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x The Frontier. ---\ VOLUME XXXIX. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1919. NO. 40. THE ARM OF A SETTEE §j It was hollow. In cleaning house mother jj discovered it. She thought it was a good place jj to keep her money. She gathered together jjj $150 in bills and hid them in the hollow of the §gj arm of the old settee. The other day she went |jj to add some more bills to them, when she found {§ mice had made a nest of her $150. The Bank jj is a good place to “hide” your money. It is safe—and so is your money. I* LOCAL MATTERS. Charles Harding returned the first of the week from Atkinson. Robert Chittiek, jr., of Stuart, has returned from service over seas. Miss Ramona Schwer spent the week end with Sioux City friends. County Agent Lancaster made a business trip to Stuart the first of the week. M. E. Vernon left the first of the week for a short business trip to South Dakota. The state senate yesterday took a day off and visited the Omaha auto mobile show. Miss Bertha Vernon, of Omaha, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Ver non for a few days. Col. James Moore accompanied a shipment of his choicest steers to the Omaha market Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Smith, of Ewing, are the guests of their daughter, Mrs. E. D. Henry, for a few days. Dr. L. A. Burgess returned Satur day eyening from a week’s business and pleasure visit at Omaha. P. C. Donohoe returned to Pierce Monday morning after spending the week end with the home folks. The state senate has passed a bill increasing county assessors salaries about $100 a year on the average. Until the roads improve services will be held at the Celia church bi monthly, instead of every Sunday. W. J. Doherty, prominent Chambers banker and business man, was an O’Neill visitor the first of the week. Miss Hazel Walker went to Page Saturday for a short visit with rela tives, returning the first of the week. Attorney Thomas Nolan, of Bassett, spent Sunday with O’Neill relatives, ^ returning to Bassett Monday evening. L. A. Ott, John Martin and Dan Mc Clellan, of Paddock, shipped a load of hogs to the South Omaha market this week. Mrs. C. E. Tedrow, of Des Moines, Iowa, came Thursday to spend several weeks with her sister, Mrs. J* H. Shultz. Sam Anderson and Harm Damero, of Phoenix, left the first of the week for a several weeks visit in Wayne county. Mr. and Mrs. Frank O’Connell who were married at Topeka, Kan., the first of last week, arrived in O’Neill Friday evening. Dr. Gill, of Chambers, has purchas ed the Hough hotel property at that place and will replace it with a modern residence. The farmers unions of Boyd county have organized and incorporated for the purpose of building a co-operative elevator at Spencer. Mrs. Alex Myatt and children, of Inez, have returned home after an ex tended winter visit with friends and relatives in Tennessee. Sheridan Simmons has gone to Denver, where he has been tendered a very responsible position with a lead ing manufacturing firm. Dr. A. A. Hardy, well known in Holt county as the manufacturer and sales man of a hog remedy, died at Neligh Thursday of last week. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hunter have re ceived word of the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Hunter at Springfield, Ore., March 2. Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Mullen will leave about the first of the month for an extended pleasure trip to Missouri and other southern points. C. M. Carroll, of Lushton, Ne braska, has purchased the John Ziska ranch southwest of Atkinson and will take possession this month. The local ice harvest has been in progress night and day since the re cent cold snap and plenty of ice will be put up for summer use this year. Roy Pilger, who removed last year to Pierce county, arrived Monday for a short visit with Holt county friends and to look after his local interests. Joe Ziemer returned from the east coast Sunday night, having received his discharge from the navy, to which he had been attached for about a year. Miss Grace O’Malley came up Sat urday evening from Omaha, where she is studying nursing at St. Joseph’s hospital, for a short visit with rela tives. N. J. Finwall, former well known Ewing resident, has returned to his home at Philadelphia after a ten days visit with Ewing and Deloit friends and relatives. Because congress in its scrap over the league of nations forgot to repeal the daylight savings law clocks must be turned ahead an hour Sunday, March 30, again. Elmo Taylor, of Florence, Nebras ka, who has been making his home at the Magnuson ranch, south of O’Neill, died February 28 after an extended ill ness of influenza. P. A. Grass, of Page, was an O’Neill visitor the first of the week. Mr. Grass reported the roads between here and Page excellent for sleighing, but bad for wheel traffic. Traffic on the Burlington again is tied up, after being near normal for a few days. This time it is a washout, caused by the melting snows that has stopped train service. Several flocks of geese flew over the city Monday evening, enroute north. Wild ducks also are reported as mak ing their appearance on some of the Holt county ponds and lakes. State Senator Hoagland has intro duced a bill in the legislature reduc ing the gravity test on kerosene from 42 to 40. It will permit the shipment of Wyoming oil into Nebraska. George Honry, electrician at the Merriman potash plant, has returned to O’Neill for a short vacation while the plant is shut down pending a re organization of the company’s alfairs. Frank Smith, of New York, one of the early homesteaders of the Cham bers neighborhood, but who removed from Nebraska in 1888, is visiting relatives in the south part of the county. The state senate has killed a house bill permitting the garnishment of 90 per cent of a workman’s wages. The bill has been before the legisla ture for many years, meeting defeat each time. Judge R. R. Dickson and Court Re porter Charles B. Scott returned Wed nesday evening from Butte, where they have been holding a term of the Boyd county district court for the past two weeks. The state house of representatives has passed a bill providing^ for admis sion to farmers’ union representatives to membership on the Omaha grain exchange. The present rules of ad mission bay them. W. V. Hunter at last outguessed the weather bureau and after two post ponements pulled off his big sale at the ranch north of town Monday. The sale was well attended and the stock all brought good prices. J. E. Smith, of Homer, has been ap pointed manager of the Edward and Bradford Lumber company at Page, to succeed A. D. Palmer, who has been promoted to a position in the whole e department at Sioux City. The state senate has passed the house act providing that salaries of public ehool teachers may not be sus pended during epidemics. The bill now goes to the governor for his sig nature before becoming a law. R. E. Maw has purchased the Bed ford timber claim in Paddock town ship and is removing the buildings from his home place thereon. Though the two places do not join, Mr. Maw will farm them both this year. ' Boyd county still is striving to equal the values of Holt county farm land, $150.00 per acre. The new Boyd record is $130 an acre, reached on the transfer of the A. H. Nelson ranch five miles east of Butte, last week. The national anti-cigaret league has announced that it will inaugurate a campaign of enforcement of the Ne braska anti-cigaret'law, now that the legislature has failed to amend the act to permit pill cooking by adults. One half of the hay raised in Ne braska is wild hay and comes from this section of the state, according to the federal department of agriculture. Thirty-four per cent of the Nebraska hay crop is alfalfa, says the depart ment. Mrs. Claire Cannon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Borgelt, of Ew ing, and who with her husband re moved to Idaho about a year ago, died recently in that state, after an illness of influenza. Burial was at Ewing Friday moaning. A match and a couple of inquisitive children came near destroying the residence of Karl Siemsen at Atkinson last week. Fire in some bed clothing filled the house with smoke, but the blaze was extinguished before much damage was done. The Await Spangler sale, held Tues day, was one of the best of the spring season, a large number of buyers be ing in attendance and all offerings bringing good prices. Mr. Spangler will remove to Norfolk, near which place he has purchased a large ranch. Mrs. Sophia Dohman, one of the early residents of Holt county, died at the Dohlman residence, four miles west of Atkinson, Sunday of last week, after an illness of pneumonia. Mrs. Dohman was 74 years of age and had resided in Holt county thirty-six years. The regular monthly communion service of the local Espicopal congre gation was held at the residence of Mrs. A. L. Wilcox Sunday morning, the Rev. Wells, of Valentine, officiat ing. Mr. Wells left Sunday afternoon for Ewing, where he officiated at the evening service. Michael Slattery, one of the old residents of the city and county, suf fered a stroke of paralysis Tuesday morning, while seated in a chair and talking to some friends. He was re moved to the residence of P. C. Con nolly and his condition is reported to day as serious. Representative Frank Mondell, of Wyoming, has been selected as the republican floor leader in the house of representatives for the next session of congress. Congressman Mondell, who is well known in Holt county and by westerners in general, is both a suffragist and a prohibitionist. Victor A. Johnson has disposed of the Puckett ranch, south of Emmet, acquiring a 1600 acre ranch near St. Edwards in the transaction, and will remove to that place this week. In the removal of Mr. Johnson Holt county loses one of its most capable and successful farmers and stockmen. Senator Cronin’s bill providing that fidelity and guarantee bonding com panies may not cancel bonds without a hearing before the state insurance board has been recommended for pas sage by the senate committee of the whole. The purpose of the measure is to prevent cancellation without cause. The bounty on wild animals probably will be restored by the state legisla ture, a house act providing for a wolf bounty fo $6 has been approved by the senate. As wolf and coyote hides now ire worth $25 and $30 each, it is thought that the act will place coyote raising and hunting on a paying basis. Leroy Beebout, the enterprising editor of the Johnstown Enterprise and member of the county board of Brown county, accompanied by Mrs. Beebout, visited O’Neill friends the , first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Bee bout were onroute homo from Kear ney where they had been in attendance at the funeral of a relative. Some people are born lucky instead of handsome. Joe Hunter, camou flaged as a beginner, attended the cribbage tournament at the K. C. hall Tuesday night and won over twenty three contenders. Wednesday morn J ing he received a telegram from his ! son, W. M. Hunter, informing him that he was a new grand dad. Peter McMonigal returned Monday night from New York and other east ern points, where he has been visiting friends and relatives since the sale of his property here last year. Peter is looking line and says that O’Neill looks better than ever to him. He will remain until summer, when he will go to Colorado for a short visit. Hugh Coyne, Thomas Griffin, Ben Harty, H. J. Reardon, Arthur Ryan, Mike Horriskey, John Gallagher and Henry Grady went to Greeley, Satur day, where they put on the initiatory work at the initiation of a class of seventy-five for the Greeley Knights of Columbus. The boys returned Mon day evening and report an excellent time. Frank Howard was kicked in the face Monday, while shoeing a mule. His injuries while painful are not serious. Mr. Howard had just finished shoeing the animal and was smooth ing up the work when the Missourian landed on him squarely between the eyes, cutting several gashes in his forebead and on the bridge of his nose. Gerald Miles, inome tax expert and deputy internal revenue collector for this district, came in from the west Wednesday morning and will remain here the rest of the week to instruct those desiring information in making out their income tax schedules. His office will be in the Golden hotel an nex in the rooms formerly occupied by the land office. The legislature again is considering a bill so old that it needs a shave. The mease ■ _ is the one providing for a state beard of examiners for barbers and a licensing and registration sys tem. The bill first was introduced in the territorial legislature when Ne braska was part of Kansas. A bar ber commission act was in force in the state for a time, but was repealed. The state senate Tuesday indefi nitely postponed the cigaret bill pass ed by the house of representatives. The measure would legalize the sale of cigarets to all but minors. The pres ent law, which is not enforced gen erally over the state, prohibits the sale or use of cigarets by any person, the latter clause however having been declared inoperative by the supreme co;ui. William Reninger and family, of the Chambers neighborhood, left the first of last week for Norfolk, near which place Mr. Reninger has purchased a ranch. Mr. Renninger was one of the most progressive residents of the south end of the county and a leader in all public improvements. His de parture is a loss not only to the Chambers neighborhood, but to the entire county. Last week was birth anniversary week for both the Page Reporter and the Atkinson Graphic. The Reporter is just sweet sixteen, while the Graphic admits to thirty-seven sum mers and winters. Both Editors Tem pleton of the Reporter and Kelly of the Graphic admit that some of the first subscribers to their great family and religious journals still owe for their subscriptions. County Judge C. J. Malone delivered the address of welcome at the recept ion for returned soldiers and sailors, held at Inman Methodist church Mon day evening. A patriotic program was given and several of the soldiers gave short descriptions of their ex periences over there. The program was followed by a sumptuous banquet, prepared and served by the Ladies’ Aid societies of Inman and South Valley. lwo of the rranciscan Missionary Sisters, which organization has charge of the missions in the far east, ar rived in the city the first of the week and are offering for sale fine linens and needle work from the needles of the children of the Fransiscan mis sions in China. These are sent to the society headquarters in Boston direct from the far east and are sold by the sisters over the country to assist in the maintenance of the missions. Having accumulated a sufficiency of this world’s goods by farming and ranching in Holt county, Jacob Erb will retire from business and take it easier for a couple of years. Mr. Erb will hold a sale at his ranch north of the city, on Thursday of next week. Mr. and Mrs. Erb will spend a year or so in travel after his retirement going first to the Pacific coast to visit rela tives in Oregon, and afterwards to New York and Atlantic coast points. The O’Neill boy scouts will have a club and meeting house, erected by themselves, before the snows of next winter arrive. The scouts, under the leadership of Scout Master John O’Sullivan, have leased the lots east of the Methodist church and this spring will begin the erection of the building, which will be according to standard plans for such structures, several leading carpenters and con tractors of the city have volunteered to assist Scout Master O’Sullivan in instructing the boys in the mechanical end of the work, which will be under the supervision of Mr. O’Sullivan. Anders Jensen, of Minden, has been ordered interned at Fort Douglas, Utah, and to be deported as an enemy alien by the federal department of justice. Jensen, a native of Germany, came to this country a poor man, and since has grown wealthy. He is de clared by the department officials to have been one of the worst offenders they had to deal with in Nebraska. Jensen persisted in his hostility to the United States even when arraigned far the same and declared he wanted to see the kaiser in the White House. His property will be confiscated by the government. Striking teamsters at Valentine have killed a thriving industry started at that place this winter and which would have netted the town about $100,000. During the warm spell of January the big packers and other eastern firms requiring immense ton.ages of ice be came alarmed over a prospective ice famine and began purchasing ice from the Valentine lake, which is in bed of a canyon deep enough that the sun rarely shines upon the lake’s sur face for more than an hour or two a day. Several big contracts for ice were made and employment at fat wages given local teamsters. Think ing that the packers would be com pelled to meet any demand for a raise, the teamsters struck. Then a cold snap came on and because of it and the strike the packers cancelled their contracts, pulled out and went to cut ting ice in eastern waters. The city and county authorities will be ex pected to take care of poverty-strick en teamsters out of work as a con sequence. Card of Thanks. We wish to thank the friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us during the sickness and death of our dear husband and father. May many friends be yours in times of trouble is the wish of Mrs. It. S. Pendergast. Mrs. Walter Warner. Miss Mary Pendergast. No Paint For Chambers Valley. Ranch residences and outbuildings in fertile Chambers valley will go un painted this year. The summer rains and winter snows may beat against their unprotected walls, for there will be no oil to mix a preservative cover ing. Government and state slueths Tuesday morning captured and con fiscated two barrels of Minnesota lin seed oil, containing 242 bottled-in-bond pints, at the Burlington depot. Be cause of careless handling of freight under government supervision of rail roads the head of one of the barrels was broken and several bottles of the oil smashed, else more would have been confiscated. The booze hounds turned the “licker” over to Sheriff Duffy for safe keeping and it was es corted to the county bnstile by Deputy Sheriff Bergstrom. Several arrests and indictments by the federal grand jury probably will follow. A Lecture Saturday Night. The Presbyterian Ladies Lyceum Course, on Saturday night, March 15, 1919, at the Presbyterian Church there will be a lecture by Mr. Ernest J. Powell. Don’t mistake this for a common, everyday lecture, for it isn't. This is one of the rare lectures that you don’t hear very often. Mr. Powell has recently completed a tour of one of the great Chautauqua Circuits delivering seventy lectures in towns of the Mississippi valley, ap pearing on programs with some of the most noted orators ofAmerica, and throughout the season his lectures created unusual interest and he has received numerous requests for re turn dates. Mr. Powell is very effec tive in his dramatic inspirational ad dresses, and his practical and business like town boosting talks are of in estimable value to any community. Earnest J. Powell, a very popular lecturer,, with a hard, but broad ex perience behind him, delivered the afternoon lecture. Out of the Uni versity of Hard Knocks and in his present day experience, there have come to him a breadth of view and depth of understanding, which with his eloquence and humor, have made him a power upon the platform.—Har risburg, (111.) Herald. The Frontier, only $2.00 per year. Frank Bowen. Frank Bowen, well known O’Neill business man and proprietor of the Racket Store, died at the family resi dence in this city Tuesday evening, after an extended illness of rheuma tism and other ailments. Mr. Bowen had been a resident of O’Neill for seventeen years, coming here in the summer of 1902, and took an active part in the commercial life of the city. He leaves to survive him the widow and three children: Archie E. and Ethel, of this city and Oren A., of Norfolk. Also three brothers: Harry and George, -of this city, Bert, of Omaha, and one sister, Mrs. Cora Vanderbeken, of Lomita, California. The funeral will be held at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon from the Methodist church, burial being in Protect Hill cemetery. Robert E. Pendergast. Robert E. Pendergast died at the family residence in this city, Saturday afternoon, after an extended illness. The funeral was held Monday after noon from the Methodist church, the Reverend Walker officiating, and burial was in Prospect Hill cemetery. He leaves to survive him his widow and two children, Mrs. Walter Warner and Miss Mary Pendergast, both of this city. His son, Everett Robert Pendergast of this city is one of the heroes who gave his life in the great world war, having died in France, Oc tober 25 of last year. Mr. Pendergast was one of the well known and liked citizens of O’Neill since his removal here from Meadow Grove in 1910. The sorrowing relatives have the sympa thies of the entire commpnity in the hour of their great bereavement. Mrs. George Mitchell. Mrs. George Mitchell,formerly Miss Alice . Gallentine, died at Fairfax, South Dakota, February 25th. Miss Alice Gallentine was born at Marshalltown, Iowa, on the 6th of April, 1885. At the age of one and a half years her parents moved to O’Neill, Nebraska, where they have since resided. She made her home with her parents until the time of her marriage. On the 28th day of Decem ber, 1905, Miss Gallentine was united in marriage to Mr. George Mitchell. To this union five children were born. The George Mitchell family made their home on a homestead in Mellette County, South Dakota, for three years after their marriage when they moved to Spencer. They spent several years at Spencer and moved to Fairfax, South Dakota, from there. Mrs. Mitchell leaves to mourn her loss her husband and five children: Martha, Johnnie, Laura, Jessie and Charlie, besides her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Gallentine, of O'Neill, Neb., and five sisters and two brothers, two at Spencer, Neb., one at Plainview, Neb., one at' O’Neill, Neb., two at Buffalo Gap, S. D., and one at Nor atur, Kansas. Mrs. Cathern Minahan. Mrs. Cathern Minahan, wife of John Minahan, died, Friday afternoon at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. James Curran, northwest of O’Neill, after an extended illness. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock, from St. Patrick’s church, the Reverend M. F, Cassidy officiating. Burial was in Calvary cemetery. Mrs. Minahan was one of the older resi dents of Holt county, removing here with her husband from Nuckolls county in 1901. Seven of their nine children preceded her to the grave, leaving her husband and her daughter, Mrs. James Curran of this county, and her son, Miles Minahan, of Ainsworth, to survive her. The Frontier joins their many friends in extending con dolences to the bereaved husband and children. Parties wishing to sell their liberty bonds, of any issue, at cash market value, see D. A. Doyle. 40-2 R.C. THEATRE SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 15 BESSIE BARRISCALE f IN “ALL OF A SUDDEN NORMA” “All of a Sudden Norma” gives her a chance to do some of the cleverest things she has ever done and to look prettier than she has ever looked. It’s | full of snap—every part of the five reels moves fast. Nowhere does the picture drag for a single frame. | Admission : : : io and 22 Cents