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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1921)
The Frontier. VOLUME jtl. -i__ _ O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1921. NO. 16. yB0000000S0000000i 000000000000000i9000B0000000i1M000000000000000, $ l~^-J ...==r-===j | You Have a 3 t To Know i I This bank does not buy notes from promoters for out of town schemes. 1 ' ■ i our home people and will co operate in every way possible to | help our community. ( TheO'Neill National Bank | O’Neill, Nebraska Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $160,000.00 This Bank Carries No Indebtedness 5 Of Officers Or Stockholders. LOCAL MATTERS. Mrs. Anna Harrington is visiting relatives at Bonesteel. C. W. Moss of Atkinson, was in the city Saturday on business. Tom Strong has purchased the Em met garage Ifrom Beckwith brothers. B. A. Powell of Opportunity, was an O’Neill business visitor the first of the week. Joe Mann arrived from Chicago Saturday for a short visit with O’Neill friends. Edward Jennings has returned to Atkinson after a year’s residence at Canon City, Colo. Miss Kathleen Tenborg of Emmet, will teach in the Hays Springs city schools this winter. Miss Mae Hammond left Tuesday morning for Omaha to attend the Ak Sar-Ben festivities. F. C. Cowden is in the city for a few days, looking after his extensive Holt county interests. J. M. Hunter returned Friday morn ing of last week from a short busi ness trip to Valentine. The tri-state press association will be in session at Sioux City Friday and Saturday of this week. Wink W£dc an{l Will Graves caught a string of large catfish dolwn the river Tuesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. William Meyers of Ewing, will femoVe to Gresham, York county, in thd near future. Will Froelich and John Mullen re turned Sunday evening from a week visit at Omaha and Lincoln. Atkinson has completed its new water system and now has ample pressure for fire protection. There were so many accidents in Page last week that the Reporter had to run a special accident column. Miss Ireneaia Biglin was hostess tp the Martez club Monday evening. ^freshTruit^^ (AND VEGETABLES ; Everything In Season Steeple and Faoicy Groceries I Ben Grady, Grocer ’•000000000000000000000390000000000000000^ Mrs. Patrick Harty won the honors ai auction. The Misses Ethel and Edith Lund strom of Chambers, have gone t( Douglas, Wyoming, where they wil teach school. Miss Helen Campbell and Miss Catherine Douglas of Atkinson wil attend school at Sacred Heart acad emy, Omaha. The Misses Dorothy Thomas anc Sophia Wefso of Stuart, have en rolled at the Methodist hospital ai Omaha as student nurses. Charles Hammers of Detroit, Mich, is the guest of his mother, Mrs. James Pace, and his sister, Mrs. John L Quig, during the county fair. Miss Elizabeth O’Malley returnee the first of the week from a several weeks vacation spent in the anti-haj fever climate of Wisconsin. The fall term of district court foi Keya Paha county will convene a1 Springview next Monday, with Judge Robert R. Dickson presiding. The government is making exten sive improvements at Ewing. Post master Garry Benson is having the postoffice building painted. Anton Toy was passing around the cigars Monday, the occasion being the arrival of an eleven pound boy at the Toy residence Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Loebe of Os mond, have resumed management of the Highland Inn at Spencer, operat ed by them up to two years ago. Harold Hammond and John Phalin, who are making a tour of the west, have arrived at Los Angeles, accord ing to advises received by relatives. The Reverend S. J. Rasmussen of Amelia has removed to Emmet, where he will preside as pastor of the Metho dist church the coming confeerencc year. William Fallon, jr., returned the , first of the week from the Madison 'county fair with Last Chance,"which Jj captured three races at that place last 5 Week. The percentage of foreign-bom S white population in Holt county is 7.9 § as compared with 11 in 1910, accord ^ ing to the report of the bureau of 5 census. Mrs. Jacob Frane, (who has been q the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Rob ert Fullerton of Atkinson, this sum mer, has returned to her home at Reedly, California. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrede were called to Tama City, Iotwa, the first of the week by announcement of the serious illness of their son-in-law, Joseph Rubencamp. Stuart is to have a public hospital, the first one to be established in Holt county. The residence of R. E. Chit tick has been leased for the purpose by Dr. F. L. Wilson. Last Saturday was Constitution Day. Celebrations commemorating the adoption of the constitution of the United States 134 years ago were held in many communities. David William, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Holcomb of j Chambers, died Friday, September 9, j after a short illness. The funeral was j the following Saturday, j Mary, the little daugter of Mr. and j Mrs. William Cuddy of Emmet ,was j operated on for appendicitis at Nor | folk recently and is recovering rep ! idly from the operation. Paul Kubitschek, who has been the | guest of his brother, Dr. F. J. Kubit 1 schek for several months, returned to ! his studies at Creighton medical col | lege Wedensday morningi D»^uau, tne ciassy stepper be | longing to Sheriff Duffy and Frank ] Froelich, was entered at the Omaha | race meet last week but failed to | capture any olf the prizes. | Miss Ellen Clare Donovan of St. i Paul, Minn., who charmed O’Neill , music lovers with her beautiful voice while here last winter, is the guest of ; her sister, Mrs. W. F. Finley. Ira Moss, clerk of the district court, went to Atkinson Friday, where he will join his brothers in a Week or ten day hunting and fishing trip in south - ern Holt and Cherry counties. Holt county friends have received cards announcing the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sufficool of South Bend, Indiana, Mrs. Sufficool formerly was Miss Laurene Blesh of Ewing. Mrs. R. E. Chitick, sons Rupert and Ralph and daughter, Ethel, of Stuart, has gone to Lincoln, where Rupert will attend the university and Ralph and Ethel the Lincoln city schools. The Hays Springs sea serpant made another public appearance last week artd Prohibition Enforcement Director Rohrer may have to send a special squad into Sheridan county to sub due it. The duck season opened last Fri day, but no very large bags are being reported. Although the ducks are numerous they are not nearly so much so as the hunters, both local and from abroad. Spencer Advocate, Sept. 15: Vera Smith, who has been visiting at O’Neill and Page, stopped over Sunday to visit his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, before returning to his home at Herrick Senator James A. Donohoe, Judge J. J. Harrington and J. D. Cronin went to Norfolk Monday to attend the opening session of federal court, at which several Holt county cases come up for hearing. The Northwestern Railroad has set tled with C. S. Cooper of Lynch, for $3,500 for the death of his wife and a daughter, who were killed when their auto collided with a train near Lynch early in August. R. W. McGinnis and Mrs. McGinnis of Fremont and Lincoln were the guets of Mr. and Mrs. R. M- Sauers from Friday until Sunday afternoon. They visited the McGinnis ranch at Amelia Sunday morning. Frank Barrett demonstrated the reasonableness olf the scientific claim that frogs are better bass bait than minnows the other day by catching a four pound bass »on a frog when no one was getting bites on minnows. The nut club has dissolved its sum mer partnership with the whist club and moved back to its old winter quar ters just nort of the postoffice. Several new checkerboards and books of problems have been ordered for this season’s play. Fred Seip, wife and son, of Chey enne, Colo., and the Williapi West family of Page, last week enjoyed a family reunion at the West residence. Mr. West and Mrs. Seip are brother and sister and it was their first meet ing in twenty-four years. Frank Harrington, Frank O’Con nell, Cecil Conklin and Lee Weekes were selected as delegates from Si monson post of the American Legion to the department convention a.t Fre mont, at a meeting of the post Fri day evening. The deparment conven tion will begin September 29 and con tinue to and including October 1. Holt county crop conditions ac cording to the Nebraska state crop re port is corn 104 per cent, spring wheat 80„ oa^s 82, barley 85 and potatoes 08. The yield per acre of tame hay is given at 1.8 tons per acre, wild hay six-tenths of a ton, alfalfa 2 tons. The number of hogs in the county is estimated at 9 per cent less than last year. Spencer, Advocate, Sept. 15: Miss Grace Keeife returned from Day.lou, Ohio, last week wh&rv she had been as a delegate of St. Mary’s academy of O’Neill, to the annual convention of the Catholic Students crusade, which was held at Dayton from the 8ih to the 11th of August. On her return she stopped at Chicago and Sioux City to visit relatives. Miss DeMaris Stout was pledged to Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at the conclusion oif rush week at the state university, Lincoln, last week. Invi tations to membership in the various sororities at the Univerity of Ne braska were issued Saturday under the direction of the Pan-Hellenic board of which Miss Margaret McPhee is chairman. Distribution was made by means of a motor corps headed by Miss Helen Harrington of this city. The Reverend M. F. Cassidy and Miss Marne Cullen returned Tuesday evening from a several weeks visit at Denver and Colorado Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Herb Jansen ente tained at a* dance last Friday night out at the Jansen country home in Shields township. Tommy Dear was the orchestra, the occasion being es pecially for him to practice up for the Old Fiddlers contest at the fair. Ouly square dances were danced, Jim Con nolly and some of the rest of the boys not being up on fox trotting and other of the newfangled ones. Mrs. Tbmmy Ike officiating very ably as the caller and every one had a most enjoyable time. C. E. McCarthy of Milwaukee ar rived Tuesday for a short visit with his brother, Postmaster McCarthy, and incidentally to renew acquaintance with his many Holt county friends. Although he leift here in ’92 the country still holds its attractions for him. He reports the potato and small grain crops of this section as much better than those of Wisconsin and says that a very late frost is all that will save the late crop of that famouse potato growing district. The early crop was almost entirely a failure. I he Nebraska Agricultural Coun cil, composed of the heads of the various farm organization in Nebras ka, twill hold a meeting at Omaha on October 12, to form some definite plan as to what part Nebraska agricultural ists will take in encouraging the de velopment of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence waterway. An almost simi lar meeting has also been called to meet in the rooms of the Lincoln chamber of commerce on September 28. A call for the latter meeting has been sent out by Governor McKelvie addressed to commercial clubs and farm organizations. J. M. Miller of Inman, doesn’t be lieve the world is flat, even if Wilber Glenn Voliva, manager of Zion City, Illinois, the religious colony founded a number of years ago by Alexander Doiwie, now dead, does say so. Mr. Miiier refuses to accept the theory of the earth’s flatness portion of the creed laid down by Voliva and after ten years of residence at Zion City has pulled up stakes and come back to Holt county. Mrs. Miller still re mains in Zion City with Voliva’s flock. Several other of Voliva’s teachings and edicts also were considered too strong by the Inman man, who was a {Treat admirer of and a firm believer in Dowie, the predecessor of Voliva. Atftomobile tires, rims, bulbs and tools stolen from the car of Cecil Brdwn at his garage here several weeks ago were recovered at Emmet by Sheriff Duffy Thursday of last week. Robert and Maynard Bailey, in whose possession they were found, were arrested and brought to O’Neill where Robert waived preliminary be fore Judge Prank Campbell Friday, later the same afternoon pleaded guilty before Judge Dickson and was sentenced to from one to seven yearu in the penitentiary. Oil cans from the Standard Oil station here and the Standard and Mutual stations at At kinson also were recovered in the raid. All three stations had been broken into before the arrest. The two Bail eys also .were discovered to be Wanted for breaking jail at Albany, Missouri, where they were doing time for steal ing a Buick car. Maynard Bailey was turned over to the Missouri authori- - ties. i Edward Frienchere, human fly now in the county jail awaiting transfer to the penitentiary under sentence for auto stealing, Will spend a week or so more at Hotel De Duffy and inciden tally complete a job of cleaning out the sparrow and pigeon nests around the cornices and in the-cupola of the court house. Frienchere cheerfully gave up his turn to go to the peniten- ] tiary last week to Robert Bailey, auto accessory thief, who is afraid of moonshine and wild women and who wanted to get away from them as soon as possible according to his state ment to Judge Dickson when sentenc ed. Frienchere requested work of the jail authorities to enable him to keep in training in his climbing stunts, and under the supervision of Harry Bowen, superintendent of the court house, ha-.t been scalng walls and running up and down the sides of the building just like a squirrel. The other day he came down one of the corners of the build ing head first. He has made numerous repairs to the roof and cornices of the ancient building and his industry has favorably impressed the authorities. Frienchere doesn’t intend to stay in the penitentiary any longer than abso lutely necessary, but says he isn’t go ing to try to escape. It Will not be necessary for Warden Fenton to stretch any nets over the prison yard to keep him in. His intention is to get out by being a model prisoner and to go straight afterward, he declares. The offense for which he is under sentence is his first one. Recommen dations for leniency probably will be made to the prison authorities for him by county officials. PLEASANT VIEW NEWS. Mr. and Mrs- James. Henry of TecupiS'-Jb Nebr., are spending a week at the home of their daughter, Mrs, Frank Snyder and family. The Holt county giant hall team came to Page lasij Sunday with the intention of carrying home the one hundred dollar purse offered for that day, but the Page ball team let them take home one score while Page took eleven scores and the purse. Frank Snyder and R. H. Murray are in O’Neill this week both being on the fair committee. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Ballentine are visiting friends in Iowa duringMr. i i :-----—- • i' ■ . I Ballentine’s vacation. Mr. Snyder is carrying the mail during their ab sence. Pleasant View school opened last week with Miss Helen Townsend as teacher. Miss Lovalle Henderson went to Breslow, last year. A slight frost visited the valley Sat urday, but did not do much damage. CONRAD WETTLAUFER. Conrad Wettlaufer, one of the old residents of Holt county, died at his residence in this city Tuesday after an extended illness. Mr. Wettlaufer came to Holt county from Ontario, Canada, with his bride, whom he had 1 married the previous Christmas at Wellesly, Canada. The young couple settled on a homestead north of this city, on which they resided until a few years ago when they removed to this 1 city. Mr. Wettlaufer was sixty-three j and one-half years of age. He leaves ' to survive him the widow and the fol- i lowing children: Mrs. Margaret Yan- : :zi of Slayton, Minn.; Mrs. Catherine i 3unn of O’Neill;Mrs.LawrenceS.Mur- ( •ay of Rock Falls township; Mrs. t Amelia Hemingway and Andrew i Wettlaufer of Chadron. Neb. The funeral will be from the Pres- s cyterian church at 10:30 o’clock Fri- t lay morning, the Reverend George i Liongstaff officiating. SAMUEL HOWARD. j S. B. Howard, emigration agent for ;he Burlington railroad, died at his »ome in Omaha last Friday .after a short illness, at the age of 62 years. Mr. Howard was an old time resident if this county, having homesteaded a ' farm south of this city in the early ; jighties. He lived on this place for a ' lumber of years until appointed leputy county treasurer, under Treas- 1 irer Henry, when he moved to this * :ity. He was the fusion candidate for 1 state treasurer in the early nineties 1 lut was defeated by Peter Mortensen, foe republican candidate. Shortly 1 if ter this election he went to Omaha, laving been appointed assistant im- t nigration agent of the Burlington i •ailroad under D. Clem Deaver also 1 formerly of this city. On the death t if Mr. Deaver some six years ago Mr. t Toward succeeded him as head of the t lepartment, which position he retain- \ xl up to the time of his death. He t vas a good citizen and a faithful ofll- t •ial and his sudden death is deeply ieplored by a large number of friends t n this city and county. HOLT COUNTY FAIR ^ OPENED WEDNESDAY j The county fair formally opened t HARVEST TIME I 1 IS HERE JtJj __I: ’Deposit the proceeds of Bj your grain and cattle in the | Nebraska State Bank, where | all depositors are protected | by the depositors guarantee | fund of the State of Ne- | No other bank in O’Neill f offers this protection. I 1 Nebraska ! » ® State Bank. 1 Wednesday afternoon with one of the Sest programs ever presented. From :he time of the opening concert by the jand, shortly after 1 o’clock until the ast broncho had been ridden there was something doing all the time. Today’s rogram will be even better and Fri iay’s will top them all. The exhibits >f livestock, grains, fruits and vege ables are as good as any of those leen at the state fair and demon itate the varied agricultural re lources of the county. A detailed ac count of the program and the winners >f the various events each day will ippear in next week’s issue. tESPITE EXTENDED FOR MEN CONVICTED IN “WILD HORSE” CASE Omaha, Bee, Sept. 19: United States Marshal Cronin has received a tele rram from the attorney general at Vashington, D. C., granting another espite of 10 days to J. Sidney Smith nd Clyde Smith, who were to appear t the marshal’s office yesterday to be aken to serve their respective sen ences after conviction of complicity n the ,‘wild horse” case. J. Sidney Smith was sentenced to erve two years at Levenworth prison nd Clyde Smith to serve three months a the county jail at Grand Island. Both men had previously been given respite of 80 days, which expired esterday. GOLF BAWLS. Mike Hdriskey returned Monday ■vening from a tour of the Minnesota rolf links during which he met and iefeated some of the best players of he great Swede state. Joe Hunter has sufficiently re overed from his recent indisposition o do a little bass and trout fishing nl expects soon to be well enough to inish the finals with Jim O’Donnell or the president’s cup in the summer rolf tournament. Ben Grady, Art Ryan, Harry Rear on and George Agnes are in a serious rgument with Pat Harty, Straw Gal agher. Bill Fdglin and Jud Cronin as o which four is the best bunch of urf diggers. They attempted to set le the dispute last Sunday, but quit ath a gam j each. The playing off of he tie nas teen postponed until after he county fair. George Harrington, Ed. O’Donnell nd Doc. Kubitschek stole away from ho course long enough last week to go ut and get a couple of ducks, but will ostpone future hunting trips until tonny weather, their excuse being • hat the local ducks are too soft yet.