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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1917)
f VOLUME XXXVIII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1917. NO. 27. . 11 -- ■ ■— - - - - - . i - ■ ■-■- ■ - - ■■■ -- —■■ - - ■-- ■ ■■■■ ■ I CLEARANCE SALE! ■- =. .. . ' — ========== _=--=.■'.===== Be^innin^ Sat ’day, December lo On Our Entire Stock of | Ladies* and Misses S ‘ts and Co ts Also special discounts on all “Betty Wales” serge and silk dresses. Remember when we say “Sale” that’s what‘we mean. All prices are cut to the very lowest. Every garment marked in plain figures and one price to all. Positively every garment goes in this sale. Nothing re served and all goods sold for cash only. Thrift Stamps given for every $5.00 cash purchase. Come and bring your friends to this Great blearing Sale. jpapjli We have just received new shipments of Ladies’ Waists, Silk Petti- l\1 I f firm™ coats, Hoisery, Aprons, Knitting Aprons, Etc., for the Holidays. j j \ HpP Make thus Store Your Xmas Headquarters MM O’Neill Clothing Company "The Live Store” For Men Women and Children !...-*EEE===^EES^=EEEEE^=EE= ■■ .■=! LOCAL MATTERS. Joe Noble was in from his ranch on Antelope slough Wednesday. Orrin B. Hatch, of Opportunity, was transacting business in the city Wed nesday. T. F. Donohoe was in from the north country, the other day, looking after some business matters. Miss Cora Meredith, who is teaching school at "Ewing, spent Sunday here visiting with her folks. Miss Anna Joyce returned from Sioux City the latter part of last week after a few days visit with friends. Mrs. M. Holland went to Creighton last week and will remain for some T time visiting with relatives and friends. James Matthews went toWinner,and other places in South Dakota, last week for a short visit with relatives and friends. William Wolfe, .one of Neligh’s lead ing merchants, was in the city the first of the week as a witness in the district court. Miss Martha Mills, who has been at tending school at Wayne, Nebr., for some time, returned home the latter part of last week. Mrs. Geo. Shoemaker went to Sioux City the first of the week to spend a short time visiting with friends, and do some shopping. The county board were called to meet last Monday but they were un able to secure a quorum and adjourn ed until December 18th. Hay was down to $19.00 per ton on the local market this morning, but there was none on the market, the cold winter preventing delivery. The local board here received word last week that John Honeywell, one of the registrants from Bliss, had en listed in the Navy at Omaha. Miss Nellie Ryan, went to Omaha Monday morning to attend the mar riage of her brother, Rhody, which was held there Tuesday morning. A telegram was received here last week by the local board from Clear Golden at Ogden, Utah, asking for permission to enlist in the regular army. n: ''/''ti BETTER THAN A GOVERNMENT BOND I □—r-D I A Certificate of Deposit in the Nebraska State Bank pays better that k Governmen jjj Bond and is just as safe The interest is 5 per cent and you have the > H satisfaction of knowing that your money is Wt" m in a strong bank, back of which is the De I positors’ Guarantee Fund of the State of Ne braska. This fund is now over a million dollars. ,j Ask us about this fine short term invest ment. I Ht&saska Stat* Bank | Frank Froelich left Saturday morn ing for Grand Island, where he will remain for several days attending to business matters and visiting with friends. Mrs. John Boyle and her daughter, Miss Bess, who have been visiting here for the past three weeks, left Wednesday morning for their home at Darlington, Wisconsin. A. C. Hart, of Atkinson, was in yie city the first of the week, having been a witness in the case of McManus vs. North American Insurance Company in the district court. Lt. H. J. Birmingham, who received his commission at the last officers training camp at Ft. Snelling, left Wednesday morning for Leon Springs, Texas, where he has been assigned to duty. Rev. Father Giblin has been very sick for the past week with rheuma tism being confined to his bed most of the time, but his many friends will be glad to learn that his conditon is gradually improving. J. M. Hunter, chairman of the Food Administrtion Committee for Holt county, has appointed L. C. Peters secretary of the committee. Mr. Peters is handy with the typewriter and is a first class man for the posi tion. Commencing last Saturday the pub lic schools will be in session every Saturday until the close of the term. There will be but one week’s vacation during the holidays, instead of the usual two weeks vacation. School will close for the term about a month earlier this year than usual on ac count of having school Saturday’s and doing away with one week’s vacation during the holidays. The Local Council of the Knights of Columbus have ordered a service flag showing how many members from this council have enlisted in the different branches of the service. Thirty-two members from the O’Neill Council have enlisted, or are now serving the U. S. in some capacity, these repre sent ten per cent of the total member ship, of which council here which may be considered an excellent showing. We have been having some real winter weather the past six days. The cold spell started Friday and the ther mometer registered about ten below. Sunday morning it was twenty-two below and again this morning it drop ped to about twenty-three. The cold wave is quite general over the state. had a severe blizzard last week and we received the tail end of the storm here. The Willing Workers Club met at the home of Mrs. J. W. Hickey on Tuesday. Last week the club was en tertained by Mrs. M. F. Stanton. Since its organization three weeks ago, they have turned in eight pair of socks and several are knitting the sweaters and scarfs. Most of the members are beginners and all are do ing splendid work. The club started with a membership of twenty-one and a number of loyal workers have since been added. We received a letter from Judge Freeman the first of the week, who with Mrs. Freeman left last week for an extended visit with relatives in Iowa, Chicago and his old home in Oklahoma. The letter was written from Chicago and he said that he had just received word to go to Battle Creek, Mich., to visit with his nephew, who is a lieutenant in the regular army and had been ordered to report for duty in Fance. The Judge said that the conditions of corn in Iowa and Illinois is the same as in Ne braska, a very large percentage of it soft and unfit for storing. A civil service examination will be held in the postoffice in this city on Saturday, January 12, 1918, undr the rules of the United States Civil Ser vice Commission for the position of clerk in the O’Neill post office (male or female). The examination will commence at 9 o’clock a. m. Applica tions for this examination must be made on the prescribed form, which, with the necessary instructions, may be obtained from the commissions’ local representative, Miss Edna Barn* ard, secretary of the U. S. Civil Service Board, at the post office at O’Neill. All persons desiring to take the examination should secure blanks and file their applications at once in order to allow time for any necessary corrections and to arrange for the ex aminations. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Harnish received word from their son, Frank, last week announcing his safe arrival in France. He said that he was in good health and thoroughly enjoyed the trip across. He said that the Americans were having quite a time over there getting their money changed; that when they would get ^change they would have to get some person that was able to count French money to count it for them. Frank is not stuck that a few days before he started out for a walk and was congratultaing himself on the fact that he was get ting along very nicely when he dis covreed that he had returned to where he started from, and that uninten tionally, the streets being so crooked that he walked in a circle. By this time Frank is undoubtedly like the rest of the Americans over there, studying French. A representative of one of Sioux City’s largest manufacturing houses was a caller at this office last Monday and ordered The Frontier sent to his company for one year. This gentle man said that the officers of his com pany had been watching John Bren nan’s advertising for several months past and that he was the most original advertising writer in the west and they desired to get the paper every week so as not to miss any of his ad vertising. Last summer a representa tive of a large Ohio manufacturing house called at this office and spent several hours looking over the files of The Frontier for the past year, read ing John Brennan’s ads and he said that Mr. Brennan’s advertising was the most effective he had ever seen. John Brennan has made a reputation as an ad writer that is not confined to the state in which he lives and he would have no difficulty in securing a good position as advertising man with many large corporations. His ad vertising is original and catchy, things that are lacking in a great many ads. False Rumors. There is nothing to the rumors that home-canned vegetables and fruits are to be inspected or confiscated by the government. Reports received by the Agricultural Extension Service of the State University indicate that rumors are being spread abroad in the state, by persons misinformed or of pro-Ger man sympathies, that inspectors are going to either take or tax the supply of borne products. The government proposes to stop hoarding products in warehouses but this does not apply to products made for home consumption. The open season for the open-face sneeze is in full blast, you know. I HAVE YOU PLANTED THESE SEEDLINGS? g You cannot build a wall without single | bricks. You cannot put up a barn without J single boards. You cannot raise-corn without § planting single grains. You cannot build a I Bank Account without single dollars. If you g despise the little things you can never attain | to the big things. Bear that in mind for your self. Bear that in mind for your children. g Teach them—learn yourself—by beginning a g £: small account for your children and yourself |: at this Bank. I It has been well said that little things | || make up the sum total of life—and | |: little habits that of character. They | || are the seedlings of character. | H —Mosaics. Eg j: THE O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK fi I • This bank ear ries no indebtedness of officers or stock- S f holders and we are a member of The Federal Reserve Bank. m Capital, surplus and undivided profits $100,000.00. m