The Frontier.
VOLUME XXXVIII.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1918.
NO. 48.
IG CLEARING SALE
Saturday, May II, 1918
A mid-season sale of stylish
trimmed hats at a very small
I price, enabling you to save
materially on a new model.
Grady Millinery
LOCAL MATTERS.
The Spencer schools will close Fri
day. »
Ben A. Powell, of Mineola, was an
O’Neill visitor Saturday.
Charles Harden, of Chambers, was
an O’Neill visitor Monday.
Miss Nellie Gassan is visiting
Valentine friends for a few days.
Frank Oberle, of Opportunity, was
transacting business in the city Tues
day.
Charles Bigler, of Rock Falls town
ship, was an O’Neill visitor the first
of the week.
Charles Wrede Jr., of Agee, was
in town Tuesday from his ranch on
the Red Bird.
The O’Neill Hay company is busy
filling several large hay contracts for
the government.
Mrs. Cleda Brady, of Calgary,
Canada, arrived last week for a visit
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Hunter.
Twenty-seven dollars was realized
for the Red Cross at the Turkey din
ner at the Western hotel a week ago
Sunday.
Fred H. Swingley, of Atkinson, has
been drawn as a member of the federal
grand jury called to report at Omaha
May 20.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Noble were in
the city Saturday from their ranch on
Antelope slough, northeast of this
city about sixteen miles.
The McGinnis Creamery company
completed all of the new cement walk
around their plant last week which
improves the appearance of the plant
Walt Wyant put in a large 550 gal
lon gasoline tank in front of his gar
age last week in place of a smaller
one.
John T. Brennan put in a gasoline
tank and pump in front of his store
Monday to accommodate his custo
mers.
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Biglin went down
to Sioux City last Tuesday morning
for a couple of days visit with rela
tives.
Mrs. Ambrose Biglin, of Casper,
Wyo., is in the the city for a few days
visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. 0.
F. Biglin.
The Germans call their new war
tank a “Sturmpanzerkraftwafen,”
which is a darned sight worse than
the tank itself.
The special technical training
school for skilled branches of the war
service will open at the state uni
versity Jjjne 15.
Sergeant Leland Wertz, of Camp
Funston, who has been spending a
short furlough at home, returned to
camp Sunday morning.
Judge R. R. Dickson and Court
Reporter C. B. Scott went to Spring
vieg Sunday evening to hold a term
of-district court this week. „
M. F. Sanders, of Norfolk, District
Commercial manager of the Nebraska
Telephone * company, was an O’Neill
visitor the first of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Will McCormick, of
Norden, who have been the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hunter for several
days, retuned home Sunday evening.
Holt county women responded nobly
to the call for the Third Liberty Loan
and 207 of them now are owners of the
bonds. The total amount of bonds
purchased directly by the women was
?27,100.
Patrons of the postoffice at Bliss
must call for their mail in English
if they expect to get any in tht future.
Postmaster Owens has issued an order
prohibiting the speaking of German
in the postoffice.
Mother’s Day will be observed at
the M. E. church with an appropriate
program Sunday, May 12th, at 10:30
a. m. All mothers present will be
presented with a White Carnation.
All are invited to be present.
Beginning Saturday all licensed
bakers of the country will be required
to make weekly reports to the food ad
ministration of their stocks on hand,
amounts of purchases and sales and
amunts used in baking each week.
Will Schroeder came in Tuesday
evening from Gillette, Wyoming,
where he is homesteading, and will
j visit in O’Neill for a week or ten days.
! Will reports the O’Neill cclonv in that
community as well and pi >sperous.
The Ewing Red Cress will hold a
big auction and public : lie at that
place Saturday, the entire proceeds to
go to the Red Cross fund Livestock,
farm machinery and aboui everything
desirable will be found on the list of
articles offered.
Federal Land Bank apj—aiser T. C.
Hornby, of Valentine, wa., on O’Neill
visitor Friday night, stopping off en
route by auto from Valenti le toNeligh.
Friday morning he viewt I the lands
of several applicants for loans in the
Stuart association.
Frank Hunter, son of J. M. Hunter,
who but recently had returned from
Norfolk, where he had been under
going treatment for appendicitis,
suffered another attack last Friday
and was again taken to the hospital,
where he underwent a successful
operation Saturday morning.
Mrs. Sarah F. Grubbs, of Ewing,
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but master of the money you save. Do you
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If a start is all you need to
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THE O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK
O’Neill, Nebraska
Mi This bank carries no indebtedness of officers or stock- Mj,
holders and we are a member of The Federal Reserve Bank.
Capital, surplus and undivided profits $100,000.00.
died of pneumonia, at her residence
in that city Friday night at midnight
and at the same hour and of the same
complaint her son-in-law, Lou Wilson,
passed away at his home in Eugene,
Ore. Mrs. Grubbs was buried Sun
day, interment being in the Page
cemetery.
Thoirias Donlin returned from
Omaha Tuesday night where he had
taken four loads of fat cattle from his
South Dakota ranch. The cattle sold
for $16.60 per hundred and the sale
netted Mr. Donlin a little over $14,
000.00. This will help Tom to meet
the high cost of living for a few
months at least. -
The County Council of Defense has
advised the pastors of the German
Lutheran churches at Chambers and
Bliss that it is inadvisable to hold
religious services in German. The
action is the result of the notices
rfccently pinned on the church doors
by local residents ordering that the
German services be discontinued.
Senator James A. Donohoe’s ad
dress at the soldiers’ reception in
Creighton last Wednesday is declared
by the accounts in Creighton and the
state papers to have been One of the
most eloquent and stirring ever de
livered before an audience in that
city and all of the publication unite
in characterizing it as a masterpiece.
The Grand Chapter of Nebraska,
Order Eastern Star, holds itsworty
third Annual session in Omaha, Tues
day, May 14 to Thursday, May 16.
Each chapter is entitled to be repre
sented by its first three officers or
their proxies, as well as by all past
matrons and past patrons. Mileage
is allowed the highest ranking officer,
of each chapter.
Seventy-five million pounds of meat
must be shipped to our army and to
the allies each week from now on, as
compared to fifteen million pounds per
week previous to the war, Food Ad
ministrator Hoover announces in a
telegram to Food Administrator Wat
tles. This means that consumers must
reduce their present consumption ma
terially or the meatless meals and
days will be re-instated, warns Mr.
Hoover.
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The east is tinauy awakening to
the fact that the west is awake to the
war situation, and Nebraska has
helped in the change of sentiment.
Not only does the state lead in per
capita War Savings Stamps sales and
Red Cross memberships, but it stands
high in the Third Liberty Loan cam
paign. Every, county in Nebraka has
oversubscribed its quota, although in
the previous campaign only thirty
per cent of the counties did so.
All enemy alien women of the
country are to be registered and
their photographs and finger prints
filed for reference, same as the men^
•'tcording to advices from Washington?
Any native born American woman
married to an enemy alien is classed
as an enemy alien by the government.
Postmaster McCarthy, who will have
charge of the registration for this
district, has not yet received word as
to dates of commencement of the reg
istration.
Two more Holt county boys have
made good at officers training camps
and have been commissioned second
lieutenants. They are Charles A.
Cronin, who enlisted in the aviation
corps last August and who has becfi
at Sail Antonio and Leon Springs,
Texas, since that time. The other is
Irvin Norton, son of County Surveyor
Norton of this city. These boys re
ceived their commissions at the con
clusion of the officers training camp
at Leon Springs, Texas.
Miss Ruth Simonson, teacher of the
Agee district, gave a box social May
4th. A patriotic program was render
ed which was fine and the manner in
which the pupils recited their different
parts showed the efficiency of the
teacher. The little girl who spoke
“Goin’ to Make the Hoe Cake,” de
serves special comment. There were
only twenty boxes and they amounted
to $60.20. The proceeds were turned
in to'the Keith Red Cross unit, con
sisting of Shields, Paddock and the
East of Rock Falls.
Chairman S. J. Weekes and the
members of his liberty loan com
mittee in the various townships of the
county are entitled to the thanks of
the people of the county for the work
they performed in tyie liberty loan
campaign that resulted in Holt county
going over Its quota $117,750.00.
Every loyal citizen of the county
should be proud of the splendid show
ing made by old Holt and the people
who were untiring in their labors for
the success of the campaign are en
titled to the thanks of our citiztns.
The government has made another
call for 233,000 draft men to be sent
to Fort Dodge, Iowa, on May 20th.
This state will have to supply a little
over 1,500 men in this call. The
secretary of the local board has not as
yet received the call so the number of
men that this county will have to
furnish in this call is unknown. If
the county is given credit for induct
1 ions and voluntary enlistments the
chances are that it will not have to
furnish any men for this call, but if
not the quota from this county will be
in the neighborhood of twenty men.
Several O’Neill citizens have been
the recipients, the last week, of chain
letters boosting the sale of war sav
i ing stamps. Each letter contained a
thrift card with one twenty-five cent
stamp attached. The recipient was
> requested to fill out this card and also
to copy the letter received apd mail it
to five friends, inclosing to each a
s card with a twenty-five cent stamp
attached. It was also requested that
l the names of the five friends to whom
letters were mailed be sent to the War
I Savings Committee, No. 51 Chamber
| Street, New York City, that a check
might be kept on the responses to the
) plea.
I, Cash is not the only requisite to buy
' groceries of John Brennan, according
to a little circumstance that happened
^ in John’s store last week. A farmer
customer early in the day, whilo talk
ing war had remarked that one of his
neighbors was a slacker and had pur
chased no bonds or given any money
whatever to the cause. A few hours
later the accused man dropped in for
a bill of groceries and John promptly
summoned him to the rear of the store
and inquired whether or not the
charge were true, informing him that
he would not sell to slackers.
Furiously waving a handful of liberty
bonds and displaying other insignia of
a patriot the angry customer declared
he could whip the author of the rumor.
Then, after cooling off he confidenti
ally told John that the only slacker in
his neighborhood was —-,
the man who had told the story to
John. When the latter returned for
his bill of goods he too had to prove
up before John would let him have
his cornflour and rice.
Murphy-French.
Miss Evelyn Murphy and Walter
French, residing near Inman, were
united in marriage Tuesday evening
at the home of the bride, southeast of
Inman, by the Rev. Jones, of Ewing.
Red Cross Sale and Box Social.
There, will be a Box Social, Red
Cross Sale, and Dance held at the T.
J. Donohoe’s barn on Friday, May 17.
Miss Kathryn Barrett, teacher of
District No. 9, her pupils and all the
members of the home school are giv
ing this for the benefit" of the Red
Cross.
The O’Neill orchestra will furnish
music for the dance, which assures a
good time for all. Everyone cordially
invited.
Holt County’s Youngest Bond Buyer.
Raymond Bausch, aged thirty-five
days, son of County Supervisor Henry
Bausch and Mrs. Bausch, of Phoenix,
is the youngest owner of a Third
Liberty Loan bond in Holt county.
Master Raymond, who arrived on earth
and picked out Holt county as his
future residence on April 4, is an en
thusiastic patriot and wants to see
the lcr" • v whipped. Accordingly, al
thoug.. enable to get away from the
fai.a at this time of the year, he sent
in his subscription for a bond by his
dad last week.
Big Attendance At Red Cross Social.
An attendance almost equalling the
big clay at the county fair last fall,
is the way O’Neill visitors describe
the crowd at the Red Cross basket
social and dance at T. J. Donohoe’s
north of town Friday evening. Auto
mobiles and young people were there
from miles around and the city fur
nished a largt share of those present.
The social was held in the big yard at
the Donohoe ranch and the baskets
sold brought high prices. After the
'Saie of. baskets a dance was indulged
in, in the big barn, until nearly dawn.
Almost $250 was realized for the Red
Gross funds by the entertainment.
O’Neill Orators Cause More Trouble.
O’Neill oratory again has caused
trouble and started local warfare in
one of our neighboring townsr- This
time the trouble was at Chambers and
he cavse speeches by Senator James
' Donohoe and S. J. Wee' es. It is
Senator Donohoe’s second offiense, he
Laving previously caused a riot at
_utte lut is the first for Mr. Weekes,
v ho hasn’t delivered as many speeches
3 the senator though. The two
entlemen recently delivered patriotic
speeches at Chambers, arousing their
audience to a cheering enthusiasm and
patriotism which burned more fierce
as time went by. As a result, last
Sunday morning the pastors of the
German Lutheran churches at Cham
bers and Bliss found notices posted
on the church doors to the effect that
no more sermons in German would be
permitted. Also telephone users have
been informed that it isn’t polite or
advisable to speak German over the
telephone lines in that vicinity. No
charges are made, or are said to be
intended to be made against the
pastors, who are men of loyalty, but
the people down there simply don’t
want their religion served to them in
kaiser lingo durng the war.
Good Bye, r lour.
Holt county practically must depend
upon what flour there now is in the
county to last it until after harvest,
Millers over the state are notifying
local dealers that they will sell no
more flour for consumption, in this
country until after harvest. Three oi
the big millers already have sent
such notices to (PNei'.l. In additior
to this several of the merchants have
announced to Food Administratoi
Hunter that they will turn in theii
present stock of flour to the food ad
ministration and in the future wil
handle only the substitute flours. Johr
Brennan is one of the holders of big
stocks of flour who has so notified Mr
Hunter, voluntarily deciding to turr
over some four hundred sacks. Peo
pie are getting used to using the othei
flours and substitutes, said Mr. Bren
nan, and I intend when I have gottei
rid of the stock on hand to handle n<
more flour while Uncle Sam needs i
across the water. Other local mer
chants of O’Neill have quit orderin;
flour from outside and are dividing u]
their stocks with each other, the in
tention being to clean up all the flou
and then quit. The government- als
has announced its willingness to tak
the entire output of all mills of th
country from now until harvest
Farmers of the Atkinson vicinity las
week turned in for the use of th
soldiers and the allies 18,995 pound
of w-heat flour. This was flour due th
’ farmers for wheat on deposit with th
. Skrdla & Sons Milling company o
. Atkinson. At the suggestion of th
senior member of the Milling firm, on
" of the most patriotic millers of th
state, those having flour due then
permitted Mr. Skrdla to turn it ove
' to the government for them, Mi
: Skrdla himself making payments t
Ij each for the amounts due them at th
- government price. Consequently som
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of the Holt county boys in the
trenches are very apt to be served with
bread and biscuits made from the
wheat berry grown in the good old
county of Holt. And they will know
it if they do, for each sack of flour
sent across the water will carry the
label of the vicinity from which it
comes.
Liberty Loan Items.
Holt County’s answer to the Kaiser
is a total subscription for the Third
Liberty Loan of $528,750.00. This
county’s quota was $411,000.00.
This makes an over-subscription of
$117,750.00. The Government re
quested that this county make up
what we were shy on the Second
Liberty Loan which was approximately
$80,000.00. It is vtry gratifying to
know that Holt county is now in the
clear on all loans with nearly $40,
000.00 to the good.
Many residents in the northern part
of Holt county made their liberty bond
subscriptions and designated in their
applications some bank in Boyd
county as place of payment. By so
doing this county nor the respective
townships in which the indivduals re
side did not get any credit for such
subscription. The Government only
gives credit for those applications sent
in through banks in this county. This
is very unfortunate not only for the
county but for many of the townshps
in the northern part of the county
which are going to show a deficit in
the allottment of the townships. It is
throught when the various quotas
were allotted to the towns and town
ships of the county that whatever was
subscribed -by the residents of the
township no matter v;hat bank was
designated as the place of payment
that the township and county would
get credit but under the ruling of the
'•omr.iitt.ee at Kansas City this is not
the case. In future bond compaigns
it is very important that residents of
his county designate some bank in
the county as place of payment for
the bonds that their townships and the
unty mav receive the proner credit.
Cor pressman M P. Kin’ aid was the
1 "r-e-t individual subscriber in the
county, his subscription being $10
•9 90.
The yrv pcest sul serher for Liberty
Ponds in Holt county was Raymond
Bausch. thirty days old at the time
the subscription was signed by the
father, Henry Bausch, one of the
supervisors of Holt county.
O’Neill’s allottment was $30,000.00
and the subscriptions by residents of
O’Neill amounted to over $90,000.00.
In other words the allottment for
O’Neill was subscribed over three
hundred per cent. This gives O’Neill
two stars in the Roll of Honor Flag
awarded by the Government to towns
that oversubscribe their quotas.
• The following Associated Press Dis
patch indicates to what extent some
of the Liberty Loan Committees
throughout the country had to resort
to in order to compel people to pur
chase Liberty Bonds. It is very grati
fying to the Committee of Holt county
and the citizens in general to know
that practically all of the subscriptions
raised in this county were voluntary.
The following is the Associated Press
Dispatch referred to:
“Yankton, S. D., May 6.—Executive
officers of the Third Liberty Loan
committee here visited the Jamesville
Mennonite colony Saturday, gathered
up 100 steers and 1,000 sheep and
droye them to Utica, S. D., near here,
where arrangements are being made
kto ship them to market. The Men
nonites are alleged to have refused to
subscribe their quota of Liberty bonds
and the loan officials have announced
their intention of selling the stock
and devoting the proceeds to the
purchase of bonds to cover their
quota. No opposition was offered by
the Mennonites.”
Much discussion and some confusion
has been occasioned by reason of resi
dents of one county designating a
bank in ^ome other county as place
of payment for their Liberty Bonds.
Some are still contending that the
various townships and county get
credit regardless of where/ bank of
payment is designated.
The following letter written by Geo.
II. Seymour, Chairman of District No.
7 to S. J. Weekes, Chairman of the
Holt County Committee will explain
the situation to some extent and show
that the county or ownship gets credit
for only such subscriptions as are
made through banks of Holt county.
The following is the letter:
“It was a practical impossibility to
avoid confusion between County Chair
men in the matter of quotas under
the rules as laid down.
“County QUOTA was made up on
the basis of bank assets which know
.to county lines. County ORGANIZA
TION, however, was based absolutely
on county lines so quota of each town
ship, school district or other unit
must be based on relative WEALTH.
I tried to adjust matters in my
district through early letters to my
County Chairmen.
“Now then—, it transpires that on
April 10th both the Kansas City and
Omaha Committees rule, ‘That the
County ip which the bank is located
shall have credit.’ All we can do is
mal e the best of it and sell the
orids. Very respectfully, Geow N.
cymour, Chairman District No. 7.”
i rom the above it will be seen that
o far as the Government is concerned
Jounty quota receives no credit for
. bscriptions except those that were
made through Banks of Holt County.
Red Cross Social and Dance.
School District No. 17 will hold a
Red Cross sale, basket social and
dance at the school house, two miles
north of the fair grounds and two
miles east and one-half mile north of
the John Kelley corner Monday even
ing, May 13. The box social and sale
will be held first and those having
anything to donate for the sale are re
quested to bring it with them. Fol
lowing the social and sale there, will
be a bowery dance, with excellent
music. The entire proceeds are to go
to the Red Cross and every one is
extended a cordial invitation to be
present. jerry HANLEY,
JAKE HIRSCH,
ROBERT COOK,
Committee.
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