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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1916)
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For Your Money’s Worth It was expected we would have to close shop a day in order to serve last week's nice brown roast. “But too much business.” We are writing these lines ten minutes before going topress. We don’t enjoy this scrapping, it is so like child’s play, but it is a weak worm that won’t turn when trampled on. We are accused of hollering. Who started the hollering? For eight months we have all turned the other cheek, but there is a limit; a time when patience ceases to be a virtue. We are not speaking because we are hurt. (Only our feelings.) We had so often been asked by our customers. Why don’t you defend yourself? But we felt like the little boy did when his father said: “Willie, why don’t you fight the skunk?” and Willie answered: “I don't like to papa cause when you do they always make such a stink.” The business we are doing is no Joke as declared by said invertigator. The two customers must have felt ashamed of themselves or they would not have slipped out of the store and down an alley. Don’t blame them though They entered our place in the front door. There were so many twos, fours and dozens, don’t know which par ticular two. Was it the woman who took the $1 worth of Btale bacon back to your place and left without meat or 80c offered ? Maybe was the one who left the fifteen dozen Eggs and later bought what was left after the argument to our place, or perhaps the one who bought the three boxes of matches for a dime and went else where to get a fourty-five cent work shirt that you asked sixty for; or could it be the ones who sold you the produce for cash and came to our place to spend the money where they could do better they said. Really I can’t place the particular two mentioned, there has been so many! Judging from appearances you must Slip a few Prince Albert smokes into vour system! J You’ve heard many an earful about the Prince Albert jatented process that cuts out bite and parch and lets you loke your fill without a comeback! Stake your bank roll that •oves out every hour of the day. £ :e Albert has always been sold W m | mh at coupons or premiums. We UU I PJ §*j to give quality! || sport smoking a pipe or rolling k n, but you know that you’ve got m W A1 /if to have the right tobacco! We tell you I 141 Prince Albert will bang the doors wide JraLJbfUPJ open for you to come in on a good time , . , firing up every little so often, without a the natlonalJ°y *m°ke ■I like your smoke past I f-so like it was a tip to a /y t to you, to every man JjjJ be kicking them all out. “Well, they 3ay give a Calf enough rope and it will hang itself.” Beef is such a good price, too. Yes, if you pick at a hole enough it will be like some dough-nuts we have seen, all hole and the hole benefits no one. Suppose “Hank Mills” should get our trade.” Why should you worry? 1 notice some of your old customers coming there too. Hank can’t accuse os of butting into his Ice Cream rrade. Baiting our hooks with cream to catch any one. Our motto is: Live and let live. We are on best of terms with all our neighbors. They say we are good fellows and they like us. It was a measly shame we were disappointed in the $100 P'ord, but they say it takes a rogue to catch a rogue and never hav ing practiced rogury ourselves, we were easy prey. First nudge we had that we were deceived you give it to us.” “What fools we mortals be.” We were so certain of that car that we left the family disputing as to who would ride in the back seat. We should have known that $100 would buy only a second hand car. But Solomon had to tell us that and yet we see him advertising stuff at one fourth its value every week, that is one thing that fooled us. We wondered why Sioux City couldn’t sell as cheap as O’Neill. We won’t do any thing again without the wise man’s consent. If we told the people you showed us how to run our store we would not be a man, we would be a liar. Even if the people don’t believe us. Who are the people? Wise man, answer. Iam the people. The credit people with common sense after looking our goods over they know whether it is fresh stock or old Junk. No one has to tell them. We deal with intelligent people. We ask them to take our word for nothing. Come and see. Isn’t that fair? When a little child comes in we treat them as men and women. Can’t be accused of ever taking advantage of either for as ad vised “God watches over the little things.” We don’t just preach that, we believe it “You must keep your store neat and, clean” Were you speaking to me ? Can’t mean me, as it is known I am not the one to whom the sug gestion was made. “Change conditions around the palace.” People who live in “chicken houses should not throw stones.” A suggestion. Vacate the chicken house, live in an n—(Ice) house and keep cool the rest of the summer. Yes! There is trade enough for us all and we don’t- figure we are the all, and as every reader knows we never started the “holler” anddon’t enjoy yelling well enough to coax any other business man to yell against us.” So as we could gain the more adver tisement. “Murder will out.” A few bargains this week: Don’t come in looking so sour when you can buy sugar at $8.00 per sack. J. P. Coat’s Thread, 7 spools 25c. Steel Cut Coffee 15c per piund. 25c Crackers for 20c per package. Matches, 8 boxes 26c. All kinds of dried fruits 10c per lb. Sweet corn $1.60 per case. A new shipment of Men’s Shirts has arrived which we will sell at 45c. To freshen things up a little we will sell block salt at 29c per block. WATCH OUR ADS. JOHN BRENNAN| Wants to See You People living in town will be pleased P to learn I have put in a big Refriger- t ator so you can have Boiled Ham, jr Summer Sausage, Country Butter, £ Fresh Eggs, Brick Cheese, Water melons, etc., right off the Ice. x This week lam going to cut loose on y 150 pairs off Shoes at.$1.95 T 200 pair off Stockings. X 30 Boxes of Crackers at.8%c y 4 Water Tanks . t 5 Town Lots—Sale or Trade. 1.000 Blocks of Salt. 200 Bags of Flour. > 30 Ladies’ Aprons. I 350 Pairs of Overalls. w 175 Work Shirts. £ 200 Bags of Rice. j 2.000 Pounds of Coffee. 300 Cans of Lewis Lye. y 75 Cases of Matches. g 25 Cases of Tomatoes. 20 Cases of Corn. 35 Pairs California Buckskin Gloves. 200 Boxes of Soap. 150 Pairs California Horsehide Gloves 175 Pairs Muleskin Gloves. 1.000 Feet of Stacker Rope. 2.000 Feet of %in. Halter Rope. 50 Gallon Steam Cylinder Oil. 50 Gallon Polarine. 1—2-Hole Keystone Sheller. 500 Base Balls 5-10-25 centers. Bakers Chocolate (Not here but coming). 76 Buggy Whips (Choice 35c). 24 All-Leather Halters .79c 65 Sweat Pads (all sizes) 3 for .$1.00 27 Nail Hammers (not much good) 15c 500 pound Good Bacon. 500 pound Good Ham. 150 Portage Auto Casings. About one dozen Tubes. Storekeepers in O’Neill and ad joining towns. If you will pay cash for the goods I will sell them to you the same prices I make to my customers. , The Interstate Commerce Com mission, the biggest fake we ever started gave the R. R. Co. power to in crease the freight rates inside the State of Nebraska. Are you going to stand for this? This increase comes off the Prices of Hogs, Cattle, Grain, Etc., shipped to Omaha or any town j inside the state. It’s time for the ) Farmers Union to stick together and I help the Railroad Trainmen fight this > Commerce Commission. f You can see what they can do in j one month. What can they do in a 5 year ? £ Crack it to Them. I Two for 25c Brennans Special Examination. There will be a special August ex amination Saturday, August 19th, one day only. Only county certificate sub jects will be offered. No readingcircle examination. All forenoon subjects will be given Saturday forenoon, and afternoon subjects Saturday afternoon. Teachers must finish all grades for a certificate at this time if they wish to teach. MINNIE B. MILLER. A Horticulturist's Views. Having been around your beautiful city considerable during the past three weeks I have noticed that your trees j Sellers Cabinet § I DID YOU SEE OUR NEW SELLERS KITCHEN CABINET. THE ll BIGGEST VALUE IN CABINETS TODAY, MADE OF SOLID OAK ft WITH AN OIL-RUBBED, DULL, MOISTURE PROOF FINISH. POR- II CELAIN TABLE TOP, AUTOMATIC FLOUR BIN, ROLL CURTAIN, It AND ANT-PROOF CASTORS. „ ft OUR CAR OF FURNITURE IS GOING FAST. IF YOU DO NOT If BUY NOW YOU WILL HAVE TO PAY MORE MONEY. SATISFACT- i ION AND QUALITY IS OUR MOTTO. g| * Warner & S< >n I are sadly neglected and as I have fol lowed HORTICULTURE all my life I wish to say that conditions can be easily changed. A tree should never be tied to a post but the top weight should be re moved so that it will stand up itself and no paint should ever be used on wounds or cuts, but it is a good idea to whitewash all trees twice each year. By pruning each year you can hold your trees within bounds and avoid having to rebuild them as you will have to do with many of them which are now beyond your control. Fresh stable manure should never be used around trees and the lower limbs should not be cut off to more than six feet from the ground, but the top growth should be held under control. Sap in a tree never goes down but as soon as the tree is through growing it becomes dormant and can be pruned to any form you want it and right now you can use a saw or an ax on a tree and it will not bleed, but all cuts should be well painted in order that the wound may heal before cold weather. Young growth can be removed at any time in the year and this should be done that you may train your tree to grow as you do your child. J. E. FREEMAN. NEBRASKA STATE FAIR LINCOLN, NEB. September 4-9, 1916. Plan to go with your friends and help make this year’s event a record breaker. You will enjoy an educa tional treat by seeing the great agri cultural, horticultural, live stock, dairy and industrial exhibits which will be larger and more interesting than ever before. Large program of the latest amusement attractions. All the mod ern and improved methods of farming shown. Splendid train service via the Chicago & North Western Ry. Call on your home ticket agent. 10-2 Kola Items. August 14, 1915. A young man by the name of George Thisler of Gracie, set fire to the Blake Post Office, one day last week, which was the home of Grover Barthell. We hear there was no in surance. He was working at Berin’s ranch with the hay gang. He does not give any reason for his crime only that they worked him too hard. He was caught the same eve, and taken to Burwell and has confessed that he burned the home. Last Friday eve during a severe storm the windmill of Mr. C. Moss and b&rn of J. Shultz were struck by lightning. N. Robertson and wife of Oppor tunity, north of O’Neill, stopped at Kola for a few minutes Saturday. R. Benjamin, Mrs. A. P. Monroe, Miss Josephine Bruner and Miss Myrtle Holfland visited Kola Sunday. Corn is looking fine since the splen did rains of last week and will have a fine crop if frost will not come too You Can Fence i a With our American fence for it will give you satisfaction * and my prices are lower now than they can be later. Let me quote you prices on what you need. : i1 , - --—--- I Neil P. Brervrvarv 1 ■- - >,n " I Light Transfer==Delivery I Will deliver to any part of town and to and from depots. Use the Phone. J. U. YAlMTZl, Phones 280-298 '< Make Your Checks Large. The next time you feel like dashing off a cheek in settlement of an obli gation be careful that it is for more than a dollar. An obsolute federal regulation provides a penalty for writing a check for less than one buck: Under the title of “Offenses against the currency, coinage, etc., section 178, criminal code of the United States,” the law relative to checks is made very plain. Section 178 is as follows: “No person shall make, issue,circu late or pay out any note, check, memo randum, token or other obligation for a sum less than $1, intended to circu late as money, or to be received, or used in lieu of lawful money of the United States; any and every person so offending shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.” Weather Report. Max. Min. St.ofW. Rn August 10—82 68 Pt. Cldv. 0 > August 11—82 69 Raining ll August 12—76 54 Cldv 3(1 August 13—70 55 Cldv ' 0 August 14—84 59 Clear « August 15—95 61 Clear o August 16—83 66 Cldy. .08 Notice. The premium books for the Third Annual Holt County Fair have been mailed out to residents of the county Anyone who has not received one can > procure same by calling or writing to the secretary. Entry blanks were en closed with the books and parties re ceiving same are urged to fill them out and return as soon as possible P. C. DONOHOE, Secretary.