The Frontier.
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VOLUME XLI.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1920.
NO. 7.
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LOCAL MATTERS.
j. J. Thomas made a business trip to
Nelig'h Wednesday.
Attorney J. D. Cronin made a busi
ness trip to Ewing last Monday.
D. Abdouch and family will leave
Friday for a week’s fishing trip to
Lake Andes.
Miss Orma Stout left Wednesday
for Albion, where she will be the guest
of Miss Mon For.
Miss Demaris Stout left Wednes
day for Tekamah for a brief visit with
her cousin,'Miss Elizabeth Latta.
A new son arrived at the residence
of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mullen, north
west of the city, Sunday evening.
George Parham returned the first
of the week from a several weeks visit
and business trip to Iowa and Kansas.
J. P. Golden is in Omaha this week
attending the state golf tournament
as the representative of the O’Neill
Golf club.
Joe Mann arrived from Chicago the
latter part of last week and will spend
a few weeks visiting relatives and old
friends.
Clifford H. Thomas and Miss Mar
garet Weston, both of Star, were
granted a marriage license by County
Judge Malone last Saturday.
Miss Irene Tomlinson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Tomlinson, re
turned the first of the week from an
extended visit with Kansas relatives.
Miss Mayme McManus is spending
a portion of the hot months at Hot
Springs, S. D., and from there will go
to Denver and other Colorado points.
Chairman Fred Watson of the
County Board, and County Clerk Por
ter, went to Lincoln Tuesday to at
tend the session of the state board of
equalization.
Charles M. Wyant of Chambers and
Miss Florence M. Barr of Plainview,
were united in marriage by Rev. W.
W. Rust, pastor of the Methodist
church in this city last Saturday.
Judge Frank Campbell performed
his first marriage ceremony Saturday
when he united Miss Margaret Wes
ton and Mr. Clifford H. Thomas, both
of Page, in the bonds of matrimony.
Mike Froelich, Tom Matthews and
Paul Wright returned last Sunday
morning from Springview, where they
had been taking in the race meet, held
last Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Lester L. Preston of Brunswick and
Miss Hazel V. Bearinger of Orchard,
were united in marriage by Rev. W.
W. Rust pastor of the Methodist
church in this city, Wednesday after
noon.
William Keller, who left Holt
county twenty-eight years ago to
locate in Florida, is visiting relatives
around Chambers, his former home.
Mr. Keller resides in the southern part
of Florida, below Tampa.
M. Richard arrived from Chicago
last Monday night and is busily en
gaged this week in getting his new
store ready to open up for business.
He expects to be ready to open up the
latter part of next week.
Dr. A. H. Corbett leaves Saturday
morning for a visit with his mother
at his old home in Pittsburg, Pa. Mrs.
Corbett, who has passed her eighty
sixth birthday, is in feeble health and
the Doctor expects to spend a month
or six weeks there.
L. C. McKim of Scott township, was
an O'Neill visitor Monday, coming in
to meet his son, Clinton, who has been
visiting relatives at Neligh. Clinton
was accompanied home by his cousin,
Earl Anderson, who will visit at the
McKim ranch for a few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Wilson of Cham
bers, who returned from Rochester,
Minn., a week ago, will leave Monday
for Oregon for an extended visit and
with a possible view of locating. Mr.
Wilson has leased his ranch near
Chambers for a term of five years.
O. O. Snyder left last Friday morn
ing for Allen, Nebr., where he was to
spend a couple of days visiting at the
home of his brother and will then visit
for a few days at his old home at
Aurelia, Iowa, prior to his return to
his home at Los Angeles, California.
Will Garrett, the hay magnate, and
Will Walters leave Thursday morning
for Kimball, Nebraska, by auto. From
there they will visit Colorado, Kansas
and Missouri, in which latter state Mr.
Garrett has interests. They expect to
be gone about a month, but will return
in time for haying.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wolfe, formerly
of Dorsey but now of Lynch, were
visiting friends in this city last Thurs
day. Mr._ Wolfe rented his farm near
Dorsey last spring and moved to Lynch
so that his children could have the
benefit of the educational advantages
offered in that village.
Judge R. R. Dickson came down
from Long Pine Thursday morning to
hear the application of the state’s at
torney general department for the ap
pointment of a receiver for the Gene
Smith bank at Page. He will return
to Long Pine Thursday evening,
where the family is spending a few
days during the hot spell.
Mr. and Mrs. Weinberg left last
Tuesday morning for their home in
Omaha, having disposed of all the
stock in their store here, The Leader.
Mr. and Mrs. Weinberg were very
pleasant and agreeable people and
made many friends in this city who
regret to have them sever their busi
ness interests in O’Neill but wish them
prosperity in their new businses ven
ture in Omaha.
Mr. and Mrs. Freidman and the
latter’s sister, Miss Nellie Deucke,
who will have the management of the
new store of M. Richard which will be
opened the latter part of next week in
the Scott building, arrived in the city
the latter part of last week and are
busily engaged getting the new stock
arranged and ready for the opening
of the store. New goods are arriving
daily and when they open for business
they expect to show the people of
O’Neill and Holt county one of the
finest stores in this section of the
state.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Grady of Wich
ita Falls, Texas, arrived in the city
last week for a couple of weeks visit
with relatives. Mr. Grady was a resi
dent of Ewing for several years, later
living at Neligh, moving to Texas
some three years ago and locating at
Wichita Falls where he got into the
oil game and succeeded in striking it.
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He is the owner of forty acres of land
upon which he has three producing
wells and is on easy street financially.
Mr. Grady has many friends in this
county who will rejoice to learn of his
good fortune.
T. P. Mullen came up from Elgin
last Monday for a few days visit with
relatives in this city. Mr. Mullen says
the hail storm that visited Antelope
county last Friday was the most de
structive in the history of that section
of the state. He said that on farm
after farm, upon which there were
splendid crops, after the storm were
left as barren of vegetation as the
streets. At the time he left home
wires were in such condition from the
storm that they could make no esti
mate of the amount of damage caused
by the storm but he said that it would
run into the thousands.
W. H. Simpson has discovered a
sure method to get prompt service
when the jitney turns over or gets
stuck on a country road. Sunday,
while driving northwest of O’Neill,
Butch’s car slipped off the grade into
a ditch filled with water, turning over
on its side and throwing Butch into
the mud and water. He walked to a
nearby farmhouse to get assistance t
pull the car out, giving an excellent
imitation of a nearly drowned man.
While those on whom he called were
discussing among themselves about
what the job would be worth Butch
became impatient and remarked that
they would have to hurry, else the
woman under the car might drown.
The effect was electrical and teams
promptly were rushed to the scene,
where Butch explained that there
wasn’t any woman under the car, but
that he was in a hurry.
St. Paul Phonograph: Mr. and Mrs.
Fred MrNally and three children ar
rived here Thursday, from their home
near Amelia, in Holt sounty, to spend
a few days with the J. F. Webster
family. Mrs. McNally is a sister to
The Phonograph editor. They made
part of their trip via auto, but came
down from Elba on the train. Their
car went on the bum near Elba and
they had to depend on the Harriman
system to get to their destination. Mr.
McNally is ranching it in Holt county
and he is not very enthusiastic over
the prices received for cattle. He has
almost 700 head of cattle and for the
past two years he has not made any
money out of his cattle. He has about
2,000 dfcres of land up there and ex
pects to put up several thousand tons
of hay for winter feeding. They re
port the roads between their place and
Burwell in a horrible shape and almost
impassable. Between here and Bur
well the roads were excellent. They
returned home Saturday.
Last Saturday the editor accompa
nied Peter Duffy, in his Dodge road
ster, to Springview where their annual
race meet was in progress, Mr. Duffy
having two horses entered there, Sal
vatore and Bagdad, and two other
O’Neill horses, Patcheon, owned by
Tom Matthews, and Last Chance,
owned by Paul Wright, were also en
tered. The O’Neill horses made a very
good showing at the race meet, all
getting into the money and making the
other horses go to beat them under the
wire. Bagdad, according to those who
witnessed her race, is an excepional
good mare and according to their
story should have won first in the
race in which she was entered, but
poor riding forced her to take second,
and that only by a neck. This horse is
owned by Frank Froelich and Peter
Duffy and gives promise of being a
stake winner with a little more work.
The horses were shipped home Mon
day where they will rest up for a
couple of weeks and they will then be
sent into Iowa to take in some of the
county fair races there.
We made our first trip to Keya
Paha county last Saturday, when we
drove to Springview to attend the race
meet. Springview is a splendid little
inland town, of about 800 people, the
county seat of Keya Paha county, and
located in the center of that county,
about twenty-six miles north of Long
Pine. This little inland town is
strictly up-to-date, having a city
water system and an electric light
plant. They have some nice public
buildings, substantial business build
ings and some exceptional fine resi
dences. The town gives evidence of
being inhabited by a progressive and
enterprising class of citizens. The
roads in that county, however, are*in
poor condition and no county in the
state needs better roads than Keya
Paha county, because they have to
freight their goods in and out. We
made the trip via the Cams bridge and
some of the worst road on the entire
trip is on the bottom, just across the
river near the bridge. A crowd of
some 3,000 people were at the races
on Saturday and they were furnished
plenty of entertainment. In addition
to the races a boxing tournament was
staged in which one of the contestants
was put out in the second round. A
bucking contect was also pulled off,
the horse unseating one rider with
very little effort; the second rider to
mount succeeded in taming the out
la. An aeropjlane furnished air thrills
law. An aeroplane furnished air thrills
They have some splendid crops in that
county, small grain being especially
fine. Corn is like it is in other parts
of the state, backward, but the warm
weather of the past ten days has
done much to make up for the late
backward spring.
HOLT CQUNTY WINS ROAD CASE
The state supreme court has affirm
ed the decision of the district court of
Iloit county in the case of Witherwax
against the county, in which Wither
wax appealed from the location of a
public road. Following is the de
cision:
“Witherwax vs. County of Holt. Ap
peal. Holt. Affirmed. Aldrich, not
sitting. Opinion by Dean.
“ ’Where a landowner files a claim
for damages caused by the location of
a public road over his land, he thereby
waives all objections on the ground of
irregularities in locating the road.’
Davis vs. Boone County. 28 Neb.
337."
RECENT FISHING EVENTS.
Youth captured another champion
ship from the greyheads when little
Frank Gallagher, son of J. P. Gal
lagher, caught a seven and one-half
pound pickerel down on Dry Creek
recently after all the "expert” fisher
men had about exhausted themselves
and their vocabularies trying to in
duce the monster to take hold of a
spoonhook. The big fish was landed
at the bayou just above the Vitt
bridge a week ago last Friday, along
in the evening, after Ben Grady, Joe
Hunter, John Hiber and L. C. Peters
had given up in disgust and while
John Dumpert was trying to catch a
frog and Frankie’s Dad was changing
reels and spoonhooks. Frankie just
plugged in with a frog and that was
all there was to it. The others kindly
offered to assist him in landing it, but
aside from having them hold him from
being dragged into the water he didn’t
need any assistance.
With young Frank becoming the
champion pickerel fisherman of the
county two championships in high
class fish now are held by Holt county
boys, the other being the ttfout cham
pionship of this and several other
counties held by littel Dick Evans, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Evans formerly
of O’Neill and grandson of W. T.
Evans. Dick caught his big trout, a
four and one-half pound speckled
beauty, up in Pine Creek near Long
Pine several years ago. His elders had
cajoled him into still fishing with a
cane pole in a quiet pool so that he
wouldn’t interfere with the fancy
fishing of the more skilled. Dick’s ef
fort never has been equalled, let alone
exceeded, before or since in Pine
Creek. Both young champions come
of good fishing stock, their forebears
being devotees of the art. J. P. Gal
lagher knows about every good fishing
hole in Holt county and many in
others, while next to Dick, Wes,
Evans probably is the best trout fish
erman jn the county.
Mrs. Roy Kissel was dragged off the
new bridge now being erected over the
Elkhom just below town, the othei
evening, by a big catfish she had hook
ed but a second before. Mrs. Kisse!
and her husband reside near the bridge
site and went down fishing in the
evening. While seated on a pile cai
over the water, watching severa
others fishing from the bridge proper,
a big catfish struck her line, unbalanc
ing her and drawing her into the
water. She still was clinging to the
pole when Roy rescued her and suc
ceeding in landing the fish after a
hard battle. It weighed nine pounds.
TORNADO, HAIL, CLOUDBURST
Oakdale Hard Hit and Surrounding
Country Devastated.
Oakdale Sentinel: The most de
structive storm in the history of this
section of the country passed over
here this afternoon between 3 and 4
o’clock. Heavy rain and terriffic hail
were driven before a high wind. At
Oakdale and a few miles north and
south the wind assumed the propor
tions of a tornado. Trees were
twisted and broken, buildings un
roofed and wrecked, windmills, tele
phone, telegraph and light lines and
fences flattened. Because of no means
of communication it is impossible to
learn ’he exact extent of the territory
covered or damage done. From infor
mation picked up from parties who
have come in from the diffeerent sec
tions it is ’earned that the heaviest of
the storm passed over the territory
included in a strip seven or eight
miles wide, beginning three miles
north of Oakdale and extending eight
miles south. However crops were de
stroyed beyond the Limbo farms in
Boone county.
There were some horses, cattle and
hogs drowned in the flood and many
chickens were killed by the hail. Doz
ens of dead rabbits are strewn over
fields and prairies.
It is impossible to estimate the dam
age done to property in Oakdale.
Every business house and dwelling
was damaged by hail and water.
Windows on the north and east of
buildings were riddled and every roof
more or less damaged. Water flowed
all over the town varying in depth
from two to five feet. Cellars were
filled with water and mud, lawns
to a depth of several inches with mud
and debris, trees broken and twisted
and stripped bare of foliage, gardens
ruined and hundreds of loose articles
washed into Cedar creek. Hundreds
of chickens and several hogs were
killed. The Morris ice house was
blown into the mill pond, the mill was
unroofed and the machinery injured
and the elevator, warehouse, engine
room and office badly damaged. The
loss at the public school building will
be large. One hundred and fifty large
window glass were broken and the
basement flooded.
The crest of the flood forced open
the doors of the city pumping station
and the pump and well pits filled with
water, hail and mud to a depth of six
teen feet. The entire plant was put
oat of commission and it is impossible
to say when the service will be re
stored.
The town and surrounding country
presents a scene of devastation that
beggars description. Nothing like it
has ever been witnessed by the oldest
inhabitant. But in spite of it all farm
folks and towns-people are cheerful
and as soon as possible will repair the
damage done.
The Frontier, only $2 per year.
BANKER COULD NOT SAY SO.
(Secretary Hart Tells More About
Causes Which Placed Page Bank
Upon Financial Rocks.
Sunday State Journal: Secretary
J. E. Hart of the state department of
trade and commerce, has returned
from Page where he investigated the
affairs of the defunct Farmer’s State
bank, a small institution that was
operated by Eugene H. Smith up to
the time of his death. Mr. Hart found
the time deposit record bad been
falsified. In his opinion from sixty to
ninety days will be required to dis
cover the exact condition of the bank.
Every note* and every deposit must be
verified. Each person who deposited
funds"must be communicated with.
The records of fifty certificates of do
posit are missing. These certificates
may be for large sums for all any one
knows.
There appears to be $60,000 more
outstanding certificates of deposit than
the daily statement of the bank shows.
Of notes there are $10,000 in excess of
the daily statements. To cover over
drafts of the Page bank it is said
O’Neill and Sioux City banks took
notes to the amount of $20,000.
Thus far there is nothing to show
that President Smith used mnoey of
the bank for his own personal account.
His tangled affairs are said to be due
to his inability to refuse a customer a
loan or the privilege of making an
overdraft. He was never known to
have refused to cash a check. Over
drafts of customers thU9 far disclosed
amount to $18,000. Most of these are
good.
Secretary Hart explains that this
accommodation of customers depended
upon the deposits received.' As long
as time deposits kept coming in he
was able to carry customers. His habit
of accommodation can be traced back
at least four years, and it kept grow
ing until last May, when the tide
turned and money coming grew less.
The manner in which President
Smith covered up his method of re
placing money advanced on notes on
which he could not collect was to enter
on the books a time deposit of $100
when in fact $1,000 had been de
posited. He did the same when a
certificate of $1,000 was paid. The
certificate of the holder would show
$1,000 but the books of the bank would
apply the difference on old accounts
not collected. Mr. Hart says this
method would deceive the best of bank
examiners.
The bank examiners have discover
ed in the bank a lot of checks paid and
not charged to the account of the
customers who issued them. At least
$15,000 of such checks have been
found and charged to the proper per
sons.
The state authorities have prepared
a petition asking the district court to
appoint a receiver for the closed bank.
The guarantee fund will be drawn
upon to pay at least $140,000 of de
posits.
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. ELEPHANT ON HIS HANDS.
Boston Transcript: Order received’
by a grocer over the ‘phone: “Please
send us 10 cents’ worth of animal
crackers and take out the elephants as
the baby is afraid of them.'
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DO YOU WORRY ^
Most of the things we worry | ,
about never happen. jr
We can think our way out of
most troubles.
Then why worry, it only In
makes matters worse. S
Hard work and real con- in
structive thinking will crowd i
out most of your worries. i
An account with The O’Neill |
National Bank will help lesson I
them. |
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O’Neill, Nebraska. |
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this Bank Carries No Indebtedness of Officers I
Or Stockholders. _ J
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