The Frontier
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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
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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.
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Neil P. Brervrvarv
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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.
