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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1920)
--^-lUKWi~ ‘ -"i ' - . m„r‘ -----— - ■■ I> ■*■———*—■—■——wmmmmmm■———■ i 'll,w 11 ■" '■■'»■'■■■ ■ ■■ The Old Line Bankers Life Insurance Co., of Lincoln—R. J. Marsh, A$. The Frontier Published by Dennis H. Cronin On* Tear-$2-00 Six Months- $1-00 Three Months ___ $0-60 Entered at the post office at O’Neill, Nebraska, as second-class matter. - J "-!■ ■- ' - ' .=ZZ— ADVERTISING RATES. Display advertising on Pages 4, 6 and 8 are charged for on a basis of 20 cents an inch (one column width) per week; on Page 1 the charge is $1.00 an inch per month. Local ad vertisements, 10 cents per line first insertion, subsequent insertions 6 per line. Every subscription is regarded as an open account. The names of sub scribers will be instantly removed from our mailing list at expiration of time paid for, if publisher shall be notified; otherwise the subscription remains ’.n force at the designated subscription price. Every subscriber must understand that these conditions are made a part of the contract be tween publisher and subscriber. 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, 41-8 Chambers, Nebr. TO SUPPORTERS OF JOHNSON: I would like to hear at once from men and women who will support Hiram W. Johnson in the primary, and who will help welcome him on his tour of the state. Frank A. Harrison, Lincoln. Anent the O'Neill-Spencer Road. In the last issue of the Independent the late Brewery Senator had a long article about the above mentioned road and the burdea of his effort seem ed to be to take a crack at the writer. He has on several other occasions grossly misrepresented matters re garding this road and our connection with the changing of the same, which were a tissue of falsehoods. We have heretofore ignored his tirades because we are confident that the people who know him as a betrayer of the trust they placed in him have no faith in his statements. He has always been a tool of others, and perhaps always will be, because he lacks the brains and stamina to be otherwise. Now to the road.' The law providing for state and fed eral aid highways was passed by the legislature of 1917 and the Brewery Senator was a member of that ses sion. This law provided that the county boards should designate the lo cation of all roads that would be built under that act The county board of this county, acting under that law designated the road running north of the cemetery. The Brewery Senator was not satisfied with this location as it went a mile west of his farm and he is so selfish that he determined there would be no road built unless it went by his place. He took the matter up with his “boss,” Arthur F. Mullen, and a government man was sent to exam ine the road and said that the road should be located on the east road for the reason that there were more mail boxes thereon, and it should go there to comply with the federal law, al though he did not think a good road could be made or maintained there. But the county board did not recsind their action in locating it on the ceme tery road and, as far as the records of the County Board show, and they arc the ones who are by law required to locate the roads, the original location still stands. The reason the government man two years ago favored the east road was because the law at that time stated, that is the federal act, that the roads should be mail roads. This part of the law was changed by congress in 1917, which took from the Brewery Senator the only prop on which he had to stand. The state engineering department never did favor the east road, as the slate engineer told W. T. Hayes, chairman of the county board, a little over a year ago, that a good road could not be built or maintained on the east road. He also told me the same thing the only time I ever talked to him about the road, prior to my visit to Lincoln as a member of a com mittee from this city on March 2, 1920. It was in March, 1917, 1 talked to him about the road at the : request of the county board and it was i the only time the road was discussed by me and the state engineer or any of his assistants. Robertson says I beat the committee to Lincoln two . days, giving the inference that I was there to see about the road. I was in Lincoln on March 27 and 28 in attend ance at the annual meeting of the State Press association and did not go near the state engineers office. When he says that promises were made for me during the last campaign that if I was elected the road would be taken away from the east road and placed on the west road he deliberately and maliciously lies. I do not think anyone every spoke to me about the location of the road prior to the elect ion, but if they did I told them all that the county board had the locat ing of the road and whatever location they decided upon would receive the road, as they were the persons author izd by law to locate the roads and the only ones. He pretends to be very sympathetic with Chambers and attempts to deceive the people of that section of the coun ty into believing that if his propo sition was accepted and the road built past his eighteen hundred acre ranch and two miles further north the bal ance of the money required to build the O’Neill-Spencer road could be used on the O’Neill-Chambers road. Does he wish the people to believe that it is ignorance that makes him write that or, is it another attempt to deceive the people. He knows, or should know, that the O’Neill-Chambers road has never been designated as a state and federal aid highway and that until it is no state money can be used there on. The O’Neill-Chambers road was the fourth road in the county which the county board designated as a st^te and federal road and asked aid from the state upon. It will be built as soon as the other three roads are built. The other roads are designated by statute and the engineering depart ment must build them first. The state engineer, his assistant or any other person has no authority to use the money in the road fund on any road that is not designated and approved by the state and federal road depart ments. And Robertson knows this, or should know it. John H. Batchelor of Valentine, one of the wealthiest cattle men in the state, filed for the republican nomi nation for governor last Friday. Mr. Batchelor’s entrance into the race makes it a seven cornered fight. This practically insures the renomination of Governor McKelvie. -o Senator W. J. Taylor of Custer county, one of the most militant dem ocrats in the state and a leader in the nonpartisan league, has filed for the democrtic nomination for governor. Mr. Taylor has been in public life for several years and is one of the ablest men in the democratic party in the state. He is one of the best rough and ready scrappers in the common wealth and there is no question but what he will make it mighty interest ing for the balance of the candidates before primary day. -o J. D. Ream of Broken Bow, one of the “big guns” in the nonpartisan league organization in the state, has filed as a candidate for the republican nomination for congress from this dis trict and will contest for the nomin ation with Mose Kinkaid. We under stand that heretofore Mr. Ream has always affiliated with the democratic party, but prospects for success of democratic candidates in the coming election are not very bright and he changed his political allegiance. AN OBLIGING OFFER. The atmosphere of the smoking-car lent itsself to reminiscence. “Captain,” asked the hardware salesman, “would you mind telling me how you lost your arm?” Not at all, not at all,” re plied the bronzed officer with the empty sleeve. “It happened this way: We were due for another turn in the trenches the next day, so they were giving a dance for us that night back in the rest camp. A few welfare workers were there, and among them was the cutest little girl I ever met. I*managed to dance with her most of the evening, and toward the end we wandered out in the moonlight, “Cap tain,’ she said, after a while, ‘please ' - remove your arm,’ And you know, she was such a little queen I just couldn’t refuse her.’” Subscribe for The Frontier and keep posted upon the affiairs of this great county of ours. Easter Sunday The Day of Days for a New Hat In Readiness with Easter Hats Moderately Priced ; —AT— Grady Hat Shop We may as well try to tell of every Flower, of every Feather, or of all the Grasses and Straws that grow, ^ as to attempt to give you an idea of the beauty, style % and variety of the Easter Hats displayed here. Hats artistic, Hats correct and full of becomingness. COME!—CHOOSE! You will find a Hat to Please You at the Price You 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 I What’s the Matter I I With the Soldiers? 1 if t ^ s t vniThear a lot I UU of harping about nobody wants a soldier for Presi dent. Why not? Do the \parents, broth ers and sisters want to come out now against the men who fought for this country and deny them of the same priviliege as the men have who escaped the draft? Maybe you want a man like Bryan who ran like a rabbit when he seen trouble com ing, or a man like Hoover who sat on the grub box, or a man like Ford who stuck his head in the sand and prayed for peace. ' But a man who went out and faced the guns and helped fight for you-not him. You don’t want him. You want some smooth-tongued Dude with a canary back to have the privilege of holding office after the Soldier made it safe for him and you. If there is anything in the United States worth giving I say give it to the men who really I earned it No one has a better ctaim to anyuuny we have to give than a soldier. Its a cinch. No grape |j juice advertisement—no grub box marshal, earned | anything. In this county, in this state and in this nation, If / say the soldiers first. Anyway you should be fair g and them the same privilege as the men who did not p have to be soldiers. p Every purchase made in my store between now and g April 15th will give you an opportunity to get a 100 = pound sack of sugar free. Ask us about the particu- | lars. Soldiers get the same privilege as anyone else. j What have the soldiers done that would deprive them || if of their rights? - S| ' - 'I John Brennan, O'Neill Ca^sh Does It j