LOCAL MATTERS. N. G. Miller, of Pag was an O’Neill visitor Tuesday. G. A. Anderson was a Norfolk visi tor Wednesday. Mrs. Smith Merre" has gone to Norfolk to visit friends. Ray Morseman has sold the Inman dray line to C. P. Conner. Henry Grady is about again after a ten days’ seige of rheumatism. W. J. Hammond made a business trip to Wayne Thursday morning. Mrs. Sheridan Simmons visited friends at Inman the last of the week. Emmet Wertz and H. H. Kightlinger were O’Neill visitors the last of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Tompkins, of Primrose, Neb., are visiting relatives at Inman. The county board of supervisors, in session last week, adjourned to meet again December 2. Sam Coover, of Omaha, arrived the first of the week to visit his father, residing near Page. Word received by relatives from Paul Bittner states that he has ar rived safely overseas. Four members of the family of Fred Peterson, near Middlebranch, are con fined with the influenza. Several loaves of cattle from corn stalk disease are reported from vari ous sections of 'the county. - Mrs. William Harte has gone to In man to nurse hen two sons, Harry and James, who are ill of influenza. • Mr. and Mrs. “Vi” Hunter enter tained at a “lucky man’s” dinner, for for Mr. Leo Mullen Wednesday even ing. M. F. Harrington departed for Chadron and other western points Sunday evening on a short business trip. Sheriff Duffy made a trip to Phoe nix and Dustin Tuesday, serving sub poenas for the coming term of dis trict court. J. B. Mellor, local agent for the Ford cars, has been advised that the company have commenced the manu facture of cars. Sheriff Duffy and County Attorney Boyle went to Omaha Wednesday on investigation of the shooting Sunday night of Guy Cole. The casualty list of last Friday contained the name of Sergeant Ber nard L. Young, of O’Neill, as having been severely wounded. George M. Henry went up to Merri man, Neb., Sunday night where he has accepted a position as electrical worker for a company at that place. Ralph Phillips of the Dorsey neigh borhood is confined to the family resi dence for a time as the result of in juries received when his horse fell upon him. The Union Pacific railroad has re ceived orders to set 500 passenger cars on the side tracks at Camp Funston for movement of soldiers soon to be discharged. The Baltz Fulbert ranch of 3,000 acres, fourteen miles northwest of Stuart, has been traded by H. G. Asher to Culver & Marien of Shenan doah, Iowa. J. M. Hunter went to Omaha Wed nesday to attend a meeting of the county food administrators of the state called by State Administrator G. W. Wattles. Mrs, Everett Brown, who has been in O’Neill on attendance of her daughter, Doris, ill of the influenza, P returned to her home at Stanton p’ Tuesday afternoon. W. H. Hopkins of the Omaha Hay company, accompanied by several friends, came up for a duck hunt the last of the week and left for Omaha in Mr. Hopkins’ car Sunday morning. Paul L. Henry returned Thursday morning to Sioux City, Iowa, where he will again resume his work as brake man for the Burlington, after spend ing a few days visiting home folks. Earl Putman, who has been Making his home for some time with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Art No ble, of Chambers, has gone to Wash ington to reside with his father. S. J. B. Johnson, former superin tendent and chief engineer of the McGinnis Creamery company, has re moved with his family to Minnesota, where he has employment with a large electrical concern. Dr. E. R. Hays of the U. S. public health service, who has had charge of the influenza quaranttine for Holt county, has been ordered to Scotts Bluff county to take charge of the quarantine regulations there. Leo Mullen has leceived word from his brother, Wally, who is in the aviation corps, stationed in Virginia, that the organization to which he is attached will be discharged from active service December 1, but will be retained as a reserve organization. C. A. Brown and Sam Templin, two of the prosperous young farmers re siding northwest of town, were callers today and extended their subscription another year. They took advantage of the present rate, as the price will be advanced to $2.00 per year on January 1st. Mrs. Mary Warner, aged 69 years, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Howard in this city this after noon at 1 o’clock, after an illness of a few days. She was one of the pioneer residents of the county, and had lived in this city for about a quarter of a century. Fred Swingley, of Atkinson, was an O’Neill visitor the first of the week. Mrs. C. E. Downey left the first of the week for Blair, for a short visit with her daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Pound, after which she attended the state assembly of the Rebecca lodge, at Lincoln. Soldiers assigned to special duty and doing clerical work on the draft soon are to be mustered out of the service. Private Harry Patterson, who has been assigned to the county clerk’s office for several months, has received notice from Captain Ander son, provost marshal of Nebraska, to make application for discharge. Clare Marie Shaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Shaw, died at their home in this city Wednesday evening at 10 o’clock, of pneumonia, following an attack of influenza. She was seven years, five months and seventeen days old at the time of her death. The funeral will be held tomorrow morn ing, interment in the Catholic ceme tery. James Lingenfelder died at his home four miles south of Inman last Mon day after an illness of ten days of pneumonia, following an attack of in buenza. He leaves a wife and six little children to mourn his death. Mr. Lingenfelder was a resident of this county only three weeks, moving here from Norfolk the latter part of October. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ratliff was wounded accidently Monday afternoon while playing with a revolver belonging to Mr. Ratliff and which he had discovered about the house. The bullets in the cart ridges had been removed and wadding put in thefr places. While young Ratliff was toying with the gun it was discharged, burning him severely on the cheek. nr.._i nr_ t_ rv_ . • i _ . . air. ana Mrs. James uaviason are rejoicing over the arrival of a daughter at the Davidson residence whose anniversary will be celebrated internationally for many years. The young lady is the eleventh child and arrived on Novemebr if, the eleventh day of the eleventh month, of the year, incidentally the date on which the armistice was signed and the great war practically ceased. Last week T. T. Waid sold his farm, two and a half miles east of town, known as the old Wilson Hoxsie place, for $9,000, and will leave in a few weeks for California where he will spend the winter basking in the smiles of—California’s fine winter weather. Last spring Mr. Waid pur chased this place, paying $8,000 for it, so that he made a clean $1,000 on the land besides raising a good crop that will net him over $1,000. T. T. says he expects to return in the spring and purchase another farm, as there is more money to be made in Holt county real estate than in anything else he knows of. The Parrot in attempting to make light of the seriousness of the pre vailing epidemic of influenza in Holt county is in mighty poor business. Particularly as in its issue containing the anti-flu tirade it also publishes ex tensively the resolutions of the county board of health quarantining the county for influenza, and several other paragraphs announcing deaths from the plague. If some misguided reader of the Parrot were to believe the Parrot’s statement as against the warning of the county health board and the physicians of the county and because of such belief needlessly ex pose himself, contract the “flu” and die, the Parrot would be as morally guilty of murder as though it had used an ax. Surgeon Hays of the United States Public Health Service, sent here by the government, after an in vestigation publicly expressed him self, through the press and otherwise, as to the seriousness of the situation. Such an attack by innuendo upon a governmental official is unwarranted and in decidedly bad taste. Atkinson and Inman have gone' over the top in the United War Work cam pain. Each has exceeded the amount apportioned it in the drive by more than $150. Reports are not so favor able from other parts of the county, subscriptions coming in slow. This is attributed in a large extent to the in fluenza epidemic, but some are slow in giving because an armistice has been declared and they have the impression that the fund now will not be needed This is a mistaken idea which r.ra_t at once be corrected. Thee era more than two million American soldiers in Europe at present and it will be at least a year before many of them are home. Some will have to remain per haps for several years to assist in policing the defeated countries, organ izing new' governments and to do re construction work. The committee urges that it is most un-American to abandon them at this time. Now that peace has come the men will need in their new duties just as much care and attention as formerly and more welfare work must be done to main tain the morale. Guy Cole Wounded Accidentally. Guy Cole, of Emmet, was seri ously, but not fatally, wounded by the accidental discharge of a revolver which he was examining, at the resi dence of M. F. Kerwin Sunday night. The bullet from the revolver wounded two of Mr. Cole’s fingers, on the right hand, struck his jaw at the point of the chin and ranging up the right jaw bone badly fracturing that memebr, lodged in the neck at the base of the jaw. Dr. Finley was called to dress the wound and Mr. Cole, accompanied by Mr. Kerwin, went to Omaha Mon day morning, where he was operated upon at St. Joseph hospital and the bullet removed. At last reports he was resting easy and will recover. Mr. Cole, who had driven a small bunch of cattle to O’Neill Sunday afternoon, preliminary to shipping, was assisted by Mr. Kerwin in caring for the cattle Sunday evening and afterward they went to Mr. Kerwin’s residence, where while Mr. Kerwin was reading a let ter from his son, in the service, Mr. Cole examined a revolver, the ejector of which refused to work. In break ing the gun, it was discharged, Mr. Cole being wounded as described. Mrs. Conrad, of Emmet, sister of Mr. Cole, was called to Omaha Monday to attend him, but on arrival there was taken with the influenza and now is a patient in the same hospital. CHAMBERS SOLDIER AWARDED WAR CROSS Bugler Porter Alone Charged A Ma chine Gun and Is Cited For Bravery Washington, Nov. 19.—The distin guished service cross has been award ed to Bugler Chauncey W. Porter, Company B, 355th Infantry, for ex traordinary heroism jn action north of Fliery, France, Sept. 12, 1918. Bugler Porter charged a machine gun alone, with an automatic pistol, killed one man, captured another and drove the remainder of the enemy platoon back along their trench, thereby enabling his platoon to advance. Home address: Edwin F. Porter, father, Chambers, Neb. Mr. Porter is a son of Edwin T. Porter, county clerk elect, and is a native of this county. Very few Ne braska boys have won this cross and Chauncey Porter has placed his name and that of Holt county high on the honor holl of the heroes of the great world war. To him and to his parents The Frontier tenders hearty congratu lations. Influenza Being Checked. Under the rigid quarantine being maintained by the county board of health under the direction of Dr. E. R, Hays, of the U. S. public health service, the spread of influenza in Holt county is being checked. But 205 new cases have been reported, up to Thurs day since the quarantine was ordered, and most of these cases were in families in which the influenza al ready was present. There were 434 cases of influenza of which the board of health had record on November 14. On Wednes day, November 20, the total number was 639, a majority in the county. Only ten new cases have been re ported in O’Neill within the last five days. The largest report of new cases for a single day since the quar antine went into effect was 45 from the entire county. On Wednesday 30 new cases were reported. Of these, twenty were from the Chambers dis trict, from which several cases of small pox also were reported late last week. Four deaths, directly at tributed to the influenza, have occured in the county the present week, includ ing Thursday. “Most of the new cases reported within the last three days are in families already under quarantine says Dr. Hays. This is a positive indication that the disease is being placed under ef fective control and the Doctor urges that the people do not relax in the observance of quarantine rules, and continue to avoid exposing themselvs needlessly to the influenza. The quar antine of the sick is to continue. With a voluntary observance of the rules and avoidance of needless ex posure general business soon may be resumed and public gatherings again permitted. Christmas Parcels. The date for forwarding Christmas parcels to men in the Expeditionary Forces has been extended to November 30th. The War Departmnt has authorized the American Red Cross to print sufficient Christmas labels, exactly similar to those received from abroad, to be furnished by Chapters to indi viduals who have not received a label iiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiffiiiiit_ j $2.00 Per Year January 1 | The editor has long deferred a raise in the subscription price of The Frontier, but the time has come when the raise must be made in order to make both ends meet. For the past year the price of everything that enters into the production of a | t newspaper has advanced, the postage rate more than doubling last July. In order to meet this increased cost it becomes necessary to increase the subscription price to $2.00 per year and it will become effective January 1, 1919. Most of the weekly newspapers of the state have advanced their sub scription price within the past year, to meet the increased cost of production. We had hoped t^at it would be un necessary to increase the subscription price, but we find that it is impossible to produce a paper at the old rate of $1.60 per year and make both ends meet, hence the raise. .We will accept renewals and back subscriptions at the old rate of $1.60 per year until January 1, when the price goes to $2.00. Subscribers who desire may pay five years in ad vance at the .present rates, but will not accept subscription for a longer period at that price. Our readers are asked to take due notice of this matter and get in with their sub scription before January 1 and save fifty cents a year. It will be to your advantage apd we will be satisfied. * Respectfully yours, DENNIS H. CRONIN. jj 3tt!l!lil!iil!li!lllllllll!IHIIlll!IUi!l!l!ll!lillll!itllilll!!ljii!llilllll!llll!lll!llll!ll