The VOLUME XXXVII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1917. NO. 36. | the County’s Biggest at Emmet, Nebr. Fred McNally vs. W. R. Cobb A real wrestling bout for a purse of $1,000 I and gate receipts. Money now up in the Emmet State Bank. Tuesday, February 27 Main event at 8:30 Reserved seats now on sale at the Emmet State Bank, $1. The seat you buy will be the seat you will get. GOOD ORDER WILL PREVAIL Col. James Berigan, Referee. LOCAL MATTERS. Dr. Higgins, of Atkinson, visited in tjiis city Sunday. Walt Holcomb, of Chambers, was in the city Wednesday. Charles Wrede, Jr., was transacting business in the city Wednesday. M. R. Sullivan went down to Omaha Sunday morning on a short business trip. Mrs. Eitha Sivesind of Mineola, was an O’Neill visitor Wednesday of this week. John Kane, of phadron, was in the city Sunday visiting relatives and friends. County Attorney Boyle moved into his new office in the Dimmitt Block Monday. Dr. J. P. Gilligan went down to Omaha Thursday morning with J. A. Donohoe. D. A. Criss and daughter went down to Albion Wednesday morning for a short visit. George Bowen, now operating a moving picture show at Oakdale, was in the city Monday. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Brady, of Dor sey, are the proud and happy parents of a son, born February the 6th. Alfred Strube returned to his home at Norfolk Monday morning, having spent some time here with friends. Miss Lillian Brooks acted as hostess to the Martez club, Tuseday evening. The evening was spent playing whist. L. C. Peters, the talented road and bridge expert, went over to Butte Tuesday afternoon on a short business trip. Miss Kathryn Grady left Monday Morning for “Chicago and other east ern markets to purchase her spring stock of millinery. John Wintermote came down from Douglas, Wyo., the first of the week to look after his property interests, * and visit old friends. Jake Mechaley, of Winner, formerly a resident of CPNeill, came over from that place Saturday night for a week’s visit with old friends. Lyle S. Smith of West Point, and Earle Angus of Wisner, were in the city Monday night, enroute to Wyom ing to look at some land. Miss Maud M. Wagman, of Inman, and Louis Schoenherr, of Mapleton, _ _-. .- .... i Iowa, were married by Rev. Father j Cassidy on Tuesday morning. Thomas Griffin went down to Omaha Wednesday morning on a combined business and pleasure trip. He ex- , pects to be gone about a week. < Clarence C. Bergstrom, of Stafford, ( and Miss Clara Krueger, of Inman, j were granted a marriage license by ' County Judge Malone last Monday. ( Miss Hazel Walker, of Page, has i accepted a position as bookkeeper and s office assistant to Dr. Burgess and s entered upon her duties Wednesday. < Louis F. Schachet, of Page, and 1 Christina Loudar, of Star, were mar ried in the chambers of the county £ court on last Wednesday by Judge 1 Malone.' > ^J. A. Donohoe, who has been quite ] seriously ill with stomach and bowel 1 trouble for the past week was t&ke.i to c Omaha, to a hospital Thursday ' morning. J Miss Virginia Testman entertained t the Granuaile club at their weekly f meeting last Friday evening. Cards £ furnished the principal amusement of \ the evening. , William O’Sullivan came over from 1 Spencer last Friday evening and in- 1 tends to remain permanently. For < some time past he has been managing a billiard hall in that city. 1 Victor A. Johnson, of Wasau, who , recently purchased the Puckett ranch, j has been in the city the past few days , closing arrangements for moving his , family to their new home, and buying t some stock and machinery. E Mrs. S. J. Weekes and Mrs. J. A. * Donohoe entertained a number of i their lady friends at a dinner and * card party at the Gold, n Saturday £ evening. Mrs. C. E. Stou; and Mrs. J. ‘ P. Gilligan entertained far the same i club a week ago. £ Ross E. Harris recently purchased J the Emmet Telephone C >., from its j former owners and is now the owner and manager. Mr. Han is contem plating several improvements and in- 1 tends to give Emmet people metro- I politan telephone service. £ At a meeting of Holt Camp, No. ; 1710, of the Modern Woodmen of t America, in their lodge rooms Tues- t day evening the following gentlemen , were elected delegates to the county ( camp meeting in April: S. F. Me- | Nichols, Geo. Miles, W. J. Biglin and < Henry Zimmerman. | : i ( j| A CAREFUL MAN’S BANKING SYSTEM jj | Many a carefully, planning man in Holt County has a sum of money laid aside for some special use at about a certain time in the jjj < future. H Does he keep it at home? NO! He brought it to the Nebraska State Bank and put it in one of our Certificates of Deposit. m , He gets his money back just when he wants it and 5 per cent interest added. Be sides that it is safe from theft, fire or loss. ' Ve will be glad to explain this plan. --- | JSt^aska Statt $a*k | Leo Mullen returned Tuesday after noon from Omaha where, Sunday, he had been called by the extreme illness sf his mother, who is in St. Catherine’s hospital in that city. She is now get ting along some better, but her con dition is regarded as very serious. A large delegation of O’Neill fitizens went up to Emmet Wednes day night to attend the dance given >y Henry Mullen on the occasion of iis marriage, which took place on that day. People from all the surrounding :ountry were in attendance and the jccasion was indeed a gala one. P. J. McManus departed Friday norning on his semi-annual buying :rip, which will be of several weeks luration. While away Mr. McManus vill visit Chicago, New York and the >ther leading markets of the east vhere standard, fancy and up-to-date irticles of wear are to be procured. While in town last week John Bellar made us a pleasant call and >aid his subscription to this in lespensible family journal for another rear. Mr. Bellar has been on The frontier’s list for thirty years and luring that time has never failed to hat paid up a year in advance. Would hat there were more like him. ' Frank Booth, through his attorney S. H. Whelan, has filed suit in dis ,rict court asking for a divorce from Stta Booth, alleging as a ground herefor, desertion and mental cruelty, ie alleges that they, were married in lolt Couipty on November 28, 1913, ind that on January 15, 1915, the de endant left him and went to live with ler mother and has since then refused o return to him, although he has ilways treated her with affection. Decausc lie was iui tuuatc cnuugn w >lay three games with M. H. Hor skey, and none against him, was one if the chief reasons why Frank Bar •ett, for the third time this season, von the weekly seven-up tournament it the club rooms Monday evening, so he experts opine! It is said that in he future desperate measures will be esorted to too keep Mr. Horiskey rom bestowing his rich ability, too avishly upon any individual player. A committee of Emmet business nen headed by Guy Cole, have ar anged a wrestling bout between Fred iIcNally, of Amelia, and J; R. Cobb, of Stuart, for a purse of $1,000 and the rate receipts. The money is now up n the hands of the Emmet state bank, 'he boys have built a stage in the enter of the hall, with seats tiered ip around it so everyone can see, and ill spectators are guaranteed the eats they buy. The event is coming ff Tuesday, February 27, in the Em net Hall. The Emmet Literary Society have irranged a banquet and program in ionor of Ireland’s martyr, Robert En. nett, which will be held at the Golden lotel on March the 5th, the day after he anniversary of his birth. An ex ellent program has been arranged, vhich will be published in this paper text week, several guests invited and he officers request that all members urn out on this -occasion. This is the irst time in several years that this ociety has given a program, although t was a yearly custom some years go, and the meetings, as this one will e, were long remembered afterward ioth in point of entertainment and njoyment. Every once in a while we receive a atter describing an event of im lortance in some certain neighbor ood, or the local happenings of that :eighborhood, unsigned, and many, nany times through the columns of his paper have we stated that, to gcure publication, the articles must ie signed as a guarantee of good aith. We deeply appreciate these avors at the hands of our friends, nd welcome them from any one and veryone in any and all neighbor ioods, but we must insist that they be igned. We hope that we will be com piled to refuse no more otherwise neritorous articles because of their eing unsigned. Wil-Pwnrl T Pmrlo IaAqI 10Q*q 1 llllYli ary and deputy county attorney, ex erienced quite a scare recently when n opening his morning’s mail he dis overed a black hand letter, demand rig immediate professional results, nder pain of death. It appeared that he object of the professional services ras a member of the local Camerra rganization temporarily reposing in he city bastile. Chief of Police iheridan Simmons was hurridly caHed ,nd after a brief consultation, issued , few bits of safety-first advice, such ,s “carefully examine the surface un lerneath the bed before retiring, a ood taster, never pass between the ight and the window, etc.,” and tarted out on the hunt. After pick ng up and following a few threadbare lews to their conclusion the Chief dis overed that that it was all a joke lerpetrated by jealous professional riends. Ar a consequence Mr. Boyle s again feeling much better and Chief Simmons’ also conscious of a difficult :ase well and speedily closed. t Norton-Gunn. On last Saturday Rev. G. W. Bruce inited in marriage Miss Mabel Nor on and Edward Gunn, both of this :ity. The happy couple left on their loneymoon Wednesday morning over he Northwestern for points unknown. Miss Norton is a daughter of bounty Surveyor Norton, and well cnown and liked in this community. Her irresistable charm of manner ;oupled with an ability and desire to please everyone have made her muntless friends. The groom is a son it A. W. Gunn, one of the old timers in this city. He has been associated with his father and has been very successful. The congratulations of The Frontier are extended with the expressed wish that they may enjoy a long life of happiness and prosperity. Warns Against Monopoly. H. Abbott in the Chicago Dairy Pro duce: North Dakota’s dairy industry has made tremendous strides in the past ten years, in spite of the harmful in fluences that have sought to obstruct it, which are wrong from an economic standpoint and which will surely strike down the independent freedom enjoyed by the dairy interests of this state at the present time unless checked, says H. Abbott, assistant state dairy commissioner. These figures, as they are before us, look peaceful enough, continues Mr. Abbott, but to a person who under stands the situation, they are index to one of the most dangerous problems that face the dairy interests in the state at the present time. An an alysis of the statistics given shows that the creameries have decreased 8.5 per cent while the cream stations have increased 128.83 per cent. You may ask: ‘What does this show?’ It shows that the centralizing creameries of other states as well as our own are making a gradual, insidious growth through their own cream buying sta tions, thus gradually choking out the small local or co-operative creamery. Fully 95 per cent of the cream bought by the cream stations is shipped to the large centralizing creameries which are owned and operated by or ganizations located in other states and all the cream shipped direct arrives at these same destinations. Referring to our statistics again we find that there was an increase in the total value of cream that was shipped to centralizers in 1916 over that shipped in 1915 of $137,770.46. This in itself does not seem so alarm ing until we note that, at the same time, there was a decerase of $19, 675.33 in the value of the product sold to the creameries. We have before us the results of the last six years which show quite clearly the trend of affairs as far as dairying is concerned. Now ,let us inquire into the reason for the un precedented growth of the cream station, which growth must neces sarily work to the injury and adversity of the local creameries. xina (jucauun is auo** tu uj kuv following statements: First, the dis crimination in prices,paid by central izers in favor of the community where there is a local creamery. Second, the discrimination in cream express rates in favor of long hauls, such as to the twin cities. Third, the shortsighted ness of the farmers in deserting their local creamery, thus assisting the centralizers in forcing the creameries into bankruptcy. The discrimination in price is a well-known fact, made possible on ac count of the immense territory from which the centralized creamerry draws. Thus they are able to raise the price in a locality where there is a local creamery and lower it in a locality where there is no honest com petition. In the case where they raise the price higher than the Elgin mar ket, they must be buying at a loss, for not only are they paying more than they receive for their butter, but to this cost is added the agen’ts com mission of two to four cents a pound butterfat ,and the express on the cream shipment to the cities. Im mediately the question arises: “How can they afford it?" Simply by lowering prices where there is no creamery. Depend on it that it does not come out of their own pockets. Furthermore you rarely see cream stations for different central izers fighting each other in the same locality, for that would not be a pay ing propositiin. They evidently get together in the cities and agree topay the same in that- community. They have a monopoly on the business, and as long as there is no local compe tition, they can get together and dic tate the price. Let us see what happens to the creamery in the locality where these inflated prices are paid. The creamery is forced to meet the price paid by the cream station in order to retain the patronage and, not having a large enough territory to draw from so that they can equalize their prices in order to meet this outside competition, they consequently manufacture their butter at a loss. There surplus capital is soon exhausted and the creamery de clared bankrupt. Then what happens? The central izer combine gets together, drops the price, and dictates it thereafter, for local competition has been eliminated. This is undoubtedly the reason for the hard struggle for existance of practi nil \Tnn+Vi rinl/A+o nraomorinc on/l and the extiinction of a large number of other such organizations. The discrimination of express rate is a little harder to make plain, for the centralizer cobmine is in co-opera tion with the railroads and has ap parently by devious technicalities re garding the rates, tariffs, distances and other conditions made it a com plex problem to deal with and a still more difficult one to explain to the satisfaction of all. Suffice it to say, it is to their mutual benefit to have the cream shipped to the cities and when two such great organizations want something, they usually have the money and ingenuity to get it. The third and last reason is the lack of foresight on the part of the farmers. Let us take a concrete ex ample: A number of farmers organize a creamery, are soon doing business and are undoubtedly receiving a better price for their cream than they ever did before. The cream station man reports the situation to headquarters and receives orders to raise the price of butterfat three cents per pound. Here is what the farmer will do nine times out of ten: he will desert his own organization, the creamery that he invested his money in and pledged his word to stick to, and sell his cream to the cream station agent for three cents higher than his own m1-*...v w.. arim jnaa&thi .i... .hhhi ^... • vraia, iMinmm ■mtuMM— creamery or any other creamers coulc afford to pay. As the writer heard it aptly pul recently, “that farmers’ price was jusi three cents, for that was what he was bought for.” He does not stop tc think that he is breaking his word anc the trust other men have placed ir him; that his neighbor twenty, thirtj or fifty miles away from there is pay ing that three cents; that the price oi cream will be lower than ever before after the creamery goes bankrupt: arfd that he is assuring the central izers in their plan of the destructior of his own creamery and of reaping s profit in the end at his own expense. If the centralizers ever get contro of the cream supply in this state, thej will have the farmer at their mercy as far as the dairy situation is concernec and, as a rule, they have little merej for anyone. AUTOMOBLIE OWNERS—NOTICE All owners of Motor Vehicles take Notice: That all licenses for the year 1916 expired on the 31st day of December, 1916. And you are further notified that the statutes prescribe a heavy penalty for operating such vehicle? without a license. Owners should make application for license to this office at once, in order to avoid the penalty fixed by the statute. R. E. GALLAGHER, 36- County Treasurer. Frosberg-Hynes. Rev. Father Giblin, on Monday the 12th of February, united in marriage Miss Maud M. Forsberg, of Wakefield, and Dennis P. Hynes, of Maple Grove The groom is a son of the late Aus tin Hynes and is engaged in farming at which he has been unusually suc cessful. Of the bride we only know that she must be an estimable womar to be chosen as a life mate by Mr Hynes. The Frontier joins with the many friends in extending congratu lations and wishing them happiness. Read The Frontier, $1.50 per year Duncan-Mullen. A very beautiful wedding ceremohy, uniting two of the oldest and best known families in the county, was solemnized at Emmet Wednesday morning by Rev Father Giblin, the • contracting parties being Henry P. Mullen, son of J. P. Mullen, and Miss Anna Duncan, neice of Peter Ryan. They were accompanied by Henry Troshyinski, as best man, and Miss Irene Mullen, very becomingly gowned in a light taffeta creation, as bride’s maid. Miss Mayme Cullen played the wedding march, and Miss Genevieve Biglin, very sweetly sang the Ave Marie. A very sumptous and ap petizing wedding dinner was served at the hotel of the groom’s father, in the evening, at which a representative of this paper was an appreciative guest. Too much could not be said of the hospitality of these wonderful people, or the happiness so evident every where, on this, a most happy occasion. The bride, a handsome dark haired young lady, admired and respected for womanly charm and agreeableness, was beautifully attired in a silver gray taffeta gown and white picture hat—and what an exquisite picture she made. The groom, broad shouldered, manly gentleman with a willingness and ability to accomplish things, wore the conventional wedding attire. To this happy young couple, at the threshold of life’s highway, and for whom the future looms so bright, happy in their knowledge of love and companionship and secure in their ability to accomplish great and ma terial things, The Frontier extends congratulations, and, with their many friends, express the wish that their greatest ambitions be realized. j——————* WILL YOU DO SO? When you want something very badly you put into it all your heart and soul and energy. You give it your time—your thought—your attention. Is there anything that is worth as much energy as accumulating money in our Bank? Is there anything which will give you more satisfaction in the future? Why not make up your mind to use your utmost endeavors to build up a big Bank Ac count here? You can do it—if you will. When the feet are bare the whole body thinks. Egyptian Proverb. THE O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK O’Neill, Nebraska This bank carries no indebtedness of officers or stock holders and 'ffe are a member of The Federal Reserve Bank. Capital, surplus and undivided profits $100,000.00.