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The Frontier.
VOLUME XXXIX. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1919. NO. 38.
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LOCAL MATTERS.
B. A. Powell, of Mineola, was in the
city Tuesday and Wednesday of this
week.
Frank Hammerberg, of Sand Creek
township, is visiting Omaha friends
and relatives.
Mrs. A. J. Fouts is confined to her
residence with a severe attack of bron
chial pneumonia.
Mr. and Mrs. George Miles will leave
Friday for a short visit at Omaha and
with Iowa friends.
Amos Thurlow, of Stuart, has ar
rived home from over seas service
with the American forces.
John L. Quig returned Sunday evenf
ing from an extensive business trip to
Minneapolis and other points.
Judge Douglas Cone, of Pierce, was
an O’Neill visitor Friday, attending to
legal matters in probate court.
County Supervisor Fred Watson, of
* Amelia, attended the state meeting of
farmers unions at Omaha last week.
County Clerk E. R. Porter spent
Washington’s birthday and Sunday
visiting the home folks at Chambers.
The Nebraska house of representa
tives has passed a bill increasing the
salaries of county clerks and their
deputies.
The birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs.
Forrest Shearer, of Stuart, February
18, is announced in the Stuart Advo
cate of last week.
M. F. Sanders, of Norfolk, district
superintendent of the Nebraska Tele
phone company, was an O’Neill visitor
the first of the week.
A. B. Hubbard, son of County Su
pervisor Hubbard, of Chambers, has
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received his discharge from the ser
vice and returned home.
Mrs. Carl Polenske and family, of
Chambers, have removed to Box El
der, S. D., at which place they will
make their future home.
William O’Sullivan, formerly of
O’Neill, who returned from over seas
last December, is visiting his brother,
John O’Sullivan, for a few days.
Elza Baker and family, of Scotts
bluff, who recently purchased the
Walch farm southwest of O’Neill,
have arrived and taken possession.
The county board of supervisors re
sumed its session in making settle
ment with county oflicialus this week
and adjourned Wednesday to March
11th.
Noah Peterson, of Stuart, stopped
off in O’Neill the first of the week on
his return from the meeting of the
Hereford Breeders association at
Omaha.
Chris Ramm, prominent farmer of
the Stuart neighborhood, died Tues
day of last week at his farm home
just south of Stuart. The funeral was
held Friday.
The state senate has expressed its
regard for the veterans of _lhe civil
war by passing an act permitting them
to hunt and fish without first obtain
ing a license.
Both houses of the legislature have
passed the bill giving the governor
$25,000 additional, to enforce the pro
hibitory act, and the bill has been sent
to the governor.
John Harrington, who has been at
tending the naval radio school at
Cambridge, Mass., returned Monday
night, having received his discharge
from the service.
Frank O’Connell left Tuesday room
ing for Topeka, Kansas, where on
Monday he will be united in marriage
to Miss Anna L. Hayes, one of To
peka’s fairest daughters.
Await Spangler, one of the promi
nent ranchmen north of town, will hold
a pnblic sale March 4. Mr. Spangler
will remove to Norfolk, near which
place he has purchased a tine ranch.
Boyd county land almost has
reached the standing of Holt county
land in the real estate markets of
the world. A quarter section sold
over there the other day for $126 an
acre.
James Shorthill, leading merchant
and registered hog raiser of Emmet,
was an O’Neill visitor Monday. Mr.
Shorthill shortly will hold his annual
sale of registered Duroc Jerseys, of
which he has the finest herd in the
county.
The lower house of the legislature
lias decided, by a vote of 62 to 32 to
permit adults to smoke cigarettes,'
same as they already are doing. The
bill licenses the sale of the paper
smokes and prohibits their sale to
minors.
Senator Cronin’s bill providing that
registered nurses must be citizens of
the United States, 22 years of age,
have the equivalent of two years high
school training, and be graduates of
a school of nurses, has passed the
senate by a vote of 27 to 1.
Cyril Brown returned from the
Great Lakes naval training station
Monday night, having received his
discharge from the service just a few
minutes before receipt of the order
from Washington to discharge no
more men until further notice.
Chas. Peterson, one of the big ranch
operators residing south of Atkinson,
lost but three head of cattle from his
herd of more than 1200 in the recent
blizzard. Mr. Peterson, who was an
O’Neill visitor the first of the week,
says that cattle suffered but little in
the storm.
W. C. Templeton, of the Page Re
porter, and J. B. Anderson, of Page,
were O’Neil! visitors last Saturday,
driving from Page to Inman with a
team and coming to O’Neill from In
man by train. Sunday morning Mr.
Templeton left on a short business
trip to Columbus.
The house of representatives of the
state legislature has passed two of
the big appropriation bills. One, the
university bill, provides a grand total
of $3,000,000 for the state university.
The other, the state institution bill,
carries a total of $2,927,000 for main-»
tenance, etc., of state institutions. 11
- Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mullen, who
had been the guests of Senator Hitch
cock, of Nebraska, at his palatial
winter home in Florida, have arrived
in Washington, where Mr. Mullen will
attend the meeting of the democratic
national committee called to elect a
chairman to succeed Vance McCor
mick.
A farewell party and reception was
tendered Mr. and Mrs. Robert Britteli
by the Rebecca lodge Friday evening
at the I. O. O. F. hall. The program
consisted of speaking, readings aim
music, followed by a delightful lunch
eon. Mr. and Mrs. Britteil will leave
about March 1 for Chambers, near
which pace Mr. Britteil will engage
»n larming.
The card party and dance given at
the K.C.hall Wednesday evening under
the auspices of the Ladies Altar so
ciety of St. Patrick’s church, was one
of the pleasant and successful social
events of the month, the earlier part
of the evening being spent at cards,
followed by lunch, after which dancing
was the -order. The music was by the
twentieth Century orchestra.
The state house of representatives
has passed House Roll 64, the bill
placing private and parochial schools
under the same jurisdiction as public
■schools, by a vote of 75 to 11. The
uiii now goes to the senate. House
Roll U-5, prohibiting teachers in the
public schools fiom wearing the garb
jr dress of any religious sect or or
ganization, also has been passed by
idle senate, having previously passed
-he house.
The legislature is considering a bill
to prohibit bootleggers from carrying
-iie-arms. Some of the courts of this
and other states are issuing orders
enjoining the gentry from bootleg
ging. While at first glance these may
seem needless proceedures, on the
theory that bootleggers are law vio
lators anyhow and as such have no
respect for law, the real intent is to
increase the penalties against boot
.egging without opening up the state
prohibitory act for amendment.
Members of the Community Club
met at the Golden hotel Friday evening
to discuss street paving for the busi
ness section of the city. J. L. House
keeper, of the Portland Cement as
sociation, was present and addressed
the meeting in the interest of concrete
paving. Chairman T. V. Golden ap
pointed a committee composed of S.
J. Weekes, Charles Dafy, James F.
O’Donnell and George Agnes to sound
sentiment and report at a later meet
ing to be called by the chairman.
The old, old, anti-capital punish
ment biH again is pending before the
legislature. This time it contains a
provision that the death penalty only
may be inflicted on second or third of
fenders. Why change the present
law? No intelligent murderer can
object to it, as it is practically im
possible to commit first degree mur
der in Nebraska and get the death
penalty now. A practice has grown
up in many of the courts of the state
to permit murderers, no matter how
atrocious their crimes, to plead guilty
to murder in the second degree, take
a life sentence and go to Lincoln until
the pardon board can hear their ap
plications for leave of absence to at
tend school pending final pardons.
Doctor Pottibone and Mrs. Petti
bono left Friday morning for Madi
son, Nebraska, where they will
remain for a short time visiting rela
tives and later will go west with a view
to possibly locating in Idaho. In the
removal of the doctor and his wife
from O’Neill the city suffers a real
loss and whatever place they may
locate in a decided gain. The Frontier
joins their many friends in wishing
them abundant success in whatever
fields they may decide to locate and
in expressing the wish that some day
they may return to us.
P. J. McManus returned Sunday
night from Chicago and the eastern
markets, where he has been viewing
the latest styles in feminine wearing
.apparel. The new tube skirt, a rever
sion to the old hobble type, will be
all the go this summer, says Mr. Mc
Manus, and he bought extensively of
the new lines. They will be on dis
play the last of this week or the first
of next. Cotton goods are due for a
big drop, he says, but woolens will re
main at present prices for a time. Mr.
McManus speaks in a most interesting
maimer of one style show he witnessed
while in Chicago.
R. B. Windham, of Cass county,
-again 13 a memebr of the legislature
from his district. Mr. Windham has
been going to the legislature at stated
intervals ever since Nebraska was a
state. Once upon a time a very brutal
murder was committed in his county.
Since then he has specialized on kill
ing anti-capital punishment bills and
the folks send him to the legislature
every time they think one is coming
’ up. Usually after he makes his
speech before the session, opposing
the bill, all those who have had the
privilege of hearing him want to go
right out to the penitentiary and hang
all the murderers, and the anti-capital
punishment bill is overwhelmingly de
feated. He may make the speech
again this session.
I he U Neill high school basket ball
teams will go to Bassett Friday even
ing to meet the teams of the Rock
iCounty 1.metropolis seat of learning.
The annual declamatory contest of
;the O'Neill high school, to select a
contestant to represent the school in
'the district contest at either Norfolk or
(Wayne, in March, will be held at the
high school auditoriuiff Saturday even
ing, beginning at 7:30 o’clock sharp.
The following, who were the winners
Sin the preliminary elimination contest
(among the original class of twenty
ffive, last Satm-day morning, will par
ticipate: Miss Minerva Merrell, Miss
•fda Boyer, Randall Downey, Miss
'Florence Malone, Miss Opal Boggs,
Jlnsefm Whelan, Cyril Sauser, Miss
Hubbard, Vincent Whelan and
Miss Ruth Kilpatrick. An admission
fee of twenty-five cents will be
charged Saturday evening, to assist
in defraying the expenses of attending
the district contest, at which the team
to represent the district at the state
contest at Lincoln this spring will be
chosen. The class is under the
tutelage of Miss Kathryn Octavia
Beck, head of the department of Eng
lish and Dramatic Art of the high
school.
The postofficc department has made
another fool ruling to avoid putting on
any extra railway mail clerks. Be it
nown that for sometime the clerks
have been flooded with more mail than
they could handle on their runs and
have been “going stuck.” Obviously
more clerks would relieve this condi
tion and tend to an improved service.
But, in the interest of economy, demo
cratic inefficiency and flying machine
service between New York and Wash
ington, an order has been issued that
mail crews are not to take out from
the terminals more mail than they can
properly work without working over
time. The result is that the excess
mail must lay in the terminals, per
haps for a day, a week or a month,
while the public cusses and begins to
look more kindly upon the bolshevik
movement. The new ruling works a
"articular hardship upon those se ved
y the Northwestern line in this terri-,
tory, for the new order does not ap
ly to mail designed to Wyoming or
Touth Dal ota. It is the Nebraska
mail that is left behind. Omaha and
Lincoln afternoon papers mailed out
on the day of their publication used to
reach their Nebraska destinations on
the Northwestern line on the late
night-train of the rame day, so that
they could go out on the country mail
routes the next morning. Now they
are apt to come in from the west, in
stead of the east, three or four days
after they are published. It may be
treason, but it is violating no con
fidence to state that the mail service
as at present administered is punk,
rotten and several other things which
no well regulated newspaper would
care or dare to print.
Income Tax Collector Will Visit O’Neill.
Ed. F. Gallagher has received word
from Internal Revenue Collector
Loomis that a special representative
of the revenue department will visit
O’Neill week after next to assist in
making out income tax reports. The
dates will be March 12-13-14 and 15
and Mr. Gallagher has secuied an of
i:ce for the revenue department for
the occasion in the rooms in the Golden
annex formerly occupied by the gov
ernment land office. Farmers and
others subject to the provisions of the
income tax measure are notified that
this will be the only opportunity they
will have to obtain assistance from
the government in making out their
schedules, for which no charge is
made, and are requested to take ad
vantage of the opportunity.
McDermott-Babl.
Miss Marguerite McDermott and
Mr. Lewis Babl, were united in mar
riage at St. Patrick’s church Tuesday
morning, the Rev. Father Cassidy of
ficiating. The bride was attended by
Miss Catherine Murphy and the groom
by Mr. John Babl. Following the
ceremony a wedding breakfast was
served at the Grand Cafe and the
happy couple departed on the North
western for a short wedding trip.
They will reside on Mr. Babl’s farm,
north of the city, on their return. The
Frontier joins their many friends in
extending them best wishes for a long
and happy wedded life.
Annual Meeting Holt County Farm
Bureau.
The annual meeting of the Farm
Bureau was held in O’Neill the 21st.
Due to the blizzard the week before
the roads were very bad and the
crowd was not as large as anticipated.
The meeting opened at 12:30 and the
County Agent’s Report for 1918 was
read. Election of officers was then
held and the following officers elected:
B. F. Kissinger, president; Ray Mar
tin, secretary; I. R. Harding, treas
urer;L. C. McKim, John Timmerman
and S. A. Hickman, directors. Fol
lowing the election of officers W. J.
Loeffel.of the Extension Service gave
a talk on Live Stock Diseases. Time
was given for a genral discussion of
the subject and much good was de
rived from the same. Mr. Loeffel is
a well qualified man to handle the sub
ject which is a very interesting one to
the people of the county.
N. W. Gaines, also of the Extension
Service, gave a live, interesting talk
on “Co-operation.” Mr. Gaines is a
live wire and certainly put enthusiasm
into the meeti g and brought out
many good points on co-operation. A
/ote was tdken to find out the feeling
ip.regard to Farm Bureau and County
A""1 t Work and the audience voted
unanimously in favor of it. We are
sorry mat the roads were in such poor
condition but the 135 farmers present
represented nearly all parts of the
county.
For Sale.
Six Eldrige B sewing machines,
used only a short time in Red Cross
sewing. 'Also about 25 yards of heavy
bathrobe material. Machines and
material will be offered for sale at the
public school auditorium on Saturday,
March 1, at 2:30 p. m.
MRS. J. J. HARRINGTON,
Chairman.
38-1 Hospital Supplies, Red Cross.
Shield’s Township Annual Meeting.
The voters of Shields Township,
Holt County, Nebraska, are hereby
called to meet in annual session at the
town hall, at 1 o’clock p. m., Tuesday,
March 4, for the purpose of making
the annual township levies and to
transact such other business as may
properly come before the meeting.
T. F. DONOHOE,
Township Clerk.
Wilfred I. Roche.
Word was received Friday evening
by T. S. Roche, of Iowa precinct, of
the death of his brother, Wilfred I.
Roche, of Sioux City, Iowa. Mr.
Roche was engaged in trimming some
trees on his residence property at
Sioux City and had tied up a limb
which he was about to saw, that in
falling it might not strike the house.
The limb, when sawed off, swung
around, the butt crowding Mr. Roche
against _ the side of the house and
crushing his head. He was dead when
found. The body was brought to
O’Neill and the funeral held from St.
Patrick’s church Sunday noon, the
Rev. Father Cassidy officiating. Burial
was in Calvary cemetery, beside Mr.
Roche’s parents.
K. C. THEATRE
^JSatuir^^ March 1st
Billie Rhodes teaches- Gimp, her trick pup, to sing
in “Hoop-La," her latest release,
Billie Rhodes in ‘‘Hoop-La.”
Watch this space for K. C. Theatre attractions every
Saturday evening.
Billie Rhodes is one of the best, and this is one of her
strongest plays.
FRANK CAMPBELL, Manager.
Admission : : : : : 10 and 20 Cents
Available Money Reserves
THE main object of the Federal Reserve Banking System,
of which we are a member, is to make more available
the united money reserves of the strong banks of the
country.
Even in normal times there come seasonal loan demands of
which the average citizen is unaware. The farmer must have
money loaned him for planting and crop moving. Interest and
tax payment periods each present their special banking require
ments.
The Federal Reserve Bank through which a member bank
may quickly convert commercial paper into available assets
when most needed enables us to meet these needs.
THE O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK
Capital. Surplus and Undivided Profits, $125,000
The best known man 1
the world to-day is §
barley Chaplin.' Mil- 1
ns who know but little I
f President Wilson or 1
p loyd George, yell with 1
p joy when the one great I
P nternational comme- 1
fcj dian comes on the 1
screen. Is there any- I
one who can even ap- 1
proach him as a favor- 1
;ite—yes one, and one 1
I only, his new wife.
fe;,. . Every man, woman and
child of every age |
wants to see the girl
1 Charley Chaplin married, the most talked about girl
'n America. See “For Husbands Only,” at Royal
Wednesday night. The whole family will love it.
Delicious, dazzeling, tantalizing as a wink, v ;
The New Louis Weber production, the Photo Play
De Luxe of the season and an overwhelming success.
We have this line up of Features for our spring use.
The best service on the market today. Jewel Fea- 1
tures: these features are breaking all box office re- |
ceipts in all the cities and larger towns at present. |
If you set, one you will want to see all of her pro- 1
ductions. They are not only wonderful Drama but 1
also delightful Comedy. I