- The Frontier.
VOLUMN XLIII. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1923. NO. 3.
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O’Neill, Nebraska
RECORD BREAKING CROWDS
“WILL ATTEND FOURTH
CELEBRATION AT O’NEILL
Two Big Baseball Games, Two Bands
and Gorgeous Decorated Auto
Parade Features of
Program.
One of the largest crowds ever as
sembled fn Holt county will celebrate
the Fourth of July in O’Neill if ad
vance indications may be taken for
anything. Two cracking good base
ball games of league quality, between
the four best baseball teams in the
county are features of the big free en
tertainment the American Legion is
providing for O’Neill’s visitors that
day. One game will be between At
kinson and Emmet, the two leading
teams of the county, who have been
walloping each other alternately every
since the snow has been off the ground.
At present the Emmet team has a lead
of one game over Atkinson, but At
kinson backers declare this is entirely
due to a fluke in their last clash and
Atkinson capitalists are offering all
kinds of wealth that Atkinson will de
feat Emmet at O’Neill The Fourth.
Guy Cole and the monied interests of
Emmet, however, are offering to cover
any of the lucre that may be exposed
by the o>ptomistic Atkinsonites. There
is quite a bit of feeling between .the
teams and their followers, which is
bound to result in an excellent game.
Then, Jack Higgins, who has been
rarin’ for several weeks since his
O’Neill Shamrocks were defeated by
Page, will have his aggregation out on
the fairground diamond promptly at
1 o’clock in the afternoon, to attempt
to wipe out that sad memory by ab
solutely shutting but the Page crowd.
Whether or not this is going to be so
very easy is quite a question, quite a
question. O’Neill isn’t the only team
Page has defeated this spring. In fact
they have vanquished every outfit
with which they have come in contact
and Lee Drayton is offering odds that
the Fourth of July game between Page
and O’Neill will come out just like the
first one. These two controversies as
sure that the two gomes will be the
very best baseball games played in
Holt county this year, bar none. No
baseball fan can afford to miss them,
and admission to both, at the fair
grounds, is absolutely free.
Those intending to spend The
Fourth at O’Neill should arrange to
start from home early in the morning,
so that they will arrive at least several
hours before noon. One of the very
best parts of the all-day and all-night
big free celebration to be staged by
the- American Legion is the morning
'program. There will be something do
ing from 9 o’clock on. Promptly at
10 o’clock the big decorated automo
bile parade will start. The parade is
under the auspices and direction of the
O’Neill Women’s Club and money
prizes are being offered for the best
decorated cars. Any car or car owner
in Holt county is eligible to compete
in this parade and there will be a
chance for some one to carry home a
prize of $25 in gold, another $15 and
another $10. Many car owners already
have signified their intention of enter
ing the parade, but don’t let that dis
courage you. " Remember that it isn’t
the high price of a car that will win it
a prize. An artistically or comically
decorated fliver is just as apt to win
first prize as is a Pullman-like limous
ine with an eight or twelve cyinder
engine and a flower vase in the rear
compartment. Just pin a rose on Liz
zie and ramble in, for it will be a rat
tling good parade. No entry fee is
charged.
The automobile parade will be on the
downtown streets of the city and will
be preceded by a greased pig race or
so, or some other like attractions, and
from 9 o'clock on the famous Ewing
and O’Neill bands, two of the very
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best brass bands in the state, will be
playing concerts or furnishing music
for the other events. Both bands play
some of the latest and foot-shakingest
music there is and if you want to cut
loose when you hear them, just dance
your head off on the sidewalks or
streets, for there will be no one to
interfere. Everybody i3 expected to
have a good time.
Right after the automobile parade
patriotic exercises and lpusic, suitable
to the commemoration of the nation’s
birthday, will be held' on the court
house lawn, with an eloquent speaker,
and reading and vocal and band and
other music. The program will be
presented from the bandstand at the
southwest corner of the court house
square.* There is lots of good grass
and lots of shade up there from which
to enjoy the entire program away
from the hot rays of the sun,and there
will be an abundance of seats provided.
Out at the fairgrounds, starting at
1 o’clock, when the first baseball game
startes, a program of horse, pony and
chariot races, foot races, pie eating
contests, nail driving contests for the
ladies, an old fiddlers contest and many
other stunts will be staged just in
front of the grandstand. If you don’t
care to watch the ball games these
other amusements are guaranteed to
keep you in good humor and entertain
ed every minute of the afternoon. This
whole program, as is all the rest, is
absolutely free and for you to^njoy
without spending a cent. And then at
night there is going to be a grand free
fireworks display down town that no
kid, and few of the older folks, will
care to miss. It is also free, in fact
the only things on which you will be
able to spend money in O’Neill The
Fourth, if you feel you must, will be
the bowery dance in the evening, and
a number of street shows and conces
sions. Everything else is absolutely
free.
The American Legion is doing its
very best, and is sparing no pains or
expense, to make this the very best
Fourth of July celebration Holt county
has ever had, and in doing so it is pay
ing particular attention to the com
fort of the women and children on
that day. . Seats will be placed along
the streets and side walks in abund
ance for their especial use, and most
af these will be in the shade or beneath
awnings. Then on every corner will
ae barrels of ice water, kept filled and
aold, and a number of rest rooms for
:he ladies and the little ones_also will
ae provided at convenient places. Pic
aic grounds will be arranged for those
aringing their dinner and picnic
lunches and there even will be ample
grounds for tents for those who come
:he night before or who desire to stay
the night after the big celebration.
In fact Simonson Post of the American
Legion is prepared to show you the
very best time you have ever had in
pour whole life, in O’Neill, the Fourth
af July or the first clear day there
after if the Fourth is rainy.
LOCAL MATTERS.
John Sheedy and wife, of Chambers,
will remove to Orchard.
Jack Quig had a calf killed by light
ning in Sunday evening’s storm.
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Neal Asher, of Page, June 12.
S. Jacobson, of Bristow, last week
caught a four pound bass in the Nio
brara river.
Emmet defeated O’Neill on the Em
met diamond Sunday afternoon by a
score of 9 to 6.
A ladies golf tournament is to be
staged on the Country Club course in
the near future.
Mrs. Harry Harte, of Inman, has re
turned from a visit with her parents,
at Casper, Wyoming.
Five inches of rain in less than three
hours, fell along the Eagle, north of
O’Neill Sunday afternoon.
D. M. Stuart, of Stuart, has been
called to • California for an indefinite
period by the illness of relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. James Hobson, of Mid
dlebranch, are the proud parents of an
eight pound son, who arrived at the
Hobson domicile June 9.
Miss Tuby C. Kelly and Miss Mar
garet Seger, of Atkinson, have been
elected members of the high school
faculty of the Valentine schools.
Mr. Oscar H. Barnes, of Elgin, and
Miss Flossie Miller, of Ewing, were
united in marriage by the county judge
at Neligh Tuesday of last wee.k
Mrs. Pat Boyle, residing near
Chambers, who has been undergoing
treatment at a Norfolk hospital for
several weeks, returned home last
week.
Chambers freight truckers found it
necessary to truck from Ewing last
week, instead of O’Neill, because of
the high water and consequent bad
roads.
School district No. 67, known as the
Woods district, will erect a new school
building. Pupils of the district have
been attending the Page school for
several years.
Bob cats are causing considerable
loss of chickens and young pigs to
ranchmen along the Niobrara river in
Keya Paha county. Several were kill
ed last week.
The North Western has changed the
color of its frame station buildings
from the old railroad red to a hand
some gray and now is repainting its
depots in Holt county.
Arthur Ryan and children left Fri
day afternoon by auto for Missouri
where the children will remain with
relatives until Mr. Ryan has deter
mined upon a permanent location.
The annual opening of the Neligh
Country Club was held Tuesday after
noon and evening of this week. Ten
nis and golf comprised the afternoon
•program, followed by a dance in the
evening. >
Crows are working havoc in the corn
fields south of the river, working from
a rookery and nesting place in tho
large grove south of the ranch of
County Supervisor John Sullivan.
O’Neill has been honored by the ap
pointment, by Governor Bryan, of M.
R. Sullivan to the position of State
bank examiner, a position for which
Mr. Sullivan is most highly qualified.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Daly and
children went to Lincoln the first of
the week to attend the wedding of Miss
Frances Daly and Mr. Patrick Dolan,
of Denver, which took place Wednes
day.
Mrs. P. N. Merzig and daughter,
Elizabeth, of Philadelphia, are here
spending the summer with her
daughter, Mrs. W. A. O’Malley, and
Mrs. Merzigs' sister, Mrs. Jas. A.
Brennan.
The valleys of the Cherry county
sandhills regions all are becoming
lakes as the result of the June rains
and the reguar lakes of the region, all
are again well filled, according to re
ports of Cherry county ranchmen.
One of the most interesting games
of baseball of the season was played
at Chambers Saturday between the
Chambers and Ballagh teams. The
game went seventeen innings with a
score of 5 to 4 in favor of Chambers.
Sheriff George Hill, of Sioux county
stopped off Saturday while enroute to
Lincoln with a couple of convicts who
had been taken to Harrison as wit
nesses in a burglary hearing. He left
for Lincoln with his prisoners Sunday
morning.
Sheriff Peter Duffy returned Sun
day evening from a several weeks va
cation spent at the Omaha race meet,
where Salvatoron and Bagdad have
been assisting in the making of
history. Salvotoron already has been
in the money in several of the events.
The residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. S.
Ennis, in the west part of the city, was
struck by lightning during the storm
Suday evening, the roof badly dam
aged, the chimney knocked off and the
electric wiring burned out. Lights in
the neighborhood .were burned out by
the stroke.
Dr. F. J. Kubitschek and family left
Monday morning for Eagle Grove,
and other Iowa points, where they will
visit relatives for several weeks. Dr.
Kubitschek while away will thoroughly
investigate the bass and catfish fishing
and will also give the Iowa golf links
the once over.
•
W. C. Templeton and family, who
left two weeks ago Sunday by auto for
a visit with relatives in southern, Ne
braska and western Kansas, reached
Hug* ultimate destination nfc Brewater.
Klnsas, Thursday evening, after a
Sinks, Rudder Lost
*
The head is the rudder for
the human ship.
Many ships have gone on
the rocks because of a lost
rudder.
When a man speculates he
has lost his rudder—don’t
lose your head in business.
This hank carries no indebtedness
of officers or stockholders.
Resources over $600,000.00
O'Neill National
Bank
drive on Thursday of 240 miles. They
were delayed several times by floods
and washouts after striking Kansas.
They will return the latter part of this
week.
Mrs. John Boyer and children sus
tained severe bruises and some iffjur
ies Saturday evening as they were re
turning home from O’Neill by team
and wagon. A Ford driven by the
Misses Strong, of Emmet, coming
north, crashed into the Boyer team,
and vehicle at the cement culvert just
south of the Norh Wesem tracks. Mrs.
Boyer’a little daughter was thrown
from the wagon and injured, Mrs.
Boyer was considerably bruised and
the team also was injured. The car
was slightly damaged, but fortunately
the occupants escaped serious injury.
Miss L. L. Bishop, of Zuni, New
Mexico, arrived in O’Neill last wfeek
to visit with Mrs. Wm. G. Beha, her.
life-long friend, they having been rear
ed together in Centra} Missour}. Miss
Bishop has been in government Ser
vice for many years, having been con
nected with Haskell Institute, Law
rence, Kansas, for a number of years
and later in the Indian schools of New
Mexico. She departed Saturday for
Lawrence, Kansas. ♦
The
American Legion
Invites You to Celebrate The
F< iurth At O’Neill
An All Day Program of Games and Sports.
Ewing and O’Neill Bands. Absolutely Free.
Patriotic Addresses and Music on the Court House Lawn, and a Decorated
Automobile Parade for Prizes, in the Morning.
Baseball—Atkinson vs. Emmet
O’Neill vs. Page
Horse, Pony and Chariot Races,Pie Eating, Fiddling, Nail Driving
Contests, A Greased Pig Race and ManyOther Events, at the Fairgrounds
in the afternoon.
All Are Absolutely Free!
A Bowery dance at night, and many shows and concessions on the city
streets, if you must spend your money.
Grand Fire Works Display At Night
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Plenty of Seats, Plenty of Shade, Plenty of Ice Water For All. Numerous
Rest Rooms For the Women and Children. Bring Your Lunch Baskets. Lots
of Picnic Grounds and Tables.
O’Neill American Legion invites you to attend
Celebration next clear day if Fourth is rainy.