"VOLUME XLI.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1920.
NO. 4.
LOCAL MATTERS.
Eddie Tomsick was down from At
kinson last Wednesday.
Ed. Kirwin was over from Gross
lust Sunday attending the K. C. ini
tiation and visiting relatives.
Miss Veronica Lorge, who was
visiting relatives in this city the past
week, left last Friday afternoon for
her home at Randolph.
Dewey Losher leaves this evening
for Gillette, Wyoming, where he will
iook over the country with a view to
making that his future home.
Fred Shoemaker of Winner, S. D.,
was in the city last Sunday attending
the K. C. initiation and visiting rela
tives.
Patrick Stanton of Tilden, came up
last Saturday evening to take in the
Knights of Columbus initiation here
last Sunday
Edgar E. Stevens and Miss Ethel I.
Cunningham, both of Page, were
granted a marriage license by County
Judge Malone last Wednesday.
“Sandy” Kirwin came down the first
of the week for a several days visit
with his father, M. F. Kirwin, return
ing to Chadron Thursday evening.
Miss Eva Graham of Omaha ar
rived in the city the first of the week
for a couple of weeks visit at the home
of her uncle, Ed, Graham north of
this city.
William Cooper was up from Cham
bers last Tuesday and was walking on
crutches, the result of having been
kicked on the leg by a horse. W. B.
was very fortunate in escaping with
out a broken leg.
Local fishermen are beginning to
object on account of the excessive
amount of rainfall we have had in the
past six weeks. They say that the
river stays so high that it greatly in
t .fere; with their favorite pastime.
Miss Beatrice Cronin went down to
Randolph last Friday afternoon to at
tend the wedding of her cousin, Miss
Sue Lorge, who was married last Mon
dry morning to Mr. Lysle Courtney,
i ne of the prominent young business
men of Randolph.
Neligh Register: A fair share of
Koligh’s population attended the races
ui O’Neill last week, some of them
staying for more than one day. By
automobile it is a nice ride, for dis
tane, tut the reads are reported to
have been the worst in places, that
have l een seen .for some time.
Mrs. William Bokhcf, one of the
pioneers of Holt county, died at the
home of her sister at Rock City, Illi
nois, on Sunday, June 20. She was on
a visit at the home of her sister when
she was taken with the illness that
resulted in her death. The body was
brought to Atkinson and the funeral
was held there last Thursday after
noon.
Editor W. L. Kirk of the Spencer
Advocate was in the city Wednesday,
coming over with the Boyd county
delegation to interview the county
board regarding the bridge south of
Spencer. Editor Kirk says that busi
ness is booming in the little city of
Spencer. They are now putting in a
sewerage system and are also paving
the business streets.
Anton Sagal and son of Waverley,
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' Nebr., were in the city yesterday on
their way to Atkinson, where they
were going to look after some real
estate. Mr. Sagal was formerly en
gaged in the banking business at Wil
! bur, Nebr., and represented Saline
| county in the state legislature during
'the session of 1911. While in the city
he was a pleasant caller at this office.
This section of the county was
visited with another splendid rain last
Thursday night, the governement gauge
measuring the downfall here as one
and seventy-hundredth inches. The
rainfall west of here was much heavier
than it was here. Saturday and Sun
day nights heavy rains west of here
caused the Elkhorn to rise about three
feet, overflowing its banks and inun
dating the low lands along the river.
Clarence Conger, one of the pioneer
residents of Inman, attempted to com
mit suicide Wednesday morning by
shooting himself in the head with a
shot gun. He put the muzzle of the
gun to his head and pulled the trigger
with his foot, tearing off one side of
his face and neck, exposing the jugu
lar vein. He was still alive this
morning, but is thought that he will
not survive. He is about fifty-five
years of age and has been a resident
of the Inman neighborhood for over
thirty years.
John Claussen of Atkinson and Miss
Cora E. Johnson of Joy, were granted
a marriage license by County Judge
Malone last Wednesday. The groom
to be is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Claussen, pioneer residents of Pleas
antview township, while the bride to
be is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew Johnson, also pioneer resi
dents of Paddock township. The
young people have a host of friends
throughout the countyywho will extend
them best wishes for a long and
happy married life.
Otto Smith, who was arrested a
couple of weeks ago in Arkansas by
Deputy Sheriff Bergstrom and brought
to this city charged with stealing
twenty-two head of cattle from the
Ditch Camp last May and selling them
to a Banker at Fremont, appeared be
fore Judge Dickson in district court
i last Friday, plead guilty to the charge
and was given an indeterminate
sentence of Ifrom one to ten years in
! the state penitentiary at Lincoln.
| Deputy Sheriff Bergstrom took the
j prisoner to Lincoln last Saturday
morning. Smith has been trying to
break into the penitentiary for the
past couple of years and it is to be
hoped that when he again gains his
freedom that he will be a better
citizen.
Mrs. Anna Forbes has filed a peti
tion in the district court asking for a
decree of divorce from Arthur F. For
tes on the ground of non-support. In
her petition she alleges that they were
united in marriage in Douglas county,
Nebraska, on May 26, 1909, and that
ever since she has been a resident of
this state and at the present time is a
bona fide resident of this county. She
alleges that the defendant is an able
bodied man employed as a mechanic
by the Union Pacific railroad and al
though capable of earning sufficient
money to properly provide for her and
their son six years of age, he fails
to do so, and she has been compelled
to work to support herself and child.
She asks for an absolute divorce and
the care and custody of her son.
The sixth annual meeting of the
Holt county Masons was held at Eiw
ing last Thursday evening, June 24th,
which is known among the fraternity
as St. John’s Day. The attendance at
the meeting was the largest at any
similar meeting ever held in the
county, about 150 Masons being
present, large delegations being pres
ent from the lodges at O’Neill,
Stuart and Atkinson. The banquet
and music was furnished by the
Eastern Star ladies of Ewing and J.
A. Trommershausser of Ewing was
toastmaster. Judge Page of Omaha
delivered the principal address. Other
speakers were: Rev. Jones and Dr.
Briggs, Ewing; Dr. Fletcher of Orch
ard; Wm. Krotter and A. B. Roberts
of Stuart; D. L. Jouvenant of Atkin
son; Judge R. R. Dickson and S. J.
Weekes of O’Neill. Atkinson was
designated as the place for holding the
next annual meeting.
The County Board is still sitting as
a board of equalization, equalizing the
assessments of the various precincts
of the county. Wednesday the pre
cinct assessors from the several pre
cincts of the county were before the
board and they are going over their
books reducing the assessed valuation
of the real estate of the county. As
returned by the assessors the real es
tate valuation was increased nearly
160 per cent, over the assessed valua
tion of four years ago. The members
of the county board were of the
opinion that this was too great an in
crease in the assessed valuation of
Holt county real estate and the pre
cinct assesors were called in to reduce
the assessment, as they were the only
ones who had the power to do it. The
Board of Equalization can only equal
ize the assessment as between the pre
cincts of the county. When the pre
cinct assessors complete the work of
reducing the valuations of the real
estate in their several precincts the as
sessed valuation otf the real estate of
the county will show an increase of
about 50 per cent, over that of four
years ago. Owing to the great
amount of work before the Board of
Equalization this year they will not
be able to complete their work untill
some time next week.
George Chittenden of Spencer, W.
E. McQuiston of Gross and Hans Sieh
of Naper, members otf‘ the Boyd county
board of supervisors, accompanied by
C. S. Sutton, Harry Prouty, F. E.
Nystiom and W. L. Kirk of Spencer
and Crist Anderson of Bristow, were
in the city Wednesday afternoon
meeting with the Holt county board
regarding the bridge across the Nio
brara river south of Spencer. During
the flood waters this spring the river
cut a new channel, about fifty yards
south of the old channel of the river
and the result is that only a small
stream is running under the old bridge
while the river proper is running this
side of the bridge. Some were of the
opinion that the river could be re
turned to its old channel, but that idea
has been given up as impractical, as
the danger of its returning to the
present channel would always be
present and it would take a great deal
of money to keep the river in that
channel. The Boyd county board, at
a meeting the latter part of last week,
adopted a resolution asking the
county board of Holt county to join
with them in asking the state Board
of Irrigation and Highways for a new
200 foot state aid bridge across the
new channel of the river, and it was
for the purpose of enlisting the sup
port of Holt county board in this
undertaking that the members of the
Boyd county board were in the city.
The citizens of Spencer also desired
an appropriation from the Holt county
board to assist in securing a tern
porary crossing across the river,
pending the erection of the new
bridge. The Holt county board ap
propriated $600 to assist them in
putting in a temporary bridge across
the river, provided the Boyd county
board would appropriate a like
amount. They will also join with the
Boyd county board in asking that a
state aid bridge be erected across the
river at this point. It will probably
be a couple of years before the appli
cation will be reached, as applications
for state aid bridges are approved in
their order of filing, and the applica
tion from these counties would have to
await their turn. Traffic from this
city to Boyd rounty now has to cross
the river at the Lynch bridge in the
eastern part the county or at the
Parshall bridge, south of Butte.
NOTICE TO MEMBERS
OF THE WOMEN’S CLtB
The July meeting of the Women’s
Club has been postponed. The next
meeting will be August 4th, when the
year book will be ready for distribu
tion.
DEATH OF MRS. BAILEY.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bailey died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. George
Longstaff in this city, Wednesday
morning, June 30, at 1 o’clock a. m.
The funeral will be held Saturday
morning at 10:30, interment in the
Protestant cemetery at the side of her
husband who passed away last fall.
Deceased was born in Durham
county, England, in 1839. She was
united in marriage to Mr. Bailey in
England in 1860. In the spring of
1894 she came to America, coming
direct to Nebraska and settling at
Humboldt. They lived there for foui
years and then moved to Broken Bow
where they resided for twenty years,
coming to this city to make their home
with their daughter two years ago.
Deceased leaves five children to
mourn the death of a kind and loving
mother. The children are: Rev. Dr.
George Bailey, Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs.
Salina Woodruff, Chicago; Mrs. Sarah
Davidson, California; Mrs. N. P. Con
nolly, Kansas City and Mrs. George
Longstaff of this city. The children
are all expected for the funeral, which
will be held Saturday morning.
CIVIL ADMINISTRATIVE
CODE LAW WILL STAND
The civil administrative code law
will remain in full force and effect
until such time as the legislature of
the state repeals it. This is the legal
effect of a decision handed down Tues
day by the supreme court in the suit
brought by democrats to compel the
secretary of state to accept referen
dum petitions.
The decision is based upon the fact
that the appeal from an adverse de
cision in the Lancaster county dis
trict court was not filed by the com
plainants in the supreme court within
the 10 days required by the referen
dum statute.
The judges voted five to two for
dismissal.
The decision of the court Tuesday
reverses a previous decision in which
it was held that the petition was suf
ficient and should have been accepted
by the secretary of state.
For the same reason the court dis
misses the appeal of the state in the
other referendum case, that filed by
the “wets” to secure a vote on the
ratification by the legislature of the
national prohibitory amendment. The
state lost in the lower court and did
not file its appeal in the 10 days.
Ordinarily this would mean that a
referendum on prohibition would be
held in November, but the federal
supreme court has held that a ratifi
cation resolution is not referable.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
INITIATE CLASS OF FIFTY
Last Sunday afternoon Charles Car
roll of Carrollton Council Knights of
Columbus initiated a class of fifty into
the mysteries of the order and
Knights from all over this section of
the state and southern South Dakota
were present to witness the ceremo
nies.
Work in the degree v. s put on by
members of the local council assisted
by Distinct Deputy John H. O’Malley
of Greeley and members from that
lodge.
At the conclusion of the initiatory
work a banquet was tendered the
newly elected Knights and members
in the Knights of Columbus Hall,
served by the ladies of St. Patrick’s
church and they maintained their
reputation as being among the best
:ulinary artists in the state.
J. A. Ilarmon presided at the ban
quet in his usual inimitable style and
there were vocal selections by W. T.
rhiesen of Valentine, John V. Sullivan
if Omaha, and a duet by the Misses
Mary Fitzsimmons and Genevieve
Biglin, ami addresses by T. V. Golden
>f this city, Hugh J. Boyle of Nor
Folk and District Deputy John H.
3’Malley of Greeley. Rev. J. G.
Creede of Bonesteel, S. D., one of the
noted orators of South Dakotu was
jx pec ted to be present and deliver an
iddress but on account of the condi
tion of the roads was unable to be
present.
The following were members of the
:!ass that joined the order Sunday:
William Martin, O’Neill.
Cyril J. Sauser, O’Neill.
Edward E. Sparks, O’Neil]
Walter A. O’Malley, O’Neill.
James J. McDermott, O’Neill.
Martin F. Cronin, O’Neill.
Hugh Carr, O’Neill.
Walter E. McNichols, O’Neill.
Lawrence Bruder, O’Neill.
Robert J. Marsh, O’Neill.
Stanley L. Wachel, O’Neill.
F. M. Hupp, Clearwater.
Melchoir Funk, Bwing.
Conrad Kramer Jr., Stuart.
Edward M. Gallagher, O’Neill.
Wallace S. Foreman. Spencer.
Tim H. Harrington, O’Neill.
Wm. L. Roche, Page.
Frank Allen, Page.
H. Dougherty, Middlebranch.
Frank L. Burival, O’Neill.
William F. Cook, O’Neill.
Walter Welsh, Emmet.
William Cuddy, Emmet.
Joseph Kramer, Stuart.
John M. McQuilken, Atkinson.
Aloys Schmaderer, Stuart.
Patrick J. Connolly, O’Neill.
Iouis Arthur Funk, Ewing.
Garret Kallhoff, Ewing.
Ivan James Kinamun, Ewing.
Rudy Funk, Ewing.
William Kallhoff, Ewing.
Carl J. Thiele, Ewing.
R. J. Cunningham, Orchard.
Phillip E. Savidge, Ewing.
William H. Kallhoff, Ewing.
W. C. Rotherham, Clearwater.
Edward L. Dougherty, Page.
Jesse Leo Dougherty, Venus.
Ambrose Slattery, O’Neill.
Donald Gallagher, O’Neill.
John O’Donnell, Inman.
Joseph A. Kallhoff, Ewing.
John Kester, Clearwater.
J. F. Sehi, Clearwater.
William Gokie, Clearwater.
Richard Tomjac, Ewing.
Thos. F. Donohoe, O’Neill.
Thomas. F. Donlin, O’Neill,
Frank H. Murray, O’Neill!
John J. Cook, O’Neill.
Joseph Max Rotter, Tilden
John Victor Rotter, Tilden.
Joseph W. Hough, Tilderi.
Peter Thiele, Clearwater!
DEATH OF JOHN HICKEY.
John Hickey, after an illness of
several months, passed away at his
home two miles northwest of this city
on Saturday,June 26, at 10:30 p. m.
1 he cause of death was nephritis with
complications from which it wtts
realized he could not recover, yet thd
end came rather unexpectedly as the
result of a sinking spell. His Wife and
five of their eleven living children
were at his bedside. He is survived
fcy Mrs. Hickey and the children:
Mary of Seattle, Wash,; Margaret, of
New York; Catherine, of Los Angeles,
Cal.; Alice, of Pender, Neb.; John,
Patrick, Raymond, Emmett, Winfred,
Anna (Mrs. Mart Stanton) and Lo
recta of O’Neill. All were home and
} resent at the largely attended
funeral, which was held en Thursday
from St. Patrick’s church, with inter
ment in the Catholic cemetery.
Mr. Hickey was a good neighbor
and splendid citizen, admired and
respected by all who knew him. Being
one of the pioneers of Nebraska by
industry and thrift and unfailing at
tention to the interests of his famliy
he became the owner of a large, well
stocked and productive farm.
Deceased was bom in Tipperary,
Ireland, in 1848, and came to this
country with his father at an early
age, settling first in Massachusetts.
Like many young Irishmen of his day,
he was Interested in the Irish Re
publican Brotherhood, who were the
ancestors of the present-day Republi
cans of that unconquered land, and
while on a visit to his relatives in the
old country in 1868, he was arrested
by English officers and imprisoned as
a Fenian. He was soon released,
however, and returned to the land of
the free. In 1876 he was a home
steader in Dodge County, Nebraska,
where he was happily married to Miss
'Anna Maloney, who remains to mourn
I h>s loss From 1884 to 1908 he lived
near West Point, Nebr., where he and
his estimable family have a host of
friends. In the latter year he moved
to the present family home where he
found a wider field for the agri
cultural activities of himself and his
growing sons.
GREEN STREET-WATSON.
Neligh Leader, June 24: Oscar
Truman Greenstreet of Chambers, Ne
braska, and Miss Elsie Mae Watson of
Amelia, Nebraska, were married last
Friday evening at the Methodist par
sonage by the Rev. Raymond Rush. _•*
These young people will make their;
home at Chambers where Mr. Green
street has been living. May long life,
happiness and success be theirs.
Arid Days.
London Punch: To such an extent
has America gone dry that nearly all
letters dispatched from Scotsmen liv
ing over thrre are posted with the
stamps pinned to the envelopes.
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America’s Glorious Day
The 4th of July
means mere than the flare of rockets
and the roll of drums—symbols of our
patriotic celebrations. For this day
commemorates the birth of a nation—
of a “Government of the people, by the
people, for the people” which stands to
day a leader on the earth.
Each generation has strengthened
the great structure of Americanism
founded on the ideals expressed in
America’s Declaration of Independence
—ideals to which today the world
aspires.
With thankful hearts and a fixed
purpose to be worthy at once of those
gone before and of tasks ahead, we will
celebrate this glorious Day of Inde
pendence.
Nebraska State Bank
O’Neill, Nebraska