ONTIER.
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VOLTiME XXXIX.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1918.
NO. 8.
Then.- Will Be Light.
Sometime Saturday evening, bar
’ing unfotsrei bad luck, General
ianager A < Elvidge of the Mc
;.;inni"( Creair,':\v & Produce company,
will say to - . rintendent Johnson of
the same : any: “Let there be
YOU
Need our prices as an insur
ance against paying too much for
your goods. '
New Potatoes.
per pound .. Ui.lt
$2.00 Pails Fancy Q1 QQ
KKKK Herring . $1.43
1 Gallon Coal 191#*
I Pound Tea Siftings, 9 1 #»
for Ice Tea . 4 I C
•"> Poinds Fancy Head RQn
Rice . Jub
Butter, Best Creamery, AQf1
Armours Hams. The Ham OQ#*
What Am, pound . 43b
• Lima Beans, TP 9#*
5 pounds for . I 3 b
Salmon, 1 Pound Cans. 9Cf*
Extra Good . 43U
Cookies, Frosted, IQp
35c High Grade Peaberry 1Q~
Coffee, pound . 1 3b
Carnation Milk, A7n
10 Cans . Tl w
SI.50 One-half Gallon Bottle O 1 flfi
Grape Juice . $ I lUU
3—10c Bars Toilet 17#*
Soap ... I I O
3—15c Cans Peters Paste OA #*
Shoe Polish . 44-b
30c Family 1
40c Gray Enameled Ware IQf*
31.00 Dresden Blue and White AO#*
Wash Basins . *TJu
$1.00 Dresden Blue and White 9D#»
odd and mixed pieces . 331#
15c Steel Clad
Drainers .
$1.00 Can of Tommy Lipton’s
Ceylon and India Tea . OUl*
If you buy anything from us that
turns out badly tell us. We’ll make
it right.
Children’s 35c Stockings, 1 0 «
per pair . I «Jl»
Men’s 50c Dress
Hose . Ouli
Men’s $3.50 Dress QC.
Shirts . UUU
Men's $5.00 Work 00
Suits. ydidd
Men’s CM Q0
Overalls I iUd
Men’s Summer Dress yiQ.
Hats . H-UC
Men’s Summer Union CM "7Q
Suits, 90c, $1.49 and . $ I ■ I «J
The ingrate who said, “Nobody
loves a fat man” uttered the world’s
greatest slander. He must have been
a Tailor, however, for truly the
average tailor fears a stout man’s
order, as a molly-coddle fears the call
to arms.
We dote on clothing the cor
pulent; it is our special boast that we
can fit any stout man to perfection; a
guarantee of money back if not satis
fied goes with that statement... Royal
Tailored to your order at $18.00 to
$40.00.
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“MELVIN”
SELLS FOR LESS
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light.” And there will be light—
Electric light.
In fulfillment of the promise of the
officers of the creamery company that
immediate steps would bp taken to
furnish at least a limited eftectric light
and power service to the city, pending
the rebuilding of the creamery, elec
tric light and power plants recently
destroyed by the fire, a combined
engine and generator arrived Wednes
day afternoon and now is being in
stalled at the old creamery site. The
boilers also are being tested and a
switchboard which arrived Tuesday
evening already has been set up and
connected to the city lines. Tempor
ary housings also are being erected
over the boilers and old engine room.
Unless some unsurmountable difficulty
arises steam will be up and the plant
ready to start Saturday afternoon or
evening. The company will not be
able to maintain a twenty-four hopr
service, which in fact is not seriously
needed at this time of the year, but
will have a ten or twelve hour service
so arranged as to accomodate both
power and light patrons. The service,
says Manager Elvidge, probably will
be from 12 o’clock, noon, to 12 o’clock
midnight.
Two mass meetings of tax-payers,
property owners and patrons of the
company were held at K. C. hall,
Thursday evening and Friday evening
to ascertain the plans of the company
in regard to rebuilding and what the
company would ask of the town to as
sist in replacing the plant destroyed
by fire. R. W. McGinnis, A. H. Han
ford, J. W. Schrunck and A. O.
Elvidge, officers of the' company, at
tended the meeting Thursday evening.
R. W. McGinnis, president of the
company, was the first to address the
meeting, which was presided over by
Judge R. R. Dickson, and after out
lining the history of the creamery’s
development, introduced Vice Presi
dent Schrunck, whom he stated would
present the company’s intentions and
plans.
Mr. Schrunck at once set at rest
rumors that the company would re
move the creamery to Norfolk by
stating that the officers had no such
intentions, and explained that even if
the McGinnis Creamery & Produce
company should decide at its meeting
Friday morning to liquidate or dis
continue business the Hanford Produce
company would erect a larger and bet
ter plant. It however would be located
along the railroad tracks in the lower
part of the city. This was in reply to
a question by M. F. Harrington, who
explained that he had come to the
meeting under the impression that the
company was going to remove and
that if such was the case he wanted
to know what could be done to keep it
here. Continuing Mr. Schrunck ex
plained that the company was willing
to operate an electric light, heat and
power plant for the city, but that
such really was not a part of the
creamery business and that they
would be entirely willing to have
either the city or private individuals
take that part of the business off their
hands. He said that to operate the
heating plant it would be necessary to
re-locate on the old site, the cost of
running a pipe line up from a track
age site being too large to be justifiable
with the small patronage the heating
plant is receiving or would receive. If
the plant were re-located on the old
site, a sidetrack up the street would
be necessary and also the purchase of
the Marsh property, immediately
south of the plant, for plant extension.
He said that it was the company’s in
tention to enlarge the plant capacity,
put in a poultry, eggs and cold
storage department and provide for
future growth. He exhibited a pre
liminary sketch of the proposed new
plant. Mr. Harrington then stated
that the company’s statement en
tirely reversed his first impression of
the situation.
T. V. Golden, as the builder of the
Golden hotel, protested against the
plant being located on another site,
explaining that his entire resources
had been expended in erection of the
hotel building, leaving but its rental
as his source of income. The hotel, he
said, had been built with no provision
for a heating plant, and that the dis
continuing of the heating business
would automatically close the hotel.
After more discussion a committee,
composed of D. H. Cronin, S. J.
Weekes, Judge J. J. Harrington, W.
K. Hodgkin, H. J. Boyle, F. J. Dishner
and C. E. Stout with Mr. Cronin as
chairman was appointed to confer
with the company officials dfter the
company meeting Friday morning, and
to report back definite propositions
from the company as to rebuilding
and what it would require of the city
if the plant is to be located on the old
site.
These two propositions were re
ported back by the committee, from
the company, at the meeting Friday
night:
First—Exchange of lots 7 and 8 in
block 20 for lots 15 and 10 in same
block and remove Marsh* residence to
same. To provide for an industrial
"track up to Main street and on the
company’s property, and the city to
pay all expenses incidental thereto.
City also to vacate alley between
Marsh lots and present creamery site
and to grant part of street on east
side of creamery building to the alley
for an elevated dock. If this propo
sition is granted the company to begin
construction at once and to have
lights going in less than thirty days.
Second—If the city desires to and
will purchase the five corner lots, the
boilers, pole lines, wires and all
electrical equipment and steam pipes
or lines and will operate a plant to
furnish the creamery with ample
electricity and power, which will mean
twenty-four hour service,the company
will sell the same to the city at the
cost thereof to the company as rep
resented by the books of the company,
and estimated at the sum of $30,000
more or less.
The report by Chairman Cronin, of
the meeting of the committee and the
company officers, with the reading of
the two propositions and a statement
of the conversation between the com
mittee and the company was received
by the meeting.
A committee to investigate the cost
of each of the propositions submitted
then was suggested. Mr. Golden
promptly insisted that such a com
mittee, if appointed, should be selected
by the chairman, Judge Dickson, pro
testing that a committee selected by
the mass meeting might not be the
right kind of a committee to intelli
gently accomplish the object intended.
F. J.'Dishner, Clyde King and Hugh
Boyle eventually were named as the
committee. Monday Mr. Dishner and
Mr. Boyle went to Omaha to confer
with General Manager Holdrege of
the Burlington regarding the building
of the sidetrack. Another meeting of
the patrons of the company and the
tax-payers will be called when the
committee is ready to report.
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LOCAL MATTERS.
W. C. Templeton, editor of the Page
Reporter, was an O’Neill visitor Tues
day.
D. H. Cronin attended the Republi
can state convention at Lincoln Tues
day.
James Shorthill, hustling Emmet
merchant, was an O’Neill visitor Wed
nesday.
Alex Wertz, of Star vicinity, made
a business trip to O’Neill the first of
the week.
L. E. Skidmore, of Ewing, circu
lated among O’Neill friends the first
of the week.
Mrs. Herbert Richardson and little
daughter, of Rock Falls, visited O’Neill
friends Thursday.
Sam Bailin and B. F. Kissinger, two
of the leading merchants of Atkinson,
were O’Neill visitors Tuesday.
Judge Harrington, Hugh Boyle and
Frank Dishner left Monday morning
for the Democratic state convention
at Hastings.
George G. Seay, general deputy
revenue collector with headquarters in
Omaha, was an O’Neill visitor the
.first of the week.
R. W. McGinnis returned Saturday
morning to Lincoln after attending
the meeting of the McGinnis Cream
ery & Produce company.
Miss Anna O’Donnell arrived Mon
day from Lincoln to attend the O’Don
nell-Rentschler wedding and is visit
ing relatives for a few days.
Ed. F. Gallagher left the first of the
week for a business trip to Wyoming.
P. J. McManus departed Monday
for a buying trip to Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hunter and
daughter, Mrs. Cleda Brady, were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Temple
ton of Page Sunday afternoon.
John Brennan will leave Sunday for
Rochester, Minn., where he goes to
consult Mayo brothers regarding the
possible restoration of his hearing.
Dr. Pettibone, Walter Hodgkin,
Robert Marsh and J. M. Hunter drove
to Lincoln the first of the week to
take in the Republican state conven
tion.
Mrs. E. J. Lyman and brother, John
O’Donnell, of Omaha, came up for the
O’Donnell-RentschJer nuptials and will
remain a few days visiting with, the
homo folks.
Mrs. Mary Hagerty, of Seattle,
Washington, widow of the late Pat
rick Hagerty, arrived last week for an
extended visit with her sister, Mrs.
Thomas Naughton.
William Grothe, of near Emmet,
was on the local market with a load
of wheat Saturday, which he sold to
George Gaughenbaugh at $12 per
bushel. The wheat, thirty bushels,
was brought to O’Neill in Mr. Grothe’s
new truck.
The horse donated to the Red Cross
by E. F. Roberts was sold at auction
Saturday afternoon, bringing $47.00.
Frank Valia was the lucky buyer and
immediately presented the horse back
to the Red Cross. It will be sold
again.
Miss Margaret Donohoe, who has
completed her course at the Peru
Normal, arrived home Monday even
ing for^the remainder of the summer.
Miss Donohoe will be a member of the
faculty of the Omaha schools the
coming school year.
In last week’s issue, A. C. McFar
land, editor of the Lynch Journal an
nounced that owing to the high cost
of living the publication of the paper
was discontinued. Mr. McFarland
will engage in something more lucra
tive, but will maintain the job printing
establishment.
A. H. Hanford and J. W. Schrunck,
of the Hanford Produce company and
the McGinnis Creamery & Pro
duce company, returned to Sioux City
Friday evening, after attending the
meeting of the officers and stock
holders of the McGinnis Creamery &
Produce company.
The many friends of Mrs. George
Miles, who has been ill of nervous
troubles, will be pleased to learn that
she is rapidly recovering and is about
again. Friday Mr. and Mrs. Miles
will drive to Lincoln to visit Gerald,
who is attending the military training
school at that place.
President M. Hyland of the Omaha
Hay company will assist in putting up
the Holt county product that his
company handles. Mr. Hyland ar
rived in the city Wednesday evening
and has joined one of the several hay
crews the company has working south
of Emmet, for several weeks.
A card received from Peter Mc
Monigal informs us that he is now
nicely located at 302 North Main
street, Noonan House, Excelsior
Springs, Missouri, where he is taking
the waters in hopes of recuperating
his failing health. Mr. McMongal
states that already he is feeling
better and wants to hear from O’Neill
friends. (
The body of Alfred Shipman, father
of Mrs. George Miles, who died in
Calgary, Canada, week before last,
was brought to O’Neill, arriving Sat
urday evening. The funeral was from
the Presbyterian church at 9:30 o’clock
Sunday morning, the funeral service
being read by the Rev. George Long
staff. Burial was in Prospect Hill
cemetery.
MODERN LIFE AND CREDIT
| ?lle wor>derful development of our modern system of living with
all if its complicated machinery for carrying on the large and’small
transactions of the big arid little affairs of every day life is due en
tirely to the world’s system of credit.
1 Credit extends all the way from the smallest “accounts” of the
retail dealer up to the great deals made between great financial in
fs stitutions and nations themselves.
What does credit stand for? Many credit dealings are of course, I
backed by a definite guaranty or “security” in some form, but to a I
V large extent credit means “confidence”—mutual faith in the ability and
integrity of both parties to the transaction.
There is therefore an element of doubt in all this great system
of ours.
Still no one would consider for a minute the complete reversal of
conditions back to the ridiculous simplicity and narrow limitations of I
barter and exchange or handling the actual cash involved in a transfer I
•' of goods or property.
All business and banking are a part of this system of credit ex- ;
change which has been so largely responsible for the world’s rapid ;
I progress in everything pertaining to the betterment of mankind in
;:j every way.
1 o overcome the occasioal losses due to such a system, remedial
measures have been often suggested, and one which has proven by test I
to be of great actual worth as strengthening one angle of our credit
f system is the Depositors’ Guarantee Fund of the State of Nebraska. H
This law affects, of course, only the depositors of State Banks
I as the State can have no control over banks not incorporated under its
own State Banking Laws.
However, a depositor in any State Bank in Nebraska has the pro
tection of this fund which now amounts to over one million, one hun- I
dred thousand dollars, and it is hardly believable that a loss to de
positors can be possible under this low.
dltisagija Stitt 3a: I
Candidate for Republican Nomination
I For United States Senator
Congressman
Charles H. Sloan
The Aurora Republican, edited by Clark Perkins, last week contained the
following editorial:
The Editor of the Republican favors Congressman Sloan for the following
reasons which to us seem good and sufficient:
Mr. Sloan has been the Fourth district’s representative in congress for
eight years, and he has always stood for constructive republican legislation.
His record shows that he has been for "America first,” not only in time of
war but in time of peace. His record on preparedness is the best of any can
didate seeking the senatorial nomination. \ Since war was declared he has
met in every way the loyalty test of the League of National Unity, which has
been approved by the leaders of both great political parties.
Mr. Sloan has supported every measure asked of congress as a war meas
ure, and has committed himself to peace only when America and her allies
can absolutely dictate the terms of peace. He has two sons in military service.
He stands in a place of leadership in the republican party, both in the state
and nation. Ho is the only republican congressman from Nebraska in its
fifty-one years of history to attain membership-on the ways and means com
mittee, the most important committee of the house of representatives.
With large legislative experience, he has had his part in all war legislation
up to this time. lie stands well with his colleagues, who recognize his ability
his fairness, his staunch Americanism and republicanism. Ho would at once
attain a place in the senate and on its committees that would be impossible
for a man who has had no such experience.
He is more closely identified with agriculture than any candidate for the
senate, being actually engaged in conducting a farm. On account of the work
he has performed in congress for the agricultural interests of the state and
nation, he is recognized in Washington aS one of the best posted men on all
farm subjects.
He has always been loyal to the nation, to Nebraska and Nebraskans, and
to the republican party, whose nomination he now seeks.
He was first in the field, having announced his candidacy last Jarfhary, a*nd
he has done much of the pioneer work in crystalizing sentiment for staunch
American representation in the senate from Nebraska.
His record has been such fhat his. majority has increased at each election,
until in 1916 he ran 10,000 ahead of his ticket. Ilis record in all former
campaigns -indicates that he can be elected if nominated. He is a “result
getter” in congress and a “vote getter” at home.
Republicans of Nebraska who believe in “America first,” in winning the
war and winning it now, who feel that the republican party has a place of
service and duty in the prosecution of this war, who Relieve that the repub
lican party should contral during the .reconstruction period following the
war, and who will want to elect their nominee at the November election,
can well unite in support of Congressman Sloan.
1,800,000,000 Dollars in Gold
EIGHTEEN hundred million dollars in gold is held by the
Federal Reserve Banks as the reserve of the banks which
are the members of the Federal Reserve System.
This bank, as a member of the system, shares in the protection
afforded by this great reserve. As our customer you also share
in this benefit.
THE O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK
Capital. Surplus and Undivided Profits, $125,000.