Frontier.
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VOLUME XXXVII.
v O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1916.
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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.
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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*d<?nt with the German Armies.
tall oi Warsaw;
Fall of Novo Geor. S&swsk!
Capturing 8,500 Ru
Kaiser!
Von Hindenburg!
War from Aeroplane ■
Shells Smashing Chai ges!
Seven Days’ Battle!
Machine Gun Fighting :!
Zeppelins Over Warsa w!
Terrific Bayonet Charg es!
Almost hear the ci 'ashing
salvos from the big guns!'
Go Today—be an eye witr less of
seven consecutive mont hs of
Von Hindenburg’ssmashin gdrive
into Russia—still being fought
out!
Look ahead, behind fi.-om an
automobile dashing along the
firing line, from an aeroplane
which is the target of Bursting
shells and sharpshooters’bullets.
Camps! Prisoners! Supply
Trains! Careering Cavalry!
Charging Infantry!Skirmishers!
Machine Gun Crews fighting like
mad!
Amouscaaes — wnum;; ajy
UNSEEN FOE DEALS SUD
DEN DEATH! Witness a hun
dred war spectacles you’ll never
forget!!
View the Teuton tornado as
it sweeps over Warsaw—its
machine-like army, its sinister
Zeppelins, its fort-smashing ar
tillery. THEN SIT APPALL- ]
ED AT THE CLIMAX—THE
WEEK OF STORMING NOVO
GEORGEIEVSK, one of the
world’s greatest fortresses!
Watch the full fury of attack
break—ferocious, unrelenting—
murderous. See the power of
attack, the fierce Russ resistance
—all vividly shown. WITNESS
THE GERMAN LEGIONS
RUSH LIKE AN AVALANCHE ?
OVER THE SMASHED RUSS
RAMPARTS!!
Everybody Go! You’ll get a
bigger idea of the conflict and
carnage than ever before.
I “There are war pictures and war pictures, but the BLUE RIBBON
goes to those taken by W. H. DURBOROUGH, of the Chicago Daily J
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Misses Mildred Kane, Etta Freolich
Ahlean Spelts, and Ed Campbell wen1
to Long Pine Saturday afternoon tc
spend Sunday at the Park.
Courtney, the Randolph picther, is
rated as one of the best outside of pro
fessional circles, in the state, accord
ing to the Randolph fans. George will
have an opportunity to demonstrate in
the game with O’Neill Sunday.
Miss Nell Fleharty, who had beer
visiting with her friends here for a
short time, returned to her home a1
Dixon Friday morning. Miss Irenaeis
Biglin accompanied her and returnee
visit.
Lightning destroyed it large jf>tael
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
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You can do your Banking By Mail with the g
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day evei. 'ing for a visit W'th °'d
mi ™ between O’Neill and
„ 1 *VB fal. the home grounds Sunday
Randolph at f the best 0f the
promises to ,
r™r“« i.r Thipe»air was
More tUL m , "“>■ 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. , ....
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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._____^
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