the heaviest in the history of Holt
county. The first cutting of alf%lfa
is practically completed and the
yield is reported exceptionally heavy.
POETIC.
Philadelphia Ledger: When Alice
Smith had attained the age of sixteen
she undertook to alter the orthography
of her given name to what, it seemed
to her, was a moft poetic form. Ac
cordingly, she began to sign herself
Alyce. Thus designated she entered a
new school and, of course, the first
question put to he was with reference
to her name.
“Alyce Smith,” she said, “A-l-y-c-e.”
“Thanks,’i said the teacher. “And
how are you spelling Smith now?”
BOY SCOUT DEPARTMENT.
Troop No. 1.
Howard Ashton of the Stags was in
from the country where he has a
position on a farm.
Arthur King, Hugh O’Donnell and
Gerald Phalin have learned to swim
and Erwin Cronin does the bull-frog
dive. Getting ready for the First
Class finals boys?
John Phalin resigned and Erwin
Cronin took on the office of Scribe last
Wednesday.
Do not forget to be kind to all
things you scouts who skedaddle in
the creek and remember that touching
song, “They Got To Quit Kickin’ Mah
Skeeter aroun’. ’
When you wash uniforms put some
strong coffee in the water. Keeps the
material from fading.
The Stag patrol held a meeting
along the shaded banks of the Elkhorn
recently. Sounds strange? The ex
pert scout at National Headquarters
strongly urge all meetings to be out
o' doors when the weather is docile
and gentle like.
The Scoutmaster bought a new shirt
lasUweek. It came over the Burling- _^
ton.
A table worth $25.00 was presented
to Troop 1 recently. The donor desires
uo publicity, but. friend, whoever you
are, black or white—here’s a boquet
of thanks all for you.
Erwin Cronin is your Scribe now.
Tell him any news of interest to Troop
1 or our parents and keep the guff to
yourself.
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HANNORAH H. CRONIN.
Hannorah Harrington Cronin,
mother of Dennis H. Cronin and Mar
tin F. Cronin, and widow of Daniel D.
Cronin, died at her residence in this
city Tuesday evening about 9:60
o’clock. Her death came suddenly and
without, premonition to herself or her
sons. Mrs. Cronin was seated in a
rocking chair on the front porch, con
versing with her son Martin when
God called her to the reward of a long
life marked in its early periods with
the struggles, vicissitudes, happinesses
and sorrows of a pioneer and in its
closing chapters with the peaceful and
tranquil contentment of- old age
divinely accorded those who are not
afraid to die.
Hannorah Harrington was born in
the Village of Clandre, in Agroom
Castleton Bere, County Cork, Ireland,
in 1834, and accompanied her brother
to the United States in 1868, settling
in the upper peninsula of Michigan,
where on November 29, 1862, she was
united in marriage with Daniel D.
Cronin. Nine children, two of whom,
Dennis H. Cronin and Martin F. Cro
nin, both of this city, survive, were
born to this union. In June, 1877, she
came to this then frontier land, fol
lowing her husband who had preceded
her in February of the same year, and
they settled on a farm and homestead
adjoining this city on the northeast,
Fifteen years ago Mrs. Cronin took up
her residence in the city, on east
Douglas street in the home, beside
that of her son, Dennis H., and in
which she died. She leaves to survive
her the two sons, five grandchildren
and a sister, a resident of Butte, Mon
tana.
Mrs. Cronin in her life of years
mere that the accorded span was
privileged to see written the pages of
the most stirring and advancing period
of the world’s history. She was a
witness of and a participant in the
development of this western country
from its primeval state to its present
one; a pioneer of pioneers. Until the
last she retained a brilliant mentality,
and the physical energies of one many
years her junior. Her interest in
events of the day was keen. She was
devoted to her sons, her grandchildrer
and her many, many friends and but
the day before her death she visited
comforted and administered to an ail
ing friend and neighbor of the early
duys. Few are accorded mothers like
her; none more kind or loving ones
Her sons, her grandchildren and 4iei
friends will be lonely without Grand
mother Cronin.
Funeral services were held from St
Patrick’s church Thursday morning
the Reverend Father M. F. Cassidy
officiating. Burial was in Calvary
cemetery. * L. C. P.
THURLOW-GREENFIELD.
Mr. Norton Thurlow, aged 29 years
and Mrs. Clara Greenfield, aged 48
years, both well known residents ol
Stuart, were united in marriage by
County Judge C, J. Malone Wednes
flnv.
GIB McCREATH APPOINTED
HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER
Gib McCreath, well known resident
of Atkinson, was elected to the posi
tion of county highway commissioner
by the board of supervisor's Monday
Mr. McCreath received four votes, R
J. .Marsh one, James Crowley and
William Cooper of Chambers one
Mr. McCreath is an old resident of the
county and experienced in the work oi
which he will have charge. He al
ready has entered upon the duties oi
his office. The board also designated
Supervisor L. E. Skidmore to have
charge of the work on the federal aid
road project, No. 139 D, south of Ew
ing, and Supervisor F. C. Watson the
Atkinson project, No. 132 A. Wort
on the Ewing project already is undei
way and work on the Atkinson projecl
will begin Monday.
WHITE-HELLRICH.
The following account of the wed
ding r-f Grant White of the local
Northewestern force and Miss Cecilis
Hellrich of Petersburg is taken from
the Petersburg Index. Mi', and Mrs
White will be at home in O’Neill aftei
July 10:
Petersburg Index: Miss Cecilia
Hellrich and Mr. Grant A. W hite were
married at Columbus, Wednesday oi
this week. Rev. Father Charles, oi
the Catholic church, officiating. The
bride is the charming daughter of Mi
ami Mrs. Henry Hellrich, of Peters
burg. She is one of Petersburg’s most
accomplished and admirable young
ladies. She has been employed for the
past year or so with a law firm at
Columbus as clerk and steno
grapher, who prize her services very
highly. The groom needs no intro
duction to the people of Petersburg,
having been employed as assistant
agent here at several different times
He is a young man of high moral
character, energetic and capable. He
is an operator for the Northwestern
at O’Neill, which place he has held foi
the last year, or since he returned from
army service.
They left at once for an extendec
trip in Iowa, Wisconsin and Montana
UNEARTH PALMER BUNK
IN LENITY TO PACKERS
Tincher, of Kansas, Tells House of
Camufiage to Prevent Legislation
by Congress.
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Washington, June 20.—How At
torney General Palmer, under the Wil
son administration, made a grand bluff
at bringing the meat packers to justice
and failu to such an extent that the
Republican Congress was compelled to
come to the rescue is told by Repre
sentative Tincher of Kansas, a member
of the House Committee on Agricult
ure. He says:
"The Department of Justice com
menced an investigation, under the di
rection of A. Mitchell Palmer, then At
torney General, and it was heralded
over the United States through the
press that he had sufficient evidence
ti prosecute the packers criminally
and to begin action against them civilly
under the then, as well as present, ex
isting laws.
“The Committee on Agriculture of
the House had about fifty days’
hard work in hearings on the subject,
when, like a clap of thunder out of a
clear blue sky, came the announcement
that the Department of Justice had
cured all the evils in the packing in
dustry by what is now the famous con
sent decree entered into between the
Department of Justice, without refer
ence to any existing law or to any
procedent for such a decree. This was
followed by the Attorney General’s ap
pearance before the Agriculture Com
mittee, in which he took the firm and
unequivocal stand that Congress
should not pass any legislation; that
his decree had removed all the evils;
and that in the future there would be
no trouble about the packers.
“Personally, I had the pleasure of
telling the Attorney General at that
time that in my judgment the decree
would do more harm than good; that
the interests of the great masses of
the people were not at all considered
in the agreement: that the decree was
a camouflage to stop legislation and to
protect the packers; and that the great
publicity it was receiving was unwar
ranted by the facts. However, the de
cree, and the Attorney General’s atti
tude, had this effect.
“There was no chance whatever to
report any packer legislation out of
the Agricultural Committee during the
special or first regular session of the
Sixty-sixth Congress. Then came the
recess, followed by the short session of
the Sixty-sixth Congress. The consent
decree was in force during this recess,
and there is no question in the world
but what every member of the Agri
cultural Committee came to Washing
ton upon the convening of the short
session of the Sixty-sixth Congress
firmly convinced that the decree was
bunk.”
TO BUY OLD BATTLEFIELD.
Washington, June 20. — Historic
Chalmette battlefield, just below New
Orleans, where Gen. Andrew Jackson
met and defeated the British in 1812,
will be purchased by the government
and turned into a national military
park, if Congress accepts the recom
mendation of a report made by Repre
sentative Hull of Iowa, of the Com
mittee on Military Affairs.
The measure was submitted to the
Secretary of War, and he in turn sub
mitted it to the United States En
gineers Office for report. This has
been made with the recommendation
that the park be established.
In order to do so about 226 acres of
land must be purchased, at an esti
mated cost of $2,000 per acre, and it
is figured that the total cost of estab
lishing the park will be in round fig
ures about $500,000.
The Federal Government already
owns a small portion of the land on
which is now located the Chahnette
Monument, and there is a small strip
near by on which is established a me
morial by the National Daughters of
the American Revolution. It is pro
posed to purchase the land between
these two sites.
SNAKES AND GUINEAS.
Butte Gazette: Here is a snake
story that is a snake story. A Holt
county farmer keeps guineas, and one
of the hens, as it is the custom yith
these noisy fowls, stole her nest away.
The owner located it while she was
sitting, and awaited the outcome of
her efforts w'ith the eggs, about
twenty in number. One day he heard
a terrific disturbance at the guineas’
nest, and ran to scene, discovered that
a monster bull snake had driven the
guinea protesting from the nest, and
had swallowed every egg. The snake
was despatched with a well directed
blow upon the head, and the owner
suddenly thought of something, and
so concluded that, though the eggs
might be swallowed, they are not
necessarily spoiled, so cut open Mr.
snake and there, sure enough were the
eggs all in a row, as good as new. So
he took the eggs back to the nest and
put the mother on duty again. In a
week or so, he found the nest full of
little guineas. But what puzzled him,
according to our informant, was be
sides the twenty guineas, there were
four or five baby bull snakes. His
only explanation is that it must have
been a lady snake, and he got some
snake eggs mixed up with the others.
But be it known unto you that we
don’t vouch for the truth of this last.
MORE LOCAL MATTERS.
J. J. Carey, editor of the Peters
burg Index was an O’Neill visitor and
a pleasant caller at this office Thurs
day.
Will Biglin Wednesday was trying
out a ne.w duplex roadster just re
ceived for the Misses Rose Mary and
Ruth Ann Biglin.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Graves and
family returned last night from an
auto trip to Omaha. They left here
Saturday, camping along the way both
going and coming and report the roads
in excellent condition.
Rolla Dehart, who is confined in the
city jail while awaiting trial charged
with the murder of John Mize whose
body was found in the Niobrara river
several weeks ago, is the victim of a
first-cla&s case of small pox. His
wife, Della, who is confined in the
county jail, is enjoying excellent
health. The two were visiting with
relatives who had the small pox when
arrested, but neglected to say anything
about it to the officers.
Holt county com is probably more
advanced than corn elsewhere in the
state, according to those who recently
have returned from visits to other
sections. Perhaps the banner field
is that on the ranch of F. J. Dishner
just west of this city, which already
has attained such a height and devel
opment that it was laid by this week
when it received its final cultivation.
Corn in southern and eastern Ne
1 braska rarely attains a height neces
sitating laying it by until after the
first of July. Mr. Dishner also has u
field of eighty acres of fall wheat
which will be ready to cut by the first
of next week. It is a magnificent
stand and is fujjy headed out. The
field is attracting the attention and
comment of auto tourists traveling
tl o; l north a mile west of the city.
Ol or fields of small grain and corn
m < th if the city worth an evening’s
inspection are those on the Murray,
Jenkins and Hirsch ranches and on
the ranches of practically all of their
neighbors. Indications are that this
year’s yield of small grains will be
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