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VOLUME XXXIX. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1919. ■"
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1 15,000 yards of Outing Flannel, Percale and Muslin, 36 inches wide, regular prices 40c and j
35c per yard, all go at 24 cents per yard. 65 pairs blankets, regular price $4.00, all go at
$2.69 per pair. All aprons on hand, regular prices $3.00, $2.50, $2.25, $2.00, all go at $1.49. j
I Men’s overcoats, suits and dress pants on this extra sale.
LOCAL MATTERS.
Another slight outbreak of flu is
reported from Ewing.
Chris. Sorenson, of Willowdale, was
an O’Neill visitor Wednesday.
Attorney Jouvenat, of Atkinson,
was an O’Neill vKtor Saturday.
P. D. Mullen was a Northwestern
passenger for Omaha Tuesday morn
ing.
Oliver Conner, of Ewing, made this
office a pleasan call while in the city
Wednesday.
The regular February term of the
district court, for Holt county, will
convene Monday.
Mrs. Viola Brown made a business
trip to Norfolk Monday, returning
Tuesday evening.
The village of Page will have a
pool hall, the village board having
voted to license one.
/ Ernest Majors, ot Chambers, was
r an O’Neill visitor and a pleasant caller
at this office Monday.
C.. H. Root, of Atkinson, in the
service in France, has received his dis
charge and returned home.
Frank Goebel and family, Residents
of Stuart, for the past several years,
have removed to Raeville, Neb.
* George W. Mellor shipped a car of
cattle to Omaha Tuesday morning.
Leon Mellor accompanied the ship
ment.
Lowell Miller, of Page, who has
been in the overseas service, has re
ceived his discharge and returned
home.
Mr. and Mrs. John Mlinar have re
turned from Norfolk where Mr. Mli
nar recently was operated upon for
appendicitis.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Tenant and
family, of Atkinson, have removed to
Lincoln, where they will make their
future home.
P. J. McManus, who was confined to
his residence the first of the week
with a slight illness, is able to be
be about again.
The Boyd county good roads con
vention to have been held in Spencer
Tuesday has been postponed to Tues
day, February 4. .
Misses Octavia Beck and Hazel
Walker returned Sunday night from
Lincoln having spent the week end
visiting friends.
Arthur Miller, of Atkinson, recently
discharged from the service at San
Antonio, Texas, spent Sunday here
visiting with friends.
Mrs. Wilbur Bennett, of Ewing, who
was operated upon for appendicitis in
an Omaha hospital recently, is re
covering and soon will be able to re
^ turn home.
Miss Wllie Stearns, of Norfolk, who
has been nursing influenza cases in
the vicinity for several weeks, re
turned to Norfolk Tuesday afternoon.
George A. Coventry of the Inman
firm of Watson & Coventry, general
merchants, has disposed of his in
terests to his partner.
Miss Louise Coventry, of Inman,
who has been studying as a nurse at
a Norfolk hospital, was operated upon
for appendicitis last week.
L. E. Puckett has purchased the A.
F. Brehmer place, northwest of
O’Neill, at $55 per acre. Mr. Brehmer
has removed to Bloomfield, Neb.
George Dahlstrom, of Alda, Neb.,
has purchased the Howard LaRue
section of land, southeast of O’Neill,
at $41 per acre, and will remove
thereon.
M. J. Enright left Monday morning
for Omaha accompanied by his wife’s
uncle, Mr. Hannigan, who will remain
there for a while taking treatment
for his eyes.
Sergeant Wefso, Phillip Johnson
and William Meyers, of Stuart, all of
whom have been in service in France,
have received their discharges and re
turned home.
Lieut A. C. Smith, of Goose Lake,
was an O’Neill visitor Wednesday.
Mr. Smith will hold a public sale Feb
ruary 25, preparatory to removing to
South Dakota.
The revival meetings at the Metho
dist church, Inman, have been dis
continued indefinitely owing to the ill
ness of both the regular pastor and
the evangilist.
Miss Murillo Arkfeld, formerly of
Inman, and Mr. Richard C. Miller,
were united in marriage at Battle
Creek last week, the Rev. Father
Walsh officiating.
R. A. Baker, for a long time deputy
in the county treasurer’s office in this
city, came down from Johnstown,
Nebraska, the first of the week for a
short visit with friends.
Frank Campbell returned Saturday
from Lincoln, where he was in attend
ance at the meeting of the state fair
board as the representative of the Holt
County Fair association.
The county board of supervisors,
/which haa beep. ir\ session Several
weeks checking up county officials,
took a recess Saturday afternoon and
will convene again Monday.
Mrs; George Longstaff has received
word that her mother, Mrs. John
Bailey, of Kansas City, who has been
seriously ill, is recovering and soon
will be able to be about again.
State Senator Brooks has introduc
ed a bill to require all vehicles to be
equipped with a white light in front
and a red one in the rear when on the
public highways after sundown.
H. J. Porter, of Chambers, district
grand master, I. O. O. F., was in
O’Neill Tuesday afternoon enroute to
Atkinson, where he installed offices of
the local lodge Tuesday evening.
Ewing may have a $25,000, modern
hotel building. Several of the leading
citizens of the town have launched the
project and about one-fifth of the
money already has been subscribed.
Mrs. Gearge Miner, one of the early
residents of Stuart, died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Fred Mulford,
of Stuart, last week, after an extend
ed illness. Burial was in Stuart cem
etery.
Recognizing that it is practically
impossible to get road workers at
three dollars per day any more, the
legislature is considering a measure
to raise the per diem of road over
seers to $5.
The opening of the high techool
basket ball season will be Friday
night, when at the high school gym
nasium both the boys’ and girls’ first
teams will meet the like teams of the
Bassett high school.
A bill has been introduced in the
legislature requiring that teachers
salaries be paid during periods that
schools are closed because of epidem
ics. The present law does not make
the payment of these salaries man
datory.
The legislature, because of the re
cent influenza epidemic, is revising and
maldng more drastic the health laws.
A new bill provides that the county
superintendent, sheriff and physician
shall compose the county board of
health.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Reifer, who will
bold a sale of their effects Saturday,
will remove to Omaha in the near
future. Mr. Reifer has purchased a
hotel and rooming house at the corner
of Twenty-sixth and Farnam streets,
that city.
A legislative measure pending in
the state senate provides that incor
porated towns and villages in counties
under township organization may re
tain one-half of all money collected
therein for road purposes, to be used
as a street fund.
O’Neill will have another picture
show, starting about the middle of
February. Frank Campbell, who has
charge of the K. C. hall, will be in
charge of the new venture and an
nounces that only a high grade of
pictures will be shown.
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Roth, who re
cently disposed of their farm and
household effects, left Tuesday enroute
to their new home at Wellesley, On
tario, They however will not go di
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rect but will spend some time visiting
friends on the way.
Edward Reardon, of Alliance, who
has just returned from over seas, ar
rived in the city Saturday evening for
a 3hort visit with his brother, H. J.
Reardon. He left Tuesday morning
to visit Omaha relatives.
A legislative measure that will
bring joy to the hearts of owners and
operators of automobiles and tractors
is one recently introduced to require
dealers in these necessities of life to
carry in stock repairs for the par
ticular machines they handle.
W. H. Long of the sales depart
ment of the Chevrolet Motor company
of Minnesota was an O’Neill visitor
Monday, looking for a representative
to handle the Chevrolet in this terri
tory. Any one interested should ap
ply to the company at Minneapolis.
An amendment to the road laws is
pending in the legislature to permit
county boards in counties of 10,000
and more inhabitants to lay out, con
struct and improve any roads within
the county. They at present have not
this authority except on designated
roads.
Vincent Krziza, of Stuart, will re
turn to Europe to witness the re-as
sembling of the partioned kingdom of
Poland. Mr. Krziza has disposed of
his effect and left last week for
Chicago to meet his son, .Joseph
From Chicago he will go to New York
to procure passports.
The Rev. George Longstaff and
Mrs. Longstaff will be “at home” to
all their friends on Monday, February
3rd from 3 o’clock to (5 o’clock, p\ m.,
and again immediately after the con
cert at the Royal Theatre in the even
ing. The occasion being their tweny
fifth wedding annivarsary.
Another effort is being made in the
legislature to hand county office in
cumbents a couple of extra years on
the salary roll. A bill pending ex
tends the terms of clerks of the dis
trict court, county commissioners and
supervisors and county assessors to
1922, and for four year terms after
that.
County Agent Lancaster now has a
downtown office and in the future will
be found in the front office room of
the building occupied by County At
torney Chapman. The county agent
and the county board decided upon the
removal of the agent’s office from the
courthouse that it might be more ac
cessible to the farmers.
William B. Barnard arrived here
Friday night from San Antonio, Tex
as, where he has been in the service
for some time, but has be^n dis
charged. “Mink” is, as yet, undecided
where he will locate, but will remain
here for a couple of weeks visiting
with his folks and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles McKenna now
are cosily installed in their new bun
galow, recently completed, at the cor
ner of Second and Douglas streets.
A bill has been introduced in the
house of representatives at Lincoln to
permit the investment of the state
school funds in liberty bonds at par.
The bill would permit those who have
traded blue sky for liberty bonds, and
others tq^whom the ownership of such
bonds is distasteful, to get rid of
them.
A bill now before the state senate
requires that persons selling automo
biles, either new or secondhand, must
deliver to the purchaser a bill of sale
attested by the county treasurer. This
will be a check both on the sale of
stolen cars and the operation of cars
under other than the owner’s license
number.
Judge John uroocn, sr., ot kock
Falls township is visiting O’Neill
friends and relatives for a few days.
Judge Grooch and Otto Clevish were
tied at the recent election lor justice
of the peace of the township and on
Mr. Clevish’s relinquishing his 50 per
cent claim to the honors Mr. Grooch
assumed the duties of the position.
County Judge C. J. Malone quali
fied in the hiking test for boy scouts
Sunday. To become a first-class scout
the candidate is required to make a ten
mile hike, observing the scenery., etc.,
along the road. The judge, who has
always been a good scout, hiked to
Emmet Sunday and rode back on the
afternoon train. He now is entitled
to be called a first-class scout.
Wednesday was carnation day, so
named to commemorate the seventy
fifth anniversary of the birth of Wil
liam McKinley, twenty-fifth president
of the United States, by the Carna
tion League of America. The carna
tion was the martyred president’s fa
vorite flower. McKinley’s birthday
was fittingly observed in many of the
cities and towns of the country and in
the public schools generally.
A post card received at this office
from Captain T. V. Golden of the
American expeditionary forces, son of
John Golden formerly of O’Neill,
states that the detachment of the army
of occupation to which he is assigned
has left Mondorf-Les-Bains, Luxum
burg, and now is in Germany. “We
are having one of those December
snows that makes us all homesick. It
is close to Christmas and I guess we
are entitled to be homesick,” he says
in closing.
County Agent Lancaster and Mrs.
Lancaster returned Friday evening
from Lincoln where they had been in
attendance at the conference of county
agents the past week. About sixty
agents were in attendance at the
meeting. Thursday a meeting of the
state farm bureau, with delegates
from each county, was held, Repre
sentative Bethea and D. D. Miles, of
Dorsey, representing Holt county.
The annual banquet for the county
agents and delegates to the farm bu
reau convention was held at the Lin
coln hotel Thursday evening, Senator
D. H. Cronin being one of the guests
of honor.
The local fuel administration has
received notice that zone restrictions
on anthracite coal, except stove and
chestnut sizes, have been removed and
that hard coal may be shipped into the
state from Pennsylvania. Zone re
strictions, prices and margins on bit
uminous coal and coke will be sus
pended February 1, subject to re- in
statement if necessary. This in
cludes mine prices, wholesale and re
tail margins and prices, and pur
chasing agents commissions. After
that date dealers may purchase biti
minous coal and coke from any mine
or in any market to which they have
access. Smokeless coal cannot be
bought or shipped from docks without
a permit.
County Superintendent Miss Anna
Donohoe returned Saturday from Lin
coln, where she was in attendance at
the annual meeting of county super
intendents of public instruction. The
meeting was addressed by Governor
McKelvie and several of the members
of the legislature and educational
legislation disussed. In his address
Governor McKelvie favored the enact
ment of legislation prohibiting the
teaching of any foreign language in
private or graded schools below the
high school and also advocated that
teachers in all schools be required to
be possessed of the qualifications re
quired of teachers in the public
schools. He is opposed to the un
qualified abolishment of private and
parochial schools.
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K. C. OPERA HOUSE
Friday Evening, January 31st
MORRIS DECOSTA
Cinderella Girls
High Class Musical Comedy Show.
12 People 12
Singing, Dancing, Music, Featuring
MORRIS DeCOSTA and JACK MARLOWE
Those two Funny Comedians
CLAIR LaMARR , CORAL LaRUE
Prima Donna Dainty Soubrette
MILLER & MADELIN TREO, 3 GIRLS
Xylophone Artists High Class Singing
Thomas DeHamilton
Human Mocking Bird, and Chorus of Pretty Girls
_Beauty Costumes
1 Reserved Seats, 75c; General, 50c; Children, 25c.
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