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VOLUME XLI,
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1920.
NO. 29.
I Season’s Greetings j
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I Good People Everywhere. |
TO We have always enjoyed a Splendid ||
H Patronage and we hope to continue to
TO treat you in such a way that we shall |
merit your continued Good Will and Sli
TO Patronage. Again we wish you A
Sj Very Merry Christmas and A Very
TO Happy and Prosperous New Year. ||
I Zimmerman & Son
1 O’Neill, Nebr.
LOCAL MATTERS.
Merry, Merry Christmas to all.
Here’s hoping that you all have a
Prosperous and Happy New Year.
The O’Neill public schools close to
day for a two weeks holiday vacation.
Mrs. J. J. Thomas left Thursday to
spend Christmas with relatives at
Sioux City.
Charles Adams of Dustin, was look
ing after business matters in this city
last Friday.
S. J. Weekes made a business trip
to Omaha last Sunday morning, re
turning Monday night.
* Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Ennis returned
last Monday evening from a short
business trip to Omaha.
George Agnes left this morning for
Plankington, S. D., where he Will spend
Christmas With relatives.
Start the New Year right by paying
your subscription to this popular dis
Jjt seminator of current events.
Attorney J. P. Palmer of Omaha,
was looking after legal matters in
this city last Tuesday and Wednesday.
if those owing us on subscription
would call or mail their remittance
they would confer a great favor upon
us.
Jack McAllister, the hustling real
estate dealer of Atkinson, was trans
acting business in this city last Mon
day.
Miss Irene O’Donnell, who is at
tending school at Omaha, arrived home
Tuesday evening to spend the Christ
mas holidays,
John Horiskey came down from
Cody, Wyoming, last Wednesday
morning to spend the Christmas holi
days with the home folks.
Ralph H. Hart of Middle Branch and
Miss Dorothy R. Wigent of Ainsworth,
were granted a marriage license in
county court on December 14th.
D. E. Bowen, one of the prosperous
farmers of Iowa township, was an
O'Neill visitor last Friday and favor
ed this office with a pleasant call.
Miss Helen Harrington, who is at
tending the State University at Lin
coln, came home last Monday evening
to spend the Uhristmas vacation.
The members of The Frontier staff
wishes all its readers, both large and
small, a Merry, Merry Christmas and
a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Joe Cosgrove, who presides over the
repair department at Ryan’s shoe
store, left Thursday for a Chrsitmas
visit at Council Bluffs, his old home.
Joe Vale of Nearbome, Mo., and
Miss Sophia W. Minteer of Chambers,
were granted a marriage license in
county court by Judge Malone this
morning.
Thomas Brennan, who has been hold
ing down a homestead in South Dakota
the past three months, returned home
the latter part of last week to spend
the Christmas holidays.
Miss Agnes Kelly, who has been
employed as a teacher in the O’Neill
public schools the past four years, has
resigned her position effective De
cember 24th, and same has been ac
cepted by the board of education.
The 0 Neill National Bank has
given a bonus of 10 per cent of their
salaries to all of their employees from
the president down to the janitor, so
that the employees of that popular
institution will have a Merry Christ
mas.
Dean J. J. Crawford of the Valen
The Officers and Directors of The i'i'l III
j | O’Neill National Bank take this occa
sion to 'wish their many friends and
patrons A Merry Christmas and also
to thank them for their patronage
during the past year. i ! ;'!
Through their co-operation we have
been able to build up a strong finan
cial institution and this of course gives
us much satisfaction as well as happi
i j We like to be considered as a con
| structive bank, one that helps build
up the community and the financial !
standing of our home people and in
j doing so, we become mutually helpful.
THE O’NEILL NATION AL BANK
O’Neill, Nebraska.
Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits,$130,000
This Bank Carries No Indebtedness of Officers
Or Stockholders. __
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tine Episcopal church, who also sup
plies the pulpit in the local Episcopal
church, has been transferred to Chad
ron. His successor in this district
will be announced by Bishop Beecher
in the near future.
Will Froelich and John Mullen,, who
are attending the university at Lin
coln, came up Sunday evening to spend
the Christmas holidays at home. They
report business dull in Lincoln and
that one of the large stores there has
laid ofF seventy-five clerks.
Sheriff Duffy returned Saturday
evening from Lincoln, where the
sheriffs of the state were in conference
with the state administration for
several days last week to discuss plans
for a concentrated drive against law
breakers. Needed legislation also was
talked over.
Mrs. J. P. Gallagher went down to
Omaha last Sunday morning, where
she met her daughters, Miss Hilda and
Helen, who have been attending school
at Denver, Colorado, and accompanied
them home, arriving Tuesday evening.
They will spend the Christmas vaca
tion visiting home folks.
R. H. Mills and C. V. Brown left
last Wednesday night for Colorado
and Wyoming, where they will look
over the real estate of these states
with a vitiv to locating, if something
desirable is found. Before returning
home they will also visit Spokane,
Washington, near which city Mr.
Brown owns some real estate.
William Anderson of Iowa township,
night. The main event that evening
will be a boxing bout between Johnny
Rae of Philadelphia and Red Cloud,
an Indian, of Verdigris, Rae has to
his credit victories over such Well
known boxers as Charles White and
Morrie Lux and is said to be a good
man. Red Cloud is looked upon as a
comer in the boxing game and these
two boxers should stage an interesting
contest.
Our ideal winter weather caught
cold last Monday and that evening and
.Tuesday we experienced the worst
storm of the winter. It commenced
snowing Monday evening and kept it
up all night and the greater part of
the next day and night. It blew quite
hard Tuesday night and the snow is
badly drifted on east and west roads,
making them almost impassible. It
stopped snowing and blowing Wednes
day evening and by tomorrow the
roads will probably be opened up
again. Monday night the thermome
ter registered 14 above zero; on Tues
day night it went to 8 below zero,
while on Wednesday night it register
ed 12 below zero. The past two nights
have been the coldest of the winter,
according to the Official weather ob
server, Harry Bowen.
The one Nebraska state daily that
has not raised its price is the State
Journal, still being sent a whole year
for $5 or $7 with the Sunday. The
coming legislative session will be an
important one. There is bound to be
special farmer legislation and every
1 LAND FOR SALE! |
320 acres Knox County, 3i/2 miles southwest jj
M of Verdel, rolling land, 140 acres cultivated in g|
jg one field balance meadow and pasture, small fjj
gj ^ stream of water in pasture and considerable jjg
jj timber, good productive soil, improvements are jj
jj light, school house on land; price $75 per acre, jj
jj reasonable terms,
160 acres Knox County*level Missouri bot- |jg
jjj tom land, located 5 miles southeast of Verdel, 7 gj|
jj miles northwest of Niobrara, fair set of im- |j
jg promements, 80 acres cultivated, balance good m
jj bottom meadow and pasture; price $110.00 per m
jg acre, satisfactory terms.
160 acres, slightly rolling, Cedar County, 6 jj
jj miles from Hartington; good set of improve- jlj
g ments, about 140 acres cultivated; price $200.00 m
H per acre, easy terms.
120 acres Thayer County, 5 miles east of H
jg Hebron, the county seat; highly productive val- f|g
jj ley farm, good set of improvements; price $150 jgg
jg per acre, reasonable terms. jj
160 acres, level land, fair set of improve- fjj
H ments, located 2 miles from railroad town in jjg
H Meager County, Montana; 80 acres cultivated, jg
jj excellent soil; price $40.00 per acre.
C. M. DALY, Owner.
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was a caller at this office last Monday
and left the necessary “coin of the
realm” to insure the weekly visits of
The Frontier for the coming year to
his address. Mr. Anderson said he de
sired to keep posted upon the hap
penings in O’Neill and Holt county
and he had decided that the only way
to do so was to have The Frontier
visit him each week.
L. C. Peters left this morning for
Omaha where he will attend a family
reunion at the home of his mother.
At this reunion there will be present
a brother from Portland, Oregon; a
brother from Durango, Coloado, and
his sister who lives with his mother in
Omaha. This is the first time the
family has been together for twenty
years and “Pete” is looking forward
to spending a very Merry Christmas.
O’Neill will enjoy next week a
season of comedy, drama and vaude
ville of a quality rarely seen outside
of the larger towns and cities. The
famous Lawrence Deming Theatre
company comes to the K. C. theatre
Monday for a stay of five days, con
cluding their engagement next Friday
night. The opening play is “The Man
Who Made Good.” Press notices from
the cities and towns in which the
company has appeared this season are
most flattering and assure that local
theatre goers will receive a treat.
The next fistic carnival to be placed
upon the boards by the American Le
gion will be given on New Year’s
one is interested in the question of
prices of what they sell and what they
buy. That takes in everyone. A free
discussion of all sides is given in the
Journal, an independent paper. No
family can afford to be without a daily
at this time, and the Journal with its
regressive attitude is best suited to
your needs. It is filled with high-class
features and is Lincoln’s only morning
paper. Special train service enables
it to give you later news than other
papers. The Sunday Journal should
be sold at five cents. Pay no more.
D. M. Stuart was down from Stuart
last Friday. For several years Mr.
Stuart has had charge of the several
road districts in Stuart township and
as a result of his efficient leadership
Stuart township has some of the best
roads in the county. Mr. Stuart says
that during the past year they built
thirty miles of new grade in that
township, the work all being done with
the regular township levy of fourteen
mills. If some of the other townships
in the county would emulate the ex
ample of Stuart township and place
all the road work in the several town
ships under the control of one man
there would be a noticable improve
ment in the roads in the several town
ships of the county.
EWING-O’NEILL.
O’Neill split another doubleheader
at the high school gymnasium Friday
night of last week, the boys quintet
defeating Ewing 24-21, while the girls
oBt to Ewing by 17-16, in a hotly con
sisted game.
In the girls’ game, the first half
w»b all O’Neill, the local athletes put
ting the ball in the cage for a total of
) points, while Ewing was garnering
7 to her credit. The second half
Pound the Ewing girls with much
someback, and when the final total
was reckoned, the Ewing girls were
>n the long end of the score. The
iinx seems to be camping on the trail
)f the O’Neill girls, since they have
ost the last two games by an eyelash,
rmt their spirit is undaunted and are
?oing out after the next one.
The boys’ game, according to the
great number of spectators who wit
aessed it, was the best ever seen on
;he local floor. Due mainly to the ef
forts of V. Reimer, Ewing’s center,
they were in the van at the end of the
first half, 15 to 6. The second half
was different. By flashing a brand of
team work which was excellent, the
O’Neill tossers hit the loop with un
canny regularity, Joe Beha leading the
attack with six baskets to his credit.
Harold Hammond, captain and guard,
showed up remarkably well, and de
serves much credit for the victory.
Reimer was the star of the visitors.
The line up:
O’Neill Girls— Ewing Girls—
Florence Gunn F Isabelle Conger
Sylvia Simmons F Frances Tomjack
Mildred Hough C Josephine Sievers
Oyma Clyde C Katherine Borgelt
Zelta Wintermote G Dorothy Briggs
Daisy Boyer G Cecil Tomjack
O’Neill Boys— Ewing Boys—
Donlin F H. Reimer
Stannard F Bowman
Beha C V. Reimer
Hammond G Tomjack
Mfellor G Butler
Officials: Supt. Golden, Supt. Bow
man, Miss Doyle, Miss Benson.
NOTICE.
Notice is -hereby given that the an
nual meeting of the stockholders of
the O’Neill National Bank will be held
in the banking rooms of said bank in
O’Neill, Nebraska, between the hours
of 9:00 a. m. and 4:00 p. m. on Jan
uary 11, 1921, for the purpose of elect
ing a Board of Directors for the en
suing year, and for the transaction of
such other business as may properly
come before the meeting.
S. J. WEEKES
President.
MANY CATTLE SAVED BY HOLT
COUNTY FARM BUREAU.
Livestock being the chief industry
of Holt county the Farm Bureau spent
mast of its time on‘this line of work.
The cattle industry of the county has
always suffered great losses from
blackleg. Three years ago the Farm
Bureau introduced the Germ Free
blackleg vaccine in the county and
urged every farmer to use it. Re
port blanks were sent out to the
stockmen of the county for them to
report the losses occuring during the
years previous to using vaccine. Re
ports for the past three years from
stockmen using Germ Free vaccine
have just been received and compiled.
A saving of $53,220.00 worth of calves
was shown for the three years. Six
ty thousand doses Of the vaccine was
placed by the Farm Bureau during
that time and at a saving, by buying
it co-Operatively, of $1,200.00. Nearly
all stockmen in the county are using
this vaccine now and have no fear of
blackleg. The Farm Bureau keeps
40 vaccinating instruments on hand
at its office to loan to the stockmen
for using the vaccine and 130 farmers
have purchased their own syringes.
Several thousand doses of the vaccine
is kept on hand all the time at the
Farm Bureau office in O’Neill.
Equally good results were obtained
in checking other diseases in the
county but not to such a great extent.
SUPERVISORS’ PROCEEDINGS.
O’Neill, Nebr., Nov. 30, 1920, 10 a. m.
Board met pursuant to adjourn
ment.
Members present: Hayes, Hub
bard, Sullivan, Johnson and Rother
ham.
On motion Rotherham was elected
Temporary Chairman.
(Continued on page four.)
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| During* the Joyous |
| Christmas Season |
’Happiness is universal; laughter §J
spontaneous.
Formality is cast aside; smiles m
are the order of the day.
The spirit of a year new born m
fills the air with Good Cheer. It m
sweeps the cob-webs from ambi
tion’s store-room.
To friends and patrons, we ex- ■
tend Best Wishes for a Christ- m
mas of joy, and a new Year made jjg
happy by the realization of their jjj
brightest hopes.
Nebraska State Bank
O’Neill, Nebraska