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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1920)
LOCAL MATTERS. D. A. Criss and M "s. Criss spent Sunday with O’Neill friends. S. 0. Campbell of Page, made a business trip to O’Neil Tuesday. Karl Siemsen of A1 cinson, was an O’Neill visitor the first of the week. Mrs. Will Biglin w nt to Jackson Friday morning for a iiort visit with relatives. Mrs. A. L. Wilcox and Miss Helen Wilcox entertained at bridge Wed nesday evening. Mrs. Joseph Hansen and nephew re turned Sunday from a three month’s trip to California. W. C. Templeton, editor of the Page Reporter, spemt Saturday and Sunday with O’Neill friends, i Bess, the Shetland pony mare be longing to E. D. Mayfield, is the proud mother of a twenty-four pound colt. Judge R. R. Dickson and Court Re porter C. B. Scott went to Ainsworth: the first of the week, where they are holding a session of court. Jack Thomas has acquired the old garage east of the Ford garage and will use it for a disply room for his several lines of cars and trucks. W. W. Bethea and L. E. Skidmore of Ewing, were O’Neill visitors Mon day afternoon and Tuesday morning, returning home Tuesday afternoon. ! Senator Jaems A. Donohoe returned to Lincoln Monday morning after ' several days at home. He expects the constitutional convention to com plete its labors this week. J. A. Jarman of Chambers, candi date for the republican nomination for clerk of the district court, was an O’Neill visitor last Tuesday and fa vored this office with a short call. The county board of supervisors was in session last week going over the old personal tax lists and attend ing to routine business. The board adjourned Saturday until Tuesday, March 30. An operetta will be given by the pupils of the first six grades of the city schools Wednesday evening, March 24, in the school auditorium, the pro ceeds to go toward the purchase price of the new piano recently acquired. M. E. Vernon and Pete Duffy for mally inaugurated the spring racing season Friday afternoon with a match race between Vernon’s Jessie Page and Duffy’s Salvatoron. The Duffy horse was the winner for the quarter of a mile in twenty-foift- and a quarter. Two O’Neill lads were brought be fore the juvenile court by Probation Officer John L. Quig for carrying fire arms, and also for discharging them within the city limits. The boys were let off with a severe reprimand and their guns confiscated. The officials serve notice that similar offenders will be prosecuted in the future. Students of the high school who, under the direction of Miss Octavia Beck, teacher of dramatics in the high school, presented the play, “All On Account of Polly,” at the K. C. hall Friday night for the benefit of the athletic fund are being urged to re peat the presentation. Both after noon and evening performances were greeted by appreciative audiences. YARGER-ENBODY. Miss Mae Alta Enbody, daughter of Mrs. James Enbody and the late Mr. James Endbody of Emmet, now re siding with her mother in O’Neill, was married Tuesday morning to Mr. Ory Reuben Yarger, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E Yarger of Atkinson, Rev. W. W. Rust, pastor of the Methodist church performing the ceremony. Friends and relatives of the bride and groom from Atkinson came down on the early morning train and helped them make merry at a sumpt uous wedding breakfast given by the bride's mother. At 8:30 the party made their way to the parsonage where the knot was tied and thence to the train that was to bear them away on their honey moon. Both the bride and the groom were dressed in traveling costume, but special mention must be made of a beautiful broach pin worn by the bride, a pin that her great-great grandmother had also worn at her wedding in old England, and which, as the hapy bride testifies, has a pecu liar charm or inuuence for confidence and “good luck” on weding days. . They will visit friends and relatives of the bridegroom in Ogden, Iowa, re turning by way of Lincoln, where the bride had lived with her parents for several years before coming to Holt county. They expect to get back about the first of April and will take up their residence upon their farm nine miles north of Atkinson, where they will be at home to their many friends. Both the mother of the bride and the mother of the bridegroom were present at the wedding and with other relatives and friends wish them God speed and a long and prosperous life in the land of their choice and in the service of their Master. *** ROADS TO BE BUILT THIS SPRING The east and west highway through .. . .. V> r> : _IL. ** 1 &»....... ....... .“•****..'•"-•••.liv.v. Copyright 1918 Hart Schaffner & Mane Business-like Clothes Buying rpHERE are a lot of men in this town who would laugh at any man who said he preferred oil-lamps to electric lights; who still burned a hard coal stove in the liv ing room in preference to a modern and less expensive heating plant. But:— Many of these men who consider themselves up-to-date, are behind the times when they buy clothes. They haven’t yet discovered that ready-made clothes, such as we show from Hart Schaffner & Marx are a distinct advance over the product of the custom tailor. They still have their clothes “made to order”; they’re still in the oil-lamp, coal-stove stage of development. They have a vague idea that they get better fabrics, better fit, better style, better tailoring by the made-to-order process. And they’re mistaken; and they don’t know it. We could enlighten them very easily, and very quickly; we could show them the best all-wool fabrics in the world, such as few tailors ever have; we could show them style-creations which their tailor can imi tate but not originate; we could show them better workmanship than they’re used to; and if the clothes dont fit, they dont buy them. Depend upon it, the ready-made clothing such as we have here is an advance; the price is lower than the made-to-order cost; but that isn’t the best reason for preferring these clothes, although the best business sense doesn’t refuse to consider price-economy, if the quality is right. We’d be glad of an opportunity to make a demonstration in this matter to any man. I P. J. McManus, O’Neill The Home of Good Merchandise / * Holt county, connecting the several railroad towns, the O’Neill-Spencer highway and the road from Atkinson through Inez to Francis will be com pleted this spring and summer. A letter received from State Engineer George Johnson states that the work on the cemetery road will start as soon as the contract is let, in about eight weeks and that the east and west road wil be completed by July 1. Following is the letter: Department of Public Works. March 3, 1920, Lincoln, Neb. To the Honorable Board of County Su pervisors, Holt County, Nebraska, care of County Clerk, O’Neill Neb. Gentjemen: I am in receipt of your resolution as passed by the County Board, February 25 and assure you that we are making plans and will have same ready to advertise in about six weeks, for the center road running due north from O’Neill. This project as you request, will extend from O’Neill to the south line of township 32. A notice of the advertisement wifi be filed with your county clerk as soon as plans are in shape to advertise the work. We are shipping a grading outfit to Holt county, which will be used on the east and west road through the county, also on the road from Atkin son south, and these roads will be graded up in proper condition for maintemance before July 1. After the state highways are put in proper condition you may arrange to use this grading outfit belonging to the state, on your other county roads. In regard to the Chambers road, which you have filed an application to extend same to the State Highway sys tem, we do not have money available this year for construction orf same. In my option the present highway sys J;env.wiI™^i|^afoper condiipn so that that year. "SisSt-wET^urs truly, —gEORGE E. JOHNSON '' Secretary. EXPENSIVE EXONORATION. Lincoln, Neb., March 16.—The in quiry ordered by the supreme court to ascertain if any attorney had trans gressed when Burl C. Kirk, Omaha murderer was furloughed, cost the state $1,837. Orders for the payment of claims aggregating that sum were issued by the court. The state bar commissioners charged $25 a day and expenses, totalling over $1,000, while the stenographic bill was $635. The witness fees totaled close to $200. The largest claim was that of Senator Bushee, who as acting governor, is sued the furlough. He is to get $61.90 for his realroad fare and expenses be fore the hearing. SOUTH DAKOTA PRIEST NEARLY DROWNED Springfield, S. D., March 16.—Mon signor Bouska had a narrow escape from drowning while crossing the Missouri river between Running Water, S. D., and Niobrara, Neb. He was crossing (the ice on foot when the ice, weakened by the warm weather, gave way and he was submerged in the river. He was able to grasp the edge of the ice and save himself from being swept under it. He finally managed to crawl from the water to solid ice. He was compelled to walk a distance of four miles to Niobrara, with his wet clothes on. FARMERS UNION ATTENTION. The time of the year will soon be at hand when all property owners should see that their live stock and premises are well Insured against loss by Light ning, Fire, Wind Storm and Tornado. I will be in O’Neill Saturday’s pre pared to write you up in the best Farmers Mutal in the state, organized by the Farmers to protect themselves against loss at actual cost. No city property insured. Or send me a card and I will call on you at home. J. B. DONOHOE, Agent, 41-4p O’Neill, Nebr. A PRIVATE STILL. A zealous revenue officer was sent up into a Kentucky district to try to locate several “moonshine” stills which were known to exist. Meeting a native the officer said: “I’ll give you $50 if you can take me to a private-still.” “Sure I will,” was the reply, as he pocketed the money. “Come with me.” For many weary miles over the — mountain roads they tramped, until they came into view of army camps. Pointing to a soldier seated on a step inside the square, the native said: — “There you are, sir, my brother Fred, he’s been a soldier for ten years, an’ he’s a private still.”