The Frontier.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1918.
OUR ANNUAL CLEARING SALE
Having decided to hold an Annual Clearing Sale of odd sizes and broken lots, which cannot be replaced,
we will offer to the public from
Saturday, January 12, to Saturday, January 26, Inclusive
Men’s, Women’s and Children’s high grade shoes. Every style is seasonable and
I right up to the minute in every way.
-Save $1.00 to $3.00 Per Pair
I Ladies’
^ ;» $12.00 All Brown Kid. $9.00
$11.00 All Ivory Kid... $8.50
$10.00 All Black Kid... $7.50
$6.50 Black Kid (Fabric Top) ...... $4.95
$4.50 Black Kid (Fabric Top) ...... $3.65
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Merv’s
$8.00 Tony Red ..... $6.50
$7.50 Black Calf..... $6.25
$6.50 Tan Russia ....... $5.25
$5.00 Black Calf....... $4.25
$4.00 Gun Metal.... . $3.25 \
Shoes sold as advertised. Absolutely every high grade shoe that leaves this store carries with it our
guarantee. Our Motto: “Good Wear or a New Pair.” All overshoes sold at cost.
No Credit! No Approvals! No R_etvims!
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Casla- Booterie O’^Teill, BTeToras^s,
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LOCAL MATTERS.
Air. &nd Mrs. Olin Baker, of Tona
wanda, were O’Neill visitors Satur
day.
Clayton Mesner was in from his
ranch southwest of this city Wednes
day.
Clark R. Young was in the city Sat
urday and renewed his subscription to
this family journal.
Mrs. Anthony Murray returned
from Omaha Saturday, after visiting
relatives and friends.
Miss Loretto Hickey returned to
Wisner Sunday to resume her work
^ after the holiday vacation.
Frank Dishner went to Sioux City
last week and spent several days at
tending to business affairs.
Miss Ann Murray left Monday
morning for Cedar Rapids, Nebraska,
where she is attending school.
Judge J. J. Harrington returned
last Monday evening from a short
business trip to Lincoln and Omaha.
Leo Mullen, who has been visiting
with relatives at Deadwood for the
past two weeks, returned home Sun
day.
Mr and Mrs. R. W. Merriman and
daughter, of Page, were visiting with
relatives and friends in this city Sun
day.
W. J. Hammond made a business
trip to Ainsworth Wednesday to look
Rafter some legal matters in that
city.
Hugh Boyle went to Meadow Grove
the latter part of last week, and spoke
for the benefit of the Red Cross of
that community.
Claud Wolfe was visiting home
folks last week for a few days, re
turning to the Great Lakes training
camp Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Hunter return
ed from Wisner Sunday night. They
had been visiting with Mr. Hunter’s
sister, Mrs Cradit.
M. R. Sullivan, state bank exaimner,
returned last Monday evening from a
few days visit in Omaha and other
eastern Nebraska cities.
The Kensington Club of this city
entertained and gave a dinner to the
men at the Golden Hotel at 6 o’clock
last Wednesday evening.
Guy Bechwith, of Emmet, and Miss
Hickman, of Atkinson, applied for and
were granted a marriage license by
the county judge last week.
R. R. Morrison went to Omaha Sun
day and returned Monday night after
looking after the business matters
that called him to the metropolis.
Rev. W. H. Lampe, a returned mis
sionary from Korea, will speak in the
Presbyterian church in this city on
Wednesday evening, January 16th.
Miss Mary Markey returned Mon
day night from Kirksville, Mo., where
she had been for the past three weeks
visiting with relatives and friends.
The county board at a meeting this
morning elected M. P. Sullivan, chair
man of the county board, highway
commissioner for the ensuing year.
Clear Golden left last Friday morn
ing for Camp Funston, Kans., where
he is now a member of the Reserve
Officers Training Camp at that place.
Jodie Young, who enlisted in the
Navy here last summer, arrived home
last week on a fifteen day furlough,
for a visit with home folks and
friends.
Mrs. Mary Testman left Saturday
mortiing, her daughter, Miss Ruth, left
Sunday, both returning to Grand Is
land, after a few days visit with
friends here.
Miss Irene Cooper left Wednesday
morning for a five weeks visit with
relatives and friends at Omaha,
Council Bluffs, and several other
places in Iowa.
Terrence Morrison left Sunday
morning for Prairie Du Chen, Wis.,
where he will finish the year attending
school. He has been visiting with his
folks here for the past week.
George Harrington, who is in the
Quartermaster’s Department of the
army, and stationed at Camp Dodge,
arrived home Sunday night for a
week’s visit with home folks.
Miss Medeline Doyle left Sunday
morning for Des Moines, Iowa, where
she is attending an osteopathic school,
after spending the holidays at the
home of her parents in this city.
Edward Graham and Sam Templin
left last Tuesay morning for Lincoln,
where they will attend the state con
vention of the Farmers Union, as dele
gates from the Unions north of town.
Miss Kathleen Doyle, who is one of
the teachers in the High School at
Emerson, Neb., returned to her school
duties last Sunday morning, after
spending the holidays at the home of
her parents in this city.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hickey and
daughter, Miss Winifred, left last
week for Deming, N. M., to visit Ray
mond, who is a member of Headquar
ters Co. 134 Infantry, at Camp Cody.
They expect to spend the remainder of
the winter in Los Angeles.
Harry Kestenholtz and Miss Dora
Englehaupt were united in marriage
by county Judge Malone at the Kest
enholtz home in this city at high noon
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Wednesday. They have the best
wishes of their many friends for a
long and happy wedding journey.
H. P. Dowling, of Harlin, Iowa, ar
rived in the city last Sunday evening
to spend a few days looking after his
business interests in this city and
visiting with old time friends. He
went up to Atkinson Tuesday after
noon and will leave for home this
morning.
Walter Roberts, son of Mr. and Mrs.
E. F. Roberts of this city, who won
signal honors in the stock judging
contest at Chicago last month, has
been appointed county agent for
Washington county at a salary of
$2,000 per year, and enters upon his
new duties the latter part of the
month.
Mr. and Mrs. William Gaghagan
and children, who left here last Aug
ust and went to Saskatchewan, Can
ada, returned to this city last week and
will spend the balance of the winter
in O’Neill. Billie says that he likes the
north country fairly well but still has
a very tender spot for old Holt and
may decide to remain here.
W. J. Biglin went up to Casper, Wy
oming, last Friday evening to attend
the wedding of his brother, Ambrose,
who was united in marriage to Miss
Frances Seely at Casper, on January
8th, Rev. Father Mullen officiating.
The many friends of Ambrose in his
“old home town” extend to him and
his bride their best wishes for a long
and happy life.
The Willing Woikers Knitting Club
met on Tuesday last, with Mrs. An
thony Stanton. Owing to the inclem
ency of the weather only a few of the
members were out. The next meeting
will be with Mrs. Catherine McNich
ols. The club has formed the habit of
having something ready for each ship
ment and five pair of socks were
turned in last week.
A surprise gift party was tendered
Rev. and Mrs. Longstaff at the Presby
terian parsonage last Monday night
at which fifty-two were present. The
evening was very pleasantly spent in
various games and knitting and at 11
o’clock an oyster supper was served.
Everyone present had a very pleasant
time and Rev. and Mrs. Longstaff
thoroughly enjoyed the visit of their
friends.
Paul Weidfeldt, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Weidfeldt north of this city,
and who was a member of the third
contingent that left this city on the
7th day of last October for Camp Fun
ston, Kansas, has been discharged
from the army on account of physical
disability and is on his way home. Mr.
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WeidfeMt has been confined to the
hospital most of the time sinec becom
ing a member of the national army.
Last Tuesday Charles B. Scott
celebrated the twenty-first anniver
sary of his services as court reporter
and during that time he reported for
seventeen different federal and dis
trict judges. Twenty-one years mak
ing “pot hooks” is a long time and
now that Charles has reached his
majority in the business he starts in
on his second decade more proficient
in the business than ever and his many
friends hope that he will be able to
celebrate his forty-second anniversary
feeling as young as when he cele
brated his twenty-first anniversary.
The K. of C. Theatrical Company are
going to present several plays in the
near future, two of them to be for the
benefit of the Home Guards, of this
city, the other to be for the Red Cross.
The first play, for the Heme Guards
will be presented about the midale of
this month. This organization must
raise nearly one thousand dollars, to
be paid out for equipment, such as
uniforms, rifles and ammunition. The
people of this city should take pride in
having a company of this character,
and should at all times encourage
them by giving them the support they
so justly deserve.
Ed. F. Gallagher, chairman of the
Holt County Thrift Stamp Campaign
Committee, received a message this
morning from State Director Burgess
announcing that Harry Palmer, of
Omaha, would deliver an address to
the people of this city and vicinity in
O’Neill on next Wednesday evening at
7:30. Mr. Palmer is a prominent
young attorney of Omaha who has
been devoting his entire time to the
promotion of the sale of thrift stamps,
making speeches in the interest of the
thrift stamp sales and it is hoped that
a good sized audience will greet Mr.
Palmer on his appearance here.
Verl McKim, son of Mr. and Mrs.
L. C. McKim, of Opportunity, who has
been teaching school at Opportunity,
resigned his position there and went
to California to enlist in the Marines.
He was rejected in the Marines and
then enlisted in the medical corps of
the army at Fort McDowell, Calif.,
and in a letter received by his parents
the first of the week, he said that he
was to leave the next day for the
Hawaiian Islands, where he “is to re
ceive his training. Mr. McKim is but
twenty years of age and while not
subject to the draft deemed it was his
duty to enlist to help his country in
their hour of trouble.
A double wedding was celebrated at
| the Catholic church in this city last
Wednesday morning when Rev. M. F.
Cassidy performed the ceremony that
united in marriage Raymond Williams,
of Soukup, Wyoming, and Miss An
nastasia Murray, of Page, and Dean
Streeter, and Miss Gertrude Murray,
both of Page. The brides are the
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Mur
ray, pioneer and prominent residents of
Iowa township, and they enter their
matrimonial journey with the best
wishes of a host of friends throughout
the county who wish them and the men
of their choice happiness and pros
perity through life.
A meeting of the stockholders of
the O’Neill National bank was held in
their banking rooms in this city last
Tuesday. The old officers and the same
board of directors that have so suc
cessfully conducted the affairs of this
institution for the past several years
were re-elected. The officers are: M.
Dowling, president; O. 0. Snyder, vice
president; S. J. Weekes, cashier; C. P.
Hancock, assistant cashier. The fol
lowing are the members of the board
of directors. M. Dowling, 0. O. Sny
der, S. J. Weekes, Dr. J. P. Gilligan
and H. P. Dowling. The bank had a
very prosperous year. Their total
capital, surplus and undivided profits
are now $113,000.
Edward Slattery and Miss Sarah
McDermott were united in marriage
at the Catholic church in this city last
Wednesday morning, Rev. Father Car
mody officiating, in the presence of a few
of the relatives and immediate friends
of the contracting parties. The groom
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael
Slattery, poineer settlers of this
county, and is one of the prosperous
farmers and stockmen of the south
country. The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. McDermott, living just
south of this city, and is a winsome
and charming young lady who has
numerous friends in this city and
vicinity. The young couple enter upon
their journey in life together with the
best wishes of a host of friends.
Officers of Eden Rebecka Lodge
were installed last Friday evening,
the installation being conducted by
Mrs. Flora Wise. At the conclusion
of the installation ceremonies a ban
quet was given the new officers and
the members present, which was
thoroughly enjoyed. Following are
the offices installed: Mrs. Laura Ba
ker, N. G.; Mrs. Pearl Curtis, V. G.;
Mrs. Minnie Davit, Recorder; Mrs.
Margaret Hunter, Financial Secre
tary; Mrs. Roberta Malone, Treas
urer; Mrs. Stella Hancock, Warden;
Mrs. Alma Ilaffner, Conductor; Mrs.
Clara Miles, R. F. N .G.; Mrs. Flora
Wise, L. S. N. G.; Mrs. Agnes Petti
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john, Chaplain; Mrs. Hilda Bowen, R.
S. V. G.; Mrs. Ruth Gillespie, L. S. V.
G.; Mrs. Jennie Harnish, I. G.; Mrs.
Margaret Clauson, O. G.
W. K. Hodgkin and Ernest Beaver
returned last Friday from a trip
through Wyoming, where they ha't
been inspecting the country. Mr.
Beaver was so impressed with the ap
pearance of Wyoming that he filedona
government irrigated farm near Dea
ver, Wyoming, containing 120 acres
and expects to move to his new home
in the spring. They say it is splendid
land and as it is under the govern
ment ditch they are sure of a good
crop each year. Mr. Hodgkin say that
land not far from there that has been
farming for the past six years is now
selling for $200 an acre and that
every one in the irrigated section
seems prosperous and contented. Mr.
Beaver has been a resident of this
county for over a quarter of a century
and his many old friends will regret to
see him leave old Holt, but will wish
him happiness and prosperity in his
new home.
Godfrey Egger, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Egger, who live on the old Noll
kamper ranch on the Eagle north of
this city, died at Camp Pike, Arkan
sas, last week. The body was ship
ped to this city and is expected to ar
rive this afternoon. A detail from the
local Home Guard company will meet
the body at the train and escort the
remains to the Methodist church.
Funeral services will be held at the
Methodist church at 10 o’clock tomor
row morning. The Home Guard Com
pany will attend the funeral in a body.
The remains will be interred in the
cemetery at Meek. Deceased was a
member of the second contingent of
the draft army that left this city on
the 23rd day of last September for
Camp Funston, Kansas, and was trans
ferred to the southern camp a couple
of months ago. Mr. Egger is the first
Holt county boy whom entered the
service from this county to give his
life for his country. The sympathy of
the people of this county is extended
to his bereaved relatives in their hour
of sorrow.
NOTICE.
To Owners of Motor Vehicles:
All Motor Vehicle licenses expired
on December 3l3t, 1917, and you are
required under penalty of the law to
make application to this office for re
newal of same.
The statute prescribe a heavy
penalty for failure to procure license
in the required time. So take no
chances and send in your application
at once.
130-2 R. E. GALLAGHER, Co. Treas.