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VOLUME XLI.
.O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1920.
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NO. 3. -
O’MEILL SPRING RACE
10- MEET CONCLUDEI
Six races Sunday afternoon con
eluded the second annual spring rac
meet of the O’Neill Racing associa
tion, and also the second event thi
year of the Big Five circuit, of whicl
the association is a member. The race
just concluded were some of the bes
ever seen in central Nebraska, horse
of international fame and record beinj
at the track and racing every day o
the four day program. The origina
d-tes of the meeting, Wednesday
Thursday and Friday, were set back j
day by the heavy rains of last Tues
day, the opening day being Thursday
Owing to the large number of horse;
at the track, the owners of which ha<
entered them for the events, the as
sociation found it necessary to eithe:
extend the meet over Sunday or t<
work a financial hardship upon thi
horse owners.
Saturday was the big day of the
meeting the Derby, with a $400.01
purse donated by the O’Neil
business men, being run on that day
Reydo, owned by Charles Irwin, the
noted Wyoming sportsman who had i
stable of fourteen famous horses a
the track, was the derby winner. Ai
the conclusion of the race the notec
horse and its owner were decoratec
with floral wreaths presented by the
ladies of O’Neill, the eloquent presen
tation address being made by Presid
ing Judge J. J.’ Harington.. The
jockey who rode the horse to victor;
was presented a $20 bill as a suitable
remembrance. Reports that theflora
offerings cost the association a large
sum of money are entirely erroneous
the flowers being donated from the
many beautiful floral gardens of the
city and the wreaths prepared by Mrs
M. H. McCarthy and Mrs O’.Shea.
A pleasant feautre off the Saturday
afternoon meet, not on the regulai
program, was the benefit for Jockej
Monahan, who was injured in one oi
the races Friday afternoon. Charlej
Irwin, accompanied by the Savag<
band, sang two solos, “My Wild Irisl
_ Rose” and “Alfalfa Hay ”, in a ricb
baritone voice which aroused the big
audience in the grandstand to de
mands for an encore, and afterward i
collection was taken up by severa
young ladies for the injured rider. Th<
collection exceeded two hundred dol
lars.
The race meet, while not a monej
maker to the promoters, was a granc
success from both a racing standpoin
and a business, one, many hundreds
being brought to the city from abroac
and a program of attractions offeree
that could not be excelled at any of the
nationally famous race tracks of the
country. Such events never are giver
outside of the largest cities with anj
hope or expectations of being monej
makers, but to afford horse lovers
the opportunity of seeing the kings
and queens, the princes and princesses
of the animal kingdom, the lines of an
cestory of some of which extend bad
to the days of King Solomon and th(
pharaos of Egypt. The thanks Of th<
business men of O’Neill and the ad
mirers of fine horses are due in an un
measurable degree to Messrs. J. J
Thomas, Peter Duffy and M. E. Ver
non, promoters of the meet, for thei:
I public spiritedness and the untiring
(I energy and zeal they displayed in
j making the program the success it
- Was.
; The spring meet next year will be
- extended to a five or six day program,
* this and last year’s meetings both hav
i ing attracted such a number of horses
5 tiiat ft has 'been demonstrated an im
t possibility to crowd sufficient races
5 into a two or three day card to ac
; commodate all of the horses, or all of
f the people who like to see them go.
1 The winners Friday afternoon were:
, First race, quarter mile and repeat,
i first heat Johnny Brown first, Brown
. stone second, Herder third, time 26
. seconds. Second heat Johnny Brown
: first, Reposta second, Herder third,
[ time twenty-four and one-half seconds.
Second race, six furlongs, Our
• Leader first, Forbid second and Pros
i peros Baby third, time eighteen and a
> half.
Third race, five furlongs, Comcutter
. first, Norfolk Belle second, Sovereign
I Second third, time fifty-nine and a
half.
Fourth race, half mile, Paddy first,
Peggy May second, Patchen third,
time fifty-four.
Fifth race, half mile, Lady Mac
first, Ruth Wehle second, Winnie Mc
Gee third, time fifty-one.
Sixth race, one mile, Jim Bing first,
Baladin second, Jake Sclias third, time
one forty-six.
Seventh race, three-quarter mile,
Prince Douglas first, Frosty Morning
second, Plunge? third, time one seven
teen.
Following are the winners Satur
uay:
First race, half mile, Reposta first,
Winnie McGee second, Flossie S third,
time fifty seconds.
Second race, three-eighths mile,
Lady Mac first, Peggy May second,
The Cub Second third. Time thirty
five seconds.
Third race, quarter mile repeat,
John Brown first, Paddy second, You
Need third. Time twenty-five sec
onds, both heats.
Fourth race, one and quarter mile,
pay at each quarter, first on three
quarters, one mile and one and quar
ter, Beatrice Lucile first on first quar
ter and half. Fighter winner of race,
Alice Legler second, Frosty Morning
third. Time one fifteen and half.
Fifth race, five eighths, Curlicue
first, Thirty Seven second, Grumbling
Ina third. Time fifty-nine and half
seconds.
Sixth race, five eighths, Esther L
first, Beulah Maid second, Bevo third.
Time one minute flat.
Seventh race, one and one-eighth
mile, Reydo first, Noiseless second,
Minnie B. third. Time fifty-five and a
quarter.
Following is the program for the
Sunday races:
First race, five-eighth mile—Sover
eign 2nd, Harry Rudder, El Colonel,
Herder, Old Coin, Bon Box, Prince
Edward, Reciprocity, Red Wing,
Yukon.
Second race, five-eighths mile—Jo
Bernstein, Ingot, White Shield, Ruth
Wehle, Desert Rose, Grumbling Ina,
Carl Roberts, Thirty Seven.
Third race, three quarter mile—Nor
folk Belle, Gordon Roberts, Iron Man,
Little Spider, Forbid, Prospero’s Baby,
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has much to do with its suc
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thusiasm do you put into your 11|||
Do you do it in a hesitating I
way and hate-to- be- disturbed
manner, or do you put life
Enthusiasm in businss is the
powder behind the bullet. The
O’Neill National Bank ap
preciates the business of the
enthusiastic because it means
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Fourth race, three-quarter mile—
Connecticut, Oklahoman, Catnelia Mul
er, Flossie S. Frosty Morning.
Fifth-race, one-half mile—Beatrice
Lucile, Parcel Post, Homam, Ancest
ors, McClelland, Mico Girl.
Sixth race, one mile—Flash of
Steel, Maramon, Ralph S, Handsel
Rose, Boreas, Rameau, Fulligan,
Fighter.
The winners:
First race, five-eighths mile, Herder
first, Old Coin, second, Sovereign 2nd
third. Time one minute.
Second race, five-eighths mile,
Grumbling Ina first, White Shield sec
ond, Ruth Wehle third. Time one
minute flat.
Third rece, three-quarter mile, Pros
l ero’s Baby first, Norfolk Belle, sec
ond, Myrtle A third. Time 1:16%.
Fourth race, three-quarter mile,
Connecticut first, Flossie S second,
Frosty Morning third. Time 1:18.
Fifth race, half-mile, Homam first,
Ancestors second, McClelland third.
Time 50 seconds.
Sixth race, one mile, Fulligan first,
Boreas second, Flash of Steel third.
Time 1:45, a record for the O’Neill
track.
LOCAL MATTERS.
James Flannigan of Stuart, was an
O’Neill visitor Tuesday.
Mrs. George Miles left Wednesday
for a brief visit in Omaha.
Dan McCarthy went to Omaha Wed
nesday morning for a short visit.
Mrs. Frank O’Connell, Sr., went to
Omaha Tuesday morning to visit rela
tives.
Summer began at 12:40 o’clock
noon, Monday, June 21. Tuesday was
the longest day of the year.
Tom Connolly returned Sunday
morning from a business trip to Bil
lings and other Montana points.
Eugene Smith «f Page, was an
O’Neill visitor Tuesday, to interview
the county board of equalization.
Mrs. A. L. Willcox returned Monday
evening from a five weeks visit with
friends and relatives in Iowa and at
Omaha.
Miss Veronica Lorge came up from
Randolph last Saturday evening and
is spending the week visiting relatives
in the city.
Roy Pilger, who now is a resident
df Pierce county, came up Sunday to
spend a few days looking after his
Holt county interests.
Howard O. Miller of Ewing and Miss
Vera D. Trowbridge of Page, were
granted a marriage license by County
Judge Malone Wednesday.
Dr. Margaret Frost will leave
Sunday for a visit of several weeks
with her sister, and her daughter,
Miss Dorothy, at Twin Falls, Idaho.
John F. Gunthorpe, editor of the
Plainview News, was an O’Neill visitor
last Sunday, driving up to take in the
races and spend the day with relatives.
John Sullivan came up from Omaha
last evening and will spend a week in
this city visiting relatives and old
friends.
Francis E. Samples of Taylor, Neb.,
and Miss Julia R. Corrigan of At
kinson, were granted a marriage
license by County Judge Malone last
Monday.
Herman W. Wulf of Ainsworth and
Miss Etta Morehouse erf this city,
were granted a marriage license by
County Judge Malone Wednesday
afternoon.
At the annual'school meeting in Ew
ing last week the electors levied a tax
of 100 mills for school purposes for
the ensuing year. The levy last year
was also 100 mills.
Editor Everhart of the Orchard
News, one of the livest papers pub
lished along the Burlington, was an
O’Neill visitor last Sunday, visiting
relatives and incidently taking in the
races. •
Clifford E. VanValkenburg of Hux
tom, Colo., and Miss Mable Viola
Jones of Randolph, were united in
marriage by Rev. George Longstaff of
the Presbyterian church in this city
last Thursday afternoon.
Charles Carroll of Carrollton Coun
cil of the Knights of Columbus will
initiate a class of fifty members on
next Sunday afternoon. Members of
the order from all the surronding
towns and from South Dakota are ex
pected to be in the city for the ex
ercises.
Civil service examination was held
in this city last Thursday for the
position of postmaster at Ewing. The
following patrons of that office were
in the city and took the examination:
FYank Schmidt, Raleigh Snyder, J. A.
Butler, A. J. Davis and Miss Elizabeth
Eggleston.
Congressman M. P. Kinkaid arrived
home Saturday evening and will be in
Nebraska until congress reconvenes in
December. He left for Chadron Mon
day night and from there will go to
Alliance and Scottsbluff, where he will
meet a congressional* committee in
vestigating irrigation projects.
Ramon H. Bright of Venus and Miss
Agnes L. Traver of Creighton, were
united in marriage by Rev. Walter A.
Rust of the Methodist church in this
city «last Tuesday afternoon. The
bride is a daughter of Mrs. Traver,
who formerly lived two and a half
miles northeast of this city, but who
moved to Creighton some five years
ago.
Thomas Brewer of Duff, Neb., John
H. Evans otf ThWford, A. H. Schloss
man of Purdum, Judge J. H. Berry
man of Bassett, G. D. Gorball of Rose
and W. C. Malsbury of Burka, Ne
braska, were O'Neill visitors Tuesday
in attendance at the railroad meeting.
Mr. Brewer is one of the real old
timers of the west. He was engaged
in freighting by ox team along the
Platte valley in 1863.
During Saturday's races two aero
planes, one from Lincoln and one from
Sioux City, were in the air nearly all
afternoon. The machine from Lincoln
pulled off all ths stunts that are
known to the experienced pilot for the
edification of the multitude and on
several trips, when looping the loop,
doing the barrel roll and other fancy
stunts had passengers. Those who
took the trip say that flying is the
\niiy iuu spurt.
Exchange: The advertising rates of
the Ladies Home Journal is $12 a line
or $160 an inch. A fell page in colors
costs $11,000, and if on the back page
is $15,000. The Saturday Evening
Post charges $10 a line and $10,000 for
the back page. These sums are paid
because live firms know it pays to ad
vertise, lit these prices make the
measly lit.Ie LQ and 25 censt per inch
the country paper gets, and the mer
chants think is too much, look like 30
cents.
Last Thursday Barney Hynes took
a flight in the clouds and says that it
was the most enjoyable event of his
life. Barney and John D. Kelley were
down on the golf links looking at the
planes and John D. told Barney that
he would pay for a flight for him if he
would go up. Barney was game,
climbed in the plane and went tfior
a flight. This trip was so satis
factory that Barney had another
flight the next day, when the Lincoln
plane arrived.
O’Neill is becoming quite a Gretna
Green for those desiring to enter into
connubial bliss, as is evidenced by the
growing number of young people from
surrounding counties that come to this
city to have the marriage ceremony
performed. During the past week
County Judge Malone issued marriage
licenses to six young couples, who
were desirous of entering the matri
monial state, and of this number three
couples, or one-half of them, were
from other counties.
The editorial family was given a
loaf of bread, baked by the Bassett
bakey, from Northern Light flour
made by the O’Neill Mill and the
bread was as sweet and palatable as
any we have eaten. The O’Neill Mill
is making splendid flour and Mr.
Gaughenbaugh has built up a splendid
kuoinaoc /nv Viio ntwlnaf in f/viimc olAnrv
the Northwestern and Burlington rail
roads. This is a local institution and
should be patronized by the people of
this city and vicinity. The way to
help a town grow is to patronize the
manufacturing institutions of the
town as the growth of the manufact
uring institutions will indirectly help
you, as it will advance the interests of
the city in which you live.
Mrs. Bessie Vought has filed a peti
tion in district court asking for a di
vorce from John A. Vought on the
grounds of cruel and inhuman treat
ment and lack of support. She al
leges that they were united in mar
riage at Genoa, Nebraska, on Decem
ber 25, 1900, and that for the past two
years they have been residents of this
county. She alleges that although
well able to do so that he has failed to
work to support her and their children
and that it has been necessary for her
to work out in order to provide them
with food and raiment. Six children
were bom to them and she asks for
the custody of the two youngest, aged
eight and six years. She asks far an
absolute divorce, attorney fees and a
reasonable sum for the support of the
children until they become of age.
CARD OF THANKS.
We desire to tender our heartfelt
thanks to the many friends who as
sisted us during our recent bereave
ment, the death and burial of our be
loved wife and mother.
N. G. Hardy.
Michael S. Potter.
James F. Potter.
John H. Potter.
Mrs. Elmer Smith.
Miss Cora Potter.
WANT TO EXTEND
BURLINGTON ROAD
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion will be asked to compel the
Burlington railroad to extend its road
from the present Sioux City-O’Neill
terminus at O’Neill, to Thedford, Ne
braska, to connect with its main line
there. A vast territory along the
proposed route of approximately one
hundred and two miles,very fertile and
productive, at present is without any
transportation facilities at all and the
residents therein are compelled to
transport their produce and haul their
supplies an everage distance of forty
five miles. Coal hauled into this
district at present costs the consumer
ten dollars a ton for hauling after he
has paid the dealer for it. The pres
ent cost of getting hogs and cattle to <
the railroad from the territory is more
Iran the freight rate on the animals
from the railroad to either Chicago,
Omaha, Sioux City or Kansas City.
The proposed route will shorten the
distance from Alliance and all towns i
west of Broken Bow to Sioux City one
hundred and forty-four miles, by
transferring here to the North- ;
western, by about seventy miles. An
air line of the route would touch na
town now in existance and would be :
within a few miles of but one or two i
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Along this route is some of the most
fertile and well watered land in Ne- 1
braska or Iowa and a great portion of 1
it is in the famous flowing well
district of Holt, Rock, Brown and
Blaine counties. President Holden |
and General Manager Holdrege of the
Burlington are favorable to building
the road, which would now be in
operation except for the war. They i
state that the company has not the .
money to finance the scheme, but that ’
the residents of the territory can by ,
legal proceedure before the Interstate (
Commerce Commission require the ,
company to show cause why it should
not be built and that if they fail to do t
so the commission has authority to ,
order the extension and to finance it
through the revolving railroad fund.
The company will regard the suit as
friendly, admit the necessity of the
extension and ask for government as
sistance to build it.
The Nebraska, Iowa, Wyoming, and
Colorado Development Association,
consisting otf representatives of the '
farmers and ranchmen of the terri
tory and of Colorado and Wyoming 1
stockmen who desire better access to 1
the Sioux City market, was organized 1
here Tuesday afternoon as the first 1
step to give the territory a legal *
standing before the Interstate Com- '
merce Commission irt the hearing. The ‘
meeting was an adjourned one from a
Sioux City meeting held two weeks
ago which was attended by the rail- j
road men. The association is solely (
to gather statistics of the production, f
in tonnage and monetary value, of the (
district, the present cost of transpor
tation in and out of the territory, the
increase in production of products not ,
now feasible because of lack of rail
road facilities, and such other statis
tics as the railroad experts will re- |
quire. J. H. Berrryman of Bassett,
was elected president: C. P. Hancock, j
O’Neill, treasurer; Mayor C. M. Daly
of O’Neill, secretary; and T. B.
Brewer, Duff; John H. Evans, Thed
ford; A. H. Schossman, Purdum; G.
D. Gorball, Rose; W. C. Malsbury*
Butka; John Nelson, Amelia; J. J;
Harrington, O’Neill; S. J. Weekesj
O’Neill; John Ammon, Pony Lake;
John F. Brady, Atkinson; C. S;
Barnes, Pony Lake; directors. They
will appoint district, county and pre
cinct committees and assist in holding
schoolhouse meetings to gather the
statistics. The route will give a direct
line from Alliance and the west to
Noitflolk, Omaha, Sioux City and Min
neapolis. Application will be mad^tc
;he Interstate Commerce Commission
is soon as the statistics are gathered.
HOLT COUNTY EXHIBIT
AT THE STATE FAIR
An agricultural exhibit from the
•ounty ‘will be taken to the State fair
;his year and every farmer is asked to
Iurnish something good to take. We
will want all varieties of small grain
n the sheaf, tame grasses and
egumes and wild grasses. The bundle
>f the tame grasses and grains should
>e three inches in diameter and the
vild grasses one inch. We will want
ill kinds of vegetables. The exhibit
s judged partly ott the number of
varieties and I would like to have all
'armers having varieties, not com
nonly grown, to notify me, and I will
all for a sample of the variety. •
nVrit.p nml 1p+. mp lfnnw wfinf vnn ran
urnish. Help furnish the exhibit and
loost fer your county.
Destroy the Potato Bugs.
The potato bugs seem to be very
>ad this season and the potatoes
rhould be sprayed as soon as the bugs
ippear. Paris Green should be used
md it is Well to' use lime with it;
rhis will prevent the Paris Greeti
rom burning the plants and will make
.he Paris Green stick better. Use one
o one and one half pounds of Paris
3reen to fifty gallons of water, and
hree to five pounds of lime. We have
i’aris Green at the office here or it
nay be abtained at any drug Store in
he county.
Time to Confine Roosters.
Confine the cockerel and produce
>nly infertile eggs during the hot
weather. Infertile eggs keep better
md should bring more money than
fertile eggs. The best thing to do is
jo market the cockerel. June is the
>est time to put down eggs for tha
winter use. Be sure to get eggs that
ire infertile. The best method of
(reserving them is with water glass.
Jse one quart water glass and ten
[uarts of water. Boil the water first
md then let it cool before putting the
cater glass in it. Keep the eggs in a
lark cool place.
Forage Seeds Needed.
Due to the wet weather many
armers need forage seeds. We have
;atbered a quantity of the following
eeds and have them at the office in
)’Neill. They are home grown seeds
nd will be sold out at the prices ask
d for them by the farmers bringing
hem in. If you did not get a stand of
om and need some of these seeds,
ome in. If you have any fer sale,
(ring them in. We have cane seed,
nillet, sudan grass, sweet clover,
:affir corn and buckwheat.
F. H. LANCASTER,
County Agent.