* The Frontier
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TO OUR READERS.
We dislike very much to have to
dun our subscribers for money but
it has become absolutely necessary.
We have a great many obligations to
meet right after the new year and
our readers would lift a great load
from our shoulders if they would call
and pay their subscriptions. We have
several thousand dollars outstanding,
which, if paid in, would enable us to
face a hard winter smilingly. Al
though the cost of everything that
goes into the production of a news
paper has more than doubled in cost
during the past year we have not in
creased the subscription price and are
endeavoring to give you the best
newspaper that has ever been pub
lished in this county. We have al
ways been lenient with our readers,
as we dislike dunning, but when
necessity drives we must ask our
readers.to come and help us.
As soon as possible statements will
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send in your subscription. If each of
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in our plant. We hope this appeal
will meet with a hearty response.
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A movement has been inaugurated
to provide for a four year term for all
county officials, and the abolishment
of the fee system of payment in all
of these offices. The system might
serve as ,a ballot shortening one pro
viding the elections were held in non
presidential election years.
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If Mr. Bryan, as he stated at the
Washington dinner, is in favor of
national prohibition, national equal
suffrage, easy amendments to the con
stitution,' and federal direction in
general; how can he insist on state
regulation of railroads, rather than
federal Control, aside from political
reasons?. .
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We all h$ve known for some time
that the state capitol at Lincoln is a
crumbling and falling shack not ex
actly suited to the dignity of our
great commonwealth, but until the
recent editorial irt the World-Herald,
describing it, no one realized just how
dilapidated, damp,, rat-infested, un
sanitary, gloomy, drafty, stuffy, over
crowded and generally disgraceful a
structure it really is.
MORE LOCAL MATTERS.
Ben W. Rodenwold, who is studying
Suggestions For Xmas Dinner
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CANDIES SECKEL PEARS
CRANBERRIES SPICED PEACHES
GREEN ONIONS SPICED CANTELOPE
RADISH SPICED APRICOTS
PARSLEY ORANGE
LETTUCE MARMALADE
CELERY JAM
MINT JELL
MADEN BLUSH
GRAPES RIpE 0LIyES
ORANGES PICKLES
BANANAS CHERRIES LASALAD
APPLES SALAD DRESSING
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Everything In Staple and Fancy
Groceries
Merriman & Harty
“QUALITY GROCERS" Phone 191
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John Brennan
The Man Who Put the “Bee”
in Business Wants
to See You.
A young fellow who wore a genuine
tailor-made cigarette on his lip and
drawing about $4.00 a week salary
aed into a grocery store and or
a bottle of olives on his way
home to dinner. As the grocery
wagon was out on a run he asked the
grocer if there was any one he could
get to take them home in time for
dinner? An old man standing there
says: “I’ll take them up for a dime
as I have to go right by the house.”
After the old man left with the olives
the tin horn sport asked the grocer
who that fellow was. The grocer
says: “Don’t you know him, he’s the
guy that owns the bank where you
work.”
Some people wonder how it is there
are so many sales. Everybody knows
is so many sales. Everybody knows
prices are higher. If these stores
didn’t price goods too high how
could they cut? If your credit is
good why don’t they give the credit
customers cash prices, every day?
Why do they wait until the season is
over? It goes to show for fifty
weeks in every year you get stuck
week after week. I tell you, you are
a sucker to trade with a man who
“Jips” you every time you come in the
store. Do you need some one to lead
you by the hand ? Can’t you read the.
papers? Don’t you know where to
buy goods at the right prices? Look
at those sales; they are jokes. Any
day you can buy goods here for less.
I never have a sale. I sell the goods
right every day in the week. I sell
flour cheaper than the O’Neill Mill
can make it after I pay the freight
for 1B0 miles.
Did you notice that all the sales are
cash sales?
If your credit was as good as cash,
why <Iid they charge you so much
before ?
When a storekeeper stands up and
tells you for fifty weeks in the year
he cannot sell you those goods for less
and then turns around and cuts them
in two after you bought. What kind
of a man is he? Is he trying to help
you ? After telling you your credit is
good then calls a cash sale? I told
you the time of the old style business
is over. I told you they would have
to cut the prices or lose the
customers. They lost the customers,
and now they want you back. They
drove you out for fifty weeks, week
after week with high prices and then
when you made up your mind to stay
out, they call a sale—Fire Sale,
Smoke Sales, Water Sales, Removal
Sale, Pulling Out Sales—but notice
that they are Cash Sales. Are you
going back? Every man, woman and
child that reads this ad REMMEBER
THIS, IF YOU KEEP AWAY FROM
THOSE SALES NOW for a month,
till February or March you will have
a chance to buy those same goods
then for one-half, one-fourth and one
tenth what they ask you now. People
who attended those sales said the
prices had been raised instead of
lowered. But they will be lower.
Wait and watch. One sure thing they
dare not put them higher because
they are up against a real cash stolre
man who does not try to get it all
from one customer.
You know and I know there is too
many little dinky stores in O’Neill.
You know two or three good stores
could do it all and sell for less and
with less expense. You know there
is a bunch of old storekeepers here
who are fighting me because they
know I have the system to build up
the biggest business in this part of
the state. Did you ever see my base
ment? Full to the roof. Now ]
showed, you what I could do and 1
done what I sqid. I ain’t living in no
chicken house either. If you want a
good store in O’Neill pick out the man
who has done you the most good and
push. If I ain’t one of the men I will
lay down without a kick. Any young
man or woman who wants to work,
please send me your name and ad
dress. I never can tell when I need
more help. I don’t care whether you
know anything or not, if you are
honest. The goods do the talking, the
price sells them, and the quality
brings the customer back. All I want
is some one to wrap up and put the
money in the drawer.
I have a lot of Overcoats at $5.00
each; Shoes at $1.95; Oyster Shells
95c; Bran $1.35; Shorts $1.50; Odd
Pants and Overalls at 85c; Children’s
German Dyed Stockings at 15c.^
Hurry Up Those Catalogues.
Apples (box) . $1.95
Cabbage .!. 4c
Oyster Shells, 100 pounds . 95c
Sugar .$7.45
Lemons, per dozen . 25c
Oronges, per dozen . 25c
Candy, per pound . 25c
Flour . $2.15
Overcoats .$5.00
Union Suits, Men . 89c
4 Buckle Overshoes .$1.50
Ham, Picnic . 18c
Ham, Minced . 15c
Peas, Early June . 9c
11 Gallon Oil . 88c
Odd Pants ..$1.75
Horse Blankets . $1.50
Coal Buckets . 15c
5 Pound Burbon Santos Coffee 3
years old when roasted .$1.00
Men’s and Ladies’ Hose from 10c up
Ladies’ and Children’s Shoes . $1.95
Men’s Shoes .$2.95
$2.35 Martha Washington Slip
pers .$1.65
The Norfolk News says a woman’s
time is too valuable to waste in run
ning to some certain store in order tc
save money on her purchases. How
about the women in the country whc
do their own Washing, Ironing, Scrub
bing, raising the children, making
their clothes, churning butter, gather
ing eggs, helping the men folks in the
fields, raising four and five hundrec
chickens, ducks, geese, calves, pigs
With flower beds, Canary birds, sew
ing for the neighbors, attending the
sick, cooking for the church bazzars
mending the clothes, cooking for four
or five hired men, going to the sew'
ing bees, literary societies, find
time to buy goods where they get
them the cheapest. But the womer
in town who have nothing to do but
read the catalogues, talk over the
telephone about the shabby clothes
her neighbor wears, has no time tc
spend running to the store to buy
where she could save money. No
she has no time, but has she has got
time to spend five or six hours each
week cussing her husband because hi
can’t earn more money. Five or six
hours each week to the Lodge and the
Moving Picture Show. And twenty
hours each week talking about her
next door neighbor but no time to gc
down town and help her husband by
saving $10 or $15 a month on the
Grocery Bill.
Cstsh Does It
agriculture at me state university at
Lincoln, returned last night to spend
the holidays with the home folks.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ryan are re
joicing over the arrival of an eight
pound baby girl, born on last Satur
day.
There must be something radically
wrong with the expensive, self
registering thermometers installed by
the government in the local weather
station. They fail entirely to agree
with a majority of the other ther
mometers around town, particularly
when the weather is around zero.
Isn’t it queer what little things will
turn one from a happy, jovial mood tc
a dissatisfied, gloomy frame .of mind'?
This little incident occured *n a local
jewelery establishment, the principal
character being a young lady, blond
very pretty and popular. She was
happy, seemed very happy, smiling
laughing and chatting with hei
companions, simply bubbling ovet
with joy. She was doing her Christ
mas shopping and the present just
selected was, apparently, for the
dearest of friends. It was for a mar
and the gentleness in the touch with
which she handled it, the wistfullness
in her eyes and the tenderness in het
voice spoke volumns that the lips
would, perhaps, have never told. He
was tall, dark, curly haired and
wealthy. A life sized likeness adorns
her boudoir, a silent comforter in her
moments of loneliness. She thought
that his initials should be carved
thereon and it so happened that his
initials are large and many and the
'•pots reserved for them were small
and few. They would not go on, and
she would not have it without them
Who could blame her? But it was
just what he needed, he had said so,
so many times and he partly ex
pected it too. But this was the only
one in town that was at all pretty, the
only one she would have, and hall
mad—half sad she left the shop, a
sympathetic friend on each arm.
Fur Coat Lost.
Between Ryan & Froelick hay office
and Barney Corrigan’s, one fur orev
coat. Finder please leave at this
office and receive reward.
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Christmas Will
Soon Be Here
LET US SUGGEST A CHRISTMAS PRESENT
FOR YOUR FRIENDS
WE HAVE ALUMINUM KETTLES, RICE BOILERS, ROASTERS,
TEA KETTLES, PERCULATORS, A NICE LINE OF CARVING SETS,
ALL KINDS OF CUTLERY, BOYS’ SLEDS AND WAGONS, SKATES,
TOOLS, FLASHLIGHTS, ROCKERS, LIBRARY TABLES, TABOR
ETTS, PEDESTALS, DUOFOLDS, RUGS, ETC. WE MEET ALL COM
PETITION. QUALITY, PRICE AND SERVICE CONSIDERED. BUY
NOW AND SAVE MONEY. NEXT YEAR YOU WILL HAVE TO
PAY MORE, REGARDLESS WHERE YOU BUY. I
WARNER & SONS
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Big Specials
This Week
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At
This week we have prices that
would make all catalogue houses turr
in shame.
Suits no more .$15.00
No less .$9.00
Regular $22.00, $24.00, $25.00
Suits,,.$15.00
Fully Guaranteed.
Regular $15.00, $16.00 $18.00
Sqits .$9.00
All ( our $2.50 and $3.00 Shoes
for Men, Women and Children
at-;..:.$1.98
Tltet are great values at the
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ways glad to have you come in and
make yourself at home. The reason
we sell cheap is because ^
Money Talks at
BAZELMAN’S
STORE
Members of the several Farmers’
Unions of the county met in O’Neill
Saturday afternoon to perfect the or
ganization of a county association
which will work for the advancement
of the co-operative idea or system, as
a county unit, in Holt county. The
meeting was well attended, delegates
being present from practically every
township in the county, and a per- j
manent organization was agreed A
upon. Among the many questions ™
discussed was one for the emmploy
ment of a county agent or demon
strator, and as soon as the formali
ties are gone through with the
county board of supervisors will be
asked to take the necessary steps to
assure the assignment of an agent by
the federal department of agriculture.
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Usefvil Gifts For Men
We will all play Santa Claus before long, and the best way
is the useful way. Gifts for father and son. We know just ex
actly what they wear and what they like and our offerings are
the latest and most attractive of their kind.
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COME
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MATE FORM
CHRISTMAS F
'0'ej?°*£^ pBB
House Coats, $5 to.$10.00 Gloves, Dress and Work • {]]!
Neckwear, 25c to.$1.50 25c to..$2.00 g;
Traveling Bags, $5 to $15.00 Mittens,Dress and Work fg
Bath Robes, $5 to.$12.00 25c to .1.$2.50 |l
Night Robes, $1 to.$3.00 Sweaters, $1.25 to.$9.00 |jg
Shirts, $1.50 to.$5.00 Silk and Pure Linen III
Mufflers, $1 to.$3.50 Handkerchiefs, 25 cts. [[[ ■
Suspenders, 50c to.$1.50 to ... 75c fjf
Holeproof Hoisery, 25c Pur Caps, $3.50 to $7.50 Ijj
to. $1.00 Florsheim Shoes, $5 to $7.00 jjjf
We have a large assortment of Sweaters, Mackinaws, Sheep- I (]
lined Coats, Rubbers and Overshoes, \ g
Buy Men’s Gifts at a men’s store. ;
Here you will receive the attention, the service that a store
with a reputation knows how to give; you will find standard ;
lines of merchandise, an assurance of best values. ' Jp
“THE TOGGERY”
Harty & Mullen
East of Golden Hotel.