The Frontier
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No Hard Coal This Winter.
Nebraska will not receive any hard
coal this winter, according to infor
mation received by the chairman of
the County Federal Fuel Committee
from John L. Kennedy, Federal Fuel
Administrator for Nebraska. Fol
lowing is a copy of the letter re
ceived from Mr. Kenedy:
“TO ALL COUNTY CHAIRMEN:
“The United States Fuel Adminis
tration has determined the allottments
of anthracite coal for domestic use to
the various states for the twelve
months ending March 31, 1919, and
has found it necessary to cut off en
tirely shipments to Nebraska.
“The transportation situation is
such that anthracite coal is the only
domestic fuel available to New Eng
land, Eastern New York state, Penn
sylvania, and New Jersey and, with
the materially greater needs due to
the largg increases in population, as
a result of essential war industrial
work, it has been necessary in order
to take care of the minimum needs of
the section mentioned, to exclude an
thracite from the trans-Mississippi
territory.
“This necessity is sincerely re
gretted by the Administration but
it is felt that the wants of Nebraska
can be met with other fuels and that,
while inconvenience and discomfort
may result, the people of our state
will loyally abide by this deicsion as
an absolutely necessary war measure.
The National Administration promises
that steps will be taken to provide
for domestic consumption a sufficient
amount of bituminous coal to make
good the deficiency in anthracite.
“The above order permitted only
anthracite that was actually in transit
at the time the order was made to
come through.
Yours very truly,
JOHN L. KENNEDY,
Federal Fuel Administrator Her
Nebraska.”
Earley-Coyne. _
Married, at the Catholic church in
this city last Wednesday morning,
James Earley and Miss Anna L.
Coyne, Rev. M. F. Cassidy officiating,
in the presence 6f a few of the im
mediate relatives and friends of the
contracting parties.
After the ceremony the wedding
breakfast was served at the Golden
Hotel and shortly thereafter Mr. and
Mrs. Earley left in a car for North
Bend, Neb., where they will spend a
couple of days with relatives and will
then go on an extended wedding trip
to Salt Lake City and Yellowstone
Park. After their return they will
make their home upon the farm of
the groom northwest of this city.
The bride fis the daughter of Mrs.
T. Coyne of this city and was born
and raised in this community. She is
a charming young lady who possesses
the happy faculty of winning and re
taining friends.
The groom is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. James Earley, who are also
pioneer residents of this county. He
is a young man of energy and thrift
and is one of our most successful
young farmers and stockmen.
The Frontier joins the many friends
of this happy young couple in wishing
them many years of happiness and
bliss.
NON-IIEGISTERED NURSES
ARE NO LONGER BARRED.
The need of Red Cross nurses for
the army and navy is so urgent that
the doors have been opened to gradu
ate nurses who have not been regis
tered with their state boards. Miss
Jane Delano, Director of Nursing
Service, says:
“The present situation at the front
makes it imperative that we hasten
the enrollment of competent nurses
for the armed forces in every way
P°ssible” . . - „
The campaign is now under full
headway all over the country. It
took the smaller chapters longer to
organize and get started, but some
of them covered the ground quicker
than the cities.
No comprehensive report is to be
had this early, but scattered messages
show that the Red Cross- chapters
are enlisting every nurse possible.
Here are a few early reports:
Ludington, Mich., reports that
every nurse" in Mason county has en
listed.
“One hundred and fifty-four nurses
enrolled, and we are only beginning”
wired Detroit.
Waterloo, Iowa, enrolled eleven the
first two days of the campaign, and
reports “the campaign still going
vigorously.”
Agatha Hospital at Clinton, Iowa,
enrolled three nurses the first day,
and pledged three others to go July
1, and three more on July 31.
Chicago is getting a splendid res
ponse from its nurses. The whole
graduating class of the Michael Reese
hospital has enlisted, and 100 per cent
has been forecast by St. Luke’s.
Country places are asked by the
Red Cross not only to give up all the
nurses they possibly can, but to aid
young women to enter training schools
and make all haste to supply the
shortage of nurses which faces the
country in years to come.
As a stimulus to the whole Central
Division, the Red Cross arranged a
great parade of nurses on Saturday,
June 15, in Chicago. Nurses returned
from pverseas service/, nurses who
have enrolled, the graduating classes
and undergraduates of all schools, and
nurses from outside schools, all were
asked to march in full uniform. The
Jackie Band from Great Lakes Naval
Training Station, and various military
bands, were called on to lead them. _
The nurses will go without hesi
tation; it is the whole American
people who must help them to go, and
provide other patriotic young women
to take their places.
EVERY STREET IN O’NEILL
Has Its Share of the Proof That Kid
ney Sufferers Seek.
Backache ? Kidneys weak ?
. Distressed with urinary ills?
Want a reliable kidney remedy?
Don’t have to look far. Use what
O’Neill people recommend. Every
street in O’Npill has its cases.
Here’s one O’Neill man’s ex
perience.
Let Harry Bowen tell it. He says:
“Whenever anyone asks me about a
kidney medicine I recommend Doan’s
Kidney Pills for I have used them. I
get some at Gilligan & Stout’s' Drug
Store, whenever my kidneys start act
ing irregularly and my back feels
lame. They always relieve the heavy
ache and ojher symptoms and prevent
more serious trouble by putting my
kidneys in good condition.”
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mr. Bowen had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
WEEKLY WAR NEWS DIGEST.
Repair of Clothing
at Army Camps Saves
New Equipment
Through the operation of repair
shops for clothing and other articles,
a considerable saving in reissue of
new •equipment has been made at
Army camps. One camp quarter
master estimates the issue of new
clothing has decreased one-third, and
of shoes 40 per cent.
At a base repair shop for clothing
an average of 2,831 garments were
repaired daily during the first 18 days
of May. In addition to the work done
at base repair shops, many thousands
of garments are repaired at camp
shops, one shop being located at each
large camp.
During April nearly 170,000 pairs
of shoes were repaired in Army re
pair shops. At present practically
all hat repairing is done by contract,
the price varying from 50 to 90 cents
per hat.
This work is in charge of the Con
servation and Reclamation Division
of the Quartermaster Corps, which
has been in operation only during the
last four months.
More Railway
Engineers to go
to France
When the, 5 new regiments and 19
battalions of railway engineers now
being organized are put on duty there
will be 50,000 Americans engaged in
railroad construction and operation in
France.
After the United States entered the
war one of the first requests trans
mitted to this Government by the
French mission was for assistance in
strengthening the French railways.
Nine regiments of railway engineers,
whose organization was started before
Gen. Pershing sailed, were in France
by August, 1917. Six of them have
been engaged in construction work,
building and rebuilding railways,
building docks, and arranging termi
nal facilities. The other three regi
ments have been engaged in opera
tion, and some of the railway troops
have been on the fighting line. The
additional troops will be used partly
for construction and maintenance and
partly for operation.
A total of $160,000,000 has been
spent on railway materials alone. In
cluded in the purchases are 1,727
locomotives, 22,630 freight cars, and
359,000 tons of steel rails.
Colored Registrants
to Be Given
Technical Training
Nearly 157,000 Negro soldiers are
now in the National Army. Of these
1,000 are line officers holding com
missions of captain and first and sec
ond lieutenants. There are about 250
colored officers in the Medical and
Dental Reserve Corps.
The Army now includes two
divisions of colored troops, which
when fully constituted will include
practically all branches of I the
service: Infantry, Engineer, Artil
lery, Signal Corps, Medical Corps,and
service battalions with men techni
cally trained in all branches of
scientific work.
There are now openings in the
Veterinary Corps for Negroes skilled
in veterinary and agricultural work.
Arrangements have been completed to
send Negoes registered but not yet
called to schools and colleges this
summer for training in radio engi
neering, electrical engineering, auto
mechanics, blacksmithing, and the
operation of motor vehicles.
Children’s Bureau Finds
Many Babies Suffering
from Lack of Food
Reports are reaching the Children’s
Bureau of the Department of Labor
from the hundreds and thousands of
women who during the last 60 days
have been weighing 5,000,000 children
of American, and the way in which
permanent poverty menaces the
healthy growth of the children of the
Nation is being revealed as a result
of the weighing and measuring cam
paign.
Workers have been so much
aroused by the conditions revealed
that they request information regard
ing follow-up work. Many of the
families are described as being piti
fully poor. One mother had a new
baby wasting away for want of milk.
The mother" was told to drink one
quart of milk a day herself and to
give one quart a day to each of her
six children. Milk is 16 cents a quart
and the family income $15 a week.
The woman writing to the Children’s
Bureau said they did not know how to
solve the problem.
The Children’s Bureau has been
compelled to reply to such reports
that Federal appropriations are avail
able only for the families of men
actually in the military or naval
service.
Incomplete returns from 25 States
show that nearly 3,400,000 women
have registered for war work under
the Woman’s Committee of the Coun
cil of National Defense.
The 12-cylinder Liberty motor, ac
cording to a statement by -the War
Department, weighs 825 pounds and
develops 450 horsepower, or a weight
of 1.8-pounds per horsepower. The
gasoline consumption is approxi
mately 0.46 pound per horsepower
hour.
The standardized “type B” truck
has been officially adopted as the
standard heavy-d.uty cargo truck for
use by the .Army in all its depart
ments requiring this capacity truck.
A large number have been ordered
and it is expected the first 10,000 will
be completed about August 1, 1918.
There is no discrimination of any
kind between soldiers who are not
citizens of the United States and the
native born or naturalized citizens in
the American Army, excepting that
the former can not hold commissions.
In gll other respects—care, attention,
privileges, etc.—they are all on the
same footing.
The Food Administration is making
a careful survey of the national ice
situation in order that it may be pre
pared to meet any sudden shortage in
particular communities. The de
struction of ice plants by fire, break
down of machinery, or the exigency
weather may at any time cause a
serious shortage.
Next to the aggregate number of
subscribers, perhaps the most strik
ing feature of the third Liberty loan
was the support given it by the
farming and rural populations of the
country, according to a statement by
the Treasury Department. Not only
did. the farmers purchase libefally of
the’ bonds, but the rural communities
as a rule were more prompt in com
pleting their quotas of the loan than
the large cities. More than $20,000
communities in the United States
subscribed or oversubscribed their
quotas, many of them on the first day
of the campaign. The majority of
these were not cities, but country
districts.
GOVERNMENT SALARIES
FOR STENOGRAPHERS
Washington, D. C., June 17, 1018,
—The United States Civil Service
Commission announces that through
some misunderstanding an impression
seems to prevail that the Government
has raised the usual entrance salary
for stenographers and typists in the
departments at Washington, I). C., tc
$1,400 a year. The Commission
states that there has been no change
in initial salaries for positions of this
kind; the usual salaries at the be
ginning range from $1,000 to $1,200 a
year, appointments at $1,200 being in
the minority. The War Department
makes all appointments to such
positions at not less than $1,100 a
year, and agrees to promote to $1,200
a year after three months’ satis
factory service. Appointments at
salaries higher than $1,200 a year are
rare, and the appointees must pos
sess exceptional qualifications.
There is still great need for steno
graphers and typists in the Govern
ment offices at Washington. Those
who have had considerable office ex
perience are most desired. The Civil
Service Commission urges qualified
persons to offer their services to the
Government. Full information may
be obtained from the representative
of the Civil Service Commission at
the post office in any city.
Snapped Off.
“Bloggs doesn’t seem to have much
snap in him any more.”
“No; he used to have so much snap
in him that now he’s broke.”—An
swers. *
AH Depends.
“ ‘A primrose by the river’s brim, a
yellow primrose was to him, and it
was nothing more.’ What does that
line mean?”
“Well, it means that to a poet a
primrose is something to throw a fit
over, while to a botanist it is a
specimen of th? primula vulgaris or
grandiflora.”
Home Hints.
For young housewives, a bit of
dope—
Don’t wash the beets with scented
soap.
Pharmaceutical Supplies.
“1 suppose you'd get rich if you
_ .Ck _ . 1
could supply people with the tints of
youth?”
“I do pretty well in that line”, the
druggist replied. “However, I know I
could amass a fortune if I could fur
nish that salve for conscience you
hear so much about.”—Kansas City
Journal.
The Frontier, only $1.60 per year,
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WHAT
Gai) 1 po
For You?
Can I sell you $1.25 Brooms 85c
18c Milk, 9Em
20c Corn, 9Ef»
20c Peas, nc.
two for . 40 b
35c Tomatoes, OEm
for . 40C
Velvet Tobacco, 9 E P
Or can I sell' you Five Bars Q E m
White Soap for . 40b
White Karo Syrup OEm
per gallon . 00U
Dark Karo Syrup, 7Ep
Corn Flakes, 1 flp
Or can I sell you Fancy
Bleached Raisins, 25c a
pound this week, QEp
two pounds for . OOb
Coal Oil, 1 E P
per gallon . • U w
Ohio Blue Top Matches, f)Rp
Fancy Japan Tea, 9Hp
Or can I sell you Monarch Cof
fee, the best on earth, (PI lift
three pounds for . V I iUU
Yes, What Can I Do for You?
Can I sell you 100 bars OC 00
Soap for . OOiUU
Or can I sell you 22c 1 E P
Calicos for . 10b
30c Dress Ginghams 25c
35c Percales, Yard Wide, the OEm
best on earth for . 40b
All kinds of Fancy Summer Dress
Goods at a Bargain.
Or can I sell you $4.50 Men’s Dress
Shoes for $3.50, button or lace.
Or Men’s Work Shirts 7En
for . iJb
Men’s $1.50 Union Suits $1.00
Can I sell you Men’s or Boys’
Clothing.
Or can I sell you a Dort CQQC flfl
Car for . tpOUUiUU
What can I do for you ?
Ladies’ Corsets CE flfl
from 50c to . v3iUU
Or can I sell you Climax CR«
25c Men’s Sox,
two for . 4v»b
Or can I sell you Ten Pounds
|o5r'C“‘r“. $1.50
All kinds of Salt for stock.
Sulpher Salt, RRp
which is the best . 0*Jb
14 Quart Water Pails
for . 13b
Or can I sell you an auto Cl fl flfl
casing for your car at . v I UiUU
Or can I sell you 100 bars CQ flfl
Yellow Soap for . $3iUU
Yes, What Can I Do For You?
Fred JSazeliyiaf)
BAZELMAW’S
STOBE
For Bargains
I Remember that when you bring
your Ford car to us for mechanical
attention that you get the genuine
Ford service—materials, experienced
workmen and Ford factory prices.
Your Ford is too useful, too valuable
to take chances with poor mechanics,
with equally poor quality materials.
Bring it to us and save both time and
money. We are authorized Ford
dealers, trusted by the Ford Motor
Company to look after the wants of
Ford owners—that’s the assurance
we offer.
J. B. MELLOR, Agent,
O’Neill, Nebraska
GET RETURNS
from the money you are
spending for rent.
1
murmur
BUILD YOUR OWN
HOME
and in a few years you can :
Ipay for it with the money ydu
would pay for rent.
[1 We have a few well located
1 residence lots within reach of j
f city water and sewerage eon
i venience.
, We will be glad to quote
E prices and terms at any time.
Call and see me.
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| JOHN L. QUIG
! The Home Loan Man
HIT
HOLT COUNTY
Home Guards
Encampment
and
4th of July
Celebration
ATKINSON
PATRIOTIC PROGRAM
MUSIC AND SPEAKING
PARADES
BAND CONCERTS
SAVIDGE CARNIVAL CO.
BALL GAMES
HOME GUARD DRILL
EVERYBODY WELCOME
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See Saw Leverless
Cultivators
We have sold this cultivator
for years and it has given entire
satisfaction.
New Century Leverless
Cultivators.
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The most widely sold cultiva
tor in the great corn belt.
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We Are Agents For |
McCormick Binders and j
Mowers. |
We carry the only line of Me- |
Cormick repairs that are made j
by the International Harvester
Co. Repairs that are branded “/
H. C., McCormick,tr comes from
Biglin ’s. We do not carry repairs
branded, “will Fit McCormick
we have twine on hand and
you better get your order in now.
0. F. Biglin, O’Neill |