JOHN BRENNAN, ((’NEILL, NEB.
John Brennan don’t blame the women for the high cost of living. Ambassador Gerard says the women are to blame 4
for not going down town and buying their own stuff. John Brennan says they would go down if they had the money.
Hundreds of women have told him they knew they could save piles of money buying from him, but they never had a cent '
to buy with. The only thing they could do was to telephone and charge it.
”1 hope canned corn goes up t’ $75 a can,” says Miss Tawney Apple when she heard that Oscar Pash got married t’
keep from enlistin’. Th’ feller that owns his own home is alius cornin’ out of a hardware store—Abe Martin.
APPLE CIDER 7C
in gallon jugs.»
36c GRASS SHEARS IQ
each . I w b
FRESH ROASTED PEANUTS QC
CHILDREN’S HOSE SUP- Im
porters, per pair .UJb
BRICK CHEESE O #)
per pound .tub
SWIFTS’BACON 01
per pound.J • b
One $2.00 Clothes Hamper Free with
$40.00 order this week.
76c INCUBATOR THER- 071
mometers ....*..J * 2
3—6c PLUGS GRANGER 1 #)a
Twist .* Ub
You get more for butter, eggs and
poultry here, either cash or trade.
Ask your neighbor.
OAT MEAL Q7
in bulk .. .....U f b
- 25 lb. PAIL MICA AXLE ^ QQ
HERSHEYS’ COCOA 1 C
per one-half pound .I J b
OHIO BLUE TIP MATCHES Ql
per box .M 2 b
SEARCH LIGHT MATCHES 01
per box.w 2 b
Last week I offered you five brooms
for $2.00. I will give you $4.00 for
five of the same kind.
10 CANS LEWIS LYE QQ
only .JuC
2 PACKAGES BULL #1Ka
Durham .UJb
1 lb. GLASS JARS CQ
Tuxedo .UJb
10c LIBERTY CALICO SHIRT- Cp
ing, per yard .
15c BLEACHED MUSLIN
Soft Finish, full 26 inches wide, Qp
48 lbs. HIGH PATENT tj*9 Q()
Flour, per bag .yOiOU
VINEGAR BARRELS 7C„
Each. IOC
PEA SEED II.
per pound.I I b
COW PEAS, to plant with oats HOn
hogging down .UOb
$1.00 RAZOR HONES 7Q.
HARD WATER COCOA fl7f»
Toilet Soap .U I b
YEAST CAKES 01p
VOLCANIC SOAP ft7p
per bar .UI b
PALM OLIVE SOAP 07 p
per bar ..UI b
KIRKS OLIVE SOAP 07 p
SWIFTS’ PRIDE OOp
BEAT-EM-ALL SOAP 09P
7 bars for .40 b
KIRKS’ FLAKE WHITE OOp
8 bars for .40b
CRYSTAL WHITE OOp
75c LADIES’ UNION SUITS 971
Who is Selling the Uoderdear now?
Who is Selling the Raincoats now?
LADIES’ LINEN . 1 Ol
Handkerchiefs .I 4 2
3 BOTTLES POP -|Qg
6 CANS BEST CORN 07 p
only .3 • b
4 CANS TOMATOES Q7p
G CANS EARLY JUNE Q7p
6 CANS STRING BEANS Q7p
4 Cabs SLICED PINEAPPLES 07p
5 CANS PLUMS Q7
for .31 C
5 CANS GREEN Q7P
4 BOTTLES 35c Q7P
5 CANS KRAUT
11 CANS TUXEDO Q7P
11 CANS VELVET Q7P
11 BIG PLUGS HORSE Q7P
30x3 TUBES ©O 1 C
$3.25 value .04i I 3
30x3% TUBES ©9 QQ
$3.75 value .04.03
31x4 TUBES ©9 QC
$4.85 value .0O«OJ
11 PLUGS CLIMAX Q7P
5c PENCIL TABLETS 1 4 n
3 for .I I b
10c INK TABLETS 1Q«
One Cloverleaf Set made of pure
Aluminum. You can cook three kinds
of food on one hole of the oil stove,
saving fuel and heat in the hot
weather. For this week ©1 QQ
priced at .0 1130
BRAZILIAN BROWN BEANS, for
cooking—Cook as good as navy. IOa
per pound ..I Cl»
13 BIG ROLLS TOILET Q7p
GENUINE HAND-PICKED
Michigan Navy Beans for seed, 1 (Ip
per pound .... t 5U
You can’t plant scrub breeds of
seed and get the top price for the
stuff in the fall.
MIXED CANDY HQ.
per pound .UwC
Now is a good time to sell chickens
before they drop and the hot weather
takes all the fat off.
GOOSE BERRIES ftQp
1% POUNDS CRISCO 07 p
HOLLAND HERRING Q7p
3 BIG CANS 07p
Why don’t you give me a crack
at those orders you are1 sending away.
1 will save you the freight and a whole
lot more on some thing.
I get as many eggs as all the other
stores put together. Grape nuts is the
reason. And its a cinch I get almost
all the butter and I will get most of
the chickens if the prices and weights
count.
PIE PLANT OR RHUBARB flCp
Big Bunches .UJu
4 lbs. TEXAS WHITE ONIONS OC.
Old crop . tul»
ONIONS, HOME GROWN flCp
in bunches .UJu
SWEET PICKLES IQp
2 dozen.I
SUNBRIGHT CLEANSER f|C«
10c size .Uilw
Automobile tires are going up and
they are going quick.
If you havn’t bought an incubator
do it now. I will let you have a Sure
Hatch cheaper than you can buy any
other and you will have a couple of
hundred chickens in 21 days. The first
hatch will pay you back. You can run
them all summer and even in the
winter if you have a good place.
STRAWBERRIES 1 f|„
Full Quart Boxes ... I UU
Letter From an Old Friend.
Rexburgh, Idaho, May 19, 1917. •'
Friend John—I am just dropping
you a letter to tell you that your
“Cash Does It” is spreading far be
yond the portals of O’Neill and that
every week there are several people
come in to read John Brennan’s ad.
They say you have S. R. & Co. beat a
mile. Some difference in your prices
and the ones prevailing here.
I am glad you are doing well, John,
and that your business continues to
grow. We like the west first rate but
miss the old friends.
Yours very truly,
Frank Pixley.
Frank misses the old friends, but
he is a long way off. Its harder yet
to live beside them and never have
them come around. Dave Gimmel
says, “Man born in Nebraska, his
days are long and full of Sandburrs,”
so we let it go at that. I ain’t doing
as well as Frank thinks, but we
are always glad to hear from Frank
and it is a black eye to the town when
we loose men like him. But the
catalogues has the people’s goat. If
you beat their price they send away
and if you don’t beat their price they
send away. Right now' there is over
thirty-five girls in and around O’Neill
wearing $9.98 coats. And if I had
those coats Jiere I couldn’t get $3.15
for them. I am beginning to like my
enemies the best.
CASH DOES IT
Would you like a good pair of work
shoes? Anyone who has outside work
to do knows that it don’t seem to
make much difference what shoe they
buy they seem to go to pieces in the
wet weather. Here is the reason:
almost every shoe Sold in this part of
the country is made by manufacturers
who have maps in their offices that
show Nebraska as a desert. When a
storekeeper orders shoes they send
shoes made for dry, hot weather the
same as they would to Kansas or
Texas and Arizona. Now we may be
in a desert but when it rains here
the water is wet and therefore the •
shoes are gone. Now I figure that i
by buying shoes like they send to
Canada and Alaska, where there is
water thirteen months in the year,
that I will get better leather than
what they would send into a desert.
So I bought Thirty-six pair which cost
me almost fifty cents a pair more than
what we had been getting. What I
ask you to do is this: Buy a pair and 4
if they don’t stand the riffle and give '
you better satisfaction than anything
else you have been able to get, you
can return them and get another pair
at my expense. I don’t guarantee
shoes as a rule but when I do guaran
tee anything I make it good. I say a
lot and mean a lot but it doesn’t
make any difference what I say I mean
it and have always made my word
good although I have lost money by
doing it.
JOHN BRENNAN, O’NEILL
LOYAL DUTY OF FARMERS
“Give us food” say the people of the country,
but the American Farmer needs no prompt
ings to his loyalty.
His duty and business are now combined.
Let the people respond when the farmer calls
for farm-hands.
But let the progressive farmer of this com
munity consider immediately the wisdom of j|
|§ forming a relationship with the Nebraska
|| State Bank.
This sound institution will conserve your
funds and aid you in financial and business
matters generally. j|
The mail and phone bring our service right
to your home.
| Htbeaska Stitt Small j
The Frontier
Published by D. H. CRONIN
One Year ......$1.50
Six Months__76 Cents
Entered at the post office at O’Neill,
Nebraska, as second class matter.
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Porter On Legislation.
Lincoln, Nebraska.
Editor: Now that the legislature
has adjourned it might be well for our
citizens to take stock of its ac
complishments, or lack of same, and if
unsatisfactory, look for the reason,
instead of abusing the legislative body
as we are apt to do in our short
sightedness.
If I had a fine field of ripe wheat
and famished my hired man with an
old time reaper with which to harvest
the grain I should not complain if he
wasted more of the crop than he saved.
Our present method of law making is
as cumbersome and out of date as the
old time reaper in a large modern
wheat field. No business concern
would last a year if run on such slip
shod business methods as we are using
in transacting the business of the
state. Now that we have the Initia
tive and the Referendum—through
which we can, if necessary, initiate im
portant legislation and by the Refer
endum method veto undesirable laws
when it seems advisable, as we did in
the case of the bill to build an armory
at Nebraska City, we have no need of
a so called representative legislature,
too cumbersome to produce results
other than a tremendous expenditure
of time and money.
Let us replace this clumsy non-effici
ent legislative machine for an up to
date self binder and do business for
the State on modern business princi
ples and see if we cannot save the
crop instead of wasting most of it as
we are now doing. Why not have
legislative commission, compo.t 1 of
one body of not more than two memb
ers frpm each congressional district
and two at large from the State ? Let
this commission sit continuously as do
other state officicers, and pay them a
living salary of not less than $3,000 a
year. Have this legislative commis
sion take over the duties of a multitude
of departments which have grown up
in recent years, whose chief excuse for
existence is to create jobs for needy
politicians who are seldom seen on the
job except to draw their salaries.
This could easily l>e done through
the various committees of the Com
mission without working the members
more than eight hours a day for five
days in the week and four hours on
Saturday, so that they might attend
the ball games once a week, which is
oftener than most of us get to see a
game. *
With this commission there would
be no hasty rushing through of ill con
sidered appropriation bills, or the
slaughtering of desirable laws in the
closing hours of the session. Nor
would there be twelve to fifteen hun
dred bills introduced by one hundred
and thirty-three members, most of
them devoid of merit and not expected
to pass by the members who intro
duce them. Nor would there be a
brewery controlled Senate, with a Ne
braska City Brewer for President pro
tern, whose chief duties were to pro
tect the corporate interests of the
state.
Why should not Nebraska lead the
way with this much needed reform?
Why wait for Kansas to lead, which it
most certainly will do unless we bestir
ourselves.
Space is too limited to give all the
details of the operation of such a legis
lative commission in one article. That
there would be a tremendous saving
by the creating of such a legislative
body goes without saying, to say
nothing of the greater efficiency in con
ducting the State’s business.
Why do not our able editors take up
this matter and dis|uss it fully? No
reform is ever accomplished without
previous agitation. Nebraska editors,
get busy!
Respectfully yours,
W. F. PORTER.
Freight Service Change on Burlington.
Burlington freight train now leaves
O’Neill at 8 a. m. instead of 10 a. m.,
and runs daily except Sunday, instead
of daily except Friday as heretofore.
Stock extra leaves O’Neill at 3 p.
m., on Thursdays and Sundays to
handle Sioux City and South Omaha
stock.
New Department Store For O’Neill.
Davidson Brothers, the big depart
ment store owners of Sioux City, prob
ably will open a department store in
O’Neill during the present year. For
some time the Davidsons have con
templated locating a branch of their
mammoth Sioux City establishment in
northern Nebraska. Last week Dave
Davidson, head of the firm, accompa
nied by several of his department
managers, visited O’Neill and made a
tour by automobile of the country
tributary to the city, spending several
days here. On their return to Sioux
City they announced themselves as
well pleased with the outlook and will
come to a definite decision as to when
the new store is to be opened up in the
near future. If they decide to locate
here ground will be purchased and a
modern and fireproof building erected.
A Symbol of Health.
The Pythagorians of Ancient Greece
ate simple food, practiced temperance
and purity. As a badge they used the
five pointed star which they regarded
as a symbol of health. A red five
pointed star appears on each pack
age of Chamberlain’s Tablets, ana still
fulfils its ancient mission as a symbol
of health. If you are troubled with
indigestion, biliousness or constipation,
get a package of these tablets from
your druggist. You will be surprised
at the quick relief which they afford.
Obtainable everywhere. 47-5
Cotterill Sisters In The East.
Escanaba (Michigan) Daily Mirror:
“A tour of the east is being made by
the Cotterill Sisters, well known in
this city and at present they are fill
ing their fifth weeks’ engagement at
Hotel Henry in Pittsburgh. They
started to make a chautauqua tour of
the west, but abandoned this to go
east.
“The eastern tour started at Chicago
then Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Miss
Helen Diers, playing a $2,300 harp, is
a member of the company along with
a concert whistler and a soprano of
New York. The orchestra is known
as Cotterill Sisters orchestra. The
company has played for several large
banquets and functions and on Wed
nesday of next week will donate their
j services to the Red Cross benefit con
cert.
“The sisters have a very attractive
offer to go to Jardine De Paris, a beau
tiful hotel in Panama, for an engage
ment, but are undecided about going.
“From Pittsburgh, the company
will go to Buffalo and Niagara Falls
and then Atlantic City. They may re
turn to Michigan to spend a few weeks
later.”
Registration Regulations.
The attention of all persons subject
to Military Registration under the
President’s Proclamation is directed to
the following paragraphs in the Regis
tration Regulations:
Paragraph 30. Absentees and the
sick are authorized to send their Reg
istration Cards to the registrar of their
home precincts in care of the sheriff
of their home county or mayor of their
home city. The sheriff (or officer desig
nated by him) will hold these letters
until registrators are appointed and
then turned over to the proper regis
tratar in time to have them entered
with other registration cards.
Paragraph 61. Although regstra
tion must be in the precinct of the
domicile, and although the burden is
on you to see that your registration is
entered at your domicilary precinct
on the prescribed day, yet, for your
convenience and to obviate the neces
sity of your going home fo the purpose
of registration, the following is pro
vided for the registration of absentees:
The County Clerk is authorized to
record the answers of persons absent
from their domiciliary county and to
certify to the registration cards.
Upon applicaton by you, your card
will be made out by the County Clerk,
turned over to you, and by you it
must be mailed in time to reach your
domiciliary precinct by the day set for
registration.
Paragraph 64. Persons who, on ac
count of sickness, will be unable to
present themselves for registration on
the day set by the President, will cause
some competent person to apply in ad
vance of date of registration to the
county clerk for a copy of the card and
for authority to fill it out (including
the registrar’s report on the back
thereof). If satisfied that the cause
is bona fide, the clerk will deputize the
person applying for the card to make
out the card and the registrar’s report,
first carefully explaining the card. The
card will then be mailed by the sick
person, or by his agent, to the regis
trar of the sick person’s voting pre
cinct as described for cards of ab
sentees. If the sick person desires a
registration certificate, he will enclose
a self-addressed stamped envelope.
We positively guarantee our Wood Preservative to
keep the chicken coops and houses free from mites for one
year. 85c worth will do the trick.
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Of Course
ION THE WINGS OF THE MORNING \\
Prosperity is coming to this country on the | I
wings of the morning. You will want to take if
advantage of it. Presperity comes to the man, !|
woman, or child who has money in the Bank. : |
It passes by the house of the spendthrift—the j I ^
shiftless—the ne’er-do-well. Start your ac- ij
count here. Be ready for Prosperity and if
Prosperity will be ready for you. j J
The man who has an account ;j
S here has a grubstake in Pros- If
: perity. |
THE O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK if
O’Neill, Nebraska !|
This bank carries no indebtedness of officers or stock- \
J;; holders: and we are a member of The Federal Reserve Bank. 11 \
j:: Capital, surplus and undivided profits $100,000.00. I
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