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LOCAL MATTERS.
Ewing is planning on a fourth of
July celebration.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Everhart drove
up from Orchard Sunday.
J. F. O’Donnell was a passenger to
Omaha Tuesday morning.
S. L. Berry and W. J. Hammond
were in Norfollk Tuesday.
A little daughter was born last Sat
urday to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stewart.
The south room of the Nebraska
State bank is being replastered this
week.
A. E. Bowen is erecting a new house
26x36 on his lots north of the Metho
dist church.
The new residence of J. A. Pinker
man, in the west part of town is pro
gressing nicely. 9
Mrs. H. H. Haffner w;,3 called to
Memphis, Missouri, last Friday, by the
death of her sister.
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Mrs. Joe Smith and baby are here
from Humphrey, visiting with her
parents, Dr. and Mrs. L. A. Carter.
J. D. Cronin is delivering the ad
dress at the commencement exercises
of the Inman High School this even
ing.
Leonard H. Walton, of Venus, and
Miss Edna L. Mortan, were married
by County Judge Malone, last Thurs
day.
The Block 18 club were entertained
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
Coyne, on Thursday evening of last
week.
Mrs. W. J. Biglin was hostess to the
Monday Nite club this week. Miss
Anna O’Donnell won the honors at
bridge.
County Judge Malone issued a
license to wed to George W. Hall and
Miss Noma Fuller, both of ' Stuart,
Tuesday.
A number of O’Neill people drove
to Neligh last Sunday to hear Evan
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wont to Omaha, Wednesday, for a
visit with relatives.
A small blaze at the Van Humphrey
home at Atkinson, Thursday after
noon, did some damage.
The band at Elgin will be supported
by a special levy in the future, if
present plans are carried out.
Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Muret from
Orchard, are visiting their daughter,
Mrs. N. S. Hendrick, this week.
C. A. Smith, of Sioux City, was in
O’Neill today shalnng hands with his
many old time friends. C. A. was
station agent here twelve years ago.
He is now representing -the Trans
Continental Oil Co.
ices there.
Dr. L. A. Burgess went to Lincoln
Monday morning where he has been
attending the State Dental Convention
this week.
The Mineola school closed for the
summer with a big program and pic
nic last Friday. Mi’s. L. C. McKim,
jr., was the teacher.
Miss Viola Dierks, of Ewing, was
hostess at a prenuptial shower for
Miss B. Pearl Warwick, on Monday
evening of last week.
T. J. Coyne returned home last week
from Laurel, Nebraska, and points in
South Dakota, where he was looking
after some land business.
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O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1922.
T. V. Golden was in Inman yester
day attending a meeting of tHe citi
zens of that locality in regard to the
location of the Blue Pole road through
Inman.
Mrs. Ole Goodspeede, of Neligh, who
has been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Lyle McKim, of Opportunity, for
several days, returned to her home
this afternoon.
Mr. McKinnon and son have been
in O’Neill several days during the past
week looking after business matters
connected with the marking of the
Grant Highway.
The sewing circles of the Altar
society -will meet on Thursday after
noon, May 18th, as follows: West
side, Mrs. W. J. McDonough; the east
side, Mrs. J. B. Ryan.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wise were in
Spencer on business Tuesday. Mrs.
Henry Zimmerman accompanied them
and spent the day visiting with her
daughter, Mrs. Sturdevant.
The last program of the music_ de
partment for the year will be given
on Friday afternoon of this week at
St. Mary’s auditorium. All members
are requested to be present.
Mrs. Julia M. Uecher filed a petition
in the district court on May 6th, ask
ing for a divorce from her husband,
Gustave Uecher. Both parties are
old time residents of O’Neill.
Thirty-five purebred Hereford bulls
were sold at the sale conducted by G.
C. Gross & Son, in O’Neill, last Satur
day afternoon. The entire herd were
purchased by farmers in this vicinity.
The Research club of the O’Neill
Catholic Women will have the final
meeting of the season at the K. C.
Hall Sunday afternoon, May 28th. All
members are requested to be present.
Miss Ida Chapman and Miss
Florence McCafferty entertained the
Martez club at the home of Miss
Chapman Monday evening. Miss
Mary Fitzsimmons won the honors at
bridge.
Neligh Leader: County Judge In
gram issued one marriage license this
week to Joe Weston of Grand Island
and Gladys Thomas, of Page, who
were married by Rev. C. F. Steiner,
May 5.
The high wind of last Thursday
wrecked the big barn at Mineola. Fly
ing timbers broke several of the win
flnwc in tVio MinpiYWi anhnnl hnnsp and
Mr. and Mrs. John Finch and
daughter, Miss Edna, of Norden, Ne
braska, came down to O’Neill, Sunday,
and riJturned home Tuesday.
It. W. Badge row, of Middle Branch,
and Alex Wertz, of Star, were in
O’Neill last Saturday attending the
purebred sale at John Quig’s
Mrs. Harry Bowen is enjoying a
visit from her mother, Mrs. Bergmark,
of Chicago, also from an uncle, Fred
Stone and aunt, Mrs. Ed. Stone and
little son, Edward, Jr., of Omaha. The
party drove up from Omaha Tuesday
and will remain here several days.
O. B. Haeeh obtained a judgment in
the county court on Wednesday of last
week in his damage suit against Tom
Campbell, of Atkinson, which is the
outgrowth of a collision between their
cars that occurred in the west part of
O’Neill on the 8th of May last year.
A Rod and Gun Club has recently
been organized at Stuart, with D. A.
Criss, president, and Earl Chaney, sec
retary. Arrangements were made for
a big crow hunt for last Sunday with
Earl Chaney captain of one bunch and
Tom Compton captain of the other.
W. W. Leighton, the checker wonder
from Minnesota, put on several exhi
bition games up at the checker club
last week. He would play several
games at one time and succeeded in
winning most of the games. Mr.
Leighton is an axceptionnlly clever
player.
Mrs. Sam A. Arnold entertained a
few ladies at her home on Fremont
street last Monday afternoon in honor
of her sister, Mrs. B. F. Bogan, of
Ashland, Nebraska. Those present
were: Mrs. Elmer Surber, Mrs. D. H.
Clauson, Mrs. H. E. Radaker, Mrs. L.
E. Shaulis.
The Knights of Columbus entertain
ed at their nineteenth annual ball, at
tjie K. C. hall Tuesday evening. The
event was a most enjoyable one and
the social event of the season. The
hall was beautifully decorated, under
the direction of John Hiber. Craw
ford’s Melo-Harmony Men, of Denver
furnished the music. The success of
the affair is due to the untiring efforts
and energy of Messrs William Froe
lich, P. B. Harty and Ed. O’Donnell,
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O’Neill has been the center of a real
moving picture episode this week
The Chenowerth Film Co., have beer
making the film story for the Royal
Theatre, with an O’Neill cast. Mrs
Alice Sougey is the leading lady and
Frank Harrington is the leading gent
The story will be shown upon the
screen at the Royal as soon as the
film is completed. The stores ant
others who will be represented in the
film story are: Melior’s garage; Baj
Brothers; Biglin furniture store; Mc
Millan & Markey bakery; Seth Noble
lumber company; C. E. Stout drugs;
Nebraska State bank; Hanford Pro
duce Co.; J. B. Ryan ranch; H. H.
Haffner residence.
Thursday of next week, May 25, will
be a red letter day in O’Neill. On
that afternoon and evening the Omaha
Chamber of Commerce, 150 strong,
will be the guests of the city from 5:45
in the afternoon until 12:30 at night.
The visitors, accompanied by the
famous Dan Desdunes band of forty
pieces, will arrive by special train over
the Northwestern at 5:45. The famous
colored band and orchestra will be at
the disposal of the citizens while here.
In the evening the commencement
exercises of the high school will be
held at the K. C. theater, and at the
old skating rink in the south part of
town Homer Sheridan, of Sioux City,
and Jack Hunt, of Omaha, will stage
a ten round boxing contest. Chet Cal
kins, of this city, and Otto Bird' Head,
of Knoxville, a fullblooded Sioux In
dian, will appear in a five round pre
liminary. Then, after the boxing ex
hibition will come the big dance at
the pavilion, with the Dan Desdune
orchestra furnishing the jazz. The
orchestra, composed entirely of colored
musicians, accompanies the Dan Des
dune band and is considered by many
the best orchestra in the entire
country. You cannot afford to be
away from O’Neill next Thursday
afternoon and evening.
The happy song of a contented lit
tle pet dominick hen branded Charles
Grady as a chicken thief in the minds
of a Boyd county district court jury at
Butte last week and sent him to the
county jail for sixty days. Charles
was on trial, charged with stealing
chickens from his neighbor, Andrew
Lorenson, living near Butte. The
chickens with others had been found in
a butcher shop by Lorenson after he
missed them and the butcher had pur
pIhispH flip pliifVpnc enmnfViprQ
school was dismissed until the storm
abated.
The residents of Tilden are planning
on erecting a modern school building
to replace the one recently destroyed
by fire. They will vote on the propo
sition of issuing bonds in th sum of
$90,000.
D. L. Hendrick and family came
down to O’Neill Friday to visit his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Hendrick,
Mrs. Hendrick will remain for a week,
but Dell returned to his home Monday
afternoon.
Mrs. B. F. Bogan and son, David,
Jr., returned to their home at Ashton,
Nebraska, last Tuesday. Mr. Bogan
was unabel to visit here over Sunday
as expected.
Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Hodgkin de
pared in their car last Sunday after
noon for Madison, Nebraska, where
they will be joined by Mr. and Mrs.
Pettibone. From there they will go to
their home at Sidney.
Attorney J. A. Donohoe was attend
ing court in Butte one day last week,
and won the case wherein the assist
ant of the office of the county judge
was suing the county to obtain several
hundred dollars unpaid salary.
C. A. Kendall, of Milford, has been
visiting here for- a couple of weeks
with his daughter, Mrs. C. A. Jantzie,
north of the city. Mr. Kendall is an
old resident of this part of the county.
He expects to return home next week.
Ewing Advocate: Mrs. Roy Bentley
received word Monday of the death of
her father, Mr. Wm. Roberts, at War
rensburg, Mo. Mr. Roberts was an old
resident of Ewing, and his friends here
will be grieved to hear of his demise.
Chadron Chronicle: The marriage
of George Clarence Holopeter and
Mollie Allen took place at the Metho
dist parsonage, May 6. The groom is
from Enders Lake and the bride from
Emmet. They will make their home
at Ainsworth.
Ewing Advocate: Henry W. Mosel’s
barn took fire Wednesday about noon,
during the high wind that day, and
was an entire loss, together with some
corn and some young stock. Mrs.
Mosel was badly burned helping to get
the horses out.
atai. aim ifno, vv cuter i>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.
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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. -
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