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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1917)
I > The Irontier. •-- < •' **....* .. .... , - - ----- - .- - - - - - - - ; • - •:>•' ---A VOLUME XXXVIII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1917. NO. 20. P LOCAL MATTERS. John Addison, of Mineola, was an O’Neill visitor Monday. H. O. Frost, of Opportunity, was in the city Tuesday on business. John Carr, of Stafford, was in the city last Tuesday looking after busi ness matters. If you have not subscrbed for a Liberty Bond, do it today; next week will be too late. Frank Harrington went to Omaha Tuesday morning for a short visit with relatives and friends. G. L. Hoppe, of Chambers, was an O’Neill visitor last Tuesday and made this office a pleasant call. Dr. M. F. Meer and Dr. Ullrich, of Valentine, were visiting relatives and friends in this city last Sunday. Miss Mary Carney went to Omaha Sunday morning and remained for a couple of days visiting with friends. Mrs. Bert Shoemaker and littlesons, Harold and Donald, left for Omaha Sunday morning, for a few days visit. E. D. Henry and family were visit ing at the home of C. P. Siders, four teen miles northeast of this city, last Sunday. Miss Kathryn Corbett returned last Sunday night from a three months visit with relatives and friends in Pennsylvania. The county judge issued a marriage license last Wednesday to Earl Peter son and Miss Ethel Ammon, both of Pony Lake, Nebraska. Peter Duffy returned Friday night from Lincoln and Omaha, where he had been for several days looking after business affairs. F. W. Phillips was in from the north country last Monday. A little thing like the dust storm of last Monday could not stop his jitney. Mrs. James Heeney and baby ,of Jackson, arrived in the city Wednes day evening for a visit at the home of her mother, Mrs. Timlin. Clarence Shippey came down from Casper, Wyoming, the latter part of last week and will remain here for a few days visiting with friends. Congressman Kinkaid returned last Friday from Washington and will spend the next five weeks in the dis trict looking after his political fence*. P. E. Cowden, of Riverton, Iowa, one of the owners of the Little Ditch Company, is in the city this woek looking after his business interests. S. S. Welpton, of Omaha, president of the Nebraska State Bank, is spend ing a few days in the city looking after his business interests and visit ing friends. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ryan and children left Wednesday morning for Baltimore, Md., where they will bask in the sunshine of the east during the winter months. Earl J. Becker, the five month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Becker living twelve miles northwest of this city, died this morning. Burial will take place tomorrow. N Clarence Pine, who has been stationed on the border for the past six months with the United States troops, arrved home last week, for a short visit with his folks. L. G. Gillespie returned last Fri day from Lincoln, where he had been attending the Grand Lodge of the In dependent Order of Odd Fellows as a delegate from the local lodge. Mrs. Laura Warren, sister of Mr. 0. 0. Snyder, who has been visiting here the past six weeks, left Tuesday morning for a few days visit at her former home at Sioux City, Iowa. Miss Nellie Grilling, who has been the Western Union operator in the up town office the past two months, left the first of the week for Fort Dodge, Iowa, where she has accepted a position. At a meetng of the hotel men of the state, held in Lincoln last week, being called to discuss food conservation, W. T. Evans of the Golden hotel of this city, was elected vice-president of the state association. J. C. Harnish returned last Thurs day evening from Lincoln, where he had been attending the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fel lows, Mr. Harnish being Grand Rep resentative of the Order. Mrs. J. Wise returned the first of the week from a visit of several days to Lincoln and Omaha. At Lincoln she attended the state meeting of the Rebekah Assembly as a delegate from the local assembly. From Lincoln she went over to Omaha and spent a few days visiting friends. PROCLAMATION Suspend Business One Hour Friday The Public welfare requires that every citizen shall devote a short period of thought and action to the service of the nation in this supreme test of Americanism. In this crisis it is not some faraway institution, but you and I and people similar to us that are on trial, for America is simply you and I, and we are America. We have a mil lion soldiers in field and camp, a hundred thousand sailors on the main, and we must support and maintain them. They sacrifice their lives for our welfare, shall we not sacrifice a few paltry dollars for them? But it is no sacrifice that is asked of us, and it is not for them but for ourselves, we are asking one another to invest a small sum in a government bond, the best security in the world. We lose nothing; we save what we invest with interest. The money is used to support our fellow citizens who are fighting our fight on the firing line, and those who are hastening to reinforce them. For this purpose our nation needs money and it needs it now. Have you done your bit? Have you loaned your country $50, $100, $500 or as much as you can afford? • Can’t you honestly do a Tittle more? Only two days remain in which to do it. Think it over Friday afternoon for an hour, between one and two p. m. Devote that hour to your country— your country for which other men like you are laying down their fives. Go to your bank and buy a Liberty Bond, paying 2 per cent down, or if you have already in vested get a friend or a customer to do it. Do something POSITIVE for your country. Let your fellow citizens see some MATERIAL EVIDENCE of your loyalty. You or I cannot DEADHEAD our way to victory. We must ACT, and we must ALL PAY. For these reasons it is recommended that all business be absolutely suspended between the hours of One and Two o'clock, Friday, October 26, 1917, in the City of O’Neill, and that this hour be devoted to the purchase and sale of Liberty Bonds, the banks remaining open for this purpose only. All bells and whistlesjn the City will signal the beginning of the hour—’the hov^r of our country’s need.’ v E. H, WHELAN, Mayor. H Blankets Both wool and cotton blankets are in and would Jj ■ advise you to purchase your requirements while |j m the stock is unbroken. : t: §§p ||| Laddies’ Furs My line of Ladies’ Furs are just in and very J U nifty, separate Muffs and Sets. Remember Saturday, October 27th is the day ■ U of the Coat Sale. HH - 1 fgg 1 J. P. Gallagher, O’Neill. 1 Mrs. Marie Bergmaf^ and Mrs. E. W. Olson and daughter, Viola, niother and sister of Mrs. Harry Bbwen, left Wednesday for Omaha wherfe*. they will visit a few weeks before return ing to their homes in Chicago. Miss Martha Hanley left last Fri day for Omaha where she will join her sister and they will go to Washington, D. C., where they will spend a few weeks visiting with their brother, James H. Hanley, who is private sec retary to Congressman Loebeck. William Barnard, who was with the last contingent that went to Camp Funston from Burt county, has been appointed a sergeant. In a card to this office he ordered The Frontier sent to him at his new address so that he could keep posted on affairs at home. O. 0. Snyder was in Lincoln and York last week on business. At the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows held in Lincoln last week Mr. Snyder was unani mously re-elected as one of the trustees of the Odd Fellows home at York, a position he has held since the formation of the board. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Reichert and children and Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Bruning, of Bruning, Neb., are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gotleib Reichart northeast of this city. Mr. Reichert was a former resi dent of this county but left here about ten years ago for Thayer county, where he has since made his home. Benard McGreevey, for many years a resident of this city, was in the city last week greeting old time friends. It had been about twelve years since Mr. McGreevey left this city and he said he could see many splendid im provements here during the past dozen years. He is now a resident of Bill ings, Mont., where he has resided for the past nine years. Cecelia Chmeil, the year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Chmeil, died at the home of Mrs. Chmeil's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Zaborowski near Inman last Thursday, and the child was buried in the Catholic cemetery here last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Chmeil are residents of Chicago and they were visiting at the home of her parents. Charles Blair, of Chambers, was ar rested last week charged with steal ing twelve head of cattle belonging to I Lawrence & Fitzsimmons, of Omaha, who had them in the Bob Starr pasture near Chambers. He was given a preliminary hearing before Justice Campbell in this city and was bound over to the dstrict court, bail being fixed at $1,600, which was furnished. Ed Calgan, of Winnebago, Neb., was in the city last week and leased the Knights of Columbus opera house for the ensuing year and will open a picture show therein about November 1st Mr. Colgan expects to move his family here this week and get every thing in shape to open up his moving picture show on the first of the month and promises to supply the people of this city with first class pictures. On Friday, November 2, the high school foot ball team will play the last game of the season, Atkinson high being their opponents. At this game our citizens should turn out quite largely and give the boys the benefit of their presence in their contest for supremacy. A good sized crowd will encourage the boys to play harder and incidently the admission fee will help to cut down the deficit that is now in the athletic fund treasury. T. M. Harrington, of O’Neill, and John L. Judge, of Atkinson, have been exempted from military duty by the district exemption board. Mr. Har rington was compelled to go to Omaha about a week ago and submit to an operation for appendicitis. Ed. F. Carney, of O’Neill, has been discharged from military duty by the district board. Carney registered but found out after registeration that he was over thirty-one years of age and did not come under the provisions of the draft. This was discovered after he had been called for service. The local board took the matter up and ex empted him and their action was ratified by the district board. Edward Knobbs, who lives nine miles northeast of this city, was a caller at this office last Saturday and ordered The Frontier sent to his ad dress for the ensuing year. Mr. Knobbs came to this county last March, moving here from Lancaster county. He says that he will make more on his Holt county farm this , year than he ever made in one year whle farming in Lancaster and Sew ard counties and that he is well pleased with Holt county. He says that a renter has to pay eight and ten dollars an acre rent for land down there and if he happens to have a poor crop, which happens pretty often, even in that country, that a renter has nothing to show for his year’s work. He has fallen in love with this sec tion of the state. While attempting to weld a 150 gallon gasoline tank at noon today the tank exploded, tearing out every window in Davidson’s shop and tear ing out both ends of the barrel. Ed. Davidson was doing the welding and sustained three severe cuts near the eye, which required several stitches. He was wearing welding glasses at the time or the accident would un doubtedly have cost him the loss of one of his eyes as the force of the explosion forced the case of the glasses through the flesh, but the eyes were uninjured. The force of the explosion was terriffic and was plainly heard three blocks away, and Eddie was fortunate to escape serious injury. This again proves that too much care cannot be used in handling gasoline or gasoline containers. George Phillips, of Opportunity, was a caller at this office today and ex tended his subscription. Liberty Loan Sales Grows. The campaign for the sale of Lib erty Loan bonds has been vigorously prosecuted this week, under the di rection of S. J. Weekes, chairman of Liberty Loan sales for this county. The local banks are selling bonds and meetings are being held in different parts of the county, which are ad dressed by some of the leading silver tounged orators of this city, urging farmers and others to purchase bonds. The following bond sales have been made by the local banks. These sales are in addition to the purchases made by the banks, which were announced last week: O’Neill National Bank, $20,000.00; First National Bank, $9, 000.00; Nebraska State Bank, $6, 000.00. Last Tuesday evening a meeting was held at the town hall at Meek, which was addressed by S. J. Weekes and J. A. Donohoe and at the con clusion of the meeting $3,200.00 worth of bonds were sold. Wednesday evening S. J. Weekes and Judge Malone spoke at Dorsey and sold $1,150.00 worth of Liberty Bonds at the conclusion of the meeting. Wilford Boyle addressed the people of Emmet last Wednesday evening and at the conclusion of his address $1, 800.00 worth of bonds were sold. Judge R. R. Dickson addressed the people of Inman last Wednesday after noon on their duty to their country in this hour of trial and at the conclusion of his address bonds to the amount of $4,800.00 were sold. Judge J. J. Harrington addressed the voters of Ewing on Liberty Bonds on Wednesday afternoon. The Judge has the reputation of being the great est “persuader” in Holt county, no man in this section being in his class when it comes to getting people to put up money for a worthy cause. He maintained his reputation in this respect at the meeting Wednesday for after the meeting the citisens of Ewing subscribed for , $88,800.00 worth of Liberty Bonds. This was a splendid subscription for the little city of Ewing and clearly proves that the people of that hustling little burg are loyally behind their government in the great conflict. Tonight S. J. Weekes and J. A. Donohoe will address the people of Page on the Liberty Bonds and at the conclusion of their address bonds mill be offered for sale. Thomas Nolan will address the peo ple of Chambers on behalf of the Liberty Bonds this evening and at the conclusion of his address citizens of that section of the county will be of fered an opportunity to invest in Liberty Bonds. Congressman Kinkaid will address the people of Atkinson on behalf of the Liberty Bonds on next Friday afternoon and will speak at Stuart in the evening. It is hoped that the interest of the people in the bond sale will be stimu ulated lo the extent that Holt county will be able to dispose of her quota, but if the quota of bonds allotted to this county are sold it will be neces sary for all the people of the county to do their share. In Squirrel Land. First Park Squirrel—Better watch that cop. Second Park Squirrel—Why, he's always been decent to us. But, my dear whiskers, it's a felony now to hoard food.