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VOLUME XXXVII.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MA$CH 29, 1917.
NO. 42.
LOCAL MATTERS.
John Carr was up from Stafford
over Sunday.
Virgil Kline, of Ewing, was in the
city Tuesday visiting friends.
Tom McDonald, of Brunswick, was
in the city Sunday visitng friends.
Hguh O’Neill left Tuesday morning
for a short business trip to Fremont.
W. J. Doherty, prominent banker of
Chambers, was in the city Tuesday.
Ed Gatz returned Monday evening
from a short business trip to Omaha.
The W. C. T. U. will meet Wednes
day at 2:30 at the home of Mrs.
Burch.
J. S. Jackson, editor of the Inman
Leader, spent Saturday and Sunday in
O’Neill.
Walter Campbell returned to Omaha
this morning having been in the city
a week.
A. A. Driggs returned Sunday even
ing from a short business trip to
Norfolk.
James Furley returned to Ewing
Monday after spending Sunday with
O’Neill friends.
James A. Donohoe went down to
Omaha Sunday morning on profes
sional business.
Ed Truax of Inman, spent Saturday
with O’Neill friends, returning home
Sunday morning.
O. O. Snyder and S. J. Weekes went
down to Omaha this morning on a
short business trip.
J. J. Harrington left Monday morn
ing for Hartington to attend to some
professional business.
Mrs. Henry Grady and children re
turned Sunday from a week’s visit
with Atkinson friends.
Con Keyes and son, Paddy, went
down to Omaha Saturday morning for
a short visit in the city.
Henry Porter, of Branard, Nebr., a
brother of D. Porter, of Chambers,
was in the city Tuesday.
B. P. Smith of West Point, Nebr.,
arrived in O’Neill Tuesday, making a
trip down to Orchard Wednesday.
Nelson Stewart, of Page, expects to
leave April the first for Rocky Point,
Wyoming, to take up a homestead.
Hans Peterson, chief of police at
Stuart, Visited O’Neill friends Tues
day, returning home Tuesday night.
Misses Grace O’Malley and Mar
garet Doyle went down to Sioux City
this morning on a short pleasure trip.
Mrs. W. P. Hombach departed Tues
day morning for a short visit with
friends and relatives at Omaha and
Council Bluffs.
L. C. Chapman returned Wednesday
mornii% from the westerntpart of the
county where he was called on profes
sional business.
Mrs. Dr. Johnson and daughter, of
Winnebago, Nebr., are in the city
visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Claude Hanco^c.
T. V. Golden, Jr., accompanied by
Mrs. Golden, returned to Stafford
Monday after a several days visit
with O’Neill relatives.
Mrs. Mose Campbell, of Atkinson,
came down from that city Saturday
morning for a short stay with rela
tives and friends here.
Jim Fallon has accepted a position
with R. R. Morrison, in the latter’s
grocery, entering upon his duties the
latter part of last week.
Hans T. Anderson 26, and Miss
Pearl O. Stephenon, 18, both of At
kinson, secured a license to wed from
the county judge Monday.
General Manager Walters of the
Northwestern passed through O’Neill
Tuesday morning on No. 6, enroute to
Omaha from a Wyoming trip.
Charles Peterson, who now is run
ning a meat market at Stuart, re
turned to that place Tuesday after a
short visit with his family here.
Hugh J. James, aged 22, and Grace
M. Adair, aged 21, both of Amelia,
were married by County Judge Ma
lone in his chambers last Saturday.
Harry Campbell came down from
Rapid City, S. D., Saturday morning,
being called home on account of the
serious illness of his brother Frank.
The Rev. G. W. Bruce went to Ne
ligh Monday morning to attend the
district conference of the Methodist
church, returning Tuesday evening.
The regular monthly session of the
county board of supervisors began
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“The Live Store”
Tuesday afternoon. The board will b<
in session the remainder of the Week
Col. Barney Stewart, of Page, wai
in the city Monday enroute to Codj
where he is one of the auctioneers in t
big cattle sale which is to be helc
there.
Mr. and Mrs. 'A. Murray have re
ceived word of the birth of a baby gir
to Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Kane, of Cedai
Rapids, Nebr. Mrs. Kane was for
merly Miss Murray.
William Hayes,'an old resident oi
Page, left Friday morning for Upton
Wyoming, where he has taken up a
homestead and where he expcets tc
make his future home.
Mayor Frank Dishner returned
Sunday evening from Norfolk, having
abandoned his eastern trip temporarily
on account of high water and un
certain train schedules.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Campbell, of
Leavenworth, Wash., arrvied in the
city last Friday, Mr. Campbell being
called home owing to the serious ill
ness of his brother Frank.
Congressman M. P. Kinkaid arrived
in the city Tuesday afternoon, enroute
to Washington from a western trip.
He will remain in O’Neill several days
and then will proceed to Washington.
Ben Grady went down to Sioux City
Monday morning to meet a representa
tive of a large eastern shoe house, and
look over his line with a view to
selecting some more nifty summer
models.
Frank Campbell, who has been
seriously ill for the past two weeks is
reported as growing no better. He
seems to be daily growing weaker aid
death, within a short time, seems
inevitable.
T. T. Waid returned Monday even
ing from California where he spent
the winter. Mr. Waid says that Cali
fornia is a fine place in winter but
O’Neill and Holt county still look
mighty good to him.
Charles Calkins left Saturday morn
ing for Mitchell, S. D., to spend a
couple weeks visiting at the home of
his parents. He was accompanied by
his mother, who has been visiting
here for some time.
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i expects to have here and ready for use
within the next six weeks. The body,
i which is constructed of ash and popu
lar, painted black, is mounted upon a
, Ren chassis and makes a very prepos
, ing appearance. A picture of it-will
be found upon another page.
Sheridan Simmons, who has been
chief of police for the past five
months, handed in his resignation to
Mayor Dishner the first of the week,
to take effect April the 1st. With the
painting season opening up Mr. Sim
mons did not feel that he could hold
the position any longer at the salary
offered, when he could double that
amount at his trade. Mayor Dishner
has appointed Hans Peterson to finish
the unexpired term. Mr. Peterson is
at present on the force at Stuart, and
shou.d make a good conscientious
official for O’Neill.
Some of the kind friends of Barney
Hynes of Coleman precinct pretend to
misinterpret the story recounted
several months ago of a practcial joke
attempted to be played on that genial
ranchman by several of his neighbors,
but the joke really is on the perpe
trators, as Mr. Hynes, as we can
vouch, discovered the fell designs be
fore they had been prosecuted to a
successful conclusion. The plotters
wrapped up several grindstones,
mowing machine wheels and other para
phenalia in a bunch of hides Barney
had loaded to bring to town, ex
pecting the explosion to occur when
that estimable gentleman attempted
to dispose of them by weight. But
Barney’s eagle eye dicerned that the
bundles were rather bulky and the
plot was exposed, and related by Mr.
Hynes when he arrived in town.. Now
the bunch is wondering whose turn it
is to buy.
ANCIENT HISTORY.
Compiled From Frontier FileB.
Ten Years Ago,
The Holt county delegation in the
legislature have introduced each the
following number of bills this session:
Phillips, 8; Green, 6; Henry, 3.
Last Friday was a big day on the i
local hog market. Fifteen loads were
sold at $6.45 per hundred.
About thirty of Miss Clara Gatz’
young friends gathered at her home
last evening to remind her of her '
birthday. Miss Clara was much sur- '
prised but soon made the best of the '
situation and entertained them in a *
royal manner.
T. V. Golden and Ed Whelan went 1
up to Atkinson Friday evening to act 1
as judges in an oratorical contest. 1
A son was born Wednesday last to
Mr. and Mrs. Abe Saunto.
SiXty-two new members were taken 1
into the Knights of Columbus lodge
here last Sunday.
Fred Cronk, of Page, and Miss Car- J
rie M. Finch, of O’Neill, were united .
in the bonds of martimony on Satur- 1
day last.
Shortly before midnight Tuesday fire 1
was dicovered at the Spittelr meat j
market. The fire was in the ice box 1
and was quickly extinguished with but
slight damage.
Petitions have been filed asking (
that the names of the following gentle- 1
men be placed upon the official ballot ■
for the coming city election: Dr. J. ‘
P. Flynn asked that his be withdrawn
but was too late and his name will ’
appear on the ballot. For mayor: Ed ■
F. Galla'gher, Dr. J. P. Flynn and Col.
D, A. Doyle; for clerk, Romaine
Saunders and John McBride; for
treasurer, J. F. Gallagher; Alderman
First ward, P. J. Biglin and John Car
ton; Second ward, Frank Campbell;
Third ward, J. A. Cowperthwaite and
James Davidson. All are candidates
for re-election excepting Doyle, Car
ton, Campbell and Davidson.
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employ of W. B. Graves for the past
year, resigned his position Sunday go
ing to Omaha Monday morning where
he is considering a position in one of
that city’s jewelery establishments.
S. H. Trussell, of Ewing, was in the
city Monday, and while here paid this
office a short call. Mr. Trussell has
been a Frontier reader and sbuscriber
since 1883, he being one of the old
time residents and boosters of Holt
county.
F. L. Carr is the first Holt county
man to respond to the war call. Mr.
Carr is a member of Company E,
Fourth Nebraska regiment and left
Wednesday morning for Wayne, where
his company has been ordered to
mobolize.
Joel J. Jones, a former resident of
the Mineola neighborhood, but now of
Mt. Vernon, Iowa, is visiting relatievs
and old time friends in this city and
county this week. He is a brother of
Mrs. Earl P. Smith and Mrs. George
Sanders of this city.
John C. Gallagher returned Tues
day night from St. Louis, where he
has been in a hospital for the past few
months. John is again in the best of
shape and spirits and enters his cam
paign for city clerk with his custo
mary smile and the old pipe.
L. G. Gillespie received word last
week of the birth of a son to Mr. and
Mrs. John Dullaghan of Rushvilk.
Mrs. Dullaghan, who is a sister of Mr.
Gillepie, is well known to a host of
O’Neill friends as Miss Ruth Gillespie
an is a former resident of Holt
county.
Mrs. Oscar Marcotte, who has been
visiting here at the home of her
mother, Mrs. Ziemer, for the past two
weeks, returned to her home at Mar
shall, Minn., Thursday morning. Mrs.
Walter Stein, a sister, returned with
her for two weeks outing in Min
nesOta.
Hy Nightengale, contractor engaged
in the construction of the O'Neill
Chambers road, accompanied by Mrs.
Nightengale, was an O’Neill visitor
Tuesday. Mr. Nightengale announces
that he will resume construction of
the O’Neill-Chambers road about
April 16.
The attendance records, for the third
quarter, of the O’Neill High school
show that Herbert Oebser, William
Froelich, Nettie Cromwell and Char
les Fox were neither absent nor tardy
during this period. These are the only
students from the entire membership
of the high school to make such a
record, this quarter.
The readiness with which so many
of the country’s patriotic citizens are
tendering their services to be officers
in the army, in case of war, must in
deed be gratifying to President Wil
son. It may become necessary, how
ever, to adopt a system of compulsory
enrollment that we may have a few
enlisted men for the officers to officer.
R. C. Cunningham, of Brooklyn,
Iowa, took up his duties at the cream
ery Monday as the buttermaker, Mr.
Weller, the former incumbent having
resigned to go into business for him
self at Atkinson. Mr. Cunningham ia
an experienced buttermaker and under
his manipulation Elkhorn Valley will
loose none of its purity or excellence.
C. F. Furley, of Laurel, Nebr., and
Guy Furley, wife and little daughter,
of Hot Springs, S. D., spent Sunday
in O’Neill, leaving Sunday night for
Hot Springs. Guy Furley, who is a
son of C. F., has recently returned
with his family from a prolonged resi
dence in California and with his
father has purchased a large ranch in
Fall River county, S. D.
F. J. Biglin returned Sunday after
noon from Des Moines where he pur
chased a new auto hearBe, which he
Twenty Years Ago.
The jury in the case of E. H. Bene
dict vs. the City of O’Neill for $10,
000 damages, after being out about
three hours returned a verdict for the
plaintiff, assesing the amount of his
damages at $500 and costs of sui.t
Eugene Sanford and Miss Abbie
Riley were united in marriage by
Judge McCutcheon last Thursday.
G. C. Hazelet left for Omaha this
morning where he expects to reside
in the future.
The vitascope show, which appeared
at the opera-house last Saturday,
Monday and Tuesday evenings, was
well attended and thoroughly enjoyed
by all. The scene where the fire de
partment is first starting for a fire is
especially realistic, and it is a very
cold blooded person that does not feel
a glow of excitement as the big white
horses dash by with the fire engine.
The Black Diamond Expres is another
very realistic scene. Messers Kehoe
and Blunt will receive a very warm
welcome and a full house should they
see fit to return later in the season as
they partly promised to do.
Elmer Merriman was around with
the cigars last Saturday on account of
the arrival of a son at their home last
Friday. Elmer says he is doing his
share towards increasing the republi
can vote.
Sheriff Hamilton spent a few days
in Lincoln last week.
The following is the program for the
high school declamatory contest which
is to be held in the rink Friday night.
Music, Smith’s orchestra; declamation,
“The Ghost,” Laura Meals; declama
tion, “How Jane Conquest Rang the
Bell,” Susie Uttley; music, vocal duet,
Helen Lowrie and Tess O’Sullivan;
declamation. “Darfus Green and His
Flying Machine,” Parnell Golden;
music, Mandolin and Guitar Fred
Kautzman and Ralph Evans; declama
tion, “The Sioux Chief’s Daughter,”
Flora Lowrie; declamation, “The Cow
and the Bishop,” Maggie Mellor;
music, Smith’s orchestra.
The only fight thus far appearing in
i the city election is between John
WHELAN’S PLATFORM.
Having been nominated by more than one hundred of our pro
gressiva citizens for the office of Mayor, I will stand upon this
platform.
To remember that this is the twentieth century, and take no
backward step, but to do everything legally and financially possible to
boost the town. *
To enforce the anti-liquor laws, so that “bootlegging,” “blind
pigs” and “hole-in-the-walls" shall never get a Btart in this com
munity. >
To appoint a police officer who will play no favorites, and will not
abuse or maltreat those whom it may be necessary to arrest, whether
they be residents or strangers.
To co-operate with our progressive and representative Council in
all things making for the good of the city, believing that if two heads
are better than one, seven must surely be.
To provide revenue for our city and our schools by demanding the
enforcement of laws already on the statute books, without resorting to
the licensing of shady propositions on the plea that we need the money.
To publish in the local press regularly the doings and accounts of
all city officers, so that the public may know where the city stands and
what it is trying to do.
To enforce the laws provided for the protection of minors.
To practice rigid ecenomy as far as possible without retarding or
crippling the growth of the town; and to let all city work by contract
to the lowest bidder on the filing of competitive bids.
To work for a city building, if only temporarily a rented one,
where people coming to town, especially women and children, may have
a right to go and feel at home, and thus put ourselves in line with
, other towns that keep abreast of the times.
To let all law abiding citizens alone so that O’Neill may be a
pleasant place to live in and an attractive place to ^gpie to.
I want' the vote of every man who believes in this program.
E. H. WHELAN. •
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Skirving and B. S. Gillespie for
nayor.
Thirty Years Ago.
Steve McNichols’ house was stolen
iff his claim south of the river one
lay last week. Such disreputable acts
if deviltry should be rewarded with
he severest punishment.
Gus Doyle has sold his interest in
he City Meat Market to Fred C.
latz, the former proprietor of the
;ame.
Joe Horiskey of Mineola, is working
n the Chicago lumber yard at this
)lace.
Mullen Brothers are in Valentine,
vhere they have the contract for the
irecting of a large building. George
Frigg and Frank Simmons are help
ng with the job.
G. W. Haynes informs us that he
vill soon erect a blacksmith shop east
if the Valley House and start in that
msiness here.
In 1886 there were 1,091 persons
vho made final proof on land in Holt
ounty aggregating 274(640 acres, as
eported by the auditor of public ac
ounts. This makes a'good showing
or our young and growing country.
County Attorney Chapman went up
o Stuart Monday evening to prose
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cute a case of illegal liquor selling.
His son Lew is counsel for the de
fendant.
E. H. Benedict, of Gladbrook, Iowa,
an attorney of ability and experience,
is in the city looking for a locatioin.
Farewell Party For JWiss Mill*.
A theatre party consisting of twenty
friends of Miss Martha Mills gathered
at the Royal Thursday evening to
show her one good time before leaving
for Wayne where she takes up studies
for teacher’s course. •
After the show they all went to the
home of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Brown
where they plnyed games until 12,
then a dainty lunch was served. After
serenading Miss Martha with a good
luck song and deciding Mr. qpd Mrs.
Brown very capable entertainers, each
departed for their respective homes. *
The invited guests: Missess Martha
Mills, Helen Spindler, Evelyn Stan
nard, Violet Brown, Ruth Murnan,
Agnes McPharlin, Elizabeth Gribble,
Loretta Carlon, Verba Burdick, Bro
ken Bow, Neb., Margaret Dorsey and
Marie Biglin. Messrs. Edmund Whe
lan, Lawrence Merriman, Lloyd Law
rence, Harold Zimmerman, Dr. L. A.
Burgess, Cyril Brown, Ewdard Da
vidson, John Davidson and Fay Miles.
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MARCH
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You are cordially invited to view this ex- ' •
hibit on one of these days, for seldom has it.
been our good fortune to assemble so choice
a lot of wonderful creations. Not onlyt in
beauty, but in variety, will this display sur- *
pass any showing of previous seasons.
There will be hats both large and small (and
fashion has decreed that either is correct),
hats for matron and mi& in all of the smart
new shapes and colors, copies of French pat
terns—in short, the kind of hats that com
pel admiration.
COME, AND SEE FOR YOURSELF
Grady Sisters
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