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TWO DAUGHTERS OF
W. F. GROTHE BECOME
BRIDES WEDNESDAY
The double wedding of Emma H.
Grothe to Bert D. Henning, and Clara
D. Grothe to Samuel Banka,- was sol*
emnized at St. John's Lutheran church
at Atkinson, Nebraska, Wednesday
morning promptly at half alter ten
o’clock, Rev. Vahle, pastor of the
church, officiating.
ihe brides are the daughters of Mr.
and Mrs. W. F. "Grothe, old and re
spected residents of near Emmet, and
among the most sturdy and prosper
ous farmers in that locality.
The young men who have chosen
these young ladies for their life com
panions are industrious, hardworking
young men who have gained for them
selves a reputation for thrift and men
who will make prosperous citizens.
Miss Eva Stromberg, of Omaha,1
cousin of bride groom, and Fred Roth,
uncle of the bride, were bridesmaid
and best man for first named couple.
Mrs. Marie Fuhrer, of Cheney, Ne
braska, cousin to bride, and Edward
Roth, of Atkinson, uncle to the bride,
were bridesmaid and best man to the
latter named couple.
Following the ceremony the happy
couples accompanied by about fifty
friends and relatives drove to the home
of the brides’ parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. F. Grothe, near Emmet where a
banquet was served throughout the
afternoon.
The newly weds will go to house
keeping on farms northwest of Em
met where the homes have already
been prepared.
Th Frontier extends congratulations
to the contracting parties and wish
them unceasing happiness throughout
their married life.
JAMES PACE
James Pace, son of Sherwood and
Elizabeth Pace, was bom in Mayetta,
Georgia, June 10th, 1844, the young
est of ten children. At the age of
fourteen he was conscripted into the
Rebel Army, for three years was
Master Drill Sergeant, and then after
serving one and a half years on the
battlefields being wounded at the
Battle of El Caney (which bullets he
carried in the right knee to the day
of his death) he ran away and took
eighteen other young men about his
•own age and joined the Union Army
at Fayettsville, Arkansas, March 1,
1863, and was mustered into service
March 10th, 1863, having served only
ten days from the time he was enlisted
to the day of service, as Sargeant of
Co.E, 1st Arkansas Reg. Infantry, and
was mustered out at Little Rock Ark.
June 10th, 1866. After the close of
the war he with two other comrades
made a trip through the Blackhills
with ox teams, freighting on the Old
Sante Fe Trail, returning to the State
about 1868 he moved to Fairfax,
Missouri, where he made his home.
On February 22nd, 1889, he was
united in marriage to Amanda Ham
mers, at Rockport, Missouri, to this
Union three children were bom, Lulu
M-, George H and Ruth. Ruth died in
infancy. He united with the Bethany
Baptist church, at Fairfax, Missouri,
in the fall of 1910 and was a consist
ent worshiper of that Faith to the day
of his death.
He died at the home of his daugh
ter Mrs John L. Quig O'Neill, Nebr*
aska, January 2nd, 1924, age 79 years
6 months and 22 days, leaving to
mourn, his widow, one daughter and
one son and two grandchildren. Daddy
Pace as he was known to all those who
met him, was a typical southerner,
the latch string was always on the
outside of the door, and all were wel
come to enter. Once in the house one
must “bide a bit” and “have a sip and
a bit to eat”. Although bom in the
south and a Georgian, all the time
Daddy Pace never took a drink of any
kind of liquor, a total abstainer at all
times.
FRANK L. KARR,
Frank L. Karr was born September
10, 1888, and died December 24, 1923,
aged 85 years, 3 months and 16 days.
He was born on the homestead of
his father, C. F. Karr, twelve miles
north of O’Neill and lived there until
1892, when his father moved to Grand
Island, Nebraska, and engaged in rail*
road work, remaining there until 1911,
when they returned to Holt county.
He entered the service as a member of
the National Guard from Wayne
county and served on the Mexican
border from June, 1916, to January,
1917, and was discharged at Sioux
City, Iowa, in March 1917.
He registered for the world war and
was called for service in March, 1918,
and was sent to Camp Funston where
he remained until the close of Hie war
acting as training officer in camp. In
October, 1920, he was married to Bes
sie Cross, at Hutchinson, Kansas, and
they made their home in Holt county
until 1921, when they moved to Hutch
inson, Kansas, where he was engaged
as a bridge carpenter with the Santa
Fe railroad until his death. He was
stricken with pneumonia and was taken
to a hospital in Topeka, Kansas, where
he died. He was buried at Hutchin
son, Kansas, December 27, 1923. He
leaves to survive him his wife, Bessie
Karr, his father and mother, Mr. and
Mrs. C. F. Karr, one brother, Roy W.
Karr, of O’Neill, Nebraska, and one
sister, Mrs. C. E. Worth, of Bancroft,
Nebraska, all of whom attended the
funeral,
JETHRO F. WARNER.
Mrs. Frank Howard received a tele
gram the first of the week that herj
half-brother, “Jack” Warner, had died
Sunday morning in a hospital in Los
Angeles, California, following an
operation on December 19th, for ulcers
of the stomach.
Funeral services and burial took
place in Los Angeles.
Jack went from here to Texas about
eighteen months ago and later located
in Los Angeles.
He leaves two half-brothers, W. G.
Warner, of Pittsburg, Pa., and A. C.
Thompson, of Benton, Pa., and one
half-sister, Mrs. Frank Howard, of this
city.
The Frontier for Sale Bills.
The murcury dropped to twenty
nine below zero Friday night which
was the coldest point reached in this
Bart of the state for several years.
[owever, the extreme cold did not last
long. During Sunday afternoon the
thermometer reached forty-four above
which was a change of seventy-three
degrees in thiry-six hours. Wednes
day morning another small blizzard
visitd this section of the state. Not
much snow fell. The storm ceased
sometime during Wednesday night and
the weather is fairly pleasant today.
THE COUNTY BOARD
IN SESSION TUESDAY
The county board met Tuesday and
organized by electing L. C. McKim
chairman of the board again for an
coming year:
Following is a list of the committees
appointed by the chairman for the
comng year:
Court House—Nellis, Skidmore and
Sullivan.
Finance and Official Bonds—Gibson,
Havens and Larson.
Printing and Supplies—Havens,
Gibson and Skidmore.
Settlement With the County Offi
cers—Sullivan and the entire board.
Tax and Tax Settlements—Nellis,
Larson and Sullivan.
Claims—Nellis and entire board.
The Frontier, Stuart Advocate and
The Inman Leader were designated
as the official papers to ^publish the
proceedings of the board.
SECRET OF MOTOR CAR SAFETY
“I talked to my Chauffeur the other
day about these automobile accidents,”
said a Danville buisness man. “He
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tells me that the difference between
'safety and carelessness in any ordinary
I short trip about* town is about 80 sec
onds. On a trip of about 100 miles it
| might be about 30 minutes. I told him
that he is never to take a chance un
less I tell him that I am in a hurry
* and I don't remember that l ever told
him to hurry and I don’t think I ever
will.
It is not likely that this man will
ever be in a serious automobile ac
cident. In the first place, his car is
driven by a man hired for that pur
pose, and this man drives with the
knowledge that the first thing his em
ployer requires of him is absolute
safety for his passengers. He is not
to take a chance to save time. He
never will “run” a railroad crossing
because there he takes a chanc.
Few persons can afford or desire to
employ men to drive their cars. Every
man who sits behind the wheel of an
automobile should realize that the safe
ty of the people in the car is his re
sponsibility.
In driving t?o work or on a short
business trips no man’s time is so
valuable that he cannot devote 30
seconds in the interest of safety. In
a tour of 100 miles it is much better
to start half an hour earlier or be an
hour behind schedule than to take a
chance on each of half a dozen rail
road crossings.
F. B. THOMAS,
Safety Inspector.
WONDERFUL EVENTS AT O’NEILL
(Omaha Bee)
Decatur, Neb.—To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: I want to vouch for
the veracity of your O’Neill corres
pondent which I have heard discussed
" ir'.n.i»Mwww... i in i,,p,m ..
here, and am sorry to say that som<
people seem to doubt him. For mj
part I believe he has seen everything
he has written about. I had the
pleasure of visiting him at one time
and after a couple of hours spent ir
what he calls hi3 root cellar, I saw
some wonderful things myself.
First, we started to hitch a team to
the buggy, which somewhat resembled
a cross between an old fashioned car
ryall and a flag draped caisson. Af
ter a little trouble with the left hand
spark pug, we finally got the traces
hooked to the raditor cap and started
fpr town. Not much happened on the
way, but when I alighted at the sta
tion, I had to walk between rows of
talking white crows and curly haired
snakes to where the porter, a golden
haired Chinaman, set down a pink
pumpkin decorated with onions and
mistletoe, for me to step on in order
to get into the coach.
Once inside I had no trouble in get
ting a seat. I had just opened the
window, when a purple haired mer
maid with a necklace of balls drifted
in and delivered a lecture on prohibi
tion. She then tucked the conductor
of the train under her arm and fell
through the roof of the car. After a
short wait the train started and while
going through the mountains missed
a tunnel and we had to detour
through a wheat field an across a foot
bride to where we finally came out on
a good graveled road where we had to
stc^p a few times to chase a flock of
singing toads out of the way.
Everything went well from then on
until, as we were crossing a river on a
ferry propelled by two green monkeys
with oars, the brakeman came into the
car, and not liking the looks of the
^passengers, folded up the train and
put it into his pocket. By that time,
being slightly dizzy from the roots in
that root cellar, I crawled into a lady’s
handbag on the seat next to mine and
went to sleep, so I don’t know any
more that happened on that trip, ex
cept that I woke up under a pump
I with a good sized stream of cold wa
ter running over me. READER.
EXPENSIVE OMELET CAUSES
O’NEILL MAN TO FEIGN
ILLNESS AT MENTION OF EGGS
Former Prospector Ate Up $1,300 In
“Golden Eggs’* That Neighbor Had
Sought For Years—Thirteen of
’Em—and Worth $100 Apiece.
(O’Neill Correspondent in Omaha
Bee, January 7.)
Dinosaur eggs at $10,000 or $20,000
each have no attraction as an article
of diet for John Horiskey of O’Neill.
Mr. Horiskey once ate the most ex
pensive meal ever eaten in Colorado,
1 an egg omelet worth exactly $1,300,
; and when he learned the value of his
repast it made him violently ill.
The expensive meal was eaten a
number of years ago, when Mr. Horis
key was prospecting in company with
John Kinkaid, brother of the fate Judge
Kinkaid, and Jack Sumner, who the
Goverment says was the first man
ever to go through the Grand canyon
in a boat or otherwise, but which how
ever is another story.
Horiskey had a prospect near ones
being developed by Kinkaid and Sum
ner and in the evenings they used to
gather around a common campfire and
speculate about the good times they
would have the following winter, which
they expected to spend in Denver. Eats
and particularly ham and eggs, was
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fwhat they intended to indtr'ra in most
when they got to Denver,
j One evening after one of these dis
cussions Horiskey while returning to
his own camp stumbled across a wild
! ground bird’s nest and reposing there
, in v ere 13 eggs, which glistened in his
; lant *m’s light as the old bird took her
flight. With the memory of the ham
and egg conversation still fresh in
min l Mr. Horiskey gathered up the
Gggu in his hat and took them to his
camp.
There, candling them by the light
of the lantern, he learned that they
still were fresh and the next morning
he broke them up and stirred them In
to an omelet which he cooked for
breakfast. Then, decorated with a
beatific smile, he strolled over to his
neighbor's camp and broke the news
that he had breakfasted on a fresh
egg omelet.
What kind of eggs was they?”
queried Sumner, who was a collector
for the Smithsonian institution.
“Ptarmigan eggs. Thirteen, of them.”
“Humpt.” disgustedly grunted Sum
ner. “You have just et enough to
have kept you in ham and eggs in Den
ver all winter. For 10 years I have
had an order from the institution for
ptarmigan eggs at $100 an egg and
you have et $1,300 worth.”
Since that time Mr. Horiskey never
has cared for even chicken egg*.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank the people of
O'Neill and vicinity for the many
kindnesses and the sympathy shown
us during the illness and death of our
husband and father.
MRS. JAMES PACE
and children.
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