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VOLUME XL.
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O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1920.
NO. 31.
LOCAL MATTERS.
Noah L. Robinson, of Opportunity,
was in th% city Wednesday on busi
ness.
Petra Greeley, of Atkinson, one of
the pioneer residents of Holt county,
was an O’Neill visitor last Wednes
day.
Miss Margaret Hunt, who was
visiting relatives and friends in this
city for ten days, returned to her
home in Omaha last Sunday.
Miss Florence McCafferty returned
last Sunday evening from a several
weeks’ visit with relatives at Boston,
Mass., and other eastern cities.
Frank L. Hunter, of Page, and Miss
Tressie Townsend, of Hampshire, Wy
oming, were granted a marriage
license by County Judge Malone last
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Donohoe re
turned to Lincoln last Monday morn
ing, the constitutional convention re
convening on Tuesday morning after
the holiday recess.
J. L. Weinberg and Leon Richard,
proprietors of the Chicago Bargain
Store, came up from Omaha Wednes
day evening to spend a few hours in
the city looking after their business
interests here.
Joe Ruddy, who is engaged in the
real estate business at Gordon, Ne
braska, is visiting friends in this city.
Joe says that Sheridan county land
was in great demand last year and at ,
i greatly advanced prices over former i
years. ,
The latter part of last week H. B. 1
Hubbard moved his harness shop from ;
the Virgin building across the street
to the Horiskey building, formerly
occupied by Dr. L, A. Burgess. Dr. 1
Burgess moved his office upstars in
the Scott Bros., building, where quar
ters had been specially prepared for ,
him. Thomas & Wyant are occupy
ing the Virgin building as storeroom
for their automobiles. t
Petitions placing Judge R. R. Dick- ;
son in nomination as a candidate for <
district judge of the Fifteenth Judi
cial district to succeed himself, were
being circulated in the city yesterday.
Judge Dickson has made a good record
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cn the bench and should not meet
with serious opposition for re-election.
Miss Beatrice Cronin went down to
Omaha last Sunday morning to spend
a week visiting friends.
Following arc the dates of the
terms of district court in the several
counties of the Fifteenth Judicial
district for the year 1920: Brown
county, February 24 and November
9; Boyd county, March 2 and October
5; Holt county. March 15 and No
vember 15; Keya Paha county, May
4 and September 28; Rock county,
April 20 and September 21. Jury on
the first day of each term.
The Coats barbershop, formerly
located just south and adjoining the
>ld postoffice, moved Wednesday night
to the Toggery site formerly occupied
Dy Harty & Mullen, and Harty
Drothers moved their pressing and
leaning shop to the former barber
shop location. Will Coats, proprietor
)f the barbershop will add several
dooI and billiard tables and a cigar
stand to his present equipment,
Harty brothers in their removal come
Dack io the old building especially
mecteci for them by the I. O. O. F.
Inman Leader: Ceril Gifford, of In
nan, and Miss Ellen Samulsen, of
Randolph, were married at Wayne by
he county judge last week Wednes
lay morning, at 10 o’clock, and ar
'ived in Inman Wednesday evening
’or a week’s visit at the home of the
'room’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Jifford. The happy couple will make
heir home on the groom’s farm south
>f Randolph. The bride is a popular
roung school teacher of Cedar county,
fhe bride and groom were accompa
lied to Inman by Mr. and Mrs. Wil
>ur Gifford also of Randolph.
After being urged by his friends to
mter the field S. J. Weeeks has con
lented to be a candidate for delegate
0 the republican national convention
’rom the Sixth Congressional district
nd his name will appear cn the ballot
is a candidate for that position. S.
r. has for years been one of the lead
ng republicans of this section of the
state, and has a large acquaintance
Dver the district and his friends will
De pleased to get out and boost for his
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election to the position. This district
is entitled to two delegates atad they
are generally divided between the
north and south side of the district.
The annual spring race meet at the
fair grounds will be held the first week
in June, according to announcement
made by Sheriff Duffy. Wednesday.
The success of the meet held last
spring has aroused considerable in
terest in racing in the territory and a
tentative circuit already has been
formed, comprising O’Neill, Harting
ton, Verdel, Winner and Walthill.
Gordon and Valentine also are asking
admission to the circuit. A number
of harness horsemen have requested
that harness races be included with
the running races this year and con
sequently the meet will be a combina
tion one.
Political matters are beginning to
occupy the attention of the people of
the state. The forepart of the week
former State Senator Adam McMul
len of Gage county, filed as a candi
date for the republican nomination for
governor. Friends of Don Love, for
merly mayor of Lincoln, announce that
he will also enter the primaries for
the republican nomination and there
will probably be several others. Gov
ernor McKelvie has not announced
whether he will be a candidate for re
election or not, but many are of the
opinion that he will be content with
one term and will not be a candidate
to succeed himself.
Last week Ben J. Grady purchased
the Morrison grocery store, taking
possession last Monday morning.
This store has always enjoyed a good
patronage, but Mr. Morrison has
tired of the grocery game and was
anxious to retire. He made a splendid
success of the business starting a few
years ago without hardly a dollar and
retires with a good-sized roll. He has
not decided what he will do, but says
that he will take a rest for a few
months before deciding on what line
of business he will follow. Ben J.
Grady, the new proprietor, has grown
to manhood in this city and is a very
popular young man. He has worked
in different stores in this city, is well
posted in the grocery business and ex
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I have purchased the Morrison Grocery ii;1
Store, taking possession last Monday morning, g '
and am now prepared to cater to your wants ||
in the grocery line. if i
:{ ' It will be my ambition to make this the most £5 j
| complete Grocery Store in the state and I g
| cordially invite all the old customers of the Hi
I store to continue their patronage, assuring g|;
| them that I will at all times try to supply S
them with the best the market affords in the §
8 grocery line at the lowest possible price. To J;
I those who have not been customers of the jj|
store I cordially invite them to call and be
come acquainted, assuring them that we will |
be able to please them with the quality of our S
goods and the price.
It will be my ambition to make the year
1920 the banner year for this store and we g
would be pleased to number you among our g
large and growing number of satisfied cus- g
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Ben J. Grady
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pftcts to operate the best first class
grocery store in this section of the
stAtei Here’s wishing him success.
NOTICE.
The Annual Meeting of the Stock
holders of the Farmers Union Ele
vator Company will meet January 12,
1920, at 1 o’clock p. m. in the Odd j
Fellows Hall for the election of three
dhectors and any other business that
may lawfully come before said meet
ing.
J. B. DONOHOE, Secy.
30-2p Board of Directors.
NOTICE.
This 7th day of January, 1920, I,
Jacob L. Weinberg, has purchased
Leon Richards interest in all business
ir transactions known as Chicago
Bargain Store, doing business at
1824 So. 24th St., Omaha, Nebraska,
£ind O’Neill, Nebraska, and on and
ifter said date, January 7, 1920, I,
racob L. Weinberg, will assume all
iebts incurred by Chicago Bargain
Store up to January 7, 1920.
•JACOB L. WEINBERG.
SERVICE MEN—FALL IN!
All ex-service men who have re
vived an honorable discharge from
;he army are invited and requested
;o attend a meeting to be held in the
iffices of J. D. Cronin, in the Nebraska
State bank building, on Tuesday, Jan
lary 13, 1920, at 8 o’clock, called for
;he purpose of enrolling those eligible
'or membership in this organization
ind effecting a permanent organiza
;ion of Simonson Post of the American
Legion. ^
NOTICE.
Notice u hereby given that there
will be a m? ling of the stockholders
if the O’Neill National Bank, of
3’Neill, Nebraska, held in the bank
ng rooms of said bank between the
lours of 9 a. m. and 4 p. m. on Jan
lary 13, 1920, for the purpose of
sleeting a board of directors of said
>ank for the ensuing year, and such
ither business as may properly oome
lefore said meeting.
C. P. HANCOCK,
30-2 Cashier.
WILL ELECT OFFICERS
NEXT TUESDAY.
Simonson Post of the American
Legion, located in this city, held a
meeting last Tuesday evening in the
offices of J. D. Cronin but owing to
i misunderstanding as to the place of
meeting the attendance was smaller
;han was expected and the election of
ifficera scheduled for that evening
was postponed until next Tuesday,
Fanuary 13, when a meeting will be
leld in Mr. Cronin’s office rooms and
when and where an election of officers
vill be held. This provides an oppor
unity for all returned army men,
vho have received an honorable dis
harge, to join this Post and be eli
gible for election as officers and to
rote for the same at the meeting
lext Tuesday. •
IOLT COUNTY LEADS THEM ALL
Holt county leads all the counties
>f the state in productiveness and
[uantity of production, according to
he estimates of the Nebraska de
larment of agriculture estimate of
eading crop and stock production for
.919. The county takes first place
n production of wild hay with
!74,238 tons, says the report. It is
hird in the number of stock cattle
vith 97,875 head; fourth in the pro
iucion of rye, with 228,510 bushels;
ifth in the number of dairy cattle,
vith 10,547 head.
No other county in the state appears
'our times, as does Holt county, in
he five leading positions, which would
ndicate that the talk about the modest
and values of the county being in
lated is mostly bunk. Many counties
n the state with $400 an acre land
lo not appear in the first five po
sitions in the production of anything.
Scotts Bluffs county, a county where
nost of the land is under irrigation
md where land values soar as high
is $1,000.00 per acre, only appears
hree times in the lists of five.
DEATH OF MRS. LEO STESKAL
Mrs. Mary Ann Steskal, beloved
vife of Leopold Steskal, died at her
lome in this city last Thursday after
noon at 3 o’clock, after an illness of
leveral weeks of Bright’s disease, at
.he age of thirty eight years, four
nonths and seven days.
Mary Ann Segar was bom near At
rinson on August 24, 1881, where she
-esided until her marriage. On April
L5, 1902, she was united in marriage
it Atkinson, Nebr., to Leopold Stes
cal. To this union eight children were
3orn all of whom with her husband
lurvive her. The children are: Mary,
Kathleen, Tracie, Leopold, Ellen,
loseph, Dennis and Lovena, the
youngest being seven weeks old. Her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John L. Segar,
of Atkinson, and four brothrs and
three sisters also survive her.
The funeral was held last Saturday
morning at 9 o’clock from the
Catholic church, interment in the
Catholic cemetery.
CARD OF THANKS.
We desire to extend our heartfelt
thanks to the many kind friends and
neighbors who so kindly assisted dur
ing the sickness, death and burial of
our beloved wife, mother, daughter
and sister. Your kindness to us in our
hour of sorrow will never be for
gotten.
Leo Steskal and family.
Mr. and Mrs. John Segar
and family.
OIL PROSPECTS IN
SOUTHERN HOLT
Oil may soon be another commodity
in the production of which Holt
county leads the state. Considerable
excitement has been aroused in the
southwestern part of the county and
the northwest corner of Garfield
county by the actions of Oklohoma
oil interests in leasing the oil privil
eges on thirty thousand acres of land
around Erina, Garfield county. Erina
is located on the Cedar, seven miles
southeast of Ballagh, a postoffice close
to the Holt and Garfield county line
and the land so far leased is in Gar
field county but some of it runs up to
the county line. Miss Margaret
Quinns of this city, whose parents
reside on a large ranch near Erina,
informed her in a recent letter of the
actions of the oil men and that they
had leased the oil privileges of their
entire ranch. B. L. Clutter is the
engineer and leasing agent of the
syndicate and now is at Erina making
additional leases. Drilling is to start
this spring. Tests already made
show the presence of natural gas in
the field. The land leased is in the
flowing well belt which extends into
Holt county and several O'Neill men
who own land in that region are
feverishly awaiting development of the
test project.
ANOTHER CHAMBERS
PIONEER GONE.
Chambers Sun: John Hoffman,
father of Jake Hoffman living north
east of Chambers, passed away De
cember 11th, at Parsons, Kansas,
where he had been living with hlk son
Peter.
Mr. Hoffman was born in Berry
County, Penn., in 1834. He was mar
ried in Pennsylvania, and to this
union were born, three boys and two
girls all of whom are living. At the
age of forty-three he left the land of
his birth and moved to Kansas, and
in 1884 he took a homestead five miles
north and three miles east of Cham
bers, where he lived and reared his
family. His wife was called home
beyond about six years ago. He
leaves to mourn his demise, his three
sons, Jake, of Chambers, Peter, of
Parsons, Kansas, and John, of Ow
anka, S. D., and two daughters, Mrs.
Emma Maring, of Emmet and Mrs.
H. A. Kennedy, of Ridgeway, Colo.
The three boys were the only ones of
the family to attend the funeral.
Things That Never Happened.
“When I was in your town about
five years ago I borrowed ten bucks
from you, old man. Here’s the ten.”
“I tried that rheumatism cure you
told me about, old man, and it cured
me.”
"That’s a great system you gave
me for beating the ponies, old man.
I haven’t lost a bet since I started
usnig it.”
“I walked down town this morning
and I met a dozen people I knew, and
not one of them said, ‘Fine morning!’”
“Here’s that umbrella I borrowed
from you yesterday, old mna. Much
obliged.”—Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele
graph.
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