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jf VOLUME XXXIX. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1918. tfiL-Sfa ?t.*S' HlStSfUal ScClgty^Q. 29.
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LOCAL MATTERS.
Mrs. William Pelcr, of Atkinson,
visited O’Neill friends last week.
Fred Swingley, of Atkinson, was
I* was transacting business in this city
today.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Anderson, of
Star, spent Christmas with O’Neill
relatives.
The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
; B. R. Gunter, of Ewing, died last week
fe, of influenza.
The secretary of state reports 769
Ifc^^utomobites registered this year from
jpFtiolt county.
I Leo Mullen went to Norfolk Wed
nesday morning to spend Christmas
with relatives.
Thojnas Roche, of Iowa township,
spent Sunday visiting O’Neill friends,
returning home Monday.
Miss Helen Wilcox returned Mon
gfc day moshing from a Sunday visit with
relatives at Valentine.
I Representative-elect B. E. Sturde
vant, of Atkinson, was an O’Neill
visitor Thursday afternoon.
Miss Grace O’Malley came up from
Omaha Tuesday night and spent
Christmas visiting with friends.
George Agnes left last Monday for
Plankington, S. D., to spend Christ
mas with relatives and friends.
Brownie Ward came up from Omaha
^ Tuesday night and spent Christmas
visiting with relatives and friends.
John Irwin, of Bonesteel, S. D., was
in the city Wednesday, spending the
day visiting with relatives and friends.
iMrs. Ray Haynes, of Paddock, who
recently was operated on at the
Spencer hospital, has returned home.
Frank O’Connor came up from
Sioux City Tuesday night and re
mained over Christmas visiting with
friends.
M. E. Vernon of the O’Neill Hay
company, returned the first of the
jk week from a short business trip to
R Omaha.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hunter, of
Star, spent Christmas with Mr.
B Hunter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Hunter.
The Stuart Home Guards and re
^ turned soldiers held a turkey shoot at
the west Holt metropolis Christmas
afternoon.
pR’’ John Gilligan, who is attending
school at Lincoln, arrived here Sun
^ day afternoon to spend Christmas
” with his folks.
Miss Genevieve Biglin, who had
been visiting with her brother, John,
Kat Hastings for a week, returned home
Monday night.
Miss Helen Hart, who spent Christ
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mas here visiting with relatives, re
turned to her home at Sioux City
Thursday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. George Green, of
Sheridan township are mourning the
loss of their four-month old babe
which died last week.
William Schroeder, who has been
stationed at Fort Logan, has been
discharged from the service and ar
rived home last week.
Of the 2,011 farms of Holt county
reported by the state statistical de
partment, 1295 are occupied by the
owners and 716 by tenants.
Peter Grof, near Atkinson, who has
b^en undergoing treatment at St.
Joseph hospital, Omaha, for several
weeks, has returned home.
Hugh Anderson, 20, of Dorsey, and
Miss Bertha Arbogast, 18, of Ewing,
were granted license to wed by County
Judge Malone last Saturday.
Miss Margaret Donohoe, who is
taching in the Omaha schools, came
up last Saturday to spend Christmas
visiting her folks and friends.
Archie Bowen, who has been in the
Navy for the past year, arrived here
the latter part of last week having
been discharged from the -service.
Miss Madeline Doyle, who is a mem
ber of the Valentine high school
faculty, spent Christmas with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Doyle.
Evart Whitcomb will feed a bunch
of cattle on his ranch near Inez this
winter. Several carloads already have
arrived from the Sioux City market.
Miss Helen Harrington, whtf has
been attending University at at Lin
coln, came up Sunday and will spend
the,holidays visiting -with her folks.
John McManus, who has been in
the service at Vancouver, Washing
ton, has been disharged from the army
and returned home Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Jessie Andrews and son, Lee,
returned to Valentine Wednesday
evening after a Christmas visit with
Mrs. Andrews’ sister, Mrs. A. L. Wil
cox.
Mr. and Mrs. C. 0. Murnan and
children came up from Omaha last
Monday evening to spend the Christ
mas holidays with relatives in this
city.
John Harrington, who is in the Navy
and attending school at Harvard, ar
rived home Monday to spend the holi
days visiting with his mother and
friends.
Lieut. William Kelley arrived here
Monday night from Camp Taylor,
Kentucky, on short leave to spend the
holidays visiting with his folks and
friends.
Lieut. Chas. Cronin, who had been
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Leaving O’Neill. |
Having decided to leave O’Neill I will sell at
private sale my piano and all other household goods.
; None of this furniture has been in use a year and is
all good as new.
Also have quite a few goods at the old store on
south side of street opposite the building that
burned.
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| All goods not sold will be sold at public auction
Saturday, January 4th.
Also have a five room house with electric lights
and water, to sell on easy terms.
Ha.rry G. Jorda^rv
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rington was re-elected president,
Frank Campbell, secretary, and Henry
Watterson Tomlinson vice president.
The officers were empowered to select
the board of directors and other of
ficials of the association.
The ladies are not the only ones
knitting for the Red Cross. Herman
Ziems, of Deloit township, has just
turned in a sweater the work of his
own hands and is engaged on another.
Herman knit his sweater while Mrs.
Ziems was finishing seven, but just
wait until Herman gets in practice.
Among the other Deloit citizens who
are learning to knit are Frank Kline,
Lloyd Nelson, Scptt Bowers, Bert
Beeson and a number of the younger
lads.
In sending a renewal of his sub
scription to The Frontier, Charles J.
Schram who was engaged in the
general mercantile business in this
city some thirty-five years ago, de
sired to be rememberd to the old
timers in this city and vicinity. Mr.
Schram owned a grocery store in
Chicago for several years but is now
in the employ of Morris & Company,
one of America’s largest packing firms
and says he is enjoying good health
and prosperity. Better come back and
pay the old town a visit Charles. You
will find it and the country quite dif
ferent to what it was when you left
here a score and ten years ago.
Fred Lindberg, of O’Neill, and
Miss Blanche Gannon, of Inman, were
united in marriage by County Judge
Malone last Saturday. The groom is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Lind
berg, old time and prominent resi
dents of Shields township, and is one
of that township’s prosperous young
farmers. The bride is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Gannon,
pioneer and prominent residents of
Inman township, and has been one of
Holt county’s most successful teach
ers. The Frontier joins the many
friends of the young couple in wish
ing them a long, happy, and prosper
our journey on the matrimonial seas.
War On The Crow.
Editor Frontier, O’Neill, Nebr.
Your issue of December 12, 1918,
contained an article in the news
columns that attracted my attention.
Answering Mr. Weatherwax I will
say that the sportsmen in town are
ready to join the farmers and ranch
men in a war on the crow, (the hun
of the air), the same as the hun of
the water (the carp). Each locality
should look after its interests in this
matter and therefore I suggest that
all parties intersted in the organiza
tion of an anti-crow association
should write to M. F. Kerwin, O’Neill,
Nebraska, looking to the said organ
ization, and give their expression as
to when a convention should be held
for the purpose of perfecting this or
ganization, then a date can be set to .'
to organize. A petition should .also
be sent to the Legislature urging that
body to place a bounty on the crows.
“COLONEL.’*
First Boy Home From France.
Clarence Faulhaber, first O’Neill
boy who actually participated in the.
great battles of the world war,' is
home from France. Clarence, who •
enlisted in the marine corps and later
was transferred as a bomber in the
aviation service, reached O’Neill from
Norfolk, Virginia, Christmas after
noon for a several weeks visit with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Faul
haber. He is on thirty day furlough
and will return to Norfolk to be
mustered out Clarence saw much
active service along the fighting »
front as an aeroplane observer and as
a bomber participated in the bomb
ing of several of the ports unde# con
trol of the Germans. Despite the ex- '
treme hazard of his aviation service ’
he came through unscathed. His
brother, Earl, still is in active service
over there and has recovered from be- *
ing gassed. The brothers did not
meet or hear directly from each other
in the service, although at times, they
later learned, that they had been close
together.
Mysterious Stranger Works Local
Merchants.
Local merchants are bewailing the
donation of more than a hundred dol
lars worth of Christmas cheer to a
stranger with a . checkbook, who
dropped in Saturday after banking
hours while the picking was good.
In practically every instance the
young man, dressed as a farmer, pur
chased merchandise and paid for the
same with checks on the Emmet bank
for the exact amount of the purchase,
avoiding the old proceedure,-more apt
to arouse suspicion, of making the
checks for a larger amount and re
ceiving the excess change. At one
place he purchased a plain overcoat arid
at others articles of clothing. At one
jewelry establishment he stated that
he desried to purchase an eight or ten
dollar ring. Then the jeweler got
busy with his best line of salesman
ship talk and insisted bn selling a
thirty-five dollar ring. He was suc
cessful, or unsuccessful; whichever
way you look at it Atkinson mer
chants report similar operation^
there.
Properly Designated.'
Mrs. Clancy—My husband do be
sufferin’ wid prostration.
Mrs. Casey—Nervous prostration?
Mrs. Clancy—Ye may call it so.
He made me that nervous when he
came home drunk lasht night thot Oi
prostrated him wid a flatiron.
The Frontier now only $1.60.
visiting with friends here for the past
two weeks left Sunday morning for
Camp Hancock, Ga., where he is
stationed.
P. C. Donohoe, stationed at Pierce
as county demonstration agent for
Pierce county, arrived home the last
of the week to spend the Christmas
holidays.
Charles Mlinar, of Green Valley
township, sustained slight injuries last
week by being thrown from his wagon
when the team of mules he was driv
ing ran away.
Ben Rodenwold, who has been at
tending school at the Universit of Ne
braska, arrived home the first of the
week to spend the holidays visiting
with relatives.
Cyril Brown arrived here Sunday
afternoon from the Great Lakes
Naval .Training Station on a ten day
furlough, to spend the holidays visit
ing with his folks.
Arnold Longstaff, who has been in
the Marines and doing guard duty at
Annnapolis, Md., arrived here Tues
day afternoon having received his
discharge from the service.
Charles Hoyer, residing north of
O’Neill, who was operated on at
the Spencer hospital recently, is
rapidly recovering from his ailment
and soon will be about again.
Otto Stratton, formerly proprietor
of the Commercial hotel at Atkinson,
now is engaged in the hotel business
at Lusk, Wyoming, which place at
present is undergoing an oil boom.
George M. Henry, who has been
working for a potash company at
Merriman, Nebraska, came down to
O’Neill Wednesday morning and will
visit with relatives and friends for a
week.
The county board of supervisors
will meet Thursday of next week to
wind up its business preparatory to
turning the affairs over to the incom
ing board, which assumes office Thurs
day, January 9,
Coyote hunting with dogs is one of
the winter sports around Middle
branch this year. The pack belong
ing to Roy Warning captured one in
less than thirty minutes after the
hunt started last week.
Commencing December 30th, Bur
lington passenger train No. 164 for
Sioux City, will leave O’Neill at 6:40
a. m. instead of 7 a. m., in order to
connect with Bonesteel line, North
western at Plainview.
The federal agricultural depart
ment says Holt county raised 75,491
bushels of winter wheat, 144,684
bushels of spring wheat, or a total of
220,175 bushels of all kinds of wheat,
valued at $444,350, the past season.
According to the annual report of
the state board of agriculture for
1918 Holt county raised 171,440
bushels of potatoes, worth $137,152.
the same being raised on 2,143 acres
of land and averaging eighty bushel
to the acre.
Fred C. Turner, formerly of Phoe
nix, died December 11 at Boulder,
Colo., to which place he removed nine
years ago. The body was brought
back to the former Holt county home
and burial was in the Phoenix ceme
tery last Thursday.
O’Neill city schools will forego the
usual holiday vacation this year
Christmas being the only day of the
season observed. School also is be
ing held on Saturdays to make up the
time lost while the schools were closed
because of influenza.
Grandma Kline holds the knitting
record in the Deloit Red Cross. Mrs.
Kline can and does knit a sweater in
sixteen hours. She already has knit
ted eight sweaters, a number of pairs
of socks and in addition has done
much Red Cross sewing.
The many friends of Lawrence Ma
lone of this city, wil be glad to learn
that he is on the speedy road to re
covery and will soon be able to be up.
Lawrence has been suffering with the
Spanish Influenza for some time at a
hospital in Brooklyn, N. Y.
The winter meeting of the Ne
braska State Teachers’ association, to
have been held in Omaha, and which
has been postponed several times be
cause of influenza, will not be held at
all this year. Instead the association
will meet November 5 to 7 in 1919.
It is estimated by the figure sharks
that Holt county this year will realize
on its 252,832 tons of wild hay the
net sum of $4,803,800. The county
produced more hay than any other
county in the state, including Cherry
county which is considerably larger.
Mrs. Max James and Lieut, W. B.
Stannard arrived here last Friday
night from Washington. Mrs. James
comes for an extended visit with her
parents; Lieut. Stannard has received
his discharge from the service, and
returned here from Vancouver, Wash.
Word received from Mr. and Mrs. J.
J. Thomas, who were called to Sturgis,
S. D., about ten days ago on receipt
of word of the illness of Mr. Thomas’
daughter, is that the danger point has
been passed and that Miss Thomas,
who was suffering from influenza, is
recovering.
Word received by O’Neill friends
Tuesday from Private Harry Patter
son, soldier clerk detailed here this
fall to assist in registration for the
last draft, is that he has been dis
charged from the service and has re
turned to duty at the Grand Island
postoffice.
The old officers of the Holt County
Red Cross probably will be chosen to
again head the organization the
coming year. The board of di
rectors elected last week, and
who elect the officers, are sc
pleased with the efficient service of
the old officers that a re-election as a
mark of appreciation is practically
decided upon.
Dates for the Holt county fair next
year will be September 10-11-12, and
harness races will be a feature of the
program. This was decided Upon at
the recent meeting of the fair as
sociation, at which Judge J. J. Har
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