VOLUMN XLIII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1923. N0. 22. Saturday November 3rd Last Day BIG 9 SALE Bowen’s Racket Store LOCAL MATTERS. J. B. Ryan spent Sunday in Sioux City. N. S. Short, of Norfolk, was in the city Wednesday. L. W. Arnold was a passenger to Norfolk last Saturday. W. A. Gannon, of Inman, was in the city Wednesday on business. Harry Ward, of the Emmet Hay Company, spent the week end in O'Neill visiting with friends. Tom McKinsie returned home last Tuesday §yening from a week’s visit with his cousin, Lee Winn, at Bucks Grove, Iowa. Mrs. Smith returned Saturday after spending the summer with her daughter, Mrs. Jas. S. Evans, of Osh kosh, Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Thomas received a telegram Wednesday announcing the death at 7 o’clock that morning of Mr. Thomas’ brother-in-law, Edward Johnson, of Corning, Iowa, at a hos Eital in Chicago. Mr. Johnson had een ill of heart trouble for several weeks. J. B. Ryan and Pat Stanton drove over from Bonesteel, South Dakota, Sunday morning and returned home Sunday evening. Mrs. J. E. McElvain, mother of W, T. and E. E. McElvain, returned to her home at Fairbury, Nebraska, a few days ago, after a months visit here. Mrs. J. P. Ryan, of Bonesteel, who has been here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mr# H. Stanton, for the past week, returned to her home Sunday evening. Mrs. E. E. Hilton, of Central City, Nebraska, is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. McElvain south of this city. Mrs. Hilton and Mrs. Mc Elvain are sisters* Spencer Advocate: Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Stein, of Meek, visited from Friday until Wednesday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Woidneck and also at the John Storm home. Mrs. S. A. Arnold and children, Merle and Richard, returned borne Wednesday night from a three week’s visit with relatives at Ashland and other points in the southern part of the state. , REDUCTION SALE! Sale Starts FridayrNovember 2nd One-Third Off on All Millinery Stock THE STYLE SHOPPE Donnelly & Dillon, Props. 1 To The Depositor * NATIONAL BANKS FAIL. When they do depositors lose heavily. Why? Because deposits in National Banks are not guaranteed. STATE BANKS FAIL. When they do depositors are paid in full. Why? Because deposits in State Banks are protected by the Depositors Guarantee Fund of the State of Nebraska. THE NEBRASKA STATE BANK OF O’NEILL is the only Bank in O’Neill which offers you this pro tection. You will protect yourself and please us by depositing your money with us. 5 per cent paid on time deposits. Nebraska State Bank of O’Neill, Nebraska /•* Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Dillon, of Greeley, motored to O'Neill Sunday to visit their daughters, Mrs. M. Don nelly and Miss Katherine Dillon. They were accompanied by their daughter, Miss Nora, who will take a business course at the academy. Miss Maxine Simmons entertained thirty of her young friends at a Hal loween party at her home Wednesday evening. The rooms were tastily decorated for the occasion with jack 'o’lanterns and other appropriate articles. Luncheon was served. Miss Maxine O’Donnell, daughter of Mr and Mrs. J. F. O’Donnell, has been elected' Secretary-Treasurer of the Nebraska Club of the College of Saint Teresa, Winona, Minnesota. Miss O’Donnell is a Freshman at Saint Teresa’s. She is a graduate of Saint Mary’s Academy. John Shaw returned to his home in Des Moines, Iowa, the first of the week. Mr. Shaw has been in this Vicinity for the past month selling gas hay belers. Four of the new machines arrived Monday and will be used in this vicinity. This style of baler is an improvement over those formerly used. Atkinson Graphic: Mrs. Alex Mar ing’s chi’dren, grand children and great-grandchildren celebrated her 86th bir hday with a family gathering and basket dinner at her home Octo ber 22nd. Friends present from else where . eve Mrs. Warren Gillman, of Amebr *Delia Ernest, Mr. and Mrs. Jo! n lioin and Mr. and Al. Ash ton, of O’Ne l a :d Mrs. Ivan Kimball, of Brunswick. Dr. Irwin Gallagher left for his home at LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Sunday, after a pleasant visit with his mother and other relatives here. Dr. Gal lagher accompanied by J. P. Gallagher spent several days last week at the lakes in Cherry county hunting, and were very successful. His mother, Mrs. Mike Gallagher, ascompanied him as far as Norfolk where she visited until Tuesday with relatives. Neligh News: Last Saturday while plowing in a field on his farm south of the railroad track, H. W. Hopkins plowed out a bone of a human leg. He procured a spade and after a little digging found the skull and nearly all the other bones of an adult. Mr. Hop kins judged the body had lain in its shallow grave for at least 50 years. The skull had a hole a couple of inches long on the top which indicates that the person had probably been killed with a tomahawk by Indians. This is the fourth skeleton that Mr. Hopkins has uncovered on his farm during the last few years and all were shallow graves. The united states tnrugn tne as sistant district attorney, George Key $er, filed a suit in federal court in Nor folk last Saturday against John Mc Kinney, of O’Neill, Nebraska, who is charged in three counts with giving Henry C. Depue “information as to how to obtain intoxicating liquor con taining more than one-half of 1 per cent of alcohol fit for beverage pur poses.” Possession and selling of in toxicating beverages are violations of the federal prohibition laws, and prac tically everybody knows it, but only a few peoplq know that the government considers it a crime to give informa tion where he or she can obtain intoxi cating beverages. “Sportlets” In Norfolk News: Did you ever see a couple of fellows enter a gymnasium fof a friendly little work-out at sparring? It usually starts out as scheduled with a few little playful taps. Presently one gets in a blow just a little harder than usual. His opponent opens his eyes says nothing but comes back a little harder. Another is landed still harder and before it is over they are wanting to pull off the gloves and throw chairs at each other. Something like that ap pears to have happened to Homer Sheridan and Eddie Morris, both well known to north Nebraska fight fans, at Sioux City the other day. The story goes that Sheridan and Morris went into a club for a little exercise, but Sheridan emerged with a discolor ed eye and some fractured ribs. Now Sheridan is itching to end the affair in a prize ring. However, the event will likely have to be postponed for some time on account of the broken jaw Sheridan got in his fight with Monroe at O’Neill. SHERIDAN RECEIVES BROKEN JAW IN MONROE BOUT Battling Monroe, colored fighter of Omaha, won a decision over Homer Sheridan of Sioux City here Friday night when Sheridan, with a fractured jaw gave up the fight after the sixth round. Sheridan’s jaw was fractured by a right in the fourth round, but he made no mention of the injury until after the jaw had been heavily jolted by Monroe in the fifth and again in the sixth. At the conclusion of the sixth the official physician, Dr. W. F. Finley, was called to Seridan’s corner and at the conclusion of his examina tion of the injured man, Sheridan’s handlers gave up the fight. The battle was before one of the largest houses ever assembled for such an event in O’Neill and it was Sheridan’s first fight since he suffered a similar injury in a bout at Sioux City last Spring. The affair was a real battle from the sound of the opening gong, with both men going strong. The crowd seemed to give Sheridan the decision by a shade on most of the rounds before the final one, but so even were all of them that such decisions were purely matters of individual opinion. Monroe weighed in at 169 pounds and Sheridan at 153%. The fight was clean on the part of both fighters at all times. The five round preliminary between Ernest Smith, of Walnut, and Frank Patiz, of Bassett, was a bloody and furious one, of main event calibre, and the referee’s decision that it was a draw met with the entire approval Announcement To The Public The Minnesota Electric Distributing Com pany has purchased the O’Neill Light, Heat & Power Company and will take over its oper ation from November 1st. » , * To the customers of the old Company we wish to make clear that the policy of this management toward the Public has always been that of Fairness, Courtesy, and Prompt Service. We ask you to expect this service from us and let us know any complaints you may have at any time. Mr. G. D. Myers has been employed mana ger for O’Neill and other towns to come on later. Minnesota Electric Distributing Company, 4th Street, 3 doors South of O’Neill National Bank General Offices Foshay Building Minneapolis. of the vast audience. Patiz weighed in at 168 and Smith at 153. Patiz not only had the weight, but was in su perior condition. Smith, however, was the most clever and had he not been knocked down by Patiz in the second would have been entitled to a decision, being the aggressor most of the time. LEAD, SULPHUR OR OIL MAY CAUSE THE GHOST LIGHTS There my be vast deposits of lead out under Jim Connolly's ghost grave yard, which cause the nightly display of weird lights that make the timid nervous. Then again it may be sul phur, or perhaps the lights are only seepage of gas from the big oil pool. Letters about the lights continue to pour in upon Mr. Connolly, and Post master McCarthy and Mayor Gilligan, also are receiving their share. Fol lowing are a few of the recent ones: Chicago, 111., Oct. 2, 1923. Dear Sir: I see by the Chicago Sunday paper that within fifteen miles of your city, that you have been hav ing trouble with strange lights. And you are asking for some one who can solve thejjroblem. And what kind of a propesion wil you offer for the m