The Frontier
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MORE LOCAL MATTERS.
Farmers living in the vicinity oi
O’Neill receved during the year 1915
for produce, the enwmous sum of $43,
117.39, which was paid them in cash
by two produce dealers in this city
Zimmerman & Son and Yantzi & Son
Of this amount $39,247.51 was paic
out by Zimmerman & Son, which was
an increase of over $6,000 over theii
business for 1914. Yantzi & Son die
not commence business until Augusl
1st and they paid out for cream anc
poultry the sum of $3,869.88.
John Duncan of Fremont, Neb., ar
rived in the city last Tuesday night
and went down to Chambers Wednes
day to look after his real estate in
terests in the south country. John has
been a resident of the Dodge countj
metropolis for the past thirteen yeari
but Holt conuty still looks like th<
particular bright spot on the map t<
him, in fact it has looked so good thn'
he has held on to his real estate it
this county and owns five quarters o:
as good land as there is in the south
ern part of the county.
S. J. Weekes received a telegran
this morning announcing the death o
his sister-in-law, Mrs. Ellen Whitney
who passed away yesterday morninj
at the home of her parents in Omahi
of heart disease. Mrs. Whitney visitei
at the Weekes home in this city thi
winter and was taken down with a bai
cold and accompanied by her sister
Mrs. Weekes, left for the home of he:
parents in Omaha about two week:
ago. She had many friends in thi
city who will regret to learn of he
untimely death. Mr. Weekes wil
leave for Omaha tomorrow mornini
to attend the funeral, which will bi
held in Omaha Saturday.
Scarlet fever made its appearanci
last week in the families of Arthu
Ryan and I. N. Boggs. Their home:
were quarantined and every effor
put forward by the officers to preven
the spread of the disease. Thi
cnuuren, who naa me uisease, were no
very ill and have practically recovered
The health officers were of the opinioi
that on account of the great amount o:
scarlet fever throughout the countr;
that an ounce of preventation wa;
worth a pound of cure and for tha
reason decided to close the schools fo:
two weeks, the opera house, the mov
ing picture show and the skating rinl
and this order was put into effect las
Monday. The last case of scarle
fever made its appearance about tei
days ago and it seems as if it wa
headed off. Dr. Gilligan, who is thi
head of the health department of thi
city, is to be commended for thi
prompt action taken, which has pre
vented the spread of the disease.
Mrs. Rosa Knop, wife of Juliu
Knop, died at her home on the Gal
lagher farm east of this ciyt, Januar;
2,1916, at 2 o’clock, after an illness o
but a few hours of pneumonia. De
erased had been a sufferer fron
asthma for several years and on ac
count of her health the family held ;
public sale a few weeks ago and wer
going to move to Iowa, believing tha
a change of climate would be beneficia
to her. In fact the day her body wa
taken to Iowa for burial she intende
starting for there to visit friends whil
Mr. Knop and the boys were cleanin;
up here. Deceased leaves her husban
and two sons and a daughter, and a
adopted son and daughter, to mour
the death of a kind and loving wif
and mother. The children are: Fre
and Paul of this city, and Mrs. Ec
Ulrich of Charter Oak, Iowa, and Dor
and Arthur. The remains were ship
ped to the future home of the famil;
at Charter Oak, Iowa, for interment
accompanied by the family. Re\
William Ulrich of this city, pastor o
the Lutheran church of this city, o
which deceased was a member, ac
companied the remains to Iowa, as di
Mrs. George Ulrich and Miss Aim;
Ulrich of Charter Oak, Iowa, wbo ar
rived here Sunday night to attend th
funeral. Mrs. Knop was a ver
pleasant lady and had many friends i
this city who tender condolence to the j
bereaved family.
The Episcopal Church.
On account of the Scarlet Fever
quarantine there will be no Sunday
School or services in the Episcopal
Church for the next two weeks.
Claude R. Parkerson, Pastor.
The Vacuum Furnace.
Can be compared to th Ford Auto
mobile in business ability and up-keep,
but they are a greater necessity and
within the reach of every home owner.
30-2 William McCaffery, O’Neill.
The Gist of It.
“Last December I had a very severe
cold and was nearly dolvn sick in bed.
I bought two bottles of Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy and it was only a very
few days until I was compeletly re
stored to health,” writes O. J. Met
calf, Weatherby, Mo. If you would
know the value of this remedy, ask
any one who has used it. Obtainable
everywhere. 30-4
Notice.
The playing of cards in public
places, shaking dice, the operation or
sale of punch boards, or any game of
chance; also the frequenting of pool
rooms by minors is prohibited by law,
and violations of law in these respects
coming to my knowledge will be prose
cuted.
The operation of punch boards will
be prosecuted after January 10, 191*5.
I will expect information of these
violations from parents who take an
interest in the moral welfare of their
children.
W. K. HODGKIN,
29-2 County Attorney.
Educational Notes.
The next regular examination for
teachers will occur January 21 and 22,
1916. The life and city branches will
be given.
District No. 16, with Margaret Dor.
sey as teacher, gave an entertainment
and social at her school house the
: evening of November 23rd. With the
proceeds she bought a dictionary, dic
tionary stand, a picture and a flag.
Helen Robertson, a teacher in dis
i trict No. 80, reports a Christmas pro
gram and social at which time $16.60
was raised and a teacher's desk and
chair were purchased.
I Agnes Graham, who teaches in
District No. 23, north of Page, held a
’ Pie Social October 29th. Forty-seven
■ pies were sold which netted $28.10.
[ Maps, a chair, a waste-paper basket,
and a picture were bought with the
[ proceeds.
Minnie B. Miller, Co. Supt.
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Ewing Has Bad Fire.
( Fire started about noon Tuesday in
, the Nisonger restaurant and bakery
I and despite the hard work of the hose
r company the building was entirely
’ consumed. Some of the furniture and
fixtures only were saved and they were
more or less damaged. The fire, it is
| claimed, was caused from the explo
sion of a gasoline stove. The Jaco
\ furniture store on the east caught fire
' several times on the roof and only
' through the heroic efforts of the fire
! men was the building saved at all.
• Fortunately the wind in the northwest
’ was not very strong and to this fact
| is mainly due the fact that the flames
did not spread to the entire block. The
building belonged to W. W. Robbins of
! Elkhorn, Neb., and its destruction will
entail a loss of $1,500 or over. Whether
it was insured or not it could not be
learned. Mr. Jaco’s loss was confined
; to the roof of his building and the
■ lamage to his large stock of furniture
' by the water and its transfer from the
1 building to the sidewalk and street.
! This is the first fire Ewing has had foi
' several years and she certainly had a
! miraculous escape.
City Council.
O'Neill, Neb., January 5, 1916.
5 Council met in regular session.
■ Present, Mayor Dishner, Councilmer.
r Davis, Meredith, Mullen, Morrison and
f Ryan.
The minutes of the last meeting
1 were read and approved.
The reports of the City Treasurer,
1 City Weighmaster and City Water
• Rent Collector for the month of De
t cember were read, approved and
1 placed on file.
5 Upon motion the following claims
1 were allowed out of the general fund
s and warrants ordered drawn on the
City Treasurer to pay for the same.
1 O’Neill Transfer Co.$ 3.25
i Thos. F. Grady. 75.00
i Bazelman Lumber Co. 10.00
- Dennis Hanley . 8.00
i Lindquist & Palmer. 2.50
• McGinnis Creamery Co. 222.60
» Casper Uhl . 1.20
- H. J. Hammond. 24.15
f Chas. McManus . 1.00
. Moved and seconded that the
• mayor be instructed to employ a
f Special Policeman for three months at
f a salary of $50 per month.
The ayes and nays being called for
1 resulted as follows: Aye, Davis, Mor
i rison, Meredith, Ryan. Nay, Mullen.
Motion carried.
s Moved and seconded that we adjourn
r subject to the call of the mayor,
i H. J. Hammond, City Clerk.
AUTHOR OF “FORGED NOTE”
IN O’NEILL
Well Known Negro Writer is Paying
Holt County Metropolis a Visit.
NEXT NOVEL ON SCOTT TRAGEDY
And the Author is Touring North Ne
braska With the Purpose of Ac
quainting Himself with the Facts
and Also Displaying His New
Novel “The Forged Note”
Oscar Micheaux, the foremost Negro
Author, who has made his home for
the past twelve years on the Rosebud,
where he homesteaded and ranched, is
in O’Neill and expects to remain in the
city a week or ten days. Mr. Mich
eaux has many friends in Holt county
and is threrfore not altogether a
stranger, although this will be his first
visit to the county which is the scene
of the noted tragedy which he has
been interested in knowing the facts
about for many years. He has re
cently returned from a two years’ so
jurn in Dixie where he went during the
Leo M. Frank trial at Atlanta, Ga.,
to get color for his present work,
"THE FORGED NOTE.”
Although his trip to Dixie was in no
way connected with the famous case,
he happened in Atlanta during the
trial and heard the entire proceedings.
Morover, he remained in the southern
metropolis ten months after the trial
had closed and is fully acquainted with
the effort of the Jew Society to ex
tricate Frank, because he too, was a
Jew, from his very embarrassing pre
dicament. Mr. Micheaux is rather
surprised at the northern point of view
with regards to the case; for, in his
opinion, and that of any other person
who chanced to be in Georgia at the
time, and acquainted with the case, is
that Frank was guilty. Through his
intamacy with certain Negro detect
ives, retained in the case by W. J.
Burns, he portrays the Georgia ver
sion in the development of the plot of
“THE FORGED NOTE ”
"THE FORGED NOTE,” however,
in the main, is concerned with showing
the present condition of the Negro
after fifty years of Freedom. He por
trays, with vivid effect, that dreadful
condition of his race in the south what
is due largely to invironment. He is
expressly apt in the wit and humor
that is the Negro’s natural art. And
his ability to combine it with drama,
gives his novels a turn not found in
the pages of the usual contemporary
fiction.
As no question has caused as much
vital concern to our national welfare
as the Negro question, the people of
Holt county, as well as elsewhere, will
do well to secure and read a copy of
this unusual piece of fiction, and be
come intimately acquainted with the
condition of the American Negro as'
this story. Again, as novels by Negro
this story. Azain, as novels by Negro
Authors arc something that not every
person has had the privilege of read
ing, this opportunity should not be al
lowed to go by.
The author, it will be found, is a
congenial man to meet. Is young and
“perfectly” agreeable, and will be glad
to meet and become acquainted with
the people here as he has in other
places.—Adv.
Celebrate 60th Wedding Anniversary.
Page Reporter: Very seldom is it
given to a couple to celebrate their
60th wedding anniversary, but this has
been the privilege of Mr. and Mrs. G.
W. Hayne, pioneer and well known
residents of this place. The event was
celebrated on Tuesday of this week at
their home northwest of Page, and
about fifty people helped them to do
up the occasion right, all of the chil
dren and fourteen of the grandchildren
of Mr. and Mrs. Hayne were present.
There was also one great grand child
two and one-half years old who sang
“Put on your Old Gray Bonnet.” Also
a number of old neighbors and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Hayne were married
at Marshalltown, Iowa, December 28,
1865, and the marriage ceremony was
performed again fifty years from that
date, or December 28, 1915, the ring
ceremony being used. The groom’s
brother, D. M. Hayne and wife, attend
ed the bridal couple and Miss Helen
Anderson, a granddaughter, proceeded
them as ring bearer. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. J. E. Jones of
the Page M. E. church. Mrs. Jones
played the wedding march. The bride
was dressed in white silk trimmed
with gold.
After the ceremony a bounteous and
delightful dinner was served to the
many guests, the table being laden
with the best that able and efficient
housewives could produce. The table
cloth was white, embroidered in gold,
and was the present of two grand
daughters.
In 1882 the Hayne family moved to
the homestead now occupied by them
and have passed nearly thirty-four
years of their life there. They have in
the true pioneer way passed through
the lean years with the good ones, and
they are now able to enjoy the fruits
of their labors, and glad that they
stayed by the old place in the years
when it seemed impossible that they
could remain there longer.
Rev. and Mrs. Jones helped to en
tertain the guests, and Rev. Jones
gave them a short talk. During the
day many congratulations were re
ceived by mail and wire.
A large number of useful and
beautiful presents were showered on
Mr. and Mrs. Hayne to remind them
of the continued thoughtfulness and
love of their children, old friends and
neighbors.
This venerable old couple are get
ting pretty well up in years, but they
are hale and hearty and can well look
forward to the celebration of their
60th weddig anniversary, and many to
follow it.
With their children and friends, The
Reporter wishes for Mr. and Mrs.
Hayne many more happy years of
health and plenty in the home that is a
home in every sense that the word
implies.
For Sale—Not Donation.
The Fourth Estate: Space and
copies of his paper go to make up the
newspaper man’s stock in trade. These
two are all that he has to offer for sale
to the public, and no one has as yet
given any sort of satisfactory reasons
why he should ever be asked by any
one to donate them.
One thing newspaper people will
never be able to understand is why
any person will walk into a newspaper
office and make himself or herself an
object of charity and insist upon what
they would disdain to ask for in any
other shop or place of busienss in the
town. The principal is the same in
the newspaper office as in the dry
goods store, and what a great many
people need is to recognize it as the
same and get off the newspaper list.
Advertising space in the newspaper
is for sale, not to give away. It has a
certain value in itself that makes it
worth money. Copies of the news
paper are for sale—not to give away.
If they are worth having, they are
worth the exceedingly small price ask
ed for them.
The public, or at least a large por
tion of it, has some very erroneous
ideas about these matters and, it is
but just to the newspaper folk that
their ideas be corrected in accordance
with the same business principles that
prevail in all other business establish
ments. .
In a vast majority of cases this gen
erous charity on the part of the news
papers is blissfully taken for granted
and the paper’s liberality is abused.
That which is purely a favor is ac
cepted as a matter of course, and what
should be requests are couched as de
mands.
When the courtesy has been per
formed there is rarely appreciation
and more often dissatisfaction—gen
erally silence.
The result in many other towns and
cities is that a ban has been put upon
all free publicity, no matter what its
object—even upon church notices. In
these cities such favors as the press,
bestows are properly appreciated and
valued.
Summary of News Since Last Issue.
With a temperature of 24 degrees
below zero, Lander, Wyo., was the
coldest spot in the country Friday.
Weather Bureau reports showed a
cold area in the East, too, with 16 be
low at Northfield, Vt. Temperatures
were abnormally low in New England,
in the interior of New York, over the
Northwest and west of the Rocky
Mountains.
Because he refused to treat in honor
of his bride of a few days, twenty-five
young women, guests at a party near
Nameoki, 111., Thursday night, rode
Henry Thies of Madison, 111., on a rail
until he capitulated and decided to
buy. Thies is of an economical turn of
mind and when theyoung women, after
having congratulated him on his mar
riage, suggested that he provide re
freshments, he demurred. Thereupon
they overpowered him, carried him
from the house and seating him
astride a fence rail road him until he ■
was persuaded. The affair occurred at
the birthday party of L. H. Kahle. The
refreshments ran low after the guests
made merry for some time, which was
partly the cause of the demand on
Thies.
A wireless dispatch from Berlin
gives confirmation from an authora
tive source of the report that Emperor
William is suffering from a boil. The
Emperor is not confined to bed. His
affection is described as harmless.
“The unsettled weather makes it ap
pear advisable that the emperor should
keep to his room for a few days,” the
message continues, “His work has not
been interrupted. He receives his ra
ports daily in the usual way.’ ’
The United States wii'
for the loss of the Eur
the successful nations
won in spite of the
rector General John
in Washington F
educational sect!
American Scienti
America must b
European effort
dizement in thj
present war is
up the plan
Secretary Lansing to combine the
armies and navies of all the Americas
by the statement that to aggression
and violation of the Monroe doctrine
the nations of this hemisphere must
present a solid front in order to pre
serve their integrity.
—
The Gypsy gas well at Ardmore,
Ok., which was making 22,000,000 feet
from the last sand, has been shut in.
rhe company will drill in a new loca
tion in the same district.
The same team that drew the enemy
after them to the gates of Persia, have
aeen drawing the same enemy after
them to Saloniki. That they will
throw him back from Saloniki, as they
threw him back from Paris, is assured.
Gen. Sarrail, who was one of those
who commanded in front of Paris,
commands the allies in Greece, and
Gen. Castelnau, who also commended
at the battle of the Marne and is now
chief of staff of Gen. Joffre, has just
visited Saloniki. He was sent to go,
look and see. He reports that the
position now held by the allies is im
pregnable.
The Berlin Vorwarts announces the
arrest for high treason of ten German
Socialists, including a woman, named
Clara Zetkin. They are charged with
engaging in peace propaganda.
At a love feast at Indianapolis Fri
day, Indiana Republicans indorsed
Charles W. Fairbanks, former vice
president, for the Republican nomina
tion for president of the United States.
A.t the same meeting Edward P. Mor
row pledged to Fairbanks the delega
tion from Kentuckey at the National
Republican Convention in Chicago
next June.
Minister Schmedeman at Christiania
has advised the United States Depart
ment that the British Government had
released parcel post mail from the
United States to Norway and that all
packages would be forwarded to their
destination at once. The State De
partment’s protest to Great Britain
against the seizure of the United
States mail had not been completed
today.
A recent news item trom Kome
Italy, says: “There are strange and
suggestive contrasts in the Eternal
City during these war days, with the
soldiers of today marching and camp
ing among the monuments and ruins
if the soldiers of the pa^t. Today a
regiment of Italian cavalry came from
the Appian Way, passed the Palatine
Hill with the gaunt and caverous ruins
of the palaces of the Caesars, then
swung in a long circle around the Arch
of Constantine, passed the Coliseum
and the Forum, and then moved on
along the Tiber to the Crumbling ruin
of that bridge where Horatius held
back the Tarquin army.
In reply to the second American
Ancona note, the Austro-Hungarian
Government fully agrees with the
Washington cabinet that the sacred
laws of humanity should be taken into
account also in war, and emphisises
that in the course of this war it has
?iven numerous proofs of the most
aumane feelings. The Austro-Hun
garian Government, too, can positively
concur in the principle that enemy
private vessels, so far as they do not
lee or offer resistance, shall not be de
stroyed before the persons aboard are
secured. The assurance that the
United States Government attaches
.'alue to the maintenance of the exist
ing good relations between Austro
Hungary and the United States is
.varmly reciprocated by the Austro
Hungarian Government, which now, as
leretofore, is anxious to render these
relations still more cordial.”
More miles of railroad property
vere placed in receivers’ hands during
1915 than ever in the history of the
:ountry for one year, according to
J. F. McGRAW
Auctioneer
Phone Walnut 163, O’Neill.
Claimed dates carried in this space.
Jack Ernest’s Big Stock and Farm
Sale January 20; 10 miles north, 2Vi
miles west of O’Neill.
Date your Sales with me. Satisfac
tion Guaranteed. Six years actual ex
perience.
Reference: Any bank in Filmore
county, where I resided before coming
to O’Neill.
compilations of railroad statistics just
published by the Railway Age Gazette.
The figures also show that only 933
miles of new railroad were built this
year, the least number of miles built
in any one year for the last fifty
years.
The de facto government in Mexico,
headed by Gen. Carranza, has been
officially recognized by Germany.
The following figures show the esti
mated expenditure in each country
where German secret agents have
been at work: United States, $75,
000,000; Turkey, $70,000,000; Bul
garia, $25,000,000; Italy, $50,000,000;
Greece, $20,000,000; China, $20,000,
000; Sweden, $15,000,000; Rumania,
$15,000,000; Persia, $15,000,000; Spain,
$15,000,000; Holland, $10,000,000; Nor
way, $8,000,000; Denmark, $5,000,000;
Switzerland, $5,000,000; Argentine,$5,
000,000; Brazil, $5,000,000; Chile, $3,
000,000; Peru, $2,000,000. Total,
$363,000,000.
At Caldwell, N. J., Saturday two
young women were killed and a young L
man seriously injured while bob-sled- ™
ding. The victims were Miss Winifred
Daily and Miss Helen Vanderwater,
both of East Orange. Their com
panion, William Little, Jr., son of the
mayor of North Caldwell, is suffering
from internal injuries. The accident
occurred when the three were coasting
down a steep hill, and in an effort to
avoid a wagon, dashed into a telephone
P'de.
On the heels of the reply of the Aus
tro-Hungarian Government to the
American note regarding the Italian i
steamship Ancona comes the news of
the sinking of the Peninsular and Ori
ent liner Persia in the Mediterranean.
Most of the 160 pessengers on board
the ship and the 250 members of the
crew were lost. Robert N. McNeely,
American consul at Aden, and two
other Americans were on the liner
when it was sunk, but their fate is un
known. A dispatch to Lloyd’s says
only four boats got clear before the
Persia was sunk. In addition to Mc
Neely, the other Americans on the
Persia when she left London were
Charles H. Grant, who was on his way
to Bombay, and Edward Rose, a
schoolboy, who was on the way from
Denver to Gibralter. Grant come
from Boston, Mass. The message to
Lloyd’s says the Persia was on her
way from London to Bombay. She
was sunk at 1 o’clock Thursday after
noon in the Eastern Mediterranean, offj
the Isle of Crete. A message from tl]
Admiralty to the Peninsular
Orient Company makes the defin^
announcement that the Persia
torpedoed.
A great battle is being fod
Eastern Galicia. The Austro-C
armies, under Field Marsh!
Mackensen and Gen. Pflanger.j
engaged from the Pripet
Rumanian frontier, a
1,500,000 men. Onb
news of the fightb
but it is statedj
Austro
gress n<
as