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
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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
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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.”
