^ The Frontier. VOLUME XLI. I^VERYTmNC^_ j IN GROCERY LINE j In Season j Ben Grady, Grocer j | YVi '■’*»•? if •? 1:18 i;'jlltst Cir:,ouev enter tained a large number of their friends at their home northwest of O’Neill, last Sunday, in honor of their birthday anniversaries which occurred on the 10th and 14th inst. An unusually fine time is reported. Atkinson Graphic: The Ballon family received word of the accidental shooting of their sister, Mrs. Christina Selkirk, of Sioux City, Iowa, Wednes day and left that morning to be at her bedside. They found their sister in the hospital when they arrived M. F. Harrington and sons, George, of O’Ngill, and Gerald, of Omaha, were in Butte last week attending court. M. F. and Gerald won the Chambers will case, involving considerable land and some stock certificates. The case has been in court for some time. The Omaha Trade Excursion will be in O’Neill on May 25th, arriving by special train at 5:45 p. m., over the Northwestern, remaining until 12:30 a. m. This will be the largest' trade excursion that has ever visited north Nebraska. Accompanying the excui ■ sion will be Dan Desdunes famous band, who will furnish music for the occasion while here. It is the desire of the Commercial Club of O’Neill that everybody turn out and meet the train, and help to entertain the visitors afterwards. There will be a big dance at the pavilion. Music by Dan Des dunes Orchestra. Lots of souvenirs for the children at the train. from Grady. -At the trial Grady had an alibi that he had slept with another neighbor the night the chickens dis appeared! from the Lorenson farm and that the chickens he had sold to the butcher were his own. But Lorenson and his little son, Carl, contended that the chickens belonged to them and that in the bunch was a little pet dominick hen trained to do various stunts. The chickens were kept in a room in the county jail during the course of the trial and when it neared its close the jury was invited over tc view them. Accompanied by Judge Robert R. Dickson and the other court dignitaries they went to the jail There little Carl told the jury that il a dominick hen in the bunch was his it would fly upon the arm of any one if called and sing a little song. Juror Cline decided to try the experiment and, holding out his left arm, called tc biddy. The hen flew up and on to hit arm and cuddling down against his shoulder sang the little song all hens do in the spring. Then the jury wenl back to court r.nd the song so rang in their ears that they could not hca. the impassioned plea of Grady’s at torney. At the conclusion of thv hearing they only remained out long enough to eat supper at the county’s expense and then came in with a ver dict of guilty. Judge Dickson gav< Grady sixty days and he now is ir jail. NO. 50. t i The local post of The American Legion are completing plans for a gigantic ex-service men’s picnic to be held in O’Neill on Sunday, June 18. All ex-service men, their families and friends, in the county are to be invited and elaborate preparations are being made for their entertainment. Rev. and Mrs. George Longstaff have received word from their daughter, Hilda, stating that she and her husband, Rev. E. C. Goodenburger, will have charge of a Presbyterian church at Natoma, Kansas, during the summer, and will return to their studies at a seminary in Chicago in the fall. ' County Superintendent Anna Done hoe was in Chambers last Friday at tending a field meet which was being held by the pupils of five rural schools and the Chambers school. She speaks very highly of the work performed by the participants and also is highly in J favor of all the country schools adopt- ’ ing the field meet idea. < Ouster proceedings have been filed j against John Ashburn, who was ap pointed Highway Gommissioiner, by the County Board of Supervisors of ‘ Antelope county, on January 10, 1922. 1 The objectors to Mr. Ashburn holding the office claim that he is disqualified ■ as highway commissioner from the fact that he is also one of the super- ; visors of Antelope county. The out-of-town relatives who were 1 here last week to attend the funeral i services for James McDermott were: 1 Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Morrow, of Ra- 1 vena, Sounth Dakota; Joe Morrow, and . Mrs. J. B. Furguson, of Denver, and « Mrs. Tom McEvoy, of Omaha. Peter t and John Smith, of Dunlap, Iowa, who t were old neighbors of Mr. McDermott 1 before he came to Nebraska, were also 1 here. 1 Henry Brewster, who has been mak ng his home between Emmet and At cinson, was brought before the in sanity board last Saturday and ad iudged mentally incompetent and was aken to Norfolk that day by Sheriff Ouffy. He is a man about 38 years >ld and unmarried. How hath the mighty fallen. Over it the Henry Zimmerman residence Clarence Zimmerman has the once proud leader of a purebred flock of Plymouth Rock hens mothering and digging worms for a big brood of Brahma chicks, while the original mother of the brood is scratching her »wn worms. Thus does the feminist movement progress. Mrs. Della Shaw arrived here last veek from an extended visit with •elatives and friends at Long Beach, jos Angeles and other points in Cali ornia. She reports a pleasant visit vith the L. E. Carscallen family at iardena, and with the Mr. and Mrs. ■’rank Pixley, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. )euel and T. E. Lord, formerly of ’age, and with a number of other ormer residents of this vicinity who low reside in the west. Mrs. J. P. Gallagher has been visit ng at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. P. durphy, at St. Louis, Missouri, where . new daughter is in command. The wins Misses Helen and Hilda, who lave been attending school at Denver, re expected to join their mother at St. x>uis next Monday. Dr. E. E. Gal agher, of La Cross, Wisconsin,and Dr. . C. Gallagher, of Toledo, Ohio, are xpected in St. Louis next week to at end a medical convention and will be he guests of Dr. J. F. Gallagher and )r. J. P. Murphy while in the city. J. i\ Gallagher, of O’Neill, will, perhaps, >e a member of the party also. THE GREATEST FARMER IN THE WORLD Opo fourth of the wheat we grow is the result ol he researches of the Government. After years of untiring experiment and investigation, the Government, through the Department of Agricul ture, was enab'ed to introduce into this country the remarkable Du ruin wheat through which our produc tion has be n increased fully twenty-five per cant. This has fc- en only one of many surprising but little known accomplishments of the Government, which are covered in the interesting series of stories for which we h /e the exclusive right of distribution in this commupty. - We’ll send this literature to you each month without obligation on year part if you will ask for it. Nebraska State Bank. I ° -.1 | • -._,.u, ■ a