Frontier. * VOLUME XXXVII. v O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1916. _______i XV V/. XV, _ I . • m t__ /«11__ LOCAL MATTERS. Dr. W. P. Higgins and Kemp Hanks p were down from Atkinson last Friday. Sam Arnold was looking after busi ness in Plainview Tuesday. Mrs. Ruth Rhodes returned Monday from Long Pine. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Evans and Miss Ahlean Spelts were Sunday visitors at Long Pine. William Munn of Deadwood arrived here Tuesday and left Wednesday after a short visit with friends. Mr. and Mrs. O. 0. Snyder went to Sioux City Tuesday morning for a few days visit in the city. There will be no preaching services in the Presbyterian church on August 20. Sunday school at the usual hour. Hugh Birmingham was down from Atkinson to spend Sunday with his folks. Frank Suchy left Monday morning for a ten day trip to Omaha and Chicago. Mrs. C. B. Scott went to Omaha Monday morning to spend a few days visiting. P. B. Harty went to Randolph Wed nesday to attend to some of his busi ness matters. Rev. and Mrs. Geo. Longstaff went to Long Pine Monday afternoon for a short outing. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Horiskey left Saturday for a weeks trip in South Dakota and Wyoming. Mrs. M. Fitzsimmons went to j» Chicago Sunday morning to purchase k her fall supply of hats. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Timlin went to Long Pine Friday night and spent a few days at the Amusement Park. John White came up from- Blair last Friday afternoon for a short, visit with relatives and old friends. Miss Jean O’Shey returned to her 'home at Madison last Saturday after a visit with friends. Don’t forget the game of ball be tween O’Neill and Randolph at the home grounds Sunday. Judge Skidmore of E’.ving visited the county metropolis "fuesday and Wednesday. Jack Thomas is taking in several of t the inra-state race meets in which his stepper, Yellowstone, is entered. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Miles, Gladys Miles, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Evans. * ' .■■■" ■— St&r TKeatre Saturday, August 19 ALL SEATS 25c. :: CHILDREN 10c :: MATINEE 2:30. PERFORMANCES 7:30 P. M.—CONTINUOUS. —the belching artillery behind the lines, protecting the advance of the troops far ahead—see these thousands spring up from field after field—miles and miles of men— see them charge under the screaming hail of their own shells—SEE THIS HUMAN TIDAL WAVE BREAK FROM THE ENEMY I TRENCHES, WITH ITS GLITTERING CREST OF BAYONETS I | SWEEPING FORWARD, FORWARD, FORWARD, UNTIL OP p OSITION IS OVERWHELMED!!! THL " CHICAGO DAILY NEWS PRESENTS THE MOTION ! PICTURE SCOOP OF THE WAR. “On the Firing Line wit h the Germans” The one Great War Picture that has startled all America. Ten 1 weeks at the i Vew York Theatre, New York. Seven weeks at the La Salle and Fine Arts Theatres, Chicago. The same great picture that played the Bran Theatre, Omaha. Nine Reels of Th tlilrPg Motion Pictures, T^ken by Wilbur H. Dur borough, War Phot tjsr»;pher, in Conjunction with Oswald F. Schuette,, Daily News Corresp W*dtael of hay on the P. J. GalQagher nincl near Inman, last week. Andrew Schmidt has gone to In mi m where he has a contract t o plaster tl v new residence of James Thompson. Mrs. Leslie Jones depar ted Wednes day for a visit with her relatives at Lynch, Neb. Miss Kathryn Grady left the first of the week for Chicago where she will remain for about a week purchasing the fall supply of Millinery. Mrs. Geo. Henry, Mrs. Martin and Opie Chambers motored from Dallas last Sunday and will remain for a short time visiting relatives. William Schroeder returned the first of the week from Omaha where he had been for a couple of days looking after business affairs. The population of Shields township was increased by one Monday, when a son arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Sullivan. Mrs. J. E. Freeman left Friday morning for Denver, Colo., where she will spend a month visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. A. J. Schrader returned to Bloomfield Sunday morning after a two weeks visit with her folks, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Gatz. Mrs. John O’Donnel arrived here the latter part of last week from Nor folk for a protracted visit with rela relatives and friends. Mrs. Ann Dreason and son, and Bert Hanson of Kennard, Nebr., arrived here Friday afternoon for a visit with, relatives and friends. W. H. Shoup of Beatrice, state weight and measure inspector, tested track and elevator scales in O’Neill Wednesday. J. A. Ward of Gilman, Iowa, an old resident of Holt county, arrived Tues | USE THE POSTOFFICE | The postoffice has other uses than selling U stamps or transmitting letters and parcels. You can do your Banking By Mail with the g ■ Nebraska State Bank just as safely and con- m i 1 |ffl veniently as you can in person. =5S ; jj Your money is “idle” if kept at home. Mail : j jjj it to us and it works all the time, t Htbraaka fitatt | ® „.,.,.1,H...,.i.imtii.i■ J“™e ,h' n,gAht' A n • of the McGinnis Creamery Compa>W ,.£jejther‘poSS SK’lSSa; n t-e early par. of the week. , .... _ _ TT „ „ M d children re Mrs. Harry Bowe/SJ^ - a two weeks turned home Friday and Mrs. E. visit at the home of ( Mr& A A. Graham and Mr. ^ Murry. received Robert LaRue of Im£Ji**» ., tbe word, Wednesday of last b tbe death of his mother at Tetf*** first of the week. Mrs. eighty three years of age. ^ Lightning struck the farm ft®**6 a Frank Griffith, near Meek, duTUV. thunder and electric stornt last we^ ^ badly damaging it. None of t> family were injured. Farmers of Willo' vdale j irecinet re port the oat yield a s unus ually light this year. Several recent threshings, when weighed in, averaged t nit twenty one pounds to the bus.hej. Clarence Britton, who has t «ert doing carpenter work here for the P**®1 several months, has compl eted the work, and left Tuesday after noon tor his home at Tilden, Nebr. Harry Reed and Oscar Hagensii returned Friday evening from Lak e Andes, where they succeeded in cap taining eleven bsiss, weighing from two to three pounds each, in a several days fishing trip. HjWlllg 115 Ullts. U1C i-C w luvvuoiupo of the county kicking because of too much rain, although many have had an abundance. Ewing farmers complain that the frequent rains in that vicinity interfere with haying. T. V. Golden is mourning the loss of twelve head of fat cattle killed by Northwestern passenger, No. 3, at the Golden ranch near Stafford last week. O. K. Wright of Ewing also suffered the loss of several head. The Holt County Fair, premium list, has been printed and are ready for delivery. A_ny one who does not re ceive a book and desires it, should call at the office of the secretary or write to him. Mr. Al. Carmichael, cihief clerk of the Golden Hotel, accompanied by Mrs. Carmichael, retur ned Friday evening from a several wt :eks business and pleasure trip to Chicago, Detroit and Michigan summer resorts. They report a most enjoyable time and eftch carries a healthy coat of tan as the result of several lake voyages. The Nebraska Culvert and Manu facturing company of Wahoo, by its president, Senator E. Placek, has filed an action against the Rus sell Grader Manufacturing company of Minneapolis, Minn., for $8,000 d: im ages for alleged infringement u pon the patents of the Wahoo compi my, covering corrugated, culverts and im provements thereon. The action was filed in the United States federal court for the district of Minnesota . The ball game on the O’K Teil diamond next Sunday a’ftern ooi promises to be the best of the' sea: son Randolph has one of the fas tes amatuer teams in the state ; ind fo: years has held the undisputed title > o champions of the northeast co mei ■ o the state. In George Courtne y the; have one of the best mound i nen i] the country and Randolph men thin him unbeatable. The local boj Ts air determined to pluck some or f th laurels from George’s brow ir. 4 "th game Sunday. U r More News About the Play Gn luntl. A picnic was given Wednesday after noon to the children from 3 to 11 year old. About 75 coming out and if yo had heard them, you would ha\ known they were having a good i tim Ice cream, cake and sandwitche: ; we: served them. Mr. Quig coming aboi 5:30 with his car to give them a ri< and take them home. A pici lie f those ever eleven is planned ft *■ ne Thursday, and hope they will 1 rave pleasant a time. Good Things Don’t East Foi •ever. $1.00 Worth of Soap . .. £ 5—5c Bars Beat Em All. 5—5c Bars Electric Spark. 2—10c Bars Cocoa Hard W ater. ilMlttiiniiuiuniimimmimiHNHnmiiuiwiiuuiiHiiH*""""""""""".. HUGH O’NEIUU ON OLD TIMES. The gage of Anncar Discusses His torical Matters About the Days of the U«ng Ago. Mr. Frontier: I did not send you all I wrote the evening of July Fourth. I will send it now. After I stopped selling “Peach Brandy” in O’Neill, I tried to start a store and rented a building and had the goods all packed when some fel lows, mad at some one else, seized the building by mob force, when I was out of town, and that busted up my store project. Well I had spent niy first winter wtih John Purcell out on the Niobrara at the mouth of Brush Creek, and on the Indian Reservation, and had gotten acquainted with the three or four families settled mere so 1 mea me away to the northern hills and cc gulches; that was thirty-five years sc ago this October and if I only could be write the different things which trans- tl pired right here on this very spot, c< where I now sit, it would make a novel si tragic, ludicrous and sentimental, f] and a rehersal of circumstances,which, J' if reproduced in a picture show, would a make Holt County famous. Sometimes j"' I feel constrained to do so, as you have ti asked me, write the past, in the days a 0 f Middleton, Kid Waid, Jack Nolan, v jut :ke Coleman, John Wade, and old n es in general, of what I have per- ' sona l knowledge, and not hear say, o for tl.'at is very uncertain, and I would t not be responsible for hear say. All n.'ay have had their faults, but 8 when I 8.it here now in the twilight, on c Turkey Creek, gazing out on the scenes ' of the paS.t, and I recall the men and c women who settled these hills then, I ¥ feel lonesome. I can almost fancy I t hear again the voices of Michael r Coleman, John Wade, Hans Matesen, t - 'ap Dadae, Kid Wade, and a host of ' hers, who have here-to-fore met, and 1 igregated on this very ground, but < of whom, save Michael Coleman, < iU- ’d, with their boots on/ When I 5*\ ; that in Atkinson or O'Neill or '“m if those towns, only one or two < inyJ »rS occurred, where whiskey was r’u™t and, here, removed from the } Pj5,Tt2’ of fire water, in a pleasant ] Hey, over ten who resided here 1 little* *a „ d outright, and twice as were Si empted. - recalls again the fugitives, nd bleeding, pulling in his wou.redle** i jng food and protection hors>?r . mobs of villians worse from yrnro i it is a source of satis than fru nember he got it. There, factum to w* j see tbe Supernatural agam 1 ’ancing and caureorting balls of the 0ther, and some of from cne Bilftto Jt wag a gac. the w omen th 9t their dogs bark at rilings to even 1 .ocious armed men them, whi never feared a gun. turned pale, «o . >agtl ghost coming Agai "J s®e. JL„ s down the creek, out of ti»°se bnshe. he margin of the and flo; iting al 8 ,d by the breeze, stream as tho camt ,ila^ters run as And so. me armed vig them. Ask tho’ the devil was afi jjunt 0f At Manelius; Ube or Jc>{^ >sts 0r Wm. kinson, about the « ^ the Coleman of Spencer toyrefer to Coleman family. d ^ n0w, as the those wh o were he. •« a ifc is not one who l-eads may fiction, or bosh. , . t where Aga*n> "Kht, on * " house, I fancy once stood the deserted . and I see a mob of hairy fa, - good fel men, meet inside; some v, ch another I lows, for their kind, but t vbig side of ! bunch could not be found . ote to run f perdition, and they took a v r turn p a fellow out of the country , ted n0 him over to the powers which ar( tales. Well the question is whi then, : they now"? I would hate to hunt wbc a up; I would feel like the Indian ^er " wanted a receipt from the preaci ^ „ and the preacher said he would give . to him on judgment day, and th, Indian ejaculated! “What! You ex pect me to hunt h—1 all over to find you judgment, day?” Yes, they are - all gone. Thu same old trees sigh m s the night wired; the same old hills and u gulches send back the hoot of the owl e Sr the cry of the night bird; I suppose *. the same stars twinkle in the canopy e above; the same little creek gurgles it and ripples on to the sea, and if it is le not a time to contemplate the ditter >r ent traits of men in the wavering sil tt houette of a retired retrospective past, is which, not half being told, pana rama like, presents the queer faces of queer men, peering out from strange and queer old times, and still we love 7c the past, and almost wish they cou all come back and sit down and talk over the queer doings of a queer long ago Why, even the ghost of ar MMMNliiuilHiiMi well, in sucn a case, 1 expect 1 would be like Back Berry was when the ghost chased him, as Back himself tells it, and we must all acknowledge, although Back talks a great deal he never brags on himself. The ghost, ghastly and skeleton like, took after Back. Back ran until out of wind and dropped on a log to rest, when the ghost ran up and hopped up on the log beside him and said: “We’ve had a great race of it, ain’t we?” And Back said yes, and by g— “We’re just agoing to have a ’nothern’ ” and lit out again. But even a run from a ghost would have some of the fingers of the good old past. If some people did not roast me for trying to build a R. R. or dividing a township, or building a bridge, or something else, I believe I would be disgusted with life, but we are crossing the bridge now, and that is the hardest part of the railroad to build, and then we are going to run right down among you Irish, so “Look out for the cars” both you and Atkinson. I had spent my first New Year’s Day in Nebraska saving a herd of cattle for a party who was going to loose them by an unjust attachment. All night long that New Year’s -eve of 1879 and ’80 I and a friend drove the herd of cattle through snow drifts covered with crust, which cut the legs of the cattle and of the horses; only some places where the prairie fires had burned off the grass, there was no snow. Suffice to say, the sheriff never got the cattle, for they were in another county before day light, but it was a beginning which seemed to establish a precedent for the balance of my life in Nebraska; for that was not the only fifty miles I rode to assist others, for, ever since then, if a fellow got in trouble within a hundred miles some way or other he wound up at my camp, all times of night, and all times of day, in all kinds of ways, and it aint stop ped yet; they still come, and I have been kept as busy aiding the Good Samaritan, that I have even forgot to creed. T olwatro pnin.vpil ifnino* what others auld not dp. No glory in just doing omething easy. Why, when I was a oy, I remember hearing a prophesy oat perpetpal motion would be dis overed by an Irish editor.” And I aid that means me. Hypll, t got prings and wheels with arms having oints to shorten and extend leverage lternately, and used balls which by oiling by their own force would also ransfer lever power without friction, nd thought I would set it going, vhen a new difficulty arose, that is ,no naterial would induce perpetual wear. Veil, I suspended deilberations, but lid not give up hope, and at last I hink I have the compound which hrough molecular adhesion will resist til impresion and wear for ever. If I inly survive long enoug, so that Roose velt and Bryan at their demise will be jueath me their gaul and cheek and jet some gray matter from the con tracted craniums of some anti-rail •oad men and anti-bridge men, and let the mixture solidify in the venom and vituperetions of some kickers, we will lave a material which the bullworks if hades could not scratch, and tht analysis of which, will be registered ir heaven, with that indelible permancy which will enough until the last blast of Gabrial’s Trumpet. Now I write from personal observa tion, for I have not confidence enougl in hearsay to write that, and other! have not confidence in me, without give proof from others, who saw anc were here. But while I sit here in solitude witl the call of the Coyote and revert agan from the present to the long ago past which can only remain in the irre sponsive and mystic shadows whic fancy reflects, and when I realize tha I am the only one left alive here, wh can assist the picture of the past froi memory, all the others can onl imagine, for never having seen, the I can not recall or remember and fane; hereafter, can only be aided b imagination, and not memory; and realize what a system of nothingnes the world is. Yet, still with all nr persistance and stick-to-it-ness—D< calls me “erratic.” I “I WAS 19 YEARS OLD LAST SPRING” I have always lived on a farm. Father did not keep help. I did all the plowing, planting, , t cultivating, etc., on our 75-acre farm. My > younger brother helped me. I was 19 years j old last Spring. From the money I earned I j i took $3.00 to start my account. i We want Big Boys! If they live in the country they can Bank with us by Mail. $1.00 1 starts an Account here. We want Big Boys! M W THE O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK ■ \ r O’Neill, Nebraska I ■H 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 $100,000.00. jfl m nero again, in ” foot sore and weary, coma to the creek and lie down and drink—in the lead of night—then he continues across the creek, and enters the deserted the deserted house, it is empty, every body gone, he has been told he will be killed if he comes back, he lies down again on that little knoll in the star light and rests, all alone, not a friend near him on earth, surrounded by fellows who want to kil him, and if they knew he was there, and so close to them, they would be up saddling their horses, and gathering. their crowd. The next day all was hustle and bustle, it was known he was back. He had sent word to five of’the pjdst vicious “If they would meet him ^erC at the vacant building, the ones left alive could tell the story.” They acr cepted and just after sundown was the time set for the meeting. Just about sundown our tired pedestrian wa® here; and it fell on the writejr tq measure off the “thirty paces.” He was told that he might be killed. He answered be “would rather be killed than ran off by a bunch like that,'’ but he said, “If they only come I’ll get »« whole five, and’then none of them WJM be left to shoot me in the beck, or catch me when I’m asleep, as they have caught others." At last we heard the gallop of' horses and fhe buncjj came in sight around the bend. When they saw two sitting here on this little knoll, they stopped their horses, talked a while, and tiitri&f ,j“d rode in another direction. Well, I sit here alone on this very spot, where all, yes, and ten tohek more has transpired; I was then y,?nng not much more than a boy, I am iw>W about sixty. I have got married; my children have grown up and all frave gone to the celebration at 0/Ne>ll, and 1 preferred to stay, so it is 4 fincer retrospect. ‘ Some times the children Of my neighbors and my own gather and Plan on this ground and I silently Contrast the change of times, and the change of crowds. . ml- __ ,.An<.n A# IthUVD hppn JL 14 44. vjr 4^v » .v*p» v T r T . TT . • ' l i spent here, not another is in the country loft. I have stayed through all, and still “Doe” calls pie “eratic.” and not one of the others are now here. I think it takes quite £ U>t to chapge my mind. , . " The old settlers are gray snd feeble now; the craft of each is drifting steadily to where the current of «?e is mingled .with the ocean of and I would like p> reach a hand to those who float £qwn or to those who stand pn tyie see me float by. , But I want to say, to friends, whO> know they are friends, the eternal bilr lows can never drown the friendship^ l have for some. There is a spirit in man that can not die. That spirit looks out through our' eyes, as they look out through a windw. That spirit is young within our old carcass as the most beautiful flowers bloom and waft their fragrance from the ruins of a garden, after the hand that raised the trellis, and even the trellis has been in decay for ages. That spirit actuates others, like an echo from a _ ruined structure after the old body is dead for centuries. . . Yes, I believe I would enjoy having the Ghost of John Wade or of Mike Coleman come and sit down beside me, no matter how they looked, if they could only talk of old times. . The men who settled here first in i Holt County and in the west and the women also, were sure stimulated by l courage and determination . I will wind up this with a memoire i in verse to The Old Timers, who are > left, for although we have laid away , many of those who stood side by side - with us in days of trials, no matter i what sort of trials they were, whethe/ t in the midst of public comment, or 0 where only the rushing rivers or silent 1 stars were witnesses, the test of y friendship has been just as true, and, y although from the settled mounds 't comes no voice to break the present, y it gives a halo of glory to feel ana 1 know that they knew their friendship ls was appreciated and reciprocated, it y had stood the test and was not found ic wanting._____^ "(Continued on page four.) --—I