Neb Historical Society
The Frontier.
VOLUME XL.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1920.
NO. 45.
NORRIS DISCLOSES
# PEACE PACT FALLACIES
United States Senator George A
Norris, speaking in behalf of the presi
dential candidacy of Senator Hiram
Johnson of California, addressed the
largest audience assembled for a
political meeting in O’Neill since 1896,
at the K. C. hall Wednesday night
His address was devoted to a dis
cussion of the issues and principles
involved in the peace treaty and the
league of nations pact which Presi
dent Wilson is trying to force upon an
unwilling people. The large audi
torium was crowded and many were
unable to gain admittance. So closely
did he hold the attention of his hearers
that not a single one left until the
speech had concluded and the audience,
at first cold and critical, before the
end was practically a 100 per cent
Johnson and Norris one. The senator
maligned or belittled none of the can
didates of either party and gave them
all credit for siincertiy of their courses,
explaining that environment may
have distorted their vision. He
graphically portrayed the gallant fight
of the twelve United States senators
who strove to have the immense for
tunes of the war bear at least a portion
of the expense, insisting that it was
no more wrong to draft the resources
of the profiteers than it was to draft
the young blood and life of the nation
to pit against the German hordes.
Discusing Article 10 of the pact and
also Article 11, to which no reserva
tions have been offered or made, he
proved by the treaty itself and the
utterances otf President Wilson that
no subjugated or subject race or na
tion could become independent once
the pact was ratified. He illustrated
the force behind the preserving of
territorial integrity by quoting Presi
dent Wilson’s own words to the
Roumanians, threatening to use the
armies and navies of the United States
to uphold the boundaries between Ro
umania and Serbia regardless of
whether or not the people of those
countries like them. The address was
the most masterly and convincing
political argument ever delivered in
O’Neill. The senator was introduced
i by Senator D. H. Cronin and J. M.
Hunter preaided at the meeting.
The meeting was preceded by a con
cert by the O’Neill silver comet con
cert band.
Senator Norris left Thursday morn
ing for West Point, where he speaks
Thursday “night.
WOOD MEETING AT
K. C. HALL TONIGHT
Archibald Hall, supervisor of public
instruction of Indiana and a noted
writer, speaks at the K. C. hall Thurs
day evening in the interest of the
presidental candidacy Of General
Wood. The address will be preceded
by a band concert. Sergeant Cecil
Conklin has been appointed Wood
campaign manager for Holt county.
PAVING POSTPONED BY
REJECTION OF BIDS
Paving of the business streets of
the city has been postponed as the
result of the protest of certain
property owners in the paving district
and the withdrawal of bids by the con
tractors who on account of the un
settled conditions of the labor and
material markets and the threat of
possible litigation over awarding a
contract, did not care to tackle the
proposition at this time. The city
council rejected all bids Tuesday night
after the contractors had requested
permission to withdraw. The project
will be revived by Mayor-elect Daly
when the new city administration
takes hold.
TO WOMEN’S CLUB MEMBERS.
There will be a special meeting of
the Women’s Club Wednesday, April
23, *at the library. Be prepared to
decide in which department you wish
to enroll.
Miss Bauer of New Jersey, a
speaker of national reputation, will
be in O’Neill on Saturday, April 24, to
deliver an address to the republicans
of O’Neill and vicinity. Every republi
can should make arrangements to hear
this gifted speaker.
HOLT COUNTY LAND
VALUES STEADILY INCREASE
Holt county land values are slowly
but steadily increasing and choice
land already has passed the $200 an
acre mark. The highest price yet
paid for western Nebraska land was
paid for forty acres near Inman last
week, when James I. Vergason of
northern Holt purchased the Theo.
Moss forty near Inman for $337.50 an
acre, and the former owner wasn’t
overly anxious to sell at that. Mrs.
Dell Aiken recently refused $200 an
acre for sixty acres near Atkinson and
John Cook turned down a like offer
for his farm three males northwest of
O’Neill.
GERHARDT CONCERT PARTY.
Last Number of Lyceum Course
Tuesday, April 20.
Don’ t throw away your season
tickets! The last number of the
Lyceum Course will be The Gerhardt
Concert Party, which was to have
been here on November 11th, but was
prevented by the big storm we had at
that. time. Be sure and hear them
next Tuesday night, at the Royal
Theater.
The company is composed of several
talented people, dramatists and mu
sicians and singers. Look for the
posters in the large windows on the
street. ^
HOLT COUNTY CATTLE
SHIPPED TO HOLLAND
Kaiser Wilhelm right now may be
dining on Holt county beef, raised and
fattened on the nourishing grasses and
sparkling spring waters of the Steel
Creek valleys by Thomas Crowe, one
of the early pioneers of the county.
Five loads of cattle sold by Roy Pil
ger, now of Plainview but formerly of
this county, and purchased by Mr.
Pilger from Mr. Crowe, were sold for
export to Holland at Omaha the first
of the month. They with five other
loads were the pick of the steer
market for the day otf sale. The;;
were billed direct to Boston and shit
Ill
SAFETY FIRST!
I” Many farmers will make settlement for their I f
farms March 1st. These settlements represent the I i
reward of years of hard work and are the earnings f1
of nearly a life time. j |
The question that naturally arises is what to
:3 do with the money to insure its safety and still re
■j alize a fair return. ii1
IThe Legislature of Nebraska answered this
question by passing the Guaranty Law wherein de- 1: j
positors of state banks are protected by the Guaranty f: j
Fund of the State of Nebraska. The Nebraska
I* State Bank of O’Neill is the only bank in O’Neill
| operating under this law, t: |
| SAFETY FIRST was a good motto during the [ j!
§ war—why not now? f j
tj - We pay five per cent on time deposits. Come [ i
1 and see us. f i
I NEBRASKA STATE BANK j
O’Neill, Nebraska j
ped from that port. In Holland they
will graze the grassy slopes of the
dikQ3 until needed by the butcher.
WORLD'S CHALLENGE TO
CHURCHES TAKEN UP
The Inter Church World Movement
Draws Holt County Citizens Into
Conference.
On Friday of last week, April 9th,
delegates from the protestant
churches of Holt County met with
representatives of the state committee
in the Presbyterian church, O’Neill,
for a county conference. Three ses
sions, morning, afternoon and evening
were held divided into periods for the
business details of county organiza
tion and for the educational lectures on
the need for, the nature of and the
program of the Inter-Church World
Movement. The atmosphere of the
conference was one of understanding.
No resolutions were passed. None
were needed. Everyone interested was
already in it heart and soul. All local
churches agreed to support the move
ment and follow where their national
leaders had marked the way. The
county officers were elected, the mem
bers of the advisory board named and
approved and plans were perfected for
bringing the program to all the con
gregations of the county. A full list
of the officers and plans for the be
ginning of the program in Holt
County will be published next week.
We have used the word “program”
freely for in brief, the Inter-Church
World Movement is a program of co
operation drawn up by the leaders of
the protestant churches of America
to reach men of every race and station
in life with the gospel of salvation, for
soul and body, in the name of Jesus
Christ. And it’s program is a mo
mentus and a gigantic one, but it is
not too large for the believer in Chri3t
to tackle in a brave and confident
spirit. For God has created a great
and wonderful world for men to live
n, a world with many rare and
precious things in it and we also ob
serve that, though men are always
paying this is mine and that is mine
TLd such and such things are mine,
I ’hat that assertion of ownership does
'.iot' prevent the speedy transfer of
said property to other hands when He
calls,—for an administrator and a new
appointment. The question is raised,
—who’s is the wealth of soil and mine,
stream and pearl reef ? The most
natural and easy and at the same
time the most authorative (the Bible)
is, that God, the Creator, is the owner
and that man’s rights of possession are
in the nature of a steward’s. So the
challenge of the world is being taken
up, by men of faith, by men who have
been given courage to consider world
visions for Christ as well as for com
mercial interests; by men who are
deeply conscious both off the world’s
great need for Christ and of the truth
of the fundamental principle of God’s
owner-ship and man’s steward-ship,
men who themselves are giving freely
of time and talents in this great co
operative undertaking of the Christian
forces of the world, and who, in addi
tion, are urging upon others, good
citizens every where, in the interest
of the common good and the future of
Christian civilization, to combine re
sources, — influence, time, money,
knowledge, good-will, all, in this new
forward-looking, soul-stirring, effort
to evangelize the world for Christ.
An appeal will soon be made for all
citizens, young and old to give much
or little, according to their means, to
help in this cause. If you are one of
those asked to give also of your time
cio not hesitate. Put first things, in
the light of eternal averages, first,
and say, yes, certainly I'll do my level
best. My best, in so great, so funda
mentally patriotic and holy a cause
must still be far too small.
REV. GEORGE LONGSTAFF,
County Convener.
REV. WALTER W. RUST,
Secretary and Publicist.
MORE LOCAL MATTERS.
T. J. Donohoe returned Tuesday
evening from Norfolk.
Oliver Connor of Golden township,
was an O’Neill visitor the first of the
week.
L. W. Arnold went to Omaha the
first of the week, where he had cattle
on the market.
County Supervisor W. T. Hayes
came down (from Atkinson Wednesday
to haer Senator George Norris.
J. B. Anderson of Page, who shortly
will remove to O’Neill, came up Wed
nesday to hear Senator Norris.
Joe McDonald, one of the Atkinson
pioneers, was an O’Neill visitof last
Monday and made this office a short
call.
The value of Brown county lands
■ changing hands in March, according
to the report of the county clerk at
Ainsworth, was $1,200,000.
P. J. McManus returned Tuesday
evening from a buying trip to Chicago.
All Chicago, he says, was much arous
ed politically over the approaching
primaries.
C. S. Jackson, one of the prominent
ranchmen of Swan township was an
O’Neill visitor Sunday and Monday.
Mr. Johnson is the present owner of
the old Fred Freeland ranch.
County Supervisors Watson, Sulli
van and Hubbard are assisting an
engineer of the state highway de
partment in logging the route of the
east and west highway through Holt
county.
Mrs. J. P. Kane and little daughter,
Ann Mildred, returned to their home
at Hot Springs, S. D., Tuesday, after
spending several days visiting at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Anthony Murray.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Henry of
Scribner, came up on the afternoon
train Monday to visit home folks for
a few days. He has secured a brak
ing run out of Oakdale and will make
his headquarters out of that city in
the future.
H. T. O’Connor oif the M. F. Patter
son Co., of Sioux City, Iowa, has just
installed a Victor Dental X Ray for
Dr. L. A. Burgess. This X Ray is the
very latest thing in Dental X Rays
and will give Dr. Burgess one of the
best equipped offices in the state.
S. H. Trussell was up from Ewing
last Monday visiting with his many
O’Neill friends. Mr. Trussell has been
a resident of the county for nearly
forty years and until his retirement
from active work a dozen years ago,
was one of the largest stockmen in
the county.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank O’Connell are
rejoicing over the arrival of a twelve
pound son at the O’Connell residence
last Thursday night. The young
hopeful already has caused a neigh
borhood quarrel between Mr. O’Con
nell and Steve McNichols, by throwing
3tones through Steve’s garage win
dow.
Carl Magnuson, prominent resident
of Bristow, Neb., has gone to Kansas
City to search for his long lost father.
Seventeen years ago the elder Magnu
son disappeared from home and efforts
to locate him since were futile. Last
winter a vague clue located him in
Missouri and the missing man now is
thought to be living in Kansas City.
Earl Faulhaber returned Tuesday
evening from a business trip to
Chicago, New York and Boston. He
3ays that popular sentiment in the
east is overwhelmingly for Johnson
for president, although machine poli
ticians are fighting hard to prevent
Johnson delegates being sent to
Chicago convention.
Otto Neilson of Phoenix, was an
O’Neill visitor last Monday and
favored this office with a short call.
Mr. Neilson says they did not have
any snow in his section last Sunday,
but had a very heavy rain. He drove
a car from his home to Atkinson and
came down on the train. He said that
there was no snow five miles north of
Atkinson.
The Neligh General Hospital has
| been designated by the medical depart
ment of the army as a military
hospital for the territory north of the
Platte river and east of the west line
of the state. All soldiers and ex-ser
vice men' in need of medical or sur
gical attention will be sent to this
hospital. Six former soldiers now >
are at the hospital.
Two women and three men will
compose the village board of Chamb
ers the ensuing year. Five women
and seven men were candidates for
the positions. The women elected
were: Mrs. Ira Halvorson and Mrs.
R. J. Graves. The women are going
to see that the village streets are
graded and hardsurfaced and that the
town is beautified. There will be no
Sunday baseball
Wesley Cobb, veteran professional
wrestler of Stuart, succeeded in throw
ing Adam Head, another Stuart wrest
ler, two falls in a bout there Tuesday
night. The first fall was in fifteen
and the second in fourteen minutes.
Head, who got his training and ex
perience in the army, is predicted by
Cobb to be one of the coming wrestlers
of the country, only needing a small
amount of training to enable him to
go up against the good ones.
George Carpenter, French champion
heavyweight, will visit Neligh, Neb.,
if he comes west according to a letter
from him by old country friends now
residing at Neligh. Mrs. Max An
drewski of Neligh was born and raised
in the same town and she and the
champion were schoolmates, play
mates, and childhood friends. Car
pentier since his arrival in America
has written Mrs. Andrewski that he
will visit her and her family at Neligh
when he comes to Omaha.
Sunday picture shows was the main
issue in the village election at Or
chard, Neb., last week and the fight
over the peace treaty in the senate is
the symbol of harmony compared with
the bitterness of the contest. The fight
brought out probably the lagest pro
portionate woman vote cast in the
state last Tuesday, as of the total vote
of 198, ninety-one were women’s bal
lots. Although the vote on the issue
was close, 100 againBt and 88 for
picture shows, and the prohibition of
shows on Sunday does not take effect
until May the proprietor of the local
movie bowed to the will Of the ma
jority and did not open up Sunday.
The section of the Norfolk to the
line of the state highway running from
Clearwater through Ewing, Page,
O’Neill, Atkinson and Stuart in Holt
county will be completed and ready for
travel before July 1. Engineers of
the state highway department Friday
went over the road from O’Neill to
Clearwater with County Highway
Commissioner Hubbard and grading
is to start within the next two weeks.
The state itself will do the work, none
of it being let to contractors, and con
victs may be employed in the road
gangs. The grading equipment al
ready has been shipped to Clearwater.
The township of Inman will build
north from Inman village at the same
time to connect with this highway,
road bonds for the purpose and to con
nect with the Harvest Trail, run
ning south from O’Neill having car
ried at the recent election.
” RECONSTRUCTION DAYS =
These are the days of re
building and readjustment, not
only in business but in our
plan of living as well.
A budget and a checking ac
count ought to be indispensible
to every careful person.
A checking account with The
O’Neill National Bank is the
best way to keep records
THE O’NEILL N ATIONALBANK
O’Neill, Nebraska.
Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits,$130,000
This Bank Carries No Indebtednass of Officers
__ s Or Stockholders. m—
