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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1921)
Royal Theater “THE HOME OF GOOD PICTURES” - FRIDAY - CONNIE GRIFFITH i —in— “BAB’S CANDIDATE” _____ “Bab's Candidate” will show you how to get the most enjoyment out of life and you will have one of the best times in a year. Connie wears many exquisite gowns. 2 REEL COOK COMEDY “THE HUNTSMAN” - SATURDAY - GEO. ARLIS —in— “THE DEVIL” Did the Devil ever tempt you ? Does the Devil ever take a vacation? A forceful creation, beautified by luxurious sets, produced with exquis ite harmony. “The Devil” probes the souls of men and women and through the eyes of evil true life is revealed. 2 COMEDIES—2 REEL COOK COMEDY ONE REEL—“THE CHAMP” -SUNDAY & MONDAY CONSTANCE TALMADGE —in— “THE PERFECT WOMAN” Constance is most fortunate in ap pearing where she has bright oppor tunity that is in comedy able to stand on its own legs. One of the breeziest comedy dramas imaginable. It will win the hearts of any audience and keep them in an uproar of laughter. “TOPICS OF THE DAY” - TUESDAY - MARY PHILBIN THE SCREEN DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR —in— “DANGER AHEAD” She was a boarding house slave. One man loved her—another said he did love. Battle kisses are the spicy ingredients of “Danger Ahead.” FOX NEWS - WEDNESDAY - TOM MIX —in— “THE TEXAN” Do you like snap, pep, punch, thrills, stunts, romance, comedy. If you are a lover off the great out doors, if you enjoy clean, wholesome and virile life, real thrilling stunts, don’t miss it. SNUB POLLARD COMEDY - THURSDAY - HOOT GIBSON —in— “RED COURAGE” Story of two smiling ne’er-do-wells, who came into possession of a one horse newspaper in a little western town. Pinto cleans up the town, is elected sheriff, solves a murder mys tery and wins the girl. COMEDY (Continued from page four.) there. Some of the most sanguinary fighting of the Rebellion occured around Fredericksburg. Spottsyl vania, Wilderness, Chancellorsville, Salem Church, the siege and battle of Fredericksburg, and many lesser bat tles were fought in Spottsysvania County in which Fredericksburg is t located. More Americans were kill ed in the five above mentioned battles than we lost altogether in the late war. After seeing the fields where these great struggles were fought, and learning more of the in timate history of the surrounding country, one realizes very strongly how nearly our union came to being desevered. The federal forces were beaten in every battle in this part off the country, and suffered considerably greater losses in men than did the confederates. That consumate general and strategist, Lee, had under him one of the best bodies of men who ever bore arms. Most all of his soldiers were boys from off the farms and plantations of the south, expert rifle men and woodsmen, inured to the hardships of out-of-door life. On the other hand, the army of the Potomac was drawn from a North which was already rapidly developing into an in dustrial and manufacturing region, thus the men who composed it came chieflly from the cities—clerks, trades men and laborers. Though possessing the same unfailing courage of the southern troops, they were not so well equipped by early training to become soldiers. “Though most histories (printed in the east) are reluctant to record it, I am convinced that it was the Union armies of the west that finally crushed the rebellion and preserved the Union. In these armies, the troops of Sher man, Grant, and Thomas, were men Iwho were a match in every way for the southerners; hardy pioneers and woodsmen and farmers from what was then our western frontier. If Sher man had not been able to break through the confederate lines and force his way through the South, thus cutting off supplies and men from the Virginia army under Lee, it is improbable that any northern army could have brought about his sur render. “It was our purpose before going to visit the battle fields to secure the services of a guide or some one com petent to direct us about. We soon came across an old gentleman by the name of Santley, an ex-confederate scout under Mosby. He very kindly volunteered to show us about the city. We saw the girlhood home of Wash ington’s mother, a modest little co lonial place, and the former homes of -42>— many who have figured in one way and another in the life of our nation; the house of John Paul (afterwards John Paul Jones), the law office of Monroe, now occupied by darkies, the lodge room where Washington was initiated into Masonry, the old Wash ington farm just across the Rappa hannock from Fredericksburg, and many other spots of as great or lesser interest. When one speaks of the war in Fredericksburg, it always means the Civil War, and when one speaks of the battle it means, to the residents, the siege of Friederiegsburg. Many buftttBP still show the marks of the conflict, breaches made in walls by shells, and there are evidences every where of musket shots. The “sunken road” where one of the most intense and bloody struggles of the war oc curred, is within the city, and one can earily understand, after seeing the place, the folly of Burnsides in at tempting to carry the hill on the op posite side of the road by storm. “Shortly before leaving the town for Chancellorsville, we were fortu nate in getting a noted character and resident to accompany us, one Willie White. Willie was eight years old at the time of the siege, and was im prisoned with two smaller brothers for over twenty-four hours without food or water, in the basement of a house directly in the path of the two contending armies. He was remark ably well posted on the history and events which occurred in that part of Virginia, so his incidental des(cri|p tions, explanations and anecdotes made the remainder of our trip much more interesting than it would have been otherwise, “Chancellorsville, taking it3 name from the Chancellor estate on which the old breast-works used by the Union troops and their opponents may stlil be plainly seen. The old house also bears testimony to the great struggle which occurred there, having been made almost into a sieve during the battle. A few miles beyond Chan cellorsville ther is a monument erect ed at the spot where Stonewall Jack son fell, shot by his own soldiers while rcsconnoitering in front of his lines. The stone bears the dying words of this great general and simple Christ ian, ‘Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees.’ “From this point we drove through the Wilderness on the plank road, along which the battle of that name was partly fought—an ideal fighting country, if there ever was one—thick woods and many swells in the ground, and numberless little streams. We saw the spot where Lee and Jackson had their famous ‘headquarters on horse-back,’ a day or two before Jack .vv * >♦ ■ .>• • C - } 30n’p death. , ‘“Then on to the vicinity where Spottsylvania Courthouse was fought. Including the 'bloody angel/ much in its former condition, the trenches for many yards where the tlwo armies fought one another just a few feet apart, being plainly discernable. Oak trees, which in the 60’s had a circum ference of several feet, were com pletely shot away by musket fire. General Sedgwick, on coming out into an opening in the woods at the com mencement of the battle noticed his men bending over, evidently for the purpose of escaping the rebel bullets, which led him to remark, ‘Well, you are feeling mighty polite this morn ing, boys.’ He was instantly killed after uttering these words, and a beautiful monument now preserves for the future the memory of what happened there. , “After having a genuine southern dinner at the Spottsylvania Inn, (we drove back to Washington, only stop ping for a few minutes in Fredericks burg on our return.” Don’t Forget Pvire Bred Duroc Sale 50 Hea.d of Boars and Sows At the Farm, October 29th TERMS—6 months' time will be given if you make arrange ments with the Clerk prior to the sale. John L.Quig, Frank Lancaster Cols. Price, James Moore and George Colman, Auctioneers | O’Neill Nations! 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