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* -TO BE HELD AT
The K. C. Hall
Wednesday, January 10
Under the Auspices of the Knights of Columbus
-and
Supervision of Father J. E. Duhamel
. Evening Entertainment at 8:00 o’clock.
Childrens’ Matii\pe at 3:00 o’clock. Admission 10c.
Violin and Piano.— Mr. and Mrs. Clifford B. Scott
Saxophone Solo and Piano .Mr. and Mrs. Clifford B. Scott
Banjo Solo.I.-..Mr. Max Powell
Vecal Selection... Mrs. H. J. Reardon
Vocal Selection...Miss Irma Stout
Selection ..Miss Genevieve Biglin
Reading.......Mr. Michael Hcriskey
Reading .....Miss Mildred Timlin
Selection—Musical Recitation.-..Mrs. Kubitschek
Piano Rendition....Miss Agnes Shoemaker
Reading.........Miss Loretta Phalin
Vocal Selection.-...Miss Catherine King
Reading...-Miss Maxine O’Donnell
No Reserved Seats. Admission 50c.
Everybody Welcome
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MRS. A. J. CLARK
DIES AT INMAN
(Inman Leader)
Miss Helen; Francis Fay was bom
at Chester, Mass,. August 3, 1848.
From here the family moved to Wi
nona county, Minnesota, while she was
yet a little girl. It was here she graw
to womanhood. Her education was
completed at LaCrescent, Minnesota,
after which sne spent some time in
teaching school.
Miss Helen Fay and Mr. Albert J.
Clark were married September 27,
1865, at Winona, Minnesota. To this
union were born two sons. Eugene,
- who passed to the great beyond in in
fancy, and Edgar A. Clark, who re
sides on the old home place southwest
of Inman.
June 4, 1881, Mr. Clark filed on a
homestead near Inman. It was here
they lived until 1895, when they moved
to Inman to make their home. Mother
Clark has had a large part in the
public life of Inman. For many years
she was met by the public in our city
postoffice. She has also contributed
richly to fraternal and church life in
Inman, where she was found in con
stant service until forced! by advanced
years to retire. She moved to Inman
in 1895 where she resided until the
deahh of her husband in 1917, after
which she made her home with her
death of her husband in 1917, after
man. She was a member of the local
son on the homestead southwest of In
Royal Neighbors lodge for twenty
seven years. Mother Clark has been
a member of the Methodist church
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Chas. E. Stout
“The Recall” Store
from early childhood. Her faith has
increased with her years and the call
which came at noon, Saturday was
the final duty summons of the Master
she loved.
Two brothers, Eugene and Arthur,
preceded her to the final rest. There
are left to mourn her a son, Edgar A,
Clark and family of Inman, a step
daughter, Mrs. Ida E. Warwick of Al
den, Minnesota, eleven grand children
and a host of neighbors and friends.
PLEASANT VALLEY.
C. A. Grass is on the sick list this
week.
H. Anderson spent New Year at Will
Anderson’s.
P. A. Grass was an O’Neill visitor
last Tuesday.
A welcome snow fell over Pleasant
Valley last Monday night.
Art Duncan is hauling wood from
his farm near Hay Point this week.
Miss Florence Anderson spent New
Year at the Wilton Hayne home in
Page.
Will Nichols is tipending a few days
with his brother, John Nichols, this
week.
John Nichol and family spent
Christmas at the Elmer Trowbridge
home.
R. A. Sarchett and wife and Leslie
Lions and family spent Sunday at the
C. A. Grass home.
Edward and Harold Grass have
finished picking their father’s corn are
now husking for Charlie Grass.
Mrs. G. W. Hayne spent her fifty
seventh wedding anniversary Decem
ber 28th, at the John Davenport
home.
John Hayne and family, John Da
venport and family and Jack McKim,
of Opportunity, spent Sunday at the
Will Anderson home.
Mrs. Howard Miller, of Ewing, Mrs.
Floyd Rennor from Inman, Mrs. David
Williams, of Page, spent Thursday at
the home of their siste:-, Mrs. John
Nichol.
HENRY PRUDLX.
—
(Ewing Advocate.)
Henry Pruden was born in Boone
county, Iowa, February 2, 1863, and
departed this life December 13, 1922,
at his home near Ewing, Nebraska,
aged 59 years, 10 months and 11 days.
When a child, he moved with his
parents to Mills county, Iowa, and
from there to Dunlap. While living
at Dunlap he was united in Holy mat
rimony to Miss Matilda Beilis, on
March 10, 1885. To this union were
born nine children, all of whom are
living except one daughter who passed
to the Great Beyond April 3, 1911.
Mr. Pruden and family moved to
Arapahoe, Nebraska, in 1893, and
lived there for several years, then re
turned to Iowa, where he remained till
1912, at which time he came back to
Nebraska, settling at Ewing, where
he remained till death’s messenger
came.
There remains to mourn his depar
ture his wife, E. S. Pruden, of Gross,
Nebraska; Mrs. Joe Church, Verdell,
Nebraska; Mrs. Ben Larsen, Wood,
South Dakota; Mrs. W. S. Malone, At
kinson, Nebraska; and Henry, Jr., Os
car and Terle, of Ewing and one
brother, A. Pruden, of Arapahoe, Ne
braska, all of whom were present at
the funeral.
Funeral services were held Saturday
afternoon in the Methodist church, be
ing conducted by Pev W. L. Philley.
Interment was made in the Ewing
cemetery.
Sincere sympathy is extended to the
family in this hour of dark bereave
ment.
WESLEY WEFSO.
(Stuart Advocate.)
Word was received by Mr. F. F.
Wefso, Monday morning, announcing
the death of his eldest son, Wesley at
Los Angeles, California. The remains
will be brought to Stuart for inter
ment, the funeral Services to be held
in the Presbyterian church Sunday
morning at eleven o’clock.
MEETING K. of C. HALL CO.
The annual meeting of the Stock
Holders of K. of C. Hall Co., will be
held at the club rooms, at said hall,
Tuesday, January 9th, at 8 p. m., for
the election of officers for the ensuing
year and such other business as may
come before said meeting. Please
keelp the date in mind, and try to be
present.
31-lp M. H. MORISKEY, Sec.
CHECKERS MORE THAN
“YOUR MOVE,” *
SAYS CHAMPION
Newell Williams Banks Tells of In
tricacies That Confront One In A
Scientific Contest.
(By H. G. Salsinger.)
(Dearborn Independent)
Newell Williams Banks says that a
child can learn to play checkers in 10
seconds but will be unable to master
the game in a lifetime.
Mr. Banks learned to play checkers
at the age of six. When seven years
of age he played so well that he gave
exhibitions, playing blindfolded, sim
ultaneously against a number of op
ponents. He was 21 years of age when
he became America’s match champion.
He is 33 years old and he still holds
the title. As a matter of fact he has
never been challenged for it.
He has never mastered checkers. No
man ever mastered the game before
him and he is certain that no man will
ever master it in the future.
Checkers, according to Mr. Banks,
was played 2,000 years before Christ.
It has passed down through the ages,
not always the same game but never
with any drastic variations.
One time a noted scientist tried to
figure out how many moves were pos
sible in checkers. After spending a
long time in study and research he
said that more than 170,000,000,000,
000,000 moves were possible.
Asked the same question one day a
master of checkers told his questioner
to get a grain of wheat. The next day
he was told to add a grain and each
day he was to double the number of
grains he had. At the end of one year
he would have gained a fair idea of
how jnany moves were possible in
checkers.
Checkers, according to Mr. Banks, is
the most remarkable method in the
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world for developing certain men,ta
faculties. Among these are visual
ization, imagination, caution, memory
control of temper, concentration.
Take visualizaion in his own case:
He Vhuys blindfolded against 20 op
ponents. Each opponent is seated be
fore a checker board that he cannot
see. He has to develop a mental vis
ion of each of the 20 boards. He plays
the first board and then completely re
moves the mental picture of the first
board and visualizes the second board
and continues until he has played the
20 boards. Then he begins the round
again. He has to depend upon visual
ization plus memory from now on. He
has to recall the (picture of the first
board after the opening moves and
make his next move. Then he must
recall the second board while drop
ping the first from the mind. He con
centrates on the second board, plays
that and then on to the next. So he
continues until every game has been
won, lost or drawn.
The average number of moves in a
checker game is 40. Since every move
means a different picture the mind
•must, in playing against 20 opponents,
present during the three or four hours
required to play the matches, 800
pictures. Eight hundred moves are
made but these moves all have varia
tions and it is therefore necessary not
alone to have in mind the moves that
are made but the possible variations
and during the progress of these
matches some 0,000 possible moves
will also enter the mind.
This requires imagination as well as
concentration.
Checkers tenches caution. Many big
checker matches have been lost when
they were apparently won. With a
few moves left, the .apparent winner,
due to the effect of his success, became
careless and made a hasty move that
wrecked an otherwise finely played
game. A quick move, without the
usual deliberation and consideration
for possibilities and consequences, paid
the price of over-confidence, in de
feat.
Great checker players were always
men that perfectly controlled their
tempers. Many checker players lose
maches because when making a bad
move they lose their tempers and a
mental hazard is created which brings
on other bad moves and defeat. No
player ever became great at the game
before he fully controlled temfper.
Checkers teaches one to be careful.
The man who learns the possibilities of
checkers learns the value of thinking
well before reaching a decision. He
concentrates and visualizes consequen
ces and possibilities.
Most of the leading professional
men in America play checkers more or
less. The game stimulates the mind
ns '.veil as develops it. Checkers does
for the mind what the “Daily Dozen”
does for the body. >
The vast majority of us have played
checkers and nearly all of the vast
majority have failed to realize its pos
sibilities.
Before a man can become a good
checker player he must know the 300
fundamental end games of checkers.
All of the openings and mid-game for
mations are developed to terminate in
one of the 300 formations at the finish
of the game. Among these 300 final
formaions are an even dozen positions
which are generally arrived at. These
12 position are known as the 12 great
masterpieces and they have been de
veloped by the formost players of the
last 200 years.
In playing checkers 12 pieces are
used on a side. There are 64 squares
on a checkerboard but only 32 are used
in playing. On a regulation board
the squares are one and seven-eighths
inches each way and the checkers
pieces are one and one-quarter inches
in diameter. This makes them sym
nietrical and suitable to the eye. Play
ing checkers over a prolonged period
is a hard strain on the sight.
The depth of the game will appeal
to the imagination when one considers
that no one, even when spending a life
time, can count the number of moves
possible over the aforementioned 32
squares and although the possible
number is beyond human count, from
45,000 to 50,000 different moves are
generally used to arrive at the 300
possible end formations.
Chess is generally regarded as a
much more difficult game to learn than
checkers. Nearly everybody has or
does play checkers but only a few
people play chess. According to Mr.
Banks, who is proficient at chess as
well as being a champion at checkers,
the latter game is by far the more
difficult.
In chess there are more than one
hundred times as many possible moves
as in checkers but you work for some
thing tangible,” he explains. “It is
much easier to learn checkers than to
learn chess. It take but 10 seconds to
learn checkers; it takes more than two
weeks to learn the first step in chess
but, at the end of six months’ time, the
man who is learning chess will be a
far better player at his game than the
man who is learning checkers, provided
each man is of equal mental ability
and each devoting the same amount of
time to practice.
“Checkers is more of a test of mem
ory. It is necessary to memorize 10
times as much in checkers as in chess.
You can generalize in chess but you
must be specific in checkers. In
checkers there are fundamentals just
as sound as any in arithmetic. There
are certain moves that can have but
one result, nothing more and nothing
less. You do not find this condition to
the same degree in chess. You use in
tuition to a great extent on certain
positions in chess. In checkers knowl
edge must be absolute.
“Comparatively few people play
chess and still there are a great many
more masters of chess than there are
of checkers.
“To illustrate what knowledge must
be had at the beginning of a checker
game: Under the modern two-move
restriction style of play there are
seven distinct replies to seven opening
moves. In some tournaments there
arc six openings barred, in others four
of these are permitted. Besides this
you have two opening moves that are
never played because a piece is sac
rificed. Being absolute losses these
two moves are discarded, so where no
opening moves are barred there are 47
possible openings. Since each opening
move has 10 plausible variations that
may be played you can readily see how
many moves you have to be groomed
on. There are hundreds of possible
moves, any one of which may be made
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at the immediate start.
“In checkers you never hear of
young prodigies like the late sensation,
Samuel Rzeschewski, a marvelous
chess player who came out of Russia
to this country at the age of eight and
played the best amateurs in America.
Rzeschewski began iplaying chess af
the agei of five and two years later he
had obtained a fair mastery over the
game. We have several young chess
marvels in this country, one a girl of
eight, but you never hear of child
wonders at checkers.
“Among the chess fundamentals the
king,' knight and bishop checkmating
your Opponent’s lone king is the most
difficult ending where in checkers what
is known as the third position and in
which two kings and a single piece win
against two kings is at least two times
as difficult as the position I have de
scribed in chess. It takes 10 time as
long to master the third position in
checkers as the most difficult position
in chess and any amateur player may
try it to prove my assertion. Or let
those that have mustered one position
try to master the other and you will
discover that those who have mastered
the inlay in checkers will learn the play
in chess in one-tenth the time that
those who have mastered the position
in chess learn that in checkers.”
Checkers, widely known, is still but
faintly understood and its inflnit pos
sibilities have escaped millions that
have moved pieces over _a checker
board. The game is probably the old
est played in America and we are just
beginning to realize what it offer*.
The game has developed ip the last
few years inasmuch as more good
checker players are developing than at
any previous time. Checkers has taken
hold and the result ta apparent at the
many tournaments.
It has always been the impression
that Europe supplied the great chess
and checker masters. There are, in
Europe, amoung the leading profes
sional men some noted masters of both
games. Every continental country
furnishes several. A large number are
found in England and Scotland. Some
of these chess and checker masters are
famous in medicine, arts and science.
The predominating number of the mas
ters are followers of chess, few play
checkers. *
Mr. Banks won the American match
championship from Hugh Henderson
in 1910. Mr. Henderson was a Scotch
man. He was a master of checkers in
his own country and when he came to
America he continued the game with
great success.
The greatest chess master the world
has seen was Paul Morphy, of New
Orleans. He won the world’s cham
pionship when he was 21 years old.
Chess is being played more now
than in previous years. Checkers is
being played better. If the mental
caliber of a nation is to be judged by
the success of its chess and checker
players, and that seems to be the basis
for judgment in a number of quarters,
the United States should continue to
hold her own among the intellectuals.
"harter No. 5770 Reserve District No. 10
REPORT OF CONDITION OF
The.O’Neill Nation alBank
AT O’NEILL,
In the State of Nebraska, at the close of business on December 29, 192&.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts, including rediscounts . $342,232.45
Overdrafts, rccure<j, NONE; unsecured . 924.02
U. 9. Government securities owned:
Deposited to secure circulation (U. S. bonds par value).. $50,000
All other United States Government securities . 14,550 64,550.00
gther bonds, stocks, securities, etc.: . 38,278.80
anking House, $2,788; Furniture and fixtures, $1,680.... 4,468.00
Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve Bank . 22,941,59
Cash in vault and amount due from national banks .193,091.56
Amoilnt due from State banks, bankers, and trust com
panies in the United States (other than included in
Items 8. 9, or 10) . 1,375.92
Checks on other banks in the same city or town as re
porting bank (other than Item 12) . 400.00
Miscellaneous cash items . 148.40 217,957.47
Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from
U. S. Treasurer .... 2,500.00
Total ... $670,910.74
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in . $50,000.00
Surplus fund . 50,000.00
Undivided profits . 62,571.18
Circulating notes outstanding . 50,000.00
Amount due to national banks .$21,427.15
Amount due to State ^anks, bankers, and trust com
panies in the United States and foreign countries
(other than included in Items 21 or 22) ■. 35,381.98
Demand deposits (other than bank deposits) subject to
Reserve (deposits payable within 30 days:)
Individual deposits subject to check .171,501.65
Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days (other
than for money borrowed) . 71,850.00
Time deposits subject to Reserve (payable after 80
days, or subject to 30 days or more notice, and postal
savings):
State, county, or other municipal .deposits secured by
pledge of assets o£ this bank or surity bond . 15,885.55
Certificate of deposit (other than for money borrowed) ..142,203.28 458,339.61
Bills payable other than with Federal Reserve Bank .... - NONE
Bills payable with Federal Reserve Bank . NONE
Total ... $670,910.74
State of Nebraska, County of Holt, as:
I, S. J. Weekes, President of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
S. J. WEEKES, President.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of January, 1923. -
JULIUS D. CRONIN, Notary Public.
My commission expires Aug. 14, 1929.
Correct—Attest: C. P. Hancock, J. P. Gilligan, H. P. Dowling, Directors.
This Bank carries no indebtedness of officers or stockholder*.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
THE NEBRASKA STATE BANK
OF O’NEILL, CHARTER NO. 895
In the State of Nebraska at the close of business on December 30, 1922
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts . $240,390.90
Overdrafts . 842.79
Bonds, securities, judgments, claims, etc., including all
government bonds .v. 15,363.85
Banking house, furniture and fixtures. 5,000.00
other real estate. 10,954.15
Current expenses, taxes and interest paid .. 7,248.94
Due from National and State banks.$57,268.48
Checks and items of exchange . 2,692.17
Currency . 4,115.00
Gold coin . 2,995.00
Silver, nickles and cents . 296.10
Liberty loan bonds held as cash reserve. 13,600.00 80,966.75
Total . $360,767.38
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in .... $ 26,000.00
Surplus fund . 5,000.00
Undivided profits . 10,832.51
Individual deposits subject to check .$91,545.77
Demand certificates/ of deposit . 9,179.61
Time certificates of deposit.v..205,381.07
Due to National and State banks . 13,156,93 319,263.38
Depositor’s guaranty fund .. 671.49
Total . $360,767.38
State of Nebraska, County of Holt, ss.
I, Jas. F. O’Donnell, Cashier, of the above named bank do hereby swear
that the above statement is a correct and true copy of the report made to the
State Bureau of Banking.
JAS. F. O’DONNELL, Cashier.
Attest: J. A. Donohoe, P. J. O’Donnell, Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of January, 1923.
GRACE HAMMOND, Notary Public.
My commission expires Oct. 2* J927. _ . . i
