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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1921)
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HUSE AND STEPHEN THINK O’NEILL SOME TOWN Gene Huse and Karl Stephen, editor and city editor respectively, of the Norfolk News, came up Saturday afternoon to give O’Neill 'the once over. They were met at the train by S. J. Weekes and James F. O’Donnell, who took them to look at the golf course and the cemetery, after which they were entertained at the O’Don nell residence at a beefsteak dinner, preliminary to being the guests of S. J. Weekes at a smoker in the evening. Evidenty the visitors enjoyed their ex periences, for here are the nice things they had to say about the town and its citizens in the “Along The Avenue” column of the Norfolk Nelws Tuesday: “They say it themselves, and they believe it—the biggest, little city in Nebraska. “They have the first real fireproof hotel building in the state and they love the man who built it. “Their Country club is one of the best in the state and their golfists travel far from their o)wn turf and bring back medals. “Their business men know com petition and use it, but when the day’s work is done they mingle together, call each other by their first names, and mean it. “It’s the home of Judge Dickson of the district court, who remembers that he went there in 1887 in time to see his first Holt county ball game in which Tom Golden was the star play • er, and in which Tom cut the bases and stole third—a very desirable base in those days—and no questions asked by the umpire. “At Jim O’Donnell’s the missus has solved the secret of reaching the males’ heart. What,, with tender steaks that melt in your mouth and seconds on trimmins’ ‘neverything? It’s a model home, is Jim’s. Brfgfet •yvd children Who laugh unrestrained and whose pals are their father and mother. “Then over at Jawn Weekes’ (who has one of the most beautiful homes in north Nebraska. They gather there every once in a while, the professional men, and the business men. They talk shop and there’s something about their conversation which makes you understand that it is possible for pro fessional and business men to get under each other’s skin and pull to gether for one community. Jawn puts on a stag affair once in a while and he knows his goods—-why not with Nephew Lee out of the late war on the job as assistant? “There’s Doc Gilligan who’s an authority on human beings, and can’t see anything wrong about smoking fags and knows a famous surgeon in the east who smokes ’em and dips his fingers in some kind of fluid to keep the skin from holding the yellow color. "And Montana Jack Sullivan is there. Back from the wild and wooly west where he gave up the prize ring to become an inspector of electrical installation and such. He still insists that he is off of smoking and things and is a bear at winning matches. "Tom Golden stays with the boys these nights. He gets a little for getful in tampering with whist, and he may not play it according to Hoyle, but occasionally he reads a chapter or two from a book. “And when it’s all over, the hand clasp and the farewell—the handclasp that is warm and strong and that makes you glad that you've been in O’Neill, Nebraska.’’ RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION The following residents of Holt County hold commissions in the Re serve Corps of the United States Army, which list shows that this ter ritory has a spendid number of men, who, besides having already served their country during the late war, have also placed themselves at the call of the Government for duty, in case of any National Emergency. The Reserve Corps is not to be con fused with veteran organizations, it being a branch of the Regular Army of the United States, that branch which is ready on call, although not on active duty until called, the mem bers having kept themselves in train ing from year ,to year to be fit for service. Medical Corps— * Capt. Wm. J. Douglas, Atkinson. Capt. B. V. McDermott, Stuart. Capt. C. S. Medhan, Page. v Capt E. T. Wilson, O’Neill. Air Service— Lt. O. A. Powell, Stuart. Lt. H. O. Chapman, Atkinson. Lt J. D. Cronin, O’Neill. Infantry— Capt. Ed. H. Whelan, O’Neill. Lt. Wm. P. Kelley, O’Neill. Lt E. T, Kelly, Atidnsem, Lt. J. W. Davis, Joaia. This list was famished by the Re serve Officers Association of Omaha, who, in sending the same have an nounced a call for a convention of Reserve Officers of Nebraska to be held December 12-13, 1921, at the Army Building, Omaha, for the pur pose of instruction on the recon stitution of the Eighty Ninth Division, and, the new tables of organization of the War Department. The Omaha Officers are sponsoring the program for the convention and promise to spare no expense in mak ing their comrades attendance re munerative. TO HOLD CHECKER TOURNEY. Grand Island, Neb., Nov. 27.—A checker tournament will be held at the chamber of commerce, on Tues day, December 6. The tournament is being promoted and conducted under the auspices of the Nebraska State Checker association. Many strong checker players thorughout the state have signified their intention of tak ing part. Among the players who ex pect to participate are: T. A. John ston, Chadron; 0. G. Adkins, Butte; A. M. Voss, Lincoln; George Grosven or, Central City; Matt Sterup, Gres ham; U«C. C. Copeland, Beaver City; C. E. Kerr, Monroe; E. F. Osborn, Mc Cook; Wm. Flemming, Grand Island. SPENCER MAN FINDS LOST BROTHER DEAD Pratt, Kan., Nov. 29.—John Adams, of Spencer, Neb., visiting at the home of Mrs. Adams’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Panek, four miles south of here, identified a picture of Eddie Adams, killed in Wichita last Tuesday, as that of his brother. He later tele phoned the Witchita undertaker who has the body in charge, and described scars on the body. The undertaker, according to John Adams, replied they were the same. John Adams said that until this time he ijad not heard from his brother since his escape from the Nebraska state reformatory, about twenty years ago. EX-POSTMASTER AT EWING JAILED FOR EMBEZZLING Frederick G. Waugh Taken Into Custody by Marshal In Dawes Co. Frederick G. Waugh, former post master at Ewing, Nebraska, has been arrested at Chadron by Deputy Mar shal A. W. Wright of the United Sttes court on a charge of misappli cation of money order and postal funds. He was delivered into ' the custody of the jail keeper in Dawes county, according to returns made in federal court at Norfolk on Tuesday morning. Waugh was indicted on two counts by the federal grand jury. The government’s charge is that Waugh on June 18, 1921, converted to his own use through embezzlement, a money order amounting to $490.44 : and also one for $55.50. This misapplication of the funds, the government's complaint states, was made while Waugh was employed as postmaster and when the money order came into his hands as a gov 1 ernment postmaster. i _ | PLEASANT VIEW NEWS. \ Miss Lavalle Henderson who is ; teaching at Foster, spent Thanksgiv 1 ing with home folks. . A slight snow fell in the valley ‘ Wednesday evening, i Mrs. Bill Fergerson of Council s Bluffs, is visiting her daughter, Mis.1 i Evlyn Davenport Evelyn will return i home with her mother to spend the school months. Miss Zola Snyder spent her Thanks ; giving vacation with home folks. Quite a number Pleasant View boys 1 have been successful trapping already 1 this season. Eighty muskrats wert ' caught in one night on Julius’ lake. R. H. Murray made a businenss trip , to O’Neill Tuesday. M. E. CHURCH NOTES. I - i The Epworth League contest for i naw members closed with fine success; making this one of the largest leagues i in the Norfolk district. Invitations have been sent out by the captain of | the losing side to all members of! this , organization, for a banquet to be given in the dining room <xf the church on Friday evening this week. The ladies aid -society are meeting 1 on Thursday of this week, at the home ■ of Mrs. Clyde. Tea will be served by a committee of three ladies. Some of thq Epworth Leaguers are planning on visiting at Page Sunday evening, by invitation of Rev. Mc Gaughey to help boost a similar or ganization at that place. ; The regular mid-week prayer meet ing of the young people is being well 1 attended1 and full of interest and in spiration. j Rev. Hutchins and family and Wil ‘ liam Fry of Winside, were entertain i ed ini the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ennis ; on Thanksgiving day. William Fry returned to his home . in Winside Monday morning, having spent four days in the home of his . sister, Mrs. J. A. Hutchins, i The ministers at Ewing, Inman, i Page and Chambers were here on ■ Monday, Tuesday and Wedriesday as . sisting in the canvass for the Ne • braska endowment fund. Rev. Hut chins will be at Page Thursday and Friday assisting there in the same work. Work has been started on the Christmas program to be rendered in the M. E. church on Christmas eve. The “Camp Fire Girls” and “Blue birds” classes received the banner for attendance* in Sunday school last Sun day; and for offerings the “Good Cheer” class in the senior department and “Bluebirds” in the primary de partment. * % » •**►*#•• MORE LOCAL MATTERS. O’Neill will formally inaugurate the basket ball season With a game at home Friday evening, the Inman high being the opposing team. The local team, last fall one of the best in north ern Nebraska, will be even better this year, and will be a strong contended for the state championship. The rear portion of the public rest room is being remodeled, that the room may be better heated during the winter season, and an oil heater in stalled. The ladies in charge are working hard for the success of the undertaking and are receiving en couraging support from the business men. The original contract on the federal aid road out of Bwing was completed Wednesday and the road crews now are at work on the extra mile later decided upon. Work on the Atkinson federal road also is progressing satis factorily and much of the work through swampy territory will be com pleted this winter., Inman Leader,, Nov. 24.—Mr. and Mrs, Frank McDermott left Wednes day morning for Lincoln where they will spend Thanksgiving with their daughter. Mrs. Fred Frisbie and family. This will probably be their last visit to the state capitol as Mi. and Mrs. Frisbie expect to leave Lin coln next week for their new home in Washington, D. C. There still may be a few who doubt that the extension of the Burlington from O’Neill to Thedford is going to be built, but the railroad editor of this great family journal has received a letter from the Burlington general offices in Chicago, stating that the road has placed contracts for 127 new passenger cars. What would the road need of this new equipment if they have no extension to place it on ? In cluded in the order are 12 dining cars, 5 chair cars, 54 coaches, 12 baggage, 22 mail and 22 miscellaneous cars. All of these cars will be of massive steel construction and embody all of the latest approved devices and com forts known to the modern car builder. Placed end to end, this equipment would make a train almost a mile and one-half long. oenator ueoige w. iNorris, ana con gressman M. 0. McLaughlin and A. W. Jefferys at the request of the Ne braska Farm Bureau Federation have taken up with the first assistant post master general at Washington the proposition of delivering mail at third and fourth class post offices on Sun day to rural patrons. They find that this service was discontinued in order to give the rural carriers an entire day off on Sunday, and as they! do not go to the post office on Sunday there is at present no one to distribute mail so that it can be handed to the various patrons. They, have been assured, however, by the post office department, that while it is not likely that rural carriers (will be compelled to do this work on Sunday that an attempt will be made to have the distribution made in some other way. H. D. Lute, secretary of the Ne braska Farm Bureau Federation, rep resented the state organization at the national Farm Bureau convention held at Atlanta, Ga», last Week. Mr. Lute in keeping with the procedure of the convention submitted a detailed report f Nebraska Farm Bureau activities, n Concluding his report Mr. Lute ad led a word picture of the Nebraska ‘armer at the present time as follows: ‘The Nebraska farmer is down but not out; he is slightly disfigured but still in the ring; he is hard hit but not licked for he knows that the basic in dustry is fundamentally sound and hope springs eternal in his heart. The thinking Nebraska farmer is going to stick to the Farm Bureau for he sees in it the rainbow of promise. He be lieves that this is the organization that will help to secure for agriculture the recognition to which it is justly en titled.” Some of the barriers which stood in the way of securing a great quantity of war finance corporation money hi Nebraska seems to have been put aside by the decision on the part of the cor poration to advance money to Nebras ka banks for paying depositors and es tablishing reserves. The state law which prevents banks from loaning beyond their capital stock and surplus practically eliminated . most banks from securing further money through the corporation. While money will not be advanced for rediscount the new ruling will permit banks to rediscount their present loans in order to secure funds. Secretary J. E. Hart of the state department of trade and com merce is recommending that county cattle loan corporations be organized to take advantage of the War finance corporation’s announcement that it will loan up to ten times the capital stock of these corporations on good paper, which will eliminate the statu tory provision limiting corporations to an indebtedness of two thirds of their capital stock. DOES YOUR BACK ACHE? It’s usually a sign of sick kidneys, specially if the kidney action is dis ordered, passages scanty or too fre quent, Don’t wait for more serious troubles. Begin using Doan’s Kidney Pills. Read this O’Neill testimony. A. W. Gunn, carpenter, says: “My kidneys acted irregularly and I had to get up a number of times at night to pass the secretions which were highly colored. I had a lameness in the small of my back and kidneys that bothered me a great deal when I lifted or bent. Doan’s Kidney Pills correct ed the trouble and I wasn’t bothered for years until I caught cold which settled on my kidneys disordering them. I took a few Doan’s again and they relieved me so I have not been bothered since.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—-get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Gunn had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. * * YULETIDE IN THE' COUNTRY w ■ ■■ 11 “ Christmas Day In the Old Farm Home Recalls Fond and Pleasant Recollections. HRISTMAS in the country. Christmas day in the old farm home. What pleasant memories It recalls to some of us, and what good times it will mean for many of us this year. There is really no place like the farm home fdr Christmas good times and Jollity and good cheer. Here, If any where, prosperity and plenty abound, and in family gatherings and in neigh borhood reunions, with an abundance of the fruits of our labor with which to spread our bountiful boards, old friendships may be renewed, new ones made, and even the stranger within our gates may be added to the list. At Christmas time we may put into practipe the real principles of neigh-, boring. Living close together does not always make neighbors. Speaking ac quaintances are not always neighbors. To be real neighbors we must have the spirit of neighborliness in our' hearts which prompts us to get to gether once In awhile, to gather around a well-Jaden table and feast,1 and visit, and laugh and Joke and have a rousing good time. To love our neighbor as we do ourself, we have to know him pretty well, and there Is nothing like these neighborly reunions as a means of getting acquainted. It may be that some of us will have, to do a little mental and spiritual housecleaning before Christmas day dawns. We shall have to rid ourselves of all the old rubbish of grudges, dis likes, Jealousies and ill feelings which we will find pigeon-holed away when we begin to overhaul the accumula tion of the years. You will have to throw all this Into the discard before you can get Into the real Christmas spirit, because the two will not mix. If you have wronged your neighbor in any way, Christmas is a good time to make reparation. And If you feel that you have been wronged, why, Just for get It, and the Christmas spirit_jmd the Christmas "get-together” will do the rest. Christmas should be a time of peqce and good will to all mankind, and not to a few favored friends. It should be a time of reviving old as sociations, of renewing old friend ships, and of making new friends, and the peace and good will, the nelgh borliness and good fellowship ttos re vived should not be allowed to me out as the yule fires cease to bum, but should flow out in a plenteous stream to enrich our lives through all the days of the coming year. w wxmmxxmmmvtmm'M'X'M A Christmas Sermon *9ff*0 BE honest, to be kind— j OL to earn a little and spend j a little less, to make upon ) the whole a family happier for j his presence, to renounce when j that shall be necessary and' not j be embittered, to keep a few j friends but those without capltu- j : latlon—above all, on the same > grim condition, to keep friends * : j with himself—here Is a task for J all that a man has of fortitude jj and delicacy. He has an ambl- K tlous soul who would ask more; jj j he has a hopeful spirit who * should look on such an enter- j prise to be successful. There Is * Indeed one element In human J 1 destiny that not blindness Itself $ : < can controvert; whatever else g : [' we are Intended to do, we are * not Intended to succeed ; failure > 11 Is the fate allotted. It Is so In J ; every art and study, It Is so $ above all the continent art of | ! living well. Here Is a pleasant 1 J thought for the year’s end or j for the end of life. Only self- ) 'deception will be satisfied, and j there need be no despair for the j despalrer.—Robert Louis Steven- i son. Cookie Rocks. One and one-half cupfuls of sugar, one-half cupful of butter; cream. Add three eggs well beaten, three cupfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of soda in a tablespoonful of hot water, one pound of dates cut In small pieces, three quarters pound of shelled walnuts (one and a half pounds In shell), one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful of allspice. Break the nuts In Targe pieces and cut the dates about the size of raisins. Drop this stiff dough from a spoon on buttered tins In the size of walnuts. Bake In a slow oven. MERELY POSTPONED Frank: So you didn’t man age to catch Ethel under the mletletoe? Jack: That’s all right. I’m going to take her for a slelgh rlde tonight. ^a ■ ..... 1 The Indian’s Vigil. In a book of sketches of uppef Canada, a pretty Incident is cited ol the writer meeting an Indian at mid night, on Christmas Eve, during r beautiful moonlight, cautiously creep lng along, and beckoning him to si lence. In answer to an Inquiry the Indian said: “Me watch to see the deer kneel; this is Christmas night and all the deer fall upon their knee? to the Great Spirit and look up.” MRS. IRA EDWARDS. Atkinson Graphic, Nov. 25.—Mrs. Ira P. Edwards a well known and long resident of this neighborhood passed away at the home of her son Thomas, early Sunday morning af^er an illness of several months. Her condition was very critical for the past fehv weeks and death was not unexpected . She leaves a wide circle of friends who re gret to learn of her death. On the 10th of January, 1842, Elizabeth Ashworth was born in Car rol County, Virginia, near Hillsville, and died at the home of her son Thomas, at Douglas, Nebraska, at the age of 79 years, 9 months and 26 days. Here she grew to womanhood and in the year of 1861 was united in mar riage to George H. Kenny who was killed in the Civil War in the battle of Drury’s Bluff in May, 1864. To this union one son, Lloyd, was born who preceded her to the Great Beyond March 18, 1918. On June Ul, 1866, she became the Iwife of Ira P. Edwards. Nine chil dren came to bless this union, two dying in infancy. Those living are Mrs. Lucy Davis, Atkinson; Mrs. Fan nie Chaney, Stuart; Thomas of Doug la; Albert, of Wayne', Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, of Vesta; Mrs. Vena McCurry of Pawnee City, Nebraska and Bruce L. , of Oregon. She leaves to mourn her loss her faithful and devoted husband, seven children, eighteen grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. Funeral services were held at the M. E. church on Tuesday a. m. at 11 o’clock. The body was laid to rest in Rose Hill Cemetery at Douglas. Those from out of town attending the funeral were Mrs. Lucy Davis, At kinson; Mrs. Fannie Chaney, Stuart; Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Smith, Vesta; Mrs. Vena McCurry, Pawnee City, Mr. and Mrs. Bloss, Mr. and Mrs. Zeigler, Mrs. Schum and Mrs. DeFredse of Vesta; Mrs. Eritz of Sterling and Mrs. Mary Monrosei, of Brock, |Nebr.—Douglas (Nebr.) Enterprise. Mrs. Edwards was a resident of At kinson about eight years ago. O’NEILL HAS FAST TEAM. The O’Neill High School Basket Ball team opened fire on the baskets in the high school gymnasium Monday night. Tl^p first practice of the season saw eighteen players on the floor and ready for actjpn. O’Neill will have five of their last year’s letter men in their line up. They only lost two players last season and have two more to take their places and hold them dctwn better then they were held down last year. O’Neill will have one of the strongest teams in Northern Ne braska. The Irish City put out the best basket ball team last year that was seen on the O’Neill floor and the dope artists say that the team of last season will not compare with the com ing team. There are four regulars on the O’Neill line up who are putting in their third year of basket ball for their team. It has been five years since the Bue and White has suffered a defeat on their own floor and the basket ball fans saj> there is little hope of any team defeating the squad here this season. Among the members of the team are Ralph Mellor, forward, McKinley Simonson, forward, George Stannard and Merle Hatch, guards and Joe Beha at his old place in the circle. Substitutes James McPharlin and Ben Gilligan. O’Neill’s first game will be with the fast Inman team which so far this season has not lost agame. Among the teams they have defeated are Clearwater, Chambers and Page. The O’Neill team last year won' thirteen out of sixteen games played, losing to Bassett, Clearwater and Ew- • ing, each of whom they later defeated. INMAN GIRL MARRIED IN CEDAR RAPIDS Inman Leader, Nov. 24.—Miss Della Goree, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Goree, was married November 15 to Fred Reynolds of Cedar Rapids, Nebr. The ceremony took place at Cedar Rapids and they expect to make that city their future home, where the groom is engaged in business. The bride is a well known Inman young lady and has been visiting relatives in Cedar Rapids for the past several months. She was bom and raised in Inman and has many friends who will be pleased to learn of the happy event and who joih in extending congratula tions and best wishes. || “ .^ | These Two Will 1 . | Bring Happiness t - 1 1 ' S Health is easily the most import nat condition of happiness. A lit tle money in the bank comes next. The two together almost guarantee . § happiness. S ; How about the money end of it! I It will give us pleasure to demon- | strate what this bank can do for :* you. v i S A visit implies no obligation to :i do business with us. TheO’Neiil National Bank I O’Neill, Nebraska ] 2 9 I Capital, Surplus and Undivided 5 Profits, $160,000.00 g This Bank Carries No Indebtedness Of Officers Or Stockholders. v S 5 <■»»....--MM-...,.--{ A Visit to Your Old Home Town Don’t you wish you could make one? But, of course, you haven’t the time. It’s a fast world! . And it’s a long, expensive trip. Perhaps, someday! But just as often as not, “some day” never comes. And you have to be content with just sending your memory back on a skylarking trip among the ghosts of yesterday. However, those “ghosts” are very much alive, chances are, and are doing a lot of interesting things you’d like to know about. True, you may be getting letters regularly from mother, or father or sister or brother—but they sel dom, if ever, mention good old Tom, Dick or Harry. What of them? Somebody knows! , You bet somebody knows! That “somebody” is your Home Town Paper. Why, it’s got stories about Tom, Dick and Harry today. You ought to keep in touch with them—and you can! It’s easy— Subscribe For Your Home Town Paper