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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1918)
—-- — II _ VOLUME XXXVIII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1918. - Properly uazzh SM tU&a\ ‘H :r ---—-_iJ NO. 43. PROCLAMATION. The President of the nation has designated Saturday, April 6, 1918, as the beginning of the third Liberty Loan drive. This is also the first an H1 niversary of our entry into the Great War, and the President, supplemented by the governor of our state, has call ed upon the American people to ob serve this day in a special manner. All patriotic citizens will understand the significance of this request. Realizing the demands of business at this important season of the year, the local authorities after consultation |=_ with the Council of Defense have de cided to make the celebration of this day in O’Neill as forceful and ex peditious as the serious character of the occasion will permit. Honorable Harry B. Fleharty of Omaha will de liver a patriotic address at the K. C. Hall at 2:15 p. m. All stores, restau rants, hotels, garages, and other places of business will close and all ' work, except in cases of actual emergency, will be suspended from 2:00 to 4:00 p. m. of that day. On account of lack of seating capacity and the serious nature of the meeting, gg children are requested not to occupy seats in the Hall. Home Guard as sembly at Fourth and Douglas Streets at 2:00 p. m. sharp. E. H. WHELAN, Mayor. LOCAL MATTERS. The board of county supervisors be gan its April session Tuesday. R. T. Hart, of Atkinson, made a business trip to O’Neill Tuesday. Elmer Rouse, of Paddock precinct, was an O’Neill visitor Wednesday. Mrs. Webb Kellogg returned Tues day evening from a short visit at Omaha. A series of revival meetings began at the Methodist church at Stuart Easter Sunday. John Braddock, of Page, was a pleasant caller at this office while in the city Saturday. Ben Farner, the big Stuart mer chant, was an O’Neill business visitor the first of the week. R. H. Murray, of Page, was an O’Neill visitor Wednesday and paid this office a pleasant call. Charles Bigler returned Sunday from Omaha, where he had been re ceiving dental treatment. J. D. Selah, of Ewing, died at his home in that city, last Thursday after noon after an extended illness. A barn dance for the benefit of the Red .Cross will be held Saturday even ing at the O. C. Rishling ranch near Ewing. John Cihler, of Dorsey, came in Tuesday with his daughter, Liddy, who will resume her studies at St. Mary’s Academy. Emergency District Demonstration Agent held meetings in Boyd county and at Dorsey, Holt county, the first of the week. Ora N. Thomas, one of the members of the last quota of the old draft, writes to Holt county friends that the life of a soldier at Fort Riley, where he is located, is ideal except for the in novations and the Kansas winds. • The Fred Eby ranch on the Nio brara river, one of the finest ranches in Holt county, has been sold to H. A. Allen, of Atkinson. W. E. Hopkins, of Omaha, general manager of the Omaha Hay Company, is looking over the hay prospects in Holt county this week. Box Social and Entertainment for benefit of the Red Cross at School District No. 8, Friday evening, April 5th. Everybody invited. Peter X. Larson, of I ige, was in the city Tuesday and ma le this office a pleasant call, advancing lis subscrip tion to this family journal. W. F. Grothe, of Emmet, was in the city Saturday. Mr. Grothe informed us that they have had the measles and are just getting over them. Con Keys was on the Omaha market with a load of cattle Monday, and spent several days the first of the week visiting Omaha friends. General Manager Vernon of the O’Neill Hay Company, returned Friday evening from Omaha and is busily en gaged in filling a' government hay contract. John Reimer and family, of Wamer ville, Neb., are now residents of Holt county, having purchased the H. Van Valkenberg place south of O’Neill and taken possession. A basket social which was a decided success was held at the Johnson school house, east of Ewing, last Thursday evening, the proceeds going to the Red Cross. Hon. Harry B. Fleharty, of Omaha, will deliver the patriotic address in O’Neill Saturday at 2 p. m. Mr. Fle harty is one of the most talented orators in the state. The little ten day old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Selah passed away after a short illness Monday. The funeral services were held Tuesday, the Rev. Longstaff officiating. The box social at the Bert Miller school house in Paddock, last Satur day evening, drew a large attendance and bidding for the boxes was fast and furious. The proceeds went to the Red Cross. Holt county friends have received cards announcing the marriage, on March 20, at Petersburg, Va., of Lieutenant Martin B. Chittick, of Stuart, and Miss Margarette Green slate of Minneapolis. The Easter dance given under the auspices of the Home Guard, at the K. C. Hall Monday night, while not the financial success anticipated, socially exceeded all expectations and a de lightful time was had. The Stuart Catholic Knights of America will hold a ball for the benefit of the Stuart Red Cross, at Stuart, Thursday evening of next week, A coupling on the main steam lead at the creamery blew out Wednesday morning and for a time the entire plant was filled with live steam. No one was injured, however, and aside from some damage to a big belt noth ing was harmed. A monster tractor recently purchas ed by Mrs. Helen Babcock, has ar rived, and with a gang of plows is busily tearing up her 320 acre farm north of the city, which is to be sown in wheat. The tractor is a kerosene burner and plows twelve acres a day, being operated by one man. The snow and sleet storm which struck O’Neill Tuesday morning and continued off and on Tuesday and Wednesday, was much heaviec in the north of the county than in this vicinity, eight inches being reported from the Niobrara river. The storm was welcomed by the farmers, as the soil is unusually dry for this time of the year. Lieutenant Matt Kane, attached to the Great Lakes naval training sta tion, returned to the training station Thursday morning after a seven days furlough spent at home. Lieutenant Kane now is second senior reserve dental officer stationed at the Great Lakes station, which means that he will be the second to be called for sea or foreign service. The new ice cream machinery for the McGinnis Creamery and Preduee Company has arrived and is being in stalled. This will give the company practically an unlimited capacity on ice cream. The new floors in the chufln room are laid and the new churns installed. The cotnpany will start to making butter and ice cream again in about ten days. ' Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Hombach \\*ill leave Sunday morning for Council Bluffs, where the doctor will be as sociated with his father in his profes sion. Dr. and Mrs. Hombach have made many friends during their years residence in O’Neill, and The Frontier joins with them in wishing the couple happiness, health and pros perity in their new home. President Samuel D. Pullen of the proposed new railroad from Albion to Atkinson by way of Chambers, is making a tour of inspection over the proposed route and consequently some enthusiasm is beginning to be mani fest over the prospects. It will be sometime, however, before the citi zens of Chambers become unduly excited, having gone through several similar epidemics over the extension of the Burlington from O’Neill through to Alliance. The new road probably will not be built in time to take care of this year’s hay crop. Former State Senator Fred Volpp, of Scribner, addressed two large and enthusiastic meetings at Stuart and Atkinson, Saturday. Senator Volpp, who is of German nativity, spoke principally to the German residents of the two communities, urging them to stand behind the government of their adoption in the great conflict and comparing their prosperity here with that of the relatives who re mained behind in the old country. Senator Volpp talked in English, re | fusing to use his mother tongue. County Food Administrator Hunter I also addressed the meetings. . ..:===■ O’NEILL CLOTHING CO. Their Entire $30,000,00 Stock of High Grade Clothing, Ladies’ Suits, Coats, Dresses, | Furnishings for Ladies and Men to be sold at i once. Stock in the hands of Pierpoint Bros. Fixtures for Sale. Sale begins TUESDAY, APRIL 9, at 9 a. m. Wanted at once, 23 Sales people. Pierpoint Bros, selling out Entire Stock of O’Neill Clothing Company, O’Neill, Nebraska. J--- - The Coining Liberty Loan. Holt County’s quota for the forth coming Liberty Loan, the drive for which starts Saturday, April 6, has been fixed at $471,700. This amount will be subdivided and each voting precinct, village or city in the county will be allotted its quota. The Liberty Loan Committee has been divided into eight districts in the county with a district chairman as signed to each district. The following are the eight districts of the county, with the name of the chairman of the respective districts and the territory or voting precincts allotted to each district: Ewing District—J. N. Trommer shaussre, Chairman, Village of Ewing, Townships of Deloit, Golden, Lake, McClure and Ewing. Page District—E. H. Smith, Chair man’. Village of Page, Townships of Verdigris, Willowdale, Iowa and Steel Creek.^ Inman District—Geo. W. Davies, Chairman, Village of Inman, Town ship of Inman. Chambers District—W. J. Doherty, Chairman, Village of Chambers, Townhips of Fairview, Shamrock, Wy oming, Chambers and Conley. O’Neill District—J. F. O’Donnell, Chairman, City of O’Neill, Townships of Shields, Grattan, Paddock, Scott and east half of Rockfalls. Emmet District — W. P. Daily, Chairman, Village of Emmet, Town ships of Pleasantview and Emmet. Atkinson District — E. J. Mack, Chairman, Village of Atkinson, Town ships of Saratoga, east six miles of Sand Creek, west half of Rockfalls, Atkinson, Sheridan, east half of Green Valley, and east half of Francis, Swan and Josie. Stuart District—Fred L. Barclay, Chairman, Village of Stuart, Town ship of Dustin, Cleveland, west four miles of Sand Creek, Stuart, west half of Green Valley, and west half of Francis. The chairmen of the various dis tricts will appoint sub-committeemen for e- h voting precinct. It will be the duty of these sub-committeemen to solicit bond subscriptions from each resident cf his district and to report to the Liberty Loan Committee and County Council of Defence the names of any persons refusing to subscribe for Liberty Bonds, that each case may be investigated with the view of as certaining if such persons have property and are able to subscribe and do their just share toward helping the government in this great crisis. The amount that each should sub scribe will be left largely to the honor and judgment of each individual sub scriber. Each should subscribe in proportion to his financial ability. In aser; where the local sub-committee think a person has not subscribed hi3 share in proportion to his financial re sources, the local sub-committee will .eport the fact to the chairman of the District Committee, and the Chairman f the District Committee will request the person to raise his subscription, efore repotring the facts to the County Council of Defence. The gov ernment is not requesting anything unreasonable, nor is it going to place my great financial burden upon any one. It is expected, however, that everyone owning property or having an income will subscribe something. The amount allotted each precinct is the MINIMUM amount each precinct is to raise and the raising of this amount does not mean that further subscriptions should cease as all sub scriptions will be accepted, as the government needs all the money that can be raised in this loan drive with everyone subscribing. The more money subscribed for this loan, the sooner the war will end and the less frequent will be these loan drives . Do not wait until a solicitor calls on you but go to your bank next Satur day, April 6, or as soon thereafter as possible and make your subscription, thus doing your duty and assisting the committee in their efforts to put Holt County “over the top” with its quota during the first few days. Holt County Fair. Food Prices. O’Neill, Nebraska, April 2, 1918. The following have been fixed as fair food prices by the Holt County Food Administration Price Fixing Committee. These prices are for cash over-the-counter. An additional charge may be made for charge ac counts and deliveries. Merchants may sell under these prices, but are not permitted to sell above them. Viola tions should be promptly reported to the County Food Administrator. Wheat flour, 12 lb. sack. $ .80 Wheat flour, 24 lb. sack . 1.55 Wheat flour, 48 lb. sack. ,3.00 Rye flour, 12 lb. sack . 1.0E Rye flour, 24 lb. sack. 2.00 Barley flour, 12 lb. sack . 1.15 Barley flour, 24 lb. sack . 2.2C Graham or whole wheat flour, 12 pound sack .8C Graham or whole wheat flour, 24 pound sack . 1.5E Yellow cornmeal, 48 lb. sack .... 2.6( Yellow cornmeal, 12 lb. sack.7( White cornmeal, 12 lb. sack.71 Corn flour, 12 lb. sack .8i Corn flour, 24 lb. sack. 1.6( Corn flour, 48 lb. sack . 3.1( Sugar, per pound .1< Jap rice, per pound .1( Fancy head rice, per pound.15 Bulk Oatmeal, per pound .01 Oatmeal, per package .3< H. P. White beans, per lb. . .11 Field run Beans, per lb. .12 Vi Pinto beans, per lb.II Potatoes, per pound .05 Bread, 16 oz. loaf.II Bread, 24 oz. loaf.1! Ham, best grade, per lb...4( Ham, fresh, per lb.31 Ham, No. 2, per lb._... .3! Bacon, No. 1, per lb.51 Bacon, No. 2, per lb.4! Lard, No. 1, per lb.31 Lard compound, per pound.3i J. M. HUNTER, Federal Food Administrator For Holt County. I Learn to say No! It’s the biggest little word ^ ■ in the English language. Every day—each hour of the day—there is the temptation to spend money. Yield not to temptation to spend money. Yield to it—and you will be poor all your life. Learn to say NO!—put every dollar and every penny you can possibly scrape together in your Bank Account here jttji and you will become both rich and successful. If you say NO to-day to the little thing you I;; will be able to say YES in the future to the i I5*" big things. “A time comes to the most easy when ; I he must answer ‘No,’ or go open eyed to ruin. Then he finds that, ; 1 • from long disuse, the word will not ;i shape itself.—Stanley J. Weyman. ;j THE O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK f O’Neill, Nebraska : This bank carries no indebtedness of officers or stock holders and we are a member of The Federal Reserve Bank. ; 1 Capital, surplus and undivided profits $100,000.00. 1 Stores Will Close At Seven. The retail establishments of O’Neill will close at 7 o’clock p. m., new time, each day during the summer months and will not be open at all on Sundays. This action was decided upon at a meeting of all the merchants Wednes day night. The new closing time will be‘in effect until the clocks again arc turned back to the old time October 31, when the closing hour will be C o’clock p. m. as it was before April 1. The new closing hour is in effect at once. City Election Quiet. The city election Tuesday passed off quietly, there being no contests and only three new officials to be elected, all the others being candidates for re election. The men who will guide the destinies of the city for the ensuing year are. Mayor E. H. Whelan, City Treasurer Claude P. Hancock, City Clerk John C. Gallagher. The new members of the city council are Charles M. Daly, First ward; Patrick D. Mullen, Second ward; Mike John son, Third ward; Sam A. Arnold, Third ward. Members of School Board: T. F. Birmingham and Dr. J. \ Gilligan. Off For The Training Camp. Four more Holt county young men leparted Saturday morning to join the ■olors and do their part in the great war. They are Leo Zimmerman and Frank L. Karr, of O’Neill; Chauncey Porter, of Chambers and Gustave F. Schultz, of Inez. The boys were escorted to the train by the Home Guard and the citizens, who wished them Godspeed on the journey and a safe return after the great conflict is over. Business houses were closed during the hour of departure. The four Holt county men were joined by Abram H. Bretz, also of this county, but who has been residing near Hooper, at Fremont. O’Neill Land Office May Be Closed. The O’Neill land office probably will be closed June 30, which is the end of the present government fiscal year, ac cording to the dope from Washington. A movement has been on for some time looking to the abolishment of the several land offices out in the state, with only the Lincoln office to remain to handle the entries on what little government land is left in the state. An order already issued by the secre tary of the interior provides for the abolishment of the Valentine, Alliance and Broken Bow offices, but this has been amended to continue the Valen tine office for at least another year or V until the settlers on the Niobrara mili tary reservation, opened several years ago, have made final proof. Advices state that Alliance,1 Broken Bow and O’Neill probably will go the first of the year, which will be pretty hard on Uncle Mose coming in an election year and all in his district. Non-Partisan League Organizer Arrested. James W. Bissell of nowhere, or ganizer for the Non-partisan league, was arrested at Ewing Saturday after he had separated twelve Deloit town ship, and northern Wheeler county residents from $16 each to become members of the organization which at present is attracting more notoriety than commendation. * County Attorney Boyle was informed Saturday that Bissell was working in that vicinity and ordered the authori ties of Ewing to take him into custody. Sheriff Duffy went down Saturday evening and brought him to O’Neill, where he was lodged in jail to await hearing Tuesday before the Council of Defense. In the meantime a telegram of inquiry was sent to the sheriff at Dixon, Illinois, from whence Bissell claimed to have come in the distant past ,and the following reply received: “James W. Bissell, age about 37, socialist and follower of Emma Gold mann. Has anarchistic tendencies.— R. R. Phillips, Sheriff.”” A list of twelve farmers whom Bis sell had induced to join the league and pay him $16 each was found in his effects. Also about a bushel of social ist literature, some Non-Partisan literature and copies of the Non Partisan Leader, the official organ of the movement. Bissell claimed the socialist literature as his personal property and declared he was not dis tributing it. He claimed to be work ing on a straight salary of $100 per month, and expenses, as an organiser for the Non-Partisan League and ex plained that of the $16 initiation fee $5 went to the Non-Partisan Leader and the remainder to President Town ley of the league, a socialist, and the other officers, for political purposes. Bissell did not succeed in employing counsel to defend him here and the league sent Attorney Sorenson of Lincoln. Bissell was allowed to go, there being no state law under which to hold him, and the proceedings were referred to Federal District Attorney Allen for action under the fereral statutes. County Attorney Boyle afterward interviewed a number of those who had signed the Bissell muster rolls and all declared that he had made no disloyal utterances in soliciting membership for the league. ...' 1 yiiiiiiiiiii 1 — I , p You enjoy many things that were unknown only a few years ago—rural free delivery, weather bureau service, better roads, farm j §§ telephones, automobiles, etc. ! H These things are helpful, but an account j p with the Nebraska State Bank on which you J m can draw checks to pay your bills—is an l §j almost indispensible business convenience. j |H It is an accurate record of* your disburse ] Jj ments and a safeguard against loss by fire or ) |j theft. I m Start a checking account here now. 1Statt Basil I