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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1916)
B jRONTIER. VOLUME XXXVII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1916. NO. 8. LOCAL MATTERS. Supervisor Hank Tomlinson is now driving a new Overland car. Jack Horiskey went to Omaha Tues day morning for a short visit with friends. John Murray was on the South Omaha market Wednesday with a fine aiWBO JO pBO| George Harrington was up from Neligh over Sunday visiting with his folks and friends. William Graver and S. W. Green were up from Ewing yesterday after noon. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Rabeck motored to Long Pine Wednesday for a week’s enjoyment of camp and cottage life. Miss Sadie Brion of Ewing was in the city last week visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Schmidt. Editor Templeton and wife of Page were in attendance at the chautauqua last Friday evening. J. V. Sullivan came up from Fre mont Wednesday afternoon to attend the funeral of his uncle, John Murphy. Frank M. Davis and Marie West of Page were granted a marriage license in county court last Friday. E. D. Henry killed a bull snake in their chicken pen Tuesday evening that measured six feet and one inch. Irenaeia Biglin returned Friday afternoon from Wayne, where she has been attending school for the past two months. P. V. Hickey returned Saturday night from Omaha, where he had been looking after business affairs for several days. Joe Parker, Fred Bazelman and W. / G. Beha, left on the 3:48 Tuesday a. k > m. for a business trip to Sioux City. T —Nuff sed! Attorney W. J. Hammond went to Lincoln last Saturday morning and remained for a few days looking after business matters. Miss Nana Beha departed Thursday morning for Lincoln where she will spend a couple of weeks visiting re latives and friends. Miss Anna McCafferty left Tuesday night for Riverton, Wyo., where she will make a protracted visit with relatives and friends. John L. Quig went to Lincoln Sunday morning in his Ford. He will remain for a short time attending to business. Miss Ina Owens left Monday morn ing for Hastings, where she will spend her vacation visiting with relatives and friends. L. E. Soukup, who formerly was as sociated with the O’Neill Colthing Co., arriced in the city Sunday night from Warcroft, Wyo., where he is now located. Mr. Soukup will remain for a few days visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Morrison returned Monday morning from Long Pine after spending a short time at the Amuse ment Park. Misses Mary Fitzsimmons and Mar garet Dorsey returned Saturday after noon from Wayne, having finished their two months course at school. Ed Tomsik, who has been employed in the county treasurer’s office for the past few years, left Tuesday night for Wyoming, where he may locate, if the country suits him. Miss Hazel French and Miss Evelyn Murphy of Page were in the city last week visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Burch and attending the Chautauqua. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Evans, accom panied by their grandchildren, Eliza beth, John and Dick Evans, have gone to Long Pine for a week or ten day sojourn. William Stannard left this morning for Denver and Colorado Springs, where he will remain for a months’ vacation, looking over the country and visiting relatives and friends. Tom McKenzie, one of the large farmers and stockmen of Rock Falls township, left yesterday morning for Dow City, Iowa, where he will spend a week or ten days visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Whelan and children returned home last Thursday night from a ten day auto trip to Sioux City, Storm Lake and Creston, Iowa. They say they had a very enjoyable trip. The Elkhorn Valley Medical Society is in session in Norfolk today. Dr. E. T. Wilson of this city left on the morning train for that city to take part in the deliberations of the meeting. Dr. and Mrs. T. J. Dwyer and baby came up from Omaha last Tuesday night to attend the funeral of John Murphy, which was held from the Catholic church in this city this morning. George Whitney of Beatrice, Neb., was in the city yesterday for a few hours. George was for several years employed in a local drug store and has many friends in this city who were glad to see him. Mr. and Mrs. Max Keene, who have been visiting at the home of Mrs. Keene’s mother, Mrs. Anna McHugh, for the past three weeks, left for their home at Buffalo, S. D., last Sunday night. w Modem Life and Credit 1 I The wonderful development of our modern system of living with all & of its complicated machinery for carrying on the large and smalltransact- tT ions of the big and little affairs of every day life is due entirely: to the *£ world’s system of credit. L n Credit extends all the way from the smallest “accounts” of the retail W dealer up to the great deals made between great financial institutions and S nations themselves. % jg What does credit stand for? Many credit dealings are- of course, jg backed by a definite guaranty or “security” in some form, but to a large % extent credit means “confidence”—mutual faith in the ability and integrity By of both parties to the transaction. r* % There is therefore an element of doubt in all this great system of ours. .* p Still no one would consider for a minute the complete reversal of con- | ditions back to the ridiculous simplicity and narrow limitations of barter 3 and exchange or handling the actual cash involved in a transfer of goods g or property. L All business and banking are a part of this system of credit exchange which has been so largely responsible for the world’s rapid progress in everything pertaining to the betterment of mankind in every way. f I !C3 To overcome the occasional losses due to such a system, remedial measures have been often suggested, and one which has proven by test to be of great actual worth as strengthening one angle of our credit system \\ is the Depositors’ State Guarantee Fund of the State of Nebraska. tj This law affects, of course, only the depositors of State Banks as the I State can have no control over banks not incorporated under its own ll State Banking Laws. i3 However, a depositor in any State Bank in Nebraska has the pro tection of this fund which now amounts to one million, one hundred thous- || and dollars, and it is hardly believable that a loss to depositors can be pos- H sible under this law. H Nebraska State Bank, O'Neill | Senator and Mrs. J. A. Dr.oohoe and Judge and Mrs. J. J. Harrington left last Sunday morning in the judge’s car for the National park in Wyoming, where they will spend a few weeks seeing the sights in that section of the country. Mrs. J. B. O’Rourke cf Kirksville, Mo., arirved in the city last week for a months visit at the home of her mother, /Mrs. Moore and with her mother, Mrs. Moore, and with her brother, James Moore and her sister, Mrs. Ed. F. Quinn. Charles McKenna, Mable Meredith. Cora Meredith, Mae Hammond and Grace Hammond left Wednesday morning in McKenna’s large Buick foi an overland trip to Denver, Colo., where they will spend a few weeks visiting relatives and friends. Frank Darr and Lem Weatherwax. two of the old time settlers of the northern part of this county and old time readers of The Frontier, were in the city last Wednesday. While in thf city they called at this office and in spected the workings of the Linotype James Beauchamp of Meek wa3 i caller at this office last Tuesday an< extended his subscription to this dis seminator of current events foranothei year. Mr. Beauchamp says crops ar< in pretty good condition in his section, notwithstanding the extreme hot, dry weather. R. H. Sprague returned last Tuesday morning from a weeks’ trip in Wy oming, in the vicinity of Gillette. Mr. Sprague is of the opinion that that country is a good stock country but believes that the man that tries to make a living farming there is bound to be hungry most of the time. Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Brittell went down to Neligh last Sunday to attend the funeral of Mr. Brittell’s brother, C. S. Brittell, who died in that city last Friday. Mr. Brittell was one of the pioneer settlers of Antelope county. He leaves a widow and two daughters, besides his brothers to mourn his demise. July was the warmest month this section of the state has experienced for several years, as well as the driest. For the thirty-one days of the month the thermometer averaged 93 degrees, and the rainfall was .86. When it registers 93 it is considered hot but when that average is kept up for thirty-one days the people have sure had their share of hot weather. Rev. M. F. Cassidy and niece, Miss Mayme Cullen, left Wednesday morn ing for Rawlins, Wyoming, where Father Cassidy will assist next Sun day in the dedication of a new church. Father Cassidy was resident pastor at Rawlins prior to his removal to this city thirty years ago, and he will no doubt note many changes in that section since his residence there. Mr. and Mrs. George Bowen and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Gusse and daughter are spending the week visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chris. Judge or the Graver ranch south cf Ewing. The Old Settlers picnic will be helc in Stein’s grove on August 17. There was some talk cf having it on August Ulth, but at a meeting of the genera committee the other evening the dati of August 17th was finally decider upon. See small bids for particular! of the sports that will be presented foi the edification of the people on that i lay. Mr. and Mrs. A. Evans cf Stillwater, Oklahoma,arrived in the city last Sat urday for a few weeks visit at the home of his son, J. Evans, of the Mc Ginnis Creamery Co. Mr. Evans say; that he was a resident of O’Neill for a hort time forty years ago and say.1 hat this country does not look mucl ike what it did at that time. He ha. oeen a resident of Oklahoma f_>r th< past twenty years. E. H. Whelan, M. H. Iloriskey, J. T Gallagher and Frank Fhalin went over ,o Lake Andes, S. D., last Sunda. aorning on a fishing trip, returning Tuesday night. While we did not sec my of the fish the toys say they hac exceptionally good luck and trough) heme several very nice messe3. One of the best features of this trip is that the “boys” never got lost once during the journey which is an exceptiona' record for this bunch cf the disciples of Isaac Walton. uenerai runsion s caustic comment: on the activities cf the newspaper cor respondents down along the southerr line are ungrateful or at lesat indica tive of a poor memory. Perhaps the general has forgoten the largg corp' of correspondents and camera men who, as his guests, accompanied hirr into the Phillipine village cf Malolo which Mr. Emil Auguinaldo, as the president of the Phillipine republic had deserted as his capital six or seve; hours before, on the advance cf th Nebraska regiment and General Hale’ brigade, who had no press agent along. > Auto polo, and two aeroplane flights each day, will be features of the Holt county fair September 20, 21 and 22. President J. M. Hunter and Secretar* P. G. Donohoe of the Holt County Fai Association were in Ewing this wee’ and entered into contract with Savidge Brothers for these thi i.iers, which are made more so by the extreme hazard' taken. Auto polo, as played by th Savidge brothers with foir autom" bile'.*, is far more ex iting than th moot closely c nr tested horse race •vhile the air flights intruding loop, nd srirals, in which Matt Savidge net bis death this spring, are mosi ensational. Joe McNichols returned the middle f last week from Omaha, where he bad submitted to an operation for an affliction cf his throat. Zimmerman & Son paid for country roduce during the month of July $13, 00 25. For the first seven months of his year, this popular produce firm as paid the farmers and stock growers cf this county the enormous sum cf $48,059.74. This is $12,000.00 more than the total amount paid out l y this firm during the entire twelve months of 1915, which is conclusive rcof that the dairying industry i rapidly increasing in this vicinity. Ed. F. Ga’ agher and J. B. Ryan re urned last Monday morning fromthei: rip to Wyoming. Mr. Gallagher i: >ot very favorably impressed with the ountry, the shortage cf water, as wel ±s rainfall, 1 eing one cf the di11 advmtages of that seceion. In hi cpirion it would be impossible for i ami.y to make a livi. g upon a f-.rm or the upland in that section. He :rave’ed over a good portion cf the northeastern part of the state in an ..uto and the people who settled upon he praiiie land were in very straight r.ed circumstance". Water is very carce and many of the little farmers ave to haul water fer houshco’.J use four and five miles. On a very large oertion of the table land they have een unable to bore deep enough t-. strike water. People who live along he creelis, where they have water for heir own use as well as for their .tock, arc very comfortably settled ind apparently prosperous, but they are in the minority. Thi3 has been a very dry season in that section. The remarkable fecundity ar.d low morality rate of the sucker family commented upon in the works of either the late lamented P. T. Barnum or Bill Shakespere was exemp.ified in several of the ham'ets along the Sioux City line and muchly in O’Neill the early part of the week. Also the old pro verb that man knows how to keep a secret better than a woman. Some heartless wretch on the lineconfidedein strict confidence to one of the family that the manufacturer of a certain popular tin go-cart was going to sell them at $100 per on the day cf open ing of his new Sioux City branch The m. of s. f., who rides up and down the line each day, wasn’t to tell anyone, but just get in on the good thing him self. Of course he only told one particular friend in each town along the line. Nine good friends in O’Neill slipped it confidently down the line with the result that ten m. of s. f. of O’Neill, each with a hundred bucks and a little extra spending money in his pocket, climbed aboard the Tuesday morning train for Sioux City. Before the train reached the Indian town other members cf the family to such a number had boarded it that even the roofs of the coaches and the blind baggage had “standing room only” signs out. The O’Neill members o'. the fami'y all sneaked back after dark Tuesday night, without the little wagons. Several now are engaged in took along to drive their cars back. Names are withheld out of considera tion for mortified and sorrowing re latives of the unfortunates. The county board were in session the first of this week. They have been inspecting bids for the construction of he Chambers-O’Neill road. Owing to he limited circulation of the paper in vhich they published their application 'or bids, the Independent, but one bid ler applied for the job, Hy. Nighten gale cf Atkinson. Any business firm, or individual who was expending $20, )00 would have given the widest pub icity to the fact that they were after jids for the construction of this work, out the democratic board, who are ex pending $100,000 of the peolpes’ money ach year give the patronage to their favorite pets, with the result that the people do not receive adequate returns ’or the money expended. The con tract for the Chabers-O’Neiil road in rattan towhsnip, was awarded to Hy. Nightengale. This work will probably imount to $8,000. Whether any >romises were made by Mr. Nighten ,ale as to his future conduct as a can 1 id ate on the populist ticket for e'erk f the district court, was not disclosed, ut The Frontier can assure its readers that matters have evidently been made atisfactory to the erstwhi'e candidate for the democratic nomination ar.d that le will shortly file his declination of he populist nomination for clerk of .he district court. One of the genuine urprises of the meeting was the filing ate yesterday afternoon of the resig lation of Th. D. Sievers, for the past seven years supervisor from the fourth supervisor district. Mr. Sievers was a ■andidnte for renomination at the pri naries last spring and was defeated by Mr. Rotherham cf Deloit precinct. His esignation at this time is surprising :o his friends and of particular delight .o his enemies. The board has not as /et appointed a successor to Mr. lievers but we have it on unquestioned .uthority that the democratic board vill appoint Mr. Rotherham, thedemo > ratic candidate to the position, ■.'.though some of the members are uoted as saying that they had not ught to appoint until after election, hen appoint the man whom the voters ,f that district selected. Merchandising Revolutionized. Editor W. H. Green in Creighton Liberal: I went up to O’Neill last Thursday to look over the system John drennan, the most talked about mer chant west of the Missouri river, em ploys to get his phenomir.al business, ness. I found a young man still in the hirties. He started a little general tore about a year ago. He laid the corner stone of hi3 busi .ess in the resolution that John D. tockerfeller could not buy a spool of hread without paying for same before it left the store. Mr. Brennan says he does not try to make his living from forty or fifty families. He says he would rather make 15c by selling a dozen paring knives that cost 9c each than to put the 15c on one knife, as many merch ants do. Bankers and business men informed us that Mr. Brennan has cut the mail order business in two at that point. Mr. Brennan’s store on an afternoon is as busy as a sale day in a depart ment store in Omaha. Large eastern manufacturers and nerchants are advancing Mr. Brennan >.n extraordinary amount of credit as hey reason that he has discovered a olution cf the vexing problem of the atalogue houses in that he buys from i few mani facturers in large quanti ies instead cf buying from many in ittle dobs from every traveling man vho comes along and then he dis ributes tho~e purchases on a very .arrow margin cf profit. Having perfected arrangements to buy seme merchandise in connection ■vith Mr. Brennan our customers are iromised even better prices in the .’uture than in the past. TIIE REASON JOHN BRENNAN sells so much vinegar is because he t3 the only or.e in O’Neill who has Heinz Vinegar. If you want pickles ike Heinz’s you have to use the same .ar.d of vinegar. | To CloscTou^Ovi^^^^^^^^ IPaim Beach Suits we’ve put prices down to bed rock. j jj These suits make the most of every 1 summer breeze. They’re light in I weight, cool and comfortable and fl they fit. j Just 18 of these I suits are left, ft Light colors and || gray Palm Beach, I and mohairs in 1 black and stripes I Reduced from ti* Q QB I $8.50 to..vO.C7U | O’Neill Clothirxg Co. O’Neill Wins 6 to 3. Last Sunday the local K. of C. team journeyed to Venus and returned home victors by a score of 6 to 3. The game was good throrghout and was enjoyed by a fair sized crowd of spectators, who appreciated the work of the op posing teams. In the first frame O’Neill failed to accomplish more than to get three men on, and have the next three lay down their bats after swinging in vain at the curves of Til'man, the Venus Twirler. In the last ha f of the first, Venus scored on an error by short and a clean two base hit. This score was evened in the second when Merriman got a base on balls, went to second on an error of I first, and scored when Brennan con nected for a clean two base hit. Nothing was done by either team until the last half of the seventh when Venus gathered two hits and scored one run. In the first of the eight Mc Goff came to bat, and landed for a good home run sending the ball far over the left fielders head. In the next inning by connecting for three singles and a double the O’Neill team carried four runs across the plate. In the last of the same frame by ragged playing they donated a run to Venus, making the final score 6 to 3. Following is the score: O’Neill ABSHE Brennan, If .5 1 3 0 Martin, 3b .4 0 0 1 Hammond, cf.5 1 2 1 McGoff, c ..4 2 3 0 Watson, p.5 0 3 0 McBride, lb .4 0 0 0 Merriman, 2b.3 1 0 1 Kane, ss .4 0 0 2 Harty, rf.4 1 1 0 38 6 12 5 Venus AB RHE Dougherty, lb .4 0 0 2 A. Pospeshil, cf.4 0 0 0 Tillman, p .4 1 0 0 Emil Stark, 3b .4 1 2 0 R. Pospeshil, ss.4 1 2 1 Rohker, 2b .4 0 0 1 Ernest Stark, c .4 0 0 0 Larson, If .4 0 0 0 Hunter, rf.2 0 0 0 33 3 4 4 Home run: McGoff. Two base hits: Brennan, Watson 2, Emil Stark 2. Struck out: Tillman 14; Watson 7. Batteries: For O’Neill Watson and McGoff; for Venus Tillman and Stark. Weather Report. Max. Min. State of W. Rainfall Ju’y 26—100 G9 Clear 0 July 27—93 69 Clear 0 July 28—07 71 Clear 0 July 29—100 71 Clear 0 July 30—99 C8 Partly cloudy 0 July 31—P8 67 Cloudy .32 Aug. 1—C8 67 Clear T Librarian’s Report. July, 1916. No. of Joo’-s in library.1,983 No. cf books added. 9 No. of readers . 952 No. of readers added. 14 Juvenile circulation . 277 Adu'.t circulation . 386 Total circulaotion . 663 Receipts .. •$ 2.93 Expense .62 Cash on hand. 10.19 MAYMME COFFEY, Librarian. Committee Extends Thanks. We wonder if the O’Neill people realize that we have a public play "round for the children across from the Tresbyterian church? The child ren that attend from 2 to 6 o’clock 3rd new attractions, have a good time and a good supervisor. Come out and see for yourselves, parents and children. The social given, lat the Pavi.ion retted us $35.50 and at this late dav we wish to thank the. O’Neill people for their splendid contributions and help in manv ways. Also thank the city for the light that was given us. Come out and see what’s do ing.—Committee. I WI1TH ALL THAT OWE ME would pay me at once, so I can pay also and through conditions that I can’t help I won’t trust any for a while. I tried a collecter but he got more money than I did, so if you want some cff come to me.—Con Keys. 8-1