— The Frontier.
VOLUME XXXVIII.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1917.
NO. 16.
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Butter, 1 Pound . HOw
CREME OIL, THE CREAM OF 7.
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fine Olive Oil Soap.
5—8c BOXES NAPTHA 4C.
Washing Powder . tJb
12 POUNDS OF HORSE C 07
Shoe Tobacco . UiOl
70c A POUND, HIGH GRADE
Chocolates, including Bitter
Sweets, Buttermilks, Maple,
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$1.25 BOX OF LA FAMA QQ
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$1.25 BOX OF TWILIGHT
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^Centers, ' Nougats, Marsh
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25c MEN’S DRESS HOSE, OQ
2 for . tub
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Still holding down our $15 Price
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and be measured.
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Up Where the
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SELLS FOR LESS
A Message From Texas.
Kelly Field, So. San Antonio, Tex.
In previous letters I purposely
avoided mentioning our duties or any
attempt at explaining them, waiting
until we should become more familiar
with the life and the work so that a
correct idea of things here might be
given our friends.
Mostly everything and everyone has
a nickname and is referred to by that
name at all times. In the barracks the
dining rooms are known as “Mess
Halls,” and the sleeping quarters as
“Bunk House.” All together with
ground adjoining is known as “quar
ters.” All cleaning up work is known
as “policing” and every Saturday
we are ordered to “Police up” for in
spection, which means shave, shine
shoes and generally clean up. The
grounds and tents are all “policed"
every morning. Food here is called
“chow” and meals “mess.” For in
stance they ask, “How’s the chow?”
Or “Fall out for mess.” Cots are also
called “Bunks.” The fellows all have
nicknames ranging in simplicity and
poetic grandeur from Shorty to Car
ranza.
No doubt many O’Neill people have
heard from boys in the amy both here
and elsewhee saying that they had
been on K. P. or .Guard or Fatigue and
they naturally were at a loss to know
just what those duties or delicacies
were. They are duties and ones every
one wants to get out of. They repre
sent the toughest part of Army life. K.
P. represents Kitchen Police and the
duties consist of assisting the cooks
in the kitchen by doing all the clean
ing and other disagreeable work
there may be to do. The “chow” is
all cooked in the oven over open fires
and the pans naturally get smoky and
dirty. The kitchen now feeding us
feeds 300 men so you may see that it
takes quite a few pans even if they
are large ones. These all must be
scoured and cleaned perfectly clean
and white. Perfectly means the
genuine perfect too. They are in
spected after they are washed and if
they do not come up to the require
ments they must be done over again.
This can easily be understood^- be
cause to leave them even slightly
dirty might result in the poisoning of
several men. This pan cleaning,
which is the biggest part of a- K. P.’s
duty, comes after every meal which is
every time the pans are used. The
other tools and the tables must be just
as carefully cleaned and scrubbed.
Peeling potatoes and onions and cut
ting meat and boiling water about
constitutes his duties. Everyone but
non-commissioned officers and men
on special duty get a shot at K.P.,each
shift lasting one day. This is also the
popular form of punishment for not
falling out for formation on time,
carelessness during drill and other
offenses.
I don’t know why they named
Fatigue what they did unless that was
the result that it produced and they
wished to forewarn all “rookies.”
This duty which comes very frequent
here, covers everything that consists
of extra or outside work. That is
work outside of our own squadron.
They have a number of slop cans to
the rear of the kitchens here wherein
all scraps of food are deposited unfit
for hog food. A popular fatigue
detail is the emptying and cleaning of
these cans. Other details consist of
digging drainage ditch, washing auto
mobile trucks, which always comes on
Sunday, carrying wood, unloading
cars of supplies, assisting with foun
dations on new hangars, etc. This
duty, as a rule, comes quite frequent
and ordinarily is a one day shift.
Although several squadrons have had
it several days straight.
Guard duty is the most trying, re
sponsible and exacting duty we have
to perform. The importance of the
duty depending upon where you are
stationed. I say this because they
have several different guards here,
such as inside guards around the quar
antine camps, which are relatively not
as important or exacting as the main
guard, although their shift is just as
long and thedr general orders the
same. That is orders regarding their
conduct while on duty. It is the main
guard of which I write. The guard is
supposed to “mount,” that is go on
duty, at 9:30 in the morning. They
is quite a ceremony connected with
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IThat is not a large weeKiy wage, cut g
then you are young. You will soon grow older
and as you grow older you should be worth
more and get more.. But just now say you put
in an Account here each week 35c. In a year
that will amount to $18.20.
§) “Many of our greatest men
have sprung from the hum
ji blest origin, as the lark,
i whose nest is on the ground,
: soars the nearest to heaven.”
1THE O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK ||
O’Neill, Nebraska
This bank carries no indebtedness of officers or stock- ;;
holders and we are a member of The Federal Reserve Bank.
Capital, surplus and undivided profits $100,000.00.
guard mount that has to be complied
with and of which I will write later.
In order to reach the guard house,
where the guard stops when off active
duty between reliefs, on time, it is
necessary to leave your quarters
about eight o’clock. Did I forget to
mention that all the going to and fro,
except at meal time, is done* via the
foot method. After arriving at the
guard house the on coming guard and
the out going guard are lined in
company front, the new guard in
charge of their commanding officer,
having been turned over to him by the
sergeant of the guard, and the old
guard in charge of the out going
officer of the day. The old guard
passes in review, with eyes right or
left facing the new guard as the case
may be, before the new guard return
ing behind them to their old position.
The new guard is then turned over to
the officer of the day who takes charge
and, the first relief goes on duty. In
a guard shift there is three reliefs,
first, second and third. That is there
are three men for every post and the
second relieve the first, tne third the
second and the first the third. The
theory of guard duty is two hours on
and four off for twenty-four hours.
During this twenty-four hours, or from
the time your detail mounts the guard
until the next detail relieves you,
which is the next morning, no one is
allowed to leave the guard house ex
cept when going on active duty.
Nothing is permitted to be taken off
except your hat during this time. As
I said the shifts are in theory two
hours on and four off but in practice
it works quite different. You probably
only be on your post two hours but
put in an hour and a half going and
coming. Or your relief gets out a
little early and the corporal in the
following relief gets out late leaving
you holding the sack. To illustrate,
you go on from 10 a. m. to 12 m., off
until 6 p. m., when you go on to 8 p.
m., then off until 12, midnight, when
you go on until 2 a. m., then off until
6 -a. m., when you go on to 8 a. m.
That is the shift I happened to have
on the last main guard on a post
three-quarters of an hours walk from
the guard house which gave me that
much time over, on a minimum, every
relief. For instance you are in the
second relief. The corporal takes the
men all out lined up in the"order of
their posts and you start out making
every post before your own until you
get to yours when the corporal will
post you and see that you get the
proper special instructions. You then
walk your post until relieved. The
man you have relieved falls in at the
rear and goes around until the rest of
the relief is posted, when he goes in
with the corporal and his fellow
guardsmen on this relief. They did
not'insist on this latter requirement
otherwise we would have been on the
march to and from the guard house
all of the time. One corporal has
charge of twenty-nine posts covering
a route of about three miles. I was
about half way down and we were
three quarters of an hour getting to
my post.
Now for the requirements while on
duty: Under no circumstances can
you leave your post without getting
the corporal of the guard with a relief.
You cannot sit down, sleep, smoke or
talk. I have often thought how tough
this latter requirement would be on
Mike Horiskey but how perfectly at
home Bill Biglin should be. Of
course you can talk but it must be in
the line of duty and that only. As
tough as this guard duty is I like it.
About all there is to it is the pro
tection of property but it offers some
thing a little different that appeals to
quite a few of the boys. After we
get a little more of it possibly we
won’t like it so well.
I havn’t mentioned as yet, the fact
that Wallace Mullen, Frank Harnish
and myself have transferred from our
original squadrons and are now in
Aero Service Squadrons. The new
addresses of Wallie and myself are
90th Aero Squadron, while Frank’s is
88th Aero Squadron, same location as
.formerly. This transfer has put us
back in the tents which comes pretty
hard after we had enjoyed life for ten
days in the barracks. However, we
expect to get over there again very
shortly. Squadrons 62, 63 and 64,
among many others, were designated
construction squadrons which are
composed of 48 laborers, 61 carpen
ters, including 4 bosses, 4 painters, 4
electricians, 1 brick layer, 8 clerks, 20
truck drivers and a few other labor
ers, plumbers, etc., to make up the
150. They are all designated but I
disremember their designation. Eight
of these squadrons left here yesterday
for Mineola, L. IT, from where they
will shortly ship for France to prepare
the way for the rest of us. The others
here which contain some O’Neill boys,
are expected to leave here before the
first of next month for the same place.
After arriving at Mineola they get a
couple more “shots” and then they are
off. Sam has remained in 62 where
he has some prospects in view. Bill
O’Sullivan, C. Cronin and Bill Gatz re
mained with 63 the former being
signed up as Boss Painter and the
latter two as laborers. The squadron
we are with now is said to be an Aero
Service Squadron, which means that
Aeroplanes and flyers will be assigned
to us, which should let us out of the
pick and shovel work. What did you
think of the cartoons, sent to Jim
Brown?
The barracks that the boys went out
of yesterday were decorated with
some great signs, such as: “To Let.”
“Gone to France.” Gone to Berlin;”
etc. They were sure a happy bunch,
as well they might be, as they swung
down the road shelter halves and knap
sacks slung over their shoulders.
Every movement as even as clockwork
and one of the prettiest sights I have
ever witnessed. No doubt the rest of
us will get out of here soon for some
place.
The O’Neill boys gratefully acknowl
jj edge receipt of several boxes of to
ll bacco from Father Cassidy and cigars
from Bill Biglin. The eat3 continue
to come in quite plentiful and no one
here from O’Neill but what is in the
best of health and spirits. A letter or
two from old home friends will go a
long ways towards keeping up this
spirit. As the patriotic orator now
says, after winding himself up in Old
Glory and plucking a few tail feathers
from the eagle, “Do your Bit.”
When I wrote before, mentioning the
prosperity and opportunity San An
tonio was enjoying I had not then been
in to see the town. I now have,
several times, and 1 can vouch that;
they are taking splendid advantage of
this opportunity. Prices have been
mostly boosted from 26 to 300 per
cent. Shaves 20 cents. Haircuts 60
cents, in most places with a general
raise soon all over, Ice cream 16
cents, meals and everything else in
proportion. The town is an old
Mexican town and the streets are
very narrow and very crooked. In
some places they are just wide enough
to permit two vehicles to pass. Lots
of Mexicans here and their quarter
of the town is the dirtiest place I
believe there is. I know it would be
impossible to make it any worse. One
story houses built of clay mud with
windows and door holes minus the
windows and doors and dirt and filth
everywhere. You have to see it to
properly appreciate it. On the other,
hand the streets that are built up,
which are very very few, are quite
pretty. Tropical flowers, shrubs and
trees and the sight to a northerner es
pecially, is very pretty. Have been
through the historic Alamo where
Davy Crocket made his last stand and
have seen several of the old historic
missions here.
Some inquiry has been made re
garding the weather here. It is very
hot although the nights are cool. To
show you how warm it is, the boys go
out as late as 9:30 and 10 o’clock in
the evening and take baths with cold
water, the only kind we have here, out
in the open. As I have before ex
plained the bath houses are just
boarded up around the sides With
large cracks between boards and no
roof. Hot/ would a bath under those
cimini-tances go in Nebraska now?
It has rained here all day today and
the Texas boys say that the windy
season is beginning. This soil is all
gumbo and it balls up on your heels
two inches high. Trucks carrying
supplies are stalled all along the
street and when they do get going
they slide from ong side of the street
to the other.
We all read with much interest
Leland Wertz’s letter in last week’s
Frontier. The boys there will all like
it after becoming accustomed to the
change in living and the discipline and
I hope that we will hear more from
them through The Frontier. Caution
ing you again to remember the change
in address, will say for this time
Adios,
Julius D. Cronin.
LOCAL MATTERS.
John Hoffman was an O’Neill visitor
Tuesday of this week.
P. D. Mullen made a business trip
to Norfolk last Tuesday.
Arthur Aim, of Mineola, was in
O’Neill Friday on business.
H. V. Rosenkrans, of Dorsey, was
transacting business in the city Fri
day.
Barney McGoff, of Royal, spent
Monday in the city visiting with
friends.
Charley Martin was in from his
ranch, eleven miles south of this city,
Tuesday.
Ed Gatz and Hugh McManus
motored to Bloomfield Sunday for a
short visit with friends.
Miss Cora Meredith, who is teach
ing school at Ewing, came up Friday,
to spend Sunday with her folks.
Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Hereford re
turned Sunday night from their wed
ding trip through Iowa and Missoui.
H. J. Reardon left for Omaha Snu
day morning where he will remain for
a few days looking after business af
fairs.
The new furnaces for the Presby
terian church and parsonage arrived
the forepart of the week and will soon
be installed.
Attorney W. J. Hammond came
back from Lynch Friday after spend
ing a short time there looking after
legal matters.
Charley Siders, of Willowdale, was
an O’Neill visitor several days this
week incidental to breaking his new
jitney to drive.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert L. Powell, of
Miheola, were in the city Sunday at
tending church and visiting acquain
tances and friends.
P. D. Mullen returned Sunday night
from Omaha, where he had taken his
son, Homer, to the hospital to receive
medical treatment.
Wiliam Hunter, of Rockport, Mis
souri, arrived here Tuesday afternoon
for a visit with his son, W. V. Hunter,
who lives north of this city.
Mrs. A. J. Schrader, who has been
visiting with her mother, Mrs. F. C.
Gatz, for a short time, returned to her
home at Bloomfield Sunday.
Hiram Weisinberg, who has been
visiting with relatives and friends
here for the past month, left Saturday
for his home in St. Paul, Minn.
Dave Riser, who has been living at
Milford, Neb., the past year, came up
last Monday evening for a couple of
weeks visit with relatives and old time
friends.
Pat O’Malley returned to his home
at Creighton last Tuesday morning,
after a couple of weeks visit with
friends in this city and the south
country.
William Fallon left Sunday morn
ing for Stanton where he was ordered
to report, he being in that part of the
selective army which left Sunday for
Camp Funston, Kansas.
pioneer settlers of Verdigris precinct,
was a caller while in the city last
Monday and had his name enrolled
upon The Frontier’s subscription list.
Clyde Rossiter ai\d Judge J. C.
Quigley, of Valentine, were in the city
Sunday on business connected with
the potash industry of Cherry county,
in which they are heavily interested.
Gordon O’Keefe arrived here Friday
afternoon from Omaha, where he has
been for some time receiving medical
treatment in a hospital. He left
Saturday for his home at Wood Lake
after a short visit with friends.
F. W. Phillips was in from his
Knox County farm yesterday. Mr.
Phillips says that corn is in ^pretty
good shape in his section of the county
and that there will be a good crop,
which is about all out of the \vay of
frost.
W. B. Barnard, who has been suc
cessfully practicing law at Decatur
for the past two years, arrived home
Monday for a week’s visit with his
folks. “Mink" was selected in the
draft and leaves the third to join the
boys at Camp Funston.
Ross E. Taylor, of Page, aged
twenty, and Miss Nellie Cullen, of
Page, aged seventeen, were granted a
marriage license by the county judge
last Tuesday. As the young people
were under age they had received the
consent of their parents to their
marriage.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Grover and
daughter, Dorothy, are the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Webb Kellogg. Mr.
Grover is the star pitcher of the St.
Joseph team in the Western League.
Mr. and Mrs. Grover will remain at
least until spring as Mr. Grover is
muchly interested in ranching.
Maurice Graham and Frank Murray
visited last week with relatives and
friends at Cedar Rapids, and Omaha
and incidently attended the Boone
county fair at Albion. Frank Murray
is in the next Holt county contingent
that will leave for Camp Funston and
was making a visit to relatives prior
to his departure.
J. C. Harnish returned last Sunday
evening from Louisville, Ky., where
he had been attending the Soverign
Grand Lodge of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows as a delegate
from the Grand Lodge of Nebraska.
Mr. Harnish says that he had a de
lightful trip and seen many pretty
scenes in the southland.
'The next quota of the draft army,
forty per cent of the total number
called from this county which is 67
men, will leave between the third and
seventh of October, the exact date of
the movement of the Holt county con
tingent not being definitely fixed yet.
The remaining 15 per cent will leave
on or about October 17th.
Senator J. A. Donohie was over to
Butte last Saturday evening where
he delivered a patriotic address at the
banquet given the departing soldiers
of Boyd county. The meeting was
largely attended and the address
given by Mr. Donohoe is spoken of as
being the best patriotic address ever
delivered in our sister county .
Dr. F. J. Depecher and wife, of
Omaha, were guests of O’Neill
friends Sunday enroute home by car
from a duck hunt on the Cherry
county lakes. Dr. Depecher, a native
of France, returned to his mother
country when the world war broke out
and put in a year and a half in the
trenches in his professional capacity.
The following young men have
been exempted from military service
by the district board: Date H.
Siever, Frank P. Ulrich, Rudolph B.
Thramer, James A. McCarthy and
James T. Earley. The first four were
certified for service by the local board,
their claims for exemption being
denied, but were exempt on appeal to
the district board.
Joseph Weibel, of Ewing, was an
O’Neill visitor last Saturday and Sun
day. Mr. Weibel’s son was the first
man drawn for selective service in
this county, having number 258. Mr.
Weibel has another son, who is a mem
ber of the Norfolk company of the
Fifth Nebraska and is now in camp
with the Nebraska troops at Camp
Cody, Demning, N. M.
W. S. Ridgell, state fire commis
sioner, was up from Lincoln last Sat
ThiS WeeK
You Can Get Sugar at
Wholesale Price
at the
No-Vary Store
TEA—THREE STAR, Oflf»
Regular 25c Package . fcUu
TEA—NEBEA BRAND, Oft*
26c Package . 4UI#
TEA—NO-VARY, 011
26c Package . £Ub
COFFEE—35c, IN BULK, 10 OC
Lbs. to Customer, per lb._ •.01#
MAY-FAIR, IN CANS, 00
38c Coffee .,.. 001#
BOQUET COFFEE, QC
NO-VARY DINNER, 00
35c Coffee ... 001#
NO-VARY BREAKFAST, OO
35c Coffee . OOG
CORN, 4 0
• 20c Cans . 101#
TOMATOES, OO
26c Cans ..... 40 C
PICKLES—SWEET MIXED, 011
PICKLES—SOUR MIXED, 04
28c Bottles .i,.. 4*H#
HORSE RADISH, O
10c Bottles . 01#
RED PEPPER, - Q
10c Bottles . Ol#
FRUIT JAR RUBBERS, O
10c per dozen . 01#
MUSTARD, Q
10c Bottles .. OC
WORCESTER SAUCE, 0C
36c Bottles . 491#
CATSUP, 0C
36c Bottles . 49C
SALAD DRESSING, 0C
35c Bottles . 49 C
OUTING FLANNELS, WHILE
they last, 16, 18, 20 and 4 0 —
23c Values at . I4G
COTTON BATTEN,IN SMALL
and Large Bundles.
PERCALES, IN ALL COLORS
and Checks, 20, 22, 26c 4 0 —
Values, per yard, at... 101#
SHIRTING. IN ALL COLORS
and Checks, regular 20 and 4 O
26c Goods, per yard __ |OI#
JUST RECEIVED—A LINE
of Men’s Work Shoes, while O C(l
they last, per pair, at. 4i9U
CHILDREN’S SHOES, SIZES 4 7C
from 6 to 11, price. I • I w
We have a full line of Canton
Flannel Gloves.
It must be good if it comes
from
Bazelman’s
Nti Mar? Sion, Up Ton
urday and spent Sunday in the city.
Mr. Ridgell is interested in a potash
mine in the western part of the state
and is of the opinion that millions will
be made from the potash industry in
Nebraska within the next dozen years.
His company has leased several sec
tions from the state and are to pay
the state a royalty upon eveiy ton of
potash produced.
“For the Red Cross Workers.”
Out of hundreds of good women in
O'Neill there were ten to respond to
the call Tuesday afternoon for
workers.
Can’t we show more patriotism for
our country? The sewing must be
done quickly for cold weather is com
ing on and our soldier boys need all
we can do for them.
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