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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.
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| 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.
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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.
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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.,
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YULETIDE IN THE' COUNTRY
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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