The
Frontier.
VOLUME XLI.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1921.
NO. 17.
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your home depends upon the free
dom of its members from worry.
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bank, that can render such valu
able serice, will do more to chase
$ 4 worry, that persistant usurper of
5 happiness, from the home than
anything we know of.
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1 O’Neill, Nebraska |
Capital, Surplus and Undivided
, § Profits, $160,000.00
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LOCAL MATTERS.
Mrs. George Lawrence of Emmet,
attended the Sioux City fair last
week.'
C. O. Fritchoff of Omaha, visited
friends northwest of O’Neill last
week.
O. B. Hathch exhibited sixteen hogs
at the county fair and captured eight
ribbons.
The W. C. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. Lila Loy Tuesday afternoon, Oc
tober 4th.
A frost sufficiently severe to kill
garden stuff visited this section Sat
urday night.
C. E. Harden is running as mail
clerk between Lynch and Norfolk on
the Northwestern
Miss Mae Hammond returned Mon
day evening from a week visit with
friends in Omaha.
James F. O’Donnell went to Omaha
Sunday morning to attend a meeting
of the bankers of the state.
Mrs. Mary Erb, residing northwest
of the city, has removed to Atkinson
to make her future home.
A marriage license was issued re
cently at Neligh to Emery C. Peterson
and Mary A. Conrad, both of Inman.
V. K. Bartak and R. P. Sullivan of
Ewing, gathered in twenty-one rib
bons on Hampshire hogs at the state
fair.
Mr. and Mi’s. V. O. Campbell of
Lincoln, former Holt county residents,
were visiting friends in the county last
week.
Mrs. N. S. Tiffany of Cambridge
Springs, Pennsylvania, is the guest of
her sister, Mrs. H. A. Allen of At>
kinson.
Barney Stewart has returned to his
home at Rocky Point, Wyoming, after
a month’s visit with Holt county
friiend.
*The next meeting of the Northwest
Nebraska District Medical Society
will be held at Atkinson Tuesday of
next week.
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Everything
In
Season
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and^Fauncy
Groceries
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The county board of supervisors
convened in regular monthly session
Tuesday.
Charley Harding and his able force
of workmen are painting up Jhe court
house this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Coffey of Fair
fax, S. D., visited O’Neill friemjs and
took in the tfhir last week.
J. E. Jones, former Methodist min
ister at Ewing, will be stationed at
Brunswick the coming year.
W. V. Hunter drove up from Omaha
last week to look after his Holt county
interests, returning home Wednesday
of this week.
Martha Roy of Chambers, was
seriously injured last week by being
thrown from a wagon, a wheel of
which passed over her head.
The young daughter of Mr. apd
Mrs. Fred Bridge, residing near Page,
suffered a fractured arm when she was
thrown from a horse last week.
John Robertson of Stuart headed a
delegation of residents of the west
end of the county before the county
board Tuesday on road matters.
Ira Moss returned Sunday afternoon
from a week’s vacation spent down on
the Moss ranch in southwestern Holt,
branding cattle and hunting ducks.
D B. Burrell and family of Cham
bers township, have returned home
after a several months tour of the
west, and will relocate in Holt county.
Arthur Roberts, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Erastus Roebrts off this city, has been
designated as pastor at Marquet
Chapel by the Methocjist cqpferepce.
Judge Robert R. Dickson and Court
Reporter C. B. Scott (went to Spring
view the first of the week to open the
term of district court for Keya Paha
county.
Fire at Newport a week ago Sun
day morning destroyed the Johnson
liverey barn, the Ritts hotel and an
office building belonging to Frank
Bassett.
The Rev. Z. M. Bressler, son of Mr.
and JJrs. George Bressler of this city
has been formally assigned to th<
pastorate of the Methodist church a1
Winnaton.
Seventy-seven Wade scandalized
the community again the other daj
by coming up from the river witr
about all the carp one man could con
veniently carry.
M. R. Bader, who has disposed oi
his ranch property, the old Guy Cok
ranch near Emmet, has purchased thti
Colligan grocery, taking charge th<
first of the week.
J. H. Shultz of Norfolk, formei
O’Neill resident, came up last weel
to attend the county fair and to visii
old friends. He returned to Norfoll
the first of the week.
The Reverend Ralph Fagan, pastoi
of the Page Methodist church, has
been transferred to the charges al
Wakefield and Pleasant View by the
Nebraska conference just adjourned.
Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Miller ol
Stuart, celebrated the fortieth anni
versary of their marriage at Stuart a
week ago Saturday. More than one
hundred relatives and friends assisted.
Vernon Wertz, residing near Page,
planted a big patch of citrons in a
tempting location for the benefit of
boys who cannot tell the difference,
on the vine, between a citron and a
melon.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank O’Connell, and
little Frank, who left this morning
for Fremont to attend the American
Legion convention, will go on from
there to Chicago for a visit with
relatives.
Frank O’Connell Frank Harrington,
Cecil Conklin and £«e Weekes left
this morning for Fremont, to attend
the state meeting of the American
Legion, which begins today and closes
Saturday.
mrs. wiuiam xurner oi urcnaru,
and little daughter, Billy Maxine, re
turned home Monday morning, after
spending, a week attending the fair
and visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
H. W. Tomlinson.,
Mrs. Robert McKinzie of Little
Rock, Ark., visited Holt county friends
last week while enroute to Camp
Lewis, Washington, where her hus
band, Captain Robert McKinzie, U. S.
army, is stationed.
An exploding lamp set fire to the
interior of the residence of Arthur
Clark of Inman, one night last week
while the family was away from home.
The conflagration was subdued be
fore much damage was done.
Any one noticing a tame Mallard
duck hanging .".round with the wild
flocks is requested to notify Charles
Martin. One of his has been cavort
ing around the last few weeks and
hasn’t been home for several nightf.
Daniel Sullivan, son of County Su
pervisor Sullivan, who has been in
the hospital at Norfolk, where he was
operated upton for appendicitis, re
turned home Wednesday of last week.
He is recovering nicely from the
operation.
J. L. Fisher of Ewing, took three
firsts, two seconds and the grand
championship with eight head of pure
bred Herefords at the Antelope county
fair. Spahn brothers, also of Ewing,
captured two firsts and one second
with four head.
Mrs. David Stannard, Mrs. Harry
Clauson and Mrs. Frank Dishner, as
delegates, and Mrs. Frank O’Connell
as alternate delegate, left this morn
ing for the state convention of the
Ladies Auxiliary of the American
Legion, Which begins at Fremont to
day.
John M. Flannigan of Stuart, has
been appointed by Governor McKel
vie as a member of a committee of
five state bankers to confer with heads
of the federal reserve bank in Kansas
City to secure a modification of the
rules governing loans to farmers and
cattlemen. ,
Paddy O’Donnell accompanied by
Mrs. O’Donnell, responding to the
cry for help from the Keya Paha
sportsmen went over to Springview
Wednesday morning to assist in
cleaning up the hordes of ducks and
geese now invading thpt community
ifrom the north.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rentschler
came down Sunday from Springview
for a visit with O’Neill relatives. Mr.
Rentschler went on to Omaha to at
tend a bankers meeting, returning to
O’Neill Tuesday evening. They re
turned to their home at Springview
Wednesday morning.
Tea and a social afternoon will be
the feature of the bazaar and food
sale for the benefit of the public rest
room, at the rest room, Friday after
noon. The bazaar and food sale will
begin at’ 2 o’clock. There will be W
charge for tea or the program ol
music provided. The men are especi
ally invited to attend.
While large crops are being mentin
ed generally throughout the countrj
it is not out of place to record the do
ings of A1 McDonald, out on the V:
Hunter ranch, this year. Mr. Mc
Donald raised 8,000 bushels of corr
on 200 acres of land, lf}0 tons of al
falfa on a patch of fifty-five acres anc
cut 280 tons of wild hay off of a 22(
acre meadow.
Spencer Advocate, Sept. 22: Mr
and Mrs. Hans Storjohann returnee
Monday from Holt county where the;
stayed for nearly three weeks on theii
old home place, and Mr. Starjoham
took charge of the ranch while Johi
and family and Mr. and Mrs. Q. $
Higgins took in the state fair, aw
visited a few d&yg at Omaha am
Iowa. They made the trip by atup.
Next week has been designated a
firv prevention (week. The losses fron
fire in the United States last year ag
gregated $50,0(K!,OQQ, according t
govpmipenfc report. Farm fire losse:
average about $20,000,000 a ' yeai
President Harding by proclamat\oi
also has designated Monday, Octo
her 10,, the anniversary of the grea
Chicago fire, as a Fire Prevention
day.
The Reverend J. A. Hutchins is the
new Methodist minister at this place.
His appointment was announced at
the Nebraska conference in Lincoln
Tuesday. The Reverend C. F. Steiner
is transferred to Neligh. Other Holt
county assignments made by the con
ference are the Reverend L. M. Mc
Gaughey for Page and Venus, the
Reverend W. L, Philley, Ewing, and
the Reverend A. A. Kerber, Inman.
H. D. Lute, secretary of the. Ne
braska Farm Bureau Federation, has
been asked to attend a conference-in
Chicago on September 28, at which
time farm bureau heads will meet
with Eugene Meyer, Jr., chairman otf
the Iwar finance corporation. In call
ing the meeting President Howard of
the American Farm Bureau Federa
tion announces that it is for the pur
pose of helping to secure a close co
operation between officials of the
finance corporation and the farmers
generally, and to enable farmers to
receive the very fullest benefit of the
credit to be extended to them.
Figures compiledfor the first thous
and members secured by the U. S.
Grain Growers in Nebraska show that
2,848,712 bushels of grain are involved
on grower contracts with the grand '
total to date taking the bushelage '
safely beyound the three million mark, s
Corn leads with a bushelage otf 1,- i
262,964, wheat second with 1,000,610 t
bushels and oats third with 686,238 1
■bushels. Grain Growers signing the i
first thousand contracts control 139,- t
048 acres, distributed as follows: corn, j
61,608 acres; wheat, 67,833 acres, and 1
oats, 20,607 acres. This gives an t
average of 139 acres for each grower, t
nirougn trie euons oi me iNeurusKa -
Farm Bureau Federation the Burling- ‘
ton railroad has consented to use its 1
spur traejcs and cars in the sugar beet [
country in Scott Bluffs and Morrill 1
counties for the hauling of all kinds of '
farm produce. These spur tracks were 1
constructed especially for the hauling '
of beets and no schedule ever prepared 1
for hauling grain or livestock. It was
necessary to not only secure the co- s
operation of the Burlington railroad J
but also secure permission from the J
inter-state commerce commission in 1
order to publish rates for spur track £
freight traffic and for the handling of t
the products..
The Census Bureau reports that in c
the population of Lincoln, Neb., as en- t
umerated in January, 1920, there were t
1,098 persons ten years of age and r
over who were illiterate in the sense t
of being unable to write, including 122 e
and 37 Negroes. The percentage of i
illiteracy in the total population 10 (j
years of age and over is 2.4, which (
shows a decrease since 1910 when it o
was, '3.6f For the native white the I
T*efcenta£e is 0.3, for the foreign-born V
rwhite, 13.4, and for the Negro, 4.7. i
That the younger generation in this e
city is less illiterate that the older, is g
indicated by the fact that while 2.4 (
per cent of the males and 3.6 per cent \
of the females 21 years of age and t
over are illiterate, the percentage of c
illiteracy in the population 16 to 20 (
years of age is but 0.5. :
The joint congressional committee *
inquiring into the present agricultural 1
conditions, has asked the American f
Farm Bureau Federation to furnish j
further data for its consideration. In 1
order to get this information, blank 1
forms have been prepared and sent (
to each county farm bureau through- 1
out the United States, which when 1
filled out will show the prices farmers j
have paid for necessities during the 1
period from 1913 to 1921, and also *
what the farmer has received for his s
various products. A long schedule s
has been prepared providing blank J
space for reporting on each of several ‘
hundred items, and when finally com- 1
piled covering the entire nation, will *
present a formable exhibit of the eco- j
nomic situation of the farmer in a 1
comparative way covering that period. c
Flans which were under way lor
the organization of the Nebraska Far
mers’ Finance Corporation will be ,
tempoiarily delayed, according to Sec
retary H. D. Lute of the Nebraska !
Farm Bureau Federation, due to the
apparent intention of the resurrected
war finance corporation to extend
loans to farmers covering the six
monthg to three years period. The
purpose of the proposed Nebraska
corporation was to enable farmers to
borrow money for the production-dis
tribution period. This, according to k
members of the Nebraska war finance P
committee will be taken care of by t
the federal corporation. This does not [
mean the abandonment of a Nebraska
Farmers’ Finance Corporation, but
the relief offered through the federal
agenoy will permit a more deliberate
organization of the state organization
and a more careful Working out of tho
edtails. Money will be available
through the war finance corporation
to farmers having grain, live stock,
warehouse receipts or other good col
lateral, upon application made through
any local bank, and approved by the
committee of five bankers having su
pervision, in this state. The money
will cost the farmer from nine to nine
and one-half percent. The war
finance act provides a rate of interest
not over one and one-half percent over
the federal reserve rate which is six
j percent. The local banker will be al
lowed approximately two percent.
i COUNTY FAU$ A 0VCOESS.
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! The best fair ever held in Holt
county closed Friday evening with «
display of fireworks in the evening
witnessed by one of the largest last
I day crowds ever assembled here. The
i fajr from the minute orf its formal
i opening Wednesday afternoon until
x the glare of the last rocket had died
; away was one of interest with some
. thing doing every second. Nothing
l was permitted to drag and the long
Waits between stunts so customary
t usually were most pleasantly absent.
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'he program was most varied, con
isting of races, broncho busting, mule
.nd steer riding, Shetland pony con
ests and baseball games. It was just
ike a three ring circus, too much go
ng on all the time for any individual
o see it all, but with a variety en
bling everyone to select the stunts
e liked the best and to enjoy them to
he utmost. The congratulations and
hanks of the community-«Rnd county
re due to President John L. Quig,
iecretary Peter Duffy and the di
ectors for the success of the big
vent. The attendance, although very
ight Wednesday, the opening day, was
ery large Thursday and Friday and
he quality of entertainment given the
isibors should assure a very much
irger attendance next year.
Ott Jarmon of Chambers, who pre
ided at the judges stand, was just the
ran to keep the race and riding con
ests moving along at the proper gait
nd Wallace Ream as superintendent
f the rodeo saw to it that only the
est in broncho busting and rough
iding was presented. The riders,
lostly from the south part of the
ounty, were real ones, and the ent
ers they brought along for subjuga
ion surely were tough ones. The
odeo Iwas the more enjoyable because
tjji boys were home boys and sure
nough riders, not movie actors who
nagined they can ride. Among them
eserving of special mention were
-lenn Shively of O’Neill, O. L. Reinke
f Ewing, Elmer Ulrick of Newboro,
lewey Green of Amelia, E. E. Hub
ard and Mark Bribble of Chambers,
nd last but not least, Wallace Ream
nd the mare, Spitfire, which he pre
ented, to the rider who rode her best,
llenn Shively eventually was the
/inner of the nag, and the several at
empts to ride her furnished a great
eal of amusement to the big crowd
ach of the three days. The premier
/as on Friday, rwhen the manager of
. show now appearing up the line
rought his wild west department
own to ride the mare and takff her
ack as an advertisement for his
ented' aggregation. His wild west
/as said to hail from Pierre and he
ame dressed in togs that would have
iioved the hearts of Doug Fairbank
nd Bill Hart to envy. A leather
jrdle extending from his wishbone on
he north to his hips on the south
ncircled him amidship. His jingling
purs glistened and glittered in the
un and his hair pants were just too
ute for anything. He listened in
ently (while Brother Jarmon issued
he customary instructions about
cratching the old nag five times from
tern to stem while riding in front of
he grandstand, but when Spitfire
ame out of the saddling shute,
HARVEST TIME g
I IS HERE
Deposit the proceeds of
your grain and cattle in the
Nebraska State Bank,where
all depositors are protected
by the depositors guarantee
fund of the State of Ne
braska.
No other bank in O’Neill
offers this protection.
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squealing and pitching the rider
sought for handholds. He didn’t ex
actly pull leather, but he nearly
jerked the pommel of the saddle out
of alignment. The rider seemed to
think he was entitled to a singlehand
hold, but that wasn’t the way that
Spitfire was being give away, so she
still is here in Holt county.
The ball games each day were ex
ceptionally good. The first day Em
met defeated Joy by a score of 18 to
9. Thursday Chambers defeated Page.
Friday was a double-header, O’Neill
defeating Blackbird in the first game
6 to .0 and in the second game the
star one of the tournament, Butte de
feated Atiknson in a very closely con
tested game by a score of 5 to 4.
The entries in* the running races all
three days were light, but Last
Chance, Lady Bagdad, Patchen, Proe
pero Baby, jr., Good Council Uneede
and Bud, all high class steppers gave
just as good a card as if the string
had numbered a hundred. Paul
Wrigh with his hurdle horse won
rounds of applause daily.
Among the athletic events which
attracted much attention and evoked
prolonged applause was the wrestling
match between Chet Calkins and
Warren Sparks Thursday in which
Calkins was given the verdict, the
three round boxing contest between
Gene and John Robert Gallagher Fri
day in which Gene was the victor with
a knockout, and the wrestlinng bout
between Hendrickson and Davidson.
The musical part of the program
each day was a good one, with the
! O’Neill band rendering its very best,
which is some best, the Old Fiddlers
playing the old tunes with master
touch and Pipe Major Cameron thrill
ing occasionally with the piercing
notes of the bagpipes.
The livestock show, one of the
largest of Holt county’s many fairs,
aroused the keenest interest from
stockmen of many neighboring towns
and counties and the exhibitions of
fruits, vegetables and grains aroused
the envy of those not fortunate
enough to reside in this Edenlike sec
tion of Nebraska.
The Justus Romain shows, which
exhibited each evening at the grounds,
carried a most excellent cast and with
its program of popular plays ably
rendered pleased thousands. The
carnival attractions were good and
the fireworks Thursday and Friday
nights were magnificent. Edward
Frienchere, the human fly, assisted in
making the evening entertainment a
success.
All in all, it was a mighty swell fair
and one for O'Neill and Holt county to
be proud of.