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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1923)
V. ' ■ ■ .‘S VOLUMN XLIII. ' O NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1923. NO. 26 ! ■ V * "“V* A Stylish Floor At Moderate Cost With the beautiful new patterns in modern lino leum, you can have floors in your breakfast room, sun parlor, dining room, to be proud of, and at moderate cost. The best decorators today are ad vising the use of linoleum to put color into the floor, so it will harmonize with the rugs, draperies, wall paper and furniture. Besides beauty, linoleum gives you a quiet floor, one that is comfortable to wplk on and unusually easy to keep clean. No floor presents a finer appear ance than, ARMSTRONG’S LINOLEUM for every floor (A) in the House When it is well waxed and polished to a beautiful, soft finish We have Armstrong’s Linoleum in many pleasing patterns and colorings—handsome plain colors, rich two-tone Jaspes and colorful tiles. Come to our Linoleum Department and see what beautiful lino leum floors you can have in your own home. O. F. BIGLIN LOCAL MATTERS. Dick Knight, of Omaha, was in O'Neill Monday. \ Guy Cole, the hay king of Emmet, was in O’Neill Tuesday. Harry H. Haffner went to Omaha last Friday returning home Sunday. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. W Gunter, of Ewing, on November 19 th. Miss Mae Keys spent Sunday in Norfolk as the guest of Mrs. Miles Finley James Hasburgh, of Omaha, spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. H J. Reardon. A son was born recently, to Mr. and Mrs. Charley Snowerdt, of Deloit, toWnship. A son was born to Mr and Mrs. Lennie Forworthy, of Stuart, on Ne vember 21st. Wm Fallon came up from Omaha last Monday for a short visit with old time friends. A daughter was born on November 19th to Mr. and Mrs. Mark Summers, of Chambers. The O’Neill football boys went to Tilden last Friday and met their Waterloo 43 to 0. Mrs. Fannie Gallagher left last Thursday for a short visit with rela tives at South Sioux City^ The O’Neill Woman’s club served dinner in the basement of the Presby terian church Tuesday evening. An Equity term of the District Court will open next Monday. The jury has been dismissed indefinitely. A seven poqpd daughter came to the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Babl, November 24th. Mrs. Babl will be rememberd as Miss Mary Cole, of Stuart. . ; J. N. Trommershausser and L. E. Skidmore, of Ewing, were O’Neill business visitors Monday afternoon. Miss Anna Kelly arrived from Omaha last Friday for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Richard Jennings, who is on the sick list J. B. Mellor and Hugh Birmingham were among those who attended the Nebraska-Syracuse football game at Lincoln Saturday The Catholic Daughters of America held their monthly meeting at the K. C. Hall Tuesday evening. Cards and luncheon followed. Miss Louise Cable, of Hudson, South Dakota, came last week and will assist her uncle, V. B. Jones, in the office of the O’Neill Grain Company. Mr. and Mrs B. P. Smith, of Ew ing, came up Tuesday afternoon to spend Thanksgiving with their daugh ter, Mrs. E. D. Henry and family. Mrs. David Bogan, and son, David Junior, came up from Kearney last Sunday for a visit over Thanksgiving with her sister, Mrs. Sam A. Arnald Chambers Sun: Mr and Mrs. Wm. Me El vain, of O’Neill, spent a few days this week visiting their daughters, | Mrs. Zada Schrier and Mrs. R. K. Platt and families. There will be a program and box social Friday evening, November 30th, j at the school house in District No. 15, j three miles north of O’Neill, Miss Winifred Murray, teacher. The farm nouse of Michael Rother ham, in the southeastern part of the county was destroyed by fire about one o’clock Thursday morning. The house was a mass of flames when the fire was discovered. All that was saved was a piano that stood near the front door. Mr. Rotherham was a member , of the board of supervisors from the Fourth district a few years ago. 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 your so IT and please us by depositing your money with us. 5 per cent paid on time deposits. Nebraska State Bank * of O’Neil!, Nebraska Bennet Gilligan and Prof. E. H. Suhr drove to Lincoln last Friday evening after the O’Neill-Tilden game and “tookin” the Syracuse-Nebraska football game last Saturday afternoon. Arthur Roberts and Cecil Hunt re turned home last Sunday from near Sidney, Nebraska, where they have been threshing during the past few months Cecil returned to Sidney Wednesday morning. The Stuart Advocate is installing a new Mergenthaler linotype machine. Editor Coats is giving the people of Stuart a newsy pdper and will now be in a position to handle considerable more reading matter than formerly. Eli Abdouch, Warren Hall, Donald Enright and Duke Downey went to Lincoln last Friday afternoon follow ing the O’Neill-Tilden football game, and were present at the Syracuse Nebraska game, Saturday afternoon. Judge Robert R, Dickson returned home Sunday night from a visit with his sister at Osage, Iowa, and with his daughter, Miss Marjory, at Lincoln where he also witnessed the Nebras ■ ka-Syracuse foot ball game last Sat urday. Atkinson Graphic: Belated news of the marriage of Edw. Skrdla is re ceived by relatives and friends. Mr. Skrdla and Miss Marjorie Hebbard of Lincoln, were married October 27th. Mr. and Mrs. Skrdla will reside in Lincoln. Mrs. Jens Hansen and three child ren are quarantined at the home about four miles southeast of O’Neill, for scarlet fever, and .the school in the Hoxsie district has been closed during a latter part of this week on account of the disease. , ' Lyle S. Smith came up from Laurel Monday night and visited at the E. D. Henry home until Tuesday. Mr Smith expects to move his household goods and family from Ewing to Laurel the latter (part of the week, where he is conducting a meat market. F E. Cowden came over from River ton, Iowa, last Saturday and spent several days here this week looking after business at the ranch. His son, Waldo. P. Cowden came up from Os mond Sunday for a short visit. Waldo is teaching school at Osmond this year. Zeb Warner and Will Lawrence were goose hunting over on the Nio brara river last Sunday. They suc ceeded in bagging two nice geese and eighteen ducks. Roy Warner, Milt Lawrence and Ray Wells were also hunting on the Niobrara and enjoyed very gOod shooting. H. C Cooper and family have re turned to Chambers from Belgrade,' Nebraska, where they have been con ducting a bakery for the past few months. Fred Zlomke, of Chambers, is now in charge of the bakery at Bel grade and Mr. and Mrs. Cooper are conducting the Fairy restaurant in Chambers. The Syracuse (New York) crack football team did not have a Walk away when it met the Nebraska team at Lincoln last Saturday afternoon The game ended in a victory for the Syracuse eleven 7 to 0. The visiting team says that Nebraska gave them the hardest game that they have play ed on their trip. H. M. Uttley enjoyed a visit last Monday from his son Clinton, whose home is now in Dekafcor, Illinois. Clinton is a post office inspector traveling from the St. Louis office. He came to Atkinson Saturday evening for a visit with his sister, Mrs. Martin Walrath Mr. and Mrs. Walrath and Mr. and Mrs. George Collins accompa nied Mr. Uttley to O’Neill Monday for a visit at the H. M. Uttley home. A delegation of local Knights of Columbus, consisting of Father Koh ler, M. H. Horiskey, Thomas Enright, James Timlin, Fred McNally, James Graham, Charles Graham, Thomas Griffin, Fred Vitt, jr , Will Martin, John Martin, John Gallagher, Clem Ryan, Joe Beha, D. J. McCarthy, D. A. McCarthy and J. A. Carney, attended the initiation of a large class of can didates by the Creighton council, Knights of Columbus, Sunday. Dr. W. P. Finley came up Monday evening from Sioux City, where he has been in attendance at the bedside of Mrs. Finley, who recently under went an operation at St. Joseph’s hospital. He reports Mrs. FHnley’s condition as somewhat improved The doctor, accompanied by Mrs. Finley’s mother, Mrs. T. L. Donovan, of St. Paul, and the children, returned to Sioux City Wednesday morning, from which place Mrs. Donovan and the children will go on to St. Paul. Atkinson Graphic: Mrs N. C. Lewis was the victim of a painful acci dent which might easily have been more .-serious. Starting home in a buggy with the children Friday after school they were met near the depot by Gib McCreath in a car. Driving against the sun prevented Mr. Mc Creath from seeing clearly and his car struck the back end of the buggy caus ing Mrs. Lewis to fall out. She sus tained severe bruises and a shaking up but was not so seriously injured as at first feared. Homer Lowery, of Emmet, aged about fifty years, was severely burned about the face, last Saturday evening, while pumping air into a pressure gasoline lantern preparatory to doing the evening chores. Mr Lowery had filled the lantern with gasoline and was pumping air into it. The force of the air forced the gasoline through the burner which ignited from the blaze, the flames strikig him fairly in the face. A little two year old daughter was standing near but did not get burned excepting a little hair singed. Some papers and other things near by were ablaze but were hastily removed from the room along with the lantern. Dr. Gilligan was called and dressed the burns. , August Troshynsky and son, Mike, of northwest of O’Neill, were in O’Neill Tuesday looking after business matters. Mr. Troshynsky owns one of the finest farms in Holt county and has it well stocked with the best grade of cattle, horses and hogs. Besides all this Mr. Troshynsky can well be proud of his seven large and stalwart sons who comprise the principal part of the Emmet base ball team. The boys are all excellent ball flayers and with the assistance of a couple of their cousins by the same name, we will wager that they can defeat any like aggregation in the middle west. SOUTHERN HOLT HOLDS ENTHUSIASTIC HARVEST TRAIL MEETINGS Residents of Lake and McClure townships in Holt county and of the north half of Wheeler county are en thusiastic in the ^promotion of tha Harvest Trail, the national highway which enters Nebraska just below Fairfax, South Dakota, passes through O’Neill and Spencer and leaves the state south of Red Cloud. Meetings for local organization were held at Bliss and at the ranch home of B. B. Gribble Monday, afternoon, at which local organizations to assist in the de velopment of the highway were per fected. County Supervisors Elmer :Gibson, John Sullivan and L. C. Me Kim of Holt county and County Com mitsionr R M. Burtwistle, of Wheeler county addressed the meetings, promising co-operation. M. F. Kirwan, offiiial marker of the highway also was in attendance and explained the-mark ings and emblems used along the Harvest Trail. W. L. Medcalf was ap pointed overseer for Lake township, R. M. Burtwistle for Francis township in Wheeler county and James Bartack for Deloit territory in Wheeler county. The work of marking the new highway Will begin Friday arid continue through the fall, winter and spring until the work is completed in Ne braska. HOLT COUNTY HAS TWO NEW CHAMPION CORNHUSKERS Holt county has two new champion cornhuskers They are Peter Katzen berger residing three miles north and one half-mile east of O'Neill on the old Barrett homestead, and Harley Kennedy, of Page. Mr. Katzenberger unquestionably holds the age cham pionship for cornhuskers. Aged 73 years, but in, appearance not more than 60 years old, he has this fall husked and cribbed,’alone, fifteen hun dred bushels bf corn which he raised HpnS tended thi3 summer. Mr. Katzen berger’s friends are willing to match him against any comhusker in the state not more than fifteen years his junior, for money, marbles or chalk. Harley Kennedy is the new quantity champion. Sometime ago James Kel ley, of O’Neill, husked and cribbed, unaided, 150 bushels of corn in a little over eight hours. About the same time John Davis, of Page, took out 175 bushels in nine hours and thirty six minutes. Both of these records are very fair and probably could not be equalled anywhere outside of Holt county, but investigation discloses that Mr Kennedy has both mefi out classed. Kennedy shucked and crib bed his 175 bushels in nine hours and ten minutes, which is twenty-six minutes better than the Davis record. LEONARD HALES, OF EWING, KILLS FIVE DUCKS AT ONE SHOT Unless some other hunter can pre sent a better claim to the honors, properly substantiated with affidavits, Leonard Hales assistant cashier of the Pioneer State bank of Ewing, is hereby proclaimed the champion duck hunter of Holt county, which of course means of the state and adjacent territory. Mr Hales Sunday while out duckhunt ing south of Ewing, knocked down five butterball ducks, an entire flock, with a single shot. Hales and several com panions were concealed along a fly way when the flock of five birds passed over them. Three of the ducks were killed outright and the other two crip pled so that they were easily secured. The remarkable shot is duly attested to by Mayor Dave Gimmel, Newt Trommershausser, Art Snyder, L. E. Skidmore, B. P. Smith and E. L. Davies, whom as affidavit men there are none better. SCHOOL NOTES. Eighth Grade. The Eighth grade has taken up square root. Melvin Hunt is absent so far this week The class has completed the ad jective and will spend the rest of the week on review. The class will devote this week’s reading period to The Landing of the Pilgrims and other selections appro priate for Thanksgiving. Third Grade. Names of pupils neither absent nor tardy for the past six weeks. Margurite Demipsey, Catherine Hagensick, Eve Dale Hudson, Bernice Scofield, Boyd ' Dougherty, Thomas Liddy, Frank Ratliff, Bennett Sanders and Orville Winchell. Second Grade. Physical examination was given to the Second grade Monday. Fourth Grade. Elizabeth Henry and Fern Wilkin son have been absent this week on ac cout of sickness. Pupils having a perfect attendance record for the second six weeks of school are: Marie Bay, Fern Daugh GRADY’S GROCERY Phones-68-126 O’Neill, Nebraska t 4- ■< . ■ !> erty, Mrjorie Gillespie, Ralph Ratliff, Hazel Vaught, Phyllis Hough, Scott Hough and Clarence Saunto Bva Friesen enrolled in the Fourth grade Tuesday. The Fordyce tests for measuring the achievements in reading were given to the Fourth grade reading class Tuesday. The following pupils scored 100 per cent: Marie Williams. Mar jorie Gillespie, Eve Friesen, Audrey Oolfox, Scott Hough, Clarence Saunto, Fred Calkins and Garland Bressler. ROAD BOOSTERS MEET (Brown County Democrat.) A meeting of Blue Pole road boost ers was held here Tuesday night with representatives present from Wood Lake, Johnstown, Long Pine and Ains worth. The Cherry county delegation reported that the county commission ers had secured the right-of-way, laid out the road, etc., and that it was now a state aid roa^ and practically com pleted from Wood Lake east to the county line. It is expected that the Brown county commissioners will work the road from the west county line to Johnstown with the opening of next spring. The Blue Pole has already proven quite a popular roadway, and with the work now promised will be excellent clear through to Wood Lake, and on west. EMMET ITEMS. Father Byrne was in O’Neill Mon day. Bert Gaffney, of Casper, Wyoming, is visiting with his parents three miles west of Emmet. William Malloy has rented the Ed CoHigan farm one mile south of Em met and has moved thereto. Joseph Jurgensmeier has purchased the old Mike Lyons residence and five acres adjoining in the village of Em - met and will occupy the same soon.' ! George Pongratz is erecting an eight room house on his farm four miles northeast of Emmet. Some carpenters from Atkinson are doing ,het work. Rev. P. J, Vanderlaan, the Catholic -priest of Amelia, is erecting a new eight-room residence. Curren A Mon ahan, the Amelia carpenters, are do ing the work. Father Byrne has put down a new 81-foot well at his residence. The old one caved in some time ago. John Crandall from over on the north end of the Eagle did the-work. George O’Connell, the fourteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs Con O’Con nell, who was thrown from a horse last week, has entirely recovered and is as well as ever again. The O'Cohnor Brothers, Ed and Will, have rented their farm of 200 acres to Mr. Pharr, of Newport, and with their sister, Miss Katherine, ex pect to leave soon for Coolrado where they will make their future home. Fred Tenborg opened up a new gar age and blacksmith shop in Emmet Monday morning, Mr. Tenborg has just returned from Wisconsin where he has been making his home for several years. Mrs. Tenborg died about two months ago while they resided in Wis consin Zeb Warner has erected a large and commodious barn on his place five miles north of Emmet Mr. Warner has the foundation laid for a new resi dence 24x28 which he will erect as soon as the necessary help can be secured. A new well and windmill and some other improvements have been placed on the place. We understad that one of his sons will occupy the farm when the improvements are completed. Is This Your Lucky Day? Opportunity awaits the man who has money in this bank. % This bank carries no indebtedness of officers or stockholders. t Resources over $600,000.00 I O’Neill National Bank