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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1923)
* * I have on display a number of Xmas suggestions. More items for Xmas are arriving on every train. Less than three weeks is left for you to do your Xmas shopping. And the early shopper gets the chance of making the best selections. Come early and let us help you make your selections. Choice Stationery Colored Stationery Fancy Candle Sticks Gold and Silver Compacts Vanity Cases Purses Manicure Sets Military Brushes Jvory Mirrors Bridge Sets Playing Cards Burses Rugs Bath Towels Gloves Neckties Handkerchiefs Comfort Slippers Baby Plates Toys of All Kinds Blocks, Dolls Stoves, Foot Balls Mechanic 1 Toys Drums, Guns, Balls Aprons Collars Silk Hose Wool Hose Men’s Hose Supporters Men’s New Caps Ladies’ Boudoir Caps Ladies’ Sweaters And many other suggestions. Want of space keeps me from enumerating. J. P. GALLAGHER DON’T MISS PULL BROTHERS. The juggling of the flaming torph of Charles Pull, of the Pull Brothers entertainers, is really a scientific art. Try it once, with a piece of gas pipe, and be sure you don’t have any fire about when you do. Then you’ll know it is an accomplishment. See the real act at the Knights of Columbus theatre in O’Neill on December 10th. BAZAAR. The sisters and the students of St. Mary’s Academy wish to announce the Bazaar to be held on December 13th and 14th beginning at 2:30 p. m. in the Gymnasium. The only way that you will be con vinced of the work the pupils have been doing in preparation for this Bazaar is to come to visit us next Wednesday and Thursday. You will also be de lighted with the various booths where you may select your Christmas gifts There will be a fancy booth with needlework and art, a doll booth, a Dutch parlor, and last, a very at tractive fish-pond containing articles of all description. ^ The kind Ladies of the Parish have volunteered to serve luncheon in the dining room. This Bazaar will be the greatest event of the season so don’t miss it. WOMAN’S CLUB NOTES. The Literary department of the Woman’s club met at their club rooms Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. H. J. Hammond as leader. The' following program was pre sented : Vocal Selection, Mrs. H. J. Reardon. Biography of Frank Bacon, Mrs. George A. Miles. Review of the drama “Lightnin’,” Mrs. J. J. Harrington. Discussion, led by Mrs. J. J. Har rington. Art, “Holy Night,” by Correggio, Mrs. W. C. Templeton. Following the program the club entered into a general discussion upon the advisability of promoting a mu nicipal Christmas tree for the children of O'Neill. The club decided to lay the matter over until next Wednesday and in the meantime the proposition will be discussed among others who may be interested and who were not present at the meeting. Home Economics Department. The Home Economics department will meet.next Wednesday, December 12th, in the club rooms. There will be a demonstration of Christmas Randies and cookies. A light luncheon will be served. Christmas Gifts Before buying your Christmas gifts come in and let us show you our electrical appliances. A useful gift is always appreciated, Minnesota Electric Distributing Company Second door south O’Neill National Bank. ALBERT STEUCK OF BATTLE CREEK CHAMPION HUSKER (Battle Creek Enterprise.) Battle Creek claims a champion cornhusker in the person of Albert Steuck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Steuck. The young man has made some records which have caused the swift ones of surrounding counties to sit up and take notice. The other day he husked 167 bushels in eight hours and thirty minutes. Through condi tions were fairly favorable, he was not particularly trying for a record and was somewhat surprised himself to learn that he had become a top notcher. He now says he will not be satisfied until he cribs 200 bushels in a r Davis, of Page, Nebraska, claims a record of 175 bushels and cribbed in nine hours and thirty-six minutes, an average of about 18 and a half bushels an hour. This does not equal the performance of Steuck whose average was a trifle over 19 and a half bushels an hour. In the vernacular of the craft, that’s some shuckin’ fellows. HOW REED ACQUIRED TITLE Why Famous Speaker cf House Wai Given Name “Czar”—Conduct Called “Russian.” -/ Julius Chambers, at one time man aging editor of the New York World, tells In his book, “News Hunting on Three Continents," hOw Thomas B. Reed, one-time speak* .• of the house of representatives, acquired the title of “Ozur.” When the house of the Fifty-first congress organized in December, 1889, with the narrow majority of 1G4 Re publicans to 161 Democrats, Reed, of Maine, was elected speaker. He in sisted upon a new code of house rules. The Democrats assisted in passing them, probably under the premonition that Reed would embarrass their op ponents. And that " as exactly what he did. One day the speuker insisted on counting a quorum by including all members present in the chamber, whether or not they answered to their names at roll-call. Several members denounced the arbitrary conduct ns un democratic, even Russian, in character. The next morning in the New York World appeared the words, “Czar Reed,” an inch high across the front page. The words became Indelibly en graved upon American political his tory. Lincoln Was a Whittier. Whittling sticks and telling stories were Abraham Lincoln’s resources. Bismarck’s wife, when Beethoven's “Moonlight” Bonata was being played, noticed the first teur In ids eye, and felt “He is not so hard as he seems,” and “passionate, heroic music” made Ids recreations, side by side with hunt ing In youth, long country drives in old age, conversation and his pipe. The Reform Earl Grey had a passion for dancing, and, as premier In the midst of a political crisis, cried out one night at 10 Downing street, “W1 at would 1 not elve to dunce like Tagllonl!” • The Frontier For Sale Bills Santa Clause has arrived at Toy La^rvd Mamma Dolls. Sleeping Dolls. Doll Beds. Doll Buggies. Little Red Chairs. Tables. Trunks. Drums. Roller Chimes. Musical Tops. • Toy Pianos. Toy Dishes'. Books. Games. Sewing Boxes. - Friction Toys. Jumping Rabbits. Trains on Track. Moving Picture Machines. Sleds. Wagons. Wheel Barrows. Banks. Homs. Coon Jiggers. Barking Dogs. Air Guns. Pop Guns. And everything at lowest prices. Do your Xmas Shopping Early At Bowen’s Racket Store, O’Neill, Nebraska «