THRIFT STAMPS j
P. J. McManus will, commencing January
8, give a 25 cent Thrift Stamp for each $5.00
cash purchase. This will continue for thirty
days, after which it will be discontinued.
From Camp Funston
With 450 men, picked as the best
from the seven states represented at
Camp Funston on hand, supplemented
by approximately 250 civilians with
previous military experience, and
picked from the regulars, the third
officers’ training camp commenced
here this week. Competition is ex
pected to be keen, during the three
months of training, between the three
classes of aspirants for the coveted
commissions.
The selection of the drafted men
from the Eighty-Ninth division for the
appointment to the camp was made
with the greatest care, the plan used
weeding out every possible form of
inefficiency. Character, physique,
mentality and adaptibility to military
life were among the standards by
which hundreds of the men recom
mended by their commanders for ex
amination were measured. Twenty
two hundred ambitious soldiers were
examined in selecting the quota to be
given their chances for commissions.
Actual ability and hard work is the
only thing that will bring success to
student officers of the third camp.
This point was strongly brought out
in the first lecture to the men by
Major Lewis Brown, Jr., commandant
of the school. So called “puli’ or
currying favor will not get anyone
anything—excepting a dismissal. “It
is bad taste for a man to attempt to
gain favor by “bootlicking” and the
lecturer declared, “The man who
stoops to that brands himself. An
officer who accepts it does likewise.”
The relation between officers and
students will be an absolutely official
one at all times it has been announced
and officers will require students to
salute in the most punctilious manner.
During the three months of the course,
while officers will maintain the friend
iliest feelings toward the students, and
while students will be free to seek ad
vice on any subject from his com
pany officers, there will be no sign of
anything but strictest discipline and
official relations.
In this camp, nothing but Second
Lieutenant’s commissions will be
awarded, the successful students being
given badges significent of their
graduation from the school and re
turned to their former organizations,
being called for service as lieutenants
as they are needed. The civilian
students are entered as privates and
if any of them fail to attain com
missions, they will be entered in the
army in that rank.
The responsibility of the second
lieutenant, who is the platoon com
mander, was especially impressed upon
the men who are studying for that
rank. “You are preparing yourselves
for one of the two biggest jobs in the
world today” they have been told.
“The other is that of the directing
general. He formulates the plans in
this world’s greatest war, and it is
thihs world’s greatest war, and it is
up to you platoon commanders to
carry these plans to a successful con
clusion. Experience at the front has
shown that the success of an organ
ization in battle rests upon the ability
of the platoon commander.”
The students are divided into three
bodies for administrative purposes,
drill and discipline, two companies of
infantry and one of artillery. Lessons
will be long and hard, and the study
I “I HAVE GOT $10 WHERE I CANNOT [f
SPEND IT. jf
When father was sick he gave me $1.00 a ||
month to help with the milking. I got up at l|
half past four and milked four or five cows. I5
I have sent $10 to the Bank. I have got $10.00 * |
where I cannot spend it.
I WE WANT THRIFTY BOYS! Boys ||
who work hard for what they make. Bring |i
$1.00 or more here. WE WANT THRIFTY If
BOYS.! H
THE O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK |j
O’Neill, Nebraska if
This bank carries no indebtedness of officers or stock- TJ
holders and "we are a member of The Federal Reserve Bank. Ki
Capital, surplus and undivided profits $100,000.00. j ■ |
WHY
The Dry Air
i Space?
To maike fuel
do double duty
rjtii ^
A little fire makes a lot of
heat, but heat is hard to confine.
It goes right through iron and
is wasted. Asbestos blocks its
escape much better than iron.
But a dry air space beats any
thing ever devised to prevent
its escape.
All ranges use the three-wall
construction or asbestos be
tween two layers of iron. The
Copper-Clad 'adds a fourth, the
sheet of pure copper. This
copper sheet is full of little
domes. The tips of the domes
rest against the iron body and
all around them is a Dry Air
Space just like a thermos bottle.
The heat is caged. It can’t
get away. A given amount of
fuel does double duty because
the dry air space holds the heat
in the range. If this saved but
a shovel of coal at a meal it
would mean over a thousand
shovels a year.
Then insist on the range that
can’t rust out, the range with
a dry air space—the Copper
Clad Range.
Warner & Sons, O’Neill
ing w ill be done in the evening for the
most part, recitations being done by I
sections of fifteen, each to one in-;
structor. Grades will be posted at the ;
end of the week for each day’s work,
the high men going to the head of the
class and the low ones down. Prac
tical application of the lessons will be
made during the drill periods of the
day.
West Point standards and conditions
will be followed as far as conditions
permit. It’s ability and ability only
that, will count, and every man stands
on that standard regardless of educa
tion or previous occupation, and is
placed on the honor of a gentleman
and a potential officer in the great
army that will carry on democracy’s
war across the water.
First call in the Officer’s Training
School sounds at 6 o’clock and taps at
10 p. m. every minute between being
filled in a strenuous grind designed to
give each man a maximum of oppor
tpnity to make good in a minimum of
time.
A * <k *
The zone at Camp Funston, the only
institution of its kind in any training
camp, is rapidly nearng completion.
Ranged along the northern side of the
artillery parade, a half mile of build
ings of imposing arhitecture provides
completely for the soldier’s recreation,
amusement and shopping. On it are
three theatres, an arcade containing
every possible kind of shop, pool halls,
barber shops, two banks, the Y. M. C.
A. Auditorium, the Knights of Colum
bus building, restaurants, library and
other buildings. The libarary was
formerly opened last week and most
of the other buildings have been open
for some time. The completion and
efficial zone opening is planned for
next month.
The zone was planned and put
through by General Leonard Wood,
the entire plan having been brought
to success without a cent of cost to the
government, private enterprise under
official supervision being invited.
*****
An issue of sharpnel helmets this
week has given Camp Funston quite
an ‘At the front” air, the latest thing
in trench millinery being seen on both
officers and non-coms, who are attend
ing the various schools of specialized
training. Of heavy sheet steel, paint
ed olive drab, padded inside and with
chin straps, they resemble nothing so
much as inverted bowls. Already the
ingenious ones are figuring various
additional uses for the strange “lids,”
water buckets, cooking pots and em
ergency shovels being a few sug
gested. However they were designed |
for hats, and hats they will remain ac- .
cording to regulations, for woe betide ,
the ones caught using them otherwise. ■
It takes a week or more for a man to 3
become thoroughly used to the sharp- H
nel protectors, as their weight is U
nearly two pounds.—From U. P. News Q
Bureau. k
WITH THE JOKESMITHS.
“Your daughter plays the piano like
a professional.”
“Yes,” replied Mr. Cumrox. “I find
that I’m getting so I can go to sleep
when Gladys plays a tune the same as
at a regular concert.”—Washington
Evening Star.
A Great Patti.
“Waiter, this patti is great.”
“Thank you, sor.”
“The best ever.”
“Yes, sir. We call it the Adelina.”
Not So Altruistic.
“I’m working hard to get several of
my friends on an investigation com
mittee,” announced Congressman Flub
dub.
“That shows good fellowship on your
part. Whom is the committee going
to investigate?”
“Me.”
Why Waste Time?
“Shall we try this pretty woman?”
“What’s the use?”
“Had a look at the evidence?”
“No, but I’ve had a look at the girl.”
Seems So.
Congress has reached the “Who’s to
blame?” stage.
A Chicago woman choked to death
on a tooth which became loosened dur
ing a violent fit of laughter, brought
on by a newspaper joke. Though the
name of the paper is not mentioned.
Most Anything feels an inescapable
sting of conscience.
_
Army tests have disclesel a re
markable prevalence of eye trouble.
And still they talk of shortening skirts
as a patriotic measure!
Thiegen and Cocco are officers of
the Native Sons of America. So quit
your kidding of people about their for
eign names.
Sam Spivick of Gary, Ind., crossing
a field the other day found a rope. He
dragged it home and to his surprise
| and good luck found a cow tied to the
(end of it.
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SALE! I
! Owing to the war and shortage of pasture, I will sell at my farm, 5 miles south- |
west of Red Bird; 8 miles west of Dorsey, and one mile east and 7 miles 1;
north of Opportunity, the following property, starting at 12 sharp, on |
S= Monday, January 14th !
19 Horses and Mules
Consisting of some good work horses and brood mares, and a nice bunch of i
colts up to 3 and 4 years old. This is allgood stuff and some very fine colts. One
g team of mules coming 3 years old. ::
1 171 Head of Cattle
Thirty-five head good young cows; 13 head yearlings; 60 head 2,3 and 4 year i I
I old heifers, due to calve in the spring; 60 steers, 2 and 3 years old; one Short
Horn bull, 3 years old. Es
Fourteen big sows and one registered boar; 51 pigs and shoats.
Five dozen chickens; 90 tons timothy and clover hay. This is very fine hay :!
cut and put up right time in the right way. Some oats and rye. ||
Farm Machinery, Etc. I
Grain binder; corn binder; two John Deere plows; five good mowers; |
p| stacker and sweep; five cultivators; three riding plows; manure spreader; har- g
p| row; cream separator; two-row lister; three wagons; one hay rack; two seated g
W buggy; blacksmith outfit; saddle t six sets harness and other articles. |
This is a large sale and there will be plenty of free lunch at 11 o’clock. So come H
Pc early as the sale will start at 12 sharp. §
g TERMS—One year’s time will be given on notes with approved security §
g bearing 10 per cent, on all amounts over $10. Under $10 cash. No property to g
g be removed until settled for. g
I1 JOHN B. NICHLOS, Owner 1
Col. M. T. Elliott, Auctioneer. F. W. Phillips, Clerk i
Come early as a representative of the Great Western Commission Co., of §
South Omaha, will be on hand and will be glad to meet you.
