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The Frontier. VOLUME XLII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1923. NO. 49. PURITAN BACON Barrington Hall - Coffee Lettuce Celery Fruit Cash Paid For Eggs Phones-68-126 LOCAL MATTERS. Frank Biglin went to Omaha Mon day morning. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stein last Friday. A daughter cfras born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred McNally Friday evening. Representative Donald Gallagher returned from Lincoln the latter part of last week. Will Grothe, of Emmet, was an O’Neill visitor Tuesday and a pleasant caller at this office. Mr. and Mrs. Les Hough returned home Tuesday afternoon from a two week's visit in Wyoming. Judge Robert R. Dickson and Re porter C. B. Scott have been in Spring view holding court this week. Mrs. W. T. Evans came up from Omaha last Thursday and is packing her furniture to ship to that place. The new municipal plant building at Stuart is nearing completion and was given a coating of stucco last week. Mr. and Mrs. George A. Miles are celebrating the thirty-first anniversary cf their marriage, today, Thursday. Professor and Mrs. E. H. Suhr auto ed to Lincoln Friday evening where they spent the week end with relatives. The two and one-half year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Cleveland, of Star, underwent an operation at Page Monday. John Hanley, of Omaha, came up Friday evening for a week end visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Hanley, erturning to Omaha Sunday morning. The baseball game to have been played here Sunday by the local team and a team from Meek and Blackbird was called off, the north country play ers failing to show up. Mrs. Phil Ziemer entertained a number of young ladies at her home last Friday evening in honor of a birthday anniversary of her daughter, Miss Margaret Alwortn. Owing to the revival of cattle rust ling up in Brown county, with a loss of fifty head reported last week, old timers are talking of reviving the old fashioned necktie parties. George Millspaugh, a brick mason formerly residing at Atkinson, with five companions was killed at Kelso, Washington, recently, when a scaffold on which they were working collapsed. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union meets Tuesday, May the 15th, at 2:30 p. m. with Mrs. Emily Bowen. This will be a Mother’s Meeting. Mrs. Nona Pine will lead. Every one is cordially invited. Miss Florence Taylor, daughter of Mrs. Emma Potter, formerly of Stu art, was united in marriage to Mr. Frank Owens, of Rushvilie, at Hot Springs, S. D., Saturday, April 21. They will reside in Rushvilie. Frank O’Connell, Frank Froelich, H. J. Reardon, Arthur Ryan, M- H. Hor iskey, John Gallagher, P. B. Harty and Thomas Griffin went to Norfolk Sunday morning to attend the initia tion of a large class by the Norfolk Knights of Columbus. The dance Monday evening for the benefit of the baseball club was both a financial and social success. A num ber were ipresent from neighboring towns. The earnings of the dance are to be applied on the purchase of uni forms for the ball team. Miss Kathryn Grady and Miss Mae Hammond returned Tuesday evening from Omaha, where they have been in attendance at the bedside of Miss Rose Grady who was recently operated upon for appendicitis. They report the condition of Miss Grady as much im proved. To The Depositor 1 NATIONAL BANKS FAIL. When I they do depositors lose heavily. Why? | ij Because deposits in National Banks are not guaranteed. STATE BANKS FAIL. When they I do depositors are paid in full. Why? I Because deposits in State Banks are I protected by the Depositors Guarantee j Fund of the State of Nebraska. THE NEBRASKA STATE BANK | OF O’NEILL is the only Bank in O’Neill which olfers you this pro tection. You will protect yourself and please I us by depositing your money with us. 5 per cent paid on time deposits. Nebraska State Bank of O’Neill, Nebraska The weather turned suddenly cooler Monday evening about six o’clock. The government thermometer registered four degrees below freezing Monday night and six degrees below freezing Tuesday night. Some rumors are current that much of the fruit has been materially damaged. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Bigelow, for merly of Stuart, and now residing at Milwaukee, shortly will remove to New York City, to which place Mr. Bigelow has been -promoted by the J. O’Keefe Co. They will visit Holt county friends before taking up their permanent residence in the east. The Stuart high school baseball team defeated O’Neill in the county high school tournament Friday after noon, 4 to 1. The Stuart team showed excellent class and in the finals on May 18 is to play winner of The Ew ing-Chambers game, yet to be played, for the championship of the county. A prairie fire of unknown origin, started eight miles northwest of Stu art a week ago Sunday burned over several sections and destroyed a num ber of hay stacks. The following day another fire started presumably with embers of the first one and fanned by a strong wind burned over considerable more territory. The fire was checked by the aid of Stuart citizens. As a matter of ancient history the Ewing Advocate recalls that the vii lge board of the Southeastern H<Jit county metropolis sat up all night on the first Tuesday in May, 1891, so as to be on the job bright and early Wed nesday morning to grant two saloon licenses. The licenses were issued at 1 o’clock a. m. Wednesday. George Butler raffled off his bicycle the same year. The Hanford Produce company cele brated the thirteenth anniversary of the establishment of their main plant, at Sioux City, yesterday, with the opening of their new $200,000 combi nation ice 'plant and poultry feeding plant, at First and Virginia streets, Sioux City. The plant is a three story brick, 160 by 90 feet, and is one of the most modern of its kind. The poultry feeding department on the third floor has a capacity of 25,000 birds. In changes announced to take effect soon on the Burlington between Sioux City and O’Neill, Conductor C. A. Tay lor, now on the local freight, is trans ferred to the Hastings-Exter line as an extra conductor, Joe Hawksworth, brakeman is transferred to Ferry, Alex C. Taylor, one of the passenger en gineers is given a work train assign ment on the Omaha division and Mich ael Ford, freight engineer, is trans ferred to the passenger run in place of Alex Taylor. North Nebraska sportsmen will be please to learn that Governor Bryan has announced the re-appointment of Chief Fish and Game Commissioner George Roster. The appointment car ries with it a salary of $3,000 a year. Mr. Roster, who was first appointed to the position by Governor Neville and re-appointed by Governor McKelvie, is one of the few experts of the country on fish and game culture and protec tion and the department has made wonderful progress under his direct ion. Emmet defeated Atkinson Tuesday afternoon at Atkinson in the first game of the season between the two teams, but it took thirteen innings to do it. At the end of the ninth inning the score stood five and five. In the thirteenth inning? the Atkinson pitcher blew up and Emmet secured nine runs, making the score 14 to 5. The game was Emmet’s first victory over Atkin son in several seasons and Magnate Guy Cole as a result has more money than John D. Rockefeller. Batteries: Emmet, Tom, Jack and Will Troshyn ski. Atkinson, Snyder and Ford. A return game will be played on the Emmet diamond, Sunday, May 20th. Montana Jack Sullivan arrived Tues cay evening from Butte and Shelby, Montana, for a short visit with O’Neill fi icnds. He reports preparations as already under way at Shelby for the Dempsey-Gibbons fight July 4, and at which Homer Sheridan, the popular and coming middleweight now under Jack’s management, will appear in one of the preliminaries against a Pacific coast tcpnotcher. He reports Sheri dan as almost completely recovered from the slight fracture of the jaw he sustained in a bout last winter, and also from a minor operation he had performed while laid up with the in jury. Sheridan is rounding into ex cellent shape and is showing even bet ter speed than formerly. HOLT COUNTY TRACK MEET. The schools of Holt county have organized an Athletic Association and will hold a baseball, track and field meet at O’Neill, Friday, May 18. The baseball game will be piayed in the morning between Stuart, champ ions of the west, and the champions ol the east, for the championship of Holt county. In the afternoon, will be the foot races, jumps, pole vaults, and weight throwing. The school winning the highest number of points is to receive a large silver loving clip which will be the property of the school. A large banner will be given to the champions of the county. Each indi vidual winner will receive a ribbon showing whether they took first, sec ond or trhird place in the contests. The schools of Holt county that wil participate, are Page, O’Neill, Stuart Atkinson, Ewing, Chambers, Inmar and a number of rural schools. To make anything a success, it musi have the peilple behind it. We art backward as a county in this on* phase of athletics, and we will now b< up to the standard. We need the cooperation of all tru< Holt county citizens, to come and sup f port their schools at, this meet at thi O’Neill fair grounds. NORA MURPHY. ' Nora Murphy, widow of Mark Mur phy died at tne home north and east oi the city Sunday, at the advanced agf of seventy-eight years, after an illness of but a few hours duration. Mrs, Murphy was one of the original Michigan colony of pioneers who came to this then wild and unsettled country in October of 1877, and of whom but few now are left. With her husband she faced the hardships of the early settler in a new country, and, surviv ing them, lived to rear a family oi nine children, all of whom were pres ent at the funeral Wednesday, and to see the community develop into its present state of agricultural greatness and prosperity. The funeral service was held Wednesday morning from St, Patrick’s church, the Very Reverend M. F. Cassidy officiating, and burial was in Calvary cemetery. She is sur vive by her five sons and four daughters: D. H. Murphy, Michael Murphy and Miss Abbie Murphy, of O’Neill; Don ald Murphy, of Newcastle, Wyoming; Timothy Murphy, of Butte, Montana; Bartholemew Murphy and Mrs. H. P. Gallagher, of Rapid City, South Da kota; Mrs. E. S. Goff, of Pierce, South Dakota, and Mrs. Ralph Wehrstein, of Sioux City, Iowa. The Frontier joins the entire com munity in extending sympathy and condolence to the bereaved sons and daughters. SAMUEL D. M’GINNIS BURIED AT FREMONT Former Holt Rancher and Father of Northwestern Agent Passes Away. Lincoln, Neb., May 7.—Samuel D. MGcGinnis, died in his room at the Lin dell hotel here Friday. He was for merly a rancher of Amelia in Holt county, to which place he came in 1893, and has been interested in the ranch and cattle business ever since. He was the father of Robert W. Mc Ginnis, general agent of the North western railroad in Lincoln, and Frank E. McGinnis, who was a conductor on the Northwestern for a nupiber of years and who died "about ten years ago. Mr. McGinnis was born near York Road, Md., May 18, 1838, and was nearly 85 years old at the time of his death. He served as custodian of the cloak room in the house of representa tives in 1903, was post master in the same body in 1905 and was elected in the session just closed as sergeant-at arms in the senate, serving until March 1 at which time he had a stroke of parajjrsis and had been gradually sinking bntil his death. His wife, Jane McGinnis, died forty-two years ago and was buried in Maryland. His son, Robert, of this city is the only surviv ing member of the family. Funeral services were held at Fre mont Sunday. P. A. CALLEN. The body of P. A. Callen, of Atkin son, who died in a Norfolk hospital Saturday, was brought to Battle Creek Monday for burial and funeral services were held in the afternoon in the Methodist church, the Rev. W. E. Bab cock officiating, and burial took place in the Fairfield cemetery south of town. Mr. Callen was an old settler of Bat tle Creek and Madison county and is survived by his widow and two grown sons, who live at Atkinson.—Special from Battle Creek to Norfolk News, May 1. Mr. Callen, who had been ailing for some time, went to Norfolk for treat ment April 20, and entered the Camp bell hospital and was operated on for glandular ailments. His death occur red at 4 ip. m., Saturday, April 28th. Since moving from Battle Creek the deceased has resided in and rear At kinson, where he owned and operated a farm. CHARLES SNELL. Dr. Charles Snell, former Holt county resident, died at Tecumseh, Ne braska, May 7, of pneumonia after a short illness. The body was brought to Inman Tuesday night and taken tc Page, the home of his parents, where the funeral was held Wednesday after noon. Dr. Snell was aged forty-nine years at the time of his death. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Y. A Snell, early settlers of Holt county who homesteaded one-half mile nortl and one mile west of Page, and at tended school when a boy, in O’Neill Mr. Snell, senior, is a veteran of the civil war. NEW RAILROADS FOR NE BRASKA BEING RUMOREL Extension Of Burlington’s O’Neill Lim Among Projects Talked Of. Lincoln, Neb., May 2.—Railroac building, which has become the chiei subject of conversation along Ne> braska’s western border, may be ex tended to Nebraska before the end oi 1923, it was indicated here by mem bers of the state board of railroac commissioners, although no definite projects within the state were pren tioned. Extension and branch lines beinf built by several railroad companies ii the state of Wyoming and Colorade probably will greatly affect freigh shipments on some of the lines run ning through Nebraska, members o the commission said. | Construction of a branch lin throug Holt, Rock, Brown and Cherr; counties is being spoken of, and it i ! believed that this will be undertake: • at some time during the year. Th ; railroad companies have announced n definite plans about this line, howevei Cash For E^s Fancy Patent Flour $1.65 Onion Sets, 2 quarts 25c Garden Seeds, pkj* 5c 32 Piece Dinner Set $12.00 Stoneware In All Sizes MILLER-WITHER WAX. Michael Alvin Miller and Miss Mabel Olive Witherwax, both of Reh bird, Nebraska, were united in mar riage at the court house Tuesday, May 8th, by County Judge C. J. Malone. JUNIOR CLASS PLAY. The members of the Junior class of the O’NeiN high school gave their class play, “Safety First” at the K. of C. opera house Tuesday evening to a crowded house. The play was exceed ingly well presented, each member of the cast doing amiple justice to his part. v The Beha Hotel is being repainted and remodeled. EWING MAN CHANGES PLEA AT WEST POINT West Point, Neb., May 4.—After pleading not guilty to a charge of taking mortgaged cattle out of the county, Carl Primus, of near Ewing, Holt county, changed his plea to guilty in district court here and sen tence will be passed later by Judge A. A. Welch, of Wayne, who is presiding at this term. Some time ago Primus worked for the Thompson brothers, Hereford cat tle men of this conty. Last summer, it is charged, he came to the Thomp son farm here and drove a number of the cattle from the place to his ranch in Holt county. The cattle were heavily mortgaged, which was known to Primus, it was testified. Watch For Dates Believe Me Xantippe ^iven by the Senior Class of O’Neill High School All Old Cast No Success Without These Responsibility makes a man useful and a wife and babies make him cautious. Necessity gives him ambi tion anl system gets him re sults. This bank will help system atize your work. 15he O Neill National Bank! O’Neill, Nebraska Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $150,000.00. This bank carries no indebted ness of officers or stock holders.