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NUMBER OF DELEGATES
TO BE ELECTED
The following is a list of the number
of delegates to the County Convention
from each precinct in Holt County to
be electied at the primary election
April 20, 1920, as designated by the
Central Committees, based on the vote
for Governor in 1918. The Committees
recommend that one woman delegate
be elected from each precinct.
There should also be elected at the
same time one man and one woman as
committeemen from each precinct;
these names should be in the hands of
the County Clerk not later than the
1st of April if you desire them to ap
pear on the ballot.
Precinct Number Number
or Republican Democratic
Ward Delegates Delegates
Atkinson . 8 4
Atkinson, 1st Ward . 6 2
Atkinson, 2nd Wat;d . 4 2
Atkinson, 3rd Ward. 6 2
Chambers . 12 S
Cleveland . 2 1
Conley . 4 3
Coleman . 4 3
Deloit.4 2
Dustin .i..,. 2 3
Emmet .. 4 4
Ewing ..-...10 4
Fairview . 2 1
Francis .-._. 2 !
Grattan . 8 (
Green Valley . 2 i
Golden . 4 !
Inman . 8 4
Iowa . 6 J
Josie. 2
Lake...2 i
McClure. 2
Paddock . 6 2
Pleasant View . 4 3
Rock Falls . 4 2
Sand Creek. 2 2
Saratoga . 2 3
Scott . 4 3
Shamrock ._. 2 3
Sheridan .:.. 4 4
Shields ..-.;_ 6 4
Steel Creek. 6 3
Stuart ...-._...18 £
Swan . 2 2
Verdigris . 10 (
Willowdale . 4 1
Wyoming . 4 2
O’Neill, 1st Ward . 6 4
O’Neill, 2nd Ward . 4 4
O’Neill, 3rd Ward .10 3
In the above list the number of dele
gates to be elected from the several
precincts to the republican county con
vention are to be found in the first
column and the number entitled to be
elected to the democratic county con
vention from the several precincts are
to be found in the second column.
E. F. PORTER,
County Clerk.
For Clerk of the District Court.
I have filed as a candidate for nomi
nation to the office of Clerk of the
District Court of Holt county, subject
to the action of the republican voters
at the primary election on April 20,
1920. If nominated and elected I
promise to perform the duties of the
office to the best of my ability, with
out fear or favor. Your vote and
active support at the primary will be
greatly appreciated.
J. A. JARMAN,
41-5 Chambers, Nebr.
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Fourteen more days until the fish
ing season begins.
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Next Sunday is the official opening
day of spring according to the cal
ender.
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What has become of the fellow who
used to oppose state prohibition unless
the entire country was made dry ?
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A little road dragging now, instead
■of waiting until the summer dry spell,
would do the roads a world of good.
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Saturday is the last day for filing
petitions for candidates for any office
to be voted upon at the April 20 pri
mary.
Each of the other four candidates
running in the republican primary is
confident that he could beat McKelvie
if the other three only would get out
of the way.
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A number of Nebraska’s citizens are
taking advantage of the opportunity
to get their names under a headline in
Hie Omaha Bee by giving out inter
views favoring Pershing for president.
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The two best ways of breaking into
print are to jive patent medicine tes
timonials and to declare for somebody
for president. In each instance one is
always referred to as a “prominent
citizen.”
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Sam Hudson, postmaster at Lincon,
is the third democratic post-master to
die while holding the Lincoln office.
It probably will not be hard, though to
find another democrat who is not su
perstitious.
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The women of course have forgot
ten Senator Hitchcock always has op
posed women suffrage and that Arthur
Mullen some time ago remarked that
he was opposed to votes for women
for the same reason that he thought
giving the ballot to the nigger was a
mistake.
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Jim Ryan is so used to signing sub
scription lists to help suffering Bel
gium and bleeding France that all lists
look alike to him. The other day when
he signed Sam Bertfy’s petition for
mayor he mechanically subscribed
“paid” after his name and reached for
his pocketbook.
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J. D. Ream of Broken Bow, George
Mathewson of Shickley and R. B.
Howell are the most recent candidates
to file for the requblican nomination
for governor. The number now in the
fiedl is ajjout a dozen and it may be
necessary to get out a special primary
ballot for governor, or to run a sup
plement to the regular one.
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For the benefit of the political
dopesters: The total vote cast in Holt
county in 1918, the last general elec
tion, was 3193. For United States
Senator Morehead received 1535 votes
and Norris 1588. For governor Ne
ville received 1355 and McKelvie 1688.
There were over six hundred soldier
votes away to war and of this number
only twenty-four voted.
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Representative W. W. Bethea of
Ewing, has filed for renomination and
reelection as representative from the
; Fifty-third representative district,
| comprising Holt county. Mr. Bethea
, represented this district during tjie
, last session and was one of the active
members of that body, being a mem
, ber of the agricultural committee, one
of the most important committees of
i the house. His record during the lasf
session mertis his renomination and
! reelection.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Washington Post: If the Senate
were controlled solely by patriotic mo
tivea, it would set aside the peace
treaty as quickly as possible, recog
nizing the futility of debating it or ap
proving it with reservations which
President Wilson will not accept. So
far as American adherence to the
treaty is concerned, that is an impos
sibility without the surrender of the
Senate to the President of the Presi
dent to the Senate. Inasmuch as no
surrender is in sight, there is no good
reason for taking up the time of the
Senate in discussing the treaty. A
hundred additional votes passing the
Lodge reservations would not make
them more effective than they were
before, nor would these ballotings af
fect the President’s right to pocket the
treaty. Senators know these facts as
well as the public know them. Ob
viously political motives are behind the
debate and the votes. The making of
peace should not be a partisan question
in any sense or to any degree. Un
fortunately, from the moment Presi
dent Wilson asked the people to elect
a Democratic Congress in order that
he might be the “unembarrassed
spokesman” of America in the peace
negotations, the business of getting
out of the war has been embroiled in
polities. There is no extricating the
treaty from politics at this late day.
On the contrary, it is the chief issue
between the great parties, and it will
overshadow all other questions in the
campaign.
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Philadelphia Press: Barney Baruch,
who knows as much as any man in
Washington, except the President,
says living prices have reached their
limit and predicts that they will soon
come down. The public will help that
he is a better prophet than the Attor
ney General, for it has become rather
tired of all the talk about what is go
ing to happen, when nothing happens.
These predictions are no doubt intend
ed to boost the Administration and
perhaps carry it over the next election,
but they are rather too flimsy to serve
either purpose.
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New York Tribune: Rhode Island
has taken action to have the national
prohibition amendment forced upon
her by Virginia and other" States, de
clared unconstitutional. It is an in
fringement of State’s rights, she says.
Virginia is protesting against the im
pending passage of the woman’s suf
frage amendment, already ratified by
Rhode Island and thirty other States.
It is an infringement of State’s rights,
she says. Apparently it all depends
upon whose ox is gored.—.
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New York Sun: The return of the
American railway system to private
1 management was greeted with noth
! ing less than a national burst of re
joicing. It is an incontrovertible fact
| that this country ought to have the
ber'; railway service in the world, as it
' on -e did have. American business
judgment, practical (experience and
horse sense reached the conviction
months ago that Government railroad
ing was a hopeless proposition. So
the American people were ready, eager
and determined to get the operation of
the carriers out of the hands of the
Government.
But practical railroad men charged
with the responsibility of restoring the
morale of the workers, improving the
quality of the service and reestablish
ing the credit of the roads do not, and
the general public should not, ignore
the very serious condition of the car
riers, now that they are out of the
hands of the Government.
The public is paying directly in in
creased traffic charges two billions of
dollars a year more in round numbers
than it was paying a little while ago
for transportation. But the payroll of
the roads are up hundreds of millions
and their other operating expenses are
up still other hundreds of millions be
yond the increased gross receipts rep
resented by that two billions of dollars
of increased traffic charges. The in
creased costs, in plain English, are up
far above the limit of financial safety.
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POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.
In discussing the amount of salary
the United Stated should give its am
basadors to foreign countries, Cong
ressman William R. Greene, of Iowa,
remarked:
“It is said that our ambassadors
can not live in proper style on the
sums approbated. Probably they
cannot if they make the display and
go through the pomp and ceremony
that for ages has atached to their
position. Many of us, like myself,
consider all this as a legacy of folly
inherited from the days when kings
were considered divine and their rep
resentatives were expected by their
gilded trappings and retinues of ser
vants to exemplify the greatness and
wealth of their foreign lords. If
some wealthy man wants to spend his
money in this idle show, which, to my
mind, is as senseless as a peacock’s
strut with his tail feathers extended,
let him do it; but I am opposed to
using the people’s money for that
purpose.”
That the number of physicians con
nected with the Public Health Service
is a fraud upon the taxpayers of this
country, unless it be the intention of
Congrss to substitute Government
physicians and surgeons for all those
engaged in civil pursuits, was asserted
by Congressman Caleb R. Layton, of
Deleware, recently when addressing
members of the House.
“I am not opposed to a national
health service,” said Dr. Layton. “The
matter of public health is one that in
volves well-defined principles of eco
nomics as well as human happiness
and well-being. What I am opposed
to is its extension to abnormal and
unjustifiable proportions which usurp
the rights as well as the duties of the
States, and interferes with physicians
and surgeons in their civil occupations.
“In the bureau of Public Health
are 2,300 physicians and their aggre
gate annual pay is approximately
$4,601,000—physicians drawing salaries
that are nearly 50 per cent of all the
physicians had for 4,000,000 troops
in the war.”
“This Congress will continue to cut
millions from appropriations request
ed by administration heads and fos
tered by extravagantly circulated
propaganda, and until a repu'. ’ican
president weeds out thousands of un
necessary governmental employees and
reestablishes sound business methods
in national affairs, but little hope can
be given for reducing our war taxes,”
said Congressman James G. Strong, in
a letter to the Kansas Day Club.
Just Chasing It.
Dishevelled and weary, the stout
suburbanite sank gasping on a seat in
the railway station, and glared at the
rear end of the train he had just
missed. To him came the fussy sta
tion-master.
“Were you trying to catch that
train, sir?” he asked, pompously.
The panting would-be passenger
eyed him balefully for a second before
he hissed in reply:
“Oh, no! I merely wished to chase
it out of the station!”
The River is Rising
Ask for the little booklet “The Rising River” by
the Inter-Church World Movement of America.
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_THE_
UNION GOSPEL MEETINGS
Are Helping Make
Glad Hearts and Happy Homes
COME
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MISS NELSON has arranged to stay over and
will sing for us at both churches Sunday morning
and at the big Union Meeting at the Methodist
Church Sunday evening.
BISHOP GEORGE A. BEECHER will probably
preach at the Union Service Sunday evening, but
should his schedule make it impossible, Rev. C. L.
Myers of Oakdale, will fill the pulpit. Bro. Myers
will remain with us for the week and will preach !
every night, Saturday night excepted.
All Meetings next week in the Presbyterian
Church.
Paivi /vI Urge the Invitation and Hope
Vrf'fJlIa.©* To See You Present.
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Spring Specials
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BOWEN’S RACKET STORE
Matches, per box....... 5c
Toilet Soap, per box.. 5c
Hair Pins, per box...... 5c
Shoe Strings, pair...— 5c
Baby Stockings, pair... 10c
Curling Irons, each..—.... 10c
West Electric Hair Curlers, large size, each. 10c
Ladies’ Stockings, per pair-.. 20c
Colgates Tooth Paste, tube..-... 10c j
Ladies’ Ivory Dressing Combs.. 10c ?
Flower Pots as low as.... 10c
Jardineers, as low as.. 50c
Storm Lanterns, each.. 75c
Varnish Brushes, each. 10c
Whitewash Brushes, each. 35c
Shoe Polish ........ 10c •!
Furniture Poilsh..... 25c |
COME IN.
SAFETY FIRST!
Many farmers will make settlement for their
farms March 1st. These settlements represent the
reward of years of hard work and are the earnings
of nearly a life time.
The question that naturally arises is what to
do with the money to insure its safety and still re
alize a fair return.
The Legislature of Nebraska answered this
question by passing the Guaranty Law wherein de
positors of state banks are protected by the Guaranty
Fund of the State of Nebraska. The Nebraska
State Bank of O’Neill is the only bank in O’Neill
operating under this law.
SAFETY FIRST was a good motto during the
war—why not now?
We pay five per cent on time deposits. Come
and see us.
NEBRASKA STATE BANK
O’Neill, Nebraska