The Frontier. i i VOLUME XLI. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1921. NO. 40. LOCAL MATTERS. George Davies of Inman, was an O’Neill visitor Tuesday. Senator James A. Donohoe attended court at Butte the firs of the week. Jack Ernst has moved on a farm north of O’Neill and is short a cook. Bert L. Powell of Opportunity, was transacting business in the city Wed nesday. C. E. Farrier of Chambers, was in the city Saturday, taking out some seed wheat. Will Cronin came up Wednesday of last week from Omaha for a visit with O’Neill friends. Chris Oswald left for Shickley, Ne braska, Friday, where he will make his future home. J. W. Holden of Chambers, was a pleasant caller at this office while in have O’Neill Wednesday. Chris and Moses Schweitzer drove up from Milford, Nebraska, to attend the funeral of John Bellar. C. E. Martin was in from the South country Tuesday and made this office a pleasant call while in .the city. Joseph Deitsch and family left for F'ordice, Nebr., Friday morning, where they will make their future home. Zell Bressler came over from Win netoon, Nebr., last Monday to spend a few days with his parents and friends. James F’. O’Donnell went down to Omaha Monday to attend a meeting of officers of federal farm loan as f. or* ia. firms Miss Cora Meredith entertained the Mariez club at her residence Monday evening, Miss Beatrice Cronin winning the honors at cards. The High School Boy’s basket ball team left for Lincoln, Nebraska, Wed nesday morning were they will enter the state tournament. Miss Ethel Strang returned home last Saturday from Council Bluffs, Iowa, where she has been visiting friends, and relatives. Mrs. C. A. Ives and daughter Myr tle, left Wednesday for Stanton, Ne braska, where she will visit her sister Mrs. W. L. Shoemaker. The Yankton College, girls glee club orchestra will be the feature of the American Legion musical to be given at the K. C. hall April 1. The senior class of the Page high school visited the O’Neill high school Monday and afterward took in the principal points of interest about the city. Judge Robert R. Dickson and Court Reporter C. B. Scott went over to Butte the first of the week to hold a session of the Boyd county district court. The Nebraska State bank has issued a handy little book for general distri bution, a compendium of measurement tables, interest rates and much other useful information. L. W. Arnold will leave for Chicago next Monday to attend the meeting of farmers and shippers, as represent ative of the farm organizations of Holt county. The meeting is called to con sider railroad rates. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Quigley left the first of the week for Hartington after a several weeks visit with Mrs. Quigley’s mother, Mrs. Florence Rat liff. Mr. Quigley has purchased a restaurant and cafe at Hartington. March has been designated as “No Lost Package Month” on the Bur lington. More than 21,000 claims for lost packages were filed during 1920, the losses being principally due to car thieves. A special drive is to be made against the latter. The cash drawer of the Farmers Union Elevator was robbed Monday afternoqp and a twenty dollar bill taken by a local young man who had been loafing around the place for some time. The loss was discovered before he could make his getaway and the money recovered. Floyd Crawford will farm th< Kightlinger place in northeastern Holi this year. A sanitary drinking fountain ha: been installed in the rotunda at th( court house. Revival services are being held a! the Baptist church at Chambers, th« Rev. Mygatt officiating. H. H. Kightlinger and family, whc spent the winter visiting southern rel aties, have returned to Holt county. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Mossman of In man, celebrated their thirty-fifth wed ding anniversary Sunday of last week George Hollenbeck of Coffeyville Kansas, who has been visiting Holi county relatives, returned home Iasi week. All of the present teaching staff oi the Spencer schools has been re-elect ed by the Spencer board of education for next term. Farmers and ranchmen around Stuart who have pasture to rent havt decided upon a price of $2 per head for the season. Mr. and Mns. J. C. Moore of Cham bers, left the first of the week foi Genoa, where they will visit relatives for several weeks. The Page I .0. O. F. and Rebekah ledges celebrated their tenth anni versary with appropriate ceremonies Monday of last week. A. Manhalter, residing east of Page, has traded his Holt county farm for one in Cherry county and will remove to Valentine this spring. Willowdale township will build and grade seven and one-half miles of new road in the township this year, it was cieciaea at tne annual townsnip meet ing last week. Ranchmen of the Chambers vicinity are complaining through the Cham bers Sun because wild antelope are hopping over the pasture fences and stampeding the stock. John Laird of Stuart, who has a large sheep ranch in Montana, will feed and finish off a large number of the sheep at Fullerton, Nebraska, and has gone to Montana to begin ship ment. A marriage license was issued Thursday morning by County Judge Malone to Mr. Leo Hanna of Cham bers and Miss Sadie Barr of Plain view, Neb. The couple were married by the Reverend Steiner at the Metho dist parsonage. News of great interest to residents of Holt county coming to O’Neill to do their shopping is that the price of eats on the dining cars on the North western were reduced beginning Mar. 7. Nothing is said about a reduction of passenger or freight rates in the bulletin announcing the reductions in the diners. Chambers Sun, March 3. Charley Cavanaugh^ met with a very painful accident one day last week. He wa using a piece of wire on his whip and in whipping the mules the wire hit one of his eyes. The end of the wire pene trated clear into the eyeball just be low the sight, and he is having a very serious time with it. We hope Charley will pull through all right. Holt county fishermen shine in any fishing class if but given the opportu nity. Los Angeles, Cal., newspaper reports are to the effect that W. W, Watson of Inman, carried off the honors out on the coast recently by catching 150 pounds of mackerel in a fishing contest. Mr. Watson learned both plain and fancy fishing in the waters of the Elkhorn and on southern Holt county lakes. For the information of the piscator rially inclined, the state game taws say that the open season on all kinds oi fish begins April 1. The open season on trout closes the first of October and on bass the first of November. The open season on other fish closes No vember 15. Fish worms now are ripe but are not supposed to be used until April 1. ii i , ' — Why Your Telephone May Get “Out of Repair” The delicate signal which oper ates on the telephone switchboard when you lift your telephone reoeiver may “bum out” or stick — then you can’t get “Central”. The fuse on your telephone line on the “main frame” may blow out—then your telephone is “dead”. Switchboard cords are small oables of several tiny wires which frequently snap from constant handling. Then your connection is “cut-off”. Telephone apparatus is sensitive to extremes of heat or cold, dust or moisture, and it may become “dead” when least expected. Considering all the delicate electrical apparatus and the “human element” involved in a telephone call, it is not surprising that things occasionally go wrong. .'iORTHWESTERN BELL T ELEPHONE CO Mrs. Frank Conley left Wednesda morning on the early train for Ne1 York City to attend tne funeral of he niece. She will visit relatives i Scranton, Pa., before she return home. * The Chris Erb quarter sectioi eleven miles northwest of the cit; sold for $44.25 an acre at the auctio sale held at the K. C. theatre Wed nesday afternoon, the purchaser bein M. A. Larson, manager of the sale fo the Nebraska Relaty Auction com pany. Negotiations are under way betwee T. V. Golden, owner of the Golde hotel block and the proprietors an managers of the Hotel Evans, Hast ings, Nebraska, by which the latte are seeking to purchase the hot* property. They also are endeavorinj to purchase the furniture, fittings an lease of Landlord W. T. Evans. State Sheriff Gus Hyers and hi deputies will co-operate with th county sheriffs and police officers o this section of the state in an imme diate drive against automobile owner who have not yet taken out license fo 1021. Several men from the stat sheriff’s office will be sent into Hoi county at once to assist Sheriff Duff: in checking up the delinquents. Wednesday of this week is Nationa Fish Day, according to the federal de partment of agriculture. The depart ment is engaged in a special drive t< get people to eat more fish. Win! Wade, Joe Hunter, Mike Horiske; Frank Barrett, M. F. Kirwin and Ed Peterson will assist in supplying th local demand after the first of Apri if the meat shops are not able to tak care of it. Members of the Woman’s Club am ethers interested in municipal affair will consider the advisability of gettinj into the spring city campaign, at ; public meeting to be held at the Roya theatre, Friday afternoon at 3:3' o’clock. The meeting was decided upoi at the club meeting Wednesday after neon. A feature of the meeting Wed nesday afternoon was an address oi utrall.il vy i-rxioa wiuipn^ ui mu uui*ti sity extension department. Sixty millions of dollars of bond will be placed on'the market by tb federal farm loan banks at once, tha resumption of loaning may begii within the next few weeks, it has beei decided by loan bank officials. Jame F. O’Donnell was in Omaha the firs of the week in conference with tb officials regarding resumption of loan ii:g and brings back the assurance tha loaning is to start in the near future Only those immediately in need o loans to meet other obligations fallinj due, and those resident on the land 01 which they seek loans will be con sidered at first, the officials informei Mr. O’Donnell. The seventh annual state higl school livestock judging contest will b held at the College of Agriculture a Lincoln April 2. The contest is stagei jointly by the College and the Stab Department of Vocational Educatioi and is open to all high schools. Mon than twenty schools took part las year and double this number will prob ably enter the contest this year. Thi two days immediately preceding thi contest will be devoted to practice work on stock at the College. A largi number of all kinds of stock will bi available for the youthful judges b work on. The contest is staged an nually to interest high school student! in agriculture and livestock raising and it gives a large amount of valua ble ‘training. Voters and taxpayers of the cit; will be asked to vote a $19,000 bom issue at the city election April 5, fo completion of the improvement of th city water system, now confessedly ii very bad phape. The money asked i in addition to the $31,000 voted las year for the new water tower, pump and main extension, the old amoun being insufficient to take care of all o the immediate needs. The new bon issue will be used to take up an in debtedness of $3,000 on the pump, fo repairs, the erection of a 10,000 gallo; oil tank, that the city may buy fuel ii carload quantities, thereby greatly rc ducing the cost, to cement the punv pit and floors of the pump house, sin a new receiving well equal to the ca pa city demands of the new pumps an for the purpose of taking down the ol stnndnine. Nathaniel E. Philbrich of Stuar has filed suit in the district court fo $25,000 against G. H. Whitman an the San Luis Investment company, a dagages in a land transaction betwee the two in which a sale contract fo Colorado land was entered into wit the defendants by Mr. Philbrich. Th amount is one of the largest amount asked in the local courts for man years. The petition alleges that th plaintiff was induced to enter into contract for the purchase of 160 acre of Colorado land at $135 per acre, th land being represented as very fertili The plaintiff paid $500 on the contrac and charges that he later found th land not to be as represented and car celled the contract. Later suit wa brought against him in the distric court, then dismissed. An actio against him then was begun in th federal court at Norfolk for $745.2 by the Conejos County State Bank c Colorado as innocent purchaser of hi notes from the defendants and r< cently attachment was filed on hi personal property at his ranch nea Stuart, in this action, just as he wa about to dispose of the same at public sale. Service was secured o the defendants at Stuart in the actio just filed as they were serving the wr of attachment secured by them froi the federal court. HIGH SCHOOL WINS TWO. O’Neill High added two games t her already long list of victories, Sa urday night, when the High Schoi Alumni were defeated by the firi team, and the O’Neill Seconds wo from Clearwater, incidentally makin it five straight. The first game was market? 1 f roughness on both sides. However, v the High School team showed its r training by more clever passing of the n ball and better ability in locating the s ring. The score was 38 to 32 and the lineup as follows: i High Alumni . Doftlin F Sullivan i Mellor F Golden . Beha C Beha ? Hammond G Irwin r Stannard G Cooper . Simonson F Hammond F Sougey G Longstaff Tho second game was easily won by j O'Neill. They outclassed Clearwater _ In every department, and were very ’ handy at teamwork. They worked the j ball time after time past their oppo nents guards, to have Joe Bazelman 5 or Bennett Gilligan to slip it in the basket. The final score was 18 to 8. The lineup: 3 O'Neill Clearwater - Gilligan F Nolze - Bazelman F Flowers - Uhl C Elston 3 Faulhaber G McDonald r Hatch G Mapes ' McPharlin G Snider t Downey F 7 This week Coach Golden has taken his proteges to Lincoln to participate 1 in the State Tournament. The O’Neill - team is in Class G, and plays Alma - Thursday afternoon. The boys taking i the trip are Captain Harold Ham ; mond, Ralph Mellor, George Stannard, r Joe Beha, Eddie Donlin and McKinley WEEKLY MARKETGRAM. Washington, D. C., March 7, 1921. i For week ended March 7, 1921. i . Hay and Feed: Timothy prices de r dined about $1 per ton in several i markets during the week but advanc 1 ed about $2 at Chicago because of > light receipts. Shipping demand light i and hardly equal to receipts. Much - low grade hay which can be sold only ■ at heavy discounts arriving at the i markets* Alfalfa market stronger at ■ Kansas City, receipts having fallen off. Quoted No. 1 Timothy New York i 5)30, Cincinnati $21.50, Memphis $27, > Chicago $26, St. Louis $26. No. 1 Al t falfa Kansas City $26, Memphis $27, i Cincinnati $26. Prairie No. 1 Upland i Kansas City $15, St. Louis $16, Minne i apolis $15. Feed. While eastern job t ting prices generally remain slightly > nwer than western shipment prices . Cincinnati and Pittsburg report in L creased activity and a steady market . with upward tendency. Southern l markets dull and unchanged. Offer t ings from middlewestern markets i light as mills are fairly well sold up. ■ Demand from feeders and country 1 dealers light; stocks on hand sufficient for present needs. Receipts ample; t transit stuff more plentiful, Linseed ,, meal strong and higher; cottonseed tVmeal heavy. Com feeds unchanged i hominy feeding supply. Qiioted Bran , 22, Middlings $21.50, Rye Middlings | $19 Minneapolis; White Hominy Feeds . $23 St. Louis, $32 New York; Gluten ■ Feeds $37 Chicago, No. 1 Alfalfa Meal $22, St. Louis; Linseed Meal $40, Min , neapolis $41, Buffalo; 36 per cent cot . ton meal $25.50 Memphis. Fruits and Vegetables: ..Potatoes ! up 10c per 100 lbs. Northern shipping i stations, reaching $1.10-1.15. Carlot i markets steady Chicago, $1.20-1.30. Round Whites up 20c western New i York stations, closing $1.18-1.20. New , York 25-40c higher at $1.50-1.65 bulk. • Cold storage Baldwin apples firm western New York f. o. b. stations up i 25-40c per barrel $4.75-$6. Baldwins | firm in city markets also up 50c rang ■ ing mostly $5-6. Northwestern extra > fancy Winesaps mostly $3-4 per box; i steady f. o. b. at $2.25-2.50. Yellow s onions held at 75c-$1.25 per 100 lbs. t in consuming western New York ship i ping point down 10c at 65c. Florida t celery steady at $2.50-3.25 per crate f in city markets. Shipping points up 1 10-15c at $1.75-1.85. California celery . $4.75-6.50 per crate in middlewestern r markets. Carlot shipments week end 1 till luaicii u. a vtotwo vjtJ-xn uva i ed apples 565, barreled apples 847; old cabbage 284, New cabbage 442. j Old celery 139, New celery 344; let c tuce 470; Onions 361; Spinach 139; - Sweet Potatoes 377; Tomatoes 136. 1 Shipments week ended Feb. 26: Po 1 tatoes 2,388, cans. Boxed apples 553; barreled apples 801. Cabbage 252, New Cabbage 386; Old celery 149, New Celery 289; Lettuce 488; Onions i 382. Spinach 178. Sweet Potatoes s 330; Tomatoes 101. \ Livestock and Meats: The Chicago livestock market was featured during i the week by a sharp decline in sheep s and lambs; following the rather sensa 3 tional advance of two weeks ago. Far ir lambs broke $1-1.25; Yearlings 75c 3 $1; Fat ewes 50c-75c per 100 lbs. Beef r and butcher cattle averaged about 25c s lower; Feeders steers up 25c to 50c. e Hogs up 15c-20c. March 7th Chicago . prices: Hogs, bulk of sales $9.60 t 10.50 medium and good beef steers i> $8.40-10.10. B utcher cows and heif - ers $5-$9.75; feeder steers $7.50-9.50; 3 Light and medium weight veal calves t $9-12.25; Fat lambs $7.75-10.25; Feed i ing lambs $7.25-9; yoarlings $6.60 e 8.75; Fat ewes $5-6.50. Compared 4 with a week ago eastern wholesale f fresh meat prices show considerable s irregularly in movement. Pork loins - generally $1 lower; beef 60c-l higher s per 100 lbs. Veal and lambs practi r eally unchanged; Mutton ranged from s $1 higher to $1 lower depending upon a the market. March 7 per good grade n meats. Beef, $17-18 veal $20-23; lamb a $18-22; Mutton $12.50-15; Light pork t loins $22-26: Heavy loins $16-20. a Grain: Although market uncertain the first part of week and partly af fected by local conditions prices work- \ ed higher until the 5th when liquida tion by prominent long accounts and o slower export demand caused decline. - On the 7th much needed rains in south il western favorable crop reports in it general only small declines in visible n wheat supply, and slow milling and g export demand caused further de dines. Corn showed considerable re y sistance despite weakness in wheat and increase of nearly 750,000 bushels visible supply. In Chicago cash mar ket No. 2 Red Winter wheat 14V&-18V6 over Chicago, May: No. 2 Hard 9V6 12V4c over; No. 3, mixed com 5V& to 5 3-4c under May; No. 3, Yellow 6V4 5Vic under. For the week Chicago May wheat up 2Vic at $1.59 1-8; May com 2V4c at 71c. Minneapolis May wheat up lVic at $1.53. Kansas City May le at $1.53; Winnipeg May 4 3-4 cent at $1.87 3-4. Chicago March wheat $1.67 5-8. Cotton: The price for middling spot cotton as quoted by the 10. designat sd markets declined about 42 points luring the week, closing around 11.08c per lbs. New York March futures up 29 points at 11.26c. AMERICAN LEGION PLAN NING MEMBERSHIP DRIVE Simonson post of the American Le gion will put on a membership drive in the near future, with the intention >f doubling the present membership of about 75 paid members. This was de eded upon at the post meeting at the :lub rooms Tuesday night when is was lisclosed that the membership at pres ent constituted but 40 per cent of the Eormer service men in the vicinity, it is proposed to bsing at least another 40 per cent into camp. The drive will tie under the auspices of two team cap tains and the team securing the small est number of new members will be recorded the privilege of dining the winning team. TVlO nnof nine ArxnlAr.A -_ 'd discussion to honor those members who in the future absent themselves ‘rom regular meetings by giving them preference on the details for policing the club rooms, and instructed Adju tant Lee Weckes to so govern him self in making out the details. Adju tant Weekes also was authorized to put on a boxing bout under Legion »uspices March 29, between Leahy and Reed. Meetings will be held twice each month, in the future, dates to be de termined at the next meeting and to 3c so arranged as not to conflict with ;he two Tuesdays each month on which the use of the club rooms is to be ac corded the woman’s auxiliary. The post requested the woman’s aux iliary to assist in providing enter :ninment for the Yankton college girls 'lee club, which will appear at the K. ? theatre under Legion auspices April 1, Every member of the Legion will wear a red Poppy, the official emblem >f the American Legion, on Memorial lay, in honor of the soldier dead, and he adjutant was instructed to procure ’rom the government proper markers, ;hat each soldier grave may be marked before Memorial day. Resolutions of thanks to donors of ill gifts toward fitting up the club zooms were ordered drawn up for pre sentation at the next meeting, when they are to be adopted. Reports of the post officers and com mittees read at Wednesday night’s meeting, incidentally the second regu lar one of the year, show that the year is to be a banner one in the life sf the organization. The club rooms nave been secured and are nearly fi rnished, other planned improvements soon are to be installed and entertain ments are being arranged that will make the club a most attractive gathering place for local and visiting service men. THERESA ADAMS. After an ailment of several months, Mrs. Theresa Adams passed away at her home in Amelia, Saturday morn ing at 1:30 March 5, 1921. The funeral services were held at the Amelia Catholic church Monday morning Rev. Father Byrne officiat ing. She was laid to rest in the Mt. Calvary cemetery in O’ijpill, Nebr. Theresa Ernst was born at Free port, 111., December 6, 1862. She was married to Rudolph Adams in O’Neill, Nebr., in 1884, to them four children were born: Augustus Adams, Mrs. Margaret Murray, Ernest and Floyd Adamaa, Besides these she leaves to mourn her death her husband and aged father, Jacob Ernst, Sr., of O’Neill, Nebraska. Two brothers Jake and Matt Ernst: four sisters: Mrs Pan McCellan, Mrs. Cldye Johnson, Mrs. John McCallister, and Mrs. Tom Gallagher, and four grand children. The many friends extend their heart felt sympathy to the family. WILLIAM HAYNES KILLED. William Haynes, a former resident of Holt county, was killed near Key stone, S. D., Friday, February 26, when a wagon load of household goods he was bringing to town overturned when the team he was driving became frightened and ran away. The body was brought to O’Neill Sunday of last week and the funeral was held Mon day, under the auspices of the local lodge, I. O. O. F., of which he was a member, the Reverend Steiner officiat ing. Burial was in Prospect Hill cem etery, beside his father. William Haynes came to Holt county in the early years, when a boy and with his parents settled on a homestead near the present town of Inman. He was the owner of the old homestead at the time of his death. Mr. Haynes was well and favorably known to all of the early settlers. THE HOUSE OF SAND. Students of St. Mary’s Academy will present “The House of Sand,” a medi ed tragedy in four acts by Ignatius Walsh, at the K. C. theatre, Thurs day evening, March 17. The cast is an extensive one and the entertainment cne well worth attending. The pro gram will appear next week. CARD OF THANKS. We desire to thank our many friends for sympathies and assistance extend ed ruring the hour of our great be reavement, the loss of our husband and father, John Bellar. Mrs. John Bellar and Family. “Royal” Theatre WEEK OF MARCH 10 THURSDAY, MARCH 10— One day only. The Realast special “LUCK OF THE IRISH” Also Pathe Review. Regular price for this one 15 and 25c. FRIDAY, MARCH 11— WM. FARNUM —-in— “HEART STRINGS” Also the official picture of the'great race between Man-O’War and Sir Barton. SATURDAY, MARCH 12— ELAINE HAMMERSTEIN —in— “THE SHADOWS OF ROSALIE BYRNES” Second night of “THE RACE OF THE AGE” WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16— CARMEL MEYERS —in— “FOLLEYS TRAIL” And a single reel Comedy. THURSDAY, MARCH 17— OWEN MOORE —in— “A DESPERATE HERO" Supplemented by Pathe Review. COMING ON EASTER SUNDAY— JACK PICKFORD In immortal story by John Fox Jr. ‘ THE LITTLE SIHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME” N “ • YES, YOU TOO N Everyone has a chance. j , Our property rights enable every man to work with con- I fidence in a just reward and I when there is an honest and | | intelligent toil of the hand and Ifll brain, there is a guarantee of property and wealth. > IIII] To go along with this, there I is the co-operation of The ; O’Neill National Bank. 5 We are interested in you, in : your success and in your de- j( THE O’NEILL NATIONALBANK O’Neill, Nebraska. I This Bank Carries No Indebtedness of Officers I i Or Stockholders. J j ^ _ Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $130,000