, final estimate last year 2,656,
000; price November 1 to producers 34
cents, per bushel, year ago 42 cents.
United States—Estimate this year
is 236,682,000 bushels, final estimate
last year 194,953,000; November 1
price 50.1 cents, year ago 51.7 cents.
POTATOES.
State—Estimate this year 12,300,000
bushels, final estimate last year, 9,
440,000; price November 1 to pro
ducers 40 cents per bushel, year ago
57 cents.
United States—Estimate this year
359.000. 000 bushels, final estimate last
year 405,921,000; November 1 price
60.8 cents, year ago 52.8 cents.
APPLES.
State—Estimate this year 1,270,000
barrels, final estimate last year 400,
000 barrels; price October 15 to pro
ducers $2.10 per barrel, year ago $3.
United States—Estimate this year
76,700,000 barrels, final estimate last
year 84,400,000 barrels; price October
15 to producers $2.14 per barrel, year
ago $1.79.
More detailed data concerning crop
production, quality, and prices will be
published in the “Monthly Crop Re
port’’ of the U. S. Department Agri
culture.
Distress in the Stomach.
There are many people who have a
distress in the stomach after meals.
It is due to indigestion and easily
remedied by taking one of Chamber
lain’s Tablets after meals. Mrs.
Henry Padgham, Victor, N. Y., writes:
“For some time I was troubled with
headache and distress in my stomach
after eating, also with constipation
About six months ago I began taking
Chamberlain’s Tablets. They regula
ted the action of my bowels and the
headache and other annoyances ceased
in a short time.” Obtainable every
where. 21-4
Meek and Blackbird Items.
Everybody seems to be busy in the
corn field.
A fine time was reported by all who
attended the Hallow’een social at the
Meek school house Saturday night.
Andrew and Charlie Larson in com
pany with Misses Ruth Borg and Ad
die Hubby were seen autoing toward
^"silver plate
Of the first quality has all the beauty of
Sterling and will be just as servicable up to
the limit of its long life. See our new
1 patterns.
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j We invite you to visit us and inspect our
stock frequently, whether you want one
piece or a dozen.
JOHN W. HIBER, O’Neill
Jeweler and Optometrist.
THE LOT THAT
HAS NO RAILING
There is in a Turkish cemetary a lot
which is said to have an iron grate,
with a large gate and lock, but no
railing around it. The mere magni
tude of a building affords to de
positors no more protection than the
locked gate without a railing protects
that lot from vandals. The strength
of our Bank is not in bricks and stone
—but in the character of the men who
direct its affairs with a conservatism
that admits of no variation—a con
servatism that is adhered to for the
absolute safety of everyone of its de
positors, great as well as small.
—Wholly irrespective of
the size of their deposits
we welcome men and wo
men who seek a conserva
tive Bank.
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.
O’Neill last Sunday.
Mrs. Geo. Hanson called on Mrs.
Hubby last Sunday.
Miss Helen Spindler, who is attend
ing school in O’Neill, is spending a few
days with her brother and family.
Jim Hoyer and family, Wesley
Goodfellow and family, Otto Clevish
and family, Ed Hubby and famliy,
Horace Rouse and Ralph Bell were
visitors at Eric Borgs’ Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Pinkerman and
son visited at Redbird Sunday.
Miss Edith Rouse and Mr. Young
were seen traveling toward Scottville
Sunday evening.
Herbert Rouse and sister, Maude,
and Mary Henifen visited at Frank
Griffith’s Sunday.
Inman Items.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Van
Every last Saturday, a baby girl.
Mrs. Chas. Enders was an O’Neill
visitor from Friday until Sunday.
Mrs. D. P. McGrane and children of
Norfolk visited at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Smith, a
few days last week.
Mrs. Garry Benson of Ewing visited
her parents this week.
Mrs. Nancy Herman and two chiU
dren of Venus, Neb., visited relatives
in Inman last week.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Sharp are mov
ing their household furniture to the
depot this week where they will make
their future home.
Mr. Earl Lord was over from Page
Monday with a load of buckwheat.
Deville Butler of Ewing was in In
man Monday.
Mrs. O. A. Bowen who spent the
past' week at the home of her mother,
returned to her home at Wayne last
Tuesday.
Corn Acreage.
The acreage devoted to corn in Ne
braska will exceed 6,908,000 acres as
against 6,530,000 in 1914. Reports of
the condition of the crop will soon be
tabulated by the Nebraska State
Board of Agriculture.
Kind Providence.
“I want you to write me an obituary
on the old lady,” said the rural sub
scriber to the editor.
“Sorry to hear of your loss.”
“Well, Pm not kickin’ ag’in Provi
dence.”
“Oh, of courst not. Well, how old
was she?”
“She never did tell.”
“Of a retiring disposition, was she?”
“No, sir—she'was mightily in evi
dence at all times.”
“Well, my friend, what on earth am
I to say?”
“Oh, jes say that she was took away
by Providence, an’ Providence knows
its business.”
A Thanksgiving Reverie.
I’d like to spend Thanksgiving day
back home—back on the farm, where
every homely object holds the old
familiar charm; I’d like to see the old
red barn, ’neath whose projectin’ roof
bedraggled farmyard gentry oft from
drenching held aloof, where in the dim
light of the mow, amid the fragrant
hay, with pigeons cooin’ in the eaves,
a boy, I used to play.
Ter see the windmill once agin, and
hear its ghostly cleak, would ease my
heart, and speedin’ bring the dear,
fond, memories back.
I’d like to see the patient kine await
in’ the hired man, an’ dippin’ muggy
noses in the pails of moistend bran.
I’d like to see the well-fed cats that
used to haunt the place, and have the
ever-friendly dog yearn up into my
face—I’d like to take the old flint-lock,
an’ go out arter quail, er, mebby, nigh
the hazel copse, scare up a cotton-tail.
An’ smell again the savory smells of
mince and pumpkin’ pies, an’ stuff yer
self with white-meat so’s yer most too
full ter rise.
But, no—I’ll call a taxicab, and dine
at some cafe, where there’s a decent
orchestra, or lively cabaret; I wasn’t
brought up on the farm; with me it
ne’er agreed—I only wrote this verse
because it’s what folks like to read.
An Editor’s Dream.
Here is something from the Ne
braska Farm Magazine that will give
farmers something to think about:
“At Crete, Neb., is a farmers’ ele
vator company with 192 members.
This company has been doing a suc
cessful business for a number of years
During the crop moving season they
have to borrow money of the Crete
banks.
“They pay at least 7 per cent inter
est. The loans have to be renewed
every ninety days, unless they are
paid off sooner.
“The editor became curious as to
the value of the combined assets of
these 192 farmers. The report of the
United States census shows the value
of land for Saline county, Nebraska,
$86.05 per acre, and the average value
of all property at $17,174 per farm.
Multiplication revealed that these 192
co-operating average farmers have as
sets of a total value of $3,297,408.
“This led to another investigation.
Curiosity stimulated a desire to know
something about the assets of all the
banks in Saline county. The returns
of the banks of Saline all of these
banks a capital stock of $200,500, de
posits of $713,189.13, and total re
sources of $1,282,013.56. Simple arith
metic brings out that these 192 far
mers in a local co-operative elevator
company of Crete alone have individ
ual assets of the most stable charac
ter on earth, which all combined would
amount to a value of $2,015,394 more
than those of all banks in that
county.
“This is but one co-operative ele
vator of a number in Saline county.
It is but one of something over 200
in the State of Nebraska.
“The editor figured over this thing
until he fell asleep and had a dream
about those 192 farmers getting to
gether upon a real business basis.
Instead of hiring a few bankers to
take care of their money for them,
they took care of it for themselves,
and kept the interest in their own
pockets. Instead of ‘Amortizing’ their
farms for fifty years and leaving their
grandchildren to bear the burden they
used their own resources and their
own business common sense and had
plenty of money for all of their needs.
Just as the elusive God of Sleep had
gotten this dream into the befuddled
intellect of the editor he woke up.”
W. C. T. U. COLUMN.
Edited by the Ladies of the Local
W. C. T. U.
Push This Idea Along.
Colliers: A Pennsylvania man was
killed as a result of his intoxication.
A judgment for $1,000 damages in
favor of his widow has been upheld by
;he higher court against the saloon
weeper who furnished the intoxicating
iquors to the deceased. When the
nan left the barroom of the defendant,
iccording to the evidence, he was in a
lelpless condition. The widow’s right
;o recover against the saloon keeper
vas found on an old act of the Penn
sylvania Legislature which provided
;hat any person furnishing intoxica
ting drinks to any other person in vio
ation of any existing law should be
leld civilly responsible for injury to
person or property in consequence. An
ict passed in 1887 by the same Legis
;ature provided that “it shall be un
awful for any person, with or without
license, to furnish by sale, gift, or
otherwise, to any person any spiritous,
vinous, malt, or brewed liquors to a
minor, or to a person of known intern
perate habits, or to a person visibly
iffected by intoxicating drinks, either
for his own use or for the use of an
other person.” This is one way of
reaching the reckless and unconscion
able saloon keeper who continues to
furnish liquor to the man who has al
ready indulged beyond his capacity.
Mrs. Rood of Lincoln will speak on
Temperance, Sabbath evening in the
M. E. church. She will also address
the ladies Saturday evening at Mrs.
Naylor’s. All who are interested in
temperance are invited to come.—By
Order of Committee.
Nebraska Notes.
John Fowler, recently of the state
penitentiary of Iowa, is now a guest of
Sheriff Quintin at the Cass county jail,
where he was confined Tuesday evening
after having been arrested on a
forgery charge.
The Ericson Journal, heretofore pub
lished by A. C. Bell, has been sold by
Mr. Bell to J. Berney of Bartlett,
editor of the Wheeler County Inde
pendent. Mr. Berney will now have
charge of the only two papers in
Wheeler county.
Several Ericson boys arraigned be
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fore Police Judge Arrants Monday on
a charge of disturbing the peace and
other things on Halloween eve. They
demanded an attorney and the trial
was postponed until Tuesday of next
week.
The new automobile road between
Fairbury and Washington, Kan., has
been put in first class condition. Jef
ferson county has spent nearly $1,000
in making this road among the hills
passable, and the Kansas people are
extending the work from the state
line on to Washington.
Thomas Parson, janitor at the Elks
lodge room of Falls City, was taken
sick on Saturday with smallpox, but
was on duty at the rooms Sunday.
City Physician E. H. Hays says the
case is very pronounced. He placed
the rooms under quarantine until they
were thoroughly fumigated.
Joseph Hathaway, living about five
miles southeast of Murry, Cass county,
while butchering Tuesday, attempted
to unharness his horses. One became
wild from the smell of blood and kick
ed, cutting him in many places, break
ing one ankle in two places, and one
forearm. An auto was secured and he
was rushed to St. Joseph’s hospital at
Omaha.
The sum of $50,000 has been pledged
for a new hotel or the remodeling of
the Eno hotel at Sixth ahd Broad
streets, Fremont. The proposition will
be submitted to the hotel committee of
the Commercial club and it is believed
hat this fund will furnish the nucleus
for the $100,000 that it is proposed to
employ in an improvement of Fremont
hotel facilities.
The six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Victor Holm, residing four miles
northwest of Wahoo, was instantly
killed by a team running away yester
day afternoon. A hired man and the
little boy were riding to town upon the
running gears of a wagon, when an
automobile approached from behind
frightening the team. The driver re
ceived severe bruises.
Roy Watson of Ponca, was shot
twice in the head at 10 p. m. Tuesday
by Mrs. John Kneiflf, a farmers wife,
living between there and New Castle.
Watson had been working on the Kneiflf
place for some time. During the ab
sence of the husband Watson attacked
the wife. He was brought here late
last night and is lying at the point of
death.
Congressman D. V. Stephens, speak
ing before the Fremont Woman’s club
yesterday afternoon, advocated a
form of government for both state
and city in which control would be
vested in a board of efficiency man
agers, such as the directors of a cor
poration. Mr. Stephens would remove
theses managers from the people as
Real Estate & Insurance
Will Sell or Rent your place, or J
locate one for you. Insure farm
and city property against fire,
lightning and tornado. Live i
stock against death in any man
ner.
Health, accident and life fh the
strongest companies in the
world. Surety bonds and plate
glass insurance.
Call and see me, will be glad to
talk it over.
J. C. MURPHY, O’Neill. !
O’Neill Transfer Co.
Merriman & Son, Prop.
All Work
Promptly
Attended To
Phone 210 Res. Phone 48
far as possible by having them select- !
3d by three delegates in each con
gressional district for the state and by
the councils in the cities.
Falling from the roof of a garage
which he was erecting at his home at
Hastings, A. R. Pearson, early settler
and prominent retired farmer, suffered
a dislocation of his left hip and is in a
critical condition at a local hospital.
DOWNWARD COURSE.
FastBeing Realized by O’Neill People. jj
A little backache at first. \
Daily increasing till the back is
lame and weak.
Urinary disorders may quickly fol- ;
low;
Dropsy and often Bright’s disease.
This frequently is the downward
course of kidney ills. !
Don’t take this course, O’Neill resi
dents should profit by the following \
experience.
Mrs. E. E. Dewey, Neligh, Neb.
says: “My trouble was of a dropsical
nature. I had a severe attack.' My |
face became so badly swollen that I
could hardly see. My limbs, feet and
hands also swelled and I could not
wear my shoes. One of the family had
used Doan’s Kidney Pills and had
found them very effective, so I got
some. They soon made an improve
ment and before I had taken one box,
the swelling had disappeared.”
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that ,
Mrs. Dewey had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Props., Buffalo, N. Y.
Is Winter’s
Greatest Comfort
MERRiMAN & HARTY
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