M We have a nice line of Toys, Dells, Candy, Fruit, Cigars, Pipes, Tobaccos, Christmas Cards, Christmas Tree Decorations. D. St8Li\iY&j*d THE O’NEILL ABSTRACT COMPANY —Compiles— • “Abstracts of Title” THE ONLY COMPLETE SET OF ABSTRACT BOOKS IN HOLT COUNTY. i. ——-......... DR. L. A. CARTER Physician and Surgeon Glasses Correctly Fitted. Office and Residence, Naylor Blk. -Phone 72 O’NEILL :: :: NEBRASKA NEBRASKA CULVERT AND I MFG. CO. AUSTIN-WESTERN ROAD MACHINERY 15 ARMCO CULVERTS j Everything In Road Machinery Western Representative L. C PETERS O’Neill :: Nebraska £ IIMIMIIIMMMI iru I mini I 13# The Frontier, only »z.00 per year. A Personal Message at Xmas Time 7 That is what a photograph of you at Christmas will mean to your distant relatives and friends. You cannot make a more accept able choice. Many people consider a photo graph the ideal gift. Now is the best time to ar range appointments — free from the bustle and confusion ol Christmas week. The Studio will be open every Sunday until Christ mas. Mrs. Downey will take the picture. O’NEILL PHOTO CO. O’Neill, Nebr. 25°unces for 25* 11 Baking iVW Powder No better made regardless of price* MILLIONS of pounds bought ^by our, GOVERNMENT KC-KOKC-KOKC-KC l NOTES FROM THE NORTHEAST. Ralph Phillips transacted business in O’Neill Monday, returning home the same day. Corn husking will advance yield above normal. Percent of moisture above normal. Charley Spengler, of Norfolk, visited at the Wertz home Friday, driving to O’Neill Saturday. The pie social at Mineola Saturday evening was well attended and a suc cess financially and the program inter esting. Those present report an en joyable time. Ralph Resencrans, of Dorsey, rep resenting an Omaha firm, was in this vicinity Monday. He advises us that his territory has been increased hav ing a general agency, of this te rritory Prices of com sippears to decrease as the season advances. It is conceded by some that good com will be in de mand at much higher prices July 15, 1924. The producer certainly is en titled to renumeration for his labor. The Western Bridge company re cently completed a 30-foot bridge on the county line near the F. W. Phillips farm, and now are at work on a 30 foot span crossing a tributary of north branch of the Verdigre near the Wertz farm. We are informed of loss of swine in this part of the county and vaccina tion has been resorted to. Where hogs show isymptoms of gwine disease vaccination should not be delayed. In fact we are informed that in some states the state law requires vacci nation. Thanksgiving in 1923 was one of Nebraska’s lovely days, reminding your correspondent of Thanksgiving in 1881. Warm with a bright sun shine that was thoroughly enjoyed by the pioneers of the Hainsville settle ment. Elder Blain delivered the Thanksgiving sermon in the “sod house on the claim” of J. W. Wertz. Sing ing by the. Hainsville Sunday school. After the services we were invited to the hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Mohr where the Thanksgiving dinner was served. The interesting sermon of Elder Blain, the hospitality of the Mohr home, the good will and the good bye’s as those pioneers re turned to their claims will not be for gotten. Several of those present have crossed the “turbulent stream.” DR. H. 4. SKELTON. % _ Spencer, Neb., Dec. 3: Funeral services were held here Sunday for Dr. II. A. Skelton of this (place, who died Thursday after an illness of ten .days following two paralytic strokes within the last year. Burial was made at the former home at Page. Dr. Skelton was 56 years, 6 months and 13 days old and was known as the pioneer doctor. He was bom in Princeton, Indiana, on IMay 16, 1867. J. B. Skelton, father of Dr. Skelton, came to Nebraska from Indiana in De cember, 1881, and settled in O'Neill, Nebraska, in the practice of law. Dr. Skelton Remained in the home town in Indiana,"and attended the city schools of Princeton from which he graduated in 1883. After graduation he came west, and about the year 1885 he be gan the study of .medicine with Dr. J. E. Shore, with whom he continued for some five years, the part of the time being at Inman, Nebraska. He work ed in a drug store in the latter place during his study of medicine, and there also prepared himself as a phar macist. Fallowing this he took two years’ work at Drake university at Keokuk, Iowa, from which school he graduated in 1881, and he at once re moved to Page, Nebrasl a, where he began the practice of medicine. He was particularly su: essful in the ten years he remained :.t Page he extended his practice to a r umber of distant Nebraska points, and in 1902, he removed to Spencer. Nebraska, where he continued in the practice of medicine and surgery, until he suffer ed a stroke of paralysis in 1920, which left his right side partially affected. Dr. Skelton was a skillful surgeon, and a highly capable physician and the high character of his work won him recognition all over the northeast part of Nebraska and southern South Dakota. He was not only a great doctor and surgeon, he was great in the things which constitute a man, and in this his memory will remain with the people. His passing is a personal lets to the whole community. Dr. Skelton was married to Miss F. uky Chase, of Page, Nebraska, on Ja; ..ary 1, 1896, daughter of Perry and Della Chase, who were early set tlers in Page. Of this marriage two children were born, Perry and Harold. Perrv is now practicing dentistry, while Harold is following his father’s footsteps and fitting himself for the practice of medicine, being a student of the University of Minnesota. He leaves surviving him besides his widow and two sons, three sisters, Mrs. Mur !phy> of Lincoln; Mr* Lomison, of Page, and Mrs. Hathaway, of Monett; Missouri. - PRAISE FOR “SCHOOL MAN ” Mondamin, la.—To the Editor of The Omaha'Bee: I want to congratu late “School Man” on the stand he takes in regard to football in the pub lic school. I think if more people would ejipress their opinion along the same line that it might do some good to abolish so ifiuch athletic doings in our schools. It seems like there is about as much time taken up in sports and practicing for the same as there is in studies. One school alone can't do much to abolish the practice, but if they would co-operate and all cut it out, or if there were some law enacted to pro hibit it, I think it would be a good thing both for the school and pupil. Plenty of accidents in other ways without football to swell the list. SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER. FOR HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL. Missouri Valley, la.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: The “School Man” from O’Neill I am afraid is open for argument. He says that every fall the papers are full of the tragedies of football. You’re off your base there, brother. I take three daily papers and read them, but I’ll be hanged if I car see where you get the dope that the football accidents and deaths make them look like the casualty lists dur ing the war. There’s more young folks get killed riding in cars going to and from the games than get a scratch on the gridiron. We sure are sorry for the people bereaved over their loss. Indeed we are. But you are not arguing that. Better help wake the taxpayers and fathers and mothers up to the dangers of the automobile, for the casualties of football fade into nothing when you compare the number of the same young fo’l-s that are killed and injured simply “joy ridinr.” Jumlp onto some thing that is an evil. I would rather have my boy on a football team matched against men far heavier than he is than I would have! him out in an automobile rising hell. That’s where you have a real evil to fight. On the football field certain rules are observed religiously. Well, when the same bunch are out raising hell in a car the “devil” makes the\ rules. As to the nature of football. I played back in 1901 and 1902 when it was a real game. However, now they have changed and modified the game so that it sometimes looks like a game of parlor ping-pong or drop the handker chief. Of course I would not want to see the kindergarten kids play foot ball, but wiser birds than you or I ever will be would have stopped it back in the good old days if it was going to put the youth of the nation in the cemetery or hospital. Brother, let the legislature alone about it. Wake them up to the neces sity of repealing some of the crazy idiotic stuff they have written into the law codes instead of putting more into the lists of “shalt nots.” I have watched football closely in the town where I live. I cannot recal all of the accidents, fatal and serious, which have attended the trips to the games due to automobiles. But the only ac cident I can recall to a player was a broken collar bone—that was received “monkeying” and not under the train ed and watchful eye of his coach. It is true that once in a while there is a serious injury, but they are few and far between. You're liable to get hurt any time under circumstances less potent writh danger than those on a gridiron. Let them play football, but God help and save them from the auto mobile. That’s what is raising the duce with the boys and girls both. Let’s shake hand over this football stuff and get after something wortyi while. I. T. DUZZENMATTER. PULL BROTHERS COMING. The escape from the trunk of the dainty Miss with Pull Brothers is great; but when the trunk is opened and a man appears in her place with shackles, sealed mystery bag and all, just as the lady was locked u)p and roped in, you are set wondering whether yoq really saw the act, or dreamed it. See this wonderful act at O'Neill, on Monday, December 10th. Measles Old as the Race. Measles Is probably as old as the race. In ancient times It was diagnosed as a form of smallpox. Somewhere about the Tenth or Eleventh centuries, when Arab culture and science flamed high in a mentally dark world, Arab physicians distinguished the difference between the two diseases. These men noted that having smallpox did not give Immunity to measles and having measles did not give Immunity to smallpox. They studied both dlseuses and pointed out the difference In the eruptions. But measles continued to be confounded with scarlet fever until the latter half of the Seventeenth cen tury, when Sydenham, an English phy sician, pointed out the difference in the symptoms and the eruptions. f:p!der Kills Bird; Birds ure caught and killed by the Mygale, one of the best-known of the large and heavy spiders. It Is a native of tropical and subtropical America. It sucks the blood of its victims. The body of this spider is dead'black and is covered with long reddish-brown hair. It possesses eight eyes, placed close together in the front of its head. The species of spider are difficult of enumeration. The spiders of North America have beer, studied by Hentz, Emerton, Keyserllng and Thorell, and no doubt by a number of other men Who have specialized in Insects, and !' is estimated there are 800 species In North America. The spider has heart, liver, stomach, Intestines, thorax, lungs, ns well as several other inter esting organs, ns, for example, tb* spinning glands and spinnerets. IN COAT OF FLAMING COLOR Scarlet Tanager, During the Mating Season, Is One of the Most Beautiful of Birds. He flies from twig to twig, a flash of flaming color among the leaves. All eyes rest on him. He Is a scarlet tana ger. His plumage is more glaring than the feathers of a cardinal. Nature, ever lavish In color, has piled, on him her most glaring combination. Red and black make the most conspicuous color pattern on earth. This motif ap pears over and over In the realm of nature. Sir Tanager wears them proud ly. He wants to be seen. Ills mate is not gaudy. She Is dressed in a greenish drab, so like the moss on tree trunks that our eyes can hardly discern her. Sir Tanager wore this plumage, too, in his youth. In thoBe days of hard flying and long travels he did not need to he conspicuous. He would have made too easy an eyeful for hawks. But it is the mating season. He wants to he seen. What male is there who does not want to appear his best In the eyes of the other sex? Bee keepers hate tana gets. They claim that these birds sometimes eat their bees. Perhaps this is true. Tan ilgers catch much of their food on the wing, and who could expect a bird to know the difference between a tame bee and a wild bug? No more beautiful sight could be imagined than a tanager as he swoops gracefully out front his twig, to snap up an Insect quite invisible to human eyes. His red feathers flash, his glossy wings gleam with shining black; you wonder what further word could be added about "feathered beauty.—Chi cago Tribuos. Her Mistake. A woman of the new rich type paid a visit to a well-known school with a view to placing he* boy there. She arrived In a limousine elaborately dressed and loaded with jewelry. Dur ing her interview with the head mas ter, whom she embarrassed and Im pressed with lier grandeur, the poor man remarked: “Madam, you remind me of the queen of Sheba.” “Really,” said the lady, “I had no Ideu she had a boy in this school." PUBLIC LIBRARY HOURS. The Public Library wilf be open each day except Monday from this time on until further notice: Afternoons, 2:00 to 6:30s. Evenings, 7:00 to 9:00. Sundays, 2:00 to 5:30 p. m. MARY MCLAUGHLIN, Librarian. California and the Burlington are solving the winter vacation problem for hundreds of folks who were unable to “get away” during the midwest’s busy summer. The cost of the trip (minus what it will cost to remain at home) is quite moderate, and the use of THE BURL INGTON—the road to Vacationland— makes the going as enjoyable as the get ting there. The favored route leads through Den ver, Pikes Peak Region, Royal Gorge, scenic Colorado, and Salt Lake City—a world-famous steel highway through a large share of America's most inspir ing scenic territory. And the rest of the best is to be found in the Pacific Northwest—The American Wonder land—Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, the Columbia River, the Olympics, Cas cades, the Northern Rockies, Spokane —which may be included in round trip, reduced rate tickets at a surprisingly low additional cost. Let’s discuss this in detail. L. E. DOWNEY, Ticket Agent cine 5ar?itapy VWeat Market We have a full line of Fresh and Cured Meats, Pure Home Rendered Lard. .1. P.