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MORE LOCAL MATTERS.
Leo Carney of Norfolk, is visiting
O’Neill relatives.
Lyle Curtis is home from the uni
versity for the holidays.
L. C. Peters returned Tuesday (from
a Christmas visit in Omaha.
Miss Rose Grady of Norfolk, spent
Christmas with O’Neill relatives.
Miss Vera Clyde of Omaha, is spend
ing the holidays with her parents.
Gerald Harrington arrived Saturday
to spend Christmas with relaitves.
The Atkinson Oil company has
opened up a station at Ainsworth. *
Francis Martin came over from
Spencer Saturday to spend Christmas.
Miss Vera Carter is home from the
university at Lincoln for the holidays.
Professor J. V- Ashton left Wednes
day on a business trip to Omaha and
Lincoln.
Pat McDermott, who is attending
school at Omaha, spent Christmas with
the home folks.
Oscar Fullerton of Pleasant View
had a car of sheep on the Omaha
market last week.
Mrs. Quinton Deaver of Casper,
Wyoming, is spending the holidays
with the home folks.
Clear Golden, professor of French
and Spanish at the university, is at
home for the holidays.
Miss Fern Hubbard, who is attend
ing the university at Lincoln, is at
home for the holidays.
Mrs. L. H. Ddwney has gone to In
dependence, Missouri, to join Mr,
Downey for the winter.
A good New Year resolution is to
subscribe for The Frontier if you are
not already a subscriber.
Mrs. R. E. Gallagher and Miss
Florence McCafferty left Tuesdy for a
ten days visit in Omaha.
Larry Barrett, now located at Crete,
spent Christmas with his parents, Mr,
and Mrs. Patrick Barrett.
Cyril Sauser came up from the uni
versity at Lincoln Friday evening to
spend the holidays at home.
Miss Cora Meredith left this morn
ing for Lincoln for a holiday visit with
her sister, Mrs. Frank Mayne.
George Agnea left Friday lor a
holiday visit with his mother and
children at Plankington, S. D.
County Agriculturl A^ent Homer
Nye and family are spending the holi
days with relatives at Lincoln.
Mrs. C. J. Malone and daughter,
Mildred, left today for Omaha, for a
• several weeks visit with relatives.
Francis Mullen, who is attending
Creighton university, came up Satur
day to spend the Christmas vacation
at home.
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McDonald of the telephone company
spent Christmas with relatives at
Columbus.
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Schroeder of
Bloomfield, are visiting with Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Goetz, parents of Mrs.
Schroeder.
Miss Cleta Harrington arrived from
Chicago Saturday for a holiday visit
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. F*.
Harrington.
Mr. and Mrs. Felix Hostynek, resi
ing northwest of the city, are the
proud parents of a baby daughter
which arrived Sunday of last week.
“Casey” O’Keefe is driving the
through freight between O’Neill and
Osmond while Mike Ford is visiting
the home folks at Sioux City this
week.
The Misses Loretta and Grace Cro
nin of Omaha, are spending the holi
days with their parents’ Mr. and Mrs.
D. J. Cronin.
Real estate values in Holt county
for purposes of taxation this year
were reduced more than six millions of
dollars under the valuations of last
year. With a revaluation again next
year they will bo further reduced.
Figures compiled at the end of 1921
by national headquarters of the U. S.
Grain Growers will show totals of ap
proximately 36,000 members and about
900 elevators affiliations, iwith the ag
gregate membership controlling nearly
100,000,000 bushels of grain.
Doctor L. A. Cartor and Mrs. Car
tor have received announcement of the
birth on December 23 of a son, Joel, to
Mr, and Mrs, Joe Smith, of Hum
phreys, Neb. It is Doc.’s first grand
child which accounts for the unusual
air of dignity assumed lately.
W. R. Martin, administrator of the
estate of Thomas Olsen, killed by
Walter Holcomb last summer, has be
gun suit in the district court of Madi
son county against the New York Life
Insurance company for $1,025, -the
amount of a policy carried by Olsen.
Democratic newspapers clamoring
for a reduction of taxes at the same
time and in the same breath are vio
lently protesting against the special
session of the legislature Governor
McKelvie proposes to call for the ex
press purpose of reducing taxes. As
the legislature is the only power which
can make the reductions prayed for
why the protest?
Fighting a fire with nothing but
buckets of water, Inman citizens prob
ably prevented the main part of town
from burning when the building occu
pied by the Inman Implement and
Hardware company was burned to the
ground Friday. The building belong
ed to Mrs. Ella Rilley and the loss,
which will reach into the thousands of
dollars, is partly covered by insur
ance. A heavy snow was falling dur
ing the fire.
Nebraska maintained a conserva
tive advance in the twork of the U. S.
Grain Grower b, Inc., during the past
week when the total membership was
increased to 0.7&5 or an addition of
465 for the six-day period, according
to an announcement from the office of
the state organ' .or. One elevator and
one local grain growers association
were added to the list for the week,
bringing the total of elevator con
tracts to 211, with exactly 207 of these
held by strictly cooperative houses.
One of the special features of the
past week’s work was the signing of
the cooperative elevator at Elkhorn,
eighteen miles from the Omaha Grain
Exchange and in a territory which has
been literally covered with propagan
da adverse to cooperation by grain in
terests. Individual members on the
Elkhorn board of directors signed the
grower contract and fifteen out of
seventeen farmers present evidenced
their confidence in the national move
ment by executing the individual
agreement.
The 177 members of the U. S. Grain
Growers at Allen, Dixon county, cele
brated the fact that they have *the
largest membership of any shipping
point in the state by holding a big
mass meeting last week. J. A. Craw
ford, state organizer, and Gene Sulli
van, solicitor credited with the record
membership, spoke. Immediately
after the meeting local enthusiasts
went into the field to bring the total
to 200 und cinch first place for some
time to come. The membership at
Allen is in excess of the number of
stockholders in the cooperative ele
vator and reports received at Lincoln
indicate that the record membership
is already being reflected in increased
business for the elevator.
COUNTY AGL. AGENT WORK.
The following excerpts taken from
tho report of the Holt county agent
might be of interest to many: Twenty
percincts were organized under the
new plan with committeemen appoint
ed on marketing, membership, poultry,
livestock and legislative work. Only
a part of these have been active in
keeping up their work and the terri
tory being large has made it hard in
reaching the points as systematically
as should have been.
Three product stations have been
organized with a capital stock of ap
proximately $7,000. In the five months
of operation these stations have han
dled $76,000 worth of business With a
gain of $5,450. Other stations will
probably be started over the county
during the next year.
Improved strains of small grain and
potatoes were shipped into the county
and distributed among most 159 farm
ers. This consisted of 400 bushels of
Kanrcd wheat, 1800 bushels of White
Kerson oats, 300 bushels of Rosen Rye
and 1800 bushels of Eaily Ohio pota
toes. The wheat made a gain of 400
per cent on quantity sohvn and was all
used for seed in the county. Oats made
a gain of 6 bushels per acre over com
mon varieties. Potatoes made a 20
per cent gain and have materially im
proved the quality of potatoes in the
county; 450 bushels of wheat was
treated for smut and seeded on 300
acres. This has increased the yield
materially. Potatoes were treated for
scab with a result of only about 2 per
cent scab on potatoes harvested.
Most of the work along livestock
lines' has been done in the way of dis
ease control. Vaccine has been sold
for treatment of 18,876 head of cattle
against blackleg. Three cases of
hemorhagic septecemia have occurred
but not a great deal of vaccine has
been sold. Thirty-one registered bulls
have been purchased for stockmen.
Because Boyd county lying at the
north of Holt county has no agent they
have relied upon office for many things
and this accounts for a large sale of
serum and virus during an outbreak of
cholera, this added to a few cases in
Holt county makes a total of 6,782
hogs vaccinated by serum bought
through this office. Five hundred and
eighty-three hogs treated for hem
morhagic septesemia during the year.
Forty-five purebred sows have been
furnished for the farmers of the
countv,
( Considerable interest has been cre
ated in poultry work. Assistance has
been given on 177 different farms, 2,
378 hens handled through culling de
monstrations with a resultant profit
of $1,004.50. No accurate record has
been kept of flocks culled following
demonstrations, but an estimate has
has been made of 150 flocks.
There has been a great deal of in
terest among the ladies in home activi
ties. Dress form demonstrations have
bw?n held in four different localities
with a total of 13 demonstrations in
all lines and an attendance of 742.
Thirty-tlwo dress forms were made in
the 'four localities, an average of $10
a form was made. Requests have
come from other localities for demon
strations and these will be handled by
local talent.
Two cooking clubs have been organ
ized with 26 members enrolled. One
sewing club with 13 members enrolled.
All members have done excellent work
and oomcd fhair chartare, Tho trrj
cooking clubs however failed to lU&ko
their final reports and have not re
ceived the seals for their charter.
Considerable work has been done in
prairie dog eradication. Demonstra
tions have been held on 35 different
farms involving 3,000 acres of land.
Twelve hundred pounds of poisoned
bait have been used. This work has
been quite satisfactory, and has in
creased the value of the infested area
$5 per acre or a total of $16,000 for
the county. The cost iwas about 50c
per acre.
One hundred sixty-eight and one
half days were spent in the field in de
monstrations, and personal service
work. Ninety-five and one-half days
were spent in office work. Fourteen
hundred and seventy-eight farm visits
were made for work along all lines.
Office consultations total 2,825i A
grand total of all meetings held during
the year amount to 162. Article swrit
ten for local papers 62. Articles writ
ten for Farm Bureau News 60. Person
al letters written 1,613; circular let
ters 21, with a total number mailed
6,408.
Our marketing work is well under
way now and during the next year we
should make great progress in our
marketing work. We started during
the fall months when the cream and
egg business was weak and missed out
on the best part of the year. We ex
pect to have our marketing organi
zation at (work in nearly every town in
the county during the coming year. We
thought perhaps a summary of the
marketing work for the last four
months might be of interest to mem
bers and have compiled the following
report for the three stations in opera
tion just four months;
Poultry shipped, 1,114 coops; weight
111,400 pounds.
Eggs shipped, 491 cases or 15,730
dozen.
Value of poultry and eggs shipped
$23,812.05.
Cans cream shipped 2,597 or 25,970
gallons.
Cars hay and potatoes shipped 207,
value $19,703.23.
Hog conditioner sold 400 sacks,
value, $1,800.
Total value of marketing for the
four months, $67,967.78.
This does not include livestock, seed
and some grain that was shipped dur
ing that time., ,
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1A Christmas
Joke
By MARY GRJAHAM BONNER
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Copyright. 1921, Western Newspaper Union.
y/yt
IE was a young
bride. Every
present she
had received
was very wel
come. She had
depended on
presents to
furnish her
new home.
When she had
received d Ex
plicate which were not initialed she
hastened to the place from which they
had been purchased and picked out
other articles of beauty and of house
hold necessity.
Her friends had really been remark
ably kind. She had been surprised
to find how ready the shops had been
about taking back gifts and substitut
ing with others, or in engraving pres
ents which had not already been en*
gtaved. Only one had charged for
engraving—the gift had been purchased
at "wholesale rate” and so engraving
was not Included.
Altogether from the point of view
of presents as well as from the point
of view of a mate she had done re
markably well. This would enable
them to make a very good appearance
In their home without having to draw
from the none too plentiful savings.
She viewed everything over again
one evening, presents and those which
were exchanges. There was Just one
thing Rmong them thnt. was not nec
essary and not particularly pretty. It
was a gravy-dish. She knew of no
particular use to which she could put
It—she had one of the kind she really
11 It «d
Royal Theater
- FRIDAY and SATURDAY -
BIG SUPER SPECIAL
BETTY COMPSON
—in—
“PRISONER’S OF LOVE"
2-REEL COMEDY
- SUNDAY ONLY -
MATINEE AND EVENING
ELWIN STRONG COMPANY
—in—
“THE PRICE”
Reserved Seat Sale at Cooper’s
Cigar Store. Admission 25c—50c.
- MONDAY and TUESDAY -
BIG SUPER SPECIAL
MARSHALL NEILOR
PRESENTS RANDALL PARISH’S
“BOB HAMPTON OF PLACER”
—with—
JAMES KIRKWOOD, WESLEY
Berry, Marjorie Jan, Pat O’Mally,
Noah Berry, Frank Leigh, Dwight
Crittenden. Tom Gallery, Priscilla
Bowmer, Charles West, Bert Sprootes,
Carrie Ward, Uce ..Patel and Bud
Post.
2-REEL COMEDY
- WEDNESDAY -
GEORGE WALCH
—in—
“DYNAMITE ALLEN”
COMEDY
- THURSDAY -
MARIE PREVOST
—in—
“PARISAN SCANDAL”
2-REEL COMEDY
COMING—
“AFFAIRS OF ANATAL”
“POVERTY OF RICHES"
“INSIDE THE CUP”
“EXPERIENCE**
“MOTHER O’MINE”
“CAMILLE”
fc- - x jfc. --
... " .1 ii i —
She could not crschnngo It. It had
n monogram in the center,
“I know whnt 1 11 do with it,” she
snid to her husband. "I’ll give it to
Molly Stevens tor n Christmas pres
ent. She has been so good to us and
I’d like to show tier how much I
appreciate it.
“You know she is going to get mar
ried in tlie .spring—tliat Is—her en
gagement is all but announced.
"Don’t you think it would be a good
idea? She was so helpful .about my
wedding and she lias told me, quite
confidentially, that the wedding will
be In the spring.
"It would lie a good idea to give her
■■ - - — -
“I know I did,” the young brido
answered, "but you see they told me
today at the shop that It would be
possible to do It were It not for the
fact that it had been done so often to
this gravy rllsh that they wouldn't
dare take a chance with It again.
They’d not be able to avoid boring a
hole this time! it "has been given
away once too often for nie to put to
any use,” she sighed sadly.
“Aijd I shall just send Molly a
Christmas card. After all she did no
more than any one else!”
HOWARD-DAVISON.
Miss Elsie Howard of this city and
Mr. Frank Davison of Lincoln, were,
united in marriage at Madison, this
state, Tuesday of last week. The
bride is the charming daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Howard of this city
and! the groom is one of the engineers
employed by the state in the supervi
sion of the building of the federal road
north of O’Neill. Mr. and Mrs. Davi
son will make their home in Lincoln.
The Frontier joins their many friends
in best wishes for a long and happy
wedded life.
PARK-PARKS.
Miss Minnie G. Park and Mr.
Harold J. Parks, both of Page, were
united in marriage at that place
Christmas day, the Reverend L. R. Mc
Gaughey officiating.
1*0 REST—NO PEACE.
There’s no peace and little rest for
the one who suffers from a bad back,
and distressing urinary disorders.
O’Neill people recommend Doan’s Kid
ney Pills. Ask your neighbors. Be
guided by their experience.
H .J. Zimmerman, prop., Cream Sta
tion, Main Street, O’Neill, says: “My
back ached continually day and night.
My kidneys acted frequently and my
head ached. I had to get up many
times during the night to pass the
secretions which were highly colored
and burned in passage. I was dizzy
and there were severe pains in the
back of my head. Doan’s Kidney
Pills completely relieved all the
trouble,”
The above statement was given
July 5, 1907, and on June 14, 1920, Mr.
Zimmerman added: “It has been
several years since I have had kidney
trouble. My case was a bad one but
Doan’s Kidney Pills have completely
cured me.”
60c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
SUPERVISORS’ PROCEEDINGS.
O’Neill, Neb., Nov. 29, 1921, 10 a. m.
Board met pursuant to adjourn
ment. All members present. Called
to order by chairman.
Matter of petition for road No. 184
came on for action. Delegations both
for and against said Petition ap
peared before the board.
ROAD PETITION.
We,'the undersigned, being the
ownor3 of the land adjacent to ih:
proposed road, hereby petition your
honorable body to grant and estab
lish a public road, described as fcl
lows, to-wit:
Commencing at the Northwest cor
ner of the Northeast Quarter of Sec
tion Two (2), in Township 32, North
of Range 16, West of the 6th P. M. in
Holt County, Nebraska; Thence Sout'.i
on a straight line, about 150 Rods;
Thence Southwesterly, on a straight
line, to the Northwest comer of the
SW% of the NEyt of Section Ten (10)
in said Township and Range; Thence
South, on a straight line which runs
through the center of Sections Ten
(10) and Fifteen (15), to a point on
said line about ten (10) Rods South
of the Northwest corner of the SE Vi
of Section 22, of said Township and
Range; Thepce in a Southeasterly di- —
rection, on a straight line, to a point
on the Section line between Sections
Twenty—five (25) and Twenty-six
(26), said point being near the north
west corner of the SWV4 of said Sec -
tion 25, said Township and Range.
If the road be established as above
described /we relinquish and waive all
claims for damages except for the
amount set opposite our names, which
sum we agree to accept in full satis
(Continued on Page 5.)
A MILLION
DOLLAR BABY
Naturally, those who see this head
ing expect to read about some “baby
heir” of an American multi-millionaire,
and they will be surprised to learn that
such a description applies to a scientific
pyorrhea pi eventative, tooth and mouth
preparation, and they will doubtless
wonder how such a product ever came
to be spoken of as a “million dollar
baby.” So the story must be told. ,
Over three years ago, the Research
Department of the Rexall Company,
in consultation with chemicalspecialists,
began an exhaustive investigation into
the disease Pyorrhea, and its proper
treatment, and in their characteristi
cally thorough way spent over two
years before they perfected a compound
which answered every test, according
to their high standards. Such a remark
able demand has been created that they
have named it “the Million Dollar
Baby.” "Probably no preparation that
is devised for use as a germ combatter
was found so efficacious in preventing
all contagious diseases that enter the
system through the mouth and nose as
Klenzo Liquid Antiseptic.Especially
was it proved that users of it completely
escaped all attacks of the flu when so
prevalent last year. This Rexall prod
uct can be purchased in 25c. and 50c.
special toilet bottles at
Chas. E. Stout
44The Rexall Store”
"I'll Give It to Molly Stevens for a
Christmas Present.”
something for Christmas that she
could have for her new home.
"We really can't afford to buy
another thing just now and that will
do beautifully.”
“But the monogram?” her husband
inquired.
“Oh, that can be taken off you
know, and another one put there In
Its place. I heard some one ordering
that to be done In one of the sliver
shops the other day."
"Yes, that’s a splendid Idea,” her
husband heartily agreed.
“I’ll go down-town and attend to It
tomorrow. I haven’t much time.
Christmas Is almost here.”
“Our first Christmas,” said the
young husband as he clasped his
bride to him.
“Our first Christmas," she mur
mured.
The next evening he asked her If
she had arranged about sending the
gravy dish to Molly Stevens.
“I couldn't send It,” she said.
“Why not?” he queried.
“Because of the monogram In the
center,” she said.
“But you told me that that could
be erased by the silversmiths and a
;new monogram placed there” her
husband oerslsted. • '
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