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VOLUME XLI. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1921. NO. 23.
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LOCAL MATTERS.
The aeroplane that stopped off here
Sunday didn’t have anything.
M. Wirt Hyatt, editor of the Cham
bers Sun, was an O’Neill visitor Mon
day.
Miss Gladys Hancock of Inman, was
the guest of O’Neill relatives last
.— week.
Charles Cole of Star, was on the
local market with a load of hogs Sat
urday.
Billy Gatz shot four fine pine mal
lards down in Carr’s pasture Wednes
day afternoon.
Ji F. O’Donnell left Wednesday
mosping on a business trip to Sioux
City and Omaha.
Residents of Chambers valley are
preparing for a big coyote hunt to be
held Thanksgiving day.
James A. Donohoe and J. D. Cronin
went to Mapleton, Iowa, on legal
business Wednesday morning.
Harry Radaker left Wednesday
morning for Sioux City, where he will
undergo treatment for throat trouble.
Spencer is bidding for a berth in the
state league for next year, with fair
chances of being awarded a franchise.
C. F. Reichart of Bruning, Nebr.,
was in the city Tuesday looking after
his real estate interests in the county.
Ed. Quinn of the O’Neill National
bank has returned to duty after sev
eral months of forced idleness caused
by illness.
A marriage license was issued to
Henry Baum and Martha Wallinger,
both of Stuart, by County Judge Ma
lone Tuesday.
Mrs. Nina Malloy and children, of
Emmet, have gone to Kansas City,
where they will visit relatives until
after Christmas.
Mr. and Mrs. William Malloy, jr.,
and daughter, Miss Margaret, have
returned from a several months visit
at Clairmont, S. D.
James Curtis of Ewing, star mail
route contractor out of that place, has
disposed of his mail contracts and will
remove to California.
One of the best football games of
the fall geason will be that between
O’Neill and Verdigre on the local grid
iron Friday of next week. ,
At least three weeks will be required
for the jury trials at the session of
district court which opens Monday, it
is estimated by court officials.
Members of the Monday Nite club
were the guests of Miss Anna O’Don
nell Monday evening. Mrs. William
Biglin won the honors at cards.
Business houses of the city will close
from 2 o’clock until 4 tomorrow after'
noon during the Armistice Day
patriotic exercises at the K. C. hall.
Roy' Sharp of Inman has gone to
California for a three months vacation
L in search of health. Mrs. Sharp and
the children will visit at Piilger during
his absence.
The Methodist Ladies Aid society is
preparing for a chicken dinner, and
oyster supper, and a bazaar, to be
given at the church parlors Saturday
of next tweek.
The basket ball team of the Inman
high school is scheduled to meet the
O’Neill team, at this place Friday, De
cember 2. The two teams play at In
man December 16.
John Adkins, jr., of Hydyer, Alaska,
is spending his first vacation in ten
years in the states, at the home of his
parents, in Butte. Mr. Adkins is a
merchant at Hydyer.
Grading on the Ewing federal road
has progressed to the Cache creek
crossing and the portion of the high
way passing through the territory
most in need of good roads will be
completed this fall.
Miss Ida Chapman was hostess to
the Martez club Monday evening.
Honors at auction were won by Miss
Mae Hammond, and the all cut prize
by Mrs. Clifford Scott.
Mr. and Mrs. George Bressler re
turned Friday evening from a visit
in Wayne and Cummings counties.
Residents of those two counties are
feeling the financial stringency much
more than are those of this com
munity, says Mr. Bressler.
Mr. and Mrs. William Turner nad
baby, of Orchard, Mr. and Mrs. Ar
thur Tomlinson and son of Scottville,
Mr. and Mrs. I,ee Taylor and family
and Rodney TomlinsoN of Oppor
tunity, were the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry W. Tomlinson, Sunday.
The appointment of Garry Benson
to be postmaster at Ewing was sent
to the senate last week. Mr. Benson is
at present serving as acting post
master and his promotion to the per
manent position is a deserved recog
nition pleasing to his many friends.
A local council of the Catholic Men’s
National Welfare Council was organ
ized at the K, C. hall Sunday evening
and the following officers elected: H.
J. Hammond, president; P. J. O’Don
nell, secretary; A. F. Sauser, treas
urer. Music was furnished during the
evening by students from St. Mary’s
academy.,
C. F. Manning of Cleveland town
ship being laid up with illness, his
neighbors recently assembled at his
place for a big husking bee. Forty
five acres of corn, averaging thirty
bushels to the acre, were husked for
him. The Ladies Aid society served
supper for the huskers at the Cleve
land church.
The county board of supervisors this
afternoon entered into a friendly set
tlement with the owners of the Liddy
ranch for right-of-way across the
ranch for the O’Neill-Spencer federal
highway. The agreed price was $1,
500. The board was in special session
to make the settlement that comple
tion of the road might not be delayed.
Ewing witnessed the first football
game of its history last Saturday when
the St. Mary’s Academy team invaded
the precincts of the southeast Holt
metropolis to engage a local juvenile
team. The game resulted 30 to 2 in
favor of Ewing, the Ewing boys out
weighing the academy team by several
pounds. A return game is to be play
ed in O’Neill in the near future.
A new train schedule on the North
western will become efliective Sunday.
Passenger trains No.’s . 5 and 8 are to
be taken off entirely between Norfolk
and Long Pine until spring and will
not run from Norfolk to Omaha on
Sundays. Passengers No.’s 1 and 2
will not run west of Long Pine on
Sundays. Trains numbers 5 and 8 are
the afternoon passenger east and the
first night train west.
Judge Robert R. Dickson, who was
to have been master of ceremonies at
the laying of the corner stone of the
new high school building at Valentine,
November 15, will be unable to at
tend owing to the session of the Holt
county district court, which begins
Monday. The ceremonies incidental
to the laying of the corner stone Will
be under the auspices of the Masonic
fraternity.
A deep laid plot of slickers to Wreck
the checker club was frustrated by
Club Champion Chapman last
week. The plotters run in a ringer
disguised as a traveling man at one of
the regular midweek sessions of the
club and the stranger defeated Henry
Watterson Tomlinson, club runner-up,
three games before suspicion was
aroused. Mr. Tomlinson detected by
the method of the visitor’s play that
he was a book player, during the last
of the three games, and a secret mes
sage was sent for the champion, who
soon put the stranger to flight.
| FRESH FRUITS |
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Since the announcement of the en
largement erf the proposed oil refinery,
to be built here, to take care of the
crude product from the Neligh, Bas
sett and Gregory fields, word has been
received that the Neligh field has been
abandoned. This will not deter the
enlargement of the refinery, however,
as the Erina producers, just across
the south line of the county, have sig
nified their intention of building a pipe
line to O’Neill if the refinery is con
structed. The Kilpatrick field north
of this place also may seek an outlet
for their product this way, which will
necessitate an even larger extension
of the plant than at first cyitem
plated.
Fire escaping from ranch hands
burning off fire guard, at the Ditch
Camp southwest of the city last Fri
day afternoon burned over a section
and a half of hay land before it could
be extinguished. The fire alarm -sum
moned a number of firefighters from
town, in cars, among them C. A. Mc
Gorder of the circulation department
of the Norfolk Daily News, who ren
dered valuable service in hauling
water in his car to the fire fighters to
wet the cloths with which they beat
out the flames. Mr. McGorder was im
pressed with the way O’Neill citizens
turned out to fight the fire and also
by another incident which happened
while he was returning to town. On
the way back a tire on his car was
punctured and he stopped to repair it.
Every one of the cars out at the fire
stopped iwhen they came up to him,
to offer assistance. “I have driven in
many communities,” said he, “but
never before in one where every one
offers assistance to the traveler in
troubles.”
MARINES GUARD
LOCAL MAIL TRAINS
United States marines now are
guarding the through mails that pass
through O’Neill on the Northwestern.
Every postal clerk also has been
equipped with a piece of heavy artill
ery which he is required to wear all
of the time while on duty and away
from his home station.
One thousand marines were ordered
to duty as guards on the principal
mail trains of the country Sunday and
Wednesday 'Northwestern passenger
No. 3 carried the first soldier guard
when it pulled into O’Neill at 11:30
o’clock at night. The guard, armed
with a 45 calibre pistol and a sawed
off shotgun appeared wicked enough
to wreck the ambitions of any mail
train bandit. In addition to the guard
each mail clerk wore, dangling on his
hip, a big steel gat. Previous to the
issuance of the order of last Sunday
but two pistol clerks in each mail car
wore guns.
The placing of guards on mail cars
and the arming of all postal clerks
comes as the result of, the numerous
mail train robberies that have taken
place recently. The guards on the
Northwestern trains passing through
O’Neill go on duty at Omaha and ride
the trains as far west as Chadron,
from which point west the .runs are in
daylight. The Northwestern mail
pfessing through O’Neill from Wyom
ing and the Black Hils is considered
among the most important in the
country.
ATTORNEY GENERAL RULES
ON SCHOOL ELECTORS
Lincoln, Neb.—Citizens of Nebraska
who own no more property except $200
worth of household goods, and have
no children, are not qualified school
electors, in the opinion of the state
attorney general. The constitiution
and voters of the state exempted $200
worth of household goods from tax
ation.
The question has been raised by J.
M. Matzen, state superintendent of
schools, asking for the definition of a
qualified school elector. The attorney
general replies that any man or wo
man who has resided in a district 40
days and is 21 years of age and who
owns real or personal property “that
has been assessed in the district in his
or her name at the last annual assess
ment,” or who has children of school
age residing in the district, shall be
entitled to vote at any disrict meeting
or school election.
Quoting the section which exempts
those persons with $200 of household
property, the attorney general con
cludes that assessors are not compell
ed to assess such goods of such value
and as the owner thereof would not be
assessed or pay taxes, he is not a
qualified school elector, providing he
owns no other property and has no
children of school age.
The opinion is advanced that the
action of the contention and support
ing voters means a loss of about $40,
000,000 in taxable property.
FIRST SNOW MONDAY NIGHT.
The first snow of the fall season
fell Monday night. It was a mere
trace however and didn’t amount to
much as a regular snow. This is just
seven days liter than the first snoiw
of last year, which was a four inch
one, falling on the night of Novem
ber 1. Temperatures so far in No
vember of this year are lower than
they were in November of last year
and the lowest so far this month with
in two degrees as low as the lowest for
the entire month of November of 1920.
The lowest temperature recorded in
the first nine days of November 1920
was 14 degrees above zero November
9. The lowest for the month was 8
degrees above, November 13. The
lowest temperature this month was 10
degrees above zero Tuesday night,
November 9. The second lowest was
24 degrees, Monday night, the night
of the snow flurry.
barnard-nelson.
The Casper, Wyoming, Herald, Sun
day contained the following announce
ment of the marriage of Mr. William
Barnard, former O’Neill boy, son of
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Barnard, and Miss
Pauline Nelson:
,“Miss Pauline Nelson became the
bride of William Barnard yesterday
evening at six o’clock when the mar
riage service was read by the Rev.
Charles Wilson in the parlors of the
Presbyterian Manse. Mr. and Mrs.
H. I). McCormick were the only at
tendants of the couple. All plans f»r
the wedding had been kept secret and
friends of the young people were en
tirely surprised when the announce
ment was made last night.
“For the ceremony Mrs. Barnard
wore a stunning tailleur of brown vel
dyn trimmed in moleskin; her corsage
was of hride’s roses and ferns and her
hat also was of brown in harmony
with the suit.
“The Barnards have taken a home
on West 10th street where they plan
to reside during the season.
“Before her marriage Mrs. Barnard
was connected with the offices of the
Keith Lumber company. Her girl
hood home is in Ogalalla, Nebraska,
and she is a graduate from Doan Col
lege, at Crete. *
“Mr. Barnard was a lieutenant in
the air service during the war and
was stationed at Fort Omaha. He is
a graduate from the College of Law at
Creighton University. At present he
is associated with the Nesbitt Realty
company. He came to Casper from
his home in O’Neill, Nebraska.”
COL. NEIDIG DIES
AT SOLDIEDS’ HOME
Atkinson Graphic, Nov. 4—Sawtellt,
Calif., Oct. *27—Col. A. H. Neidig,
veteran of the fourty-fourth Iowa regi
ment and one time owner of the Mar
shalltown (la.) Times-Republican, and
the Norfolk, (Neb.) Journal, died at
the soldiers’ home here yesterday.
Funeral services will he held today.
Norfolk pioneers recalled that A.
H. Neidig lived in Norfolk many
years ago. He was the publisher of
the Norfolk Journal, a weekly publi
cation. The family lived on North
Twelfth street and moved from the
city years ago.—Norfolk News.
Col. Neidig was a homesteader south
of Atkinson a good many years ago.
A son, H. J. Neidig, is a writer of
Sandhill stories in the Saturday Even
ing Post. His yarns are framed
around joal and imaginary occurences
in the days of his youth upon the
‘sandhill Homestead. I The pictures
drawn ov some of the characters in
his stories are painted up in the colors
that most impressed the youth in their
eccenricities,
BERGSTROM BABY
FATALLY BURNED
Page Reporter—A letter from Ham
pshire, Wyoming, contain the ac
count of the serious accident to
Floyd Bergstrom and his eighteen
months old baby girl. The letter sta
tes that while Mrs. Bergstrom was
ironing, Friday morning, Oct. 21,
Floyd, in order to hurry the fire
poured some kerosene (which con
tained some gasoline) in the stove;
the explosion which followed envelop
ed Floyd and the child. The child was
so badly burned that she lived but an
hour. Floyd was badly burned from
his hips down and was taken at once
to the hospital at Newcastle where the
doctor states that he has a chance to
recover. The house also got on fire in
several places and in his endeavor to
put this fire out neglected to put the
fire out on his clothes until after he
became badly burned. Mrs. Berg
strom also received some burns but
nothing of a serious nature. She
however, was recovering from a bro
ken limb, and in the confusion she re
ceived injuries to her limb and she
also is in the hospital. The funeral
for the child was held the following
Tuesday.
ROBERTSON-WALTERS.
Miss Louise Walters of Maple
Grove and Mr. Samuel Robert Robert
son of Joy, iwere united in marriage
at the home of the bride’s parents,
Wednesday morning at 11:30 o’clock,
the Reverend George Bressler of
O’Neill officiating.
The bride is the charming daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. William Walters of
Maple Grove and is one of the popu
lar and esteemed young ladies of that
community. The groom, the third son
of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Robertson of
Joy, has grown to manhood in Holt
county and is one of the popular and
prosperous yuong farmers of the
county. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson im
mediately took up their residence on
the ranch of the groom, two miles
north of Joy, where he already hao
prepared and furnished a new home.
The Frontier joins with the many
friends of Mr. and Mrs. Robertson in
extending congratulations ia!nd besll
wishes for a long and happy wedded
life.
GILLIGAN-G-ALLAGHER
Miss Helen Gallagher of Inmai,
and Mr. Charles II. Gilligan of Will
mar, Minnesota, w^re united in mar
riage Wednesday morning at St. Pat
rick’s church, the Reverend M. F. Cas
sidy officiating. Following the cere
mony a wedding breakfast 'was served
the bridal party at the Hotel Golden.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
Michael Gallagher of Inman and is a
most charming young lady. The groom
is a rising young business man.
The Grammar Grades of the Valley
Center School entertained the High
School students at a supper party at
the home of their teacher, Miss Ruth
Farrier. A very pleasant time was
enjoyed by all.
The Saline county Farm Bureau
Federation is conducting a county
membership campaign which is being
handled largely by the county organi*
zation. J. N. Norton, chairman of the
Nebraska Farm Bureau organization
committee is spending the week in the
county and has with him three expe
rienced Farm Bureau membership men
who will assist the local men In their
efforts to make Saline county a 1(h)
per cent Farm Bureau unit.
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The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion has re-opened the live stock rate
case and will hold a hearing at Wash
ington November 8. Clifford Thorne
will represent the American Farm
Bureau Federation and Judge S. H.
Cowan (will appear for the national
live stock shippers’ league. The Farm
Bureau contends that the 20 per cent
reduction in freight rates on live stock
shipments shuold also be applied to
the short haul. The decrease on long
hauls has already been ordered and
amounts to a saving to shippers of
$10,000,000. A 20 per cent decrease
on short hauls would mean a further
saving of $24,000,000 in live stock
freight rates.
The American Farm Bureau Feder
ation, through its counsel Clifford
Thorne, has filed a statement before
the interstate commerce committee in
the senate, contending that the por
tion of the transportation act which
guarantees to the railroads returns of
5% to 6 per cent is unconstitutional.
The basis for the contention is that
shippers on prosperous railroad lines
are compelled to pay excessive freight
rates in order to help weak railroads
depending on industries which are pro
ducing very little business. Many
railroads built into coal fields, lumber
camps or other places vyhere the in
dustries are nearly depleted must
therefore be supported by the railroads
serving the agricultural communities.
In arguing the unconstitutionality of
the provision, Mr. Thorne quotes free
ly from a letter written by Charles E.
Hughes, now secretary of state to
Alfred P. Thom, general counsel for
the association of railway executives,
in which Secretary Hughes holds simi
lar thought.
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Boxing Match!!
Jerry Vokoc vs. Geo. Lamson
of Verdigre of Lincoln
Saturday, November 12, 1921
At K. C. Theater, O’Neill, Nebr. Commencing at 9:00 P. M. Sharp.
TEN THREE MINUTE ROUNDS OF REAL BOXING j
This, the second boxing contest staged, in O’Neill under the new state
boxing law, will be one of the best bouts ever staged in North Nebraska.
Vokoc in his bout with Jack Ivy here in September proved himself a fighter of
championship quality, remarkable speed and endurance. He weighs 180, is a
perfect specimen of manhood. George Lamson, an Indian, is considered one of
the best men of his class in the country. He fights at exactly the same weight as j
Vokoc. This bout will decide which of these men is to go on and up to cham
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