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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1922)
— Frontier. VOLUME XLII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1922. NO. 14. [ At Grady’s Store [ I PURITAN BACON f^"^as!Tpaic^or^gg8™"^ BARRINGTON HALL COFFEE Ben Grady, Grocer I *■ - --- - -J LU7 -T~>_ c ypet?< ’■ lire H; ;hcst Grade IViacuroni I c 'j, p-ss Noodle., Spaghetti end I bell other Macaroni Product- I ^PHONES68-l26j C. W. Moss was down from Atkin son Saturday. Wm. Cronin came up from Omaha Tuesday evening. A Chas. Barnum, of Neligh, was an O’Neill visitor Monday. Jeff Yelton, of Lincoln, spent Sun day with the, Beha family. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Dishner have moved to rooms in the Annex. George Tomlinson was in from the Mineola neighborhood Monday., Homer Mullen came up from Lin coln, Saturday, for a visit with friends. Lee Hunter and R. L. Drayton, of Page, were O’Neill visitors last Fri day. , Miss Fern Hubbard expects to re turn to the Dtate university next Tues day. Mrs. L. B. Parkinson is visiting with Mrs. F. C. Johnson at South Sioux City. Art Brazell returned Friday from a business trip to the southern part of the state. W. S. McDonald, J. H. Moore, J. H. Tucker and son, Roy, drove up from Page Friday. Labor Day was duly observed in O’Neill by the closing of the court house and banks. Miss Mary Pangel, of Norfolk, was a guest at the R. R. Dickson home several days last week. Rev. and Mrs. Minar Girrard, of Bristow, were visiting at the H. A. Polk home last Friday. Clarence and Archie Faulhaber started for Denver, Sunday, for a short visit with relatives. Les Hough came down from his homestead in Wyoming last week for a visit with O’Neill friends. Father Cassidy and Edw. O’Donnell returned Friday from a five days’ trip to Hot Springs, South Dakota. Tom Donlin came , over from his home on the Niobrara river, Saturday, and spent a couple of days here. Mr. Page, representing the Geneva Land Company, was in O’Neill Tues day looking after land business. j j WOOD SEPARATOR H STORAG-t^BATrERY I An. 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Scott arrived hom( last week from an extended visit witi her parents at Vancouver, Washing ton. Dr. George Mullen, of Omaha, has been in this territory the past twc weeks assisting P. C. Donohoe in th< insurance business. R. J. Marsh came home Saturdaj from a two week’s stay at Batth Creek, Nebraska, where he has beer writing life insurance. John Mullen returned the first of the week from Lincoln where he was visiting with his mother and incident ally “taking in’’ the state fair. Judge R. R. Dickson was in Omaha last Saturday attending the funeral services for the late grand master of the Masonic order, Edward M. Well man. vv in ouuinaru ana sisier, jvirs. ina> Janes, of Bakersfield, California, ac companied by Miss Kathleen Stannard of Denver, arrived here last Sunday for a two weeks’ visit with theii parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Stannard Clear Golden arrived here last Sat urday from the Black Hills country where he has been with a party oi government surveyors during the sum mer. Clear is down on the ranch neat Ewing working in the hay field this week. Humphrey Democrat: Tony Heiner drove to Norfolk last Friday and there met his sister, Mrs. Fred Mueting, oi O’Neill, who is a guest this week al the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs John Hienen, and with other relatives in this community. Mrs. Owen Wade died at her home in Norfolk about noon Sunday, at the age of eighty-eight years. She was the mother of T. P. Wade, of Sioux City, for many years a resident of Page, Nebraska, where he operated a grain and coal business. Mr. and Mrs. Therlow Lord and lit tle daughter, of Santa Ana, California, have been visiting Mrs. Lord’s mother, Mrs. Hoffman, at Page, for the past week. They came to O’Neill Tuesday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Clauson and Mrs. Shaw. Stuart friends have received the an nouncement of the marriage of Alvan Fayette Daland, of Lincoln, and Myrnp Carmen Redenbaugh, formerly of Stu art, Wednesday, August 23. The wed ding took place in Council Bluffs, Iowa. They will reside in Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. McNabb, of Page, were in Orchard on Sunday of last week where they attended a gather ing of relatives and friends at the home of their son, D. B. Relatives were present from different points in the state and from Bloomington, Illi nois. oiuait rtuvui;(H.c. veiuei, tiie utuu seven-year-old son of Joseph Zink, liv ing south of Newport, had his right hand crushed by a pulley of a hay stacker last Friday evening and was brought to the Wilson Hospital where it was found necessary to amputate the index finger. Humphred Democrat: Up in Holt county there is a man by the name ol McGirl. He is a tax payer, and not s great while ago he called at the office of the county treasurer and said, “1 want to pay McGirl’s taxes.” The treasurer replied, “All right, what is your girl’s name.” Hugh O’Neill accompanied by Rev Wabs, Carl Grant and C. W. Grant came down from the village of Ancat Monday afternoon. The two Mr Grants had been visiting friends ir the Ancar neighborhood and stoppec in O’Neill a short time on the way tc their home at Dorsey. L. E. Wertz came down from Scott: Bluffs, Nebraska, Tuesday morning for a visit with his parents, at Star until Saturday afternoon. L. E. is working in the refineries of the Greal Western Sugar Co. He says there is a big crop of beets in the western pari of the state this year. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Pound came up from Omaha last Thursday and re mained at the home of Mrs. Pound’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Downey until Saturday when they drove tc Cut Meat, South Dakota, where Mrs Pound will teach in the public schools this year. Mr. Pound also- has employ ment there. Merle Spindler, aged about sixteer years, living in the Phoenix neigh borhood, received a very severe cut or his right thigh when his Ford run about turned over with him last Sun day. He was taken to Atkinson foi medical attention. The accident wai caused by the breaking of the hub or a front wheel. R. S. Miller, of Wagner, South Da kota, stopped in O’Neill last Thursdaj for a short visit with his uncle am aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan Simmons He returning from a overland trij to Grand Island and North Bend Nebraska, and reports that the corr in the south Platte county, is toracti cally ruined by the continued arouth Thomas Hynes and daughter, Mrs Nell McCormick, of Norden, Nebras ka, spent Thursday night and Frida; visiting with their many O’Neill rela' tives and friends. Mr. Hynes was om of the original colony that locate! here with General O’Neill in 1874 Mr. Hynes makes regular visits h O’Neill and enjoys meeting the few n maining members of the party of thi earl / < i, i. Sheriff Duffy accompanied Jack : Hoff to the penitentiary last Monday. ‘ Hoff has been occupying a cell at the county jail here for tne past two months on account of the crowded con dition of the state penitentiary. He ' received a sentence some months ago in Judge Dickson’s court for carrying a gun with Ipresumably a malicious ; intent. ' About one hundred of the friends and relatives of John Moler gathered at his home last Sunday for the pur pose of assisting him to'properly cele brate the seventy-second anniversary of his birth. An enjoyable day was spent. Mr. Moler is enjoying ex ceptionally good health and was able to assist Mell Putman upt-up hay the next day. Stuart Advocate: Monday of this week, about twenty-five of the neigh bors of Mrs. Phillip Kopp, jr., appear ed at her home, with their mowers, rakes and all other necessary imple ments, mowed, raked and stacked the hay on a quarter section of her land. That is the kind of neighborly spirit that is admired and appreciated by everyone. Atkinson Graphic: Mrs. A. B. Roy and little daughter left Friday for their home in Blackfoot, Idaho. Mrs. Roy has been visiting the past three months here with her sisters, Mrs. Sammons, Mrs. ffm. Weller, Mrs. John McCaffrey, and-'also with a sister, Mrs. Joseph Rooney, of Valentine, and a sister-in-law Mrs. James Pinkerman, of O’Neill. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Ziemer drove to Lincoln Tuesday where they will spend the remainder of the week attending the state fair. Phil says that this will be the first year that he has attended the fair as a visitor. In former years he has conducted an eating stand which occupied most of his time. They will visit different points in the state before returning. A combination gas and oil stove created considerable excitement at the H. A. Derby home northeast of town near the fair ground, Tuesday morn ing. Draperies near the stove became ignited and things took on the ap pearance of a regular fire. • Mr. Derby ham: ned to be at home at the time end 1" prompt action, the fire was ex tinguished without much damage. The Norfolk Division of the Federal , court will convene in Norfolk on Sep tember 18th. Tlie jury will report on September 20th. Those from Holt county who are drawn on the jury are: W. L. Evans, O’Neill; D. C. Garey, In man: J. M. Alderson, Chambers; Ed ward L. Melchor, Stafford; E. C. Mc Kay, Ewing; L. M. Rhodes, Stuart; John Steinhauser, Dorsey; Leon R. Tompkins, Inman. The O’Neill Concert band held an other of those enjoyable concents in the band stand on the court house lawn Tuesday evening before a very large and enthusiastic audience. The boys appreciate the loud and ringing ap plause given them by the crowd. The , band has recently acquired consider able new popular music and enjoy playing the regular weekly conoprts. Come out and hear them. Chambers Sun: The sad news was i received in Chambers Sunday, that 1 Claude Cooke had passed away, at noon that day, at Elgin. The remains were brought to his parents home, Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Cooke, Monday and funeral services held at the M. E. ■ church Tuesday at 2 p. m. Interment in Chambers cemetery. Obituary will alppear in the next issue. The be reaved have the sympathy of the en tire community. A. bnell, of Page, accompanied by his sons, Rollie and Roy, were in O’Neill last Friday looking after busi ness matters. Mr. Snell was one of the very early settlers of this county, locating at Page when there was but few residents in the county. Mr. Snell is one of the few remaining old soldiers of the rebellion and can re cite many interesting stories that took place during his several years of ser vice that are amusing now but were concrete realities during those trying times. 'Che Nebraska State Railway Com mission have started an investigation of potato shipping rates from points in/ northern and northwestern Nebras ka, to points in the eastern part of the state, over the C. & N. W. and C. St. P. M & O. Ry. The hearing is set for Monday, September 18th, at 10:00 o’clock, in the forenoon, at Lincoln, Nebraska. Citizens who are interest ed are cordially inited to be present and an opportunity will be afforded to make such showing in the matter as may be desired. Game Warden E. Heinzelman brought George Rowse and Russell Graves into Frank Campbell’s justice court last Thursday where Rowse re ceived a fine of $150.00 and costs for shooting three ducks out of season; the latter was fined $15.00 and costs for fishing without a license. After further study of the game laws Jus tice Campbell decided that the fine for shooting ducks out of season was but $25 00 and has notified Mr. Rowse to that effect. Mr. Rowse and Mr. Graces reside near Swan lake, in the southwesJ_part of the county. W. S. DeVall, residing about eigh teen miles north of O’Neill, near the Meek bostoffice, was in O’Neill Mon , day exhibiting a branch of a tree con taining a blue colored fruit about the size of the ordinary wild plum, but ’ which tastes (altogether different from 1 the ordinary plum. Those who claim 1 to know say that it is a small prune. 1 Mr. DeVall obtained the tree from a nursery about twelve years ago with ' a shipment of fruit trees. This is the , second time that the tree has borne • fi nit; the first time only a small r amount but this time he estimates the ■ crop at almut six bushels. Mr. DeVall ! left the branch at this office along 1 with three of the largest Johnathan . apples that we have seen in a long i time. He says that the apple crop is i extra good this year, especially where > the orchards have been dprayed and properly taken care of. STETSON HATS Style A strong stock of these hats in the above models which completes your classified dress. At the “Home of Good Merchan dise.” P. J. McManus # ~ ■ i In the camp— the pot of gold at the end of the long trail— because of its rich, full, satisfying strength: CHASE & SANBORN’S SEAL BRAND COFFEE In 1 and 2 pound cans. Never in bulk. Ground, Unground or Pulverized. 40c per pound -— For Sale By J. C. 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