MORE LOCAL MATTERS.
Mrs. Roy Warner left Tuesday
Morning for Pilgcr, Nebraska, for a
short visit with friends and Natives.
The Emmet baseball team will go
to Gordon Saturday evening for a
Sunday game with the Gordon team.
County Clerk Porter and Mrs.
. Porter went to Ewing Thursday1
morning to attend the home-coming
celebration. . ,
' ^ Roy Warner departed Tuesday j
morning for Burlington, Iowa, to'
purchase a car of furniture for War
ner & Sons.
W. C. Templeton, editor of the Page j
Reporter, was an O’Neill business!
visitor Thursday morning. Mr. Tem
pleton reports that Page got but little
of the rain that visited this section
Wednesday night.
Orin Bowen, of Norfolk, who ar
rived Monday to attend the wedding
of his brother, Archie, Tuesday morn
ing, remained in the city the balance
of the week visiting relatives and re
newing old acquaintances.
Many of 'the towns and villages
around «0’Neill will pave their business
streets this year. The little town of
Laurel will spend $35,000 in paving
and Ainsworth more than $60,000.
Ewing also is considering the propo
sition.
Butte, the county seat of Boyd
county, is to have a modern telephone
system, officials of the Nebraska Tele
phone company having visited the
town last week and decided to replace
the present wire system with cables
and to install a new switchboard.
O’Neill may get one after the war.
Two stolen automobiles have been
recovered by Sheriff Duffy the last
week. The first, a car stolen from
Lincoln, was discovered abandoned
near Ewing. The second, a car from.
Sioux City, was apprehended at Mel
lar’s garage, this city, where the
thieves had stopped for the night.
They are being held for the arrival of
the Sioux City authorities.
City Councilman John L. Quig suf
fered a slight accident to his auto this
morning when the car slipped into one
of the open subways recently con
structed at the intersection of Fifth
and Clay streets, breaking a wheel of
the car. Last v/eek the delivery car
of Warner & Sons in attempting to
make the same crossing dumped a
music box and a rocking chair and
also threw Walter Warner from the
car. A few days ago a farm wagon
was upset at the same place, badly
damaging the wagon.
" Walls of the Scott business block
are raising rapidly under the masterly
direction of Contractor Thomas Grif
fin and the building probably will be
under cover within the next ten days.
The walls of the Seth Noble lumber
offices and buildings also are nearly
completed and roofing will begin with
in a few days. The Noble building
when completed will be one of the most
modern and handsome of any lumber
company in the state outside of the
large cities.
Several of the big stockmen of Wy
oming and Montana may decide to ac
quire range and hay lands in Holt
county and move their large herds
here permanently. Several Montana
stockmen scouting for hay and range
early this week stopped off in O’Neill
to see about hay. One of them at
first was not much impressed with
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Holt county as a hay or range country,
but when taken out south of the Elk
horn, below Emmet, and on the Ditch
Camp holdings where large hay crews
are at work, manifested deep interest
at once. On leaving for the west the
ranchman informed local men that he
would return shortly with a view to
purchasing five or six thousand acres
of hay and range land. Holt county
is closer to the market, apparently is
always sure of a hay crop and has
excellent range land, he decided.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter K. Hodgkin
will leave the last of the week for Sid
ney, Nebraska, to make their future
home, Mr. Hodgkin having formed a
partnership there with his former law
partner, A. E. Warren. In the re
r. oval cif Mr. and Mrs. Hodgkin from
his vicinity, O’Neill and Holt county
lose one of their leading and most
popular couples, Mr. Hodgkin being
one of the prominent members of the
Holt county bar and prominent in the
political life of the county. Both Mr.
and Mrs. Hodgkin are admired and es
teemed by all who know them and all
regret to see them leave. Their loss to
O’Neill is a decided gain to Sidney,
which should be proud to acquire them
as citizens. Mr. Hodgkin’s practice in
Holt county has been assumed by
Julius D. Cronin, who will occupy the
suite of offices of Mr. Hodgkin, over
the Nebraska State bank.
As a weather prophet and rain
prognosticator Cliff Davis has John
Zimmerman beaten somewhat, al
though John is admitted by Mr. Davis
to be pretty fair. Saturday, July 12,
while the two were discussing the
weather Mr. Zimmerman opined that
it would not rain an inch between then
and August 1st, and offered to back
bis judgment five dollars worth. Cliff
promptly covered the bet and it was
decided that the government rain
gauge at the court house should gov
ern, Since that time and up to Wed
nesday evening, when the bet had but
twenty-four hours to run, but forty
sight one-hundredths inches of rain
fell. Last night the rainfall amount
ed to .27 inches, leaving a quarter pf
in inch to go today. At 10 o’clock
this morning the moisture in the rain
gauge passed the five dollar mark,
#vit.h .08 inches to spare, .33 inches
falling this morning up to that time.
Joe Stecher Coming.
Joe Stecher, the wrestler, and Joe
Stecher’s baseball team, will be
features of the county fair. Secretary
Frank Campbell of the fair associa
tion has concluded a contract with the
famous wrestler for a contest here the
ifternoon of September 11, at 5
o’clock. The match, with a good man
who will accompany Stecher, will be
held in front otf the grandstand at the
fair grounds and will be free to those
attending the fair. Joe’s baseball
team, in which he and two brothers
play, will be at the fair all three days,
to contest against other good team*
yet to be selected. The team is said
to be one of the leading ones in the
state. The Capital City Shows also
#ill be an attraction at the fair this
year.
FOR SALE—TEAM OFBAY HORSES
4 years old, well broke, weight
about 2600; 3 mules, 4 years old,
halter broke. Give time if wanted.
Inquire of George Bradt, O’Neill, Ne
braska. 8-2p
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Kelly Ranch Residence Burned.
Fire, caused by lightning, totally de
stroyed the residence on the John D.
Kelley ranch, four miles northeast of
town, at 10 o’clock Wednesday night.
The ranch is owned by the McKillip
interests, having been purchased from
Mr. Kelley several months ago, and is
occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Hunterman as tenants.
The Huntermans were in the field
until about. 9 o’clock, old time, and had
just returned to the house when the
storm, which had been threatening
since early evening, broke. Soon
thereafter lightning struck the side of
the house and started a blaze which
Mr. and Mrs. Hunterman thought
they had succeeded in extinguishing
when fire broke out in the roof of the
residence, a seven room, two-story,
structure. The fire gained rapid
headway and Mr. and Mrs. Hunter
man only were able to save the furni
ture in the lower part Of the house.
The building and the furniture in the
upper story are a total loss.
Mrs. Hunterman was severely
shocked by the bolt of lightning, but
not seriously injured, and soon re
covered. The house and furniture
both are covered by insurance. Owing
to the telephone line being out of
order, Mr. Hunterman was unable to
summon help and when neighbors
were attracted by the blaze the flames
had progressed too far to be overcome.
Several other fires, presumably hay
or grain stacks fired by lightning,
were noticed to the east later at night,
but up to press time reports of fur
ther losses had not reached town.
Constitutional Convention Filings.
A primary electon probably will
have to be held in Holt county to
select the candidates to run at the
regular election for member of the
constitution. But two candidates, J.
A. Donohoe and Samuel Hickman, to
date have filed their petitions with the
county clerk. J. Victor Johnson of
Sand Creek and Charles Kirkland of
Atkinson however took out petition
blanks from the clerk this week.
Should there be but two candidates no
primary is required to be held.
County Clerk Porter calls attention to
the law, which provides that a person
only may sign his name to the peti
tion of one candidate. The same name
on more than one petition for the same
position invalidates the name on all
petitions. Also, ditto marks may not
be used in filling in the postoffice, busi
ness and residential addresses. These
must be written in by the person sign
ing the petition.
Pendergast-Bowen.
Miss Mary Blanche Pendergast and
Mr. Archie Elmer Bowen were united
in marriage at the residence of the
bride’s sister, Mrs. Walter Warner,
Tuesday morning, the Rev. Walker of
the Methodist church officiating. Im
mediately! after the ceremony Mr. and
Mrs. Bowen left for Lincoln, Norfolk
and other points on a several weeks
honeymoon trip, after which they will
be at home in this city..
Mrs. Bowen is the charming daugh
ter of Mrs. Robert Pendergast and is
one of the popular young ladies of the
city. Mr. Bowen is the son of Mrs.
Frank Bowen and has grown to man
hood in the vicinity. The Frontier
joins their many friends in extending
to the young couple wishes for a
happy future.
New Record in Road Work.
During the month of June the Secre
tary of Agriculture approved project
statements for 133 Federal-aid pro
jects, involving the improvement of
1,300,:29 miles of road, at a total esti
mated cost of $24,220,808.90, and on
which Federal aid in the amounts of
$11,034,289.12 was requested. This
represents the largest number of pro
ject statements approved, the largest
estimate of cost, and the largest
amount of Federal aid requested dur
ing any month since the passage of
the Federal-aid road act.
During the month there were exe
cuted by the Secretary and the State
highway departments 60 project
agreements, involving the improve
ment of 507.37 miles of road, at a
total estimated cost of $7,566,089,32
and on which $3,404,269.18 Federal aid
was requested and set aside in the
Treasury In addition, 40 project
agreements previously executed were
amended during the month. 4
Up to and including June 30, 1919,
project statements for a total of
1,319 projects had been approved. The
1,319 projects involve 12,790.37 miles
of road, a total estimated cost of $133,
833,300.67, and a total of $54,763,
957.81 Federal aid. On the same date
a total of 677 project agreements had
been executed, involving 5,776.39
miles of road, a total estimated cost of
$56,367,334.94, and a total of $23,
740.97 Federal aid.
County Fair Exempt From War Tax.
Patrons of the Holt county fair this
year will not have to pay a war tax on
their admission tickets and on tickets
to the grandstand. Secretary Campbell
has received notice of a ruling by the
internal revenue department to that
effect. War tax however will have to
be charged on paid admissions to con
cessions and shows inside the grounds.
The Frontier, only $2 per year. ^
Mr. Styles—I was mistaken when
I said you had no capacity for busi
ness.
Mrs. Styles—I thought you’d change
your mind.
“You certainly have helped along
the millinery and dressmaking busi
ness a whole lot.”—Yonkers States
man.
The Frontier, only $2.00 per year.
It was one of those rare occasions
when Attorney Guemsy lost a case
and he wasn’t feeling so very happy
over it.
“Your profession doesn’t make an
gels out of men, does it?” said a med
ical friend, teasingly.
“No,” snapped Lou, “that’s one thing
we leave to you doctors!"—University
Kansan.
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