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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1916)
-—.— -,r_-- _^. ■ i I NEBRASKA PROSPERITY LEA6UE ! _____ j A Statewide, Nonpartisan\ : Organization of Tax- s* \ payers VICE-PRESIDENT^ WESLEY P. ADK NS SOUTH OMAHA JOHN ALBERTSON MERCHANT. PENDER DR. C. C. ALLISON SURGEON GEORGE ANTIL INVESTMENTS. BLAIR Z. M. BAIRD MARTI NGTON J. L. BAKER MANUFACTURER J. W. BENDER FARMER. HUMPHREY lfe~=| ALFRED BRATT j INVESTMENTS. OENOA CHAS. H. BROWN I lx REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS i W. J. BURGESS INVESTMENTS Ijlgl HARRY V. BURKLEY » n't PRINTER IH w. M. BUSHMAN STORAOS ALBERT CAHN MANUFACTURER LOUIS 8. DEETS STOCKMAN.KEARNEY E. M. FAIRFIELD REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS JOHN N. FRENZER =||f REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS jp DR. R. GILMORE ggj] PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON tgi T. V. GOLDEN CAPITALIST. O'NEILL I HI FERDINAND HAARMANN gg MANUFACTURER J. J. HANIOHEN CONTRACTOR p? FRED D. HUNKER - ATTORNEY. WEST POINT FRANK B. JOHNSON g; OMAHA, PRINTING CO. !pl C. J. KARBACH IpSiTt INVESTMENTS p HON. J. T. KEELEY VALENTINE F. J. KELLY MERCHANT. NIOBRARA fg|l FRANK B. KENNARD jiM capitalist M JACOB KLEIN MERCHANT. BEATRICE pm BUD LATTA |H RANCH OWNER. TEKAMAH feglj E. M. F. LEFLANG CAPITALIST • O. W. MEGEATH gg COAL OPERATOR m JOHN A. M O H R B AC HER gg; INVESTMENTS. WYMORS HI SOPH US F. NEBLE == PUBLISHER HI FRANK A. NIMS RETIRED FARMER. FALLS CITY =5 J. J. NOVAK BANKER. WILBER J. J. O’CONNOR ATTORNEY EE3 GEORGE PARR fg' MERCHANT. NEBRASKA CITY pS HON. WATSON L. PURDY LAND OWNER. MADISON THEODORE REIMERS STOCKMAN. PULLERTOM V CARL ROHDE pH RETIRED FARMER. COLUMRUS Ip JOHN G. ROSICKY pmi PUBLISHER HJ. C. ROTH INVESTOR. FREMONT JOHN SCHINDLER BjTANTOH W H. SCHMOLLCR JOBBER THEODORE H. BERK !§§ STOCKMAN. NELIGH ip O. E. SHUKERT MANUFACTURER * [H HARRY E. 6IMAN IWINSIDS PAUL F. SKINNER MANUFACTURER A. F. SMITH W JOBBER N. A. SPIESBERGER jlllj WHOLESALER §j| HON. F. F. STAFFORD E~S NORFOLK HH WILLIAM STORK \ INVESTMENTS. ARLINGTON Ka ROBERT C. STREHLOW ■CONTRACTOR GEORGE B. TYLER I __ INVESTMENTS. HASTINGS pg| A. J. VIERLING j ■ PRES. PAXTON • VIERLING j _ IRON WORKS . J THEODORE WIDAMAN % j Sp STOCK BUYER. AURORA) j m e. B. WILLEY I { gg ATTORNEY, RANDOLPH 8. N. WOLBACH MERCHANT. GRAND ISLAND I R. M. WOLCOTT MERCHANT. CENTRAL CITY HON. OTTO ZUELOW MAYOR. SCHUYLBR Does Prohibition Save the Boy? The Promise: State Prohibition is being urged on the citizens of Nebraska on the plea that it will save the ( boy. Let us see whether Prohibition has saved the boys of Kansas, where state Prohibition has been tried for 35 years. The Actual Result: 1 KANSAS, Sentenced boy inmates Oct. 1,1915: Reformatory.330 Boys* Industrial School. . 264 Total for Kansas . . 594 NEBRASKA, Sentenced boy inmates Oct 1,1915: (No Reformatory).... none Boys’ Industrial School. . 199 Total for Nebraska .199 ITlie figures for Kansas were compiled by Chas. M. Hargrer, Chairman of the Kansas State Board of Corrections, and the Harare* for Nebraska were compiled by the Board of Commissioners of State Institutions.] Why Do Three Times as Many Boys Go Wrong in Kansas? J. K. Codding, warden of the Kansas penitentiary, lays the blame on “The Little Alley Joints” that exist all over Kansas, where, he* says, K§ men and boys congregate night after night to play poker, shoot craps, and indulge in debauchery. J [See the warden’* report on page 43 of the Proceeding* of the Kanaaa Conference of Charities and Correction*, held nt Lawrence, Kanaaa, November, 10X5.] |g§ Judge Roy T. Osborne, of Independence, Kansas jjj On page 13 of the same report, says: “In the little more than ten years the juvenile court has been estab lished in Kansas, children under sixteen years of age, in this, state, have committed practically every crime in the calendar, including murder in the first degree. * * * It is astounding to observe the jjj absolute indifference of many parents to the moral welfare of their offspring. * * * In nearly every community there are places and ggj forms of amusement unwholesome for children.” * * * jjj1 M. G. McKenzie, Ghaplain of the Reformatory in Kansas 1 Says on page 50 of the First Biennial Report, Kanaaa State Board of Cor* rectionst Bj "Of these boys, 202 acknowledged they drank more or less; 275 used tobacco, 77 gambled. Most of these boys ran around considerable, and were away from home. when they got into trouble; 265 were 'from jjj homes broken by death or divorce.” * * * THE ALLEY JOINT in Kansas is the corrupting in fluence that lands so many Kansas boys in the Re- | formatory and Industrial School. Prohibition Breeds the Alley Joint. B — -______________ The Nebraska Prosperity League 1 OPPOSED TO STATE PROHIBITION. IN FAVOR OF LOCAL OPTION, HIGH LICENSE jjj President, L. F. CROFOOT Treasurer, W. J. COAD Secretary, J. B. HAYNES H g Send for our literature. OMAHA, NEBRASKA |g| *...I...... A Plain Statement of Fact I ggggm .. Mogul 8-16; $725 Cash f. o. b. Chicago T the present prices of gasoline and kerosene, no farmer can afford to use a gasoline tractor. Gaso line averages now over ioo per cent higher in price than kerosene and is likely to go higher rather than lower, in the opinion of men who know the oil business. Again, it is neither safe nor economical to use kerosene in a tractor not specially designed to operate on kerosene. Merely changing the fuel mixer or supplying some “attach ment” is not enough; the design of the whole motor and much of the material used must be different and better. Gasoline and real kerosene tractors of equal power sell for about the same price and use practically the same amounts of fuel. On that basis a Mogul 8-16 tractor saves each year, in fuel bills alone, about a third of its price. The experience of Mogul owners proves the truth of this statement. If you are considering the purchase of a tractor this year, give these facts careful study, from every point of view, before you spend your money. Mogul tractors are designed specially to operate on kero sene and to give their users the full benefit of this advantage. Come in and see us before you buy a tractor. International Harvester Company of America (Incorporated) Sold by NEIL P. BRENNAN. O’Neill, Neb. DOC MATHEWS CITES HISTORY. (Continued from page four.) long winter of 1880-81 made conditions and times quite serious, owing to the scarcity of fuel. I have before re ferred to this matter, but several inci dents come to my mind that it strikes me are worth mentioning. In order to make fuel go as far as possible there was considerable doubling up of fami lies. Along later in the winter or early in the spring the situation be came very serious. I think it was in March that H. M. Uttley and family were taken into our house, and we lived on a community basis. It was a hard skirmish for wood, and when some settler from over on the river or some of the creeks brought in a little jag of wood, he had no trouble in un_ loading at a big price. I recall that a man came in one day with a load of limbgj, making possibly one-half or three-fourths of a cord, and that Ut tley outbid all the rest and secured the load for our combination family at a price of about $17.00. I was present when he made the deal and of course was expected to be called upon to help make up this big sum, but Uttley pulled out a sack filled with all kinds of money, and paid the bill like a Roth schild. That night I asked Uttley where he got so darned much money, and he said that was part of the pro ceeds of the sale of the Daggett stock which he Was conducting for the creditors, and that it was only a part of his fee as attorney and auctioneer. It was a few weeks before Uttley and Benner combined in housekeeping with us that I was forced to have some wood to protect my wife and children from suffering. Jim Perry was in town and he said that by the Eternal something had to be done. We went over to the livery stable and hitched his team to a wagon, drove down to where the McClure posts were, and had about a dozen loaded on the wagon, when Haggerty came out of his store and ordered us to unload. I told him my children were sick and that I just had to have wood to keep them from freezing to death. He said this was not a theft, for we were taking these posts in broad daylight. Jim did not stop to argue but droves off, and we took the posts home and he and I converted them into the proper lengths for the cook stove. It was about this time that my two children were stricken with diptheria. There were no cases of this horrible disease in town, and we never did know how it originated. Sweet little Gracie was then about two and one-half years old. It was the second day after she was taken ill before we really knew the character of the disease. Even then it was not discovered by Dr. Ben ner but rather by Mrs. Mathews, who was examining her throat. Dr. Ben ner had recently graduated and had had absolutely no experience. While I do not blame him, I always felt that had we had ia competent and ex perienced physician we would have succeeded in compating the rapid in roads of the disease. It seemed that the diseasee had so far progressed be fore we had made the correct diagosis that all our efforts were futile, and on the night of February 5th, the soul of our sweet little baby girl passed out of the pain-racked body. That was a great many years ago, but we have never forgotten the aid and sympathy given us by our good neighbors. The young men especially were very kind, and at all hours of the day and night some one was with us to render aid and sympathy. I recall especially the solicitude and help rendered by Charlie ... .. Millard, Barney Kearns and Bob Wil liams. When the little body was taken to the new cemetery On the hill for burial a blizzard of unusual severity prevailed. It was so bad that Mrs. Matheews nor any of the women folks could go to the grave. There was no minister in town and Gilbert Cleveland conducted a simple service of reading and prayer. My feelings when I left the house for the cemetery were that little Harry, who was then about five years old, would not be alive upon my return. From the cemetery I went directly to Doc Daggett’s store, and while he was not a real doctor, I urged him to come on home with me. Of coure he was glad to do what he could and complied with my request. We prepared a solution of Carbolic Acid and fixed up some cotton batten swabs before leaving the store. Arriving at the house we immediately proceeded to the most drastic meeasures. Dag gett held the boy’s mouth open and I swabbed the throat liberally with the carbolic solution. This caused the patient to strangle and cough, with the result that he forced out huge lumps of phlem that had accumulated in the throat and was fast choking him to death. We worked with the poor little fellow for a long time, but had the great satisfaction of finally suc_ ceeding in removing all the poisonous substance, and had the satisfaction of feeilng that we had saved the life. At this day, if you would look in Harry’s throat you would see the evidences of the awful swabbing that Daggett and I gaev him. (Continued next week.) Holt County Conventino. Holt county annual convention of the W. C. T. U. will be held in At kinson, Holt County, Nebraska, Sep tember 6, 1916. PROGRAM. Wednesday, Sept. 6. 9:30 A. M. Local Officers and County Superintendent’s Report of the past year’s work. Paper—“What Can an Isolated Wo_ man do to Win Prohibition.” .Mrs. Mary Corbet, Celia. Election of County Officers and what ever business may come before the meeting. 12 M. Dinner in Dining Room Presby terian Church. Afternoon Session. 2 P. M. Devotional Services. Rev. Lloyd Cunningham, Atkinson. “Mothers and the Part They Play in This Great Temperance Reform.” .Rev. H. R. Knosp, Atkinson. Reading—Mrs. Gregory, Staurt. Address—H. D. Wells, Atkinson. _Rev. Claude Parkerson, O’Neill. 4 P. M. School Childrens’ Parade through the streets—Conducted by Miss Isabell Havens, Atkinson. Evening Session. 8:15 P. M. “The Man Who Forgot.” —Miss Pauline Lucile Mayo. —Ex. Committee. CATTLE TO HOLD BOARDS Interstate Livestock Fair at Sioux City Will Draw Leading Breed ers of America. Growing Interest in the cattle feed ing business and development of the movement to breed better cattle has caused the Interstate Livestock Fair Association to increase awards in the cattle division, with a result that lead ing breeders of America will be rep resented at the fair with choice herds, beginning September 21 and continu ing until September 26. Because of its interest in the de velopment of cattle feeding the Sioux City Livestock Exchange has made a special offer of prizes for fat cattle in carload lots which win place in the Judging. The winners will divide a purse totaling $1,000. The sale of cat tle shown in this division has always proved one of the most attractive fea tures for breeders in past years. The fair this year will also make a special effort to get sheep exhibits. The remarkable development of the sheep industry in the Sioux City ter ritory has just caused the announce ment that the Sioux City Stock Yards company will recognize the industry by erecting a big sheep barn at the yards. In the sheep competition judg ment will be made from the stand point of the packer, and all sheep en tered will be sold on open market September 26, no commission being charged the owner. The buyers have pledged an advance of $1 over the market on all sheep taking fair prizes. Entries made in the various classes of cattle are more numerous than for any previous affair. This condition has been brought about through uni versal recognition of the fact that ribbons won in Sioux City are taken with closer competition than exists at any of the big stock shows in this western country. The existence of a big market has the tendency to con centrate fine cattle raising in and around Sioux City and the far distant territory is represented by exhibits shipped from the state fairs in Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota. WHEN IN OMAHA VISIT THE everySSk Musiml Burlesque Clun, duty Entertainment. Everybody Soee. Aik Anybody LADIES' DIME MATINEE DAILY DON’T GO HOME SAYING! I DIDN'T VISIT THE QAYBTY $595 - Maxwell F. O. B. FACTORY A. G. WYANT O’NEILL NEBRASKA H. U. ROLAND PRACTICAL AUCTIONEER , Farm Sales a Specialty. Cry Sales Any Place. Phone 301 for Dates. O’NEILL NEBRASKA ■ ■ PREPAREDNESS When in Need of Any Thing in VETINAR Y line, you will find us prepared to treat diseases of all domestic animals. We perform any and all Surgical Opera tions. We have state license and have had years of successful practice. TRY US! C. C. Fouts. A. J. Fouts Phone No. 275, O’Neill, Neb. 7-4 FARM & RANCH LOANS ■ Very attractive rates on Farm loans; very liberal privilidges to j pay—also handle Ranch Loans. You will do yourself no harm to write me. I will get on the ground, and will endeavor to give you prompt service. FRED T. ROBERTSON, Chambers, Neb. MONEY! to loan on Farms at 6 per cent, redeemable any time. Building and loan loans payable in monthly, semi-annual or annual payments earning 8 per cent, compounded each six months. Can save you from $200 to $300 per $1,000 in paying off your Building and loan loan. Can save you from 30 to 50 per cent of the cost of your farm insurance. \ L G. Gillespie O’Neill, Nebraska Imprisonment For Debt. About the middle of the last cen tury the power of imprisoning a debt or for life was taken from the creditor, and it fills one with amazement to think that a system so ridiculous should have continued as long as it did. The three principal debtors’ pris ons in England were the King’s Bench, the Marshalsea and the Borough Compter. In the year 1750 there were 20,000 prisoners for debt in Great Brit ain and Ireland. The futility of the system was quite as great as its bar barity. More than half the prisoners in some of the prisons were kept there solely because they could not pay the attorneys' costs. Many prisoners had their wives and children with them. There was no infirmary, no resident surgeon and no bath.—Dundee Adver tiser. Thera’s This Difference. When a woman buys a hat and meets another woman: “How do you like this hat, dear?” “Lovely, simply lovely. You have such good taste.” (Later “Of all the hats I ever saw that’s the worst.”) When a man buys a hat and meets another man: “Howdu like the hat, Mike? Class, eh?” “Say, is that a hat? Who stung you?”—Detroit News. The Trouble. “Confound the luck!” growled the visitor. “Here’s this front door been freshly painted!” “Yes,” said his friend from a safe distance. “It is hard luck. Any one to look at you can see you have been up against it.”—Baltimore American. White Elephants. So called white elephants are light gray In color. The lightest ever seen in Siam was one brought over to Bang kok by a European circus, but the